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Grocery Follies

A New Brunswick woman who bought a Halloween decoration at a local yard sale found out the hard way that sometimes skeletons are best left in the closet.

Rachel Schmidt of Fredericton, N.B. and her 11-year-old son recently bought a realistic-looking skeleton decoration at a local yard sale for $2. When “Jeffy,” as the decoration’s been named, couldn’t fit in their trunk, the two decided it would be funny if it rode in the front seat.

Schmidt went to shop for groceries later in the day and left Jeffy in the car. When she came back out, her car was blocked by a police cruiser as someone had apparently called out of concern for what appeared to be a body in the car.

Sure - killers always drive around with a corpse strapped into the front passenger seat, don't they?

There seem to be some unobservant worry-warts in New Brunswick.

 

Quebec Gets It

Our southern border continues to be inundated by hordes of foreign nationals crossing illegally.

Quebec, on the other hand, just passed a law canceling out all pending applications for foreigners hoping to immigrate there. The Agence France-Presse reported Sunday that the Canadian province approved a bill “that will replace a first-come, first-served standard for accepting migrants with one tied to applicants' skills.”

The law, according to the report, aims to select potential immigrants based on skills needed by the local labor market.

Congress should do the same.

 

Future Organ Donors

That's how a lot of E.R. workers refer to motorcycle riders, and it's easy to see why:

YouTuber Artem Boldyrev died after crashing into a Fiat car while reportedly driving his bike with his feet on a motorway in Moscow. A popular biker and motoblogger has died in an horrific road crash after steering his bike with his feet while allegedly texting on his phone.

 

Mt. Everest, India

This mountain is composed of garbage.

Nicknamed 'Mount Everest' by locals, the expansive pile of fetid matter is already more than 65 metres (213 feet) tall. As India's Supreme Court recently warned, it's well overdue for some aircraft warning lights.

Better yet, they never lined the thing, so leachate flows all over the place:

What's more, the landfill has absolutely no liner system, which means it is sitting straight on the ground. All dumps produce something called leachate, but without something to catch this black liquid at Ghazipur, the whole thing oozes continuously into a local canal.

India is one of the world's largest garbage producers.

No wonder that those who can tend to move to North America.

 

 

We Want Your Baby (Formulas)

Chinese warships that docked unexpectedly at an Australian port departed with a cargo of baby formula, local media discovered.

The arrival of a trio of Chinese ships, including an amphibious assault vessel, set off alarm bells on Monday morning among Australian citizens who did not have advance notice of the visit and analysts who regarded it as a show of force. But the trip also highlighted China’s vulnerabilities, as Chinese sailors were photographed loading baby formula onto the ships before they departed.

“What some Chinese colleagues were saying about ‘realistic socialism’ as true state of affairs in their country, and best epitomized here: advanced warships that project the State's might while sailors cope with tainted food products back home,” Collin Koh, a research fellow at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore, commented in a Friday night tweet.

They're putting their money into projections of military might. They'd do better putting it into decent food.

 

The Neighbors

The San Diego County Department of Environmental Health closed the Imperial Beach shoreline to swimmers due to sewage contamination flowing from Mexico’s Tijuana River, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

“Stop the poop,” read signs held by protesters at a rally Sunday morning calling on officials to address the pollution crisis.

Good fences may make good neighbors, but not when the neighbors are throwing their crap over the fences.

Beware The Old Lady

A 102-year-old woman went off her rocker at a French retirement home and killed her 92-year-old neighbour, according to a report.

The unidentified centenarian was taken to a psychiatric hospital after allegedly attacking the nonagenarian at the old age facility in Chézy-sur-Marne, northern France, according to the BBC.

The woman’s cause of death was determined to be strangulation and blows to the head, according to an autopsy.

Too much paté, eh?

 

May Ends June 7 This Year

British Prime Minister Theresa May has announced her resignation from office, effective June 7.

A new Tory leader and Prime Minister should be in place by the end of July, the Conservative party said today.

 

American Tailban Loose

John Walker Lindh, known as the "American Taliban" after his capture in Afghanistan in 2001, was released from prison on Thursday after serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence, the Bureau of Prisons said.

Lindh received three years off for good behavior, though his probation terms include a host of restrictions: He needs permission to go on the Internet; he'll be closely monitored; he's required to receive counseling; and he's not allowed to travel.

Somehow, I don't think the restrictions are going to matter to him; he's a Tailban.

 

Ain't Socialism Grand?

Venezuela: A satellite cruising over Maracaibo on Thursday captured pictures of cars lined up for a mile (1.6 kilometers) through the city to the pumps, according to Maxar Technologies, a U.S.-based space technology company.

Some drivers said they’d had to wait almost 24 hours to fuel up, and people have been grabbing catnaps on the hoods of cars or in truck beds.