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Because white shoes are so distracting when you’re lining up your putt? According to Time magazine, Nike will be mowing over the competition with its new Air Max 1 golf shoes, which feature uppers covered with a green material that resembles grass. Matching green laces will further disguise your dogs as you play a round, but lest you think you’ll disappear altogether, fear not: The trademark Nike swoosh on the sides is bright white. The sneakers, yet to be released, are expected to retail for $140. [Time, 1/14/2019] —
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thought there was nothing new under the blue jeans sun: A Ukrainian designer is asking $377 for a pair of jeans that have one fitted leg and one flared leg. Ksenia Schnaider, who calls her design the Asymmetric Jean, told DazedDigital.com: “It’s good to get people talking, and they’re definitely going to make people turn their heads as you walk by!” [DazedDigital.com, 1/11/2019] People With(out) Issues
Rachel Childs, 29, of Pearland, Texas, is not autistic and doesn’t have a twin autistic sister, according to the Houston Chronicle. Nevertheless, she hired a caregiver for her (fake) twin sister who is (not) autistic. The elaborate plot, which played out in early January, involved
the caregiver picking up the “twin” at Childs’ house and taking her to the caregiver’s home, where he was hired to care for her overnight. But when Childs’ “twin” exhibited sexual conduct toward the caregiver, he became suspicious and investigated Childs, then contacted police. Childs was charged with burglary of a habitation with intent to commit assault and indecent exposure. [Houston Chronicle, 1/17/2019] Precocious
Employees of John J. Murphy Elementary School in Round Lake Park, Illinois, were surprised on Jan. 9 when a car drove into the drop-off lane and an 11-year-old student exited the driver’s seat. Witnesses alerted police, who issued an arrest warrant for the front-seat passenger, 31-year-old Khafilu M. Oshodi of Round Lake, for two counts of child endangerment; a 9-year-old was riding in the back seat. Police Chief George Filenko told the Lake County News-Sun the situation could have “resulted in any number of tragic scenarios.” The children have been placed with other relatives, and police are still looking for Oshodi. [Lake County News-Sun, 1/21/2019] — Alijah Hernandez of Houston is a skilled barber in her father’s shop, reported KTRK-TV on Jan. 17 —
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which wouldn’t ordinarily be newsworthy. But Alijah is only 7 years old. Her dad, Franky, says she’s been watching him since she was a toddler and started perfecting her skills three years ago. For her part, Alijah says cutting hair comes naturally to her; she practices on friends and family (with her dad supervising) and has already faced off in barber competitions across Texas. [KTRK, 1/17/2019] What's That up in the Sky?
The rare super blood wolf moon of Jan. 20 was so captivating to some skywatchers on Florida’s Ponte Vedra Beach, that they didn’t notice when the tide rolled in and waterlogged their Honda CRV. The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office told News4Jax the occupants were able to get out of the car and move to safety, although the vehicle itself wasn’t recovered until the next day. A photo showed water up to the windshield on the front end. [News4Jax, 1/21/2019] — Meanwhile, in West Palm Beach, Florida, two unnamed 24-year-olds chose to view the Jan. 20 eclipse by lying prone in the middle of a dark road near the Apoxee Wilderness Trail. Which would have worked out fine, except around 11:30 p.m. a West Palm Beach police officer patrolling the area ran over the pair. Fortunately, reported the South Florida Sun Sentinel, he was cruising at just 5 mph, and the human speed bumps sustained only non-life-threatening injuries. The officer was put on paid administrative leave while the incident was investigated. [Sun-Sentinel,
1/21/2019]
that his back pain had worsened after lifting a heavy metal object. [canoe. Terrifying Technology Laura Lyons of Orin- com, 1/16/2019] da, California, was in her kitchen on the afternoon Latest Religious Messages of Jan. 20 when a loud alert British retailer Marks noise blared in the living & Spencer is in hot water room, followed by a de- with Muslims who claim tailed warning from “Civil the store’s brand of toilet Defense” that interconti- paper is embossed with the nental ballistic missiles Arabic symbol for the word were on their way from “God.” North Korea to Los AngeAn unnamed man postles, Chicago and Ohio. ed a video to social media Lyons told the San Jose displaying a roll of M&S Mercury News the message Aloe Vera 3-ply tissue and warned residents they had urging his Muslim brothers three hours to evacuate. and sisters to avoid buying As she and her husband it or boycott the store altoabsorbed the news, they gether. realized it had come from Metro News reports their Nest security camera that in response, Marks & — not from the TV, where Spencer says the symbol is the Rams-Saints game was of an aloe vera leaf: “The proceeding as normal, and motif on the aloe vera toinews channels were not re- let tissue, which we have porting anything unusual. been selling for over five “It was five minutes of years, is categorically of an sheer terror,” she said. aloe vera leaf, and we have The Lyonses called investigated and confirmed 911 and then Nest, where this with our suppliers.” a supervisor told them [Metro News, 1/22/2019] they had been victims of a “third-party hack” on Keep That to Yourself their camera and speakers. Dennis Palmer, 31, ap[San Jose Mercury News, peared to be guilty of more 1/22/2019] than TMI on Jan. 10 when police were called to a Self-Medicating Walmart in Stuart, Florida. When a 33-year-old TCPalm.com reported that unnamed Irish man was Palmer was in the pillow admitted to a Dublin hos- aisle when he was seen expital with swelling in his posing and touching himright forearm and a rash, self inappropriately. Palmer told police “he he surprised the attending physician with the “cure” was just itching himself behe had been using for his cause he has crabs.” But surveillance video back pain. For a year and a half, recorded Palmer indulging reported Canoe.com on in “rubbing” and activiJan. 16, the man had been ties other than scratching; injecting his own semen “this continued for several minutes,” the affidavit into his right forearm. X-rays revealed a pool stated. When police asked of the fluid under his skin, which had become infect- Palmer what he was thinking, he replied that “he ed. “He had devised this wasn’t thinking, but he ‘cure’ independent of any should have been thinkmedical advice,” noted Dr. ing.” He was jailed for exLisa Dunne in the Irish posure of sexual organs. Medical Journal. He also told Dr. Dunne [TCPalm.com, 1/22/2019]
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CARLSBAD — A 49-year-old man was behind bars Jan. 25 on suspicion of carrying out five armed robberies at businesses across northern San Diego County over the past month. Michael Alfred Miller was arrested in Vista around 3 p.m. Jan. 24 on suspicion of a series of armed robberies at businesses in Carlsbad, Fallbrook, San Marcos and Vista that began in late December, according to Carlsbad police. Carlsbad detectives worked with San Diego County sheriff’s investigators to identify Miller as the suspect, Carlsbad police Sgt. Alonso DeVelasco said. Miller was booked into the Vista Detention Facility on suspicion of five counts each of robbery, burglary and grand theft along with one count each of receiving stolen property and making criminal threats, according to jail records. — City News Service