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Sailor leaves Tahiti and sails to offshore Australia (7000km) where rough seas endanger him and his boat. Coast Guard takes him aboard and tows his boat to Australia. CG turns the sailor over to immigration who throw him in a quarantine hotel for him to whatever. [link=(https://www.dailymail.co....

So, she was shot somewhere, she got into a car and went for a ride, got out of the carand was treated at a hospital to be named (maybe) at a later date, and died at that unnamed hospital. Homi.cide-death person- sounds as if she cided at the hospital. Maybe her family will sue because they didn't s...

Maybe they'll award admission points for the applicant's most creative use of computers to paste themselves in obscure sports not yet fully appreciated by the NCAA. What sports? Purse snatching, sheep shearing, chicken sexing, caber tossing, cooking a dark roux, catching and eating seal blubber,...

From the Arkansas TDOT site page [img]https://www.ardot.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Measuring-the-Fracture.jpg[/img] [link=(https://www.ardot.gov/divisions/public-information/40-ms-river-bridge/)]LINK[/link]...

Fans of Lizzo may not be amused. ...

Looking forward to the action version of Othello starring Jackie Chan....

Well, isn't that special?...

I did not know that Bezos had bought IMDB. I knew my favorite source of information about movies had split off a pay side with more information, supposedly for industry professionals. I also knew that there's a site with old movies, etc. that my husband really enjoys. But somehow it came as a surp...

A beginning look at the barge traffic that isn't moving. This is just on one mile. [quote]The U.S. Coast Guard said [b]44 vessels with a total of 709 barges are now in the queue as a 1-miles stretch of the Mississippi River remains closed [/b]after a large crack was discovered in the I-40 Hernan...

For comparison sake, the I-65 bridge just west of Louisville KY (aka Sherman Minton) was closed for two years because they found a crack. [link=(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Minton_Bridge#Closure_of_2011%E2%80%932012)]LINK[/link][quote]determining the severity of this crack and others fou...

She will land somewhere that isn't Wyoming....

How often do they inspect the bridge? They may not want to say, but if that occurred in the past week, past month, etc. all of a sudden Also, is that building material the kind that reacts with elastic stretch before the break? Surely someone might have heard the break, maybe. Maybe a perso...

A break with horizontal AND vertical offsets. The TDOT map says "at the Tennessee-Arkansas line", so which state grabs responsibility. OTOH, two states pushing for federal funds make more noise....

Sanford Biggers is the 'artist' who is best known for taking antique quilts and redesigning them by splashing paint on them. (at a gallery in NYC)....

Al Jazeera is PO'd (intentional pun) that skunk water is being used for crowd control. The arabic word for it translates as "the shitter" [link=(https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/12/the-skunk-another-israeli-weapon-for-collective-punishment)]LINK[/link] [quote]Skunk water is a liquid comp...

[quote]individual sub cultures and traditions.[/quote] Do we no longer call them tribes? If so, there's a book burning about to happen because books written by African natives still living in Africa refer to the different tribes and how they don't get along....

Are they honoring Lizzo?...

[link=(https://www.wbir.com/article/news/investigations/records-a-e-student-was-shot-twice-boyfriend-involved-in-a-gang-and-a-previous-shooting/51-4ec8aef2-8b55-4a85-bb73-aac5479cd0b6)]LINK[/link] A fifteen year old high School freshman was shot twice, fatally, in front of her home. Her boyfrie...

The videos in the first part of this thread are better than what Al Jazeerah has. ...

In Tennessee there's the new I-155 bridge more than half the way to Kentucky. TDOT Smartway map shows a lot of congestion without really telling the reason the bridge is closed....