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[BeBMan]

And now to something competely different...and lighter:

Italian man fined nearly €900 for filling in pothole hits out at ‘injustice’

Claudio Trenta, 72, has triggered a national debate after deciding to fix 30cm hole himself in Lombardy

Not only did they fine him for fixing the pothole himself, also:

Trenta has been ordered to restore the hole to its original state.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/15/italy-man-fined-for-filling-in-pothole

[Uncle Sparky]

So much for those memes about 2000 year old Roman roads still being in pristine condition.

[Berzerker]

There's a scene in The Patriot where Mel Gibson's character asked why he should trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants 1 mile away.

[Dauphin]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65661251

The ICC said at the time there were reasonable grounds to believe both Mr Putin and Ms Lvova-Belova bore individual criminal responsibility.

The Kremlin's investigative committee in turn announced this week that it would begin an investigation into Mr Khan for the "criminal prosecution of a person known to be innocent"

[Berzerker]

Wasn't that based on Russia taking kids from the Donbas? From what I understand the parents wanted to get their kids away from the warzone, at least for a few weeks. They'd prefer anonymity lest they be killed for 'collaboration' or abducted to serve on the front line.

[Proteus_MST]

Nope, AFAIK that was for taking away children from recently occupied cities like Kherson or Mariupol.
Often also Children from orphanages / children homes against the protest of their caretakers there

[BeBMan]

[BeBMan]

Also this:

Kurt Cobain: Guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman sells for nearly $600,000

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65664330

I plan to buy several old guitars and smash them to get rich.

[Berzerker]

Budweiser has come out with 2 new cans, a camo can and Harley Davidson

[BeBMan]

A paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it thanks to electronic brain implants, a medical first he says has changed his life.


Gert-Jan Oskam, a 40-year-old Dutch man, was paralysed in a cycling accident 12 years ago.

The electronic implants wirelessly transmit his thoughts to his legs and feet via a second implant on his spine.

The system is still at an experimental stage but a leading UK spinal charity called it "very encouraging".

"I feel like a toddler, learning to walk again," Mr Oskam told the BBC. He can also now stand and climb stairs.

"It has been a long journey, but now I can stand up and have a beer with my friend. It's a pleasure that many people don't realise."

(...)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65689580

Science

Soon they'll also test something that lets presidents declassify stuff by thinking about it...

[SlowwHand]

I saw this on the news. Very cool.

[Dinner]

And now to something competely different...and lighter:



Not only did they fine him for fixing the pothole himself, also:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/15/italy-man-fined-for-filling-in-pothole

This **** happens on California. Google what happened to Arnold Schwarzenegger for filling in a pothole in L.A.. You can't make up how hateful and destructive Democraps are.

[Proteus_MST]

This **** happens on California. Google what happened to Arnold Schwarzenegger for filling in a pothole in L.A.. You can't make up how hateful and destructive Democraps are.

According to this:

https://apnews.com/article/arnold-schwarzenegger-california-pothole-utility-fd0667faeb0de8f99e1732fbf665f319

Nothing happened.
The pothole was no pothole but an utility trench which had a delay in getting filled by the gas company (that worked there before) due to rain.
A day after Arnold filled the trench, the gas company came and finished the work that Arnold begun

[Dinner]

The city threatened to sue him and fine him for trying to help.

[Uncle Sparky]

Damn Dems. fixing utilities. The GOP would never do that! No Taxes Ever!! Fix your own damn roads!
Gas line explode? Now that's gaslighting!

[Berzerker]

Budweiser is getting both barrels, their woke score has been suspended by the Human Rights Campaign for caving in to the boycott

[BeBMan]

Black bear takes 60 cupcakes from US bakery, scaring staff

(snip)

The bakery’s owner, Miriam Stephens, wrote in an Instagram post that she heard employee Maureen Williams “screaming bloody murder” and yelling that there was a bear in the garage.

Williams told TV station WTNH that she shouted to scare the bear off but it retreated and came back three times.

Williams said the bear charged at her so she backed out of the garage and ran.

Surveillance video obtained by WTNH shows bakery workers walking around the side of the business to try to scare the bear, but then running away after it scares them.

The video shows the bear dragging a container of cupcakes from the garage into the parking lot. Stephens said the bear ate 60 cupcakes.

A baker finally got the bear to leave by honking a car horn, Williams said.

(snap)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/27/black-bear-takes-60-cupcakes-from-us-bakery-scaring-staff

[EPW]

The city threatened to sue him and fine him for trying to help.

Interesting, I would like to learn more about this, can you link a source?

[Dinner]

Interesting, I would like to learn more about this, can you link a source?

The pot hole was filled by Arnold a quarter of a year after the utility work stopped. CBS News and the city of L.A.'s democrat spokes people outright lied which is why no one trusts these institutions any more. They constantly lie.

https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1647645607228747776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1647645607228747776%7Ctwgr% 5Eff47ae3d375a29503095303851a6eb296e7a4a2a%7Ctwcon %5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-15790300481989563923.ampproject.net%2F230505174500 1%2Fframe.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2023/04/18/arnold-schwarzenegger-calls-out-cbs-headline-on-pothole-story/amp/

City officials made a hell of a lot of noise saying they could fine or sue Arnold for daring to fix the mess they created.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ktla.com/off-the-clock/jurys-out-could-arnold-schwarzenegger-face-legal-trouble-for-filling-in-a-pothole/amp/

I am glad that in the end retarded Democraps decided not to sue him because the optics were terrible but anyone else who was not famous probably would have gotten sued for daring to try to fix community problems embarrassed Democrap politicians disliked being highlighted. It is very common in leftist area for politicians to threaten to fine or sue people for filing in potholes because it embarrassed incompetent leftist politicians. In Montreal you can be fined $2000 for filling in a single pothole.

[Dinner]

Talk about finding people for daring to fill potholes without a permit.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-news-bodybuilding-news-anyone-else-do-this-you-get-arrested-75-year-old-arnold-schwarzenegger-filling-pothole-in-california-leaves-america-amazed/amp/