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...... dont know what little 'face' thing I need for that, not sure it exists...
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Unfortunately, with the rise in cases and the fact that the virus mutations are affecting younger people, and causing more serious cases, this thread will be more relatable.
In two week there will be an even greater spike in cases and a week after, deaths.
The local authorities here have banned gatherings in city parks, including cook-outs. Don't think that will make much of a difference.
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In two week there will be an even greater spike in cases and a week after, deaths.
The local authorities here have banned gatherings in city parks, including cook-outs. Don't think that will make much of a difference.
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He didn't win a Darwin Award. 
He couldn't quite put his finger on why he didn't win.
Maricopa woman finds tires slashed and a severed finger in her driveway
https://www.azfamily.com/news/maricopa- ... _id=997198
MARICOPA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - A couple in Maricopa woke up to their tires slashed and a severed finger in the driveway on Thursday morning.
"I literally have been laughing all day because if I don't, I might cry," said Francesca Wikoff.
The truck belongs to the Wikoff family. Wikoff, a former volunteer firefighter and EMT, has the stomach for this sort of thing. "It's pretty comical. You would think that if you're gonna go to the hospital, especially if you just severed your finger off, that you would take said finger with you," said Wikoff.
Tires slashed finger found
Wikoff believes the tire slasher cut her back tire then cut his finger off on accident.
(Source: 3TV/CBS 5)
Wikoff believes the tire slasher cut her back tire then cut his finger off on accident. "We assume it happened at 10:30 last night because we had our neighbor that lives next to him heard a loud scream and then a car speeding off," said Wikoff.
The Maricopa mother believes the finger belongs to her neighbor because they argued with him the night before and a trail of blood leads to his house. "I don't find joy in anybody hurting themselves. However, karma has a good way of working itself out," said Wikoff.
The neighbor wasn't home Thursday and Wikoff said he hasn't been home all day. Arizona's Family reached out to the Maricopa Police Department and haven't heard back. Wikoff said no arrests have been made, only the finger so far has been taken in custody by police in a brown paper bag. "Well, I got the better hand," said Wikoff.
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He couldn't quite put his finger on why he didn't win.
Maricopa woman finds tires slashed and a severed finger in her driveway
https://www.azfamily.com/news/maricopa- ... _id=997198
MARICOPA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - A couple in Maricopa woke up to their tires slashed and a severed finger in the driveway on Thursday morning.
"I literally have been laughing all day because if I don't, I might cry," said Francesca Wikoff.
The truck belongs to the Wikoff family. Wikoff, a former volunteer firefighter and EMT, has the stomach for this sort of thing. "It's pretty comical. You would think that if you're gonna go to the hospital, especially if you just severed your finger off, that you would take said finger with you," said Wikoff.
Tires slashed finger found
Wikoff believes the tire slasher cut her back tire then cut his finger off on accident.
(Source: 3TV/CBS 5)
Wikoff believes the tire slasher cut her back tire then cut his finger off on accident. "We assume it happened at 10:30 last night because we had our neighbor that lives next to him heard a loud scream and then a car speeding off," said Wikoff.
The Maricopa mother believes the finger belongs to her neighbor because they argued with him the night before and a trail of blood leads to his house. "I don't find joy in anybody hurting themselves. However, karma has a good way of working itself out," said Wikoff.
The neighbor wasn't home Thursday and Wikoff said he hasn't been home all day. Arizona's Family reached out to the Maricopa Police Department and haven't heard back. Wikoff said no arrests have been made, only the finger so far has been taken in custody by police in a brown paper bag. "Well, I got the better hand," said Wikoff.
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I presume the police have at least obtained a fingerprint.
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"The moving finger writes, and having written... Gets chopped off".
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Wonder if it was the one used to authenticate their fingerprint devices.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
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Proto-Darwinians a mile up the main road. Red lights all around for pedestrians to cross, two cyclists running the reds at right angles; minor contact, unfortunately.
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Police say no one was in driver's seat in fatal Tesla crash
Due to their ages, they have probably reproduced, however they will no longer contribute to the gene pool.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/business ... index.html
New York (CNN Business)Two passengers were killed in a crash of a Tesla Model S on Saturday in which there was no one sitting in the driver's seat, according to police.
The crash in the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, killed a person in the front passenger seat and one in the rear seat of the car, according to Constable Mark Herman, the head of the Harris County police precinct that responded to the crash.
"I can tell you our investigators are certain no one was in the driver's seat at the time of the crash," he told CNN Monday.
But later Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the "Autopilot" feature available on this car was not engaged, based upon "data logs recovered so far." He did not give details about what the data logs did in fact show, or if they ran up through the moment of the accident.
He also said an even more advanced self-driving feature known as Full Self-Driving capability, or FSD, that is available on a limited number of Tesla cars, had not been purchased with this vehicle.
"Moreover, standard Autopilot would require lane lines to turn on, which this street did not have," Musk said in his tweet.
The names of the two crash victims, a 69-year old man, and a 59-year old man, were not immediately released by authorities. The car, a 2019 Tesla Model S, apparently went off the road after being unable to navigate a curve and hit some trees. Herman said the crash is still under investigation and that the exact speed was not yet known. But he said evidence suggests the car was moving at a "high rate of speed."
The Tesla Autopilot feature is designed to assist the driver by keeping the car in a lane of traffic and slowing or stopping the car to avoid obstacles ahead.
Telsa's website does caution that "current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous." But just this past Saturday, just hours before the Saturday night accident, Musk tweeted out a claim that the Autopilot feature was significantly safer than human drivers.
"Tesla with Autopilot engaged now approaching 10 times lower chance of an accident than average vehicle," he tweeted.
Musk was referring to company data that showed Teslas with the Autopilot engaged were involved in just one accident for every 4.19 million miles driven in the first quarter of this year, compared to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data that Tesla said shows one crash in every 484,000 miles for human-operated cars.
But those miles-driven comparisons are not necessarily valid, since the drivers using Autopilot may be more likely to activate it on limited access highways where there is reduced chances of a crash, while the NHTSA data covers all miles driven, including those on local streets with intersections.
Safety concerns
There have been numerous criticisms of the Tesla Autopilot system from safety experts, including the use of the name "Autopilot," which some of those critics say encourages owners to believe the car can actually drive itself.
The National Transportation Safety Board, when issuing a report on a 2018 fatal crash involving a Tesla using Autopilot, said that the car maker was not doing enough to ensure that drivers remained aware of their surroundings and ready to take control of the car in order to avoid accidents.
"This tragic crash clearly demonstrates the limitations of advanced driver assistance systems available to consumers today," said NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt in a February 2020 report on the 2018 crash in Mountainview, California. "There is not a vehicle currently available to US consumers that is self-driving. Period. Every vehicle sold to US consumers still requires the driver to be actively engaged in the driving task, even when advanced driver assistance systems are activated."
Tesla (TSLA), which generally ignores questions from the media, did not respond to a request for comment about the crash, other than the tweet from Musk. In the past Tesla has defended the use of the Autopilot name, saying that even in the case of airplane autopilot systems, the pilot is still required to be attentive and ready to take over in case of an emergency.
Constable Herman said his department has already been in contact with the NTSB and NHTSA about the crash. It has not been in contact with Tesla as of yet, he said.
Early Monday NHTSA said it has already deployed a Special Crash Investigation team to investigate the crash. Later in the day the NTSB, which is better known for investigating airline crashes, said it is sending two investigators to Texas to conduct a safety investigation looking at both the vehicle's operations and the fire that followed the crash.
The autopilot feature requires the driver's seatbelt to be buckled in order to be engaged. It also is designed to alert the driver if they are not keeping their hands on the wheel often enough.
The crash Saturday resulted in a fire that took firefighters on the scene four hours to put out, using 32,000 gallons of water, according to Herman.
Gasoline powered cars are generally at greater risk of fire in a crash than a pure electric vehicle, but the large battery that powers those cars can catch fire if damaged in a crash. The EV batteries typically take longer to ignite than gasoline, however.
-- CNN Business' Matt McFarland and Peter Valdes-Dapena contributed to this report
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Due to their ages, they have probably reproduced, however they will no longer contribute to the gene pool.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/business ... index.html
New York (CNN Business)Two passengers were killed in a crash of a Tesla Model S on Saturday in which there was no one sitting in the driver's seat, according to police.
The crash in the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, killed a person in the front passenger seat and one in the rear seat of the car, according to Constable Mark Herman, the head of the Harris County police precinct that responded to the crash.
"I can tell you our investigators are certain no one was in the driver's seat at the time of the crash," he told CNN Monday.
But later Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the "Autopilot" feature available on this car was not engaged, based upon "data logs recovered so far." He did not give details about what the data logs did in fact show, or if they ran up through the moment of the accident.
He also said an even more advanced self-driving feature known as Full Self-Driving capability, or FSD, that is available on a limited number of Tesla cars, had not been purchased with this vehicle.
"Moreover, standard Autopilot would require lane lines to turn on, which this street did not have," Musk said in his tweet.
The names of the two crash victims, a 69-year old man, and a 59-year old man, were not immediately released by authorities. The car, a 2019 Tesla Model S, apparently went off the road after being unable to navigate a curve and hit some trees. Herman said the crash is still under investigation and that the exact speed was not yet known. But he said evidence suggests the car was moving at a "high rate of speed."
The Tesla Autopilot feature is designed to assist the driver by keeping the car in a lane of traffic and slowing or stopping the car to avoid obstacles ahead.
Telsa's website does caution that "current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous." But just this past Saturday, just hours before the Saturday night accident, Musk tweeted out a claim that the Autopilot feature was significantly safer than human drivers.
"Tesla with Autopilot engaged now approaching 10 times lower chance of an accident than average vehicle," he tweeted.
Musk was referring to company data that showed Teslas with the Autopilot engaged were involved in just one accident for every 4.19 million miles driven in the first quarter of this year, compared to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data that Tesla said shows one crash in every 484,000 miles for human-operated cars.
But those miles-driven comparisons are not necessarily valid, since the drivers using Autopilot may be more likely to activate it on limited access highways where there is reduced chances of a crash, while the NHTSA data covers all miles driven, including those on local streets with intersections.
Safety concerns
There have been numerous criticisms of the Tesla Autopilot system from safety experts, including the use of the name "Autopilot," which some of those critics say encourages owners to believe the car can actually drive itself.
The National Transportation Safety Board, when issuing a report on a 2018 fatal crash involving a Tesla using Autopilot, said that the car maker was not doing enough to ensure that drivers remained aware of their surroundings and ready to take control of the car in order to avoid accidents.
"This tragic crash clearly demonstrates the limitations of advanced driver assistance systems available to consumers today," said NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt in a February 2020 report on the 2018 crash in Mountainview, California. "There is not a vehicle currently available to US consumers that is self-driving. Period. Every vehicle sold to US consumers still requires the driver to be actively engaged in the driving task, even when advanced driver assistance systems are activated."
Tesla (TSLA), which generally ignores questions from the media, did not respond to a request for comment about the crash, other than the tweet from Musk. In the past Tesla has defended the use of the Autopilot name, saying that even in the case of airplane autopilot systems, the pilot is still required to be attentive and ready to take over in case of an emergency.
Constable Herman said his department has already been in contact with the NTSB and NHTSA about the crash. It has not been in contact with Tesla as of yet, he said.
Early Monday NHTSA said it has already deployed a Special Crash Investigation team to investigate the crash. Later in the day the NTSB, which is better known for investigating airline crashes, said it is sending two investigators to Texas to conduct a safety investigation looking at both the vehicle's operations and the fire that followed the crash.
The autopilot feature requires the driver's seatbelt to be buckled in order to be engaged. It also is designed to alert the driver if they are not keeping their hands on the wheel often enough.
The crash Saturday resulted in a fire that took firefighters on the scene four hours to put out, using 32,000 gallons of water, according to Herman.
Gasoline powered cars are generally at greater risk of fire in a crash than a pure electric vehicle, but the large battery that powers those cars can catch fire if damaged in a crash. The EV batteries typically take longer to ignite than gasoline, however.
-- CNN Business' Matt McFarland and Peter Valdes-Dapena contributed to this report
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My Toyota has all the features described hear and lane traffic assist is now a requirement. I think my car requires two hands on the wheel and the seat belt is probably required.
The lane assist display shows confidence in the marking.
As the two passengers were sitting back and front, I might suggest they were changing over drivers for the hell of it
The lane assist display shows confidence in the marking.
As the two passengers were sitting back and front, I might suggest they were changing over drivers for the hell of it
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Follow up:
Man fingers himself in tire slashing case.
Police arrest Arizona man after finding his severed finger
MARICOPA, AZ — Authorities have arrested a man who police believe severed his finger while slashing his neighbor's car tires after an argument.
The Casa Grande Dispatch reported that the Maricopa Police Department said Kevin Johnson was arrested and identified as the owner of the finger found on his neighbor's driveway.
Francesca Wikoff told police she found the finger April 15 after discovering her vehicle had two slashed tires on one side.
Johnson was arrested on multiple charges, including criminal damage. Online court records did not list an attorney for Johnson who could comment on his behalf.
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Man fingers himself in tire slashing case.
Police arrest Arizona man after finding his severed finger
MARICOPA, AZ — Authorities have arrested a man who police believe severed his finger while slashing his neighbor's car tires after an argument.
The Casa Grande Dispatch reported that the Maricopa Police Department said Kevin Johnson was arrested and identified as the owner of the finger found on his neighbor's driveway.
Francesca Wikoff told police she found the finger April 15 after discovering her vehicle had two slashed tires on one side.
Johnson was arrested on multiple charges, including criminal damage. Online court records did not list an attorney for Johnson who could comment on his behalf.
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Getting your finger out hardly qualifies for the award. Need to try harder
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Seems a 17 year old boy was one of the deceased, so multiple awards
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Darwin Award rescinded.
He had already passed his genes along.
He does qualify for the Karma's A Bitch Award with Oak Leaf Clusters.
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He had already passed his genes along.
He does qualify for the Karma's A Bitch Award with Oak Leaf Clusters.
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What a thickie..... Still, he reaped his reward.
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As a volcano enthusiast I must mention the potential Darwin awardee who climbed the cone of the active volcano in Iceland two days ago despite the gushing of lava at 12 minute intervals, somehow unaware of the risk, and got a Nasty Surprise. Good downhill runner, though.
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OK I think this is it:
Man climbs volcano
Man climbs volcano
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Good effort
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The original hill which people climbed to observe the volcano was cut off by a broad and slow-moving band of lava. This has now crusted over and as of yesterday people are walking across the lava to reach the original viewing point. The Authorities have pointed out that under the crust the lava is lethally hot and is moving. Despite this......