Extra Extra: That Time The FBI Recovered A 'Cooler Filled With Male Genitalia'
July 22, 2019, 5:22 p.m.
Plus television Trump refuses to watch, a police officer jokes about shooting AOC, an alligator who just wants to take a dip, and more end-of-day links.
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- Democrats expect "damning and explosive" testimony from Robert Mueller at a Congressional hearing this week, which Donald Trump refuses to watch (yeah, we'll see) because he considers it a "ridiculous witch hunt."
- A small alligator took up residence in a Long Island pool, and you must see its special swimming technique to believe.
- The Las Vegas district attorney will not prosecute Cristiano Ronaldo, an extremely wealthy soccer player, for a rape he allegedly committed in 2009. In a statement, the Clark County D.A.'s office said "the allegations of sexual assault ... cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt," and "therefore, no charges will be forthcoming."
- After reading a fake news story, a Louisiana police officer went on Facebook and suggested that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez should be shot. "This vile idiot needs a round... and I don't mean the kind she used to serve," he reportedly wrote of the bartender-turned-Congresswoman, who has recently been a target of the president's pointed vitriol.
- Is this an insanity defense? The man who killed a mob boss in front of his Staten Island house thought the mafioso was a member of the "deep state."
- Remember that time FBI agents raided an unregulated body donation center in Arizona and found a "large torso with the head removed and replaced with a smaller head sewn together in a 'Frankenstein' manner," "a cooler filled with penises," and other assorted frights?
- 19 people have died from drinking tainted alcohol in Costa Rica.
- Lindsey Lohan has a new fake accent.
- Still very zonked from the weekend's heat wave:
Ferret falling asleep pic.twitter.com/X010dJ5xhq
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) July 22, 2019
