Sex robot brothel plans irk religious groups
A Houston religious group is pushing back against plans to open a realistic sex robot brothel in the city. KinkySdollS, an Ontario-based business where customers can rent realistic sex robots for a half hour or an hour at a time, recently announced plans to expand to cities including Houston, raising the ire of local religious groups.
Micah Gamboa of Elijah Rising, a religious nonprofit dedicated to fighting sex trafficking, is calling for the city to bar KinkySdollS from opening a sex robot brothel in Houston.
“We were absolutely horrified,” Gamboa told KTRK-TV.
“Our biggest concern is that this sex brothel with robots is gonna train men to become rapists,” Gamboa said. “What’s next? Is it child robots? Where’s the line? Where is the boundary?”
“We can’t allow these kind of public masturbation businesses to operate in our city,” Gamboa said.
Elijah Rising posted a petition on Change.org calling on the city mayor’s office to address the issue.
“Robot brothels will ultimately harm men, their understanding of healthy sexuality, and increase the demand for the prostitution and sexual exploitation of women and children,” the petition argues.
Legal experts said the business does not appear to violate any currently enforceable laws in Texas.
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Cocaine in banana boxes donated to texas prison
Nearly $18 million worth of cocaine was found in boxes of bananas that were donated to a prison in Texas recently, law enforcement officials said. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said 45 boxes of bananas from Ports of America in Freeport, Texas were donated to the Wayne Scott Unit, a prison about 32 miles north, due to the fruit being already ripe. But when corrections officers were unloading the boxes, one of the officers “discovered something not quite right.” “One of the boxes felt different than the others,” TDCJ said in a statement. “They snipped the straps, pulled free the box, and opened it up. Inside, under a bundle of bananas, he found another bundle! Inside that? What appeared to be a white powdery substance.” U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials were called in to test the substance and found it was cocaine.
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Animal rescuer says reported lizard was a toy
An animal rescuer called to a London home on a report of a collapsed lizard arrived to find the reptile was actually a chewed-up dog toy. The RSPCA said Animal Collection Officer David Eckworth responded to a home in the Hackney area of London where a resident reported spotting a lizard collapsed in her garden. “The call came in saying the lizard was unresponsive and was curled in a ball,” Eckworth said. “But when I attended the address and ventured into the garden to locate the poorly reptile — I found a half-eaten dog’s chew toy of an elephant!” he said. “It was quite entertaining but I think the woman was a little embarrassed.” The RSPCA said a rescuer was previously called last September on a report of a lizard under a Coventry, England, resident’s bed, but the officer arrived to discover the reported animal was actually just a dirty sock.
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Pickup truck drives on road with wheel missing
A shocked traveler on a Texas road captured video of a man driving a severely damaged pickup truck with a missing front wheel. Justin Seidel said he was leaving a cellphone store with a friend and his mother in the Magnolia area when they spotted the truck traveling with its hood open and a front wheel missing.
The trio decided to follow the vehicle and Seidel captured video of the pickup before it was pulled over minutes later by Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies.
“Sparks were just going everywhere under his truck,” Seidel told KTRK-TV.
The Conroe Police Department, which is handling the investigation, said the man was not intoxicated when he was pulled over. Investigators said the vehicle had been damaged when the driver struck a transformer.
Police said the man was not arrested, but the driver could face legal troubles if the owner of the transformer decides to press charges.
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Woman makes own bus handle using plunger
An ingenious passenger on a bus in China was filmed making her own handle by affixing a toilet plunger to the vehicle’s ceiling. The video shows a woman boarding a bus in Huai’an City, Jiangsu Province, and looking for an available handle to hold as the bus starts to move.
The woman discovers all of the handles are in use, so she brandishes a toilet plunger and quickly suctions it to the vehicle’s ceiling, making her own handle. The scene draws the attention of her fellow passengers, who laugh at the unusual scene.
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