The "News of the Weird" Thread

[legalskier]

Teen in 16-storey fall up and about

A 15-year-old boy who fell from his 16th-floor apartment on Thursday night is now up and about in hospital. He is expected to be discharged on Friday. The boy fell from the top floor of the Proximity Apartments in Manakau City's Amersham Way. He appears to have survived by landing on the corrugated steel roof of a parking building below, which bent and cushioned his fall. Stuff was allowed into a nearby apartment on the 16th floor today and the damaged roof 50 metres below is yet to be repaired. Building manager Jason Epps-Eades says the family involved wants to keep their identity out of public view.****
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3957063/Teen-survives-16-storey-fall

 

[legalskier]

What some people will do to keep collecting benes

Tokyo’s ‘oldest man’ actually died 30 years ago
A man thought to be the oldest living person in Tokyo, has been found to be a fraud and actually died three decades ago, it has been revealed.
Sogen Kato’s body was eventually found by city officials in his bed, after family members repeatedly chased them away, saying he was well but didn’t want to see anyone. Officials grew suspicious and launched an investigation through the police, who forced their way into the house on Wednesday. They found the mummified body, believed to be Kato, lying in his bed, wearing underwear and pajamas, covered with a blanket. Kato’s granddaughter told investigators that he had been in the room for 30 years after declaring he wanted to be a living Buddha. The Japanese man was born on July 22, 1989, and now police are investigating whether his family were claiming pension money from him while pretending he was still alive. ‘His family must have known he has been dead all these years and acted as if nothing happened’, said Tokyo metropolitan welfare official Yutaka Muroi.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/836545-tokyo-s-oldest-man-actually-died-30-years-ago

 

[billski]

Tokyo’s ‘oldest man’ actually died 30 years ago
A man thought to be the oldest living person in Tokyo, has been found to be a fraud and actually died three decades ago, it has been revealed.
Sogen Kato’s body was eventually found by city officials in his bed, after family members repeatedly chased them away, saying he was well but didn’t want to see anyone. Officials grew suspicious and launched an investigation through the police, who forced their way into the house on Wednesday. They found the mummified body, believed to be Kato, lying in his bed, wearing underwear and pajamas, covered with a blanket. Kato’s granddaughter told investigators that he had been in the room for 30 years after declaring he wanted to be a living Buddha. The Japanese man was born on July 22, 1989, and now police are investigating whether his family were claiming pension money from him while pretending he was still alive. ‘His family must have known he has been dead all these years and acted as if nothing happened’, said Tokyo metropolitan welfare official Yutaka Muroi.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/836545-tokyo-s-oldest-man-actually-died-30-years-ago

saw that. Many Americans try this scam. But I doubt any American do it with a body in-residence! :dunce:

 

[thetrailboss]

I'm speechless. http://caledonianrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=147&ArticleID=50349

 

[drjeff]

Funny thing is, so many of the articles in this thread now seem normal given the other threads in the Misc section today :lol:

 

[legalskier]

I'm speechless. http://caledonianrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=147&ArticleID=50349

We call this job security.

 

[NYDrew]

This beloved thread will always be lame with real life idiots like BB roaming the streets and proudly clamming every senior citizen in sight.

 

[billski]

This beloved thread will always be lame with real life idiots like BB roaming the streets and proudly clamming every senior citizen in sight.

Shake out of it dude! It's gonna start snowing any minute now!

Rest assured, you can still get your Bud Lite

 

[legalskier]

Lightning strikes 13 yr old at 13:13 on Friday 13th

Friday 13 unlucky for lightning boy
Friday the 13th is often thought of as an unlucky day - and it certainly lived up to its reputation for one youngster. At precisely 13:13, a boy aged 13 was seen by the St John Ambulance team at Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival in Suffolk after he was struck by lightning, a spokesman said. The boy suffered a minor burn and was taken to James Paget Hospital, where he is expected to make a full recovery. Jason Gillingham, county ambulance officer and on scene at the show, said: "This was a very minor burn to the boy's shoulder, but he was conveyed to hospital and is recovering well. ****
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5izIjSOaDJ4enk5gNGZd5obiJNnGA

The News of the Weird thread still rocks.

 

[wa-loaf]

http://gawker.com/5609931/marinated-cat-rescued-from-car-trunk-before-becoming-owners-meal

 

[thetrailboss]

Wow....

http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=13016712

 

[Glenn]

Wow....

http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=13016712

LOL! That's funny! I've always enjoyed going to Keene...especially the cheap 30 packs at PriceChopper. I had no idea the local government was (sorta) in on the action. :lol:

 

[wa-loaf]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...ild-library-next-to-sarah-palin-201008193017/

 

[ctenidae]

This town needs a better class of criminals...

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67H3IB20100819

 

[legalskier]

This town needs a better class of criminals...

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67H3IB20100819

Like I've had to advise a number of times in the past: "You were doing great until you opened your mouth."

 

[wa-loaf]

That's gotta hurt!

 

[bvibert]

This town needs a better class of criminals...

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67H3IB20100819

Idiot! :lol:

 

[legalskier]

9 day 100 km traffic jam

....and I thought traffic around here was bad.

China's nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km
BEIJING (AFP) – Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes. The Beijing-Tibet expressway slowed to a crawl on August 14 due to a spike in traffic by cargo-bearing heavy trucks heading to the capital, and compounded by road maintenance work that began five days later, the Global Times said. The state-run newspaper said the jam between Beijing and Jining city had given birth to a mini-economy with local merchants capitalising on the stranded drivers' predicament by selling them water and food at inflated prices.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2010082...sZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA2NoaW5hc25pbmUtZA--

 

[billski]

....and I thought traffic around here was bad.

China's nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km
BEIJING (AFP) – Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes. The Beijing-Tibet expressway slowed to a crawl on August 14 due to a spike in traffic by cargo-bearing heavy trucks heading to the capital, and compounded by road maintenance work that began five days later, the Global Times said. The state-run newspaper said the jam between Beijing and Jining city had given birth to a mini-economy with local merchants capitalising on the stranded drivers' predicament by selling them water and food at inflated prices.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2010082...sZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA2NoaW5hc25pbmUtZA--

So that begs the question: Were they were better off with a rickshaw economy?

 

[legalskier]

Polish man, shot in head, notices five years later
BERLIN (Reuters) – A Polish man living in Germany went about his business for about five years without noticing he had been shot in the head because he was drunk when it happened. Police in the western city of Bochum said Tuesday doctors found a .22 calibre bullet in the back of his head after the 35-year-old went to have what he thought was a cyst removed.
Presented with the 5.6mm projectile, the man recalled he had received a blow to the head around midnight at a New Year's party "in 2004 or 2005," but had forgotten about it because he had been "very drunk," a police spokesman said. "He told us he remembered having a sore head, but that he wasn't really one for going to the doctor," the spokesman said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100824/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_bullet