In the news

https://www.itv.com/news/central/2023-02-11/students-at-school-walk-out-after-locked-barriers-installed-outside-toilets

Deserves to be in Epic WTF thread.

Quite possibly, yes.

Man steals 200,000 Creme Eggs.

Isn't there a competition for £10k ATM involving creme eggs?

Allegedly, the truckload of eggs was worth £40K. Of course, that's the "street value".

The thing with eggs is they can easily become crack

"How many of the eggs did you recover, Inspector?"
"Ngurrrly oarll uff thumm."

One would be un œuf

Just the one ovum

Probably tried to claim he only did it for a yolk.

" In the Lake Huron strike, the first Sidewinder missile fired by the US F-16 warplane missed its target and exploded in an unknown location, US media reported, citing military sources. "

and they were worried a downed balloon might cause casualties on the ground

Also, instead of disposing of contaminated soil, it's just been buried. Absolutely mental.

https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-derailment/epa-says-contaminated-soil-was-covered-to-rebuild-rail-line/

Note: Link not working outside of US it seems, this comment was sponsored by NordVPN

Was talking to somebody in Ohio, toxic rain near the train derailment site, groundwater pollution, he is not near the site but he says it is an environmental disaster and people still cannot return.

Of course there have been warnings before, but the private company dealing with the shipping roundly ignored those.

There are some youtube channels about polluted sites, some are from the 60s but you'd think they know better now!

But Trump limited the EPAs powers even more, I am not sure they can override local stupid decisions.

Interesting story
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

Sturgeon resigned.

Wow - wonder what dirt someone has dug up. Seemed like she was pretty locked in until the next GE.

Panto season as little Jimmy Krankie has ended and now this. What will she live on?

We're not allowed to discuss the real dirt.

However this story still has some legs...

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23315583.sturgeon-pressure-police-step-snp-fraud-probe/

The worst thing about the Ohio train disaster is how they pronounce Palestine

I guess it's another eg of what happens to a dominant and unchallenged group - Labour PRE-SNP takeover, Tories here, Tayyip Erdoğan, etc.

Did not know her husband ran the political party she is leader of.

husband

Seemed like she was pretty locked in until the next GE

The opposite I think, if you aren't confident you'll stay on into 2025 now is the time to go and let someone else get a couple of years in the job before the GE

Yeah, but you’d normally trail your plan to resign so it looks like a proper handover rather than jumping before something nasty comes out.

Shades of Harold Wilson.