
Wei Ji the Learner |

California man convicted of illegally importing an ancient mosaic from Syria
That's not weird.
That's Good.
Folks need to get away from a colonialist mindset of 'taking nice things away from people to save them for bragging rights'.
Looking at places like the British Museum that have historically done this on a much larger scale.

Ed Reppert |
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According to Wikipedia, the needles were given to the UK and US by the Egyptian government of the time. It's not like a bunch of Brits and/or Americans went to Eqypt and said "oh, look what we found! We're taking them with us!" I grant that people have done that, but not in this case.

Semantic Deity |

California man gets prison for nearly $9M phony cow manure-to-green energy investment scheme
"That's not weird, that's Good! It shows the danger of following the true path of Semantics -- this faith is not for beginners."

NobodysHome |

Live snake found in bag of broccoli
I love people's overreaction to snakes. "It's lucky I didn't just leave the broccoli out in the kitchen, or it would have been loose in the house. That would have been a huge risk for us because we have two vulnerable people living here...It's just not good enough — the implications for us if it had [gotten] out in the house are huge."
Um... it's a small, non-venomous snake with a maximum adult length of 160 cm and it's not a constrictor (and this one was in a broccoli bag, so I'm betting around 30 cm). I cannot imagine how it could possibly have been "a huge risk" to anyone, considering it's too small to even consider a newborn baby prey.
EDIT: But then, I'm one of those people who is eternally perplexed by the fact that the four most useful vector control predators on the planet (snakes, spiders, cats, and bats) are the ones we put on Halloween decorations because we think of them as "scary" instead of "heroes".

David M Mallon |
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Live snake found in bag of broccoli
It's like the toy at the bottom of a box of cereal, only it's a snake, and it's not cereal.

BigNorseWolf |

Aberzombie wrote:Live snake found in bag of broccoliIt's like the toy at the bottom of a box of cereal, only it's a snake, and it's not cereal.
Still not eating the brocoli no matter how cool you make the prize!

quibblemuch |
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David M Mallon wrote:Still not eating the brocoli no matter how cool you make the prize!Aberzombie wrote:Live snake found in bag of broccoliIt's like the toy at the bottom of a box of cereal, only it's a snake, and it's not cereal.
You know what would be really weird news is if someone found a single piece of broccoli in a bag of snakes…

David M Mallon |
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Iowa man hoping to break Guinness World Record for largest pencil collection on Earth
I live in the same town as this guy.

quibblemuch |

Library book about electricity is returned after 119 years: 'In such good shape'
Except for the single piece of broccoli and the snake that were being used as bookmarks...

BigNorseWolf |

Mail delivery suspended in Texas neighborhood due to dive-bombing hawk
Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night.. Nope. Ain't nothing in there about rampaging raptors.