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When I was a kid I heard a story several times about how my uncle got a call at work one day from my aunt... She asked how he'd gotten there & he replied that he'd driven. She was surprised, considering that she was looking out the window at their car. He'd left the house, walked over to a car that was the same model and color as his (Chevy), inserted his door key, then his ignition key, and off he went-- in somebody else's car. When I was a teenager, I was hanging out with my friends. One girl locked her keys in her car (an Olds, I think), though the trunk was open. We were all trying to figure out if there was a way we could remove the back seat, so we could get into the car, when I walked over, inserted the key to my camaro into the door lock, and opened it. From then on, I'd occasionally leave notes for her in the car, usually on the steering wheel.

A California report finds the number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the state reached a record high in 2017. The California Department of Public Health said Monday that more than 300,000 cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and early syphilis were reported last year. That’s a 45 percent increase compared with five years ago. Officials say there were 30 stillbirths due to congenital syphilis last year — the highest number reported since 1995. Chlamydia and gonorrhea rates are highest among people under age 30. Rates of chlamydia are highest among young women. Men account for the majority of syphilis and gonorrhea cases. The department’s director, Dr. Karen Smith, urges sexually active people to use condoms and get tested regularly. Many STDs can be cured with antibiotics.

An investigation by an Australian TV news program suggests the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared with 239 people aboard more than four years ago, deliberately crashed into the Indian Ocean. Investigators are still searching for the aircraft, but these findings raise the possibility that one of the greatest aviation mysteries in modern history may not have been a catastrophic accident, but instead a possible mass murder-suicide. "60 Minutes Australia" brought together an international group of aviation experts who say that the disappearance of MH370 was a criminal act by veteran pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah. "He was killing himself; unfortunately, he was killing everybody else on board, and he did it deliberately," said Canadian Air crash investigator Larry Vance. Boeing 777 pilot and instructor Simon Hardy reconstructed the flight plan based on military radar, and says Captain Shah flew along the border of Malaysia and Thailand, crossing in and out of each country's airspace to avoid detection. "It did the job," Hardy said, "because we know, as a fact, that the military did not come and intercept the aircraft." Hardy also made a strange discovery: Captain Shah likely dipped the plane's wing over Penang, his hometown. "Somebody was looking out the window," he suggested. "Why did he want to look outside Penang?" asked reporter Tara Brown. "It might be a long, emotional goodbye -- or a short, emotional goodbye," Hardy replied. Two experts from the "60 Minutes Australia" investigation also disagreed with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau's scenario of the "death dive" with no one in control. "I think someone was controlling the aircraft until the end," said Hardy. They argue instead that Captain Shah flew Flight MH370 another 115 miles than originally thought. "This was a mission by one of the crew to hide the aircraft as far away from civilization as possible," Hardy said. "Which puts us way outside the search area that is currently being done." The wreckage uncovered so far may be further evidence that the pilot actually had control and that it was not a high speed crash. As Larry Vance noted of one wing component recovered from the shore of Africa, "The front of it would be pressed in and hollow. The water would invade inside and it would just explode from the inside. So this piece would not even exist." "They are very compelling," aviation analyst Henry Harteveldt, president of Atmosphere Research Group, told CBS News transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave. "What I find very compelling is the hypothesis that the pilot did this deliberately, and did one of the most heinous acts in modern commercial aviation." CBS News spoke to multiple family members of the MH370 victims, and some say that this is nothing new and that without forensic evidence, they will not be convinced. Captain Shah's family tells CBS News that "pointing a finger toward him does not make them expert investigators -- they have to find the plane." Malaysia Airlines has not yet responded to requests for comment.

Two “suicidally sexed” marsupial species have beenplaced on Australia’s Endangered animals list due to their perilous mating habits. Scientists warn that Australia’s black-tailed and silver-headed antechinus are one of the world’s “vanishing species” not only due to climate change and habitat loss, but because they are literally bonking themselves to death. The reason behind the risky romp sessions is that after the antechinus males reach the age of sexual ripeness, they soon stop making sperm, so they mate non-stop in order to ensure reproduction. The process almost makes it seem like they are aware of their endangered state. However, due to the strenuous nature of their sex marathons, which can last up to 14 hours, the males’ bodies fall apart. The two marsupial species were discovered just five years ago on misty mountain summits by Andrew Baker, a mammalogist at Queensland University of Technology’s Science and Engineering Faculty, Australia. They have likely retreated there as the climate has warmed, Baker said and there is now nowhere left for them to go. The Australian government officially listed the antechinus species as endangered on Friday. “In addition to the challenges posed by climate change, habitat loss and feral animals, the antechinus are also at risk from themselves,” said Baker. Each year when the species mate, the males fight ferociously for sex – and then drop dead. “We can now turn the country’s attention to the important job of saving these threatened species. If we take immediate action, hopefully in time we will see the antechinus removed from the endangered list.”

And now we know how... A California teen hacked into his school district’s computer system using a phishing email — all to mess with his classmates’ grades and give himself stellar marks, according to local reports. David Rotaro, a 16-year-old student at Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, was charged last week with 14 felony counts, including unauthorized use of entering network. “It was like stealing candy from a baby,” he brazenly told KGO-TV. Reports of the hack first started trickling in two weeks ago when teachers in the Mount Diablo Unified School District started getting fishy emails. The emails contained a link that sent recipients to a fake website built to look like the school’s portal. The link prompted teachers to enter their user name and password. Once they did, the site would record their information. At least one teacher entered the information, allowing the student to access the district’s IT network — and the grading system, police said. Law enforcement officials looked up IP addresses linked to the site in the phishing email and traced it back to the teen. The tech-savvy student either raised or lowered the grades of between 10 and 15 students, police told KTVU. “He’s a young man from the high school and he seems to be very intelligent,” Sgt. Carl Cruz, the Concord police financial crimes supervisor, told the outlet. Rotaro said it took him about five minutes to create the email and that hacking into the system was “very easy, it was like beginner level.” He told KPIX he’s sorry, but hopes to move on from the charges and become “an IT type person at the top-notch level” someday. The teen, who was suspended from school, was released to his parents as he awaits a court date.

Sad that the 2 youngest cast members are the only ones that are dead.

A brawl that broke out at a Wisconsin water park on Mother's Day with people throwing chairs, garbage cans and food started when someone took a chair from another group's table. The melee at Mount Olympus Water and Theme Park was captured on cellphones and video of the mayhem over something so minor was posted on social media. Lake Delton police anticipate filing charges. Authorities were sent to Mount Olympus at 4:15 p.m. Sunday. The large water park features both indoor and outdoor pools, roller coasters, go-karts and other amusements. Its faux Roman Colosseum and huge Trojan horse are a fixture on the main drag through the popular tourist destination. A woman who answered the phone at the Lake Delton Police Department on Monday afternoon said Chief Daniel Hardman was not available to answer questions and directed media to a news release on the department's website. "Police learned that the fight started over something as ridiculous as a person taking a chair from a different group's table within the water park," according to the release. By the time police arrived, the fight was over. Officers talked to witnesses and looked at video shot by bystanders. It's unclear if there were injuries. The police chief said in the release that he was "disappointed that cooler heads did not prevail" and an argument over a chair escalated into a brawl at a family-oriented business. Mount Olympus officials are cooperating with police, according to a statement released Monday afternoon by Director of Safety Jason Hammond, who thanked officers for their quick response. "Mt. Olympus is very disappointed to have had an altercation between several of our guests this past weekend. Guest safety is always our first priority. We are thankful that no one was seriously injured."

A Michigan boy found a way to make his mark on the occasion of his mother’s marriage proposal. Allyssa Anter said “yes” Saturday to the question popped by her boyfriend, Kevin Przytula. Video shows the bride-to-be and man on bended knee are blissfully unaware that right next to them, 3-year-old Owen Anter had dropped his pants to urinate in front of Bay City’s Ring of Friendship sculpture. They were alerted to the pint-sized proposal crasher by the giggling videographer, Przytula’s 11-year-old daughter, Kayleigh. Allyssa Anter says her son “stole the show,” and acknowledges his potty training is a work in progress. The video was shared Monday by WNEM-TV and The Bay City Times.

Now he’s facing a long, hard stretch behind bars. A Brooklyn jail guard was found guilty of sexually abusing female inmates Monday — after the victims gave matching accounts of his giant, stinky penis. A jury found correction officer Lt. Eugenio Perez guilty on 23 counts for forcing four women at the Metropolitan Detention Center to perform oral sex on him and propositioning a fifth. He faces life behind bars. The 47-year-old, who bragged to the victims that his nickname is “caballo” — or “horse” in Spanish — pouted and teared up after the verdict was announced, while his wife and family members sobbed.

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jameson Taillon (who beat testicular cancer last year) is open to trying anything that will heal a cut on his middle finger and keep him on the mound, including urinating on it. Taillon told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that he’s received that suggestion as a possible remedy. “I said if it helps, I’ll put a sign-up sheet and everyone can come and pee,” he told the newspaper. “I don’t care. I just want (the cut) to go away.” Taillon was forced out of his last start Friday against the San Francisco Giants after three innings because of the injury. Taillon wouldn’t be the first baseball player to urinate on his hands as a form of treatment. Both Moises Alou and Jorge Posada, who both didn’t wear batting gloves during their careers, have said they tried the practice to toughen up their skin. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill said in 2016 that he urinated on his hand to try to heal blisters. Taillon, who is 2-3 with a 4.08 ERA in eight starts, is scheduled to start Wednesday, but Pirates general manager Neal Huntington has indicated the team will be cautious with the right-hander. “We’d rather err on the side of conservatism and have him miss one start than risk missing a couple because it doesn’t heal properly,” Huntington told reporters, according to the newspaper. The Tribune-Review reported that Taillon currently is wearing a silver nitrate sleeve on the finger to try to speed up the healing process.

Surviving (1985) 2h 23min | Drama | TV Movie 10 February 1985 Promising student Rick Brogan discovers that his father whom he idolizes is cheating on his mother. Heartbroken, he finds comfort in the arms of his old crush but her father opposes the relationship which pushes Rick over the edge. Rick (Zach Galligan) is the apple of his father's eye; smart, handsome, and idolized by his younger siblings (River Phoenix and Heather O'Rourke). By stark contrast, Lonnie (Molly Ringwald) is a troubled and withdrawn girl, struggling to put the painful memory of a failed suicide attempt behind her. Both teenagers are dealing with loneliness and family pressures when they begin to find solace in each other, and a young romance develops. As Rick and Lonnie's bond begins to grow stronger, and they become increasingly withdrawn from their friends and families, their protective parents begin to worry that the young lovers are becoming too involved and grow increasingly uncomfortable with the teenagers' relationship. Finally, when Rick's parents (Ellen Burstyn and Len Cariou) decide that Lonnie is a bad influence on their son, and Lonnie's parents (Marsha Mason and Paul Sorvino) decide that boarding school would be the best place for their troubled daughter, Rick and Lonnie, desperate not to be separated, make a tragic decision to take their own lives. In the wake of the young lovers' fatal suicide pact, the two devastated families are left to try and pick up the pieces of their shattered lives and must somehow find a way to go on. Ellen Burstyn ... Tina Brogan Len Cariou ... David Brogan Zach Galligan ... Rick Brogan Marsha Mason ... Lois Molly Ringwald ... Lonnie Paul Sorvino ... Harvey River Phoenix ... Philip Brogan Heather O'Rourke ... Sarah Brogan (they're heeeeeeere!) For years my ex-roomate & I would imitate Marsha Mason yelling HarVEY! when she discovered her kid's body.

Carbon monoxide from keyless cars has killed more than two dozen people since 2006, as drivers unwittingly leave their vehicles running inside garages, a new report has found. Toyota models, including Lexus, were behind almost half of the 28 deaths and 45 injuries that were identified Sunday by the New York Times. In all cases, drivers unintentionally filled their homes with toxic fumes by leaving their cars on inside attached garages. Keyless ignitions use radio signals transmitted through a fob the owner carries to start the engine. But drivers run the dangerous risk of forgetting to turn off their cars before going inside. Fred Schaub was found dead last year in bed after parking his Toyota RAV4 in the garage and going inside with the fob in his pocket. The level of carbon monoxide in his home was at least 30 times higher than what humans can tolerate. “After 75 years of driving, my father thought that when he took the key with him when he left the car, the car would be off,” his son Doug Schaub told the Times. “The plants inside the house lost their leaves.” The keyless technology comes standard in over half of the 17 million new cars sold each year in the United States – yet there are no federal regulations on automatic engine shutoffs or beeping sounds to warn drivers the car is still running. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration failed three times to adopt regulations that would require car manufacturers to install external and internal warning beeps. Some brands – like Ford – have voluntarily implemented features where the engine cuts off after 30 minutes of idling if the fob isn’t inside the vehicle. There is no federal agency that keeps comprehensive records on carbon monoxide deaths related to keyless-ignition vehicles – so the exact number isn’t known and could be much higher than the 28 identified by the Times. Others have been left with severe injuries as a result of carbon monoxide from keyless cars. Timothy Maddock now lives with a brain injury after deadly fumes from his girlfriend Chasity Glisson’s Lexus flooded their Florida home in 2010. Glisson died. “It’s just been so hard,” said Glisson’s mother, Kimberlin Nickles. “All I’ve ever wanted is something to be done for the cars to be safer.” Fire officials in Palm Beach County, Florida — a haven for the older generations — have seen a spike in incidents involving keyless ignitions, so they started handing out carbon monoxide detectors and signs with the warning, “Carbon Monoxide Kills. Is Your Car Off?” “They were literally driving their own vehicles into the garage and closing the door,” said District Chief Doug McGlynn.

Quick-thinking police officers came up with a novel way to rescue a family of ducklings swimming to their doom in a drainage pipe: a duck calling app. Officers played the app on their phone and lured the wayward ducklings back to safety where they were reunited with their mom. Fourteen ducklings fell into a storm drain Sunday morning in the Bay Shore community of Suffolk County, New York. Police said it happened near the Napa Auto Parts store on Aletta Place. The ducklings' mother was waiting nearby. Someone called 911. Officers removed the grate and grabbed four of the downy chicks. But the others swam deeper into the tunnel. Officer Steven Damico downloaded a duck calling app to his phone and played it. The ducklings responded to the sound and swam back into reach. Police were able to grab nine more of the ducklings, but one was unswayed by the quacking app. An emergency services officer arrived and retrieved the reluctant duckling with a net. All of the ducks waddled off with their mom.

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MTM was married to Grant Tinker.

Umm... https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/this-is-why-you-should-never-date-women.132063/ You even commented on this story already.