news feed; Wednesday, July 25th 2012

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Wednesday, July 25th 2012

Weather Mostly sunny and clear. High 22°C and a low of 14°C (72deg;F 57°F)

Current Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent

Morning sirens go off at 5:41am, and evening sirens are at 8:56pm.


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- Sector 9 Sinkhole Balls-Deep in Budget Cuts
Following Monday’s heavy rains, a sinkhole five meters deep caved in suddenly at the intersection of Ford Road and Baxter Street in Sector 9. Governor Townshed announced in a harried press conference yesterday afternoon that the Sector's road repair budget, based on neighborhood property tax values, could not cover immediate repairs for the sinkhole. In response, local children have decided to keep it filled with water and have declared it their new public swimming pool. This morning, the top layer of the sink hole was mysteriously found covered in plastic ball pit spheres. No one in the local community is owning up to how they got there.

- New NV App a Troller’s Delight, Outraging Customers
A glitch in the newly developed add-on for AGI Tunez downloadable music sharing application allows anyone to anonymously send a song that will automatically play on a targeted nearby NV which has the same music player installed. Word about this bug spread fast among tech-savvy consumers overnight, as over 200 customers called the AGI tunes office yesterday to complain about being rickrolled, or their Netvice suddenly bursting into embarrassing song at inopportune moments. The company has already patched the glitch, but many are taking advantage of the opportunity to prank friends and strangers, refusing to install the update. AGI Tunez technical support has transferred all customer complaints to the company’s newcomer-run public relations division, Xino E. Mao.

- It’s Picnic Pork Ribs night at Pick n’ Chew’s BBQ! Buy one full rack with any two large sides, and get the 2nd free! Summer is the perfect time to try our succulent, fall-off-the-bone, slow-smoked ribs, available dry or with our award-winning sauce.
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Game Three - Video

[carryonmywaywardson]

[Backdated to this morning.]

[The video belongs to one Ben Braeden. It kicked on with some kid laughing, heavy toned in his voice and so not Ben. It then got tossed to the side, lodged into a tree root, which is half blocking the video.]

[You can see, at a sideways video glance, little Ben. Sitting on the ground, one shoe missing, sock dirty, jeans ripped at the knee and a hand holding his bloody nose, eyes glaring darkly over his hand.]

[Someone can be heard, just barely, laughing. Something else might be a muffled voice (the speaker is in the ground) about “...not your girl, so back off. She doesn’t need no Norm tainting her perfection.” Someone else laughs. “Why not run home and play with mommy? Oh wait, you can’t. You’re stuck here and she’s not. Haha, for the best. She’d be whoring herself to AGI fast I bet--”]

[The words were cut off as Ben suddenly got up, hands grabbing the ground, pulling himself up and dashing off camera. Yeah, someone just got tackled. There’s a few yells of cheering or booing friends (of the other boy) and then a foot can be seen coming in and kicking the device. Turning it off.]

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[It comes back on, inside a wooden cabin, and Ben is sitting there, glaring. He thought this was private to Dean, but the NV is faulty right now. He sniffed, rubbing a wrist over his nose. Seems to have been a bit since this was posted.]

You need ta come pick me up. I’m not stayin’ here. [so hard a glare, and he sniffs again, rubbing his poor nose. The scruffy kid glances off to the side and mumbles]

They said they wanna talk to you, or something.

[The video flickers and the screen weaves a bit, then he grumps, tapping it with his hand] Can I just walk home?

[[Feel free to reply to him. He'll reply back while waiting for someone to get him, which could be a while.]]