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Elusive Surfboard-Stealing Otter 841 Back in Santa Cruz, up to her Old Tricks
East Bay Times | 5/28/24 | Ethan Barron

Surfer Karl Anderle knew just whom he was dealing with Saturday in Santa Cruz when he turned around and saw a large adult sea otter sitting on the back of his board: Otter 841, the notorious marine mammal whose surfboard-stealing and wave-riding rampage last summer captured the world’s attention.

“I’m going over in my mind what I should do,” said Anderle, 69, who had been sitting up on his board at a surfing contest as a volunteer keeping non-competitors out of the competition zone. “I didn’t really want her to bite me. I didn’t want to be that guy fighting an otter in the middle of a surf contest. I had to maintain my cool.”

Anderle, who said he has observed Otter 841 frequently over the past couple of years and watched her steal a surfboard from a friend last summer, slid into the water and held onto his board as the creature, bearing her characteristic non-functional tracking tag, indulged her proclivity for chewing on soft-topped surfboards.

Anderle tipped his board up, hoping the animal would hop off, but she scooted up and clung on, he said. So, he decided he would “hang and chill and pretend that this is normal.”

The otter’s trail of mayhem shown in red:

 

 

SI Swimsuit Madness : Round 5 Matches 103 & 104 : Results Round 5 Matches 101 & 102

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We are back! Continuing on with the loser’s bracket. Good to see you all again.

Results

Round 5 Match 101

Alana Blanchard 123 Defeats Josephine Skriver 51

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Round 5 Match 102

Paige Spiranac 103 Defeats Anna Kournakova 83

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Round 5 Match 103

Dominique Piek vs Lorena Duran

Dominique Piek

  • Round 1 Match 12 Defeated Danielle Herrington 190-67
  • Round 2 Match 54 Clair Bidez 97-82
  • Round 3 Match 83 Lost to Christen Harper 45-122

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Lorena Duran

  • Round 1 Match 26 Defeated Maila Manuel 80-51
  • Round 2 Match 61 Lost to Lily Aldridge (Tie 75-75) 156-170
  • Round 3 Match 77 Defeated Hyunjoo Hwang 115-42
  • Round 4 Match 95 Defeated Kate Bock 89-76

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Round 5 Match 104

Natasha Barnard vs Georgia Gibbs

Natasha Barnard

  • Round 1 Match 29 Defeated Naomi Osaka 189-22
  • Round 2 Match 63 Lost to Paige Vanzant 87-125
  • Round 3 Match 79 Defeated Kelly Gale 109-63
  • Round 4 Match 96 Defeated Sailor Brinkley-Cook 109-40

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Georgia Gibbs

  • Round 1 Match 14 Defeated Genie Bouchard 110-62
  • Round 2 Match 55 Defeated Genevieve Morton (Tie 86-86) 158-150
  • Round 3 Match 84 Lost to Hailey Clauson 63-99

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Proofread, News People!

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Trial begins for woman accused of running over Chicago Police officer while naked
CBS News | 04/01/2024 | Megan Hickey

CHICAGO (CBS) — Monday was the first day of a bizarre trial involving a woman who investigators said attacked a Chicago Police officer, stole his sport-utility vehicle, and dragged him with it – all while she was naked.

CBS 2 discovered the woman, Whitley Temple, was hired by the City of Chicago while awaiting trial.

It has been nearly two years since the incident, and CBS 2 learned that in that time, Temple briefly worked for the City of Chicago’s Department of Family and Support Services as a lead accountant.

The city has declined to comment on her hiring.

On Monday, Temple’s attorney told a Cook County judge his client was “in a psychotic state” at the time of the incident, and argued that this is a “textbook insanity case.”

 

And Just Like That, I’ve Appropriated a New Witness Protection Pseudonym

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“Xavier Veal.”

3 Black passengers sue American Airlines after alleging racial discrimination following odor complaint
CBS | May 30, 2024 | Kris Van Cleave, Kathryn Krupnik, Analisa Novak, Michelle Tak

Three passengers are suing American Airlines after alleging employees from the company removed a total of eight Black men from a flight due to a complaint about a passenger with body odor.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, claims that as American Airlines Flight 832 from Phoenix to New York was boarding in January, American Airlines employees removed eight Black men from the plane allegedly over a complaint about “offensive body odor.”

Video central to the lawsuit displayed a group of Black men who were not traveling together and did not know each other being removed from the flight. According to the suit, they were the only Black passengers on the flight.

Emmanuel Jean Joseph, Alvin Jackson and Xavier Veal — the three plaintiffs— were on a connecting flight from Los Angeles. The three allege that at no point throughout the other flight did any employee from American Airlines say anything to them about an offensive odor.

Jean Joseph told CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave that as he gathered his belongings and walked to the jet bridge, he noticed that only Black men were being removed from the flight.

If CBS continues to assign four reporters to a story, they’re going to have layoffs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s Only Your Money. And Their Virtue-Signalling.

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Commish’s crony cleric: NYC’s first female, openly gay FDNY chaplain awarded huge promotion with $160K pay
New York Post | June 1, 2024 | Susan Edelman

Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh has named a pastor with no clinical experience to run the FDNY’s counseling services for firefighters and medics struggling with mental-health problems — an appointment that will require the department to hire another licensed supervisor at taxpayer expense to plug the gap.

Kavanagh tapped Ann Kansfield, the FDNY’s first female and openly gay chaplain, as chief of the department’s Counseling Services Unit, which runs a staff of psychologists and therapists who conduct screening, assessment and treatment of job candidates and ailing first-responders.

Kansfield, 48, whom Kavanagh has called her “spiritual muse” — served as one of nine FDNY chaplains, last year collecting $39,809 in salary and overtime.

As CSU director, her salary will jump to $159,650, officials said.

Can I hire my spiritual muse — Mary Ann?

 

Strategic Advice — But Trump Doesn’t Listen To Us

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This woman made a good suggestion on a news forum:

Trump should take a poison pill and turn one of his properties over to illegals. Of course, TPTB probably already have planned to confiscate his hotels and do that, anyhow.

Thinking about it, I see a classic “twofer” win — bleeding-heart liberals would say, “Oh, how woke and concerned of him.” Realists would say “Yup — in one year the city will have to condemn the property for sanitary reasons.”

The key is that he must totally divest himself from the property, in order to show that everything liberals touch turns inevitably to crap.

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Well? Is She?

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Swiss writer who called journalist ‘fat lesbian’ sentenced to 60 days in prison
New York Post | May 31, 2024 | FoxNews

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Soral will appeal to Swiss federal court and “if necessary” to the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer added.

This conviction was not the first time Soral has gotten into trouble over his words as he was previously and repeatedly convicted in France for denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in France. He was sentenced to jail time in 2019 over the denials.

If I deny the Pyramids exist, what is the crime I have committed?