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Shocking. I'm so shocked.

Turns out that the use of so-called “defeat devices” to cheat federal emissions standards isn’t just relegated to four-wheeled vehicles made by Volkswagen. Harley-Davidson today agreed to settle charges it violated the Clean Air Act by paying $15 million, as well as buying back and destroying nearly 340,000 “super tuners” that emit higher amounts of certain air pollutants than what the company certified to EPA.

Cool Story, Brah

A Brazilian police official is telling The Associated Press that American swimmer Ryan Lochte fabricated a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro.

The official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about an ongoing probe.

He said that around 6 a.m. on Sunday, Lochte, along with fellow swimmers Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen, stopped at a gas station in Barra da Tijuca, a suburb of Rio where many Olympic venues are located. One of the swimmers tried to open the door of an outside bathroom. It was locked.

A few of the swimmers then pushed on the door and broke it. A security guard appeared and confronted them, the official said.

The official says the guard was armed with a pistol, but he never took it out or pointed it at the swimmers.

According to the official, the gas station manager then arrived. Using a customer to translate, the manager asked the swimmers to pay for the broken door. After a discussion, they did pay him an unknown amount of money and then left.

Entitled idiots.

The Star

Ho ho ho! boys and girls!

Here's a lovely little short story sent in from Mr. A. C. Clarke, late of Minehead, England. It's called "The Star", and I hope it helps you remember the reason for the season!

Ho ho ho!

Shakeup

We're going to shake things up here at ok-cleek.com; 'tis the season. By changing the Cascading Style Sheet that controls how our legendary content appears, we will attract new eyeballs and convert those pageviews to a steady revenue stream which will provide iterative monetization for our mid-term enterprise-level market domination strategy. Swimlanes. Product champions. Agile.

Ho Ho Ho.

Goal: Meet the Beatles

In August 1966, as the Beatles made their way to Washington during what would ultimately be their last tour, a group of six scheming 15-year-olds from the District’s Chevy Chase neighborhood developed a plan: 1. See the concert. 2. For free. 3. By sneaking into what then was called D.C. Stadium. 4. Disguised as the Beatles’ opening act, a band called the Cyrkle.

Incorporated into this plan were makeshift costumes, a rented limo, decoy groupies and the unwitting participation of D.C. police, who provided the fake band with a motorcade escort.

The Modern Pentathlon

This year, it's:

  • 200m swim
  • Fencing
  • Show jumping (on a horse chosen randomly from a pool)
  • 3200m run where you...
  • ... stop every 800m to shoot a laser 'rifle' at fixed targets.

That's pretty dumb. But what would make it great is if the Olympic committee chose the five events at random every Olympics and didn't reveal them until the first day of competition. You sign up, you gotta do them all. The possibility of no medals is real.

2020:

  • High diving !
  • Pole vault !
  • The marathon !
  • The dead lift !
  • Rhythmic gymnastics !

That would be a true test of an athlete.