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Betting on Jesus, a swift kick in the groin, McRib lawsuit, really bad tennis
Ribbit: An artificial intelligence program intended to help law enforcement write reports produced an incident summary saying that a Utah police officer had been turned into a frog, said Fox 13 News. The program uses body camera video and audio to write reports for officers, but may need some improvement. "The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be 'The Princess and the Frog,'" Sergeant Rick Keel said. “That’s when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports.”
Second coming: Bettors who gambled that Jesus Christ would not return in 2025 could have earned a “tidy” 5.5% annualized gain on their wager, reports Bloomberg. Some $3.3 million was bet last year on the return/non-return of Jesus on the gambling platform Polymarket. which offers many unusual gambling options (you can wager on how often Elon Musk tweets, for example, or the sale price of Logan Paul’s 1st edition Charizard card). At its highpoint in 2025, about 3.5% of bettors were wagering that the Son of God would return at some point during the year.
Ouch: About 120 people showed up in a park in Glasgow, Scotland, to watch a man get kicked “full force” in the testicles, reports The National. The recipient of the kick promoted the event in advance of surgery to remove his male genitalia as part of a sex change. “Come watch me get kicked in the balls one last time,” an ad read. After the event, the kickee reported: “I can feel it more in my lower chest than I can in my groin but the humour and adrenaline lift me.”
Working for tips: An employee at a Denny’s restaurant in British Columbia allegedly stole over $494,000 in tips from the restaurant over two years, reports CBC. In a court claim, Denny’s said the employee manipulated the restaurant’s system for handling tips made by credit or debit cards to distribute large amounts to himself. Denny’s said it only discovered the theft when it was investigating two other employees who allegedly stole $11,000 in tips.
Meaty issue: A Los Angeles lawyer filed a lawsuit against McDonalds in Illinois Federal Court, saying that the fast-food chain is misleading the public with its McRib sandwich. Attorney Thiago M. Coelho of the Wilshire Law Firm and four plaintiffs filed the 45-page class-action suit that says McDonalds falsely implies that the McRib contains pork rib meat when it actually contains meat from other parts of a pig. “The name ‘McRib’ is deliberate sleight of hand,” wrote Coelho, who demanded a jury trial to settle the issue.
Looking for Wool-worths: Fifty sheep wandered into a grocery store in Germany, forcing staff and customers to climb onto checkout counters for safety, reports The Nightly. A local shepherd said the 50 somehow wandered away from a larger group of 500 sheep he was watching. The sheep broke bottles, knocked items off the shelves and droppings on the floor before leaving the store.
Misplay: A 21-year-old Egyptian woman who entered a professional tennis tournament in Kenya was widely ridiculed when it became apparent she barely knew how to play the game, reports CNN. Hajar Abdelkader of Egypt, who applied as a “wildcard” and was let into the tournament when another player dropped out, did not seem to know basic rules about where to stand and struggled to hit the ball, losing her match 6-0, 6-0. The Daily Mail called her the “world’s worst tennis player.”