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Guiding Light
A MAN'S BEEN JAILED FOR TRYING TO BLIND FLYING JETS
He'd shine torches at them during their nighttime training sessions

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A 68-year-old man in Wales was sentenced to 18 months in jail for dangerously distracting jet pilots by shining a powerful light into their aircrafts as they flew over his home. John Arthur Jones, who used to be a council housing official, spent his evenings between November 2013 and September 2014 blinding jet pilots as they came in for landings, as part of a sustained campaign to stop their night-time training.

"You possess an abundance of self belief in your own ability to achieve things, which transcends all reason and which is borne out of profound arrogance," said judge Geraint Walters on Friday. "The risk caused here was significant. The consequences could have been devastating."

Jones had reportedly grown so frustrated with the planned jet training exercises in his neighbourhood that he'd tried to have the flight paths rerouted and had told police the pilots were directly harassing him, the court heard. His sentence was meant to suspended – ie: not served in prison – but the judge pushed back against that, to hopefully deter other grumpy older men "from such potentially life-threatening behaviour".

Boxed In
SOME TERRIBLE PARKING MADE LOCAL BRUMMIE NEWS
But the little old lady at fault was so sweet and old that it was fine in the end

Here, watch a lovely montage of shit parking set to piano music (via)

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A man's car was stuck in a hospital parking lot for more than six hours, thanks to some top-notch awful parking that boxed in his car. The story made local news in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, after Abs Bashir was eventually freed by the elderly woman.

"I was in shock. She was just walking to her car as if nothing had happened," he told the Birmingham Mail. "She was just completely unaware of what had happened. I asked her had she seen these vehicles and she said no she didn't. She was an elderly lady and I couldn't really say anything."

After Bashir "missed and rearranged a couple of meetings", everything was alright.

Emergency Surge
PEOPLE KICKED OFF ABOUT TEMPORARY UBER SURGE PRICING
It was then turned off after reports of an explosion in New York's Chelsea area

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Uber's price surging algorithm was criticised on Saturday night when people across New York City say they were met with increased car ride prices, following an explosion in Chelsea that injured at least 29 people.

The platform's surge pricing, which automatically raises the price per ride when the cab app is under high demand, was deactivated in Chelsea about an hour after the blast – though Uber users in other parts of New York later complained that they'd been impacted by the price gouging.

Uber previously faced criticism for activating surge pricing during a hostage siege in Sydney in 2014, in the same year that the company agreed to limit surges during national disasters and emergencies in the US.

A Smashing Job
VIDEO EMERGED OF A POLICE OFFICER STRIKING A MAN'S WINDSCREEN
Turned out the cops had the wrong guy, but left glass shards in his eyes anyway

What gives the right for this officer to damage this car — Mega SoSolid #S9 (@OFFICIALSOSOLID)September 17, 2016

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Two Met police officers have been placed on "restrictive duties" after mobile phone video footage circulated of one of them striking and splintering a driver's windscreen in north London.

In one of two clips from the incident, the officer tells the man – believed to be 25-year-old Leon Fontana – that he's "not allowed to drive" his own car, before screaming at him to get out, and then striking the windscreen.

The Met confirmed the man in the car was not in fact one they had been looking for. Or, in their own words: "On conclusion of the incident the officers identified that the driver was not the man in question and he was not arrested." Lovely.

The man in the car reportedly went to hospital. "Every time he smashed the glass, fragments of glass were just ricocheting in my face," he told the Guardian.

This article was corrected on Monday the 19th of September to reflect that Uber turned off temporary, automated surge pricing after hearing reports of an explosion in Chelsea.