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The "News of the Weird" Thread

legalskier

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[h=1]Tsunami bomb, a rival for nuclear weapons, was tested by U.S., New Zealand: archived secret files[/h]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/tsunami-bomb-rival-nuclear-weapons-tested-u-zealand-220152146.html
 

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Women accidentally drives 900 miles instead of 90 due to GPS error

http://gizmodo.com/5975787/woman-drives-for-900-miles-instead-of-90-thanks-to-gps-error

The woman, 67-year-old Sabine Moreau, started her journey in her home town of Hainault Erquelinnes, Belgium. She wanted to pick up a friend at a train station in Brussels, just 93 miles north from her point of origin. But instead, she turned on her GPS, which told her to drive south, taking her turn by turn all the way down to Zagreb, in Croatia. Instead of a couple hours in the car, she spent a couple days to cover the 900 miles that separates both points in Europe.

During Sabine's odyssey, she stopped two times to get gas, slept for a few hours on the side of the road, and even suffered a minor car accident. How the hell did this happen without her noticiting? She knows it sounds weird, but she was distracted, she said:
 
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