Stories that should come from The Onion but don't

[NeonLX]

Scott Walker calls border wall with Canada a 'legitimate issue'

Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has called building a wall along the border between the US and Canada a "legitimate issue".

Illegal immigration and the security of the southern border with Mexico have been major issues in the Republican race for president, but the northern border has not been discussed.

Mr Walker made the comments in response to a question from a NBC News reporter.

"That is a legitimate issue for us to look at," he said on Sunday.

At 5,525 miles (8,891km), the US border with Canada is the longest in the world. The border is often referred to as the world's "longest undefended border" although security has tightened since the 11 September 2001 attacks.

Rival presidential contender and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has called for Mexico to pay to build a border wall with the US.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34107896

God, I love this state.

[Nordic]

http://gawker.com/man-finds-strange-cou ... 1727731841

Man Finds Strange Couple in His Bed After Roommate Airbnbs His Condo

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Jay Hathaway
Filed to: SHARING ECONOMY
8/31/15 1:25pm
Man Finds Strange Couple in His Bed After Roommate Airbnbs His Condo

A Chicago condo owner who lives part-time in California returned home to find all his booze gone, a mysterious hookah on his dining room table, and a young couple sleeping in his bed. As he asked the couple to leave his apartment, they told him they’d booked the room on Airbnb.

That was very weird, condo owner Robert Corwin told CBS Chicago, because he’d never listed his place on the website. But he quickly found who had: his roommate, who’d been renting the other bedroom from him.

“He even used my photo” for two Airbnb listings, Corwin said.

That gentleman is, needless to say, no longer living there.

Now Corwin wants some kind of recompense from Airbnb, considering the possibility that “orgies, or like, drugs” could have gone on at his place without his knowledge. (He has a vivid imagination, but it’s not that farfetched: Airbnb places have been used for orgies on multiple occasions, and the infamous “XXX Freakfest” incident stands as the original Airbnb cautionary tale.)

Airbnb makes clear that it doesn’t get involved in owner-renter disputes, and that people using the platform assume all the risk, but it has compensated users for particularly egregious incidents in the past—that’s just good PR. In this case, though, there wasn’t much damage to the property (just some missing booze) and all Corwin is asking is that they help him “go after” his former roommate or ban him from ever using the platform again.

“This property is no longer listed on Airbnb, and we are reviewing this matter fully,” Airbnb told CBS Chicago.

[elfismiles]

"Kids on Mercer Island will one day have no idea what is happening in this photo." (AP)

Local school district bans 'Tag' over emotional well-being of students
By Jason Rantz, KIRO Radio Host | September 24, 2015 @ 8:29 am
http://mynorthwest.com/992/2815456/Rant ... f-students

[Elvis]

Hm. I used to live there. It's a unique place. Very weird police dept. when I was there. I remember they acted like the construction of I-90 was an invasion of their quiet island (well, I guess it was) and took it out on motorists for years. Anyway, this kind of surprises me but times have changed. The school district is loaded, so they hire fancy-pants administrators and consultants who I suppose get these ideas at conferences and so on. My mother was one of them.

[82_28]

Bellevue and Mercer Island police were both known to drive people that weren't from there across the bridge to Seattle and dump them off.

[Iamwhomiam]

Bloc's top court decides data stored on US servers is potentially unsafe because of government spying.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/6/top-eu-court-rules-data-sharing-pact-with-us-invalid.html

[seemslikeadream]

Florida candidate for U.S. Senate admits to sacrificing goat, drinking its blood

Florida Libertarian Senate hopeful Augustus Sol Invictus sacrificed a goat and drank its blood, backed by Neo-Nazis

[Iamwhomiam]

I think you cut-off that last title... I think it goes, "...backed by Neo-Nazis, Skinheads and Various Other Good Citizens of White Florida.

[backtoiam]

No cancer? No problem. Don't be left out. Brew up your your own GMo kitchen. Nothing to lose, except a little "junk" DNA, and who needs junk in the trunk.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bioha ... -1.3252735

[seemslikeadream]

'But Whole Foods Is Supposed to Be Cage-Free!': Colbert Skewers High-End Grocer for Using Prison Labor

[RocketMan]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 90711.html

Terror police in Sweden have been called to reports of a group of bearded men in dark clothes raising a black flag above a remote castle.

But instead of Isis militants, officers responding to the scene stumbled across a meeting of an international organisation of beard aficionados.

[Harvey]

^^ Only a supreme effort of will prevented me spitting fine Caribbean rum over the keyboard, the screen and anything else to hand.

[82_28]

Playboy says it will no longer print images of nude women

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/ ... story.html

[AlicetheKurious]

^^ Only a supreme effort of will prevented me spitting fine Caribbean rum over the keyboard, the screen and anything else to hand.

Then approach this one with caution:

Eight of Iran's women's football team 'are men'
Iran's football association accused of being 'unethical' after it is claimed eight players in women's national team are men awaiting sex change operations







http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... e-men.html

[seemslikeadream]

Alaska Governor Calls For Increased Oil Drilling . . . To Offset Costs of Climate Change