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Nathan Finneman : DOMINO'S NOT HAPPY WITH WHEELIE FAST DELIVERY

9/26/2016

A Domino’s Pizza delivery rider in London may be looking for a new job after his wheelie was caught on video.

The rider clearly shows he can get the front wheel up, even on a scooter. Maybe the weight of the pizzas on the back helps? Onlookers cheer — then laugh when the wheelie goes bad. The video was posted by Twitter user MYST and was retweeted thousands of times.

I’m betting some pizza toppings may have shifted in flight during that delivery.

Britain’s Sky News quoted a Domino’s spokeswoman as saying the behavior is “totally unacceptable” and the company will “take appropriate action.”

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Nathan Finneman : China Finally Confirms Their Space Station Is Crashing Towards Earth

9/21/2016

After months of suspicion, China has finally confirmed their first space station is heading for Earth and is potentially out of control.

A senior official of the Chinese space program revealed at a press conference last week that the Tiangong-1space station is likely to fall to Earth by 2017, Xinhua News Agency reports. They added it's currently intact and orbiting at a height of around 370 kilometers (230 miles).

"Based on our calculation and analysis, most parts of the space lab will burn up during falling," said Wu Ping, deputy director of China's manned space engineering office, during the press conference.

The officials said that the space agency will continue to follow the movement of Tiangong-1 and will release an update on its expected time of arrival if required.

The 10.3-meter-long (34-foot-long) Tiangong-1, which means “Heavenly Palace," was launched in 2011 as China’s first manned space station. It ended its mission in March this year. However, since then, numerous astronomers noted the space station appeared to be aimlessly drifting out of control and heading for Earth. The silence by the Chinese government only heightened uncertainties.

The officials did not comment on how much of the space station they still maintain. However, given the vague estimated landing time, it suggests very little.

China launched a new experimental space station, Tiangong-2, last week, and are planning to launch a fully fledged space station next decade.

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Texas Thieves Steal $250K in Wheels and Tires in Four Hours

9/1/2016

This past weekend, thieves broke into a car dealership in Texas and proceeded to steal the wheels and tires off 48 separate cars and trucks, leaving the vehicles on cinder blocks—and making off with roughly $250,000 in pilfered rubber and rims, according to local law enforcement.

According to the police department of Tyler, Texas, surveillance footage reveals the suspects entered through the fence at Peltier Chevrolet at approximately 1am on Sunday, August 21st, and proceeded to make off with the wheels and tires, local news station WFAA reports; the estimated total value of the stolen good is roughly a quarter-million dollars. While exact details were not available, a bit of elementary school math leads us at The Drive to infer that the crooks made off with 192 wheels and an equal number of tires. (The sad thing is, we actually punched "48 x 4" into the calculator to be sure.)

The Tyler-area theft is hardly the first time a group of nocturnal Texas-area crooks have made off with a bounty of wheels and tires. Dealerships across the state have been hit by this sort of act of mass rotational thievery, both in recent months and over the last few years; a Google search for "Texas wheel theft" reveals reports of similar mass thefts from dealerships dating back to 2011.

As a result of the rapid nature of the crimes and the string of related incidents, law enforcement in the state reportedly believes many of the crimes may be the work of professional wheel-jackers.

"By all the methods that they used, it usually indicates they're in a professional ring," Tyler P.D. officer Officer Don Martin said, according to WPXI. "They'll kind of hit [dealerships] randomly. They just came through Tyler and hit us."

If true, such a success streak suggests the Texas thieves are a bit better at their jobs then the Ohio man who was allegedly trying to steal the wheels off a GMC Yukon in a dealer lot last month when it apparently slipped off the jack and crushed him to death.

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Nathan Finneman : DOMINO'S NOT HAPPY WITH WHEELIE FAST DELIVERY

Nathan Finneman : China Finally Confirms Their Space Station Is Crashing Towards Earth

Texas Thieves Steal $250K in Wheels and Tires in Four Hours

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