A teenager who sneaked into a closed funfair with friends was crushed to death by the mechanical arm of one of the rides, an inquest heard today. That ride? Body Count. Mr Partington said KFRS was called to reports of a male trapped with the mechanics of a fairground ride at 7:44am. He said the …
Category Archives: irony
I Swear I Thought It Was A Plant-Based Nose
I just heard Carin mention Beyond Meat during a phone call and it reminded me that for some reason I never got around to letting you all know that a couple of years ago the company’s chief operating officer tried to bite a guy’s nose off during a road rage incident. I apologize for my …
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Good Morning, Everyone. You’re All Doing A Terrible Job
If the head of Zoom telling his employees that they have to go back to the office because it’s hard to get anything done over Zoom isn’t the height of irony, I’m pretty sure it’s high enough up there that it can tap the real height of irony on the shoulder and ask it for …
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Police Are Hoping To Speak With Karma About The Second Murder
For a lot of reasons, I’m pretty sure I would make a terrible murderer. I don’t think I’ve got it in me to kill anybody, for a start. And even if I did, the relentless regret and anxiety would almost certainly do me in soon thereafter. Or perhaps it wouldn’t even have time, because I …
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He Died Doing What He Loved
A sad so long to Florida lawyer Ron Smith, who spent much of his legal career fighting against and ultimately helping to overturn the state’s motorcycle helmet law. He was killed recently when…do I even need to finish this sentence? Smith didn’t like being told what to do and valued his independence, said Dave Newman, …
The Achoo People
Does anybody else think it’s funny that Waterloo Region put one of its COVID vaccination clinics in an old RONA store? This is a great way to start the new week! We are about to open the doors at the largest clinic to date in Waterloo Region. This clinic has the capacity to grow to …
badmouth Me And My Friends One More Time. I Dare Ya
Unless you’re seriously interested in Chicago transit and its troubles with pigeons treating parts of it the way pigeons treat pretty much everything, you’re only going to need the first minute or so of this video. That’s where the magic happens. Talk about dumb luck during a Morning Insiders interview – near a very busy …
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Do This, Don’t Do That, Can’t You Read The Sign?
This one contains exactly what it says on the tin…er…make that the can. Or perhaps the bottle. Could be the frosty mug, too. Those sometimes have things printed on them. Drunk driver arrested after crashing into ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over’ sign A North Port man was arrested for DUI Sunday after crashing his …
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The Watch Part Needs A Little Work
This item from a roundup of Ontario Provincial Police news releases amused my extremely over-tired brain just now, so here you go. On July 23 police were called to St. Williams, 30 kilometres southwest of Simcoe, after two Neighbourhood Watch signs posted in the community were stolen. “The signs had been paid for by community …
Decency Don’t Live Here Anymore
There’s something ironic in the shittiest possible way about a band deciding to change its name in order to not feel quite so racist, but then finding that the new one that the members have lazily chosen already belongs to a black artist and then using their major label resources to drag her through the …