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‘Coordinated group’ raid LV store near SF, take off with $100K in bags

[Redondo]

Lamborghini was going 141 mph before Las Vegas crash that killed moped driver, police say

A Lamborghini driver accused of hitting and killing a man on a moped in Las Vegas last weekend was reportedly going 141 mph in a 45 zone before the crash, car data showed, according to the arrest report. 

‘I killed someone," an officer at the scene quoted Andrew James Rodriguez, 33, of Texas, as saying after he allegedly hit local resident Walter Anderson, 58, according to FOX 5 in Las Vegas. 

Officers said they immediately suspected he had been drinking following the crash because his eyes were bloodshot and watery and he smelled of alcohol. 

The Lamborghini Huracan had allegedly slowed to 127 mph at the time of the impact. 

"The Lamborghini collided with the rear of the moped with such force that the moped became lodged under the right front of the Lamborghini," officers said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. 

 

[Redondo]

The new Ford Maverick compact pickup will be the brand's cheapest model when it goes on sale this fall for $19,995, not including delivery fees, but most of the ones depicted in the advertisements are higher-end models in the $30,000 to $35,000 range.

To get the bargain basement price, buyers will have to go for the Maverick XL, which is very much in the spirit of a work truck.

The front-wheel-drive  hybrid comes with black plastic bumpers, 17-inch steel wheels and a cloth interior with a power driver's seat.

Power windows, air conditioning, automatic emergency braking and an Apple CarPlay and Android Auto-compatible infotainment system are standard, but the only available option package adds just blind spot and lane departure warning systems for $540. You'll also have to spend $100 for an acessory tow hitch receiver to take advantage of the 191 horsepower pickup's 2,000-pound trailer rating.

It's a blank canvas that should appeal to customizers and commercial customers, and its 37 mpg combined fuel economy rating enhances the frugality.

However, those looking for more capability can step up to the non-hybrid all-wheel-drive model for $1,085, which swaps in a 250 hp turbocharged four-cylinder engine with a maximum tow rating of 4,000 pounds.

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[Redondo]

Landmine-sniffing rat Magawa retires after years of brave work in Cambodia

After five years of sniffing out land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, Magawa is retiring.

The African giant pouched rat has been the most successful rodent trained and overseen by a Belgian nonprofit, APOPO, to find land mines and alert his human handlers so the explosives can be safely removed. Last year, Magawa won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery — an honor so far exclusively reserved for dogs.

"Although still in good health, he has reached a retirement age and is clearly starting to slow down," APOPO said. "It is time."

Magawa has cleared more than 141,000 square meters (1.5 million square feet) of land, the equivalent of some 20 soccer fields, sniffing out 71 land mines and 38 items of unexploded ordnance, according to APOPO.

While many rodents can be trained to detect scents and will work at repetitive tasks for food rewards, APOPO decided that African giant pouched rats were best suited to land mine clearance because their size allows them to walk across mine fields without triggering the explosives — and do it much more quickly than people. They also live up to eight years.

Magawa is part of a cohort of rats bred for this purpose. He was born in Tanzania in 2014, and in 2016, moved to Cambodia’s northwestern city of Siem Reap, home of the famed Angkor temples, to begin his bomb-sniffing career.

[T.G.]

23 hours ago, Tank said:

"what's a pushup?"  - most of aw.com

 

[Tank]

9 hours ago, True Grich said:

 

[gotbeer]

Massachusetts lobster diver describes being swallowed by humpback whale off Cape Cod

[Blarg]

"It is not something I have heard happening before," Dr. Jooke Robbins said. 

 

Another heathen that never read the Bible. 

[Redondo]

Alaska man helps baby moose over guardrail during traffic jam

https://www.facebook.com/andien.bock/posts/4215252368495407

[gotbeer]

Scientists unravel mystery of echidnas' bizarre 4-headed penis

@cals  Even has pictures.

[Redondo]

 

Naked Tennessee woman destroys Walmart with ax, defecates on herself

[Tank]

Tennessee is close enough to Florida that this is reasonable.

[St1ck]

8 hours ago, Redondo said:

 

Naked Tennessee woman destroys Walmart with ax, defecates on herself

Not nearly as impressive as the time Genghis Khan totally ravaged Oshman's Sporting Goods.

[Tank]

15 minutes ago, St1ck said:

Not nearly as impressive as the time Genghis Khan totally ravaged Oshman's Sporting Goods.

That’s because Genghis Khan used falcons and horses. I don’t think those would’ve worked inside an Oshmans.

[gotbeer]

56 minutes ago, St1ck said:

Not nearly as impressive as the time Genghis Khan totally ravaged Oshman's Sporting Goods.

That's all right St1ck.  I get you, unlike the heathen.

 

Edited June 18, 2021 by gotbeer

[Taylor]

This Twitter thread is awesome.

 

[Redondo]

Utah grandma, 92, receives high school diploma as Class of 2021 graduate

A Utah woman showed you’re never too old to learn new things when she earned her high school diploma at the age of 92. 

Barbara Stanley has lived a full life, though, perhaps not the life she intended: Growing up during the Great Depression, she put her ambitions on hold as she helped her sisters raise their kids, then got married early in her 20s. 

GEORGIA WAITRESS PRAISED AFTER PULLING DRIVER FROM BURNING CAR

Originally, Stanley intended to become a physical education teacher; instead, she raised a big family, giving birth to 17 children – eight boys and nine girls. 

She never earned her high school diploma – something her granddaughter Sheri McFarland thought she should rectify. McFarland reached out to Salt Lake City's West High School, where her grandmother had attended school, to see if something could be done.

"It was extraordinary the circumstances she was in and why she had to leave school," Jared Wright, the West High School principal, told FOX 13 Now. He explained that many students dropped out during each world war. 

However, the administration was willing to help out a former student.

"Once a panther, always a panther," Wright said. 

After a few months, Wright received a package in the mail. She cried when she opened it and discovered a high school diploma, making her a graduate of the class of 2021.

She even received a cap and gown for the graduation, allowing her to enjoy the full graduation experience, according to FOX 13 Tampa Bay. 

"Oh my goodness, it’s gorgeous," Stanley said. "Now can you take me to the prom? I never had a prom dance!"

[Redondo]

Amazon to surpass Walmart as largest US retailer

[Redondo]

Brothers claim they broke record in Yosemite for longest highline

Highliner Daniel Monterrubio walks the 2,800-foot-long line off Taft Point above Yosemite Valley in Yosemite, Calif on June 12, 2021.

Two brothers from San Francisco say they have set a record for the longest highline ever walked in both Yosemite National Park and California, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Earlier this month, they and a group of friends spent nearly a week stringing a single, 2,800-foot (853-meter)-long line from Taft Point west across a series of gulleys that plunge 1,600 feet (488 meters).

Moises and Daniel Monterrubio, brothers who are training to be rope-access technicians, had been thinking about crossing that void for a year.

"Every time we’d go out there, we’d think about that line," Moises Monterrubio, 26, told the Chronicle.

Highlining is high-altitude slacklining, in which a narrow strip of strong, nylon webbing — usually an inch wide and a few millimeters thick — is strung between two anchor points and serves as a kind of balance beam.

Completing a line means carefully heel-toeing from one end to the other while wearing a waist-harness that links to a 3-inch steel ring around the webbing. In a fall, walkers remain attached, but they have to haul themselves back up to balance or shimmy back to an anchor point while dangling upside down.

The sport in the past decade has flourished into a culture of athletes, gear brands and sponsorships.

Over the course of six days earlier this month, the Monterrubios used the help of 18 friends and fellow highliners to navigate their webbing through and across the landscape — hiking lines up from the valley floor, rappelling down from the cliffs above and maneuvering through countless tree branches.

Eventually, they had their anchors: a set of granite boulders at Taft Point and an old, thick tree trunk at the other outcropping.

"It was pretty intense and dangerous. But we made it happen," Monterrubio said.

The group received permission from national park staffers in advance, he said.

The longest line walked in Yosemite had been a 954-footer (291-meter) extending from Taft Point to an anchor east. The new line was almost three times that length.

It all came together at sunset June 10: The line was set, the brothers were ready and the honor was theirs.

Daniel, 23, walked the line first and fell three or four times in the wind but made it across. Then Moises, also falling twice but catching himself on the line above the craggy landscape.

Friends took turns on the line for four days afterward, most of them falling as well. The pride of a highliner is to conquer a line without slipping off.

Eventually, Moises walked the line in 37 minutes without a fall. So did fellow highliner Eugen Cepoi, Moises’ mentor.

"The most rewarding part was seeing all my friends at the anchor excited about just having it done," Moises said. "I value that more than crossing."

[gotbeer]

@Redondo  Oh hell no.  I'd have fallen in the first 3 feet, and call it a day.

[Redondo]

3 hours ago, gotbeer said:

@Redondo  Oh hell no.  I'd have fallen in the first 3 feet, and call it a day.

For sure

That's crazy what they do

And after they fall they have climb back up and continue 

[gotbeer]

Lol at can't get anyone from the bank on the phone.  If it happened to me, I'd be dead by Monday when the bank opened due to a hookers and blow party.

Woman discovers nearly $1 billion in her bank account

[Redondo]

2022 Toyota Tundra officially revealed in full after internet leak

The truck's most distinguishing feature is an enormous grille with LED light strips in that's highlighted in the photo by the vehicle's black and white color scheme.

Toyota has promised that the new Tundra "will blow you away" and said that it will be powered by a new engine called the iForce Max.

Speculation is that the base engine will be the same 409 hp twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 that was recently introduced in the new Land Cruiser that will be sold in other markets.

Toyota's executive V.P. of U.S. sales, Bob Carter, also said that an even more powerful option will be offered and that Toyota is "in it to win it" in the full-size pickup segment.

 

[gotbeer]

Stupid to have an LED light strip so high.  All it's going to do is blind cars in front of you, since 1 out of 5 seem to drive with high beams on all the time anyways.

[Redondo]

Not a fan of the front grill