In a bit of news, the verified Passenger Shaming account shared a grotesque video of a man urinating while sitting in an airport terminal, reports . He seemed to partake in the task without any shame or regard for the surrounding travelers. One of the other passengers recorded the clip, which has gone since it was first posted three days ago.
It's not clear where the incident took place. The man is shown sitting in one of the chairs pressed up against the wall. While the video is censored to keep it Instagram-friendly, the deed is visible. At first, he acts normally, and then after a few seconds, he starts urinating. Several of the people in the vicinity gasp in shock and disgust, although no one tries to get him to stop.
"P*SS OFF, 2019!" says the caption, which includes several cheeky emoji added to the remark.
Over 240,000 people viewed the video, and close to 1,000 have commented on it.
The majority of commenters were shocked by the man's actions and confused as to why none of the surrounding passengers spoke up or said anything to dissuade his unsanitary act. Several Instagram users were vocal about their desire to see the passenger arrested.
It's not clear what happened to him after the videographer stopped recording, or if he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs when the act occurred. His face has not been blurred out, so the video could be used as visual evidence if it becomes a police matter.
Despite the outrage, some people thought the clip could be an elaborate prank. Since the man's private area is blurred out, they believe he could merely be squeezing a water bottle, and the person who recorded him may have been in on the joke setup.
Strangely enough, there were even a couple of folks who thought that the man should be left alone.
"Can we please let this airport behaviour stay in 2019?" wrote one person.
"How do we get this guy on the no fly list?" asked a second user.
"Why is he not arrested. That's not acceptable behavior," a third individual mentioned.
"Probably got terminal and urinal mixed up," joked a fourth Instagrammer.
This is hardly the first time that a video of someone acting weird while traveling has gone viral. The Passenger Shaming Instagram account frequently hosts footage of travelers doing strange things and having the misfortune of getting caught by someone with a cellphone.

An state board will have to decide if being a fan of the Cleveland Browns and/or Cincinnati Bengals is enough to qualify for the use of medical marijuana, Cleveland's reports.
Similar to what multiple other states are doing or have already done, Ohio is gearing up to start its own medical marijuana program. Taking a cue from Missouri and similar states, the Buckeye State's program will be on the strict side, requiring users to meet one or more of several certain "qualifying conditions" and getting a physician's recommendation before being allowed to legally purchase marijuana.
Authorities sought the help of the general public, launching a petition to decide which health issues it should consider adding to the list of approved qualifying conditions. Not unexpectedly, the list contained several ailments that typically come up in the conversation about what things marijuana can supposedly treat, like epilepsy, anxiety disorders, depression, and autism spectrum disorder, among others.
However, also included on the list is "Being a Browns/Bengals fan."
It probably started with a joke -- after all, when you crowdsource ideas, the crowd is sometimes likely to come up with some tongue-in-cheek suggestions that are going to make it through the process. One example was when the British Antarctic Survey sought the internet's help in coming up with the name of a research vessel -- only for users to come up with Boaty McBoatFace. The agency instead named the vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough instead.
Joke or not, the state medical board will have to consider it since it was properly submitted through the proper channels.
So, is being a fan of either the AFC North's or Cincinnati Bengals enough to qualify for medical marijuana?
Well, the two teams fleshed out the bottom two slots of their division in the 2019 NFL season -- combining for a record of 8-24 -- so there's that. And in the nearly 20 years since the Browns have been in Cleveland following a hiatus, they've had only two winning seasons and one playoff appearance. The Bengals are slightly better, having made the postseason with relative consistency since 1990. However, over that timeframe, they've never won a playoff game.
A fan of either team who smokes marijuana isn't going to turn around either team's fortunes by puffing and passing, of course. So if the state does approve medical marijuana for the fans' use, the teams will still stink if they aren't able to address their weaknesses. But their pot-using fans just won't care.
There has been some evidence that being a fan of a losing team can take a toll on one's mental health. As reported in 2015, watching one's favorite sports team go through their ups and downs -- a long string of downs in particular -- could have a profound effect on anxiety, depression, and stress.

Justin Bailey, a resident of Rose Hill, , received quite the scare on Wednesday when he discovered a hidden inside his living room couch, reports .
The citizen called the Rose Hill Police Department after the startling discovery, in the hopes that someone would be able to retrieve the snake for him. The Butler County Fire District No. 3 later responded to the call. Deputy Fire Chief Melvin Linot -- who the department has dubbed their "resident snake charmer" -- managed to wrangle the reptile and even posed for a photograph that was later posted on the department's official Facebook page.
They asked if anyone was missing a pet boa and if so, they could claim it. Several reptile-lovers on the Facebook post didn't know whose snake it was but were keen to adopt it themselves if no one came to collect it.
According to , Bailey was searching for his keys when he plunged his hands down in between the couch cushions and felt something scaly hidden beneath.
"I reach into the right side, and I feel something, and I'm like, 'That doesn't feel right,'" said the concerned resident.
He also added that he had no idea how the creature found its way into his home. It may have taken up residence inside the Bailey family couch months ago, potentially when it was much smaller.
Reporters from ABC News spoke with Butler County Fire Chief James Woydziak about what they'll do next with the reptile.
"I'm not even sure who gets to make that decision. This has never come up before," stated a baffled Woydziak.
People on Twitter found the news to be pretty humorous and joked that they were shocked this particular story occurred in Kansas and not in Florida -- a state known for many oddities. Others were terrified by the report and vowed to get their couches thoroughly inspected before sitting on them again. One user even shared the infamous Snakes on a Plane scene with Samuel L. Jackson.
"So that's what happened to the baby snake I left at my in-laws house 27 years ago..." quipped one Twitter user.
"It was just protecting all that loose change between the cushions," wrote another person.
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Per the aforementioned 13 WHTR article, the boa constrictor is now at a Kansas pet store. A phone number for the rightful pet owner to call was shared on the Butler County Fire District's Facebook page.

A woman fought off a possibly rabid otter, saving her dog and her teenage daughter in the process, reports.
Casina Ewert and her family were getting ready for their day last Tuesday morning when the incident occurred. The debacle began when Ewart's 17-year-old daughter, Gwyn, let their family dog, Scooter, out the back door for his morning adventures. Not long afterwards, both women heard a loud commotion.
"I sprinted to the backdoor, and I was like, 'Scooter!' All I saw was like a big, black ball, just all over the place," Gwyn said.
Gwyn tried to close the door, but unfortunately she was just a hair too late. The otter was chasing the dog inside, and Gwyn not only failed to close the door before he got inside, but she managed to shut the door on him, seemingly enraging the animal.
"The otter got stuck," Gwyn said.
Once again, the animals were fighting, and so fast and furious were the beasts' fisticuffs that Casina couldn't tell who was who, describing the entire situation as "a big, tangled tumbleweed."
Casina says that she grabbed the otter by the tail, but the beast kept latching onto pieces of furniture
"I snatched it by the tail, and then, I held it up like a prize. The otter's going crazy," she said.

Eventually she was able to get a long-enough hold on the animal to throw it into the backyard and close the door.
"My husband's like, 'Case, you just alligator-wrangled an otter in the living room,'" she said.
When the dust had settled, both Gwyn and Scooter had received multiple bite marks, according to .
Gwyn was taken to a hospital to get stitched up and get a series of shots. Scooter, for his part, had just gotten his rabies shot a couple of days earlier, but was still placed under quarantine just as a precautionary measure.
As for the otter, he or she hasn't been caught, so there's no knowing for sure if it was rabid. However, Dustin Hooper, an animal trapper and owner of All Creatures Wildlife Control, says that otters normally flee from humans, so this one's behavior was definitely unusual.
Officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have been setting up traps in order to catch the animal and test it. Meanwhile, the agency is getting reports from other homeowners of a crazed otter attacking their dogs.

A man could be looking at time behind bars after he allegedly released mice and other rodents in various hotel rooms, then alerted staff, hoping they could compensate him with a free stay.
As the reported, 37-year-old Ryan State is accused of taking the rodents to three different hotels in Utah and secretly releasing them in his rooms. At the third location, the Hyatt House in Salt Lake City, the hotel's general manager decided to call police after State tried to claim that his room was infested. After the first two hotels reportedly fell for the ploy and compensated him with free stays, police caught on and arrested State.
As the report noted, the man is accused of damaging several hotel rooms after the rodents left behind feces. As noted, the scam could have been costly to the hotels, as they are required to bring in pest control whenever rodents and feces are found in rooms. State's gambit could have also netted him a few hundred dollars, had it worked. The website for the Hyatt House lists rooms from $109 to $149 per night.
It was not clear what other hotels he allegedly targeted or how much money State could have made, in what police referred to as services stolen by fraud.
The strange circumstances of the alleged scam and the fact that it worked at least twice helped attract some national attention. Some major media outlets picked up the story of State's arrest, even though the charges only amounted to misdemeanors.
This is not the first to gain viral attention. Back in 2015, police in Texas said a couple who lost their dog later found that someone was advertising its sale on Craigslist. Police said the people listing the 11-year-old terrier were taking part in a "dog flipping" scheme, in which they tried to profit from re-selling the dog. The animal's owners contacted the seller, who then took down the ad. The rightful owner was eventually able to track down the sellers, who forced them to pay in order to get their beloved pet back -- only to find that its coat had been painted in an effort to hide the fact that it was stolen.
In this most recent case, State has been charged with two counts of theft by deception and three counts of criminal mischief. It's not clear if a conviction would result in jail time.

Thanks to strong winter storms that kicked up high winds in the region, a "ghost ship" has washed ashore in , following a year drifting aimlessly at sea after its crew abandoned it. According to officials are warning the public to stay away from the wreckage.
Back in 2018, the 253-foot MV Alta -- which at the time was already well over 40 years old -- was damaged off the coast of Bermuda. Unable to make repairs, the crew abandoned the vessel and was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard, which took them safely to Puerto Rico. The craft was meant to be towed to Guyana.
However, the boat never made it there and was believed to have been hijacked by bandits. What happened after that is unclear; but by August 2019, it had been found by a Royal Navy ship, HMS Protector, floating aimlessly in the mid-Atlantic.
Over the next several months, the ship was carried about by winds and currents along the Atlantic Ocean. It's believed to have drifted northwards along the west coast of Africa, past and all the way to Ireland.
Meanwhile, off the coast of The Emerald Isle, Storm Dennis kicked up winds and waves that finally pushed the rusting vessel to shore. It was specifically washed ashore near Ballycotton, a fishing village in County Cork. The craft landed on some rocks, apparently fully intact.

Needless to say, the abandoned vessel is garnering its share of curiosity-seekers who came out to the shore to get a glimpse. However, officials are warning the public to stay away from the ship, due to the fact that its final resting place is on a remote stretch of inaccessible shoreline bedeviled by tricky waves, high winds and jagged rocks. Plus, the stability of the vessel is uncertain.
"Cork county council is asking members of the public to stay away from the wreck location," the county said in a recent statement.
For now, the Irish government's immediate concern is the potential environmental impact of the vessel. The ship, like any derelict ship, could potentially still have toxic substances on board, including oil and fuel, that could spill into the ocean.
A team of scientists has taken a preliminary look at the situation and determined that there doesn't appear to be any environmental damage. However, a team will take another look during the next low tide, which is expected to be on Tuesday.

A man whose remains were found in a freezer had written a note exonerating his wife for his death, reports. Still, questions remain about how Paul Edward Mathers died and how his remains wound up in a freezer.
On November 22, 2019, a maintenance worker was doing a job in the town of Tooele, when the worker came upon the remains of 75-year-old Jeanne Souron-Mathers, who is believed to have died of natural causes. As authorities were investigating the scene, they found a . Inside were the frozen remains of 69-year-old Paul Edward Mathers. The man's body was wrapped in a garbage bag, with another garbage bag over his head and held by duct tape wound tightly around his neck, according to Salt Lake City's .
Also found in the home was a note, typed and notarized, presumably written by Mr. Mathers, in which he exonerates Jeanne for his death.
"I want it known that Jeanne is in NO way responsible for my death," the note reads.
What's more, Mr. Mathers said that he had actually wanted to commit suicide, but that Jeanne had "foiled" his suicide attempts.
Authorities believe that Paul Mathers had died some time between March 2 and 5, 2009. While it's been a decade since he died and most of the people who knew him, and/or who had any possible connection to the case have died, police are having a difficult time determining much else about the man's death.

At the time, Mathers had been diagnosed with end-stage bladder cancer and was expected to have only months to live.
As he pointed out in his note, he was taking powerful prescription painkillers at the time. A toxicology report later found "highly lethal levels" of several prescription narcotics in his system.
According to authorities, at this time, there's no way of telling whether Mathers had died before or after the duct tape was wrapped around his neck.
Meanwhile, it is not clear how Mathers' remains wound up in the freezer.
According to police, Mathers' sister had spoken to him on the phone on March 2. On March 5, she came to the home to see her brother and was purportedly told by Jeanne that he had moved to California. Authorities say that Mathers was likely dead when his sister came asking questions and had died within that three-day period.
As for Jeanne Souron-Mathers, police believe that her death was due to natural causes.

A Portland strip club forced to close during the crisis has found an innovative way to stay in business -- with a curbside food delivery service it calls "Boober Eats."
The Lucky Devil Lounge closed its doors this week as businesses across Oregon closed and residents went into isolation to prevent the further spread of the virus. As in Portland reported, owner Shon Boulden was trying to find a way to generate some business and originally came up with the food delivery idea as a joke -- especially the play on words taking off the popular service Uber Eats -- but the concept generated so much interest on Facebook that he decided to launch it for real.
Boulden told that the establishment will still be offering its full menu outside of alcoholic beverages, and would have two of the dancers deliver it to the doors of patrons. They will even get a bit of a show, Boulden noted, saying the delivery women will "wear pasties and booty shorts, drop off the food, dance for a second and then move along" -- all while keeping sanitary with disinfectant spray.
As the Z100 report added, the idea allows the dancers and kitchen employees to keep working to cook and deliver the food, and the bouncers will be serving as drivers.

The curbside delivery is one of the ways that suddenly shuttered businesses are trying to carry on amid the nationwide shutdowns. As reported, sports venues across the country are donating food they had purchased and stored for games that have now been canceled, sending them to local food banks to help people in need.
In Los Angeles, the Staples Center sent a hoard of food to the Midnight Mission, making it the largest one-day donation in its history.
"At that point, we were ready to lockdown the arena and go into full hibernation mode," Payman Khania, Staples Center's vice president of hospitality and retail strategy, told . "We realized there wasn't much that we could do with any of the food, so we decided to figure out how much we could donate."
Sports are not expected to return anytime soon, with the NBA suspending play indefinitely and Major League Baseball pushing the start of the season back until at least May. It was also not clear when the Lucky Devil Lounge could re-open, but the kitchen is currently taking orders, with its dancers ready to deliver.

YouTuber Princezee caused quite the commotion online when a video of him licking a subway pole on Wednesday went viral after it was posted to WorldStarHipHop's account. Princezee -- aka Zeeshan Ali in real life -- was on the subway earlier this week when he stood on an unknown train and began licking a pole.
In the eight-second clip, one mask-wearing passenger was seen looking up just as the YouTuber licked the pole. The passenger looked visibly bothered by Princezee's actions and scooted further away from him in his seat.
WorldStarHipHop captioned the video with the hashtag "Princezee" and a caption pertaining to his behavior, along with the germ, flustered, and weary emoji. The popular online platform also tagged the social media star.
At present, the clip has over 300,000 views, over 2,000 likes, and over 500 retweets. Hundreds of people have commented on the post. One Twitter user wrote "what's wrong with people," while another questioned if the YouTuber felt risking his health was worth the notoriety if the footage went viral."[You] seriously gotta ask yourself if your health was worth the attention smh?"

Another Twitter user remarked that it was "natural selection," while another said that if restaurant and bar owners are being arrested for "endangering the public," that Princezee should also be arrested.
Other users replied with popular GIFs in response to the footage. One user tweeted the Cardi B "what was the reason" GIF, while another posted the "oh no, baby, what is you doing?" GIF.
Additionally, someone else directed their comment to WorldStarHipHop, questioning them for promoting the video on their page in the first place.
Princezee retweeted the video but has thus far not commented on it or on the numerous reactions to the video.
Princezee's video isn't the only one of its kind to have gone viral this week. On Monday, an Instagram influencer named caught the ire of the internet after she posted a TikTok clip of herself licking an airplane toilet. She captioned the six-minute upload with a plea to her fans to share the video so that people would know how to "properly be sanitary" while flying.
After many individuals commented on the video questioning the sanitary nature of the act, Louise said that it was no different from performing analingus. When it was posited that she could potentially catch the coronavirus, she said that "just like the gays," women who are rich and blond are "immune" from the respiratory illness.

A man in filmed himself at an unnamed supermarket licking a row of toiletries while saying, "Who's scared of - don't touch your mouth?" reported the incident earlier today after the video clip went viral on Twitter. It has currently been viewed over 4 million times.
The video begins with the man talking to the camera and then he bends down, sticks out his tongue, and runs it along a shelf of what looks like deodorant and various other items in the toiletry aisle. One thing concerning many people is whether he limited himself to this one aisle or if he continued licking other items around the store after he finished filming.
The moment recalls the other infamous incident from last year when people started a challenge to open ice cream containers in stores and in the store freezers. However, it is even worse in this case since the world is currently amid the coronavirus pandemic.
He captioned his video, "I'm a nasty moths f*cker [sic]." It appears he originally shared it on his Instagram story or Snapchat before someone posted it on Twitter.
One person shared the video on their account and wrote, "let the doxxing begin." Social media users are outraged by this man's actions.
Luckily, the article reports that the Warrenton Police Department has identified the man in question and taken him into custody. It sounds like the video going viral helped to find him, as the article indicates that the police had received "tipoffs from around the world." Officials claimed they had heard reports from the U.K., Netherlands, and Ireland.
"We take these complaints very seriously and would like to thank all of those who reported the video so the issue could be addressed," said a statement from the police.

Piers Morgan slammed the man while on ITV this morning reports . Morgan went so far as to say the man should be denied medical treatment if he contracts the virus and be put in jail.
Many people on social media felt similar to Morgan and expressed their anger about the incident online.
"Completely agree with Piers. People are really starting to f*cking annoy me," said one person.
"Great. As if Missouri needed more to be embarrassed about. He is not what Missouri is about. Chances are he is in St. Louis. That town is a cesspool," wrote another user.
This incident marks a disturbing trend that has cropped up during the pandemic. recently reported that YouTube star Princezee filmed himself licking a subway pole in a viral Twitter video.

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland unveiled an unusual strategy to combat the this week -- literally "blowing" it away through the power of prayer.
A viral video showed Copeland speaking to an empty congregation this week, claiming to be able to blow away the deadly virus through his viewers' television screens. As noted, the normally over-the-top Copeland seemed to even go a step further in his prayer trying to protect people from the spread of the virus.
"Check out this video from Televangelist Kenneth Copeland, who sermonized to his congregation Thursday that with a little wind and heat, he could take the wind out of the sails of the deadly virus," the report noted. "Copeland, who heads up the Copeland Ministries out of Fort Worth, has been in the biz for 52 years, but this sermon has gotta take the cake. He has promised his congregants that the virus would end soon."
The video attracted some viral attention online, with many sharing it on social media and offering some doubt about whether his prayer could really be enough to slow the spread of the virus.
Copeland has for his past statements regarding the coronavirus, including a prediction back in mid-March that the outbreak would soon be over. The televangelist told followers that they do not have to live in fear of the virus, noting that, "Jesus has already redeemed you from the curse—which includes all sickness and disease."
Copeland said that "Christian people all over this country praying have overwhelmed it." In the close to three weeks since then, the coronavirus has spread rapidly across the U.S., with more than 333,000 reported cases through Sunday afternoon and more than 9,500 deaths.

Later in March, Copeland said viewers of his ministry's program were "healed" of the coronavirus disease through his prayer, reported.
"Thank you, Lord Jesus. He received your healing," Copeland said in another video. "Now say it: I take it. I have it. It's mine. I thank you and praise you for it."
In another , Copeland showed the back of a container of disinfectant wipes, noting that they claimed they had the power to kill the coronavirus. Copeland then delivered a statement claiming that the current virus was the same as the common flu, only not as serious.
"It's a very weak strain of flu," he said.
Experts have pushed back against people comparing COVID-19 to the flu, noting that the current strain is believed to be more than 10 times as deadly and spreads more rapidly. They have also pointed out that this is a novel strain of coronavirus that has only been transmitted through humans for a matter of a few months; the common coronavirus, which can create the common cold and which was referenced on the disinfectant wipes that Copeland showed, is very different.

A 64-year-old man's gift of a flight in a military fighter jet ended with the man accidentally hitting the "Eject" button in a panic and being launched from the aircraft at 2,500 feet, reports.
The comedy of errors that led to the incident began when the unidentified man's employees gifted him a ride in a Dassault Rafale B jet with an experienced pilot. The fighter jets, which can achieve a speed of about 870 miles per hour, are used by the French military.
The man and his team showed up at the Saint-Dizier air base in northeastern , where his employees had arranged for him to take the flight, even though the man had no military aviation experience and had never shown any interest in taking a ride in a fighter jet.
Even before climbing into the aircraft, data from the man's smartwatch shows that he began to panic as soon as he realized what was happening.
"His heart was in full tachycardia," said a report of the incident, noting that the man's heartbeat had reached between 136 and 142 beats per minute.
Even though by this point he was in a blind panic, the man went ahead and got into the aircraft. Then, his pilot took off into the skies, accompanied by two other aircraft in a training exercise.
When the aircraft got to about 2,500 feet and the pilot began to climb, the civilian passenger began to furiously try to find something to hold on to. Unfortunately, what he found was the plane's "Eject" button, when meant that the man was launched into the sky.
Authorities describing the incident were clear that the man didn't deliberately eject himself from the craft, noting instead that it was all due to an "involuntary reflex."
Making matters worse, the man had not properly secured his helmet, which flew off of his head, becoming a potentially deadly piece of debris that fell to the ground.
Fortunately, the man, who had never ejected from a flying aircraft before, landed safely in a field. He was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution.
According to , a "technical error" prevented the pilot from also being ejected. Had that happened, the results could have been catastrophic, as there would have been no one to safely land the aircraft.
The pilot suffered minor facial injuries in the ordeal. Nevertheless, he was able to land the plane safely.

A man named Tupac Shakur has gotten a public apology from Gov. Andy Beshear, who had accused him of filing his unemployment application under a fake name as a prank, reports.
The rapper Tupac Shakur was born in 1971 with the name Lesane Parish Crooks, but he later changed it. He died in 1996, although conspiracy theories posit that his death was a cover-up and that he's alive and well.
It so happens that a man shares a name with the late rapper. Kentucky's Tupac was also born in the 1970s, and these days he prefers to go by his middle name, Malik. He had recently been laid off from his job as a cook after the restaurant where he worked closed down in order to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. And on his unemployment application, he, of course, applied using his legal name.
When word got to Beshear that an unemployment application was filed using the name Tupac Shakur, he wasn't having it. He accused the man of playing a prank and said that it wasn't funny at all. He noted that Kentuckians feeling the pinch of the coronavirus pandemic need to get their unemployment claims resolved quickly, and suggested that bogus applications clog up the system.
"That person probably felt they were being funny, they probably did. Except for the fact that, because of them, we've got to go through so many other claims," Beshear said at the time.
Kentucky's Tupac was understanding about Beshear's consternation, however, telling a local news outlet that "mistakes happen."
"That's just my name," he said.
Beshear has since learned that Kentucky's Tupac is a real, living person with that name, whose unemployment application was a genuine request for benefits and not a joke.
He has apologized, both in private and publicly.
"I talked to him on the phone today, and I apologized. I told him how it happened, but I owned it. It's my fault. He was gracious. I said I'm sorry if I embarrassed him or caused him any attention he didn't want, and he was very kind. He ended the call, 'God bless,'" Beshear said at a press conference.

Beshear also promised to see to it that Shakur's unemployment claim is resolved quickly.
The debacle generated its share of giggles on social media. For example, one Twitter user referenced the conspiracy theory that the rapper Tupac Shakur is not dead.
"Took a pandemic for Tupac to come out of hiding," the Twitter user wrote.

A troupe of circus performers have been stuck in a parking lot for nearly two months, and their supplies of food and money are dwindling as the coronavirus pandemic continues with no end in sight, reports. Many of the performers are from countries that have instituted travel bans, meaning that the performers effectively have no homes to go to.
Cirque MonteCarlo had been touring through in early March, just as the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic was starting to be fully understood in the U.S. By March 9, the group had made it as far as the town of Grand Prairie, before dwindling ticket sales and shelter-in-place orders forced them to shut down.
They've been in a nearby location, which they've declined to divulge due to privacy concerns, ever since.
The troupe's home operations manager, Cindi Cavallini, says that they thought that the lockdown would last two or three weeks. Instead, it's been nearly two months, and it's not going away any time soon.
"We were not expecting it to drag this long," she said.
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Fortunately, the circus was able to hastily negotiate boarding arrangements with the owner of a nearby parking lot. Further, since the circus is a traveling operation, the performers are used to living on the road, and their caravan of equipment includes living space and facilities to store and prepare food.
However, there is no ticket revenue coming in, and the group still has to come up with $500 per week to pay their rent. Further, the troupe's generators burn through hundreds of dollars of diesel fuel per day. And of course, the performers and support staff need to be fed. The circus does not use animals, so there are no animals to feed.
What's more, since most of the staff are from South American countries that have banned international travel, the performers can't go back to their homes.
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The troupe has launched a GoFundMe page to raise money for food and rent. As of this writing, they've raised just over $4,000 of their $10,000 goal.
We have made a commitment to [our employees] and they have stayed loyal to us during this very trying period," reads the crowdsourcing page.
Meanwhile, with nothing to do, the performers spend their days practicing their acts or playing soccer and chess. Two members venture into town for food and fuel, and they are "disinfected" when they return from trips out.
"We were not prepared for this pandemic to take such a toll on us," Cavallini says.

Crew Dragon splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after spending two months on the International Space Station. But before the two crew members aboard the capsule were confirmed to be successfully recovered, dozens of boats swarmed the splashdown zone, one with a large blue banner with "Trump" emblazoned across it.
The crowd of seacraft prompted outrage among those who believe that the vehicles could have put the recovery efforts in jeopardy.
As reported, as the recovery team scrambled to recover NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, the scene in the area was chaotic. It wasn't clear why private crafts were allowed to be in the zone, but as some noted on social media, they could have prevented rescue teams from doing their job.
On top of that, there is the possibility of toxic propellant reaching the public from the spacecraft's thrusters, which are used to slow the craft as it nears the water.

"The one thing you can count on with Trump supporters is extreme selfish entitlement," wrote one person.
Emre Kelly, who covers space topics for USA Today, was following the event closely while commenting on social media. He noted that the crew had splashed down before realizing that a boat flying a Trump banner had buzzed through the spot.
"Am I seeing this correctly? Did a private boat flying a Trump flag just approach Crew Dragon then have to be forced out?" he . "Yup. Sounds like those private boats are being asked to vacate the area. Not cool."
"I hope all of you understand how serious of a problem this is. On a good day, it's dangerous for the SpaceX recovery crew + boat. On a less good day, they'd seriously impede on emergency operations and likely be affected in the process. This. Isnt. Funny," another person following the crew's landing.
Other commenters mused about why the landing spot was made public and why boats were being allowed to be in the region. Many wondered where the Coast Guard was during the landing. Some questioned the intellect of the boater.
The astronauts landed in the gulf as the first splashdown in 45 years. The two men left the ISS 20 hours prior after completing the first crewed spaceflight from the U.S. since the space shuttle program was retired in 2011.
The Crew Dragon were into space in May and performed various experiments while they were aboard the space station, before returning to Earth, where they were successfully recovered.

Perhaps because of her left-leaning political views or her young age, newly-sworn in Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has garnered a lot of criticism from various media outlets. Aside from a recent attempt to discredit her reputation with an unearthed video of her dancing, an alleged nude picture of the congresswoman has been making the rounds. Thankfully, some crafty and detail-oriented Reddit users came to the forefront to defend Cortez.
As reported by , an image of a woman in a bathtub surfaced on Reddit's r/Drama subreddit. The photo, which showcases a woman's feet and legs, is fairly tame, though if you were to zoom in on the reflection from the faucet, you would find an image of the woman's breasts. On this particular Reddit thread, some were claiming the image was sourced from Ocasio-Cortez's Instagram account.
Needless to say, the image in question is not of Cortez. How do we know this? Well, thanks to the detective work of a few foot fetishists, of course.
In particular, we have one internet sleuth, in particular, to give thanks to. Reddit user jokes_on_you compared the questionable image with a small collection of photos showcasing Ocasio-Cortez's feet, which are shared on Wikifeet, a website that is devoted to foot fetish photos of celebrities and other famous public figures.

Speaking to Motherboard, jokes_on_you explained how he was able to spot the difference.
"I've sucked enough toes in my life to recognize when something doesn't look right," jokes_on_you relayed in a direct message on Reddit."Because we can't dorsi- or plantarflex our 2nd-5th toes independently I knew it wasn't a matter of the toe being bent. I thought that maybe she has some form of brachydactyly but her Wikifeet page has clear evidence to the contrary. So it was clear to me that it wasn't her feet."For the inquisitive in nature, the photo -- and the feet -- actually belong to Sydney Leathers, a cam model and political activist. Savvy readers may remember Leathers for her role in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, which ended with jail time for the former Democratic congressman.
As previously alluded to, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been the target of a handful of attempts to discredit her career. Last week, a day before she was sworn in as a congresswoman, an old video of Cortez surfaced, which showed her dancing on the rooftop as a college student -- per reporting by the . On social media, pundits and political commentators have been quick to target her, including The Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro, per an article by the .

Controversial Fox News host has been known to embrace eccentric . On his own program in June of this year, Carlson went on a , calling it "tyranny." But in last week's episode of the History Channel program Ancient Aliens, Carlson appeared to support an even farther-out theory.
In an interview with British journalist Nick Pope that aired on the November 22 edition of Ancient Aliens, Carlson claimed that a "knowledgeable" source has told him that the United States government possesses physical evidence that alien spacecraft have landed on Earth — or at least, crash-landed.
"I've heard this from someone who I think is knowledgeable on the subject that there is physical evidence that the U.S. government is holding, um, that, you know, would tell us a lot more - about what these objects are," Carlson told Pope on the program, as seen in the video excerpt below on this page.
Pope then asked Carlson if he was referring to UFO "wreckage."
"That is correct," Tucker told the Ancient Aliens interviewer.
Of course, Carlson's openness to the existence of UFOs and aliens on Earth is not new. In July, Carlson interviewed Donald Trump for a segment, raising the subject with him.

Trump told Carlson at the time that he did not consider himself a "believer" in UFOs, and said, "personally, I tend to doubt" that aliens have visited Earth in spaceships. But Trump left the door open, adding, "you know, I guess anything is possible."
Carlson also asked Trump if he believed the claim that the government was holding UFO wreckage in an Air Force facility. But Trump replied, "I don't assume it's correct."
Nonetheless, Trump told Carlson that he had "an open mind" on the subject.
At the time of Carlson's interview, the U.S. Defense Department had recently briefed Trump on a series of sightings by Navy pilots of objects in the sky that they could not identify. The objects appeared to be moving at "hypersonic speeds," according to the Fox News report on Carlson's interview with Trump.
In 2007, the Central Intelligence Agency issued a report documenting the intelligence agency's own investigations of the UFO phenomenon. The 84-page report, which remains available to read online via , notes that at least two U.S. presidents — Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter — claimed that they had experienced UFO sightings.
The study acknowledged "documents" that claimed to prove "the recovery of UFO wreckage" from an alleged Roswell, New Mexico, crash site. But the CIA report said that, "most if not all of these documents have proved to be fabrications."

A who faked a medical condition in order to get a better seat on an airplane during the busy Thanksgiving weekend ended up causing the plane to be diverted, police say.
The unnamed woman is now in custody after police say she told staff on an American Airlines flight from Pensacola to Miami that she was having trouble breathing. As reported, the woman actually wanted to sit more comfortably during the flight and was making up the medical issue.
The pilot had to turn around and return to Pensacola, where the plane landed.
The situation only got sticker from there, the report noted. After the flight was diverted, the woman refused to leave the plane, leading officials to evacuate all other passengers. The pilot was eventually able to convince the woman to leave the plane, and she was arrested.
As American Airlines noted in a statement on the incident, it all took place in under two hours — which was nearly 20 minutes longer than the length of the original .
"American Eagle 3508 returned to Pensacola due to a passenger who requested medical assistance," American Airlines said in a statement to NBC News on Friday. "The flight took off at 5:43 a.m. and landed back at Pensacola at 6:26 a.m. and taxied to the gate. All [passengers] deplaned normally at the gate through the main boarding door and onto the jet bridge. The passenger was subsequently removed by law enforcement and medical personnel, and the flight took off again at 7:41 a.m."
As the reported, police took the woman into custody under the state's Baker Act, which allows a person to be held involuntarily if they pose a threat to themselves or others. The report did not note whether the woman had been released or remained in custody.
It was not clear yet if the woman would face charges for claiming she suffered a medical issue, Pensacola Police Department public information officer Mike Wood said. She may still be charged, the report noted.

The woman could also face some large fines if found guilty of the charges. Last year, a man's unruly behavior on a Delta Airlines flight caused it to be diverted for singing loudly and screaming, as well as making a veiled threat against a flight attendant. After being hit with federal assault charges, the man was fined close to $10,000 for the cost of diverting the flight.

A is facing charges after police say he sexually assaulted a stuffed Frozen toy inside a Target store.
Cody Christopher Meader had been arrested after the October 22 incident in which police claim he ejaculated on an Olaf doll inside a St. Petersburg store and then put the toy back on the shelf. As the reported, Meader was then accused of moving to a large stuffed unicorn and dry humping it before he was stopped and detained by police inside the store.
obtained the police report, which noted that Meader admitted to doing "stupid stuff" inside the store and told police that he had ejaculated on the doll. The report noted that Meader's father also spoke to police, saying that his son had a history of similar incidents.
Employees inside Target had to remove the toys and have them destroyed.
"The merchandise could not be re-sold and [was] destroyed due to circumstances," the police report read.
This week, police charged Meader with criminal mischief. He had already been set free from custody on $150 bond.
It was not clear what level of charges the Florida man could face, but the state's legal statutes contain varying degrees of punishment for criminal mischief relating to property damage. If damage to property is $200 or less, it is considered a second-degree misdemeanor, punishable by a term of no more than 60 days in jail.
The report did not specify if the two individual toys had to be destroyed or if it was the entire shelf where he placed the Olaf doll. If the amount of damaged toys totaled between $200 and $1,000, he could face a first-degree criminal mischief charge. Though still a misdemeanor, it would carry a potential jail sentence of up to one year if Meader were convicted.
The report also did not note whether Meader had a lawyer, or if mental health issues could have contributed to the bizarre Target incident, as the police report had implied. The attack also came as advertisements for the Frozen 2 sequel were being heavily pushed, with Target and other stores selling products that promote the movie.

The incident gained some viral attention at the time, including a joke on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. Some also took to social media to share the strange story, which to many appeared to be the epitome of the "Florida man" meme about citizens of the state committing .

A scrapyard cut open an old safe and found $26,000 in old -- but still good -- coins and bills inside, reported. The scrap dealer said he plans to donate the money to charity.
David Dodds, the managing director of Sackers, a scrapyard and scrap metal dealer in Ipswich, has a theory about how the safe full of money came to be in his possession.
"The suspicion is it could have been an old factory that was due for demolition and it was in the corner of their offices. When it's demolished then all the scrap goes into the bin, comes into the works and then we treat it," he said.
According to , Dodds said that lots of safes come through his business, but it's exceptionally rare for anything to be found inside, much less anything valuable.
Nevertheless, back in April, his crew opened up four safes that had wound up in their scrapyard. Three, not unexpectedly, contained nothing at all. The fourth one, however, contained the huge cash haul.
Many of the bills were damaged from water that had seeped in over the years. Similarly, much of it was so old that it is no longer considered legal tender in Britain, although it can be exchanged for more modern money.
The money was put into police custody. The police said that they wanted to see if it was somehow the proceeds of a crime. Additionally, they said they wanted to give anyone who could be the money's rightful owner a chance to make their case and claim it.
At least one person tried to convince the police the money was theirs, but "within about 30 nanoseconds" authorities realized the person had no case.
After a few months, a court determined that the money rightfully belonged to the scrapyard. However, Dodds won't be keeping the money. Instead, he said he would be donating it to two hospitals: East Anglian Children's Hospice and St. Elizabeth Hospice.
"We wanted to give the money to somewhere local so it could really make a difference," said Helen Crapnell, the marketing manager at Sackers.
As reported at the time by , back in June a tourist visited a small Canadian museum that had been in possession of a safe for decades, unable to open it but letting tourists take a crack at it. The tourist was able to open it on the first try. Unfortunately, the only things in the safe were a handful of receipts and an old notebook.