Noteworthy News

[Silver]

Only in Florida

Florida mom abandons child in running car to go swimming, wanted to ‘meet sharks’

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florid...-says/amp/


Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office vehicle hits 15-year-old in Seminole
https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-count...inole/amp/

[Ravenshire]

Only in Florida

Florida mom abandons child in running car to go swimming, wanted to ‘meet sharks’

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florid...-says/amp/


Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office vehicle hits 15-year-old in Seminole
https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-count...inole/amp/

Perhaps the local official can take him to a local aquarium and give him his wish...

Then again, eating that much tainted meat may harm the sharks.

[Fake Messiah]

Russell Brand is claiming that two major media outlets are about to release rape allegations against him that he categorically denies. Furthermore he's already framing it as him potentially getting "too close to the truth"
(truth being ivermectin and other anti vax gibberish)

https://news.sky.com/story/russell-brand...m-12962257

[Silver]

Only in Florida

Endangered man found.

Really, endangered?

https://www.wfla.com/news/pasco-county/p...r-old/amp/

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Only in Florida

Endangered man found.

Really, endangered?

https://www.wfla.com/news/pasco-county/p...r-old/amp/

Sure, what’s wrong with ‘endangered’?

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

An Only In Florida Story that Kit missed: apparently, a do-nothing attitude seems to run deeper than DeSantis and his political stunts.

Clearwater Beach Hyatt ignored Idalia evacuation order, misinformed guests

As Hurricane Idalia made landfall north of Tampa Bay early Wednesday, most hotels on Clearwater Beach were empty.

Pinellas County had issued an evacuation order two days earlier for Zone A, which directed all guests and residents to leave the barrier islands.

But the 286-room Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa stayed open, sending emails to guests and sliding notices under their doors with false information. “We have not been ordered to evacuate Clearwater Beach,” the messages said, adding that the resort and restaurants would remain open.
Related: Clearwater Beach, Sand Key unsafe to swim after fecal pollution found

The resort slid letters under doors around 5 p.m. on Monday, four hours after Pinellas County announced the evacuation order that would take effect at 7 p.m. that night, according to six Hyatt guests interviewed by the Tampa Bay Times.

https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2023/...ter-beach/

It may be old news, but I only found out about it when What The Fuck Is Wrong With You covered it, and that episode dropped on YouTube today.

[The Valkyrie]

Danelo Cavalcante Recaptured

"A convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail and eluded hundreds of law enforcement officers for almost two weeks in quiet, wooded communities outside Philadelphia has been recaptured, the authorities said on Wednesday morning."

https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-...97afca39e4

That he’d be recaptured was never in any serious doubt. What surprised me is that it didn’t end in a shootout with fatalities.

Boru

Luckily he's not black.

For them, US cop policy seems to be, *Bang* *Bang* *Bang*, "FREEZE!"

Followed by, "We thought he was armed. It turns out he was playing chess. But he was playing it aggressively!"

[Belacqua]

Remember the Chinese spy balloon that everybody freaked out about?

It turns out that it wasn't a spy balloon, and everything China said about it was true.

Now, seven months later, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells "CBS News Sunday Morning" the balloon wasn't spying. "The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon," he said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre...y-balloon/

[Thumpalumpacus]

Remember the Chinese spy balloon that everybody freaked out about?

It turns out that it wasn't a spy balloon, and everything China said about it was true.

Now, seven months later, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells "CBS News Sunday Morning" the balloon wasn't spying. "The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon," he said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre...y-balloon/

It doesn't matter what its purpose was. You don't violate a sovereign country's airspace -- apologists be damned.

Also, I wouldn't disclose what I'd found out, either. I'd let the Chinese wonder and worry.

[brewer]

Remember the Chinese spy balloon that everybody freaked out about?

It turns out that it wasn't a spy balloon, and everything China said about it was true.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre...y-balloon/

It doesn't matter what its purpose was. You don't violate a sovereign country's airspace -- apologists be damned.

Also, I wouldn't disclose what I'd found out, either. I'd let the Chinese wonder and worry.

But then he wouldn't get paid.