A strong wind hit Rio de Janeiro last night. A ship that was abandoned in Guanabara Bay was dragged and hit the bridge that connects Rio to the city of Niteroi.
A driver, seeing the ship approaching menacingly, decided to film the unusual situation. The fright he took with the impact was quite shocking, but he didn’t lose his good mood…
You have Florida man, we have Carioca.
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As the bridge was closed while tugboats tried to take the massive ship away, some Carioca men flown kites to pass the time.
I literally screamed “you idiot!” during the first video when he kept driving closer and closer to the boat until it finally hit the bridge and knocked the phone out of his hand.
The ship was floating for 6 years in the middle of the Bay. There was a crew living there, just to keep Pirates and scavengers looking for scrap metal away.
Activist investor TCI Fund Management is calling on Google’s parent Alphabet to pursue aggressive cost cutting on the back of a hiring spree during the pandemic, claiming the business could be more efficiently run.
Swedish-language daily Hufvudstadsbladet reports that a mug featuring Tove Jansson’s Moomin characters is up for sale on the Swedish auction site Tradera with a starting price of 120,000 SEK, or over 11,000 euros.
The mug up for bids is called a “Fazer mug”, one of 400 specially ordered in 2004 for the Karl Fazer Café in Helsinki. It features a Christmas-themed advertisement for the café drawn by Jansson in 1951, which was found in Fazer’s archives.
The highest-priced Fazer mug to date was sold on the same Swedish auction site for 16,097 euros in March this year.
Only one other Moomin mug, the prototype of the “Dive” series, has sold at a higher price, fetching 22,794 euros at auction in October 2021.
The subject was discussed during a company town hall event between staff and new chairman and CEO Chris Licht.
“During the meeting, Licht told employees he felt on-camera drinking eroded the credibility of CNN personnel and damaged the ‘respectability’ they may enjoy among viewers,” Variety reported.
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Maybe it’s just me, but it wasn’t on-camera drinking that damaged any respect I may have once had for CNN. Maybe Chris should more carefully consider his hiring and firing practices
