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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Nov 10, 2016
November 10, 2016
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TV Briefs:
That episode of "Law & Order: SVU," which features a political candidate accused of raping an underaged girl, has been postponed again.
NBC had originally planned to air it in September, but pulled it since the content could have been taken as an attack on DONALD TRUMP. The episode was set to air this coming Wed, Nov 16, but Deadline now says it's not expected to air until next year, if at all.Air Rage:
Plain and simple, you CANNOT fly your sausage around without a permit.
A man in Australia might be fined by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) for flying a drone to pick up sausage and deliver it to a friend. The man, known only as "Tim," says he was just having fun when he picked up the sausage from Bunnings Hardware store and delivered it to his friend at a spa.
The whole thing was uploaded to YouTube and then quickly taken down once CASA got involved, saying that Tim could fined up to nine thousand dollars for breaching drone regulations. (Myers)Taking everything much too seriously:
Warning: Note potentially disturbing content!
A guy in New Mexico is creating art from human remains.
Santa Fe artist JUSTIN CROWE runs a business called Chronicle Cremation Designs where he creates "unique custom memorial objects" out of human remains. Crowe designs items like bowls, mugs, vases, and "functional dinnerware" coated in a "custom ash glaze." Crowe explains, "I wanted a way to interact with memories on a daily basis." He describes his custom human remain objects as "interactive." (Still)Weird science:
Dave the Giant Earthworm just set a new world record. The earthworm was discovered in the United Kingdom. It is 16 inches long and weighs just under one ounce. For perspective, LiveScience says that's about as long as a standard bowling pin and weighs as much as a basic chocolate bar. Dave was discovered in a vegetable plot. The U.K.'s Natural History Museum and the Earthworm Society of Britain says earthworms don't typically survive long enough in the wild to reach such a record size. (Bartha)
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