New York Post - 06.08.2019

New York Post, Tuesday, August 6, 2019

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Weird

true

BUT

An airplane fuel cap fell

from the heavens and

nearly struck a Florida

woman sitting outside at

her home.

Dara Hackett said she and

a pal were talking on the pa-

tio of her Winter Garden

abode when they heard a

loud bang. They later found

the 8-inch metal cap.

This bull wanted some

moo-la.

A steer escaped from a

farm and made a dash into a

Colorado Springs bank,

sending customers scatter-

ing.

The 16-year-old longhorn,

named Theme De Loof,

hoofed it to Plaza of the

Rockies, where he was

eventually lassoed.

The taxman was dead

wrong!

A Pennsylvania man was

nearly fleeced out of thou-

sands of dollars because the

IRS mistakenly thought he

had croaked.

John Bowen, of Reading,

waited for months to get a

$5,500 tax return in the mail

before calling and writing

officials at the agency mul-

tiple times.

When he finally got in

touch with a worker, Bowen

was told a computer glitch

had determined he had died

in February. He got the

dough with interest.

These surgeons aren’t the

full package.

A British man went under

the knife for a minor blad-

der procedure — and when

he awoke was stunned to

find doctors had circum-

cised him.

Terry Brazier, 70, claims

staffers at the Leicester

Royal Infirmary mixed up

their notes and performed

the painful snip on the

wrong guy. He was awarded

$24,000 for the screw-up.

Vienna straphangers don’t

want their trains to smell

like green tea, grapefruit,

sandalwood or melon.

Transit honchos released

the fragrances in the venti-

lation systems of four trains

on two of the network’s five

lines last month, and asked

straphangers if they like it.

Roughly 21,000 people

said no, while 16,000 said

yes. Natalie O’Neill, Wires

The Indian government Monday

moved to revoke Kashmir’s au-

thority to make its own laws, cut-

ting off communications and de-

ploying thousands of troops to the

disputed Himalayan region in the

midst of growing unrest.

The action of the Hindu-nation-

alist government led by Prime

Minister Narendra Modi against

Muslim-majority Kashmir comes

amid a security lockdown that has

confined thousands of people to

their homes and left them un-

aware of the proposed change.

If upheld by the parliament, the

order would eliminate the Indian-

administered state’s right to its

own constitution and decision-

making processes over all matters

except defense, communications

and foreign affairs.

It would also lift a ban on prop-

erty purchases by nonresidents,

clearing a path for Indians to buy

land and hold government jobs in

Kashmir.

Kashmir political leaders Me-

hooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah,

who are under house arrest, con-

demned the move.

Mark Moore, Wires

Indian gov’t bids to end Kashmir’s self-rule

Reuters

KEEP

AWAY:

Hong Kong

police (near

left) and

protesters

(far left)

bombard

each other

with teargas

Monday as

the city

came to a

halt amid

strikes that

included

airport

workers and

Disneyland

cast

members.

By YARON STEINBUCH

After two months of demon-

strations, Hong Kong ground to

a halt Monday during a vio-

lence-filled general strike that

saw protesters blocking trains

and more than 200 flights can-

celed when ground workers

walked off the job.

Hong Kong is on “the verge of

a very dangerous situation,”

said Chief Executive Carrie

Lam, the Beijing-backed leader

who insisted that she had no

plans to resign despite the tu-

mult rocking the semi-autono-

mous enclave and former Brit-

ish colony.

About 250 flights to and from

the city were canceled, with do-

mestic carriers such as the flag-

ship Cathay Pacific and Hong

Kong Airlines being the most

affected, the South China

Morning Post reported.

The Airport Express train,

which links the city’s business

district to the airport, also was

out of service.

“Why do they have to create

trouble for people not involved

in their cause?” said John Chan,

whose flight to Singapore was

canceled. “Hong Kong is sink-

ing. The government, police

and protest people have to stop

fighting and give us a break.”

Police fired tear gas and rub-

ber bullets at protesters who

set fires and lobbed bricks at of-

ficers during the demonstra-

tion.

Protesters also snarled the

morning rush hour by blocking

train and platform doors to pre-

vent trains from leaving sta-

tions. Subway and train opera-

tor MTR said service had been

partially suspended on four

lines because of several door-

obstruction incidents.

Members of the Hong Kong

Disneyland Cast Members

Union also went on strike, as

did many lifeguards, forcing

some beaches and swimming

pools to be closed.

What began as protests over

an extradition bill that would

have allowed criminal suspects

to be sent to mainland China to

face trial have evolved into a

much broader backlash against

the city government and its po-

litical masters in Beijing.

While the government has

since suspended the bill, dem-

onstrators have called for the

dissolution of the legislature

and a probe into alleged police

brutality.

The protests are the greatest

political threat to the territory,

which Britain returned to China

on July 1, 1997, and one of the

biggest popular challenges to

Chinese leader Xi Jinping since

he came to power in 2012.

With Wires

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AP