Random Links Thread

[Blarg]

Bear hadn't had his coffee yet and this bastard wouldn't share. 

[gotbeer]

The original Twinkie wasn’t ‘plain,’ but a different flavor entirely

 

[gotbeer]

7 people hospitalized, nearly 100 treated on scene at Red Rocks from hail Wednesday night

[arch stanton]

The hail there gets ugly. When I was there I saw baseball sized 

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

[Redondo]

States propose charging drivers by the mile as fuel taxes plummet

States are looking for ways to keep the funds coming in order to maintain the nation's roads.

Gas taxes have been used for more than a century for the purpose.

The problem that has developed is those taxes are generating less each year due to inflation, fuel efficiency and the rise of electric cars.

States are experimenting with various ideas that could eventually replace those taxes

[Blarg]

They want to put trackers on everyone's car as if that isn't a privacy issue to fight through the Supreme Courts. There was an article just today where a husband is on trial for putting a tracker on his wife's car, joint property in marriage and yet considered illegal. 

[Redondo]

 

6-year-old boy plummets from zipline after harness fails at amusement park

[Redondo]

 

Woman has leg amputated at airport after it became trapped under moving walkway

[Redondo]

Bobby Bonilla Day: Why Mets pay him over $1M every July despite last playing for them in 1999

This is where the conception of Bobby Bonilla Day begins.

Instead of paying him the rest of the money owed, the Mets and Bonilla negotiated a deal to make annual payments of just under $1.2 million every July 1 from 2011 to 2035, when Bonilla will be 72, which included a negotiated 8% interest.

So, why did the Mets decide to pony up close to $30 million over the long haul instead of simply handing over the $5.9 million? Well, then-owner Fred Wilpon had invested with Ponzi-scheme artist Bernie Madoff and expected double-digit returns on the deal, which did not happen and Wilpon wound up with the short end of the stick.

It's been reported that Wilpon lost roughly $700 million through Madoff, who was jailed in 2009 and spent the rest of his life in prison.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/bobby-bonilla-day-why-mets-pay-him-1m-every-july-last-playing-1999

[Redondo]

 

Family of 6-year-old boy who fell from amusement park zipline to file lawsuit

[Redondo]

 

A chimpanzee that had been locked up her entire life walked outdoors for the first time in nearly 30 years, video shows.

The 28-year-old chimpanzee named Vanilla was recently transferred to a sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Florida. Save the Chimps, a rescue organization, told Storyful that Vanilla originally lived in a California facility "inside a chain-link fence cage with no grass and very little enrichment."

"She had never been outside of a lab cage or the garage-sized enclosure she was transferred to in California," Save the Chimps explained.

Before she was moved to California, she lived in a small cage at a rescue lab in New York.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/chimpanzee-sees-sky-the-first-time-nearly-30-years-reacts-amazement-video

[Redondo]

 

Riders stuck upside down for hours after rollercoaster abruptly stops

[Blarg]

I have to say, I don't feel sorry for the guy.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/us/larry-nassar-stabbed-prison/index.html

 

[Redondo]

 

American surfer dies in freak accident while riding wave

[Redondo]

 

Plane skids off runway upon arrival, smashes to pieces on protective barrier

[Tank]

one of my former students has just become a pilot for Southwest. thank goodness this isn't one of their planes.

[Redondo]

Doctors reattach boy's head after getting hit by car while riding his bike

 

 

[Redondo]

Quick-thinking mom saves child just seconds before home ceiling collapse

 

[Redondo]

 

Paleontologist finds rare 450,000-year-old fossil

[gotbeer]

@Tank eating chicken.

 

[Tank]

during our recording break on sunday, four of us headed over to taco bell. i ordered the black bean quesarito, which is a vegetarian option. i didn't realize until i was about halfway through that it was the regular quesarito with beef. it tasted a lot like my vegetarian burger option.

[arch stanton]

22 minutes ago, Tank said:

during our recording break on sunday, four of us headed over to taco bell. i ordered the black bean quesarito, which is a vegetarian option. i didn't realize until i was about halfway through that it was the regular quesarito with beef. it tasted a lot like my vegetarian burger option.

Taco Bell prefers to keep the meat to a minimum in their beef products 

[Redondo]

 

Horror moment road explodes, sending cars and buses flying during rush hour

[Redondo]

 

Car drives off public stairway, flips through air onto tree