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Watch out for ’em. The similar sign at the top is just slightly less ridiculous, because gravity. Seen at Overlawyered, via the Tortylicious Facebook page (run by Prof. Kate Offer, U. of Western Australia).
Articles by Kevin
Hipster Opponent Convicted of Making False Reports
The NY Daily News reports that the Brooklyn man who repeatedly called 911 to complain about hipster-generated noise in his neighborhood (see "Hipster Infestation Not 'Emergency,' Say Police" (Jan. 6, 2013)) has been convicted of making four false crime reports as part of his…
Order Requiring Socks
COMES NOW your humble correspondent and hereby gives notice of the fact that on August 25, 2014, in the case entitled In re Proper Courtroom Attire, then pending in the Circuit Court of Blackford County, Indiana, Judge Dean A. Young, presiding, the…
In Other Child-Care News
It is apparently frowned upon to put a child down for a nap and then use duct tape to make sure he stays put. And the problem is what, exactly? According to Reuters, a Texas couple has sued a day-care…
U.S. Pat. No. 8,782,827: Infant Soothing Device
Via Improbable Research, here's the latest of what turns out to be a fairly large number of infant-soothing-device patents, or as the abstract describes it: A device to assuage distressed infants via an adjustable vertical motion combined with an adjustable orientation….
Severe Chelyabinsk Disney
That's how Google (mis)translated the title of this YouTube post, but I actually liked it a lot. It's very likely staged, because (1) it's too good to be true and (2) if the guys with the dash cam weren't in…
Author Arrested for Writing About Murder in the 30th Century [Updated]
In Maryland it is apparently not only illegal to write dark science fiction, people who write it may simply disappear. Sadly, that's not the first line of my review of a new dark-science-fiction novel about people who disappear after writing…
Notice: Unlawful Behavior Prohibited
"The first part is informative," says Anson, who saw this sign at a bus station. The rest of it, not so much: I'd like to think we could infer that lawful behavior is permitted, but I might be reading too…
TSA: Timely Sword Advice
I can't say that every video on the TSA HQ Public Affairs YouTube channel is stupid, because I'm not going to watch them all. I do feel safe saying that they are all probably stupid, and am on fairly solid ground saying…
Again, Goodwill Does Not Accept Skull Donations
Quick reminder: unwanted human skulls should probably be dropped off at the medical examiner's office, not Goodwill. I thought we had settled this last month when somebody donated three skulls to a Goodwill in Bellevue, Washington, but another one just…