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Leave it to an engineer to know how to fix someone’s wagon.

When a group of North Carolina homeowners created a diagram-laden report in favor of installing a traffic light, a state expert in opposition accused the group’s leader of practicing engineering without a license, in violation of state law.

Now the case is in the hands of prosecutors.

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Maybe he deposited his money there because he likes making withdrawals.

A North Carolina man called cops and asked them to probe the theft of $325 from his girlfriend’s bra, where he had been keeping the cash.

Police have not yet made a bust.

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When he says, “Fill ‘er up!” he might be at a restaurant.

A member of the British parliament filed for fuel-expense travel reimbursement — for riding his bicycle to work.

Hugh Bayley claims that the extra food he had to eat because of his pedaling counts as fuel. He is asking for $7.70 in reimbursement.

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Japan obviously has way too much technological might on its hands.

The nation that came up with the “fish vending machine” and “Ninja Warrior” now introduces the “Cyberhug.”

Scientists in the Land of the Rising Sun have come up with a harness that can attach to a computer and tighten around a user in sort of a hug, as a way to make online contact more intimate.

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A British pub owner managed to thwart a burglary by making the thief sit down on a “naughty step.”

Pub matron Janet Dagley caught the crook trying to sneak out with $3,000 in valuables.

She cornered him as he came down a stairway and made him sit like a bad boy until cops came.

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