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Zane Wedding, 40, of Auckland, New Zea- land, went swimming on Jan. 7 and thought he got water in his ear, United Press International reported. He saw a doctor the next day, who suggested he use a hair dryer to evaporate the mois- ture in his ear.
Earache Won’t Bug Him Now
But on Jan. 10, as the sen- sation persisted, he saw a specialist.
KHOU-TV reported. When a worker there approached her car, Beam told her that the boy was in the trunk because she didn’t want to be exposed to the virus. Police were alerted, and Beam was arrested and charged with endangering a child. While he was not hurt, officials said in the event of an accident, he could have been. But the Cypress Falls com- munity has shown support for Beam, posting messages outside her home to say they “have her back.” She was re- leased on bond and put on ad- ministrative leave, the school district said.
Awkward
“Ms. Wang,” 30, of Zheng- zhou, China, agreed to a blind date arranged by her parents (“I’m getting quite old, so my parents arranged more than 10 blind dates for me,” she said) and went to the man’s home for dinner on Jan. 6. But during the meal, they learned that his community had gone into a rapid lockdown be- cause of COVID-19, and she wouldn’t be able to leave for several days, the BBC report- ed. She posted on WeChat that the situation was “not ideal” — while he did cook for her, “he doesn’t speak much,” she noted. “I feel that apart from him being reticent like a wooden mannequin, everything else about him is pretty good.” Wang said she thinks his friends alerted him to the posts, so she removed them. “I think it has affected his life,” she notes.
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“She said, ‘I think you have an insect in your ear,’ ” Wedding said.
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He also noted that a fumi- gator was scheduled at his home later this month.
ementary schoolteacher, had recently traveled to Colora- do and brought back some THC-infused butter, which he used to make a batch of brownies.
came over the radio, Loza- no and Mitchell were cap- tured on their in-car video responding, “I don’t want to be his help” and “Screw it.” Instead, they continued their hunt for a Snorlax and Togetic Pokémon, eventual- ly meeting up with their ser- geant at a 7-Eleven.
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His mother unknowingly shared half the treats with her fellow card players, which resulted in multiple calls to county officials about a possible poisoning.
Lovin’ It
McDonald’s locations in Guangdong and Shanghai, China, are testing new in- store seating: exercise bikes. A spokesperson said the bikes are part of McDonald’s Up- cycle for Good initiative, which promotes sustainabili- ty, United Press International reported. They generate elec- tricity, which customers can use to charge their devices. Oh, and they help customers stay healthier while gobbling a Big Mac and fries.
Brownie Points
At a Tabor, South Dakota, senior center, a regular card game got a little weird on Jan. 4 after players enjoyed some brownies supplied by the mother of 46-year-old Michael Koranda. KTIV-TV reported that Koranda, an el-
Sheriff’s deputies spoke to Koranda and took the remain- ing brownies as evidence, charging him with possession of a controlled substance. He was scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 25.
When he questioned them about the robbery call, they said they hadn’t heard it be- cause they were responding to another call, leading their supervisor to review the dashcam footage.
Game Over
After the officers were fired, they sued, saying that the video captured their “pri- vate communications” and that they were improperly questioned. Five years lat- er, the courts disagreed, and Lozano and Mitchell have plenty of time to hunt for Snorlax and Togetic.
On Jan. 7, the California Court of Appeal ruled that the Los Angeles Police De- partment was justified in its firing of two officers in 2017 after they ignored a robbery call to play Pokémon Go, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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On April 15, 2017, Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were assigned to patrol the LAPD’s southwest division. But when a call for backup
Cypress Falls High School teacher Sarah Beam took her 13-year-old son to a Hous- ton-area COVID-19 drive-th- ru testing site on Jan. 3,
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