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Wandering herd of cows trashes school's fall harvest display


A herd of hungry cows made a late-night visit to Edneyville Elementary School in North
Carolina and trashed the school's fall harvest display in an apparent search for snacks.
Photo courtesy of Edneyville Elementary School

Officials at a North Carolina elementary school said they checked security footage and identified the culprits behind the destruction of the school's fall harvest display -- some pumpkin-loving cows.

Edneyville Elementary School posted a photo to Facebook in early October showing the fall harvest display donated by The Nix Pumpkin Patch, but weeks later a follow-up post showed the display in disarray following an apparent act of vandalism.

Principal Marsha Justice said she reviewed security camera footage from outside the school and identified the perpetrators as a group of 11 cows rummaging around the pumpkins and gourds for snacks.

"Thank goodness the damage was repairable, and that we were able to check security footage and get pictures of the 11 perpetrators! If you recognize any of these hooved hoodlums, let us know," the school said in a Facebook post.

Officials said the incident brought some much-needed mirth to the community.

"Needless to say, the unexpected visitors brought some welcome joy and humor to the Edneyville staff this week, and we're happy to share the laughs with our local community," Henderson County Public Schools Public Information Officer Molly McGowan Gorsuch told Blue Ridge Now.

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A giant inflatable Borat statue wearing nothing but a mask as a mankini is floating on the Thames ahead of the sequel’s release



Fans of Borat will be able to get an epic selfie with a spectacular semi-naked inflatable of the lead character which is currently floating on the Thames.

The second movie following the antics of the Kazakh ‘journalist’ is set for release on Friday, and the hairy effigy wearing nothing but a surgical mask as a mankini has been tied to the top of a barge in celebration of the release.

The inflatable – showing Borat reclining seductively while throwing up a thumbs up sign – is the size of a whole barge and is clad in just the mask, some socks and shoes, and is frankly a little bit terrifying.

The Sacha Baron Cohen character was first seen in 2006’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and the upcoming film has just as long a title – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

The film was shot in secret, and sees Borat on a mission to ‘save 2020’, including by hitting coronavirus with a pan to get rid of it as well as gatecrashing political events.

Sacha, 49, revealed he feared for his life while filming, telling Time magazine: ‘While filming my latest Borat film, I showed up as a right-wing singer at a gun-rights rally in Washington State.



‘When organisers finally stormed the stage, I rushed to a nearby get-away vehicle. An angry crowd blocked our way and started pounding on the vehicle with their fists.

‘Under my overalls, I was wearing a bulletproof vest, but it felt inadequate with some people outside toting semiautomatic weapons.

[BeBMan]

Mutant crayfish should be in the next X-Fish movie.

[pchang]

Time for Belgians to develop a taste for crayfish.

[Broken_Erika]

Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish take over Belgian cemetery

Escaped self-cloning mutant crayfish created in experimental breeding programmes have invaded a Belgian cemetery.

Hundreds of the duplicating crustaceans, which can dig down to up to a metre and are always female, pose a deadly threat to local biodiversity after colonising a historic Antwerp graveyard.

"It's impossible to round up all of them. It's like trying to empty the ocean with a thimble," said Kevin Scheers, of the Flemish Institute for Nature and Woodland Research.

Marbled crayfish, which travel across land and water at night and eat whatever they can, do not occur in nature and are banned by the European Union.


Instead, the freshwater beasts, which are about 10cm big and voracious, are thought to have been bred by unscrupulous German pet traders in the 1990s.

They are similar to the slough crayfish found in Florida but are parthenogenetic, which means they reproduce with themselves and all their children are genetically identical females.

The mutation, which occurred about 25 years ago, means populations can spring up rapidly from just a single Procambarus virginalis.

In 2018, scientists established the global marbled crayfish population was descended from a single female and didn't need males to reproduce.

The EU banned possession and release of the uncanny crayfish in 2014 but it is impossible to trace the owners because all the crayfish are genetically exactly the same.

The crayfish have taken root in the pools and streams of the Schoonselhof cemetery in Antwerp, which is known as the Flemish city's Pere Lachaise.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/esc...7Y76OELOTHGPA/

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Good Point Jr...
From now on, I"m simply going to delete any political, pandemic or protest posts.
God knows there are other places for those discussions.
This is meant for Other News...

[-Jrabbit]

LOL. I mean, I feel bad for the Babylon Bee and all, but FB shutting them down because of satire criticizing a Dem Senator is rich in irony.

Also, that's 3 politics-based posts from Kid just on this page. I believe that's outside the spirit of this thread:

Consider this the place to post news stories that have nothing do with global pandemics, politics, racial tensions, and all those other depressing stories out there...

[Kidlicious]

There's no way you can get stupider than this.

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Published 20 hours agoFacebook removes Babylon Bee satire mocking Sen. Hirono's treatment of Amy Barrett, says it 'incites violence'

'It's literally a regurgitated joke from a Monty Python movie!" the Bee's CEO exclaimed

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VideoHirono accuses Barrett of offensive use of term 'sexual preference'


Democrat Senator from Hawaii argues Supreme Court nominee would 'roll back' LGBTQ rights

Facebook cracked down on the conservative satirical site The Babylon Bee over an article mocking Hawaii's Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono's treatment of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett during last week's confirmation hearings.

Last Wednesday, the Bee ran a story with the headline, "Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against A Duck To See If She Is A Witch," alluding to the intense grilling Barrett faced from Hawaii's junior senator, who asked the judge if she had ever "sexually assaulted" anyone and scolded the nominee for using the term "sexual preference" to describe the LGBTQ community, which Barrett apologized for.

"After two days of Amy Coney Barrett gracefully and stoically answering questions with perfect recall and no notes, suspicions grew on Capitol Hill that she might be a practitioner of the dark arts," the Bee's satirical report began.

"Oh, she's a witch alright, just look at her!" the Bee fictitiously quoted Hirono. "Just look at the way she's dressed and how she's so much prettier and smarter than us! She's in league with Beelzebub himself, I just know it! We must burn her!"

BABYLON BEE STINGS CNN WITH SATIRICAL ARTICLE: THERE'S ONLY ROOM FOR 'ONE FAKE NEWS SITE'

According to the satirical piece, Hirono "then pulled a live duck out of a massive burlap sack next to her and announced: 'In addition to being a Senator, I am also quite wise in the ways of science. Everyone knows witches burn because they are made of wood. I think I read that somewhere. Wood floats, and so do ducks-- so logically, if Amy Coney Barrett weighs as much as this duck I found in the reflection pool outside, she is a witch and must be burned.'"

The image attached to the article is a clearly photoshopped image of Hirono at the hearing with a duck by her side.

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon took to Twitter and revealed the lengthy battle his site has had with Facebook, who took down the satirical piece.

THE BABYLON BEE STINGS TWITTER CEO AFTER ACCOUNT WAS BRIEFLY SUSPENDED

"So after a manual review, Facebook says they stand by their decision to pull down this article and demonetize our page. I'm not kidding," Dillon wrote. "They say this article 'incites violence.' It's literally a regurgitated joke from a Monty Python movie!""

[Thoth]

I've been saying that for 4 years now.

[Uncle Sparky]

If they could save the fetuses, no harm done!

[Dauphin]

If Amy Coney Barrett went on a shooting rampage killing dozens in Time Square, she'd still be appointed to the Supreme Court.

Unless the victims were pregnant. Pro-Life remember.

[Uncle Sparky]

[Egbert]

You need to build a wall, and make Trump pay for it.

[ricketyclik]

New Zealand and the ACT in Australia return progressive, left-leaning environmentalist governments with increased majorities.

As an aside, both employ the Hare-Clark system of elections.

[Uncle Sparky]

If Amy Coney Barrett went on a shooting rampage killing dozens in Time Square, she'd still be appointed to the Supreme Court.