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Last week, I wrote about how it isn’t always legal for police to pull over someone to reward them–even if they are rewarding them with ice cream! Police in Arlington, VA today decided to spread goodwill with ice cream too.  But in this case, no traffic stops were needed. According …

This is bananas.  A monkey got loose on a Las Vegas-bound flight yesterday. No, it wasn’t Miles the Monkey. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal: It’s unclear what type of monkey it was, but Nunnery said the monkey was an emotional support animal, adding that “the passenger had all the …

A few days ago, I wrote about a man who ran after his flight on the tarmac.  In NEWS I CANNOT MAKE UP, he actually caught his plane, was able to board, and made it to his destination. I’ll allow a moment for that to sink in. But as to …

A train derailed going into Charles City, Iowa, hitting–yes this is true–a bar named DeRailed. First we had a Mercedes parking on a Ferrari. Then we had a tank driving over a Mercedes. Now we have this. According to KCCI8 (a CBS affiliate): Police say a freight train car that …

If you miss your flight, you have a few options.  You can rebook it.  Some airlines will let you move to the next flight (in certain situations).  You can choose to forgo the trip. Running across the tarmac after your flight is not one of these options. However, a man apparently …

I was trying to explain what it is like to live in Northern Virginia and one incident came to mind–being in a traffic jam on I-66 because someone driving a Tesla rear-ended a Lexus. And while I don’t know whether or not the incident involved texting, a lot of incidents …

Zac Posen is responsible for redesigning the Delta uniforms that are being released in 2018. Yes, this Zac Posen. But his designs, apparently, haven’t been very practical so far. From Page Six: But sources tell us that Delta has rejected a series of Posen’s early designs because they are too …

An airplane is a very enclosed place.  So when a passenger is being unruly, there’s only so much you can do.  You can’t kick him out and you can’t leave. A flight attendant was trying to calm an unruly passenger down when he went on the offensive. From Fox News: …

Missing a flight can happen to anyone.  Including ’90s rapper, Vanilla Ice. Vanilla Ice, also know as Robert Van Winkle, took a call that ran a little long while waiting in the Atlanta Airport.  So long, he missed his flight. Naturally, he blamed the gate agent in a meltdown that …

A 16-month long report by the Associated Press has released some scary results.  They discovered that the water in Rio has viruses  at rates that would be 1.7 million times the level that would be alarming in the US and Europe. They estimate that athletes only need to ingest *three* tablespoons …