the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread

jpd said:
I called it!

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Exclusive | Knife-wielding transgender woman accused of killing NYC postal worker smiles, rolls eyes in creepy video

Troubled transgender woman Jaia Cruz is seen rolling her eyes and smiling seductively in a nine-second-long video, while a song blasts the raunchy lyrics, “I’m such a wh-re, but I’m not a hoe,” in …
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Still can’t find this highly controversial topic thread someone mentioned we have here.
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Roccus7 said:
Here's the proverbial loud fart in church. I'm sure @CELLFISH will comment during his February post. Guessing that sales of single sheet tin foil dispensers, along with those license plate filters that make block plate photography will be booming...

Congestion Pricing Has Begun in New York City. Here’s How It Works.​

The tolling program, the first of its kind in the nation, will charge most drivers who enter Manhattan south of 60th Street during peak hours a $9 fee.
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It was a way to add a toll to the other three bridges. Mid town tunnel will be wide open being the toll just increased almost $10 bucks. BQE will be even more f’d as they go to Williamsburg Bridge. (Most divers?) that means DEI is involved.
 
59th st bridge will be an absolute nightmare!

I feel for the emergency workers. Read that alot have put in for transfer to the outer boroughs
 
OVERBORED said:
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Ah that brings back fond memories from the Roccus Files. In 1970 when Dangerfields was open on 1st Avenue, I had to do some clean up work during the expansion of the 60 St Heliport in the shadows of the 59 St Bridge.

While working there I had to put 2 large boat cleats that torn up from the river front into a dumpster. These are the big azz cleats that were used to tie up barges and tugs along the East River. I asked my Super if I could have these cleats since they were destined for the scrap heap and he said, "Sure, take them!", so I wrestled them into the back of my Bronco pick up.

They spent the next 25 or so years flanking the driveway entrance in Sound Beach, but when we sold the house, I put them in storage for the planned ME home, where they have been flanking the start of the path down to the boat dock.

Now when I look at them I wonder HTF I was able to lift them up into the truck bed, I can barely nudge them now. Ah, the lost power of youth...

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From today's YA THINK??? Department...

Scammers Could Cheat New York’s New Congestion Pricing Tolls​

Drivers who obscure their plates or otherwise circumvent paying tolls already cost the city’s mass transit system millions of dollars.

Each year, scofflaw drivers in New York City cheat their way out of paying tolls, costing the region’s mass transit system millions in lost revenue. And already, some drivers are thinking about ways to avoid the new congestion pricing tolls that will apply to those who enter the busiest part of Manhattan.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the city’s subways and buses as well as two commuter rail lines, depends on tolls to fund its operating budget. They are paid at nine bridges and tunnels — some of which connect to the new tolling zone — and add up to about $2.4 billion each year, or about 13 percent of the M.T.A.’s budget. In 2022, the M.T.A. estimated that it had lost $46 million in revenue to scofflaws at its bridges and tunnels, about 2 percent of its toll earnings.

The M.T.A. began collecting new congestion tolls for drivers who enter Manhattan at or below 60th Street. The tolls are expected to generate $500 million annually for three years, before the authority raises rates and revenue projections. But the authority could miss out on some of that money because of drivers who forge, alter or obscure their license plates to avoid toll readers and traffic cameras, turning their vehicles into so-called ghost cars.

Some drivers use camera-proof screens and sprays, as well as stickers, tape and other objects. They also scrape letters off their plates or use temporary paper tags.

On social media, drivers have shared other ideas to avoid the new congestion pricing tolls illegally. One TikTok user posted a video that suggested avoiding cameras by cutting through a certain parking garage with an entrance on 60th Street and an exit on 61st Street. In a Reddit thread, users suggested covering license plates with bird feces and purchasing devices that conceal or block license plates at the press of a button.

Public officials have stepped up their fight to remove ghost cars from the city, seizing more than 20,000 ghost cars over the past three years.

In December, the Police Department and Sanitation Department announced that they had seized and impounded more than 7,500 such vehicles off the road in 2024. Michael Kemper, the M.T.A.’s chief security officer, said officials had arrested 700 people during crackdowns on toll evasions this year.
Besides toll evasion, police officials say ghost cars and other illegal vehicles are used to help carry out violent crimes, including shootings and robberies.
 

Motorcycle-sized tuna fetches more than $1 million at Japan auction​

Chris Lau
By Jay Ganglani, Lisako Neriki Ancheta and Chris Lau, CNN
2 minute read


Published 3:18 AM EST, Mon January 6, 2025


The head of a 276-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about 1.3 million U.S. dollars) at the first tuna auction of the New Year in Tokyo, Japan, on January 5, 2025.

The head of a 276-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about 1.3 million U.S. dollars) at the first tuna auction of the New Year in Tokyo, Japan, on January 5, 2025.
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A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year auction.
Michelin-starred sushi restaurateurs Onodera Group claimed the 608-pound (276-kilogram) fish with its million-dollar bid at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market on January 5, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported.
The bid marks the second highest price since the seafood wholesale market, considered the world’s largest, began to collect data in 1999, according to Kyodo. The highest bid on record is $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) for a 278-kilogram tuna in 2019.
Vendors from across the country put their best catches up for auction at the market most mornings of the week. But the prestigious new year auction carries a special meaning for bidders who converge to vie for the honor of claiming the first batch of the year.
“The year’s first tuna brings good luck. We want to make people smile with food,” said Shinji Nagao, the president of Sushi Onodera, cited by Kyodo.
A 276-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about about 1.3 million U.S. dollars).

A 276-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about about 1.3 million U.S. dollars).
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movetheboat said:

Motorcycle-sized tuna fetches more than $1 million at Japan auction​

Chris Lau
By Jay Ganglani, Lisako Neriki Ancheta and Chris Lau, CNN
2 minute read


Published 3:18 AM EST, Mon January 6, 2025


The head of a 276-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about 1.3 million U.S. dollars) at the first tuna auction of the New Year in Tokyo, Japan, on January 5, 2025.

The head of a 276-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about 1.3 million U.S. dollars) at the first tuna auction of the New Year in Tokyo, Japan, on January 5, 2025.
Issei Kato/Reuters
TokyoCNN —
A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year auction.
Michelin-starred sushi restaurateurs Onodera Group claimed the 608-pound (276-kilogram) fish with its million-dollar bid at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market on January 5, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported.
The bid marks the second highest price since the seafood wholesale market, considered the world’s largest, began to collect data in 1999, according to Kyodo. The highest bid on record is $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) for a 278-kilogram tuna in 2019.
Vendors from across the country put their best catches up for auction at the market most mornings of the week. But the prestigious new year auction carries a special meaning for bidders who converge to vie for the honor of claiming the first batch of the year.
“The year’s first tuna brings good luck. We want to make people smile with food,” said Shinji Nagao, the president of Sushi Onodera, cited by Kyod
A 276-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for 207 million Japanese yen (about about 1.3 million U.S. dollars).
Kyodo/via Reuters
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Can't wait to see everyone run out to gear up to cash in on this "gold rush", without understanding that it is only the 1st fish of the year, and the fish came from Japanese waters, and the prices they see on Wicked Tuna are total BS. Those $15ish dock prices have been more like $5 a pound on a good day this past year...
 
Rick67 said:
I can’t read most peeps cursive especially the medical peeps. Anyone that scribbles jibberish should be ashamed.
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Script or print, chitty penmanship is nothing to be proud of.

It's just unfortunate that nobody is learning to write it anymore. There's still a lot of things written in it, so one should at least be able to read it. It's also very functional for getting things down quickly, and you still need to be able to sign your name often enough.

Mrs. Avenger is the only one left in her school teaching it. Most of the kids actually like it, but the younger teachers (and the occasional low IQ parent) insist it's a waste of time. I understand that knowing how to dial a rotary phone is a curiosity and not a necessary skill, but it's sad that so many people view cursive the same way.
 
Avenger said:
So whoever posted the meme of the chicken wearing a surgical mask thought they were kidding.

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‘Bird flu’ outbreak shutters Long Island’s last duck farm, as culling of 99,000 birds is underway

An outbreak of avian influenza at Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue has forced the farm to cease operations and begin to euthanize its entire flock, jeopardizing the future of Long Island’s last…
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Starlings were usually on the shit list when we were bored to blast away at one of Titmus’s Duck Farms out by Canny. It was a fast case of 12g. It beat shooting trap and there was actually a guy that would take them for the hearts to eat. Those birds were brazen, come right in the barns for the feeders. The farms usually had the propane boom going all day to scare them off. Maybe Crescent wasn’t using them.
 
NYC is getting better by the day....

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Woman, 70, and daughter attacked, robbed after car crash in Manhattan

Police on Wednesday released a photo of a man wanted in a violent robbery of two woman following a car crash in Manhattan last month.
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Brooklyn Uber passenger died after being beaten by muggers in backseat, family says 'it definitely is foul play'

The NYPD is investigating the death of a Brooklyn Uber passenger who was assaulted and robbed in the backseat of the for-hire-car by a pair of muggers on Tuesday night.
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