Was bound to happen?

[Dauntless]

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/02/media/abc-news-brian-ross/index.html

Multiple ABC News employees, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they weren't publicly authorized to discuss the matter, told CNNMoney on Saturday there was internal embarrassment over the blunder.

External embarrassment, too. But that's how they're SUPPOSED to react. Poor Barney Ross, suspended for a MONTH for getting carried away and exaggerating. I grew up with him as one one my favorites. But he's taking responsibility. Certainly, Bound to Happen. And he's just the man I expect him to be about it.

So did CNN fire or do anything to the many caught sending their stories to Hillary Clinton for approval? I think they did with the one caught giving Hillary the debate questions in advance. but I don't remember the name to look it up. Does ABC really have so much higher ethical standards than CNN?

 

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http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15697397.VIDEO__Watch_the_shocking_moment_a_cyclist_pulls_out_in_front_of_an_oncoming_bus/
Watch the shocking moment a cyclist pulls out in front of an oncoming bus in York

 

[Dauntless]

The video won't play for me.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/04/media/abc-news-president-brian-ross-flynn-correction/index.html

So shocking that the ABC News President would be miffed over a little thing like purveying more fake news, eh?

 

[Dauntless]

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/12/05/sign-language-interpreter-imposter-tampa-orig-trnd-lab.cnn

A woman jumped up at a press conference and pretended to be a sign language interpreter and just sort of gestured. This being a police press conference. They had a recent problem after a hurricane with using not a real interpreter but someone who used sign language some. And a few years back there was an imposter at Mandela's memorial, though this one was a real sign language interpreter who went nuts at the ceremony.

 

[Dauntless]

Now, even YOUR shed can be the top rated restaurant on Trip Advisor. Expert tells how.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor

 

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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1771536946199476&id=256589984360854&_rdr

 

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http://autoweek.com/article/technology/shopping-while-driving-gms-marketplace-app-sparks-distracted-driving-concerns
DO WE REALLY NEED TO BE ABLE TO SHOP WHILE WE DRIVE, GM?National Safety Council (and any other sentient being) sees in-car shopping apps becoming a hazard

DECEMBER 11, 2017
The rapidly approaching autonomous future will likely result in people being trapped in their cars and made to watch autoplay ads for skillets with miraculous non-stick surfaces, insurance so inexpensive it doesn't do anything and prescription drug settlements. But before that shining autonomous future arrives you can still do some shopping on the go, while driving a car. And that can be a problem.

A new GM in-car app called Marketplace that allows drivers to shop and place orders from several major brands including Priceline.com, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and TGI Friday's has drawn criticism from at least one consumer safety group, Bloomberg reports. National Safety Council President Deborah Hersman indicated the app can contribute to distracted driving, which is already a factor in at least a quarter of all car crashes in the U.S.

"There’s nothing about this that’s safe," Hersman told Bloomberg. "If this is why they want Wi-Fi in the car, we’re going to see fatality numbers go up even higher than they are now."

GM's counterargument is that the app is safer than trying to order the same items via a smartphone, and is designed to be simpler to use than a phone. GM spokesman Vijay Iyer told Bloomberg that the app is designed to allow users to order items with just three or four steps, which is typically fewer than using a phone to do the same.

Of course, this argument ignores the concept of not shopping at all while driving. While the app may provide a safer way of booking a hotel room, there is still the option of using a hands-free in-car phone to just call the hotel, which is what people used to do in the early 2000s. Also, if a driver feels the need to use an in-car app to place an order to Dunkin Donuts before he or she gets there, or reserve a table at TGI Friday's, that driver is leading a life that is far too optimized.

Nevertheless, GM plans to launch the app in 2017 and 2018 model year vehicles that feature Wi-Fi hotspots, and other automakers and app developers are not far behind. If there's any hope around in-car multitasking, it is that voice-controlled personal assistant systems are getting better, and will eventually be able to interact with you simply by talking to you.
In the meantime, if you need a coffee from Dunkin Donuts just drive to Dunkin Donuts and use the drive-thru window (where available).

JAY RAMEY - Jay Ramey is an Associate Editor with Autoweek, and has been with the magazine since 2013. Jay also likes to kayak and bike. 

 

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http://www.ocregister.com/2017/12/12/homeless-woman-offering-to-sell-heroin-causes-ruckus-at-dana-point-harbor-boat-parade/

Homeless woman offering to sell heroin causes ruckus at Dana Point Harbor boat parade

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By ERIKA I. RITCHIE | eritchie@scng.com | Orange County Register

PUBLISHED: December 12, 2017 at 11:46 am | UPDATED: December 12, 2017 at 3:12 pm

DANA POINT   A 50-year-old homeless woman who is the first to relocate from the Santa Ana riverbed to Dana Point made her arrival very public recently, police said.

The incident occurred at Dana Point Harbor Friday, Dec. 8 during the first night of the Dana Point 43rd annual boat parade.

Police were in the harbor about 8 p.m. between El Torito and Dana Wharf monitoring the crowds during the boat procession when the woman rode her bike through the crowd screaming, “Does anyone want to buy heroin,?'” said Sgt. Rich Himmel.

Himmel said deputies stopped the woman but didn’t find any heroin on her. She told them she had moved to Dana Point after being evacuated from the Santa Ana riverbed.

While deputies were talking to the homeless woman, another woman and her family approached Himmel, telling him the homeless woman had accosted them earlier.

“The homeless woman walked up to her and said,'(expletive) you, rich person! in front of her family,” Himmel said.

“We asked her to move along and not offer to sell any more heroin,” Himmel said.

After identifying the woman, Himmel said he and his deputies were made aware that she had an extensive criminal and violent history with multiple incidents occurring in the Santa Ana area.

The woman is still in Dana Point and was spotted on one of the city’s surveillance cameras near Doheny State Beach.

Recently, the City Council approved a full-time homeless liaison to get a better handle on each homeless person in the city and to work with them on a one-to-one basis to get them into permanent housing.

The homeless population has exploded in the city in the last few years with deputies responding to more and more incidents, Himmel said.

 

 

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https://www.independent.ie/world-news/five-die-after-electric-bicycle-batteries-cause-beijing-blaze-36407551.html

 

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http://road.cc/content/tech-news/233958-specialized-stops-sale-2018-allez-bikes-due-fork-defect
Specialized halts sale of 2018 Allez bikes due to fork crown manufacturing defect

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/28/brompton-recalls-nearly-150000-folding-bicycles-axle-failures
Brompton recalls nearly 150,000 folding bicycles over axle fault

 

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http://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/national/465730423.html?ref=423
Police say a Phoenix homeowner helped solve at least two crimes when he confronted and chased a pepper spray-wielding suspect.
Jeremiah Lopez says he spotted a suspicious man peering over his backyard fence Dec. 12 near 7th and Glendale avenues.
Lopez approached the man and shouted at him to leave. Lopez snapped pictures of the man as he initially pedaled away on a bicycle.
"I stayed here watching to make sure he leaves the neighborhood and he came back again," Lopez said. "And this time, he's riding a little faster. [He] rides right up to me in my yard and sprays me right in the face" with pepper spray.
The pepper spray hit Lopez in the left eye, but it didn't deter him. He says he jumped in his SUV and chased the suspect, all while calling 911.
Lopez said as he pursued the pedaling suspect, the man made an abrupt turn on his bicycle and the two collided.
"Bike goes off the car. He flies off the hood and he gets up and starts swinging a bag at the car down the side and yelling," Lopez said, adding that the man appeared to dump several items into a nearby yard.
The impact left the bicycle mangled and caused some damage to Lopez' vehicle.
Phoenix police arrived and arrested the man, identified as 30-year-old Gabriel Poventud.
Lopez posted about his experience on the social media app, Nextdoor, and neighbors started putting new pieces together.
Users compared Poventud's booking photo to video posted by a neighbor of a package theft the day before, near Maryland and 7th avenues. They presented the information to Phoenix police, who booked Poventud on suspicion of both crimes.
"That was the leg up on the case," said Sgt. Vince Lewis with Phoenix police.
"This is one of those unique situations where the community came together with law enforcement to solve a crime in their own neighborhood," he said.

 

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http://www.calbike.org/ca_stop_as_yield

 

[Dauntless]

Have to be like everyone else. Disaster.

You have to read it to get it.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/01/entertainment/mariah-carey-new-years-eve-tea-trnd/index.html

 

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http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20171230/NEWS/171239979
Man dies from head injury after flying off bicycle in San Rafael
By Stephanie Weldy, Marin Independent Journal
POSTED: 12/30/17, 12:52 AM PST | UPDATED: 2 DAYS AGO
A 46-year-old man died from a head injury suffered after flying off his bicycle on a trail next to Highway 101 in San Rafael, investigators said.
Police responded about 8:30 p.m. Friday to the report of a bicyclist who was down with a head injury, said San Rafael police Sgt. Justin Graham.
Roger Fielding, Marin’s chief deputy coroner, said it appears the San Rafael man was riding his bicycle on a paved path near the Lincoln Avenue exit of southbound Highway 101, when he struck an object off the trail and was ejected. The man suffered a head injury as he hit the ground, Fielding said.
The man, who was not wearing a bicycle helmet, was discovered shortly after by another bicyclist.
An investigation was ongoing Saturday. Foul play was not suspected and the man was believed to have died from his head injury. It was not immediately known if the bicyclist was under the influence of any substances, Fielding said.
The man’s identity had not yet been released and was pending notification of next of kin.

 

[fechter]

That is really close to home. I've ridden that stretch many times. There's a pretty good incline where you can pick up some speed going downhill and lots of concrete things you could crash into.

 

[Dauntless]

Dang. After losing on both of these big lottery prizes, you're still not exempt from losing the Chinese Spacelab lottery. That's where the giant 'MaDe in China' label leaves its' mark on you and your immediate surroundings.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/asia/china-tiangong-1-return-to-earth-intl/index.html

 

[Chalo]

https://gizmodo.com/report-google-cant-stop-getting-its-bikes-jacked-1821854324

See, this is why we can't have nice things.

 

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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/01/12/bicyclist-dies-after-being-struck-by-a-vehicle-in-front-of-santa-ana-hospital-police-say/
So many bikes hit by cars that police naturally assume.....

 

[Dauntless]

Put an airport next to a cliff and what do you get? A 'Runway Excursion Incident.'

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/01/14/turkey-plane-skids-off-runway-newday.cnn

 

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https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/venas-fizz-house-maine/index.html

Portland, Maine (CNN) — It all came to Johanna Corman after four nights of tossing and turning.
Her husband of nearly 17 years, Steve, had just been laid off from his teaching job of 19 years right during April school break in 2013, and they had two children in high school.
After 19 years of teaching, he asked her what he should do next.
Johanna had been a teacher, but she was also an adventurous spirit, willing to jump at opportunities to run the family apple farm and move to Maine's Cliff Island a couple months after seeing a "for sale" sign at the island's only store and café.

 

[Chalo]

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/venas-fizz-house-maine/index.html

I'm glad they came to their senses. An alcohol-free bar makes as much sense as a detergent-free laundry service.

 

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https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/killer-driver-mitchell-walsh-finally-banned-from-wa-roads-ng-b88724017z

 

[Chalo]

http://mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/article/SAPD-Officer-involved-shooting-at-Loop-410-and-12526415.php

Homicidal cops and bicycle thieves. It's so hard to pick a favorite.

 

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https://nypost.com/2018/01/29/victims-of-bike-path-terror-attack-file-600m-suit-against-city/
Victims of Manhattan’s bicycle-path terror attack have filed notices to sue the city and state for more than $600 million — saying authorities were well aware that the area was vulnerable to a vehicle-ramming incident yet did nothing about it.
Two cyclists had already been killed along the West Side Highway bike path in separate crashes by drunken drivers, long before Sayfullo Saipov allegedly sped down it for a mile in a rental truck this past Halloween, killing eight.
The Department of Homeland Security also had issued a bulletin as far back as 2010 warning about the risk of terrorists using vehicles to wreak deadly havoc.
And even this past May, an alleged high driver jumped the curb and zoomed the wrong way up a Times Square sidewalk, killing a teenage tourist, while terror-related vehicle carnage rocked major cities around the world.
But it wasn’t until the day after the deadly Halloween horror — when ISIS-loving Uzbek native Saipov, 29, allegedly barreled down the path, hitting cyclists and pedestrians — that city transportation workers finally installed concrete barriers at more than four dozen intersections along the West Side Highway, according to court papers for 17 victims.
Authorities failed “to implement measures and precautions to prevent vehicles from intentionally entering the bicycle path despite the fact that it was foreseeable,” the victims’ lawyer, Howard Hershenhorn, wrote in the legal notices filed Friday.
They didn’t “take the necessary precautions based on appropriate engineering studies for this target location in the financial capital of the world.’’
During his rampage, Saipov allegedly steered his Home Depot rental truck onto the pathway between West Houston and Chambers streets. He was eventually shot and wounded by a cop at the scene and has pleaded not guilty to eight murder charges and other counts.
Hershenhorn represents the families of seven of the eight fatalities, including the wives of five Argentinian tourists who were in the city to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their high-school graduation.
The men, all in their 40s, “suffered extreme conscious pain and suffering as a result of the injuries which resulted in” their deaths, the legal papers say. Their wives are suing for $30 million each.
The family of Anne-Laure Decadt, a 31-year-old Belgian mother of two young sons who was killed as she cycled along the path, is also suing for $30 million.
The mother of the only New Yorker among the dead, software engineer Nicholas Cleves, 23, filed another $30 million claim.
Family members of the eighth fatality, New Jersey resident Darren Drake, 32, brought a separate claim in November.
Those injured in the attack and their families also brought claims, including the parents of a little girl who suffered traumatic brain damage when Saipov smashed his truck into her school bus, and Marion Van Reeth, a Belgian who lost both legs.
A city Law Department spokesman said they will review the notices. A spokesman for the state did not immediately comment.