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Elon reportedly orders government to stop feeding the bomb-sniffing dogs

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26858906

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Restaurant chain in China compensates thousands after diner stands on table, urinates in hotpot

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Illinois votes on a new state flag design — and chooses the current one

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California man sinks Tesla Cybertruck in harbor while launching jet ski

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Missing Indiana Woman Found In Her Car After 6 Days

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Man charged after allegedly attacking flight attendant, swallowing rosary beads

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Cannabis, psychedelic mushroom kiosk at Brookfield Square draws attention

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Brewery is selling a 'Presidential Pack' to supply Canadians with enough beer to last Trump's entire term

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Military to Remove 'Enola Gay' Photos for Violating DEI Rules - Newsweek

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Russia gifts meat grinders to mothers of soldiers killed in Ukraine

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South Korea air force jets accidentally drop bombs on homes, injuring 15

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That'll keep your dog off my lawn now, won't it Mr. Song?

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House Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff arrested for DUI after Trump speech

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Drunk on more than power it seems

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Diagnostic dilemma: Speed eating a 7-pound burger sent a man to ER unable to pass gas

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Pokémon-shaped Cheeto, 'Cheetozard,' sells at auction for $87,840

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Want a banana with your cheeto?

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Piglets left to starve as part of a controversial art exhibition in Denmark have been stolen

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American Porn Star Whitney Wright Sparks Fury With Trip To Afghanistan.

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Third-Largest US Bank Adds $81,000,000,000,000 To Customer's Account Balance in Massive Payment Error

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Bank error in your favor, collect several trillion dollars

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For the 1st time in Canada, surgeons put teeth in patients' eyes to restore sight

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Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter’s Name From ‘Unakite Thirteen Hotel’

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New band name just dropped yo

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wants You to Eat These Giant Invasive Rodents

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Apple will fix iPhone glitch that suggests replacing the word 'racist' with 'Trump'

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i mean the keys are like right next to one another....

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Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies midflight

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‘Just wanted to apologize’: Americans pick up the tab for everyone at Canadian restaurant

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Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.

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Thieves used a stolen card to buy a $523,000 lottery ticket. The victim wants to share the winnings

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You mean all the winnings, right?

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Killer who ate part of his victim's brain granted supervised release from psychiatric hospital

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Yum

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Bidding on Charizard-shaped Cheeto — Cheetozard — reaches $2100

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Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon Sued for Not Telling Patients Hackers Stole Their Nude Photos

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KFC is moving its corporate headquarters from Kentucky to Texas

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Kentucky to pick up remainder of Texas Roadhouse contract, also receives a second-round pick

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Brazil mayor was shot in ‘fake attack’ for election boost – but still lost in landslide

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Very definition of a sore loser

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Shark bites off woman's hands as she tries to take a selfie with it

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Nazi flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says

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Michigan judge sentences Walmart shoplifters to wash cars in the parking lot

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Illinois governor declares Lake Michigan is now Lake Illinois

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Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim

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This guy has chutzpah, I will give him that.

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Dem Lawmakers Introduce 'Contraception Begins at Erection' Bills in Multiple States.

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Faced with relentless Republican attacks on reproductive freedom including efforts to give embryos and fetuses legal rights from the moment of conception, Democratic lawmakers in two states have recently introduced legislation that would ban men from ejaculating for purposes other than making babies, with some exceptions.

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"Where Are The Mormons?!" United Airlines Flight Diverts To Denver After Man "Hunts" For LDS Passengers Onboard - Live and Let's Fly

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Indiana man pleads guilty to making and selling more than 30,000 fake IDs

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Printer ink costs estimated to be in the tens of thousands of dollars.

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Scores of unexploded World War II bombs discovered under children’s playground

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Ye's website is selling swastika shirts after boosting its profile with Super Bowl ad

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Disgusting

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Bryan Adams concert in Australia is canceled after a 'fatberg' causes sewage overflow

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Residents of Perth, Australia, have an unusual culprit to blame for their Sunday evening plans getting canceled: a dreaded "fatberg" causing wastewater to overflow.

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Kansas Senate leaps at opportunity to follow in Elon Musk’s footsteps with ‘COGE’ committee.

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The Kansas Legislature has formed its very own Senate Committee on Government Efficiency (COGE instead of DOGE) and has asked residents to submit their ideas on making government leaner, meaner and more attuned to the needs of South African-born billionaires! Ha, ha. Just joking a bit there, folks. I’m sure that the bigwigs behind the Kansas committee have your best interests at heart, just like those teens and twentysomethings poking around in D.C. buildings.

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How 'Walter White' Took Meth Production to São Paulo.

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Idaho man accused of using soup barcode hidden in ring for Walmart theft scheme

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Soup to nuts

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‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall

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Slashdot Summary:

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About 100,000 eggs worth $40K stolen from trailer in Pennsylvania

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Whoops, now worth $50k.

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Texas teens arrested over TikTok prank asking elementary schoolers if they ‘wanted to be kidnapped’

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A food bank netted a huge haul of 13,000 fresh salmon. The catch? The fish were still alive

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Not fishy at all

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Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

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Signature /= footer

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Chicago man arrested after trying to leave scene of Fond du Lac firearm incident in an Uber

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'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio

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Mirror: https://archive.is/2025.01.30-220414/https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-says-everything-i-say-leaks-in-leaked-meeting-audio/

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Pho real? San Jose restaurant employees wrestle with attempted 'robot server kidnapper'

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Employees at Pho 21 restaurant in South San Jose had an unexpected showdown last weekend with what could be considered an attempted "robot kidnapper."

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66 million-year-old fossilised vomit discovered in Denmark

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Texas teacher calls for ICE raid on school over pupils ‘who don’t even speak English’

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Do you even speak Cherokee brah?

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When You Can’t Duck Layoffs: Stripe Sends Cartoon To Fired Employees

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That's dessssssspicable.

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Caught on camera: Houston Police Department officers seen stunt driving in snow

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Elephants cannot sue to get out of the zoo, Colorado's top court rules

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Court says elephants not human, cannot seek freedom

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Man with blowtorch arrested for attempted armed robbery in Dodgeville

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Forgot the pair of pliers at home. Rookie mistake, says Mr. Wallace.

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Rats addicted to seized drugs took over a Houston police department’s evidence room

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Yet another entry from the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction department, as drug-addicted rats have turned Houston’s police evidence storage into their personal stash house.

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‘Panda bandits’ arrested for Superior smash and grab burglaries

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Constitution page on White House website shows 404 error

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DC-area veterinarians on heightened alert amid potential inauguration risks

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Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends

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Viagra-laced ‘erectile honey’ is flooding into France, officials warn

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Oh, bother.

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Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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The simulation is running out of memory

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Strange Case of Man Whose Skin Turned Gray Remains a Mystery

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19-year-old in custody after setting congressman's office on fire in Fond Du Lac, citing TikTok ban

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Bulldozers kill man in tent in Atlanta clearing homeless camp near MLK’s church

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Progresso launches Soup Drops, a hard candy that's 'soup you can suck on'

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Something sucks alright...

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Deputy crashes patrol car into another vehicle while watching porn

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Guess the state....

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Rare goat-sheep 'geep' born on Irish farm

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'That's not my child': Mother says bus monitor tried to give her wrong child... twice

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Viral ChatGPT-powered sentry gun gets shut down by OpenAI

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Woman Enters MRI With Butt Plug, Ends Up In Hospital

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The woman reportedly screamed out in pain as she was being taken out of the machine.

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Sex at Waukesha laundromat; man, woman accused again

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Check out where the first place was....

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'It is forbidden to get sick': Italian mayor's new edict highlights local healthcare shortcomings

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Ok, I'm calling in...too healthy. Running a marathon. That's why I'm sweating and out of breath, yes....

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Belgium’s food agency pleads with public not to eat their Christmas trees

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Carjacking victim arrested after police say she beat thief with an ice scraper (after the fact)

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The only winner here is the ice scraper.

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Monkey in a tutu escapes from a home. A Missouri sheriff's office says the capture was 'bananas'

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Investigators at San Francisco pier find fake wall hiding illegal fish

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Insert related pun here

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California officer pulls over speeding Rolls Royce, finds monkey clenching driver

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Greg Abbott mistakenly sends condolences to Jimmy Carter’s dead wife

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He did his own research

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Texas book ban law causes a school district to remove Bible from libraries

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Something something unintended consequences

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2 Oregon men die from exposure in a forest after they went out to look for Sasquatch

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Man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying 'This is Trump's America now'

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Portland Demands Something Be Done After Car Crashes Into House For 30th Time, Starts Gas Fire

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23629156

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'NATO Santa' shot down over Moscow in apparent Russian propaganda video

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Missing Dog Returns Home on Christmas Eve and Shocks Family By Ringing Doorbell

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Feel-good doggo story

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Homeowner ends up in jail after calling police to remove squatter living inside her house

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‘Missing’ GOP congresswoman not seen for six months finally found living at dementia care home

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An owl came down a family's chimney and perched on their Christmas tree: See the video

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Such a superb owl.

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Prankster arrested for spraying pesticide on Walmart produce

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According to police, Charles Smith, 27, entered the Walmart at 1955 S. Stapley Dr. on Dec. 19 intending to film pranks for social media platforms.

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Pregnant Kentucky woman cited by police for street camping while in labor

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Google Street View Appears to Capture Man Loading Human Body Into Trunk of Car

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Archive link, for those who prefer it: https://archive.is/20241219051538/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/world/europe/google-maps-spain-arrests.html

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Suspected 'witchdoctors' arrested over attempt to 'bewitch' Zambia's president

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Luigi Mangione Will Be in Same Jail as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: Report

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Mario and Jeffery Epstein jailed in the multiverse

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California squirrels are now apparently hunting and eating other rodents

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NBA’s Hornets sorry after giving child PS5 before taking it back off camera

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Leave funny to the pros, people.

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Flat Earthers admit defeat after Antarctica trip proves them wrong

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Woman accused of stowing away on Delta flight from NY to Paris apprehended again, FBI says

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, something something choke on a pretzel or something.

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DMV apologizes for license plate that mocks Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Owner's son calls it misunderstanding

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