News of the Weird

[Hosakawa Tito]

[CountArach]

Police arrest Crocodile, suspect circus

German police were called to make an unusual arrest on Thursday, seizing a crocodile peacefully going about its business on the streets of the small town of Gross-Rohrheim.
Police received a call at around 2am (1000 AEST) from a worried resident swearing there was a crocodile in the street.

Initially suspicious of a hoax, police who went to investigate were stunned to find that the reports were accurate.

'It is true that the officers were not especially well trained to catch crocodiles, but they were gutsy,' police said in a statement.

'With a great deal of finesse -- according to the officers' report -- they managed to outsmart the reptile, temporarily bind up its jaws and take it into police custody,' added the statement.

Suspicion quickly fell on a small circus that was visiting the town at the time.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Have Sharpie, Will Draw. Impressionist art on the cheap. This guy's got talent.

[Gregoshi]

Have Sharpie, Will Draw. Impressionist art on the cheap. This guy's got talent.

That is so cool. I like the logs in the "fireplace".

[naut]

Have Sharpie, Will Draw. Impressionist art on the cheap. This guy's got talent.

Reminds me of this car. Done entirely by hand with permanent marker, then painted over with clear paint:

[Hosakawa Tito]

@ Greg - I like the R2D2 flip-top waste can by the stairs.

@ Psychnaut - Nice paint job!

[CountArach]

God must love zee Germans, for in this land there is balance in all things:

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It isn't just catholic priests, it is zee radical lefties playing with kids too!

wow, just wow!

Please keep politics out of this thread

Meanwhile I always knew that animal rights activists were siding with the Octosquids

An octopus in Germany which has shot to fame by correctly predicting the outcome of the country's World Cup matches should be set free, an animal rights group says.

'Paul has forecast that Germany will beat Argentina. In order that Paul too can celebrate on Saturday, and not just football fans, PETA Germany ... is now asking for him to be set free,' PETA said in a statement on Friday.

The organisation called for the seawater soccer soothsayer, currently in Sea Life in Oberhausen, western Germany, to be released into a national park in waters off the south of France where fishing is banned.

'Paul is stuck in a small aquarium ... We think that Paul would be fine in the sea,' marine biologist Tanja Breining from PETA said.

'Octopuses are among the most intelligent of invertebrates. They are capable of complex thought processes, have short and long-term memories, use tools, learn through observation, have different personalities and are particularly sensitive to pain,' the organisation said.

[Gregoshi]

'Octopuses are among the most intelligent of invertebrates. They are capable of complex thought processes, have short and long-term memories, use tools, learn through observation, have different personalities and are particularly sensitive to pain'...[/indent]

Unlike PETA...

[InsaneApache]

I think the 'sensitive to pain' thingy is a ruse. Any fule noes that our octosqiud overlords are invincible.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Allow me to make a point. How many of you read this and checked to see if you have a tiny red spot behind your ear?

[CountArach]

News from the Sports of the Weird world!

Finland comes in first in wife-carrying contest. I really thought the Estonians could reclaim the crown this year, it is a pity.

Finland for the second year in a row has taken first place at the annual Wife-Carrying World Championships held in the central Finnish town of Sonkajaervi.

Taisto Miettinen, who was defending his champion title, raced through a 250-metre course with two hurdles and a pool in just over one minute four seconds, carrying Kristiina Haapanen on his back.

The winners beat Estonia's Alar Voogla and Kristi Viltrop, who also took silver last year, by 0.4 seconds.

The 45-year-old Miettinen, a commercial lawyer by day, attended the competition for 10 years before grabbing gold - and putting an end to Estonia's 11-year reign - last year.
[...]
He added the best way for a racer to carry the 'wife' - in his case, a friend he has been racing with for four years - was 'Estonian style'.

'That means (for the racer) to dangle her upside down over his back.'
[...]
This year, 51 teams from 13 countries including Australia, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates competed in front of a crowd of 4000.

But that is as nothing compared to even larger sports news to come out of America today. Husband and wife pair defend their title in cherry pit spitting contest!

A husband and wife have taken top honours for the second straight year at the annual cherry pit spitting competition in the United States.

Rick 'Pellet Gun' Krause spit a pit 15.6 metres on Saturday for his 16th win at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship.

Organisers say Krause entered on a motorcycle, dropped to his knees in the spitter's box and ejected the winning pit.

His wife, Marlene, took first place in the women's contest, spitting a pit 10.6 metres. It was her seventh win.

[Lemur]

Killjoys shut down 'sinking Titanic' waterslide



In the Swiss town of Ibach, the inflatable Titanic slide was pretty popular with the visitors at the local fair, but it ended up being banned, following complaints from Switzerland’s Titanic Club. Spokesman Gunter Babler said “Is it ethical to let kids slide down the decks of a blow up Titanic? Hundreds of people died sliding down those decks.” And a visitor thought “It’s pretty sick. It’s like having a bouncy graveyard. No-one could forget that scene from the Titanic movie with all the people sliding down the decks to their deaths. It’s very insensitive.”

Still, the fair organizer believes “The tragic Titanic accident happened years ago and those emotions have been dealt with long ago. Now people are having fun on the slide and enjoying themselves.”

[Gregoshi]

...“Is it ethical to let kids slide down the decks of a blow up Titanic?”

Blown up? I thought it hit an iceberg.

[Fragony]

Some people will do anything to get their name in the paper

[Beskar]

Some people will do anything to get their name in the paper
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...4562_fZIjg.jpg

Wasn't this posted earlier? I remember hearing about it from this forum.

[CountArach]

Some people will do anything to get their name in the paper

A case of Lemur's disease

[Lemur]

Epidemic of broken penises prompts crackdown on 'daggerin'

Representatives of some hospitals yesterday revealed to THE STAR that more men have been breaking their penises in recent months than any other time in Jamaica.

Checks with urologists in some of the country's major hospitals have revealed that the "noticeable increase" in the number of cases where men fracture their members is largely attributed to the men's obsession with daggerin' aka rough sex. [...]

Another surgeon from that facility said that majority of the cases that come to the hospital are a result of extremely vigorous sex or, in most recent popular terms, 'daggeration'.

"It's possibly daggerin' people tend to have a predisposition to rough sex, " the surgeon said. "(So) during very rigorous intercourse, the penis slips out and in an attempt to ram it back in, the man hits the woman's pubic bone and pops the penis."

[Fragony]

How can you possible get a fracture where there aren't any bones, pretty hardcore

[Lemur]

I'm guessing "fracture" is the wrong word. I'm guessing permanent damage to blood vessels, veins, cartilage, etc.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Fracture is the right word in the sense that certainly something *is* broken: hitting a woman's pubic bone may crush the blood vessels. But isn't this quite old Jamaican news?

[Rhyfelwyr]

Justin Bieber set for North Korea

"A public vote on the Canadian singer's My World Tour page asked users which country he should tour next, with no restrictions on the nations that could be voted on.

This spurred users of imageboard website 4Chan to nominate North Korea, with the vote now turning viral.

There are now almost half a million votes to send Bieber to the secretive communist nation."

[Tellos Athenaios]

In related news: Youtube used to have an XSS vulnerability which allowed attackers to inject bogus comment entries which execute their own scripts. This, of course, provided even more avenues for Justin Bieber related 4chan fun.

[Gregoshi]

Justin Bieber set for North Korea

Isn't that essentially a declaration of war on North Korea?

[Lemur]

Iran government issues style guide for men's hair



In an attempt to rid the country of "decadent Western cuts", Iran's culture ministry has produced a catalogue of haircuts that meet government approval.

The list of banned styles includes ponytails, mullets and elaborate spikes. However,quiffs appear to be acceptable, as are fashioning one's hair in the style of Simon Cowell or cultivating a 1980s-style floppy fringe.

Most of the models are clean-shaven although one picture features a man with a goatee beard, previously frowned upon by Iran's conservative clerics. Using hair gel is also within the law, albeit in modest quantities.

The "journal of Iranian hairstyles approved by the ministry of [culture and Islamic] guidance" was previewed at a government-approved hairdressing show in Tehran.

The pictures were reminiscent of those gracing barber shop windows across Britain.

"The proposed styles are inspired by Iranians' complexion, culture and religion, and Islamic law," said Jaleh Khodayar, who is in charge of a Modesty and Veil Festival later this month at which the guide will be promoted.

"We are happy that the Islamic republic of Iran's government has backed us in designing these hairstyles."

[InsaneApache]

Isn't that essentially a declaration of war on North Korea?

It would be if we could get Celine Dion in there as well.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Sanctions on North Korea would be airdropping in scads of lawyers.

War would be giving the lawyers parachutes.





This is a real board game.

Up to four would-be tycoons can compete at exploring for oil, building platforms and laying pipelines to their home countries.

But BP Offshore Oil Strike players must also avoid the dreaded ‘hazard cards’, which state: ‘Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.’

Unhappily for BP, that is just one per cent of the amount it has spent each day tackling the very real Deepwater Horizon leak, which has seen millions of barrels of oil gush into the Gulf of Mexico and hit the southern US coast.

The mint-condition game, made by Scottish company Printabox, was donated by a private collector to The House On The Hill Toy Museum in Stansted, Essex. It was very rare and ‘obscure’, said museum owner Alan Goldsmith, who added: ‘The parallels between the game and the current crisis... are so spooky.

CR

[Hosakawa Tito]

Tickling her fancy.

[Gregoshi]

Sanctions on North Korea would be airdropping in scads of lawyers.

War would be giving the lawyers parachutes.

It would be an appropriate measure as neither the lawyers nor North Korea have a Seoul.

[Louis VI the Fat]

'Sinking Titanic' waterslide

Want to do want to do want to do!

[Tellos Athenaios]

Hurry, before that ship has sunk.