Here it is, our weekly roundup of things on the internet that Scene staffers read and found enjoyable or interesting or otherwise engaging. Most of us spend too much time online and we might as well share.

From NBC News: How ShotSpotter fights criticism and leverages federal cash to win police contracts

From the Associated Press: A motorcycle tire stuck around a crocodile's neck for 6 years is finally removed

From The Daily Mail: £740,000 painting is ruined after 'bored' security guard draws eyes on faceless figures on his first day in the job at Russian gallery

From Popular Science: A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer found it.

From the Los Angeles Times: ‘Patriotism is inclusion’: Mickey Guyton on performing the national anthem at Super Bowl 2022

From Vice: What It's Like to Be a Safety Supervisor on ‘Jackass Forever’

From Tape Op: Roland Orzabal: Staying “Absolutely Vital” with Tears For Fears

From WPLN: Out of shared pain, joy and loneliness, Asian Americans in Nashville are determined to come together

From The Washington Post: Feds arrest married couple, seize $3.6 billion in hacked bitcoin funds

From Sidewalk Safari: Parikkala Sculpture Park: The Most Weird Place in Finland?

From The New York Times: A Henry Darger Dispute: Who Inherits the Rights to a Loner’s Genius?

From The New Yorker: Is There a Market for Saving Local News?

From Consumer Reports: Your Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead

From Vulture: The Talented Mr. Bernardini

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