News of the Weird

[Fragony]

Is that an alligator on your shoulders or are you..... hmmmmmm no way to make this catchy.

http://blog.taragana.com/n/man-arres...ulders-138073/

[Banquo's Ghost]

He got off lightly, IMO. Darling, you just don't wear Crocs on your shoulders.

[Vladimir]

I read a different but similar article that crocs are endangered due to their long lifespan.

[Fragony]

In case you have never been to Moscow, taking the subway is a horrible experience, they are dogs I tell you.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2462

[Vladimir]

Next we'll see a K-9 Orthodox church where they worship Pavlov's dog (and half of the congregation works as "seeing eye dogs" to the state).

[Hosakawa Tito]

He got off lightly, IMO. Darling, you just don't wear Crocs on your shoulders.

Yoes said he didn’t know where Ingram got the gator or what he had planned to do with it.

He's in the Louisianna swamps and didn't know where he got the gator??? does not compute. Obviously he was on his way home to cook up some Cajun gator gumbo.

[PBI]

Triffids discovered in Philippines

A new species of giant carnivorous plant has been discovered in the highlands of the central Philippines.

The pitcher plant is among the largest of all pitchers and is so big that it can catch rats as well as insects in its leafy trap.

How long to go from eating rats to eating humans?

[Rhyfelwyr]

Beware the cucumber theif...

[Lemur]

Cat awarded high school diploma. Way to go, Oreo!

A cat belonging to a US and Canada Better Business Bureau exec has been granted a high school diploma.

Yes, it's an online high school. According to a report by msnbc.com, the two-year-old feline graduated from Jefferson High School Online (JHSO), an institution so confident in its pedagogical perfection that it offers a money-back guarantee.

Oreo is the cat's name, and she lives in Macon, Georgia. All Oreo needed to do to earn her ersatz sheepskin was answer 14 questions to determine her "elective and life experience credits" - including questions about her level of physical activity and her favorite musical genre - then take an online quiz, which she did with the help of her favorite human, Kelvin Collins, president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Central Georgia.

Oh, and there's the $199 fee.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I present to you, the Mayor of Kiev:

LEONID M. CHERNOVETSKY, this city’s unpredictable mayor, likes to answer his critics in his own special way.

When Parliament members said he was acting bizarrely and needed a psychiatric exam, he went to a stadium where he jogged for the cameras before yanking off his shirt and doing pull-ups. He swam laps and flexed his muscles like Charles Atlas. Then he held a news conference — in his tiny bathing suit.

“They are judging me today and want me to spend the rest of my life behind the bars of a psychiatric hospital,” Mr. Chernovetsky said. “Look at my body, at how I express my thoughts. I am absolutely healthy. I think logically and philosophically.”

And Wisconsin; they use drawbridges differently there.


CR

[Lemur]

I present to you, the Mayor of Kiev:

Pics or it didn't happen ... oh, nevermind.



I think I like this guy: "He interrupts meetings by warbling melancholy Soviet ballads, and even issued a CD on which he covers his favorites. 'Who sings better than me?' he asked. 'Nobody does, besides God.' "

[Hosakawa Tito]

He better exhale before he hurts himself.

[Fragony]

I knew it! http://obamaisliterallyhitler.tumblr.com/

[Hosakawa Tito]

Puts a whole nuther spin on the phrase, "taking her for a test ride".

The real Captain Underpants.

[Fragony]

You Americans really love your cars, sure he was intoxicated and not just out of gas?

[Gregoshi]

Puts a whole nuther spin on the phrase, "taking her for a test ride".

Car dealers beware. Make sure the customer wants a car loan and not to be "alone with the car".

[Hosakawa Tito]

Crash for clunkers, redneck style. Better than NASCAR.

[miotas]

Ha ha! That's ******* awesome!
But why is it redneck style? That's something everyone can enjoy, it's basically super-fast forward paddock bashing.

[Fragony]

Well let's face it they look stupid.

http://www.enginelounge.com/2009/07/...omment-page-1/

[Vladimir]

Way to go Captain slow!

[Lemur]

The gayest story ever told: Chihuahua stolen from Florida gay bar by man with Britney Spears tattoo.

Hudson Hayward Hemingway, a nearly 4-month-old Chihuahua with pink earrings, has been dognapped, her owner says.

Brian Dortort [...] threw a birthday party for a friend at the bar that night, and was carrying the dog in a specialty pet bag, he said. One of the dog's admirers insisted he hold the dog and grabbed her, he said. Dotort didn't suspect the dog would be stolen, he said, so he briefly left the dog in the man's possession to pick up litter from a nearby table.

In an instant, the thief disappeared with Hudson, Dotort said.

The dog, about the size of a softball, is described as light-cream colored with a pink belly and pink ears. She has a pink earring in each ear. [...] Dortort described the thief as a thin man about 5 feet 10 inches tall. He weighs about 160 pounds, has short brown hair and tattoos, including one on his arm or neck that says " Britney Spears."

[InsaneApache]

Anyone want to buy a dog I found in a bar?

[Gregoshi]

Anyone want to buy a dog I found in a bar?

The paws that refreshes.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Rock Festival for real men.

Attempts to replace the stones with rubber balls in 2001 and 2002 failed as villagers refused to use them.

We don't need no stinking rubber balls!

Back to the drawing board. I wonder if the Wright brothers had days like this?

[Vladimir]

Back to the drawing board. I wonder if the Wright brothers had days like this?

Nah. Been there, done that. http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww1/atlantus/

[InsaneApache]

Noting to fear, nothing to hide? Good it's legal anyway!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

People selling adult videos, including pornography, to children are to escape prosecution after the discovery of a Whitehall blunder that means that the 1984 law regulating the video industry was never enacted.

The disclosure that for 25 years the Act governing the classification and sale of videos, video games and now DVDs was never brought into force is a big embarrassment to both Conservative and Labour governments.

It also leaves the industry in disarray with the classification system designed to protect the under-18s from violent and explicit material no longer officially in operation.

Lavinia Carey, director-general of the British Video Association, which represents 90 per cent of the industry, said: “What a ludicrous situation to find ourselves in after all this time.”
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Police and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs are to be told to stop bringing any prosecutions until the Government brings in emergency legislation to re-enact the 1984 Video Recordings Act. Until then people will be able to sell videos, including violent and pornographic ones, to under-18s without fear of prosecution.

The video industry was stunned by the Government’s admission that the Act was not properly enacted 25 years ago. Officials in the Home Office had failed to notify the European Commission of the existence of the Act as they were required to do so under an EU directive.

The mistake was not spotted on two subsequent occasions, in 1993 and 1994. It was finally discovered during plans to update the law and introduce a new video-game classification system.

Barbara Follett, Minister for Culture and Tourism, said last night: “Unfortunately, the discovery of this omission means that, a quarter of a century later, the Video Recordings Act is no longer enforceable against individuals in United Kingdom courts.” In a letter to representatives of the video industry, Ms Follett said: “As the then British Government did not notify the European Commission of the VRA’s classification and labelling requirements, they cannot now be enforced against individuals in UK courts.”

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said that it had received legal advice that people who had previously been prosecuted and convicted would be unable to overturn their convictions or seek compensation.

The Act was passed when Leon Brittan was Conservative Home Secretary and then amended under Michael Howard’s period at the Home Office. A Home Office spokesman said that it was likely the error had occurred because the European Directive was new at the time the Act was passed.

“The important thing is that we close this loophole as quickly as possible,” a spokeswoman said. No one should see this as a green light to act unlawfully. We will continue to prosecute breaches vigorously once this technical loophole is closed,” a spokeswoman said.

The British Video Association said that it is urging members to continue submitting work to the British Board of Film Classification and to continue labelling them under the system.

The Association represents 90 per cent of the industry with an annual turnover of over £2 billion and selling 250 million videos a year.

Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Culture Secretary, said: “Much of the problem would have been avoided if they had sorted out the classification of video games earlier, as we and many others in the industry have been urging them to do.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6808592.ece

If you want a copy of Driller Killer or I Spit on your Grave; please, whatever you do, don't PM me.

[CountArach]

Man arrested for monkey business:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

BRENTON Green was monkeying around when he donned a costume to entertain city shoppers, but the stunt backfired when he was arrested and tossed in the lock-up.

Dressed as a monkey, Mr Green, 21, attracted the attention of two police officers on bicycles as he paraded among Perth shoppers on Sunday afternoon, hugging people, posing for photos, waving and dancing.

When the officers interrupted his show in front of about 40 onlookers and asked for his name, he responded by shaking his head and making strange sounds.

The second time police asked for his name, Mr Green replied: ``Monkey''. The officers responded by pushing him against a shop window and handcuffing him in front the stunned audience.
[...]
WA Police spokesman Sgt Graham Clifford said officers intervened after seeing the monkey man bump into several people and knock a hamburger out of another man's hands.

Police said Mr Green failed to give them his name by ``continually shaking his head and making squeaking noises''.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Lady, could you do that again my buddy missed it.

Now that's liquidity, Italian style.

[Fragony]

Change we can believe in, a slight modification for the Polish market.

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6104...neger_weg.html

[Gregoshi]

Change we can believe in, a slight modification for the Polish market.

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6104...neger_weg.html

Weird that they didn't fix that orange box around the text at the bottom for the non-Polish version.