WTF?

Literal pirates are stealing boats out of marinas in the Bay Area, reported The Messenger on Monday — taking advantage of slow response times from police.

“CBS News Bay Area reports that thieves stole a 40-foot Sea Ray yacht from the Embarcadero Cove Marina. Steven Young, the ship’s owner, says that he spotted his stolen yacht a few days later, with the pirates still on board,” reported Zachary Rogers. “Young tells CBS News that he immediately called the police but was told that without a police report, authorities couldn’t do anything. Police reportedly never showed and it wasn’t until the insurance company called them that the boat was recovered.”

And by that point, the boat had been stripped of all its valuable items and instruments. It was so thoroughly trashed that the insurance company wrote it off as a loss.

Trudeau’s narcissism and sociopathic demeanour towards other humans might be rooted in his childhood? 🧐

Here is Margaret Trudeau in a interview talking about why she chose to only see her kids 5 days out of every 14 so she could enjoy her hedonistic lifestyle.

Telling? pic.twitter.com/qqeowEXfx5

— Contrarian (@ContrarianTribe) September 12, 2023

Meet DeDe Duffy. A preschool teacher in Cape Coral, FL. She says she teaches her students that if they don’t like their parents, they can find another family.

She also says she teaches them to be gay.

These are the people teaching your kids. pic.twitter.com/e5HJFzMOvD

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 11, 2023

I have no idea which is the before or after pic. pic.twitter.com/luFFlLtkXL

— Males In Disguise (@MalesInDisguise) September 11, 2023

Air pollution caused by wildfire smoke linked to elevated suicide risk in rural counties: U.S. research

Exposure to wildfire smoke could have a detrimental impact on not only physical health, but also mental health, according to new research from the U.S. which found that air pollution may elevate the risk of suicide among some demographics.

Researchers combined data on wildfire smoke exposure levels, air pollution concentrations and deaths by suicide in the U.S., and found that a 10 per cent increase in airborne particles in rural counties could cause monthly suicide rates to rise by 1.5 per cent.

The phenomenon was strongest among groups already at risk for suicide who also had a high exposure to outdoor air by living in rural regions. No association was observed between air pollution and suicide risk among urban populations.

h/t Mauser

Pigeons cause £15,000 of damage to East London flat after patio door is accidentally left open

This is the horrendous £15,000 worth of damage wreaked by pigeons on an East London flat after tenants accidentally left a patio door ajar.

The messy birds managed to flutter their way into the two-bed house and proceeded to take over every room in the house.

Over the course of the next four weeks, the birds splattered every room with poop, with the worst hit being the living room and kitchen.

It is enough to make a connoisseur weep – the sight of millions of litres of red wine flooding down the streets of a Portuguese village.

The freak occurrence took place when two huge wine tanks burst at a distillery in Sao Lourenco do Bairro in central Portugal.

WATCH: Streets flooded with wine after tanks burst at Levira, Portugal distillery pic.twitter.com/GReBurByxN

— BNO News (@BNONews) September 11, 2023

A woman who sprang to fame giving controversial parenting advice has been charged with six counts of child abuse. What happened to Ruby Franke and her family?

On a late August morning in Utah, a 12-year-old boy covered in open wounds knocked at the door of a neighbour’s house asking for food and water.

He had escaped a nearby home moments before, by climbing out a window and running away with duct tape still on his ankles, police say.

Was it an air guitar solo or a charade of public urination?

So ran the debate in the Belgian parliament last Thursday over the alleged bad party behaviour of Belgium’s Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne and his friends, the BBC reports.

Part of the ongoing political fallout saga known in Belgian media as ‘Pipigate,’ Quickenborne, of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats party, had to answer to his country’s parliament over the events at his 50th birthday party on August 14th. 

A bronze statue of “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and architect of the Red Terror that followed the 1917 revolution, has been unveiled at the headquarters of Russia’s foreign spy service.

Dzerzhinsky, a Polish noble turned revolutionary who helped lay the foundations of the repressive system over which Joseph Stalin was to preside, is reviled by dissidents but is a hero to the spies who rule in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Wife had enough of her husband's trans fetish and moves out while he's at work. pic.twitter.com/9zjeKvTL3d

— Males In Disguise (@MalesInDisguise) September 11, 2023