I'll go with the "If she's doing a good job, why worry" set.

In the UK we have salt bins on the pavement beside roads like this - some kind soul will chuck some over the slope when it gets like this. Unless some git's already nicked it for their path.

To my mind, the housing market has been operating as a Ponzi scheme for a consdierable time. The unreal "profits" were used by sellers to pay for a larger house, but that was OK because before long the rising tide would have carried the alleged value way beyond what they were required to pay back. And, like Ponzi, the wheels come off eventually when finally the confidence trick runs out of confidence.

244 seconds.

There's no shortage of old laws still lurking on the statute books.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6204511.stm
for just a small selection.

PJG:- Yes, it's far more likely to have been that it was fresh water not salt rather than the chlorine that killed it.

With 20:20 hindsight, it'd be better to ensure that people have a clue about how to behave sensibly in an emergency.
First rule of 1st Aid - don't make it worse. Unless the casualty is in immediate danger, leave them where they are. Most times there's nothing to be gained by pulling people from the wreckage and, as this case highlights, a lot to be lost.

"extremely unique" Arrrrrgh.

I'm not a religious person, but from time to time the bible has just the right phrase for things.

As you sow, so shall you reap.

The only thing you could do with it is paint it pink and pretend you're Lady Penelope.

My six year old daughter came out from school the other day. "Santa" had visited, but she wasn't at all impressed.

"It wasn't Santa at all, it was Johnny's dad in a red suit."

I've a feeling few people ever read back through what they've written before hitting the button. Text isn't like speech - though somehow kids escape school without having learned that.

It ain't the balance between the two ears that matters - they don't connect in that way. It's the pressure difference across each eardrum that matters.

Of course, you can release the imbalance by yawning - but yawning while kissing just invites knee-groin injuries.

I'm sure it's all terribly clever, and the cops shouldn't be behaving badly, but if entrapment isn't allowed one way - surely it's not fair to pull it in reverse.

We've had our cat 18 years next Spring, and we have good reason to believe she was about three years old when she wandered in. She's a bit slow, these days, and I've had to make a step so she can get off the sofa without going all splay-legged and hurting herself, but she seems happy enough, particualarly when there's a warm lap to sit on.
She doesn't like wet weather though - she only goes out under hydraulic pressure.