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Teen Dupes Airbnb Hosts to Throw Birthday Rager
“He seemed very mature and was very polite,” Airbnb host Reshma Vasanwala says of the man from Chicago who rented her Oakland home on New Year’s Eve. Or, the “man” from “Chicago.” It turns out that the renter was a teenage Berkeley resident, who, per SFGate, allegedly invited 200 people to the house—in violation of his rental agreement—to celebrate his 18th birthday. It didn’t end well: “Sofas were outside. The TV was in my bathroom,” Vasanwala tells KRON. Beer cans, broken glass, and cigarette
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Tuesday’s strangest ballot initiatives
A voter fills out a ballot in Watervliet, N.Y. Voters around New York state got to pick new lawmakers in five special elections, including three legislative seats left empty following corruption convictions. Ohio’s failed marijuana measure garnered a lot of attention, not only because it stood to make the Buckeye State the first in the Midwest to legalize the drug for medical and recreational use but also because of a provision restricting commercial cannabis growth and distribution to a short
