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Boner of the Day for December 16, 2016

Boner Candidate #1: I’M HERE TO ATTACK PEOPLE WHO ARE DIFFERENT

On Tuesday, alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos made yet another stop on his tour of colleges and universities across the country. He spoke at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he was invited by a conservative student group, and he used his platform to mock a transgender student, displaying her name and photo prominently onscreen. In critiquing leftist criticism of the phrase “man up,” Yiannopoulos said around the 49:52 mark, “I’ll tell you one UW-Milwaukee student that does not need to man up.” He then showed the student’s photo. “Have any of you come into contact with this person?” he asked. “This quote unquote nonbinary trans woman forced his way into the women’s locker rooms this year.”

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Boner Candidate #2: YOU KNOW, I THINK I’LL JUST GO AHEAD AND RETIRE.

A Connecticut police chief says he intends to retire after the revelation that he sent nude photographs of women on his town email account. The Hartford Courant reports Glastonbury Chief David Caron notified town officials Wednesday that he plans to retire after the newspaper asked him about the emails. The Courant recently received an envelope with no return address that contained printouts of three emails with nude photos that were marked as forwarded by Caron. Caron told the newspaper he didn’t remember forwarding the emails. But he did not deny receiving emails with nude photos and occasionally forwarding them to friends. He said his actions were out of character.

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Boner Candidate #3: THE MANAGERS OF THIS BUILDING ARE DUMB.

At the Monroe Building at 104 S. Michigan Ave., some workers called 911 and barricaded doors after mistaking an “active shooter” drill for a real threat. (CBS Chicago) It was supposed to be just another drill in the Monroe Building in the Loop on Wednesday morning, in this case what to do if a gunman was somewhere inside. The announcement over the PA system said there was an “active shooter” in the building at 104 S. Michigan Ave. and people should seek shelter. No one reached by the Tribune remembers hearing the word drill.

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