Appears to be from New Zealand.
Pictures of accident on St Johns Bridge …
The people in the blue car had a 25-litre bucket of paint on the back seat.
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Winnipeg Police Service Looking at Smaller Helicopters
The Winnipeg Police Service may have to downsize to a smaller helicopter due to budget constraints. The Manitoba provincial government may not provide as much funding to operate the helicopter as the City of Winnipeg anticipated.
This has caused the City to look for a lighter helicopter that is better on fuel consumption. The helicopter program will go ahead said mayor Brian Bowman. “But we will have to reduce the overall budget, in whatever form that takes,” stated Bowman.
Below are some new models that the Police and City are looking at:
The Police are hoping the revised budget will at least let them buy a helicopter with an enclosed seating area. As the temperatures in Winnipeg in winter at 500 meters up could get down to -50 C.
The Week In Pictures: limited edition
President Donald J. Trump and first lady Melania wait to greet the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House.
Worshipers in Tehran, Iran during the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
A sniffer dog is transported across a river in southwestern China after a landslide.
Large sinkhole swallows car in St. Louis, Missouri.
Queen Elizabeth arrives at Buckingham Palace for the Young Leaders Awards.
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“unlawful possession of a wild raccoon.”
A 1st ballot police blotter Hall of Fame entry here: Alabama cops arrest Barry Larry Terry for “unlawful possession of a wild raccoon.”
MOULTON, Ala. – A fake mug shot posted by the Moulton city police department has garnered a lot of social media attention.
“I was very surprised. I think we are up to 6,000 shares,” said Officer Russell Graham.
Russell Graham is a Moulton City Police officer.
On Tuesday, he posted this photo along with other mug shots on the police department’s Facebook page.
“It just looked humorous to me, there were several that I went through and I said there’s our guy,” explained Officer Graham.
Graham wrote on the photo’s caption that “Barry Larry Terry” was arrested on charges of unlawful possession of a wild raccoon and no headlamp on bicycle.
“I can’t tell you where it came from I was just like I was just like ‘That looks like a Barry Larry Terry.'”
Graham says the other mug shots he posted were real, but this one was just a joke.
But what’s not entirely satire about the post, “There’s actually a law possession of wild animals. I don’t think it specifically says wild raccoon, but I just added that in there and here we are.”
The Mother of all Swimming Pools
Years ago I was a swimming pool attendant. Great job, sun, sweet smell of chlorine, bikinis and I got to operate an underwater vacuum cleaner. Ever since then I have had a thing for swimming pools. And this one really caught my eye.
Already drawing the crowds in the South American resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Chile, this artificial lagoon and swimming pool is eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic meters of water. Acknowledged by Guinness World Records as being the world’s largest swimming pool, the lagoon trounces all other record holders in the category, including the Orthlieb pool in Casablanca, Morocco, itself a huge 150 meters by 100 meters – the San Alfonso pool is 1km in length. The revolutionary clear water artificial lagoons, transparent to a depth of 35 meters and unprecedented in design and construction methods, are the brainchild of Crystal Lagoons founder, biochemist and Chilean businessman Fernando Fischmann. Equivalent in size to an incredible 6,000 standard domestic pools, details of its technology have yet to be disclosed.
Contrast that blue lagoon with this little rooftop pool in New York City.
Shrek, The Sheep Who Escaped Shearing for 6 Years
Shrek was a Merino sheep, a castrated male, belonging to South Island, New Zealand, who gained international fame in 2004 owing to his gigantic coat of fleece. Shrek became famous after escaping his enclosure and evading the shearers for six years by hiding in caves. Merino sheep are usually shorn annually but Shrek managed to escape the blade for six years straight. When he was finally caught, the sheep was unrecognizable. “He looked like some biblical creature,” said John Perriam, Shrek’s owner.
Primitive sheep shed most of their wool every year, but domestic breed like the Merino – the ones raised primarily for their meat, continues to grow wool year round until sheared. During his cave-living days, Shrek grew a fleece weighing 27 kg, roughly six times the average fleece produced by a Merino sheep. His fleece contained enough wool to make suits for 20 large men.
Shrek shot to fame immediately. He was sheared live on New Zealand’s national television, and his fleece was auctioned off to raise money for children’s medical charities. Shrek met the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, and became the subject of children’s books and made charity appearances. Two and a half years after the first live television event, Shrek underwent another live shearing, this time on an iceberg floating off the coast of Dunedin, New Zealand.
Shrek died in 2011 at the age of sixteen.
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