News of the weird

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:27 pm

And now Booger Flin. . .err. . . Burger King is now rolling out hot dogs as part of their menu. Meh.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:13 pm

the real dill · Post by **the real dill** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:20 pm

couldn't find a headline thread, but this one is strong:

Man, 27, who was arrested for having sex with a stranger on a Las Vegas Ferris wheel is murdered in a carjacking while driving his stripper fiancée home from work

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z43ZD2pitm" target="_blank
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Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:36 pm

the real dill wrote:couldn't find a headline thread, but this one is strong:

Man, 27, who was arrested for having sex with a stranger on a Las Vegas Ferris wheel is murdered in a carjacking while driving his stripper fiancée home from work

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z43ZD2pitm" target="_blank
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I'm betting the fiancée hired those dudes.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 10:11 am

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Mar 27, 2016 9:52 am

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:38 am

OUCH!

Florida cops say woman angry over husband's affair shoots him in knee... but the bullet lodges further up: http://apne.ws/1VgekkL

Apr. 1, 2016 11:59 AM EDT

ROCKLEDGE, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say a woman angered over her husband having an affair shot him in the knee, with the bullet lodging further up his body.

Florida Today reports (http://on.flatoday.com/1oqaNDq" target="_blank ) that 60-year-old Victoria Reid was arrested earlier this week on charges including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and domestic violence.

According to a report by the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, Reid confronted her husband about the affair and threatened to maim and kill him.

Police say Reid then shot her husband, who wasn't identified, in the knee, but the bullet ended up lodging in his testicles.

The newspaper did not know the man's current condition.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:39 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:43 am

Even God hates Walmart.

http://www.wyff4.com/news/woman-says-ra ... ntent=link" target="_blank

CAMDEN, SC (WIS) —A Camden woman told police "God told her to do it" after they say she crashed her car into the Walmart.

Police were called to the store at about 10:25 p.m. Tuesday for a report of a vehicle into the building.

According to the incident report, the driver "was standing in the middle of the crowd and was screaming and causing a huge disturbance."

The woman told the officer "The 'rapture' was coming and that 'God told her to do it,'" the incident report reads.

Crystal Marshall, 34, was charged with malicious injury to real property and disorderly conduct.

"Marshall later admitted to intentionally driving the Ford into the building," says the incident report.

Security footage from the store shows the car crashing into the building.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:56 am

Did God tell her to cut her hair like that?

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 5:33 pm

azgreg wrote:Did God tell her to cut her hair like that?

Maybe she went to the hairdresser at Walmart and that's why God told her to do it?

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 10:12 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/25/us/bubble ... index.html" target="_blank

Man tries to run from Florida to Bermuda in inflatable bubble, again.

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Mon Apr 25, 2016 10:40 pm

Does this count as "News of the Weird"?

Trump at War

In a 1997 interview with Howard Stern, Trump likened his determination to avoid sexually transmitted infections to serving in combat. His sex life in the 1980s was “my personal Vietnam,” he said. “I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 6:29 am

CalStateTempe wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/25/us/bubble ... index.html

Man tries to run from Florida to Bermuda in inflatable bubble, again.

Coast Guard was not amused. lol

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Apr 28, 2016 7:41 pm

Man in hedgehog suit shot after TV station bomb threat

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016 ... /83660280/" target="_blank

A man wearing a surgical mask and sunglasses and dressed as a hedgehog, or possibly a white panda, was shot by police Thursday at a Baltimore TV station after threatening to blow himself up unless the station broadcast his "important information" about a financial scandal.

The WBFF-TV station was evacuated after the man, lingering in the lobby, "displayed what appeared to be wires and other things in his jacket that appeared to be some sort of explosive device," said police spokesman T. J. Smith.

After a lengthy standoff, the man, described as a white male in his 20s, left the building and walked to a nearby street, where he was shot and injured by a police sniper, according to police spokesman T. J. Smith.

Although he dropped to the pavement, he continued to keep a hand in his pocket, raising fears that he might still trigger a bomb. Officers communicated with him through a robot designed to detect explosives, but the man refused to cooperate, police said.

Police eventually approached the man, removed his garb, put him into a van and then left the scene.

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Fri Apr 29, 2016 2:14 am

I read that story this morning Greg. Just goes to show how strange the world has become that I didn't even think it was weird enough to post in this thread.

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Wed May 18, 2016 7:31 am

KA-BAR Tactical. . . . Spork.

That is all.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat May 21, 2016 9:28 am

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sat May 21, 2016 10:52 am

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Sat May 21, 2016 1:04 pm

He was covering the dog in smoker story.

the real dill · Post by **the real dill** » Mon May 23, 2016 2:01 pm

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Mon May 23, 2016 7:40 pm

the real dill wrote:

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri May 27, 2016 6:54 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:10 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:14 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 2:24 pm

An older story, but a fun read.

MAN BUSTED SELLING “ENERGY DRINKS” CONTAINING METH

http://www.moron.com/man-busted-meth-energy-drinks/" target="_blank

Boone County resident, Jasper June, 72, was arrested today on felony charges of manufacturing and distributing homemade “energy drinks” containing the powerful stimulate methamphetamine. The Boone County drug task force raided June’s tree fort (June lives in 200 sq. ft. tree fort on his brother’s property) to find Jasper wearing only an adult diaper and reading an Arabic pornographic magazine.

Police seized approximately 25 2 liter bottles of June’s “energy drink” found in a cinder block pump house on the property. The bottles tested positive for methamphetamine.

June came under suspicion when he sold four bottles to several high school girls who hours later were checked into a hospital with internal bleeding. The children’s parents phoned authorities.

A police report contained several statements from June:

“They’re just energy drinks like Rockstar or Monster. It’s not meth in there. It’s just lemonade, caffeine, sugar and a couple drops of gasoline. I swear to God I didn’t put meth in there.”

Customers would come to June’s home to buy the energy drinks for $20 per bottle. One customer spoke on the condition of anonymity:

“I’m shocked Jasper put crank in his energy drinks. I didn’t know nothing about that. I just knew they worked good to keep me awake for a couple days. Stuff way better than Monster [energy drink].”

Hours after June’s first statement, he confessed:

“Okay, I put just a little meth in there to get them addicted and keep customers coming back. I know they’ll all testify against me so let me make something else clear: I pissed in every bottle.”

June also faces child endangerment charges for ‘poisoning’ the girls who drank his homemade concoction.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Jun 16, 2016 2:45 pm

From spinach to meth? For shame Popeye.

reading an Arabic pornographic magazine

Didn't realize there was such a thing.

That's a fake article btw, that image is of killer Delbert Huber.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 10:17 am

Nice v-gap

Daryl Zero · Post by **Daryl Zero** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 10:23 am

Does she have water wings on?

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 8:47 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:10 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 10:59 am

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 7:53 am

1. Tucson
2. Walmart
3. Theft by man in motorized scooter

http://tucson.com/news/local/crime/man- ... ntent=link" target="_blank

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:55 am

World to end July 29, says group that’s always wrong

http://www.knoxnews.com/entertainment/p ... 08251.html" target="_blank

By Chuck Campbell of the Knoxville News Sentinel

The group End Times Prophecies has declared the world will end July 29 in a chain of events prompted by an ongoing phenomenon known as a polar flip.

The good news: We can stop worrying about who will be the next President.

A 17-minute "Armageddon News" video, posted on YouTube on July 9 and viewed more than half a million times, explains the end-of-the world theory as a modulated female voice reads through a variety of biblical quotes, illustrated with cheap special effects that couldn't buy Michael Bay a cup of coffee.

The Armageddon News report says, "The polar flip will make the stars race across the sky, and the vacuum from the reeling of the Earth will pull the atmosphere along the ground, trying to catch up, creating what is known as a roll cloud."

Well, at least the polar flip is real.

According to NASA, the polar reversal is a routine global phenomenon that happens gradually as a result of shifting liquid iron in the Earth's core. It's a slow process, though NASA does indicate some of the most intense drifting will be from June 14 to Aug. 19 this year.

End Times Prophecies uses that scientific truth as the catalyst for the apocalyptic chain of events.

Meanwhile, it should be noted that the group also had predicted a giant collision between Earth and an asteroid in May and that Barack Obama would reveal himself to be the Antichrist in June. So it's not surprising that the latest "news" is being met with skepticism.

As YouTube user Typical White Teenager says in a comment under the video, "I just caught a Dragonite and if I'm going my Dragonite is coming with me."

Pokemon Go followers aren't the only ones who would suffer from a July 29 apocalypse. Football season is about to kick into gear, the leaves will be changing soon, and the holidays will be right behind.

Plus July 29 is a Friday. Seriously, a Friday.

Why are doomsayers always such buzzkills?

I wish I had used more of my PTO from work. Oh well. See you all on the other side.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 7:07 am

It's a good day to die...

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 10:52 am

Chicat wrote:It's a good day to die...

Speaking of which....................

Daredevil to attempt jumping out of plane at 25,000 feet without a parachute

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/29/da ... chute.html" target="_blank

He's made 18,000 parachute jumps, helped train some of the world's most elite skydivers, done some of the stunts for "Ironman 3." But the plunge Luke Aikins knows he'll be remembered for is the one he's making without a parachute. Or a wingsuit.

Or anything, really, other than the clothes he'll be wearing when he jumps out of an airplane at 25,000 feet this weekend, attempting to become the first person to land safely on the ground in a net.

The Fox network will broadcast the two-minute jump live at 8 p.m. EDT (5 p.m. PDT) Saturday as part of an hour-long TV special called "Heaven Sent."

And, no, you don't have to tell Aikins it sounds crazy. He knows that.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:21 pm

Jesus dude. Good luck I guess

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:46 pm

Only good thing is if he misses, he will be dead, and not end up horribly crippled from that height.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:54 pm

I hope they name the crater after him.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 2:47 pm

A net?? Pussy...

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Aug 05, 2016 3:42 pm

I foresee a very awkward situation coming up

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Aug 05, 2016 4:22 pm

"He is survived by his side piece..."

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:31 am

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/health/gr ... index.html" target="_blank

CNN)Swim aside, bowhead whales: Greenland sharks have stolen the crown as longest-living vertebrate on Earth. University of Copenhagen researchers estimated that these sharks live at least 400 years, nearly two centuries longer than the whales.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 4:48 pm

I'm in disbelief that this isn't an onion article.

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/omaha-d ... cb7fe.html" target="_blank

An Omaha dad who mistakenly ate some marijuana brownies didn’t enjoy the experience.

Omaha police officers were called to a house near 90th and Maple Streets about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday to investigate an accidental overdose. They learned that a 53-year-old man had been unloading groceries and found some brownies in the backseat of a car that his adult children had used earlier in the day.

The man ate four of the brownies.

The man’s wife told police that as she and her husband were watching TV, he noted that he was getting “bad anxiety.” She tried to call their children to ask them what was in the brownies but couldn’t reach them. (The woman told officers that she would rather not provide her children's names because she thought they could get in trouble. An Omaha police spokesman said the investigation into the matter has concluded.)

As police were at the house, one of the couple’s children arrived and told officers the brownies belonged to his siblings. He told them he was “pretty sure it was just marijuana in the brownies,” according to a police report.

Paramedics called to the scene who checked the man found his vital signs to be normal. But they noted he was displaying odd behavior — crawling around on the floor, randomly using profanities and calling the family cat a "bitch.”

The man told paramedics he felt like “he’s trippin’.” He declined their offer to be taken to the hospital.

The paramedics helped the man to his bedroom and he got into bed. The man and his wife were told to call 911 again if his situation worsened.

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:32 pm

I believe the scientific term for that is "High as Fuck."

Put on Dark Side of the Moon and ride it out.

the real dill · Post by **the real dill** » Fri Aug 19, 2016 12:02 pm

RACE WALK WORLD RECORD HOLDER SHITS SELF, PASSES OUT, FINISHES 8TH

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/highlight ... e=vicefbus" target="_blank

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:45 am

http://metro.co.uk/2016/09/06/woman-wan ... o=facebook" target="_blank

She’s already 50st, but this woman wants to keep putting on weight until she cannot move.

Monica Riley, who is a model, wants to become the world’s fattest woman – 70st. This is not a record we would recommend anyone to try and beat.

Her boyfriend, Sid Riley, is a feeder and he spends his day cooking for Monica, feeding her through a tube at their home in Fort Worth, Texas.

She said: ‘The plan is to reach 1,000lbs [50st] and become immobile. I would feel like a queen because Sid would be waiting on me hand and foot and he’s excited about it too.

‘It’s a sexual fantasy for us and we talk about it a lot. He already has to help me get off the sofa and get me out of bed.

‘If I lay down after a big dinner he has to help me roll over because my belly is too full for me to roll – it’s a big turn-on for both of us.’

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/09/06/woman-wan ... z4Jb5W2iiL" target="_blank

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 1:01 pm

They’re also trying for a baby.

How is that evenly possible without artificial means?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 1:21 pm

She should be committed because she is crazy.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Sep 07, 2016 1:32 pm

Have you ever thought about it, though? Not necessarily becoming the world's fattest man, but just committing yourself to becoming more overweight?

I've had those times where I've been admonished by doctors and told by the AHA charts how fat I am despite exercising and watching what I eat. And then wondering: If I can't get myself to the weight they say I should be, why not just go for it and release myself from the struggle?

Eventually I discovered that when you commit yourself to gaining weight, you lose weight. The green light to overeat turns off the resentment that drives overeating.

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