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[SlowwHand]

[Ming]

TJ Maxx shoplifters’ thwarted after fast-foot pit stop during getaway: Felonies do not come with a side of fries


Nuggets with some handcuffs and a soda.

Two alleged shoplifters saw their getaway thwarted when they stopped at a fast-food drive-thru near the scene and were arrested by cops, authorities said.

Around 2 p.m. on August 13, police in Auburn, Massachusetts, responded to a report that two women shoplifted from a TJ Maxx store. An employee said the two suspects left the store with more than $2,000 in merchandise.

The suspects fled the area in a black Ford Edge with a Connecticut license plate, according to police.

However, they didn’t get very far. In fact, according to authorities, the pair stopped at a Wendy’s drive-thru directly across the street from the store.

Police spotted the suspect’s vehicle in the drive-thru line and the two suspects were arrested.

Dominique Marion, 38, and Tynaja Williams, 24, were identified as the alleged thieves. They were both charged with larceny over $1,200 and conspiracy.

After searching their car, officers say they also found items taken from other stores in the region. The two may now face additional charges.

“Moral of the story: Felonies do not come with a side of fries,” police noted in announcing the arrest.

[Uncle Sparky]

The World Huminoid Robotic Games have taken place in Beijing...
I welcome our new robotic overlords.

So, less than 1 week after this, leaders of most Asian nations 'appeared' in Beijing for a summit.
Coincidence? I think not!

[Uncle Sparky]

The World Huminoid Robotic Games have taken place in Beijing...
I welcome our new robotic overlords.

[Ming]

Sweet-toothed bear raids South Lake Tahoe ice cream shop, leaves with a taste for strawberry

A bear was discovered satisfying its sweet tooth behind the counter of an ice cream parlor in a California resort city on Lake Tahoe last week, authorities said.

Deputies responded to an ice cream shop at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe in the early morning hours on Aug. 17 and found a large bear, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

"The deputies could barely believe their eyes as they saw a large bear behind the counter of the shop," the sheriff’s office wrote in the post.

Photos show the bear, who the sheriff’s office nicknamed Fuzzy, standing behind the parlor’s counter as if he were an employee waiting to serve the responding deputies.

Fuzzy had already sampled a variety of flavors before deputies could arrive and shoo it away, though the sheriff’s office said it appeared to prefer one sweet treat.

"With some encouragement, the bear ultimately left, but only after showing interest in the strawberry ice cream," authorities said.

The ice cream shop sustained little damage during the bear’s ice cream raid, and there was "barely any cleanup," the sheriff’s office said.

Camp Richardson is a 128-acre resort in South Lake Tahoe, about 66 miles south of Reno, Nevada.

[Jon Miller]

In Sweden most people don't beleive in God and so churches are primarily social centers.

JM

[EPW]

Wow what an amazing performance.

[The Mad Monk]

It's a swedish article about moving a 650t church with a similiar sized "truck" - don't bother to read, just click at the video
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/no...g-i-rekordfart

Followup where the Church stops rolling and a band plays. Totally worth watching for the band.



BTW -- on Firefox a popup lets you translate.

[Uncle Sparky]

Churches move in strange and mysterious ways...

[BeBMan]

There's a German saying about "leaving the church in the village".

Which is totally irrelevant here, buuut

[EPW]

They could have saved a lot of effort by just not moving it.

[BeBMan]

I missed it

https://lkab.com/en/events/the-moving-of-kiruna-church

[N35t0r]

I was about to say that that's swedish, you can tell because they don't sound like they have a potato in their mouth.

[Dauphin]

(I don't read Swedish either, more pertinently)

[Dauphin]

I don't read Danish (albeit 'kostar over en half miljard' is highly intelligible to an Englishman!), but I do hope they call it a holy roller.