Bizarre or weird news stories

[beanstew]

The world's biggest burger. So, so unnecessary

How about the world's biggest plate of hummus?

[sandra]

Mmmmm.........hummus, I LOVE it, especially on crackers.

I'd need quite a few crackers to use that lot up though!

[Sunkist]

How about the world's biggest plate of hummus?

mmm yum!

:smile:

[bradders]

LHC ic cool!
I think this is a cool enough thing to be posted

[beanstew]

Did you see the article in the NYT about the LHC being sabotaged by its own future?

[bradders]

yeh it's a pretty funny thought. Sort of Hitler going back in time to kill himself type thing, put only in particle physics.

[beanstew]

Check out the LHC webcams

Update on the overshooting pilots. They were playing with their personal laptops

[Mahk]

OMG that LHC webcam was too funny. Thanks.

[PaintedXSkyline]

Check out the LHC webcams

That was so cool. Scary at the same time, though.

[bradders]

he he,both quite funny

[beanstew]

Upminster is the most sexually obsessed town in Britain!

[bradders]

that town is really close to where I lived and is filled with loose women and looser men (feel free to remove an 'o' from looser)

[BlackCats]

Upminster is the most sexually obsessed town in Britain!

that town is really close to where I lived and is filled with loose women and looser men (feel free to remove an 'o' from looser)

[beanstew]

Students brand themselves and end up permanently scared

[bradders]

stupid bleddy fools

[beanstew]

Corpse left on police station roof for two years

[Mahk]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Ama...ory?id=8937053


I'm not buying this. I could give dozens of alternative explanations for this photo all having nothing to do with *ahem* "clearly" grieving. Do some animals like elephants and chimps mourn? Perhaps, but this photo doesn't "prove" it IMHO. This could easily be a case of anthropomorphism by the journalists.

[beanstew]

Woman denies offering sex for baseball tickets

[beanstew]

"112" year old marries 17 year old

[leedsveg]

"112" year old marries 17 year old

Yes the bride looks "really happy with her husband" rather than a young girl forced into a marriage she really, really didn't want.

lv

[beanstew]

State Attorney caught in car with stripper, sex toys and viagra.

[beanstew]

Police target naked pumpkin run (US)

[beanstew]

Football fan dressed as sheep set alight on train (UK)

[bradders]

blimey

[beanstew]

Dead man mistaken for Halloween display (US)

[PaintedXSkyline]

^ I laughed.

[Neptunus]

Ditto that.
I can barely imagine a better fate for myself than to be mistaken for a Halloween decoration in my death.

[Buddha Belly]

Yes the bride looks "really happy with her husband" rather than a young girl forced into a marriage she really, really didn't want.

lv

She did look a little 'happy'. At least she will be a widow sooner than most forced into marriage. Not that it is much consolation

[cobweb]

Dead man mistaken for Halloween display (US)

that is grossly hilarious

[beanstew]

LHC borked by baguette bombing bird

[beanstew]

Japanese Trawler Sunk By Giant Jellyfish

[beanstew]

Bear eats aeroplane. Duct tape saves day

[Risker]

Police in Russia have arrested three homeless men suspected of killing a man, eating part of the body and selling other parts to a kebab shop.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8360569.stm

[jimmeh]

^ That has actually happened many times. I recall the "Funny Boyz" murder in Blackpool a few years ago, where a takeaway owner was convicted of murdering a girl and her body was never found. The police suspected it had either been sold as kebab meat or ground into tile grout. There was also the recent case of the Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton who ran a meat processing factory and who admitted to mixing human flesh with his meat products. Very Sweeney Todd

[Mahk]

The last line from Risker's link:

"It was not immediately clear if any customers had been served. "

Well that's just poor customer service. All customers should be served immediately...while they are still fresh.

[beanstew]

Driver lost on 600km trip to shops (Australia)

[Buddha Belly]

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_n....asp?id=459381

This is even more special to me as I know him.

[beanstew]

Four people arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing people to harvest their fat for cosmetic uses

[Buddha Belly]

^ I read that and have been watching my back ever since. Helen could pay off the mortgage if she poisons me then has a quick call to Loreal.

[Mahk]

I don't buy it. I think its an urban myth. Maybe the local police indeed are falling for this nonsense but local police often fall for lots of idiotic claims:

-bigfoot raped my wife
-UFOs took me and conducted experiments on me.
-Psychics helped us find the missing body. Just like they said, we found it near a "body of water", on the ground, near a town with two vowels in its name.

"Medical authorities have expressed scepticism about a black market for human fat, partly because of the wide availability of fat for use in surgical procedures."

Why trust medical experts familiar with the use and availability of fat when we have the Peruvian Police which study this in police school?

[bradders]

just discovered this horrible headline

Paralysed Belgian misdiagnosed as in coma for 23 years

"I was shouting, but no-one could hear me,"

in about 40% of cases in which people are classified as being in a vegetative state, closer inspection reveals signs of consciousness.

I personally think that is terrifying and really, really tragic

[RubyDuby]

I just read that too. very scary!

[cobweb]

http://m.uk.yahoo.com/_ylt=Avem8HGke...c-3fd0ae9.html


tv presenter on death row! ^

[jimmeh]

This story made me laugh (edit - well, the method of detection rather than the crimes). "Police caught a serial sex attacker in Renfrewshire because his identical twin brother's DNA was held on the national database".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/8378861.stm

[leedsveg]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8379759.stm

Whitehall turf war saves cows hides.


Maybe some people are beginning to make connections......

[beanstew]

Senior Police Officer Arrested On Suspicion Of Shoplifting Makeup (UK)

[JC]

Live sheep wheeled into Asda

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8383701.stm

How freakin' hypocritical?! Like they don't sell a load of animal carcass in Asda??

[Risker]

David Truscott, 40, broke into a farm, covered himself in the waste and was seen masturbating, a court heard.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ry-jailed.html

[beanstew]

Ewww. Pass the mind-bleach.

[DavidT]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8379759.stm

Whitehall turf war saves cows hides.


Maybe some people are beginning to make connections......

Why do I get the feeling someone has put an all mighty spin on that story?