Best News Headlines

[bruce_the_loon]

Florida man strikes again.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-flesh-eating-disease-bite-family-brawl-rcna88553

 

[day_trippr]

Jeeze, that's nasty on a few levels

 

[homebeerbrewer]

Family Feud Gone Wrong

 

[doug293cz]

Family Feud Gone Wrong

??? Seems to be missing any actual content. Also, not sure something that happens on a game show counts as "news."

Brew on

 

[DBhomebrew]

??? Seems to be missing any actual content. Also, not sure something that happens on a game show counts as "news."

Brew on

Have you read the news lately?!

 

[Broothru]

Have you read the news lately?!

 

[homebeerbrewer]

??? Seems to be missing any actual content. Also, not sure something that happens on a game show counts as "news."

Brew on

I was commenting on the news article above my post.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

Bear Eats Guys Lunch In His Work Truck

 

[bleme]

https://www.universalhub.com/2023/harvard-mortuary-manager-and-owner-creepy-salem

 

[day_trippr]

I was going to post that but decided it was a hella stretch for a "Best News Headline"
Also: "Eeeeeeeeeeeewww! How f@cked up does one have to be to get into that s**t!"
Yikes...

 

[balrog]

"It takes all kinds to make this great big world go 'round."

"And ya gotta wish sometimes that it didn't"

 

[Kent88]

Not a good headline, just one that makes you shake your head and maybe do a facepalm

Deep-sea craft carrying 5 people to Titanic wreckage reported missing, search underway

 

[balrog]

I wish them the best.

 

[Broken Crow]

Heck, I've been wondering if Orca's had anything to do with it and at the same time, been waiting for Greenpeace or somesuch to offer a Scholarship Challenge to engineering students to design a can-opener that Orca's can use.

 

[day_trippr]

Ok, this was a pretty bold move by the establishment owner...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/business/california-restaurant-fake-priest-fine/index.html

 

[DBhomebrew]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023...anic-used-a-30-logitech-gamepad-for-steering/

 

[balrog]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023...anic-used-a-30-logitech-gamepad-for-steering/

SMH

 

[Kent88]

Whale Swallows Two Kayakers off California Coast

 

[balrog]

I love love love dpreview and was so sad to see it shut down. It may be back?
https://www.gearpatrol.com/about/a44214660/gear-patrol-dpreview-acquisition/

 

[BongoYodeler]

Whale Swallows Two Kayakers off California Coast

Just a few miles up the road from me, right near the beach we hang out on. I assume this is the same humpback that spends summers in this quiet bay. I've watched it many times over the past few years. A lot of kayakers hang out tempting fate in the area around where it generally surfaces. Jjust a matter of time before an encounter took place.

 

[bleme]

Whale Swallows Two Kayakers off California Coast

I was fishing off the pier in Cayucos a few years ago when a humpback whale came into the bay. You could always tell where it was going to surface because it was preceded by a spray of silver anchovy, trying to get away. As it moved closer to the pier, I quickly reeled in my line but got caught on one of the pylons. I had my pole bowed, trying to pull it free, just as the whale surfaced under me. My mom was on the beach with my sister at the time and said that it looked just like I had caught the whale.

 

[Broothru]

I was fishing off the pier in Cayucos a few years ago when a humpback whale came into the bay. You could always tell where it was going to surface because it was preceded by a spray of silver anchovy, trying to get away. As it moved closer to the pier, I quickly reeled in my line but got caught on one of the pylons. I had my pole bowed, trying to pull it free, just as the whale surfaced under me. My mom was on the beach with my sister at the time and said that it looked just like I had caught the whale.

I was in Alaska 25-30 years ago and got to observe first hand a pod of humpback whales doing what the naturalist on our trip called "bubble net fishing." Whales don't usually hunt cooperatively, but during the days before they migrate to the waters between Maui and the Big Island of Hawai'i they need to fatten up. Anyway, a couple of females will swim a mile or so from a central area where fish will be concentrated, while loudly slapping their flukes on the surface of the water. This 'concentrates' the bait fish, scaring them towards the center. The matriarch of the pod goes sounder and dives deep underneath where the bait fish are schooling.

The remaining whales form a cylinder of sorts around where the fish are schooling. The matriarch starts slowly releasing air bubbles beneath the ball of bait fish causing them to form into a denser pack that forces the column towards the surface. The whales on the outside of the cylinder start tightening the noose. Soon you begin to see the surface of the water start to boil as the panicked bait fish are squeezed tighter and tighter up to the surface. No sooner than you see some panicked fish splashing out of the water, the matriarch and the whales on the periphery broach the surface, their jaws wide open, swallowing thousands of bait fish while thrusting nearly half their body length out of the water.

Obviously, you don't want to be a kayaker in the middle of that buffet line. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever witnessed in nature.

 

[Deadalus]

I was in Alaska 25-30 years ago and got to observe first hand a pod of humpback whales doing what the naturalist on our trip called "bubble net fishing." Whales don't usually hunt cooperatively, but during the days before they migrate to the waters between Maui and the Big Island of Hawai'i they need to fatten up. Anyway, a couple of females will swim a mile or so from a central area where fish will be concentrated, while loudly slapping their flukes on the surface of the water. This 'concentrates' the bait fish, scaring them towards the center. The matriarch of the pod goes sounder and dives deep underneath where the bait fish are schooling.

The remaining whales form a cylinder of sorts around where the fish are schooling. The matriarch starts slowly releasing air bubbles beneath the ball of bait fish causing them to form into a denser pack that forces the column towards the surface. The whales on the outside of the cylinder start tightening the noose. Soon you begin to see the surface of the water start to boil as the panicked bait fish are squeezed tighter and tighter up to the surface. No sooner than you see some panicked fish splashing out of the water, the matriarch and the whales on the periphery broach the surface, their jaws wide open, swallowing thousands of bait fish while thrusting nearly half their body length out of the water.

Obviously, you don't want to be a kayaker in the middle of that buffet line. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever witnessed in nature.

Saw bubble feeding off the coast of Provincetown MA about 30 years ago myself, it was FANTASTIC! They didn't do the fluke slapping but they all breached at the same time in a circle. I think they were right fins and were feeding on krill. The boat captain suggested it was because the seas were rough that day that they were cooperating. My poor wife was so seasick that she walked straight into the gangplank getting off and fell over. I was helping her but I kind of expected her to actually lift her foot stepping onto the ramp. She won't go on boats bigger than a canoe anymore.

Sometimes all you see are a few dolphins or the backside of a minke but whale watching can be AWESOME! Dolphins are pretty cool too though.

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[day_trippr]

Recall the song, too, please!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/business/baby-shark-toys-recall-impalement-risk-trnd/index.html

 

[bruce_the_loon]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66028606
Who wants another 40th or 50th birthday immediately after they just had one?

 

[Pkrd]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66028606
Who wants another 40th or 50th birthday immediately after they just had one?

My buddy married a lovely Chinese lady. Like most of us he lost track of age eventually but she counted for him.
Yep, had two 40th birthday parties.

Just another reason for his mum to hate her.

 

[day_trippr]

Nope nope nope

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/27/bugs-in-mexican-beer-crickets

 

[doug293cz]

Nope nope nope

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/27/bugs-in-mexican-beer-crickets

But who needs extra protein in their beer?

Brew on

 

[pvtpublic]

But who needs extra protein in their beer?

Brew on

Imagine the head retention