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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Two people are dead and 768 are ill due to a nationwide Salmonella outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. The CDC recently posted updates regarding two separate outbreaks – one linked to contact with poultry in backyard flocks and one linked to contact with pig ear dog treats.

The CDC websites says: The people who got sick reported getting chicks and ducklings from places such as agricultural stores, websites, and hatcheries.
This would explain why 24% of the cases are children under age 5. They're not eating the poultry, they're buying pets.

 

Lime & Bird Are Mad

First came the scooter floods, now comes the repo man:

The multibillion-dollar dockless scooter industry is going after a repossessor and a bike shop owner who have 10,000 scooters languishing in a tow yard. John Heinkel, a professional repo man with a full head of graying hair and a small and scrappy build, hoists a Lime scooter on its back wheel, setting off the alarm underneath the scooter’s brake.

Dan Borelli, his business partner, says that towing scooters is no different than writing parking tickets. “We aren’t just grabbing scooters off the street and throwing them in a yard,” Borelli insists. “We write a parking ticket for every single one we have.”

Together, the two men run an operation called ScootScoop. They say that they have impounded thousands of dockless e-scooters around San Diego on behalf of business owners and landlords who are fed up with the deluge of dockless two-wheelers.

First came the lawsuits. Heinkel and Borelli are accused in a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in late March of improperly impounding Bird’s scooters and then ransoming them back to the $2 billion company. Lime filed a nearly identical suit soon after.

But it's not as though these guys just impound scooters willy-nilly; they're hired by business owners to keep entrances and driveways clear - because many of the scooter riders simply don't care where they leave the rigs when they're done with their rides. In that sense, there's very little difference between scooter impoundment and the local 7-11, where signs are posted warning that vehicles are subject to towing. After all, parking there is for customers only.

As one hotel manager said in reference to the scooter riders: “It’s the people,” he says. “They don’t care. I mean, they just don’t care where they leave them.”

Not far away, a restaurant owner in Mission Beach tells me that she hired ScootScoop after riders started leaving scooters in front of a wheelchair lift that she built for her disabled customers, blocking access. And a federal lawsuit that a disability rights group filed against Bird, Lime, Razor, and the City of San Diego in January says that scooters are being left in front of wheelchair ramps, curbs, and crosswalks. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit say the scooters are a menace.

It's nice to see that some actions are being taken to address these issues. But more scooters are on the way:

Spin, the dockless scooter company acquired by Ford Motor Company last year, announced on Thursday that it will deploy 15,000 scooters in eight cities. Starting in August, Spin plans to deploy thousands of new scooters on the streets of Portland; Los Angeles; Denver; Washington, DC; Kansas City; Memphis; and Minneapolis, with more cities to follow.

I can hardly wait - throwing them into the Willamette River seems to have become sort of a Portland pastime. Earlier this month, 60 of them were removed from the river over a two-day operation.

 

Snakebit In Yosemite

Ran across an interesting tale a bit earlier.

He just got quickly bitten on his ankle.

That venom works quickly.

 

Ted Vs. Ted

In a new letter, the prominent Texas Republican seeks a federal racketeering investigation into Portland's anti-fascist movement — and Mayor Ted Wheeler's "apparent sympathy" to the black-cloaked cadre.

"You are surely aware that Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has staunchly refused to deploy and support local law enforcement to restore order and prevent Antifa robberies and armed assaults," Cruz wrote in a Tuesday, July 23 letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr.

"It is no mystery why," the three-page letter continues. "Antifa's violence is aimed to silence dissent from authoritarian left-wing views. Mayor Wheeler apparently agrees with those views."

It's about time that Portland's do-nothing mayor caught some heat over the ongoing nonsense that he facilitates. Naturally, Wheeler's not talking; he lost the earlier round back in June when he squabbled with Cruz on Twitter after the June 29 brawl drew national attention, denying that he ordered police to stand down at the protest and saying the investigation money could be better spent on "infrastructure, affordable housing [or] mental health services."

That's Wheeler for you: forget law enforcement; that kind of money could be better spent on (insert latest frou-frou here).

And the denial notwithstanding, he did order the cops to stand down - which is largely why PPD has some 124 vacancies now.

 

Newspaper Circulation In U.S. Lowest Since 1940

No surprises here.

 

Can't Get Much Fresher

Footage shows a plate of raw meat on a restaurant table when a piece of chicken begins to twitch. After hoisting itself upwards, the carcass yanks itself off the diner’s plate as a terrified onlooker can be heard screaming. It then begins to move off the plate, across the table and then on to the floor.

Health experts said the freakish spasms were caused by nerve endings that had not died.

I prefer cooked chicken, personally.

 

 

San Francisco: Pigeons Prevent BART Escalator Fix

"During repairs on the 24th St Mission escalator, a pigeon set up a nest by the escalator and laid two eggs. By federal law, we can’t disturb an active nest and monitored the nest every day. Last week, the two hatchlings and momma pigeon flew away and we’re moving forward again," the agency said.

One minor detail: pigeons aren't protected species under the Migratory Bird Treaty, so repairs were delayed for weeks unnecessarily.

San Francisco has a history of escalators breaking down, including a 2012 incident in which a hazardous-materials team was called in to clean up an escalator shutdown due to large amounts of human waste inside of it.

Given the amount of human waste on the streets there, that's hardly surprising.

 

Coming To The U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana

Federal death penalty resumes Dec. 9.

Couldn't happen to a better bunch of guys.

 

"Emotional Support Animals" Are Baloney

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) -

A photo released by Envoy shows an E140 plane. (Envoy/American Airlines Group)

A union that represents flight attendants is calling an incident where an emotional support dog bit a flight attendant as "unacceptable and inexcusable."

And it is - service animals must be trained to perform certain tasks; so-called "emotional support animals" receive no such training, and so these kinds of incidents occur far more often than many people realize.

If you can't take a flight, a train trip, or even go grocery shopping without dragging little Poopsie along - stay home.

The union says it supports the role trained animals can provide to passengers in the cabin, but it has called for standards for emotional support animals.

"We need the Department of Transportation to take action now, so events like the one that happened yesterday do not continue to occur on our planes. This is fundamentally about maintaining safety, health and security for passengers and crew, while ensuring accessibility for those who need it," the AFA said.

Absolutely. This is one of the very rare times when I agree with a union position.

There have been recent incidents where people have brought pigs, cats, miniature ponies and reportedly even a turkey on planes as emotional support animals.

It's out of hand, and needs to be stopped.

 

It's A Left-Coast Thing

(Natural News) As illegal aliens and wealthy foreigners continue to flood their way into California, driving the state to the point of reaching maximum capacity, some lawmakers there are proposing a “solution” that would effectively eliminate all single-family zoning – meaning no more detached housing for Californians, and plenty of high-density apartments and condominiums instead.

Oregon's legislators are proposing the same thing, and I understand they're considering it in Washington as well. It seems unlikely that illegal aliens have much to do with the trend, however; in the Portland area, they mostly head to outlying towns such as Woodburn and Hillsboro. It's more likely related to our Democrat politicians' desire to feel good about themselves - they hate cars, so they constantly prattle about creating "walkable" environments. This involves stacking people into lab-rat cages. In Portland, they've even passed a rule that allows developers to build multi-story lab-cages with zero vehicle parking. But the cages have their very own bike racks.

That's the plan: you either bike, walk, or take public transit to get from point A to point B and back to your cage.

For more related news about this leftist push towards high-density “smart” living, the endgame of which will mean that Americans no longer have a right to property ownership, be sure to check out Agenda21.news.

"Considered unsustainable under this plan: middle class lifestyle, single family homes, private vehicles, meat-eating, air conditioning, appliances, dams, farming, etc."

And the Lefties are jumping aboard. Want a bit of a yard, or just some privacy? Tough.