The world is safertoday

[genlock]

As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop during business hours on a Saturday in August, handcuffing barbers in front of customers during a busy back-to-school weekend.

It was just one of a series of unprecedented raid-style inspections the Orange County Sheriff's Office recently conducted with a state regulating agency, targeting several predominantly black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops in the Pine Hills area.

In "sweeps" on Aug. 21 and Sept. 17 targeting at least nine shops, deputies arrested 37 people — the majority charged with "barbering without a license," a misdemeanor that state records show only three other people have been jailed in Florida in the past 10 years.

The operations were conducted without warrants, under the authority of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspectors, who can enter salons at will. Deputies said they found evidence of illegal activity, including guns, drugs and gambling. However, records show that during the two sweeps, and a smaller one in October, just three people were charged with anything other than a licensing violation.

From Orlando Sentinel...........

[genlock]

British health officials are hard at work on a new app that will allow users to pee into their cell phones and find out within minutes if they have an STD.

Seriously, we could not make this stuff up if we tried.

According to The Guardian, 4 million pounds have been invested in the UK Clinical Research Collaboration, which is creating a smartphone app that will allow users, "to put urine or saliva on to a computer chip about the size of a USB chip, plug it into their phone or computer and receive a diagnosis within minutes."

[Scott Reppert]

Wouldn't that be a USP chip???

[jag]

<MEGA-GROAN!!>

Scott, allow me to congratulate you! "Ur-ine" the running for the worst joke of the month!

[cgarison]

British health officials are hard at work on a new app that will allow users to pee into their cell phones and find out within minutes if they have an STD.

Brings a whole new meaning to "Piss On It."





I am glad they did not think "fvck it" when developing the app.

[genlock]

Hemorrhoid cell phone check has a somewhat different technique.