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Man Is Arrested After Taunting Bison at Yellowstone, Park Officials Say
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 31 Comments • 6 years ago
Why did the bison cross the road? Apparently to get away from the belligerent human who was taunting it. After a video of a man harassing a bison at Yellowstone National Park went viral— and after a disturbance at another national park more than 300 miles away — rangers arrested him. It was the...
Why Texas School Shooting Suspect Dimitrios Pagourtzis Won't Face the Death Penalty
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 10 Comments • 6 years ago
On the morning of May 18, police responded to reports of an active shooter at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. By mid-morning, the suspect, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, had been arrested and by 3 p.m. EDT, Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed in a press conference the casualties: 10...
Facebook post linked to Toronto van attack points to insular, misogynistic world of 'incels'
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 26 Comments • 6 years ago
The deadly van attack in Toronto is shining a spotlight on the controversial, often misogynistic world of "incels." The term incel is short for "involuntarily celibate," and the community that uses the label is typically dominated by men voicing frustration online about their lack of sexual...
Never again': Salvador woman released from prison after stillbirth
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 28 Comments • 6 years ago
The law needs to change so this happens never again." With those words, a Salvadoran woman who spent 11 years in prison after suffering a stillbirth challenged the authorities who locked her up. "I don't want to see more women like me enter that place. We don't deserve it," Teodora Vasquez told...
New Winter Olympic sport: American 'fans' hating on American athletes who speak their mind
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 6 years ago
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea – Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Americans are now rooting for their fellow Americans to fail at the Olympic Games. First it was Adam Rippon, then Lindsey Vonn, then Gus Kenworthy. All three dared to speak out critically against the leaders of our country,...
All she has to do to collect a $560 million lotto jackpot is make her name public. She refuses.
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 6 years ago
The winning numbers triple-checked and the lottery ticket signed, the New Hampshire woman knew her life was about to change in a very positive way — except for one petrifying thing. As the winner of last month’s $560 million Powerball, she would soon be the world’s newest owner of a nine-digit...
Woman denied emotional support peacock on United flight
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 34 Comments • 6 years ago
Birds of a feather may flock together, but United Airlines recently shot down one traveler’s request to bring her emotional support peacock on a flight departing Newark Liberty International Airport. Live and Let Fly reported earlier this week that even though the unidentified woman claimed...
Texas neighbors suspected Turpins before move to Perris
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 6 years ago
To neighbor Ricky Vinyard, the Turpin family seemed odd from the moment they arrived at the end of his remote dirt road in this small town 50 miles south of Fort Worth, where they had lived earlier. “When they moved in, they were really mysterious people. They didn’t talk to us or socialize,”...
Not Politics, Sex or Religion
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 6 years ago
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- Costa Rican investigators are looking into what caused a charter aircraft to crash in woods in the country's northwest soon after takeoff, killing two crewmembers and 10 U.S. citizens, including families from New York and Florida. The families from Scarsdale, New York,...
WTF is Wrong with People
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 7 years ago
PHOENIX — A man has been arrested in the shooting deaths of his estranged wife and their two children at a Phoenix apartment complex before getting into a Christmas Day shootout with officers, authorities said. Police responded Monday afternoon to a report of gunfire and found a woman dead in...