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

Roccus7 said:
Bill and Melinda Gates getting divorced!! Interesting part will be what happens to their philanthropic organization.
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My wife just told me this and I thought how could two people who have managed to reach incredible success and fortune in life not know how to work out success in their relationship.
 
wader said:
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Couple discovers live WWII Japanese Navy bomb while doing yard work in Missouri

“We’re lucky we found it before we started excavating.”
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A Japanese Navy Bomb?
In Missouri????

WTF?????

"The couple plans to purchase a metal detector before they do any more work."

:LOL:
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Souvenir hunter that was stationed on some South Pacific Island. Probably got it home and didn't know what to do with it. A couple of years back, someone on Long Island was renovating their newly purchased home. The house was built in 1946 by a just returned GI that was a carpenter. They started ripping down an old sheet rock wall and found a live WWII Pineapple Hand Grenade complete with a slightly rusted pin. I believe the Suffolk County bomb squad took it out east and detonated it. The original owner had passed away long ago and they figured he must have hidden it behind a wall "just in case" and to keep it away from his kids!
 

She told followers she was ‘Mother God.’ Her mummified body was found wrapped in Christmas lights.​

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By Jaclyn PeiserMay 5, 2021

Amy Carlson’s body was mummified in a sleeping bag and wrapped in a cloth adorned with Christmas lights when Colorado sheriff’s deputies found her last week. Glittered makeup decorated her face and around her eyes, according to law enforcement.

“The mummified remains appeared to be set up in some type of shrine,” police said in an affidavit.

That shrine was allegedly erected by Carlson’s followers in her religious group “Love Has Won,” which some officials and former members have described as a cult. Carlson, 45, claimed she was “Mother God,” 19 billion years old, a reincarnation of Jesus and could heal people of cancer “with the power of love,” she said on “Dr. Phil” last year.

On Wednesday, seven alleged members of her group were arrested in Crestone, Colo., and charged with abuse of a corpse, according to the arrest warrant published by KDVR. They also face child abuse charges after law enforcement found a 13-year-old and 2-year-old in a home where the group members were staying.

“The Saguache County Sheriff’s Office has received many complaints from families within the United States saying that the group is brainwashing people and stealing their money,” the arrest warrant said.

Carlson’s death and apparent mummification brought a fittingly strange end to her unexpected arc as a religious leader. Carlson had faced claims that she abused her followers and, most recently, saw her group forced out of Hawaii under police escort after clashing with protesters.

Carlson first grew interested in New Age philosophy in 2006 after leaving her husband and job at McDonald’s. She built a following through hours of proselytizing on live streams to viewers around the world, convincing them she was a divine being who was trying to save humanity and bring world peace, according to a Vice documentary on the group. She also said that she would lead 144,000 “chosen ones” into a mythical, fifth dimension.

Carlson’s most devoted flock lived with her in Colorado, where they also hosted live streams encouraging followers to donate and buy merchandise, while they also attended to Carlson’s every need and desire. Members had to call her “Mother God” or “mom,” were allowed only four to five hours of sleep, were often underfed and at times were banned from sitting down, former members told Vice.

“It’s . . . a lot of mental manipulation, a lot of brainwash,” said a former member identified as Taylor. “Everything is revolved around Amy.”

Carlson, who forbade members from drinking or using drugs, spent countless nights drinking copious amounts of alcohol and becoming belligerent, according to former members. Live streams showed her demeaning and yelling obscenities at followers.

She also made several outlandish claims: that former president Donald Trump is her father; that she performed over 100,000 “spiritual surgeries”; that she communicates regularly with Robin Williams, who died in 2014; that she has been reincarnated over 530 times. She told Dr. Phil that her past lives include Joan of Arc, Marilyn Monroe and Cleopatra; she claimed to have full memory of her lives including being hung on the cross as Jesus.

Rick Alan Ross, a cult expert who heads the Cult Education Institute, compared Carlson’s leadership to classic personality traits of other cult leaders. In the “Dr. Phil” episode on the group, Ross said Carlson convinced her followers to “obey” her and to “be submissive.”

“The one person who is never criticized – there is no critique, there is no questioning – is Amy,” Ross said. “Amy is always right and if you disagree with Amy, you’re wrong.”

Last August, the group rented a house in Kauai but were run out of town in September after neighbors gathered for protests, vandalized and lit fires outside the house, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

Saguache County Sheriff’s Office first learned of Carlson’s dead body last Wednesday, when Miguel Lamboy, who has been identified as a member of Love Has Won in past news articles, reported finding the corpse.

Lamboy, 42, told law enforcement that five members of Love Has Won had showed up at his home the day before, saying they needed a place to stay. The following day he woke up early and drove to Denver, according to the arrest warrant, only to return home later that day to find Carlson’s mummified remains on a bed in the backroom of his home.

Lamboy told police that he tried to take his 2-year-old son and leave the house, but members would not let him leave. Lamboy then went to police and reported the death, the arrest warrant said.

Just before midnight, law enforcement arrived at Lamboy’s house to perform a welfare check on his son and to search the home for Carlson’s body. Officers found Carlson laid before a shrine in the backroom.

They arrested seven people inside the house, including Jason Castillo, 45, who was at one point Carlson’s partner and known as “Father God,” according to Vice.

Police reunited Lamboy with his son and placed the 13-year-old – the daughter a 47-year-old woman who was among those arrested – with social services, according to the affidavit.

Lamboy told law enforcement that he believed that the seven people who showed up at his house transported the “mummified remains” from California, the warrant said. Police inspected the car outside Lamboy’s home and found the back seats down.

“The position of the rear passenger seat is consistent with someone transporting the mummified remains,” the affidavit said.

Law enforcement booked the seven adults into the Rio Grande County Jail. It is unclear who is representing each person.

It is unclear how Carlson died, and none of the seven adults have been charged in her death. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is set to do an autopsy of Carlson’s body, according to KCNC.

Despite Carlson’s death, her followers have continued to do daily live streams on their YouTube channel.

In a video on the group’s Facebook page, a member said Carlson “did not pass away” but “ascended.”
“Her essence left the body of Amy Carlson at 12:22. She is indeed happy now,” a woman identified as Bobby said in the video, according to the Denver Post.

Saguache County Sheriff’s Department Corporal Steve Hansen said he wasn’t expecting the members to respond so calmly to Carlson’s death.

“I’m not sure what to think about this whole thing. I’ve never seen a group of people be so nonchalant about a dead person in their backroom,” Hansen told KUSA.
 
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A Farmer Moved a 200-Year-Old Stone, and the French-Belgian Border

When it comes to redrawing nations’ borders, scores of diplomats can spend years painstakingly hashing out every inch of the dividing line. For the border between France and Belgium to be redrawn, all it seemingly took was one farmer. Apparently frustrated by a 200-year-old stone border marker...
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Apparently frustrated by a 200-year-old stone border marker, a Belgian farmer dug it out and moved it about 7 feet into French territory, local officials told French news media, thus slightly enlarging his own land as well as the entire country of Belgium.

The stone markers, each believed to weigh between 300 and 600 pounds, were laid when the 390-mile border between France and what is now Belgium was established under the 1820 Treaty of Kortrijk.

It is unclear whether the farmer knew the significance of the stone, which has 1819 carved into its face.

In theory, moving the stone violates the 1820 treaty, Chopin said.

“It’s very, very serious,” he said. “Well, ‘serious’ in quote marks because there are of course many more important things than this.”
 
Tastes like chicken???

Pesky Condors Invade California Home​

Fifteen to 20 of the endangered giant birds wrecked the deck, knocked over lawn ornaments and tore up “every piece of plastic” they could find, the homeowner’s daughter said.


Endangered condors descended on a deck outside the Southern California city of Tehachapi this week.

Endangered condors descended on a deck outside the Southern California city of Tehachapi this week. Credit...Cinda Mickols

After spending the weekend away, Cinda Mickols returned to her California house on Monday and found some unexpected visitors.

About 15 to 20 condors had descended on her home outside the city of Tehachapi in Southern California. At least 13 were hanging out on her deck — and there were several more on the roof.

“When I arrived home Monday, I was both amazed and angry at the condors,” Ms. Mickols said on Wednesday. “To have that many condors on my house was surreal; they can be destructive and messy. Nature is amazing!”

Her daughter, Seana Quintero, also thought it was odd to have so many condors, which are endangered and number about 160 in the state, gathered in one spot. So she tweeted about the condor mob with photos of the destructive visit. The birds wrecked the deck, ripped up a spa cover and knocked over plants this week.

“My poor mom JUST redid her deck with new wood,” Ms. Quintero said in an interview on Wednesday. Her tweet has drawn more than 21,000 likes, with users poking fun at the predicament.

One user wrote: “your mom has been adopted by a critically endangered species. I’d call that an honor.”

Ms. Mickols, 69, said the birds had also damaged screen doors and knocked over a half-barrel deck plant.

“The worst,” she said, “was the excrement.”

“There is more condor poop than she can handle,’’ Ms. Quintero said, adding that it’s “like concrete and won’t come off.”

A half-barrel deck plant was among the casualties when between 15 and 20 endangered condors paid a visit to Cinda Mickols’s home this week.

A half-barrel deck plant was among the casualties when between 15 and 20 endangered condors paid a visit to Cinda Mickols’s home this week. Credit...Cinda Mickols

Ms. Mickols is used to living among the wild in a semirural area in the Tehachapi Mountains. Elk and deer regularly approach her property.

“She’s used to seeing a few condors around,” Ms. Quintero said, “but this is a whole other level.”

Over all, she said, her mother was taking the condor flock in “good stride and appreciating this once-in-a-lifetime annoyance but hoping they decide to leave her house alone soon.”

To do that, Ms. Quintero said, her mother contacted some condor groups so that they could observe the birds “and maybe help keep them off her house.”

It’s hard to miss a California condor, which, with a wingspan of about nine and a half feet and weighing about 25 pounds, is the largest flying bird in North America.

Condors have been in danger since the 1950s as development began to invade their natural habitats. Their eggshells also became so abnormally thin from exposure to the long-banned pesticide DDT that they could not support life.

Their populations dropped dramatically, and by 1967, the California condor was listed by the federal government as endangered, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

In the early 1980s, when there were just over 20 of the birds left in California, the wildlife service began a captive breeding program to save the species.

Since 1992, when the wildlife service began reintroducing captive-bred condors to the wild through public and private partners, the condor population in the country has grown to more than 400 birds.



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Of the mess caused by the endangered birds, “the worst is the excrement,” Ms. Mickols said.

Of the mess caused by the endangered birds, “the worst is the excrement,” Ms. Mickols said. Credit...Cinda Mickols

As they were reintroduced to the wild, the birds, scavengers by nature, also became habituated to humans by lurking around campsites and making themselves at home on people’s properties.

In responding to Ms. Quintero’s tweets, the Fish and Wildlife Service said that her mother’s house is in a historical condor habitat “where natural food sources occur” and that “unfortunately they sometimes perceive houses and decks as suitable perch locations.”

To encourage the birds to leave without causing them harm, the Fish and Wildlife Service suggests using water hoses, yelling, clapping or shouting.

As of Wednesday morning, Ms. Mickols said, the condors that been on her house had moved on to a tree on her property, though she said she hadn’t seen them since then.

Her daughter joked that “they’re just waiting until she leaves again to throw another party.”
 
Avenger said:
Obviously.

I mean, those are their numbers, right?
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Freedom of sharing their fishing grounds with EU partners was a major selling point for Brexit. It has bounced back at them in this way, and with the EU putting tough seafood import hoops that have to be jumped through.

Fishing rights between European countries has been played out before, and the UK should have figured on it. Iceland and the UK have had "Cod Wars" for many years...

The Cod Wars (Icelandic: Þorskastríðin, "the cod wars", or Landhelgisstríðin, "the wars for the territorial waters"; German: Kabeljaukriege) were a series of 20th century confrontations between the United Kingdom (with aid from West Germany) and Iceland about fishing rights in the North Atlantic. Each of the disputes ended with an Icelandic victory.[1][2]

Some Icelandic historians view the history of Iceland's struggle for control of its maritime resources in ten episodes, or ten cod wars. The agreement that was reached in 1976 concluded what in modern times is called the Third Cod War (the final and tenth Cod War in long-term history).[3] Fishing boats from Britain were sailing to waters near Iceland in search of their catch in the 14th century. Agreements struck during the 15th century started a centuries-long series of intermittent disputes between the two countries. Demand for seafood and consequent competition for fish stocks grew rapidly in the 19th century. In 1951, citing as precedent a decision by the International Court of Justice,[4] Iceland expanded its territorial waters to 4 nautical miles (7 kilometres).[4] In 1958, after a United Nations conference at which several countries sought to extend the limits of their territorial waters to 12 nmi (22 km) at which no agreement was reached, Iceland unilaterally expanded its territorial waters to this limit and banned foreign fleets from fishing in these waters. Britain refused to accept this decision.[4] This led to a modern series of confrontations with the United Kingdom and other western European countries that took place in three stages over 20 years: 1958–61, 1972–73 and 1975–76. A threat of damage and danger to life was present, with British fishing boats escorted to the fishing grounds by the Royal Navy while the Icelandic Coast Guard attempted to chase them away and use long hawsers to cut nets from the British boats; ships from both sides suffered damage from ramming attacks.

Each confrontation concluded with an agreement favourable for Iceland. Iceland made threats it would withdraw from NATO, which would have forfeited NATO's access to most of the GIUK gap, a critical anti-submarine warfare chokepoint during the Cold War. In a NATO-brokered agreement in 1976, the United Kingdom accepted Iceland's establishment of a 12-nautical-mile (22 km) exclusive zone around its shores where only its own ships could fish and a 200-nautical-mile (370-kilometre) Icelandic fishery zone where other nations' fishing fleets needed Iceland's permission. The agreement brought to an end more than 500 years of unrestricted British fishing in these waters. As a result, British fishing communities lost access to rich areas and were devastated, with thousands of jobs lost.[5][6] The UK abandoned its "open seas" international fisheries policy and declared a similar 200-nautical-mile zone around its own waters. Since 1982, a 200-nautical-mile (370-kilometre) exclusive economic zone has been the international standard under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
 
Just about every TV meteorologist in New England has spent time at "The Rock" on the top of Mt. Washington. It is the site of the highest wind speed ever recorded on the earth's surface, a 231 mph gust recorded April 12, 1934. They also talk fondly about the official mascot cat...

New cat named Nimbus settles in at Mount Washington Observatory​

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Associated Press May 6, 2021

NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — There’s a new feline prowling about the highest peak in the Northeast.
Nimbus, a gray shorthair who shares his name with large, gray clouds that bring precipitation, has been a resident at the Mount Washington Observatory since April 14.

The observatory staff have had a cat at the 6,288-foot summit, called the “home of the world’s worst weather,” since 1932.

Nimbus succeeds Marty, a black Maine coon cat who became ill and died last fall.

Rebecca Scholand, the observatory summit operations manager, began the search for a new cat with the help of the Conway Area Humane Society. Nimbus was transferred to the humane society from an animal rescue group in Oklahoma.

“Our observers tell us Nimbus is a very sociable cat who uses a wide variety of meows, chatters and purrs to keep their attention and express happiness with his new home,” the observatory said in a statement Thursday.
 
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