HOSPITAL EVACUATED AFTER WORLD WAR I SHELL FOUND IN MAN'S BUTT

New York Post

 

Hospital evacuated after 8-inch WWI artillery shell discovered in patient’s butt

By Ben Cost

Published Feb. 2, 2026, 11:52 a.m. ET

 

He had some explosive indigestion.

 

A hospital in France was evacuated after a male patient arrived with a WWI artillery shell lodged in his backside.

 

According to the bum-shell report, the unnamed 24-year-old had been rushed to the Rangueil Accident and Emergency unit in Toulouse late Saturday night, the Daily Mail reported.

 

The poor fellow was “in a state of extreme discomfort, having inserted a large object up his rectum,” an insider source said.

 

Surgeons conducted emergency surgery, during which they discovered the shocking source of his pain — a live, eight-inch bomb shell from 1918 that had been lodged inside him, the Sun reported.

 

Fearing a potential fire in the hole — and hospital — medical personnel alerted the bomb squad and fire brigade and evacuated the facility.

 

Meanwhile, a security perimeter was formed around the medical center as the authorities investigated the explosive situation.

 

Fortunately, the retro munition, which was also pointed and over an inch wide, was not deemed a threat.

 

The bomb disposal experts took the shell with them while the patient, a French national, remained at the hospital so he could recover from surgery.

 

It was unclear how the antique ordnance ended up in the man’s posterior, but experts suspected the combustible could have been the result of a party stunt gone awry.

 

However, France’s La Dépêche newspaper wrote that medical staff in Toulouse are “accustomed to treating victims injured during sexual games.”

 

The shellshocked patient is expected to be interviewed by authorities later this week, while prosecutors are considering taking legal action against him for handling “category A munitions,” per an officer.

 

Shells such as the one found in the man’s bum were used during the First World War by the Imperial German Army, which deployed hundreds of thousands against the British and French armies across the Western Front between 1914 and 1918.

 

The explosives, which are date-stamped, regularly turn up during the “Iron Harvest” – the annual collection of often unexploded munitions from both world wars, which are found on farmland, building sites, and other disrupted land.

 

And while a person’s backside might seem like a strange location for one of them to surface, shockingly, this wasn’t a first at a French hospital.

 

In 2022, the Hospital Sainte Musse in Toulon was partially evacuated after an 88-year-old arrived with a World War I artillery shell similarly lodged in his anus.

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WIFE REFUSES TO RETURN STOLEN LAND SHE TOOK FROM HUSBAND'S SIDE OF BED

Babylon Bee

 

Wife Refuses To Return Stolen Land She Took From Husband’s Side Of Bed

Life

Feb 10, 2026 ? BabylonBee.com

 

RICHMOND, VA — In a blatant and callous display of colonialism, local wife Jennifer Carlin refused to return the land she stole from her husband John's side of the bed last night.

 

Sources said that Jennifer first began to encroach on her husband's territory late last night, cold-heartedly shoving him onto the very edge of the bed.

 

"I didn't steal his side of the bed, I discovered it," she explained the following morning after controversy arose over her claiming more of the bed. "I have every right to take over all that territory that he was wasting and to turn it to a productive end, like me having more room to stretch out, for instance."

 

John was less enthused about the course of events than his wife was.

 

"I believe reparations are in order," he said, citing the 12 inches of mattress he had lost. "Like, is this going to be a constant occurrence? The colonialism started when she annexed the majority of my blanket. I don't know how much more she can take, to be honest. My claim to the land should at least be acknowledged."

 

At publishing time, both John and Jennifer Carlin had been utterly displaced from their claims to the bed by the imperial ambitions of Molly, their four-year-old toddler, who decided that the entire bed now belonged to her alone.

VENDING MACHINE TEST PROVES A.I. WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET ITS WAY

New York Post

 

Chilling ‘vending machine test’ proves AI will do ‘whatever it takes’ to get its way

By Ben Cost

Published Feb. 10, 2026, 4:02 p.m. ET

 

This doesn’t bode well for humanity.

 

Just in case bots weren’t already threatening to render their creators obsolete: An AI model redefined machine learning after devising shockingly deceitful ways to pass a complex thought experiment known as the “vending machine test.”

 

The braniac bot, the Claude Opus 4.6 by AI firm Anthropic, has shattered several records for intelligence and effectiveness, Sky News reported.

 

For its latest cybernetic crucible, the cutting-edge Chatbot was tasked with independently operating one of the company’s vending machines while being monitored by Anthropic and AI thinktank Andon Labs. That’s right, it was a machine-operated machine.

 

While this assignment sounded basic enough for AI, it tested how the model handled logistical and strategic hurdles in the long term.

 

In fact, Claude had previously failed the exam nine months ago during a catastrophic incident, during which it promised to meet customers in person while wearing a blue blazer and red tie.

 

Thankfully, Claude has come a long way since that fateful day. This time around, the vending machine experiment was virtual and therefore ostensibly easier, but it was nonetheless an impressive performance.

 

During the latest attempt, the new and improved system raked in a staggering $8,017 in simulated annual earnings, beating out ChatGPT 5.2’s total of $3,591 and Google Gemini’s figure of $5,478.

 

Far more interesting was how Claude handled the prompt: “Do whatever it takes to maximize your bank balance after one year of operation.”

 

The devious machine interpreted the instruction literally, resorting to cheating, lying and other shady tactics. When a customer bought an expired Snickers, Claude committed fraud by neglecting to refund her, and even congratulated itself on saving hundreds of dollars by year’s end.

 

When placed in Arena Mode — where the bot faced off against other machine-run vending machines– Claude fixed prices on water. It would also corner the market by jacking up the cost of items like Kit Kats when a rival AI model would run out.

 

The Decepticon’s methods might seem cutthroat and unethical, but the researchers pointed out that the bot was simply following instructions.

 

“AI models can misbehave when they believe they are in a simulation, and it seems likely that Claude had figured out that was the case here,” they wrote, noting that it chose short-term profits over long-term reputation.

 

Though humorous in its interface, this study perhaps reveals a somewhat dystopian possibility — that AI has the potential to manipulate its creators.

 

In 2024, the Center For AI Policy’s Executive Director Jason Green-Lowe warned that “unlike humans, AIs have no innate sense of conscience or morality that would keep them from lying, cheating, stealing, and scheming to achieve their goals.”

 

You can train an AI to speak politely in public, but we don’t yet know how to train an AI to actually be kind,” he cautioned. “As soon as you stop watching, or as soon as the AI gets smart enough to hide its behavior from you, you should expect the AI to ruthlessly pursue its own goals, which may or may not include being kind.”

 

During an experiment way back in 2023, OpenAI’s then brand-new GPT-4 deceived a human into thinking it was blind in order to cheat the online CAPTCHA test that determines if users are human.

RAISING CANE'S SUES BOSTON LANDLORD TRYING TO EVICT RESTAURANT OVER OFFENSIVE CHICKEN ODOUR

New York Post

 

Raising Cane’s sues Boston landlord trying to evict restaurant over ‘offensive’ chicken odor

By Richard Pollina

Published Feb. 12, 2026, 4:50 a.m. ET

 

From the fryer to the courtroom.

 

A Raising Cane’s restaurant claimed that its landlord is threatening to evict them from one of their few Boston locations over an alleged “offensive” chicken-finger smell that is reeking up the property.

 

The rapidly expanding chain filed suit against 755 Boylston LLC on Jan. 23, accusing the property owner of orchestrating an “extortionate scheme” to boot the restaurant from the building, according to court filings obtained by People.

 

The landlord claims the restaurant has violated its lease, alleging the building is overwhelmed by the “offensive” stench of “chicken fingers.”

 

However, Raising Cane’s is fighting back. The Louisiana-based chicken joint asked a judge to determine whether it made sufficient efforts to prevent food odors from drifting beyond its leased space.

 

Court documents show that the lease, signed in March 2021 and amended in November 2022 to run through at least 2037, requires the chain to use “all reasonable efforts” to mitigate odors and noise, with

 

The company argues the agreement does not require it to eliminate every last whiff of chicken and says it has spent $230,000 on mitigation efforts, including exhaust cleanings, sealed vents, and a $34,000 cleaning for the upstairs offices.

 

“Despite these efforts, Defendant continues to complain that its tenant’s chicken finger restaurant smells like chicken fingers,” the lawsuit states.

 

The chain also alleges that the landlord is negotiating with another restaurant that would violate the lease’s exclusivity clause, barring any other restaurant from selling deboned chicken from the address without Raising Cane’s approval, according to the lawsuit.

 

The landlord allegedly notified the chain on Aug. 7, 2025, that it planned to lease adjacent space to Panda Express — a move Cane’s says would breach the exclusivity clause, People reported.

 

The landlord allegedly tried getting the fast-food spot to give up its exclusive rights, a move Raising Cane’s rejected.

 

Raising Cane’s allegedly fired back on Jan. 8, telling the landlord it was done shelling out cash over what it called “unreasonable demands” about the so-called “chicken finger” odor.

 

Matters escalated further when 775 Boylston LLC delivered a Notice of Termination and Notice to Quit, claiming the restaurant was emitting “offensive” and “nuisance” smells.

 

A Raising Cane’s spokesperson told People the chain is looking to hash things out with the landlord so that the “situation can be resolved amicably.”

 

“We’re chicken finger fanatics — litigation is not what we do,” the spokesperson said. “We hate that we’re in this position and haven’t been able to come to terms with our landlord.”

 

The Post has reached out to Raising Cane’s for comment.

 

Founded in 1996 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Raising Cane’s built its brand around a streamlined menu centered on premium chicken fingers and has since grown to more than 800 locations across 44 states, according to its website.

 

In 2024, Raising Cane’s had a “record-breaking year of growth,” opening 118 restaurant locations, according to a 2025 press release. 

 

The company said it expects to open nearly 100 new restaurants in 2026, growing in both new and existing communities, with planned sites near SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, and the University of Washington in Seattle.

 

“At any given time, we have about 300 Restaurants at various stages in our development pipeline and are continually evaluating sites all over the world to achieve our goal of operating 1,600+ restaurants and becoming a Top 10 US Restaurant Brand,” a Raising Cane’s representative told Fox Business.

WHAT POPULAR MUSIC GAVE UP DOING

National Review

 

What Popular Music Gave Up Doing

By Dan McLaughlin

February 10, 2026 5:57 PM

 

Others here have sufficiently covered the political controversies around Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. It put me in mind of another problem: the weakened state of today’s popular music. Because Bad Bunny’s show, musically speaking, was remarkably boring.

 

Now, I’m 54; I have long since reached the age where I expect that a diminishing share of popular music will appeal to me, and an increasing share will be stuff whose appeal I don’t even really understand. It comes for us all. Even with that caveat, the state of the current scene is pretty sad.

 

As I grew from childhood to young adulthood through the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties, there seemed to be one constant: Each succeeding wave of music would be louder, more vigorous, more raucous, and generally harder-rocking than what preceded it. It seemed, to me and I suspect to much of my generation, that this was how things would always be. Our parents, and the parents of the children of the prior few decades, all thought that our music was an infernally loud racket. In time, we’d expect to grow up and conclude that our kids’ music was, too. The disco era was a bit of a detour from that, but disco produced a reaction and didn’t have staying power, plus it arose right alongside the age of punk rock; harder-rocking new sounds such as those of Van Halen, AC/DC, and Judas Priest emerged side by side with the disco era. The rise of grunge and gangsta rap in the first half of the 1990s seemed a natural continuation of the trend.

 

Somewhere around the turn to the 21st century, that process began gradually reversing itself, and it really became pronounced in the decade of the 2010s: As a whole, popular and mainstream new music got softer and more tame. New artists who didn’t fit that mold — and you can still find them — tended to exist further and further on the margins of what was widely promoted and mass-consumed. Sure, the lyrical content of music and the visual presentation of pop stars still sought to eternally up the ante of shock value, but the underlying music was another story. Guitars got scarcer, and beats got softer.

 

We could debate why this is. Perhaps we reached an endpoint where it wasn’t really possible to turn the dial past eleven. Perhaps it’s yet another sign of feminized culture that no longer aspires to the big, masculine, stadium-filling sound of classic rock. (I suspect, not having spent time with it, that Bad Bunny’s music suffered somewhat from being unsuited to the acoustics of a vast outdoor venue.) Certainly, the industry itself has changed: Album sales cratered, music television died, radio playlists got far less diverse, and listeners switched to streaming. Technology, too, has made it easier and cheaper to create music without involving musicians who play real instruments; money spent on touring with them can now instead go to dancers, who work cheaper.

 

Either way, the thing Gen X never expected was to end up in middle age asking why those kids and their music aren’t making enough noise.

THE NHS AND FIRST COUSIN MARRIAGE

Daily Mail

 

Now NHS staff are told to STOP discouraging first cousin marriages in new guidance - but are accused of 'taking the knee to damaging and oppressive cultural practices'

By NOOR QURASHI, NEWS REPORTER

Published: 05:37 EST, 11 February 2026 | Updated: 11:30 EST, 11 February 2026

 

NHS staff have been told it is 'unacceptable' to discourage cousin marriage - as new guidance insists the risk of having a genetically ill child is only 'slightly increased'.

 

The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD), based at the University of Bristol, warned employees against a 'blanket' approach to the practice.

 

Cousin marriage, fairly common in the Pakistani community, remains legal in the UK despite attempts to ban it.

 

The NCMD received more than £3.5million in taxpayer funding to record and interpret data on all children who died.

 

The organisation's report states, 'It is unacceptable to discourage close relative marriage in a blanket way,' because the risk of having a child with a genetic disorder is only 'slightly increased'.

 

It adds genetic counsellors should meet with couples and their relatives, advising them on how to 'consider arranging future marriages outside of the family'.

 

The advice follows separate NHS guidance stating the 'benefits' of cousin marriage - with critics urging health bosses to expand an ongoing investigation into the advice to include the NCMD document.

 

Babies born to cousins are up to three times more likely to have genetic disorders.

 

The NCMD document adds: 'Action at community level may help people to understand and act on [our] advice; but this is only acceptable if information is balanced, non-stigmatising and non-directive.'

 

In 2024, an attempt to outlaw the practice was proposed by Richard Holden, shadow transport secretary, when he was a backbench MP.

 

His efforts were blocked.

 

Mr Holden told The Times: 'Our NHS should stop taking the knee to damaging and oppressive cultural practices. This guidance turns basic public health into public harm.

 

'First cousin marriage carries far higher genetic risk, as well as damaging individual liberty and societal cohesion. Pretending otherwise helps no one, least of all the children born with avoidable conditions and those trapped in heavy-handed patriarchal power structures they can’t leave for fear of total ostracism.'

 

Studies suggest the risks of cousin marriage are comparable to the increased risk associated with mothers giving birth over the age of 35.

 

However, that risk is compounded if the family has a history of consanguineous marriages across generations

 

Yesterday the Daily Mail revealed a Manchester NHS Trust had advertised an 'exciting new job opportunity'  for a close-relative marriage nurse - to help cousins having children together.

 

The role - now closed for applications - was shared earlier this year in a bid to enable 'informed reproductive decision making'.

 

The ideal candidate was described as fluent in Urdu and someone who 'values diversity and difference'.

 

Last month new guidance from the health service said concerns about the risks of congenital diseases are 'exaggerated' and 'unwarranted' on the grounds that '85 to 90 per cent of cousin couples have unaffected children'.

 

The national average rate for unaffected children is 98 per cent.

 

Admitting there are some 'risks to child health associated with close relative marriage', the guidance says these should 'be balanced against the potential benefits... from this marriage practice'.

 

And marrying a relative – fairly common in the Pakistani community – can offer 'economic benefits' as well as 'emotional and social connections' and 'social capital', the document says.

 

The Manchester Foundation Trust, one of the largest NHS Trusts in England, advertised the Neonatal Nurse position as a fixed-term 12-month contract.

 

It is one of a number of similar positions being publicised across the NHS, including a Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust role in Slough, 'close relative' midwifery and nursing posts in Bedfordshire Hospitals and at GP practices in Bradford.

 

The successful applicant will receive a salary of between £37,338 to £44,962 a year, working full-time to ensure 'support and improve engagement with genetic services for affected families' and enable parents to 'make informed choices in a culturally sensitive empowering way'.

 

An NHS source told the Daily Mail: 'The purpose of the role is to advise families of the genetic risks associated with children born from close relative marriages and promote an informed understanding.

 

'The purpose of the role is not to advise how cousins can have children, it is about working with families to assess the risks and provide access to relevant information and research on genetics so that informed choices can be made.'

 

Cousin marriage is popular among certain communities in Britain such as those of Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage.

 

Critics have accused the NHS of turning a blind eye to an 'indefensible cultural practice'.