Reported But Not Reported (RBNR)

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Unconscionable!

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a friend works as maintenance for the local school district. I asked him about how repetitive the work can be once and he said “i don’t know why we even bother to put towel dispensers in the middle school bathrooms. they last a month at the most.”

so, sure, it got ripped off the wall. likely for the apparent reason. but not exactly a headline event that “boys vandalize school bathroom.”

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Okay so how does this work for returned property after a long time? Do you have to repay the insurance company? Or does the insurance company just keep it as salvage?

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Do they want it back? Likely has a few extra stains on the stained glass now.

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:rimshot: Hey-ohhhhh!

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Insurance companies that paid out on the claim (and are still solvent) have first dibs on its ownership.

If they then sell it to someone else, then it becomes “salvage”.

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This seems like an incredibly planned theft.
That planning is likely to lead to more radio tower thefts. I mean, you don’t learn something like that for a one-off job.

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An update on the stolen tower:

The station in question has a primary license for AM broadcast, and permission to have a low-power FM repeater. A condition on the LPFM license is that the AM station be operational.

Apparently, the AM station hasn’t been operational in a long time. The tower collapsed a few years ago, and the AM transmitter removed.

When the FCC announced that it was coming to inspect the AM station, the station started claiming that its tower had been stolen.

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fwiw, this is from 2021.

Here’s the link to the daughter’s twitter thread: x.com

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Could have claimed that ghosts stole it, but Scooby and the Gang would have figured it was the radio Station owner the whole time.

Or, an interesting “Banacek” case.
Which reminds me: where the hell are those streaming? Show is about a freelance insurance investigator who solves insurance cases and frauds. He’s so good at it that he’s a millionaire (a big deal in the 70’s) and now picks the cases he likes, which, back in the 1970’s, was about once every three weeks on a rotating “Wednesday Mystery Movie” time slot.
I see it’s on coziTV, but includes commercials and it might be sped up and thus unwatchable. I’ll request the YouTubeTV to add them to my library, see how they are.

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I somehow read “Group of California Condors Endangered Trash Woman’s Deck”

But was glad the article noted the same remedy I immediately thought of: “Make noise without hurting them.”

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Even more interesting is the top story today at Smithsonian:

Might have to add to the WTF thread.

Anywho, not sure how exactly, this happened. Someone borrowed the store’s van with a sea bed, maybe.

  1. Been pregnant for at least eight years, stingrays’ bodies might somehow control the eggs’ growth?
  2. Shark Rape? I mean, they’re almost cousins, and this is North Carolina. As long as they’re not double cousins

  3. Someone threw some stingray sperm into the tank; and, again, not sure if penetration is necessary in the sting ray, so just swim by the blob? “Why now? Why this sperm?” you might ask, unless you’re twig. (Hey, twig!)
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I assumed it was asexual reproduction previously unknown, or somehow sperm was stored in her for years. Guess being impregnated by a shark is another possibility, but asexual reproduction seemed most likely. Cool discovery, not unique to the species but not super common in more-developed organisms.

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“Uh, uh, life, uh, finds a way.”

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Found this article interesting.