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Ponzi Scheme Suspect Flees FBI Using Handheld Sea Scooter, Fails Miserably
Federal agents arrested Matthew Piercey near Redding, California, on Monday over an alleged $US35 ($48) million Ponzi scheme, but Piercey didn’t surrender quietly. The suspect reportedly fled FBI agents in a truck before jumping out, getting something out of his vehicle, and hiding in the freezing water of Lake Shasta for 25 minutes. How did…
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Amazon: OK, So We May Have Emailed A Bunch Of People About Their Non-Existent Baby Registries
A section of the email Amazon mistakenly sent to customers. Photo Courtesy Maya Kosoff On Tuesday, numerous Amazon users noticed something strange: They’d received emails from the retailer notifying them “someone great recently purchased a gift from your baby registry!”
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Hagfish Slime Is Wonderful
Sadly, a flatbed truck dumping 3400kg of live hagfish onto a highway in Oregon will not be the weirdest story of 2017. It will not even be close. Still, the situation warrants some kind of scientific explanation, since it isn’t every day that the mucus of a living fossil destroys a Prius.
