It’s Thursday again (and the second day of the OBF)! Let’s have some brews news!
What’s the adage? No good deed goes unpunished? The road to hell is paved with good intentions? Both work, in this case, where a Portland bicyclist was injured after a well-meaning driver waved another driver through an intersection, causing a crash that broke several of the bicyclists’ bones and caused her to have a cardiac arrest. She’s suing both drivers for $670,000. Be careful out there this morning, folks!
Wheelchair accessibility activists say response times for wheelchair accessible taxis in Portland still suck, and Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick is looking into trying to fix that with a subsidy.
Because there’s never enough news about the ills of mass incarceration and the disproportionality of black people locked up compared to whites, here’s an article about a woman who’s facing life in prison after picking up a police officer’s dropped night stick. Nope, she didn’t even swing it.
The stuff nightmares are made of: A New Jersey man discovered an intruder hiding under his daughter’s bed several days after the alleged break in. If the story doesn’t scare you, the mugshot will.
Good news out of New York: Fast food workers finally won their fight to get the minimum wage up to $15 per hour. Come on, Oregon, get it together.
The headline says it all: Bison selfies are a bad idea. Let’s all remember that when visiting Yellowstone, mmmkay?
Some lucky schmuck in China apparently picked up a lost bag containing $1 million in New Zealand cash. Best day ever.
In bizarre news out of California: A body found decomposing in a posh neighborhood was that of a man who had a cache of over 1,200 guns and claimed that he was a CIA or FBI operative who carried out secret night missions and showed off his self-defense moves to seemingly unimpressed neighbors.
Ouch: Three men wading in the ocean at a Miami nude beach were injured when struck by lightning. No bison selfies and get out of the water during a thunderstorm. Got it.
Kids explain adultery on Jimmy Kimmel:
“If the story doesn’t scare you, the mugshot will.”
Thanks for telling us to go look at a black man and to be scared of a black man. If that’s not lazy racism, then I don’t know what is.
Somehow that washpo bison selfie link is bad. Here’s a valid version: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mornin…
I just love the ignorant lock-step Shelby does with naively concluding that 15 Now is the answer.
Oh, but wait, she has a degree in Economics. My bad.