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What is this Thread all about?, it's about The Daily News from around your area or the Globe that doesn't deserve it's own thread but added to other News from your part of the world it might give you a little look into the daily lives of the little people, like you and I.
News from your Town, County or just General News of the day from your country that you find interesting, or maybe some one from the other side of the world might find interesting, get it?.

What this Thread is not about is, War, Religion, Politics or anything else that could be posted in the appropriate thread, that's all for now, so I'll post an example News Story.

EXCLUSIVE - 'Medics were overrun, someone was being resuscitated... broken bones, people on stretchers, the crew crying. It was PETRIFYING': Passengers on storm-lashed Saga cruise recall their 18-hour ordeal as 30ft waves tore into the boat

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...0ft-waves.html

What the hell did you expect you bloody Morons, a cruise on the sea of tranquility?, it's November in the Northern Hemisphere and winter is almost upon us, this weather is par for the course, suck it up you idiots.

Progressives in Thailand to tax out the yin yang anyone spending over 180 days in Thailand https://www.expatden.com/thailand/th...ed-income-tax/

Nestle Caramac bars axed after 64 years https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67355475

FLORIDA MAN STOPS PAYING FOR RENTAL CAR, USES IT TO GIVE UBER RIDES

Florida Man October 26

https://floridaman.com/florida-man-s...ve-uber-rides/

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[POLK COUNTY] Usually people return a rental car when they stop paying for it. But not Florida Man. No, he keeps it. Not only does he keep it, but he uses it give Uber rides and make a little cash on the side.

According to a Polk County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post, this Florida Man had an ingenious way of keeping the rental company from stopping his engine from starting…but we’ll get to that a little later.

27-year old Elijah Mills was pulled over in Polk County while giving a ride to a couple from the United Kingdom. They were in Florida to get married. Now they’ll have a great Florida Man story to tell their friends and family back home. Little did they know that the Uber car giving them a ride was actually a stolen car.

Mills rented a Ford Equinox in Orange County, but stopped making payments on the car three weeks earlier. The Florida Man told deputies that the rental car company called him constantly, but he refused to answer. The company had no choice but to report the car as stolen.

Usually the rental company is able to keep the cars ignition from restarting, but that didn’t work. Why Not? Well, Mills told police how he was able circumvent their device by keeping the car running. That’s right…he kept it running for three weeks straight. With gas prices so high today, no wonder he had to use it as an Uber.

And who would have guessed that Florida Man didn’t even have a valid license? Mills was charged with Grand Theft Motor Vehicle and Driving While License Suspended or Revoked.

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Originally Posted by Rockstar (Post 2891292)

FLORIDA MAN STOPS PAYING FOR RENTAL CAR, USES IT TO GIVE UBER RIDES

65% of these stories about my state should more properly be called Polk County Man Stories :har:

An old man just shot 2 climate activists who were blocking a highway in Panama

A 77-year-old man shot dead two environmental protesters on Wednesday in an apparent outburst of rage over a roadblock in Panama.

The gunman was named in local media as Kenneth Franklin Darlington Salas. If he is convicted, Mr Salas could be sentenced to house arrest rather than being sent to jail because of his age.

The protesters, who were opposed to a controversial mining contract, had blocked the Pan-American Highway in Chame, 51 miles from the capital Panama City.

Footage posted on social media showed the motorist walking from his car, demanding the protesters get out of the road.

Initially, Mr Salas removed tyres which were obstructing the road. The protesters, according to witnesses, shouted at the man: “Are you going to kill someone?”

The gunman replied: “You want to be the first?”

He opened fire, first shooting a protester holding a flag and then a second man who went to confront him, before walking off and removing tree trunks that had been blocking the road. He was then arrested.

Local media identified the victims as Abdiel Diaz, a teacher and union activist, and Ivan Mendoza.

The deaths are the first fatalities in protests that broke out on October 20 against a contract that allows Canada-based First Quantum Minerals to operate Central America’s biggest open pit copper mine for at least another 20 years.

https://i.postimg.cc/xTB5ttv1/IMG-3135.jpg

Didn’t those climates activists know that mining operations strip the land of trees and plant life which in turn saves the planet? :har::har:

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Originally Posted by em2nought (Post 2891293)

65% of these stories about my state should more properly be called Polk County Man Stories :har:

I live in Brevard County we’re known for common sense and good taste :O:

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Originally Posted by Moonlight (Post 2891187)

What is this Thread all about?, it's about The Daily News from around your area or the Globe that doesn't deserve it's own thread

What this Thread is not about is, War, Religion, Politics or anything else that could be posted in the appropriate thread, that's all for now, so I'll post an example News Story.

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Originally Posted by Rockstar (Post 2891297)

:hmmm: Imho; this particular item, while horrifically interesting, is of a distinctly political nature involving the assassination of both a flag wielding protester and a union leader protesting a political/international-corporation global warming issue by blocking the Pan-Am highway. This was specifically nixed by the OP, Moonlight. It is worthy issue in its own right and deserves an appropriate thread of its own; inasmuch as the shooter is a 77 yearold lawyer and professor with previous firearm related legal issues.

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby (Post 2891304)

I bet he's suffering from early onset dementia too. That **** causes some loss of inhibition, and bad decision making. His lawyer should make that argument.

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby (Post 2891304)

Nah, Just Another Day......Baby.

NANA AKUA: Ballooning wine glasses, TV heroines glugging Shiraz by the gallon and bottomless brunches - no wonder British women are the world's biggest binge drinkers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...NANA-AKUA.html

I've been seeing these female piss heads staggering around town for the last 30 years or more, you should see what some of them do when they've dropped their knickers, I'm afraid Upper Class Nana would faint in shock. :O:

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby (Post 2891304)

This isn't about union leaders, climate change or international politics. The post is about someone who snapped, and I'd bet money politics was the furthest thing from this guy's mind, he was fed up, angry and just wanted to go home. But someone got in his way and now they're dead holding a stupid little flag.

https://youtu.be/Grd8uyutQoI?si=ORWMMS4CgMppWf5_

Transgender people can be baptised and be godparents, Vatican says

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67366198

Nestlé has announced the discontinuation of a second chocolate bar just hours after chocolate fans were told the iconic Caramac bar was being axed.

Now, the confectionary company has dealt a further blow to sweet-toothed Brits and has decided to stop manufacturing Animal Bars.

The Animal bar was launched in 1963 as a real milk chocolate bar, with a fun game on the inside of each wrapper. Every bar has two different named animals moulded on the surface.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddri...e6ec9e8b&ei=39

Former NatWest chief executive Dame Alison Rose loses £7.6m payout after Nigel Farage de-banking row

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...el-Farage.html

She will be paid a little over £1.7 million for serving out her notice period, it's still a good little earner me thinks, some might say that she doesn't deserve that payoff either, and I'd be in agreement with them.

Johnny Ruffo: Australian singer and Home and Away actor dies aged 35

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-67340905

Finally, a lesson in common sense! School tells parents it will NOT be providing litter trays for pupils who identify as cats and warns 'this kind of behaviour is not acceptable'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tify-cats.html

There's a simple solution to this fad that's pervaded the education system and that's to expel anyone who doesn't identify as a human.
Gillian Keegan the Secretary of State for Education should make this known in the House of Commons too, any Head Teacher who refuses to implement these new guidelines must be fired immediately, that should be the end of the furries me thinks......maybe.
Lets see how the parents cope with the fines for their children's non attendance at school, me thinks the onus should have always been on the parents to sort the little brats out and not the education system, I reckon some parents who don't conform to this Political correctness ideology will be warning their kids about actions and its consequences.

'Sand is like gold.' The pricey race to restore Florida beaches before the next hurricane

by Nicolas Rivero and Alex Harris

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-sand-g...a-beaches.html

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Florida's sandy beaches aren't just beautiful and one of the biggest money-makers in the state's tourism-based economy. They're also the first line of defense against storm surge flooding during hurricanes.

Now, after hits on both coasts during the 2022 hurricane season that ended Wednesday, those beaches are in desperate need of repair. Even before hurricane season began on June 1, 426 of Florida's 825 miles of sandy beaches were listed as "critically eroded" in a June report from the state's Department of Environmental Protection.

Then, hurricanes Ian and Nicole delivered a one-two punch of beach-shredding wind and waves. The damage to beaches was severe, particularly along the the northeast Florida coast.

"Our dune system is a coastal protection system," said Jonathan Lord, the emergency management director for Flagler County in northeast Florida. "Because the dunes were so damaged from Ian, it didn't take much for Nicole to further damage them and cause flooding in many neighborhoods."

For decades, Florida has been restoring its beaches by dredging or trucking in more sand. But the practice is becoming more challenging—and expensive, thanks to the rising cost of beach-quality sand. Offshore sand deposits, especially on Florida's southeast coast, are dwindling after decades of repeated beach restoration projects. As local governments squabble over the right to use the remaining sand, its price is rising.

"Sand is like gold," said Michelle Hamor, the planning chief for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' office in Norfolk, Virginia, which is leading the effort to develop a $6 billion plan to protect Miami-Dade County from storm surge. "There are a lot of projects that rely on it, and it's a limited resource."

And looming sea level rise, which quickens the pace of beach erosion on developed coastlines, will only make Florida's future efforts to protect its beaches more complicated and costly.

The scarcity of sand

There's plenty of sand sitting in relatively shallow water on the continental shelf that rings Florida. But not all of it is good enough for the state's beaches. Sand that has the wrong color or grain type can harm plants and animals, like the sea turtles that build their nests along the Florida coast.

There are economic considerations, too: Florida spends billions of dollars a year advertising its pristine, white-sand beaches to tourists. Loading the shoreline up with inferior quality sand could make the state a less attractive vacation destination.

Since 1935, Florida has dredged or dug up about half a trillion tons of high-quality sand to maintain its eroding beaches, according to the National Beach Nourishment Database developed by the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association and the Army Corps. But the state's supply of good sand is running low—and once those deposits are gone, they won't come back any time soon, according to Stephen Leatherman, a professor of coastal science at Florida International University.

"For all practical purposes, they're used up," Leatherman said. New sand takes thousands of years to form, and existing sand is hard to reuse. Once beach-quality sand gets eroded away from the shoreline, it winds up scattered across the continental shelf in thin layers that are too skimpy to dredge again.

Erosion woes in Miami Beach

Miami Beach may offer a vision of Florida's future. In 1968, the Army Corps began a beach restoration project for about a dozen miles of shoreline in Miami Beach, Surfside and Bal Harbour that is still running. But Miami-Dade County, which sits on an exceptionally narrow stretch of continental shelf that is just a mile and a half wide in some places, exhausted its offshore sand supply in 2014.

Ever since, Miami Beach has had to rely on sand trucked in from Central Florida, which is more expensive. Several mines are scattered along an inland sand deposit known as the Cypresshead Formation, a stretch of extinct beach that runs west of Lake Okeechobee up toward Jacksonville along what used to be Florida's coastline. Dump trucks haul the sand from Central Florida down to Miami Beach, trundling along Collins Avenue before dropping about a dozen cubic yards of sand onto the eroding beach.

The Army Corps is currently spending $40 million to truck in 835,000 cubic yards of sand to restore about two miles of shoreline in Miami Beach, a project that will require tens of thousands of truck trips. The budget comes out to a little less than $50 per cubic yard of sand—a once unthinkable price for beach restoration.

"For sand, you're now spending $30 to $50 a cubic yard," said Karyn Erickson, president of Erickson Consulting Engineers, a Sarasota-based firm that has been working on beach restorations in Florida for three decades. "In the mid-90s, we thought it was expensive if we were paying $12 per cubic yard. $10 to $12 was the standard rate."

Sea level rise amps up beach erosion
In the future, under current projections, Florida's beaches will likely erode more quickly thanks to climate change. "Sea level rise is responsible for beach erosion," said Leatherman. "There's no way around it."

Sea level rise threatens beaches in two ways. First, higher sea levels mean water will cover more of the beach. On empty, undeveloped coastlines, the sand from the beach would get pushed inland, causing the beach to retreat. But much of Florida's coastline is built up with homes, hotels, streets, seawalls and other structures that prevent the beach from moving backward. So instead of migrating, the beach will just get thinner, Leatherman says.

Meanwhile, higher sea levels also amplify the effect of waves and storm surge. Rising sea levels destabilize existing beaches and allow eroding sand to get pulled further out to sea, according to Leatherman. That way, when a storm comes, it can do more damage to the beach.

All that means Florida's erosion challenges are only going to get harder. Adding sand back to the beaches can offer the state some temporary relief, Leatherman said. "But you're just treating the symptoms, not curing the disease," he said. "The disease is sea level rise."

The cost of beach restoration

Over the past 87 years, Florida has spent at least $1.9 billion on beach nourishment, according to the National Beach Nourishment Database. The state government now spends about $30 million to $50 million a year maintaining its beaches, and local governments contribute about the same amount.

After a hurricane, the state and counties can usually convince the federal government to foot the bill for beach restoration. But outside of emergencies, the Army Corps only picks up a fraction of the tab, leaving Florida counties and the state to devote tens of millions of dollars of their budgets to beach nourishment.

State and local officials, however, have few other choices. Erickson, the coastal engineer, says Florida should build erosion-preventing infrastructure like coastal groins on more of its beaches. Lord, the Flagler County emergency manager, says Floridians may have to move away from the coasts eventually. But no one believes Florida and its local governments can just stop spending money on beach restoration.

"The answer is, yes, we're going to have to do it over and over again. As long as we want to protect what we've got," Leatherman said. "There's over a trillion dollars of real estate in Southeast Florida along the shore. Who's going to walk away from all that?"

Anger as diner 'puts own hair on plate to get free meal'

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Tom Croft, the owner of a pub in Lancashire, has spoken to the BBC after discovering that a pub diner, who was refunded the cost of their meal, appeared to plant hair on a plate in CCTV footage.

He said that the lady in question had dined at the Observatory in Blackburn before "kicking up a fuss" to bar staff.

Mr Croft revealed he found out about the alleged dining deception after reviewing the video to check if the pub had done anything wrong.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-67374297

Revealed: Thug who punched defenceless man, 78, is a bare knuckle boxer from a famous traveller family who 'turned down a role in My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding' and planned to arrive at his own £60,000 nuptials in a helicopter but couldn't land in the car park

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-car-park.html

All I can say to this is, if he was a bare knuckle fighter he wasn't a bleeding good one, old men and bits of kids must be his speciality, what a plonker.

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Michael Jackson jacket sells for £250,000 at auction
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67388618

Someone has obviously more money than sense.