Bizarre or weird news stories

[bradders]

dunce

[*live*&*let*live]

Wonder if he would be covered on the insurance? His poor little girl ouch! :(

[*live*&*let*live]

Don't think this is bizarre or weird in this day and age, but it's still shocking.


Boy, 5, Finds Gun,
Shoots Himself in Las
Vegas

Updated: Tuesday, 21 Jul 2009, 10:46 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 21 Jul 2009, 2:16 PM CDT
Las Vegas police are investigating how a 5-year-old boy apparently found a gun inside a car and accidentally shot himself in the head.
Police say the boy and his father were going through a drive-through window at a Walgreens on Monday night when the boy found a gun.
They say he fired it once, hitting himself in the head, and that his father then rushed him to a hospital.
The boy is at the University Medical Center's trauma unit in stable condition.

[gogs67]

^ All too common sadly.
These arn't up to date, just a random search and the first outcome!

FIREARM DEATHS AND INJURIES

In 2001, 72 children ages 14 and under died from unintentional firearm-related injuries. Children ages 10 to 14 accounted for 54 percent of these deaths.
In 2002, more than 800 children ages 14 and under were treated in hospital emergency rooms for unintentional firearm-related injuries; 35 percent of these injuries were severe enough to require hospitalization.
The unintentional firearm injury death rate among children ages 14 and under in the United States is nine times higher than in 25 other industrialized countries combined.

[*live*&*let*live]

I think it was just the place that shocked me more than anything. I know that people who have arms in their homes have more casualties with their children. But at a drive thru? :eek:

[Elahiya]

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=148730145&ocid=today


Girl hospitalised by falling tortoise


A Chinese girl has lost her memory after being struck by a falling pregnant tortoise (http://www.bing.com/search?q=intitle%3AGirl+Hit+By+Tortoise&form=BB) as she walked with her aunt along a street.

Unsuspecting 12-year-old Cheng Cheng (http://www.bing.com/news/search?q=%22Cheng+Cheng%22+tortoise&form=BB) was struck by the plummeting creature as she walked with her aunt Ling Lang in Chongqing, central China.KUTV reports that the owner of a grocery store who witnessed the incident said Cheng was hit by a falling black object travelling at speed and fell to the ground unconscious. When he ran over, he realised the object was a tortoise.

According to Metro, a police spokesman said: "Given the force of the blow, this tortoise must have been thrown from a reasonable height. We have questioned 16 flat owners all of whom have denied responsibility."Shell shocked

After being taken to a local children’s hospital, Cheng was diagnosed with concussion. The Sun reports that Zhuo Xuan, the doctor treating Cheng, said "she does not have any memory of what happened to her or anything about her. We believe the amnesia will only be short lived but at the moment she can't remember anything".

KUTV reports the injured girl's father, Liu Xingbing (http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Liu+Xingbing%22+tortoise&form=BB), said: "I am furious at this irresponsible behaviour. If I do not have a confession from the guilty tortoise thrower I will sue everybody in the building."

Although the tortoise initially survived the fall, it later died from its injuries. It has been frozen and is being examined while police continue to question residents in a nearby apartment building.

[Mahk]

Two great stories which illustrate why people shouldn't keep guns or tortoises.

[matt35mm]

I think it was just the place that shocked me more than anything. I know that people who have arms in their homes have more casualties with their children. But at a drive thru? :eek:

A drive thru in VEGAS.

[*live*&*let*live]

Yeah, I get that Matt, but was thinking a parent would think it was a pretty safe place to be..or not...:eek:

[Risker]

^ They were in the car, it was almost definately the parents gun. Where the car was doesn't matter.

[*live*&*let*live]

Oh I read it as found a gun in a car, didn't know it was the parents different story altogether in that scenario. It does say that in the clip though. :o

[matt35mm]

Vegas

[Mahk]

^How embarassing to us they were Vegans. Doesn't show us in a good light.;)

[*live*&*let*live]

Who were vegan Mahk? :(
Or are you messing? :p

[gogs67]

Who were vegan Mahk? :(
Or are you messing? :p
Think about it......................:D

[*live*&*let*live]

vegans as in 'guns' duh no sorry absolutely cream crackered my brain is toooooooooooo tired. Please explain. I need to go home now...........:(

[Mahk]

L&LL, a person from Las Vegas is refered to as a "Vegan".


[Also in the Jodie Foster movie/Carl Sagan book Contact aliens from the star system Vega are referred to as "Vegans"]

[*live*&*let*live]

^ cheers Mahk :thumbsup: but I still wouldn't have 'got it' no matter how hard I 'thought about it' as I am not into Sci-Fi and I didn't know they called Vegas peeps Vegan.....:undecided:

[gogs67]

Not bizzare or weird, but very relevant to the last story!:(

http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article.aspx?cp-documentid=148772456

[matt35mm]

I was just about to post that same story. Vegas again. And why is there a picture of an American flag?

[Mahk]

I was just about to post that same story. Vegas again. And why is there a picture of an American flag?

I guess because it happened in America? Sort of like when in the news they show a map of the country they're talking about, I guess.

[*live*&*let*live]

Not bizzare or weird, but very relevant to the last story!:(

http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article.aspx?cp-documentid=148772456

And again, in that story another five year old boy shot himself from a gun which was in his dads car outside a pharmacy!! Oh, my, what is the world coming to? Poor children :sad: Three in a week....and they say gun possession is on the increase in the States. :undecided:

[Mahk]

Obviously there seems to be some problem with Pharmacies. Perhaps we should ban them;)

[beanstew]

Science takes the very real threat of Zombie invasion seriously at last.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8206280.stm

[EmilySequoy]

Science takes the very real threat of Zombie invasion seriously at last.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8206280.stm

Interesting and fun spin on experimenting.