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"He behaved in an unattractive manner that night."

A UK man has been charged with assault after allegedly farting in an Uber and attacking the driver for protesting, Bristol Live reported.

The odiferous incident reportedly occurred last year when Kingswood’s James Mallett, 35, let it rip in the back of the ride while on the way to a local nightclub with three other people. This was the “final straw” for the Uber driver, named Aleksander Bonchev, who had allegedly suffered abuse at the hands of other passengers, according to court testimony.

Prosecutor James Scutt said Bonchev told Mallett “to leave the vehicle,” whereupon the flatulent fare offered to fight the driver and struck him in the head. Bonchev reportedly responded in defense by punching the Mallett in the face, knocking him to the ground.

Police encountered the unruly passenger a little while later sporting a “cut on his bottom lip,” according to Scutt, who added that he was “plainly intoxicated.” Fortunately the gass-enger admitted to assault occasioning actual harm on November 30, which landed him a six month-jail term, a $650 fine and 120 hours of community service. His jail sentence has since been suspended for 18 months.

Picking up drunk people can often be problematic, as the driver would doubtless attest if he was still in the country. However, he broke a finger during the altercation, which apparently rendered him unable to drive, so he lost his Uber job along with his apartment and his car, and has since returned home to Bulgaria.

 

First Century B.C.

California's trying to catch Venezuela, but they've still got a ways to go to match the decline.

People in the oil-rich nation of Venezuela are reportedly riding donkeys as an alternative method of transport amid chronic gasoline shortages caused by the socialist regime’s destruction of the state-run oil company. “Venezuelans are now centuries behind, riding donkeys, burning firewood, and sleeping in the dark,” he wrote. “The setback is so great that in the days of slavery, slaves earned what they needed to eat every day, and here a day’s salary doesn’t even buy breakfast.”

The reported use of donkeys for transportation is connected to the lack of energy sources plaguing the country, despite the fact it has the second-largest largest oil reserves in the world after America. This is mainly the result of a collapse in production caused by many facilities belonging to state-run Petroleum of Venezuela (PDSVA) running at a low capacity or completely out of operation.

Hmm...why do you think California "governor" Newbie (King Gavin) has issued an edict banning gas/diesel powered vehicles in the next 15 years?

 

Addressing Litterbugs

Leave nothing behind! To show the importance of not littering in national parks, Thailand officials boxed up campers’ garbage and mailed it back to the rightful owners. The garbage, which appeared to include plastic beverage bottles and chip bags, was sent back to the campers with a note: “You have forgotten some of your belongings at Khao Yai National Park.”

The park officials traced the trash back to its owners by using camping equipment rental forms, as well as a prescription bottle that was left behind, according to The New York Times.

The park is a World Heritage site, about 100 miles north of Bangkok. As an aside, Thailand is an interesting country with much beauty (apart from Bangkok). If visitors can pack stuff in, they can pack it back out!

 

Finland Gets Serious About Covid-19

They're deploying dogs to sniff out Covid-19 at their main international airport. It's a trial, expected to last four months, but if it works as well as they think it will, it'd be a cost-effective means of screening for infected travelers. Presumably if a traveler passes the sniff test, they won't have to self-isolate for the usual two weeks.

Evidently, the virus hangs out around the butt and crotch areas....

 

Good Evening Vietnam!

Almost 324,000 used condoms were found being washed and reshaped ready to be sold after police swooped in on a factory in Vietnam.

Officials from the Binh Duong Province Market Division and local police raided the property in the province's Tan Vinh Hiep Ward, in Tan Uyen Town, on Saturday, reported the VN Explorer news website.

According to the media outlet, the Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance said the facility was rented by 32-year-old Pham Thi Thanh Ngoc.

Local media reported that she had allegedly told officials that around once a month, "somebody" delivered thousands of used condoms to her.

Her alleged role was to clean, dry and sort the condoms before making them look fresh again for new customers, said the news channel.

Business was booming, apparently. Just following the "reuse, recycle" mantra.

 

 

Orange Man Bad

President Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for a second time, sending the Left into yet another of their patented tizzy-fits. The first nomination came because of the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE; the second because of the peace deal between Serbia and Kosovo.

From Israel-UAE to Serbia-Kosovo, @realDonaldTrump has accomplished more for peace in the last month than President Obama did in 8 years – and Obama was nominated just *weeks* after being sworn in.

The Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood published a nearly 1500-word-long screed Friday calling for the Nobel Peace Prize to be outright canceled. Why? Because #OrangeManBad and because Tybring-Gjedde, whose views on immigration do not coincide with the left’s view on the issue, is allegedly a “troll.”

It didn't seem to bother them that Barry did nothing to merit his award.

 

Sandy Hook

(CNN) — A French tourist has been ordered to pay a €1,000 ($1,200) fine after attempting to fly out of Sardinia with more than four pounds of local sand in his luggage.

 

That's some expensive sand, man.

 

Beaches with "incredible" colored, pink or very white sand are especially targeted, the spokesman added.

 

In 2017, a regional law was introduced that made it illegal to take sand from Sardinia's beaches.

Doesn't Salt Help To Tenderize Meat?

Rescuers in Japan were searching on Thursday for a ship carrying 43 crew and nearly 6,000 cattle that was feared sunk after it sent a distress signal during stormy weather in the East China Sea.

Thus far, they've managed to rescue one crew member.

The Gulf Livestock 1 is seen at Fremantle Harbour in Western Australia on November 13, 2019.

New Zealand animal rights organisation, Save Animals From Exploitation (SAFE), said the tragedy demonstrated the risks of the live animal export trade. "These cows should never have been at sea," said the campaigns manager, Marianne Macdonald. "This is a real crisis, and our thoughts are with the families of the 43 crew who are missing with the ship. But questions remain, including why this trade is allowed to continue."

Um...probably because people like cheeseburgers and steaks; after all, our ancestors were primarily hunters.

Yes, that's hard for some folks today to wrap their heads around - but it's historically accurate.

 

Guess That's One Way To Fight The 'Rona

North Korea has ordered military units and police to shoot on sight anyone in the country who goes within one kilometer (0.6 miles) of the Sino-Korean border, the latest of Pyongyang’s draconian measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, sources in the country told RFA Wednesday.

They don't care why you're there, if you're in the zone, they'll shoot to kill.

Supposedly, this is to prevent the spread of COVID.

 

Pandemic Medical Problems

Pandemic travel restrictions have made Americans prisoners of their country. Even within North America, Mexico and Canada have closed thousands of kilometres of border to all but essential travel, roiling plans for vacation, work, and school. For cash-strapped Americans, it has also cut off access to medicines and health-care services that they can't afford at home -- at a time when money is tighter than ever.

A surprising number of Americans had been purchasing their medications in Canada and Mexico because prices for the meds are far less expensive there than they are in the USA. The border closures have really cramped their style. Insulin is a prime example:

Stephanie Boland's nine-year-old son was diagnosed with diabetes in December. Travelling to Canada to fill his insulin prescription took a half-day's drive from where they live in Brainerd, Minnesota, but it was worth it -- the purchase was a simple, over-the-counter affair. One pack of injection pens, which would last several months, cost less than a hundred dollars, she says, compared to a list price of $530 at home.

It's the same for many other medications; we pay four or five times as much as people in Canada and Mexico pay for the same stuff, and health-care reforms in the USA haven't done anything to alleviate the disparities. Health insurance here only goes so far.