From Local10 here:

A box containing $625,000 in gold arrived at Miami International Airport early Tuesday but disappeared about an hour and a half later, Miami-Dade police say.

An American Airlines plane arrived at Miami International Airport from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and docked at Gate D3 at 4:42 a.m. Tuesday, according to a Miami-Dade Police Department incident report. A group of employees unloaded the plane — including the box containing the gold — and moved it to the other side of the plane about 5:15 a.m.

A tug arrived at the plane from Gate D6, according to the report. It then drove away with the cart holding the plane’s cargo at 5:22 a.m. Surveillance video showed the tug continue to D37 before it entered an alley and disappeared from the video.

The cart was found in front of Gate D19 at 6:20 a.m. but without the box containing the gold.

The report doesn’t indicate who owns the gold or where it was headed. Sources told Local 10 the gold was going to NTR Metals in Doral, a refining and recycling company that deals in precious metals. The business offered no comment to Local 10 about the heist.

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.

From the DailyMail here:

New York subway station elevator has been put out of use because it has been urinated on so many times – rusting the metal floor and rotting the mechanics.

Long Island Rail Road today explained why the elevator at Woodside Station, Queens, was out of use almost half the year – and the reason certainly accounts for the station’s pungent smell.

Users of the station today said they were horrified not least because there is a restroom on the mezzanine level of the station.

Rail Road President Helena Williams told CBS New York it was a ‘vertical urinal problem’.
‘The mechanics of the elevator are constantly being contaminated,’ she said.

Someone should post a sign there telling employees to wash their hands before returning to work.

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From CapitalNews here:

British border officials have seized 94 kilogrammes (207 pounds) of dried caterpillars from a man who claimed they were “for personal consumption”, Britain’s interior ministry said Friday.

Officials at Gatwick Airport, south of London, found the bugs in the luggage of a 22-year-old man who flew in from Burkina Faso via Istanbul on February 23.

“When officers checked his luggage they discovered tens of thousands of dried caterpillars shrink-wrapped in cellophane, which had been packed into four hessian bags,” the interior ministry said.

“The man claimed that they were for personal consumption and that they were to be used as food.”

But the caterpillars breached British rules on importing products of animal origin and will be destroyed.

These aborted baby butterflies were probably something to be used in witchcraft.

Want to read a novel at the beach? Bring a book. It also looks like they are in Mexico, and I’d be darn careful flashing tech around there.

I’ve been in Key West almost a week and last night a female friend dramatically misplaced her iPhone. She called Verizon, locked the phone remotely and began to stress about losing data, photos and having to shell out cash for a replacement. It was dark; we had just returned from having several adult beverages on Duval street, and I told her that it would turn up in the morning. Now imagine that your smartphone is freakin’ CLEAR. You’d lose this phone in plain sight at least three times per day.

Another hottie, but check out the freak in the background:

And the winner of the attention seeking contest? This sweaty hairy dude-