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Headlines You Don't See Every Day (outside of Florida)

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Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux said:
@Jake what are you typing into your search engines that you’ve been finding all of these articles about sexual acts being committed during home invasions? :lol:
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I'm stealing them from Twitter. Don't ask me who I'm following. :lol:

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Try as he might, Reza Baluchi can't reach his destination without running afoul of the U.S. Coast Guard.

The key problem is his vessel: a giant floating hamster wheel made of buoys and wire, self-propelled by Baluchi running inside.

Baluchi, who lives in Florida after being granted asylum from Iran, was taken in by the Coast Guard last week aboard his vessel, following several days of back and forth with the authorities.

According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. district court in South Florida, the Coast Guard cutter Valiant came across Baluchi and his homemade vessel about 70 nautical miles east of Tybee Island, Ga., on Aug. 26 as the Coast Guard was preparing for Hurricane Franklin.
He told officers his destination: London, England — more than 4,000 miles away.

Baluchi was asked for the vehicle's registration; he said it was registered in Florida but that he couldn't find the registration, according to the complaint.
The Coast Guard assessed Baluchi's vessel — known as a hydro-pod — and determined he was "conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage," according to Coast Guard Special Agent Michael Perez in the complaint, which does not identify Baluchi's starting point.

The officers then approached Baluchi in a small boat, and instructed him to join them — they were ending his voyage due to it being unsafe. Baluchi replied that he had a 12-inch knife and would attempt to kill himself if the officers attempted to remove him from his vessel, according to the complaint. The officers returned to the cutter and stayed nearby.

When the officers tried again over the next day or so to get Baluchi to join them on the small boat, Baluchi displayed two knives and threatened to hurt himself if officers boarded his vessel. Baluchi also "threatened to blow himself up," along with his vessel. The officers saw him holding wires in his hand and believed him, the complaint says.
The following day, a second Coast Guard cutter, named Campbell, arrived and sent a small boat to Baluchi to deliver food, water and word that the hurricane was expected. Baluchi refused again to leave his vessel, and told the officers that the bomb wasn't real.

On August 29, the Campbell once more sent a small boat, and this time was able to safely remove Baluchi from his floating hamster wheel. Baluchi was brought ashore in Miami Beach last Friday, where he was released on $250,000 bond.
While his case is underway, he's barred from travel outside the Southern District of Florida, and "may not go to the ocean or board a vessel on the ocean" — a special condition added to his bond agreement.

It was not his first try​

This was far from Baluchi's first encounter with the Coast Guard. He "has attempted voyages in a similar homemade vessel in 2014, 2016, and 2021, all of which resulted in USCG intervention," Perez notes.

Baluchi is a man of big dreams and unorthodox methods. Not long after arriving in the U.S., he was profiled in The New York Times as he began a quest to run across the country, Forrest Gump-style. He reportedly finished the coast-to-coast journey not once but twice.

He was also the focus of a short documentaryfrom VICE about Baluchi's 2014 and 2016 attempts to travel from Boca Raton, Fla., to Bermuda — a distance of more than 1,000 miles — by running inside his homemade floating bubble.

In the video, Baluchi explains his motivation in using unusual means of travel: "If you drive a boat, nobody cares. Bubble, nobody did before."
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LOOK: Emotional support alligator denied entry into Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park

A Phillies fan brought the gator over on a leash, but they were forced to watch the game from home
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LOOK: Emotional support alligator denied entry into Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park​

A Phillies fan brought the gator over on a leash, but they were forced to watch the game from home​

More than 31,000 Philadelphia Phillies fans made their way into Citizens Bank Park to see the home team defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7-6, on Thursday night. That number did not include an emotional support alligator, which was turned away at the gate before first pitch.

Leading up to the in-state clash between the Phillies and Pirates, Howard Eskin of 94 WIP posted a photo of the alligator on a leash. Unfortunately for the animal and fortunately for those slated to sit near it, the gator was denied access, so it missed out on a thrilling win for the Phils.



As it turns out, WallyGator is an emotional support animal for owner Joie Henney, according to The Philadelphia Enquirer. The animal even has a large social media following and walks around in public on its customized leash.
 
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Fuck the media for running with this “ wedgie“ narrative. “Vaginal lacerations, damage to internal organs, and bowel protruding through her abdominal wall”…..yeah, she just got a wedgie! Fucking gross from Disney and even more from the media for eating it up. She is not even suing for millions - $50k for her medical expenses and pain and suffering seems pretty reasonable for a billion dollar company to pay out considering her injuries.

Reminds me so much of the McDonald‘s coffee case. its disgusting.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Fuck the media for running with this “ wedgie“ narrative. “Vaginal lacerations, damage to internal organs, and bowel protruding through her abdominal wall”…..yeah, she just got a wedgie! Fucking gross from Disney and even more from the media for eating it up. She is not even suing for millions - $50k for her medical expenses and pain and suffering seems pretty reasonable for a billion dollar company to pay out considering her injuries.

Reminds me so much of the McDonald‘s coffee case. its disgusting.
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Presume you’re replying to the Lawsuits thread? While I too find it hard to believe that such severe injuries can result from a water slide wedgie, she’s not suing for only $50,000. The article state “more than” that amount. Many states, including Ohio and presumably Florida, do not allow personal injury complaints to state an amount requested in excess of a statutory limit.

That does not limit the injuried party from requesting or getting a far greater amount at trial. The purpose of the pleading amount limit was an attempt to stop the PI attorneys from seeking headlines for increasingly ridiculous demands.
 
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