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‘Point of no return’: 36 countries join special tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin (r/worldnews)

• asdhjasdhlkjashdhgf: When even Switzerland joins support for an international tribunal you should be able to see the writing on the wall.
• The-marx-channel: Putin’s place should be in the Hague
• Golden–: Yeah, this is meaningless unless you actually plan to arrest and prosecute him.

Mass casualty incident’ after explosion near Maine lumber complex (r/news)

• DNAturation: Sounds like a fire started and turned into a sawdust explosion.
• HorrorAd6729: Unbelievably dangerous situation. Reports indicate a wood shaving silo exploded while crews were already on the scene fighting a warehouse fire, which is why so many firefighters are among the 11 injured. Sending 10 patients to a Level 1 trauma center and calling multiple maydays shows just how catastrophic the blast was. Grateful that all mill staff were safely accounted for, but this is a massive blow to Mid-Coast Maine.
• b0xturtl3: Don’t forget most firefighters in Maine are volunteer.

Phoenix police fire sergeant who brought gun to ICE protest (r/news)

• mastermidget23: Reading the article, this pos went to the protest masked up with gun, literally on camera talked about how he was going to try to get them all to gang up on him to arrest them, while he had people in the distance film for evidence. Fucking psychopaths with no self awareness like Rittenhouse going to protests just to make them dangerous and still think of themselves as “the good guys”.
• OhNoIBoffedIt: Other cops are like “you’re supposed to be in uniform when you commit crimes, dude.”
• Iribumkiak: He is just going to get another police job in another jurisdiction.

What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue? (r/AskReddit)

• obligated_existence: The hole in the ozone layer. One of our biggest (and only) global environmental success stories.
• Longwell2020: Clean water
• chickenmcdruggets: Anything solved by vaccines

TIL that Empress Ma was born poor and during a famine she stole cakes to feed her husband by hiding them in her breasts. The cakes were hot and she got burns. Later her husband became a rebel commander who became Emperor and made her his Empress. He was deeply devoted to her even as an Emperor. (r/todayilearned)

• StaleSunTease: hongwu turned into one of the most paranoid emperors in chinese history and she’s basically the only reason his purges didn’t get even worse.
• Own_Bar2063: This did not stop him from having a huge harem of Korean and Mongolian concubines, and from them he had 26 sons and 16 daughters.
• derpdelurk: I would also be devoted to someone that provided breast cakes.

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US border patrol chief resigns after claims of sex with prostitutes abroad (r/news)

• Mutopiano: It’s always the ones you most suspect.
• Hrekires: Normally I wouldn’t care about consensual behavior between adults but considering Border Patrol would kill US citizens for less… please kindly fuck off.
• IlVeroStronzo: This guy just went to do abroad what he can’t do back home legally or for cheap lol

Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included ‘VIP snorkel’ at a Pearl Harbor memorial (r/news)

• southendgirl: Is this an Onion article?
• TheGooch01: Fucking head of the FBI is on permanent make-a-wish vacation.
• Ok_Pollution7093: VIP snorkel at a memorial is wild. Read the room.

US agents arrest tourist after video shows a rock hurled at endangered Hawaii monk seal’s head (r/news)

• Nv2U: First time I’ve seen “US agents arrest…” in a headline lately and been happy.
• brispence: I’m sure there would be a line of people waiting around the island to throw a rock at this chud’s head.
• Hnl2Nrt2025: I believe there are some local people in lockup ready to greet him

CDC says 41 people being monitored for hantavirus in US (r/news)

• Xsiah: Over 3000 people in the US have had measles this year - how about you monitor them and everyone they’re infecting with their stupidity, or the stupidity of their parents.
• Flash_ina_pan: K, hopefully it doesn’t spread. I don’t think I could stand dealing with the absolute shitbirds a national medical emergency tends to bring out, again.
• Loose_Clock4873: Are we supposed to drink bleach yet?

US man convicted of running secret Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC (r/news)

• dotBombAU: They are doing this all over the world.
• xdeltax97: This is everywhere unfortunately
• Haunting_Explorer376: No shit. There was a expose on the one in Vancouver a few years ago

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Epstein abused me while under house arrest, survivor tells US lawmakers (r/news)

• Beautiful_Special702: Hard to read stories like this and not wonder how many failures happened behind the scenes…
• Tramadol_Lollies: Just want to say how strong these women are for testifying, even with the powerful in the world doing its best to look away.
• Klutzy-Ad-9700: It still blows my mind that the files exist, but we just haven’t seen them. Proof of all sorts of horrific things, just sitting there, but we aren’t allowed to look at it.

Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched (r/news)

• avatinfernus: Wow.. the lack of empathy is…off the charts
• Anneisabitch: It’s not even the first time something like this has happened. Another baby was born in that same jail on the bathroom floor.
• run85: In jail because she was accused of substance abuse while pregnant. Then, this is how she is treated while pregnant and giving birth. Wow, Alabama cares so much about babies!

More than 1,000 passengers held on cruise in France after gastroenteritis outbreak (r/news)

• fc_dean: Those cruises are a literal bacteria / virus breeding ground, aren’t they.
• aka_linskey: Norovirus is the worst. That sounds awful.
• SlayerBVC: It’s honestly amazing that the Cruise Ship industry has survived as long as it has considering how the ships are the ideal conditions for these viruses and infections to spread.

Russian parliament passes bill allowing Putin to invade foreign countries (r/worldnews)

• Koekoes_se_makranka: Lmao ok, as if he wasn’t doing it already
• RSwordsman: Good to see that they were following the law until now by only doing approved special military operations.
• Thiht: That’ll fix Russian economy

What are the weirdest ways you’ve heard of someone getting caught cheating? (r/AskReddit)

• FriskiTeddy: The classic Google Street view
• elphaba00: Friend was cleaning his bedroom. Found a notebook he didn’t recognize and started to flip through the pages and read it. It was his wife’s journal of her threesomes – of which he was not invited to.
• DaddyDeluge: Worked with a guy who wrote letters with chocolate for two girls for Valentine’s Day. He mixed up which was which, and the girls got the wrong letters. It blew up in his face while he was at work.

TIL actor Taylor Lautner married a nurse named Taylor Dome. Before their wedding, Taylor Lautner stated that Taylor Dome planned to take his surname, resulting in both partners now being named Taylor Lautner. (r/todayilearned)

• UltimaGabe: Didn’t he also date Taylor Swift? Was his plan always to end up with a wife with the same name as him?
• Necessary_Nothing471: The Taylors Lautner
• oldfogey12345: They could have just both changed their last name to Taylor and cut out all the confusion.

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US inflation jumped to 3.8% in April (r/news)

• NeofelisNight: Wait till we see May, i know they cook the numbers, but Im seeing it with my own eyes on the front lines
• Jonestown_Juice: Hold on to your butts. This roller coaster ride is just getting going.
• McCloudX: 3.8% might still be on the low end

Grocery prices jumped more in April than they did in nearly four years (r/news)

• runnerup1: Cheaper on day one boyssssss
• killerparties: She had a weird laugh though
• Oceanbreeze871: Food isn’t affordable thanks to Donald and his country fools

CIA escalates secret war on cartels with deadly operations inside Mexico (r/worldnews)

• maxsmart01: It ain’t much of a secret if I know about it so maybe let’s quit calling it a secret.
• Actaeon_II: Didn’t the cia spend decades working with the cartels?
• crashorbit: Somehow powerful people always think that this time violence will work.

What famous person chose to step away at the height of their fame? (r/AskReddit)

• Montag_311: Bill Watterson, the cartoonist who did Calvin and Hobbes.
• roygbiv-it: Barry Sanders. Feel so sorry for him he was on shit teams. What a talent.
• Similar_String9573: one of the most notable is J.D. Salinger. dude wrote a classic and just dipped from the public eye totally. wild choice but kinda legendary.

TIL about firefighter Donald Herbert. After lapsing into a coma following a firefighting accident he awoke a year later unable to recognize friends or family. He then lapsed into a minimally conscious state for over 9 years. Miraculously, he awoke again and his first question was about his wife. (r/todayilearned)

• Greene_Mr: SPOILER ALERT: He died just months after that. :-(
• Technical_Chair_3641: i wonder how much of his 9 years in a minimally conscious state he was actually aware on some level. there’s been some fMRI studies showing some PVS patients can follow commands mentally even when they show zero outward response
• PartsUnknown242: So what what exactly happened with his brain here?

Why don’t we get a discount for using self-checkout? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

• Run-And_Gun: Because they got rid of the cashiers to increase their profits. Not to save their customers any money.
• comrade_zerox: You do, if you know how to use it ;)
• DIY-exerciseGuy: Do you get a discount for pumping your own gas?

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US and French nationals test positive for hantavirus after leaving ship (r/news)

• careful__now__: Gosh these last 20 years have been so exhausting
• PuertoricanDude88: Patient zero getting a sudden urge to travel around the world.
• browsk: Lol we can’t even learn from an event from the same decade

Teen dies hours after his parents reunited with him following immigration detention (r/news)

• TabascohFiascoh: Christ, dying of colon cancer at 18 is tragic as fuck.
• Lalocal4life: No one with stable mental health wants to see a family with a child like that die under those conditions due to “paperwork”.
• darkultima: I been following this on telemundo for a couple days now. It’s so fucking sad

Netanyahu announced intention to phase out US military aid (r/worldnews)

• vini_2003: Nobody read the damn article here. They’re still going to be partners to the US, but their aim is to integrate at a deeper level in the defense and intelligence sectors and stop “just” receiving aid for the sake of aid.
• Feisty_System_4751: It’s like me announcing I will start a diet on Monday.
• hamstringstring: I assume this means we can stop paying taxes to Egypt as well?

What’s a ‘middle class success’ purchase that secretly becomes a financial burden later? (r/AskReddit)

• sitewolf: ‘Oh honey, let’s buy a camper’ (that you end up using twice a year after the excitement of the first one)
• Successful-Fan2742: Upsizing to a bigger house and then realizing you’ve also upsized taxes, maintenance, and stress
• thanhngx153: Huge houses. People think about the mortgage, but forget furniture, maintenance, repairs, insurance and property taxes never stop

TIL: In 1998, elementary students in Aurora, Colorado started buying slaves in Sudan to free them, this gained global attention with schools in other countries starting slave buyback programs until it became clear that the money was just helping slavery grow (r/todayilearned)

• Randvek: Cobra farm vibes here.
• AxelNotRose: Infinite money loop for the slavers.
• Stuck_in_my_TV: Giving money to someone perpetrating an atrocity will only perpetuate more atrocities as you have increased the incentives for them to keep committing heinous actions in the hopes of future payouts.

Why does the expected % for tipping keep increasing? (r/NoStupidQuestions)

• someguy2355: Yeah it’s dumb. Percent already scales, that’s literally the point.
• RangerDickard: The boss doesn’t have to pay wages if you do it for him. That’s why
• dogsn1: They’re trying to milk more money out of you

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Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes (r/news)

• rieirieri: Such a welcome reprieve from all the depressing headlines. Good on the tribes for fighting this. I’m so glad they won.
• get__jinxxed: HELL YEAH! Great job to the tribes!
• Lazy-Impress-9708: Great news. Need some wins like this up in Alaska.

6 people found dead inside cargo train boxcar in Texas (r/news)

• YcemeteryTreeY: Sadly it was probably human smuggling. Smugglers dont care, they will abandon everyone if they think theyre going to get caught.
• lormightymike: Reminds me of the beginning of Season 2 of the Wire when they found 13 dead women in the shipping container.
• thatgirl25_: How strange and tragic is the reality that we currently. That people need to risk their lives and flee to other lands to feel safer. And the only thing separating us from this horrific ending is geographical luck. First world nations existing on the exploitation of the second and third world will not last.

Fugitive former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro is now in the United States courtesy of a visa from President Donald Trump after fleeing Hungary (r/worldnews)

• pixtax: “i have the best people.”
• ButterscotchOk5339: Welcomed by both Orban and Trump? Sounds guilty to me.
• gianluca_antonelli: He doesn’t want immigrants because they would increse the criminality, then proceeds to host criminals in his country👍

Vatican recognises the ‘pain’ experienced by LGBTQ+ Catholics in landmark report (r/worldnews)

• urbanek2525: The Pope tried to condemn the practice of slavery in the US too. I guess he’s going to find out that most Catholics listen to him only when he tells them what they want to hear.
• Cultural_Meeting_240: only took them like 2000 years to figure that one out.
• Miss-Information_: Ooooo just in time for politics Monday in the Catholicism sub

TIL that the oldest active organization affiliated with New Orleans Mardi Gras hasn’t marched in the parade since 1991 because it refuses to let non-white people join. (r/todayilearned)

• ComprehensiveForm129: Each step of the way, I couldn’t have predicted where that sentence was going
• puddinfellah: To be clear, the ordinance was struck down in 2000 for privacy concerns, but unlike the other krews, it did not return to the parade.
• Klockworth: So it’s a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant crewe that didn’t allow Catholics marching in a parade celebrating a catholic holiday?

What’s a “rich people thing” you experienced once and immediately understood why rich people love it? (r/AskReddit)

• AfterHoursAllure: A first class lie flat seat on a long haul flight. I showed up tired, ate real food with a metal fork, put on pajamas, and slept horizontally at 35,000 feet. Got off the plane like a human being. No neck pain, no regret. Suddenly understood why people never go back
• Concave007: tailored clothing. wore a shirt that actually fit once. spent the next 10 years angry at every shirt i’d ever owned.
• ZebraMussell: I used to think rich people were impatient because they were entitled. I realized they’re “impatient” because they’ve tasted what it’s like when the world actually works efficiently, and once you’ve had that, every 15 minute delay feels like a personal tax on your life.

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FEMA Caught Blocking Grants to States That Didn’t Vote for Trump (r/politics)

• Potential-Bee3866: *Trump caught blocking grants..
• MaizePractical4163: You mean the states that pay 80% of federal taxes…those states?
• dbuck1964: Blue states need to stop giving the feds the money they’ll use only for red states.

Moscow’s Victory Day Parade Lasted Just 45 Minutes, Shortest in Modern Russian History (r/worldnews)

• LordSigdis: Can’t have a victory parade without tanks. Or men. Or equipment. Or victory.
• OneNormalBloke: Still 45 minutes too long.
• WetFishStink: Because their army is lying dead in Ukrainian fields.

More than 100 sickened in norovirus outbreak aboard Caribbean Princess cruise (r/news)

• ilike2makemoney: Poverty saves me once again.
• RJB5584: Not a great time to be a cruise liner, it seems…
• zeitgeist98764: Cruises are a cesspool of bacteria and viruses lol not great in a closed space at sea…

TIL : Cold temperatures weaken nasal immunity, making us more vulnerable to viruses. A mere 5°C drop in nasal tissue temperature reduces immune response by nearly half. (r/todayilearned)

• Neutral-frame: So our grandparents were up to something when they warned us to cover ourselves in cold weather.
• b4d_b0y: Nose heaters or a spray that tops up the immune response?
• diamond-han: So would little nose heaters work to fight viral infections?

California will give new parents hundreds of free diapers for all newborns born in the state (r/UpliftingNews)

• a_velis: Thats great. We really need childcare though.
• TheMirrorUS: The program will supply each family at around 70 partnered hospitals with 400 diapers sized for newborns and babies up to 14 pounds ❤️
• mossimoto11: Anyone know what hospitals and how you qualify? I’m due in 5 weeks hahaha

TIL of the “spirit effect”, whereby spirit airlines entering a new route would cause other carriers to drop prices, making prices more affordable for regular Americans (r/todayilearned)

• DetectiveObjective00: The spirit airlines compels you to drop prices. The spirit airlines compels you to drop prices.
• ASCII_Princess: what about irregular Americans?
• G_Force88: That’s just competition. This is how every market works

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Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ redistricting plan, dimming party’s midterm hopes (r/news)

• danappropriate: Do what Republicans do and ignore the ruling.
• Gastroid: Ah, striking down a voter-approved constitutional amendment based on a narrow definition of the timeframe when the first stage of the approval process took place. Couldn’t think of anything more democratic than that.
• Shakespearacles: Ok, well they’re allowed to redistrict however they’d like for partisan reasons now according to the Supreme Court. So just do it anyways

Babies are bleeding to death as parents reject a vitamin shot given at birth (r/news)

• RoarOfTheWorlds: What’s crazy is it’s not even a vaccine, it’s a Vitamin K shot. These same idiots that will get a vitamin booster IV want to act like their Internet search is above a medical degree and play with their newborn’s life over a vitamin.
• justmitzie: Refuse medical advice at birth, then rush to medical providers when it falls apart. Beyond sad.
• Valturia: Letting your kid die to own the libs.

Ukraine reportedly launches dozens of drones at Moscow ahead of Victory Day Parade (r/worldnews)

• prof_dr_mr_obvious: Wouldn’t it be glorious to have the air alarms go off in Moscow during the parade?
• 133DK: Everyone so focused on the parade and the prestige loss it would be for Moscow if it got hit, but honestly it’d be way better for Ukraine to just take advantage of the lessened air defence everywhere else
• GreatGojira: They could have a peaceful parade if they would just leave Ukraine

TIL that Maria Antonia of Austria had the highest inbreeding coefficient (0.3053) of the House of Habsburg - higher than the child of brother and sister or the child of a parent and their own offspring (r/todayilearned)

• SomeDumbGamer: Important to mention that she didn’t really have any major health issues due to it either. She got incredibly lucky.
• Born-Area-9998: Every time I read about the Habsburgs I feel like medieval Europe was running a long-term experiment nobody bothered to stop.
• jxd73: It’s probably rookie number compared to the Ptolemy’s.

USPS proposal would allow handguns to be sent through the mail for the first time since 1927 (r/nottheonion)

• thatguyiswierd: I mean unloaded, marked, shipping at a higher rate to make a profit, Tied to the shipper and sender. Not a bad idea really. Guns are shipped everyday only difference is they go to a local store for pick up.
• Recreationalflorist: ITT: People that know nothing about gun laws or interstate commerce law.
• KneeDragr: They are sent via FedEx currently so not sure what the difference is with USPS getting in on it.

What is the biggest scam people still willingly participate? (r/AskReddit)

• ryryzxd: MLMs. no matter how many times people explain how theyre problematic and scammy.
• cornweel: It seems like everybody knows gambling/betting is a total waste scam designed to take their money, and yet they still are excited to participate.
• Disastrous-Ruin8411: trickle down economics

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US will start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support (r/news)

• DaStompa: Elon musk is going to lose his passport?
• coffeemakedrinksleep: This is already the law in the US. I personally know a couple of people who lost their drivers license and/or passport over not paying child support.
• Some_Number_8516: Be wary of anyone that seeks to take people’s identification papers

Christian missionary hailed as ‘holiest man alive’ pleads guilty to abusing boys in Texas (r/news)

• OuijaWalker: Still not a drag queen
• YouMustBeJoking888: The dyed black bowl cut had to have been a clue.
• Honeycove91: It’s always the ones that you most suspect…

US military strikes Iran’s Qeshm port and Bandar Abbas (r/worldnews)

• Disc0Disc0Disc0: This is the ultimate sign they are close to a deal
• GlassjawIsGreat: This doesn’t seem very ceasefiery after reading it a few times…
• ferchristssakestopit: …..good thing this war is over and we are following peace.

Massive anti-pedophile operation in Poland, 123 detained (r/worldnews)

• Gelomaniac: Now do one in the white house
• Dry_Departure_7813: But the DOW is over 50k how are the police able to arrest pedofiles?
• GaddockTeegFunPolice: ‘Kurwa why is sundays church service cancelled?’

What’s a ‘silent luxury’ that rich people have that most normal people would never even notice? (r/AskReddit)

• Neatilia: The ability to make one mistake without it ruining your life
• ThisMomentOn: Quiet. Rich people live in places that are quiet (even if they are in the middle of a city, they are away from busy roads, have significant landscaping to dampen noise, etc.), have quiet appliances, sound proofing in their homes, exceptionally quiet cars. The only noises they hear are the ones that they want.
• newg1954: The gift of preventative maintenance

TIL hikers in the Alps discovered Otzi in 1991, a 5,300-year-old man naturally preserved in ice. Scientists identified his last meal as ibex meat and grains, found over 60 soot tattoos around his joints and spine, and recovered his copper axe, flint knife, a fire-starting kit and grass cloak. (r/todayilearned)

• Fantastic_Key_8906: The guy dropped some loot
• pinkpugita: I find it fascinating that Otzi’s attacker never looted his axe and items, implying it was an act if murder. Otzi has defensive wounds but ultimately died from an arrow shot from the back. Scientists say he would have died in minutes from bleeding, so he didn’t run far off from his attacker.
• uCannoTUnseEThiS: Imagine walking around and you just find a 5300 year old dude chilling in the ice. And the fact he had tattoos around his joints… makes you wonder if it was some kind of pain relief thing like ancient acupuncture or something

Spirit Airlines passenger with dementia found dead after staff ‘abandoned’ him at airport, lawsuit says (r/nottheonion)

• bhague3: This happened in Houston in 2024 for those wondering, the lawsuit was just filed
• JugglingRick: Why is someone with dementia flying alone?
• lala4now: The relatives should have flown to Honduras to accompany him. An airline can’t be expected to care for a person with dementia IMHO. My husband has done this for an elderly relative (not traveling from Honduras but cross country). Yes there’s time and expense involved, but it’s what you do when a relative needs one on one help to get to their destination safely.

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CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87 (r/news)

• WREPGB: He’s been alive this whole time?
• hybridaaroncarroll: One thing I’m grateful for what he accomplished: TCM. Saving many old movies from the dustbin of celluloid history was a massive win for nerds like me.
• RipErRiley: The guy just dipped his feet into pro wrastlin and dethroned Vince McMahon temporarily. Impressive. Cable news? Meh.

South Korean judge who hiked ex-first lady’s jail sentence found dead just 8 days after sentencing (r/worldnews)

• HarlequinKOTF: Not suspicious at all.
• TheoreticalResearch: Creepy ass woman, creepy ass family.
• Grimtongues: Shin Jong-oh beat himself to death, dumped his body into a flower bed outside the courthouse, and then wrote a suicide note saying he was leaving this world voluntarily… seems legit

Alleged suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein unsealed by federal judge (r/news)

• ScottScanlon: And this thing just magically appears six years later. Totally believable.
• mrdominoe: Was it written on some bullets?
• sirdodger: They unsealed that pretty quickly after they found it. Funny that the rest of the files are going to remain sealed and redacted until it’s been so long that their provenance becomes in doubt and any witnesses and corroborating evidence are long gone.

What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? (r/AskReddit)

• Critical_Physics_770: Prions
• cmayfi: Ants measure distance by counting their steps. Scientists proved this by taking some ants out of a line and putting tiny stilts on them. Those ants then over shot the food source they were going too
• scary_warrior: Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse

TIL Krakatoa’s eruption was estimated to be at 310 dB, the loudest sound ever. Well above the typical max sound limit of 194 dB (r/todayilearned)

• mryazzy: People forget decibels are logarithmic, not linear. This doesn’t mean twice the noise generated by a rock concert. It is many orders of magnitude louder.
• WontThinkStraight: How many decibels would the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs have been? Feels like that would have been louder.
• SpunNumeroUno: I wonder what it actually sounded like, just an explosion or something more complex… Hmm

Pope Leo called his bank’s customer service line. They hung up on him (r/nottheonion)

• Accurate_Koala_4698: “Yeah? And I’m the Queen of England”
• Totheendofsin: The poor teller waking up to find she’s part of an international news story because she hung up on what she assumed was a prank caller
• kahllerdady: My god would I love to be the call center supervisor on whatever shift THAT was!