ACROSS AMERICA — Chicago artist and comic Winslow Dumaine isn’t certain he desires to “be often known as the rat gap man,” but right here he’s at that second.
Dumaine snapped an image of a rat-shaped indentation on the sidewalk and appropriately assessed its potential to pattern on social media. (It’s sort of good with its little claws and tail.) Couple the likeness of the impression to an precise rat with Chicago’s moderately reliable place on the high of a pest management’s listing of the nation’s rattiest cities, and Dumaine discovered the successful method for web success.
Nonetheless, he doesn’t need his discovery — and the way he occurred on it and what others within the Roscoe Village neighborhood consider their native landmark is a narrative in itself — to outline him.
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“I’ll put up about it if there may be an replace or one thing that occurs with regard to it, however I don’t wish to be the man who remains to be telling the (Monica) Lewinsky jokes,” he instructed Patch. “Look, I wrote a e book, I made a Tarot deck, I traveled the world promoting my stickers, I’m making a card sport. I’m such an insane, obnoxious multi-hyphenate that I can’t be the Rat Gap Man.” » Learn Jeff Arnold’s full report on Chicago Patch.
The Octopus Man
If Dumaine is the “Rat Gap Man,” underwater photographer Jeff Eyrich is “The Octopus Man.” Residents of Ridgefield, Connecticut, have an opportunity to see the images he took when he was invited into the octopus world throughout diving expeditions off the coast of Turkey final February.
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Eyrich’s exhibit ought to disabuse anybody who nonetheless holds it of the notion that octopi are simply the beginning of an excellent sushi roll.
“My expertise with the octopuses is that they’re very clever. They’re very curious,” Eyrich instructed Patch of the solitary creatures and the uncommon alternative for fellowship with them. “I virtually really feel as if as soon as they do come out, and I can begin taking photos of them, they’re giving me somewhat tour of their neighborhood.” The one-on-one interplay, he stated, was somewhat like “assembly a canine on the road that abruptly simply sort of falls in love with you.” » Learn Wealthy Kirby’s Patch Unique on Ridgefield Patch
Intimidation By Spider
The Justice Division stated Thursday the net retailer eBay has agreed to pay a $3 million high quality and harden its coaching after a few of its workers engaged in a marketing campaign to intimidate the publishers of an e-commerce e-newsletter by sending them packages containing stay ve spiders and cockroaches, a funeral wreath, a bloody pig masks and a door about surviving a loss.
David and Ina Steiner, who stay in Massachusetts, are the writer and editor of the EcommerceBytes newsletters, which the staff thought was unfairly vital of eBay, Josh Levy, performing U.S. Lawyer for Massachusetts stated in an emailed assertion to The Related Press.
“The corporate’s workers and contractors concerned on this marketing campaign put the victims via pure hell, in a petrifying marketing campaign aimed toward silencing their reporting and defending the eBay model,” Levy stated. » Learn the total story on Throughout California Patch
How Dry Is Jersey?
When he received into the bar enterprise, former Purple Sox pitcher Pat Mild couldn’t have predicted it will be like Prohibition had been reinstituted at first of the brand new 12 months. It was simply the beginning of Dry January, a month well being fanatics encourage others to surrender or lower down on booze.
“There was a professional day this previous week that we did zero {dollars} in gross sales,” Mild, the co-owner of 5 bars in Hoboken, New Jersey, stated in a TikTok video. “The bar does very effectively most different days. However you simply by no means see that, particularly in a city like Hoboken. It is a ingesting metropolis. Folks prefer to exit.” » Learn Caren Lissner’s full report on Hoboken Patch
An Epic Toilet Drawback
A man in Florida is suing the Dunkin’ chain after the indignity of getting a rest room in one in all its eating places explode and soil him in some severely nasty sewage. The plaintiff stated in his lawsuit that he’s entitled to $50,000 as compensation for “extreme and long-term accidents” that left him unable to get pleasure from life. » Learn Megan VerHelst’s full story on Orlando Patch
When You Want A Smoke …
Police in New Lenox, Illinois, stated the person pressured his manner onto a snowplow and demanded a journey to a fuel station so he may purchase cigarettes. The snowplow operator instructed police he refused the man, who then stood in the midst of the road and refused to get out of his manner. He then “climbed onto the snowplow and entered via the passenger door, once more demanding a journey to the fuel station,” based on the police report. He was arrested, processed and launched. Police didn’t say if he received his smokes. » Learn Lauren Traut’s full report on New Lenox Patch
An Opossum’s Upside Down Day
With opposable thumbs and a tail they will hook round tree branches, opossums are a dexterous lot who can get themselves out and in of some precarious conditions. However such was not the case for a frightened marsupial clinging for its life on the aspect of a bridge in St. Charles, Illinois. Native police helped the animal out of the precarious scenario. “The little man was high quality and scampered off after the ordeal,” authorities stated on Fb. » Learn Amie Schaenzer’s full report on St. Charles Patch
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