By Gavin Steele, Staff Writer
A 17 year-old in Utah is in hot water after allegedly taping fish to various ATMs and other objects in Provo and documenting his actions on social media, facing two charges of property damage. The fishy actions were uploaded on Instagram by user @fish_bandit84, which has more than 52,000 followers and an account bio reading, “Live, laugh, tape fish on ATMs.” The Provo Police Department said that there were roughly 13 instances where the teenager taped fish to surfaces (Jan. 24).
Rendon Dietzmann, known as Gixxer Brah on YouTube, became wanted on multiple charges from a September 2023 video that allegedly shows him accelerating to speeds over 150 miles per hour on a Colorado highway by squeezing through traffic and traveling on the road’s shoulder, which has since been deleted from YouTube. He has allegedly posted similar videos from other parts of the country (Jan. 24).
The Kentucky convenience store retailer Hop Shops has installed disco effects in their Florence location’s bathroom earlier this month, which marks the company’s sixth store with this feature. Customers have the opportunity to convert the bathroom to a “hopping” dance floor by pressing a large red button near a sign that reads “Do Not Press This Button,” which dims the lights, plays music, and reveals spotlights and a spinning disco ball (Jan. 26).
Two climate activists splashed canned soup at the iconic “Mona Lisa” painting, which was protected from damage by its glass casing and eventually reopened to the public. In a video showing the action, the protestors — who are from the environmental group Riposte Alimentaire, roughly translating to “Food Response” — are seen throwing orange-colored soup from bottles before ducking beneath a protective barrier (Jan. 29).
Researchers from Canada discovered a shipwreck believed to be from the 1800s that washed up in Newfoundland. Residents in Cape Ray discovered a large chunk of an old wooden hull in shallow waters, as well as several pieces of wood that appeared in the sand. Experts believe that the shipwreck was likely buried for over a century before storms unearthed it from the ocean floor (Jan. 30).