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Ill Doctrine. Our Robot Future: New York’s Drone Population Could Boom With New Technology & Laws. How Countries Reward Their Gold Medal Winners. If you won the gold medal in, say, racewalking, how would you expect your country would reward you when you stepped down from the podium?

How Countries Reward Their Gold Medal Winners

Maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars? Maybe a gold brick? Maybe your seat is upgraded to first class on your flight home? ANIMAL has made this handy infographic to let you know the true value of a gold medal. Strange Creature Spotted Near the East River Was Not a Monster! On Sunday, freelancer photographer Denise Ginley was walking along the greenway beneath the FDR in Manhattan with her boyfriend when she noticed a bizarre-looking animal carcass lying on a sandy strip of beach under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Strange Creature Spotted Near the East River Was Not a Monster!

“We were horrified by it and we took some camera phone pictures and then finally we decided to come back with my camera and I got up the courage to climb over the fence and get closer to it,” she told ANIMAL. Ginley then sent those images to Gothamist who speculated whether it was a “bloated rat monster” or possibly a relative of the famed “Montauk Monster,” because naturally, that would make the most sense. Last night, I went down to investigate and didn’t see it, so I contacted the city and they gave us a more reasonable explanation. “It was a pig left over from a cookout,” said the NYC Park Department’s press office. A Short History of Death on the New York City Subway. Dash-cams: Russia's Last Hope For Civility And Survival On The Road.

In Russia, everyone should have a camera on their dashboard.

Dash-cams: Russia's Last Hope For Civility And Survival On The Road

It’s better than keeping a lead pipe under your seat for protection (but you might still want that lead pipe). The conditions of Russian roads are perilous, with insane gridlock in cities and gigantic ditches, endless swamps and severe wintry emptiness on the backroads and highways. Then there are large, lawless areas you don’t just ride into, the police with a penchant for extortion and deeply frustrated drivers who want to smash your face. Psychopaths are abundant on Russian roads. You best not cut anyone off or undertake some other type of maneuver that might inconvenience the 200-pound, six-foot-five brawling children you see on YouTube hopping out of their SUVs with their dukes up.

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