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Meet the Whittakers: Inside ‘America’s most inbred family’ that speaks in grunts They redefined “all in the family.” The baying vocals of one inbred family sound like a stereotype relegated to only the most exaggerated and offensive backwoods cult flicks. However, one photographer proved that such communities do in fact exist after documenting the secret lives of the Whittakers — aka “America’s most inbred family,” whose members communicate only in grunts and bark at passersby. “It was out of control — the craziest thing I’d ever seen” documentarian Mark Laita, 63, recalled recently on the Konkrete podcast. He was describing his first ever encounter with the Whittakers, who reside in the rural mountain town of Odd, West Virginia, which boasts an infamously tight-knit population of around 779 people. Laita has spent extensive time with the infamously incestuous clan, first visiting them in 2009 for his book “Created Equal” — and most recently last year for an impromptu reunion. He also chronicles this seldom-seen slice of Appalachia regularly for his podcast “Soft White Underbelly,” which specializes in “interviews and portraits of the human condition” for an audience of 4.56 million YouTube subscribers. The surviving Whittaker family tree is currently comprised of siblings Betty, Lorraine and Ray, as well as cousin Timmy, after their brother Freddie died of a heart attack. However, there is reportedly an unnamed sister and other family members who Laita never met. Of the three remaining relatives, only Timmy graduated high school. During his flagship visit, the camera-wielding raconteur was approached by a shotgun-toting neighbor, who threatened to use it if the production team didn’t leave them be. “They don’t like people coming to ridicule these people,” said Laita, who was eventually allowed to snap pictures despite the initial distrust. Laita analogized the scene to something out of “Deliverance,” director John Boorman’s chilling, Oscar-nominated 1972 film about dueling-banjo mountain folk that’s based on the James Dickey novel of the same name. “There’s these people walking around and their eyes are going in different directions and they are barking at us,” the astonished chronicler explained, “The one guy you’d look at him in the eye or say anything and he’d scream and go running away and his pants would fall around his ankles and he’d go running off and go kick the garbage can. This would happen over and over.” Accompanying footage, taken from a 2021 visit, shows the family on the porch of their run-down dwelling with belongings strewn about like a scene from the Dust Bowl. The West Virginian family has a long and complicated history of inbreeding with early reports stating that the three siblings’ now-deceased mom and dad were brother and sister. The family later clarified that they were double first cousins — meaning that they share both sets of grandparents. Keeping it all in the family led to a host of mental and physical aberrations with some members only communicating via grunts and squawks, as is evident in Laita’s videos posted to his podcast. Despite their communication limitations, the Whittakers seemed to comprehend the photog’s questions. “They understand what you talking about,” a relative told Laita. “If they don’t like it, they start yelling — let you know they don’t like that idea.” According to Thought.Co, a hub of “expert-created education content,” inbreeding can lead to a host of side effects ranging from smaller adult size and reduced fertility to an increased risk of genetic disorders. In rare instances, it can even lead to sapphire-colored skin, as was the case with the infamous Blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky. The Whittakers didn’t seem to grasp that their genetic issues stemmed from self-pollinating the family tree. When the portraitist asked family member Kenneth why their eyes weren’t facing forward, the man responded, “might be coal mining.” Naturally, Laita’s series might seem exploitative, akin to a carnival side show. Melody West and Shane Simmons of the Real Appalachia YouTube channel recently accused the documentary perpetuated the Appalachian inbreeding “stereotype” that has been around “for decades.” However, Laita, who has also shot commercials for the likes of major brands such as Nike and Apple, claimed on Konkrete that he wanted to show the “level of poverty” that the Whittakers faced. The photog has since set up a GoFundMe to help the West Virginian clan with “with living expenses and home improvements.” It has raised nearly $50,000 of its $75,000 goal. In a video taken during Laita’s most recent visit in 2022, Ray is seen taking the photographer on a “Cribs”-style tour around their newly-renovated domicile, which now has a refrigerator, bed with a box spring, and other amenities thanks to the fundraising efforts. At one point, Ray squawks excitedly while showing Laita a dent in their new truck from where it hit a deer. Laita, for one, says that ultimately his goal is to shed light on issues in parts of the country that people seldom see. “People can say that people in Appalachia are leading these wonderful lives, leave them be,” he explained. “But they could also get a lot more support from the government or corporations or something so they could not be digging up roots in the middle of the winter, climbing mountains to survive on $10,000 a year.” He added, “Despite the fact that they don’t complain, it’s a really rough life.” https://nypost.com/2023/04/03/meet-the-whittakers-inside-americas-most-inbred-family/ Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong... West Virginia...

And to her twin brother Lance A. Boyle.

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Tomato and tobacco plants make distinctive sounds when cut or dehydrated, a new study has found. Those sounds change depending on the plant emitting them and the type and severity of the threat that prompts them, according to the study in Cell. The findings shatter the common perception of plants as silent, passive background players to the animal life in their environments. Instead, they show those plants could send out signals that animals in their environment can hear and pick up on — and potentially use to change their behavior. Tomatoes left without water begin making noise “on the second day — even while the tomato still looks good,” Lilach Hadany, a Tel Aviv University mathematician who co-authored the study, told The Hill. The sounds, which somewhat resembled the noise of popcorn popping, peaked after five days of water stress, and then began to decline as the plant dried out. The sounds happen at the approximate volume of human speech but outside the range of our hearing, the study found. They also differed depending on the plant making them and the form of injury, with cut and dehydrated plants making different noises. The research opens the tantalizing possibility that for organisms able to hear these pitches, a landscape of plants is also a soundscape of information — revealing essential information about both plants and the wider environment. Hadany runs a lab at Tel Aviv University in Israel that uses machine learning to study plant evolution, including the emerging field of plant acoustics and, in particular, how plants use sound. The word “use” in the sentence is a landmine in scientific circles: It can imply a level of intent that scientists have traditionally been reluctant to ascribe to plants. Hard consensus on the matter has slowly softened in recent years, however. A considerable body of evidence now suggests that plants emit cues that other plants and pollinators pick up on — in particular by releasing floating airborne chemicals, as Richard Karban of the University of California, Davis has found. It made sense that plants would also use sound, Hadany told The Hill in a video interview — sound takes little energy to produce and carries a long way. But when Hadany began considering earlier in her career whether to investigate whether plants might hear sounds in their environment — and even send audio signals of their own — colleagues warned her to wait for fear of damaging her career. The colleague said, “‘Do not work on it before you have tenure,’” Hadany said, noting that the whole topic had a slightly disreputable flavor in academia. “But now that I am a full professor, it is good,” she said, smiling over the Zoom video. Previous research out of her lab found that some plants can hear — and change their behaviors based on what they are hearing. When her team played the sound of buzzing bees near primrose bushes, their flowers began within a few minutes to release sweeter nectar — something they did not do when exposed to other frequencies, according to a 2019 study her team published in Ecology Letters. The primrose bushes “heard” the bees through the flowers themselves, which perhaps helps explain why bees hover and buzz near flowers, Hadany said. Those 2019 findings opened the door to larger questions, Hadany said. The existence of one such channel of helpful, audible information — which gives pollinators a way to signal their presence to plants, and plants an opportunity to woo them — suggested the kind of two-way relationship that evolution often works to strengthen, she added. “Once you have this interaction, there is selection on both sides to improve hearing and emissions of sounds,” she said. Hearing and interpreting such information can be particularly important to plants, which have an even greater need than animals “to interact with their environment, to respond to the environment — because it cannot go to a different environment,” Hadany said. Plants use environmental information to trigger the production of new chemicals or physiological responses, from generating insecticides or retaining water to turning to follow the sun. Discovering that plants could hear hovering bees led Hadany’s team to ask in Thursday’s paper if they could also transmit news of drought or distress. The team found that they could, through means that are still poorly understood but may involve the release of bubbles through the plants’ stalks. Further study will be needed to determine if other plants — or animals — can hear the sounds of crying tomatoes or tobacco. If they do, such knowledge could drive other nearby plants to take protective action, like closing up their hatches against water loss or bacterial threat, Hadany said. It could also provide a definite advantage to animals who can hear it. For example, moths that lay eggs on tomatoes can hear frequencies in the range that tomatoes are transmitting. Does that mean they are more or less likely to lay eggs on water-stressed plants? Hadany’s group is working on this question. But she noted that Thursday’s findings showed the benefits of scientists arriving “at a project from a completely evolutionarily open question,” rather than assuming they understood how systems worked. https://www.aol.com/news/study-finds-plants-scream-stressed-204053949.html FEED ME! I'M HUNGRY!

Trouble in paradise B. Spears, Sam Asghari ditch wedding rings as she vacays without him

NYC man hacked Wegmans customer accounts, ran up $9K tab A Brooklyn man hacked into dozens of Wegmans customer accounts and ran up a $9,000 tab before getting nabbed, federal prosecutors said this week. Maurice Sheftall, 24, pleaded guilty to placing 25 online orders with the popular supermarket chain using the accounts of more than 50 patrons over a seven-month period in 2021. Sheftall stole the customers’ login information and then locked them out of their accounts. He then used their saved credit card information to rack up orders totaling $9,297.25, with the groceries delivered to himself and his pals. US District Judge Charles Siragusa sentenced Sheftall to three years of probation and ordered him to pay more than $41,000 in restitution. The amount includes approximately $15,000 in legal fees incurred by the Rochester-based grocery chain and $16,000 for dark web monitoring to determine how Sheftall was able to get access to the customer accounts. Also included in the total is reimbursement to customers for the stolen funds and about $1,000 for employee time to respond to the online theft.

Greenland has decided to stay in DST permanently.

In the last 2 days a chocolate factory in West Reading, PA exploded and a 3-alarm fire destroyed a pickle factory in Patterson, NJ. Methinks somebody's hormones are out of whack... or maybe it's just coincidental.

in about 2 years... SMASH is setting its sights on Broadway with an award-winning creative team, it was announced Wednesday by Robert Greenblatt, Neil Meron, and Steven Spielberg who will serve as lead producers. The stage musical adaptation, inspired by the fan-favorite NBC series on which they all worked together, is slated for Broadway in the 2024-25 season. The production will be helmed by 5-time Tony-winning director Susan Stroman, with a score by the Tony- and Grammy-winning duo Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Some Like It Hot, Hairspray, Mary Poppins Returns, etc.), who wrote over two dozen songs for the television show, many of which will be used in the musical. They will also be writing additional new material. The book will be co-written by two of Broadway's most seasoned craftsmen, Tony-nominated Rick Elice (Jersey Boys, Peter and the Starcatcher) and Tony-winner Bob Martin (The Prom, The Drowsy Chaperone). And Smash's Emmy- winning choreographer, Joshua Bergasse, will reprise his role for the stage adaptation. 101 Productions, Ltd. will serve as General Management. Robert Greenblatt added, "Speaking for myself and Neil Meron, we're elated that Steven wanted to join us as we bring Smash to the stage, as we've always felt that Shaiman and Wittman's incredible score belonged on Broadway. And collaborating with the incomparable Susan Stroman, one of the best directors of musicals, plus first-class bookwriters, Rick Elice and Bob Martin, and our original choreographer, Josh Bergasse, is pure joy." Neil Meron commented, "Ever since the show ended in 2012, not a week goes by that someone doesn't ask us when will they see Smash as a musical. We think we've come up with something the die-hard series fans will love but that will also be exciting for people who never saw an episode of the show. And above all else it will be a valentine to the Broadway musical and the exhilarating rollercoaster ride of bringing one to life." Many of the songs Shaiman and Wittman wrote for the television show -including the Emmy- nominated "Let Me Be Your Star" - will be used in the new musical. And while the story will follow the harrowing and hilarious process of mounting "Bombshell" (the musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe), the stage version of Smash will also depart liberally from the series. The critically-acclaimed Smash debuted on NBC in February 2012 to raves from The Los Angeles Times ("A triumph"), The San Francisco Chronicle ("It's so good you can't help wondering why no one thought of it before"), The Hollywood Reporter ("Excellent, a bar-raiser for broadcast networks and superior to Glee"), and The Huffington Post ("One of the strongest new shows of the season"), among many others. Smash was groundbreaking in its ambitiousness and developed a devoted following, but its popularity has only grown in the following years. The cast performed a charity benefit concert of the songs from "Bombshell" at the Minskoff Theatre in June of 2015 which sold out in fifteen minutes. It was filmed and eventually streamed during the early days of the pandemic in 2019 as a benefit for The Actor's Fund (Entertainment Community Fund). Steven Spielberg, whose original idea led to the NBC series, commented: "Smash is near and dear to my heart, and it was always my hope that a musical inspired by the show would eventually come to the stage. We now have an incredible creative team, and I'm looking forward to completing the Smash journey which began with my producing partners over ten years ago." https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/SMASH-Musical-Will-Arrive-on-Broadway-in-2024-25-Season-20230322

Awful review in the NY POST: ‘Bad Cinderella’: A wacko storybook dumpster fire on Broadway https://nypost.com/2023/03/24/bad-cinderella-broadway-review-a-wacko-dumpster-fire/ ALW couldn't care less right now. Sadly, one of his sons is dying of cancer.

Wolverine spotted outside Oregon mountains for first time in 30 years What is Hugh Jackman doing in Oregon?

Dear Abby: I lost my husband of 20 years a little over two years ago. Last year, I moved to another state to be close to family. I rented an apartment, and my best friend moved with me. Shortly after, I met a much younger man. He was immediately interested in me. He’s sweet, kind and very handsome. It took me months to realize that I’m also interested in him. We began spending time together, including bedroom fun. He has told me at least twice he loves me, and I told him the same. His demeanor and expressions match his words, and we agreed for the time being to be friends with benefits. Three months ago, he met someone much closer to his age. But even in front of her he holds me close and tells me he loves me. She has now slapped a ring on his finger and is pushing him for marriage. He keeps saying he’s not ready. We feel that until the day he says “I do,” it’s OK for us to continue our bedroom fun. I’m new to the dating world, and he’s my first since my husband passed. Am I doing the right thing? — Loving the Fun in Washington Dear Loving AMORAL TRAMP: It is extremely difficult to hit a moving target. No one “slaps a ring” on another person’s finger unless that person holds still for it. You are NOT doing the right thing by continuing to sleep with this man. In fact, you may be heading for a painful fall. When he marries his fiancee, you will be history once she realizes you are more than a good friend he “loves” but also a former bed partner. WERE YOU THIS BIG A SLUT WHEN YOUR HUSBAND WAS ALIVE? Dear Abby: Our family has a thrilling story in its history about our grandfather and his brothers rescuing the family’s player piano from their burning house. The house burned to the ground, and they lost nearly everything but the piano. which is now shuffled among family members’ homes. It’s not particularly attractive, and it’s certainly not playable even as a regular piano. It’s one of the cheap, mass-produced, no-name models that were popular in the 1920s. There are relatives who are desperate to keep it in the family, but who don’t have the space to store it or the money to refurbish it. I’m not sentimental. If it were dumped on me, I’d throw it out. I told them they should take lots of photos of it and get rid of it. If some family members rescued a giant TV set from a fire, it wouldn’t make sense to keep it around for 100 years. I’m sure they enjoyed the player piano as a source of entertainment in its time, but that time has passed. My question is, how do you get people to let go of material possessions that have become a huge burden? — Unfinished Song in New Jersey Dear Unfinished: You stated that if someone gave you that old piano, you would junk it. If someone wants to give it a home, that is where it should go. I’m having trouble understanding why the fate of that instrument is your problem. Make it clear to your relatives that you want nothing to do with that piece of furniture and let it go. I’D BE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT YOUR FAMILY CONSIDERS A THRILLING STORY THAN WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH AN OLD PIECE OF JUNK. JUST DONATE IT TO A MUSEUM AND GET A TAX WRITE-OFF AND BE DONE WITH IT. (or just get rid of it, because I care a hell of a lot less about it than you do)

A new self-parking garage operated by artificial intelligence (AI) has opened in the Ditmars section of Astoria — the first of its kind in the borough, according to its operators. The garage, which has 96 car spaces, is located at The Rowan, a newly developed mixed-use condominium building at 21-21 31st St. Drivers can park their vehicle on the ground floor of the garage, and then an automated moving platform takes it underground and positions it into a car space. The artificial intelligence component of the system analyzes customer driving habits such as what time they typically pick up their vehicle on a given day. The AI then instructs the system to move the vehicle to the front of the line so that when customers return to the garage, their cars will be faster to retrieve, according to RockFarmer Properties, the Little Neck-based developer behind The Rowan. The high-tech garage also saves time for drivers in other ways since they don’t need to find a vacant space themselves, while it also means that more vehicles can be packed into the garage compared to regular garages. “The future of parking has arrived in Queens,” said John Petras, the co-founder of RockFarmer Properties. “As a developer, I think the automated system is a game-changer.” Petras said the design of the garage, coupled with its AI system, allowed RockFarmer to create an extra 50 vehicle spaces and increase retail space size at the property. “It’s a huge advantage to know you can drive to your doctor’s appointment or shop for groceries without having to worry about public transportation or paying for a taxi. We are excited to see how the system changes people’s habits; it really revolutionizes parking.” Petras also said that vehicles are also safe from being dented or hit by other vehicles since they are all assigned an exclusive platform and are not driven by anyone. The AI system is designed by U-tron, a New Jersey-based parking solutions company. Drivers park their vehicles on a platform in the parking bay, where the car is then automatically scanned and measured to determine its size and shape. The vehicle is then transferred via the platform to its designated parking space via an automated lift. Drivers then use an app or an electronic ticket system at a kiosk to request and retrieve their vehicle. The automated mechanism then returns the car to one of two parking bays at the garage. The bays are located at the rear of The Rowan. The garage is open 24/7 and comes with round-the-clock video surveillance while vehicles are also safeguarded from elements, such as snow, rain, wind and extreme temperatures, Petras said. The automated system means that less fuel is also used during parking, he said. GGMC Parking, a Manhattan-based parking garage provider, is managing and operating the automated garage. The company has more than 20 locations throughout the city. GGMC Parking is offering a special introductory rate of $149.00 on all monthly contracts signed through May 31. For more information, call (929) 349-6515 or email [email protected]. https://astoriapost.com/artificial-intelligence-ai-parking-garage-opens-in-astoria-first-of-its-kind-in-queens

You're never too old for sex! A 90-year-old tortoise named Mr. Pickles welcomed three new hatchlings to the world at the Houston Zoo. Mr. Pickles, a critically endangered reptile from Madagascar, became a new father after a vigilant keeper spotted the eggs just in time. Although he’s been together with Mrs. Pickles for 27 years, the two only ever had one hatchling in 1997, as tortoises don’t often reproduce, the zoo said. That is until the birth of their three new children, aptly named Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeño. Officials noted the extra excitement around the newborns given Mr. Pickles exceptional rarity among his kind. “These little Pickles are a big ‘dill’ for radiated tortoise genetics as their father is the most genetically valuable radiated tortoise in The Association of Zoos and Aquariums,” Zoo officials said in a statement. The big discovery occurred earlier this year when a herpetology keeper spotted eggs lying near Mrs. Pickles one night as the zoo was closing. The eggs were then taken in for incubation to mimic the hatching conditions of the reptiles’ native Madagascar. Houston Zoo officials noted that if not for the vigilant zookeeper, the babies may not have been born. The newborns will be kept at the zoo’s Reptile and Amphibian House until they’re old enough to be reunited with their parents. Radiated tortoises are native to the brushlands, thorn forests and woodlands of southern Madagascar, with recorded lifespans of up to 188 years, which would classify Mr. Pickles as a middle-aged tortoise. The species is classified as endangered due to humans collecting and selling them as part of an illegal pet trade. The new trio is named Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeño.

It seems like I read about a fire almost daily, and a death monthly. My building just issued a notice with warnings about the potential dangers of keeping bikes with them on the premises. https://www.amny.com/news/queens-delivery-worker-victim-e-bike-battery-fire-homeless/ ‘He lost everything’: Queens delivery worker recounts harrowing moment e-bike battery burned his flesh, left him homeless Gabriel Dolores, a Mexican native and delivery worker residing in Corona, Queens, recently purchased a second-hand lithium-ion battery through Amazon in order to continue his job with Relay. It didn’t take long before disaster struck, and his life was forever altered. According to FDNY sources, 60 firefighters and EMS personnel rushed to Dolores’ 96th Street residence in Corona, Queens at 6:34 a.m. While the fire was placed under control in under 30 minutes, he was whisked to Harlem Hospital with second degree burns. “He is very sad because he lost everything. He lost his phone and he lost whatever he had in his room. His clothing, all of the important papers. He lost everything. Basically, right now he doesn’t even have underwear. It’s an unfortunate situation for him but he said he is grateful he is alive,” Jose Rodrigo Nevares Castilla said, a member of Dario De Los Delivery Boys, who helped provide translated details the dire situation. E-bike fires have been tearing through New York City like a knife through hot butter, leaving destruction, charred apartments, and broken hearts in their wake. Resulting from relatively small Lithium-ion batteries, these power sources have a big impact on the lives of e-bike owners and their neighbors when these devices explode into fireballs. In a conversation with amNewYork Metro, Chief Fire Marshal Daniel Flynn said that the batteries can explode while both on and off charge. He also recommended owners only use batteries that are paired with its designated bike. Dolores’ injuries came just days before Mayor Eric Adams signed a new package of legislation into law aiming to combat the sale and distribution of second-hand lithium-ion batteries across the city. Left in severe pain and without medical insurance, a home or spare clothing, Dolores is currently staying at the Airway Inn near LaGuardia airport. Although the battery was not the same brand as his E-bike, he believed he did his research and purchased a certified product. Dolores is also critical of the way in which Amazon delivered the product and is worried it may have been banged around and even cracked during the delivery process. “They don’t care about their packages,” Nevares Castilla said. With almost nothing left to his name, Dolores is accepting donations through Zelle to help him get back on his feet. For more information, contact 347-242-9365. https://qns.com/2023/03/fdny-rescues-woman-and-her-dogs-from-jamaica-house-fire-believed-to-be-sparked-by-exploding-e-bike-battery/ FDNY rescues woman and her dogs from Jamaica house fire believed to be sparked by exploding e-bike battery Firefighters rescued a woman and several of her dogs from a house fire in Jamaica Monday afternoon and, once again, an exploding lithium-ion battery on an e-bike is suspected of sparking the blaze, according to FDNY. The fire broke out in the cellar of the two-story home at 111-12 153 Rd. at around 3:38 p.m. on March 20 and rapidly spread throughout the two-story residence just east of Sutphin Boulevard. EMS rushed the woman to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center for treatment and several dogs were rescued during the blaze and carried away by the woman’s neighbors. The house fire broke out just hours after Mayor Eric Adams signed five pieces of legislation into law that will help reduce fires caused by lithium-ion batteries. The mayor’s plan focuses on four key areas: Promoting and incentivizing safe battery use Increasing education and outreach to electric micro-mobility users Advocating for additional federal regulation of these devices Expanding enforcement against high-risk situations Mayor Adams also signed five bills into law to further regulate lithium-ion batteries sold in New York City and strengthen fire safety related to battery fires. Lithium-ion battery-linked fires doubled between 2021 and 2022 — rising from 104 to 216 fires in one year — with injuries also doubling, and six people died last year. They’ve already caused two deaths and 40 injuries in the first two months of this year, according to the mayor’s office. “Fires caused by e-bikes and the lithium-ion batteries they rely on have increased dramatically in our city, with deadly consequences for citizens and first responders,” FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said. “It is a problem we are tackling aggressively with our partners in the city, state and federal government. We are grateful to the mayor for signing these bills into law and to the City Council for passing legislation that supports the FDNY in addressing this critical safety matter.”

A younger Zach Braff could've played Gabriel D'Alessandro

T-Mobile's buying Mint. I guess Ryan's mom won't be making any more commercials.

The only one I am familiar with is Funches. I applaud Rhea's attitude and have always liked her, but I hear her family is a bit sketchy. Her niece is supposedly a real witch... at least she was when she was a teen. Maybe she grew out of it.

Dude, where’s my Tesla? Two Canadian Tesla drivers found themselves in a startling mix-up after their apps allowed them to mistakenly enter and take off in each other’s look-alike cars, according to a report. Rajesh Randev, 51, used his app to get into what he thought was his white 2021 Model-3 Tesla in a parking spot in Vancouver last Tuesday and left around 2:30 p.m. to pick up his children from school, he told NBC News. Randev, an immigration consultant, became concerned when just minutes into the trip he noticed a new crack in the windshield that hadn’t been there earlier that day. He also noticed that his phone charger was missing. A short time later, 32-year-old Mahmoud Esaeyh used his app to get into what he believed to be his white 2020 Model-3. Esaeyh, an Uber driver, drove a block before realizing the car was not his, he told NBC. “It was the only white Tesla on the block, and the car opened. But when I drove away, I noticed that something was different about the car,” Esaeyh said. “There was stuff inside that wasn’t mine. I have a crack in the windshield that wasn’t there.” Esaeyh turned around and returned to the parking spot where he’d found the car. He called the police, fearing that he’d be accused of stealing the car. “Maybe someone calls the cops, ‘Hey my car is stolen’ and I’d get in big trouble,” he said. “Or what would have happened had he taken my car and committed a crime or stole something, that car would have all my information.” Esaeyh found some medical records and a prescription inside the car with Randev’s phone number and called the stranger. Randev, however, declined to immediately answer calls from a number he didn’t recognize. “Do you drive a Tesla?” Esaeyh wrote in a text message to Randev, sparking his attention after multiple “please text me requests” went unanswered, NBC reported. “I thought maybe some client saw me or maybe some old friend or whatever maybe someone recognized me (driving by) and texted me?” Randev said. “Who is this?" Randev responded. “I think you are driving the wrong car,” Esaeyh wrote back. Randev pulled into an alleyway and saw that the rims on the car he was driving were a different from his 2021 Model-3. “I was totally surprised,” Randev said. “I mean how was this possible? How was I able to gain access and drive?” Randev picked up his kids and drove back to where he’d gotten into the wrong car. He, his kids and Esaeyh laughed over the mistake. “They (the children) were laughing together. I mean my kids are young people so they love computers and stuff like that and they were laughing,” Randev said. “But then on the other side, they were kind of scared too, you know, like how was this possible?” Both men had called the Vancouver police separately but neither filed a formal report. Esaeyh told NBC that for him, his Tesla is the essential part of his livelihood. “It’s my only income,” he said. “That’s how I make money and pay for my rent.” The Post reached out to Tesla Tuesday night for comment. https://nypost.com/2023/03/14/2-tesla-drivers-take-off-in-each-others-cars-in-mix-up/ One day eons ago, my uncle left his apartment and drove to work. A little while later his wife called him at his store. (This is when they were both still alive.) She asked him how he got to work and he told her he drove. She asked why their car was still in the spot where he'd parked it the day before. Apparently there were 2 brown Chevy Impalas in the neighborhood and the door and ignition keys worked on both.

Are you a ‘grower’ or a ‘shower’? Hard truth about penis size revealed https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/are-you-a-grower-or-a-shower-penis-size-truth-revealed/

Another Nor'easter coming... State of Emergency declared by the governor... here we go again!

For Chicago Bears fans there's always Dick Buttkiss.

Minnesota dad kills elderly sex offender with moose antler Was the antler surgically attached to the offender's head or did he glue it on? Is that some sort of sexual fetish related to his offender status? Is it something like being a furry?

Somewhere your friends are posting about their amigo who annoyingly always shows up exactly when he says he will.