Orlando, FL – Firefighters helped rescue a man stuck on top of a construction crane in Florida.
It happened Tuesday afternoon in Orlando on State Road 417 near the Florida turnpike.
According to police, the man climbed the crane without permission.
Then after reaching a certain point… he was unable to get back down.
That’s when crews with Orange County Fire Rescue were called in to help.
The man was eventually lowered to the ground and taken away in an ambulance for evaluation.
No word on the person’s condition or why he climbed the crane.
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(Barstool) There’s no brainers and then there’s this, the most obvious move in the history of marketing. The cannabis industry is a gold mine right now but what’s severely lacking is brand recognition. Your local dispensary has some home grown, and depending on the rules and regulations of your state you may see multiple different brands toting their own strains and products on the shelves of said dispensary. The East Coast is about 40 years behind on what the West Coast has going on, where dispensaries are run more like Apple Stores than what you’ll find out this way, but the point remains there are few recognizable brands that have separated themselves from the rest of the pack. It’s still early, eventually we’ll have the Coke and Pepsi of THC, but we’re not quite there yet.
I say all that to say this: you’re a buffoon if you’re going out to pick up some gummies and pass on Mike Bites. The branding even goes a step beyond the obvious eat-biting callback to his fight against Evander Holyfield. Nothing makes me sound like an older man than talking about the potency of modern marijuana but boy oh boy is the shit today genetically engineered to place you into a mild coma. A coma not unlike the punches Tyson used to deliver on PPV 30 years ago. Some TKO THC in these Mike Bites and you’ve got yourself a product with name recognition and an immediate frame of reference for what this specific product will do to you once you get home. Brilliant.
PS – Holyfield deserves a cut of this. Whatever percentage of his ear ended up in Tyson’s mouth is the cut he should get. That feels fair.
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March 16 (UPI) — A man visiting Florida spent the night in what he thought was an Airbnb only to discover the next morning that he had slept in the wrong house.
Paul Drecksler, who traveled to Miami to officiate a friend’s wedding, said he arrived at what he thought was his Airbnb at 2 a.m.
“I had accidentally got the address wrong going from the Airbnb app into the Google maps; the address became the house right next door,” Drecksler told WSVN-TV.
Drecksler said everything appeared to be in order at the home, which had been left unlocked.
“In the bedroom, the bed was made and ready to go, and there were two clean folded towels waiting for me,” Drecksler said.
The traveler said he was confused when there was a knock at the door in the morning.
“The next morning, I get woken up by a knock on the door. I was surprised the guy even knocked on his own door. He goes, ‘Hey, can I help you? This is my house,’ and I’m like, ‘Um, no, this is an Airbnb that I rented.’ He goes, ‘No, this is my house,'” Drecksler said.
Drecksler soon discovered his actual Airbnb was the home next door. He said the man who woke him up was very understanding.
“He could have come in shooting or could have called the police or a combination of both,” he said in an Instagram video. “Obviously a number of bad things could have happened. The way he reacted was so accommodating to the mistake. It was definitely the best possible outcome that could have occurred.”
Drecksler, a regular traveler, said he will make sure to triple-check his Airbnb addresses from now on.
“I’ve stayed in hundreds of Airbnbs, and never had this happen before,” Drecksler said.
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A medical student in India has come under scrutiny after he was allegedly caught cheating with a micro Bluetooth device believed to be surgically implanted into his ear, a college official said.
It was the student’s final attempt on Monday to clear the exam after repeatedly failing it since getting admission into the college 11 years ago.
The student of the private medical college was appearing for the exam at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College when he was found with a mobile phone in the inner pocket of his trouser which was connected to a Bluetooth device, Dr Sanjay Dixit, dean at the medical college told The Independent.
But they were not able to recover the Bluetooth device while frisking the student, whose name has not been revealed by the college.
“He was taking the General Medicine exam on Monday with 13 others when a university squad of the Devi Ahilya Bai University came for a surprise check and they found one student with a mobile phone and another with some Bluetooth device,” said Dr Dixit.
“The devices have been confiscated and their answer sheets were seized. They were given new answer sheets,” he said.
After questioning by the college officials, one official reportedly said that he had a skin-coloured micro Bluetooth device fixed in his ear by an ENT surgeon, reported Hindustan Times.
Another student was caught with a small SIM-powered device and a micro Bluetooth device, but told college authorities that it was not surgically inserted and can be removed with a pin.
Dr Dixit told The Independent that the students had purposefully concealed these devices because they were asked to submit all the electronics items to the invigilators.
An internal investigation has begun in the matter by the university examination committee and devices have been sent for examination.
After the conclusion of the investigation it would be determined whether the case merits a police case for using unfair means in an exam, deputy registrar Rachna Thakur who was with the squad told the newspaper.
Renu Jain, vice chancellor of the invigilator squad that caught the two students, told PTI: “We think these microphones were surgically fitted in the ears of both the students. Cases have been prepared against both the students. A committee of DAVV will take a decision in this regard.”
Students getting caught in mass cheating or deploying sly means to not get caught is not uncommon in India where competition is fierce as aspirants outnumber the number of vacancies for a job and seats in colleges for courses.
Madhya Pradesh state was gripped under a massive scandal, called Vyapam cheating scam, when the Supreme Court had to cancel the licenses of 634 doctors who were involved in it. During the scam, spanning the period between 2008 and 2013, several people were arrested for involvement in leaking question papers, rigging answer sheets and hiring proxies to sit for exams instead of the student.
Dr Anand Rai, the whistleblower in the Vyapam scam, said: “It is very easy to get Bluetooth fitted in the ears. It is attached to the ear temporarily and can be removed. Such a technique was used by a Vyapam scam accused too to clear his medical exam eight years ago.”
In another incident that grabbed both national and international headlines, several parents and relatives of the students were filmed scaling school walls in 2015 as police stood nearby watching the mass cheating unfold in Bihar. The pictures went viral, hundereds were arrested, including some parents, and at least 750 students were expelled.
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March 16 (UPI) — A 1-year-old corgi who fell overboard from a yacht on the Indian River in Florida swam 7 miles to shore and turned up in a resident’s yard.
Jon Atwood said he brought his dog, Jessica, with him when he went to help his mother and stepfather take their 65-foot yacht from Florida to North Carolina for the hurricane season via the Intracoastal Waterway.
Atwood said the vessel was passing under the State Road 520 bridge over the Indian River in Brevard County when he noticed Jessica was no longer standing at his feet.
“When we couldn’t locate her, we immediately put two small boats in the water and started canvassing the water to try and find her,” Atwood told WKMG-TV.
The family couldn’t locate Jessica anywhere in the nearby waters.
“Prior to Sunday she had never been in the water, so we had no idea if she would even knew how to swim,” Atwood told the Space Coast Daily.
Atwood continued the search for more than 24 hours before posts about Jessica’s disappearance on social media led to his being contacted by a resident in Rockledge.
Jessica had apparently swam 7 miles to the Rockledge shore and ended up in the homeowner’s back yard.
Atwood said the homeowner who found Jessica refused a $500 reward.
“I just want to say thank you. Thank you for caring. Thank you for being kind and thank you for being compassionate,” Atwood said.
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March 16 (UPI) — Firefighters in Oregon are searching for clues to an unusual mystery after a car that went off a road landed on a moss-covered vehicle that appeared to have been abandoned “for quite some time.”
The Jacksonville Fire Department said crews responded alongside the Applegate Valley Fire District #9 when a car crashed at the intersection of Highway 238 and Wagon Trail Road.
Firefighters discovered the car had left the road and tumbled into a wooded area. No injuries were reported from the crash.
“What makes this crash peculiar is that it landed right next to the car that has been down there for quite some time growing moss on it. Does anyone have the history on the older car and…
