An apparent case of mistaken identity in Galveston landed a man in jail for days in May after police thought the innocent patient leaving the hospital was an escaped prison inmate. There were no escapees. ... continue reading
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3 Florida police stopped a man for walking while black, apparently a felony in Florida, entered his name incorrectly, then tased and beat him for supplying a false name (he gave his full correct name clearly... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 3 weeks ago • 141 views • 14:57High school student and aspiring teacher Preston Sykes stands up to fascist book burners at a school board meeting, explaining how censorship and banning information only does harm, and never stops.
posted by newtboy 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 516 views • 3:04Next to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is the Buitenschot Land Art Park, a giant set of ridges and furrows cut into the landscape. Yes, it's art: but it also stops some local residents from being exposed to... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months ago • 355 views • 3:51A jury has found former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter for killing Daunte Wright in an incident during a traffic stop.
posted by newtboy 2 years 4 months ago • 231 views • 1:56It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 2 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,835 views • 2:12Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened. It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 9 months ago • 560 views • 10:12WTF! No, I really mean it, what the actual, convoluted, outdated, insane, fk. My head hurts.
posted by dedstick 3 years 6 months ago • 75 views • 8:03Does a green laser pointer stop working when it is cold? Or does it turn into an invisible laser? That is nice to know for safety reasons if you are using a green laser pointer to point out stars on a... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 811 views • 9:01Trump must be stopped and his history of racism and current racist policies must be exposed. It's time to vote out racism!
posted by newtboy 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 282 views • 2:01Officials in Buffalo, New York, want an investigation into the firing of a black police officer who intervened when a white colleague had a suspect in a chokehold. The incident happened in November 2006.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 646 views • 5:14YouTube description: Mumbai Police and FCB Interface collaborated to teach Mumbai’s reckless honkers a lesson. Watch how a passive street signal turned into a Punishing Signal and taught Mumbaikars... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 605 views • 1:54Texas dad Jeffrey Younger has been fighting in the courts to stop his ex-wife from gender "transitioning" their 7-year-old son, James. On October 24, 2019, Dallas Judge Kim Cooks ruled to allow Younger... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 4 years 6 months ago • 9 views • 10:48YouTube description: A decade ago, engineers found the Humber Bridge had the same problem as many of the world's suspension bridges: unexpectedly fast corrosion. Here's how they fixed it, and how they're... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 941 views • 5:05YouTube description: At night, these parasites crawl onto your bed, bite you and suck your blood. Then they find a nearby hideout where they leave disgusting telltale signs. But these pests have an... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 1,273 views • 4:22You've probably spun around a coin for fun at some point, but this physics toy uses the physics of a spinning coin to keep spinning faster and faster for up to 2 minutes. As seen on The Big Bang Theory,... continue reading
posted by MicrowaveMeShow 4 years 10 months ago • 525 views • 2:02If you irritate Godzilla by talking or texting while he's telling his stories, you get the Atomic Breath. Got it? That goes for you too, Minilla. This magnificent stop-motion masterpiece was created... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,468 views • 1:48"... We’ve all gotten dizzy before… but have you ever gotten WEIRD DIZZY? I teamed up with Vanessa Hill from BrainCrat to answer the question 'why do we get dizzy?' and in the process we learned about... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 12 months ago • 659 views • 9:22About 10 years ago, the news was packed with reports about something called colony collapse disorder — a mysterious phenomenon that involved the disappearance of enormous numbers of bees. Then, the news... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 522 views • 3:30YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 426 views • 10:05