Scary Times
…A pig is cross bred between a muskrat, bob cat and hyena.…
Warning! You may feel yourself losing IQ points as you read these.
An Oklahoma woman working in Hawaii for the past few months was there Saturday when a false ballistic missile alert was issued, causing worry and confusion across the state. …
She said that she and others were startled when they realized they didn't really know what to do in that situation. However, being from Oklahoma gave her some experience with needing to take shelter.…
…secret group of fewer than 10 people — formed in April 2014 in North Dakota, Texas and Michigan — discovered that getting a license and then ordering enough materials to make a dirty bomb was strikingly simple in one of their three tries. Sellers were preparing shipments that together were enough to poison a city center when the operation was shut down.
The team’s members could have been anyone — a terrorist outfit, emissaries of a rival government, domestic extremists. In fact, they were undercover bureaucrats with the investigative arm of Congress.…
…British police detonated a suspicious vehicle parked outside the entrance to the Israeli Embassy in London on Wednesday… Following the controlled explosion it turned out the ‘suspicious package’ was in fact personal belongings left in the back of the silver Volkswagen Passat…
A JetBlue Airways flight attendant reportedly called the police right after landing at Los Angeles, as she didn’t appreciate being stared at by two Muslim female passengers. …Saturday evening, on JetBlue Airways flight B6487 which departed from Boston… and landed at Los Angeles International Airport… … one of the crew members thought that two women were recording a security procedure. …when the plane landed, authorities escorted the women off the plane and questioned them. The women explained that they were using a language translation app on their phone, and were released. …
A Muslim man is threatening to move his family out of Fort Smith, AR after a series of events that took place on Saturday at Central Mall… went to the mall to shop, dressed in a thobe and hijab Saturday… Mall-goers became concerned with the Crawfords when they were saw them taking video of people at the mall and videoing the entrances and exits.…
So there's this guy in Arlington, Virginia who was walking around with his Confederate/Gadsden hybrid flag (it's basically a Confederate Battle flag with the Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" snake in the middle). And, according to this, some "concerned citizen" (nosy neighbor is more like it) snapped a picture of the guy and then called 911 because the guy was "walking very deliberately" with his flag. He wasn't talking to anyone or harrassing anybody or trespassing on private property. Just - walking around with his flag. …
...A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers – or esoterics, as locals call them – have descended in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village of Bugarach. They believe that when apocalypse strikes on 21 December this year, the aliens waiting in their spacecraft inside Pic de Bugarach will save all the humans near by and beam them off to the next age.
As the cataclysmic date – which, according to eschatological beliefs and predicted astrological alignments, concludes a 5,125-year cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar – nears, the goings-on around the peak have become more bizarre and ritualistic....
"The flight attendant just ran up to me and literally grabbed me by the shirt and said, 'You need to come with me now...." They came upon three men wrestling with another passenger who... had been in the restroom for 20 or 30 minutes and wouldn't come out.... They handcuffed the suspicious passenger and tied up his feet, but he started spitting and swearing.... "So we duct-taped his mouth shut.... He was able to get that off himself. He almost choked himself by swallowing the duct tape." Then they secured a surgical mask over his face "just to get him to kind of shut up and stop spitting all over everybody." man had a boarding pass but wasn't on the passenger list.
the man supplied a Texas driver's license to police called to investigate a suspicious person report. But police say the man, who arrived on a flight from Dulles International Airport and was carrying a black duffel bag, couldn't get his birth date right on the first try. Investigators say he fled, tossing away a wallet containing counterfeit ID cards from states including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Florida. The man was captured outside the airport
Minor delays on BART trains in Oakland Friday morning ... unruly passenger talking loudly about weapons of mass destruction ... someone named Michelle King posted on Twitter, "on the train to sf; Of the many crazy people, there's one right now clapping loudly and talking about WOMD...." About five minutes later, King posted, "update — bart police came and got him...."
Oklahoma City Hall is open again after a suspicious package found outside the building was deemed safe. City officials said the package was found in a trash can on the south side of the building at 201 N Walker.
"It was just a navigation mistake, the GPS went and the pilot got confused,"
The mysterious door and window rattling that thousands of people felt across Orange County Tuesday night about 9:15 p.m. was likely caused by a sonic boom produced by a high speed jet, says Bob Dollar, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey. And, in an extraordinary odd coincidence, a similar event occurred at 9:15 a.m. today (Wednesday) in Central California.