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assholes California townspeople initiated a citizen's arrest of obnoxious "air horn guy" Mark Frauenfelder

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Sex The joy of psychedelic sex Allan Rose Hill

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new zealand Mayor to sovereign citizen demanding private information about staff: "Go f✴ck yourself" Rob Beschizza