In June 2023, folks in South Korea will immediately turn into youthful, the BBC reported. On Dec. 8, the South Korean parliament voted to modify from two conventional strategies of counting age to the extra widely known worldwide technique for official paperwork. Currently, Koreans are 1 yr outdated at beginning after which acquire one other yr on the first day of every following yr. An alternate technique has them at 0 upon beginning, then including a yr every Jan. 1. So, for instance, somebody born on Dec. 31, 2002, is nineteen years outdated utilizing the worldwide technique. But beneath Korea’s conventional strategies, they may be 20 or 21 years outdated. One member of parliament mentioned the change would scale back “unnecessary socio-economic costs, because legal and social disputes as well as confusion persist due to the different ways of calculating age.”
Unclear on the idea
Phoenix police officer Christian Goggans, who had been assigned to residence responsibility, took benefit of the scenario by dedicating extra hours to his porn profession, KOLD-TV reported. Goggans is dealing with an inside investigation after he allegedly traveled forwards and backwards to Las Vegas whereas on the clock to provide and star in pornographic movies. He posted the movies to a public Twitter web page utilizing his “stage” identify, Rico Blaze (which has since been made personal). A Phoenix PD public information officer mentioned Goggans’ work-from-home project required solely that he name in as soon as each day.
Your tax {dollars} at work
Someone aboard the USNS Yuma, a Navy transport ship moored on the Greek island of Crete, is having a superior toilet expertise, because of the set up of the Bio Bidet BB-1000, The Washington Free Beacon reported on Dec. 12. At a cool $553, the BB-1000 affords a heated seat, blow dryer, distant management, deodorizer and an “effective enema function,” which a retailer known as “the absolute strongest spray pressure of any electronic bidet seat on the market.” The Military Sealift Command confirmed the buy however declined to supply extra particulars.
People completely different From us
In Japan, a phenomenon referred to as rojo-ne — actually, sleeping on the highway — is as soon as once more changing into a hazard as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted and individuals are out partying extra, reported The Guardian. The quantity of deaths of snoozing partiers has almost doubled in Tokyo in comparison with final yr, police say, they usually’re fearful that the impending end-of-year celebrations will solely add to the drawback. Officials have additionally requested taxi drivers and others to drive with their excessive beams on and decelerate.
Animal antics
A dwell nativity scene in Carolina Beach, an island group about 140 miles southeast of Raleigh, North Carolina, was lacking its cows on Dec. 4, the News & Observer reported. The two cows escaped their pen at Seaside Chapel round 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 3, police defined, and have been apparently so decided to get away that they ended up in the Cape Fear River. Carolina Beach police have been joined by state park rangers and a Ok-9 with particular herding expertise as they hauled the soggy bovines again to shore.
Bright thought
A home-owner in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, was puzzled when he found 5 bullet holes in the siding of his home, together with one other in his son’s bed room window, the Grand Forks Herald reported. Police have been summoned, they usually questioned a next-door neighbor, Michael James Powers, 76, who readily admitted that he’d been capturing at a squirrel that was on his hen feeder; as he put it, “Well, that’s war.” Powers was aiming from his personal bed room window, and mentioned it wasn’t the first time he’d shot at squirrels. He provided to go discuss to “the other guy” and make it proper, however officers had one thing completely different in thoughts: They arrested him for reckless discharge of a firearm. When Powers informed his spouse he was being arrested, she responded, “Well, I told you.”
Police report
Anthony Thomas Tarduno, 48, saved the Hernando County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office the hassle of investigating after one of their patrol automobiles was set on fireplace on Dec. 7 in Spring Hill, Florida, WTSP-TV reported. As officers seemed over the scene, Tarduno walked up and confessed to being the arsonist, saying he “had been drinking at a bar … and decided he’d like to set it on fire.” Tarduno positioned a bag of rubbish beneath the patrol automobile and used a lighter to set it ablaze, police mentioned. Tarduno admitted to detectives that when he will get drunk, he does “stupid things.”
It’s a thriller
Residents of South Tampa, Florida, are shaking their heads, attempting to find the supply of “a deep, vibrating bass sound” that’s been occurring on Saturday evenings for months, Fox13-TV reported. “You can feel it when your head’s down on the pillow,” mentioned Abbi Reynolds. People have posted on social media, saying that their “windows are literally rattling” and “it reverberates from neighboring tall houses like an echo chamber.” But Tampa police can’t find the supply, both. They’ve checked with the native Air Force base and cruise strains, neither of that are answerable for the noise. Resident Zach Reynolds and others wish to get to the backside of it, attempting to triangulate the noise and station folks in numerous areas to suss out the wrongdoer.
Crime report
Police in the village of Warzymice, Poland, are looking for an unlikely wrongdoer in a vandalism case, Notes From Poland reported on Dec. 12: a Christmas tree. The odd determine reduce a gap in a fence and slashed the tires of 21 autos belonging to a meat warehouse round 1 a.m., and cameras recorded the complete incident. In reality, the determine is seen loitering close by and masking themselves with branches taken from close by timber earlier than committing the crime. Mateusz Watral, who works for the meat firm, known as it “more of a guerilla (action) than a well-prepared operation. Along the way he lost his ‘camouflage,’ (and) branches were scattered everywhere.”
Flipping the script
Alligator intrusions in Florida are so ubiquitous that News of the Weird has stopped reporting them. But in Brevard County on Dec. 4, the alligator’s look-alike cousin made an look in Melbourne Beach, WESH-TV reported. A 9-foot-long American crocodile, which is seldom seen to this point north, was chilling on a seashore. “American crocodiles typically live in coastal areas throughout the Caribbean, and southern Florida is at the very north end of their range,” famous the county’s Environmentally Endangered Lands Program. Uh, not anymore.
Ewwww
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, skilled a thunderstorm on Dec. 10 that introduced greater than lightning and heavy rain, WHNT-TV reported. The metropolis’s utility board supervisor, James Vance, mentioned lightning struck controls at a sewer pump station, which allowed nearly 2,000 gallons of sewage to circulation into the streets of the Camden Cove subdivision. The sludge finally flowed right into a stormwater retention pond, and utility crews have been in a position to clear up the mess.
New world order
People. Can’t all of us agree that quick meals isn’t price a human life? On Dec. 12 at a KFC restaurant in St. Louis, Fox2-TV reported, a person in the drive-thru requested for corn along with his meal. When the worker informed him they have been out of corn, he made threatening remarks, then drove as much as the window displaying a handgun. A 25-year-old worker went outdoors to talk with the suspect, who allegedly shot him. The sufferer is hospitalized along with his accidents. The suspect took off after the capturing; police are nonetheless searching for him.
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