Thanks to 9-year old Dane Best, the town of Severance in Colorado reversed a 100-year old ordinance that banned the throwing of snowballs. After successfully convincing town leaders, Dane mentioned his first target would be his little brother.
Arlington County police and medics had to break up a large and unruly crowd when a promotion for free cheesecake got out of control.
Tumblr’s ban on pornographic content is going about as well as you’d expect. The AI software built to identify porn flagged a photo of hockey player Alex Ovechkin sleeping with the Stanley Cup as NSFW.
California Highway Patrol officers pulled over a Tesla on the freeway that was driving itself home. The owner was sitting in the driver’s seat, passed out drunk.
An art collective in Germany set up a website to identify participants at a neo-nazi rally and monitored individuals who used the site’s search function to put names to faces of those they had yet to identify.
An 18-wheeler carrying jalapeños caught fire on a freeway in Texas.
Photo credit: Twitter user @PanosZahariadis
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