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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 23, 2017
March 23, 2017
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Drivers Ed:
A town in Japan is offering seniors discount funerals if they promise to stop driving.
The Ichinomiya Police Department has partnered with a local funeral home to give elderly drivers a 15-percent discount if they turn over their driving licenses. The move comes after new statistics proved drivers over the age of 75 were responsible for 13-percent of the areas fatal traffic accidents last year. (Still)Fashion Emergency:
Cheetos has created a fashion line that turns the season's hot styles into functional items that save wearers' fingers from the dreaded orange dust that gives away that you've been eating Cheetos. New Yorkmagazine's The Cut says Chester Cheetah's "exclusive snackwear line," contains 10 everyday items intended for Easter-season wear. It includes a leopard-print ascot for men that has a hidden Cheetos compartment for hands-free snacking. And there's the Sound-Muffling Muffler --presumably the only article of women's clothing that lets you "covertly open a bag of Cheetos in your Easter best."
Other items include:
--A blazer with a "refillable pocket of cheese-dust cleaning napkins"
--Pants with napkins built into the lap (a.k.a. "lapkins")
--An assortment of parasols, suspenders, and Easter hats all capable of discreetly concealing Cheetos from the naked eye and keeping that dust contained. None of them are for sale yet, but the top vote-getter on the crowdsourcing site Betabrand site eventually will be sold. (Bartha)Reality Round-Up:
Here's a great social media gimmick --PIERS MORGAN has promised not to tweet for one whole day in order to raise money for Comic Relief.
Editor's note: Tomorrow, 3/21, is World Down Syndrome Day to celebrate people living with Trisomy 21, or having three chromosomes on their 21st pair. Although one in every 691 births are to someone with Down syndrome, just 38-percent of us know someone with 47 chromosomes. Tempted to feel sorry for someone with DS? Think again --99-percent of the population is happy with their life, 97-percent like who they are and 88-percent of their siblings feel they're better people because of their brother or sister. And, no, they're not happy all the time! (Lee)
Piers, who works on "Good Morning Britain," says he'll stay off Twitter for 24 hours tomorrow (Friday) on Red Nose Day if donations reach £50-thousand pounds.Rounding up the usual suspects:
This guy is really good at hiding. Sixty-five-year-old LINLEY BENSON LEMBURG, of Ocala, Florida, was arrested last week and taken to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. His fingerprints were compared to files and it turns out he's actually WILLIAM MICHAEL ROBERTSON, who went AWOL from the Air Force 45 years ago. He's been living in Ocala under his alias with his wife. (Myers)