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Yes, it's "the princess thing," and males Albuquerque a JULY 26-AUGUST 1, 2018 WEEKLY ALIBI [5] an effort to battle unpleasant odors on the city's rapid transit system. The Washington Post ODDS reports that temperatures in up to half of Vienna's U6 subway lines reached 95 degrees Fahrenheit this summer, prompting transportation authorities to take action AND ENDS against any bad smells that might arise by giving away free cans of deodorant spray. The WEIRD NEWS campaign appeared to have been successful, as staff with the Wiener Linien public transport Dateline: New York company reportedly ended up handing out A man holding the Guinness World Record 14,000 cans within a single day. Employees for the longest fingernails on a single hand has said the cans were “snatched” from their removed them after 66 years. NBC4 in New hands. A spokesperson for the company told York reports Shridhar Chillal was flown from reporters that Austrians weren't any smellier India to New York earlier this month to have than anyone else, and that the effort was his fingernails removed for the first time since “primarily intended as a consolation.” Some 1952. Chillal's nails are over 31 feet long and cars on the U6 are outfitted with the luxury, are now on display at Ripley's Believe It or but questions about whether the Not! museum in Time's Square. According to transportation company should install air Chillal, he began growing the nails on his left conditioners on all their lines have been hand because of an incident with one of his raised. teachers during childhood. Chillal says he was pushed down by a classmate, and the resulting Dateline: China scuffle caused their teacher to break a nail. A commercial airplane copilot allegedly The teacher then reprimanded the boys, caused a passenger plane to drop nearly 20,000 saying they didn't understand the discipline it feet because he was vaping an electronic took to grow the nail. To prove the teacher cigarette. According to CNN, an unnamed wrong, Chillal began growing the nails on his copilot for Air China was vaping in the left hand and never stopped. Due to years of cockpit and attempted to switch off the plane's maintaining the fingernails, Chillal's fingers air recycling fans in an attempt to keep the have become permanently fused and his left vapor from passing into the passenger cabin. hand is permanently disabled. A circular saw Officials from the Civil Aviation was used to cut off the fingernails, and footage Administration of China say the copilot of the procedure was uploaded to YouTube. It pressed the wrong switch, mistakenly turning is believed that Chillal's fingernails will off the aircraft's air conditioning system, resume normal growth. leading to a drop in oxygen levels. The plane reportedly dropped from above 32,800 feet to Dateline: Texas below 13,100 feet in less than 9 minutes. Firefighters in Austin were repeatedly called to Chinese state media reported that the aircraft a chip factory after tortilla chips spontaneously eventually climbed back to around 24,600 feet combusted. According to a Facebook post before finishing the flight with less-than- published by the Austin Fire Department, adequate oxygen levels in the cabin. The emergency crews were called to a factory jetliner landed safely. Senior CAAC official where a “new way to handle the waste” Qiao Yibin told reporters he would order resulted in what authorities referred to as “severe punishment in accordance with laws “spontaneous combustion.” The fire was and regulations” for the copilot. reportedly confined to some food pallets stored outside the building. Firefighters were able to Dateline: Tennessee contain the blaze, but said that additional A man allegedly stole his date's car and used it cardboard boxes carrying the food waste to pick up another date. WREG-3 in Memphis ignited while they were on the scene. Three reports Kelton Griffin allegedly showed up for days later, firefighters were called to the a date with Faith Pugh without a car. The factory once more to put out flames caused by couple got into Pugh's black Volvo, but Griffin another group of “previously uninvolved” said he didn't know where to take her. They boxes filled with the waste. To eliminate eventually stopped at a gas station, where further risk of fire, factory workers drowned all Griffin reportedly asked Pugh to step inside the boxes that had not caught fire. No and buy a cigar. When she returned from the damages were reported in either case. Why the store, she found her car and Griffin had chips spontaneously combusted has not been vanished. Pugh says she then received a text made clear. The Austin Fire Department said message from her God sister, saying she was they take cases like this seriously as tortilla out on a date with Griffin. Pugh and her chips are “responsible for holding all manner mother reportedly followed GPS information of very important things—like queso, salsa, provided by the God sister and were able to nachos, and various other sundry items that confront Griffin. Pugh's God sister reportedly are critical to a Texan’s everyday life and well- paid for the pair's tickets to see a drive-in being.” movie. Griffin was arrested by police that evening. a Dateline: Austria Public transportation staff in Vienna handed Compiled by Joshua Lee. Email your weird news to out deodorant to mass commuters last week in [email protected]. [6] WEEKLY ALIBI JULY 26-AUGUST 1, 2018 NEWS | COMMENTARY ART NEWS BY AUGUST MARCH The Road That ART Built Building Dreams! BYD and the future The issues related to the ART project seem to A primer on the history and culture of ART hover persistently on their own, coming and going, almost mysteriously, like the tantalizing, sometimes disappointing clouds of the summer monsoon.