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Councilor Brian Jones told reporters: “We’ll have to catch the guilty ODDS party in the act — it’s the only way we’ll get to the bottom of this.” Dateline: Denmark AND ENDS Danish scientists say that tapping a shaken WEIRD NEWS beer can does not reduce the risk of it fizzing over. Ars Technica reports that Dateline: Colorado researchers from the University of Swarms of mysterious drones have the Southern Denmark in Odense published a residents of eastern Colorado on edge. paper recently titled “To beer or not to Now the state’s governor says he wants the beer: does tapping beer cans prevent beer mystery solved. According to Huffpost, loss?” According to the paper: “Preventing Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told reporters or minimizing beer loss when opening a last week that he would “get to the can of beer is socially and economically bottom” of the strange drone sightings desirable. One theoretically grounded reported in Colorado and Nebraska since approach is tapping the can prior to mid-December. The swarms have been opening, although this has never been spotted flying by multiple witnesses and rigorously evaluated. We aimed to evaluate even the Phillips County Sheriff ’s Office, the effect of tapping a can of beer on beer which tracked 16 of the flying machines in loss.” To test the method, the researchers late December. So far, the drones haven’t split 1031 beer cans of 330ml into four caused any harm, but residents say they’re groups: unshaken/untapped, nervous about the intentions of the unshaken/tapped, shaken/untapped and machine’s operators. The swarms shaken/tapped. The “tapped” cans were reportedly fly in formation, but some each given three taps on the side with a witnesses have reported observed them single finger. “Shaken” cans were shaken hovering in the air while shining a for two minutes each. The scientists spotlight. Michael Yowell, a sheriff ’s weighed the cans, tapped or did not tap captain in Lincoln County, told reporters them, opened the cans, absorbed any beer that police estimate around 30 drones are loss using paper towels, then weighed the being deployed each night in the area. cans one last time. At the end of the Some of the drones are reportedly larger experiment, they found that “there was no than 6 feet in diameter. Polis told statistically significant difference in the reporters that the Department of Public mass of beer lost when tapping compared Safety is investigating but hasn’t released to not tapping.” It appears the common “any substantial information” on the case. belief that tapping a beer can will lessen A number of government agencies and foaming is incorrect. According to the private drone companies in the area have paper’s authors, the only way to make denied any knowledge of the drones’ certain that no beer is lost is to “wait for origins or purpose. It is likely that the bubbles to settle before opening the can.” operators are violating Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations by Dateline: Florida failing to register their drones, failing to Police who were responding to what they maintain line-of-sight on the drone while believed were cries for help found a parrot in flight and by flying over third parties. instead. Newsweek reports that four The FAA also prohibits pilots from sheriff ’s deputies were sent to a residence operating more than one drone at a in Lake Worth Beach, Fla. in late time—a possibility in this case. December after a neighbor thought they’d heard a woman screaming, “Help, help, Dateline: United Kingdom let me out!” In a video clip that has since A village in England has been targeted by gone viral, the officers can be seen mysterious dumpers who have left piles of approaching the home of a man who can manure in public areas.