News of the Weird

[Kadagar_AV]

Did I mention Sweden is crazy?

Descriptions are frowned upon, as it plays straight in the racists hands when so many of the offenders are coloured... You know, can't help the anti-immigration crowd get votes...

Sorry, derailing a nice thread... It wasn't fun, but sure as HELL weird.

[Gregoshi]

What's with all of the cannibalism lately?

No pictures of the victim? I wanted to see if Cimino has good taste in women.

Pennsylvania has had its fair share of weird news stories in the past year or so. Never knew I lived amongst so many nut cases.

Edit: and for the record Lemur, you find the best images to go with your weird news stories...some times a bit disturbing (guy dressed as a My Little Pony), but always complementary to the story.

[Lemur]

Radioactive pedophile on the run



A college principal, who may be a danger to others after receiving intensive radiation treatment, is believed to be on the run in Ireland after failing to appear in Britain on child pornography charges.

A court in London was told that Thomas Leopold (42) could harm anyone he comes into contact with because he was given large doses of radiation for a thyroid condition and his levels of radioactivity could be dangerous to others.

The lecturer jumped bail to board an overnight ferry to Ireland under the noses of British police earlier this month.

"This is not a joke," Judge John Price said as he issued an arrest warrant. "Please warn officers that when he is arrested, he might be radioactive."

[Kadagar_AV]

I think You just won the thread, in a very disturbing manner....

[InsaneApache]

I bet they're picking straws as we speak for the job of escorting him into court.

( In the UK it's normal for a bail jumper to be handcuffed to a guard in court.)

[Viking]

Girl seriously ill after eating raw animal heart for a sorority membership trial

A 16 year old girl lies seriously ill in isolation at hospital after she, among other things, had to eat a raw animal heart during a membership trial for a sorority at Drammen high school.


Late sunday night, the girl's father told that doctors treating her have said that her condition could be life-threatening. He says that E. coli is one of the things the doctors believe his daughter might have contracted.


Principal Ellen Kathrine Winstrup says she cannot stop the membership trials, as they happen outside of school time and have nothing to do with the school. But she has nothing good to say about the trials, which she believes ruin the school's reputation.

The reward for passing the trial, is access to closed parties.

Ey, it's just like Game of Thrones.

[Gregoshi]

Ey, it's just like Game of Thrones.

Or maybe just sitting on the throne.

[Lemur]

Billionaire marries his own daughter at Westminster Abbey, successfully gets Wikipedia to scrub his page



Over the years, as a high-flying financial player at places like Bear Stearns and then later managing your own hedge fund, you had not only amassed a fortune, but you had reproduced prodigiously, having six children by three different women, and then marrying a fourth. Then, in 1990, there was that great shock: You learned about Linda. Gorgeous, talented, eager-to-meet-you and all-grown-up Linda.

See, back in 1968, you'd had a short fling with a woman named Myra Westphall, a woman you hadn't heard from in decades. What you apparently didn't realize was that your short affair had left Myra pregnant, and that she'd given up the child for adoption. That little girl, Linda, grew up and, naturally, once she'd become an adult, wondered about her birth parents. [...]

[Note: The story is long and weird, full of odd details and strange twists that I cannot summarize in my usual style. You just gotta read it to see how freaky it is—Lemur]

[Kralizec]

Genital-cooking Japan man handed to prosecutors

A man who admits cooking and serving his own severed genitals to paying diners in Japan has been handed over to prosecutors on an allegation of indecent exposure, Tokyo police said Tuesday.
Criminal papers against the 23-year-old man and three other people who helped organise the event were sent to the Tokyo district public prosecutors’ office, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said, without naming them.
But police did not question the dishing out of the genitals, possibly because there is no law against cannibalism in Japan.
The man had earlier identified himself as Mao Sugiyama and an “asexual” illustrator.

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other...tors-1.1077967

[Vladimir]

Genital-cooking Japan man handed to prosecutors

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other...tors-1.1077967

Eww. He froze them? Doesn't he have any respect for food quality? What would Chef Ramsay say?

[Kralizec]

Sorry Lemur, but...

It was very funny, but I had a distinct feeling of deja vu when I read your radioactive pedophile story. I did a google search and came across another article describing pretty much the same, from 2009. Then I noticed your article is from that year as well. Then I searched this thread and:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...=1#post2153921

[Lemur]

Gosh durn it, I been Lemured in my own thread. Well, at least the billionaire incest story is recentish.

(Also note that my version of the story had better graphics.)

[gaelic cowboy]

U.S. Explodes Atomic Bombs Near Beers To See If They Are Safe To Drink

Has a feel of something that may have been posted here before.

[Vladimir]

U.S. Explodes Atomic Bombs Near Beers To See If They Are Safe To Drink

Has a feel of something that may have been posted here before.

This is why I love America.

[Ronin]

Eww. He froze them? Doesn't he have any respect for food quality? What would Chef Ramsay say?

IT'S ******* RAW!

[Ronin]

U.S. Explodes Atomic Bombs Near Beers To See If They Are Safe To Drink

Has a feel of something that may have been posted here before.

in those hot days when you are just melting, literally, a cold beer hits the spot.

[InsaneApache]

In celebration of international talk like a pirate day I give you.....

A woman high on drink and drugs who stole a passenger ferry and crashed into boats shouting ''I'm Jack Sparrow'' has been jailed.

Reckless Alison Whelan, 51, was on a two-day bender when she climbed onto the moored 100-seater Dart Princess in Dartmouth, Devon.

Whelan was so drunk on Lambrini she dialled 999 and officers raced to the scene but she then unmoored the 45ft vessel and started drifting away.

She was heard shouting "I'm Jack Sparrow" and "I'm A Pirate" as she made her escape on the double-decker ferry.

But the boat then began hitting other vessels ''like a pinball machine'' - including a £70,000 catamaran, Torquay Magistrates Court in Devon heard.

The boat finally came to rest an hour later a mile upstream where lifeboats arrived to tow Whelan and her accomplice back to the harbour.

When arrested she claimed that she ''would have ended up in St Tropez'' if she hadn't been caught.

More than 30 ambulance, police, coastguard and RNLI officers were drafted in during the incident, a court heard.

Whelan, of Paignton, Devon, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicle taking and was jailed for 122 days.

She caused thousands of pounds worth of damage, including £1,500 to the ferry itself and £300 to a moored vessel called Tomcat.

Speaking after the hearing, PC Clare Pearson said: ''This lady put the police, ambulance and coastguard to an awful lot of trouble.

''The amount of people called out to recover the boat and the damage caused to other vessels made it quite an expensive night."

Whelan had been drinking Lambrini and eating poisonous hallucinogenic plants when she headed to the ferry late at night on September 10, 2011.

The boat is usually used for wildlife cruises the Torbay area but had been hired for a different job and was moored in nearby Kingswear.

Whelan and her friend Tristam Locke climbed aboard and she then dialled 999 and said she thought she was having a seizure.

Paramedics arrived and found the defendant "rambling" and drunk while Locke became abusive and pushed one of the medics over.

Ambulance technician Peter Jordan said he and his colleague waited in their vehicle a few yards away from the ferry for police to arrive.

They then watched through the wing mirror as the ferry started to move.

Witnesses say the boat then began drifting ''like a pinball machine'' down the River Dart as Whelan shouted ''I'm Jack Sparrow, I'm A Pirate'', the court heard.

Ambulance technician Peter Jordan said: "We saw it drifting down the estuary.

"I heard a female voice saying they were pirates and asking what are we going to do now?"

Police arrived and were told the suspects were 200 yards away and heading towards dozens of other moored vessels.

Whelan later told police she untied two or three of the ropes connecting the boat to the shore because she kept tripping over them.

She said ''before she knew it'' she felt the boat moving and "noticed the hotels getting a long way away".

Police joined lifeboat crews on the river trying to intercept the boat and the harbour master was also alerted.

But the suspects shouted abuse from the out-of-control vessel and made jokes about being kidnapped, the court was told.

Whelan was heard taunting police by saying "what are you going to do now?" and "I believe this is out of your jurisdiction".

Officers watched as the boat span into a £70,000 fibreglass catamaran called Force Majeure and a moored vessel called Tomcat.

It finally came to rest in still water about a mile upstream where lifeboats arrived to ferry them back to the harbour.

Whelan admitted that she and Locke had been on a drinking spree and consumed deadly nightshade, which caused her to hallucinate.

She admitted she could get a "bit cocky" when drunk but said she panicked when she saw the police.

The court the ferry had been moored securely with seven ropes an hour or so before it was taken and was not seriously damaged.

Ashley Lane, the ferry's operations manager, said the would-be sailors were both "exceptionally lucky to be alive".

He said: "If the tide had been going out instead of coming in the boat could have been pulled onto rocks and the two of them could have been killed."

Magistrates had to decide whether Whelan, a chronic alcoholic who is awaiting a liver transplant, unhitched all the ropes knowing she would float away.

She denied the charge but magistrates found her guilty and she was also in breach of a four-month suspended sentence.

Locke, of Crediton, Devon, was fined £100 in a separate court case last year after admitting assaulting the ambulance technician by beating.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ger-ferry.html

[Vladimir]

And speaking of English women: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09...n-afghanistan/

[Kadagar_AV]

And speaking of English women: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09...n-afghanistan/

Sure don't beat the fat lady arming herself with a newspaper before hitting the WC...

[Gregoshi]

In celebration of international talk like a pirate day I give you.....



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ger-ferry.html

Alison will remember this as the day she almost got away with impersonating Captain Jack Sparrow.

[Major Robert Dump]

And speaking of English women: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09...n-afghanistan/

I heard she is taking 2 Spanish, 1 Russian, 1 Polish and 14 Afghan contractos on The Maury show for paternity tests

[Vladimir]

I heard she is taking 2 Spanish, 1 Russian, 1 Polish and 14 Afghan contractos on The Maury show for paternity tests

I'm pretty sure we can rule the Afghans out. She has too many X chromosomes.

[Lemur]

Giraffe escapes circus in Italy, hilarity ensues

[Tuuvi]

I feel bad for the giraffe. I guess it ended up dying.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Yes, from the linked article:

la bestia è morta improvvisamente nel primo pomeriggio. Sul corpo dell'animale saranno effettuati ora gli esami autoptici: ma secondo il veterinario del circo, ad ucciderla sarebbe stato un mix tra lo stress e i narcotici

Using some language skills (I don't speak Italian), that works out as:

The beast died during a first improvised ... An autopsy will be/was performed on the corps of the animal ... veterinarians from the circus ... a mix of stress and narcotics.

[Fragony]

Now how is this for self-islamisation http://www.emirates247.com/offbeat/c...09-23-1.476583

(sorry Lemur if it doesn't belong here, I thought it was)

[Gregoshi]

Now how is this for self-islamisation http://www.emirates247.com/offbeat/crazy-world/man-cuts-off-hands-to-stop-himself-from-stealing-2012-09-23-1.476583

For the record, I did not write the second post from the bottom in the Comment section - I am not user "GT".

[Fragony]

For the record, I did not write the second post from the bottom in the Comment section - I am not user "GT".

Of course not you are pretty armless

[Lemur]

In 1985 L. Ron Hubbard released a jazz album

And if you don't like it Tom Cruise will personally jack you up. Track listing:

Side 1

1. "Golden era of Sci Fi"
2. "Funeral for a Planet"
3. "March of the Psychlos"
4. "Terl, The Security Director"
5. "Jonnie"
6. "Windsplitter"
7. "The Mining Song"

Side 2

1. "The Drone"
2. "Mankind Unites"
3. "Alien Visitors Attack"
4. "The Banker"
5. "Declaration of Peace"
6. "Earth, My Beautiful Home"

"Windsplitter" below spoil. Music is quite bad, but for some reason the poster included some gory pics, hence the spoil.

[drone]

When played backwards, I think I hear "Praise Xenu!".