The "News of the Weird" Thread

[bvibert]

"Polish beekeeper Josef Guzy found still alive in coffin
***'Just before closing the coffin, the family asked us to remove a couple of precious things from the body. His son-in-law wanted his watch as a keepsake and his wife wanted a chain from his neck. I happened to touch the artery in the neck and was totally shocked. I checked it again and shouted, "There is a pulse." My assistant checked as well. I leant in close and I could tell that he was still breathing. My God, it was a miracle.' Doctors in Katowice have described it as a case of suspended animation, the first they have known.***"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7002357.ece

Wow! Freaky!

[RootDKJ]

This is one of my favorite non-ski related threads.

[legalskier]

Ordeal of human ice cube
A magician is in hospital suffering from severe frostbite after spending more than 64 hours as a human ice cube to break a world endurance record. Latvian illusionist Gennady Palychevsky, 40, spent 64 hours and 32 minutes in the six foot square ice cube in Moscow before signaling for help. The event tops American magician David Blaine's 63 hours in ice in New York's Times Square 10 years ago....Medics say Palychevsky was on the verge of literally freezing to death before he called a halt to the stunt.***
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3679218.html?men

[Glenn]

I never got the memo. When did being a magician equate to doing really stupid $hit? I don't get it. Blaine isn't a magician. He's a dumbass who does card tricks.

[bvibert]

I never got the memo. When did being a magician equate to doing really stupid $hit? I don't get it. Blaine isn't a magician. He's a dumbass who does card tricks.

No kidding, where's the magic in that? It would have been magic if he got himself out of the ice when he was done...

Also, how do you signal to stop the stunt if you're frozen in the ice?

[legalskier]

Also, how do you signal to stop the stunt if you're frozen in the ice?

That must be where the "magic" comes in....

[legalskier]

Click here for the pic:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3707275.html?menu=

Freaky.

[legalskier]

It would appear that Korea has an expansive view of marriage:

True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.
In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media. 'He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,' said one friend. 'They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,' they added. The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual marriage in recent times - it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS gameLove Plus, last November.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/816601-man-marries-pillow

This reminds me of "Lars and the Real Girl:" http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1175...the_real_girl/

[drjeff]

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/102...worlds-fattest

[ctenidae]

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/102...worlds-fattest

There's a whole lot of absolutely nothing right in that article.