{"id":3165,"date":"2016-06-23T10:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:18:19","slug":"massive-earthquake-in-california-after-bill-gates-drops-his-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/massive-earthquake-in-california-after-bill-gates-drops-his-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Earthquake In California After Bill Gates Drops His Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA&#8211; A 6.9 magnitude earthquake jolted the San Diego area on Monday after Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates dropped his wallet when he\u00a0tried showing a friend a photo of his new baby laptop.<\/p>\n<p>The devastating quake occurred on a sunny afternoon in a sunnier\u00a0part of San Diego just after 2 pm PT with tremors felt as far away as cloudy New Jersey. Witnesses say that the earthquake could have been avoided had Mr. Gates been\u00a0wearing sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why&#8217;s a rich guy like Gates not wearing sunglasses?&#8221; Rudy Iaconelli of Bayonne, New Jersey asked, who felt the aftershocks\u00a0while he was on the phone with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/21\/stubborn-man-dies-waiting-for-internet-explorer-page-to-load\/\">Microsoft support for an unrelated issue<\/a>. &#8220;What friggin&#8217; person lives out in San Diego and doesn&#8217;t have sunglasses? I live in a town where the sky&#8217;s constantly covered with nuclear waste smoke and even I still wear sunglasses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there was no serious injuries, other than some damage to a\u00a0local computer retailer who only sold Apple\u00a0products.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Oswald, a geologist from Culver City, said that the extreme sunny weather\u00a0may have reflected off of Gates&#8217; baby laptop photo, causing the billionaire to go temporary blind and lose his grip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an extremely sunny day on Monday&#8221; Oswald told local reporters from behind mirrored sunglasses. &#8220;I know what happened to Mr. Gates has happened to me a few times. Remember the earthquake of 2010? Yep, that was me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The local weather report forecasts sunny days all week in San Diego, while Bayonne, New Jersey is calling for more waste clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA&#8211; A 6.9 magnitude earthquake jolted the San Diego area on Monday after Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates dropped his wallet when he\u00a0tried showing a friend a photo of his new baby laptop. The devastating quake occurred on a sunny afternoon in a sunnier\u00a0part of San Diego just after 2 pm PT with tremors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[548,108,547,1013,218,1012,546,1113],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-u-s-news","tag-apple","tag-baby","tag-bill-gates","tag-computer","tag-earthquake","tag-laptop","tag-microsoft","tag-rated-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}