ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

Nice portfolio of photos!  

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 

I just like how the Guardian worked in half a dozen puns. Making a splash...

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Still comes in a distant second to the Uranus Fudge Factory.

Making a splash: American town launches Uranus Examiner newspaper

Missouri town’s mayor has threatened a boycott, saying it puts the city up for ridiculePublished:13 Sep 2018Making a splash: American town launches Uranus Examiner newspaper

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Does the time stop when his head hits the ground? Because it seems like an unfair advantage when you get thrown that high.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
The pattern on the clown's pants almost makes it look like snot dripping from the bull's nose. Is that bull trying to square up a kick with that side eye stare?
 

Our local paper hired a good photographer/reporter. The slackers who've been there a while are starting to step up, too. 
 


 
Click on that for to embiggen it. Rodeo shots like that are pretty rare. Check the bull's eye. Nosirree.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
 Now you've done it.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Comment from a resident on FB:

Hey, back off, it was just a one time thing. Usually we’re all driving our little coolers around town. People come from miles around in the summer just to participate in the cooler races to win a stuffed coyote. We get so excited we have nightmares about it, so give us a break.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
That's a good question. She's usually on the sidewalk but sometimes I see her in the street, so I suspect it was more of an agglomeration of episodes rather than just that particular day that got her a talking-to.

 Proclivities wrote: 
IN YOUR DREAMS

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
It may just be a coincidence, but I put a stuffed animal (Babar), who was wrapped in faux wolf hide, in a motorized cooler, in my shed while I was doing some yard work, and they both disappeared when I went in for lunch, about two weeks ago.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Which is it?

ew.

I know NONE of these people. Cooler-lady, well, maybe. That thing hauls.
 

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NOVEMBER 30 
■ 6:29 a.m. A person on Hamilton Way was reported to be yelling and making a lot of noise since about 5 a.m. Officers contacted the subject, who said they had been having a lot of nightmares lately but everything was OK. 

■ 7:47 a.m. An officer checked with someone riding a motorized cooler on the sidewalk at North Bent/ East Fifth streets. The individual received a warning for riding the cooler on the street. 

■8:18a.m. A resident on North Absaroka Street reported finding an item under their vehicle so bizarre they couldn’t even describe it. A responding officer advised it appeared to be a stuffed animal wrapped in a coyote hide, and the item was placed in lost and found.

Collins unseats Mayor Smith; 'progressive ticket' sweeps Helena City Commission

Some background: a year or so back the Helena city government, in a reaction to a refugee resettlement movement that was getting started there, announced it would not cooperate and opposed any effort to resettle refugees there. The new mayor (that's him on the right, above) is a Liberian refugee.

He's also the first black mayor in Montana history.

Edit: OK, he's not the first, but the first in a long time.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
We have the same problems during ACL Fest. It's a big reason we are considering moving.

Weekend one of the Coachella is over with but one of my neighbors is still on a rant...

http://www.kesq.com/news/locals-raise-coachella-fest-concerns/453650459

 Antigone wrote: 

My hometown.

How one small Virginia town embraces immigration — and is better off for it

 BlueHeronDruid wrote: