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Parkside Drive speed camera tossed in High Park pond

Three and counting: Parkside Drive speed camera vandalized yet again

One of Toronto’s most notorious speed cameras, located at Parkside Drive near High Park, has been cut down for a third time.

According to the neighbourhood group Safe Parkside, the speed camera — Toronto’s highest-grossing speed camera with 65,392 speeding tickets and nearly $7 million in fines to date — was vandalized, removed from the side of the road and disposed of in a pond in High Park.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Germany: Muslim couple accused of abusing Yazidi girls aged 5 and 12 as slaves

The couple allegedly bought two children at an Iraqi market and kept them as slaves. The accused are alleged to have been members of the “Islamic State” group and were detained in Bavaria in April.

Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes, after they allegedly kept two young Yazidigirls as slaves and sexually and physically abused them.

The couple, identified as Twana H.S. and Asia R.A. in line with German privacy law, were arrested in the southern state of Bavaria in April.

The two are also suspected to have been members of the “Islamic State” (IS) extremist group in Iraqand Syriabetween October 2015 and December 2017, the prosecutor said in a statement.

They allegedly kept a 5-year-old Yazidi girl as a slave starting in late 2015, and a 12-year-old from October 2017.

This is not an aberration. It is Islam.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Foreigners linked to ‘frightening’ rise in drivers on wrong side of the road

A “frightening” surge in wrong-way driving on England’s motorways is linked to foreign drivers.

National Highways figures reveal that 988 incidents involving “oncoming vehicles” were reported on motorways in the year to Nov 17 – up by 15 per cent on 2023.

That is up from 858 during the previous 12 months, and represents an average of 19 every week.

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‘This is medicine’: inside the psilocybin retreat for US first responders

In mid-September, after the fire season in the American west largely went quiet but before hurricanes ravaged the south-east, seven first responders from across the US traveled to Mexico seeking a therapy they hoped would transform their lives.

They had embarked on a sort of pilgrimage, journeying thousands of miles to an airy villa outside the humid beachside city of Puerto Vallarta, where over the course of three days a team would guide them through ceremonies with psilocybin, the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT and tobacco.

The retreat, paid for by a California-based non-profit, offered a chance at healing that had eluded the first responders through years of counseling, medication and meditation. On a sweltering Thursday afternoon, they sat in a circle under a wood pergola and shared what ailed them: pain and rage without an identifiable source, on-the-job injuries that had upended their lives, childhood abuse, beloved friends lost to suicide or violence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?