Amazon Patented A Dwarf Tossing Robot (REAL: Read More)
To this country’s people of unusually small stature, dwarf tossing is an insult and, according to Little People of America, “objectifies the entire dwarf community.”
That didn’t stop Amazon inventors from using a hypothetical dwarf figurine to illustrate the operations of a newly patented warehouse-robotics system that “tosses” inventory items into bins.
Woman Arrested For Collecting Seashells (REAL: Read More)
A Texas tourist who collected 40 queen conchs seashells from Key West, Florida, is going to jail for 15 days.
A Florida judge also sentenced Diana Fiscal-Gonzalez of Dallas to serve six months of probation and pay a $500 fine, plus $268 for court costs, for taking 40 queen conchs from the waters that surround Key West,
She pleaded guilty, said she didn't know taking the shells from the beach was illegal. She was planning to give the state-protected Seashells away as gifts.