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An Oregon man let it rain and people are still looking for the cash he splashed around, according to reports.
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Oregon State Police said the man threw around (US)$200,000 in cash out of a car on an interstate in Eugene earlier this month.
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Though people were still searching for the cash, police said it has all been accounted for, according to My Sun Coast.
Oregon State Police Lt. Jim Andrews said anyone who stopped at the scene did a “pretty good job of cleaning it all up.”
Andrews said the money belonged to 38-year-old Colin Davis McCarthy and his family. Andrews said McCarthy took the money out of a shared family account and then chucked it out the window.
McCarthy is not facing any charges, but the family can’t recover the money because it was a shared account so he had legal access to it, according to the report.
Police said McCarthy told them he did it because he was “doing well” and wanted to share the money with others.
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The family said the money was “very much needed,” although they acknowledged it’s unlikely anyone will return the discarded cash.
KING OF CRAB THIEVES
A man who allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of crab by posing as a grocery store employee has been nabbed by police.
“This was not a one-time thing. This was an ongoing conspiracy that involves multi-states and multiple jurisdictions and a lot of money,” alleged Robert Hammer, the special agent in charge of overseeing Homeland Security investigations operations in the Pacific Northwest, according to King5.com.
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Police alleged David Subil stole and transported more than $700,000 worth of king and snow crab, according to a criminal complaint filed Feb. 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Police said Subil made several pickups of crab from North Star Cold Storage in Stanwood, while pretending to be a Safeway employee.
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Subil is accused of operating fake email accounts pretending to be multiple Safeway employees. The criminal complaint said Subil used the email accounts to message the owner of San Francisco-based Arctic Foods convincing him to authorize two separate shipments — one worth $432,000 and another valued at $296,388 — of crab, according to the report.
Eventually, the owner figured out Subil did not work for Safeway, according to authorities. The report said he was nabbed in the act on Jan. 25.
On Feb. 18, investigators said, Subil booked a one-way plane ticket to Colombia but he never got on the plane. Subil was arrested in Miami.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
The American government is tracking more than 650 potential sightings of so-called “unidentified aerial phenomena,” commonly known as UFOs, according to the director of the office created last year to examine the issue, according to WESH.
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Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, told a subcommittee last week that the number of cases was up from the 350 reports referenced in an unclassified intelligence report on unidentified aerial phenomena released earlier this year.
“Of those over 650, we’ve prioritized about half of them to be of anomalous interesting value, and now we have to go through those and go ‘How much of those do I have actual data for?’” Kirkpatrick said.
Recent hearings — chaired by New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — are the latest held by Congress over the past year on UFOs, as lawmakers pressure the Pentagon to solve the unexplained sightings, WESH reported.
While much of the public focus is on the possibility of UFOs, Kirkpatrick said there’s no evidence of extraterrestrial life in the sightings.
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“In our research, AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics,” Kirkpatrick said.
RICE, RICE, BABY
A Southwest Airlines flight was delayed for the oddest of reasons: A passenger spilled rice in the aisle and flight attendants were unhappy about it, according to another passenger.
Jennifer Schaper was on the plane and tweeted someone spilled rice while the plane was at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International on April 15, according to WFLA.com.
Schaper tweeted updates about the situation, along with photos. “They are refusing to leave the gate until someone cleans the rice.”
The plane wouldn’t leave before the rice was removed. Eventually the flight attendant swept the mess away.
“Rice is getting cleaned but she is MAD. She has let us all know that we were not raised right and she is disappointed in all of us. #RiceGate,” Shaper tweeted.
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