News of the Weird

[Banquo's Ghost]

Man arrested for taking aim at mower

What struck me as really weird about that story is that in the same country (different states) one practically gets a medal for callously gunning down a couple of fleeing burglars, but this fellow faces six years for executing his flymo.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Alcohol was involved? Boy, am I surprised.

Anyways, cities generally regulate non-defensive shooting. But the big thing here is:

Keith Walendowski has been charged with felony possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle

Having a shotgun with a barrel of 17.5" instead of at least 18" will get you sent to prison for a goodly time. All thanks to that ******* FDR.

CR

[FactionHeir]

Women try opening door for fresh air...on an airplane

[ShadesPanther]

Women try opening door for fresh air...on an airplane

It actually is physically impossible to open an airplane door mid flight because of the air pressures forcing it closed.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Eh? I thought the air pressure was much greater on the inside of the plane...

CR

[Gregoshi]

Eh? I thought the air pressure was much greater on the inside of the plane...

That's what I thought. But maybe the two women were blonds...

[Crazed Rabbit]

Of course, if the doors opened inwards...But I don't think they do.

CR

[ShadesPanther]

Of course, if the doors opened inwards...But I don't think they do.

CR

They do open inwards at the start. You have to pull it in to push it out.
Sounds strange but thats how it works.

[Hosakawa Tito]

No Country for Old Men - Take Two
Buried drug money stash or T. Boone Picken's pocket change time capsule?
Beware the Mexican Mafia and the Frito Bandito

[Lemur]

S&M leather Barbie gets a poor reception. I don't really see what the problem is ...

The doll’s image is transformed with kinky fishnets, motorcycle jacket, black gloves and boots. Makers Mattel say Black Canary Barbie, out in September, is based on a DC comic superhero of the same name. But religious group Christian Voice said: “Barbie has always been on the tarty side and this is taking it too far. A children’s doll in sexually suggestive clothing is irresponsible – it’s filth.”

[discovery1]

I predict low production runs on this. Know what that means? Collectors will fork over their life savings for it in a few years.

S&M Barbie: It's not filth, it's an investment

Edit:Also I like it.

[Lemur]

Six legged deer recovering from dog attack.

[drone]

Six legged deer recovering from dog attack.

My pups would have a field day with that, and Discovery would pay me good money for the footage

[Viking]

Six legged deer recovering from dog attack.

An Athens woman with a permit to keep unique animals in captivity has agreed to take the unusual deer.

So, it goes stright into her collection of two-headed cats, 20-tentacled octopuses and female dogs with male genitalia.

[CountArach]

20-tentacled octopuses

Have the Octosquids been experimenting!?!

[Ronin]

They do open inwards at the start. You have to pull it in to push it out.
Sounds strange but thats how it works.

yup...you would have to be the Hulk to be able to pull that door open in the air.....

still...understandably you don´t want people messing with it...even if it´s practically impossible to open.

[FactionHeir]

A month old, but uhmm see for yourselves:
Sick Article

[Lemur]

Once again, life imitates The Onion:

Police say two officers who responded to complaints about a raucous weekend party in western Germany were mistaken for male strippers by the female guests.

Simmern police spokesman Bernd Hoffmann says neighbours called police around 12.45 a.m. Sunday to complain about noise from a birthday party in their building.

A round of applause from the apartment resident - who had just turned 30 - and her friends greeted two officers who went to investigate.

Hoffmann said Monday that "they thought the policemen were dressed like that because they were strippers. It took them a while to realize they were real police officers."

Hoffmann says the women had not ordered strippers but thought someone had sent them as a birthday surprise.

The incident resulted in no arrests.

[Lemur]

It's not easy having a bus fetish.

Police have arrested an 18-year-old man accused of stealing at least three county buses and driving them on their routes. [...]

According to Miami-Dade police, Harris would take the buses from several Miami-Dade Transit bus depots in the county and drive the buses on their routes, picking up and dropping off passengers along the way. He would then return the buses at the end of the day.

Police said Harris didn't raise any suspicion because he was dressed like a Miami-Dade Transit employee. Police said he also didn't steal any bus fare.

[Gregoshi]

Once again, life imitates The Onion:

Police say two officers who responded to complaints about a raucous weekend party in western Germany were mistaken for male strippers by the female guests.
The incident resulted in no arrests.

I wonder if the officers conducted an unofficial strip search...but then that would be unwarranted.

<rimshot>

[discovery1]

It's not easy having a bus fetish.

Police have arrested an 18-year-old man accused of stealing at least three county buses and driving them on their routes. [...]

According to Miami-Dade police, Harris would take the buses from several Miami-Dade Transit bus depots in the county and drive the buses on their routes, picking up and dropping off passengers along the way. He would then return the buses at the end of the day.

Police said Harris didn't raise any suspicion because he was dressed like a Miami-Dade Transit employee. Police said he also didn't steal any bus fare.

Ever play Sim City 3000? It had a little news ticker that told you about happenings in your city. One of them was 'Kitten Hijacks bus, passengers pleased with courteous service'

[LittleGrizzly]

According to Miami-Dade police, Harris would take the buses from several Miami-Dade Transit bus depots in the county and drive the buses on their routes, picking up and dropping off passengers along the way. He would then return the buses at the end of the day.

He did it for fun ? surely he should just try and get a job as a bus driver, can't be too difficult...

[Lemur]

Don't you just hate it when demons from hell wash up on your beach?

Based on the comments, seems some of the forensic folks think it's a dead dog. I'm having trouble seeing that. Another claims it is a decomposing de-shelled sea turtle. Yet another points out that there is a Federal animal testing facility near Long Island,* where the beastie was found.

I don't see why it's so hard to accept that demons from hell sometimes show up in the surf.

*We're proud of our role as America's first line of defense against foreign animal diseases! We're equally proud of our safety record. Not once in our nearly 50 years of operation has an animal pathogen escaped from the island! In 2003 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joined us on the island, taking responsibility for the safety and security of the facility.

[Crazed Rabbit]

What do you do when heavily armed SWAT officers perform a drug raid on the wrong house, with an innocent family inside, shooting up the place when children where in it?

Give them medals.

CR

[Banquo's Ghost]

Amongst a very competitive field this year, could this be the winning candidate for NotW Criminal Mastermind of the Year?

[Husar]

Based on the comments, seems some of the forensic folks think it's a dead dog. I'm having trouble seeing that. Another claims it is a decomposing de-shelled sea turtle. Yet another points out that there is a Federal animal testing facility near Long Island,* where the beastie was found.

A Chupacabra!

[naut]

Octosquid Sea Dogs? Oh noes! The Horror!

[Viking]

Don't you just hate it when demons from hell wash up on your beach?

Based on the comments, seems some of the forensic folks think it's a dead dog. I'm having trouble seeing that. Another claims it is a decomposing de-shelled sea turtle. Yet another points out that there is a Federal animal testing facility near Long Island,* where the beastie was found.

I don't see why it's so hard to accept that demons from hell sometimes show up in the surf.

*We're proud of our role as America's first line of defense against foreign animal diseases! We're equally proud of our safety record. Not once in our nearly 50 years of operation has an animal pathogen escaped from the island! In 2003 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joined us on the island, taking responsibility for the safety and security of the facility.

Well, undeniably it shares its similarities with Fotoshoppus Majoris, which is known for its diverse habitat, colours and shapes.

[Lemur]

Go ahead, try to explain this picture. I dare you.

[Lemur]

That does it, I'm not taking the bus in Canada.

The bus, with 37 passengers and a driver aboard, was travelling from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

"All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream," passenger Garnet Caton told CBC television.

"The attacker was standing up right over the top of the guy with a large hunting knife - a survival, Rambo knife - holding the guy and continually stabbing him... in the chest area," Mr Caton added.

The attack continued as passengers fled the bus and waited for police on a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

Mr Caton, the bus driver and a trucker who had stopped at the scene boarded the vehicle to see if the victim was still alive.

"When we came back on the bus... he was cutting the guy's head off and pretty much gutting him up," Mr Caton said.

The attacker ran at them, Mr Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut to prevent him getting out.

"He calmly walks up to the front [of the bus] with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," Mr Caton said.

"There was no rage in him ... It was just like he was a robot or something," he added.