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The "News of the Weird" Thread

Nick

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This is just awesome:

A man tried to rob a bank after paying $500 to a wizard to make him invisible

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That has to be a stock photo and not the guy's real mugshot, is it?
 

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So in Grand Theft Auto 5 Online, you can apparently "talk" through your microphone to the fake strippers in the game. Online others hear it. This guy recorded it.

 

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Telemark town soaks up the winter sun for the first time

Bizarre news: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/30/giant-mirrors-first-winter-sun-norway-rjukan
The Norwegian valley town of Rjukan has built three large mirrors to reflect the sun from a nearby mountaintop to their market square. Normally, townsfolk in this far northern city of 3500 don't see "the light of day" for nearly six months each winter.
BTW, there is an indirect ski connection. The Norwegian resistance movement sabotaged Nazi Germany efforts to generate heavy water at the hydroelectric power station next to Rjukan during WWII. They had big concerns the Nazi heavy water project would aid nuclear weapons development. Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris starred in a 1965 movie about this successful operation called The Heroes of Telemark. The film contains a lot of fun telemark skiing scenes with good guys and bad guys chasing each other around the Norwegian countryside: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heroes_of_Telemark
 

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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/10/30/britney-spears-music-used-to-fight-somali-pirates/

[h=1]Britney Spears’ music used to fight Somali pirates[/h]
Britney Spears is being used as a secret weapon to fight Somali pirates.
The singer’s hits are being blasted out by tanker crews to deter kidnap attacks, merchant navy officer Rachel Owens told Metro UK
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Spears’s chart-toppers “Oops! I Did It Again" and "Baby One More Time” have proved to be the most effective at keeping the bandits at bay, she said.
Second Officer Owens, who works on supertankers off the east coast of Africa, said: “Her songs were chosen by the security team because they thought the pirates would hate them most.
“These guys can’t stand Western culture or music, making Britney’s hits perfect.”
The directional speakers aimed at the pirates are such that Spears' music does not bother the sailors aboard the supertankers.
Spears, 31, is gearing up for a multimillion dollar concert run in Las Vegas, one that will apparently be pirate free.
 
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