News of the Weird

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Clone your pets!

He added: "For my next project, I will consider cloning camels for rich people in the Middle East."

I think someone on these forums will be very, very happy.

[LittleGrizzly]

As a follow up to the Bus Beheader story

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/200...e-3fd0ae9.html

In the wake of the attack, Greyhound scrapped a billboard ad campaign that extolled the relaxing side of bus travel.
The ad said: "There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage'."



sorry no puns here... move along...

[Lemur]

Isn't it time we talked openly about cow sex?

A twisted oddball with an insatiable animal fetish was arrested after allegedly having sex with 400 cows. The 53-year-old cleaner told police he did not fancy women and only cows and horses got him randy. Getulino Ferreira Paraizo said he chose the more tranquil animals before engaging in sex acts with them. [...]

Among the clues he left behind at every scene were empty packages of the same cookies.

[Viking]

I believe also education regarding sheep sex is appropriate in response the recent sheep rapes.
Briton arrested for sex attacks on sheep

LONDON (Reuters) - A Briton has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a series of sex attacks on sheep, London police said on Friday.
(Advertisement)

The 27-year-old man was held at his home in Dulwich, south London, on suspicion of bestiality with sheep. He was also wanted in connection of the possession of drugs with intent to supply.

Detectives said the arrest followed allegations made to them in May and June.

"Two male joggers said they had observed a man molesting the sheep in a field at Botany Bay Lane, Chislehurst," police said in a statement.

"A similar incident was reported to police by a stables employee in the area."

Media reports said the man had been barred from visiting farmland while officers carried out their investigation.

[Andres]

CRIME: Naked man in Kennewick jailed for allegedly fondling himself while following garbage truck

[LittleGrizzly]

He said he followed the garbage truck because he was upset that the driver was looking at him, Swartswalter said.

Seems like a good way to avoid people looking at you.... follow them and fondle yourself...

[CountArach]

He said he followed the garbage truck because he was upset that the driver was looking at him, Swartswalter said.

Seems like a good way to avoid people looking at you.... follow them and fondle yourself...

If someone was following me and fondling themself I would look away...

[Crazed Rabbit]

CRIME: Naked man in Kennewick jailed for allegedly fondling himself while following garbage truck

Ha! I know some people from there; I'll have to tease them over this when college starts.

CR

[Lemur]

I really, really want to apply ...

HENCHMEN NEEDED

Reply to: job-783766933@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-08-05, 2:34PM BST

20-30 henchmen needed for moderately-sized supervillain organisation with large expansion potential (fortresses built into geological structures, corruption of government officials, possible genesis of 'nemesis' vigilante). Electrical theme.

Applicants must be willing to learn new skills, including but not limited to operation of specialised 'lightning guns'. Applicants will also be required to wear specialised uniform when at work (functional rubber suits with my logo on front), except in cases where deception is required (posing as hostages in order to ambush vigilantes, etc).

Desired (but not necessarily required) in applicants:

-interesting deformations/obsessions/powers(?) giving rise to interesting nicknames (e.g. Claws, Pyro, Buzzsaw, and similar)
-unwavering loyalty
-being a corruptible government official
-ability to work as part of a close-knit team (unless interesting obsession is of the 'lone wolf' variety)
-grudge against any well-known vigilante
-flexible moral code

Equal opportunies employer. Both henchmen and femmes fatales absolutely welcome.

Great promotion opportunities - right-hand-man position constantly being unexpectedly opened. Would look good on any future supervillain resume/CV.

Send an email with details of any prior henchman work, or details of what is driving you to join the ranks of a supervillain organisation. Will reply to all serious applicants. Hope to hear from you, and with luck, welcome you into a rewarding and promising career!

[Louis VI the Fat]

HENCHMEN NEEDED

Reply to: job-783766933@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-08-05, 2:34PM BST

20-30 henchmen needed for moderately-sized supervillain organisation with large expansion potential (fortresses built into geological structures, corruption of government officials, possible genesis of 'nemesis' vigilante). Electrical theme.

Applicants must be willing to learn new skills, including but not limited to operation of specialised 'lightning guns'. Applicants will also be required to wear specialised uniform when at work (functional rubber suits with my logo on front), except in cases where deception is required (posing as hostages in order to ambush vigilantes, etc).

It's the return of H.A.R.M. !!

H.A.R.M. is the supervillain organisation from my second all-time favourite games series, No One Lives Forever 1 and 2. Old skool shooters. It's set in a 1960's spy television show environment. Jazzy soundtrack, 1960's fashion, phenomenal art direction, endlessly witty and oh so stylish and funny. It has me howling with laughter every time I play it. Plus it has my all-time favourite villain - Pierre, the depraved French mime king.

It's a must play! Available at rock bottom prices from Amazon. [/shameless plug]

[Fragony]

No one lives Forever is the best shooter ever made, period. Second sucked.

[FactionHeir]

Guilty for KFC and other fastfood

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- A New York man who pleaded guilty to murder in Oregon in exchange for buckets of fried chicken will get calzones and pizza to go with his life sentence.


Tremane Durham agreed to plead guilty to murder -- but only if he got a break from jail food.

Tremayne Durham, 33, of New York City, admitted last month that he fatally shot Adam Calbreath, 39, of Gresham, in June 2006. Durham wanted to sell ice cream and ordered an $18,000 truck from an Oregon company. He later changed his mind, but the company wouldn't provide a refund.

The would-be ice cream man came to Oregon and killed Calbreath, a former employee of the company, while looking for its owner, authorities said.

Durham agreed to plead guilty to murder -- but only if he could get a break from jail food. The judge agreed and granted Durham a feast of KFC chicken, Popeye's chicken, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, carrot cake and ice cream.

After Wednesday's sentencing, Durham was to get the rest of the deal -- calzones, lasagna, pizza and ice cream, his defense attorney confirmed. They will pay the tab.

Durham also got married Wednesday in a civil ceremony at the Portland courthouse. The wedding to Vanessa Davis, 48, also of New York City, was not part of the plea deal that will give Durham a chance for parole after 30 years.

Deputy District Attorney Josh Lamborn said Multnomah County Judge Eric Bergstrom made the right call in allowing the unusual plea agreement because it saved the expense of a trial and possible appeals.

[Csargo]

deliciousness

[seireikhaan]

What NOT to do when someone gives you the wrong sandwich.

Edit: Dang it, Ichi beat me by one minute.

[Csargo]

[LittleGrizzly]

Possibly one of the worst cases of lemurs disease (can't be anything to do with timing...)

[Lemur]

Man attempts to rob store using an empty cheesecake box. It didn't work, which is weird. You would think that putting a cheesecake box in front of a video store clerk would mean big bucks.

[Lemur]

Okay, this story is so strange it kind of defies summation. Let's just tag it with the keywords: cloning, Mormons, handcuffs, sex slave, pit bulls.

Enough said.

A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She's the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave.

[CountArach]

Okay, this story is so strange it kind of defies summation. Let's just tag it with the keywords: cloning, Mormons, handcuffs, sex slave, pit bulls.[/URL]

My 5 favourite things. That article... just wow...

[Banquo's Ghost]

I'm just a little black rain cloud....

This meant he would be dangling off a tiny ladder over a 60m cliff, surrounded by over two million giant angry bees.

Mad as a bucket of frogs.

[Viking]

I'm just a little black rain cloud....

This meant he would be dangling off a tiny ladder over a 60m cliff, surrounded by over two million giant angry bees.

Mad as a bucket of frogs.

At times like that I wish I had BBC.

[Lemur]

Update on the Long Island Devil:

First of all, he's got his own web site, montauk-monster.com. Secondly, there's a whole slew of new photos of a similar beastie. Sample:

(And CNN did an amusing piece on the LID.) Anyway, long story short, seems the LID may be a piece of viral marketing for an independent movie called "Splinterheads." Nothing is certain, but the LID is clearly more than a bit of Photoshop.

[Pannonian]

Just in case it gets lost.

Filipino Military makes moves to remove MILF threat

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Philippines attacks Muslim rebels in south 10 Aug 2008 05:18:57 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds one soldier dead, three wounded, hundreds flee homes)

MANILA, Aug 10 (Reuters) - The Philippine military attacked Muslim rebels holed up in Catholic farmlands in the south on Sunday, prompting hundreds to flee their homes and raising tensions on the eve of elections in the region.

The government had given some 800 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas a 24-hour deadline on Thursday to withdraw from villages in North Cotabato province but most defied the government order.

Soldiers and armoured vehicles moved in on Sunday after they said rebels opened fire, killing one soldier and wounding three.

"We are only taking actions against the breakaway MILF group that defied the orders of the ceasefire panels," said Major-General Raymundo Ferrer, a division commander in the area.

A spokesman for the MILF, which is supposed to be observing a ceasefire, said they did not start the fighting.

"We don't know what will happen next but this will certainly have an adverse impact on peace talks," said Eid Kabalu.

Local officials said hundreds of residents from five villages in North Cotabato province had fled their homes when fighting intensified. There were about 6,500 people staying in temporary shelter areas before hostilities erupted on Sunday.

A 10-year-old boy was rushed to hospital after he was hit by an army truck bringing troops to the frontlines.

There have been sporadic clashes between MILF fighters and government troops before and analysts do not expect Sunday's fighting to trigger an all-out war.

Neither side has the resources for an outright victory and after nearly 40 years of conflict with more than 120,000 deaths both sides are war-weary.

The fighting comes on the eve of regional elections in a six-province homeland for Muslims in the south, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), and after thousands of majority Catholics in the south protested Manila's plans to sign a territorial deal with the MILF.

The deal, brokered by Malaysia and temporarily halted by the Philippines' Supreme Court last week, was meant to expand the six-province homeland and give a future government in the south broad economic and political powers.

Stung by criticism it was abandoning Catholics in the south, the government warned on Thursday it would take action against what it said was an MILF attack on the villages in North Cotabato.

The country's interior secretary said rebels had torched houses, looted farms and caused more than 6,500 people to abandon their homes and farms, forcing hundreds of farmers in nearby Catholic areas to arm themselves. (Reporting by Manny Mogato; Editing by Carmel Crimmins and Valerie Lee)

[InsaneApache]

I'm just a little black rain cloud....

This meant he would be dangling off a tiny ladder over a 60m cliff, surrounded by over two million giant angry bees.

Mad as a bucket of frogs.

I've literally just finished watching the program. Fascinating, if highly illogical Jim.

[naut]

It's a dog with it's nose decomposed so the skull is visible. At least that's what it looks like from this angle.

[Marshal Murat]

Hell's Angel

Chaos briefly reigned on a 12-lane freeway east of Los Angeles Sunday when a motorcyclist dropped a canvas bag full of cash on the San Bernardino (10) Freeway, and some motorists stopped in 65 mph traffic to grab fluttering bills.

[Crazed Rabbit]

If you had a wish from the make a wish foundation, what would you wish for?

CR

[Marshal Murat]

Invisibility Technology still inching along

It's not necessarily that it's new or revolutionary technology, it's just that how do you know it worked and didn't just vaporize the guy?

[CountArach]

It's a dog with it's nose decomposed so the skull is visible. At least that's what it looks like from this angle.

Zombie dogs!

[KukriKhan]

Hell's Angel

Speaking of cash, the latest euro coin features Homer Simpson

Jose Martinez was counting the cash in his till in the city of Aviles, northern Spain, when he came across the coin where Homer's bald head, big eyes and big nose had replaced the serious features of King Juan Carlos.