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- ProPublica has a sobering feature on the medical debt collectors who decide who gets arrested, and take a cut of the bail.
- Taylor Swift did a Tiny Desk Concert and people are pretty pretty jazzed about it. Personally I'm just here for the fall suit experiment.
- A 20-year-old Iowan has been arrested for driving, drink in hand, with a fake ID that identified him as a 38-year-old Hawaiian man named McLovin. * Seth Rogen cackles somewhere in the distance *
- On his way to work in Midtown, an NBC director was attacked by a group of men doing a "Halloween dance" and shouting "boo!" at him. The 72-year-old told the NY Daily News: "They were circling around me, and they were pointing their fingers in my face. They’re dancing, and all of a sudden they’re punching me. They beat the crap out of me."
- Connecticut State Police released the 911 call from a woman who says a Peter Pan Bus driver locked her in the vehicle's luggage compartment en route to Boston.
- Just to save you the click, "Ancient Rome" is trending on Twitter because the president pinpointed that period as the origin of our nation's ties to Italy and yes you can go take your nap now. Because even if he maybe meant something about democracy — and please note: that's just my best guess — that system was famously born in Athens. As in Greece.
- Felicity Huffman will reportedly be serving 13 days in jail, rather than 14. 'Kay!
- To be clear, there are currently no known Nigerian astronauts lost in space. In case you get that email.
- Here's a porcupine preparing its body for Halloween:
Published Oct 16, 2019
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