Leave your VanMoof anywhere
A series of spots for the Dutch bike maker featuring unusual settings and unusual ‘thieves’.
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Man tries to rob bank… with a stolen kitten
To quote from a report out of Maryland:
A man grabbed a kitten from the adoption area of a Maryland pet store, then allegedly tried to use her to rob a nearby bank.
But it was far from the purr-fect crime — police were on the scene in minutes, and the kitten, named Magnolia, came through it all unharmed.
Security camera video shows a man wearing a light-colored t-shirt and black beanie walking into Pet Supplies Plus on Baltimore Avenue in Beltsville, Maryland. Seconds later, he ran out clutching a black and white kitten.
Witnesses said he kept running straight for the PNC Bank in the same shopping center.
Stephanie Stullich of Beltsville Community Cats rescue was nearby when she got a call from a very alarmed store employee around 10:30 a.m. They said someone used the key hanging nearby to open the cat adoption area and take 3-month-old Magnolia..
Stullich drove over immediately.
“Immediately saw all of these police cars, and I thought, ‘Wow, that's a heck of a response for a stolen cat,’ but then I realized they all were going down to the bank,” she said. “[…] They came back out a few minutes later and said, ‘Yes, there is a cat inside the bank.’ Apparently he went into the bank with the cat in his arms, and he walked up to a bank employee and said, ‘Can you hold this?’ And then he wrote a note and handed it to a bank teller and it said, essentially, give me all your cash.”
RIP Sam Neill
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
- Living in America
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
- ‘Word of advice’
- ‘Nothing surprises me’
The Future Is Feline
In a new campaign, pet-tech company Whisker unambiguously announces where it stands in the cat vs. dog debate.
Instructor-pilot commits suicide… midair
As reported by CNN:
A pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself.
Flight instructor Leandro Andrés Bertazzo, 42, was found dead following the incident, which took place in Toledo, central Argentina, on Saturday, according to a statement from the country’s public prosecutor, published Tuesday.
Bertazzo was on board the Cessna 150 aircraft with a 22-year-old student named Rosario, CNN affiliate TN reported.
The student said Bertazzo told her, “You know what you have to do, carry on,” before taking off his headset and seatbelt, opening the door and jumping out of the plane, TN reported.
Eduardo Álvarez, director of the Flying Parrot Córdoba flying school where Bertazzo worked, told TN that there were no signs that the pilot was planning to throw himself from the plane.
A nutritional take on cannibalism
As reported by Reuters, quoting from a statement released about a study by scientists from Poland and the Czech Republic:
From a caloric perspective, a person turns out to be an average meal ... The key problem, however, lies elsewhere: the risk of infection. Pathogens have an easier task because they end up in an organism with almost identical physiology.
‘Only fans’ from Back Market
In a tongue-in-cheek spot, the refurbished goods platform turns up the heat, to help beat the heat.
Marmite is Wemite… for the World Cup
As posted by the brand (shortly after the tournament began):
We’re changing our name from MARMITE to WEMITE. Because WEMITE reach the quarters, WEMITE reach the semis, WEMITE even go and win it.
Life out there
In the backdrop of Pentagon footage prompting the question of life ‘out there’, Suzuki Australia offers a playful answer.
Man charged over ‘using seagull as a weapon’
That’s according to a news report out of Oban, Scotland. To quote:
Oban police investigate after report of man using seagull as a weapon
Police in Oban have charged a man who is alleged to have assaulted someone with a seagull.
Officers were called to Queens Park Place near Station Square on Saturday June 27 after members of the public raised the alarm when a man allegedly grabbed two seagulls from the street and used one to attack a member of the public.
There was no evidence of the birds being injured in the incident.
Woman pleads ignorance about drugs found in her butt
Well, there’s more. She suggested that the drugs were planted in an “intimate encounter”. As reported by the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, Florida:
You really just can’t make this stuff up…butt you sure can try as this one puts the ole… “those are not my pants” excuse to shame!!
Over the weekend, Deputies arrested Reagan Cox for resisting an officer without violence during a traffic stop. Of course she was transported to Ivey’s Iron Bar Lodge and folks this is where things get interesting…
As Cox was being processed through the scanner, an abnormality was seen in the “lower region” of her person or “Jail Purse” area if you will. Our Corrections Deputies moved Cox to a change out room where she was observed trying to cover her buttocks area with her hand. After moving her hand, a baggie dropped to the floor containing approximately 3.8 grams of cocaine!!
Now here’s why we say you just can’t make this stuff up as when the baggie dropped to the floor, Cox spontaneously uttered that she knew nothing about the drugs and that someone must have put it in there during an “intimate encounter!!”
There’s just not much else to say about this one folks, other than Cox received an additional charge for Introduction of Contraband into a Detention Facility for bringing cocaine into the jail facility!!
Folks, if not realizing that someone left cocaine in your “Jail Purse,” is not a good enough reminder to not do drugs, then I don’t know what is!!
Heat forces yodelers to sing in fountains
As explained in an AP News report out of Basel, Switzerland:
Switzerland’s national yodelling festival does not stop for a heatwave. It just moves closer to the fountains. Singers need to keep hydrated, and these yodellers have found their own solution to 38-degree heat. And why not practice while you’re bathing? It’s a familiar story all over the city. Its 45 fountains are full of yodellers, which is not something you can say every day.
Super Break… with a bit extra
Following its 30-second Supergirl commercial earlier this month, KFC has now released a 90-second version that adds credits and—hold your breath—an after-credit scene.
Physicists confirm accuracy of poop emoji
To quote from one report:
The poop emoji has long been the butt of countless jokes, but it turns out the little swirl isn’t a load of crap. According to physicists, the smiling pile is surprisingly faithful to the way gravity shapes the real thing.
A new study published in Nature Communications has found that the iconic soft-serve shape of the emoji closely matches how feces naturally coil when expelled under gravity. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam, Wageningen University & Research, and CNRS concluded that the familiar tapered mound is governed not by biology alone, but by a physical principle known as elastic rope-coiling theory.
African Time, redefined
From South Africa: a stunning new film for Castle Milk Stout reframes African Time as being “about moments, not minutes”.
Mission Sport
The Royal Air Force has a recruitment campaign that has been timed to coincide with the 2026 FIFA World Cup.