What the heck happened? I can’t find news reports explaining what happened this evening around 5:30 pm on the 405 N side. There was a truck or SUV with the window knocked out against the median, police and fire. Right now I can only speculate? All north bound traffic was STOPPED. lol ain’t no thang I guess, just normal commute in LA!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/xl-bully-hull-boy-attack-b2552647.html

XL Bully’ seized by police after boy, 5, suffers head injuries in attack

The five-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries after being attacked by the suspected XL Bully in Hull

Police have seized a suspected XL Bully after it attacked a young boy in Hull.
The victim, aged five, was found with serious head injuries after the incident at a house in Brazil Street in the city at around 11.45am on Monday, 27 May.
The boy was rushed to hospital where he is recovering.
A Humberside Police spokesman said: “Enquiries are ongoing after we received reports that a five-year-old boy had been bitten by a dog at a property on Brazil Street in Hull at around 11.45am yesterday.“
“The boy suffered injuries to his head, and is currently in hospital receiving treatment.”
Detective Chief Inspector Allison Sweeting said: “We are working closely with the boy’s family and the owner of the dog to understand the circumstances surrounding the incident.
“At this stage, the breed of dog is believed to be an XL bully type and it has been seized as part of our enquiries.”
Angeline Mahal was fatally attacked by one of her dogs at her home in Cornwall Close in Hornchurch last week (Supplied)
The attack comes a week after the family of a “kind-hearted” mother killed by one of her two registered XL Bully dog urged other owners to give up the breed if they show a hint of aggression.
Angeline Mahal, believed to be in her fifties, was attacked at the semi-detached home in Cornwall Close in Hornchurch just after 1pm on Monday.
A relative, who wished to remain anonymous, feared Angeline - known as Angel to friends - had been dead for many hours before she was discovered.
He told The Sun: “We miss her, she was sincere and loved by everyone. We asked her to get rid of the dogs. The bond with owners and their dogs is too strong.”
Both dogs were registered as exempt from the government’s ban on XL Bully dogs, which came in on 1 February after a series of attacks.
Under the agreement for having a dog exempt, owners must have had the animal neutered, have it microchipped and keep it muzzled and on a lead in public.
According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 16 deaths due to dog attacks in 2023, a sharp rise from preceding years where the number had been in single figures.
As of late 2023, around 60 per cent of dogs held in police kennels were a bull breed of some kind.XL Bully’ seized by police after boy, 5, suffers head injuries in attack

The five-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries after being attacked by the suspected XL Bully in Hull

Barney Davis

I've been watching Storied's Monstrum series; which is dedicated to exploring famous Cryptids/Mythological Creatures and it's been an amazing look at how humans tend to externalize their societal stresses and abstract worries into concrete fears i.e. Monsters, as a means of expressing them. My favorite example of this has to be the Wendigo, which is representative of the dangers that Algonquian Tribes would encounter during the harsh winters. Threats of cannibalism, communal fracturing, and isolation could become existential threats to the tribes and so the Wendigo, a representation of those very things, was used to explain the fears as well as externalize them. It's amazing that a mythological creature invented several hundred years ago would be able to tell us so much about a society's values, fears, and ways of life.
Adoman Cemeteries exist anywhere the living do not.
53 years before the Liquidation of Maradine Unified, the land belonging to the Lovoro Subsidiary was carved up by MU decree. A sizable chunk of their Land was given to the nomadic Adoman people for them to settle, a decision that Lovoro would not forget. 4 decades later with the advent of the Maradine Civil War, the Lovorans seized the opportunity to reclaim their land and quickly went to war with the Adoma under the guise of rebellion. The Adoma and Lovoro skirmishes were relatively contained compared to the vast, nationwide destruction of the Civil War but remained a bloody mark on Maradine history nonetheless. Lovoro, with support from the East, quickly swept through Adoman territory, killing and driving much of the population before being themselves invaded and destroyed in the MU Southern Offensive. The now barren, war-torn land was littered with the death and decay of both Adoma And Lovoran people. Eventually the Civil War ended, with few Lovoro or Adoma left to claim victory, and even fewer left to bury the dead.
The Adoma practice a form of burial that has their dead taken far out of inhabited territory to be laid to rest. The belief being that any dead left within the vicinity of home would never move on from the business of it's previous life and so must be separated from the community to prevent their return. A dead Adoma buried close to home, would come back as a vengeful Earthflesh, a creature motivated by regret and vengeance, and often described as having gray, slathered skin, a mixture of the dead's paleness and the earth's clay from which it was reborn.
There have been reports of mysterious gray men seen in Lovoran territory.

Scammer using an old facebook account is asking friends and family to send money, to a friends cashapp, because theirs is not working and they really need the money right now.
How can something actually happen to this account? im fairly certain my local pd in my town of 1,500 will not look into it with seriousness, but if police is the only option. i understand. Thank you anyways.
his cashapp is $yayofive if you wanted to report him for scam

Cant wait for my phone to report my thougts to the police and have me arrested. 13 years without medication. Not going back on them now. Itll pass. Damn voices. I better shut up. I'm thinking about offing myself again 😆. It'll all be over soon

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Last night I left my Z Flip 5 in an Uber in Mexico City(I live here most of the year) and immediately as soon as I could report it to Uber. The guy denied having it for about 15 hours until I threatened legal action. Anyway, the guy has my phone but they(Uber) won't share his contact he can only have mine. Long story short, I have a replacement device here and am trying to use it in the meantime. I also have a brand new T-mo sim and the backup device is a A15 5g I got in the States for free from T-Mobile for a promotion through Walmart giving away literally free phones to existing T-Mobile customers with no strings attached.
So I called T-Mobile but they can't activate the sim even though it's a T-Mobile sim and brand new. There is no e-sIM functionality in the A15 and I'm restricted from doing many things because of 2FA. T-Mobile can't ship me a sim and the phone is locked. Is there anywhere aside from Amazon (which I read mixed reviews for) to buy a US T-Mobile sim? Hopefully, I'll have my phone back shortly but in case this happens in the future, I would like to have a backup ready. I have spent hours today trying to figure this out. F my Uber driver and F me for leaving it in there. Although I made it make noise etc. less than 5 minutes after getting dropped off and the guy claimed he didn't have it until the official investigation was started police report etc.

There's a sub that's been created for a specific community but is largely for disparaging women: gossiping and bullying them. Some users craftfully throw in positive stray comments to mask that. However it's quite abusive. Literally threads dedicated to individual private women of this specific ethnic community by other members of that community, writing all kinds of hateful stuff/false stories to harm them.
Reporting posts don't work. Not only does the moderate allow repeated abuse of private individuals but they participate in the abuse as well.
Reporting to Reddit about the mods is ineffective. Reports about harassment are ignored, some reports about personal information are acted on -- but ofc the posts are not actually removed, just edited to say "removed" so people are still able to access the thread and further harass/bully the targets.
One random man I've never met or knew has been harassing me online for over 7 years now. Other platforms were quicker at shutting it down but he's been especially relentless since he found these Subs. I can't even explain how pathological/elaborate his abuse has been (multiple identities etc). What can be done? Hope it's OK to ask this here btw. Going to police has been ineffective - as they don't bother investigating through Reddit further without a violent threat (which he has done but not on here, just other more vulgahorrible things).
Legal route seems complicated too since Reddit is so protective of their abusive users/mods too. Based in Canada but read that Reddit only responds to US court orders, if that, as well?

The defense and the prosecution today made their closing statements in the New York criminal case against Trump for falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels. The payment was intended to stop her account of her sexual encounter with Trump from becoming public in the days before the 2016 election, when the Trump campaign was already reeling from the Access Hollywood tape showing Trump boasting of sexual assault.
The Biden-Harris campaign showed up at the trial today with veteran actor Robert DeNiro and former police officers Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn, who protected the U.S. Capitol and members of Congress from rioters on January 6, 2021. In words seemingly calculated to get under Trump’s skin, DeNiro said, “We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot,” and called him a coward.
When Robert Costa of CBS News asked campaign spokesperson Michael Tyler why they had shown up at the trial, Tyler answered: “Because you all are here. You’ve been incessantly covering this day in and day out, and we want to remind the American people ahead of the…first debate on June 27 of the unique, persistent, and growing threat that Donald Trump poses to the American people and to our democracy. So since you all are here, we’re here communicating that message.”
Yesterday, in remarks at Arlington National Cemetery in observance of Memorial Day, President Joe Biden honored “the sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands of women and men who’ve given their lives for this nation. Each one…a link in the chain of honor stretching back to our founding days. Each one bound by common commitment—not to a place, not to a person, not to a President, but to an idea unlike any idea in human history: the idea of the United States of America.”
“[F]reedom has never been guaranteed,” Biden said. “Every generation has to earn it; fight for it; defend it in battle between autocracy and democracy, between the greed of a few and the rights of many…. And just as our fallen heroes have kept the ultimate faith with our country and our democracy, we must keep faith with them,” he said.
His speech at Arlington echoed the message he delivered to this year’s graduating class at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he urged the graduates to hold fast to their oaths. “On your very first day at West Point, you raised your right hands and took an oath—not to a political party, not to a president, but to the Constitution of the United States of America—against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” he said to applause. Soldiers “have given their lives for that Constitution. They have fought to defend the freedoms that it protects: the right to vote, the right to worship, the right to raise your voice in protest. They have saved and sacrificed to ensure, as President Lincoln said, a ‘government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the Earth.’”
“[N]othing is guaranteed about our democracy in America. Every generation has an obligation to defend it, to protect it, to preserve it, to choose it,” he said. “Now, it’s your turn.” Biden spent more than an hour saluting and shaking the hand of each graduate.
In contrast, Trump ushered in Memorial Day with a post on his social media company, saying: “Happy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country, & to the Radical Left, Trump Hating Federal Judge in New York that presided over, get this, TWO separate trials, that awarded a woman, who I never met before (a quick handshake at a celebrity event, 25 years ago, doesn’t count!), 91 MILLION DOLLARS for “DEFAMATION.” He then continued to attack E. Jean Carroll, the writer who successfully sued him for defamation, before turning to attack Judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over the civil case of Trump and the Trump Organization falsifying documents, and Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the current criminal case in New York.
The message behind this extraordinary post was twofold: Trump can think of nothing but himself…and he appears to be terrified.
On Saturday, May 25, Trump had an experience quite different from his usual reception at rallies of hand-picked supporters. He was resoundingly booed at the national convention of the Libertarian Party in Washington, D.C., where Secret Service agents confiscated squeaky rubber chickens before his speech. Attendees jeered Trump’s order, “You have to combine with us,” even when he reminded them of his libertarian credentials—tax cuts and defunding of federal equality programs—and promised to pardon the January 6 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol.
Trump also promised to pardon Ross Ulbricht, who founded and from January 2011 to October 2013 ran an online criminal marketplace called Silk Road, where more than $200 million in illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services, such as computer hacking, were bought and sold. Most of the sales were of drugs, with the Silk Road home page listing nearly 13,000 options, including heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and LSD. The wares were linked to at least six deaths from overdose around the world. In May 2015, Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison and was ordered to forfeit more than $180 million.
Libertarians want Ulbricht released because they support drug legalization on the grounds that people should be able to make their own choices and they see Ulbricht’s sentence as government overreach. Trump has repeatedly called for the death penalty for drug dealers, making his promise to pardon Ulbricht an illustration of just how badly he thinks he needs the support of Libertarian voters. But they refused to endorse him.
Trump appeared angry, and on Sunday, as Greg Sargent reported in The New Republic, he reposted a video of a man raging at MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. In it, the man says that when Trump is reelected: “He’ll get rid of all you f*cking liberals. You liberals are gone when he f*cking wins. You f*cking blowjob liberals are done. Uncle Donnie’s gonna take this election—landslide. Landslide, you f*cking half a blowjob. Landslide. Get the f*ck out of here, you scumbag.”
Trump’s elevation of this video, Sargent notes, is a dangerous escalation of his already violent rhetoric, and yet it has gotten very little media attention.
Last November, Matt Gertz of Media Matters reported that ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News provided 18 times more coverage of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s comment at a fundraising event that “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables” who are “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic,” than they provided of Trump’s November 2023 promise to “root out the communist, Marxist, fascist and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.”
CNN, the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC mentioned the “deplorables” comment nearly 9 times more than Trump’s “vermin” language. The ratio for the five highest-circulating U.S. newspapers was 29:1.
Clinton’s statement was consistent with polling, and she added that the rest of Trump’s supporters were “people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change.” She said: “Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”
Sargent noted that news stories require context and that Trump’s elevation of the violent video should be placed alongside his many threats to prosecute his enemies. While there is often concern over disrespect toward right-wing voters, Sargent writes, there has been very little attention to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s posting of “a video that declares a large ideological subgroup of Americans ‘done’ and ‘gone’ if he is elected.”
Scott MacFarlane of CBS News reported yesterday that Republicans have ignored a law passed in March 2022 requiring the placement of a small plaque honoring police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol and the lawmakers and staffers there on January 6, 2021. It was supposed to be in place by March 2023 but has not gone up. A spokesperson for House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says his office is working on it. Kayla Tausche of CNN reported today that three of the police officers at the Capitol that day—Sergeant Aquilino Gonell and Officer Harry Dunn, both retired, and Officer Daniel Hodges, who is still with the Washington, D.C., metropolitan police—will be traveling to swing states for the Biden campaign to tell voters that Trump threatens Americans’ fundamental rights.
Finally, today, Melinda French Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced $1 billion in new spending over the next two years “for people and organizations working on behalf of women and families around the world, including on reproductive rights in the United States.” Only 2% of charitable giving in the U.S. goes to these organizations, she wrote the New York Times, and “[f]or too long, a lack of money has forced organizations fighting for women's rights into a defensive posture while the enemies of progress play offense. I want to help even the match.”
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Notes:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/26/libertarians-reject-trump-rfk-chase-oliver-presidential-nominee-00160040
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/05/27/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-156th-national-memorial-day-observance-arlington-va/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/05/25/remarks-by-president-biden-in-commencement-address-to-the-united-states-military-academy-at-west-point-west-point-ny/
https://newrepublic.com/article/181973/trump-media-attacks-media-dangerous-turn
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congress-fails-to-install-plaque-honoring-jan-6-police-officers/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/politics/biden-campaign-january-6-officers/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722qy5dzlgo
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/25/trump-commute-ross-ulbricht-sentence-libertarian-convention-00160025
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-life-federal-prison-creating
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-is-spotlighting-ross-ulbricht-silk-road-appeal-to-libertarians-2024
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4305566-trump-doubles-down-death-penalty-for-drug-dealers/
https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/major-news-outlets-gave-much-less-coverage-trumps-vermin-attack-then-they-did-clintons
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4687060-donald-trump-squeaky-chicken-libertarian-controversy/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/opinion/melinda-french-gates-reproductive-rights.html
The Dworkin ReportDe Niro and Jan 6 Heroes Unload on Trump Outside NY TrialRobert De Niro just showed up outside the New York City courthouse, where Trump is facing 34 felony counts. Rightwing lunatics are already trying to start conspiracy theories lying and saying that thi…Read more8 hours ago · 765 likes · 132 comments · Scott Dworkin
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I was involved in a road traffic crash. 11/05/202. I have no insurance only CTP. The guy admitted to me he ran his light, then admitted to the father of my children who was first on scene after the crash and also admitted to him he ran his red light, resulting in him hitting the whole right rear of my bumper as I was indicating right to turn at the + intersection. Since the crash, I made a post a post on Facebook hoping any cars of traffic had seen it, turns out a witness did. She was the middle lane car, travelling straight and I was the only car in the 4th lane turning right and confirmed my green indicative arrow. 12th May She made a police report, the father of my children did too, and was followed up by the investigating officer and confirmed my green light but was still holding me as the at fault driver 13th of May. 14th of May I went into the shop myself and seen it’s public CCTV footage I have witnessed it myself. And was curious as to why the police were still against me with 2 reports. Police stated they were going off the reflective light on the ground
15th May I went into the station personally to talk to the investigating officer and was sent a link to my phone and was told to open it to receive RTI forms (Right Of Information) as police on scene said they know who called, and the name was mentioned 3+ times I said impossible that name called 000 I reach for my phone for proof of phone log contact because that’s the name of my friend, she died at this intersection.. I was told that same day no was gonna be issued a ticket. 18th of May I received a $619 fine processing through a red arrow from the 11/04/2024.
21st May find my original photos for evidence on my phone had been tampered with. The screenshot conversation was squared off instead of round (Messenger Facebook)
29th May I’m at a lost everything has been reported to police, I just can’t believe I am experiencing this can someone please help or guide me in this situation as I truly do not know what to do. I barely make it by now, single mum of 2, the car is financed no insurance only CTP I had picked my friend up from my finishing shift at work and took her home when she finished so my work won’t cover me either :(((((( please helpppppp meeeeeee

so I guess this is not the best sub to talk about this but im kinda of in panic right now so pls listen
I was using ometv normally just to talk and shit and then a girl appeared naked asking me to show off I didnt think of loosing this chance so I obey her and after a feel minutes she asked for my insta and I innocently gave her yeeh Im so smart :D
then she called me (facetime) and we started to touch ourselfs but then she turned off send a video of me (in the call) on the chat and said she gonna send to everyone I followed on insta if I didnt pay her and send me some prints of profiles I follow and the follow list
I restraint her account, blocked her and even reported multiple times to instagram but Im very afraid she might have copy all the followers list and will be sending to everyone
what can I legally do? should I wait to see if she really send it? should a make a report to the police?
PS: I say she but is very probable it was a guy using some virtual camera or something like that

I matched with a girl on tinder but it ended up being a creepy gay dude. They asked me to send nudes and I said no, but they kept asking me so I did. They also made my friend send nudes.
They were pretending to be a 22 year old girl. Their Instagram handle is: mckenzieantonio_
Can someone find out who this is please!? Or let me know how I can find who this is. It's disturbing that they have this personal media of me. They are catfishing others as well.
I did a reverse IG search but nothing came up.
I just gotta get their phone number so I can do a reverse phone number search.
I already filed a police report because this is considered fraud.
Also, I'm a 30 year old guy and my friend is a 45 year old guy. And they made me send videos of me having sex with my ex girlfriend who was 21 at the time.

I remember seeing a story on, I think, ID but I can’t remember the victim’s name, where it happened, or the name of the officer. Hoping someone will know what I’m talking about.
A young woman worked at a police department and told one of the officers, I think a detective in the drug division, about a couple of drug dealers. Unfortunately, that officer was part of this drug ring, and he and those dealers went to her house or apartment and took turns raping her, and then they murdered her. After that, they abducted her roommate. That woman was able to jump out of the car and get away. She didn’t report it for many years out of fear. I think by the time she reported it that officer had retired. But he was eventually arrested and convicted. Anyone remember this?

Day 1 A news report breaks in [REDACTED] New York about a man waking up the previous morning, and attempting to turn on his TV to watch the latest episode of his favourite show, only for his remote to crumble in his hand. Confused as to what was going on, the man would attempt to manually turn on his TV, only to accidentally pull a chunk of it off. It was at this moment, that the man would discover that his TV had been replaced with a hyper-realistic cake. The man would question his wife about where the TV went, and why there was a hyper-realistic cake in its place. However, his wife was just as confused as he was about the entire situation at hand. The man would attempt to report this to his local authorities, claiming his TV had been stolen and replaced with a hyper-realistic cake. Only to be laughed off as a prankster due to his ridiculous claim. Angry at this, he would take his story to the local news station hoping for justice to be served to whoever stole his TV. Once again, his claims were laughed off and published as a mere joke. The man would claim that there would be more cases of people’s items being replaced with hyper-realistic cakes going forward and that they would all regret ignoring his case.
Day 29 Police reports coming from all over [REDACTED] New York would reveal the man’s words to be correct. Starting after a young woman would attempt to open her purse, only for the zip to completely come off upon being pulled and quickly break apart, taking some of the modelling chocolate with it. Soon people would begin reporting all over the area that their items had been completely replaced with cake. Phones, laptops, bags, earrings, necklaces, rings and even stacks of cash were discovered to have been replaced with hyper-realistic cakes. Local authorities, having now clearly learned that this was no prank, are looking into the cases to try and track down these valuable items. However, one thing these cases all have in common (aside from the cakes being delicious) is the complete lack of evidence pointing to any suspects. No DNA evidence, no signs of forced entry, and no people in the area at the time. Nobody is even sure when these items were replaced with cakes. They all say they could've sworn they were real a second ago, only to suddenly be cake. Almost as if there was no thief and they had just suddenly turned into cake. Authorities are still on the hunt for a possible suspect in this case, even though the wider New York authorities laugh at them for humouring these absurd claims.
Day 47 The situation has escalated much further than anyone could've possibly anticipated. Now the reports of items being replaced with hyper-realistic cake have rapidly expanded to the rest of New York. Hundreds of people are reporting that their valuable items are being discovered to be hyper-realistic cakes. A man would take his phone out of his pocket to check if he'd received any important emails, only for his phone to crumble into pieces of cake in his hand. A woman would attempt to cash in a check of $100,000 to a bank, only for the modelling chocolate on the check to smash into several pieces when placed down on the counter. A couple would attempt to hurry their kids into the car, worrying they may be late for school. Only for the car to fall apart right in front of them, as the door is pulled off and falls to the ground. People are getting scared, they're worrying that at any moment, any of their prized possessions could end up being a hyper-realistic cake. Nobody is sure what is real and what is cake anymore, so they've taken to trying to cut anything they own, hoping to weed out the cake from the non-cake. Many have ended up accidentally destroying many of the things they own in the process of doing this. But those who still have their stuff have taken to putting stickers on them to ensure they know they're real. That was until an edible sticker was found to be on the back of a hyper-realistic cake emulating a mobile phone. Now, people’s only option is to place all their valued possessions into safes, covered in locks with an 87-number code that not even they know. The governor of New York has commented on the situation claiming that he's doing all he can to try and solve the hyper-realistic cake mystery, but he can only do so much to calm the fear and paranoia that has overcome New York.
Day 93 The situation has dramatically escalated even further somehow, as the hyper-realistic cake plague has now begun heavily affecting the nearby states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and even some parts of Canada. Reports are coming in from all over the USA and even some of Mexico and South America of people’s items suddenly being replaced with ominous (albeit, tasty) hyper-realistic cakes. The president is doing nothing to quell the fear of US citizens, claiming the whole situation is ridiculous and that everyone is a fool for buying into it. People are starting to riot in the streets believing the president is not doing enough to try and prevent the appearance of hyper-realistic cakes. Many other countries are beginning to consider closing off all travel to the USA out of fear, and some like Germany even going through with it. The safes people were using to hold their valuable items are no longer safe. Many have been discovered to have been replaced with hyper-realistic cakes, leading to even greater fear and paranoia among citizens. And the worst thing of all. The police officer who was in charge of the case in [REDACTED] New York was discovered by his wife the previous night to have been replaced with an identical hyperrealistic cake. There is no evidence of where he may have gone, and there is no evidence pointing to who might've taken him. He has seemingly disappeared without a trace.
Day 149 As fear was reaching its limits, a spark of hope managed to emerge. Tension has been rising as countries all over the world have been receiving reports of people disappearing, and being replaced with hyper-realistic cakes. Even including those that shut off travel to the USA. The president has continued to display pure apathy to the situation, claiming the whole thing to be a farce, until he discovered one morning his wife had been turned into a hyper-realistic cake. Outraged at this, he demanded the perpetrator be immediately found and caught. He banned the selling of any ingredients that could be used to make a hyper-realistic cake, including flour, sugar, eggs, butter, baking powder, chocolate, honey, macaroni and cheese (he does not know how to make a cake, and decided it was better safe than sorry). But even then, hyper-realistic cakes continued to appear. Now even houses and everything in them were getting replaced with giant hyper-realistic cakes, twice the size of an average human being. The president was getting desperate now and was willing to do anything to catch the man responsible for this. So he had cameras set up on every street in every city in every state across the entire USA. And he had every cop working 24/7 on the sight of each camera making sure nothing was replaced with a hyper-realistic cake, and if they were to see hyper-realistic cake-related activities, they were to press a button, sounding the alarm. Yesterday, after weeks and weeks of nothing. An extremely tired officer managed to catch a woman attempting to replace a baby with a hyper-realistic cake. The woman, upon being caught, would quickly admit she was behind the hyper-realistic cake shenanigans. She was immediately brought to Washington DC where the president would proceed to scream and cry at her for hours before demanding she be placed in a holding cell so she could be questioned the following day. This was quickly announced by White House officials and the world began celebrating, praising the president as a hero who was able to end the hyper-realistic cake plague. The joyful people of the world are currently awaiting a word from the US president on who this mysterious woman is, what her motives are and where she’s keeping all these missing people.
Day 180 To the horror of everyone around the globe, the following morning, all hope was lost and all dreams were dashed. The woman taken captive last night was found to have been replaced with a hyper-realistic cake, just as everyone was. The president demanded a search for any evidence indicating how she could've escaped, but they were unable to find anything. Even the cameras meant to keep track of the woman had mysteriously failed to capture anything the previous night. This was the breaking point for the president, and as a result of this, he'd soon become wrapped up in an extremely insane conspiracy. He'd soon begin to believe the cake was a being that was more powerful than any of them, and that it needed to be eradicated at all costs. The presidents would proceed to declare Marshall law and cut off all transport to other countries. People, seeing exactly what was going to happen, attempted to escape the country by piloting the planes and boats themselves. Only to discover the planes and boats were all hyper-realistic cakes, that were unable to fly and would easily sink in water. The president would also declare that all cake is to be thoroughly burned, and anyone believed to be a cake is to be executed on sight, preferably by being cut with a blade. The president would have all secret service agents executed, claiming that they were conspiring with the cake and aided the woman in escaping custody. But even if this wasn't enough for the president, soon he’d begin believing that other countries were made of cake too and declared that any countries believed to be “cake countries” would be bombed off the map. Starting with Mexico, he sent wave after wave of bombs to the country until he was sure anyone inside was dead. He'd soon turn his attention to Germany, believing that it was also a “cake country” due to them previously closing off transportation from the USA there. Soon, Germany was no more, and the president would celebrate that he had destroyed another “cake country”. It seemed like to the president, that every country except the USA was a cake country, and no amount of bombing he did would change that. Everyone knew the sheer amount of bombs he was using was going to destroy the planet, but he didn't care. But just as quickly as this began, it ended. Yesterday, a large angry mob stormed the White House. The president would attempt to bomb the mob, only to discover the bomb launchpad had been replaced with cake. The mob quickly overpowered anyone left supporting the president with sheer numbers, and they swiftly beat the president to death in a manner too disturbing to even attempt to describe. Blood was everywhere, but they didn't care anymore, the dictator was dead.
Day 294 Shortly after the president's death, the USA descended into chaos. People were still being replaced with cake, and nobody had any way to contact people outside the USA, as every single phone was seemingly now a hyper-realistic cake. Many don't even believe there's anyone left out there, and that they were all killed by the president. People quickly began to believe the president was right, and that all the other countries were now just cake. But they took it one step further, they now began to ponder if the entire globe itself was just one giant cake. People began getting so scared of others being cake, that they would attempt to cut anyone they meet just to see if they were cake. There is no food left now besides hyper-realistic cakes, and many are so scared of them that they refuse to even go near them, let alone attempt to eat them. Many are dying from starvation, and those willing to eat the cakes are usually branded as “cake people” and killed on sight. There's still no sign of the people who went missing and were replaced with hyper-realistic cakes. Many believe they just vanished from reality itself or that they were taken by the cake. Some people have begun to worship the cake as a god and make sacrifices to it believing it'll bring their loved ones back. Reality is crumbling, society has fallen apart and it won’t be long until humanity is gone.
Day 334 Not even a year following the first-ever incident, the last human being on earth has died today. Alone, cold and afraid. There is nothing left. No trees, no grass, no water, no animals, no humans, nothing. The only thing that remains now is the hyper-realistic cakes. And that, is the story, of how I destroyed humanity with FUCKING CAKES! I guess in the end you could say… it was real.

we parked on a grassy incline at a business with a precarious parking lot in another state on vacation. after parking, we realized we were sliding in mud, and the back end of our vehicle very slowly slid and made contact with the one next to us. to minimize damage, we did not attempt to move the vehicle and instead intended to tow the back end off the vehicle. we discussed with the owner, and they agreed this was the best action. some kind strangers with tow gear offered to assist, but the other party insisted on a tow truck in order to also secure the front end of the vehicle. both parties agreed not to make a police report, and we exchanged insurance information before the tow came. the tow truck cost $350, which we begrudgingly paid for, and they ended up not securing the front end of our car and doing essentially exactly the same as the kind bystanders would have done. the other party seemed happy that there was hardly visible damage done to either vehicle and expressed that they felt bad about the $350 and acted like they would not take anything to insurance. for as little damage as there was, i also had no intention of filing a claim. however, we got a call from their insurance asking if we are filing a claim and asking for our claim number, which I don't understand. what do I do now? why did the other party's insurance call us instead of our insurance anyway? I was left with a scuff that rubbed off of my taillight and a very small paint chip out of my bumper. the other vehicle had about a quarter sized dent. we already did not have the cash to pay $350, and frankly we are not happy to pay whatever else is going to be thrown at us. the situation seems quite petty. the business mentioned that this had happened multiple times before, but no signage or blockades were in place to prevent vehicles from parking on the grassy incline.

So a little context, I work at a cell phone carrier and have many friends and family on my account. Because I work there, I get a discount, and my friends and family all pay me a slightly higher amount than I pay for their phones each month. I do this so that I can give them a great deal (each person pays about half the rate of a normal plan), and I can also have a reduced cell phone bill for my own lines. It's a win-win for both parties, they save about $45 per month each and I make about $15 per month each line. I do this for both friends and family.
About 4 years ago I had an acquaintance reach out to me and ask for help switching to my company. I asked her if she wanted to join my plan instead of being on her own so that she could save way more money and she agreed. I told her the price and she was ecstatic, because she would be saving roughly $45 on her bill each month. I did not tell her at this time that I was going to be profiting about $15 per month off her line. This wasn't intentional, I honestly think it just slipped my mind telling her at the time. I did not see it as a big deal that I forgot to tell her because of the amazing deal that I was giving her. After about 2 years of always paying on time, she broke her phone and called me because she couldn't afford a new phone in cash, so I let her finance one on my plan. I told her the only stipulation is that if she wants to leave my plan before she finishes paying off the phone, she needs to pay off the remaining balance. She agrees and tells me that she would never screw me over.
I then tell her on the same phone call "Hey just so you know, I charge you and everyone else on my plan more than what the line costs me so that my personal phone bill is cheaper, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you when you signed up in the first place." She tells me that she has absolutely zero problem with that because she was getting such a good deal and that she figured I was anyway.
Fast forward to today, she calls me out of the blue and tells me she's switching to her boyfriend's plan and asks for the transfer pin so that she can keep her number. She's super friendly on the phone. I tell her that it's no problem, she just needs to pay off the remaining balance of her phone (about $300). She says okay no problem I'll venmo you. I generate her transfer pin but right as I'm about to send it to her, I have this feeling that I should make sure she sends me the money first. I text her and say "Hey I just generated the transfer pin, I'll send it to you once I receive your phone payoff."
Instead of sending me the money, she texts me back and asks me how much I was making off her phone line. I text her back and say $15. This chick then proceeds to tell me that "You have made $1000 off me over the past four years, you can pay for it." I'm honestly shocked at this point because she was completely reasonable on the phone and now she's trying to get me to pay off HER phone balance. I tell her that sorry, I'm not going to do that, we made an agreement and she is responsible for her phone. She then starts calling me a nasty person saying that I was screwing her over and that I'm an awful person for profiting off a vulnerable person, you get the picture.
She then blocks my phone number and all socials. I call my dad and ask him what to do, and he tells me to send her a venmo request saying that I will be going down to the sheriff's office to file a police report for the device that she stole from me since technically it is my property until it's paid off, and that if she does not pay me back I will be taking her to small claims court. She immediately completes the venmo request and then texts me from her new number saying the same stuff she was saying before. I tell her I'm going to send her the transfer pin now and she just responds with "don't bother."
Now she's threatening to take ME to small claims court to recoup the money that I made from her because she didn't know the amount that I was profiting. I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a case but let me know, AITAH?

Well I just noticed I'm not the only one scammed during months at Dayton, OH (Lowes Centerville specific).
Two guys (at a Dodge minivan Maroon, plate GFE 1049, branded with Home sound installation or something like that) parked next to me asking if I would like to buy a soundbar that they got extra from a job that they were doing, well at the end I payed for it because it is essentially like the real ones… but those are dummy speaker boxes without anything inside, fake speakers. Really stupid because I use to check what ever trying to sell me in detail, but today I was with a lot at my head at that moment.
People, learn from my error, and double-check everything many times before buying it; I have bought things this way before, and are really good items, but this could happen.
Now, do you know or think that I should report it to the police?