News of the Weird

[InsaneApache]

I'm pretty sure that if they get caught, they go to gaol.

[Centurion1]

I would murder that man. Guinea pigs are adorable lovable little creatures. They hold a special spot in my heart.

http://quillcards.com/blog/wp-conten...guinea_pig.jpg

I mean that's just GD adorable.

[Vladimir]

Lemur spooted in China!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...key-alien.html

Well that's just sad, from more than one aspect.

[Major Robert Dump]

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/91466...etime_pet_ban/



Whilst I in no way think animal cruelty is acceptable, that is funny.

What a jerk, to do that to animals that probably trusted him and waited for him to come home from work every day

[Papewaio]

Don't farms still drown excess puppies?

I had a guinea pig once that was licked to death by our kelpie lab cross. No teeth puncture wounds, just a lot of salvia. Must have had a heart attack.

[Lemur]

Man performs surgery on self with butter knife, cigarette. What could go wrong?

A 63-year-old American man with a hernia plunged a butter knife into his abdomen to try to fix the problem, and later put a lit cigarette in the wound, according to police.

Police found the man lying naked on the porch of his apartment in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale in California Sunday night after his wife called to report his attempt at surgery, Glendale police spokesman Sergeant Tom Lorenz said.

"He actually impaled himself with the butter knife," Lorenz said. "He told his wife he was frustrated with this hernia, and he didn't want to wait any longer for the medical procedure."

Police officers watched as the man, after pulling the knife out of his abdomen, put a lit cigarette into the wound, Lorenz said.

"I don't know if it was an attempt to cauterize or anything," he said.

[Veho Nex]

Don't farms still drown excess puppies?

I had a guinea pig once that was licked to death by our kelpie lab cross. No teeth puncture wounds, just a lot of salvia. Must have had a heart attack.

FIEND OF THE NIGHT! HOW DARE YOU SICK YOU DEMONIC MONGREL ON THAT POOR DEFENSELESS CUTE ADORABLE WIDDLE GUINEA PIG!? I DEMAND RETRIBUTION IN THE FORM OF TICKLES! TO DEATH! YOU HEAR ME! TO DEATH!!!!


Eh... Never mind, too much effort on the account of a rodent.

[Vladimir]

That's how my girlfriend died. Seriously; well, a combination of saliva and tickles.

[drone]

Exploding toilet burns Australian airman

An Australian air force employee suffered severe burns to his head, face and chest when a portable toilet exploded beneath him as he apparently tried to light a cigarette.

The portable toilet — also known as a porta-potty, or more commonly in Australia, portaloo — erupted in flames at at the Rockhampton airport in the state of Queensland on Monday morning, the ABC reported.

[Vladimir]

Look. It's grimace's girlfriend to the right!

[naut]

Exploding toilet burns Australian airman

The portable toilet — also known as a porta-potty, or more commonly in Australia, portaloo — erupted in flames at at the Rockhampton airport in the state of Queensland on Monday morning, the ABC reported.

A portaloo? LOL. I have never heard that word ever. That's what we call a pisser.

[Hosakawa Tito]

3rd degree burns? That must have been some hot

[Lemur]

Of all the possible ways to kill my wife I choose ... PUFFER FISH!



Ordinarily, it wouldn't be that strange for a defendant and his wife to mouth "I love you" to each other during a high-profile court case.

But when that defendant is on trial for amassing a stockpile of a highly lethal neurotoxin with the intent of killing his wife and taking $20 million in life insurance, professions of love seem a little more unusual. [...]

Bachner is charged with multiple counts of possessing a biological toxin with intent to use it as a weapon, charges that have a maximum sentence of life in prison. He was arrested in 2008 by federal officials after allegedly attempting to buy 98 milligrams of tetrodotoxin -- the poison found in puffer fish, 1000 times more lethal than cyanide -- through the website of a New Jersey chemical company.

Upon searching his home, investigators say they found 45 more vials of the poison, as well as 50 knives, various other weapons, and a fake CIA badge, among other notable items NBC Chicago reports.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Facebook honeytrap used in Belgian hypermart blag

Belgian crooks used a Facebook relationship lure to trick a hypermarket manager into a trap, kidnapping him and obtaining keys to the store's safe before making good their escape.

Local police have put out an appeal for information about the apparently well-planned blag on Thursday, five months after an audacious scam that relied on the power of social networking. The unnamed store manager was lured into a trap via a fraudulent Facebook friend request in early February. A friendship was struck up and the man was invited to have cosy dinner by "Katrien Van Loo", presumably to further the new friendship.

But when he arrived at an Antwerp apartment for dinner on 15 February, the store manager found only an empty building, where he was overpowered by two unidentified men. He was gagged, blindfolded and forced to hand over the keys to his apartment.

[Major Robert Dump]

Apparently, some people think it is entirely plausible that Casey Anthony is already employed as a clerk at a convenience store in Oklahoma.

http://www.newson6.com/story/1508422...thony-attacked

SAVE THE CHILDREN

[Hosakawa Tito]

Caught in a Willy Tight Spot. Is this gonna hurt?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Know your malodorous enemy, Project Griffin style

It's half an hour on the naughty step today for London's Metropolitan and City Police's Project Griffin team for resorting to Wikipedia in the struggle to contain the anarchist menace.

In case you're wondering, Project Griffin is a collaborative effort "to familiarise managers, security officers and employees of large public and private sector organisations across the capital on security, counter-terrorism and crime prevention issues".

Naturally, it's always handy to know your enemy, especially when your "Beech [sic] Volleyball" event may be under threat from shouty, malodorous scruffs leading dogs on string.

[InsaneApache]

Disgusting action from the Metropolitan Police Farce. Thought crime, pure and simple.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I'll borrow this one from the Al Qaeda glossy magazine:

How to build a reactor in the kitchen of your mom

A Swedish man was arrested and briefly detained for attempting to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen.
(...)
The amateur nuclear engineer wasn't secretive about his efforts. He had posted about the project on the internet, including an article entitled "How to build a nuclear reactor" in which he noted that it was "not that difficult" (inte är så svårt).

[InsaneApache]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...-accident.html

Paul Daniels gets battered by Sooty.

I always liked Sooty.

[Ronin]

New Zealand man decapitated by home-made hovercraft.

A New Zealand man has been decapitated by a propeller while demonstrating a home-made hovercraft to his family, local media reports say.

Dr Alastair Kenneth Senior, 40, died instantly when his hovercraft suffered a mechanical failure, causing a blade to shear off and hit him in the head.

The accident happened at Muriwai Beach, west of Auckland.

the first signs of problems are apparent when the expression "home-made hovercraft" is used.

[Hosakawa Tito]

There's always room for jello. One degree from cannibalism? Who's genes they using?

[Major Robert Dump]

Neighbor wishes other neighbor to die from "canser" in feel good note

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/04/381...-neighbor.html

[Husar]

Neighbor wishes other neighbor to die from "canser" in feel good note

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/04/381...-neighbor.html

That reads like a story about 14-year-olds written by another 14-year-old...

[Hosakawa Tito]

Neighbor wishes other neighbor to die from "canser" in feel good note

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/04/381...-neighbor.html

I wonder if he has relations in Melbourne ? Man chainsaws giant middle-finger salute to neighbors.

[Tellos Athenaios]

LEGO Astronauts on Juno mission

[Tellos Athenaios]

Physics not a barrier to the Cult of Jobs, or: what else are they up to?

Apple has filed a patent application that describes a kludgey inductive battery-charging system, then adds – almost as an afterthought – a short description of a second, acoustically driven charger.
(...)
In Apple's patent filing – entitled, straighforwardly enough, "Using an audio cable as an inductive charging coil" – the inducing device is a rather large ferromagnetic core that's electromagnetically excited by a coil connected to AC current from a standard wall plug. Around that vertical core, a user would wrap their device's earbud cords to form a receiving coil.
(...)
Alternatively, the mesh covering protecting the earbud driver could be conductive, so that no external contact on the earbud would be needed – you'd simply need to place the earbud mesh-down onto the device being charged. The beauty part of this idea, the filing contends, is that "This type of electrical contact (through the earphone mesh) can also be used to receive current for a conventional non-inductive charging system."

Either Apple consumers will need 15 days instead of 15 hours to charge up anything. Or: if the charging ability of this contraption is indeed similarly effective as more conventional chargers, it should provide the USA with yet another enhanced interrogation technique!

[Samurai Waki]

Octo-Squid has nothing on Naked-Dog-Badger!

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials have been unable to identify a mystery carcass found in Douglas County with certainty, prompting further investigation.

"We saw something in the middle of the road, and we knew it wasn't a dog or a cat, because it didn't have hair. It had a clump of hair and all the rest was just white skin," Ilse said."Its ear was all mis-shaped. To me, it looked like half-human."

[naut]

There's always room for jello. One degree from cannibalism? Who's genes they using?

Soylent Green?

[Hosakawa Tito]

Math for dummies. I shoulda paid more attention in school.