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schoolers called the Peppa Effect. The hypothesis is that children who watched a lot of Peppa Pig during the pandemic lockdown have de- veloped British accents and started using British terms like “mummy” (mommy), “give it a go” (try it) and “sat- nav” (GPS). Wall Street Jour- nal reporter Preetika Rana tweeted that her niece “had an American accent before the pandemic. Now she has a posh English accent.”
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“We must continue to find ways to break down those in- visible barriers we continue to deal with on a daily basis within our communities,” Sims said.
He hopes the public will grab some free ice cream and stay for some conversation, getting to know the officers and building relationships.
One responder agreed: “And for Christmas, I had to put out a freaking mince pie for Father Christmas, or, as we call him here in the States, Santa Claus.”
Extreme Reaction
When Fort Worth, Texas, code compliance officers ar- rived at a home at around 8:30 a.m. July 16 to issue a violation for too-high grass, the home- owner did not answer the door. But when mowers hired by the city showed up and started cut- ting the grass, the person inside began shooting at them, KD- FW-TV reported. The police officers who had accompanied the compliance team took cov- er and waited for backup; the person inside continued shoot- ing until SWAT units arrived and shot tear gas into the home.
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The shooter was taken into custody at about 1 p.m.; the citation was his seventh in two years.
Officers didn’t detect any ev- idence of drug or alcohol use. Instead, the driver told police that she’s been going through some “trials and tribulations” and was recently fired from her job, so she “let go and let God take the wheel.” She went on to say that she believed she had done the right thing.
An unnamed 31-year-old woman in Beachwood, Ohio, went on a spectacular joyride on June 15, crashing into an- other car at more than 100 mph before spinning into a utility pole, another car and a house, Wall Street Journal reported. Surprisingly, no one was hurt in the series of crashes, including the driver and her 11-year-old daughter, who was sitting in the front seat with her.
“Being shot at for trying to make the community look better?” said Fort Worth officer Jimmy Pollozani. “That just proves the dangers of this job.”
She now faces charges of felony assault, endangering a child and driving under sus- pension.
The man was charged with aggravated assault with a dead- ly weapon.
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The Guardian reported on July 19 about a phenom- enon among American pre-