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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like matt mullenweg, neil gaiman and candy crush. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was bemused.
But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched offbeat stories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!
Man leaves €10m fortune to a tiny French town he had never visited
Euronews – Estelle Nilsson-Julien – 16th January 2025
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Thiberville dies in Paris, Paris inherits in Thiberville. What are the odds of that??
A guy in Paris named Thiberville leaves his fortune to Thiberville under the care of it's mayor, Guy Paris. I've got the headline:
Thiberville, Paris Guy, bequeathes fortune to Thiberville, Guy Paris
I saw the news earlier this week and had the same thought. Plus the guys name is literally Guy Paris. Southpark/Family Guy etc. couldn't have made this up :D
Reminded me of the time I worked with a Mr. Croissant from Paris...
Will be interesting to see what the city does with the money though. If it is really that much compared to their normal budget, they make some brilliant decisions or some really bad ones...
They should name things in his honor. Thiberville Park, Thiberville School, Thiberville Theater...
I don't think anyone in town will object to that name so there is a bit of good/happy news to go around in Thiberville. If ever I go to that region, at least I'll have a place to look forward to visiting.
not really news, but there was a really fun / dangerous police chase in LA today that started with two dirt bikes and later had up to eighteen of them! The whole thing was a trip and is worth a passive watch.
https://www.youtube.com/live/fSOLt9ISIrc
A lot of police chases are kind of boring, but this one was fairly exciting with the mix. It breaks away at one point but comes back with one dude on Instagram Live.
I'm 2 min in, and I've seen 2 helicopters, not including the one we're viewing from.
Amazing that something of this scale is not bigger news. Or I don't understand the USA at all.
We're a huge country and police chases being televised mostly fell out of favor as they tended to lead to things like people doing it for the publicity (see this guy streaming on IG) and dangerous or deadly situations. Police were told not to do the higher speed chases in some states.
Personally I very occasionally watch one but it's not really that interesting. It was more the novelty of watching because it felt very retro.
there will usually be two or three news stations and maybe the cops. it’s wild, but a lot of people watch them, even the relatively boring ones.
It does seem that this is mostly an LAPD thing these days? New York, Illinois, Texas... a lot of states seem to have no-chase laws or policies regarding high speed chasing vehicles outside of major offenses. LA airs them on TV in a way I don't see elsewhere and CA only seems to restrict chasing motorcycles sometimes, with little other guidelines. Perhaps between the LAPD, lack of state law and the television stations airing them?
Florida just loosened their pursuit policy so maybe we'll see more from there.
LA used to do proper chases and all that, but these days they seem to just wait them out, or in this case, lose them.
Chases are really fun -- especially if the newscasters are totally into it. In this case, the cops wouldn't / couldn't do a pit or spike strips, so they were banking on them running out of gas. But these dudes stopped for gas once or twice, which is a first.
I don't find them particularly fun, they're usually really dangerous and I think the hype feeds into why people do it and make everything less safe for everyone else trying to just exist. Sort of like police in a gunfight around a crowd, you only want to do that if absolutely necessary.
Most of the country doesn't have the car chase thing on TV like that anymore. It's a shame there aren't stricter laws/policies about chases in LA.
PornHub hosts an OnlyFans model's popular machine learning and mathematics explainer series. She's also been banned from LinkedIn, despite SFW content.
Creative, out of the box thinking. Maybe podcast will be the next move. Though I don't visit PornHub (ok, not as often as others...) I think now I have a reason to do so. As in the past, I read Playboy magazine for the articles.
Champagne sales sink because people don’t want to celebrate
The context of this is pretty depressing but on its own it is a little funny side effect of the current state of the world.