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Uttar Pradesh Auto: India tuk-tuk Crammed With 27 Passengers Seized

"When police in an Indian town stopped a speeding tuk-tuk (auto-rickshaw), they were surprised to find how many people were crammed into the small vehicle.

A video showing 27 people, including children and elderly, disembarking from the auto-rickshaw in Fatehpur has gone viral on social media.

It shows a policeman counting each passenger as they exit the vehicle.

An auto-rickshaw can generally carry three people, but some are modified to seat up to six passengers.

The incident involving the overcrowded vehicle has been reported from Fatehpur, a town in India's most populated state of Uttar Pradesh."

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62131725

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There must be a Guinness World Record in there.
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The question is, does the winner know it, or will ever know it, or has he/she thrown the ticket into a drawer and forgotten about it? :shock: Stay tuned for results......

Ticket bought in Illinois wins $1.337B Mega Millions jackpot

https://apnews.com/article/lotteries-io ... 9ea90a6530

CHICAGO (AP) — A single ticket bought in a Chicago suburb beat the odds and won a $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot.

According to megamillions.com, there was one jackpot-winning ticket in the draw Friday night, and it was bought at a Speedway gas station and convenience store in Des Plaines.

The winning numbers were: 13-36-45-57-67, Mega Ball: 14.

“We are thrilled to have witnessed one of the biggest jackpot wins in Mega Millions history,” Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald, the current Lead Director for the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement on the lottery’s website. “We’re eager to find out who won and look forward to congratulating the winner soon!”

The jackpot was the nation’s third-largest lottery prize. It grew so large because no one had matched the game’s six selected numbers since April 15. That’s 29 consecutive draws without a jackpot winner.

Lottery officials had estimated the winning take at $1.28 billion, but revised the number up to $1.337 billion on Saturday.

The total prize is for winners who choose the annuity option, paid annually over 29 years. Most winners opt for the cash option, which for Friday night’s drawing was an estimated $780.5 million.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302.5 million.

According to the Illinois Lottery, the store that sold the ticket is a pretty big winner, too; it will receive half a million dollars just for selling the ticket. A clerk at the Speedway store who answered the phone but declined to give his name said the store had not been officially notified that it sold the winning ticket and that he learned about it from reporters calling for comment.

Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The game is coordinated by state lotteries...............
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Take the cash, move to a state that allows you to change your name, and never tell anyone that you won. Don't flash your cash or you'll become a victim.

Or, move to a country that allows you to buy citizenship.
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This man is odd does not wear shoes and does not mind what he treads in, Yuk!!!
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I hope he soaks his feet every night! :laugh: Actually, you'll see a lot of that here too. Either barefoot or flip-flops so old and rotten they may as well be bare foot. :cheers:
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You certainly see a few monks walking barefoot.
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I think a lot of Muay Thai fighters do it purposely to super toughen their feet.
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It’s not just the man that is odd, taken from the BBC article -
“ and has even sold pictures of his dirty feet to some fans.” - the people who pay money for photos of his dirty feet are more than odd, they must be crazy!!
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A bear gets taken into care after eating hallucinogenic honey. In the video the bear is completely out of it. :lach:
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lindosfan1 wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 4:53 am A bear gets taken into care after eating hallucinogenic honey. In the video the bear is completely out of it. :lach:
I wonder if he had visions of a past or future life? Did he see Goldilocks?
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A real story today of a poor, old guy who fell out of a fruit tree.

This is the stuff Thai pee movies are made from. Note the look on the MC driver's face. :shock: Good stories in the village coming up. :run:

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‘Dead body’ on Thailand beach turns out to be sex doll

A definite plant, I would think by expats, but perhaps by some creative Thai teenagers? :laugh:

https://thethaiger.com/news/chon-buri/d ... e-sex-doll (Photo)

Beachgoers were horrified when a naked corpse turned up on Chon Buri province’s Bang Saen beach in eastern Thailand yesterday. Rescue workers rushed to the scene to investigate, but upon closer inspection, the “corpse” turned out to be a rubber sex doll.

The top half of the doll was covered with a shirt while the doll’s bare bottom and legs were on show. Tourists were sure it was a corpse of a woman from a distance and didn’t dare get closer, so they called officers from Great White Shark Marine Rescue service in Saek Suk district to the scene, who discovered it was just a doll.

Rescue workers removed the shirt to discover the doll didn’t have a head.

Facebook page “Chorb Jang Bang Saen” (I love Bang Saen) posted a photo of the doll online with the caption…

“Bored already and threw it away like this! Remember, you cheeky bastards, the latest piece of marine trash to wash up on this beach is a rubber sex doll. Anything can happen in Bang Saen.”

The sex doll has been removed from the beach. However, Bang Saen officials have put it away somewhere “in case its owner wants to take it back.” They said the owner would need to provide evidence that the doll belongs to them. At present, no one has come forward to claim the doll.

Municipal officer of Saen Suk district Plakorn Khamphrae said the doll made him feel “uneasy” because Bang Saen is a “famous tourist destination known all over the world.” The doll would be better off “in a place hidden away from the eyes of people”, said Plakorn.

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Something similar was created in a book by Tom Sharpe, called Wilt. This was later a movie starring Mel Smith and Griff Ryss Jones in 1989
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How did they know it was a sex doll? Are the police trained in sex doll observation?
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