The "News of the Weird" Thread

[wa-loaf]

Looks more like a drive-in than drive-thru:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/30/switzerland-confidential-behold-the-legal-sex-drive-thru/?hpt=T2

 

[legalskier]

Looks more like a drive-in than drive-thru:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/30/switzerland-confidential-behold-the-legal-sex-drive-thru/?hpt=T2

"We can't get rid of prostitution, so have to learn how to control it," Police spokesman Reto Casanova said.

Now if they only can figure out how to tax it, they'll probably balance the city budget!

 

[Mapnut]

Eeuw.

http://www.komonews.com/news/national/101924408.html

 

[skiNEwhere]

"We can't get rid of prostitution, so have to learn how to control it," Police spokesman Reto Casanova said.

Now if they only can figure out how to tax it, they'll probably balance the city budget!

that's what they do in Nevada....

 

[legalskier]

Zsa Zsa's husband wants to plastinate her body and put her on show

Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband wants to plastinate her body and put her on show after she dies
Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband Frederick Prinz von Anhalt has told a German newspaper that he wants to plastinate his wife's body when she dies and then put her on show. The 93-year-old actress has been in and out of hospital for the past few weeks and is
said to be in very ill health. Frederic says he wants to preserve his wife's body so her beauty will last forever.

Plastination: German doctor Gunther von Hagens showcases his work where he preserves bodies and body parts to stop them decaying and retains some of the features of the original sample

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...wants-plastinate-body-dies.html#ixzz0yUQzbMGP
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...wants-plastinate-body-dies.html#ixzz0yUQ0CewE

Ok, this totally creeps me out. He couldn't even wait until after she's gone to announce this?! I think he also claimed to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby, sheesh.
uke:

 

[drjeff]

Now this golfer can really say that he/she has a hot swing!

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/d...arks-25-acre-California-blaze?urn=golf-266447

 

[Puck it]

Now this golfer can really say that he/she has a hot swing!

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/d...arks-25-acre-California-blaze?urn=golf-266447

My Taylormade Ti R7 driver and woods spark when I hit them off the driving mats. I have not figured out why though.

 

[billski]

I would be totally freaked out if a passenger next to me died in-flight. Especially if I had to stay in the same seat for the last hour.

ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines says a 57-year-old passenger was found dead aboard a flight from Lagos, Nigeria to Atlanta.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead says the woman's body was taken to the GBI crime lab for an autopsy.
Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott says the passenger was found unresponsive early Monday aboard Delta Flight 53, about an hour out of Atlanta and about 11 hours after it took off.

 

[legalskier]

World's first ornithopter takes flight

A Canadian student inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's sketches says he has made the first sustained flight in a human-powered, wing-flapping aircraft. Todd Reichert's ornithopter is an engineless plane that stays aloft by flapping its wings like a bird. The craft, dubbed "Snowbird", flew 145m (476 feet) at the Great Lakes Gliding Club in Tottenham, Ontario.
The Federation Aeronautique Internationale is expected to confirm the record at its meeting in October.

see vid: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11410410

 

[legalskier]

Murder Captured By Google Street View Car
Traveling through Google Brazil's Street View is an amazing trip of luxury and misery, even while one can't get into the favelas for risk of being killed. There's no need though. You can find death elsewhere. Warning: Strong images inside.

http://gizmodo.com/5656497/murder-captured-by-google-street-view-car

 

[billski]

Murder Captured By Google Street View Car
Traveling through Google Brazil's Street View is an amazing trip of luxury and misery, even while one can't get into the favelas for risk of being killed. There's no need though. You can find death elsewhere. Warning: Strong images inside.

http://gizmodo.com/5656497/murder-captured-by-google-street-view-car

OMG creep me out. Wait till they Streetview Afghanistan

 

[wa-loaf]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/animals/mouse-found-lodged-inside-naked-arrestee

 

[powpig2002]

that's sick. a gerbil, i can understand.

 

[severine]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/animals/mouse-found-lodged-inside-naked-arrestee

Wow. Just wow.

 

[drjeff]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...aten-worlds-fattest-mum-ONE-hour-sitting.html

OMG!

 

[bvibert]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...aten-worlds-fattest-mum-ONE-hour-sitting.html

OMG!

Wow! I wonder how she pays for all that food??

 

[billski]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...aten-worlds-fattest-mum-ONE-hour-sitting.html

OMG!

Sexier? 'splain that divorce to me!
Sick. I'll bet her daughter won't be proud of her in a few years. Already has to be propelled in a cart. Wait till she can't get in the doorway. I'm sure she'll be happy then.

 

[RootDKJ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...aten-worlds-fattest-mum-ONE-hour-sitting.html

OMG!

After polishing off her enormous main course, she still had room for dessert and ate a 'salad' made of marshmallow, cream cheese, whipped cream and cookies.

uke: uke:

 

[legalskier]

Ripley’s Top 10 strangest stories of 2010

Although it includes such gems as "Bearded Woman Finds Son," and "Dog Chews off Man’s Toe," it unfortunately omits my personal fave- the "psychic octopus":

http://newslite.tv/2010/12/29/ripleys-reveal-top-10-stranges.html

 

[legalskier]

Norwegian Boy Fends Off Wolf Pack with Heavy Metal
While walking home from the busstop this week, a 13-year-old Norwegian school boy stumbled upon four wolves. In the end, it may have been his love of heavy-metal music by the band Creed that saved his life.***
Full story- http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,740680,00.html