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As one Subaru Crosstrek owner recently learned the hard way, it bears repeating that all-wheel drive is not the same as four-wheel drive. A Subie owner posted a warning letter they received a month after driving on Colorado River Overlook Road in Canyonlands National Park to the r/NationalPark subreddit. The letter notes that this particular road is restricted to 4WD vehicles only, and the Crosstrek is equipped with AWD, not 4WD. It also warns that they may face serious consequences if they’re caught taking an AWD car on a 4WD-only trail again.

This is how Yogi got his smarts.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/15886056

A Texas man has been arrested and charged with hiding explosives under toilet seats at Bexar County car washes that went off and injured three people, one of them a child.

Police said that Paul Moses Alden booby-trapped toilet seats with commercial fireworks at two car washes. The booby-traps were desisgned to explode when pressure was applied, KENS reported.

Investigators said surveillance footage showed Alden going into and then leaving the restrooms, then watching from the lobby until the explosions took place and leaving the facility.

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Employees said they identified Alden because he was a regular customer who had a membership card.

But wait, there's more!

Solving the world's real problems...

Blame the brain worm

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/15712151

A woman in Adelaide, Australia, got a bizarre kidnapping scare when a shirtless man allegedly tried to snatch her baby out of the pram and breastfeed it. The incident occurred Friday morning on a bus headed down Bridge Road in Gulfview Heights suburb of the South Australian capital city.

Around 8:40 am, the mother raised the alarm with the 502 bus driver, who South Australia Police said alerted the bus depot over radio, informing that the 49-year-old suspect had attempted to grab the infant.

“A fare evader got on the bus and he went to grab the lady’s baby out of her pram,” he said.

“She’s come up to me and said: ‘You’ve got to get this guy off the bus, he’s not good. He’s tried to grab my baby out of the pram and breastfeed (my) baby.’”

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Meanwhile, the passenger whom he reported was still on the bus, for which he had not validated or bought a ticket, shirtless and wearing blue-coloured rubber gloves.

The suspect, instead of fleeing, decided to take a seat at the back of the bus, where the driver said he was “sitting quietly”.

The bus pulled over at the next stop, with police inbound, but the man managed to get away before the cops arrived.

However, police confirmed that an investigation was underway into the incident reported on Friday. In fact, they charged a Salisbury East man, 49, with aggravated assault and disorderly behaviour in connection with it.

In addition to the charges, he also faces a three-month ban from using all public transport.

Surprise!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18183261

“I look in her bag and there is blood all over her bag, her toys, her fries, everything,” says New York resident Tiffany Floyd.

A Burger King near Buffalo, New York temporarily closed over the weekend after a customer found blood in her daughter’s food.

On July 26, New York resident Tiffany Floyd posted a TikTok video about a distressing experience with her four-year-old daughter Matayla at a Burger King in Getzville, New York.

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“I heard, ‘Mom, I don’t want ketchup,’ so I take the bag back thinking that they messed up our order,” she continues, before using her rubber-gloved hand to show her daughter’s burger to the camera. “I look in her bag and there is blood all over her bag, her toys, her fries, everything.”

Floyd says she then pulled over and called Burger King to ask what was going on with her food, and the manager told her that a worker injured his finger right before making and bagging their order, and that if she came back, she could get a refund.

So, she decided to call her local health department and file a report.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18165326

"The St. Johns Review, a community newspaper circulated throughout 13 neighborhoods in North Portland, has published a weekly or monthly print edition for nearly 120 years.

There will be no July issue."

I once went swimming right after I ate. This dude's got nothing on me.

Impeccable logic

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