Weird News Thread
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OMAHA, Neb. -- A Web-page designer who auctioned off the use of his forehead for advertising space is letting it go to his head. Andrew Fischer, 20, of Omaha, who put his forehead for sale on eBay as advertising space, received $37,375 on Friday to advertise the snoring remedy, SnoreStop. Fischer will display the SnoreStop logo on his forehead for one month. "I look forward to an enjoyable association with Andrew -- a man who clearly has a head for business in every sense of the word," SnoreStop CEO Christian de Rivel said. "People will always comment on something out of the ordinary," Fischer said in his sales pitch. "People like weird."
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A 20 woman ordered chili at Wendy's but found a human finger in it. By the time she recognized the human part, it was in her mouth already. She then spit it out and her stomach started churning . It was quite a frightening moment.
The manager contacted the raw materials department but had not yet found any information regarding the origin of the finger. The case was put under investigation.
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A real nightmare...
LONDON (Reuters) - A teenage sleepwalker was rescued after being found fast asleep 130 feet up on the arm of a crane, police said Wednesday.
Emergency services were called to a building site in London after a passer-by spotted the 15-year-old girl curled up on top of a concrete counterweight high above the ground.
The teen-ager, who has not been named, had climbed up the crane and walked across a narrow metal beam while fast asleep during the incident, which happened on June 25.
It is believed the teen-ager had walked out unnoticed from her home near the site in Dulwich, southeast London.
She was brought down in a hydraulic lift after a two-hour rescue operation.
"Police and London Fire Brigade attended and the woman was brought down from the crane at around 4 a.m. and taken to hospital for precautionary checks," a police spokeswoman said.
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Deer Hanging On Top of an Electric Pole, Causing Power Outage - Did it fly up there?
A deer was found hanging on top of an electric pole, shutting down power for some nearby households.
There are many thoughts regarding how the deer ended up landing on the electric pole:
1. It was just one of those Santa's reindeers that fell off
2. Sad aftermath of a redneck with a catapult
3. The deer launched atop of an electric pole when it was struck by a Train
4. A hoax set by pranksters
Lets say we can rule out 1 and 2. 3 has very little possibility too because if the deer was hit by a train it would have been dismembered or torn apart. However the body shown in the pictures does not seem to be terribly damaged. Moreover, there was not any report from their engineers that a train was hitting a deer that day. So 3 is out.
Look at this picture... a very similar incident happened in NY soon after this deer electric pole thing:
Six-month-old male deer, 70 pounds, hanging in a 12-foot-high crotch of a maple tree in Delaware county, New York. Stockbroker Gerald Inman first found the deer in the tree on the first day of deer and gun season, November 18, 2002
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Glue removed from Thai monk's eye
An elderly Thai monk who mistook a tube of superglue for eye drops can see again after doctors unglued one eye.
Phra Kru Prapatworakhun, 81, had been unable to see for nearly a week after applying the superglue, which he found in his temple's medicine cabinet.
Doctors used acetone solvent to remove the glue from one eye and said it was unharmed, the Nation newspaper reports.
An operation on the second eye, which is still tightly sealed, is scheduled for Thursday.
Phra Kru Prapatworakhun, the abbot of a temple in Muang Angthong district, north of Bangkok, said he had a severe itch in his eyes on 17 February.
"I squeezed several drops on the floor and saw a clear liquid, so I put four drops into each eye. In about a minute, my eyes felt cold and then sealed closed," the monk told the Nation.
Another monk suggested he use thinners to get rid of the glue. But that only caused a searing pain, he said. -
Drunk Birds Crash Into Building's Glass
Thu Feb 10, 5:26 PM ET Strange News - AP
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Dozens of birds, drunk from eating holly berries, crashed into the glass of an office building and died earlier this week.
"It was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," worker Denise Wilkinson said. "It was spooky. You could hear them where they flew into the glass."
Warm weather and an ample supply of berries attracted hundreds of cedar waxwings into the enclosed courtyard of the three-story building Tuesday,
The birds began getting drunk on the berries. They got so loopy that some were falling off branches and others were slamming into the glass walls that enclose the courtyard, said Burgess Mills, the building's owner.
About half of the 100 birds that slammed into the building died, workers said.
Groundskeepers have tried to help the birds by putting tape on windows or nets over the holly trees to keep them from eating the berries, Mills said. -
RUSSIA MAKES IT FUNNY
Pubic beetle creates dangerous car traffic situation in Los Angeles
The police of Los Angeles have recently had a lot of fun, when they were filling out papers to register a series of car accidents. As it turned out, drivers were losing control and running into other vehicles because of a giant women's pubis, which they could see displayed on the front part of an oncoming car. The LA police started desperately looking for the unfortunate pubis and came upon the tracks of young hairdresser, Nelly Node.
Nelly's passion for arts made the young woman photograph her own crotch and put the zoomed picture on her Volkswagen Beetle. Nelly decided to use such a shameless method to prepare her college course work, in which she analyzed the art of design. The witty student's idea worked for the college professors: she was proudly driving her "pubic beetle" until the police arrested the woman.
The court ruled that Nelly's car was creating a dangerous situation on the roads: the girl had to paint her car's bonnet over. -
Tasmanian paper made from 'roo poo
Visitors to Tasmania will soon be able to buy a new souvenir of their Australian experience - paper made from kangaroo manure.
"It's a great product for tourists, but it's also something that gets our eco-friendly message home to a lot of people," said Joanne Gair, manager of Creative Paper Tasmania.
The first batch of paper has now been produced, but Ms Gair conceded that there was one remaining problem - finding a constant supply of kangaroo and wallaby dung.
"At the moment we are finding it very difficult to get the quantity of poo we need," she said.
"We are hoping the community will help by collecting poo for us and dropping it off in plastic bags. New or old, we'll take it all," she told the Advocate newspaper.
The company estimates that about 400 A4 sheets of paper can be made from 25kg (55 pounds) of kangaroo manure.
Ms Gair said her idea was inspired by the success of the elephant dung paper industry in Africa.
"I also discovered that in Scandinavia, elk poo paper is the stationery of choice in most offices," she added.
"That got me thinking we should create a uniquely Tasmanian paper from roo poo." -
Originally posted by meltz:
RUSSIA MAKES IT FUNNY
Pubic beetle creates dangerous car traffic situation in Los Angeles -
LONDON: A television advert for KFC has been banned by the country's advertising watchdog because it said the fast food chain misled customers into thinking its mini chicken sandwiches were larger than they really are.
The Advertising Standards Authority said yesterday that after it bought three mini chicken fillet burgers from a London KFC it agreed with five complaints about the advert – which included a close-up of a burger in a woman's hands.
"We believed the visuals were likely to mislead viewers over the actual size," the agency said.
"We noted that the bun shown in the advertisement was significantly thicker than the burgers we purchased; that there was more filling and the lettuce was a different type," it added.
The ASA ordered that the ad, created by London-based agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, not be shown again in its existing form. The firm is minority owned by French group Publicis.
KFC, owned by Yum Brands, argued that the woman in the ad simply may have had small hands, although it said the actress was not cast for that reason. The chain also said the burger's name and price – 99 pence – implied that it was smaller than a normal fillet burger.
The ASA said it did not think that was sufficient to alert consumers that the sandwich was smaller than it appeared. -
Foiled by fake boobs
A Russian man who tried to sit university entrance exams for his sister was caught because his bre asts were too big.
The young man was not admitted to the entry exam for Moscow State University's journalism department, reports Interfax.
Yasen Zasursky, dean of the journalism department, said security staff paid particular attention to a girl with bright makeup and "especially outstanding feminine features".
A thorough check revealed that the girl was in fact a young man trying to pose as a girl to pass the exam for his sister.
The dean said that security were especially suspicious because the applicant's bre asts were of "incomparable proportions".
They thought that cheat notes could be hidden inside her clothing. However, it turned out that the brea sts were fake.
The young man was barred from the entry exam and his sister was also struck off the university entrant list for cheating. -
this is really a weird thread.
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got any weird news to add?Originally posted by dragg:this is really a weird thread.
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no. i am weird enough.Originally posted by rainee:got any weird news to add? -
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Tourist 'fed beer and ice cream to tiger'
A drunken American tourist has been arrested for breaking into a zoo and feeding stolen beer and ice cream to a tiger.
The man allegedly stole beer and ice cream from the zoo shop and, as well as giving it to the tiger, drank so much himself that he passed out.
The 26-year-old was found by keepers the following morning, still out cold, in front of the panda cage in Munich's Hollabrunn Zoo.
He has been charged with trespassing, theft and animal abuse. -
Probably the weirdest thing around is the tight security surrounding Harry Potter publications.
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Taken From Ananova.com
Brad and Angelina's 'air' sold on eBay
A jar said to contain the air of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has been sold for £293 on eBay.
The ordinary quart-sized jar was brought to the premiere to the couple's latest movie, Mr and Mrs Smith, in Westwood, California, where it was opened to capture the stars' air as they walked by before being sealed.
"This is another perfect example of pop culture phenomenon," said Richard Rowe, CEO of GoldenPalace.com, the online casino company which bought the jar.
"There is literally nothing in this jar except air, and it has made headlines all over the country and even overseas. The sheer weirdness and absurdity of this item has made it a marketing success."
Recently, the same company bought a positive pregnancy test said to have been discarded into a hotel bathroom bin by Britney Spears. -
Originally posted by meltz:
[b]RUSSIA MAKES IT FUNNY
Pubic beetle creates dangerous car traffic situation in Los Angeles
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if SG gt this kinda cars running ard...its a goner....surely hit headlines... -
Originally posted by shade343:
Ebay getting weirder and weirder...someone actually sold a Doritos(a kind of corn chip available here) which has a shape of the Pope Hat for nearly 1500 pounds!
Taken From Ananova.com
[b]Brad and Angelina's 'air' sold on eBay
A jar said to contain the air of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has been sold for £293 on eBay.
The ordinary quart-sized jar was brought to the premiere to the couple's latest movie, Mr and Mrs Smith, in Westwood, California, where it was opened to capture the stars' air as they walked by before being sealed.
"This is another perfect example of pop culture phenomenon," said Richard Rowe, CEO of GoldenPalace.com, the online casino company which bought the jar.
"There is literally nothing in this jar except air, and it has made headlines all over the country and even overseas. The sheer weirdness and absurdity of this item has made it a marketing success."
Recently, the same company bought a positive pregnancy test said to have been discarded into a hotel bathroom bin by Britney Spears.
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Singapore's Prime Minister Urges Use Of Hip-Hop
By Nolan Strong
AllHipHop.com
Date: 5/13/2005 9:30 am
Singapore’s Prime Minister has launched a nationwide campaign utilizing Hip-Hop to stop the spread of “Singlish,” a mixture of English and local dialects.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the mixing of the languages is a major issue, because it could leave Singaporeans unintelligible.
Loong urged teachers to use pop songs and Hip-Hop music to teach proper English.
"Speak in a normal Singapore tone, which is neutral and intelligible," Loong said. "But speak in full sentences, with proper sentence structure."
According to published reports, Loong’s administration started their campaign against the “Singlish” dialect in 2000. The government blamed a popular TV character named Phua Chu Kang for the rise in bad grammar among the population.
Loong has been criticized in the past for various social engineering campaigns aimed at the Singaporean population.
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Weird enough?This campaign made it to the weird pages from Vancouver to San Diego, and to France as well. -
He wants youth to know about big pimping? He wants them to know about 50 cent's magic stick? Hip-hop not proper english also, all slangsOriginally posted by LazerLordz:Singapore's Prime Minister Urges Use Of Hip-Hop
By Nolan Strong
AllHipHop.com
Date: 5/13/2005 9:30 am
Singapore’s Prime Minister has launched a nationwide campaign utilizing Hip-Hop to stop the spread of “Singlish,” a mixture of English and local dialects.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the mixing of the languages is a major issue, because it could leave Singaporeans unintelligible.
Loong urged teachers to use pop songs and Hip-Hop music to teach proper English.
"Speak in a normal Singapore tone, which is neutral and intelligible," Loong said. "But speak in full sentences, with proper sentence structure."
According to published reports, Loong’s administration started their campaign against the “Singlish” dialect in 2000. The government blamed a popular TV character named Phua Chu Kang for the rise in bad grammar among the population.
Loong has been criticized in the past for various social engineering campaigns aimed at the Singaporean population.
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Weird enough?This campaign made it to the weird pages from Vancouver to San Diego, and to France as well. -
He thinks he's a player with a big magic stick..and he owns a white candy shop..Originally posted by The man who was death:He wants youth to know about big pimping? He wants them to know about 50 cent's magic stick? Hip-hop not proper english also, all slangs
Argh..this hip hop thing is driving me nuts...*retreats to the world of Chicago Jazz* -
No, he doesn't own the candy shop, it's the girl who owns it, he only goes there to service his magic stickOriginally posted by LazerLordz:He thinks he's a player with a big magic stick..and he owns a white candy shop..
Argh..this hip hop thing is driving me nuts...*retreats to the world of Chicago Jazz* -
Thumb Shape USB Stick
Sushi USB Stick
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Well, a USB drive is commonly called "thumb drive" anyway.Originally posted by rainee:Thumb Shape USB Stick