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Three men handed jail sentences after careless, drunken act in a national park

<p>Three tourists who were filmed getting too close to feeding brown bears in the wild have been handed prison sentences and the additional punishment of thousands of dollars worth of fines.</p> <p>David Engelman, 56, from Sandia Park, New Mexico, and Ronald J. Engelman, 54, and Steven Thomas, 30, both from King Salmon, Alaska, pleaded guilty to leaving the trail in Alaska’s Katmai Park to get closer to the animals.</p> <p>The men were identified after they were captured on a park webcam as they waded out into a salmon run to take selfies as the bears were feeding.</p> <p>All three men were fined $US3000 each ($A4260) and given a year probation. David and Ronald Engelman were sentenced to one week in prison, while Steven Thomas received a 10-day sentence.</p> <p>In addition, each man is prohibited from entering any national park for one year.</p> <p>Judge Matthew Scoble called their behaviour “drunken capering, and a slap in the face to those who were there”.</p> <p>The proceeds from the fines would go towards the Katmai Conservancy, a non-profit that looks after the running of the park.</p> <p>The incident happened in Autumn of 2018, causing outage. The men were eventually identified by the National Park Service Investigative Services, with help of the livestream footage.</p> <p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F8qkHl18xf0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <p>“The conduct of these three individuals not only endangered other visitors and wildlife officers at Brooks Falls, they also potentially endangered the life of the bears,” lawyer S. Lane Tucker said.</p> <p>Had the incident resulted in death or injury, Mr Tucker argued it would have had a huge impact on tourism to the area and the animals would have had to be killed.</p> <p>The National Park Service were alerted to the incident by viewers of their ‘bear cam’ which was being broadcast live to YouTube.</p> <p><em>Images: YouTube</em></p>

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"USE A TAP, MATE": Gordon Ramsay abused for careless fridge contents

<div class="post_body_wrapper"> <div class="post_body"> <div class="body_text "> <p>Fan favourite British chef Gordon Ramsay surprised viewers by returning to MasterChef: Back to Win via video link.</p> <p>He called in from the UK to set the Mystery Box challenge on Monday night and opened up his fridge to show contestants what they would be cooking with.</p> <p>Ramsay was thrilled with the top four chefs, who were Emelia, Callum, Reynold and Laura.</p> <p>"First of all, congratulations to all of you. Seriously, congratulations. I've been watching each and every one of you from the beginning. This journey has been incredible," he said candidly.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCk9faxBHGF/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CCk9faxBHGF/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">Guess who's back? 👀🇬🇧 @gordongram #MasterChefAU</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/masterchefau/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> MasterChef Australia</a> (@masterchefau) on Jul 13, 2020 at 2:38am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>However, fans were more concerned with the amount of mini plastic Evian bottles Ramsay had in his fridge.</p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height:281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7836907/water.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/fc6ba35aa43344a391ff50761fb0507f" /></p> <p>Fans were unimpressed with the amount of plastic in the chef's fridge and went on social media to blast Ramsay.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">why does gordon ramsay have so much bottled water? USE A TAP, MATE <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MasterchefAU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MasterchefAU</a></p> — Andrea (@bethwoodvilles) <a href="https://twitter.com/bethwoodvilles/status/1282609859192446976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">HOW MANY BOTTLES OF WATER DOES GORDON RAMSAY HAVE?! talk about panic buying… <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MasterChefAU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MasterChefAU</a></p> — ⋆bridget⋆ (@xxteamlmxx) <a href="https://twitter.com/xxteamlmxx/status/1282610050318524416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">If you’re Gordon Ramsay-level rich, you can afford a tap that only spits out filtered bubbly water. Come on, guv. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MasterChefAU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MasterChefAU</a></p> — Michael Hartt 👐🏻 (@whatamindblast) <a href="https://twitter.com/whatamindblast/status/1282611939462406154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote> <p>Emelia's pastry ended up taking the lead and fast-tracked her to semi-finals.</p> <p>Despite Callum's dessert being full of conflicting flavours, Reynold's chawanmushi and Laura's fish and vegetables, these impressive dishes were no match for the intricate pastry put forward by Emelia.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CClE7uxFwbd/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CClE7uxFwbd/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">@emelia_jackson's inventive dish was a choux-in for the Semi-Finals! 🥧</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/masterchefau/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> MasterChef Australia</a> (@masterchefau) on Jul 13, 2020 at 3:43am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>After her win was announced, she told the camera:</p> <p>“I have been so intimidated throughout this entire competition. And to think that I am in the semi-final, I never pictured this as a reality, ever.”</p> <p>Speaking to the <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=HSWEB_WRE170_a&amp;dest=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.heraldsun.com.au%252Fentertainment%252Fwhat-made-masterchef-star-emelia-jackson-regret-everything-during-challenge%252Fnews-story%252Fbd0bb819e0ab5e2314168cc308cd1273&amp;memtype=anonymous&amp;mode=premium&amp;nk=76b636a8b3a6194017260471c0a00d88-1594635953" target="_blank" class="_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtflink"><em>Herald Sun</em></a> on Saturday, 31-year-old Emelia revealed how “overwhelming” her second shot at MasterChef had been.</p> <p>“The physical feeling (of being on the show) is like when you are on a rollercoaster and you get to the top and you have that split half-second before you have that big drop where you freak out and regret everything,” Emelia said.</p> <p>She added: “That is the feeling of it, this overwhelming, massive adrenaline rush. It really is like a cauldron, the pressure is on, everything is bubbling away.”</p> </div> </div> </div>

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Is this Australia's most careless courier?

<p>The race to be crowned Australia’s most careless courier seems to be heating up. Less than a week after an Australia Post worker was exposed for his <a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/finance/insurance/2017/11/australia-post-worker-caught-on-camera-carelessly-throwing-parcels/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>cavalier approach to packing a delivery truck</strong></span></a>, another delivery driver has been caught out.</p> <p><a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>7 News</strong></em></span></a> reports the courier has caught on CCTV violently throwing fragile packages over the fence of Adelaide woman Josie Grummel, who captured the footage on CCTV.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F7NewsMelbourne%2Fvideos%2F10156007587689301%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560" width="560" height="315" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p> <p>“F***ing a**hole,” she told 7 News. “There’s facilities out there to put them or he could have just neatly put them over the fence, there’s no need to throw them. It clearly says that it was fragile, and this way up, which it wasn’t.”</p> <p>The products, delicate air diffusers which were supposed to be Christmas presents, “were packaged very well, luckily, because he gave them a good chuck”.</p> <p>What are your thoughts? Do you think more should be done to regulate courier behaviour?</p> <p><em>Image credit: Facebook / 7 News</em></p>

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This is how your luggage is treated at the airport

<p><span>A worker at Edinburgh Airport has been filmed carelessly throwing suitcases onto the conveyor belt.</span></p> <p><span>The footage, posted on Twitter, shows the worker picking up luggage and throwing it from a distance onto the belt rather than walking it over and placing it down like the other workers do.</span></p> <p><span>Lewis Marasco, who filmed the video, wrote, “Great to see one of the baggage handlers at @EdiAirport taking no care with bags — no wonder things get broken.”</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-video"> <p dir="ltr">2/2... having had things broken myself I now see why - credit to the 3 other guys taking care <a href="https://twitter.com/EdiAirport">@EdiAirport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/swissport">@swissport</a> <a href="https://t.co/K1RKWi9vzs">pic.twitter.com/K1RKWi9vzs</a></p> — Lewis Marasco (@TheMarasco) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMarasco/status/881806338250199040">July 3, 2017</a></blockquote> <p><span>“Having had things broken myself I now see why — credit to the 3 other guys taking care.”</span></p> <p><span>The baggage handlers work for Swissport International, a firm hired by the airport to do this job.</span></p> <p><span>On their website, Swissport describe themselves as the “world’s leading provider of ground and air cargo services to the aviation industry”.</span></p> <p><span>Earlier this year, baggage handlers were filmed kicking and throwing passengers’ suitcases after dragging them from a plane at Luton Airport.</span></p> <p><span>The passenger who captured the incident said, “How can you be so sick and disrespectful?”</span></p> <p><span>“Hope these idiots get kicked in the face — and then fired.”</span></p>

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