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Passengers boarded the bathroomless train at Haverfordwest, West Wales to make the two-and-a-half-hour trip to Cardiff. They were told over the PA system that those in need of a loo break could take advantage of a longer stop at Carmarthen so they could relieve themselves - but that's where it all went wrong.
Travelers who had exited the train to avail of the toilet break watched in horror as the locomotive took off without them, despite the promise that it would wait for them to finish their business.
One stranded commuter told the Sun that after disembarking from the train, passengers "heard a whistle being blown" and then watched open-mouthed as the train pulled out of the station. "We managed to find an official who said he had not been told about the train waiting," the passenger said.
"No hablo ingles," (I don't speak English) says a drive-through worker in a video posted by Alexandria Montgomery this week that went viral.
The customer's indignation over her failure to order some Mexican food seemed to fall on deaf ears. Two more workers at the Hialeah, Florida restaurant showed up at the window as the squabble continued, but they didn't take her order. The first worker gestured to Montgomery that she was holding up the line before shutting the window.
Juan Davis Ortiz, 35, a US Navy veteran who has been with the US Border Patrol for 10 years, was captured by state troopers on Saturday in Laredo, a Texan city on the border with Mexico. The hunt for Ortiz began on Friday, when a woman reached out to police claiming she was snatched by a man before managing to escape. She provided police with a detailed description of the suspect, including his tattoos, Webb County District Attorney Isidro R. Alaniz told CNN's affiliate KGNS-TV.
When troopers found him in a parking lot, Ortiz tried to escape on foot but was eventually found in the back of a truck.
Police say he confessed to four killings, but declined to reveal details of the attacks. So far, only two victims have been identified: Melissa Ramirez, a 29-year-old woman from Laredo; and Claudia Anne Luera, 42, who was found alive on Highway 255 but later died in hospital. The other two victims are an unidentified man and woman. Authorities say that all of the female victims were prostitutes.
As many as 6,551 polling stations opened on Sunday morning with Syrians invited to vote for their representatives in local councils, state news agency SANA reported. It said over 40,000 candidates are contesting 18,478 seats. Polls will be closed at 7.00pm local time, and authorities have said they took all necessary precautions to keep the ballot boxes safe and secure.
Today's local elections, the first to be held since the conflict broke out in 2011, comes amid continued violence in various parts of the war-ravaged country. On Saturday night, an airstrike - purportedly carried out by Israeli jets - hit Damascus international airport causing several explosions.
Zionism has been successful on many fronts. It managed to form a Jewish state at the expense of the indigenous people of Palestine. The Jewish state is a wealthy ghetto and one which is internationally supported. But Israel is a state like no other. It is institutionally racist and murderous. It begs for American taxpayers' money despite being filthy rich. Sadly, Zionism didn't solve the Jewish problem, it just moved it to a new location. More significantly, not only did Zionism fail to heal the Jews as it had promised to do, it actually amplified the symptoms it had vowed to obliterate.
CNN released a new poll this week that alleges only 38 percent of Americans support the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, while 39 percent do not. It was the lowest net approval of any Supreme Court nominee since Harriet Miers. "Even" Robert Bork was +3 in the poll at the time of his confirmation hearing, a helpful reporter pointed out.
The news induced Vox's Ezra Klein to argue that a "lifetime appointment for a Supreme Court Justice who a plurality oppose at the time of his appointment, and who was nominated by a president and confirmed by a political party that were also unpopular, is quite a way for a system to work." His sentiment was echoed across liberal punditry.

Weather Channel reporter Mike Seidel struggles to stand on his feet during live broadcast from North Carolina, hit by Hurricane Florence.
During a live Weather Channel broadcast from Wilmington, North Carolina, Seidel is seemingly holding on for his life. He has been ridiculed online, though, after an attentive viewer spotted two locals walking by in the background as if nothing special was going on. The men, dressed in hoodies, can be seen taking snaps with their phones while Seidel is struggling to stand on his feet.
A police investigation is underway into allegations against Rohit Kumar Tomar, arrested on Friday after disturbing images of him beating up the woman in an office space on September 2 emerged.
The content of the video, which shows the accused slapping and using his elbows and knees to maximize the pain inflicted on the woman, was so horrific that it prompted the Minister of Home Affairs to tweet an appeal to the Delhi Police Commissioner to take action.

Human rights activist Abdulwahab Sabbah is director of the Dar Assadaqa community center in Abu Dis, part of London’s human rights and twinning organization, Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association.
My friend Abdulwahab (Abed) Sabbah is the director of Dar Assadaqa, a community center in Abu Dis, East Jerusalem. He is the Palestinian half of London's human rights organization CADFA, the Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association. He sent me an account of an IDF attack on his family in their apartment in Abu Dis on September 4, and followups.
What a day. We started early, at around 2:30 AM, when savage mercenaries from the Israel IDF invaded my father's and my house. They started to knock hard on the main door, and when my father open the door, eight of them entered with their weapons into the house before I woke up and went down to see what was happening. By that time, five of them went up to my house [apartment], woke my family and pushed them downstairs to my father's. All of us were held in one room; and the soldiers started to go into the rooms, one by one. They took our mobiles [cell phones] and IDs [and] birth certificates. My little daughters were sitting staring, not knowing what is happening. Who are these people with guns and masks wandering in our house, and shouting and pushing? My father was as usual the strongest and fought back.
First, they wanted to arrest my son Mohammed. They took him up stairs without allowing me to go with him, and when he was ready they asked about my youngest son Yassar, who was out helping to prepare our cousin's wedding, which is today. By the end they gave me a military order: to come to the Israeli military camp in Abu Dis at 10 AM.
Four other young people, together with the wife of a "wanted man" (as they said), were arrested. And 10 houses at least were invaded at the same time in Abu Dis today.
In May, during a federal court hearing in Davenport, Iowa, officials revealed that the confidential police video - a key piece of evidence in exonerating a cop who killed the innocent mom - did not corroborate the cop's claims he made before firing the fatal shots that accidentally killed the mother of two.
Now, we have the evidence showing this was true.
As TFTP previously reported, the Burlington police department released a 12-second clip from a Burlington Police officer's body cam showing him shooting and killing Autumn Steele.













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