Category: WTF
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Taipei City closes pool after falling ceiling hits woman
Taipei City closed down a swimming pool at its Nangang Sports Center after part of the ceiling collapsed and hit a woman, reports said Saturday. At the time of the incident Saturday morning, two people were present in the spa area, the Central News Agency reported. Falling steel elements hit a woman aged about forty,…
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‘Racial profiling at its worst!’ Man demands black woman show ID at NC swimming pool
A woman says she was racially profiled by a man wanting her to provide identification to prove she belonged at a private community pool in North Carolina on the Fourth of July. Jasmine Edwards posted video of an exchange between herself, a man she refers to as Adam, and a couple of Winston-Salem police officers…
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Woman loses job after ‘physically assaulting black teenager for swimming at community pool’
Woman dubbed ‘pool patrol paula’ as she becomes latest white American to become a viral sensation for phoning police about black people.
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Nobody cared to save lifeless man – but many were filming the incident
Yesterday, 24-year-old Nicolai Ris saved an elderly man who had driven his car into the harbor in the Danish town of Nykøbing Mors. He is shocked that no one who saw the incident was helping the man, but that people instead were filming the incident with mobile phones. English tourists saw what they thought was a…
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Swimmer dies after shark bites off penis
A beautiful day at the beach turned into every man’s nightmare for a Brazilian teenager. Jose Ernesto da Silva had his penis ripped off by a shark as he swam with pals over the weekend, according to reports. Shocked onlookers rushed into the water to assist the terrified young man and pulled him from the…
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Special Olympian disqualified for swimming too fast
A Special Olympics swimmer’s disqualification for swimming too fast has now led to a rule change. Joshua Coy, 20, looked defeated Sunday, moments after he got the news at the regional competition. “I was apparently disqualified for being too fast,” said Coy.
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Ian Thorpe, Giaan Rooney ferried around Commonwealth Games ‘in stolen car’
Swimming stars Ian Thorpe and Giaan Rooney were forced to walk the remainder of their journey to the Commonwealth Games aquatic centre to report on the swimming after the car they were in was seized by police. The pair were riding in the hire car when Gold Coast police pulled it over because it had…
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Man on bike jumps off Sunset Cliffs, nearly hits swimmer
A man caught the whole incident on video.
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Trump on Olympics: ‘Hard to sell tickets when you think you’re going to be nuked’
President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited him with the success of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and threw out a line about the North Korean nuclear threat. “President Moon of South Korea said without Donald Trump the Olympics would have been a total failure,” Trump said. “It’s true, true.…