Weird News Compilation

[Borg]

Is it the 'greatest' because it's the only new one? I guess that means that it's also the world's worst.

 

[OmCheeto]

Is it the 'greatest' because it's the only new one? I guess that means that it's also the world's worst.

I was going to add an addendum to my post yesterday, that maybe the reason...

Ringling Brothers, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, after 146 years, closing 'The Greatest Show on Earth'
[ref: just google it. final show is in two months.]​

is because congress's current "circus maximus", is just too much competition.

But I figured people would accuse me of trying to be funny.

 

[nsaspook]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...efends-client-charged-arson-article-1.2992899

Lawyer, lawyer, pants on fire.

A Miami attorney’s trousers became too hot to handle as a fire broke out in his pocket during a trial Wednesday.

Stephen Gutierrez — whose client is coincidentally charged with arson — was starting his closing arguments when smoke started funneling from his right pocket, according to the Miami Herald.

 

[jtbell]

An apartment in Trump Tower was rented out on Airbnb from September until recently, when a reporter started asking about it.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Trump-Tower-Airbnb-Rented-Out-415491333.html

Nico Voigtlander, an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, stayed there in November, just before the election. "The host sent me the address, and then I called her and said, 'I can't find it, I only see the Trump Tower,'" Voigtlander told the newspaper. "She said, 'It's in the Trump Tower.'"

 

[nsaspook]

Florida

 

[collinsmark]

Footy McFooty Face.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...al-san-diego-mls-team/?utm_term=.a407b43e9ba8

I am so proud of my town.

 

[Deneen2000]

Mysterious blue spiral over norway

 

[Borg]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/babies-romeo-juliette-debut-florida-hospital-115650160.html in the same hospital

Hospital privacy laws almost kept the drama from playing out...
But the two families began searching for each other. Dad Justin Crouch says he thought about walking down the hall saying,"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo."

 

[Borg]

Apparently you can even learn to drive using YouTube.
Boy, 8, craves burger, drives dad's van a mile to McDonald's
Updated story:
US boy, 8, on joy ride for a cheeseburger

A craving for a McDonald's cheeseburger apparently prompted an 8-year-old Ohio boy to take his 4-year-old sister for a ride in his dad's van, which he learned to drive on the internet.

Witnesses say the boy appeared to obey traffic laws.

Sounds like a TV show - Can you drive better than an 8 year old?

 

[Astronuc]

Woman Throws Coins Into Plane Engine 'For Good Luck,' Delaying Flight for Five Hours
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-throws-coins-plane-engine-205237945.html

I'm glad someone noticed that she threw coins into the jet engine (probably into the compressor or fan). Apparently she does not understand that debris in a jet engine could potentially cause it to catastrophically fail.

 

[davenn]

Woman Throws Coins Into Plane Engine 'For Good Luck,' Delaying Flight for Five Hours
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-throws-coins-plane-engine-205237945.html

I'm glad someone noticed that she threw coins into the jet engine (probably into the compressor or fan). Apparently she does not understand that debris in a jet engine could potentially cause it to catastrophically fail.

OMG !

 

[OCR]

OMG !

FOD !

 

[Borg]

Woman Throws Coins Into Plane Engine 'For Good Luck,' Delaying Flight for Five Hours

OMG !

I said exactly the same thing right before I saw your post.
I love the most-liked comment:

Confucious says, "Old lady who throw coin into plane engine, soon depart on unexpected trip."

 

[collinsmark]

Oh, my.

NASA Denies Theory That It Is Running A Child Slave Colony On Mars
[Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-denies-theory-running-child-222234666.html]

(Gahh. What on Earth... No, let me start over. What has become of this world, where this is actually a headline?)

 

[jtbell]

Why did the chicken(s) close the road?

 

[jtbell]

NASA Denies Theory That It Is Running A Child Slave Colony On Mars
[Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-denies-theory-running-child-222234666.html]

They must have fled there after being "outed" from that pizza parlor in Washington DC.

 

[nsaspook]

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...f/2017/07/truck_full_of_eels_overturns_o.html

U.S. 101 full of eels
Eels slither all over U.S. 101 in Lincoln County after a truck carrying them overturned between Newport and Depot Bay, at milepost 131.

 

[jtbell]

Some apartment complexes now use DNA testing to identify residents who don't clean up after their dogs.

Mount Pleasant apartment complex using DNA to catch dog poop perps (Channel 4 news, Charleston SC)

Last week, Boulevard management notified residents they must register their dog into a DNA database or face a fine. DNA is collected by a simple cheek swab. It’s part of their new PooPrint program. It’s a way they can pin the poop to the owner responsible.

 

[256bits]

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...f/2017/07/truck_full_of_eels_overturns_o.html

a great publicity stunt for an nth Tremors movie coming out.
Kevin bacon would be pleased.

 

[256bits]

PORK Stock in free fall
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/a-weird-florida-mystery-frozen-pork-falling-from-the-sky/ar-AAovZM4?OCID=ansmsnnews11

 

[Astronuc]

Who owns Snopes.com? Dispute puts future of fact-checking site in question
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/sd-fi-snopes-legal-20170724-story.html

A legal dispute over ownership of the popular fact-checking site Snopes.com is threatening the existence of the online sleuthing service, which now purports to be in dire financial straits. As a result, Snopes on Monday started soliciting donations through a GoFundMe campaign and raised more than half of its $500,000 goal in its first day of fundraising.

Go figure.

 

[fresh_42]

Squirrel alert in NYC!
http://twentytwowords.com/an-aggres...-residents-and-its-not-as-funny-as-it-sounds/

@WWGD Watch out!

 

[jtbell]

There is a band named Suspected Spam:

https://www.facebook.com/suspectedspam/

I wonder what happened to their EP that was due out in the spring? Maybe their publicity emails all got flagged as...

 

[collinsmark]

Planetary Protection Officer.

http://www.businessinsider.com/child-applies-nasa-planetary-protection-officer-job-opening-2017-8
http://www.businessinsider.com/child-applies-nasa-planetary-protection-officer-job-opening-2017-8
I love NASA's strong outreach to children.

 

[Astronuc]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-robots-taken-down-rogue-072538096.html

China has taken down two online robots that appeared to go rogue, responding to users' questions with one saying its dream was to travel to the United States and the other admitting it wasn't a huge fan of Chinese Communist Party.

Earlier this summer, there were reports that Facebook shutdown an AI research program after two bots developed their own private, unintelligible (to humans) language. Snopes rates the story as false.
http://www.snopes.com/facebook-ai-developed-own-language/

 

[Astronuc]

Why one should pay attention to the vehicle one is driving.
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/watch-dump-truck-apos-raised-050631150.html
It could have been worse, so they say.

Hawk with snake in claws likely sparked Montana fire
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-claws-likely-sparked-montana-fire/596889001/

 

[256bits]

I was looking for the writeup on a cute story about three sisters who had births just days apart recently in Quebec, but apparently that is not at all that odd, as per the number of hits that came up when searching for 'three sisters pregnant' to narrow down the news item on the net. - 94,200,000 hits.

Couldn't find the story I wanted.
Instead I present this dated one ( 2005 ) regarding early bloomers, which has more 'click-bait' value attached. IMO.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...es-their-mother-do-She-blames-the-school.html
and the same from a BBC report,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4572219.stm

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.facebook.com/r.beatty/posts/10214627024858104:0

 

[OmCheeto]

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O.M.G.
I've heard of "spirit animals", but that kid is my "spirit grandchild".

I did a similar thing, 35 years ago.

ps. Note to young people: If you "know" you have to take "cheat" notes to an exam, just take the class again.
Save yourself the embarrassment. You'll be glad you did.
I think I got an F- on that test.

 

[DrGreg]

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This reminds me of the story, very likely not true, of the Oxford student who turned up for his exams and demanded a complimentary glass of sherry. The invigilators checked the 400-year-old rulebook and found that he was indeed entitled, and so provided a glass of sherry.

However, the next day, the student was fined for failing to wear his sword for the exam.

 

[jack action]

I was looking for the writeup on a cute story about three sisters who had births just days apart recently in Quebec [...]

Couldn't find the story I wanted.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3691868/three-kahnawake-sisters-give-birth-within-44-hours/

 

[1oldman2]

(Note, you just have love good Satire as well as Irony. This piece has both, too bad the stakes are so serious.)
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/bor...john-lyrics-kim-jong-un-calls-trump-honky-cat
"PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report)"In what some security experts fear could be a high-stakes war of Elton John lyrics, minutes after Donald Trump called Kim Jong Un "Rocket Man," the North Korean dictator responded by calling Trump "Honky Cat."

 

[nsaspook]

Only in Japan.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42009839

Management on the Tsukuba Express line between Tokyo and the city of Tsukuba say they "sincerely apologise for the inconvenience" caused.

In a statement, http://www.mir.co.jp/company/release/2017/post_109.html

 

[nsaspook]

Mild NSFW.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/graphic-obscene-skydrawings-spotted-in-okanogan-co/492521457

Ten Gallon Hat?

 

[OmCheeto]

Mild NSFW.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/graphic-obscene-skydrawings-spotted-in-okanogan-co/492521457

Ten Gallon Hat?

Maybe the pilot is a fan of that new TV show: "The Orville"

For those who haven't seen it: Gordon Malloy