Headline News Thread II: Meanwhile...

[MissThundercat]

Jasmin Paris became the first woman to finish the legendary Barkley Marathons. And one of the few to count themselves as a finisher in general.

 

[Slap Shot]

There better be significant prison time for this.

Video Shows Tallahassee Police Officer Planting Evidence During DUI Arrest
Calvin Riley Sr.'s routine traffic stop becomes a legal nightmare. Video shows TPD Officer Oliver pouring out a sealed bottle of liquor and tossing it in Riley's passenger seat, before arresting him for a DUI.

 

[SonofSouthie]

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A casino worker handed over $750,000 in cash to a person she believed was the hotel’s lawyer in what police suspect is part of a larger theft operation, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.

https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/thief-posing-as-las-vegas-casino-lawyer-steals-750k/

 

[Kepler]

Best First Sentence nominee.

 

[aparch]

I believe we're now at a decade straight where the USCHO Forum is snubbed from the media bias chart.

https://www.threads.net/@adfontesmedia/post/C-3IzS_ytG6/

 

[walrus]

Rocket science, 5 times over the weight limit of bridge. https://www.wabi.tv/2024/08/23/over...Cg5YBM3CziB4gChJEw_aem_wFZD5TjrlIhS95oG36OUpg

 

[Russell Jaslow]

Rocket science, 5 times over the weight limit of bridge. https://www.wabi.tv/2024/08/23/over...Cg5YBM3CziB4gChJEw_aem_wFZD5TjrlIhS95oG36OUpg

I want see his next insurance bill…

 

[Kepler]

Rocket science, 5 times over the weight limit of bridge. https://www.wabi.tv/2024/08/23/over...Cg5YBM3CziB4gChJEw_aem_wFZD5TjrlIhS95oG36OUpg

> The original Babb’s Bridge, which was built in 1840, was burned by vandals in 1973.

Probably his father.

 

[Kepler]

Plane crash in Kazakhstan captured entirely on film. 25 of 75 people survived because the tail section split open and the people in there ran into the burning fuselage to pull people out. We contain multitudes.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I’m not an expert but I watched that video hours ago and I feel like the pilots had some serious skill to even land how they did

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Adam kinzinger posted that the Russians shot it down

the tail is always the safest spot (right mookie)

 

[Kepler]

Adam kinzinger posted that the Russians shot it down

the tail is always the safest spot (right mookie)

They did find a part of the plane had bullet holes. That seems... suggestive but not dispositive?

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

They did find a part of the plane had bullet holes. That seems... suggestive but not dispositive?

More reports it was Russians, who also apparently denied the pilot emergency landing. Pilot made it across the sea after being hit (if reports are to be believed)

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

180 dead in plane crash in South Korea

bad week for aviation

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Christ, even the 737NG is malfunctioning now.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Christ, even the 737NG is malfunctioning now.

Landing gear apparently wasn’t down. Considering the age of the plane, I’m leaning towards a maintenance issue rather than some defect.