Depending on where you live, an active Homeowner's Association can be filled with some of the most boring, cruel and power hungry people you've ever met. Their draconian rules can suck the life out of your own living situation and you can be punished for something as simple as where you choose to store your garbage bins. So here's an interesting strategy to combat their rules. And for more, here's someone who got revenge when the HOA tried to remove their trampoline.
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Amazingly, no one was injured in this Jay, Maine paper mill explosion. And as an interesting bonus we have the commentary of all the guys in their trucks watching the whole thing go down. Around a minute in, the pulp starts to land.
A Country Phoenix radio show decided to ask the people of Arizona if there would be anyone willing to get a tattoo of Donald Trump in exchange for concert tickets. Not just any concert tickets though, a pair of 'Country Mega Tickets' to see every country music concert coming to Phoenix.
After 3 volunteers backed out, Travis proved he was ready and willing to get a 'Trump Stamp' for the tickets. Asked if he was a Trump supporter Travis answered, no but that he wasn't a Trump hater either. He went on to explain he's just a huge fan of country music and he's doing it simply to get access to see his favorite artists live.
Read the full story on 102.5 KNIX Country.
Emma thought we were live on-air... We weren't. Let's see how mad she got when I threw in some naughty words.
Posted by Alex and Ellie in the Morning - Viking FM on Thursday, March 3, 2016
Based on the look on her face, these words must be mighty filthy. Luckily for her, they weren't actually live on-air, so their jobs are likely not in jeopardy.
You know, unless he already did. In which case, kudos to him. ~Not-So-Handy Andy
Via IFL Science
One of the world's great radio telescopes isn't hearing voices – for the first time another giant dish has picked up one of the mysterious "fast radio bursts" (FRBs) that have been puzzling astronomers at the Parkes Radio Telescope. The find confirms these bursts indeed come from outer space, but beyond that their source is still wide open.
Last year the astronomers reported four bursts picked up by the celebrated Australian telescope. As each FRB lasted around a millisecond there was no time to have other telescopes check the same location, and the fact that no other telescope had picked up anything similar raised the possibility that something local was interfering with the Parkes telescope.
Now, however The Astrophysical Journal reports that the 305m Arecibo Telescope has picked up a similar burst while searching for pulsars. The burst occurred in 2012, but not noticed at the time. "FRB 121102's brightness, duration, and the inferred event rate are all consistent with the properties of the previously detected Parkes bursts," the authors report.
Via Uproxx
What a bummer! According to Uproxx, the list titled "The approximate list of foreign musical groups and artists whose repertoires contain ideologically harmful compositions" was created by the Youth Wing of the Communist Party and distributed to radio stations in 1985. It's been translated from the original memo:
