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A video showing a woman blocking a parking spot with her body in a parking lot has gone viral, drawing widespread criticism.

The incident was shared on the YouTube channel "Han Moon-chul TV" on Tuesday under the title, "I spent 30 minutes looking for a parking spot, only to have a woman rush in to reserve it."

According to the video, the incident occurred during the Chuseok holiday at Lotte Premium Outlet in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province. The parking lot was completely full due to the large number of visitors.

The video uploader, identified as A, said that he had been circling the parking lot for 20-30 minutes in search of a spot. When a car finally began to pull out, A prepared to reverse into the space. However, as soon as the spot opened up, a woman ran from the opposite direction and stood in the middle of the parking space, effectively blocking his car.

The video shows the woman making a phone call while standing in the space. When A asked her what she was doing, she simply replied, "A car is coming," and continued to stand her ground.

Despite A's attempts to back into the space, the woman did not move until he insisted by inching his car closer, at which point she finally stepped aside. A expressed his frustration, saying, "It's supposed to be a car that parks, not a person. What car is coming?" According to A, the woman eventually left to find another spot.

A shared his disbelief, saying, "I never thought I'd experience something like this in real life — only on TV. It's really absurd. We should all avoid such selfish behavior that goes beyond common sense."

Lawyer Han Moon-chul, who runs the YouTube channel, said, "In most cases, people come first, but when it comes to parking, the car comes first."

Disputes over parking spot reservations have become a growing social issue. Last month, a similar incident occurred at Seoul Grand Park in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, where a woman stood in a parking space to reserve it, leading to a confrontation with a driver.

In April last year, a video went viral on social media showing a woman lying down in an empty parking spot in Busan's Haeundae, claiming to reserve it.

As controversies over parking spot reservations intensify, legislative efforts to prohibit such actions have emerged.

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Two airline passengers who locked a stranger’s crying grandchild in a plane restroom have caused outrage in China and sparked a heated online debate on how to handle upset children in public spaces.

The incident went viral this week after one of the two women involved posted a video on Chinese social media, which showed them inside a locked lavatory with the wailing girl, who appeared to be about a year old.

“We won’t let you out unless you stop crying,” a woman sitting on the toilet told the toddler as she struggled out of the adult’s lap and reached for the door, according to the video posted on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok.

As the girl stopped crying, the woman filming the video picked her up and told her: “If you make any noise again, we’ll come back (to the bathroom).”

The incident took place August 24 aboard a Juneyao Airlines flight from the southwestern city of Guiyang to Shanghai.

The toddler was flying with her grandparents and cried non-stop during the nearly three-hour flight, the airline said in a statement Monday. The two passengers took the child to the restroom to “educate her” with her grandmother’s consent, the statement added.

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A surprising new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior has uncovered that lady psychopaths are less likely to wear makeup.

Scholars from the University of Sao Paulo asked 1,410 Brazilian women about their cosmetics usage across different social contexts, including at home, on a first date, in a business meeting, and at the gym.

The volunteers were subsequently asked to complete surveys to measure their “Dark Triad” traits —machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy.

The researchers found that women who regularly wore lots of makeup scored highly on the narcissism scale.

Conversely, however, women who scored highly on the psychopathy scale were less likely to put on lipstick, eyeliner and blush in all social situations.

While the findings may initially appear unexpected, they’re perhaps unsurprising given that psychopaths are generally unbothered by how they are perceived by others.

“These findings underscore the nuanced relationship between makeup usage and personality,” the study authors stated, saying that women who wore lots of makeup were also found to be more agreeable in most social contexts.

A US Navy warship commander who was ridiculed online for firing a rifle with the scope mounted backward has been relieved of duty, the Navy said Friday.

Cmdr. Cameron Yaste was the captain of the USS John S. McCain, a Navy destroyer that has been stationed in the Middle East since April.

"The commanding officer of USS John S. McCain was relieved Aug. 30 due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer," the Navy said in a statement on the same day.

Yaste has been temporarily reassigned to Naval Surface Group Northwest, according to the Navy.

In April, the Navy posted a photo on its Instagram account of Yaste firing a rifle with its scope on backward. Yaste was mocked online for the gaffe and the photo was removed shortly after.

This might seem like a random news article, and it kind of is, but there is a lot going on with Mariahs' past...

In a passage in her book Carey said of her sister Allison: 'When I was 12 years old, my sister drugged me with valium, offered me a pinky nail full of cocaine, inflicted me with third degree burns and tried to sell me out to a pimp.'

Seven people were killed and a dozen injured after a fire broke out at a hotel in the South Korean city of Bucheon.

Two people died after jumping out the windows onto an air mattress provided by the fire department, after the mattress flipped.

Other victims were found in rooms on the eight floor, where the fire is believed to have started because of an electrical fault.

Although the fire did not spread throughout the building, the damage was extensive as the rooms were not equipped with sprinklers.

The nine-storey hotel was built in 2003, before the requirement for sprinklers was written into law, according to the city's fire department.

The fire was first reported at 19:39 local time (11:39 GMT) and was extinguished by 22:26 on Thursday, the department said.

Police are investigating whether the hotel’s managers were in any way negligent. The fire department's use of the air mattress is also being investigated.

Reports said a female victim caught the corner of the mattress as they landed, causing it to flip as a second male victim jumped.

Xiaotu was looking for a soulmate but the typical routes of meeting people on campus or swiping online dating apps just weren’t cutting it for him.

Instead, the 23-year-old decided to go big: paying 999 yuan (about $140) to place a personal advertisement on a gigantic 6.5 by 1.7 meter (21 by 5.5 feet) electronic billboard at his local subway station in China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou.

The ad, which went up in May, showed a smiling Xiaotu in his best suit alongside a message and giant QR code that urged interested passengers to add the photography-loving Gen Z college graduate, star sign Libra, as a contact on social media platform WeChat.

During the ad’s five-day run, about 200 new friends added him on the app, said Xiaotu, who asked to go by a nickname to share personal details.

He is one of a wave of people taking out ads on subways in major cities across China, as the metro systems’ owners – mainly local governments – seek extra income while grappling with high debt and falling revenues.

In Guangzhou, where nearly half of the city’s 19 million population rides the subway each day, dozens of personalized ads have appeared in metro stations in recent months, showing everything from dating profiles to job-seeking notices, anniversary posters and birthday wishes.

Tech worker Li Linyu, 30, said placing an ad on the Guangzhou metro was a fun way to surprise her husband on his birthday.

Her self-designed ad showed several photos of her husband surrounded by cartoon graphics including a cake and crown, with a colorful banner proclaiming: “Happy birthday!”

In a memorable moment for the couple, Li filmed her husband’s surprised reaction when he saw his face on the giant LED screen in a packed metro station.

“He was completely stunned,” Li said. “He had never thought he could appear on a subway billboard – it was completely beyond belief.”

The ads have gone viral on Chinese social media, with commenters calling the service “a joy to watch” that relieves the grind of the daily commute and offers a chance to “zoom in to ordinary people’s lives.”

This stuff is never not funny.

A senior Channel Seven manager called a Jewish staff member "Ann Frankenstein" in anti-Semitic text messages and said "the character in a play we've written" wanted to bash his head in with a cricket bat, a Four Corners investigation has uncovered.

The text messages were sent to producer Taylor Auerbach during his four years working at Spotlight by executive producer Mark Llewellyn, who was forced to resign from the network in April after the program became embroiled in scandal.

The messages formed part of Auerbach's workers compensation claim against Seven.

In one message, described by Auerbach's lawyer as "anti-Semitic", Mark Llewellyn mocks Auerbach's striped shirt, as looking like concentration camp pyjamas.

"Why is he wearing the holocaust Jim Jams?"

Taylor Auerbach is Jewish. Llewellyn, who was the most senior manager on the current affairs program, followed up, writing that Auerbach was:

"Ann Frankenstein."

...

At the time Auerbach did not convey his distress at these messages and dismissed them with humour.

Llewellyn said in a statement, "I categorically deny engaging in any conduct that is anti-Semitic or which constitutes bullying, discrimination or misconduct".

Seven knew about the text messages in August last year, eight months before Llewellyn resigned.

The texts were not provided to Four Corners by Taylor Auerbach, who is one of many former Seven staff who have signed non-disclosure agreements with the media company after making complaints about how they were treated.