Weekly Review
A waiter at a Brooklyn IHOP was accused of giving away $3,000 worth of free soda. “I am,” he said, “Robin Hood.” A fallen tree derailed a commuter train in California, a man in Oregon was killed when an alder tree fell on his car, and it was reported than an Ohio woman was arrested for driving with a 15-foot tree stuck in her hood. A six-year-old boy was shot at a birthday party in Georgia, and a gun advocate in Florida was shot in the back by her four-year-old son. "Even my 4 year old gets jacked up,” she had posted online shortly before the shooting, “to target shoot with the .22.” Read more...
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The United States and South Korea began eight weeks of military exercises in which they simulated attacking North Korea with about 55 marine aircraft, 30 ships, and 300,000 Korean troops.[1][2] North Korea lost track of one of its submarines in the Pacific Ocean and claimed that it could destroy Manhattan with a hydrogen bomb. “All the people there would be killed,” said a state-run media outlet, “immediately.”[3][4] Eighteen people were killed when gunmen stormed a beach resort in the Ivory Coast, and at least 37 people were killed when an unidentified attacker detonated a car bomb near a bus stop in Ankara.[5][6] Macedonia closed its borders with Greece to all migrants, and Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia announced they were placing greater restrictions on border crossings.[7][8][9] A Danish couple who gave rides to a Syrian family in southern Denmark were found guilty of human trafficking.[10] A ten-year-old and a six-year-old were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza strip, and chemical-weapons attacks carried out by the Islamic State in northern Iraq killed a three-year-old girl. “She turned black,” said her father, “and pieces of her skin started to come off.”[11][12] A nursery in England suggested a four-year-old boy be sent to a de-radicalization program after he described a picture he had drawn as a “cooker bomb,” which was later revealed to be a mispronunciation of “cucumber.”[13] It was reported that a man in China sold his newborn daughter online for about $3,500 so he could buy an iPhone and a motorbike. “I really didn’t know that it was illegal,” said the child’s mother.[14]
It was reported that President Obama grew half an inch in the past two years.[15] A rally for Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in Chicago was canceled after fighting broke out between supporters and protesters.[16] In Utah, the House of Representatives passed a resolution that declared pornography a public-health crisis. “We do need to see this,” said one lawmaker, “like avian flu, cholera, diphtheria, or polio.”[17] Subway operators in Osaka, Japan, filed a lawsuit over their right to have beards.[18] A waiter at a Brooklyn IHOP was accused of giving away $3,000 worth of free soda. “I am,” he said, “Robin Hood.”[19] A fallen tree derailed a commuter train in California, a man in Oregon was killed when an alder tree fell on his car, and it was reported than an Ohio woman was arrested for driving with a 15-foot tree stuck in her hood.[20][21][22] A six-year-old boy was shot at a birthday party in Georgia, and a gun advocate in Florida was shot in the back by her four-year-old son. “Even my 4 year old gets jacked up,” she had posted online shortly before the shooting, “to target shoot with the .22.”[23][24]
The Russian Defense Ministry posted an online recruitment for dolphins with perfect teeth to be used in combat operations.[25] Scientists in Russia announced that they would try to clone extinct cave lions from 12,000-year-old frozen cubs, and researchers in Chile created chicken embryos with dinosaur legs.[26][27] It was reported that 6,500 noise complaints against the Reagan National Airport in 2015 were filed by a single person, and lawmakers in Georgia voted to legalize drinking alcohol while on a raft. “There is a significant difference between boating,” said State Representative Eddie Lumsden, “and floating.”[28][29] A woman was arrested in an airport in Germany with 2.2 pounds of cocaine inside her breasts, and a British man was arrested in an airport in Canada when authorities mistook his friend’s cremated remains for drugs.[30] A woman in Romania was reported to have torn off her husband’s testicles after he refused to do housework on International Women’s Day.[31] An artist’s Instagram account was cancelled after she posted videos of her finger penetrating a blood orange, and police in Greenwich Village in New York City seized an estimated $1,000,000 worth of marijuana from crates labelled “autoparts” and “art.”[32][33]
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