[Zorro]

Police called after woman sees kittens having sex in her yard

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Who would actually call the police to complain about kittens? (AP)
Sure, cats aren’t for everyone. But we can’t remember the last time someone called the police to complain about a pair of kittens.
But that’s exactly what happened in Wisconsin on Thursday when a woman called police after she reportedly witnessed two kittens “having sex” in her front yard.
As ridiculous as that sounds, it’s not the only recent time someone has called 911 to report on a cat. Back in February, a Washington State man called 911 to report on a stray cat that had wandered into his back yard. But, at least in that case, the man was calling out of concern for the cat’s welfare (it was cold outside), rather than to complain about its mere presence.
The Wisconsin Rapids Police Department included the truly unusual call in their public list of request calls received. However, there’s still no word on how the department responded to the unnamed woman’s call.

[DruulEmpire]

If two dogs are not only fucking in public but GET STUCK, that becomes a serious breach of the public peace and I think that's a fair call.  I'd hate to be the cop, though.

That reminds me.  Two men see a dog licking his balls.  One remarks "I wish I could do that."  The other replies "I'm not sure he'll let you."

[Zorro]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/300-gallons-urine-found-inside-man-home-224127138.html

Police are trying to figure out exactly how to handle one man’s truly wasteful collection after 300 gallons of bottled urine were discovered inside a residential home.
According to the News-Times, Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) spokesman Dennis Schain said authorities found “200 to 300 one-gallon plastic jugs filled with human urine" during a search of the man’s home in Watertown, Connecticut.
Police have declined to publicly release the man’s name, as he has not yet been formally charged with a crime.
"An environmental contractor ... was brought into help deal with this under our supervision," Schain told the paper, saying DEEP authorities were called in to assess what he described as a home "in a state of disrepair."
Despite the disturbing and unusual nature of the urine collection, Schain said it’s unlikely authorities will actually charge the man with a crime. He’s not the first person to store his own urine, with these cases often tied to mental illness. For example, Howard Hughes famously stored his own urine after retreating to Las Vegas. The actor James Franco even admitted to bottling his own urine, though that was part of a youthful prank.
In the meantime, the urine is schedule to be taken to a waste treatment plant for proper disposal.

[Zorro]

By Jonathan Kaminsky
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - City bus drivers in Seattle are under orders to handle small amounts of marijuana left behind by passengers as normal lost-and-found items that can be recovered by their rightful owners, now that pot is legal under state law, a transit official said on Friday.

"We collect a lot of things on Metro Transit buses, from umbrellas to lunch sacks to briefcases," said Jeff Switzer, a spokesman for the King County Department of Transportation, Metro Transit Division, which serves Seattle and surrounding suburbs. "This is one more thing we'll be handling in this fashion."

Washington state and Colorado voters passed ballot initiatives in November making the possession and use of small amounts of marijuana by adults legal for recreational purposes for the first time ever under state law.

The U.S. government still classifies cannabis as an illegal narcotic, and federal officials have said they are studying how to respond to the newly enacted marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado.

Nearly 20 states, including those two, have previously declared marijuana legal for medical purposes.

Police in Seattle, Washington's largest city, already have shown a newfound tolerance for pot, declining to make arrests for marijuana use in public - technically still outlawed in the state - at a number of events where pot smokers have celebrated the drug's new status.
"The voters voted, and this is the world we're living in now," Switzer said.

The transit directive, outlined in a memo circulated on Wednesday, informs drivers they can call for a supervisor to take possession of any waylaid weed on their buses if they feel uncomfortable holding onto the pot until they can finish their routes and drop it off at the lost-and-found center.

If they find more than an ounce of marijuana - the maximum amount recreational users 21 and older are now legally permitted to possess under state law - they are instructed to contact the police. If they are uncertain of the quantity, the memo instructs, they are to contact a supervisor.

Switzer said the rules included specific procedures for reuniting a stash of marijuana with the person who wants it back.

In order to successfully reclaim missing pot, a transit rider will have to say when it was lost it, on what bus route, and will have to accurately describe the appearance of the drug and its container, under the new King County Metro rules.

Switzer said he was not certain whether any marijuana has already been recovered on any of the more than 200 Metro bus routes since the new rule took effect on Wednesday.
The policy change comes days after Governor Jay Inslee, a Democrat, signed into law a measure requiring personnel quantities of marijuana left behind in stores with pharmacies in them to be destroyed or rendered unusable.

That legislation was in response to concerns that keeping marijuana on the premises of a conventional drug store would pose too flagrant a violation of federal law and hence put a pharmacy's licensing in jeopardy.

(This story corrects attribution for rules to transportation spokesman from memo in paragraph 10)
(Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Steve Gorman)

[pedonbio]

Zorro, there are all sorts of unexpected changes when a drug is made legal. For example, one police department (Tacoma) has refused to return pot siezed either before the law changed, or by mistake after. All the other police departments in the state are cooperating by returning it. Our Liquor Control Board is setting up quality standards and processing regulations. The initiative did not refer to the separate system of medical marijuana distribution. The result is that medical ganja is much less expensive than recreational ganja, but purity is not assured.

When the issue was publically debated the racial civil rights issue was a significant part of the debate. Many years ago a prosecutor in Los Angeles had some money found in a defendant's pocket tested for cocaine residue. More than 8 of ten bills tested positive. The defense had an expert perform a randomized test and found that more than 80% of the bills in circulation in L.A. had detectable cocaine residue. There hasn't been a similar randomized test performed on cars and ganja, but estimates are that between 80% and 95% of vehicles currently in use in the U.S. have detectable ganja in them. Remember that your car contains traces from every person who has ever been in it, and every agriculture it has been around.

The result is that any car the police stop can be tested for ganja residue. In certain parts of my state people of certain races get stopped routinely and, when their car is searched, ganja shows up. Almost all states use the "trace" rule for drug prosecutions--Any trace of an illegal drug is enough for prosecution--so making legal any amount up to an ounce ends these prosecutions.

[Lesbian Bob]

Didn't she notice the sign?
 

[Zorro]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/man-charged-overnight-feast-closed-kentucky-supermarket-113530909.html


MOUNT WASHINGTON, Ky. - Authorities in Kentucky have charged a man who officers say had an overnight feast in a closed supermarket outside Louisville.

The manager of a ValuMarket says he found 57 empty whipped cream cans in the garbage when he arrived Monday morning. WAVE-TV (http://bit.ly/15HQ8k7) in Louisville reported 30-year-old Trevor Runyon was charged after he was found in the ceiling of the store.

Surveillance video from the store showed that Runyon cooked and ate six steaks, washed them down with beer and then topped off his meal with shrimp and birthday cake.
Police say Runyon slipped into the store and hid while employees closed it for the night.
Bullitt County Detention Center records show Runyon is from Shepherdsville, Ky. It wasn't clear whether he has an attorney.

[rtpoe]

Some actual headlines I remember seeing way back when:

"Bush Needles Waffle House"

"British Left Waffles on Falklands"

[Zorro]

Why penguins stopped flying

By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News

Penguins are excellent swimmers. But even with wings, the aquatic flightless birds do not take to the skies despite having wing-like flippers.

In fact, a new study says that penguins became so good at swimming that they eventually evolved to specialize at that skill at the cost of airborne flight.

"Like many people, I've always been interested in penguins, and seeing them do these phenomenal marches across the ice, I've often thought: 'Why don't they just fly?' Professor John Speakman, from the University of Aberdeen and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the BBC." And it's really great to be involved in the group of people that have solved it."

The new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, says that at least five species of penguin have adapted into flightless birds.

In particular, biomechanical models of energy costs during flying and diving suggest that a wing designed for optimal diving performance should lead to enormous energy costs when flying in air,” explains the study. “Costs of flying and diving have been measured in free-living animals that use their wings to fly or to propel their dives, but not both.”
In fact, many studies compare penguins’ underwater prowess to being like flight beneath the waves. And just how good at swimming are they? They can swim at speeds up to 8mph over a distance of 100 miles, and up to six times faster when under duress. And while most penguins catch their food near the water’s surface, some Emperor penguins have been known to dive 1,870 feet for more than 20 minutes.

"Basically the hypothesis is that as the wings became more and more efficient for them to dive, they became less and less efficient for them to fly,” Speakman said. "At some point it became so 'expensive' for them to fly, that it was better to give up flying altogether and make the wings into small flippers."

However, for the study, Speakman and his colleagues studied one bird that can both swim and fly: the guillemot.
“These birds have these very short wings and they have to beat them at an incredible speed to stay in the air,” Speakman said.

However, while the seabirds look very similar to their penguin counterparts and are nearly as good at swimming, they are barely functional at flying.

"The energy costs are very, very high,” Speakman said. “These birds have these very short wings and they have to beat them at an incredible speed to stay in the air. It is exhausting for them.”

Another species of seabird, the Murres, is also capable of flight.