You work all day and it can be taxing. We’ve all been there, long hours, meetings after meetings, and you’re now getting tired. For most of us we’d just grab a cup of coffee. Depending on your line of work, you might opt to skip the coffee and just take a nap. For most of us, though, there would be consequences to that workday nap. Even criminals have consequences to sleeping on the job. A business owner in Kentucky came into work to find that a number of cars on the lot had been broken into. The police were called and the sleepy thief was found passed out in one of the vehicles. It was a fairly open and shut case, as the thief was found asleep in a car wearing a ski mask and black gloves. The moral of the story is trifold, alarm your car, don’t sleep on the job, and don’t dress like a stereotype of a cat burglar.
When you see a spider, what is your reaction? Do you step on it? Catch and release? Run away? Abandon your car in a river? The last option was the unfortunate outcome for a young Australian driver after a huntsman spider dropped into her lap while driving. After the spider landed, the driver tried to stop and apply the emergency brake, but flew out of the car a bit prematurely. While she assured her safety from the creepy crawly, the car slowly rolled into the nearby river. To the driver’s defense, have you seen a huntsman spider? They’re the size of a house!
We’ve all been there. Sitting in traffic, frustrated with the lack of movement. Wishing you could lift off and fly past all the sedentary vehicles. For most of us it stays as a daydream. For one factory worker in the Czech Republic, he made it a reality. After being frustrated wasting time in traffic during his commute to work, he built himself a small, one-seated airplane to fly to work. He successfully saved seven minutes from his commute each way. It would’ve been more, but not only is he resourceful, he is considerate. He takes a long way to work in his plane so he doesn’t disturb neighborhoods trying to sleep.
Getting a proper night’s sleep will help you stay alert, focused, sharpen your critical thinking skills, and can keep you out of embarrassing situations. Without a proper night’s sleep you could nod off in a work meeting, pass out during class, or fall asleep in a massage chair. The last one doesn’t sound so bad, unless the chair is a store display and you end up locked inside after they close. A man in a Japanese electronics store had sat down in a massage chair only to wake and find himself locked in a deserted store. The man tweeted to let people know what was going on before the police and store manager arrived to let him out.
This heat wave has been brutal. Days on days of humid, hot, oppressing heat. There are few things you want to do on days like these: swim, sit in the air conditioning, or eat ice cream. Thieves have begun capitalizing on the latter of those hot day activities. Ice cream theft has been reported around the country. One man in Florida was caught stealing an entire ice cream freezer from a convenience store. In New York there have been a string of ice cream robberies from a large chain grocery store. One couple was reported attempting to steal eighty containers of ice cream before they ditched the goods on the street while being pursued. Now I get it, it’s hot, and I too love ice cream, but come on people - don’t steal. That’s a Rocky Road you don’t want to go down.
