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Answering own question as I found out some more on this —The India Today report linked in the question is wrong. The plants were worth Rs. 50,000, not 5 lakhs, as reported by India Today.Rs. 50,000 makes more sense, though still a bit on the higher side.But the rest of the story appears to be correct.8 donkeys and an unknown number of cows and goats gobbled up between Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 60,000 worth of saplings and flower plants kept temporarily in the residential premises of the jail.Apparently the plants were exotic which probably explains some of their high cost.They were ordered from Delhi, 445 km from Orai district jail, and Agra, 247 km from the jail. So at least a part of the high cost is probably due to shipping over such long distance.The flower plants and saplings were purchased to build a plantation in the jail campus under the Swachh Bharat project’s mission (Swachh Bharat is a government of India initiative to clean up streets, neighbourhoods, build more toilets etc)In case you want little more detail, here is what I have found —-While multiple species participated in the feast, the donkeys received much harsher punishment including three days of incarceration, apparently because their owner could not be traced.They were locked up in an empty building inside the jail premises.Reports on how well they were fed diverge —According to Indian Express[1], the donkeys during their imprisonment fed on grass growing in the abandoned building they were kept in.While according to Hindustan Times[2], they were fed twice a day by the jail staff (frankly, I doubt this)The owner of the donkeys, Mr. Kamlesh Kumar, “seeked forgiveness” from the jail authorities several times to secure freedom for his donkeys without success.Eventually, local BJP leader Mr. Shakti Gahoi, intervened on Mr. Kumar’s behalf. Mr. Gahoi’s persuasion and an affidavit from Mr. Kumar, promising that the donkeys would never enter the jail premises again finally did the trick - the jail authorities released the donkeys on the fourth day.Here is a video of the donkeys walking out of the jail, heads hanging, no doubt hungry, but acutely aware of the recently signed affidavit.Footnotes[1] 8 donkeys spent three days in UP’s Orai jail for eating plants, destroying flower pots[2] 8 donkeys, ‘jailed’ for destroying plants in UP’s Jalaun district, walk free

December 21, 2016 MIAMI (CBSMiami)— Authorities have released new details about a deadly bank shootout between two crooks and two armored truck guards.Giobel Fonseca Canete and his brother, Edgar Fonseca Morales, tried to rob an armored truck in front of a TD Bank off 8th street in Homestead on Tuesday.According to the federal affidavit against Canete, the brothers waited outside of the bank in an SUV for the Garda armored truck to arrive. The messenger went inside the bank and when he exited “Canete and Morales exited their SUV. Fonseca was armed with a handgun and Morales was armed with a shotgun.”They fired back and forth and… Authorities Release New Details Regarding Failed Armored Truck RobberyDec 7, 2016 - HOUSTON- Four men have been taken into custody and charged Wednesday after they were connected to a string of armored-truck robberies. One man was killed during a morning standoff with police as the men attempted to rob an armored-truck filled with undercover police officers, according to officials. Police: 1 killed during arrests of armored-truck robbery suspectsOct 23, 2016 - MONTREALA 54-year-old man was arrested Sunday in connection with a robbery involving a Garda armoured truck in Pointe-Claire Friday afternoon. Montreal Police have arrested one suspect in connection with a robbery involving a Garda armoured truck in Pointe-Claire Friday. The search continues for a second suspect. Montreal Police arrest suspect in Garda truck robbery.More: Garda truck robbery - Google Search

What do you think of Trump tweeting that his legal team withdrew their election suit in Michigan because he won Michigan?This whole thing is a bit of a moving target as of November 19th, but the quick answer is that a) President Trump’s tweet is nonsense, because nothing happened that would have meant he “won Michigan,” and b) the Trump team’s lawsuits have been a real jumble, and if they withdrew a lawsuit based on what has happened in the last couple days, then they don’t seem to know what they are doing.Here are the facts in Michigan as they stand now:Joe Biden won Wayne County, the state’s most populous county and the location of Detroit, by something like 241,000 votes. Since his overall state lead is around 150,000, Trump would have won the state if you simply took Wayne County and ceded it to Ontario or something.The Trump team sued in Wayne County to prevent certification of the county’s vote totals based on vague accusations of fraud. But a judge dismissed this suit on November 13th.November 17th was the deadline for the Wayne County Board of Canvassers to certify the county’s votes. But when they met, they initially deadlocked 2–2 on party lines, preventing certification (but not rejecting certification either). Various Republicans, including Trump, celebrated this. If a county doesn’t certify its votes, then the state Board of Canvassers has to do so themselves.However, later on the 17th, the Wayne County board voted again, this time voting 4–0 to certify, based on both public pressure and an apparent agreement to have the state audit Wayne County’s results. With this vote, Wayne County’s results go to the State Board of Canvassers for final certification (along with the other 82 counties in Michigan).On the morning of November 19th, it was reported that the two Republican county canvassers had released affidavits stating that they wanted to change their votes again. It appears that this is what Trump and his team were reacting to, as though this game of takesies-backsies means that the county votes are again not certified and are somehow now just taken out of the state totals, giving the state to Trump.But, since November 17th was the last day for the county to vote, and they voted to certify on that date, there appears to be no mechanism for them to now go back and change their vote. Trump’s tweet, implying that some sort of final action has happened with Wayne County and that he is now leading in Michigan, is just wrong, because the state board has the authority to certify the county’s results even if the county canvassers’ most recent reversal was allowed (which it isn’t). The lawsuit, which sought to stop county certification, was withdrawn ostensibly on the premise that certification was now stopped, which it is not. If anything, it should be withdrawn since Wayne County voted to certify on the 17th, making it moot.The focus now goes to the state board of canvassers anyway, who are meeting on November 23rd, when they need to certify the election for the entire state. The state board is also, by statute, split 2–2 between the Republicans and Democrats. Since everyone is now suddenly focusing on the canvassing process in Michigan, there is clearly going to be pressure on the two Republican state canvassers to vote against certification, leading to a 2–2 deadlock there.If that happens, though, that doesn’t mean that the election is just “not certified.” It seems like the Republican Hail Mary thought is to prevent certification well into December so the Republican-controlled state legislature can just appoint Republican electors. But Michigan law doesn’t really give the state board of canvassers some kind of unilateral or unchecked authority to just block election results. Since all 83 counties provided certified results to the state, Michigan law appears to basically require the state board to certify the state results. Based on that, if the state board does deadlock, the Michigan Court of Appeals may simply order them to certify, which actually happened in a (lower-stakes) situation in 2006. Although I’ve looked up the relevant Michigan statutes, I’m not a lawyer, so read this article, which actually does a terrific job summarizing the entire issue as of today and includes links to other articles with even further detail:Michigan GOP canvassers under pressure to ignore votes, help TrumpIt’s worth noting that when you go to vote in Michigan, you fill out a single ballot for every election from president down to various local officials. Preventing certification of the election doesn’t just stop certification of presidential electors, it basically throws out the entire election statewide.This whole gambit seems, like everything else, to be really unlikely to actually allow Trump to receive Michigan’s electoral votes. And even if it did, taking Michigan away still leaves Joe Biden with 290 electoral votes. One of the flaws with Trump’s apparent long-shot strategy is that several states all need to somehow change. If folks in one state, or even two (or in some cases three) states, somehow pull off a steal, then they risk incurring a lot of outrage just to end up with Biden still in the White House.But as with so many other things with this circus, the bigger risk is really what precedent it sets going forward. I worry that we’ve already set a standard that election losers can always make fraud accusations and then file frivolous lawsuits against the result. Are we now also going to make it okay to lean on state officials to just throw out results? We know that the Georgia Secretary of State has received pressure from a U.S. Senator to throw out Democratic votes. Now we have canvassers - otherwise unremarkable, essentially bureaucratic officials - receiving pressure to do the same thing. Many election functions in the U.S. aren’t performed by neutral technocrats, but by elected or appointed officials with party affiliation, from secretaries of state to county clerks. Heretofore, the U.S. has had a clear norm that even though these officials are partisan, they will act as neutral referees and certify results that the other party won. How bad will it be for American democracy if, say, Republican secretaries of state decide to start just refusing to recognize any Democratic wins, or vice versa? The Michigan Board of State Canvassers consists of four otherwise unremarkable functionaries - how bad will it be for American democracy if minor, borderline ceremonial, officials have the ability to unilaterally throw out hundreds of thousands or millions of votes on a whim?