Are you a hater of rats? Are you a “bloodthirsty” New Yorker with great communication and “a general aura of badassery”? You could become the city’s rat czar. This week, Mayor Eric Adams’ office advertised a position to lead the city’s long-running rat fight. “Director of rodent mitigation,” the official job title, became “rat czar” quickly. And it comes with a good salary ranging from $120,000–$170,000. “The ideal candidate is highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty, determined to look at all solutions from various angles, including improving operational efficiency, data collection, technology innovation, trash management, and wholesale slaughter,” states the ad. The work…
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At a “show and tell” event on Wednesday, Elon Musk said that his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, could put one of its devices in someone’s head in the next six months. This means that it won’t happen this year. He also said that he would get the device put in his head at some point in the future. During the presentation, Musk said that the company had sent the Food and Drug Administration, which is in charge of medical devices in the US, most of the paperwork needed for a human clinical trial. Musk had said before that he hoped…
A lady who attended the Florida wedding is suing the caterer for allegedly giving the guests food tainted with “poisonous” amounts of marijuana. Virginia Ann Taylor-Svoboda said in a lawsuit filed on Monday that Joycelyn Bryant of Joycelyn’s Southern Kitchen Inc. permitted food to be infused with dangerous levels of cannabis, which resulted in serious, irreversible injuries. According to Taylor-Svoboda’s claim, she suffered from “marijuana poisoning” and that she was unaware that the food at the wedding contained marijuana. In her case, she accuses Bryant of negligence and is seeking damages in excess of $30,000. Taylor-Svoboda’s lawsuit claims that Bryant “knew or should…
When he stopped a 5-year-old driver who was swerving so violently, a Utah Highway Patrol trooper was in for a small surprise since he felt the driver needed medical assistance. The child didn’t stop when he flashed his lights, said Trooper Rick Morgan, but did so when he sounded his siren on Monday on Interstate 15 in Ogden. When Morgan pulled up, he assumed he would see someone in need of an ambulance or paramedics. However, Morgan claimed that when the window was rolled down, it was very obvious that a very juvenile driver was operating the vehicle. According to…
Court documents show that an Alabama high school teacher and coach who quit after being arrested for having sex with a student has since married the student and asked the court to let him see her again. Thomas Blake Tucker, who is 25 years old, asked a judge to change the terms of his bond so that he and his wife can live together. He sent a copy of the marriage license with his request. Tucker worked as a teacher and coach at East Limestone High School in north Alabama. In September, he was charged with having sex with a…
The off-duty sheriff’s deputy teaching a law enforcement class at South Vermillion County High School in Clinton, Indiana, accidentally shot one of the teens in the class with his service gun. WTHI says that the sheriff’s deputy was named Tim DisPennett. DisPennett has been a sheriff’s deputy for 19 years. https://twitter.com/Imposter_Edits/status/1593796252797636608?s=20&t=75CDm6lmCbpTqhAkay5LSg On Thursday, November 17, around 9:30 a.m., a shooting happened while DisPennett showed students what a good cop would do if a “bad guy” showed up. But the point may have been misunderstood since shooting an innocent high school student probably wasn’t the right way to handle the situation.…
In October 2022, as Pablo Avila was nearing the end of a scuba dive off the coast of Catalina Island in California, he blacked out and started frothing at the mouth. He was going under, and if not for the three mermaids who saved him, he might not have made it. No, this isn’t a story from a book. Avila was saved by mermaids, specifically by Elle Jimenez, a professional mermaid performer, and her two students, Elaina Marie Garcia and Great Chin Burger. Fox News says that 33-year-old Jimenez has been performing as a mermaid for six years and is…
You know things are desperate when thugs are now going to McDonalds to steal money. They have to know that most people pay with a debit cards now. How much money do they think they are going to get? Desperate times call for desperate measures. I wonder if they got their food first? Check out what Fox News had to say about this. Authorities say that earlier this month, a robbery suspect pointed a gun at a McDonald’s worker and pulled a cash register through the drive-thru window of the restaurant. The incident happened around 3:30 a.m. on November 4…
Recently, the National Park Service issued an unusual caution, advising tourists not to continue licking toads. Please don’t lick anything you find in a national park, the agency advised, “whether it be a banana slug, unfamiliar mushroom, or a large toad with glowing eyes in the dead of the night.” The Colorado river toad, also known as the Sonoran desert toad, is expressly mentioned in a Facebook alert. According to the organization, “These toads have prominent parotoid glands that secrete a potent toxin.” If you handle the frog or put the poison in your mouth, it could make you sick. People still go…
An instructional assistant at a high school in Florida is said to have complained about a co-parking worker’s spot, which has a verse from the New Testament written on it. She said that as a Jewish person, it makes her feel bad. According to Fox News, Marina Gentilesco works at Wiregrass Ranch High School in Pasco County, Florida. She told local Fox affiliate Fox 59 that she gets angry every time she walks by her co-worker’s parking spot, which has the words “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” written on it. She told the outlet, “I…
Black holes are one of the most extreme and mysterious things in the universe. They are both fascinating and scary. Many astronomers think that supermassive black holes are at the center of all large galaxies. These space-time singularities have pulls on them that are so strong that no light can escape. Now, scientists from the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) have found the closest black hole to Earth. According to a statement from the research team, it is close enough to be in our “cosmic backyard.” The black hole, called Gaia BH1, is about 1,560 light-years from Earth. It…
In Northern Italy, archaeologists have found something very interesting. The skeleton of this Italian warrior from the Middle Ages was found in a Longobard cemetery. It is from as far back as the sixth century. And this man from Lombardy seems to have used a cap, buckle, and leather straps to attach a fake knife to the stump of his missing hand long before Captain Hook. The finding, which was published in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences, shows that he not only survived a major amputation but also was able to replace the missing limb with a bladed weapon. Based…
Brandon Swanson, a 19-year-old freshman at Minnesota West Community and Technical College, was having fun with his friends on the last day of school. Swanson called home on May 14, 2008, just after midnight, and told his parents he needed a ride because he had driven into a ditch in Lynd, Minnesota, a nearby town. Annette and Brian Swanson left right away in their pickup to look for their son and his green Chevy Lumina sedan. “We got in the pickup to go to this spot where he felt he was,” Brian Swanson said. He thought he knew where his…
On October 28, 2022, police in Newnan, Georgia arrested nine people who were accused of breaking into multiple homes and cars in the area. They were able to find one of the suspects’ mobile homes by following a trail of Milky Way candy wrappers. Deputies told WSB-TV Channel 2 that the bag of Milky Way candy bars was a key piece of evidence in solving the case. A bag of Milky Ways was taken from the home of an unnamed victim, along with clothes, four guns, ammunition, a chainsaw, and pills for anxiety. The victim told Channel 2 that when…
Ron Smith, an attorney, fiercely pushed to have Florida’s motorcycle helmet restrictions repealed in the late 1990s. He and his companion perished on August 20, 2022, while operating a motorcycle without a helmet. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Smith was a part of the ABATE organization, which stands for A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments and American Bikers Aimed Toward Education. The organization battled for many years to overturn a Florida rule mandating bikers to wear helmets. Smith defended many clients who disregarded the helmet regulation, and many claim that these court battles ultimately assisted in the state’s helmet law…
Police pulled over a man in Florida who was driving a car with only two tires on it. He said that paranormal activity was to blame. Andres Orjuela-Montealegre, age 29, was stopped on an I-75 ramp near Marion Oaks at about 4 a.m. on October 23 after Marion County Sheriff’s deputies saw that the car’s hazard lights were on and that the driver’s side tires looked flat. The deputy then realized that the tires weren’t flat, but that they were missing and that Orjuela-Montealegre was “driving on what remained of the rim,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook. When the deputy asked…
Election officials in Pennsylvania expect delayed results for the November general election since counties are still not allowed to open and scan mail-in votes before 7 a.m. on Election Day. However, Pennsylvania acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman assured reporters during a virtual press conference on Tuesday that “this delay does not mean anything nefarious is happening.” She continued, “It simply means that the process is working as it’s designed to work in Pennsylvania and that election officials are doing their job to count every vote.” Donald Trump, the former president, and his allies utilized the lengthy recount after the…
Outrage and concern that the extreme left is attempting to mainstream the sexualization of youngsters have been stoked by a raunchy video of an all-ages drag concert in Texas that featured sexually provocative dancing in front of children. After attending the event in Plano, Texas, Sara Gonzales, anchor of The News and Why It Matters at BlazeTV, said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday that the drag show was a part of a dangerous pattern she dubbed “sexual abuse of children.” She issued a warning that the extreme left is attempting to normalize the presence of kids at these kinds…