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An economics website features this property:

1875 Howard County Sheriff’s House and jail ... connected to the home is a 2500 sq ft legitimate jail with 9 cells, booking room and 1/2 bath. The cell door lock throws appear to be operational. Full basement under the home with lighting throughout. Possibilities are amazing with this property.

The last sentence leads to much discussion in the comments:
https://marginalrevolution.com/marg...al-estate-markets-in-everything.html#comments
 
Do wild pigs normally run off with human paraphernalia like that? I mean, anthropomorphizing aside, it's hard to imagine a mother pig getting up in the morning and saying to her piglets, "come on children, it's time to do the shopping . . . "

Here's the follow-up story (complete with picture of porky nude German):

Threat to kill wild boar that stole nude bather's laptop prompts outcry
Berlin officials say Elsa and her piglets pose a danger and may have to be ‘withdrawn'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ole-nude-bathers-laptop-prompts-outcry-berlin
 
It looks like "alternative facts" may have a scientific basis:

Quantum paradox points to shaky foundations of reality
Nearly 60 years ago, the Nobel prize–winning physicist Eugene Wigner captured one of the many oddities of quantum mechanics in a thought experiment. He imagined a friend of his, sealed in a lab, measuring a particle such as an atom while Wigner stood outside. Quantum mechanics famously allows particles to occupy many locations at once—a so-called superposition—but the friend’s observation “collapses” the particle to just one spot. Yet for Wigner, the superposition remains: The collapse occurs only when he makes a measurement sometime later. Worse, Wigner also sees the friend in a superposition. Their experiences directly conflict.

Now, researchers in Australia and Taiwan offer perhaps the sharpest demonstration that Wigner’s paradox is real. In a study published this week in Nature Physics, they transform the thought experiment into a mathematical theorem that confirms the irreconcilable contradiction at the heart of the scenario. The team also tests the theorem with an experiment, using photons as proxies for the humans. Whereas Wigner believed resolving the paradox requires quantum mechanics to break down for large systems such as human observers, some of the new study’s authors believe something just as fundamental is on thin ice: objectivity. It could mean there is no such thing as an absolute fact, one that is as true for me as it is for you.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/quantum-paradox-points-shaky-foundations-reality
 
Pot dealer enlists psychics to help cannabis starved customers find 'lost weed'
Maine is one of 11 states where recreational cannabis can be bought over the counter, in theory anyway as it still does not have any legal pot-shops and the Covid shut-down has prevented the opening of planned ones. However customers who have mislaid their weed can enlist the help of a psychic to locate their missing stash.
“We have Psychics roaming all over Portland communicating with their deity, their spirit guides, and having religious moments of clarity. We can guarantee to find your LOST WEED!! (For a small, but very worthwhile fee!), We are not a delivery service, we are not furnishing you weed. We are simply returning YOUR property! If you have LOST your weed, please feel free to reach out to us! Your word is good enough for us. If you say you LOST IT, we will FIND IT, GUARANTEED or you pay nothing.”

A Public service in the face of adversity - maybe this should go in the Happy News thread.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...sts-psychics-help-cannabis-starved-customers/
 
"An economics website features this property:

1875 Howard County Sheriff’s House and jail ... connected to the home is a 2500 sq ft legitimate jail with 9 cells, booking room and 1/2 bath. The cell door lock throws appear to be operational. Full basement under the home with lighting throughout. Possibilities are amazing with this property."

My mum grew up in a place like that in Scotland. Grandpa was a cop. The jail had a house attached where the family lived. When we came back in 1977 to visit a nice couple was converting it into a new home
 
A year ago, "nathanwright120" made an edit to @openstreetmap , adding a tag that indicates that a building in the suburb of Fawkner in Melbourne, Australia, had 212 floors instead of 2. All his other edits of openstreetmap seem legit, so it appears to have been a typo... (1/2) https://t.co/Mwh1LBu3ap

The error was later corrected by another @openstreetmap user, BUT, in the interim, Microsoft took an export of the data and used it to build Flight Simulator 2020. The result... this incredible monolith (2/2) https://t.co/wXKBK03Gcd

In Microsoft Flight Simulator a bizarrely eldritch, impossibly narrow skyscraper pierces the skies of Melbourne's North like a suburban Australian version of Half-Life 2's Citadel, and I am -all for it- https://t.co/6AH4xgIAWg
 
A tortoise got mugged by a snail and when the police asked him if he could remember any details of the attack he said
"Not really....it all happened so fast".
 
"On Thursday Cole got a call from a man who said he saw Solomon at a home construction site just an eighth of a mile from her house. "

/so about 200 meters for metric users.
A good thing no one tripped over Solomon. How can you not see a 150 lb tortoise?
 
Mum horrified after noticing inflatable toy dinosaur appears to have genitals

The woman, who was setting up decorations for her son's birthday party, couldn't help but laugh when she noticed the odd placement of the 'blow-up' nozzle on the dinosaur inflatable she bought from Kmart. ...

The 'blow up' tube had been placed in-between the dinosaur's legs, which, the mum thought looked pretty questionable to say the least. ...

FULL STORY (With Photo): https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mum-left-horrified-after-noticing-22567987
 
Heart of first mayor of Belgian village discovered in fountain:

https://www.verviers.be/loisirs/cul...ante-decouverte-au-coeur-de-la-fontaine-david

During the dismantling and renovation work of the David fountain (Place Verte), an astonishing discovery was made. indeed, a hollowed-out stone contained a box containing the heart of Pierre David, 1st Mayor of Verviers of independent Belgium. For this occasion and in record time, the museum team mounted an exhibition around David and the construction of the fountain. In particular, you will be able to come and see this box containing the heart of our first Bourgmestre but also documents from the municipal archives or museum collections.

https://www.nu.nl/opmerkelijk/60746...eester-belgisch-dorp-gevonden-in-fontein.html

The heart was in a jar of alcohol in a small chest and was found during renovations at the fountain. "This heart of Pierre David was solemnly placed in the monument on June 25, 1883," is engraved on the chest.

The mayor, Pierre David, died in 1839, but the fountain was not opened until 1883.
 
A floating pub, you say?.........
Hmmm......we have a large lake near here.....<thinks>
 
"A Floating Pub?" Is that one which actually makes money?
Actually, that does sound like a business model with potential. With all the bricks and mortar pubs dying, a floating pub might just work.
 
Well, this headline (no pun intended) really does sum up the story quite neatly...

Grandad’s severed head mailed to family in mayonnaise box after he went missing
A woman was outraged when she received her missing grandfather’s head in a box of mayonnaise.

Veronica Sosa said the remains were sent by police after they were found in a rubbish dump.
The human head, which was little more than a skull, was originally believed to belong to a missing 40-year-old local woman in the city of General Roca in the Rio Negro province in central Argentina.
But a forensic examination revealed it was the skull of a man, and it was later identified as belonging to local Luis Sosa, in his late 70s, who went missing from his home on January 10 last year.
His family were reportedly told they could not have his remains until the investigation was concluded.
Ms Sosa said the fact only the head had been found indicated foul play but the family had received no details of any investigation from prosecutors.
Instead, they suddenly got the Hellman’s mayonnaise box.
https://www.news.com.au/world/south...g/news-story/77dba39155c4c3dbc5160879c708ad64
 

There's a classic woodblock of... oh right, sorry, that was rather a fisherman's wife. :walkd:

Octopi only live a few years, perhaps 2-3, and are generally solitary animals. It is curious how one could become apparently friendly with a prey animal. Perhaps it learned this large, pink-and-black creature scared away the predators when it came to visit.
 
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