Four chaps needed to be rescued from the highest mountain in England over the weekend because they couldn't walk. No, they hadn't injured themselves in any way. They just got too stoned to hike back down the mountain.

Stranded on Scafell Pike’s 3,210-foot peak, the men called for help Saturday evening. A rescue team along with police helped the men hike safely down.

The Cumbria Police had something to say about it on Twitter:

Persons stuck on mountain, after taking cannabis. Having to deploy M'tain Rescue, Air support and Ambulance to rescue them.....

— Cumbria Police (@Cumbriapolice) September 23, 2017

And:

Persons rescued after becoming incapable of walking due to cannabis use. MRT volunteers putting themselves at risk to prevent harm.

— Cumbria Police (@Cumbriapolice) September 23, 2017

According to The Guardian:

The post provoked furious reactions on social media, with some users suggesting the group be asked to cover the cost of the rescue operation. The comments prompted Copeland’s local police force to respond that they “always ensure people are safe, regardless of choices they make that put them in a dangerous position”.

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If you're in Mexico, just say no to 7UP. In Mexicali, Meth has been found in some bottles of 7UP, which, among other symptoms, can cause vomiting, burning to the abdomen and esophagus, and can make it hard to breathe. The tainted soda has killed one person and made seven others sick.

According to Snopes:

The health department of Baja California also issued a statement noting that the meth was found in 2-liter bottles of 7Up and that all stores in the area had been instructed to remove the product from their shelves.

A spokesman for Dr Pepper Snapple Group, the distributors of 7Up in the United States, said that “None of the 7Up products sold in the U.S. are affected by the issue being reported in Mexico.”

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When Trump spoke to African leaders at a UN lunch on Wednesday, he referred to the African country of Nambia twice. It was a head-scratcher. Did he mean Zambia? Gambia? Namibia? Narnia? Oh wait...

It made for a busy round of yucks on Twitter. Here is a sample:

How Donald Trump sees Africa #nambia pic.twitter.com/noBB0ZCGRe

— ElElegante101 (@skolanach) September 20, 2017

Ah yes, #Nambia. I love that country. Stopped by on my way home from a safari in Wakanda last time I was on the continent. 😂😭🙄

— Rosie B 🇬🇭 (@rosiesrambles) September 21, 2017

Nambia is the world's top exporter of covfefe https://t.co/ho8TcgXkgn

— Andrew Stroehlein (@astroehlein) September 21, 2017

King of #Nambia, the heir to the Royal Throne of Zamunda pic.twitter.com/vKQK1VSwct

— MJ Edwards (@rogue1two) September 21, 2017

I dream of a land like Nambia, where fields of Covfefe grow, and the National song is Rocket Man. #Nambia #Trumpspeak

— Lori Rose Bebko (@_TorpedoGirl_) September 21, 2017

BREAKING: Reports Boris Johnson urgently preparing for state visit after the recent discovery of #Nambia... pic.twitter.com/cEy0y2TXxd

— Brett Edwards (@bwiedwards) September 21, 2017

For the last 18 years, French chef Sébastien Bras' restaurant, Le Suquet, has received 3 Michelin stars. Now the chef wants to part ways with Michelin. He's tired of the pressure that the rating puts on him and is begging Michelin to release him from the stars.

While Michelin has called his food "spellbinding," the anxiety of having anonymous judges come into his restaurant at any given time is too much for the 46-year-old chef.

According to The Guardian:

He said his job had given him a lot of satisfaction but there was also huge pressure that was inevitably linked to the three Michelin stars first given to the restaurant in 1999. He asked to be allowed to continue his work with a free spirit and in serenity away from the world of rankings, without tension. He said he wanted to be dropped from the guide from next year.

Bras, who took over the family restaurant from his parents 10 years ago, later explained to AFP: “You’re inspected two or three times a year, you never know when. Every meal that goes out could be inspected. That means that, every day, one of the 500 meals that leaves the kitchen could be judged.

“Maybe I will be less famous but I accept that,” he said, adding that he would continue to cook excellent local produce “without wondering whether my creations will appeal to Michelin’s inspectors”.

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How healthy are kids' meals from the big fast-food chains? If you're not sure, just ask Panera's founder and CEO Ron Shaich.

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Wow. One of Alabama's Senate candidates, Roy Moore, refers to Native Americans as "reds" and Asians as "yellows." He is competing with – and leading – Sen. Luther Strange in the GOP Senate runoff next week.

In a speech on Sunday, he said, "We were torn apart in the Civil War — brother against brother, North against South, party against party. What changed?

Now we got blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting. What’s going to unite us? What’s going to bring us back together? A president? A Congress? No. It’s going to be God.”

Oh shit. This is the same crackpot who told CNN last week that 9/11 was probably God's way of punishing non-believers.

According to The Hill:

Moore's campaign told The Hill the remarks were taken out of context. "'Red, yellow, black and white they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world,'" the campaign said in a statement, in an apparent reference to the religious song "Jesus Loves the Little Children."

"This is the gospel. If we take it seriously, America can once again be united as one nation under God."

Moore leads Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in all recent public polling of the runoff. The winner of that contest will advance to the general election and be expected to beat a Democrat to serve out the rest of Attorney General Jeff Sessions's term.

A dead body sat in a pickup truck for eight months in a parking lot at the Kansas City International Airport before someone discovered it. 53-year-old Randy Potter disappeared January 17, and had parked at the airport that same day. When his family contacted the airport police to report their missing relative and to see if his truck was still in the parking lot, the police said if it was, they would find it. Astonishingly, they somehow missed it.

It wasn't until someone reported a bad odor that the body was spotted inside the truck. Apparently, according to police, Potter had committed suicide, but no other details were released.

According to Time:

The truck's windows are tinted, but are light enough to allow anyone to see inside. When an airport police officer found the body, it was covered up by a blanket, according to a police report. "No one should go through what we went through," said Potter's wife, Carolina. "We should not have gone through eight months agonizing, speculating."

Potter's truck had been listed in the missing person flyers circulated by Lenexa police. The family had visited the airport early on.

Kansas City spokesman Chris Hernandez said city officials were gathering facts to determine how Potter's body remained in the lot as long as it did. The economy lot where Potter's body was found is one of three lots situated about 2 ½ miles (4 kilometers) north of the airport terminals. Shuttles carry travelers from the lot to the terminals.

This looks brutal! During halftime at a Eagles-Chiefs game in Kansas City on Sunday, a camera operator is running across the field and runs right over a cheerleader during a dance routine. She didn't see it coming. The person taping this gasps out loud. Amazingly, the cheerleader was okay, according to USA Today. Read the rest

California Gov. Jerry Brown compared Trump supporters to cave dwellers at an event in New York. He also said that everything Trump does, including the way he handles climate change and North Korea, are "stupid and dangerous and silly." He predicts that Trump will "fail very soon."

According to Politico:

“They’re both kind of very similar,” Brown said at a climate change event in New York. “You should check out the derivation of ‘Trump-ite’ and ‘troglodyte,’ because they both refer to people who dwell in deep, dark caves...”

Brown, the Democratic governor of the nation’s most populous state, has been rushing to recruit other state and local governments to sign onto their own nonbinding climate agreements in defiance of Trump. At an event coinciding with the United Nations meeting in New York, Brown said Trump’s election has made it easier to promote climate-related policies, with the rise of a “real adversary that is not believable, is not credible.”

“President Trump is the null hypothesis, which he’s proven,” Brown said. “Everything he’s doing is … stupid and dangerous and silly. I mean, come on, really, calling the North Korean dictator ‘Rocket Man'? … He is accelerating the reversal through his own absurdity."...While acknowledging he was making “lemonade out of a lemon,” Brown predicted Trump will “fail very soon” in the face of economic and other international forces.

Brown says it won't be long before "these other powers" work against Trump and he hears the words, "You're fired."

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With just his violin and his hands, Sebastiaan Kulwanowski creates an amazing Super Mario Bros. soundtrack. He says on his YouTube page that he created this out of boredom – proof that boredom can be the perfect catalyst for creativity. Read the rest

Not cool dude. The young son of WBO middleweight champ Billy Joe Saunders might have thought he was being funny when he punched opponent Willie Monroe in the groin and then kicked him during the London weigh-in over the weekend. And Monroe seemed to be a good sport about it, but he's understandably not happy.

According to Huffington Post:

When Monroe tousled the boy’s hair as he stood on the stage, Stevie Saunders pounded him in the groin and kicked him, the video above shows. And he appeared to do it with a smile...But Monroe wasn’t having it. According to the BBC, he accused promoter Frank Warren of allowing the attack to happen. “Warren should be ashamed of himself,” said Monroe, who demanded compensation for the incident and threatened to sue.

The island of Barbuda has lost its civilization – not one human is left on the island after Hurricane Irma devastated it. With 95% of the islands structures completely destroyed, all 1,800 residents have evacuated to nearby Antigua, and now live in shelters or with relatives. The only living creatures left on Barbuda are pets and livestock, which the non-profit group World Animal Protection are trying to feed and rescue.

According to Mashable:

Ambassador Ronald Sanders, the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda's ambassador to the United States, delivered a chilling report on the status of his country in the wake of Hurricane Irma.

"The damage is complete," Sanders told PRI's The Takeaway. "For the first time in 300 years, there’s not a single living person on the island of Barbuda — a civilization that has existed on that island for over 300 years has now been extinguished."

Sanders told PRI he estimates that reconstruction could cost $300 million, and will take time. That's because rebuilding Barbuda won't be a simple matter of replacing what was once there. Instead, Barbuda must be reconstituted for a world in which another Irma might be possible.

Click here to find out how you can help.

A gentleman in Arizona was throwing a birthday party for his kid when he spotted a rattlesnake in his yard. Rather than staying clear of the venomous snake, 48-year-old Victor Pratt thought it would be a good idea to grab the snake and throw it on the BBQ, but first he wanted some photos. He began to pose with the live snake in his hand when the snake got the better of him and bit him twice – once on the chest and once on the face.

Fortunately, because it wasn't the first time he'd been bitten by a rattlesnake, he knew he was in extreme danger and got immediate help. According to USA Today:

"I said, 'We gotta go now,' because I knew what was going to happen," Pratt said.

He was taken immediately to a local hospital, which doctors said saved his life. He also has received doses of antivenom.

"If an airway is not established in the first few minutes, in our experience less than 15 to 30 minutes, then those patients really don't have a chance to survive,'' said Dr. Steven Curry, Banner hospital's toxicology director.

Pratt says he's done playing with snakes.

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Looks like some Trump supporters are not happy that he met with Democrats on Wednesday to talk about a possible deal to protect DREAMers. And to protest his wrong-doing, they are burning the one thing that unites all Trumpsters: the Make America Great Again hat. They are posting the red-hot caps on social media, using the hashtags #burnmyMAGAhat and #amnestydon (referring to Wednesday's Breitbart article, "Amnesty Don’ Trends at Number One on Twitter in Washington, D.C.").

Take a look:

#AmnestyDon #burnmyMAGAhat pic.twitter.com/xECHLI1XZn

— Nathan Simms (@ClevelandSimms) September 15, 2017

When @realDonaldTrump lets the swamp monsters in and shows the base the door...the base fights back -The Deplorables #MAGA #DACA #NoAmnesty pic.twitter.com/EvpyekS26y

— MAGA G (@Pandas4Trump) September 15, 2017

Dear @realdonaldtrump pic.twitter.com/CX0VRMOxJB

— Luis Withrow (@_weese_) September 15, 2017

Found this by the side of the road ... #amnestydon #burnmyMAGAhat pic.twitter.com/QivQ81xClG

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 14, 2017

Thanks Mashable!

Shortly after Friday morning's terror attack with a crude bomb in a London Underground train in which 23 people were injured, Trump did the usual tweet-before-you-know-anything jig.

"Another attack in London by a loser terrorist. These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!"

Another attack in London by a loser terrorist.These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017

British Prime Minister Theresa May was not pleased with Trump's tweet. "I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation."

The problem with Trump's tweet is that "his comments appeared to point the finger at British police, who had not released any information about suspects," says NBCNews. "It was not immediately clear how Trump obtained his information, or if he had revealed classified details."

And May's former Chief of Staff Nick Timothy was even harsher about Trump's impulsive reaction, tweeting that it was "so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner."

True or not - and I'm sure he doesn't know - this is so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner. https://t.co/ZndrTXFrAX

— Nick Timothy (@NickJTimothy) September 15, 2017

This isn't the first time Trump tweeted with ignorance regarding a terror attack in London.

According to NBCNews:

Trump was widely criticized for tweets in the wake of the June attack. He described Khan as “pathetic” for saying Londoners had “no reason to be alarmed” by the visible increase in armed police officers in response to the attack — apparently misinterpreting the mayor’s words as a comment on Islamic extremism.

There are some great music parodies coming from Parody Project, which look at today's politics in all of its strangeness. "Confounds the Science" is about Trump's tweets and stupidity. Here are the first two verses:

Hello darkness my old friend. It’s time for him to tweet again, but first he’ll have to check in with Fox news ‘cause that’s the only place he gets his clues. That’s how things get planted in his brain, where they remain, and it confounds the science.

The problem is he’s not alone. He tweets to people on his phone that global warming is a giant hoax perpetuated by the liberal folks, and he hires people that all think the same, that play his game and it confounds the science.

If you like this one, here's another one of their other Simon and Garfunkel spoofs, The Tweeter (Lie Lie Lie), which parodies The Boxer.

This is one smart squirrel! Someone taped down five slinky toys and filled them with peanut butter for the backyard squirrels to eat. While a squirrel is gorging itself, along comes a chipmunk, trying to get in on the feast. But the squirrel isn't about to share. It takes a slinky, stretches it out about two feet, and wham! Knocks the chipmunk away from the its treats. Chipmunk, go find your own slinky! Read the rest