Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (12/26/23)

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“Our TSA officers work on holidays so that others may travel to visit family and friends. Their continued vigilance to ensure that people can get to their destinations safely is demonstrated daily, and Christmas Day was no exception when they prevented a traveler from bringing a loaded handgun onto a flight. It’s absolutely unforgivable to bring a firearm to a security checkpoint."
Karen Keys-Turner, TSA’s federal security director for the Pittsburgh airport

I told you so. You told them so. We all told you. But no you wouldn't listen because you were too busy virtue signaling us.

Blue Cities Went All-In for Electric Transit, But the Buses Couldn't Handle the Cold

Virtue-signaling liberalism is fighting another losing battle with reality.

On Wednesday, the Minnesota-focused news outlet MinnPost reported that several of the state’s largest cities have encountered significant obstacles in their quest to achieve planet-friendly public transit.

Frigid temperatures and a myriad of other problems have plagued Duluth and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul during their transition to zero-emission buses.

Are tarpon tasty fish to eat? I have no idea. But this guy had plans.

Florida man goes fishing in Bass Pro Shops pond, flees with live 50-pound tarpon

Florida deputies said the suspect fled the store with the tarpon in hand

It sounds fishy. Fishermen I know usually mention length of the fish not the weight only.

Quite the Tourist Trap.

You can climb on giant Little Debbie snack sculptures at this park in Tennessee

If you love Little Debbie snacks, you might need to take a pilgrimage to Little Debbie Park, which opened earlier this year in Collegedale, Tennessee, about 30 minutes west of Chattanooga. It's filled with the normal things you'd find at a park—a playground, picnic tables, benches, etc.—but what makes it unique are the giant play sculptures in the shape of your favorite Little Debbie snacks.

According to The Takeout, Collegedale-based McKee Foods, which makes Little Debbie snacks, purchased ten acres of land from Southern Adventist University and donated it to the city of Collegedale for the purposes of creating a public park.

The Home Alone movies were for entertainment. Not a business guide. Oh it's Spirit Airlines. Never mind.

Spirit Airlines Magically Brought ‘Home Alone 2’ To Life By Putting A Kid On The Wrong Plane To The Wrong Destination

Even back in 1992, when air travel was a lot less TSA-heavy and stressful, it still seemed unlikely that a kid could pull a Home Alone 2, which is to say board the wrong plane, bound for the wrong destination. And yet some three decades later, when air travel is incredibly TSA-heavy and stressful, a young boy miraculously managed to go full Kevin McCallister.

She was looking for Big Wood and found it. Too bad she didn't find a shrink's couch.

‘Ecosexual’ Woman Claims She Is in an ‘Erotic’ Relationship with a Tree

A woman who describes herself as “ecosexual” believes she is in the midst of a love affair with an oak tree.

The woman, Sonja Semyonova, 45, claims she connected with the tree during her lonely, solo walks in the summer of 2021. Those walks began in 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. It was the same year that she moved to Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.

“I was walking a path near the tree five days a week for the whole winter. I noticed a connection with the tree,” she said, explaining that she had been “craving that rush of erotic energy that comes when you meet a new partner, and that is not sustainable.”

“The presence I feel with the tree is what I’m looking for, but that’s a fantasy with a person,” she said, further describing her experience with the tree.

“The feeling of being tiny and supported by something so solid. The feeling of not being able to fall,” she said, further describing her “erotic” experiences with this tree, although she said she does not have physical relations with the oak.

“I would lie against it. There was an eroticism with something so big and so old holding my back,” she continued, asserting that there are major misconceptions about ecosexuality, which the environmental group the Sierra Club describes as “unabashedly queer.”

Planning is not his forte. Genius Award Winner.

Arkansas man arrested for allegedly having 6 homemade bombs; held on $1 million bond
A Bella Vista, Arkansas, man was arrested and held on $1 million bond after he was allegedly found to be in possession of six live bombs and planned to flee the country to avoid trial in Texas, according to reports.

FOX 24 in Rogers, Arkansas reported that court documents say a woman called the Bella Vista Police Department on Dec. 9 to say 52-year-old Lawrence Hickman was harassing her.

When officers arrived at Hickman’s residence, they met with the woman who said she had found a bottle of chloroform in a dresser drawer.

She also allegedly told police there were pipe bombs in a plastic bag in Hickman’s home on Bishampton Lane.

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