News of the Weird

[Gregoshi]

Tree predicts lottery win. Better have protection before shaking that money tree.

That is a knotty tree. Very knotty. It should be spanked.

[Beskar]

Trust Thailand to do that to their own trees.

[Gregoshi]

Trust Thailand to do that to their own trees.

Thai it up and spank it?

[Crazed Rabbit]

Ghost hunters in North Carolina search for a 'ghost train' on railroad tracks.... and one gets killed by a real train.

A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary "ghost train" in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning.

The incident happened on a train trestle at 2:45 a.m. near the 900 block of Buffalo Shoals Road.

Robin Chapman, a spokesperson for Norfolk-Southern Railroad, said the eastbound train consisted of three locomotives and no freight cars.

The train was rounding a curve and approaching a trestle over Boston Creek just prior to Buffalo Shoals Road when it struck a man on the trestle, Chapman said.

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[Gregoshi]

Ghost hunters in North Carolina search for a 'ghost train' on railroad tracks.... and one gets killed by a real train.

Last words: "I detect a presence..."

[Hosakawa Tito]

Wake-n-Bacon. I know what I want for Christmas.

[naut]

Nigerian police hold 'magic' goat over attempted car theft.

[Lemur]

Let us all have a moment of silence for:

The 2010 Mushroom Hunter Massacre

At least 18 mushroom-lovers have been killed in accidents while hunting for their favorite fungi in the mountains and forests of northern Italy.

Mountain rescuers say eager mushroom seekers are abandoning safety procedures as they don camouflage and hunt in darkness to protect coveted troves, la Repubblica newspaper reported on Sunday.

"There is too much carelessness. Too many people don't give a darn about the right rules and unfortunately this is the result," Gino Comelli, head of the Alpine rescue service in northwest Italy's Valle di Fassa, told the newspaper.

Seventeen people have died in nine days -- six in 48 hours alone -- mostly from sliding off steep, damp slopes in the northern mountains, la Repubblica said in a story headlined "the massacre of the mushroom hunters."

[Hosakawa Tito]

Pissky. There might come a day when I'm that thirsty, but I doubt it. mmm love dem ammonia notes.

[Lemur]

Castration with a chisel or a power drill in my head? Can't I have both?

GANGLAND thugs armed with chisels chopped off a young man's penis in a gruesome attack beside a main road.

The attack on Bryan Hanlon, 26, came a week after his twin brother James had holes bored in his head with a power drill in another targeted underworld assault. Police are horrified by the brazen nature of both attacks and the savage violence used.

The Hanlon twins were both close pals of murdered gangland enforcer Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll.

[naut]

"It's understood he also suffered injuries to his back passage, inflicted by a chisel."

Ouch.

[Hosakawa Tito]

T & A Murder. Names will not be changed to protect the only reason this story is weird. I'm surprised the victim survived school with a name like that.

[InsaneApache]

An end to boob and butts then.

*coat on; taxi called*

[Gregoshi]

T & A Murder. Names will not be changed to protect the only reason this story is weird. I'm surprised the victim survived school with a name like that.

I'm going to be surprised if the accused survives prison with a name like that.

[Lemur]

German Commies giving porn to children

To sweeten their first day at primary school German children are normally given a cardboard cone filled with sweets, but schoolchildren in Essen this year opened their cones to find pens which project erotic images.

Children attending the Adolf Reichwein School in the northwestern German city were handed cones containing the pens by members of the German Communist Party, according to the school's headmaster.

Angry parents who discovered that the pens given to their six-year-old children could project erotic images of women informed the headmaster.

In a press release the German Communist Party stated that it had purchased the pens from a discount store, which had said the pens lit up at the push of a button.

"The German Communist Party deeply regrets what has happened and is outraged that this kind of thing, which borders on pornography, can be purchased in normal shops," it said, adding that its lawyers were now investigating whether the vendors could be prosecuted.

The party has offered to exchange the pens for something more suitable for children.

[Husar]

Well, I like my new pen.

[Lemur]

ELO cellist killed by giant bale of hay

A giant bale of hay has killed a founding member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) band after it tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van.

Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died after the 600 kg (1,323 lb) bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge and careered on to the road.

[InsaneApache]

Out of the blue then.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Vancouver BC decides to condition drivers to ignore children in the road:

Today, West Vancouver officials will roll out a new way to keep drivers alert and slow them down: a little girl speed bump. A trompe-l’œil, the apparently 3D girl located near the École Pauline Johnson Elementary School is actually a 2D pavement painting, similar to the one shown here.

In what sounds like a terrifying experience, the girl’s elongated form appears to rise from the ground as cars approach, reaching 3D realism at around 100 feet, and then returning to 2D distortion once cars pass that ideal viewing distance. Its designers created the image to give drivers who travel at the street’s recommended 18 miles per hour (30 km per hour) enough time to stop before hitting Pavement Patty–acknowledging the spectacle before they continue to safely roll over her.

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[Ronin]

Britney Spears Sued for Sexual Harassment

A former bodyguard for Britney Spears filed a sexual harassment lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the pop star of repeatedly parading herself around in the nude and having sex in front of him.

According to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Flores began working for Spears in February 2010. He alleges that the "Circus" singer made repeated, unwanted sexual advances, summoned him to her room to expose her naked body, and "engaged in numerous sex acts" in front of him.

TMZ reported that in one alleged incident, Spears was wearing a white lace see-through dress when she intentionally dropped an object on the floor close to Flores and bent over to pick it up.

Ok...first of all....you are going about this all wrong dawg!
what you do is...you hit that...secretly film it and release it for big bucks....the internet would explode.



second...does this mean I can sue her for that time she flashed he hoo-ahh at everyone when getting out of her car?

[Raz]

Enraged husband kills his wife over poorly cooked eggs
A row over how his eggs had been cooked for breakfast is thought to have led a man to kill his wife, stepdaughter and three neighbours
Stanley Neace went on a rampage with a shotgun while in his pyjamas in a trailer park in the rural east of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

[Vladimir]

I said it before and I'll say it again: God bless the Dutch.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010...pera-lifts-off

[Gregoshi]

A row over how his eggs had been cooked for breakfast is thought to have led a man to kill his wife, stepdaughter...in a trailer park in... Kentucky.

His wife and stepdaughter were actually the same person.

[naut]

Teen banned from US after drunken email to Obama

A British teen has been banned from the US for life after a drunken moment of rage.

Luke Angel, 17, admits he sent US President Barrack Obama an abusive email in which he called Mr Obama "a prick".

Luke told the Daily Mail the incident happened after he had too many drinks before sitting down to watch a TV program about the September 11 attacks in 2001.

He claims he was so incensed by what he saw that he sent the email to the White House.

The Daily Mail reported that the FBI intercepted the message and contacted British police.

Officers then paid Luke a visit, informing him that he was now banned from the US for life.

"I don't really care. My parents aren't very happy about it," Luke said.

"The police who came round took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever."

Bedfordshire Police said the teen was banned by the US because he sent "an email to the White House full of abusive and threatening language".

Luke faces no criminal charges.

[Beskar]

That is 'win'.

I wish I was banned from the US, for novelty reasons, but I hope one day to actually go there.

(While I disapprove of America sometimes, there are actually quite a number of things I actually like about America.)

[Gregoshi]

(While I disapprove of America sometimes, there are actually quite a number of things I actually like about America.)

Don't go soft on us now Beskar.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

(While I disapprove of America sometimes, there are actually quite a number of things I actually like about America.)

Rename thread "News of the mind-bendingly unexpected".

[gaelic cowboy]

Nom nom hmm blond cheerleader

American football fans were stunned when a cheerleader was 'eaten' by a mascot during an NFL match.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/...article/22284/

[Hosakawa Tito]

Hehehe, I wonder how many got banned for sending love letters to Bush...

[Hosakawa Tito]

Man replaces ex-girlfriend with custom made sex doll. Bonus: At $18,000 the doll is cheaper too.