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Residents of a suburban Virginia town awoke to find old-fashioned television sets mysteriously deposited on their porches overnight. The 52 cathode ray–tube televisions, dating to at least 20 years ago, were apparently dropped off by two people wearing boxes on their heads fashioned to look like TVs. One local said it felt like “the Twilight Zone,” but police assured residents there’s no “reason for the community to be alarmed.” Said resident Adrian Garner, “At first I was like, ‘Did we order this?’ It’s just kind of strange.”

A British “YouTube family” that makes money by marketing itself online is now selling a “realistically adorable” doll version of their fourth child, whose birth had been livestreamed. The doll Jace retails for about $340 and comes with a onesie designed by Jace’s sister Esmé, as well as an invitation to meet the whole Ingham clan. For another $79, fans can buy branded diapers, a pacifier, and a birth certificate “handsigned” by the family. The naked commercialization drew swift rebukes. “Imagine finding out your parents once sold realistic dolls of the newborn you online,” one YouTuber wrote.

A man who was caught dumping an old refrigerator off a cliff in Spain was forced by authorities to haul it back up the hill and pay a $50,000 fine. In a now-viral video, the scofflaw dumper can be heard saying, “Let’s see how many flips it can do,” while the fridge rolls down a ravine. After police shared a video of him dragging it back up the hill, the man complained that the mockery had “aggravated the problems I have with anxiety” and made him a pariah. “I don’t want people to have this image of me as though I were a murderer.”