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Toroid

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Oregon deputies with 'guns drawn' respond to report of intruder to find ... a Roomba vacuum
An Oregon sheriff's department responding en masse with "guns drawn" to a call about an intruder locked in a woman's bathroom found the suspect was in fact a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner.

The Washington County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Tuesday that a woman called to report a person was in her bathroom with the door locked and said she could "see shadows under the bathroom door."

Seven minutes later, "multiple deputies" arrived at the home and requested K-9 backup, the statement said.


"As we entered the home we could hear 'rustling' in the bathroom," one of the responding deputies wrote in the statement.

Deputies ordered the person to come out of the locked bathroom but got no response.

They needed to act.

"With guns drawn, deputies open the door to encounter the suspect … an automated robot vacuum," the statement said.

The statement added that the Roomba was performing a "very thorough vacuuming job."

It's unclear if the Roomba has retained an attorney.
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CasualBystander

Celestial
Unfortunate incident.
At least the plane didn't fall into "enemy" hands.

The pilot was leading the formation, signaled "Aborting Practice" then disappeared.

Weird that they lost track of him (the guy leading the formation is in front after all).

So looks like mechanical problem of some kind.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Brazilian officials make contact with an isolated indigenous tribe in a rare expedition to reunite members with some of their relatives and ease tensions with a rival group



Brazil's agency for indigenous peoples, FUNAI, said on Friday that a team of nearly two dozen reached 34 members of the Korubo tribe (pictured top right and left while being vaccinated by FUNAI officials) in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. The expedition included relatives of the Korubos and also aimed to avoid a possible conflict with the Matis tribe living about 12 miles away.

The Matis tribe repeatedly requested FUNAI's intervention in the case because they believed the isolated Korubos wanted revenge, mistakenly believing their relatives had been killed by the Matis. The main concern of FUNAI analysts was that the isolated group would not believe that the Korubos in the expedition were in fact their relatives, which made them call the mission 'high risk'.

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These people represent humanity as it's been for ages. Yet now they've had the benefit of contact with modern civilization what what do we do? Blur out the tits & asses because well, you know, that's just indecent. Hoooooo boy ....
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
they are in a club "teens for Sanders"
they are flip city for him.
both will be 18 and plan on voting for him in 2020.

He'll be releasing his tax returns soon and has already telegraphed that he made a few bucks. I wonder if he'd be willing to give up 75% of what he's made and redistribute it? Or maybe just something simple - pay for your kids to go to college.
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
He'll be releasing his tax returns soon and has already telegraphed that he made a few bucks. I wonder if he'd be willing to give up 75% of what he's made and redistribute it? Or maybe just something simple - pay for your kids to go to college.

yeah. he has a good talk. let's see where it all goes.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
He'll be releasing his tax returns soon and has already telegraphed that he made a few bucks. I wonder if he'd be willing to give up 75% of what he's made and redistribute it? Or maybe just something simple - pay for your kids to go to college.

Like we really need a socialist style wannabe dictator as President...:Whistle:

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ChrisIB

Honorable
Julian Assange faces US extradition after arrest at Ecuadorian embassy
Julian Assange faces US extradition after arrest at Ecuadorian embassy


He is a very accomplished hacker and should be credited with using those skills to establish a very effective platform for whistle-blowers.
But does he provide one of the necessary checks and balances of a healthy democracy or is he a narcissist and traitor to it?
Such organisations as Wikileaks must have almost impossible moral and ethical choices.
As they can be abused by those leaking information to achieve ends, it does seem coincidental his arrest was live streamed by Russia Today.
He is also allegedly in a relationship with Pamela Anderson.
After his arrest by the UK police, her closely reasoned diatribe that the UK was 'America's bitch' I thought very helpful.
 
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Standingstones

Celestial
Like we really need a socialist style wannabe dictator as President...:Whistle:

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What Bernie never tells you is that the middle class will be footing the bill for free college educations and he also want to forgive all outstanding college loans. Again, some group of taxpayers will be stuck paying for his ideas.

They call it a "free lunch" where I come from.
 

wwkirk

Divine
Julian Assange faces US extradition after arrest at Ecuadorian embassy
Julian Assange faces US extradition after arrest at Ecuadorian embassy


He is a very accomplished hacker and should be credited with using those skills to establish a very effective platform for whistle-blowers.
But does he provide one of the necessary checks and balances of a healthy democracy or is he a narcissist and traitor to it?
Such organisations as Wikileaks must have almost impossible moral and ethical choices.
As they can be abused by those leaking information to achieve ends, it does seem coincidental his arrest was live streamed by Russia Today.
He is also allegedly in a relationship with Pamela Anderson.
After his arrest by the UK police, her closely reasoned diatribe that the UK was 'America's bitch' I thought very helpful.
He didn't look very healthy. He looked old and possibly malnourished.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
He didn't look very healthy. He looked old and possibly malnourished.

I read a while ago that part of the reason he wore out his welcome is his filthy living habits: he's a Stinker.
Hopefully they'll find a nice deep, dank mossy well to toss him into.
Maybe Chelsea Manning will stop by to yell 'hi' down the hole.

If I stop bathing and shaving regularly do you think Pam Anderson will visit me?
 

ChrisIB

Honorable
He didn't look very healthy. He looked old and possibly malnourished.
Years of knowing what was coming I guess. As soon as Ecuador got a new President it was over. Lets say some three letter agency saw an opportunity and leaked details on the new guy knowing Wikileaks would be blamed.
Even if Ecuador didn't believe the source was Wikileaks, especially in fact, the thought of more to come, would leave no real choice.
I don't think Assange's behaviour has helped, riding a skateboard around the corridors and so on.
 
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