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Great Acts Of Stupidity

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Super expensive McLaren lands in ditch The Hague, driver uninjured

Near The Hague, a driver's car went off the road and ended up in a ditch. The driver was able to free himself from the vehicle and get to shore with the help of bystanders. He was not injured.

What the damage is to the car, a McLaren 570S, is not yet clear. Photos from local news site Region 15 show that one of the headlights was smashed.

The engine is said to have been running for a while after the vehicle ended up in the ditch; this caused smoke. The bolide has a new-value of about 250,000 euros.

The accident happened on the road between Zoetermeer and Haagoord. The police arrived at the scene after the accident. A salvage company lifted the car out of the ditch and removed it.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2511327-peperdure-mclaren-belandt-in-sloot-den-haag-bestuurder-ongedeerd
 
ramonmercado said:
Sauce for the goose ...

The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who is accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media asked a judge to reconsider his detention on Monday, pointing out that he is charged with the same federal counts as former President Donald Trump and that prosecutors did not oppose Trump’s release.

In May, a Massachusetts judge ruled that 21-year-old Jack Teixeira would be held in jail while he awaits trial for charges under the Espionage Act after prosecutors argued he callously mishandled highly sensitive national security information during his short tenure in the National Guard. The magistrate judge, David Hennessy, said that Teixeira posed a continued threat to national security.

Teixeira’s lawyers argued in a new filing on Monday that a judge should reverse a decision to keep Teixeira detained, pointing to several other criminal defendants who were released while awaiting trial, including Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/17/politics/jack-teixeira-out-of-jail-classified-trump/index.html
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16 years - I wonder if others can expect a similar sentence.

Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira agreed Monday that he caused one of the most extraordinary leaks of national defense secrets in years and agreed to accept a prison sentence of 16 years -- what could be the longest sentence in an unlawful retention case.

According to the signed plea agreement filed with the court, Teixeira, 22, agreed to plead guilty to all six counts charging him with willful retention and transmission of national defense information. In exchange, prosecutors agreed not to charge him with additional counts under the Espionage Act.

Teixeira "accessed and printed hundreds of classified documents" and posted images of them on Discord prior to his arrest last April, a prosecutor said Monday during a hearing in Boston federal court, where the Air National Guardsman pleaded guilty.

Teixeira entered court in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit with the initials PCCF on the back, for Plymouth County Correctional Facility, and appeared to smile at his father, who was seated in the second row.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/pentagon-leak-suspect-jack-teixeira-agrees-accept-16/story?id=107772933
 
ramonmercado said:
16 years - I wonder if others can expect a similar sentence.

Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira agreed Monday that he caused one of the most extraordinary leaks of national defense secrets in years and agreed to accept a prison sentence of 16 years -- what could be the longest sentence in an unlawful retention case.

According to the signed plea agreement filed with the court, Teixeira, 22, agreed to plead guilty to all six counts charging him with willful retention and transmission of national defense information. In exchange, prosecutors agreed not to charge him with additional counts under the Espionage Act.

Teixeira "accessed and printed hundreds of classified documents" and posted images of them on Discord prior to his arrest last April, a prosecutor said Monday during a hearing in Boston federal court, where the Air National Guardsman pleaded guilty.

Teixeira entered court in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit with the initials PCCF on the back, for Plymouth County Correctional Facility, and appeared to smile at his father, who was seated in the second row.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/pentagon-leak-suspect-jack-teixeira-agrees-accept-16/story?id=107772933
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I'm a sucker for these spy stories, cool. Yesterday I saw another weird one. This one sounds like a honeytrap:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/air-...osure-classified-national-defense-information

According to the charging documents, Slater attended USSTRATCOM briefings regarding Russia’s war against Ukraine that were classified up to TOP SECRET//SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (TS//SCI).

Slater then transmitted classified NDI that he learned from those briefings via the foreign online dating website’s messaging platform to his co-conspirator, who claimed to be a female living in Ukraine on the foreign dating website. The co-conspirator regularly asked Slater to provide her with sensitive, non-public, closely held and classified NDI and called Slater in their messages her “secret informant love” and her “secret agent.” In response to these requests, Slater indeed provided classified NDI to her, including regarding military targets and Russian military capabilities relating to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1340961/dl?inline

"Dear, what is shown on the screens in the special room?? It is very interesting." :)

You are my secret informant love! How were your meetings? Successfully?"

I hope you will tell me right away? You are my secret agent. With love.

"Sweet Dave, the supply of weapons is completely classified, which is great!" :)

"My sweet Dave, thanks for the valu,able information, it's great that two officials from the USA are going to Kyiv.
 
uair01 said:
This is more tragic than stupid. I've read a lot about addiction and drugs (purely out of morbid fascination, fortunately) but I didn't know about this horrible side effect of ketamine:

But four months later, Sophie relapsed.She adds: “I’d been clean for 16 weeks but was still going to the toilet every hour, it was excruciating and, in the end, I gave in. I was a mess, drugs were all I cared about. My poor gran was so upset but I couldn’t control it.
“I took ketamine every day and worked in a bar to fund it. I was so ill, my kidneys, my back and my stomach were excruciating, I felt like someone was torturing me.”
In July 2013, Sophie was rushed into hospital after she collapsed at home.
Doctors warned her that her kidneys were failing and they fitted a catheter to drain her urine.
She says: “They told me I had Stage-3 liver disease and the damage I’d done was life-threatening. I broke down.”
A scan showed Sophie’s bladder had 40mm holes in it and surgeons told her there was nothing they could do to save it.
Sophie is now waiting for an operation to remove the bits of her bladder that remain, and takes painkillers daily to help with the pain.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5...g-ketamine-at-16-now-at-23-i-have-no-bladder/
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There was an item about ketamine on the BBC TV news today. Bristol is a hotspot for Ket-related bladder damage. It's horrific.
 
Juvenile injured after fall while climbing scaffolding Westertoren Amsterdam

A young person was injured in Amsterdam after falling from a scaffolding near the Westertoren, on the Prinsengracht. The victim fell down several floors, according to police, and was taken to hospital with unknown injuries.

The juvenile had gone up the scaffolding with four others. What they were doing there, police could not yet say.

All five youths were detained. The four who were not injured were taken to the police station. The West Tower is under scaffolding due to major maintenance.

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https://nos.nl/artikel/2518353-jongere-gewond-na-val-bij-beklimmen-steiger-westertoren-amsterdam
 
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Drunk motorist causes havoc in Tilburg

A motorist caused havoc in the centre of Tilburg last night. The man hit two other cars, a lamppost and a traffic light. According to the police, he had been drinking too much. No one was injured.

The 34-year-old man from Tilburg drove through a red light on Spoorlaan and then hit a car coming out of a car park.

After that collision, he also rammed a lamppost, a traffic light and another car. According to Omroep Brabant, the road was littered with debris and glass.

The motorist was taken to a hospital for a check-up. A breathalyzer test showed that the man had been drinking too much.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2518491-dronken-automobilist-veroorzaakt-ravage-in-tilburg
 
uair01 said:
Juvenile injured after fall while climbing scaffolding Westertoren Amsterdam

A young person was injured in Amsterdam after falling from a scaffolding near the Westertoren, on the Prinsengracht. The victim fell down several floors, according to police, and was taken to hospital with unknown injuries.

The juvenile had gone up the scaffolding with four others. What they were doing there, police could not yet say.

All five youths were detained. The four who were not injured were taken to the police station. The West Tower is under scaffolding due to major maintenance.

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https://nos.nl/artikel/2518353-jongere-gewond-na-val-bij-beklimmen-steiger-westertoren-amsterdam
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Similar happened in Oxford years ago, some time before Escet started there. Students climbed a crane and one fell off.
 
PSV supporter loses fingers due to heavy fireworks

A man lost fingers at the Philips Stadium in Eindhoven due to fireworks that exploded in his hand. According to Omroep Brabant, the man probably mistook a flare for a [heavy] cobra explosive.

The accident happened before the start of the Eindhoven club's championship match. Footage circulating on social media shows the man in PSV shirt holding the fireworks in the air. A very loud bang can then be heard. The man then stands on the street bleeding heavily.

The man was taken to hospital by ambulance. How he is doing now is unknown.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2519352-psv-supporter-verliest-vingers-door-zwaar-vuurwerk
 
Successful Blackmail does not work like that :)

CANNADY then demanded that the company settle unspecified discrimination and emotional distress claims. He threatened to “upload all of the documents in his possession immediately once the case is filed” if the company did not settle his claims for $1.5 million. He added, “[a]s we all know those documents will imperil [the company’s] reputation and shake investor confidence.” He specifically demanded “a 10 year Certificate of Deposit for 1.5 million dollars,” which would “buy a[n] attestation that all files destroyed by me and a gag order preventing me from ever talking about what I saw or the documents I had in my possession or the documents I had created at [the company] or downloaded.”

At several points during his attempt to get the company to agree to a settlement, CANNADY sought specifically to add in provisions to a draft settlement agreement that would prohibit the company from pursuing criminal charges against him in connection with the settlement.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/p...rested-15-million-extortion-scheme-against-it
 
BBC news story

Someone driving to a Japanese car show in the UK with a custom painted car done up to look like a Japanese police car. Nothing wrong with that. As long as the vehicle is not easily mistaken for a genuine British police vehicle, it would be allowed.

However, these idiots had flashing red lights on the back (illegal) which attracted the attention of the real police, who made the usual checks and found the vehicle wasn't insured.

If you can afford a custom painted car, you can afford an off switch for the red lights, and you can afford to insure it.
 
The small print behind the front wheel says S2000 so it appears to be a Honda S2000. I don't know how authentic it is - the BBC piece says "A car painted to look like a Japanese police vehicle".

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Don't try this at home:
Person survives 40ft fall
"A person fell 40 feet from a cell tower last night (May 15) after being electrocuted while climbing the structure in Portland, Oregon.
As reported by Fox 12 Oregon, the unidentified person fell into bushes after climbing a steel powerline tower at the Sellwood Riverfront Park, according to Portland Fire & Rescue. They survived the incident.
Portland General Electric (PGE) said that the line at the top of the tower was a 57,000-volt powerline."

:doh:
 
many municipalities I've been to had a rule that you call backup for perp disposal. So, the tiny 2-seat vehicle just wouldn't be used for that.
 
Bus drivers taken off the road under the influence of drugs

During a traffic check last Tuesday, Rotterdam traffic police caught two drivers who were under the influence of drugs. One of them was transporting secondary school students aged between 15 and 18.

The check was on the A13 in the direction of The Hague. The Hague traffic police and the military police also assisted. A total of 27 coaches were checked, a spokesman reported. Some of them had technical defects. ‘The check turned out to be badly needed,’ the police wrote on Instagram.

Such checks happen regularly, says a spokesperson. It is also more common for technical defects to be discovered. However, the police were surprised by the drivers who tested positive for drugs. ‘You will have dropped your children off for a school trip in that bus,’ he said.

One driver had youngsters on board, the other a ‘mixed crowd’ whose ages were not known. Blood was taken from both drivers and an official report will be drawn up. The drugs involved are not yet known.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2520687-buschauffeurs-onder-invloed-van-drugs-van-de-weg-gehaald
 
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