It’s something straight out of an Indiana Jones movie: guy is captured, guy gets out of his restraints, ducks under a closing door, and guy manages to escape. 

Except, it’s from an actual video released by the Porter County Sheriff’s Department. 

Michael Maldonado was arrested on Monday during a traffic stop and brought into the Porter County Jail. When the squad car pulled into the building’s garage, Maldonado managed to jump out and duck under the closing door.

With the closed door, officers couldn’t catch Maldonado. According to NWI Times, it took some time for another door to unlock, and by the time the officers were able to get outside Maldonado was already gone, despite some help from a K9 unit.  Read more…

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Just about everyone is buzzing about electric vehicles these days. Yet, despite charging stations popping up at work, and autonomous rideshare safety systems dominating the nightly news, most of us still drive (ourselves) to the gas station pump every week. The EV industry has been plagued with production and affordability issues that have prevented the widespread usage of these vehicles, making the buzz exactly that—all talk and no adoption. SF Motors wants to change that.

They’ve spent the past two years quietly developing the future of driving, and on Wednesday, March 28th, the company will finally give us a glimpse into its exciting work with a live streamed announcement.  Read more…

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There are only four days left until April, but we can still appreciate March Madness with the small amount of time left. Unless it’s a toss up between Disney and Pixar movies. 

This Disney-Pixar bracket is tearing the internet apart — Twitter user @smjxmj’s take put Monsters, Inc. above all other Disney-Pixar movies and people were pretty mad. 

Because, really, WHO would choose Tangled over Lion King? Tangled is a wonderful movie but the Lion King is a classic. It’s the peak of Disney’s renaissance.  Read more…

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Now that Rudy Giuliani isn’t on TV defending President Trump’s every move like he was during the campaign, we’re no longer blessed with our daily dose of the former New York City mayor. While less Giuliani is ideal for some, we also miss out on priceless moments such as this one.

Self-described “GOP Media Guy” Rick Wilson shared a selfie of himself and Giuliani at LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday. While a selfie of two old white dudes would not typically warrant a blog post, please looks closely at Giuliani’s ears.

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Better mind your Ps and Qs, because daddy Gates is watching. 

Microsoft is updating its terms of service on May 1, and the news rules just so happen to explicitly prohibit the use of “offensive language” on its various platforms. Those platforms include Skype and Xbox Live.

That’s right, Microsoft is banning profanity on Xbox Live. Let that one sink in. 

But it gets even weirder. The full lists prohibits all kinds of things, including nudity. 

“By agreeing to these Terms, you’re agreeing that, when using the Services, you will follow these rules,” explains the new code of conduct. “Don’t publicly display or use the Services to share inappropriate content or material (involving, for example, nudity, bestiality, pornography, offensive language, graphic violence, or criminal activity).” Read more…

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Uber’s self-driving car program seems doomed — at least in two states where it was testing its driverless technology.

Following last week’s fatal crash in the Phoenix area, the company suspended all its programs in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Toronto, and Arizona. This week, any future autonomous testing in Arizona was suspended indefinitely.

Now, a letter from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to Uber’s autonomous vehicle program shows that the company has decided not to renew its testing permit. Its current permit will expire this weekend on March 31.  Read more…

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Robert Downey Jr. just revealed the stars joining him in the upcoming The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle. The sheer amount of talent is overwhelming, but the fact that they’ll all be voicing animals — and imagining these Oscar-nominated performers as animals — is the true joy.

The award-winning and nominated actors include: Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) as a parrot, Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) as a gorilla, Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures, The Shape of Water) as a duck, Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel) as a tiger, Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) as an ostrich, and Carmen Ejogo (Selma) as a lioness. Read more…

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Sure, you’ve heard of snakes swallowing possums, hyenas, and uh, other snakes. 

They’re at least kinda digestible, unlike a slipper. A man from the Queensland town of Haigslea in Australia had placed by his bed last Tuesday as he went to sleep, only to find one of them missing in the morning.

The snake, with slipper inside, was found on Friday and was subsequently removed by N&S Snake Catcher, who posted the video on Facebook.

Sally Hill, who helped catch the snake with her partner Norman, told ABC News about her theory as to why the reptile devoured the strange item. Read more…

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An Uber driver messed up big time while picking up passengers in San Francisco.

Instead of leaving a grocery store parking lot, you know, through a normal exit, the driver took the stairs.

Stairs are lauded as a healthy alternative to elevators or escalators, but in this case this was the wrong choice. Naturally, after making the supremely embarrassing move, the first thing the Uber driver did was blame Uber’s navigation system for leading the car down the pedestrian stairway. 

I’ve driven in this particular Safeway parking lot at the busy intersection of Church and Market streets many times, and it’s admittedly unclear how to get out of the lot, but it’s not drive-down-a-staircase unclear. Read more…

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Aly Raisman is tired of victim-shaming over clothing choices. 

The U.S. Olympic gymnast tweeted on Sunday that “Leotards r not the problem,” calling out critics of the gymnastics uniform for victim-shaming and “implying survivors should feel it’s their fault.” 

Raisman, an outspoken activist for survivors of sexual assault, also called out enablers of abuse against children and young people, saying, “The real problem is the pedophiles out there and the adults who enable them.”

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