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Lightning
Fox News • Sun 2017 Dec 31, 1:03pm

Detroit …two men pried open the front door of a Public Lighting substation, and once inside made contact with 24,000 volts of electricity.… caused their bodies to be fused together, and they were pronounced dead at the scene. …

Not worth it, guys. I guess you found that out.
Farmer, Ace of Spades • Sun 2017 Oct 22, 12:09pm

…Try a Harvey Wallbanger. It's a tall vodka and OJ w/ a splash of Galliano. Actually very tasty.

Note to Blog-Heap Readers, if any:

Still slowly getting back up to speed on heaping links. Trying to keep it as originally intended: My own set of "what was that item" bookmarks, open to the public. No particular rhyme or order. Might even include a drink recipe now and then, who knows?

Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun • Fri 2016 Sep 2, 10:10am

…could be charged with using weapons while intoxicated… while at the dentist.… getting a dental procedure done… told police he heard his phone ringing and went to answer it but accidentally grabbed his weapon and shot himself.…

But did he still see the dentist?
NBC Miami • Wed 2016 Aug 3, 10:20am

During the stop, an officer noticed a "rock like substance" on the floor board of Rushing's car.
"I recognized, through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer, the substance to be some sort of narcotic," the report said.… two separate field tests were performed and both came back positive for the presence of amphetamines… "I kept telling them, 'That's … glaze from a doughnut. … They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth,'" he told the newspaper.…

Sarah D., Twitchy • Thu 2016 Jul 21, 11:39am

Protester lit flag on fire, then lit himself on fire, catching others on fire. Flames extinguished by firefighters. No serious injuries.

Cleveland police on Twitter
Ed Mazza, Huff Post • Sat 2016 Jul 2, 10:20am

…posted a Facebook Live video in May under the name Collins Raderius in which he and two friends flashed stacks of money and boasted that "we got a safe." …blamed Facebook for "snitchin." …

Henry Samuel, Telegraph (UK) • Tue 2016 Jun 7, 5:58pm

…Around 40 customers were chomping on their burgers on Sunday evening in the fast food outlet in a shopping centre in Besancon when two men burst in, fired in the air with a shotgun, threatened the guests and ordered staff to open the till, which contained €2,000 (£1,550) in cash.

However, unbeknownst to the robbers, among the terrified customers were 11 off-duty members of the French paramilitary special forces…

MJA, IOTW Report • Tue 2016 May 24, 3:45pm

…Here’s something you might want to jump on: a recipe for a 5,000-year-old Chinese beer, made from tubers, millet, barley, and a gluten-free something called Job’s tears.…

Michael Kaplan, NY Post • Fri 2016 May 6, 10:15am

…While many associate tequila with nauseous Jose Cuervo nights and nasty hangovers, good tequila — made from 100 percent agave — actually has health benefits.…

Fox News • Tue 2016 Apr 19, 12:27pm

In the future, everyone will get food by manhandling restaurant managers and then stealing a handful of chicken and bacon.

So said an Oklahoma City man, 36-year-old Dante Rashad Anderson, who told police when he was arrested Friday for robbery that he comes from a time four years into the future…

Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Gary Knight:… “He was possibly under the influence of some sort of narcotic or intoxicant or suffering from some type of break with reality”…

No, d'ya think?
Oliver JJ Lane, Breitbart • Mon 2016 Apr 18, 12:39am

A terror-trial following the fatal 2015 Copenhagen shootings at a free speech event and a synagogue has witnessed a shocking outburst by the defendant as he called the judge a “Nazi”.…

How to really help your case, win friends, and influence people!
Google
Curmudgeon, Political Clown Parade • Sat 2016 Apr 2, 7:07pm

…A new “send + mic drop” button appeared next to the “send” button in Gmail. …gave users the option to add an animated graphic of a minion dropping a microphone to emails… Google received a number of complaints from people who accidentally pressed the “send + mic drop” on important messages. One user said he lost his job after he sent a “mic drop” in an email to his boss.…

Becky Little • Fri 2016 Apr 1, 9:11pm

The media group says that it will no longer degrade animals by showing photos of them without clothes.…

Topless Native African Women still possible?
Sarah Rumpf, Legal Insurrection • Fri 2016 Apr 1, 5:53pm

The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF)… announced that Clinton had won an Academy Award “for her portrayal of an honest candidate…” claiming that former President Bill Clinton would be endorsing Bernie Sanders instead of his wife “due to Hillary’s lack of transparency with voters” and another purporting to have a video showing Clinton actually “wiping her server clean” by physically wiping her Blackberry with a small cloth. …

ChiCom Flag
Simon Denyer, Wash Post • Fri 2016 Apr 1, 1:57pm

No joke. April Fools' Day has been banned in China.

The ancient tradition of hoaxing and playing practical jokes on the first day of April has fallen victim to China’s crackdown. Like democracy and free speech, it is a Western concept that simply isn’t welcome here.…

Making China the biggest joke of all.
Abby Ohlheiser and Caitlin Dewey, Wash Post • Fri 2016 Apr 1, 1:54pm

…April Fools’ Day, i.e., the worst day of the entire year for anyone trying to cover news on the Internet. This year, as has happened before and will happen again, an overwhelming number of hoaxes, jokes and pranks escape onto the Web, using the cover of the terrible holiday to try to win a little bit of attention for their creators.… TVs still do not come in aerosol cans.…

Stilton Jarlsberg, Hope n' Change • Fri 2016 Apr 1, 1:51pm

…Donald Trump unexpectedly dropped out of the presidential race after an injection of stem cells miraculously cured his Political Tourette's Syndrome.… National Enquirer's admission that their story about wild, unbridled sex with multiple mistresses was actually supposed to be about Tom Cruise, but the names were switched at the last minute to reduce the chances of having the paper's corporate headquarters filled with rattlesnakes by Scientologists.…

Hope n' Change is another site to which I rarely link, but which is consistently worth reading. Recommended.
Jimmy Kimmel Live, YouTube • Fri 2016 Apr 1, 1:48pm

…Donald Trump recently made a bombshell revelation that could make you question everything you know about the state of American politics.…

Video: 1:39
Michelle's Mirror • Fri 2016 Apr 1, 1:27pm

We’ve reached the point in history when April Fools Day is irrelevant. With Facebook, Twitter, and the entire Obama administration we surely don’t need to wait for April First to be made fools of any more.…

I rarely link to Michelle's Mirror, but I read every one that's posted. Recommended!
Josh Weiland Photography, YouTube • Fri 2016 Apr 1, 1:25pm

Aquinas College students play a prank on their hilarious Macroeconomics professor!…

Video: 2:11 - warning: loud at first
Michelle Jesse, AllenBWest.com • Fri 2016 Apr 1, 1:19pm

Happy to hear @realDonaldTrump accepted my challenge to debate one-on-one: https://t.co/mikc6fXZei
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 1, 2016

Heard it from a little birdie - tweeting - so it must be true
Dianny, Patriot Retort • Fri 2016 Apr 1, 1:17pm

…Hillary Clinton has decided to suspend her campaign for President of the United States.

We were able to sit down with a top member of the Clinton 2016 Campaign to discuss this explosive news. The staffer agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity.…

Throws support to Jeb!
Amy Renee Leiker, Wichita Eagle • Sat 2016 Feb 27, 3:41pm

A Newton woman is facing a federal charge after authorities said she is suspected of giving Cedric Ford the two weapons he used to shoot 17 people in Hesston on Thursday.

Sarah Jo Hopkins, 28, is the mother of Ford’s 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son…

According to the affidavit, Hopkins said during an interview with law enforcement Friday that she:
▪ Was in a relationship with Ford and lived with him in Newton for period of time
▪ Bought both weapons at A Pawn Shop…
▪ Moved out of their home in July 2015 but left the guns with Ford
▪ Retrieved the guns from the house with help of Newton Police less than a month later “because she had purchased the weapons and they belonged to her”
▪ Gave the guns back to Ford later that month “because Ford had threatened her.…"

If abject stupidity could be a felony, too…
Christopher Brito, Rick Boone, Myles Miller, Pix11 • Sat 2016 Feb 13, 2:13pm

…teen thief… Brooklyn… charged with robbery and criminal possession of a weapon in the Craigslist robbery gone wrong. …pulled out a gun… allegedly stole the Jordan Retro 8 sneakers and walked away. …managed to make it only about 100 yards with the shoes when the driver made a U-turn, stepped on the gas… teenager was pinned against the fence and his right arm was severed "completely…" robbery victim… charged… with attempted murder.…

Brian Anderson, Downtrend • Sat 2016 Feb 13, 2:05pm

Not only didn’t a car thief in Milwaukee make off with a stolen vehicle, he ended up losing his pants when he picked the wrong dude to mess with. Oh, and he also got knocked out cold, embarrassed on social media, and arrested for his efforts. …

Michael Purdy, KRMG • Tue 2015 Dec 29, 5:24pm

…Tahlequah [Oklahoma] grocery store… found something inside a banana box, besides fruit. … 12 kilos of drugs. …said to be worth around $1 million. …either meth or cocaine.…

JJ Burton, Fox 23 • Thu 2015 Dec 3, 6:36am

[Tulsa Walgreens] …he asked for some items and gave a clerk money to pay for them. The clerk was making change when he pulled out the gun and demanded cash. The clerk closed the register, gave the robber his change and walked away from him. … The robber left the store. …

An instance where we can be grateful for the criminal stupidity.
Joleen Chaney, News9 • Sat 2015 Nov 21, 12:26pm

EL RENO, Oklahoma …The story takes a lot of twists and turns, but it eventually led to a hotel where the suspect in a carjacking used a stolen cell phone to take selfies … [which] ended up on the owner's iCloud account, and police were quickly able to track him down. …

KOCO • Sun 2015 Nov 15, 9:27pm

Authorities have arrested an Oklahoma man accused of kidnapping a woman and forcing her to fly a contraband-filled drone over the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. … drone caught on wire fencing and fell inside the prison walls where it was found with marijuana, two hacksaw blades, a cellphone, cigarettes, cigars, glue, methamphetamines and heroin. …digital card found inside the drone showed pictures of the suspect.…

Randy Mitchell, The Ada News • Fri 2015 Oct 23, 10:20am

…Witnesses told authorities the mother was driving the pickup east when she fell out of the vehicle. One of two 3-year-old twin boys who were in the truck took the wheel and drove the vehicle about three blocks. The boy ran off the road to the right, then crossed all lanes of traffic before crashing onto a curb, which stopped the vehicle.…

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