Twitter users on Tuesday mistook — or at least jokingly mistook — Johnson for a Donald Trump impersonator after the president's daughter and adviser Ivanka retweeted a photo of herself with the UK politician.
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Samantha got into the vehicle she mistook for the Uber.
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People mistook this for a pregnancy announcement, and started celebrating.
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Tuanakota initially mistook the huge blob for a stranded boat.
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Clearly he mistook the "Tweet" box for the search bar.
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People — including doctors — mistook serious medical conditions for weight gain.
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Unsuspecting visitors apparently mistook the thief for a gallery employee.
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Iran said it mistook the airliner for an enemy missile.
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Readers mistook her modesty of scale for modesty of ambition.
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It's easy to understand why the mob mistook Vincent for Frankie.
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The police believe the caller mistook the accessory for an animal.
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The women speculate that the hunter mistook Karou for a wolf.
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The gangsters mistook the students for members of a rival gang.
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Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, mistook us for callas.
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He believes Facebook mistook the students' activity for his companies' work.
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I apologize to fans who may have mistook this as confirmation.
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Once a servant in Schnaderbeck's house mistook arsenic for baking soda.
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Bates claimed his mistook his gun for a Taser during the incident.
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The responding officers apparently mistook Youngsta for the suspect and handcuffed him.
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A fellow officer mistook him for the assailant and shot him dead.
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I initially mistook the blackened spice mixture on the outside for char.
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Reva mistook my sigh of frustration for an expulsion of buried sadness.
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It came out that at first Trump mistook Ardern for Sophie Trudeau.
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These weren't the only oversized growth that doctors mistook for weight gain.
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The Americans said the crew mistook the plane for a fighter jet.
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The coroner mistook his body for that of a 60-year-old.
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Another study found that while these systems can almost flawlessly identify the gender of lighter-skinned men, they mistook women for men 2628 percent of the time and mistook darker-skinned women for men 28503 percent of the time.
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A military report determined US forces mistook the hospital for a Taliban compound.
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I mistook him for her boyfriend, and she corrected me, not quite incredulously.
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So strange was the sight that some people mistook it for alien ships.
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That time #unwantedivanka mistook "Hair Peace" for a sale on Hair Pieces. pic.twitter.
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Later that month, authorities mistook an 11-foot-long alligator for a ... person.
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Detectives mistook this as a therapeutic technique—"time crunching," like visualization or hypnosis.
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Unfortunately for both parties, the man mistook the brake pedal for the accelerator.
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"We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom."
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In many instances, kids easily unwrapped brightly colored packages they mistook for candy.
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I'd oblige because he hurt me With a violence I mistook for desire.
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He's a hectoring, sputtering, slapdash, one-dimensional writer who mistook loudness for passion.
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They've since been glued together as previous guests mistook the tapes as freebies.
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But there's also a lesson for conservatives who mistook Trump's bluster for seriousness.
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They said they mistook a wallet Mr. Diallo was holding for a gun.
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She was murdered by a man who mistook her for a sex worker.
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"He entirely mistook that and thought that I was a protester," Cary said.
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He denies killing Steenkamp, saying he mistook her for an intruder at his home.
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I mistook the symbol on this man's arm before I actually knew the facts.
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This isn't the first time a passenger mistook the emergency exit for a restroom.
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I've battled an eating disorder that many people have mistook for the same thing.
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A woman spent three months in jail after police mistook cotton candy for meth.
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Like many a horny idiot of any species, the monkey mistook friendship for flirtation.
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Then came death threats from Islamic extremists, who mistook the rockers for devil worshippers.
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According to the arrest affidavit, she claimed she mistook Jean's apartment for her own.
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Prosecutors said officers mistook the noise for gunshots, and a high-speed chase ensued.
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At his original trial, Pistorius had argued he mistook Reeva Steenkamp for an intruder.
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As a child, she mistook its lights for those of a distant roller coaster.
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Six children and three women died, perhaps because the killers mistook them for rivals.
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He says US soldiers in the guard tower mistook him for an Iraqi driver.
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Yeah. Yeah. He came to my show and I mistook him for the astronaut.
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In fact, you'd be forgiven if you mistook the thing for a practice amp.
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Microsoft's technology mistook darker-skinned women for men just 1.5 percent of the time.
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As the shooting began, Mr. Burditus said the couple mistook the sound as pyrotechnics.
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The Mutiny staff mistook David Crosby as a hobo; same thing with Neil Young.
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The police said Lesandro's killers mistook him for a member of a rival group.
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In tests led by MIT's Joy Buolamwini, Rekognition made no mistakes when identifying the gender of lighter-skinned men, but it mistook women for men 19 percent of the time and mistook darker-skinned women for men 31 percent of the time.
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The pair initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks until a bullet brushed by Laurie's shoulder.
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He punched and tased a young black man he mistook for someone else in 2012.
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Caught in the chaos, Mexican authorities mistook Serrano's friend for a protester and deported him.
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She said she mistook the unit for her own and believed he was an intruder.
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He has admitted to shooting Steenkamp, but maintained that he mistook her for an intruder.
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The teacher, though, mistook the box of wires for a bomb and called the cops.
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The indictment says a security guard mistook Mr. Zerhom for the attacker and shot him.
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Colorado police mistook an armed homeowner with an intruder and shot him dead, authorities said.
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For this one, Jon's reader mistook the word "garbage" for "carriage," making the gag unintelligible.
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I mistook my good fortune — being born a white male in '60s California — for talent.
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The officer said she entered Jean's apartment by mistake and mistook him for an intruder.
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Archer is a dog, but you'd be forgiven if you mistook him for a phoenix.
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Visitors apparently mistook the thief for a gallery employee as he proceeded out the door.
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I met a retired teacher and mistook her for the mother of a fallen soldier.
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There were hard black knobs sticking out of the hunks which I mistook for seeds.
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We often mistook it for our car when we didn't remember where we had parked.
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It was not clear how she mistook where she lived or why she opened fire.
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Or maybe he mistook the desk clerk at a European hotel for a prime minister?
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In March, students at the University of Michigan mistook popping balloons for an active shooter.
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I was hiking with a cargo mule, and he mistook me for a Kurdish guerrilla.
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I chose a Yankee college where professors mistook my genteel accent for a brain disorder.
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In Butterton, Staffordshire, a villager mistook him for a journalist investigating a scandalous local abattoir.
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She dyed her hair blonde after a British reporter mistook her for Amy Winehouse. 20.
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Hell, Glenn Beck was smitten after he mistook an Impossible Burger for a real one.
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Neshek said he could relate to the fans who mistook the Guerreros for each other.
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Numerous alarmed residents mistook smoke billowing from the Fridericianum Museum in Kassel as a fire.
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The previous evening, she mistook the city lights of Libreville, Gabon, for the starry night sky.
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He once mistook Hill, a longtime expert on Russia, for a clerical aide during a briefing.
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A friendly Nigerien response force had arrived to help, and mistook the team for enemy insurgents.
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The New York Times mistook a tweet from the North Korea parody account DPRK_News as real.
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But that didn't stop Hartley from pretending to be Reynolds when a fan mistook his identity.
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There's an idea floating around the web that perhaps early seafarers mistook these belugas for mermaids.
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It mistook the draw of Torment for a mystery, and there were no big philosophical conundrums.
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A Connecticut woman was hospitalized after she accidentally mistook a stick of dynamite for a candle.
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Janiel Richards didn't mind when IBM coworkers mistook her for an intern during an office tour.
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He thought Dr. Boone exuded great style with good looks, but mistook his uneasiness for arrogance.
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"The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales" by Oliver Sacks
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The first was an undercover wildlife officer whom Mr. Cholmondeley mistook for a robber in 63.
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The audience mistook his fall for a gag and was laughing as they carried him off.
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Recall how you grew up and mistook the ordinary frictions of doing so for something else.
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And, during a wedding reception, a third mistook a stick of butter for a lemon cookie.
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We surrendered to this idea, and mistook our dependence for romance, until it was too late.
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She mistook him for an usher and told her boss she wanted to meet this usher.
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Once, a cousin mistook his deodorant stick for perfume and asked him why it was solid.
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He initially mistook a prosecutor for his own lawyer, and mumbled through some of his responses.
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They claimed they thought Davis was a robbery suspect and mistook his phone for a gun.
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They mistook the installation for the interactive pieces in the education gallery, dismantled the suspended chains.
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And like a lot of people, she mistook sex and the act for human affection and love.
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Mr. Sharara had already spent four months in prison because the authorities mistook him for his son.
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Guyger said she mistook Jean's apartment for her own, and that she believed he was an intruder.
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"They mistook Heriberto for a Sureños gang member because he was wearing a blue hat," Vega says.
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To her credit, I mistook the dramatic background music for heptapod speech on more than one occasion.
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Daniel Radcliffe finishes his time on a game show fuming that BoJack mistook him for Elijah Wood.
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In fact, one girl entirely mistook me for him and started... I don't know, talking to me.
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When SpaceX launched from Vandenberg last December, many California residents mistook the flight for an alien invasion.
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That's when loud pops — which some in the audience initially mistook for fireworks — began to sound overhead.
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At consular events, Ms Loras would be handed coats by guests who mistook her for a maid.
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"People mistook it for gunfire, so people started fleeing," said Orange County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Ngoc Huynh.
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Though, this feature recently went awry when a Nest apparently mistook a t-shirt for an intruder.
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He mistook the sonic boom of the rocket's re-entry for the sound of an actual explosion.
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New York (CNN)You'd be forgiven if you mistook the place for a nightclub or a gallery.
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The algorithm apparently mistook them for girls, which would make the photos violations of Instagram's community standards.
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Because that's what brothers do The boy mistook his big sister's wrestling match for the real thing.
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International investigators believe it was downed by Russian-backed separatists who mistook it for a military aircraft.
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He quickly capitulated on that last one when a handsy reveler mistook his actual face for blackface.
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Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article misidentified the Pioneer chicken and mistook HelloFresh for FreshDirect.
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I mistook a particularly gruesome-looking accident for a homicide and an overdose for a natural death.
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Guyger fatally shot Jean in his own apartment after she said she mistook it for her own.
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As he cleaned the base, Covert mistook an old and dirty BLU-97 for a caulking gun.
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Guyger's defense team claims that she mistook Jean's apartment for her own, which was one floor below.
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In 2015, Google's photo app mistook a black software developer for a gorilla in photos he uploaded.
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Clark was killed March 18 by two police officers who apparently mistook his cellphone for a gun.
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Authorities and the man's family said he mistook the boy for someone who was stealing the family's truck.
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Raëlians believe that these extraterrestrials were so technologically advanced that early humans mistook for them for omnipresent gods.
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In, what is perhaps the cutest mishap ever, two dogs mistook their owner's braid for a chew toy.
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But my mother mistook my tears for a symptom of pining, a wish to reunite with my ex.
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But a number of photo and news agencies mistook her for his 47-year-old girlfriend Alexandra Grant.
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Guyger has said she believed the apartment was her own and that she mistook Jean for an intruder.
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According to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by CNN, Guyger says she mistook Jean's apartment for her own.
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"He mistook me for my mother, so I used a knife to show him the difference," she deadpans.
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The shooter, Frank Silva Roque, sought revenge for the 20153/11 attacks and mistook Sodhi for a Muslim.
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The Daily Mail mistook Akner for a possible romantic interest after the paparazzi catch the pair hugging goodbye.
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Oddly, this button is placed below the volume keys, and I frequently mistook it for the power button.
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Not so long ago, I would have mistook the augmented reality headset CastAR for magic or martian technology.
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Guitarists and drummers came and went, sometimes by falling offstage or through bathroom mirrors they mistook for windows.
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It was just having that brief connection and interaction with someone, which I mistook as a new friendship.
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As it turns out, what I mistook as territoriality is actually just typical, albeit confused, turtle mating behavior.
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Plenty of executives and forecasters mistook a commodity-driven boom for a step-change in long-term prospects.
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I never mistook him for a person who cares about anything but himself, frankly, and his family's interests.
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At another HHS division, security workers mistook a list of hacker aliases for a list of security vulnerabilities.
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"He was eaten by my Mastiff, who mistook him for a small rubber chicken," Paul wrote on Instagram.
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As other protesters helped her escort him away from the crowd, Omar heard what she mistook for fireworks.
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The officer who shot him said he mistook the iPhone box Mr. Chatman was carrying for a gun.
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Police believe that the shooters either mistook their victim for another man or were aiming at someone else.
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Is it possible that the guard nearly shot the Queen because he mistook her for her own ghost?
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She mistook poised A-listers as the center of the zeitgeist, but 2007 was a very different time.
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Previously, it ran on a 10-digit number and major mobile carriers sometimes mistook it for a spambot.
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Because of the sheer volume of applications he'd sent out, OP mistook a hiring manager for a recruiter.
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He has seen little action — except for an unarmed civilian he mistook for a suicide bomber and shot.
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People in Khartoum often mistook her for an Arab, she said, because her mother is from northern Sudan.
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In total, three bullets struck the young black man, whom police said they mistook as an armed shooter.
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In August, hundreds of people in Times Square mistook the sound of a dirt bike backfiring for gunshots.
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That&aposs what happened to Prince William when he mistook a childhood photo of himself for Princess Charlotte.
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In Greece, the locals mistook the Syrians for a group of European friends just having a summer adventure.
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She said she mistook Botham Jean's apartment for her own before shooting him, thinking he was a burglar.
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In a statement, the social media giant also said that its automated systems mistook Scavino for a bot.
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Josephson had gotten into a vehicle she mistook for her Uber, according to police in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Some of Jada's fans mistook Josefina for Jada's mom, Adrienne Banfield-Jones (she's not) ... they're both super fit.
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Ishiguro's surgery was so drastic, Aguilera-Hellweg once mistook the real life roboticist for a next generation android.
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Baumgartner said the officers mistook the taser for a gun and shot only after Nieto pointed it at them.
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Asked to guess which was which, people mistook Larson's piece for the computer's and EMI's for the real Bach.
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The Kochs and their allies simply mistook anger towards the Obama administration for a genuine passion for small government.
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I asked Washington if it bothered him that some people mistook this sort of jazz for the real thing.
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I will be calling the FBI to press charges against the "man" who mistook me for a punching bag.
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But some in the beauty community mistook her medals for something else: a brand-new set of shiny highlighters.
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After one victory, staff at a European embassy in Kabul mistook the celebrations for an attack on their compound.
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The eyewitness account differs from the story that's being told that Ford simply mistook the taxiway for the runway.
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We wouldn't blame you if you mistook this video for behind-the-scenes footage for an upcoming Transformers movie.
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A toddler on a walk with her mother in Seattle in February mistook a bride for a storybook princess.
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One Cappuccino survivor said diners at first mistook the gunfire and explosions which erupted at around 8:30 p.m.
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A touring student who saw Mr. Patrick leave the New Hampshire State House Thursday mistook him for Mr. Booker.
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Ellen DeGeneres mistook 'Killing Eve' star Jodie Comer's British accent for an American one, and it was extremely awkward
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And by passed, I mean, he was eaten by my Mastiff, who mistook him for a small rubber chicken.
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Trump mistook Fiona Hill, a top Russia adviser at the National Security Council, for a secretary at a meeting.
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The scenes shot in red—which I mistook for ones in a little club—kept that personal touch going.
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Rice, 12, was in a park playing with a BB gun, which Cleveland police mistook for a genuine firearm.
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In some cases, reviewers had peeled off a layer of film which they mistook for a disposable screen protector.
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During the French Revolution, forces hostile to the monarchy mistook the statues for kings of France, not Ancient Judea.
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When the researchers wore the frames, the systems mistook them for famous people, including Milla Jovovich and John Malkovich.
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When Alex Meyer attended the University of Kentucky, people often mistook him for a member of the basketball team.
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CB's trip isn't the most intense LSD overdose recorded or even the first time someone mistook LSD for cocaine.
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Government officials mistook the Apollo 11 moon bag for one that had not been used to collect moon rocks.
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This past Christmas, 18-year-old Shelby Donovan mistook an innocent gift from her mother for something much more adult.
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson mistook a common housing term for a cookie during a congressional hearing.
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The app also mistook a number of short dresses for shorts-tanktop combinations, and even some tanktops for sports bras.
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Then, in 2018, Victoria Beckham mistook Newton for Saldana at a SoulCycle class in Los Angeles, according to Vanity Fair.
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With Seyfried's above the shoulder bob, complete with eyebrow grazing bangs, the magazine admits they mistook her for Dakota Johnson.
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In a later test, the machines occasionally mistook hot rocks for students pretending to be poachers hiding in the bush.
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One couldn't be blamed if, from the exteriors, they mistook the new MacBook Pros for one of the older models.
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The Kurdish news agency Rudaw, citing an unnamed Peshmerga commander, said the man mistook Kurdish territory for the Turkish border.
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And Sanders's campaign deleted a tweet that mistook a list of nouns for adjectives after being mocked on social media.
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And, no, it wasn't just a onetime thing, in college, where he mistook a set of bagpipes for a bong.
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No one mistook it for the real thing, but it did lend him a raffish Sammy Davis Jr.-like charm.
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" She, he told a friend, was just "a tough old bird I mistook, long ago, for a bird of paradise.
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The Navy said later that it mistook the passenger plane, an Airbus A300, for a hostile F-14 fighter jet.
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The company had run into a similar problem that Twitter once faced — people mistook the verification badge as an endorsement.
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In the 1950s, it was the perfect place to test experimental spy planes, which some locals mistook for alien spacecraft.
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Earlier this year, a University of South Carolina student was killed after entering a car she mistook for an Uber.
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The bien-pensants mistook Hitler for a clown; but the likes of Trump and Boris really are Pagliacci: they're tragically risible.
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An employee reportedly mistook a drill for a real attack and sent the alert to all cell phones in the state.
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The 13-gram (0.4 oz) fish mistook the stone for a hearty meal and was unable to spit it back out.
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There's Sara Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Ornette Coleman, Lena Horne, Miles Davis, and Duke Ellington (who I actually mistook for Cab Calloway).
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Police said Guyger has told investigators she mistook Jean's residence for her own and shot him, believing he was an intruder.
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I mistook the depression and anxiety my children were experiencing for the average, if unpleasant, moodiness we all associate with teenagers.
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The perpetrator mistook Sodhi for a Muslim, and would later justify his actions by telling police that he was a patriot.
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While waiting for his ride, Szabo mistook a white SUV for his car home and knocked on the window, WPIX reports.
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James Monroe and Frederick Muhlenberg were tasked with investigating the corruption, and mistook Hamilton's payments for his complicity in the scheme.
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The incident was the product of panic, perhaps brought on by reports from people who mistook something they saw or heard.
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In June, Tesla's CEO promised that he'd delete the Twitter account, , and he mistook the moon for Mars in a tweet.
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Bethany, the prettiest girl in school, mistook what curvy cartographer meant as a descriptor for the person she became inside Jumanji.
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Earlier this year Trump, then president-elect, reportedly mistook Jean-Claude Juncker for Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council.
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They claim that the algorithm mistook the Cathedral fire as a video from the terrorist attacks, which triggered the text box.
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Or is there any singular moment more unbearably excruciating as the time a reporter mistook Samuel L Jackson for Laurence Fishbourne?
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However, his position has always been that he mistook Reeva for an intruder and fired out of fear for their safety.
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It began when officers standing outside police headquarters mistook the sound of a beat-up Chevrolet Malibu backfiring as a gunshot.
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At one airport, they even mistook me for a man, and the person behind the counter ticked the male gender box.
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Bernie Sanders got tagged as a befuddled grandpa who mistook Hillary Clinton as a waitress at the last Democratic town hall.
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They were part of a military security team protecting an Italian oil tanker and say they mistook the fishermen for pirates.
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The assistant apparently mistook it for apple juice because of its similar color, the school's director told the health department inspector.
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Rice, 12, was shot and killed in 2014 by a Cleveland officer who mistook his toy gun for a real weapon.
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My mom gave me one of your erotica books when I was nine, because she mistook it for a fairy tale.
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While searching, he "mistook a different white four-door sedan" for the Impala in the parking lot of an apartment building.
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And Mr. Vassell, 34, was shot by officers in Brooklyn who mistook a pipe he pointed at them for a gun.
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In 1986, Mr. Papa was driving on Coney Island when police officers mistook him for a drug dealer and opened fire.
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The officer who fired the fatal shot, Serena Daniels, said she mistook a cellphone Ms. Haggerty was holding for a gun.
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Customers inside the theater began calling 911 after they mistook the fireworks outside for gunshots they believed were coming from inside.
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Iran initially denied shooting down the plane but later admitted that its military mistook the aircraft for an incoming hostile target.
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Yet Clinton wrote that she mistook Chaffetz for Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus when he approached her on Inauguration Day.
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While searching, he "mistook a different white four door sedan" in the parking lot of an apartment building for the Impala.
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"Due to a coding error in how we installed new software, our system mistook deferred students for deposited students," he said.
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Police said Guyger has told investigators she mistook Jean's residence for her own and shot him believing he was an intruder.
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Ford was on final approach at John Wayne Airport in Orange County Monday when he mistook a taxiway for the runway.
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Released Thursday, the study found that the facial analysis technology mistook darker-skinned women for men 31 percent of the time.
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He said swimming humans just looked like "big black squares" sharks mistook for a tasty, injured and "easy target" seal or turtle.
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When she wasn't corresponding with Kevin, her dude, Hamele mistook a pug for a deceased family dog, and, as one does, wept.
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Unfortunately for this koala, who may have mistook the pole for a tree, going for a climb didn't work out so well.
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Guyger claims that she mistook Botham Jean's apartment for her own and entered it; Jean lived above her on the fourth floor.
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Not only did 500 of the men fail to point out the vagina, many of them mistook the vulva for the vagina.
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Keanu Reeves took his mom as his date to the Oscars, and two news and photo agencies mistook her for his girlfriend.
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However, Smith mistook that to mean that no openly gay man had ever won an Oscar, which isn't the case at all.
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Unfortunately for her, the soldiers who found her on the other side mistook her for a witch, and sentenced her to burn.
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A man onboard a KLM flight was also arrested last September when he mistook the plane's exit door for a toilet door.
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Earlier he admonished a gallerist who came to visit his studio and mistook a pile of rubbish bags for a new work.
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In both instances, police say, the boys were shot because they were drawing guns that the shooting officers mistook for standard firearms.
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Case in point: Twitter user Lauren Rincon's niece and the Too Faced Chocolate Bar eyeshadow palette that she mistook for real candy.
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But other people in the streets mistook the objects for guns and fled, blocking traffic and sending restaurant tables flying, media reported.
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The name Sail Rock likely came from 19th century travelers who mistook the feature's tall body for the sail of a ship.
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Prof. Barry Eichengreen, of U.C. Berkeley, mistook the mismanaged international "gold-exchange standard" of the interwar period with the true gold standard.
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Jones and his men were all wearing British uniforms, so the opposing force mistook them for the UK gun ship, the Romney.
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When I did my show at the National Gallery ["Saints Alive," in 2013], some people even mistook my pieces for Tinguely sculptures.
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The crew had just come under attack, received the wrong coordinates for the source and mistook the hospital for a Taliban site.
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In a 2010 stamp design, the United States Postal Service mistook a Las Vegas-based replica for the real Statue of Liberty.
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But the officers did not change course, then later mistook the Crystal for one of the ships they believed was farther away.
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Either he mistook his adversary, or he hadn't done enough of them to know that they are actually prolonged and very difficult.
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Sometimes with impatience, sometimes with contempt, he corrected witnesses about their testimony or lawyers who mistook a page number or a reference.
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The officer, Amber Guyger, has told officials that she mistook the apartment for her own and thought Mr. Jean was a burglar.
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At his mostly white high school, he was called racial slurs — not for being native, but because kids mistook him for Chinese.
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Details of Clark's killing are still emerging, but, according to CNN, the officers involved say they mistook his cellphone for a weapon.
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Prince William recently mistook this photo of himself (left) for 4-year-old Princess Charlotte — and it's not hard to see why.
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Firefighters initially mistook several children for adults because they were covered in soot, making it difficult to determine their ages, Langford said.
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Later, when I texted a friend what I thought was the best one, she mistook it for a shot of my backyard.
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The U.S.-led coalition mistook Syrian-aligned forces for Islamic State fighters in part because they were not wearing traditional uniforms, Coe said.
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After doctors mistook her illness for eczema, Bellard was finally diagnosed with lupus at 17, and has since been outspoken about her experiences.
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Doctors initially mistook the rash for rosacea, a common skin condition, and prescribed her an ointment, but it did not help her symptoms.
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She said she mistook Jean's apartment, which was one floor above hers, for her own, and that she believed Jean was an intruder.
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He does remember seeing a sign at the 19.8 milepost, but said he "mistook it for another signal" that was before the curve.
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Though, it's funny that he was the one to teach me because one time he accidentally mistook nail-polish remover for face toner!
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In July, a Florida man was arrested when cops who pulled him over mistook some leftover Krispy Kreme doughnut glaze for crystal meth.
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And yet, this morning, as I rode to work on a packed New York City subway train, someone mistook them for Snapchat Spectacles.
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Pollard broke into hysterics after Angie Bowie told her "David is dead" -- Pollard mistook David Bowie's death for that of housemate David Gest.
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The remainder either failed to meet that benchmark, frequently mistook benign apps for malware, or have been pulled from the Play Store altogether.
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The found footage, the fake website, and the anonymity of the actors, meant that millions of audience members mistook it for a documentary.
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He said Kuciak mistook him for someone else with the same name but was killed before Vadala could meet with him and explain.
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But what if, in an effort to apologize, to your partner you mistook a dazzling bundle of crisp purple kale for exotic flowers?
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Guyger said she mistook Jean's apartment for her own and thought he was an intruder when she fatally shot him in September 2018.
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By then Mr. Kanjo seemed unsure of what was even happening in the operation, saying he at first mistook Turkish airstrikes for American.
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KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh — In the refugee camp, Noor never got enough to eat so she mistook the fluttering feeling in her abdomen for hunger.
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Over Iranian territorial waters, the passenger jet was shot down by the Vincennes, a missile cruiser, which mistook it for an Iranian warplane.
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Their trial provided a glimpse inside the violent Trinitarios gang, whose members mistook 24.5-year-old Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz for a rival.
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But Ms. Long said the report mistook every apartment uploaded to the website as an active listing, when many units actually remain inactive.
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The false alarm was apparently set off when the satellite mistook the sun's reflection off the tops of clouds for a missile launch.
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A full day of outrage against Chelsea Clinton because The Hill mistook an award from Lifetime TV as a "lifetime achievement award" pic.twitter.
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The Iranian military said it mistook the Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 as a "hostile target," following reports of missiles heading towards Iran.
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China later apologized, saying it mistook the flight traveling from Bangkok for a Taiwanese fighter jet and that it would consider paying compensation.
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But a study published on Wednesday suggests that some official estimates of China's greening campaign overstated its successes, and mistook shrubs for forests.
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Why: The Amtrak engineer told investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board that he mistook a signal and braked moments before the crash.
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Security officers had initially mistook the gunmen for the police, until they began shooting and throwing grenades, another police officer said on Tuesday.
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Mistakes happen A British news show mistook wax figures of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan for the real thing during a televised broadcast.
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But when police mistook his friend's insulin needles and calcium tablets for drug paraphernalia, he experienced the most harrowing ordeal of his life.
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He was called "the man who mistook his patients for a literary career" by the British academic and disability rights activist Tom Shakespeare.
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According to one account, the water surrounding him became so red that an eyewitness mistook it for the hull of a capsized canoe.
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The censorship is a safety feature to prevent repeats of a 2015 incident in which the service mistook photos of black people for apes.
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In the pilot episode she accosted Warren Beatty for a photo while hosting a charity do where attendees mistook her for the door girl.
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The ACLU used Rekognition to scan the faces of all 535 members of Congress, finding the software mistook 28 of them for suspected criminals.
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Port Hueneme Police Chief Andrew Salinas said neighbors didn't report the gunfire to police because they mistook it for fireworks, CBS Los Angeles reports.
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An off-duty Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, said she mistook Jean's apartment for her own and shot him, thinking he was an intruder.
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She claimed said she mistook black neighbor's Botham Jean's apartment for her own when she shot and killed him, believing he was an intruder.
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Keanu Reeves took his mother as his date to the Oscars on Sunday night, and photo and news agencies mistook her for his girlfriend.
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According to an Irish official, coast guard personnel initially mistook the strange watercraft for a travel trailer due to its odd shape and size.
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In 2012, India arrested two Italian marines who were escorting an oil tanker on suspicion of shooting dead two fishermen they mistook for pirates.
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Her current favourite is The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks' compendium of case studies of patients with brain disorders.
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World Briefing Four Israelis were indicted Tuesday over the beating of an Eritrean migrant they mistook for an attacker during a shooting last fall.
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Investigators suspect the boy ingested the drug — which is reddish-brown — when he mistook it for food crumbs in the family's dimly-lit apartment.
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Seeming buoyed by the opportunity to tell women something, Valizadeh showed us to a small room we had initially mistook for a half-bath.
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Several weeks after the massacre, students at the University of Nairobi mistook several explosions of an electric transformer for an attack by Al Shabaab.
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The prevailing story goes: a person mistook crowds clapping for and celebrating the victory as some kind of panicked disturbance and mistakenly called 911.
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The reactions started to snowball and become very creative: Urgent message: If you accidentally mistook the cheesecake as yours, pls seek urgent medical attention.
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As it turns out, Shenton simply didn't use the product correctly and mistook the Razzle Dazzle Bath Oil she had purchased for a soap.
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One police officer at the scene said he mistook Mr. Margolis, with his long sideburns and "modish clothes," for a draft card-burning hippie.
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"And by passed, I mean, he was eaten by my Mastiff, who mistook him for a small rubber chicken," Paul wrote in the caption.
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He turned to airport police officers for help, but with the language barrier they evidently mistook him for someone seeking asylum, Mr. Schlütermann said.
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By November, they were tired of egging attacks in Walmart parking lots from confused liberals who mistook their satirical project for earnest Trump campaigning.
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The admiral on one of Christopher Columbus's expeditions once mistook a manatee, its silky gray curves moving gently through the Caribbean waters, for one.
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"John Travolta mistook Jade Jolie for Taylor Swift when handing over the award for 'Video of the Year,'" a tweet from Pop Crave said.
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About 50 miles from the border, policemen at a check post in Kunduz province mistook Mr. Stojanovic for a Taliban fighter and detained him.
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Several years ago, a white security guard at the law school where I taught mistook one of my older white male students for me.
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Amber Guyger, a Dallas police officer, shot and killed her neighbor in his apartment last year after she mistook the unit for her own.
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Or was it simply, as she says, some confusion about the vials of seawater she carried everywhere, which catty co-workers mistook for syringes?
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But I also noticed times when I mistook benevolence for selfishness, times when my motive was all about avoiding a difficult, but necessary, conversation.
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He said Kuciak mistook him for someone else with the same name but he was killed before Vadala could meet with him and explain.
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He was killed by Amber Guyger, an off-duty police officer who said she mistook his apartment for her own in the same building.
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She said she mistook 26-year-old Botham Jean's apartment for her own before shooting him in September 2018, thinking he was a burglar.
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Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, was shot and killed last year by police officers in Sacramento who mistook his cellphone for a gun.
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The shooting occurred in a school parking lot after a high-speed chase, which began after cops mistook a car backfiring for a gunshot.
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When Mirai Nagasu took her historic turn on the ice during the 2018 Winter Olympics, many mistook her kinesiology tape for a massive thigh tattoo.
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One week later, she died when two gang members mistook her for a member of a rival gang and allegedly shot her in the back.
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Meanwhile, we focus on a congressional hearing in which Carson mistook an REO -- "real estate owned," a term used by housing experts -- for an Oreo.
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My partner bought reserved parking online in downtown LA for a conference they are attending next week and the bank mistook the charges as suspicious.
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As a result, Burden's early sculptures were invitations for engagement—simple structures resembling exercise equipment—but viewers often mistook these forms as the sculptures themselves.
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This was a clear instance of Samsung responding to feedback from users frustrated by all the times they mistook the camera for the fingerprint reader.
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The two men met just hours before Guyger allegedly mistook Jean's apartment for her own, walked in and killed Jean, thinking he was an intruder.
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From early in this process, they mistook the slogan of "repeal and replace" for an end unto itself when it is, in fact, a means.
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The men mistook the family car for one belonging to someone they'd gotten into a fight with at a club the previous night, KHOU reported.
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The Frasier Coast Chronicle reports that Rogers and a friend were on Frasier Island when they spotted the turtle, which they mistook for a tortoise.
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But while sitting in the audience, Clarkson met a man who apparently wasn't watching the program and mistook her for someone else: a seat filler!
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Pistorious previously was sentenced to six years in prison for the murder, which he says was an accident after he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder.
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In 2012, India arrested Latorre and Salvatore Girone who were escorting an oil tanker on suspicion of shooting dead two fishermen they mistook for pirates.
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"I'll treasure it forever," says the Red Queen, after chucking the toy into the unsuspecting hands of a robot she mistook for a trash can.
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At one point, he mistook Dalla Betta's teddy bear keychain, which was in Dalla Betta's pocket, for their penis and fondled it, the lawsuit alleges.
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Then there was the time a tourist mistook Mr. Darling's character for a political promotion and, after cursing Mr. Trump, punched him in the face.
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It mistook women for men 19 percent of the time, the study showed, and misidentified darker-skinned women for men 31 percent of the time.
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Raseboya, also a runner, was being escorted by doping officials in the restroom when she saw Semenya, whom she mistook for a boy and challenged.
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Mr. Henderson was arrested in April 2017, after a neighbor of the Airbnb rental in St. Louis mistook him for a burglar, according to KMOV.
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With repeated blows, Mr. Valachi crushed the skull of a man he mistook for another Mafia figure he believed had been ordered to kill him.
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"The recruiting company mistook support for Democratic causes as Hawkfish working under contract with the DNC, which isn't the case," said Frazier, the Bloomberg aide.
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Sometimes, though, the assistants can be accidentally triggered, whether because of an inadvertent button push or because they mistook another phrase as the wake word.
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And those millions don't include the door — $2,460 to replace — that was broken down when Pruitt's bodyguards mistook an afternoon nap for a medical emergency.
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"In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology," Oliver Sacks writes in The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat.
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The last one occurred in 2009, when Officer Omar J. Edwards was killed by a fellow police officer who mistook him for a armed criminal.
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I was then hustled away by the police who mistook me for another bagpiper who apparently played in a very obnoxious way the week before.
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Walking away from the baggage carousel with a suitcase you mistook for your own isn't theft; it's theft only if you knew you didn't own it.
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In testing, people mistook the fake eyes-opened photos for real ones, or said they couldn't be sure which was which, more than half the time.
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Singer and actor Wyclef Jean has posted a video of himself being handcuffed by Los Angeles police officers after they apparently mistook him for a robber.
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California is still reeling from the March 18 killing of Stephon Clark, who was shot by Sacramento police after officers mistook his cellphone for a handgun.
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Per the Post, experts say that the whale likely believed the bags were food:Thai officials said they believe the whale mistook the floating plastic for food.
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I mistook the hotel&aposs owner, a slender man in his 40s, for a taxi driver when he offered to drive me to a money changer.
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Citing law enforcement, local news station WCYB reported that Wright told police he accidentally shot her because he mistook her for an animal in the woods.
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Guyger was off duty but still in uniform when she shot Jean after entering his apartment, which she has said she mistook for her own residence.
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Photos show black bags curled around the dead whale's intestines, his open stomach packed full of crinkled plastic, which officials believe the animal mistook for food.
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In a doubles match on Monday in the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Dominic Inglot mistook a ballboy providing him some shade as a congratulatory fist bump.
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Other reviewers accidentally destroyed the Fold's screen by peeling off the protective film covering the interior display; they mistook it for a pre-installed screen protector.
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A 21-year-old college student was murdered in South Carolina on Saturday after getting into a car she mistook for her Uber ride, police said.
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Pistorius has continually said that he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he fired four shots through a bathroom down in his home, killing the model.
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After fans mistook one of the singer's Instagram posts for a pregnancy announcement, Brandy changed all her social media bios to an official statement debunking rumors.
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The man has since reported the incident to the police, and is considering legal action if he ever finds out who mistook Jack Daniels for Daesh.
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Frank didn't seem the slightest bit offended, and says he was actually ripping up signs held by protesters when Trump mistook him for one of them.
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For Pete, margins were a missed opportunity, a plot by the establishment, an artificial convention created by a world that mistook the urgency of the situation.
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And Ronnia Cherry and Stefan Grant founded Noirbnb after neighbours of the rental they were staying in mistook the pair for burglars and called the police.
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" The skit ended with a report of more violence at a Trump rally, with Carson "attacked by an angry mob that mistook him for a protester.
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Likewise, Ghana is under pressure to bring justice for 44 Ghanaian migrants allegedly murdered in 2005 by Mr Jammeh's security forces (who mistook them for mercenaries).
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In November, the actor told Jimmy Fallon the hilarious story of when a fan mistook him for Ryan Reynolds — and why he went along with it.
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According to "Persimmons," Lee also mistook, in those years, the words "fight" and "fright": the ubiquity of the second suggests, worryingly, a propensity for the first.
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French police from the city of Lyon ripped up an agricultural art installation comprised of hemp plants that they accidentally mistook for a rogue weed farm.
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Until now, there were just theories that sea turtles may have accidentally gotten entangled in the plastic, or perhaps they mistook plastic bags for juicy jellyfish.
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But it misclassified women as men 19 percent of the time, the researchers said, and mistook darker-skinned women for men 31 percent of the time.
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It was clear that a sense of grievance — and awakening — had driven him to an edge zone where he sometimes, maybe often, mistook fantasy for fact.
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He lost track of the Impala but later pulled into a parking lot near another white sedan, which he mistook for the Impala, the affidavit said.
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My parents do not yet know I have lost my hearing, the aftermath of a case of mumps that a Soviet doctor mistook for a cold.
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Because he was black, they mistook him for "the irresponsible boyfriend" and a "prolific one," he jokes, since he was back at the clinic every week.
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Once, after a security guard innocently mistook me for a Fox employee, I spent the rest of the day tugging my skirt down a couple inches.
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In 1980, a woman mistook a wall of light in a Turrell work that was on display at the Whitney Museum for an actual, physical wall.
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The Amtrak engineer on that train told investigators he mistook a signal and braked moments before the deadly crash, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
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The first cop approached a little freaked out; unable to compute a one-limbed man riding a motorcycle, he mistook Miller's prosthetic arm for a weapon.
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When Tweedy was a first-year medical student at Duke University in the 1990s, his professor mistook him for a handyman, Tweedy wrote in his book.
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Sixteen days later, his brother, Damarcus Tucker, who had served as a pallbearer at Daquarius's funeral, was killed when a shooter mistook him for someone else.
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Clark was shot on March 18 in Sacramento in the backyard of his grandparents' house, when police mistook a cellphone he was holding for a gun.
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On Sunday, 41 people were injured in a stampede in the Riviera town of Juan-les-Pins when holiday makers mistook the sound of firecrackers for gunfire.
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Police reportedly say people mistook the sounds for gunfire or detonations, and there was a brief stampede before Disneyland officials and law enforcement got things under control.
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Guyger said she killed the 26-year-old accountant after she mistakenly walked into his apartment, one floor above her unit, and mistook him for a burglar.
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Whether senators believed Dr. Ford or not, the pre-hearing rhetoric that maybe she "mistook" Judge Kavanaugh for someone else belittles survivors and hurts the public discourse.
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In what has put the nation off outdoor activity until further notice, a California woman mistook a baby rattlesnake for a dog toy in her own backyard.
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The bird pinched a red love heart for his treasure-laden nest only to have it stolen by an imposter male who he mistook for a female.
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Click here to view original GIFAfter a squirrel mistook it for a tasty nut, YouTuber Viva Frei wasn't sure if he'd ever see his GoPro camera again.
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Joselyn Lewis told Houston NBC affiliate KPRC that she thought an administrator at Madison High School mistook her for a student, so she explained who she was.
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There is no indication that the mayor wanted all of the students dead, authorities said, but the gang mistook them for a rival group and executed them.
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In 1988 an American warship mistook a passenger jet operated by Iran Air for a military aircraft and shot it down, killing all 290 people on board.
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However, he mistook the parody dog-doctor account for the actual account of his beloved band Dr. Dog, and delivered the following missive to the wrong inbox.
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The 12-year-old boy was shot and killed on a playground in November 2014 by an officer who mistook his toy gun for a real one.
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A Dallas police officer has been placed on administrative leave after fatally shooting a man Thursday night after she mistook his apartment for her own, PEOPLE confirms.
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In a case of mistaken identity at best, authorities in Miami mistook an 11-foot-long, 600-pound alligator for a person lying unconscious in the grass.
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Eventually I let Amy take off on her bike with friends to the playground, or the mythical place under Thunder Bridge where kids mistook raccoons for monsters.
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Ma's successor, Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang, keeps such a low profile that an employee's parent once mistook him for a janitor in Alibaba's headquarters, according to Bloomberg.
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A motorcycle backfired in Times Square on Tuesday night, inciting panic as people mistook the sound for gunshots and fled in panic from a non-existent threat.
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This was highlighted recently when a woman reportedly had to go to the hospital after livestreaming herself eating a poisonous plant, which she mistook for aloe vera.
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There were fewer than 20 Asian-Americans in my New Jersey public high school of about 700 students, and our teachers frequently mistook us for one another.
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An older white woman, who mistook my husband to be Iranian (he's Central American and has a beard), started shouting at him to go back to Iran.
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I understand, now, that I mistook a decrease in active interference for progress toward a world in which my personhood was seen as inextricable from everyone else's.
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The fog of war showed itself in 3007, when an Iraqi warplane mistook the frigate USS Stark for an Iranian tanker and fired two missiles at it.
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I walked by a boutique for the French fashion label Sonia Rykiel and mistook it for a bookshop, thanks to walls lined top-to-bottom with books.
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One afternoon, a general from another base visited the culture center and mistook the works on the walls for those made by the soldiers instead of children.
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The death of a college student who got into a car she mistook for an Uber has emphasized the need to use caution when hailing a ride.
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But officials say the gunman mistook white items near Sixto as white pants (Ortiz was wearing white pants that night) ... and that's where the confusion all began.
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What I initially mistook for taxidermy specimens were live birds; the owls opened their eyes and rotated their heads as I took a seat at a table.
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Culinary student Brian Dalati, 22, said he was passing an opposition-manned street barricade on his way to classes in July when police mistook him for a protester.
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The shooting comes nearly two years after 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by police in Cleveland who mistook his toy, replica gun for a firearm.
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Beijing intervened to stem that rout and orchestrate a recovery of sorts, but anyone who mistook that for a bottom and bought back in is nursing losses again.
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When she first mentioned this to me, I comically (and perhaps foolishly) mistook them for the "self-help" variety and thought she also doubled as a life-coach.
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Or Reika Boyd, a woman who was shot in the back of the head by an off-duty officer who mistook her friend's cell phone for a gun.
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Authorities say soldiers mistook Evaldo dos Santos Rosa's car for that of criminals, and armed forces shot at him 80 times, killing him and wounding his wife's stepfather.
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The president seemingly mistook the United States District Court for the Ninth Circuit Court, condemning the latter for its "terrible record of being overturned" by the Supreme Court.
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Alexa was also caught up in a creepy laughing controversy back in March, after the digital assistant mistook common words and phrases to trigger the "Alexa, laugh" command.
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Oliver Sacks was accused of unwittingly giving away the identities of some of the people he wrote about in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
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But he reportedly once mistook her for a clerk, gave her a memo to fix, and — when Hill had the audacity to look confused — got angry at her.
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Pistorius has always said he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he fired four shots through a locked toilet door in his Pretoria home, killing her almost instantly.
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And in October 2015, a group of Swedish beard enthusiasts were visited by the police after someone mistook their black "Beard Villains" flag for you-know-who's flag.
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Italy dropped objections to Indian entry into the MTCR after India sent home an Italian marine facing murder charges for killing two Indian fishermen he mistook for pirates.
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The episode caused an uproar in his mostly African-American neighborhood after passersby mistook the piñatas, which he says he hung up to dry, for a racist display.
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Later on, his stomach pains got so bad that he mistook them for an ulcer and went to his college health clinic, where he was diagnosed with hypothyroidism.
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Joshua Brown lived in the same apartment complex as Guyger and their neighbor, Botham Jean, whom Guyger killed last year after she mistook his apartment for her own.
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Dr. Gregory D. Reiber, who reviewed the autopsy for the county, said Dr. Bennet Omalu, who performed the independent autopsy, mistook one exit wound for an entrance wound.
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During a subsequent visit, they rounded up the stray animals and accidentally mistook a family's uncollared pet Chihuahua, Maya, for a stray Chihuahua they'd been authorized to capture.
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Three months later, the American warship Vincennes fired missiles that downed a civilian Iranian jetliner that the Americans say they mistook for a warplane, killing 290 people aboard.
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Still, Officer Delke kept looking for the Impala and eventually pulled into an apartment parking lot where he mistook another white sedan for the Impala, the affidavit said.
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While he was reporting from newly independent Zimbabwe, where rival guerrilla groups were still squaring off, one faction saw him taking photographs and mistook him for a spy.
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During the Revolution, insurgents ransacked the cathedral, plundering treasures and decapitating statues of Old Testament figures on the building's facade, which they mistook for portraits of French kings.
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But the people they mistook for bartenders were all busy slicing raw fish, so eventually the group moved on to look for somebody to make them a drink.
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I also remember the scars left by our puppy when he mistook the table for a chew toy sometime in the mid-1990s, not long after Nakashima's death.
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People sometimes mistook Johnson's mother for white, and when she applied for seamstress jobs at department stores in the 1920s and '30s, she chose not to correct them.
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Some who heard him lecture mistook it for an accent or an affectation, but Mr. Hecht, who had known him since early childhood, said those impressions were mistaken.
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Ms. Guyger, who lived downstairs at the South Side Flats apartment complex in Dallas, claimed she mistook the apartment for her own and Mr. Jean for an intruder.
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Ms. Guyger fatally shot her neighbor, Botham Shem Jean, in his apartment last year, claiming she mistook the apartment for her own and Mr. Jean for an intruder.
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He won an Oscar and (apparently) made a game-winning shot in the NCAA tourney, according to fans who mistook him on social media for Michigan's Jordan Poole.
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Iran then reversed its denial, admitting that a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps — a powerful, hard-line military force — mistook the plane for a cruise missile.
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People were frequently shocked that there was any potential defense of the case, and they felt so strongly about these things that they mistook those feelings for law.
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Trillanes wasted no time in capitalizing on the disconnect and said Duterte had mistook the incident in the Pacific Ocean with the situation in the South China Sea.
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They also renamed the waiting areas that had been called "cellphone lots," he said, because some people mistook them for places where mobile-phone reception was particularly strong.
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Entering the darkened apartment, she noticed a figure whom she said she mistook for a burglar and fired twice, striking Jean once in the chest, the affidavit said.
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Harvey Karp is a pediatrician and best-selling expert on infants and sleep, but you'd be excused if you mistook him for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur making a pitch.
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Photo: GettyAuthorities say a man in Montana was almost shot by a still-unidentified gunman who claimed he mistook the victim for the elusive, mythical beast known as Bigfoot.
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While it looks like the classic "mistook-for-the-search-bar" gaffe, there is always the chance it wasn't Norris himself who sent the tweet, but an artful prankster.
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In 2002, a 19-year-old student was accused of beating a fellow student with a bat when he mistook the actions of the latter as a sexual advance.
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DALLAS (AP) — A white Dallas police officer who says she mistook her black neighbor's apartment for her own when she fatally shot him was arrested on a manslaughter charge.
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John Travolta mistook a famous drag queen for Taylor Swift at the VMAs -- and if you wanna know how he got so confused ... go straight to the queen herself!
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Fodorio was the kind of violinist who mistook his fame for rock stardom, and who played something like the Mendelssohn concerto as though he were Bon Jovi in tails.
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One Australian man has clearly been reading too many true crime novels, because last Friday, he mistook a washed-up jellyfish for something more sinister — a rogue breast implant.
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Keeping Up With The Kardashian fans will certainly remember that episode when Kris Jenner brought a pig home for her youngest daughter but Kylie mistook it for a chicken.
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The Vincennes then mistook Iran Air flight 655, which had taken off from Bandar Abbas, Iran, heading for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, for an Iranian fighter jet.
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On the season premiere episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County, Reagan presented Dodd with a gift at his office, which Dodd briefly mistook for an engagement ring.
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Murder conviction The Olympian shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a model, four times through a locked toilet door on Valentine's Day in 2013, saying he mistook her for an intruder.
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A handyman in Oviedo, Florida, wound up spending a few months in lock-up after police mistook some drywall residue in his car for crack cocaine, WFTV 9 reports.
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He mistook that silence for peace and unspoken love when it was actually just a disconnect, and as he realises it, he suddenly can't stand the silence around him.
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As I asked about this, I watched the cop's face twist into a frown, which at first I mistook for a sign that she was offended by the question.
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A couple of years ago, she said, the police mistook her for a prostitute and briefly cuffed her and made her sit on the ground while she was pregnant.
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In a recent test of Amazon's facial recognition software, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California revealed that it mistook 26 California lawmakers as people arrested for crimes.
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Yarber's death comes mere weeks after Stephon Clark, an unarmed young black man in Sacramento, was killed in his grandparent's backyard after officers mistook his cellphone for a weapon.
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Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) filmed the giant squid on June 19 with their underwater camera system Medusa when it mistook their equipment for food.
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Her dark hair was covered by a blue cloak adorned with stars, and it cascaded down to a crescent moon, which I initially mistook for a set of bullhorns.
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"Our crew is devastated — we are here to keep people alive," said Gerrit Bradnick, operational manager for Distress Alert, the small private ambulance service that mistook the woman's condition.
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Uber: A college student in South Carolina was found dead after she apparently got into a car that she mistook for an Uber she had called, the authorities said.
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The group of Trinitarios was out hunting for enemies last summer when they encountered Lesandro and mistook him for a member of a rival set within the same gang.
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As I get older, I&aposm struck by how big a part luck played in my life, and how much I mistook it for skill, well into my forties.
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A jury has convicted a former Dallas police officer who shot and killed a neighbor in his own home after she said she mistook the apartment for her own.
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Musk's defense has maintained that the tweets were opinion and that Unsworth did not know a person who mistook him as a pedophile from the tweets, according to Reuters.
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Some passengers at the Pentagon City station on Tuesday morning mistook the haze for smoke, with the Arlington County fire department responding to the scene just before 85033 a.m.
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Dr. Figueroa said her own patients have removed their own IUDs usually by accident, if they've become partially dislodged or if they mistook the IUD strings for tampon strings.
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The case involved Dethorne Graham, a black man from North Carolina, who had suffered a broken foot and other injuries after police officers mistook his diabetic shock for drunken belligerence.
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Just 30 miles east of where Jefferson was shot, Botham Jean was killed in his apartment last year by a Dallas police officer who mistook his apartment for her own.
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Police sources told the Post they're investigating whether the suspected assailants mistook Guzman-Feliz for the person who posted a sex tape involving a gang member's female relative on Facebook.
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The man said he was an off-duty Dallas officer who mistook his son for an intruder and accidentally shot him, according to a release from the DeSoto Police Department.
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Guyger, who was off duty but in uniform at the time of the shooting, told authorities that she mistook Jean's apartment for her own and thought he was an intruder.
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Time and time again, police officers shoot, and sometimes kill, civilians holding harmless objects, later claiming they mistook them for guns: a cell phone, a bible, and a Wii controller.
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The remains of the second male victim were found just outside a doorway to the backyard, with wounds that the officers initially mistook for blunt force trauma, the documents show.
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The navigator mistook a tent used to host the festival as the site of Bider's commemoration, and was also confused by a helicopter hovering nearby, The Swiss Defense Ministry said.
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This was based on a tale of Wiltshire men who once mistook a reflection of the full moon for a round of cheese at the bottom of a local pond.
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Bobo's brother, the last person to see her, said she left the family property and walked into the woods with a man in camouflage whom he mistook for her boyfriend.
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The Mexican authorities say the recent massacre of three Mormon mothers and six of their children was apparently carried out by a cartel that mistook them for a rival gang.
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Black and the suspected shooter mistook the car carrying Jazmine for a car belonging to someone with whom the pair had had an earlier altercation at a club, prosecutors said.
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Ms. Guyger has told investigators that she mistook Mr. Jean's apartment for her own, that his door was slightly ajar and that it opened when she tried to unlock it.
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In a previous study, Dr. Greif showed that smooth metal or plastic plates, when laid on the ground, act as sensory traps for bats, which mistook the surfaces for water.
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Correction, March 18: An earlier version of this article mistook the views of Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, whose office has indicated the two Idaho bills may face legal challenges.
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Officials said that soldiers mistook the plane for an enemy cruise missile in the confused aftermath of an Iranian bombardment of US troops stationed at a military base in Iraq.
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A United States Navy warship in the Persian Gulf shot down an Iranian passenger plane that the Navy said it mistook for a jet fighter, killing all 33 people onboard.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Yesterday, Donald Trump tweeted a minute-long video that some followers mistook for an official campaign announcement ahead of the president's 22016 reelection campaign.
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Jones disappeared into the role so completely that people on the street sometimes mistook him for the real Ilya and, accordingly, tried to either calm him down or fight him.
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Her colleagues frequently mistook her that first year for a secretary, the school nurse or even a lost student when they saw a woman wandering through the faculty office suites.
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They never said a lot of things, only that at the end he was hiking through private land and someone—they used the word homeowner—mistook him for a wolf.
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Beijing intervened to stop that crash and orchestrate a recovery of sorts, but anyone who mistook that for a bottom and bought in will have lost their shirt again in January.
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We reported this phenomenon, later clarifying that B.S. Detector is in fact a third party plugin that both we and a number of Facebook users mistook as a testing feature. Irony!
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Guyger was off-duty but still in uniform when she shot Jean at the South Side Flats, after entering his apartment, which she has said she mistook for her own residence.
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Other than implying that Kelly (who has an advanced degree in European Studies from Cambridge University) mistook Bangladesh for Ukraine, he did not dispute Kelly's account of his post-interview comments.
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Cullum said that Freeman mistook his neighbor for a law enforcement officer and shot him after Kempf went to check on neighbors to make sure they were safe after hearing gunshots.
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Adams was out in L.A. when he told us about a recent trip out to Croatia ... where the locals mistook him for the 'Batman v Superman' star ... and it was awesome!
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In another political corner, a recent ACLU study showed that Amazon's Rekognition facial-recognition technology—the same already in use by police departments—mistook 28 members of Congress for mug shots.
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Yet these labs also tended to produce more false positives—their methods were good at detecting signals in noisy data but also, as Cohen suggested, often mistook noise for a signal.
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And China's People's Daily mistook satire for sincerity in 2012 and quoted an Onion article about Kim Jong-Un being the "sexiest man alive" alongside an excessive 55-page photo spread.
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Of course, Dominican officials have now said they don't believe Ortiz was the intended target that night -- insisting the shooter mistook the MLB legend for a friend who was sitting nearby.
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According to the government's initial findings, the 43 were abducted by corrupt police in Iguala and handed over to a drug cartel, which mistook them for members of a rival gang.
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Two Sacramento police officers who fatally shot Clark last year while he was holding a cell phone they mistook as a gun will not face charges, sparking protests in the city.
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Beijing intervened to stem that rout and orchestrate a recovery of sorts, but anyone who mistook that for a bottom and bought in will have lost their shirt again in January.
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A leading theory now emerging is that the assailants, believed to be associates of a Trinitarios set known as Sure, mistook Lesandro for a member of another set known as Sunset.
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On Tuesday, El Cajon area police shot and killed Olango, 38, in the parking lot of a strip mall, when they mistook the vape pen he was holding for a gun.
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As a tacit compromise, we are bringing up our daughter with such godlessness that when visiting my in-laws' home, she mistook the crosses hanging in each room for light switches.
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In each episode, the putative "good guy with a gun" was a lawfully armed black man whom officers mistook for the gunman, raising questions about police perceptions of black gun owners.
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A Georgia woman spent more than three months in jail on drug charges after sheriff's deputies mistook congealed cotton candy they found in a car she was riding in for methamphetamine.
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On the other hand, being transformed into a horrific, Cronenberg-style monster is pretty sick and could conceivably be achieved by vaping some weird alien goo you mistook for e-juice.
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Soon after Germany surrendered, he was arrested by the British, who mistook him for a someone with the same last name who had been a member of the Nazi SS forces.
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It was inspired by the death of Stephon Clark, who was shot by the Sacramento police in his grandparents' backyard after officers mistook the cellphone he was holding for a gun.
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As we were led in through a back entrance, patients leaned from their upper-floor windows, shouting "Assassins, assassins" because, I think, they mistook the photographers with long lenses for paparazzi.
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But in the town she had set her sights on, she received dirty looks at a Dunkin' Donuts while heavily pregnant — from people who, she presumed, mistook her for a teenager.
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Guyger has claimed she mistook Jean's apartment, upstairs from hers, for her own unit and shot Jean, who was sitting on the sofa eating ice cream, thinking he was a burglar.
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" This is in fact a running gag, one that goes back to episode 3 of Season 1 -- when Kimmy's elderly date mistook her for a "Kraut posing as a French prostitute.
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She claims she did not realize she had entered the wrong apartment and that she mistook Jean for an intruder before shooting at him twice, striking Jean once in the chest.
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Last week, a 60-something former colleague of mine mistook his Facebook status bar for the search function, and set the name "Sarah Anderson" as his status a half-dozen times.
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In July 1988, the U.S. warship Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner, killing all 290 aboard, in what Washington said was an accident after crew mistook the plane for a fighter.
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Mrs Obama, by contrast, is a wary campaigner, easily stung by the wilful distortions of the right-wing press, who called her "Obama's Baby Mama" and mistook her serious expression for anger.
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In 1995, for instance, the Russian military mistook the launch of a sounding rocket from Norway for a launch of a nuclear-armed Trident missile from the sea and alerted Boris Yeltsin.
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During an appearance on Tuesday's Tonight Show, the actor told host Jimmy Fallon the hilarious story of when a fan mistook him for Ryan Reynolds — and why he went along with it.
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In 2004, a museum worker at Tate Britain mistook a trash bag in Gustav Metzger's installation "Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art" for actual trash and threw it out.
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Testimony at Guyger's trial Jean, a 26-year-old accountant, was killed when Guyger said she mistakenly walked into his apartment, one floor above her unit, and mistook him for a burglar.
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Books by Oliver Sacks, a neurologist who popularised the genre with works such as "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" before his death in 2015, are still being published.
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They hit it off and when she went back to his house, she initially mistook Butter for her own cat, Ozzie, when she spotted him out of the corner of her eye.
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According to the government's initial findings, the 43 were abducted by corrupt police in Iguala and handed over to a local drug cartel, which mistook them for members of a rival gang.
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Officers responding to a call about an individual with a gun claimed they mistook Rice's airsoft gun for a real firearm, fatally shooting the boy within seconds of arriving on the scene.
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But Bannon mistook his major role in history as proof that he was an indispensable figure, the power behind the throne whom Trump and Republicans would rely on to win future elections.
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Martin joked that when he first saw a Harris painting, he mistook it for the work of American landscape artist Rockwell Kent, a contemporary of Harris', who lived from 1885 through 1970.
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In the piece, she told of a night that her father, then a deputy district attorney, was pulled over and handcuffed by Los Angeles police officers, who mistook him for a suspect.
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Gisselle Vazquez, 19, was standing near the front of the stage with two friends and her cousin when she heard popping noises from about 10 feet away that she mistook for fireworks.
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Nor has it placated the bitterness over a shooting by a white off-duty officer, who killed her unarmed black neighbor in his apartment, claiming that she mistook it for her own.
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Last year, the attorney general's office began investigating the police killing of Saheed Vassell, who in April was fatally shot by officers who mistook the pipe he was holding for a gun.
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In the study, the M.I.T. Media Lab found that the system misclassified women as men 19 percent of the time and mistook darker-skinned women for men 31 percent of the time.
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Another time, when Mr. Oswalt tiptoed into their bedroom, trying not to wake her, she mistook him for an intruder and jumped out of bed and swung a lamp at his head.
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The paper reported that the fight, which happened after a UB40 concert, occurred when some companions in Kavanaugh's group mistook a bar patron for the lead singer of the band, Ali Campbell.
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She described him to me as being "at death's door," a gaunt figure with sunken eyes who mistook her for his wife and growled at the guards when they called his name.
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The Iranian military said it mistook the Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 as a "hostile target," with a senior commander saying the country&aposs security officials believed the plane was a missile.
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The board said the Air Canada crew mistook the taxiway for a runway because they didn't adequately review a warning to all pilots about one of the runways being closed for construction.
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And in 2013, Xinhua, the official news agency, mistook as fact a satirical report in The New Yorker about the purchase of The Washington Post by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon chief executive.
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A western New York judge has dismissed a manslaughter charge against a local man whom authorities said shot and killed a woman living nearby when he mistook her for a deer, PEOPLE confirms.
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A New York man now faces a charge of second-degree manslaughter after an incident late last month in which, authorities said, he shot and killed a neighbor he mistook for a deer.
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This is the second time in as many years Ohio has been rocked by the death of a black child killed by a white officer who mistook a toy for a deadly threat.
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They mistook Donald Trump for a New York businessman without fixed beliefs, not realising that he has believed in one big thing for 40 years, namely the merits of a good trade war.
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There's a scene that evokes the shooting death of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy killed in a park because a police officer mistook the child's toy gun for a real one.
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That is, until one morning, half-asleep, I mistook my cheap-o drugstore eye cream for daily moisturizer, applying a heaping finger-full to my entire face before I did my usual thing.
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The rapper and well-known Yezzy acolyte said that many readers mistook her remarks about a controversial "Gold Digger" lyric as slamming Ye, when actually she was thanking him for telling the truth.
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You're gonna tell me my roommates and I (in Williamsburg, Brooklyn) were all rudely awakened bY a helicopter overhead because some idiot in Washington Heights (Manhattan)MISTOOK A RACOON FOR A MF TIGER?!?!
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Perhaps people are just craving some of the simplicity of the '90s, or maybe they somehow mistook Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century for a current film and wanted to emulate the style?
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The kindness of strangers is proverbial — a woman leads me through the bustle of an airport toward the taxi stand, a waitress hands me back a $50 bill I mistook for a 20.
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Guyger was found guilty of murder on Tuesday, roughly one year after she mistook his apartment for her own and opened fire on what she said was a silhouetted figure in the dark.
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The official kickoff of holiday-movie season didn't go so well for Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern, who mistook Dev Patel for Kal Penn in his review of the movie Lion.
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Later, a U.S. guided missile cruiser shot down Iran Air flight 85033 over the Persian Gulf killing 290 and claimed that it mistook the sizable civilian plane for a F-14 fighter jet.
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When foggy conditions forced the ship to dock temporarily along the French coast, soldiers on patrol there mistook it for an enemy vessel, surrounded it and prepared to attack before recognizing their mistake.
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A Dallas police officer fatally shot a neighbor inside the man's apartment late Thursday night, claiming that she mistook his apartment for her own and believed he was an intruder, the police said.
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For much of the 20th century, swaths of Southern California were hit with smog outbreaks that turned the skies so dark that locals once mistook a particularly intense episode for a solar eclipse.
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While he was reluctant to talk about his patients by name, he was proud when in 1985 Dr. Sacks dedicated his book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" to him.
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"The engineer said that he did see the wayside signal at milepost 19.8 (at the accident curve) but mistook it for another signal, which was north of the curve," according to the NTSB.
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Walker's writing is, at times, a little heavy-handed—pants as a symbol of female independence—and Steven Spielberg mistook that heaviness for seriousness when he adapted the book for his 1985 film.
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Officials say she didn't get tested for COVID-19 since she mistook her symptoms for the common cold as she hadn't left South Korea recently and believed she couldn't have contracted the virus.
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The public safety campaign follows the death of Samantha Josephson, a 21-year-old student who was killed last weekend after getting into a car she mistook for her Uber, the police said.
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Just in time for Halloween, we bring you a real-life horror story: An entire family ate a dinner of weed-laced chicken after their straightedge mother mistook her son's cannabutter for vegan butter.
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Maybe you can compensate people, but you can't stop the bullet once it's been fired at some black teenager, can't un-bomb the Afghan wedding party that the drone mistook for a Taliban meeting.
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The Sacramento Police officers who fatally shot 22-year-old Stephon Clark, who was holding a cellphone at the time of his death that police mistook as a gun, will reportedly not face charges.
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At first, some reporters mistook Collins's answer for "Noah," as in Noah Syndergaard, the lone healthy pitcher from the stable of young talented arms the Mets had envisioned leading them deep into the playoffs.
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The former Olympic and Paralympic sprinter killed Steenkamp at his home in an upscale Pretoria neighborhood on Valentine's Day 2013 -- an act he says was an accident after he mistook her for an intruder.
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I only had one time when the camera mistook my dog for a human, and that's when she was sleeping on the couch under a blanket that made her look larger than she is.
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"Old Town Road" now appears likely to prompt a trend of compound remixes with English-languge artists, many of whom mistook "Despacito" as a fluke or otherwise underestimated the Latin remix standard's potential applications.
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And I think a lot of journalism organizations and publishers mistook that as sort of, well, that Facebook's job is to help us distribute our information, and by the way, help us make money.
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Afterward, he texted me to say he admired my "presence," or, more likely, my unwavering concentration on his mouth, which he perhaps mistook for some particular fascination with the words that sprang from it.
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Fruit and vegetable sellers were at a loss for how to market their produce, and some residents mistook ordinary traffic controllers for law enforcement officials looking to punish consumers who violated the new law.
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Former officer Amber Guyger shot and killed Botham Jean in his own home last year after entering his apartment, saying she mistakenly thought it was her own unit and mistook him for a burglar.
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It usually appears as an ethereal wisp of white that pales in comparison to the northern lights, faint enough that photographers in the Facebook group originally mistook it for the contrails of a plane.
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Amber Guyger, who is white, has told investigators she mistook 26-year-old Botham Jean, a black man, for a burglar after she mistakenly entered his central Dallas apartment one floor above her own.
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Guyger was not responding to a crime, however; she told officials following the shooting she, coming home from work, mistook Jean's apartment for her own, and shot him thinking him to be an intruder.
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When Carl Albert showed up for his first day at the House, he was given a pile of papers to deliver to an office by an older congressman who mistook him for a page.
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Mistakenly flagging someone for jaywalking because a machine mistook a moving bus ad for an actual three-dimensional human isn't itself that dangerous, but shame billboards are hardly the only facial recognition systems proliferating China.
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The latest in a series of emergency exit door mishaps on the airline saw a 50-year-old Chinese woman open the emergency hatch because she mistook it for the toilet door, local reports say.
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Officials mistook the testing to be part of a malicious "phishing" effort to trick political workers into providing hackers with credentials for accessing party networks, DNC Chief Security Officer Bob Lord said in a statement.
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She racked up followers after the managers of the Instagram for Rihanna's Fenty Beauty line apparently mistook her for a real customer and briefly reposted a photo of her "trying out" the brand's matte lipstick.
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When police originally responded to the gunfire, they mistook a man running from the scene with a gun in his hands, Emantic "EJ" Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., for the shooter and killed him at the scene.
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Even after it pledged allegiance to IS in 2015, many mistook it for a low-grade family mafia, with links to Marawi's former mayor, Solitario Ali, whom Mr Duterte has denounced as a drug lord.
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But Australia's Olympic teams, which are currently preparing to compete in the upcoming Summer Games, might have it the worst, and their competition includes a woman who recently mistook a large dildo for a duck.
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WASHINGTON – Dramatic new drone video of the Niger ambush that killed four American soldiers shows U.S. forces desperately trying to escape and fighting for their lives after friendly Nigerien forces mistook them for the enemy.
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Small M&M-like figures pop up in the lower right corner of the browser window, uttering artist statements via thought bubbles, which some patrons mistook for the work of a hacker, or worse, advertisements.
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When the men saw Mr. Patterson, they mistook him for the vandal, prosecutors said, holding him down, kicking him and eventually fracturing his eye socket so badly that he lost vision in his right eye.
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Ross McKenzie, managing director of the Waterloo Centre of Automotive Research, recalled how a vehicle's lidar, which uses laser light to help autonomous cars "see" nearby objects, once mistook an ice patch for a pothole.
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Amber Guyger tearfully told the packed courtroom at her murder trial that she was sorry for killing 26-year-old Botham Jean last September, explaining that she mistook his fourth-floor apartment for her own.
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One night, I mistook the contents of a vase on my table for reed-shaped fragrance diffusers; they turned out to be spindly breadsticks, or "housemade grissini," seasoned with Calabrian chili and herbes de Provence.
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We're told Lochte mistook the uniforms worn by the security guards as police uniforms, and he claims during the missing 3 minutes he and the other swimmers were pulled out of the taxi at gunpoint.
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In his final test, which simulated a school shooting, he shot an unarmed civilian, and he was shot multiple times by the active shooters and even law enforcement, who mistook him for the bad guy.
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H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds" prompted a panic in 1938 when many listeners mistook a radio version of the novel as a real report of an attack by aliens armed with ray guns.
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Nikolas Panagiotopoulos was allegedly attacked by a group of Pi Kappa Phi members who mistook him for a member of another fraternity, according to a lawsuit filed in Travis County on behalf of the student.
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The police had been summoned by a neighbor, who mistook Gates for a burglar, and when he loudly maintained that this was a case of racial profiling he was taken into custody for disorderly conduct.
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Mr. Shaw's son, Jamiel Jr., 17, known as Jas, was shot dead by an illegal immigrant who, prosecutors said, mistook Jamiel for being a member of an opposing gang because of the color of his backpack.
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Just a year and a half ago, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by a police officer in Ohio after the officer claimed that he mistook the child's toy gun for a real weapon.
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He said the transformation was difficult for his young son to comprehend, and that the boy ─ who was just 3 at the time of the surgery ─ mistook the dead skin on his face to be chocolate.
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BLACK BEAR CAUGHT ON VIDEO STEALING DONUTS FROM FAMILY&aposS GARAGE The man told The Associated Press that he mistook the bear climbing a fence into his yard as noise coming from his neighbor&aposs property.
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While he was incapacitated, Verzilov said, he also didn't recognize his mother, mistook one of his doctors for the head of a Russian prison, and at one point refused to believe he was even in Germany.
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A Taiwanese teacher has become a mini celebrity at the school he teaches at after pictures of his lifelike anatomical chalkboard drawings went viral and people mistook him for a lecturer for the school of medicine.
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Lingerie tycoon and socialite Michelle Mone, the U.K.'s Baroness of Mayfair, was left red-faced on Sunday when she mistook a Vietnamese man for a child and picked him up to pose for a photo.
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Padora mistook the designer bag for a dog bag and when Kardashian asked West if she should keep the bag for her daughter some day, he just looked at her speechless in disbelief –– sorry North West!
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" It's believed that YouTube's system to ban these types of accounts saw the term "CP," which stands for "Combat Points" in Pokémon GO, and mistook it for a popular acronym among child predators for "child pornography.
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A supporter of President Donald Trump said he was unfazed by being inadvertently put in the spotlight at a Trump rally on Thursday night, when the president mistook him for a protestor and mocked his weight.
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The blast sent flames shooting some 30 feet (9 meters) into the air, and, according to media reports, rocked the surrounding Riverside County neighborhood with such force that some residents initially mistook it for an earthquake.
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INCIDENTS IN THE STRAIT * In July 1988 the U.S. warship Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner, killing all 290 on-board, in what Washington said was an accident after crew mistook the plane for a fighter.
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A New Jersey police department had to clear up confusion this week about one of its recently repaired patrol vehicles after people in the area mistook the car as belonging to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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When we meet her, Sakina is a teenager who appears to be fully integrated: She wants to play in a band and still makes out with her ex-boyfriend, an American who mistook her for Iranian.
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In Anchorage, a used-car salesman, kneeling beside a vehicle that wouldn't start, mistook the physical sensation of his body heaving from side to side for dizziness and figured that he was having a heart attack.
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Matthews apologized after comparing Sanders' win in the Nevada caucuses to the Nazis taking over France in World War II. On Friday, Matthews mistook Jaime Harrison, a Democrat running for Senate in South Carolina, with Sen.
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James mistook the name of Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, which was trading at 215,230 to $1003, for "root beer" and felt flush when we rewarded him with a 2100,230 note here and a 245,000 note there.
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Mostly, he just has to resemble Johnson, which he does to the point where an actor who worked on a movie with Johnson once mistook Streeter for The Rock while he was out shopping one day.
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As a teenager, I had a worn copy of his 1985 book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat, and remember reading it for the first time with a feeling of delight and surprise.
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But stories like the one about the South Carolina college student who was killed after getting into a car she mistook for an Uber raise questions about what riders can do to help maximize their safety.
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According to the Pena Nieto administration, local drug gang Guerreros Unidos mistook the students for members of a rival outfit, killed them, incinerated their bodies in another nearby dump and tipped their remains into a river.
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The D.A.'s decision on Saturday not to prosecute the officers, who police said mistook Clark's cell phone for a gun, has angered community activists and touched off three nights of protests in Sacramento, the state capital.
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This isn't the first time foreigners in Japan have gotten mixed up, with the country previously having to change its hot springs bathing symbol after tourists mistook it for a sign showing a restaurant selling hot food.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Dallas Police Department on Monday fired a police officer who is facing a manslaughter charge after fatally shooting a man in his apartment that the officer said she mistook for her own home.
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However, during the back procedure, surgeon Ramon Vazquez mistook her kidney for a cancerous tumor in Pacheco's pelvis and cut it out, according to the Palm Beach Post, citing a lawsuit that had been settled in September.
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Beck, who has called the incident a "tragic cascade of circumstance that led to an inaccurate conclusion by the officers," has said that one of the officers mistook the sounds of the newspapers hitting driveways for gunshots.
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Just as 1990s web security filters mistook breast cancer research centers for porn sites, today's internet still seems to have trouble distinguishing between drug dealers and groups trying to reduce the death toll from the overdose crisis.
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A Dallas police officer was arrested on Sunday, three days after she shot and killed a neighbor in his apartment, claiming she mistook the unit for her own and the man for an intruder, the authorities said.
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The transfer of these labors had a deleterious effect: We mistook the essential duty of reaching readers and securing our future as mere tasks that anyone could do, when in reality these were essential to our work.
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Indeed, in 2016, North Miami police officers shot a behavioral therapist, Charles Kinsey, who was trying to calm down a young man with autism who was holding a toy truck that the officers mistook for a weapon.
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The best finish in nine tries has been sixth place, but nothing compares with the performance of last year's U.A.E. Derby winner, Thunder Snow, who mistook the Derby for a saddle bronc competition and did not finish.
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These include cases where journalists appeared to be singled out and selectively pepper sprayed, as well as a case where a journalist was shot by a police officer in Ohio who mistook his camera for a gun.
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Native Americans came to the Yampa Valley for its mineral springs long before the early 973th-century French trappers who, according to legend, mistook the gurgling water for a chugging ship and named the area Steamboat Springs.
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According to the Pena Nieto administration, local drug gang Guerreros Unidos mistook the students for members of a rival outfit, killed them, incinerated their bodies in a nearby garbage dump and tipped their remains into a river.
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He lived in a dilapidated apartment block on the south-side inner city, a block so populated with retirees and pensioners that visitors—of which Bobby had absolutely none—often mistook it for a state retirement home.
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LOS ANGELES — After her son, Eric, was killed by the police in Los Angeles two years ago when officers mistook a water pistol he was holding for a real gun, Valerie Rivera channeled her grief into activism.
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The Venetian court ruled that Raimondi wasn't at fault for being such a skilled artist that buyers mistook his work for Dürer's and told Dürer he should be flattered that such artists wanted to copy his work.
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Rather than reporting a strike and potentially prompting a nuclear retaliation, the officer on duty concluded (correctly) that it was a false alarm: The system had picked up the sun's reflection on clouds and mistook it for missiles.
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And when a parody video circulated last month showing a CGI "Bosstown Dynamics" robot turning on its creators, many mistook it for the real thing — a testament to how far the company has pushed what seems technologically possible.
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Ali Othman Dalati, 2000, his brother Mohamad Wassim Dalati, 22016, and their friend Yusef Muhammad Ammar, 22015, exploded a mine when they mistook it for a can of food that international aid organizations occasional deliver to the town.
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Ali Othman Dalati, 270, his brother Mohamad Wassim Dalati, 226, and their friend Yusef Muhammad Ammar, 453, exploded a mine when they mistook it for a can of food that international aid organizations occasional deliver to the town.
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The squadron's navigator mistook a tent used to host the festival as the site of Bider's commemoration, and were then further confused by an unauthorized helicopter hovering in the area, The Swiss Defense Ministry told The Associated Press.
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Dallas police officer Amber Guyger tearfully told the packed courtroom at her murder trial that she was sorry for killing 26-year-old Botham Jean last September, explaining that she mistook his fourth-floor apartment for her own.
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And she was accompanied by her mother, whom I initially mistook for a friend or an older sister—a calm, soft-spoken woman who beamed protective pride at her rising-star daughter, the youngest of her three children.
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Writing my book on Ella Baker, the civil rights organizer, I learned that the F.B.I. surveillance of her was so inept that an agent mistook her husband for her cousin, a fact that could easily have been verified.
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Some guy mistook Santa Monica beach in SoCal for the South of France, because he stripped down buck naked and planted himself in the sand near Alessandra's crib -- twig and berries in the sand, for the most part.
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It looked like some people genuinely mistook Charles Manson for the singer Marilyn Manson (but turns out the tweets by Christian below were intentionally misleading) It was at this moment that Christian learned who Charles Manson was... pic.twitter.
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The tragic incident occurred during a period of high Cold War tensions, and the Soviets said they mistook the aircraft for a US surveillance aircraft, such as one of the US RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft in the area.
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Wyclef Jean, the hip-hop artist, said he was handcuffed and briefly detained by deputies in Los Angeles on Tuesday after they mistook him for a suspect in a robbery near the studio where he had been working.
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In November 215, John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, a dashing but dissolute gambler, supposedly mistook his children's nanny for his estranged wife in the dimly lit basement of their London home and bludgeoned her to death.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A flourishing field of hemp grown for the first-ever architecture biennale in Lyon was torn apart by local police, who mistook the one-acre plot of green for an illegal cannabis farm.
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In what is perhaps one of the more mild examples of police harassment to make headlines recently, cops arrested 64-year-old retiree Daniel Rushing when they mistook glaze from his donut for crystal meth, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
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"Hamilton cast walking back to the theater after the crowd panicked as they mistook a medical emergency for an active shooter," one observer wrote on Instagram, sharing a video of people applauding the cast as they walked back inside.
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While promoting Mission: Impossible: Fallout on Sirius XM's radio show The Clay Cane Show, actor Ving Rhames revealed that he himself was the victim in a terrifying encounter with the police, after a neighbor mistook him for a robber.
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This project is best remembered for the time when he crudely photoshopped Louisiana Governor Mary Landrieu's hair to resemble the scene in the movie There's Something About Mary in which Cameron Diaz's character accidentally mistook semen for hair gel.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE says she mistook former Rep.
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One of the Kavanaugh's allies pushed a theory, rejected by Ford and criticized by several conservatives, that the accuser mistook the identity of her attacker and blamed Kavanaugh when the real culprit could have been one of his classmates.
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Even though the industry says vaping is intended for adults, Juul and other vaping pens took off among young people about two years ago when teens began taking the devices to school and teachers mistook them for flash drives.
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The problem allegedly occurred when, during the back procedure, surgeon Ramon Vazquez mistook her kidney for a cancerous tumor in Pacheco's pelvis and cut it out, the Palm Beach Post reported, citing a lawsuit that had been settled in September.
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The shooting comes a few weeks after the police killing of Stephon Clark, who was shot on March 2009 in Sacramento, California, in the backyard of his grandparents' house when police mistook a cellphone he was holding for a gun.
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An Illinois paramedic is being hailed as a hero after he jumped into frigid water and swam to an SUV partially submerged in a lake and managed to save an unconscious baby floating inside that he initially mistook for a doll.
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Brown wiped tears with his T-shirt as he testified at Guyger trial Jean, a 26-year-old accountant, was killed when Guyger said she mistakenly walked into his apartment, one floor above her unit, and mistook him for a burglar.
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Pistorius, a former Olympic and Paralympic sprinter, killed Reeva Steenkamp at his home in an upscale Pretoria neighborhood in the early hours of Valentine's Day in 2013 -- an act he says was an accident, after he mistook her for an intruder.
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Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp at his home in an upscale Pretoria neighborhood -- an act he says was an accident, after he mistook her for an intruder, but one the prosecution called a deliberate act after the two had an argument.
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A spokesperson for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection told PEOPLE that the licensed hunter, a 40-year-old male from Kenilworth, New Jersey, responsible for Tonka's death said he mistook the dog for a coyote chasing after deer.
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Instead it simply offers an "admiring" portrayal of Rhodes's skill at shaping the narrative that's so clumsy that a range of readers, including Carlos Lozada and Joshua Foust, mistook it for a puff piece that accidentally makes its subject look bad.
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Pistorius, who sat with his head in his hands during the third day of sentencing hearings, says he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he fired four shots through a locked toilet door in his Pretoria home, killing her almost instantly.
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Taystee took the fall Season 5 saw panicked and untrained officers shoot and kill the abusive Captain Piscatella (Brad William Henke) when they mistook him for a prisoner during a riot after a guard suffocated the innocent Poussey Washington (Samira Wiley).
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The whole thing is so spot-on that you might be forgiven if, like some of the gullible listeners who mistook 1938's War of the Worlds broadcast for an actual alien invasion, you take them at their word at first.
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Reeva Steenkamp: Model and law graduate with 'wicked' sense of humor Pistorius has maintained the killing was an accident after he mistook her for an intruder, while the prosecution said he killed her deliberately after the two had an argument.
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Some fans perhaps mistook his message of acceptance for one of passivity, and so were surprised (or even angered) when Lil B took to social media to discuss race in America in blunt terms—with a focus on racial double standards.
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A former Dallas police officer was indicted on a murder charge on Friday for shooting an unarmed, 26-year-old African-American accountant who was watching TV in his apartment, a home that the officer says she mistook as her own.
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When I texted the news in all caps to a white friend, she mistook my excitement for outrage and responded with an annoyed "Ugh" — the same "ugh" I would have felt starting at age 10 and well into my adult years.
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This Amtrak train was going roughly twice as fast as trains that usually travel on these tracks, so the truck driver may have miscalculated how much time he had if he mistook the Amtrak for the usual slower freight train.
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In 2014, Guerreros Unidos mistook 43 student teachers in the southwestern city of Iguala in Guerrero state for members of a rival outfit, killed them, incinerated their bodies in a nearby garbage dump and tipped their remains into a river.
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The case file shows that the immigration agent handling the case mistook the Ethiopian man for Somali, and then acted on a blanket assumption that "all" Somalis "present a paradigm of deceit" and are categorically untrustworthy when presenting identity information.
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During a meeting prepping for a call with Putin, Trump mistook Hill for a member of his clerical staff and instructed her to rewrite a memo, which led Hill to respond with a "perplexed look," officials recounted to the newspaper.
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Amber Guyger testifying on Friday Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder on Tuesday for fatally shooting her 26-year-old unarmed neighbor, Botham Jean, in his own apartment after saying she mistook it for her own.
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Though it first appeared that bad design in the EMA computer system which sent out the alert was to blame, federal investigators later said the alert was intentionally sent by a now-fired employee who mistook an ongoing drill for a real attack.
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A typical manslaughter case often results in shorter sentences, Stanford University law school professor Robert Weisberg said, citing a three-year sentence given to a transit officer in the region who mistook his gun for a stun gun and fatally shot a passenger.
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Details of the case were just too bizarre Many observers had a hard time believing Guyger made a reasonable mistake when she went to Botham Jean's apartment, mistook it for her own, and shot Jean because she thought he was a burglar.
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The government has said the gang mistook the youths for rival gang members, and that police handed them over to Guerreros Unidos henchmen, who then burned them to ashes at a garbage dump in the town of Cocula, in the hills near Iguala.
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On the very same day a terminal at Frankfurt Airport was forced to evacuate after a whole family made it through security without being properly screened , authorities were called in at Berlin's Schonefeld Airport after screeners mistook sex toys for potentially dangerous devices.
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In contrast to the last Metro-North bar cars, which had wallpaper designed to look like wood paneling (the cars were so old that many commuters mistook the wallpaper for actual wood), the new cars have light-colored walls and red floors.
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On Thursday night, during Michael Phelps' casual paddle to his fourth straight Olympic gold medal in the 200 meter individual medley in Rio de Janeiro, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's announcer Elliotte Friedman mistook Phelps for Ryan Lochte, his long-time swimming bridesmaid.
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Representative Beto O'Rourke of Texas, trying to unseat Mr. Cruz, went viral with his speech to black audiences regarding the death of Mr. Jean, who was killed in his apartment after an off-duty police officer said she mistook him for a burglar.
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After many failed attempts to track him down using his player profile photo (at one point, I mistook Ian Kennedy, the Royals' new $70 million starter, for him), I caught up with Clark as he took a break from a coaches meeting.
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They are suspected of being members of Los Surés, a violent faction of the Trinitarios gang that was behind the killing of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, the teenager killed in June 2018 when gang members mistook him for a member of a rival group.
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First responders arrived to the crash site to find parts of the aircraft scattered among trees in a heavily-wooded area, according to the CBC, and a nearby resident told the outlet she heard a loud noise which she mistook for thunder.
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"The first image I saw that night, the black hole was so bright I initially mistook it for the star S0-2.53, because I had never seen Sagittarius A* that bright," said Do, lead author of the latest research on the black hole.
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He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarret, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a Jihady cell mate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her.
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But when the case reached the Supreme Court last year, Mr. Trump's Justice Department reversed course, saying Ohio's aggressive purges of nonvoters met federal standards even if voters who mistook the notices for junk mail — as many did — were disenfranchised as a result.
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One of the most remarkable details of a fatal collision earlier this month involving a tractor trailer and a Tesla electric car operating in self-driving mode was the fact that the car apparently mistook the side of the truck for the sky.
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While I had just started to get into a groove of working out again that same week, I mistook my ability to barely make it through a cycling class as the final step in my transformation to being a totally fit, totally capable human.
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Image 2 of 2 NEW DELHI – Leaders of India and Italy are holding talks and signing a slew of agreements that mark a thaw in their relations following the fatal 2012 shootings of two Indian fishermen by Italian marines who mistook them for pirates.
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The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for AliensThe science world is all in a tizzy this week about the supposed discovery of an alien…Read more ReadFast Radio Bursts (FRBs) were first detected in 2007 at the Parkes radio dish in Australia.
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He dies before trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to [senior White House adviser] Valerie Jarrett, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a Jihady cell mate mistook her being a nice person and decapitated her.
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It was the 90s and England hadn't yet discovered the gym, so my ectomorph muscles from my college free weight and sit-up routine stood out, and people mistook my American confidence for "masc," or, as we called it in those olden days, butch.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Hundreds of Germans wearing skullcaps rallied in the western city of Bonn on Thursday in support of a Jewish professor who was first the victim of an anti-Semitic attack and then was hit again by police who mistook him for the assailant.
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Speaker Ryan and other Establishment Republicans – who spent much of 2016 not only distancing themselves from then-candidate Donald Trump, but actually going on the offense and attacking him – are the very people Trump mistook as being on his team during the healthcare fights.
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The affidavit, filed by an investigator with the district attorney's office, said Officer Delke, 25, had unsuccessfully tried to stop a white Chevrolet Impala earlier in the day, and later pulled into a parking lot near another white vehicle, which he mistook for the Impala.
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Horwitz dons armor as a Conquistador re-enactor and undertakes similar adventures to mimic those of the European explorers who hurled themselves into the Americas after Columbus mistook the Bahamas for the East Indies, and before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620.
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While 61 percent of millennials correctly identified our vice president, 6 percent thought he was Speaker of the House Paul Ryan; 3 percent mistook him for Mitch McConnell, the majority leader of the Senate; and 1 percent of respondents were convinced he was Newt Gingrich.
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As the fallout from the last week's collapse continues to reverberate, in hindsight it's obvious that the company's business model, which mistook the temporary construction boom at the start of the millennium for something more enduring, died in the teeth of the Great Recession.
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Ms. Guyger, a white officer who was returning from her shift but dressed in uniform at the time, said that she mistook Mr. Jean's apartment for her own, that his door was slightly ajar and that it opened when she tried to unlock it.
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Britain can get on with being an island, which it has managed moderately well through most of its history, ignoring the days of empire when it got tangled up with the rest of the world and mistook the colonies as an extension of itself.
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No U.S. soldiers were killed, but in the tense hours after that, the Ukrainian Boeing 737 was cleared to take off from Tehran airport and then brought down by a missile fired in error by an operator who mistook the plane for an attacker.
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In a statement issued on Saturday local time, Iran said that after it took off from Imam Khomeini Airport, Iranian armed forces mistook the jetliner for hostile aircraft while it was in close proximity to a military installation due to its altitude and shape.
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He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to [senior White House advisor] Valerie [Jarrett], who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a Jihady cell mate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her.
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Despite the lawsuit, and the slow move to rebrand, Snap Interactive has actually benefitted a bit from the mistaken identity: the company's stock shot up 164 percent in February last year when people mistook it for Snap Inc around the time of the latter company's IPO.
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"The climatology is not a forecast," in the way that a short-term weather report is a forecast, he added, saying that many people mistook climatological predictions for El Nino as forecasts of what would happen, rather than as averages of the full range of possible scenarios.
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The researchers also discovered that the bees slowed down immediately before and after the eclipse, perhaps because they mistook the partial dimming of the Sun for dusk and decided to return to their nests for the night, even though it was the middle of the day.
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On my first high school casual dress day, a German teacher mistook my bootcut jeans for Hendrix enthusiasm, and I had to spend three years doing weak thumbs up and saying, "Yeah man, hot licks" while he cornered me in hallways to whisper excitedly about Purple Haze.
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Who would have thought, for instance, that a book about people with neurological disorders and the odd title "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" would become a best seller in the mid-1980s and send Dr. Oliver Sacks off on the path it did?
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The police in Columbia, S.C., arrested a man on Saturday in connection with the killing of a 21-year-old college student who was last seen early Friday before she apparently got into a car that she mistook for an Uber she had called, the authorities said.
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Boris Yeltsin—back when the Doomsday Clock stood at a remarkably peaceful 14 minutes to midnight—was actually handed the Russian nuclear briefcase, known as the Cheget, in 1995 when Russian radar mistook the launch of a Norwegian scientific rocket for a surprise attack from a US submarine.
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We compared the scientific findings with an endless array of news stories and firsthand accounts of real people doing remarkably irrational things: We examined the court testimony of a cop who, despite graduating top five in his academy, mistook his gun for a Taser and killed an innocent man.
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Eight men are in police custody in connection to the fatal stabbing of Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz, who was killed last week when suspected gang members reportedly mistook him for another teen who shared a video of a girl believed to be a gang member's relative having sex.
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The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for AliensThe science world is all in a tizzy this week about the supposed discovery of an alien…Read more ReadTo figure out what's really going on with this star, we need to catch it in the act of sputtering.
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The Pentagon is also reportedly investigating a possible explanation for how American officers mistook a Syrian base for an Islamic State position: The encampment that was hit may have been used by the Syrian military to detain soldiers who were being disciplined and who were not wearing uniforms.
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Following a murder in April after a college student mistook a car for her Uber ride, Lyft and Uber have increased in-app safety measures,If these aren't enough to make you feel safe, consider these four different smartphone apps that can keep you secure in a rideshare.
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Ford, who serves as a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and as a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she mistook a journalist for a student in her class, describing tactics that drew condemnation from journalists online.
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Now investigators believe that the assailants mistook Lesandro for a member of a rival set within the same gang and chased him, in cars and on foot, until they cornered him in the bodega, dragged him from it and slashed and stabbed him repeatedly under its storefront awning.
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Mr. Blake, who is 37 and was once ranked No. 4 in the world in singles tennis, was waiting outside a Midtown hotel to be taken to an event at the United States Open when officers mistook him for a suspect in a credit card fraud ring case.
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The first scratched image is a misfire — the husband mistook an image of a different woman for that of his wife — thus intensifying the narrative: so overwhelming was the husband's rage that he committed an act of violence against not only his wife's image, but that of an unrelated third party.
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Read more:Prince William mistook a childhood photo of himself for Princess Charlotte, and we found 6 pictures that show how similar they are20 photos that prove Princess Charlotte is the sassiest royal13 of Princess Charlotte's most adorable moments from Christmas at SandringhamDisappointing photos that show what royal life is really like
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Womack imagined an example of how that could help law enforcement: An officer's body camera records an incident in which a cop mistook a cell phone for a gun; the software helps pinpoint the precise moments when the cop made a mistake; and the video is later used for training.
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Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp at his home in an upscale Pretoria neighborhood in the early hours of Valentine's Day three years ago -- a killing he says was an accident, after he mistook her for an intruder, but one the prosecution called a deliberate act after the two had an argument.
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"All that excercising [sic] and you still look like you weigh more than your husband, did you change your diet?" the social media user wrote in a comment found by the @commentsbycelebs Instagram account, which seemingly mistook Bure's 18-year-old son for her husband of over 20 years, Valeri Bure.
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He doesn't bother to remember anyone's name — he even mistook Sasha for one of Hilltop's residents, which shows how little concern he has for his populace — and his preferred method of currency (at least when he's dealing with women) appears to be trading sexual favors in exchange for his attention.
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It's possible that she really was on a work visa and was misremembering the frequency with which she had to fly back to Slovenia (or exaggerating it to make a point), or mistook the interviews she had to have with immigration officials every time she flew home for a visa renewal.
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" When he worked in 1989 as a waiter at Broadway Bay, a long-gone seafood restaurant on the Upper West Side, a customer he mistook for an elderly bag lady turned out to be Jo Van Fleet, who had won a best supporting actress Oscar in 1956 for "East of Eden.
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When Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, was shot by New York police who mistook his wallet for a gun in February 1999, Bruce Springsteen wrote and performed a song, "American Skin," that included the lyric "1 shots," a reference to the number of rounds discharged by the police at Diallo.
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In the incriminating photo, a bushy-tailed Scrooge can be seen caught in the act of gnawing on a row of Christmas lights, either in hopes of dashing the town's desire for holiday cheer or just because its tiny squirrel brain mistook the bulbs for a delicious, acorn-shaped snack.
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A few days later, the Pentagon released a fuller version of the video, showing that the American and Nigerien troops who survived the initial ambush were attacked a second time — by friendly fire from Nigerien military forces who had been sent to rescue the troops and mistook them for the enemy.
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An off-duty Dallas police officer who fatally shot her neighbor in his apartment, claiming she mistook the unit for her own, told the authorities that the door was already ajar when she entered and that she shot him after he ignored verbal commands, according to court records released on Monday.
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A medical review commissioned by the family of Emantic "EJ" Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., who was shot dead on Thanksgiving when an Alabama police officer mistook him for a man who had opened fire in a shopping mall in Hoover, Alabama, reveals that the 21-year-old was shot in the back three times.
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The Valley Hospital in New Jersey is ending its three-year pilot program of the system, which is installed in "high risk" areas because it mistook people speaking loudly as well as loud innocuous cafeteria noises as signs of aggression, yet failed to identify a man causing a scene requiring six security officers.
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"I wish I had known then what I know now: that it was possible for everything to seem fine with him when it was not, and that behaviors I mistook as normal for a moody teenager were actually subtle signs of psychological deterioration," Sue Klebold wrote on the website for her book.
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Opinion Mogadishu, Somalia — As I waited for my ride to collect me from the Mogadishu airport, an officer told me an apocryphal tale: A starving goat, blind from hunger, mistook a baby wrapped in a green cloth for grass and bit off a mouthful of emaciated flesh from the baby's upper arm.
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Read more:Kate Hudson said that Tom Cruise crashed a party at her parents' house by 'scaling an 8-foot gate'Keanu Reeves looks as good as ever in new photo with Alex Winter from the upcoming 'Bill and Ted' moviePhoto agencies mistook Keanu Reeves' mom for his girlfriend on the Oscars red carpet
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The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for AliensThe science world is all in a tizzy this week about the supposed discovery of an alien…Read more ReadThis latest excitement was sparked by astronomers with the University of Puerto Rico's Planetary Habitability Laboratory, who described the unusual radio signals in a recent blog post.
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Using a slur which refers to the yarmulkes, in the video, Favre encouraged the listeners not to "let the small get you down," and also referenced the USS Liberty, an American ship shot down during the Six-Day War by Israeli forces who mistook it for an Egyptian ship, according to the Washington Post.
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How China Walled Off the Internet Raymond Zhong reports on how China defied expectations and created a very popular and successful internet while also turning it into a massive surveillance system to suppress dissent: If people in the West didn't see this coming, it was because they mistook China's authoritarianism for hostility toward technology.
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A recent disastrous story from Bloomberg—in which a right-wing functionary at the Department of Labor lost his job after a reporter at the outlet mistook a sarcastic Facebook post criticizing far-right candidate Paul Nehlen for a sincere endorsement of Nehlen's anti-Semitism—shows that such an effort might even be necessary.
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In the weeks leading to the New Hampshire debate, the Rubio game plan that rival Republicans had called laughable was starting to look smart: a seemingly light travel schedule, no blueprint to win outright any of the first four states, and a low-profile, no-drama ethos that rivals, and even a few allies, mistook for disengagement.
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We're talking about a woman who was a little girl with almost Dickensian kind of a childhood, where she was abused by her stepfather and mistook that for affection, whose mother did not like her and felt like she was in competition with her, and then sent to this convent school where she had to pay her own tuition.
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It is even more inadequate to describe a police killing of yet one more person of color, guilty of nothing more than being at home, a killing that took place just eleven days after Dallas officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murder for having fatally shot Botham Jean in his apartment, which she somehow mistook for hers.
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Over on the Marvel side, headliners have frequently attacked each other for casual reasons — as when an asshole version of Spider-Man picked a fight against the Fantastic Four in 1963 because he wasn't invited to the Human Torch's trippy teen hangout party —" or because of that old standby excuse, "I mistook you for a villain.
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Next, Central Command called the exchange of artillery and gunfire between some PUK commanders who resisted orders to evacuate and Iraqi forces a "misunderstanding" and professed not to take a "side" between Baghdad and Erbil, a position President Trump, who once famously mistook the Quds Force as a Kurdish entity, reiterated on Tuesday on the White House lawn.
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Read more: A woman mistook wasabi for avocado, then ate so much of it she developed a heart condition and had to go to hospitalInsider spoke with Juliane Pokini, whose family grew the world's heaviest avocado, to talk about what the award — which was issued in December 2018 but only received last week — meant to her and her family.
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In between are sections devoted to Anna May Wong, a laundry owner's daughter who in the 1920s became the first Chinese-American film star despite rampant discrimination, and to Vincent Chin, a young Chinese-American who was beaten to death outside a Detroit strip club in 1982 by a pair of disgruntled white autoworkers who mistook him for Japanese.
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Mr. de Menezes was on his way to work on July 22, 2005, when police officers searching for those responsible for bombing attacks that month in London and for failed efforts the day before to bomb the subway, mistook him for Hussain Osman, one of the attackers on the run, who lived in the same apartment block.
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In a scene straight out of Boswell (Johnson's encounter with a Highland girl who mistook him for a giant), the 6-foot-4 Baker ("How tall are you?" he's asked repeatedly) comforts a kindergartner crying for her mother, first by inviting the girl to talk about her mom and then by changing the subject to pets.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE's campaign on Monday deleted a tweet that mistook an image from the movie "Selma" for a photo of the actual historic civil rights march.
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But the killing of Samantha Josephson, a 21-year-old college student in South Carolina who was stabbed to death after getting into a car she mistook for her Uber last weekend, has brought national attention to a rash of kidnappings, sexual assaults and robberies carried out largely against young women by assailants posing as ride-share drivers.
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There's no plainer evidence of the systematic failure of the American government and American healthcare system to handle the COVID-19 pandemic than the story of a man in Arizona who died after consuming fish tank cleaner that he and his wife mistook for a so-called "coronavirus cure," praised days before by President Donald Trump.
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