The World's Best Go. Fund. Me Involves Poop, Firemen, and a Tinder Date Gone Horribly Wrong. Go. Fund. Me can be a dark place. Sometimes, it’s your pitiful friends asking you for money so that they can take a European vacation and finally tackle that “research project” they’ve been wanting to do. Other times, it’s truly tragic circumstances, like a stranger asking for help with medical bills. But today, dear reader, one Go. Fund. Me campaign showed the world that misfortune can be hilarious—and even heroic.
The story starts with a guy named Liam Smyth and an unnamed Tinder date in the picturesque seaside city of Bristol, England. It ends with a crowdfunding campaign for £3.
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Here’s a clue about what happened in between: That’s the unnamed Tinder date wedged behind the window, by the way. And honestly, it’s best to let Liam’s description of the events explain how she got there. Again, it starts with a Tinder date. As Liam writes on Go. Fund. Me: After our meal, we repaired back to my house for a bottle of wine and a scientology doccumentary.
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About an hour in to Louis Theroux and chill, my date got up to use the toilet. She returned with a panicked look in her eye, and told me she had something to tell me.“I went for a poo in your toilet”, she told me “and it would not flush. I don’t know why I did this, but I panicked”, she continued “I reached into the toilet bowl, wrapped it in tissue paper, and threw it out of the window”.
We’ve all done that, right!? Okay, maybe not everybody’s scooped a turd out of a toilet and thrown it out the window to avoid embarrassing ourselves on a date.
But we’ve all thought about it. The problem, Liam explains, is that his bathroom window doesn’t actually lead to the outside. It’s just an empty shaft that goes nowhere. As Liam went to get a hammer to break the window, so that they could retrieve the bag of human shit, his date tried her own method: Being an amateur gymnast, she was convinced that she could reach into the window and pull the poo out, using the tried and tested “inside out blag as glove” technique. Unfortunately she couldn’t reach. She climbed further in and had the same problem.
Eventually I agreed to give her a boost up and into the window. She climbed in head first after her own turd, reached deeper into the window, bagged it up, and passed it out, over the top and back into the toilet from whence it came. She called out to me to help her climb out from the window, I grabbed her waist and I pulled. But she was stuck.
Stuck fast. Try as we might, we could not remove her from the window. She was stuck fast, upside down in the gap. You can see where this is going. At this point in the evening, Liam and his Tinder date are no longer dealing with an errant turd that might fester in the breeze- free airshaft next to his bathroom. The Tinder date is stuck in the window upside down and backwards. That’s her face smashed against the glass above.
This part is where the firemen get involved: Unfortunately for my date, at this stage I could see only one way out of our predicament. She had been upside down in the window for around 1. I was starting to grow concerned for her health. I called the fire brigade. Liam explains that the firemen arrived a few minutes later and, once they stopped laughing, freed his date from her poop- powered nightmare with their “special fire tools.” Unfortunately for Liam, the special fire tools completely destroyed the window, and as a tenant, Liam was responsible for fixing it. The £3. 00 expense is roughly equivalent to an entire month’s budget for Liam, who describes himself as a postgraduate student. Thus, the Go. Fund.
Me page was born. Liam only asked for £2.
The good news is that Liam blew through his goal within a couple of hours. The internet loved the poop story so much that the Go. Fund. Me page went viral. At the time of this writing it’s over £7. Liam says he’ll donate the money beyond the cost of repairing the window to two charities: one for toilets and one for firemen. As is always the case, there’s the chance that Liam’s Go. Fund. Me page and the rollicking saga are some sort of elaborate hoax.
However, since Avon Fire & Rescue Service shared the Go. Fund. Me page, and Liam presents multiple photos of the ordeal (including one featuring multiple firefighters), that seems unlikely. Heck, if it is fake, maybe the money can go towards Liam’s writing career, since it would take some valiant creativity to come up with a story like this. Of course, there are far bigger problems in the world today—if you’d like help out those affected by Hurricane Harvey, here’s a good place to start—but Liam’s Go. Fund. Me is probably the only crowdfunding campaign I’ve ever considered donating to without any hope for a return.
The story behind it is excellent, involving little tragedy, and the money will supposedly go to a good cause. Some days the internet is good, I guess.[Go.
Illinois Wants To Ban Location Tracking Without Consent. It’s increasingly difficult to do anything on your phone nowadays without sharing your geolocation information.
Certain Snapchat filters, Facebook status updates, Instagrams, and even text messages are all potentially tied to geolocation data. It’s relatively simple for app developers to build in geolocation functionality—and many services require users to opt- in to sharing location data. But now the state of Illinois wants ensure that all companies extracting geolocation data from individuals must provide an opt- in, or else they’ll have to pay up. Last week, both houses of the Illinois state legislature passed the Geolocation Privacy Protection Act (HB3. Now, it’s on the desk of Governor Bruce Rauner, waiting to be signed into law.
If signed, companies would be required to inform users of how they’re using the location data they collect, if the users decides to share it. Companies who don’t adhere would be in violation of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act and would face criminal penalties and damages of at least $1,0. There are a few exceptions to the law. For instance, private entities can collect geolocation data without consent if the information will help parents find missing children or aid firefighters, police, or medical professionals.
The new law might not have a huge real- world impact, given that most devices and apps already ask people for permission before they start using location data. But this might encourage more tech companies and app developers to give users the option to opt out of being tracked. There have been plenty of times in the past when companies have faced repercussions for tracking users without their consent.
For instance, Apple and Uber have been sued for allegedly tracking un- notified users. Ari Scharg, director of the Digital Privacy Alliance (DPA), told Gizmodo that the organization has done reports on the apps Selfie. Rate Selfie Pic Hot Or Not, which give developers precise GPS coordinates whenever a person uploads a photo.“When a person is just browsing through the photos to rate them, if they were intercepting the backend traffic, they would be able to get the GPS coordinates of each person they viewed,” Scharg said. Overall, a person could use this information to stalk someone or the owner of the picture could retaliate against a person that left a bad comment if they were capturing the traffic.”The DPA urges app developers to be transparent with users by clarifying how location data is being used. The organization has been advocating for the bill, and even wrote an open letter to Governor Rauner, which was signed by more than 2. Chicago- area tech companies.
Illinois has a reputation of passing strict data privacy legislation. The state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act prohibits tech companies from using biometric identifiers—like face scans and fingerprints—without consent. Their Right To Know Act—which passed in May, but was put on hold—requires companies such as Facebook, Amazon, and Google to disclose what data has been collected from consumers and shared with third parties.[Naked Security].