Tuesday 2/8/22
Celebrate Boy Scouts Day, Extraterrestrial Culture, Opera, Laugh and Get Rich, Propose, Safer Internet, National Kite Flying, and Molasses Bar Day.
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Florida is a terrible place..if it's not falling Iguanas from the cold, it's Peacocks.
Peacocks could be on the outs in some South Florida neighborhoods after the Miami-Dade commission agreed to loosen a law protecting the birds.
While the 20-year-old law still protects peacocks from harm, commissioners agreed Tuesday to allow cities to opt out if they present appropriate plans to humanely remove the divisive birds from areas where they’re not wanted, the Miami Herald reported.
“Mating season is when we get the most complaints. They get very aggressive,” said sponsor Raquel Regalado, whose district includes neighborhoods in Coral Gables and Miami where peacocks roam freely. “They lay their eggs, they build their nests, they peck the cars.”
The county’s 2001 peafowl ordinance was adopted following a petition drive to save a flock of peacocks in south Miami-Dade, forbidding their killing or capture. An exemption allowed homeowners to remove them, and one neighborhood did so in 2020 after an amendment allowed for removal of excess peacocks.
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From Storm Watch..it's active in Cincinnati next Monday. The school system is giving students and staff the day off on that Monday after the Super Bowl where the Bengals will play for the first time since 1989.
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Did you ever have a teacher confiscate something and not get it back?
That reportedly happened to some guy in Japan, and he decided to concoct an elaborate scheme to get it back, and it involved him and his girlfriend breaking into the school while the place was closed for winter vacation.
It's unclear what the contraband was, but it must have been worth something because the guy is 63 years old, and his girlfriend is 58. So it has to be about 40 years old.
The mission was not a success. There was an employee at the school, who overheard them and called the police. The cops arrested them for trespassing. Not surprisingly, both the guy and the girlfriend were intoxicated.
You may be wondering: Where did he expect to find this item? It wouldn't have spent the past 40 years in the same desk drawer. That's unclear. But he did tell police he was also looking in some files for the teacher's contact information.
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I guarantee you would have never known, but Google is making changes to the Chrome icon for the first time since 2014.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - The earliest kites were flown thousands of years ago and made of leaves, and the world record for the longest kite fly is 180 hours.
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