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  • Broken_Erika
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    A little girl said monsters were in her bedroom. It was 60,000 bees

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68924955

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  • Broken_Erika
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    Apparently, it collapsed.

  • BeBMan
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    Like the Dead Parrot Sketch, just with people

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  • Ming
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    Woman accused of wheeling dead man into bank to sign for loan

    A Brazilian woman has been arrested after brazenly wheeling the fresh corpse of her uncle into a bank branch where she tried to get him to co-sign a loan with her, in a scene straight out of Weekend at Bernie’s.

    Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, 42, pushed the lifeless body of Roberto Braga, 68, into a bank branch in the Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Bangu on Tuesday where the bizarre scene played out.


    The bizarre scene was filmed by bank staff.

    The woman was seen in shocking viral footage, first aired by Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo, standing at the teller’s desk next to the dead man in a wheelchair asking him to sign financial documents that would allow her to take out a loan for 7000 reais ($2080).

    “Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign [the loan contract],“ Ms Nunes says in the video, while thrusting a pen between his limp fingers and instructing him to hold it “hard”.

    “If you don’t sign, there’s no way, because I can’t sign for you. Sign so you don’t give me any more headaches, I can’t take it anymore.”

    A concerned bank worker says, “I don’t think this is legal. He doesn’t look well. He’s very pale.”


    ‘He doesn’t look well.’

    Ms Nunes dismisses his concerns.

    “He is like that,” she says. “He doesn’t say anything. Uncle, do you want to go to the [hospital] again?”

    Suspicious bank staff began filming the incident before calling an ambulance.

    Parademics soon confirmed Mr Braga had died before he was wheeled into the bank, and police arrested Ms Nunes.

    “She tried to pretend to get him to sign the loan,” Rio de Janeiro police chief Fábio Luis Souza told TV Globo. “He already entered the bank dead.”


    The woman claims he died in the wheelchair.

    He said police would “continue the investigation to identify other family members, and to find out if he was alive when the loan was arranged and when it dates from”.

    Ms Nunes could face charges of theft through fraud, or embezzlement, and abuse of corpse.

    The police chief gave another update to Brazilian news outlet G1 on Wednesday, The Daily Mail reported, saying cadaver spots visible on the back of Mr Braga’s head indicated he would have been dead for about two hours.

    Had he died while sitting in the wheelchair, the cadaver patches would have been located on his legs.

    [youtube]https://youtu.be/KeZAvknHEYk[/youtube]

    “It is not possible to say the exact moment of death,” Mr Souza said.

    “It was found by [paramedics] that there was [livor mortis]. This only happens from the moment of death, but is only noticeable around two hours after death.”

    It came as new footage emerged of Ms Nunes pushing the corpse around the shopping centre before wheeling it into the bank.

    Police said they were also hunting for the rideshare app driver who had dropped off the woman with her dead uncle.

    Ms Nunes was interviewed by police on Wednesday morning.

    She reportedly claimed Mr Braga had died while sitting in the wheelchair at the bank, which police will dispute.

    “In my 22-year career I have never seen a story like this,” Mr Souza said.​

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  • BeBMan
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    Reminds me on Notre Dame

    But I read they'll rebuild this (too)

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  • BlackCat
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    Sad day
    Today more than half of the Børsen (the Exchange for foreigners) burnt down. The building would have had 400 years jubilee in few months and was under restoration - that may be the reason, which isn't unusual.

    Start of fire :


    A bit later and the fall of the dragons :

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  • BeBMan
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    Parrots can play tablet games for enrichment. Now researchers are studying how to improve them for birds to use


    Technology has become an integral part of human life. Now, researchers are exploring how tablets could be designed for a different creature’s enrichment — parrots.

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  • BeBMan
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    German modern art gallery employee sacked after hanging up his own painting

    https://www.euronews.com/culture/202...s-own-painting


    I thought an art gallery would appreciate his creativity

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  • BeBMan
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    They hit the wrong bridge, wrong continent, wrong sea

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  • BlackCat
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    Ouch !

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  • BeBMan
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    Japan has all the cool stuff these days. First TigerMan, now Godzilla:

    Godzilla was recently chosen to serve as a Tokyo police chief for a day to promote traffic safety. Watch news footage of the occasion.


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  • BeBMan
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    It looks like some dog

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  • Broken_Erika
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    Nova Scotia's Hope For Wildlife welcomes 'completely bald' raccoon

    Hope For Wildlife, a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Seaforth, N.S., has recently taken an animal into its care and its appearance may have some people doing a double take.

    The centre posted photos of a northern raccoon with what is believed to be alopecia – otherwise known as hair loss – on its Facebook page(opens in a new tab) Wednesday morning.

    The animal is described as “completely bald" in addition to being “not friendly” and “feisty.”

    https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nova-sco...coon-1.6805741

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  • -Jrabbit
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    That's silly; nobody does routine maintenance on their screwdrivers and drills in flight.

  • Berzerker
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    airlines are now allowing passengers to bring screwdrivers and drills onboard flights for routine maintenance

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