Thread for obviously newsworthy stuff

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Wait, Aeson - Does that mean the lady cop was trans? What a novel defense...

[Aeson]

Defendant: "Smeller is the feller!"
Judge: "Case dismissed!"

[Proteus_MST]

He was lucký that it wasn't classified as a terrorist poison gas attack

[BlackCat]

errrm

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41950775

After a Berlin man farted twice in the presence of a female officer in February last year, he was made to pay a €900 fine. A Berlin court re-examined the case this week.
The defendant, Christoph S., had reportedly farted twice in the vicinity of a female police officer during an identity check in February 2016 in the Friedrichshain neighbourhood, the Berliner Zeitung reports.
The team leader of the 32nd police unit saw this as a form of insult against his colleague and filed a complaint against the man.
A year later a Berlin court ordered a surprised Christoph S. to pay the draconian €900 fine.
“It is one thing if the leader of a police unit sees his colleague’s honour as being injured by a fart. But it is quite another if prosecutors and the judiciary agree - that is a failure of the state,” said Christoph S.’s lawyer at the appeal hearing on Tuesday.
The appeals judge agreed with the defendant, throwing the case out within a matter of minutes.
But just because it is now officially okay to fart in front of a Berlin cop, remember, it's still bad manners.

https://www.thelocal.de/20170907/berlin-court-rules-on-whether-farting-next-to-a-police-officer-is-allowed

[BeBMan]

[Broken_Erika]

errrm

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41950775

Aaaawwww, beat me to it.
How about a car crash involving naked kidnappers high on "Herbal"(hallucinogenic) tea.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41937279

[BeBMan]

errrm

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41950775

[Proteus_MST]

Frans de Waal

[BeBMan]

Monkey!

[ricketyclik]

And then of course there's this (also weather-related):

"The year's wildfire season is one of the worst in history in the United States, with nearly 8.6 million acres (3.5 million hectares) burned so far, just behind 2012, according to the National Interagency Fire Centre."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-14/california-wildfires-at-least-34-dead-250-missing/9050148

Of course there's some other explanation than global warming. Several I expect.

[Proteus_MST]

On a long shot this is fitting to the topic - descend problems, almost Saudi and german.

What is it with Düsseldorf Airport since this seems to be the normal :

Flat land all around, you also have to cross the river (i.e. Rhine) coming from one direction (IIRC coming from 230). Guess that results in a few temperature differentials that may cause a more windy environment there.
Also both runways point into the same direction (05/23), so if you have crosswinds from around 150 or 320, there is no runway that you could use in order to apprach the winds headon.

Addendum:
Seems like in this particular case, however, Xavier was the culprit, the storm that haunted germany during the last week

[BlackCat]

On a long shot this is fitting to the topic - descend problems, almost Saudi and german.

What is it with Düsseldorf Airport since this seems to be the normal :

[Dinner]

His ass was so fat he broke the escalator.

[BeBMan]

"A Jedi and a Sith Lord sit next to eachother at the table..."

[Proteus_MST]

Because it fits the topic Saudi Arabia:
Yoda oversaw the signing of the UN charta by Prince Faisal in 1945

At least this is what a certain number of students learned (until the book was withdrawn), when they looked at one of the "historic" photographies in their school textbook

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/w...iddleeast&_r=0