Lady got attacked by police and her recording device confiscated.
They forgot to switch it off and it kept recording all day and covertly recorded the police all day.
It got them goodโฆ. WATCH.
๐ฆด A skeleton in a cave. Nine thousand years old.
They tested his DNA. ๐งฌ
And matched it to a man living half a mile away. ๐ฌ๐ง
In 1903, workers were digging a drainage channel inside a gorge in Somerset. They hit bone. A body. Curled up. Deep inside the rock.
He'd been there since before Stonehenge. Before the pyramids.
They called him Cheddar Man. ๐ง
He hunted deer through forests that covered this island. He fished rivers that still run through the same valley today. And then he died. Alone. In a cave.
For a century, he sat behind glass. A museum piece. A curiosity. A name on a plaque.
Then in 1997, a scientist from Oxford had an idea. He took DNA from one of Cheddar Man's teeth. Then he went into the village. Walked into the local school. Swabbed the
cheeks of twenty residents.
And ran the tests.
๐งฌ One matched.
Adrian Targett. History teacher. Living half a mile from the cave.
Three hundred generations. Same family. Same valley. Nine thousand years. And the line never left.
He didn't know.
The longest unbroken connection between a living person and an ancient ancestor. Anywhere in the world.
Same hills. Same river. Same village. Half a mile from the cave.
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Be Proud Of Us. ๐ฌ๐ง
If the police knock on your door about a social media post
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1. Ask them to identify themselves (name, constable number, or warrant card) and state their reason for visiting.
2. You are not obligated to open the door or let them in unless they present a valid warrant
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