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[Yusuf Abramjee @Abramjee]

Two arrested as JMPD recovers stolen copper worth R16 million:

Two men, aged 43, were arrested by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department’s Tactical Response Unit during an intelligence-driven operation in Booysens on Thursday after officers recovered suspected stolen copper sheets valued at approximately R16 million.

The copper is linked to a theft case reported at Mayden Wharf SAPS in Durban. Acting on intelligence, officers traced the shipment to a warehouse at the corner of Treu and Vlak streets, where they recovered the copper inside two trucks parked on the premises.

The two suspects, both Chinese nationals, were arrested for possession of suspected stolen property and detained at Johannesburg Central SAPS.

JMPD said the operation highlights the importance of intelligence-led policing in combating crimes involving critical infrastructure.

[Aisar @aisarcore]

A woman won $127,000 at a casino she'd gambled at every week for eight years. As she celebrated with the dealer and the whole table, a pit boss pulled her aside and said she couldn't have the money. She'd technically been trespassing the entire time, and hadn't known it.

– Denise Ezell, 65, had been a regular at MGM Grand Detroit for about eight years, gambling there weekly without a single issue.

– On October 30, 2023, on what she described as her last bet of the night, she played a side bet at the progressive blackjack table and was dealt a four-card straight flush.

– The dealer, the table, and everyone around her erupted, congratulating her on what turned out to be a $127,000 jackpot.

– This won't happen with prediction markets

– A pit boss then approached and asked for her ID, which she assumed was routine.

– Minutes later, casino staff told her she couldn't be paid. She was, according to them, trespassing.

– A prediction market doesn't work that way. There's no house, you're matched peer-to-peer, and your payout comes from the person who took the other side, not a company deciding whether to honor the number on your screen

– The reasoning traced back to a single incident from 2015, when Ezell got into an argument with her cousin over shared betting money, and a security guard told her to leave for "panhandling."

– She says she was never formally notified of any ban after that night, and continued gambling regularly at the same casino for the next eight years without incident.

– "Do you think I would have gone down there and spent my money for eight years, knowing I was trespassing?" she asked reporters.

– After months of trying to resolve it directly with MGM and the Michigan Gaming Control Board, she filed a federal lawsuit in June 2024, seeking the $127,000 jackpot plus an additional $75,000 in damages.

She spent eight years and thousands of dollars as a welcomed regular. The one night she actually won big, the casino remembered a decade-old excuse it had never bothered to tell her about.

[Narodowy ✝️🇵🇱 @NarodowySklep14]

Szukamy Cię kolego, lepiej żeby Cię policja pierwsza znalazła niż my.

[Alice VL @RiseAgainstEvil]

‼️FOUND SAFE! 🙏✝️🙏

Specialised Security Services (SSS / Mike Bolhuis) officially confirmed that 26-year-old Alex Soleil Van Heerden was found safe on 6 August 2026.

They thanked the public for the rapid sharing of information, which they said played a crucial role.

More details will be released once the investigation concludes. No further information on the circumstances of her recovery or the suspects has been made public yet.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

You can request anything but 'Jesus is king' on a @CocaCola can on their site.

Inc "allah is king" and "Satan is king".

But Jesus is banned.

Care to explain Coca-Cola???

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

They ate the same way for decades. One meal, split between the two of them, costing about eighteen yuan. That is roughly two and a half dollars.

Du Yingrong taught. Lu Suying was a doctor. They worked at the same college in Shanghai, they married, and they never had children.

Colleagues who knew them described a couple who did not appear to want for anything and did not appear to spend on anything either.

In early 2018, Du was walking past the Shanghai Yoda Cardiothoracic Hospital when he stopped in front of a poster.

It was an appeal. Children with congenital heart defects, families who could not pay for the operations.

He went home and talked to his wife. Then they donated half a million yuan, which funded surgery for ten children.

They kept going. Over the years that followed, the two of them gave away five million yuan in total, around seven hundred and thirty five thousand dollars, and it paid for operations on four hundred and fifty five children.

They told almost nobody.

Du passed away in 2018, aged eighty one. Lu just last year, aged ninety two.

The story only came out a few weeks ago, at a charity exhibition in Shanghai held in their memory, which is the first time most people had heard either of their names.

Four hundred and fifty five children were saved, and they did it for love, not for recognition.

[QThestorm @17QStorm]

🚨THEY JUST HANDED JAMES O’KEEFE EMINEM’S BALLOT

No ID. No questions that mattered. Just “Yup, that’s what it says” and “fill both sides.”

O’Keefe walked into a Detroit polling place, gave the name Marshall Bruce Mathers III, the birthday, and they started processing the ballot of one of the most famous men in America like it was nothing.

That was the flashback. Right now his team is back on the ground in Michigan catching the exact same election crimes on camera.

The loopholes never closed. The same soft system is still wide open. And the same people who swore it was “the most secure election in history” are still running it.

Credit to @JamesOKeefeIII and the O’Keefe Media Group for the receipts.

Michigan patriots — eyes open.

Follow me for more intel drops!

[𝖱𝖤𝖢𝖮𝖭𝟣-San ®✞🇿🇦 @Recon1_ZA]

KIDNAPPING - ALEX VAN HEERDEN
SAPS Johannesburg Fairlands: CAS: 38/08/2026

Specialised Security Services requests the public’s urgent assistance in locating 26-year-old Ms. Alex Van Heerden, who has been reported missing under suspicious circumstances.

Ms. Van Heerden was last seen at approximately 18:57 on Wednesday, 5 August 2026. As she arrived at 123 Mimosa Road, Northcliff, Johannesburg, and exited the Uber vehicle, she was forced into another vehicle by unidentified individuals.

Preliminary information indicates that Ms. Van Heerden was taken against her will by at least three unidentified individuals upon her arrival at her place of residence.

APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC:
Every piece of information, no matter how insignificant it may seem, could prove crucial in assisting investigators and helping to locate Ms. Van Heerden safely.

We urge you to share this appeal as widely as possible and to contact our specialist investigators immediately with any relevant information.

MR. JACQUES VISSER
Contact number: [phone]

MR. RUAN VISSER
Contact number: [phone]

[Semitic Jew @semitic_jew]

On April 22, 2018, James Shaw Jr. walked into a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee, expecting nothing more than breakfast. Minutes later, g*nfire erupted inside the restaurant.

Four people had already lost their lives, and the g*nman was still carrying an AR-15 style rifle. Most people would have run. Shaw made a split-second decision that changed everything.

Unarmed and acting purely on instinct, Shaw charged the g*nman. He grabbed the rifle by its burning hot barrel with his bare hands and fought to take control of the weapon.

His hands were badly burned, but he refused to let go until the rifle was out of the attacker's hands. The g*nman fled, and Shaw's extraordinary courage almost certainly prevented even more innocent people from being k*lled.
The country praised him as a hero, but Shaw never accepted that title.

He said he was simply trying to survive and protect the people around him. Instead of seeking fame, he launched a fundraiser that collected more than $200,000 for the victims' families. He continued speaking about healing, kindness, and supporting communities affected by violence.

Today, the headlines have faded, and many people no longer remember the man who risked everything for complete strangers. But courage like James Shaw Jr.'s should never be forgotten.

[Ben Zhang @un1c0rnioz]

Lost my phone at the office and spent 30 minutes turning the place over. Find My was disabled by MDM.

Out of ideas, I asked Claude how I could find it. It suggested tracking the Bluetooth signal strength, then wrote me a meter in about a minute.

I walked around watching the number climb. Found it.

Apparently you can just make the tool you need now.

Code: https://t.co/fmnISzHfZ2

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A 15-year-old Syrian migrant has been sentenced to 10 months in closed youth care in Sweden after repeatedly raping and abusing a 14-year-old Swedish girl, whom he forced to call herself his "whore" and his "dog."

According to court findings, he forced her into sexual acts in public places, strangled her until she lost consciousness, threatened to release intimate recordings, made her cut off part of her hair, spat on her and filmed the abuse.

He also controlled what she wore, whom she spoke to, and threatened to kill her.

The trial court said the crimes would have carried the equivalent of around seven years in prison for an adult.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Another historic temple was lit on fire in Japan today. This is Kōdaiji Temple in Kyoto, founded in 1606.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Why is it that churches and temples keep burning but not mosques?

[Mudzunga @Dzungie007]

Accused of terrorism. Sanctioned by the US. Attempted to register a Shariah law political party in South Africa. Is he a South African citizen? If not, what is his immigration status? Does he have permanent residence? Why hasn’t Home Affairs acted? If he has no legal right to remain here, why hasn’t he been deported? If the allegations against him are true, why should South Africans believe they face no risk?

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Rudy Giuliani Believes Democrats CHEATED In The Election of Mamdani as NY Mayor After BOMBSHELL Audit Finds 228K FRAUDULENT Votes

Of the 1 million votes cast in the election:
-7% were from nonexistent records
-6% had fake Social Security Numbers
-10% do not live in New York
-1% had no Social Security Number at all

That totals 228,000 votes.
Mamdani's margin of victory was 207,570.

How convenient.

"Do I think the Democratic Party cheated in this election? The answer to that is a resounding yes.”

“They are the most crooked enterprise in the history of the United States"

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson has been refused permission to sell food he grew himself, twice. In the same window, central government overruled a Lincolnshire council to put solar panels across 1,214 hectares of grazing land, an area the size of Heathrow.

Run the two columns side by side, because the pattern is the whole story.

He asked to open a restaurant in his own lambing shed. Refused.

He asked for a car park for the people already blocking the lane. Refused.

He asked to sell food produced more than sixteen miles away. Capped at sixteen.

He asked for a barn to store his own harvest, so he would not have to sell at whatever price August offered. Full application required.

He asked about the restaurant again. Enforcement notice, and six weeks judged ample to put the building back as it was.

Now the other column.

Had he covered those same fields in solar panels, the council could have refused and been overruled from Whitehall, as Lincolnshire was in October 2025.

Had he grown maize to feed an anaerobic digester, nobody would have written to anybody.

Had he taken £532 a hectare from Defra to grow a legume fallow, he would have been paid to leave a crop standing that may not be harvested, grazed or sold. Defra cut that rate this year and gave the reason in writing: it had become attractive enough to take land out of food production.

Had he sold the lot to a data centre, a battery park or a Chinese pig unit, all four of which he listed in his column last week, the paperwork would have moved considerably faster than a farm shop's.

There is your planning system. Every use of English farmland is easier to permit than farming.

Two hundred of his acres grew nothing at all this year, and the queue of people who want that ground for something other than food is already forming.

He is not being stopped from developing the countryside. He is being stopped from feeding it.

[Leah Rain ✝️🇺🇸🎸🏝️ @LeahRain77]

This 17 year old assaulted an off duty firefighter who was trying to stop them from harassing an elderly couple in the street . The pos came up behind John Mongielo punching him in the head then stomping on him giving him a concussion, and 25 stitches .
His entire firefighter precinct came out to stare Johnson down after his court hearing..
He was charged with Second degree assault, and sentenced to five years in prison .

[Amelia ᥫ᭡ @NotJustLerato]

This girl on tiktok got scammed by bash
On 24 July 2026 | ordered an Apple iPhone 17 256GB from https://t.co/TiYRGJMr5S for R19,999.00.
Order Number: B37035032-01
I chose "Collect at Store" - TotalSports, Tubatse Crossing Mall, Burgersfort.
On 29 July 2026 I went to collect. I opened the package at the counter WITH TotalSports staff as witnesses.
The box was tampered, damaged, and EMPTY.
There was no iPhone inside. please note that on the pictures the blue plastic was sealed.
I took photos as proof in store.
the staff contacted Bash immediately, they told the staff they will communicate with me through email. I attached what they were saying They refused a refund, replacement, or any help.
I am now R19,999 down with nothing to show for it.
I have reported Bash to the National Consumer Commission @NCC_SA and I am opening a SAPS case for fraud.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!!

An Ohio dad who HUNTED DOWN his 11-year-old daughter's r*pist...

...is sitting in jail on a HIGHER bond than the man who r*ped his 11-year-old daughter AND AN INFANT.

Yes, you read that right... the FATHER has a higher bond than the man who r*ped his daughter.

It began when a mother in Grove City Ohio picked up her daughter's phone and found a video.

A grown man s*xually assaulting her 11-year-old little girl, inside their OWN HOME.

His name is Diego Montoya Gonzalez, he is 20 years old.

The next day, that little girl's father lured the man back to the apartment by posing as his daughter on TikTok.

He got Gonzalez to come back to the apartment.

He told police the plan was to hold him there, beat him up and then call the cops.

When Gonzalez walked in, he reached for his pocket.

The father (who had already watched this man flash a gun in a TikTok video) then sh0t him.

Gonzalez lived. He ran. Police found him slumped in a chair with two gunshot wounds.

Police found multiple videos on his phone of children being abused... one of them was an INFANT.

Now here is the part that should make every parent in America sick.

The alleged child r*pist's bond? $70,000.

The FATHER who tried to protect his baby girl $100,000.

The dad is being held on a HIGHER bond than the monster who hurt his child.

Let that sink in.

A man films himself abusing babies… and a judge hands him a CHEAPER ticket out of jail than the father who snapped trying to defend his own daughter.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Ok, here’s my corporate greed call-out of the day.

I was dispatched today for a no-cool call. The indoor unit was running, but the outdoor unit wasn’t.

The system was a 10-year-old Bryant Evolution high-end variable-capacity inverter system. After running the factory diagnostics, I found Code 77, indicating the inverter board was detecting excessive compressor startup current.

Following the manufacturer’s diagnostic procedure, I disconnected the compressor leads to determine whether the fault was in the compressor or the inverter board. The results confirmed the inverter board had failed. The system is only 8 months out of warranty.

At that point, I started preparing myself to tell the customer the repair would probably be around $1,500–$1,900. I figured the board would cost somewhere in the $800–$1,000 range. After all, it’s just a printed circuit board.

Before giving the estimate, I called Carrier Enterprise for pricing.

$8,900.

Not for the entire outdoor unit.

Not for a complete system.

Just the inverter board.

That’s not a typo. $8,900.

In my opinion, this is the definition of engineered obsolescence. There is no reasonable justification for a replacement circuit board on a 10-year-old residential HVAC system to cost nearly nine thousand dollars. At that price, you’re essentially forcing the homeowner to replace the entire system instead of repairing it.

This is exactly why I’ll never sell Carrier equipment. They make decent equipment, but pricing replacement parts like this turns a repairable system into a disposable one. Homeowners deserve better than that.

Carrier Carrier Enterprise or anyone that’s sells this shit, care to elaborate why this board is so expensive?

🎩 Patrick Henning