News of the Weird

[Peasant Phill]

WHy not cracked for some spooky locations. Also read part1.

[Rhyfelwyr]

WHy not cracked for some spooky locations. Also read part1.

No.5 in the second article (in the order that you list them, I mean the one you call "part 1") is right where I live! Some crazy cult recently bought the property, surely increases the future potential for creepiness...

[Hosakawa Tito]

Eat like snake...

[Husar]

Eat like snake...

[video]

That's great.

[gaelic cowboy]

There is no News of the Cool thread so I'll post this here check the vid part way down the website for RTE news

Reports of 40-foot waves off the west coast

RTE News Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Surfers say weather conditions off the west coast combined perfectly to create huge waves of up to 40 feet high yesterday.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Surfers have said weather conditions off the west coast of Ireland combined perfectly to create huge waves of up to 40 feet (12m) high yesterday.
One of the surfers, Andrew Cotton, from Devon in England, is photographed on the front of today's Irish Times.
He says everything came together for the wave to happen.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Cotton said the conditions were very rare.
The west coast is battered by a lot of swells but yesterday there was no wind, which is very unusual, Mr Cotton added.
All of those who travelled about 2km out to sea on boats and jet-skis experienced the thrill of surfing the wave.
Mr Cotton is recovering from knee surgery and is not supposed to be surfing at the moment. But when he heard that the wave might materialise on Sunday, he flew to Ireland.
He said he felt very fortunate to have been able to ride the wave.
The wave has been named 'Prowlers' by surfers who first ventured out on it yesterday.
The crew of six surfers stayed tight-lipped on the exact location of the wave.

Sound is rubbish on the youtube vid so I suggest watching it on the website

[Lemur]

Woman assaults police with "a clear, rigid feminine pleasure device"



A Gurnee [Illinois] woman charged with aggravated assault for threatening a police officer with a sex toy was supposed to be reaching into a drawer for money, but instead pulled out what a department spokesman described as a “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device.”

Carolee Bildsten, 56, was with the officer at her apartment on Tuesday when she allegedly “approached the officer in a threatening manner,” Gurnee Police Cmdr. Jay Patrick said Thursday.

Police had been called when Bildsten allegedly left a nearby Joe’s Crab Shack without paying her bill for a second time in a few weeks, Patrick said.

The officer saw her lying in the grass along Grand Avenue near the entrance to Six Flags Great America, Patrick said.

When the officer told Bildsten she’d either have to pay her bill or be arrested, she told him she didn’t have any money with her, but she had some cash at her nearby apartment, Patrick said.

The officer escorted her there, where Bildsten went into her bedroom, saying her money was in a dresser drawer, according to Patrick.

But instead of pulling out money, she pulled out the sex toy, and went toward the officer with it held over her head, Patrick said.

The officer was able to knock the device out of the way before being struck with it, and placed Bildsten under arrest. She was transported to the Gurnee Police Department, where she was processed.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Gotta catch that car.

[InsaneApache]

http://www.kenfrost.com/BBCgaffe.mp3

[Hosakawa Tito]

Flush Tracker. Ever wonder where that duece you just dropped ended up? Me neither, but in case you just gotta know...

[InsaneApache]

nm.

[Lemur]

You got rat problems? You know what you need? Coyotes.

A coyote loping along the South Loop streets this morning was probably at his job searching out rodents, according to city animal welfare officials.

A video shot overnight shows the coyote running down State Street as cars and a moving truck pass by.
Brad Block, a supervisor for the Chicago Commission on Animal Care and Control, said the animal has the run of the Loop to help deal with rats and mice. He said no one has called today to complain.

"He's not a threat...He's not going to pick up your children," Block said. "His job is to deal with all of the nuisance problems, like mice, rats and rabbits."

Block said he believes the coyote is one of those fitted with a GPS device to monitor its whereabouts. He said the coyote is pretty timid and stays away from people.

Cook County officials have fitted a few coyotes with GPS as part of an urban coyote project and has allowed them to run wild in Chicago to deal with the rodent population. It was unclear whether this coyote is part of that program. The animal was not captured.

[drone]

You got rat problems? You know what you need? Coyotes.

The comments section for that article is gold.

[Hosakawa Tito]

The comments section for that article is gold.

Ya got that right.

[Pannonian]

Naming Putin's new puppy

Putin is hardly the cuddling type but he seems to show a softer side with his new puppy dog. Putin was in Bulgaria to sign a gas pipeline deal. He was presented with a Bulgarian shepherd dog by Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borissov. Putin looked genuinely thrilled with his gift.

Putin is no doubt hoping for some good PR. He has invited the public to suggest a name for the dog. The now adorable pup will turn into a quite large shaggy guard dog. Putin has a Labrador called Connie who is already graying.

Russian rights activists have complained that to leave a suggested name on Putin's web site you must fill in all sorts of contact details. The aim is no doubt to cut out those treasonous wags who submit names that are in bad taste or suggested names such as poisoned umbrellas. Some of the names suggested so far are: Gazprom, T-Rex, Poligraph, and Nanotechnology.

Putin has always portrayed himself a macho guy, showing off his muscles, even going so far as to drive a race car. However with his puppy dog he can have a photo op to show his softer side. His wife does not seem to be in the picture!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Vladimir]

Looks like Cujo.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The dog looks like Blago.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Penis Cemetery. Lookit all the head stones.

[Gregoshi]

Penis Cemetery. Lookit all the head stones.

Good one.

Looks like Viagra existed in the olden days...but they didn't know about the "four hour" rule back then.

[Lemur]

Penis Cemetery.

If and when I get the shaft, bury my parts at Wounded Knee.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Paris woman trapped for 20 days in bathroom

An elderly woman has survived being trapped in her bathroom in Paris for 20 days, after the door lock jammed.
The room had no window or phone so the 69-year-old was unable to tell anyone but she tapped on pipes during the night, hoping to alert her neighbours.

They thought the noise was DIY work and started a petition to have it stopped.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11828052

[InsaneApache]

Shouldn't there be two* seven of 'em?

When I learnt the ditty as a kid we used two not seven. Ah well c'est la vie.

[Tellos Athenaios]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11828052

Well if that isn't an acid test for neighbours, I don't know what is:

They thought the noise was DIY work and started a petition to have it stopped. (...)

"You could hear banging sounds, like a hammer, even at night," one neighbour told local media. "But we thought they were doing work at night. We said: 'They are going too far! They are preventing us from sleeping!' If we had known....'"

[Hosakawa Tito]

Half a head. This dude needs all the head he can get.

[Gregoshi]

Half a head. This dude needs all the head he can get.

He's a none skull. A half-wit-out. He hangs out with convex.

[drone]

He's a none skull. A half-wit-out. He hangs out with convex.

I bow before the master.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Motel guest trashes room to free imaginary 'midget'

A man trashed his South Carolina motel room on orders from a prank caller, who told him there was a "midget" imprisoned next door. (...)

The prankster rang the Motel 6 room at 11pm on Sunday night and told Jones he was under surveillance via "highly sophisticated" hidden cameras.

To get rid of them, the caller said, Jones needed to smash the TV with the toilet cistern lid, and then throw it out of the window. He complied. (...)

Jones related this tale to skeptical Spartanburg County deputies who attended the scene after other motel guests complained about the noise. They were convinced when his anonymous instructor rang again to check on the progress of the Lilliputian liberation operation. (...)

The prank bears the hallmarks of several pulled in recent years by members of PrankNET.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Gah! I will be having nightmares about that half-headed guy for some time to come...

[CountArach]

Spanish woman claims the Sun as property

After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner - a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia says she's registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.

Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo on Friday she took the step in September after reading about an American man who had registered himself as the owner of the moon and most planets in our Solar System.

There is an international agreement which states that no country may claim ownership of a planet or star, but it says nothing about individuals, she added.

'There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first.'

The document issued by the notary public declares Duran to be the 'owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometres'.

Duran, who lives in the town of Salvaterra do Mino, said she now wants to slap a fee on everyone who uses the Sun and give half of the proceeds to the Spanish government and 20 per cent to the nation's pension fund.

She would dedicate another 10 per cent to research, another 10 per cent to ending world hunger -- and would keep the remaining 10 per cent herself.

'It is time to start doing things the right way. If there is an idea for how to generate income and improve the economy and people's well-being, why not do it?' she asked.

The Sun Tax is not to be taken lightly.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I'm just waiting for Murdoch to respond.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Spanish woman claims the Sun as property

After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner - a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia says she's registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.

The Sun Tax is not to be taken lightly.

That is bizarre.


But not more outrageous than a 20th century non-European corporation trying to get paid every time a European relates an ancient European tale to his children. Which makes for a fine NotW entry:

The Walt Disney Company currently has a trademark application pending with the US Patent and Trademark Office, filed November 19, 2008, for the name "Snow White" that would cover all live and recorded movie, television, radio, stage, computer, Internet, news, and photographic entertainment uses, except literature works of fiction and nonfiction.

http://tarr.uspto.gov/tarr?regser=se...Request+Status

Mind this is not about the Disney animated cartoon characters or likenesses thereof, but any portrayal of Snow White by that name.
Maybe I should register the name 'Jesus' as my property, to prevent any portrayal of his story that does not involve my version. After all it's only two thousand years old, and who do those Christians think they are using my property.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Woman reports snowman theft