how can you not admire the creativity?

California teen arrested in bogus parking ticket scheme. A teenager has been arrested for allegedly issuing fake parking tickets near the beach in Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Police Department said. Damian Vela, a 19-year-old Watsonville resident, was arrested around 4 p.m. last Thursday when police say he admitted to the crime but denied receiving …

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Banning Ranch, considered the biggest undeveloped expanse of private land along the Southern California coast, will be preserved. A group of conservation organizations announced on Monday that the 387-acre parcel in coastal Orange County has been purchased for the public. It is now known as the Randall Preserve, in recognition of a Newport Beach couple …

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we’ll see what happens after it simmers a bit, i haven’t even read the article yet. “F1 drivers barred from political statements unless approved “Formula One drivers will need prior written permission from the sport’s governing body to make ‘political statements’ from next season following an update of the International Sporting Code.” https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/f1-drivers-barred-political-statements-unless-approved-2022-12-20/

no excuse for this

“Third air bag death confirmed, owners urged to get repairs “Stellantis and U.S. safety regulators have confirmed that an exploding Takata air bag inflator has killed another driver. “The company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reiterated warnings to owners of 274,000 older Dodge and Chrysler vehicles to stop driving them until faulty inflators …

certainly this is the first and only time this has ever happened

Officer allegedly used law enforcement system to get woman’s name after he saw her shopping A Connecticut police officer is out on bond Wednesday after allegedly accessing the Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Teleprocessing System to illegally obtain information on a woman he saw while on an assignment, KTLA sister station WTNH reports. https://ktla.com/news/officer-allegedly-used-law-enforcement-system-to-get-womans-name-after-he-saw-her-shopping/