The "News of the Weird" Thread

[bill2ski]

I am going to think twice about where I park my car.

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070224/News01/702240313

The car was abandoned after a head on collision.And it sounds like they milingered retreving it from the storeowners parking lot. Oops + Duh = flat car

 

[BushMogulMaster]

"Butts charged with stealing toilet paper" :lol:

http://centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/122256.html

 

[BushMogulMaster]

"Elderly Pa. women pose for risque photos"

http://centredaily.com/news/weird_news/story/122520.html

 

[thetrailboss]

It appears that Marc is at it again....

The Article...involving Monkeys.

 

[BeanoNYC]

Owch

:-o uke:

 

[bvibert]

Owch

:-o uke:

Thanks for that one! :angry: My boys hurt just thinking about that!!!

 

[thetrailboss]

Now this is just strange...and scary!

 

[ctenidae]

Now this is just strange...and scary!

I wonder if Oscar meows in all caps.

 

[ctenidae]

Strange:

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2007/07/27/lenovo-mexico-india-markets-equity-cx_rd_0727markets1.html

Chinese company setting up manufacturing in Mexico. It's a topsy-turvy world, it is.

 

[drjeff]

Like this one will came as a suprise to any guy here:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007340106,00.html

 

[tree_skier]

someone stole marc's date

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070724...y_hedgehogs;_ylt=Aotwk1WKIVM2AiUtbKMPOZ4Z.3QA

 

[tree_skier]

glad I don't live in NC

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=cp_K072615AU.xml&show_article=1&catnum=9

 

[bvibert]

someone stole marc's date

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070724...y_hedgehogs;_ylt=Aotwk1WKIVM2AiUtbKMPOZ4Z.3QA

The hedgehog breeding season runs from April to September and their lovemaking is typically accompanied by very loud puffing and snorting, usually by the female as she tries to ward off the male.

Is that the hedgehog version of "Not tonight, I have a head-ache"

 

[thetrailboss]

I think Marc is OK. Maybe he is the guy that prefers cows.

 

[ctenidae]

umm, okay...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/08/content_6496089.htm

 

[ctenidae]

No more crispy duck served at toilets
Mon Aug 6, 2007 11:20 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - Food stalls attached to Beijing's public toilets
will be removed in good time for next year's Olympics, state media said
Saturday.

Complaints over toilets with poor sanitation and toilet operators
turning them into commercial operations led to the ban, which comes into
force in October.

"It is not proper to sell soft drinks or snacks right at the toilets,"
the Beijing News said, citing sources within the Beijing Municipal
Administration Commission.

"The city authorities also plan to publish a toilet guide, provide
toilet information over the telephone and the Internet and erect more
road signs to help toilet users."

Billboards near toilets will also be banned, Xinhua news agency said.

Notoriously polluted Beijing is cleaning up its act before it hosts the
Olympics. It has also announced crackdowns on spitting and smelly
taxis.

 

[JimG.]

No more crispy duck served at toilets
Mon Aug 6, 2007 11:20 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - Food stalls attached to Beijing's public toilets
will be removed in good time for next year's Olympics, state media said
Saturday.

Complaints over toilets with poor sanitation and toilet operators
turning them into commercial operations led to the ban, which comes into
force in October.

"It is not proper to sell soft drinks or snacks right at the toilets,"
the Beijing News said, citing sources within the Beijing Municipal
Administration Commission.

"The city authorities also plan to publish a toilet guide, provide
toilet information over the telephone and the Internet and erect more
road signs to help toilet users."

Billboards near toilets will also be banned, Xinhua news agency said.

Notoriously polluted Beijing is cleaning up its act before it hosts the
Olympics. It has also announced crackdowns on spitting and smelly
taxis.

I doubt that public toilets, spitting, and smelly cabs are the sole reasons for Beijing's NOTORIOUS pollution.

 

[ctenidae]

I doubt that public toilets, spitting, and smelly cabs are the sole reasons for Beijing's NOTORIOUS pollution.

I don't know. Most of the toilets I saw were downright nasty.
And only loosely classifiable as "toilets." "Hole in the floor with footpads" is more accurate.

 

[noski]

ouch!

TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for 2 km (1.2 miles), leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb.

The 54-year-old office worker was out on his motorcycle with a group of friends in the city of Hamamatsu, west of Tokyo, on Monday, when he was unable to negotiate a curve in the road and bumped into the central barrier, the Mainichi Shimbun said.

He felt excruciating pain, but did not notice that his right leg was missing until he stopped at the next junction, the paper quoted local police as saying.

The man and his leg were taken to hospital, but the limb had been crushed in the collision, the paper said.

 

[bvibert]

TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for 2 km (1.2 miles), leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb.

The 54-year-old office worker was out on his motorcycle with a group of friends in the city of Hamamatsu, west of Tokyo, on Monday, when he was unable to negotiate a curve in the road and bumped into the central barrier, the Mainichi Shimbun said.

He felt excruciating pain, but did not notice that his right leg was missing until he stopped at the next junction, the paper quoted local police as saying.

The man and his leg were taken to hospital, but the limb had been crushed in the collision, the paper said.

:blink: How the heck do you not notice that your leg FELL OFF???

Reminds me of this:

ARTHUR:
Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left.
BLACK KNIGHT:
Yes, I have.
ARTHUR:
Look!
BLACK KNIGHT:
Just a flesh wound.