Dubai is a city of towering, architecturally brilliant skyscrapers, but since all were built only in the last several decades, the city’s central sewer system has not been able to keep up.
Consequently, only a few are hooked up to the municipal system, and the remainder must hire fleets of tanker trucks to carry away the waste water.
The trucks then must queue up, sometimes for 24 hours at a time, to dispose of it at treatment plants.
Sounds like
they both
could bend   
Factory worker Billy Hyatt, who was fired in 2009 by north Georgia plastics company Pliant Corp., filed a lawsuit alleging illegal religious discrimination.
Pliant (now called Berry Plastics) required its employees to wear stickers indicating the number of consecutive accident-free days, and March 12, 2009, was the 666th day.
When Hyatt refused to wear “the mark of the beast” (embracing that number, he thought, would condemn him to hell), he was suspended and then fired.
Talk about
great
police work
How does an extortionist (or kidnapper) safely collect the money that has been dropped off for him?
Police staking out a vacant field in Colerain Township, Ohio, after leaving the $22,000 ordered by alleged extortionist Frank Pence, waited for about an hour, but Pence failed to show.
Then, one officer noticed the money slowly moving across the field and finally caught up to Pence, who was pulling a very, very long, partially concealed rope from a location a distance from the drop site.
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