Weird News: Tuesday August 20th

The Casimanos, a young couple from New York with a 2-year-old, bought at the Ibis Golf and Country Club in April, looking forward to using it for vacations.

The spacious $702,000 home on Wildcat Run featured three bedrooms, a screen-enclosed pool and a three-quarter-acre lot overlooking a natural area near the Everglades-like Grassy Waters Preserve.

But there was one community feature they didn’t know about: A neighbor had a habit of feeding the wildlife.

Less than four months after they bought in the luxurious development, they can’t even visit anymore (“the smell is like a thousand rotting corpses”) and they fear for their child, said Siobhan Casimano, in a call to The Palm Beach Post this week from New York.

source: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190815/hitchcock-like-horror-at-ibis-black-vultures-are-taking-over-whatrsquos-attracting-them

Officials say they seized $2.3 million worth of marijuana mixed in with a shipment of jalapeño peppers at a Southern California port.

A Customs and Border Protection K-9 unit alerted officers to a shipment of peppers Thursday at the Otay Mesa cargo facility in San Diego.

A CBP news release says officers discovered more than 7,500 pounds (3,401 kilograms) of marijuana in the peppers’ pallets.

Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan congratulated the officers on Twitter and noted it was the second large seizure of marijuana there within days.

source: https://apnews.com/63672fb73e2342d7826124130946e0e0

As the curtains parted, the frenzied car aficionados raced to get out their smartphones to capture the moment for posterity. Several of them cheered.

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/automobiles/porsche-type-64-auction.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage


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