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[SlowwHand]

I believe firmly that all immigrants need to be documented. The people that are documented have a bigger hard on against illegals than I do.
"I did it you can do it too."

[-Jrabbit]

Here's something out of the blue... I had to check and make sure what century this AP story was from...

Tupac Shakur’s long-unsolved killing again under spotlight as Las Vegas police conduct search

Published 2:50 PM CDT, July 18, 2023

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police confirmed Tuesday that they served a search warrant this week in connection with the long-unsolved killing of Tupac Shakur, propelling the case back into the spotlight nearly 30 years after his death.

Shakur, one of the most prolific figures in hip-hop, was gunned down the night of Sept. 7, 1996, in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He was 25.

No arrests have ever been made. Yet attention on the case, which has seen its share of conspiracy theories, has endured for decades.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that the search was conducted Monday in the nearby city of Henderson, but the agency did not say whether a suspect has been identified. It’s also unclear what they were looking for and where they were looking.

Citing the ongoing investigation, department spokesperson Aden OcampoGomez said in a brief phone call that he couldn’t provide more details on the latest development in the case.

Nevada does not have a time limit for prosecuting homicide cases.

Shakur was shot while sitting inside a black BMW with Marion “Suge” Knight, head of Death Row Records. Police have said the two were waiting at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip when a white Cadillac pulled up next to them and gunfire erupted. Shot multiple times, Shakur was rushed to a hospital, where he died six days later.

[N35t0r]

Tupac Shakur any comments?

[BeBMan]

Residents on the south-western outskirts of Berlin are being urged to stay indoors after overnight sightings of a “loose, dangerous animal”, suspected to be an escaped lioness.

Brandenburg police advised people living in the districts of Kleinmachnow, Stahnsdorf and Teltow on the borders of the German capital to refrain from walking in the woods and to keep pets or farm animals indoors on Thursday. Nurseries were allowed to open but were urged to avoid letting children play outdoors.

Authorities are using helicopters to track down the big cat, which police believed was resting in a wooded area. A veterinarian and two armed hunters were on site and under orders to either stun or shoot dead the animal, officials in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark said.

“Around midnight we received a notification that we couldn’t believe,” the Brandenburg police spokesperson Daniel Kiep told the broadcaster rbb. “Two passersby spotted an animal chasing after another. One was a wild boar and the other appeared to be a big cat, a lion. The two men recorded a video on their phones and even experienced police officers had to confirm that we are probably dealing with a lion.”

Fire services in Brandenburg said the large animal was “presumably a lioness”. However, the director of a circus in the Teltow area told local media he was not aware of any lions being held in circuses or private zoos in the area and said the animal could be a misidentified Caucasian shepherd dog. “If it’s a lion I’ll eat a broom,” Michel Rogall told Tagesspiegel newspaper.

Police said they had not been informed of any lion escape in the area. “Neither an animal park, a zoo nor a circus is missing such an animal,” a spokesperson said.

(bolding by someone)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/20/lioness-believed-to-be-on-loose-in-berlin

Would be better for folks if it was "just" a dog, but cooler if it was a lion(ess)

[Berzerker]

I believe firmly that all immigrants need to be documented. The people that are documented have a bigger hard on against illegals than I do.
"I did it you can do it too."

and both legal and illegal tend to be conservative pro-life Catholics

[BeBMan]

Old Worms never die:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/46-000-year-old-worm-possibly-revived-from-siberian-permafrost/

Worms

[Berzerker]

life in a comet or asteroid could have been brought here

[BeBMan]

I'm waiting for Dune pt. 2

[Berzerker]

but I dont think life could develop on or in a comet or asteroid, only that debris from a life bearing planet could harbor tiny critters trapped in large chunks of rock thrown off into space during massive collisions.

[Proteus_MST]

(bolding by someone)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/20/lioness-believed-to-be-on-loose-in-berlin

Would be better for folks if it was "just" a dog, but cooler if it was a lion(ess)

Finally turned out to be probably just a boar

[BeBMan]

fake lion

[Proteus_MST]

Exactly

[BlackCat]

Mainly aimed to someone living downstairs (germans, krauts etc, your'e south of me) , I watched some sports news and met Ricarda Bauernfeind at random, but I'm a bit curious how anyone can get that surname due to what evil deeds old ancestors might have done ? Is there a more mellow translation ?

[BeBMan]

Bah, we're not southlanders! (silly GoT ref)

Bauernfeind means literally "enemy of peasants/farmers".

Might be from the middle ages or early modern times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War is the most prominent example of peasants revolting, but there are surely lots of smaller cases over a longer period.

[BlackCat]

Thanks The translation was pretty easy, but my knowledge about ancient german area history is pretty vague, but it make sense.

[Berzerker]

old news maybe, but new to me

Bruce Lee may have died not from aspirin but Meprobomate in the aspirin

[SlowwHand]

Seems like he would have known if he was allergic to aspirin.

[Berzerker]

I watched a docu on it, Lee's brother got someone to investigate all the leads, from infidelity, Triad gangs, pissed off movie directors/producers, etc.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europ...tag=YHF4eb9d17

Luigi crushed to death by his own cheese

[Berzerker]

"While the symptoms known as chemosensory loss occurred in an estimated 50% of cases early in the pandemic, the latest research suggests a prevalence of just 3% to 4% in more recent Omicron waves."

Wow, 50%? I wonder how many of those people had their senses eventually return and did the vaccine cause any temporary or permanent problem with smell and taste?

[Stantroll]

https://pledgetimes.com/judgments-the-perpetrators-of-the-murder-used-deliberate-and-brutal-violence-to-torture-the-victim/

[Broken_Erika]

Baghdad advertising boards turned off over porn screening

Iraqi officials have ordered all electronic advertising screens to be shut down in Baghdad after a hacker used one to show a pornographic film.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66563678