News of the Weird

[drone]

On the behalf of all true Cowboys fans, I would like to apologize for this man's poor judgment. What a hack.

[Lemur]

Burglar Kills Goldfish because he "didn't want to leave any witnesses"

An ignorant teen burglar who killed his victim’s goldfish because he ‘didn’t want to leave any witnesses’ was charged with animal cruelty and burglary in suburban Illinois.

The unidentified 16-year-old boy along with his two teenage accomplices aged 15, and 17 were charged with burglary and animal cruelty for their role in a Jan. 24 break-in.

The victims of the break-in, returned home to find their fish floating dead at the top of their tank, which had been filled with mustard, ketchup and spices.

A local police officer explained the reasoning behind the assassination.

Sgt Mike Hernandez told the Daily Herald: ‘As a matter of fact, it’s a little disturbing. According to the police report, he looked at the fish tank and said: “We can’t leave any witnesses.”

“He wasn’t remorseful,” Hernandez said. “Certainly something they didn’t need to do.”

[Gregoshi]

What would you expect from cat burglars?

[aimlesswanderer]

What would you expect from cat burglars?

A real cat burglar would eat the goldfish, not season it to kill it.

[Gregoshi]

A real cat burglar would eat the goldfish, not season it to kill it.

Well, they did kill the goldfish with catsup.

[Lemur]

I'll see your mountain lion and raise you a bear

A California hiker claims he was attacked by the predator cat in the mountains above Whiskey Flats, where a mother bear saved his life by swatting the mountain lion aside.

Robert Biggs, 69, stopped to watch after spotting the bear and her cubs playing about 40 feet away during his Monday walk.

As he turned to continue walking, the lion suddenly sprung at Biggs, the Paradise Post newspaper reported.

“They usually grab hold of your head with all four paws, but my backpack was up above my head and (the lion) grabbed it instead,” Biggs told the paper.

The hiker said he struck the mountain lion in the head with a rock pick to little effect as the wild cat shredded the skin on his left arm.

But the momma bear came to his rescue, pulling the mountain lion off the backpack during a wild 15-second scuffle. The mountain lion bolted and the bear returned to her cubs before they moved on.

[Lemur]

Hans Brinker Budget Motel

Welcome to the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Amsterdam.

The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel has been proudly disappointing travellers for forty years. Boasting levels of comfort comparable to a minimum-security prison, the Hans Brinker also offers some plumbing and an intermittently open canteen serving a wide range of dishes based on runny eggs.

Other Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Amsterdam services and amenities include:

• A basement bar with limited light and no fresh air.
• A concrete courtyard where you can relax and enjoy whatever sunshine is able to pass the high buildings on either side on the extremely infrequent days when it’s actually sunny.
• An elevator that almost never breaks down between floors.
• A bar serving slightly watered down beer.
• Amusing witticisms and speculations about former guests’ sexual preferences scrawled on most surfaces.
• The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Amsterdam Luxury Ambassadorial Suite (featuring the Hans Brinker’s one and only bath-tub).
• Doors that lock.

[Lemur]

Is it cat litter? Or Bacon?



The power of activated carbon meets the scrumptious scent of freshly cooked bacon.

• Activated carbon is absorbing and eliminating odors
• Cat-activated clay provides pleasing sizzle sound
• Scrumptious bacon scent makes your mouth water

Powerful odor control with a dash of salted meat.

[Gregoshi]

Hans Brinker Budget Motel

This website is a hoot! I was laughing my butt off.

[lars573]

Polar bear does an impression of the Koolaid man and gets shot for it's trouble in Newfoundland.

"He had the door busted open to the dining room with his two front paws and his head in through the door," Reardon said from tiny Goose Cove, just south of St. Anthony, N.L.

[Vladimir]

A real cat burglar would eat the goldfish, not season it to kill it.

He's a repeat offender. He was marinating it.

[Ronin]

Priest accidentally shows gay porn during communion presentation...denies knowledge of "material".

http://gizmodo.com/5898382/priest-ac...o-congregation
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...314298070.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-0...tation/3928936


classic!

[Lemur]

Why yes, you can haz cheeseburger



A woman was arrested in a prostitution sting — but not before she got two double cheeseburgers off the dollar menu at a McDonald’s.

Christine Faith Baker, 47, was walking on a Southwest Florida street last Friday when she was approached by a detective working in the Manatee County Sheriff Office’s special investigations division, according to a sheriff’s office report.

After the undercover detective invited Baker into his car and the talk turned to sex, she said her fee would be two double cheeseburgers from the dollar menu at McDonald’s, the report states.

[Gregoshi]

After the undercover detective invited Baker into his car and the talk turned to sex, she said her fee would be two double cheeseburgers from the dollar menu at McDonald’s, the report states.

I don't think "Burger Joint" was what he had in mind.

[Whacker]

I'll just leave this right here.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQts9i6wdI

NOTE: NSFW. Language, very mild nudity.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Rabid skunks attack US

[Lemur]

Caterpillars More Likely to Vomit Alone

ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2012) — A type of caterpillar which defends itself by regurgitating on its predators is less likely to do so when in groups than when alone, a new study by researchers from the University of Liverpool and the University of Bristol has found.

Such reluctance is sufficient to cancel out the benefits of being in a group.

The study, published in Ecology Letters, will help in the design of more sustainable methods for reducing crop losses caused by caterpillars and similar pests.

Animals have some unusual ways to defend themselves against enemies. While many rely on nasty stings and dangerous venoms, the caterpillars of the large white butterfly (Pieris brassicae) protect themselves by vomiting on their predators.

These caterpillars, like many other species that have anti-predator defences, live in groups so that they have safety in numbers. However, many studies have shown that the size of a group does not affect the chance of survival in several different species.

Caterpillars of this species have reason to use their defensive regurgitation weapon sparingly since the loss of food through vomiting slows down growth, reduces survival and even reduces female reproduction by lowering the number of eggs.

This new study shows that there is a social side to defensive vomiting. The researchers found that whether a caterpillar is willing to regurgitate -- and to what extent -- depends on the size of its social group.

[Lemur]

Obama Administration Must Return Michael Jackson Glove to Dictator's Son

In October, the Obama administration took hold of some $71 million in seized assets from the son of an African dictator. Among the yachts, cars, jets and a $30 million mansion in Malibu, the items included $1.8 million worth of Jackson memorabilia, attained when Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, went on a celebrity memorabilia splurge inside the U.S.

But Nguema hasn't been charged with any crime in his homeland, nor has he been convicted of any crime in the U.S., so a California federal court has looked unfavorably on the U.S. government's attempts to moonwalk away with the items.

[drone]

But Nguema hasn't been charged with any crime in his homeland, nor has he been convicted of any crime in the U.S., so a California federal court has looked unfavorably on the U.S. government's attempts to moonwalk away with the items.

Hee hee!

[Ja'chyra]

Hee hee!

Got to agree, very funny, I really hope they said that in court.

[Lemur]

Bill Nye Booed for Saying Moon Reflects Sunlight

And the local paper scrubs the article to avoid embarrassing the locals. I guess they forgot about a thing called the wayback machine, and how the internets are forever:

The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”

He pointed out that the sun, the “greater light,” is but one of countless stars and that the “lesser light” is the moon, which really is not a light at all, rather a reflector of light.

A number of audience members left the room at that point, visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence.

“We believe in a God!” exclaimed one woman as she left the room with three young children.

[Lemur]

When Neighbors Attack: Samurai Sword vs. Chainsaw

In a bloody battle between two warring neighbours in Australia today, one man's arm was almost severed with a chain saw, while another had a finger chopped off with a Samurai sword. [...]

Detectives are investigating claims that after the two men argued over loud music and reckless driving, Mr Thornton went to Mr Jorgenson's house with the chain saw.

Mr Jorgenson grabbed the Japanese sword and the bloody battle began. Detective Chief Inspector Mark Brett described the result of the confrontation as 'horrific'.

He said: 'A chain saw is a serious weapon which inflicts pretty brutal injuries.' [...]

Mr Thorton's mother, Wendy, confirmed that her son did wield the chain saw, but said he grabbed it to defend himself.

'They (the Jorgensen family) had machetes and bats and we had nothing so Troy grabbed the chain saw,' she said.

The two families agreed they had been involved in an ongoing war but Mr Jorgensen said sorting it out with a chain saw was extreme. 'Fists maybe, but this is just over the top,' he said.

[Ronin]

Lightning strikes mans scrotum

call me a conservative, but this is why I´m against piercings.

[Gregoshi]

Lightning strikes mans scrotum

So now there are two forms of ball lightning.

[edyzmedieval]

So now there are two forms of ball lightning.

I knew I shouldn't check this thread while I'm eating or drinking over a keyboard...

[Lemur]

Man jumps into pool of acid to save guy who fell into pool of acid

Everybody gets an acid bath!

An ironworker who fell 40 feet from the roof of a manufacturing plant into a tank of acid and was pulled out by a co-worker was in critical condition Monday afternoon, according to his family.

Martin Davis, 44, of Avenel, was working on the roof of Swepco Tube LLC, a metal tube manufacturing plant, when he fell into the tank of nitric acid, sustaining burns from head to toe about 8:40 a.m.

Co-worker Rob Knucols, 51, who was on the ground floor, immediately jumped into the vat and was waist high in acid while he and three other roofers pulled the victim out, said Fire Chief Vincent Colavitti, Jr. [...]

The tank was filled with a 40 to 70 percent solution of nitric acid used in making tubing. Davis was fully submerged in the solution. [...]

The chief said over the years, acid steam and mist ate away at the corrugated metal roof above the tank, so the roof needed to be replaced. The roof replacement work has been shut down, but the factory remained open Monday.

Swepco was among the top polluters in Passaic and Bergen counties last year with 1,832 pounds of toxic chemicals released into the air, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory Program.

[drone]

Obligatory...

[Lemur]

The Holy Grail of Engineering: Realistic Robotic Bottocks



Japanese scientists have turned to one area of research that has, so far, gone ignored: the robotic ass.

Built by Nobuhiro Takahashi and a team at the Tokyo University of Electro-Communications, this is Shiri. Shiri, of course, means buttocks in Japanese, and the researchers claim that it "represents emotions with visual and tactual transformation of the muscles". Right.

While that might not be the most convincing statement you've ever read, the video certainly delivers: this is one mighty realistic ass.

The moves and twitches are made possible by a system of inflatable air bags, and the researchers believe that a user may even feel a simulated sense of fear when they trigger its twitch. Which is, obviously, demonstrated by good, firm buttock slap.

[Gregoshi]

The Holy Grail of Engineering: Realistic Robotic Bottocks

I, Robutt??

[InsaneApache]

I, Robutt??

Cheeky!