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This cop definitely gets MacGyver points if he put this together himself. Anyone who’s ever worn a bulletproof vest in the summer has a special appreciation for this.

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Last week Google brought in a herd of goats to mow the grass on its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters rather than using lawnmowers.

The company said that it wanted to take a more “low-carbon” approach with the goats reducing the company’s contribution to air and noise pollution. The cost of hiring the 200-some goats is about the same price as mowing, but the goats were “a lot cuter to watch.”

This is the kind of win we expect from Google. Nice work as usual, guys.

Original Article at MyFoxDC.com

Students and faculty gathered around the flagpole in front of Fruita Monument High School Thursday morning wondering in awe just how senior pranksters welded an old Eagle hatchback around the flagpole without causing any damage to school property.

The real win here is the fact that these guys thought this through enough to have a defensible position that they didn’t damage anything, since the car isn’t touching the flagpole. The school says as long as they help clean it up after school lets out for the summer they’re good. Alex Almy and Jesse Poe, today you guys are winners.

Sometimes good timing puts and unexpected smile on your face.

This is so obviously awesome that in retrospect I’m shocked I haven’t seen something like this before. I mean, can you even imagine a better home security weapon for the zombie apocalypse? Of course you can’t. I’ll need about half a truckload of these, just in case.

Indeed he does, good sir. Indeed he does.

The Supreme Court today sharply limited the power of police to search a suspect’s car after making an arrest, acknowledging that the decision changes a rule that law enforcement has relied on for nearly 30 years.

That’s right, boys and girls…for the first time in a long, long while you’ll have more civil rights when you go to sleep tonight than you had when you got up this morning. I’ve always believed that police had too much power to search vehicles, and it seems the Supreme Court agrees.

While there’s a valid point that cops will have to deal with more uncertainty regarding traffic stops and arrests (and putting lives in danger is not something I generally support), any swing back toward civil rights is a positive step for our society.

Until this ruling police basically had carte blanche to search a vehicle when any passenger was arrested for anything, then potentially charge everyone in the vehicle for any contraband found within. Sounds pretty bogus when you put it that way…a driver with an ounce of coke in the console can get (and has gotten) everyone in the vehicle charged with possession.

It’s a good day for civil liberties.

Original Article at The Washington Post

Big advertising win here.

The worsening economy has obviously caused Arby’s to come up with compelling new marketing strategies. In related news, it seems Libertines everywhere say they’re eating out at Arby’s several times a week.

Well done Jennifer, well done.