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  • By February 2001, the excavator had completely exposed the coal source at the Tagebau Hambach mine and was no longer needed there. In three weeks it made a 22-kilometre (14 mi) trip to the Tagebau Garzweiler, travelling across Autobahn 61, the river Erft, a railroad line, and several roads. The move cost nearly 15 million German marks and required a team of seventy workers. Rivers were crossed by placing large steel pipes for the water to flow through and providing a smooth surface over the pipes with rocks and gravel. Special grass was seeded to smooth its passage over valuable terrain. Moving Bagger 288 in one piece was more economical than disassembling the excavator and moving it piece by piece.




  • this one is mad ☞ Death of Brian Wells

    death by explosive collar

    Investigators concluded Wells was a willing participant in the robbery, but was told the bomb was fake.

    He was described as “childlike”. At the time of the bank robbery, he had been working at Mama Mia’s Pizza-Ria for at least ten years.

    Diehl-Armstrong, Barnes, and Rothstein all seem to have suffered from compulsive hoarding.

    In 1984, she killed her boyfriend Robert Thomas by shooting him six times as he lay on the couch; she was subsequently acquitted of murder, claiming it was self-defense. Her husband and several other partners also died under suspicious circumstances.

    Barnes was a retired television repairman, crack cocaine dealer, and Diehl-Armstrong’s “fishing buddy”. He suffered from diabetes

    He was implicated in a 1977 murder after he gave a handgun to a friend who used it to murder a romantic rival; he later attempted to destroy the weapon but was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony.

    Rothstein was a handyman and part-time shop teacher, and was part of a group called the “fractured intellectuals”— intelligent people who were not well-adjusted.

    Floyd Stockton was a convicted rapist of a disabled teenager and lived as a fugitive at Rothstein’s house.

    The bomb used in the killing consisted of a hinged collar that worked like a large handcuff to go around the neck, four keyholes that went under the chin, and a rectangular housing containing two pipe bombs and two kitchen timers. One electronic timer hung down over the chest. The device had several decoys, such as unconnected wires, a toy cell phone, and deceptive warning stickers.

    The instructions also included a scavenger hunt, listing a series of strictly-timed tasks of collecting keys that would delay detonation and eventually defuse the bomb. The pages warned that Wells would be under constant surveillance and any attempts to contact authorities would result in the bomb’s detonation. “ACT NOW, THINK LATER OR YOU WILL DIE!” was scrawled at the bottom of the instructions.

    He appeared confident as he left the bank, swinging his cane gun and the bag of money “like Charlie Chaplin” according to one witness.

    The collar of the bomb was still intact so authorities were forced to sever Wells’ head from his body so the bomb could be retained and investigated.

    On September 20, 2003, Rothstein, who lived near the television tower, called police to inform them the body of a man, James Roden, was hidden in a freezer in a garage at his house.

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  • Results from an independent autopsy determined that Paez Téran had been shot 14 times “by different firearms” with their hands raised while sitting cross-legged on the ground, indicated by, but not limited to, the downward trajectory of fire of bullets from above and the pattern of injuries on the legs.

    On October 6, 2023, the Stone Mountain Circuit District Attorney’s Office, which was assigned as a special prosecutor for the case, announced that they will not charge the six Georgia State Patrol Officers involved in the fatal shooting of Terán - stating that the troopers’ use of force was “objectively reasonable under the circumstances of the case.”







  • The Google Play Store shed 1.8 million apps since the beginning of last year, according to an analysis from Appfigures and reported earlier by TechCrunch.

    In recent years, Google has ramped up efforts to crack down on spammy and low-quality apps. In 2023, the company started carrying out more thorough app reviews and began requiring developers to test their apps with at least 20 people for two weeks. It began purging apps with “limited functionality and content” last year, and announced in January that it blocked 2.36 million policy-violating apps from being published to the Play Store.

    “shed” was definitely a better choice