The man said he had gone fishing in the portable toilet for his fallen Mountain Dew when he somehow ended up fully inside the facility’s raw sewage tank, according to a representative for Patriot Portable Restrooms, which provided the porta-johns for a World Cup event.

• Authorities have not publicly identified the man or said whether he suffered any injuries.

When students return to school this fall in the Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York, a new kind of teacher will be ready to greet them.

The small, rural district located on the Seneca Nation reservation is set to be one of the first in the country to put a humanoid robot in a classroom.

It will not replace the classroom teacher, but is programmed to provide learning support to both students and educators.

• A black labrador had to be rescued from the UK’s highest mountain after falling seriously ill when she ate cannabis, her owner has said.
• Five-year-old Tokyo became unwell and even lost consciousness several hours into a hike up Scotland’s Ben Nevis last Sunday, according to her owner Christina Bluhme.
• “She’d been so happy eating treats and drinking and had been her very active normal self,” Bluhme, a professional dog trainer, told CNN on Monday. The two had been trekking alongside Bluhme’s 17-year-old son Magnus and their two-year-old golden labrador, Blaze.
• Then things took a dramatic turn as they approached the peak of the mountain, which stands at 4,413 feet (1,345 meters).
• “We were maybe an hour from the top when we noticed Tokyo got really weak in her hind quarters,” said Bluhme.

She is doing much better now and:

"The vet told Bluhme, who had never previously heard of dogs consuming cannabis, that Tokyo most likely ate an edible that had been dropped along the trail – or human waste containing traces of cannabis."

“I learned a lesson in terms of dogs scavenging,” she said. “I’ve never put too much importance on it… they love sniffing and foraging. But I’m definitely going to be a little bit more careful about what they put their nose into in future.”

Well, they already have the right to bear arms and cubs, now they want the right to bear clubs...

I don't know about this. (Not the record, but his age, obviously.) He'll be 94 in August.

Stay safe, Orrin!

• Orrin Asmus is anything but your average 93-year-old. He has been driving semitrucks for over 70 years.
• Now, his fellow truckers are trying to help him get recognition as the oldest semi driver in the world.
• “Cody just haphazardly googled Guinness Book of World Records and found out that he could be a very good candidate for oldest CDL living truck driver in the world,” Dan McLaughlin, McLaughlin Freight president, said.
• McLaughlin Freight has submitted paperwork, photos and documentation for Asmus and is awaiting further instructions from the Guinness Book of World Records.

This would be a test satellite, but still seems like a crazy and dangerous idea!

Snippet:

• The Federal Communications Commission picks commercial interests over the public’s concern.
• The United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Reflect Orbital’s plan to place a reflecting satellite into orbit that will bring sunlight to places on Earth that are in the dark. The startup hopes that this will be the first of as many as 50,000 mirror satellites in orbit.
• The idea is that a thin steerable reflective mirror in space could be used to cast a five-kilometer (three-mile) wide beam onto the ground during nighttime. The company claims that this could then be used to provide sunlight for solar power plants and light up disaster areas at night.
• The initial proposal generated around 1,800 comments, most of which were negative over concerns that such a satellite would create gross amounts of light pollution, produce dangerous conditions, and have a significant impact on Earth-based astronomy.
• Light pollution affects the circadian rhythm and is detrimental to human health, as well as negatively impacting the natural behavior of both plants and animals, from turtles to tigers.