From the New York Post, March 12:
Giant pipe mysteriously bursts through ground, rises 30 feet above road in Japan
A giant underground pipe mysteriously rose more than 32 feet out of a sewer construction site, bursting through a busy roadway in a Japanese city, according to authorities.
The steel pipe’s ascension was reported to police in Osaka early Wednesday after a pedestrian reported shattered pieces of asphalt falling from the cylinder, which nearly climbed to the height of an elevated road overnight.
No witnesses reported seeing the pipe burst through the ground, leaving many residents and nearby workers baffled and wondering whether a new road support had been erected overnight....
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It's probably best that I wasn't in Osaka when this phenomena appeared. I probably would have looked for some quasi-mystical meaning and/or rejoiced at discovering a SciFi story in the nation that gave us Godzilla and wasted precious seconds that could have been used watching cat videos.
Also at The Post, something about "International Financial Centre in Dubai hit by kamikaze drone", March 13.
Let the Pecuniary War commence!
Off to Kharg island to strip the IRGC of their financial lifeblood.
