The "News of the Weird" Thread

[legalskier]

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/five_goats_found_roaming_aroun.html

What- there are lots of farms in Paterson. :roll:

 

[RootDKJ]

What- there are lots of farms in Paterson,

The headline reads funny to me.

 

[legalskier]

The headline reads funny to me.

I was walking on RR Ave there a couple years ago when I spotted a plastic bag on the sidewalk with a dead bloody rooster sticking out. Every time I hear this song now I think of it:


Paterson...nuff said.

 

[andyzee]

I was once surprised to find a place in Newark that was like Noah's Ark. Had everything, goats, cows, lambs, chickens, ducks, etc..... By the way, love those falls in Paterson. Last year after flood:

 

[legalskier]

By the way, love those falls in Paterson.

Didn't Tony Soprano throw a guy off the bridge there? :-o

 

[andyzee]

Didn't Tony Soprano throw a guy off the bridge there? :-o

I saw nothing!

 

[legalskier]

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/five_goats_found_roaming_aroun.html

This truly is "weird"- here's another Paterson story that just came out:

Paterson first-grade teacher calls some of her students 'future criminals' on Facebook page
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/paterson_first-grade_teacher_s.html

 

[thetrailboss]

Man crashes car three times in one day (well two cars that is).

http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=14408244

 

[thetrailboss]

Another classic......

http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=14418576

 

[thetrailboss]

Sharks in the ponds at a golf course? You got it! Better not slip in or lose your ball.....

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/d...ous-water-hazard-ever-a-shark?urn=golf-wp1022

 

[jrmagic]

Sharks in the ponds at a golf course? You got it! Better not slip in or lose your ball.....

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/d...ous-water-hazard-ever-a-shark?urn=golf-wp1022

or put differently... slip in and lose your ball(s):-o

 

[legalskier]

Drunk driver hits drunk pedestrian:

http://www.nj.com/warrenreporter/index.ssf/2011/05/intoxicated_phillipsburg_drive.html

:dunce:

 

[legalskier]

Dude gulps his 25,000th Big Mac (with vid):

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/05/18/fond-du-lac-man-chows-down-25000th-big-mac/

 

[gmcunni]

more disgusting than weird..

$2M Michigan lottery winner defends use of food stamps

 

[bvibert]

Absolutely disgusting!

 

[wa-loaf]

Now this is a way to reward your top performers ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13454160

 

[o3jeff]

Now this is a way to reward your top performers ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13454160

Did you put the request in your employers suggestion box?

 

[legalskier]

Barber bites customer's ear in half after complaint about slow haircut...at the Beauty and the Beast Barber Shop

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2011/06/trenton_barber_is_accused_of_b.html

The comments below the article are a real earful. :smile:

 

[legalskier]

Great whites love ACDC

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/offbeat/110602/acdc-rock-music-great-white-shark-angus-young

"...when the great whites heard the AC/DC songs, they swam up and rubbed their faces against the source of the music."

 

[bvibert]

Barber bites customer's ear in half after complaint about slow haircut...at the Beauty and the Beast Barber Shop

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2011/06/trenton_barber_is_accused_of_b.html

The comments below the article are a real earful. :smile:

Wow! That's one pissed off barber!