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Title: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on September 28, 2015, 05:03:26 pm
We don't have a section for the really stupid stuff. The stuff that makes you shake your head in disbelief, laugh at the workings of insta-karma or just stretch the bounds of the ridiculous. Yet we do all need a laugh.

So - post 'em here if you find one!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on September 28, 2015, 05:04:35 pm
Man shoots himself in the balls after being caught relieving himself by police

Another day, and yet another example of karma working its wicked way once again.

A man who was caught urinating in the street accidentally shot himself in the privates while attempting to get rid of a gun he was carrying.

Javier Thomas, 26, was caught relieving himself in a Brooklyn street in the early hours of Saturday, and immediately attempted to throw away his 9-mm Glock pistol.

But he was left in agony when he accidentally pulled the trigger and shot himself in the privates, police said.

Thomas was taken to Kings County Hospital with a non-life threatening wound, and was later arrested on charges of weapon possession and reckless endangerment.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/09/28/man-shoots-himself-in-the-balls-after-being-caught-relieving-himself-by-police-5411260/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on September 29, 2015, 01:52:31 pm
Man Asks to Be Deported to Heaven

An Alaskan ‘sovereign citizen’ suggested a judge could send him to heaven in lieu of paying child support.

If your name is “Birdman” and you find yourself in court for failing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in child support, perhaps don’t ask the judge if he can deport you to heaven. The judge might laugh at you.

Last week, Kevin Francis Ramey, a 57-year-old resident of Togiak, Alaska, who goes by the nickname “Birdman,” was arrested in his hometown and flown to Dillingham to appear in appear in court for allegedly refusing to pay more than $84,000 in back child support. “Birdman” proceeded to ask the judge a question involving divine citizenship.

“[The law] says if you’re not a U.S. citizen you could be deported,” he said, according to KDLG-AM. “I know I have three citizenships: number one in heaven, number two in America, number three in California. And that’s my primary citizenship, is of course, in heaven. So I was kinda wondering, are you guys going to deport me to heaven?”

“That was a very legal question…I’m a citizen of heaven, the Bible tells us that,” Ramey told The Daily Beast. He was not, however, speaking literally. “What are they gonna do, put me in front of a firing squad and deport me to heaven? No.”

Ramey, a former member of the Togiak City Council, leads a foundation called Sui Juris Court Angels, a sovereign citizen organization. Because of his diehard views on sovereign citizenry, Ramey believes the state lacks the authority to charge him with a class C felony for failing to pay child support.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/28/man-asks-to-be-deported-to-heaven.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on September 29, 2015, 02:39:48 pm
He can always "self-deport" himself to heaven.

Just sayin'.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on September 30, 2015, 05:46:24 am
Man spies spider on his car as he prepares to pump gas. He decides to rid himself of the pest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKrmvM-3hzw

Now that's arachnophobia.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 01, 2015, 10:31:54 pm
Baboon raid temporarily forced Zimbabwe radio station off air



A radio station in Zimbabwe was temporarily forced off the air after a group of baboons raided a transmission tower and chewed through cables, a state daily reported Thursday.

The Chronicle newspaper said the newly-launched YA FM went down during the breakfast show on Wednesday, sending technicians into an emergency search to identify the problem.

“We initially thought it was the on-going load-shedding (power outage) programme ... but we later realised the lights were on,” the paper quoted YA FM chief executive Munyaradzi Hwengwere as saying.

“We ... discovered that our transmission tower which is in a mountainous place had been preyed on by baboons. I am told there were more than five of them that ate into the cables.”

The station was back on air after an hour, $1,200 poorer from the loss of advertising revenue during the disruption.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/01/zimbabwe-baboons-radio-station-off-air
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 02, 2015, 11:21:21 am
Nunchuk-wielding shampoo thief charged in bus-based sword attack

A Seattle woman fresh from jail after a nunchuk attack is now accused of chasing a stranger off a King County Metro bus – with a sword.

Facing her third assault-related charge of the year, Sharnika Joy Armstead is accused of dashing after a man who jostled her aboard a downtown bus. Armstead, a recently homeless West Seattle resident, is accused of waving a sheathed short sword at the object of her ire.

Armstead, 26, had been released from King County Jail six weeks before the Sept. 14 incident. She served a 74-day stint after bashing a two men with nunchuks during a shampoo theft from a North Seattle supermarket.

Charged Tuesday in the bus incident, Armstead is also accused of brutally beating another woman at a Belltown women’s shelter on Aug. 19. Prosecutors claim Armstead, in a “vicious and unprovoked assault,” punched the other woman repeatedly in the head to steal her makeup bag.

Armstead’s current spate of legal troubles began May 18, when she beat up two men at a Grocery Outlet store in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood.

Armed with homemade nunchuks, Armstead attacked the store owner after she was caught stealing a bottle of shampoo from the discount grocery. Armstead bit a store employee during the fight.

Armstead was arrested at the scene and ultimately sentenced to three months in jail for the assaults. She was released July 31.

She is alleged to have seriously hurt another woman at Angeline’s Center for Homeless Women two weeks later. According to charging papers, Armstead punched the woman repeatedly in the face while stealing her makeup bag.

Armstead remained free until Sept. 14, when she is alleged to have accosted a man on a Metro Transit D Line bus.

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/crime/article/Nunchuk-wielding-shampoo-thief-charged-in-6543357.php

She just made every ninja fanatic who grew up to be a sub-editor VERY happy.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on October 02, 2015, 01:51:25 pm
Hey, at least she's not carrying a gun!

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: aligncare on October 02, 2015, 02:08:58 pm

Reality is stranger than fiction... **nononono*  just look at the absurd reality of Obama elected president, makes a deal to give Iran nuclear weapons, and his opposition party instead of stopping him, drafted legislation to help him subvert the constitution's treaty provision!  :thud:

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 03, 2015, 10:37:55 pm
Woman runs red light and almost causes crash, begins dancing on roof of car she nearly collided with

After almost colliding with a black saloon in the middle of a busy intersection, a woman in Guangdong for reasons unknown got off her scooter and began dancing on top of the car she very nearly crashed into.

According to Chinaso, at around 7 a.m. this morning eyewitnesses reported seeing a woman running a red light at a busy junction in Meizhou city, Guangdong province. After almost colliding with the car, everyone expected the driver to emerge and begin yelling at the woman, but instead the car remained stationary in the middle of the road.

Seemingly incensed by the fact that the driver refused to reveal himself, the woman dismounted her scooter, got on top of the car and started dancing, much to the disbelief of everyone in the vicinity.

This scene apparently went on for some time, causing a large traffic jam around the intersection. Only once police had been called did the woman finally call it a day and get off the car.

After the black saloon had driven away, the woman then decided to lie down in the middle of the road, oblivious to all the cars passing through the busy junction. After a further 10 minutes police arrived and moved the woman along.

http://shanghaiist.com/2015/10/03/woman_dances_on_car_roof_in_busy_intersection.php

 :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 03, 2015, 10:44:05 pm
Man delays flight by calling in bomb scare, gets arrested, still misses flight

An Italian man has been arrested after he delayed his flight by calling in a bomb scare because he was running late.

The unidentified 46-year-old man still managed to miss the Alitalia flight from Turin to Rome on Thursday evening despite keeping the plane on the tarmac for two and a half hours.

The flight was only minutes from take-off when the warning came through and was promptly grounded, Italian newspaper La Stampa reported.

"I heard two Arabs say that they had put a bomb on board," the businessman is reported to have told the emergency services.

After the passengers had been evacuated, the luggage search, and the threat established as a fake, it eventually left Turin and arrived in Rome two and half hour behind schedule.

Despite his best efforts, the man – who was reportedly in Palermo on business – still missed his plane as police officers immediately arrested him when he arrived at the airport.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-delays-flight-by-calling-in-bomb-scare-gets-arrested-still-misses-flight-a6678346.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on October 04, 2015, 05:35:35 am
"I poured drain cleaner in my eyes to blind myself"

"For most people, going blind is their worst nightmare, but for this North Carolina woman it was a dream come true.

"Jewel Shuping, 30, was so desperate to be blind that she poured draining cleaner in her baby blues to wipe out her eyesight — and she couldn’t be happier.

She suffers from an illness called body integrity identity disorder (BIID) — a disease that causes able-bodied people to strongly desire a disability.

“I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth,” Shuping told Barcroft Media.

The afflicted woman knew from a young age she wanted to be blind, and would attempt to harm her eyesight by staring at the sun while “blind-simming,” or pretending to be blind.

By the time Shuping turned 21, the idea of being blind was “a non-stop alarm that was going off” and she sought the help of a sympathetic psychologist to help her carry out her ultimate desire in 2006.

The psychologist gave her eye-numbing drops before sprinkling a few droplets of drain cleaner into each pupil.

“It hurt, let me tell you. My eyes were screaming and I had some drain cleaner going down my cheek burning my skin,” she said.

“But all I could think was, ‘I am going blind, it is going to be okay.”

Dr. Michael First, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, says that people who suffer from BIID can’t control their need to be disabled.

“These people are aware that this feeling of theirs is unusual — they know it is coming from within them. They can’t explain it,” he said."

http://nypost.com/2015/10/01/i-blinded-myself-on-purpose-and-have-never-been-happier/

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 04, 2015, 10:27:06 pm
India police charge toddler with 'theft and trespassing'

Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have been left red-faced after charging a toddler with theft.

Two-year-old Ravi had been named in a police complaint along with three men, one of whom was his relative.

Police attempted to arrest the toddler on Tuesday - causing his alarmed father to take Ravi to the district court, where he explained the situation to senior police officers, reports said.

Ravi's name was taken off the complaint after the senior officers intervened.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34412306
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 05, 2015, 02:57:33 pm
Turkish man sends bomb to ex-girlfriend as ‘wedding gift’

A man has been arrested in Turkey’s Aegean town of Aydın for placing a bomb at his ex-girlfriend’s front door as a “wedding gift.”

Reports stated that the woman in the Çine district of Aydın married the man, identified only as Mustafa K., shortly after breaking up with her former boyfriend, identified as Baki A.

Upon receiving news of the woman’s marriage, the suspect enlisted one of his friends, identified as Ersun B., to help him build a home-made bomb to be detonated in front of the woman’s home.

The two men charged 10 short tubes with explosives and attached the tubes to a bottled gas, before placing the explosive at the front door of the house where the woman lives with her husband.

The explosive was noticed by her husband, who informed the district police department. Police teams then removed the bomb, in the process finding a note that read: “My wedding gift to my love.”

The bomb squad disposed the bomb at vacant land in the nearby Kavşit neighborhood.

Read more: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-man-sends-bomb-to-ex-girlfriend-as-wedding-gift.aspx
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 05, 2015, 03:08:58 pm
Man is stranded for 2 days after wheelchair stalls in tunnel

MARKLETON, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a Pennsylvania man has been rescued after spending two days inside an old railroad tunnel when his motorized wheelchair broke down.

WJAC-TV (http://bit.ly/1iZjqm2) reports that the Somerset County man was inside the Pinkerton Tunnel along the Great Allegheny Passage when his wheelchair stalled.

It's not clear who first located the man. But officials say it took an all-terrain vehicle to free him Sunday because an ambulance couldn't fit inside the tunnel.

The man was taken to Somerset hospital with chills and dehydration but is expected to recover.

http://report24uk.info/article/326054/man-is-stranded-for-2-days-after-wheelchair-stalls-in-tunnel
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on October 05, 2015, 03:20:52 pm
Man is stranded for 2 days after wheelchair stalls in tunnel

MARKLETON, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a Pennsylvania man has been rescued after spending two days inside an old railroad tunnel when his motorized wheelchair broke down.

WJAC-TV (http://bit.ly/1iZjqm2) reports that the Somerset County man was inside the Pinkerton Tunnel along the Great Allegheny Passage when his wheelchair stalled.

It's not clear who first located the man. But officials say it took an all-terrain vehicle to free him Sunday because an ambulance couldn't fit inside the tunnel.

The man was taken to Somerset hospital with chills and dehydration but is expected to recover.

http://report24uk.info/article/326054/man-is-stranded-for-2-days-after-wheelchair-stalls-in-tunnel

They need to start making a four-wheel drive motorized wheelchair.  I see people driving these things everywhere, like you would a car.  Came around a blind curve on a State highway one evening at dusk, at a good clip - and there, right in front of me in the middle of the lane (no reflectors or lights) was a guy in a motorized wheelchair.  I had to slam on my brakes to keep from hitting him. 

I understand that the wheelchairs give people independence and mobility - but they are not cars and should not be treated as such.  That said, glad they found the guy in time!

 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdinVA on October 05, 2015, 03:36:49 pm
They need to start making a four-wheel drive motorized wheelchair.  I see people driving these things everywhere, like you would a car.  Came around a blind curve on a State highway one evening at dusk, at a good clip - and there, right in front of me in the middle of the lane (no reflectors or lights) was a guy in a motorized wheelchair.  I had to slam on my brakes to keep from hitting him. 

I understand that the wheelchairs give people independence and mobility - but they are not cars and should not be treated as such.  That said, glad they found the guy in time!

 

Here you go Alice....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnzNY7X2dNE
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on October 05, 2015, 03:44:47 pm
I want one of those!

I wonder how long before someone blocks the aisle at Walmart with one of those?   :smokin:

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on October 05, 2015, 07:38:41 pm
We don't have a section for the really stupid stuff. The stuff that makes you shake your head in disbelief, laugh at the workings of insta-karma or just stretch the bounds of the ridiculous. Yet we do all need a laugh.

So - post 'em here if you find one! 


This should be interesting . . . AND fill up fast!   :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 06, 2015, 12:22:02 pm
This one definitely rates a spot.

Pervert claimed he’d never flash because his penis is too small – prostitute says otherwise

A serial flasher has been jailed after a prostitute appeared in court last minute and gave a detailed description of his penis.

Hinton Sheryn, 68, had denied he would get his genitals out in public – because he was embarrassed it was ‘unusually small’.

But officers managed to find a prostitute he used who came to court at the last minute and contested his claims.

The female sex worker described his manhood and told Plymouth Crown Court it was a normal size.

Her late intervention helped convict the successful author, who has now been jailed for 17 years after being convicted of 18 perverted crimes.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/06/pervert-claimed-hed-never-flash-because-his-penis-is-too-small-prostitute-says-otherwise-5423869/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on October 06, 2015, 08:18:37 pm
"A serial flasher has been jailed after a prostitute appeared in court last minute and gave a detailed description of his penis."

Did it bend like you know whose?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: aligncare on October 06, 2015, 08:34:26 pm

A penis line-up? That's beyond ridiculous, that's bizarre.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on October 07, 2015, 12:43:45 am
"A penis line-up? That's beyond ridiculous, that's bizarre."

What was the name of that movie where a female high school gym teacher wanted to inspect the penises of all the boys in the school so she could identify who had been spying on the girl's shower? (He had exposed himself though his peep hole).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 07, 2015, 12:58:53 am
One of the Porkys ones? Seems familiar.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 08, 2015, 03:05:23 pm
Man has six inch long dagger stuck in his rear while trying to remove piles in DIY operation

    WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
    Patient was taken to hospital in Hangzhou, China, yesterday
    A dagger could be seen sticking out from the man's backside
    He claimed he sat on the blade by accident while trying to remove piles
    Surgeons have extracted the knife but failed to find haemorrhoids   


A Chinese man has a six-inch-long dagger removed from his rear yesterday after it got stuck there by accident.

The patient, known only by his surname of Yan, said he had tried to remove his piles with the knife in his dorm when the blade got caught in his rectum, reportedPeople's Daily Online

However, doctors from Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in Hangzhou, eastern China, said they didn't find any haemorrhoids on Mr Yan.

Removed: Doctors successfully extracted the sharp object (pictured) yesterday from the patient's body

Mr Yan was taken to the hospital by his colleagues at around 11am on October 7.

He is reported to be in his 50s and comes from Jiangsu province. He works as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Hangzhou.

Hospital staff said the patient was in great pain when he was sent to the emergency room and the handle of a dagger could be seen sticking out from his backside.

An unnamed colleague, who sent Mr Yan to the hospital, told Zhejiang Television Station: 'A colleague of his called me and said [Mr Yan] was sleeping and couldn't come to work today.

'He said a knife is sticking out from [Mr Yan's] rear.'

Mr Yan's colleagues decided to rush him to the hospital.

Mr Yan told a local reporter that he had been suffering from haemorrhoids for more than 10 years.

The pain became unbearable yesterday morning so he decided to 'chop them off' by himself with a dagger.

He said he carried out the operation by squatting down in front of a mirror, but he lost his balance at one point and sat on the blade by accident.

After checking the patient, an emergency room doctor said: 'We need to see if the dagger has pierced the rectum or the colon. If the intestines are fine, then we will remove it directly.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3264936/Man-six-inch-long-dagger-stuck-rear-trying-remove-piles-DIY-operation.html

Look, I KNOW washing dishes is boring, but THAT boring?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 10, 2015, 12:50:25 pm
Stowaway opossum flown back to Toronto area after hitching a ride to Calgary

 A furry traveller is back home in the Toronto area  after hitching a ride to Calgary from Brampton, Ont.

A Virginia opossum somehow managed to hide in a truck carrying goods out of the city, approximately 40 kilometres northwest of Toronto.

When the truck arrived in Calgary on Sept. 19, crews unpacking the goods discovered the small stowaway.

"When the opossum was found he was thin and dehydrated, but miraculously still alive," the Toronto Wildlife Centre said in a statement on Thursday.

It was treated in Calgary and arrangements were made for the critter to be flown back to Ontario for further care.

The Toronto Wildlife Centre said the opossum arrived in the Greater Toronto Area on Friday afternoon.

Toronto officials said it was decided that the opossum should be brought back because the species is not found in Calgary.

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/stowaway-opossum-flown-back-to-toronto-area-after-hitching-a-ride-to-calgary-1.2602910

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

It's a frigging carnivorous RAT!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: aligncare on October 10, 2015, 01:06:43 pm

Even carnivorous rats deserve our special love... and a seat on a jetliner.  **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on October 10, 2015, 08:54:08 pm
Back to Toronto, eh? Has the possum made any statement as to which sex it identifies with?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: PzLdr on October 13, 2015, 03:48:54 am
Stowaway opossum flown back to Toronto area after hitching a ride to Calgary

 A furry traveller is back home in the Toronto area  after hitching a ride to Calgary from Brampton, Ont.

A Virginia opossum somehow managed to hide in a truck carrying goods out of the city, approximately 40 kilometres northwest of Toronto.

When the truck arrived in Calgary on Sept. 19, crews unpacking the goods discovered the small stowaway.

"When the opossum was found he was thin and dehydrated, but miraculously still alive," the Toronto Wildlife Centre said in a statement on Thursday.

It was treated in Calgary and arrangements were made for the critter to be flown back to Ontario for further care.

The Toronto Wildlife Centre said the opossum arrived in the Greater Toronto Area on Friday afternoon.

Toronto officials said it was decided that the opossum should be brought back because the species is not found in Calgary.

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/stowaway-opossum-flown-back-to-toronto-area-after-hitching-a-ride-to-calgary-1.2602910

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

It's a frigging carnivorous RAT!

It's not a rat. It's a marsupial [the only one in North America, I believe].
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: aligncare on October 13, 2015, 11:51:14 am
It's not a rat. It's a marsupial [the only one in North America, I believe].

Was artistic license, take a joke.  ^-^
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 14, 2015, 02:27:02 pm
From the ridiculous to the sublimely ridiculous.

Man tries to put out garbage fire by driving over it in a van loaded with ammunition

A Clay County sheriff’s deputy retreated to a safe distance from a van burning in a field Tuesday afternoon after he heard the sound of live ammunition going off inside it.

The deputy found the van burning near Old State Highway 210 and Bluff Road, south of Liberty, about 2:30 p.m., said Jon Bazzano, a spokesman for the Clay County Sheriff’s Office. The deputy had been in the middle of a traffic stop when he saw black smoke on the horizon and headed that way to investigate.

Eventually, the deputy found the owner of the vehicle watching the fire from a distance.

The deputy learned that the owner had been burning garbage in the field and accidentally let the fire get out of control. In an attempt to put the fire out, he drove his van back and forth over the flames.

This made matters worse, as the tires of the van caught fire. Realizing that the van was loaded with firearms ammunition and a full tank of gas, the driver evacuated the area for safety.

A crew from the Liberty Fire Department responded to make sure the fire did not spread. It was unclear what type of ammunition the owner had in the vehicle.

The deputy did not immediately cite the owner, who declined to make a report for a possible insurance claim.

“It seems like he’s just going to have to take a loss on that vehicle because I don’t think they’re going to cover it,” Bazzano said.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article39003903.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on October 14, 2015, 02:46:36 pm
How can someone be that stupid and still be able to drive? 

 :silly:

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 15, 2015, 07:47:43 pm
Monitoring security cameras is boring, but this boring?

California Target store plays porn over loudspeakers

But what’s more shocking is that it has happened before.

Target is currently investigating an incident that occurred at one of its California stores on Wednesday during which pornographic audio was heard over the loudspeakers, Star Tribune reports.

Gina Young, a customer who had been shopping with her two children, recorded a 30-second video and posted it to her Facebook page with the following caption:

    This happened today at Target in Campbell, CA. Porn blasting over the intercom throughout the store. People offered to help me cover my twins ears. Others threw [their] stuff down and walked out. Employees were running around everywhere. Picking and hanging up phones, which worked….for about two minutes before it started up again.

    People were screaming at employees, video taping, some laughing some disgusted. It was terribly awkward.

As of Thursday afternoon, the video had been shared nearly 3,000 times and viewed by over 160,000 people.

Surprisingly, this isn’t the first time that Target customers have unexpectedly been plagued by pornographic moans broadcast throughout the store. The same thing happened at a Target location in San Luis Obispo back in July, almost 200 miles away from the Campbell store.

http://fortune.com/2015/10/15/pornographic-audio-target/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 16, 2015, 08:41:13 pm
It's a couple days old, but still gives me the giggles. Yes, I am about 5 years old.

A gun shop in the US has been selling Gun Oil lube by accident

An American gun owner got a little bit of a surprise recently when they went to pick up some accessories for their firearm.

Jamie Lee Bracey headed to the gun counter in his local Walmart, in Alabama, to pick up some oil for his weapon.

Pretty rapidly he realised the liquid wasn’t designed to lubricate THAT weapon.

In a video posted to Facebook, Bracey says: ‘Oh wow, it says water-based lubricant. I though water… that could rust, right?’

He then holds the product up to the camera so viewers can read the directions for use: ‘Apply desired amount to genital areas.

Video at link: http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/14/a-gun-shop-in-the-us-has-been-selling-gun-oil-lube-by-accident-5439051/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: andy58-in-nh on October 16, 2015, 08:57:00 pm
I have heard several of my fellow gun-owners swear that Hoppe's Gun Oil possesses aphrodisiac qualities, but this is carrying things a bit too far...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on October 16, 2015, 09:04:58 pm
WD-40 for me. There's just something about the smell ....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: HAPPY2BME on November 21, 2015, 05:37:40 am
Man Asks to Be Deported to Heaven

An Alaskan ‘sovereign citizen’ suggested a judge could send him to heaven in lieu of paying child support.

If your name is “Birdman” and you find yourself in court for failing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in child support, perhaps don’t ask the judge if he can deport you to heaven. The judge might laugh at you.

Last week, Kevin Francis Ramey, a 57-year-old resident of Togiak, Alaska, who goes by the nickname “Birdman,” was arrested in his hometown and flown to Dillingham to appear in appear in court for allegedly refusing to pay more than $84,000 in back child support. “Birdman” proceeded to ask the judge a question involving divine citizenship.

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: HAPPY2BME on November 21, 2015, 05:48:10 am
Phuc Dat Bich: Man posts passport to Facebook to prove his name is real

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A Vietnamese-Australian called Phuc Dat Bich has spoken of his anger after repeatedly being blocked by Facebook.

The 23-year-old, whose name according to the Evening Standard is pronounced Phoo Da Bic, has posted an image of his passport on the social media site after it banned him several times.

His picture of proof, and its accompanying message, has been shared more than 123,000 times.

"I find it highly irritating the fact that nobody seems to believe me when I say that my full legal name is how you see it," he said.

"I've been accused of using a false and misleading name of which I find very offensive."

He went on to explain that his frustration was due to what he suggested was a lack of understanding in the West for names which appear amusing to some.

"Is it because I'm Asian? Is it?" he asked in the post.

"Having my (Facebook) shut down multiple times and forced to change my name to my 'real' name, so just to put it out there. My name.

"Yours sincerely, Phuc Dat Bich".

It is not the first time Facebook has blocked users from their profile accounts as a result of their name.

Most recently, a woman whose first name is Isis said Facebook would not let her sign in - tweeting that the social media site thought she was "a terrorist".
A man who changed his name to Something Long and Complicated - from William Wood - was blocked in October this year by the site.

Members of the Native American community have also reported having their accounts suspended, as well as members of the drag queen community.

Facebook's chief product officer, Chris Cox, issued an apology on the site after the latest incident.

The social media giant has an authentic name policy in place to make its users accountable for what they say.

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=10137483
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on November 26, 2015, 05:05:26 am
What a ridiculous waste of police resources.

"ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (CBS Tampa) — Police in Florida busted a game of mahjong in Florida at a condominium clubhouse. The group accused of the crime: four women between the ages of 87 and 95.

Heritage Florida reports that police came to shut down the friendly game played by Lee Delnick, Bernice Diamond, Helen Greenspan and Zelda King.

King says word spread about their weekly gathering and that a “troublemaker” in the community called the police citing a law that prohibits playing the game for money. Police closed the clubhouse.

The women were sent a formal notice from condominium management stating that there would be no more mahjong, bingo, or poker played in the location until further notice. Police reportedly stopped by several times later that week to make sure the games weren’t being played.

“This is ridiculous,” King said. “We haven’t played in the clubhouse for weeks! We have to go to each other’s homes to play and not everyone lives in Escondido. It is an international game and we are being crucified!”

The 87-year-old said the game is good for the elderly and that even her doctor has told her that it can delay dementia. The women suggested they could “just play for fun” without money, but the property manager said they should “lay low,” until things were resolved."

http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2015/11/24/police-bust-weekly-mahjong-game-played-by-elderly-women/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on November 29, 2015, 05:04:59 am
"Brazilian police hunt Santa Claus who stole Sao Paulo helicopter"

Oh, I don't know. I just like the headline.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/brazilian-police-hunt-santa-claus-stole-sao-paulo-233747099.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on December 02, 2015, 02:01:37 pm
7' 4" Man Busted For 7-Eleven Armed Robbery

DECEMBER 1--A 7’ 4” Michigan man who robbed a 7-Eleven store at knifepoint early Sunday later surrendered to police after apparently realizing that the ski mask he wore during the heist was not sufficient to cloak his towering identity.

According to police, Damon Matthews, 19, held up the Bay City convenience store around 3 AM and fled on foot with about $35 and several packs of Newport cigarettes.

A 7-Eleven worker told cops that the robber brandished a butcher knife and repeatedly threatened to kill him if he did not cooperate. While the suspect wore a black ski mask, the employee told investigators that he believed the armed robber was Matthews, a former high school classmate.

According to cops, Matthews told his sister that he had robbed the 7-Eleven, an admission that prompted her to advise him to immediately surrender to authorities. Matthews’s sister concluded that her brother’s connection to the robbery would be obvious due to his height.

http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/towering-armed-robber-648392

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: PzLdr on December 02, 2015, 03:07:53 pm
Guess he couldn't blame Vader, Vader being dead and all.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on December 28, 2015, 01:50:23 pm
Meet The Couple Who Stayed Together When The Husband Became A Woman - Then Invited A Third Lover To Join Them

It's pretty much as ridiculous as it sounds.

http://uk.r24.co/p/125
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on December 28, 2015, 03:01:13 pm
Meet The Couple Who Stayed Together When The Husband Became A Woman - Then Invited A Third Lover To Join Them

It's pretty much as ridiculous as it sounds.

http://uk.r24.co/p/125

They'll be adopting children next, God help the children!   :0001:



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on December 28, 2015, 06:49:45 pm
Man killed on Christmas Day after blowing up condom machine..

A man has died after trying to blow up a condom vending machine.

The 29-year-old was hit on the head by a piece of shrapnel after blowing up the device in Schoeppingen, near Munster, Germany.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/28/man-29-dies-after-trying-to-blow-up-condom-vending-machine-5587970/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: aligncare on December 28, 2015, 07:02:19 pm

The 29-year-old got more head than he planned on.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on December 28, 2015, 07:45:36 pm
Man killed on Christmas Day after blowing up condom machine..

A man has died after trying to blow up a condom vending machine.

The 29-year-old was hit on the head by a piece of shrapnel after blowing up the device in Schoeppingen, near Munster, Germany.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/28/man-29-dies-after-trying-to-blow-up-condom-vending-machine-5587970/

Moral of the story: when blowing anything, always use proper protection, and watch for flying debris.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on January 04, 2016, 12:59:46 pm
Preachers argue for private jets because demons travel on normal ones

Jesus may have been a fan of the frugal lifestyle (the 40-day episode in the desert), but not all of his followers are willing to make the same sacrifices. A couple of televangelists have said that they should fly private jets.

Kenneth Copeland (the guy in the red shirt) and his fellow prosperity gospel preacher Jesse Duplantis made arguments for the motion in a YouTube video for Kenneth Copeland Ministries posted on December 30.

Here’s their reasoning.

You can’t talk to God on a normal plane

Copeland said he couldn’t talk to God on a normal passenger plane because people may get freaked out.
He apparently talks to God all the time while travelling on private jets.
He just gets up and shouts at him.

God told them to get private jets

The big man himself said it’s OK.
Copeland’s preacher mate Creflo Dollar, who failed to get donations for his own $65 million private jet, was on board at the time.

It’s a sanctuary

Private jets are a sanctuary.

They’re too famous

Multi-millionaire preachers are celebrities now and would be harassed every time they stepped on a normal plane.
Copeland talked about pastor Oral Roberts whose spirit had become agitated as a result of him flying traditional airlines.

We’re demons

Copeland can’t get into a ‘long tube’ with a bunch of demons (aka you).
‘It works on your heart, it really does,’ added Jesse Duplantis when talking about the horror of flying with normal people.

Video at link: http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/04/preachers-argue-for-private-jets-because-demons-travel-on-normal-ones-5599615/

Is it any wonder Christianity is struggling, when these are some of the public faces of it? Hence - it goes in Ridiculous News of the day.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on January 05, 2016, 02:53:31 am
"Preachers argue for private jets because demons travel on normal ones"

For fairness and balance on this story be sure to read:

"New Obama vacation costs uncovered; They now exceed $70 million"
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,189004.0/topicseen.html

Also bear in mind that Copeland, Creflo Dollar, and Jesse Duplantis get their money from the voluntary donations of their supporters, who may be fools, but it's their money. When it comes to Obama he gets his money through coercing the taxpayers, including you.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdinVA on January 06, 2016, 06:25:42 pm
http://wjla.com/news/local/abc7-news-crew-robbed-while-attending-anti-robbery-press-conference-in-dc (http://wjla.com/news/local/abc7-news-crew-robbed-while-attending-anti-robbery-press-conference-in-dc)

Quote
ABC7 News crew robbed while attending anti-robbery press conference in D.C.
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — An ABC7 News crew was robbed while attending a press conference held by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Cathy Lanier to discuss a Task Force created to fight robberies.
According to ABC7 News reporter Stephen Tschida, thieves tore through the news vehicle early Wednesday afternoon and a culprit smashed a window out of the car and stole a cache of equipment.
Tschida said the crime happened a few feet away from where the mayor and chief were speaking.
ABC7 News will have more on this developing story as information becomes available.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: aligncare on January 06, 2016, 06:40:39 pm
http://wjla.com/news/local/abc7-news-crew-robbed-while-attending-anti-robbery-press-conference-in-dc (http://wjla.com/news/local/abc7-news-crew-robbed-while-attending-anti-robbery-press-conference-in-dc)

Technically, what occurred was a burglary, not a robbery.

Just want to keep the record straight.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on January 07, 2016, 12:59:33 pm
This one is mainly for the headline.

Israeli Reporter Gets Stabbed While Testing Stab-Proof Vest

An Israeli reporter has been stabbed on the job while testing a “stab-proof” protective vest.

Eitam Lachover was filming a segment about a company designing the vests when he decided to be part of the demonstration.

The Channel 1 reporter had agreed to test the hardware, to prove the importance of the gear, but ended up injured.

Skip to 1:00 on the video above to watch the demonstration.

isreali stab proof
Eitam Lachover accidentally gets stabbed while testing a stab-proof vest

In a statement to Israeli paper The Globes, the company said Lachover suffered the injury only because he “moved” during the take.

“The knife did not penetrate the vest. The reporter moved during the demonstration, and the ‘stabber’ missed the vest. The reporter was stabbed slightly above the vest,” the company said.

Lachover only suffered a light injury to his upper back after the accident and the manufacturers are still are confident the item is safe.

He later said on Twitter that he got stitches and was discharged from the hospital.

And yes, it's on video: http://reportuk.org/2016/01/israeli-reporter-gets-stabbed-while-testing-stab-proof-vest/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on January 08, 2016, 10:54:06 pm
The man with a bionic penis will lose his virginity to a dominatrix who ran for parliament

A man whose penis was ripped off in a road accident, and who has subsequently received surgery to fit an 8-inch bionic penis, is to lose his virginity to an “award winning” dominatrix who unsuccessfully ran for parliament.

Mohammed Abad, from Edinburgh, was run over when he was six years old in Huddersfield, in 1978. During the accident his penis was sliced off as he was dragged 600ft by a car.

Mr Abad had surgery to fit a fully functional 8 inch bionic penis in 2012. The organ has two tubes which inflate when he presses a button on his testicle.

Abad said:

    I have waited long enough for this — it’ll be a great start to the new year.

    My penis is working perfectly now so I just want to do it. I’m really excited. I can’t wait for it to finally happen.


http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-man-with-a-bionic-penis-will-lose-his-virginity-to-a-dominatrix-who-ran-for-parliament--WJY00cYJhg
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: aligncare on January 09, 2016, 12:02:30 am

Well...

Well.

Okay, I can't come up with a comment. Except to say I wouldn't want my sex life to be a matter of public curiosity. I value modesty and my privacy too much.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on January 09, 2016, 12:11:12 am
42 years old and still a virgin.  I just wonder if this bionic penis enables him to "feel" what's going on? 

Just curious.   :shrug:

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on January 09, 2016, 12:17:50 am
Why only 8 inches?

If I had a bionic penis, I would want a dial to be able to adjust length and girth. Then I would let the woman adjust it to her preference.

Just an idle thought.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on January 09, 2016, 01:01:00 am
Why only 8 inches?

If I had a bionic penis, I would want a dial to be able to adjust length and girth. Then I would let the woman adjust it to her preference.

Just an idle thought.

Oh my!   ***cool cat***

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on January 09, 2016, 11:52:13 am
See above ridiculous news story for full effect:

The man with a bionic penis was in a bad car crash, will now have to wait to lose his virginity

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-man-with-a-bionic-penis-was-in-a-bad-car-crash-will-now-have-to-wait-to-lose-his-virginity--bJQJ5B6fhl


God REALLY doesn't want him to have sex.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on January 14, 2016, 05:30:26 am
Maybe the guy with the bionic penis should get together with this guy.

"A man thought to be Britain's most prolific sperm donor has fathered an unbelievable 800 children after selling his semen for £50 a go.

Simon Watson, 41, has been flogging his "magic potion" for 16 years and becomes a dad around once a week.

He now sells his sperm on Facebook and has raked in at least £40,000 for his efforts.

The rogue donor advertises his so-called "ammo" on Facebook and other internet selling sites, and at just £50 a pot Simon has a constant stream of business - and babies.

Dad-of-three Simon, from Luton, Bedfordshire, said: "My friends and family know everything about what I do, I've got no secrets."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/super-dad-sperm-donor-800-7170289
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: PzLdr on January 14, 2016, 03:56:14 pm
Why only 8 inches?

If I had a bionic penis, I would want a dial to be able to adjust length and girth. Then I would let the woman adjust it to her preference.

Just an idle thought.

Like most guys, I'd probably go for one the size of "the Paris Gun".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 15, 2016, 09:12:40 pm
The man with a bionic penis will lose his virginity to a dominatrix who ran for parliament


Mohammed Abad, from Edinburgh, was run over when he was six years old in Huddersfield, in 1978. During the accident his penis was sliced off as he was dragged 600ft by a car.



http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-man-with-a-bionic-penis-will-lose-his-virginity-to-a-dominatrix-who-ran-for-parliament--WJY00cYJhg

If Lil Mo became a suicide bomber would he get 72 Bionic Virgins? :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on January 15, 2016, 09:17:04 pm
Nah. Milking machine.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdinVA on January 15, 2016, 09:28:06 pm
Nah. Milking machine.

 :silly: geez EC...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 15, 2016, 09:28:52 pm
Well, Hold the udder budder and turn it up to 11!
     


 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on January 17, 2016, 06:53:18 am
This one might be the weirdest. It is certainly among the top 5.

"Rutgers Professor Raped Man With Cerebral Palsy In Her Office, Goes To Jail"

"The former chairwoman of the Rutgers University Philosophy Department will go to jail for as many as 12 years in New Jersey State Prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a disabled man in her school office, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray has announced.

Siobhan Teare, state Superior Court judge, handed down the sentence on Friday.

On Oct. 2, 2015, an Essex County jury convicted Marjorie Anna Stubblefield, 46, of West Orange of two counts of first degree aggravated sexual assault for repeatedly engaging in sexual acts with a man suffering from cerebral palsy who was unable to speak or communicate.

The victim wears a diaper and requires assistance with basic needs such as eating, walking and bathing and has the mental capacity of a toddler, according to the ECPO.

Under the No Early Release Act, she must serve 85 percent of her sentence before she is eligible for parole. In addition, she will have to register under Megan’s Law when she is released from prison and she has been disqualified from public employment.

Assistant Prosecutor Eric Plant, who tried the case, said Professor Stubblefield “was a trusted and respected member of the university community who used her position to prey on the victim. What she did was not only criminal, it was cruel.”

“Knowing how desperately families of disabled individuals are for some hope, she mislead the victim’s family into believing that she was making progress in helping their son to communicate while all the while she was simply satisfying her own tawdry desires,“ he said. “In the process, she did great damage to this young man, his family and even her own family.’’

Stubblefield admitted taking him out of the wheelchair, putting him on the floor in her office, removing his diaper and performing oral sex on the victim on one occasion.

She admitted engaging in vaginal intercourse at her Rutgers University office, where she was allegedly teaching him to communicate through something known as facilitated communication, a controversial and discredited method of communicating, according to the ECPO.

Stubblefield met the victim in 2009 when his brother took her class. During the class she showed a video on facilitated communication. After viewing the video, the victim’s brother asked if she thought his brother could be taught this method of communications, according to the ECPO.

From 2009 to 2011, Stubblefield worked with the victim. She took him from his home to her office. She also met him at a day program. Eventually she started taking him to conferences where she presented him as evidence of the effectiveness of facilitated communications.

She claimed he wrote complicated term papers and essays and expressed high-level thinking. She even took him on a date in New York City where she claimed he told her she should not drink wine because she was the designated driver, according to the ECPO.

After a while the victim’s family members became concerned because they were unable to communicate with him despite her claims that he was typing and communicating.

Eventually, she confessed to the family that she was in love with the victim and planning to leave her husband and children to live in an apartment with the victim.

At that point, the victim’s mother and brother, who had been appointed by the court to serve as legal guardians, asked her to stay away from the victim. Despite their request, she continued to try to make contact with the victim, causing the family to contact the University. Given the nature of the allegations, the university contacted authorities and Stubblefield was arrested and charged following a lengthy investigation, according to the ECPO."

http://patch.com/new-jersey/westorange/rutgers-professor-raped-man-cerebral-palsy-her-office-goes-jail-prosecutor?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_term=police%20%26%20fire&utm_campaign=alert

(http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t413/winthroproberts/d7bf8073-c326-4e24-98de-9a2eeaf555fd_zpsbf5h04xj.png) (http://s1058.photobucket.com/user/winthroproberts/media/d7bf8073-c326-4e24-98de-9a2eeaf555fd_zpsbf5h04xj.png.html)

I am not sure if being on the faculty at Rutgers, especially in the Philosophy Dept., is a contributing factor here, but she might consider raising that point on appeal.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 17, 2016, 08:33:10 pm
He can always "self-deport" himself to heaven.

Just sayin'

OMG, I just saw this.  And I am ROFL!   88devil
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on January 29, 2016, 12:07:52 pm
Woman says she is a cat trapped in the wrong body - she hisses at dogs, hates water and claims she can even see better at night

 We probably all feel a bit like a sleepy housecat when we have to get up for work in the morning.

This Norwegian woman has taken that feeling to the next level. Nano claims she realised she was a cat when she was 16 years old, and has adopted feline mannerisms since.

The 20-year-old has opened up about her life as a puss, describing how she has a superior sense of hearing and sight which allows her to hunt mice in the dark.

She made the revelation in a YouTube video, which has been viewed over 100,000 times.

Nano claims to possess many feline characteristics including a hatred of water and the ability to communicate simply by meowing.

The young woman shows off her cat characteristics by wearing fake ears and an artificial tail. She communicates by meowing.

"I realised I was a cat when I was 16 when doctors and psychologists found out what was "the thing" with me. Under my birth there was a genetic defect," she explains in the video.

As they walked through Oslo's central station, the presenter asked Nano what she could hear and see that a normal person might not.

"Suitcases rolling on the ground," she says, "Keys clinking in pockets. People with ice under their shoes."

Then all of a sudden, she lets out a hiss and takes a step back.

"There is a dog over there," she explains. "Sometime I hiss when meeting dogs in the street. It's because of their behaviour and my instinct automatically reacts by hissing."

More, plus video if you must: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12127067/woman-says-she-is-a-cat-trapped-in-the-wrong-body.html

WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!

Not the girl, she's just nuts, but with whoever decided this needed to be in a serious newspaper ....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on January 29, 2016, 02:22:45 pm
Since we now live in the age of self-identification, this woman needs her special rights protected, and special accommodations given to her by all public places she frequents. Such as a litter box in the public bathroom, and her milk in a bowl instead of a glass. Scratching posts in her hotel room would be nice too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 29, 2016, 02:33:28 pm
I think she is one of them "furries". 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on January 29, 2016, 02:58:22 pm
I think she is one of them "furries".

I'd hate to see the size of those hairballs.  8888spinning cat

 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: aligncare on January 29, 2016, 03:06:07 pm
I'd hate to see the size of those hairballs.  8888spinning cat

 

Now that's funny!

I wonder, does she prefer using a cat box?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on January 29, 2016, 04:33:15 pm
Now that's funny!

I wonder, does she prefer using a cat box?

Gag!  I wouldn't want to have to clean that out!   :poohappen:

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on January 29, 2016, 04:47:55 pm
Since we're on cats ....

‘Someone shaved my cat’: pet owners left mystified after bizarre incidents in Minchinhampton

 SOMEONE is catching and shaving cats in Minchinhampton.

Pet owners in the town have been left angry and mystified after two cats had their fur shaved off with what appears to be an electric trimmer.

Two neighbours came home during the last week to find large bold patches on their pet’s backs, stomachs and even on the top of their heads.

Resident Mandy Felton said she found her three-year-old black and white called Treacle in a state of distress on Monday evening.

“The poor thing was traumatised,” said Mandy, who lives in Glebe Road.

“Someone has clearly caught her and shaved two big patches into her fur. There were little marks on her legs and paws as well. It looked quite painful.

“She was a timid cat to begin with and wouldn’t usually go up to people in the street - but now she seems scared to go back outside.

“Treacle would never go up to someone if they called her, so somebody must have trapped her and held her down.

“When my daughter Tia first discovered what had happened she was so upset.

“I don’t understand who would do such a thing. What kind of person gets their kicks from shaving cats?

http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/14237231.___Someone_shaved_my_cat_____pet_owners_left_mystified_after_bizarre_incidents_in_Minchinhampton/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on January 29, 2016, 05:23:26 pm
Sick fu(ks. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: katzenjammer on January 29, 2016, 05:28:28 pm
Vile beyond description.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: aligncare on January 29, 2016, 05:42:18 pm
(http://s12.postimg.org/44d67z4st/image.png) (http://postimage.org/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on January 31, 2016, 12:29:25 pm
Marietta Police K-9 to be auctioned off despite handler’s request to keep him

MARIETTA, OH (WCMH) — A Marietta police officer who retired earlier this week wants his partner to retire with him. Instead, the city says Ajax, his K-9 partner for the last four years, will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Officer Matthew Hickey retired on Monday after serving 30 years in law enforcement, NBC affiliate WTAP-TV reports. He wanted to Ajax to retire with him, but the city told him that wouldn’t be possible.

News quickly spread in the small community, and they started a GoFundMe account which raised $3,500 – the amount Officer Hickey was told Ajax was worth.

“I had the money for the dog and was ready to hand it to the the chief of police, and the chief of police said he couldn’t take it,” Hickey said.

The city says it is just following state law. Ohio state code 9.62 states that officers are allowed to purchase their K-9 partners when the dog is retired for just $1. But Ajax isn’t the one retiring in this case.

“Another section of this particular law that says if a law enforcement officer leaves the unit, and in this situation, Officer Hickey is leaving the unit,” explained Paul Bertram, City of Marietta Law Director, “That particular section says that the officer forfeits the right to purchase the dog, under this provision.

http://nbc4i.com/2016/01/30/marietta-police-k-9-to-be-auctioned-off-despite-handlers-request-to-keep-him/

The law is an ass. Proven once more.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: aligncare on January 31, 2016, 01:43:56 pm

Exactly, EC.

The letter of the law can be stupid, asinine, cruel, devoid of judgment or common sense, or any number of other appropriate descriptions.

If as humans we can't recognize and follow the spirit of the law, when the intent of the law is shown to be (see above descriptions), then we are too stupid and inhuman to exist.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 03, 2016, 03:18:43 pm
DC bill to pay people stipends not to commit crimes

WASHINGTON (AP) - They say crime doesn't pay, but that might not be entirely true in the District of Columbia as lawmakers look for ways to discourage people from becoming repeat offenders.

The D.C. Council unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that includes a proposal to pay residents a stipend not to commit crimes. It's based on a program in Richmond, California, that advocates say has contributed to deep reductions in crime there.

Under the bill, city officials would identify up to 200 people a year who are considered at risk of either committing or becoming victims of violent crime. Those people would be directed to participate in behavioral therapy and other programs. If they fulfill those obligations and stay out of trouble, they would be paid.

http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/dc/2016/02/02/dc-bill-pay-people-stipends-not-commit-crimes/79712420/

Aren't there more than 200 in Congress?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on February 03, 2016, 03:45:45 pm
Man accused of masquerading as priest busted over fake tickets to see the Pope

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/03/man-accused-masquerading-as-priest-busted-over-fake-tickets-to-see-pope.html

A man who allegedly posed as a priest and officiated at Masses, funerals, confessions, and at least one marriage was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of selling thousands of dollars in phony tickets to see Pope Francis during last year's U.S. visit.

Erwin Mena, 59, declined to comment to the Los Angeles Times as detectives escorted him in handcuffs from police headquarters. He remained jailed, and it was unclear whether he had an attorney.

Mena faces about 30 charges, including grand theft, perjury -- for filing a marriage license he signed as a priest -- and practicing medicine without a license in connection with offering "a system or mode of treating the sick," according to an arrest warrant.

Last year, Mena allegedly posed as a priest at St. Ignatius of Loyola parish in northeastern Los Angeles and sold tickets to a pilgrimage to visit New York and see the pope during his Philadelphia visit in September, prosecutors said.

The trip supposedly included airfare and lodging at convents.

Michelle Rodriguez, 60, and some of her friends and co-workers paid more than $950 each in cash for the trip.

"It was a great deal for the price," Michelle Rodriguez told the Times. "We were thinking, `Oh, we'll have this great time in New York. We'll see the pope and it will be a great experience.' "

"He used us, he stole from us, and that's it," she said.

Mena, who was acting as a substitute priest, made a good impression.

"He smiled, talked about how good things were. There was never anything negative," Joaquin Oviedo, a retired public high school teacher, told the paper. "He was not a fire and brimstone kind of preacher."

"We had always been raised not to question authority figures," Oviedo said. "He's a priest - what he said is holy writ. We never imagined he was a phony."

Mena had been posing as a priest since the mid-1990s, appearing at parishes or prayer groups in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Stockton, Fresno and Orange counties, then vanishing before Roman Catholic authorities could act, court papers indicated.

Mena showed up at St. Mary parish in Fontana more than five years ago and celebrated Mass on a few occasions, John Andrews, a spokesman for the Diocese of San Bernardino, told the Times.

Mena allegedly made money by borrowing from people and selling his services or videos.

One group loaned him about $16,000 to produce CDs about Pope Francis that turned out to be pirated, and one person loaned him $6,000, Los Angeles police Detective Gary Guevara told the Times.

Mena's name is on a list of dozens of unauthorized priests and deacons that is kept by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Some victims have been reimbursed, and those who received the sacraments from Mena can receive them again, said Doris Benavides, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles archdiocese.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on February 03, 2016, 08:27:01 pm
Marietta Police K-9 to be auctioned off despite handler’s request to keep him

MARIETTA, OH (WCMH) — A Marietta police officer who retired earlier this week wants his partner to retire with him. Instead, the city says Ajax, his K-9 partner for the last four years, will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

"Marietta Law Director Paul Betram III told WBNS, “The dog is property of the city of Marietta. Because it is personal property, it is treated like a shovel. That's just the way it is.”

And that's where the Internet stepped in. A Change.org petition collected over 22,000 signatures and Facebook users took to the city of Marietta's page to express their displeasure with the law.

But then the collective of supporters decided to channel their rage more productively. Rather than let Hickey have to sweat out the possibility of being outbid, a GoFundMe page has raised over $50,000 in less than a week to go towards Hickey's purchase of Ajax at auction. The auction date has yet to be set, but should be announced on Thursday, February 4th.

Assuming no one tries to outbid Hickey for Ajax (and, really, who would be so cold?), the remaining money is to be spent on protective vests for K9 units, a growing trend in light of recent law enforcement incidents."

http://mashable.com/2016/01/31/k9-auction-fundraiser/#zTNJwJaUwOq7

Hey, Paul, baby, a dog is not the same as an inanimate object like a shovel. Wake up, you dweeb.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 04, 2016, 12:11:55 pm
Thank you, Paladin. There are good people about still.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 04, 2016, 12:13:09 pm
Prostitute ‘surgically removed from client after he died during sex’

Video at link. Nothing gross.

http://reportuk.org/2016/02/prostitute-surgically-removed-from-client-after-he-died-during-sex/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on February 04, 2016, 04:54:26 pm
Prostitute ‘surgically removed from client after he died during sex’

Video at link. Nothing gross.

http://reportuk.org/2016/02/prostitute-surgically-removed-from-client-after-he-died-during-sex/

There's a TV scene waiting to happen....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on February 04, 2016, 07:39:41 pm
Prostitute ‘surgically removed from client after he died during sex’

This might make an interesting premise for a Law & Order:SVU episode.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Meshuge Mikey on February 04, 2016, 08:22:54 pm
D.C. wasn't the first municipality to try this.


The City Of Richmond Ca....S.F. BAY AREA....had also implemented this inane plan.


I have no information as to its "success" there....as yet.


this is the first time Ive heard of any municipalities paying protection money to the thugs



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 04, 2016, 10:39:33 pm
Prostitute ‘surgically removed from client after he died during sex’

Video at link. Nothing gross.

http://reportuk.org/2016/02/prostitute-surgically-removed-from-client-after-he-died-during-sex/

 Man oh man.... If only Social Security had a box locked that tight......Calling algore.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on February 05, 2016, 02:27:01 am
"Finland Tells its Female Citizens to Avoid Rapist Immigrants by Using “The Force” "

This is, so far as I can tell, a story based on fact.

"That’s the take from police in Finland, who released a strange video teaching women that they can avoid rapists by using “The Force.” The video quite literally encourages women to try to use an invisible, non-existent energy to ensure their own physical safety. Sadly, this is not a joke.

Some have been quick to remind us that Finland does not permit its citizens to purchase firearms for reasons of self-defense. If the US had the kind of immigration Finland does right now, maybe things would play out a little differently."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ4EQFcFQQo

This version (there are several): http://twitchy.com/2016/02/03/finland-te...sing-the-force/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on February 26, 2016, 05:36:37 am
From the headline it would appear this is a recurring phenomenon in the People's Paradise of Zimbabwe.

"Three women pick up a hitch-hiker and force him to have sex so they can 'harvest his semen' in latest 'sperm collector' attack to hit Zimbabwe"

"Police fear a trio of female 'sperm collectors' are on the loose in Zimbabwe after they picked up a hitchhiker on a highway and raped him in order to 'harvest' his sperm.

The women, believed to be driving a white Toyota Cresta, offered him a lift along a main road in the city of Bulawayo, in the country's southwest.

But partway through the journey the women attacked him - forcing him to have sex with them and making off with his semen.

Bulawayo police spokesperson Precious Simango told The Chronicle they picked up the man at an illegal hiking point on 6th Avenue in the city.

'Their victim was travelling to Cowdray Park and while on the way they changed the route prompting him to inquire where they were taking him. They told him they were taking a short cut.'

They are alleged to have then parked in a semi-rural area where they took turns to sexually assault him.

'One of the women used a condom while the others had sex with him without protection. They then took away his semen before dumping him.'

The inspector did not explain why they were harvesting semen, but the case bears strong similarities to a spate of attacks across the country in 2011 and 2012.

These attacks were fueled by a demand for men's semen in traditional luck-enhancing 'juju' rituals.

According to reports, victims of the freeway femme fatales are drugged or subdued at gun or knife-point - one man was even forced to perform at 'snake-point' when his rapists brandished a live snake.

The male victims are then given a sexual stimulant and forced to have sex repeatedly before being dumped on the side of the road.

In November 2011, three sisters and one of their boyfriends were charged in a Harare court for attacking male hitchhikers and harvesting their semen for rituals.

The Nhokwara sisters were caught when they were involved in a car accident and police found 31 used condoms in the boot of their car."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3464030/Three-women-pick-hitch-hiker-force-sex-harvest-semen-latest-sperm-collector-attack-hit-Zimbabwe.html









Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on March 03, 2016, 06:35:05 am
"Drive-Thru Sex Lands Couple Behind Bars"

"MARCH 2--As several drive-thru customers looked on, a Kentucky couple had sex in their car in the parking lot of a Hardee’s restaurant, according to cops who busted the randy duo for their 10 AM encounter.

Brittany Pennington, 24, and Johnathan Howard, 24, were arraigned today on indecent exposure charges in connection with their public tryst Monday morning outside the Hardee’s in Harlan, a city about 20 miles north of the Tennessee border.

According to cops, the occupants of several cars lined up to order breakfast watched as Pennington and Howard had sex inside a 1994 Ford Crown Victoria "during the rush hour."

The couple’s vehicle, a police citation notes, was parked next to the drive-thru lane, in full view of customers waiting to order Hardee’s favorites like the loaded breakfast burrito or the smoked sausage biscuit."

http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/hardees-drive-thru-tryst-283915

The romantic twosome:

(http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t413/winthroproberts/d27107bc-32ac-4da1-91a4-cfa7c1e6ef75_zpsai6adeyu.jpg) (http://s1058.photobucket.com/user/winthroproberts/media/d27107bc-32ac-4da1-91a4-cfa7c1e6ef75_zpsai6adeyu.jpg.html)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on March 03, 2016, 05:22:59 pm
Quote
The couple’s vehicle, a police citation notes, was parked next to the drive-thru lane, in full view of customers waiting to order Hardee’s favorites like the loaded breakfast burrito or the smoked sausage biscuit."

Methinks the reporter was channeling their inner Beavis and Butthead when they slipped that into the article.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: PzLdr on March 03, 2016, 05:25:12 pm
Methinks the reporter was channeling their inner Beavis and Butthead when they slipped that into the article.

What about the clam strips? The Red Snapper?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on March 03, 2016, 05:30:49 pm
What about the clam strips? The Red Snapper?

or Taco's
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on March 13, 2016, 09:19:30 pm
10 pounds of bat poop found above Florida official’s desk

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/weird/2016/03/12/10-pounds-bat-poop-found-above-florida-officials-desk/81719050/

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The state agency charged with inspecting Florida's restaurants and hotels has a festering infestation lingering overhead — literally.

Ten pounds of bat feces were found Thursday in the ceiling above the desk of Department of Business and Professional Regulation SecretaryKen Lawson, located in Northwood Centre.

The find comes amid a surprise effort by the Florida Legislature to move 1,500 state employees out of the building this summer after reports of mold and other environmental problems. Pending Gov. Rick Scott's signing of the budget, employees will begin moving out in the coming weeks and months.

"Please let the secretary know his office is off limits until the 10 pounds of bat guano is safely removed from the area directly above his desk," said toxicologist David Krause in a Thursday night email obtained by the Tallahassee Democrat. "This poses an unsafe condition and he is advised that no one should enter the room or go above the ceiling tiles without respiratory protection."

Krause, of Geosyntec Consultants, said he planted an "air scrubber" in the office to reduce any "airborne debris" generated during the inspection.

State offices take up nearly 80% of the 500,000-square-foot property.

Chad Poppell, secretary of the state Department of Management Services, which oversees state facilities, said the building failed to pass muster.

"After taking several immediate actions at the Northwood Centre to ensure employee health and safety, it became clear that the building does not meet our very high workplace standards," he said. "Out of an abundance of caution, we worked with the Legislature on a solution to identify other locations for employees to work."

But NAI Talcor, which manages the building, said they were blindsided by the news. The company had no inkling of the state's plan until it was brought up during a 10-minute budget discussion between House and Senate leaders on Sunday. The state paid about $7.5 million in rent to Northwood in the 2015-16 fiscal year.

"We're confident that these issues will be resolved in the very near future," said Talcor President Ed Murray. "But we were totally shocked by the legislative action that occurred without any opportunity from the owners of Northwood to give any input."

Employees recounted tales of air quality issues dating back to the 1990s.

One woman said she developed respiratory problems when she worked there from 1995 to about 2000. She started receiving breathing treatments with a doctor three times a week, and once her office was moved to another site, her breathing returned to normal.

The woman, who chose not to be named because she still works in state government, said she and others used to return to work Monday morning to find small poppy-seed sized dark brown pellets on their desks.

Northwood is owned by Ajax Partners based in New York City. The building used to be the Northwood Mall, which opened in 1969. The building started to be used as office space in 1988.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Paladin on March 13, 2016, 09:39:32 pm
Holy moly, bat poo-poo, called guano, is valuable.

"Guano (via Spanish, ultimately from the Quechua wanu) is the excrement of seabirds, cave-dwelling bats, pinnipeds, or (in English usage) birds in general.[1] As a manure, guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to its exceptionally high content of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium: nutrients essential for plant growth. The 19th-century guano trade played a pivotal role in the development of modern input-intensive farming practices and inspired the formal human colonization of remote bird islands in many parts of the world. During the twentieth century, guano-producing birds became an important target of conservation programs and influenced the development of environmental consciousness. Today, guano is increasingly sought after by organic farmers.[2]"

Do you think the authorities will mine this stuff, sell it, and thus provide a little relief for the taxpayers of FL?

Yeah, me neither.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: alicewonders on March 13, 2016, 09:55:44 pm
Holy moly, bat poo-poo, called guano, is valuable.

"Guano (via Spanish, ultimately from the Quechua wanu) is the excrement of seabirds, cave-dwelling bats, pinnipeds, or (in English usage) birds in general.[1] As a manure, guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to its exceptionally high content of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium: nutrients essential for plant growth. The 19th-century guano trade played a pivotal role in the development of modern input-intensive farming practices and inspired the formal human colonization of remote bird islands in many parts of the world. During the twentieth century, guano-producing birds became an important target of conservation programs and influenced the development of environmental consciousness. Today, guano is increasingly sought after by organic farmers.[2]"

Do you think the authorities will mine this stuff, sell it, and thus provide a little relief for the taxpayers of FL?

Yeah, me neither.

You reminded me of this:

http://picdit.net/2008/08/25/isfahans-ancient-pigeon-towers/

Isfahan’s Ancient Pigeon Towers

"The main purpose of these pigeon towers were to collect dung which was a significant source of local revenue. These towers were frequently decorated with white plaster and painted ochre (which is the color that attracts pigeons the most). These cylindrical towers constructed of brick, gypsum, and lime plaster would range from 15 to 25 meters in diameter to often imposing heights of 20 meters or more. Topped with domes with crevices to allow access to honeycombed interiors, each pigeon tower could accommodate thousands of the Persian wild pigeons."

(https://picdit.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/py1.png?w=600)

(https://picdit.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/pt9.png?w=600)

Other images at link - these buildings were built to harvest pigeon dung.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on March 13, 2016, 09:55:54 pm
(http://moviegoings.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/batguano.jpg)

Colonel "Bat" Guano: "You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 19, 2016, 10:06:06 pm
This one is more strange as hell than ridiculous:

People are freaking out over this woman vanishing on live TV

A woman at an airport chats to fellow travellers, turns to grab her suitcase from the conveyor belt... and vanishes into thin air without warning.

Video at link: http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/people-are-freaking-out-over-this-woman-vanishing-on-live-tv--W1xeMy0CckW
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bill Cipher on March 19, 2016, 10:09:22 pm
This one is more strange as hell than ridiculous:

People are freaking out over this woman vanishing on live TV

A woman at an airport chats to fellow travellers, turns to grab her suitcase from the conveyor belt... and vanishes into thin air without warning.

Video at link: http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/people-are-freaking-out-over-this-woman-vanishing-on-live-tv--W1xeMy0CckW

I love the wonders of perspective and the distorting effects of the camera lens.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on March 19, 2016, 11:31:48 pm
Being that it's live TV and a static camera, it's very interesting.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on March 23, 2016, 03:24:56 pm
We can shoot your wife and frame your mother-in-law. If you want we can hang them too!


Funny ad Banned by the PC Poilice.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3504544/Joke-slogan-shooting-wife-banned.html

Quote
It was intended to be a light-hearted joke about marriage and mothers-in-law.  But an Australian picture frame service's slogan stating 'We can shoot your wife and frame your mother-in-law. If you want we can hang them too' has been banned.

The Advertising Standards Bureau ruled that Fantastic Framing's advert was 'not funny' and breached standards because of the way it portrayed violence.

A number of complaints were made about the Sydney-based service by people who found the advert 'sexist and violent'.

But Fantastic Framing said they were 'surprised' about the backlash because so many of their customers had said it was 'funny' and 'smart'. 'We are very surprised to get this email but more than happy to help and explain it,' the service said, according to documents.

'The reaction we get from our customers that it is very funny and it is relating to marriage and picture frames. Lots of people came to us and said 'Funny we like it ... very smart.

'There is no bad intention for this advertising it is purely a joke which relate to marriage and picture frames.'

The advertising bureau noted that the slogan was 'clearly intended to be a humorous play on words'.

But it found that the 'intended humour has worn off' because of the high level of community concern about violence towards women.

'The majority of the Board acknowledged that the advertiser's intent was to inject humour in to their advertising but considered that making a joke about using a gun or hanging a person would not be found funny by most members of the community,' the ruling stated.

Comedian Austen Tayshus told the Daily Telegraph that it was political correctness gone mad.

'Whenever you use irony, satire, anything like that, you always depend on whether people have the capacity to understand that. Unfortunately people are stupid,' he said.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 25, 2016, 01:48:18 am
Man Arrested For Not Returning Rented VHS

A man has revealed he was arrested while taking his daughter to school after failing to return a VHS movie he rented in 2001.

James Meyers, 37, posted a video on his YouTube channel describing the moment he was pulled over on Tuesday in Concord, North Carolina, for a broken taillight.

But after officers ran his licence he was asked to step out of the vehicle and informed there was a warrant for his arrest from 2002 for not returning the movie Freddy Got Fingered to a rental store in Kannapolis.
FILE PHOTO OF TOM GREEN AND DREW BARRYMORE.

Tom Green, pictured in 2001, was married briefly to Drew Barrymore

Meyers said he initially thought the officer was joking.

He was allowed to drop his daughter off at school and go to work after agreeing to turn himself in to police later that day, but was then arrested.

He said: “The officer said “I don”t know how to tell you this but there”s a warrant out for your arrest from 2002. Apparently you rented the movie Freddy Got Fingered and never returned it”.”

The rental store has since closed, but Meyers has been given a court date of 27 April. He could face a fine of up to $200 if convicted.

Tom Green, who starred in and wrote Freddy Got Fingered, said he would help out Meyers financially.

The 44-year-old comedian offered to help after one of Meyers” friends shared his story on Twitter.

He told the New York Daily News: “If it”s 200 bucks of course I”ll pay it for him, just for the principle of the thing.”

https://reportuk.org/2016/03/24/man-arrested-for-not-returning-rented-vhs/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on March 25, 2016, 04:37:13 am
The law is an ass.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 26, 2016, 04:43:30 am
Speaking of asses ....

Miss BumBum model whose implants “rotted” now performs exorcisms after finding God

Andressa Urach fell into a septic-shock induced coma last year as her thigh fillers began to rot.

And it appears the life-threatening experience has enlightened the 29-year-old Brazilian babe.

The former model has ditched her raunchy antics for exorcisms, hopes of being an African missionary and the word of God.

Andressa shot to fame after coming second on the popular TV Competition Miss BumBum – showcasing the nation”s best bottoms.

She then famously appeared stark naked outside the Portuguese football team”s hotel during the World Cup, with her body painted in the colours of Cristiano Ronaldo”s team shirt.

The buxom babe is even alleged to have had a fling with the Real Madrid ace.

The former model said: “I never believed in God, I was full of anger, of my mother, my father, my abuser.

“For many years I wanted to kill him, I wanted revenge.”

She adds: “I sold my body for seven years. I once slept with seven men in one day.

“All I wanted was money, the good life. But I started to love money and would do anything to get it.

“I liked to feel the wads of notes in my hands. It was an addiction and I”d lost any notion of limits.”

But Andressa said she has now swapped selfies for salvation as she devotes herself to God.

She told the Mail: “I”ve asked forgiveness from all of the people I ever wronged.

“I”ve forgiven my abuser and all those I hated. And the most difficult thing of all, I”ve managed to forgive myself.

“I don”t care anymore what the world thinks of me. I know that God loves me.”

She now performs exorcisms on female inmates seeking redemption.

And the Celebrity preacher has dreams of becoming a missionary in Africa.

She revealed: “If God calls me to be a missionary, here I am.

“I have everything, luxury, comfort, a Porsche, but my pleasure now lies in helping others.

“I would give it all up to go and do God”s work, I would love to go to Africa.”

Andressa also aims to convert celebrities to the word of God – starting with Cristiano Ronaldo.

She said: ”I would like him to read my book, I think it would touch his heart and maybe he would come to forgive me too.

“My prayer is that he comes to know God like I do.”

https://reportuk.org/2016/03/26/miss-bumbum-model-whose-implants-rotted-now-performs-exorcisms-after-finding-god/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 26, 2016, 10:45:10 pm
Orgy being held in Kent village to raise money for charity

There are plenty of ways to raise money for good causes.

Traditionally, people have gone for cake sales, coffee mornings, or – if they’re feeling more energetic – running a marathon.

But one club has thought of a novel, and energetic, way of raising cash for Macmillan Cancer Support.

The Sun reports that the Eureka club, in Kent, is holding a giant orgy.

Yes, you read that right.

The club will charge £25 entry to the event, with £5 from each fee going to the good cause.

It’s an intriguing way of helping charity (Picture: Getty)

The private estate, which holds regular fetish nights,  is based in Fawkham in Kent.

Its fundraising event is being held on the May 29 Bank Holiday weekend, and is open to couples and singles.

If the orgy isn’t enough to get you reaching for your wallet, it will feature a live band as well.

https://reportuk.org/2016/03/26/orgy-being-held-in-kent-village-to-raise-money-for-charity/

I love my country sometimes.  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on March 27, 2016, 02:14:04 am
Well hell, a live band? Now we're talkin'!

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 01, 2016, 01:31:14 am
Man jailed for sending exgirlfriend a gun emoji

A man has been jailed for sending a gun emoji to his ex-girlfriend.

Bilal Azougagh, 22, was sentenced to six months (with three months suspended) in prison for sending her the emoji.

The small gun icon which accompanied a text message which was perceived as a ‘death threat in the form of an image’ by a court in Valence, France.

Azougagh, of Pierelatte, admitted sending the message containing the gun emoji in the summer of 2015.

https://reportuk.org/2016/03/31/man-jailed-for-sending-exgirlfriend-a-gun-emoji/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 04, 2016, 06:15:24 am
A penis line-up? That's beyond ridiculous, that's bizarre.

How would you tell which ones were lawyers?


Oh, neckties...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bill Cipher on April 07, 2016, 03:21:46 am
How would you tell which ones were lawyers?


Oh, neckties...


:bigsilly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on April 25, 2016, 02:26:36 am
Florida man catches 400-pound Goliath grouper using a wrench

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-man-catches-400-pound-goliath-grouper-wrench-article-1.2613055

A number-11 wrench proved to be more useful for fishing than as an actual tool.

On a fishing trip, Ryan Hein in St. Petersburg wrangled a 400-pound Goliath grouper using the tiny wrench as a lure, without any fancy equipment.

“I was just looking for a way to make a jig without spending so much money,” Hein told WFTS.

Ryan Hein of St. Petersburg, Florida shows how he caught a 400-pound Goliath grouper using a number 11 wrench as a lure.

So instead of spending up to $20 for the bait, he rigged together the wrench with two hooks for his fishing rod.

Hein said he’s never used the wrench, as most mechanics find the tool useless.

Ryan Hein said he originally made the wrench-lure because he did not want to spend too much money on a jig.

30 miles off shore, the number-11 wrench found another role after it attracted and hooked the massive Goliath grouper.

“I knew it was a big fish immediately,” Hein told the local station. “I had no control, just holding on while the fish just went wherever it wanted to go.”

He reeled in the monster-sized fish and took a photo with it before releasing it back into the water, since Goliath groupers are illegal to harvest, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s laws.

The wrench ended up helping Hein catch several more fish before it was eventually lost.

Finding a new purpose for his previously obsolete wrench inspired Hein to throw together another makeshift lure, this time with a larger number-14 wrench.

He’s also planning to make more lures using forks and butter-knives.

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Hellz yeah! Git-r-done! 'Merica!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sinkspur on April 25, 2016, 02:31:06 am
http://laughingsquid.com/how-the-popular-expression-elvis-has-left-the-building-originally-came-about/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=G-File%2004222016&utm_term=GFile

How the Popular Expression ‘Elvis Has Left the Building’ Originally Came About

by Lori Dorn at 11:33 am on April 12, 2016

In the latest episode of the fascinating series Today I Found Out, host Simon Whistler explains how the term “Elvis has left the building” came about and why it became so incredibly popular. Using information from a post by Eddie Deezen, Whistler also explained who originally coined the term (Horace Logan) and who made it popular (Al Dvorin).

In an attempt to stop people leaving, and let everyone know there would be no chance of seeing Elvis outside, announcer Horace “Hoss” Logan said “All right, all right, Elvis has left the building. I’ve told you absolutely straight up to this point. You know that. He has left the building. He left the stage and went out the back with the policeman and he is now gone… Please take your seats”… It wasn’t until 1972 that it really hit the mainstream thanks to Elvis’ Madison Square Garden concert, which resulted in the album Elvis as Recorded at Madison Square Garden. The album peaked at #11 on the Billboard charts and has sold well over 3 million copies to date. Most pertinent to this article, the record includes an “End Theme” track where you can hear Dvorin stating “Elvis has left the building. Thank you and good night,” exposing many who’d never gone to an Elvis concert to this little catch-phrase.
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Post by: geronl on April 25, 2016, 03:54:37 am
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/15/michigan-couple-threatened-with-jail-time-for-overdue-library-books.html

AKA: County government trying to gouge couple over a Dr Seuss book


Michigan couple threatened with jail time for overdue library books


Published April 15, 2016 Associated Press
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TECUMSEH, Mich. –   A judge told a Michigan couple they could land in jail for up to 93 days and face a maximum $500 fine for failing to return a novel and a Dr. Seuss book borrowed from the local public library.

Cathy and Melvin Duren appeared in Lenawee County court on Thursday to each face a misdemeanor charge of failure to return rental property. They owe about $35 in late fees for "The Rome Prophecy," borrowed in April, 2015. They lost a Dr. Seuss book their teenage son borrowed for their granddaughter in July, 2014.

"I can't image going to jail over it, but I certainly will fight these charges because I'm not guilty," Cathy Duren said.

Although the couple admitted they were negligent in returning the books, they think it's unfair to each be charged a $105 "diversion fee" to the Lenawee County Economic Crimes Unit in addition to fines owed to the Tecumseh Public Library, WXYZ-TV reported.

In December, the Durens received a letter advising them to return the books and pay the fees, as well as the replacement costs if they couldn't find the books. The letter also informed them that they could be charged with a crime.

In January, the couple was able to find and return "The Rome Prophecy," but they couldn't locate the Dr. Seuss book.

Cathy Duren sent a $55 money order to the prosecutor's office to cover the late fees and replacement costs for the lost book. But Cathy Duren said her money order was refused because she and her husband declined to pay the additional $210 in diversion fees to the Lenawee County prosecutor's crime unit.

Cathy Duren said she feels that she's being extorted by the prosecutor's office.

The Durens had to pay $100 bond to avoid going to jail last Friday when they were served with arrest warrants.

The couple said they probably will never check out a library book again.
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Post by: uglybiker on April 25, 2016, 05:58:59 am
https://www.rt.com/usa/337987-cia-explosives-school-bus/ (https://www.rt.com/usa/337987-cia-explosives-school-bus/)


CIA leaves explosives on school bus borrowed for training



For at least two days a school bus in northern Virginia has been carrying students with explosive material hidden in its engine compartment. The explosives fell out of a container, which was used by the CIA for training last week.
“During the exercise, explosive training material was inadvertently left by the CIA K-9 unit in one of the buses used in the exercise,” the CIA said in a statement. The agency attested that the explosives were "incredibly stable" and “benign” and didn’t put anyone in danger.

The explosive was discovered on Wednesday during a routine maintenance check. It had been unnoticed for nearly a week since March 24.

More at link.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on April 28, 2016, 03:16:48 pm
Royal Mail may ban deliveries over 'mail snatching' cat
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-36157538
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 03, 2016, 06:00:22 am
NYC hospital probed after patient catches fire during surgery

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/05/02/hospital-probed-after-patient-catches-fire-during-surgery.html

Published May 02, 2016 New York Post

State investigators slammed NYU Langone Medical Center for lapses in safety procedures and communications that resulted in an operating-room fire while a patient was undergoing surgery, The Post has learned.

Probers cited a “communications failure between the surgeon and anesthesiologist,” who wasn’t aware a certain instrument would be used “in the presence of oxygen,” according to the state Health Department’s report on the 2014 blaze which was obtained by The Post under a Freedom of Information Law request.

“It was evident that the hospital failed to provide surgical services that conformed to current standards of practice,” the report said.

It found that NYU Langone was “not in substantial compliance” with federal regulations governing surgery and anesthesia.

The DOH inspected the hospital and declared an “immediate jeopardy situation” on Dec. 30, 2014, because of the lapses.
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Post by: Frank Cannon on May 03, 2016, 06:12:15 am
Man Arrested For Not Returning Rented VHS

A man has revealed he was arrested while taking his daughter to school after failing to return a VHS movie he rented in 2001.

James Meyers, 37, posted a video on his YouTube channel describing the moment he was pulled over on Tuesday in Concord, North Carolina, for a broken taillight.

But after officers ran his licence he was asked to step out of the vehicle and informed there was a warrant for his arrest from 2002 for not returning the movie Freddy Got Fingered to a rental store in Kannapolis.
FILE PHOTO OF TOM GREEN AND DREW BARRYMORE.

Tom Green, pictured in 2001, was married briefly to Drew Barrymore

Meyers said he initially thought the officer was joking.

He was allowed to drop his daughter off at school and go to work after agreeing to turn himself in to police later that day, but was then arrested.

He said: “The officer said “I don”t know how to tell you this but there”s a warrant out for your arrest from 2002. Apparently you rented the movie Freddy Got Fingered and never returned it”.”

The rental store has since closed, but Meyers has been given a court date of 27 April. He could face a fine of up to $200 if convicted.

Tom Green, who starred in and wrote Freddy Got Fingered, said he would help out Meyers financially.

The 44-year-old comedian offered to help after one of Meyers” friends shared his story on Twitter.

He told the New York Daily News: “If it”s 200 bucks of course I”ll pay it for him, just for the principle of the thing.”

https://reportuk.org/2016/03/24/man-arrested-for-not-returning-rented-vhs/

Outrageous! Tom Greene is the one who should be arrested for making that piece of garbage.

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Post by: Free Vulcan on May 03, 2016, 06:16:55 am
Australia hoping herpes will control carp population

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/05/02/australia-hoping-herpes-will-control-carp-population.html

The Australian government is giving carp herpes.

Science Minister Christopher Pyne called the plan to eradicate about 95 percent of European carp in the country’s river system “carp-aggedon,” ABC reported.

“It affects the European carp by attacking their kidneys, their skin, their gills and stopping them breathing effectively,” Pyne said. ‘They have the virus for a week before they show any symptoms and it suddenly kills them within 24 hours.”..
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Post by: Smokin Joe on May 03, 2016, 09:24:24 am
Australia hoping herpes will control carp population

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/05/02/australia-hoping-herpes-will-control-carp-population.html

The Australian government is giving carp herpes.

Science Minister Christopher Pyne called the plan to eradicate about 95 percent of European carp in the country’s river system “carp-aggedon,” ABC reported.

“It affects the European carp by attacking their kidneys, their skin, their gills and stopping them breathing effectively,” Pyne said. ‘They have the virus for a week before they show any symptoms and it suddenly kills them within 24 hours.”..
I'm not going to ask how they are giving carp herpes. Nope, nope, nope :nometalk:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on May 05, 2016, 05:33:11 pm
The patient, known only by his surname of Yan, said he had tried to remove his piles with the knife in his dorm when the blade got caught in his rectum, reportedPeople's Daily Online

Rectum?  Damn near killed 'em!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 05, 2016, 06:50:40 pm
Rectum?  Damn near killed 'em!


That is a great old joke Punch Line!  :beer:
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Post by: andy58-in-nh on May 05, 2016, 08:15:42 pm
Quote from: EC on October 08, 2015, 11:05:23 AM (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,181569.msg721046.html#msg721046)
The patient, known only by his surname of Yan, said he had tried to remove his piles with the knife in his dorm when the blade got caught in his rectum, reportedPeople's Daily Online
Quote from: Hoodat on Today at 01:33:11 PM (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,181569.msg866432.html#msg866432)
        Rectum?  Damn near killed 'em!

Confucius say: Man who try to remove hemorrhoids with knife not too sharp.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 12, 2016, 03:11:43 am
http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/may-11-2016-day-in-photos/3326074.html

May 11th photos of the day, rather than post them since they are so big;

Caption of one: "Indian father Mohinder Singh Gill, 79, and his wife Daljinder Kaur, 70, hold their newborn baby boy, Arman, at their home in Amritsar. Daljinder Kaur gave birth to a boy last month following two years of IVF treatment with her husband at a fertility clinic in the northern state of Haryana. "

Last photo on page: "

Indian activists from the right-wing organization Hindu Sena perform Hindu fire rituals in support of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in New Delhi. "

Well, maybe that last photo is worth posting.
(http://gdb.voanews.com/5A522593-AB3E-4752-9ABC-DE231DFE9320_w974_n_s.jpg)

Note, how they put the red dot (I don't know the name) on his forehead?

Full link to today's photos of the day: http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/may-11-2016-day-in-photos/3326074.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: geronl on May 12, 2016, 06:23:22 am

That is a great old joke Punch Line!  :beer:

BRD!

"Bloody Rectum Debris"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 15, 2016, 03:14:01 am
Two Dead After Cemetery Brawl in Moscow

MOSCOW (AP) — A violent brawl Saturday at a Moscow cemetery involving about 200 people in an apparent turf war left three people dead and 23 others hospitalized, police and health officials said.

Those in the brawl fired guns and used shovels, shovel handles, steel bars and baseball bats against their opponents, Russian news reports said.

Two of those who died were hit by a car driven by someone trying to flee the scene, Moscow police spokeswoman Sofia Khotina told the Interfax news agency. She said the three people in the car, who were armed with pistols, were among more than 50 people detained by police.

The city health department said another person also was killed and four of the 23 hospitalized were in serious condition.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3f0ad3d070144d939ea0a066f1cec6ca/moscow-cemetery-brawl-leaves-2-dead-10-wounded
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 15, 2016, 03:42:25 am
Russian voter registration is rough.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 15, 2016, 03:46:43 am
Two Dead After Cemetery Brawl in Moscow

MOSCOW (AP) — A violent brawl Saturday at a Moscow cemetery involving about 200 people in an apparent turf war left three people dead and 23 others hospitalized, police and health officials said.

Those in the brawl fired guns and used shovels, shovel handles, steel bars and baseball bats against their opponents, Russian news reports said.

Two of those who died were hit by a car driven by someone trying to flee the scene, Moscow police spokeswoman Sofia Khotina told the Interfax news agency. She said the three people in the car, who were armed with pistols, were among more than 50 people detained by police.

The city health department said another person also was killed and four of the 23 hospitalized were in serious condition.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3f0ad3d070144d939ea0a066f1cec6ca/moscow-cemetery-brawl-leaves-2-dead-10-wounded

Yes, I heard about this. Up to 3 dead now.

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http://www.rferl.org/content/moscow-cemetery-brawl-deaths/27734745.html

Ethnic Chechens, Daghestanis, Uzbeks, and Tajiks were reportedly among those detained.

Based on reporting by Reuters, AFP, TASS, and the BBC

So, this clarifies who was probably fighting as the article I read said "ethnic groups" but still this happened near Moscow.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: geronl on May 16, 2016, 04:17:03 am

Thieves Attempt to Siphon Gas From a Bus But Accidentally Suck Out Sewage

http://973thedawg.com/thieves-attempt-to-siphon-gas-from-a-bus-but-accidentally-suck-out-sewage/


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A few fellas in Australia recently learned a lesson on why you should watch what you put in your mouth.

Some thieves really needed a little gasoline in their lives so they decided to attempt to siphon it from a tour bus. They snuck up to the bus in the middle of the night, stuck a hose in the tank, and got to sucking.

There was one big problem. They put the hose in the wrong place. So instead of siphoning gas, yep, they were siphoning from the sewage tank!

An investigating police sergeant said, “We can infer they [made] a very hasty retreat, with a somewhat bitter taste in their mouth.”


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Post by: txradioguy on May 16, 2016, 12:14:16 pm
Lawsuit seeks to ban balloon releases at University of Nebraska football games

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An activist in Omaha is asking a federal court to ban balloon releases at University of Nebraska football games, the latest skirmish in a nationwide battle over whether the soaring spectacles exact a heavy toll on the environment.

Randall Krause filed suit in the state’s federal court alleging the release of thousands of bright red balloons by Cornhusker fans following the first touchdown of home games violates national environmental laws. He likens the balloons to flying garbage that endangers wildlife and even children when they eventually fall to the earth.

“The mass balloon releases during football games at Memorial Stadium result in the open dumping of solid waste,” Mr. Krause alleged in a 14-page suit filed Monday.

The university, which has been releasing thousands of balloons at home games since the 1940s, doesn’t comment on pending legislation, said Steve Smith, spokesman for the school.

“It is, however, worth noting that every balloon released in Memorial Stadium is natural latex biodegradable, and they are tied off with 100% cotton strings,” Mr. Smith said in a statement.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/16/lawsuit-seeks-to-ban-balloon-releases-at-university-nebraska-football-games.html?intcmp=hpbt3

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 16, 2016, 01:41:21 pm
Thieves Attempt to Siphon Gas From a Bus But Accidentally Suck Out Sewage

http://973thedawg.com/thieves-attempt-to-siphon-gas-from-a-bus-but-accidentally-suck-out-sewage/


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Bunch of "potty mouths"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 16, 2016, 03:33:17 pm
Thieves Attempt to Siphon Gas From a Bus But Accidentally Suck Out Sewage

http://973thedawg.com/thieves-attempt-to-siphon-gas-from-a-bus-but-accidentally-suck-out-sewage/


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Instant poetic justice.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 16, 2016, 03:40:11 pm
Instant poetic justice.

"No tank too big, no tank too small, teacup or cesspool, we suck 'em all."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 17, 2016, 09:53:27 am
Lawsuit seeks to ban balloon releases at University of Nebraska football games

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/16/lawsuit-seeks-to-ban-balloon-releases-at-university-nebraska-football-games.html?intcmp=hpbt3
It's a string, less rubber than a condom, and no special sauce. Just because they will be dispersed more widely than the local 'inspiration point', doesn't make them deadly. Exactly what data do they have to show any harm?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 19, 2016, 02:59:39 am
Strange news; not ridiculous and I am sorry for the death involved. I don't think this quite merits a separate thread under national news though with such pressing problems.

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Jelly Belly family sued over man crushed by WWII tank

The Jelly Belly family is being sued over the death of a man crushed by a WWII tank at the chairman's home in August. The tragedy occurred at a family reunion at the California home of Herman Rowland Sr., chair of the candy company's board and an avid collector of old military vehicles.

Rowland's son-in-law, Dwayne Brasher, husband of Jelly Belly CEO Lisa Brasher, was driving one of those vehicles, the aforementioned 1944 M5 tank. While he was driving Kevin Wright around, Wright was tossed from the tank and into its path.

Now, Wright's father (who was living with and being taken care of by Wright at the time of his death) and two adult daughters (whose mother died in 2009) are suing Rowland and his son-in-law, the Daily Beast reports.

More: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/05/18/jelly-belly-family-sued-over-man-crushed-by-wwii-tank/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 19, 2016, 03:06:04 am
Now, this is ridiculous!
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Colorado babysitter held in drive-through bank robbery with kids in car

May 16 A Colorado babysitter has been arrested on suspicion of robbing a drive-through bank by falsely claiming that a man in her vehicle threatened to harm the two children in her care unless given money, police said on Monday.

According to the Greeley Tribune, Einspahr planned to rob the bank to pay back $15,000 under a possible plea agreement in previous theft cases. She remained behind bars Tuesday, according to Weld County Jail records. The sheriff's office says there was never actually a man in the SUV, and it's unclear who the second person detained was. As a result, Einspahr has been charged with two counts of child abuse as well.

According to the Coloradoan, Einspahr wrote a note demanding $500 and sent it through the drive-thru tube to the teller. Soon after the robbery took place, police found the white SUV she drove parked in front of a house. Although the children, whose ages were not disclosed, were not harmed, she was also charged with two counts of child abuse.

 http://bilbaoya.com/2016/05/18/colorado-babysitter-held-in-drive-through-bank-robbery-with.html

Okay, so the extenuating circumstances are that a man was threatening to hurt the 2 children in the car, maybe not as odd as just looking at the headline.

Basque news website but they must have some news feed just like there is a decent Italian news website that does it.






http://bilbaoya.com/2016/05/18/colorado-babysitter-held-in-drive-through-bank-robbery-with.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 19, 2016, 05:08:56 pm
GOP Lawmaker Proposes The State Of Louisiana Regulate Strippers' Weight.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kenneth-havard-louisiana-regulate-strippers-weight



A Republican lawmaker on Wednesday proposed that a bill raising the minimum age for dancers at strip clubs also allow the state of Louisiana to regulate strippers' weight.

State Rep. Kenneth Havard was discussing the bill, which would raise the minimum age for exotic dancers from 18 to 21, when he also threw out there that he'd like the dancers to remain under 160 pounds, according to The Huffington Post. Havard also suggested the maximum age for a stripper under the law should be 28.
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Some of Havard's female colleagues quickly criticized his comments.

"I can’t even believe the behavior," state Rep. Julie Stokes told the New Orleans Times-Picayune. "I hear derogatory comments about women, I see women get treated differently than men.”

Havard quickly withdrew his amendment, calling it a "poke at over regulating everything."

“It was aimed at both men and women. I can’t strip either. I’m a little overweight,” Havard told the Times-Picayune.

He did not immediately respond Thursday morning to TPM's request for comment.

The bill raising the minimum age for exotic dancers, which was intended to curb human trafficking, passed the state's House by a vote of 96 to 0.

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And what if I like big butts and I cannot lie?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 19, 2016, 05:23:32 pm
Woman Gets Asked To Leave Gym Because Her Boobs Are Too Large

http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/19/woman-gets-asked-to-leave-gym-because-her-boobs-are-too-large/

A Canadian woman was “humiliated” after she was asked to leave her gym because her boobs were “too large.”
Woman asked to leave gym because her boobs are too big

Jenna Vecchio lives in Ottawa and was working out with her husband over the weekend at the Movati Athletic Club when a gym employee approached her and asked her to leave.

The employee said other gym goers complained that Vecchio “made them feel uncomfortable” because her chest was too big for her shirt.

“I said I can’t help it that my chest may appear larger than some other women’s here because of my small frame, but I can’t do anything about it,” Vecchio said during an interview this week.

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I'd say no self-respecting male would file such a complaint, but we are talking Canada here.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 19, 2016, 05:45:11 pm
Woman Gets Asked To Leave Gym Because Her Boobs Are Too Large




“I said I can’t help it that my chest may appear larger than some other women’s here because of my small frame, but I can’t do anything about it,” Vecchio said during an interview this week.

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I'd say no self-respecting male would file such a complaint, but we are talking Canada here.

My bet is the complaint came from female patrons of the Gym who were having trouble attracting attention to themselves...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 19, 2016, 06:20:32 pm
No all male jury would convict her....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 26, 2016, 02:42:36 pm
Vegas Judge Handcuffs Public Defender In Court To Teach Her A 'Lesson'

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/conrad-hafen-zohra-baktary-handcuffed-court



A Nevada public defender was handcuffed alongside inmates in jail clothing in court Monday after a judge accused her of interrupting him while she argued on behalf of her client, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

In a tense exchange, Las Vegas Judge Conrad Hafen told Zohra Bakhtary, a deputy public defender, to “be quiet” as she made the case for keeping her client, who was appearing on theft charges, out of jail.

“Zohra, be quiet,” the judge cautioned the attorney, according to court transcripts obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

“Judge, you’re asking—” Bakhtary said, but the judge cut her off.

“You’re making—” Bakhtary tried again before Hafen asked if she wanted to be found in contempt of court.

She tried yet again: “Judge, you’re asking—”

“Zohra, be quiet. Now. Not another word,” Hafen shot back.

Bakhtary said, “Judge, you’re—,” before Hafen turned to his marshal and directed him to take the public defender into custody, saying, “Travis, right now. I’m tired of it. Right now.”

Bakhtary said, “Judge, you’re—,” before Hafen turned to his marshal and directed him to take the public defender into custody, saying, “Travis, right now. I’m tired of it. Right now.”

Bakhtary was handcuffed and placed in the jury box, the Review-Journal reported. Her client was ordered to spend six months in jail.

Hafen later asked for her to be released, saying, “I think she’s learned a lesson.”

“You need to have order in a courtroom,” the judge later told the Review-Journal. “And there needs to be proper decorum with attorneys.”

Hafen also said he’s had difficulty with Bakhtary in his courtroom before, but he’s “been trying to work with her.”

“There’s been a progression of steps in the courtroom where I’ve tried to let her know it’s not proper decorum for her to continue to talk over me or interrupt me after she’s already made her argument,” he told the Review-Journal. “Once an argument is made, then you have to allow the judge to respond, so there’s a clear record, and you shouldn’t be interrupting the judge as the judge is making a ruling...Today it just spilled over to where I thought, ‘Well, clearly she’s not understanding what I’m trying to tell her.’”
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 26, 2016, 03:26:10 pm
Meth Burrito? Border Officers Find Woman Carrying $3,000 Of Crystal Wrapped In Tortillas

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency released a statement Tuesday announcing the arrest of a woman who was found carrying more than a pound of methamphetamine disguised as a bag of burritos.

According to CBP, officers stopped the 23-year-old Nogales, Ariz., woman at the Morley Pedestrian gate on Friday.

A narcotics canine led them to the hidden contraband, which officers estimated carried a street value of roughly $3,000.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/26/border-officers-find-woman-carrying-3000-of-meth-wrapped-in-tortillas/#ixzz49m9wv38d

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Yo quero Taco Meth?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 28, 2016, 02:43:40 am
Heimlich, 96, uses own maneuver to save life

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/96-dr-henry-heimlich-uses-his-own-technique-first-time-save-someone

He’s demonstrated how to save lives countless times since inventing his technique four decades ago, but Dr. Henry Heimlich had never used his namesake maneuver on someone who was actually choking — until this week.

On Monday evening, when a woman who happened to be sitting next to him in their upscale Cincinnati retirement community choked on a piece of hamburger, 96-year-old Heimlich sprung into action.

“I immediately knew she was choking,” Heimlich told NBC News. “I just realized, I’ve got to go over and save her.”

So the doctor stood up, wrapped his hands around Patty Ris, 87, and began to squeeze her abdomen.

“It worked right away,” the grateful Ris told NBC News.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 28, 2016, 03:14:39 am
WEED BETTER STOP EM: Sheep Eat Cannabis Plants, Create Hilarious Havoc

http://www.mediaite.com/online/weed-better-stop-em-sheep-eat-cannabis-plants-create-hilarious-havoc/

In what the local media described as an “out-of-control” situation, a heard of sheep ransacked remnants of a cannabis factory that had spilled over onto the side of the road.

In Swansea Valley South Wales, the sheep were found creating utter destruction in people’s gardens after ingesting large amounts of the residual marijuana, presumably looking for Doritos or Taco Bell in the process.

“There is already a flock of sheep roaming the village causing a nuisance,” said Swansea Valley Councillor Ioan Richard. He continued, “We could have an outbreak of psychotic sheep rampaging through the village.”

(NOTE TO SELF: MOVIE IDEA)

One of the sheep — and I really hope this is true — reportedly broke into a bungalow and caused a mess in someone’s bedroom...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: txradioguy on May 31, 2016, 06:25:54 am
WEED BETTER STOP EM: Sheep Eat Cannabis Plants, Create Hilarious Havoc

http://www.mediaite.com/online/weed-better-stop-em-sheep-eat-cannabis-plants-create-hilarious-havoc/

In what the local media described as an “out-of-control” situation, a heard of sheep ransacked remnants of a cannabis factory that had spilled over onto the side of the road.

In Swansea Valley South Wales, the sheep were found creating utter destruction in people’s gardens after ingesting large amounts of the residual marijuana, presumably looking for Doritos or Taco Bell in the process.

“There is already a flock of sheep roaming the village causing a nuisance,” said Swansea Valley Councillor Ioan Richard. He continued, “We could have an outbreak of psychotic sheep rampaging through the village.”

(NOTE TO SELF: MOVIE IDEA)

One of the sheep — and I really hope this is true — reportedly broke into a bungalow and caused a mess in someone’s bedroom...


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrew1djRCWM[/youtube]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on June 01, 2016, 02:47:14 pm
Seattle’s ‘man in tree’ incompetent to stand trial after spending 25 hours in 80-foot sequoia
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/seattle-man-tree-incompetent-stand-trial-article-1.2656861

Slow news days.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on June 03, 2016, 06:18:17 pm

Man arrested in Calhan domestic violence shooting 

Man challenges daughter to a “duel”

A man has been arrested after pointing a gun at his daughter and wife during a domestic violence incident Wednesday night, according to a news release from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department.

Robert Williams told his daughter to get another gun from the house so that the two could “duel,” the release said.

A struggle between the two ensued, and the father’s gun went off. The juvenile daughter fired a round back in his direction. No one was hit or injured.


More at http://www.denverpost.com/2016/06/02/man-arrested-in-calhan-domestic-violence-shooting/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: geronl on June 03, 2016, 06:26:33 pm

Robert Williams told his daughter to get another gun from the house so that the two could “duel,” the release said.

A struggle between the two ensued, and the father’s gun went off. The juvenile daughter fired a round back in his direction. No one was hit or injured.


This is only okay with super-soakers at ten paces.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: geronl on June 03, 2016, 11:13:14 pm
5 Months in Jail but had $2 bail

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/queens-man-unaware-2-bail-spends-5-months-rikers-article-1.2656363
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 03, 2016, 11:17:06 pm
5 Months in Jail but had $2 bail

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/queens-man-unaware-2-bail-spends-5-months-rikers-article-1.2656363
Must have been such a pleasant guy they made a point of letting him know. He had three hots and a cot anyway, considering the initial arrest was for stealing a coat...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: geronl on June 03, 2016, 11:20:11 pm
Must have been such a pleasant guy they made a point of letting him know. He had three hots and a cot anyway, considering the initial arrest was for stealing a coat...

I bet he'll end up suing the city for $30,000 or something
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on June 06, 2016, 09:41:01 pm
When you want to name your daughter Katelyn, decide that's too common, and accidentally name her Kevin instead:

Woman swaps letters for Roman numerals in baby's name

An Australian woman has come up with a unique name for her daughter. You could liken it to a vanity plate for your car, but using Roman numerals.

Instead of Kaitlyn, they replaced the 'ait' with VIII, making it "KVIIIlyn."

http://www.wgrz.com/features/woman-swaps-letters-for-roman-numerals-in-babys-name/234190851
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on June 07, 2016, 04:04:50 am
China: The bus that will drive over cars
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36390419

Video at webpage.

And they are going to try it out real time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 07, 2016, 04:30:48 pm
China: The bus that will drive over cars
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36390419

Video at webpage.

And they are going to try it out real time.

What could possibly go wrong?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: geronl on June 11, 2016, 09:36:09 pm
(http://i1.wp.com/www.burrardstreetjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/TRUMP-vs-MCGREGOR-2.jpg?resize=696%2C404)

PPV event of the century!

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 11, 2016, 09:48:03 pm
(http://i1.wp.com/www.burrardstreetjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/TRUMP-vs-MCGREGOR-2.jpg?resize=696%2C404)

PPV event of the century!

 :silly:
Only if the three guys are in the corner (MST3K)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 11, 2016, 10:23:07 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/5KOJFrN.jpg)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on June 30, 2016, 06:15:52 am
To cut to the chase here, the teen's own football team "dogpiled" on him in enthusiasm; this wasn't from anger from the rival school.  Odd case, I guess it belongs in "ridiculous news".  I guess someone has to be sued.

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Teen in chicken suit mobbed at pep rally gets $10.5M from California school district

A California school district agreed Wednesday to pay $10.5 million to a former student who suffered brain damage when he was mobbed while wearing a chicken costume at a pep rally.

Kern County High School agreed to settle a negligence lawsuit brought by Mitch Carter. Jurors on Monday held the school district entirely liable for his injuries. The phase of trial where jurors consider what damages to award was underway when the settlement was announced, said Ralph Wegis, an attorney for Carter.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/weird/ct-chicken-suit-attack-settlement-20160629-story.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 01, 2016, 03:23:46 am
Folks might have vaguely heard about this story, now the details roll in of the gent who was riding a horse in NYC. 

ABC News Coverage:

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Police: Cowboy Who Rode Across Bridge Abused His 2 Horses

 An 80-year-old man who has been riding around the country on horseback, saying he was trying to call attention to starving children, was arrested Thursday on animal cruelty charges after investigators concluded his horses were malnourished.

In his white hat, Tod "Doc" Mishler had gained national fame galloping into communities, a God-loving cowboy whose home was a horse.

He was arrested three days after riding over the Outerbridge Crossing linking the city's Staten Island borough with New Jersey. Veterinarians who examined his two horses said they suffered from malnourishment, dehydration and open sores.

On Monday, Mishler stalled bridge traffic as motorists stopped to stare. He was issued court summonses for blocking traffic and trespassing.

More At: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cowboy-horse-snarled-traffic-ny-bridge-arrested-40250986
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: geronl on July 02, 2016, 01:35:49 am
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/thieves-at-large-with-20000-pounds-of-cheese-in-wisconsin/ar-AAhRoJi?ocid=ansmsnnews11

Thieves at large with 20,000 pounds of cheese in Wisconsin

excerpt
Quote
OAK CREEK, Wis. — It's a caper of grand proportion in a state that loves its cheddar.

Police in southeastern Wisconsin say 20,000 pounds of cheese has vanished. The cheese, produced by U.S. Foods, was in a semitrailer parked at a business in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek when it went missing Thursday.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: geronl on July 02, 2016, 01:36:34 am
Maybe it was stolen by the criminal duo Sister and Moose....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 02, 2016, 03:37:47 pm
I heard about that theft; amazing.  How does one sell 20,000 pounds of cheese? Where does one put it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on July 02, 2016, 05:52:40 pm
I heard about that theft; amazing.  How does one sell 20,000 pounds of cheese? Where does one put it?

At a Packers home game of course.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 24, 2016, 10:16:17 pm
Youths do some crazy things, I did. But nothing like this. I know it can get some cute remarks, "survival of the fittest" or whatever.

She was only going to start her freshmen year in high school; so really young. I remember one time seeing in the early morning rush hour, these young kids were getting in the way of traffic.

I don't think this story merits being posted as a real news story but it is curious all the same.

You get a few kids together and they might do something they'd never do alone.

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Girl, 15, dies 'playing chicken' with an oncoming train in Arizona in front of her daredevil friends

 Mariah Contreras, 15, who was about to be a freshman at Willcox High School, died after failing to get out of the way of a train in time after playing 'chicken' with a group of teens. Each child would take a turn attempting to get as close as possible to the train and then dash out of the way before it hit them, according to Rios. Contreras wasn't able to get out of the way and was struck by the outer part of the train, Tuscon Now reported. The other teens she was with were unharmed and are 'doing OK', according to Willcox Police Chief Jose Rios.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3705972/Girl-15-dies-playing-chicken-oncoming-train-Arizona-unable-locomotive-s-way-time.html

Anyone who has ever driven well-inebriated has done something risky.

I never drank anything beyond beer in college, then, afterwards and living alone, was the first time I drank hard liquor, and the first time I ever drove after hard liquor; I learned pretty quickly to only drink it at home or if I wasn't driving.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 24, 2016, 11:04:46 pm
Youths do some crazy things, I did. But nothing like this. I know it can get some cute remarks, "survival of the fittest" or whatever.

She was only going to start her freshmen year in high school; so really young. I remember one time seeing in the early morning rush hour, these young kids were getting in the way of traffic.

I don't think this story merits being posted as a real news story but it is curious all the same.

You get a few kids together and they might do something they'd never do alone.


What a dreadful story!  This will hit the town pretty hard because Willcox is tiny and in the middle of nowhere.  It's between Tucson and the New Mexico border just off I-10, and the largest industry is a mega-truck stop.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 24, 2016, 11:07:47 pm
What a dreadful story!  This will hit the town pretty hard because Willcox is tiny and in the middle of nowhere.  It's between Tucson and the New Mexico border just off I-10, and the largest industry is a mega-truck stop.
Bored kids come up with stupid kicks. It's sad, and a terrible waste.

Prayers up for the friends and family.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 29, 2016, 02:53:01 am
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Girl dies after elephant throws stone in Morocco zoo

A seven-year-old girl has died after being hit by a stone thrown by an elephant from its enclosure at Rabat Zoo in Morocco.

The stone got past the elephant's fence and a ditch separating the animal and visitors, the zoo said in a statement.

The girl was taken to hospital and died within a few hours, the zoo added.

The zoo statement said the enclosure met international standards and said "this kind of accident is rare, unpredictable and unusual".

Continued: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36914884

Odd, that! And I'm sorry for the little girl.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on August 10, 2016, 09:17:27 pm
Parrot meows with 3 cats: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3732898/That-s-replicat-Talking-parrot-masters-perfect-meow-leaves-three-cats-utterly-baffled.html

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Shocking video shows a lion attacking a BABY on live TV while its handlers desperately try to prise its jaws open

    Two handlers featured on Mexican TV show alongside mother and baby
    They brought a lion cub into studio, which appeared to be calm at first
    Suddenly baby started to whine, prompting the predator to lunge at her
    Lion bit her leg as handlers tried to stop it attacking the screaming child

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/10/16/3713D0CE00000578-3733354-image-m-39_1470843001414.jpg)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3733354/Shocking-video-shows-lion-attacking-BABY-live-TV-handlers-desperately-try-prise-jaws-open.html#ixzz4GxyOlf00
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Kind of funny in a way, the baby apparently was not hurt.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: geronl on August 10, 2016, 10:44:49 pm
Parrot meows with 3 cats: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3732898/That-s-replicat-Talking-parrot-masters-perfect-meow-leaves-three-cats-utterly-baffled.html

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Kind of funny in a way, the baby apparently was not hurt.

The kid will be plagued by dreams of teddy bears attacking her.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on August 28, 2016, 01:07:26 am
Quote
Unusual Pink Dolphin Spotted in Louisiana River

(http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/md/public/2015/09/08/pink-dolphin.jpg)

http://www.newsweek.com/unusual-pink-dolphin-spotted-louisiana-river-369882



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Elderberry on August 29, 2016, 01:59:05 am
http://abc13.com/news/woman-spotted-chasing-cat-on-sam-houston-tollway/1485496/

Woman spotted chasing cat on Sam Houston Tollway

 Friday, August 26, 2016 07:58AM
HOUSTON (KTRK) --
A feline on the freeway caused quite a frenzy and tollroad officials say it's an example of what not to do if you see an animal in traffic.

The Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA) released video of the cat chase from Tuesday as a safety warning. It shows an unidentified woman out of her car and trying to trap the animal on the Sam Houston Tollway at Westview, seemingly unaware of the danger around her.

By the look of her hand gesture, drivers weren't happy.

A HCTRA Incident Response team and a deputy constable responded. With their help, the woman was able to rescue the cat safely.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on August 30, 2016, 02:34:38 am
Truly sad but fits into being "ridiculous news"; lightning strike killed over 300 deer in Norway.

http://www.newsday.com/news/world/norway-lightning-strike-kills-more-than-300-deer-1.12237845

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/29/491818444/323-reindeer-killed-in-lightning-storm-in-norway

Many stories on this. Incredible. I guess it could happen to human. Pictures of it exist too.

The things we learn with the internet.

One bolt?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 30, 2016, 02:52:43 am
Truly sad but fits into being "ridiculous news"; lightning strike killed over 300 deer in Norway.

http://www.newsday.com/news/world/norway-lightning-strike-kills-more-than-300-deer-1.12237845

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/29/491818444/323-reindeer-killed-in-lightning-storm-in-norway

Many stories on this. Incredible. I guess it could happen to human. Pictures of it exist too.

The things we learn with the internet.

One bolt?
Were JR, the harpies or the viking kitties seen in the area?

Sad, what a waste of meat...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: geronl on August 30, 2016, 03:28:07 am
http://abc13.com/news/woman-spotted-chasing-cat-on-sam-houston-tollway/1485496/

Woman spotted chasing cat on Sam Houston Tollway


at least it wasn't a Pokemon
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin on September 07, 2016, 11:30:14 pm
Here's a good one - the Syrian Department of Tourism is still putting out videos inviting tourists to visit their lovely beaches and visit all the historic sites!

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/05/492720985/syria-tourism-ministry-come-for-sunny-beaches-dont-mind-the-civil-war

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on September 09, 2016, 01:26:51 am
Here's a good one - the Syrian Department of Tourism is still putting out videos inviting tourists to visit their lovely beaches and visit all the historic sites!



I'll mark it down as the last item on my bucket list.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on October 29, 2016, 03:52:07 am
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/real-life-angry-birds-town-tries-to-rein-in-rowdy-turkeys/ar-AAjtFEP?OCID=ansmsnnews11
(http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAjuC9B.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=857&y=629)

California town needs to rein in turkeys,  harassing people on the street.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on October 29, 2016, 03:57:48 am
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/real-life-angry-birds-town-tries-to-rein-in-rowdy-turkeys/ar-AAjtFEP?OCID=ansmsnnews11
(http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAjuC9B.img?h=373&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=857&y=629)

California town needs to rein in turkeys,  harassing people on the street.

Swans. Swans are vicious creatures.

Just arm the citizens with hatchets.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on November 01, 2016, 08:03:54 pm
Woman badly burned after farting during surgery
http://nypost.com/2016/11/01/woman-badly-burned-after-farting-during-surgery/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on November 01, 2016, 10:59:26 pm
Woman badly burned after farting during surgery
http://nypost.com/2016/11/01/woman-badly-burned-after-farting-during-surgery/

 ...the fart ignited a laser...

That is one hot gas to ignite a laser.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on November 01, 2016, 11:20:59 pm
...the fart ignited a laser...

That is one hot gas to ignite a laser.
Nobody proofreads anything anymore do they. Either that or this needs to be a cautionary tale about chili.  :smokin:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on November 02, 2016, 01:18:43 am
So, It was silent..... but deadly?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 02, 2016, 01:23:46 am
So, It was silent..... but deadly?

I doubt it was silent.  I'm imagining a loud "Whooof."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on November 02, 2016, 01:32:31 am
I doubt it was silent.  I'm imagining a loud "Whooof."

Backdraft!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: uglybiker on November 02, 2016, 04:41:15 am
Goodness, gracious! Great Buns o' Fire!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on November 21, 2016, 09:56:26 pm
Bloomington, Indiana's mayor gets the a-ha! about naughty holidays . . .

http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/news/local/mayor-cites-cultural-sensitivity-in-changing-names-of-two-city/article_82c50bb7-961c-5855-a527-221098977e1e.html

The mayor decides Columbus Day is "Fall Holiday" and Good Friday is "Spring Holiday."

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We are terrifically proud of our diverse workforce at the city,” Hamilton wrote. “That diversity makes us
stronger and more representative of the public we proudly serve. These updated names for two days of well-merited
time off is another way we can demonstrate our commitment to inclusivity.
---Bloomington mayor John
Hamilton.

What's next, gang?

Groundhog Day to National Weather Day---Why the hell should the groundhogs get their own day? Are we
biased against other rodents?

Arbor Day to Flora Day---Who gave trees supremacy? What did the shrubs, the grass, the flowers, and the
herbs ever do to p@ss anyone off?

The Fourth of July to National Fireworks Day---Isn't this discrimination against British Americans? (If British Americans really do get P.O.ed at
the Fourth of July, no wonder they needed American help to win World War II . . .)

Veterans Day---What? The rookies don't deserve respect?

Presidents' Day---Wasn't the presidency supposed to be a co-equal branch? C'mon, the Constitution didn't get around
to the presidency until Article 2. Where's Congress Day? Or Supreme Court Day?

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on November 22, 2016, 01:28:20 am
Bloomington, Indiana's mayor gets the a-ha! about naughty holidays . . .

http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/news/local/mayor-cites-cultural-sensitivity-in-changing-names-of-two-city/article_82c50bb7-961c-5855-a527-221098977e1e.html

The mayor decides Columbus Day is "Fall Holiday" and Good Friday is "Spring Holiday."

What's next, gang?

Groundhog Day to National Weather Day---Why the hell should the groundhogs get their own day? Are we
biased against other rodents?

Arbor Day to Flora Day---Who gave trees supremacy? What did the shrubs, the grass, the flowers, and the
herbs ever do to p@ss anyone off?

The Fourth of July to National Fireworks Day---Isn't this discrimination against British Americans? (If British Americans really do get P.O.ed at
the Fourth of July, no wonder they needed American help to win World War II . . .)

Veterans Day---What? The rookies don't deserve respect?

Presidents' Day---Wasn't the presidency supposed to be a co-equal branch? C'mon, the Constitution didn't get around
to the presidency until Article 2. Where's Congress Day? Or Supreme Court Day?

They will never change birthday to conception day because too many people don't get the concept.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on November 22, 2016, 04:04:13 pm
They will never change birthday to conception day because too many people don't get the concept.
An idea that will sadly remain in its infancy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on November 22, 2016, 07:54:44 pm
An idea that will sadly remain in its infancy.

If not suffering crib death.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on November 24, 2016, 01:16:31 pm
A story I can get behind,

Eating ice cream for breakfast makes you smarter, Japanese scientist claims.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/23/ice-cream-breakfast-makes-smarter-japanese-scientist-claims/

Ping- every female on this site!!!!

Yay!!!!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on November 24, 2016, 02:19:49 pm
A story I can get behind,

Eating ice cream for breakfast makes you smarter, Japanese scientist claims.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/23/ice-cream-breakfast-makes-smarter-japanese-scientist-claims/

Ping- every female on this site!!!!

Yay!!!!

I'm a bit skeptical. How is eating ice cream for breakfast going to help a woman lighten up? It seems like a paradox.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on November 24, 2016, 02:23:01 pm
Happy wife, happy life?.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on November 25, 2016, 07:12:58 pm
It's a six year old article - but it's up there in terms of weird:

Here isn't the news: April 11, 1954... the most boring day of the 20th century (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1332945/Revealed-The-boring-day-EVER--April-11-1954.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on November 25, 2016, 10:44:34 pm
It's a six year old article - but it's up there in terms of weird:

Here isn't the news: April 11, 1954... the most boring day of the 20th century (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1332945/Revealed-The-boring-day-EVER--April-11-1954.html)

Ow! Thanks. That story put me to sleep so quick I banged my head on the kitchen table.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 25, 2016, 11:03:56 pm
Ow! Thanks. That story put me to sleep so quick I banged my head on the kitchen table.

Oh, I dunno.  I admire the tenaciousness required to put that story together.  To isolate a day where nobody of note was born, nor died and nothing of note happened anywhere...I admire the writer.  That was a tall accomplishment.

Works better than Xanax.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: doghouse on December 10, 2016, 09:53:51 pm
the false news of the left is working overtime right now.  The claim is that our security services have proven that the russians caused trump to win the election and they are now calling for an armed response against our government.

Lock and load and pick out your targets.  Maybe we can take care of many birds with the same stones.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 11, 2016, 02:12:51 pm
the false news of the left is working overtime right now.  The claim is that our security services have proven that the russians caused trump to win the election and they are now calling for an armed response against our government.

Lock and load and pick out your targets.  Maybe we can take care of many birds with the same stones.
How about some links to that stuff?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 11, 2016, 02:29:52 pm
How about some links to that stuff?

I didn't see anything about an armed response against our government, but WTH. Beats watching the NFL today.   :laugh:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiO68OPrOzQAhUNyGMKHV7ECwAQFggiMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fdonald-trump-russia-helped-hackers-us-election-2016-a7466926.html&usg=AFQjCNGL8zREkER6epgLIdnzsdLpye1dPQ&sig2=65XutYbeF-su68BO-qRiSQ

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 11, 2016, 03:08:37 pm
I didn't see anything about an armed response against our government, but WTH. Beats watching the NFL today.   :laugh:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiO68OPrOzQAhUNyGMKHV7ECwAQFggiMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fdonald-trump-russia-helped-hackers-us-election-2016-a7466926.html&usg=AFQjCNGL8zREkER6epgLIdnzsdLpye1dPQ&sig2=65XutYbeF-su68BO-qRiSQ
Thanks, Fred!

Quote
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has determined that Russia did in fact try to help Donald Trump win the US presidency rather than work to simply interfere with the election, according to a secret report conducted by the agency.

If the report is secret, what is this doing out in a foreign news source?
When has the Russian Government not tried to influence American elections, at least since WWII?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on December 11, 2016, 03:13:44 pm
Thanks, Fred!

If the report is secret, what is this doing out in a foreign news source?
When has the Russian Government not tried to influence American elections, at least since WWII?

Where was the uproar back in 2004 when the Iranian Mullahs were buying the presidency for their man?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 11, 2016, 03:59:41 pm
Thanks, Fred!

If the report is secret, what is this doing out in a foreign news source?
When has the Russian Government not tried to influence American elections, at least since WWII?

Every since news of hillary's public private server became public  'we' found it easier to hand over our secrets to foreign news sources for publishing. I am really, really grateful, too. It has saved me from countless hours poring over hundreds of millions of e-mails.  :silly:

Leif Erikson's voyage to America was a secret communist plot to lay down some groundwork for Russian post WWII American presidential elections meddling. So the damn Russians have been at it for a thousand years. And people worried about Hitler's Thousand Year Reich. sheesh
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on December 15, 2016, 06:27:09 pm
After $85 million in family travel, Obama looks forward to 'decent vacation'

By Philip Wegmann • 12/13/16 5:13 PM



While moving out of the White House, President Obama will also be packing his suitcase for a holiday. The outgoing executive told Comedy Central's Trevor Noah that after eight difficult years he's looking forward to "a decent vacation."
 
No doubt Obama deserves one — of course, on his own dime this time. While in office, he's explored the Roman Coliseum, walked the Great Wall of China and snorkeled in Maui. Now during retirement, picking a decent destination will be truly difficult.
 
Dubbed "the ultimate tourist," by The New York Times, Obama seldom let a trip overseas go to waste. Diplomatic business trips doubled as Obama family vacations, like that time the president stopped in balmy Buenos Aires after swinging through tropical Havana, Cuba.
 
The 44th president has in fact visited every continent except Antarctica. Obama has told his aides that he wants to gaze on the frozen tundra, the New York Times reports. Unfortunately, duty has kept him from visiting. Often he's had to settle for a few rounds of golf and frequent weekend trips to Martha's Vineyard.


<..snip..>

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/after-85-million-in-family-travel-obama-looks-forward-to-decent-vacation/article/2609567?custom_click=rss#! (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/after-85-million-in-family-travel-obama-looks-forward-to-decent-vacation/article/2609567?custom_click=rss#!)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on December 15, 2016, 06:32:21 pm
I can take a vacation for free.

It's called get in the bathtub, and pretend I'm at a tropical beach somewhere. Works every time.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 16, 2016, 09:18:14 am
I can take a vacation for free.

It's called get in the bathtub, and pretend I'm at a tropical beach somewhere. Works every time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFSiisBYZ3U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFSiisBYZ3U)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on December 19, 2016, 02:03:17 am
Alleged Robber Brings Gun to Dildo Fight, Loses (http://www.newser.com/story/235582/alleged-robber-brings-gun-to-dildo-fight-loses.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 19, 2016, 02:44:32 am
Alleged Robber Brings Gun to Dildo Fight, Loses (http://www.newser.com/story/235582/alleged-robber-brings-gun-to-dildo-fight-loses.html)

dickin' off at work
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on January 01, 2017, 06:44:59 am
I was checking out New Year's Eve celebrations in Idaho (Mountain Time Zone, that's why) and found perhaps the most Idaho story ever:

A truck overfilled with potatoes crashed in the Teton Range and the mess will remain until spring (http://www.kmvt.com/content/news/Some-potato-truck-wreckage-will-remain-on-Teton-Pass-408975595.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 01, 2017, 08:59:50 pm
Quote
Dog Mauls Family After They Try to Dress It in a Christmas Sweater
By Char Adams•@CiCiAdams_

A pit bull mix named Scarface attacked its owner on Friday after she tried to put a Christmas sweater on it, police confirm to PEOPLE.

Police said the dog attacked 52-year-old Brenda Guerrero, biting her arm, in the back yard of her Tampa, Florida, home when she tried to put a Christmas sweater on it, WABC reports.

Guerrero’s husband, Ismael, and their 22-year-old son tried to help the woman but were both attacked by the dog.

“Officers responding said the dog was pretty aggressive,” Eddy Durkin with the Tampa Police Department told WABC. “When they tazed the dog, the dog was still pulling away and was able to release the prongs from the tazer.

Continued: http://people.com/human-interest/pit-bull-attacks-owner-christmas-sweater/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on January 01, 2017, 09:01:26 pm
I'm siding with the dog.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 01, 2017, 09:11:17 pm
I'm siding with the dog.

I bit the people, the last time, that tried to put a Christmas sweater on me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mystery-ak on January 01, 2017, 09:16:27 pm
I need to see the sweater... :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on January 01, 2017, 09:20:07 pm
I bit the people, the last time, that tried to put a Christmas sweater on me.

I'm just glad Bowser isn't very big because he ain't happy with me right now.

(http://i.imgur.com/3NLVOrG.png)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 01, 2017, 09:38:37 pm
Nothing says merry christmas like an ugly sweater on a pissed off pitbull.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 01, 2017, 09:43:28 pm
I'm just glad Bowser isn't very big because he ain't happy with me right now.

My wife got Winston an Adidas coat. He doesn't like to have it put on.

(http://i63.tinypic.com/5ognko.jpg)

He does like it when it comes off. And gets the rubdown.

(http://i67.tinypic.com/eu09lh.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on January 01, 2017, 09:57:32 pm
Nothing says merry christmas like an ugly sweater on a pissed off pitbull.

Brings back memories doesn't it?

I'll be ready to recreate the family Christmas that I used to know for the younger generation.

(http://i.imgur.com/eJNvxvK.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/2Cql13u.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/Noxvz8P.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/2PCjCE8.jpg)

Sigh

Good times

Good times
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on January 01, 2017, 10:47:00 pm
I'm just glad Bowser isn't very big because he ain't happy with me right now.

(http://i.imgur.com/3NLVOrG.png)

What happened to sweet Bowser? And why is he in a cone of shame?

Giving him a cyber milk bone because I can't give him a real one
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 01, 2017, 11:04:39 pm
It's so cool and trendy to have a big ol' bada@@ pitbull - well, until it suddenly isn't. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on January 01, 2017, 11:16:07 pm
What happened to sweet Bowser? And why is he in a cone of shame?

Giving him a cyber milk bone because I can't give him a real one

He's got belly fungus which makes him itch which means he licks at it and never lets it dry out. I'm using a boric acid solution to kill the fungus. The vet said to give it about 10 days and its been 4 with considerable improvement.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on January 01, 2017, 11:17:30 pm
He's got belly fungus which makes him itch which means he licks at it and never lets it dry out. I'm using a boric acid solution to kill the fungus. The vet said to give it about 10 days and its Ibeen 4 with considerable improvement.


Hurray!!! Give him a hug and kiss from me. I do like doggies.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on January 01, 2017, 11:20:14 pm

Hurray!!! Give him a hug and kiss from me. I do like doggies.

I've been letting him sleep without the cone at night as long as he's not scratching or licking. I let him out to run around for a bit in the morning before I put the cone on him.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on January 01, 2017, 11:27:28 pm
I can take a vacation for free.

It's called get in the bathtub, and pretend I'm at a tropical beach somewhere. Works every time.

But what if you don't have a bathtub?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 02, 2017, 12:07:20 am
@Mod1  I should have put this in ridiculous news;

If the mods want to, they can move it there. I know, people tend to not read that thread but it is a good thread, it doesn't seem to be used as much as it should.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 02, 2017, 12:08:21 am
A sweater and they live in Florida.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 02, 2017, 02:08:07 am
I'm siding with the dog.

@Cripplecreek

Same here.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on January 02, 2017, 02:16:43 am
@Cripplecreek

Same here.

Its like Ramadan.

Its always fun till somebody tries to put boots on the camel.

(http://i.imgur.com/8UJplms.gif)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 02, 2017, 02:28:44 am
I was checking out New Year's Eve celebrations in Idaho (Mountain Time Zone, that's why) and found perhaps the most Idaho story ever:

A truck overfilled with potatoes crashed in the Teton Range and the mess will remain until spring (http://www.kmvt.com/content/news/Some-potato-truck-wreckage-will-remain-on-Teton-Pass-408975595.html)

I saw this story he other day. Up the road a bit from me. A terrible tragedy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 02, 2017, 02:35:50 am
Its like Ramadan.

Its always fun till somebody tries to put boots on the camel.

(http://i.imgur.com/8UJplms.gif)

Lol, morons

Keep messing with these beasts and I'm going to side with them every time. 

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 06, 2017, 03:42:52 am
Thailand:

The way I see it, I'm not even sure if this guy suffers a serious injury but the video does show it was a serious situation. I don't think the crocodile tears his arm off, surprisingly once you see the video. Maybe they take the dangerous teeth out of the creature.

Horrific moment crocodile bites Thai keeper’s arm in half
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs8Bpy4FAOs
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2017/01/06/Horrific-moment-crocodile-bites-Thai-keeper-s-arm-in-half.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 07, 2017, 02:28:00 pm
Thailand:

The way I see it, I'm not even sure if this guy suffers a serious injury but the video does show it was a serious situation. I don't think the crocodile tears his arm off, surprisingly once you see the video. Maybe they take the dangerous teeth out of the creature.

Horrific moment crocodile bites Thai keeper’s arm in half
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs8Bpy4FAOs
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2017/01/06/Horrific-moment-crocodile-bites-Thai-keeper-s-arm-in-half.html

@TomSea

Remove an animal's teeth because some idiot didn't have enough sense to understand you don't play with dangerous wildlife?  Just no.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 07, 2017, 02:33:28 pm
Maybe he’s born with it? Maybelline hires a DUDE to be the face of its new mascara (seriously)

The pictures....

I'm really glad I don't use Maybelline mascara.  It's crap, anyway.


http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/01/06/maybe-hes-born-with-it-maybelline-hires-a-dude-to-be-the-face-of-its-new-mascara-seriously/ (http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/01/06/maybe-hes-born-with-it-maybelline-hires-a-dude-to-be-the-face-of-its-new-mascara-seriously/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 07, 2017, 02:41:58 pm
Maybe he’s born with it? Maybelline hires a DUDE to be the face of its new mascara (seriously)

The pictures....

I'm really glad I don't use Maybelline mascara.  It's crap, anyway.


http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/01/06/maybe-hes-born-with-it-maybelline-hires-a-dude-to-be-the-face-of-its-new-mascara-seriously/ (http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/01/06/maybe-hes-born-with-it-maybelline-hires-a-dude-to-be-the-face-of-its-new-mascara-seriously/)

Well, I do did.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 07, 2017, 09:23:40 pm
Well, I do did.

@Sanguine

*Sigh*

Cover Girl makes some very good ones....Clump Crusher (lime green tube) and Professional Thick Lash (fuchsia tube) are my staples.  They get very good reviews on beauty product boards. 

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 07, 2017, 09:25:13 pm
@Sanguine

*Sigh*

Cover Girl makes some very good ones....Clump Crusher (lime green tube) and Professional Thick Lash (fuchsia tube) are my staples.  They get very good reviews on beauty product boards.

Thanks, I'll look.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on January 07, 2017, 09:44:52 pm
Maybe he’s born with it? Maybelline hires a DUDE to be the face of its new mascara (seriously)

The pictures....

I'm really glad I don't use Maybelline mascara.  It's crap, anyway.


http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/01/06/maybe-hes-born-with-it-maybelline-hires-a-dude-to-be-the-face-of-its-new-mascara-seriously/ (http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/01/06/maybe-hes-born-with-it-maybelline-hires-a-dude-to-be-the-face-of-its-new-mascara-seriously/)

Wow.  Those are troubling photographs..........    **nononono*


What do you want to be when you grow up, little boy??

A mascara model.


Yikes!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 07, 2017, 09:46:59 pm
I thought it was against the law to test beauty product on dumb defenseless animals?  Were the hell is PETA
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 07, 2017, 10:30:06 pm
I thought it was against the law to test beauty product on dumb defenseless animals?  Were the hell is PETA

Good point.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 07, 2017, 11:44:02 pm
I thought it was against the law to test beauty product on dumb defenseless animals?  Were the hell is PETA

That there just slayed me, Wingding.  :bigsilly:  I can always count on you for a good laugh!

True story:

A few years ago, someone was trying to "organize" my neighborhood with a website designed to get us talking.  There was this little posting forum set up, and somebody decided it would be a good idea to have a protest of an animal testing laboratory a company wanted to build in the city to create jobs.  They were posting times and locations to assemble.  I piped up!  I said, "Hey, this sounds like a great family event!  Let's meet up before we assemble.  I know a great BBQ rib joint and we can make a party out of it!"

For the life of me I don't know why the whole forum just died. :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 08, 2017, 12:05:11 am
That there just slayed me, Wingding.  :bigsilly:  I can always count on you for a good laugh!

True story:


For the life of me I don't know why the whole forum just died. :shrug:

Incredulous ain't it?

 :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 08, 2017, 12:18:12 am
@TomSea

Remove an animal's teeth because some idiot didn't have enough sense to understand you don't play with dangerous wildlife?  Just no.

@CatherineofAragon

There is nothing wrong with him, he is living in a very poor country compared to the US, these people have to get along to make ends meet. I think he's admirable and brave.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 08, 2017, 12:20:35 am
Incredulous ain't it?

 :pondering:

 :huh?:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 08, 2017, 12:26:40 am
 
:huh?:


 :tongue2:

 :silly: :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 08, 2017, 01:14:42 am
Wow.  Those are troubling photographs..........    **nononono*


What do you want to be when you grow up, little boy??

A mascara model.


Yikes!

@musiclady

My mother used to say she didn't know what the world was coming to.  Well, it's here now.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 08, 2017, 01:16:54 am
@CatherineofAragon

There is nothing wrong with him, he is living in a very poor country compared to the US, these people have to get along to make ends meet. I think he's admirable and brave.

@TomSea, when it gets warmer here I could go outside and find me a poisonous snake and drape it around my neck.  That wouldn't make me admirable and brave---it would make me a moron.  I wouldn't expect the snake to pay for my stupidity.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 08, 2017, 01:27:23 am
@musiclady

My mother used to say she didn't know what the world was coming to.  Well, it's here now.

Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world...Except for my Maybelline
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on January 08, 2017, 01:33:38 am
@musiclady

My mother used to say she didn't know what the world was coming to.  Well, it's here now.

Wow.  My Mom used to say the same thing, and I haven't thought of that in years.

You're right.  The worst of the worst is happening.

It actually makes me thankful that my Mom is with the Lord now.  I don't think she could take the stuff happening here on earth......

@CatherineofAragon
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 08, 2017, 01:49:46 am
Wow.  My Mom used to say the same thing, and I haven't thought of that in years.

You're right.  The worst of the worst is happening.

It actually makes me thankful that my Mom is with the Lord now.  I don't think she could take the stuff happening here on earth......

@CatherineofAragon

@musiclady

Our loved ones up there aren't missing a thing.  They wouldn't come back if they could.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on January 08, 2017, 02:00:11 am
@musiclady

Our loved ones up there aren't missing a thing.  They wouldn't come back if they could.

No, they wouldn't.   My Mom died before Bill Clinton, and I remember being glad she wasn't here to see the degradation in the White House.

She would be absolutely horrified with what's going on now.

@CatherineofAragon
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 08, 2017, 02:44:16 am

Naked woman steals police truck


NBC News
January 07, 2017 02:17 PM

(KPNX)  A naked woman was taken into custody by Arizona police Thursday after stealing a Maricopa County Sheriff Deputy's truck and leading officers on a high-speed chase.

It began when the deputy responded to a call of a naked woman at a Shell gas station in Gila Bend.

Once the deputy arrived at the scene, he approached the woman, who told him she was sexually assaulted.

As the deputy attempted to find something for the woman to wear, she jumped in the deputy's truck and started to drive off, according to investigators.

"The next thing I know, I hear the sheriff's truck -- he had a pickup truck -- squeal out of here," said a witness at the gas station.

Read more: http://bit.ly/2hXHha3 (http://bit.ly/2hXHha3)   SFW
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 08, 2017, 02:45:57 am
   maybe it was 1 of Sheriff Joe's concubines getting out of dodge?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 08, 2017, 07:17:46 am
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world...Except for my Maybelline
Reminds me of an Andrew Dice Clay nursery rhyme...
Little Boy Blue...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 08, 2017, 08:18:46 am
@Wingnut  @Smokin Joe

Did ya hear what happened to Maybelline, Wingy?

Max Factor.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 08, 2017, 04:37:03 pm
No, they wouldn't.   My Mom died before Bill Clinton, and I remember being glad she wasn't here to see the degradation in the White House.

She would be absolutely horrified with what's going on now.

@CatherineofAragon


@musiclady

My father was a classic old-style working class Democrat voter.  He supported Dems all of his life---that is, until Clinton came along.  My dad said he was as crooked as a fish hook, and thus became a Republican.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 08, 2017, 04:38:11 pm
@Wingnut  @Smokin Joe

Did ya hear what happened to Maybelline, Wingy?

Max Factor.

@bigheadfred

Lmao
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 08, 2017, 04:41:46 pm
Naked woman steals police truck


NBC News
January 07, 2017 02:17 PM

(KPNX)  A naked woman was taken into custody by Arizona police Thursday after stealing a Maricopa County Sheriff Deputy's truck and leading officers on a high-speed chase.

It began when the deputy responded to a call of a naked woman at a Shell gas station in Gila Bend.

Once the deputy arrived at the scene, he approached the woman, who told him she was sexually assaulted.

As the deputy attempted to find something for the woman to wear, she jumped in the deputy's truck and started to drive off, according to investigators.

"The next thing I know, I hear the sheriff's truck -- he had a pickup truck -- squeal out of here," said a witness at the gas station.

Read more: http://bit.ly/2hXHha3 (http://bit.ly/2hXHha3)   SFW

@corbe

Lol

This reminds me of a story Dana Loesch read on air not long ago.  It was about some couple who wrecked their car after having sex.  The woman told the cops the force of the collision tore her panties off.  I'm going to try and find that audio clip....I remember I was having lunch at the time and I nearly choked to death laughing.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: andy58-in-nh on January 08, 2017, 05:01:03 pm
@Wingnut  @Smokin Joe
Did ya hear what happened to Maybelline, Wingy?
Max Factor.
Did they make up?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 08, 2017, 05:09:25 pm
@corbe

Lol

This reminds me of a story Dana Loesch read on air not long ago.  It was about some couple who wrecked their car after having sex.  The woman told the cops the force of the collision tore her panties off.  I'm going to try and find that audio clip....I remember I was having lunch at the time and I nearly choked to death laughing.

Obviously her makeup was at fault. Shoulda used Cover Girl.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 08, 2017, 05:10:47 pm
Did they make up?

Don't ask this one: "I don´t really understand what sex has to do with makeup..."

http://www.beauty4free2u.com/2015/11/10-most-sexy-makeup-names.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 08, 2017, 05:19:51 pm
Did they make up?

Break up to make up, that's all we do
First you love me then you hate me..

Stylistics!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 08, 2017, 06:18:56 pm
Naked woman steals police truck


NBC News
January 07, 2017 02:17 PM

(KPNX)  A naked woman was taken into custody by Arizona police Thursday after stealing a Maricopa County Sheriff Deputy's truck and leading officers on a high-speed chase.

It began when the deputy responded to a call of a naked woman at a Shell gas station in Gila Bend.

Once the deputy arrived at the scene, he approached the woman, who told him she was sexually assaulted.

As the deputy attempted to find something for the woman to wear, she jumped in the deputy's truck and started to drive off, according to investigators.

"The next thing I know, I hear the sheriff's truck -- he had a pickup truck -- squeal out of here," said a witness at the gas station.

Read more: http://bit.ly/2hXHha3 (http://bit.ly/2hXHha3)   SFW

I've been to Gila Bend a few times, and this is the most exciting thing that has/will happen in decades in that town.  Almost got a job there with Ma Bell, but fortunately it fell through.   :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 08, 2017, 06:32:36 pm
I've been to Gila Bend a few times, and this is the most exciting thing that has/will happen in decades in that town.  Almost got a job there with Ma Bell, but fortunately it fell through.   :shrug:

Quote
GILA BEND, AZ - Police have identified the suspect who stole a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle Thursday.

Police say 31-year-old Lisa Luna of Mesa led law enforcement on a 70+ mile chase on Interstates 8 and 10 after stealing a MCSO vehicle.

The suspect originally told a deputy that she was sexually assaulted, but recanted her story on Saturday and has now been booked into jail.

Luna also has now told officials that she was high on methamphetamine and spice at the time of the incident, causing her to steal the vehicle.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 08, 2017, 06:56:09 pm
   She's a keeper.

(http://sharing.kgun9.com/shareknxv/photo/2017/01/07/KNXV%20Lisa%20Luna_1483816164009_52784990_ver1.0_640_480.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 08, 2017, 07:19:04 pm
   She's a keeper.

(http://sharing.kgun9.com/shareknxv/photo/2017/01/07/KNXV%20Lisa%20Luna_1483816164009_52784990_ver1.0_640_480.jpg)

Crazy eyes!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on January 09, 2017, 01:51:07 am
Former SEE BS "News" man Dan Rather to teach journalism course called "Finding the Truth in the news"!!

I kid you not!

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/01/07/dan-rather-to-teach-journalism-course-called-finding-the-truth-in-the-news-n2268303
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 09, 2017, 01:57:42 am
Former SEE BS "News" man Dan Rather to teach journalism course called "Finding the Truth in the news"!!

I kid you not!

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/01/07/dan-rather-to-teach-journalism-course-called-finding-the-truth-in-the-news-n2268303

Now, that's funny!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on January 09, 2017, 02:00:40 am
Now, that's funny!

It does comport with the theme of this thread doesn't it!   888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on January 09, 2017, 06:12:26 pm
The weirdest tech we saw at CES 2017
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/the-weirdest-tech-we-saw-at-ces-2017-150521802.html

LAS VEGAS—“Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should” is not a motto anybody cares to live by at CES, the huge consumer tech show in Las Vegas. Every year, the show floor collects a cornucopia of gadgets that attempt to meet one human need or another in ways you wouldn’t imagine—or, sometimes, want....
...
The Kerastase Hair Coach Powered by Withings. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images
This smart hairbrush from L’Oreal and Withings, due in the middle of this year for a price somewhere under $200, uses four sensors and a microphone to gauge your brushing and check for signs of damaged hair—apparently, split ends make a distinct sound when brushed....

...Hyundai Health + Mobility Cockpit

The Korean car manufacturer’s experiment would have the car checking your physical state with various biometric data so it can adjust your environment appropriately. For example, it could play appropriate music—acoustic folk might encourage you to drive slowly in a neighborhood—and fill the cabin with such scents as a calming lavender....
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/the-weirdest-tech-we-saw-at-ces-2017-150521802.html

Crazy stuff. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 14, 2017, 06:31:23 pm
Quote
Trump Reveals Plans To Be Sworn In On Copy Of Playboy Magazine

November 14, 2016

NEW YORK, NY—During his Sunday interview with 60 Minutes, president-elect Donald Trump revealed that he has arranged to be sworn into the White House on January 20 on a copy of Playboy Magazine, rather than the traditional Bible as most past presidents have done.

Sources were able to confirm that he plans to use the March 1990 issue of the magazine, with Trump himself of the cover, on which he will swear while delivering the sacred oath of office to the nation.

“Tremendous magazine, Playboy. The best magazine. It’s got beautiful women in it. I love beautiful women,” President-elect Trump told reporter Leslie Stahl in the interview.

“The Bible—look, we all know I love the Bible, but to be honest with you, it’s a little boring. No pictures. It talks about women, some, but no pictures,” Trump continued. He further stated that the raunchy pornographic magazine lined up more closely with his values than the Bible, which “has some real nasty things to say about me.”

White House transitional teams confirmed the news, and further stated Trump’s inauguration will include an open bar, craps tables, and go-go dancers.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 14, 2017, 06:55:14 pm
...Hyundai Health + Mobility Cockpit

The Korean car manufacturer’s experiment would have the car checking your physical state with various biometric data so it can adjust your environment appropriately. For example, it could play appropriate music—acoustic folk might encourage you to drive slowly in a neighborhood—and fill the cabin with such scents as a calming lavender....
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/the-weirdest-tech-we-saw-at-ces-2017-150521802.html

Crazy stuff.

I've seen people driving during my morning commute I'd like to fill their cars with the smell of Carbon Monoxide.  Strangely enough, they're usually driving Hyundais about 10 MPH under the speed limit.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 14, 2017, 07:06:28 pm
...

...Hyundai Health + Mobility Cockpit

The Korean car manufacturer’s experiment would have the car checking your physical state with various biometric data so it can adjust your environment appropriately. For example, it could play appropriate music—acoustic folk might encourage you to drive slowly in a neighborhood—and fill the cabin with such scents as a calming lavender....
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/the-weirdest-tech-we-saw-at-ces-2017-150521802.html

Crazy stuff.

I bet after a while, you would smell lavender and automatically get angry, in a backwards pavlovian.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 15, 2017, 03:08:55 am
Man thrown in jail over kitty litter after cops mistook it for meth
http://www.newstarget.com/2017-01-13-man-thrown-in-jail-over-kitty-litter-after-cops-had-mistaken-it-for-meth.html

Sounds like fake news, hoax news but it is sourced.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 15, 2017, 04:05:30 am
Here is an interesting story, Lebanon, a small country like Israel has a trash problem, there is a dump near the airport, sea gulls are very much in the area near the dump, this represents a risk to the planes flying in and out; so now hunters have gone after them. Now, some groups are saying this hunting is illegal. That is the scenario.

Quote
Report: Birds Threatening Flights Safety, Hunted Down
by Naharnet Newsdesk
(http://images3.naharnet.com/images/195450/w460.jpg?1484393577)
Following the latest warnings that flights in and out of Lebanon's Beirut airport are at risk because of the large number of birds flying over a nearby garbage dump, reports said Saturday that hunters are shooting down the seagulls which angered environmentalist movements in Lebanon.

A Lebanese environmental movement condemned in a statement on Saturday what it described as the “extermination of seagulls."

It said hunters are shooting down the birds near the Costa Brava landill, adding that Lebanon is violating the Agreement on Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory waterbirds, LBCI reported Saturday.

Read More At: http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/223753-report-birds-threatening-flights-safety-hunted-down




Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 15, 2017, 05:39:50 am
Here is an interesting story, Lebanon, a small country like Israel has a trash problem, there is a dump near the airport, sea gulls are very much in the area near the dump, this represents a risk to the planes flying in and out; so now hunters have gone after them. Now, some groups are saying this hunting is illegal. That is the scenario.
Quote
A Lebanese environmental movement condemned in a statement on Saturday what it described as the “extermination of seagulls."

Lebanon has an environmental movement?  Who knew?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on January 15, 2017, 05:45:46 am
@Wingnut  @Smokin Joe

Did ya hear what happened to Maybelline, Wingy?

Max Factor.

I thought she was driving a Coupe de Ville while I was motivatin' over the hill.

-Chuck Berry.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 16, 2017, 03:08:28 am
(https://www.sonsoflibertytees.com/patriotblog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1fda7f77fe748d44adfef0282c122f0d-250x250.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 16, 2017, 03:11:32 am
I thought she was driving a Coupe de Ville while I was motivatin' over the hill.

-Chuck Berry.

 22222frying pan
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 16, 2017, 04:04:43 pm
Oklahoma City Firefighters rescue cow trapped in a swimming pool:
(http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/56/41/64/12197157/3/920x920.jpg)
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oklahoma-City-firefighters-rescue-cow-stuck-in-10860122.php
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on January 16, 2017, 04:52:53 pm
Man thrown in jail over kitty litter after cops mistook it for meth
http://www.newstarget.com/2017-01-13-man-thrown-in-jail-over-kitty-litter-after-cops-had-mistaken-it-for-meth.html

Sounds like fake news, hoax news but it is sourced.
That was hilarious. They got the guy on pot charges anyways, so I don't even have to feel bad about the mistake. Just good clean wholesome fun.  :silly:

BTW: Love the new ATSF Avatar.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on January 16, 2017, 05:41:59 pm
Chiefs fans were so sad after playoff loss they left their grills in the parking lot
Arrowhead Stadium became a hellscape.
by Molly Podlesny@mollypodlesny  Jan 16, 2017, 9:42am EST
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/1/16/14280348/chiefs-lose-to-steelers-sad-fans-leave-grills-in-arrowhead-stadium?yptr=yahoo

Imagine feeling so defeated by a football game you’ll do anything to get out of the stadium as fast as you can.

When your team loses in the playoffs and you just say the hell with it & leave the Weber in the parking lot. #chiefs pic.twitter.com/sFSGGtrTUb

— David Eulitt (@davidphotokc) January 16, 2017
That’s how some Chiefs fans felt after Sunday’s loss to the Steelers in the Divisional round of the playoffs....
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/1/16/14280348/chiefs-lose-to-steelers-sad-fans-leave-grills-in-arrowhead-stadium?yptr=yahoo
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 16, 2017, 06:03:42 pm
Chiefs fans were so sad after playoff loss they left their grills in the parking lot
Arrowhead Stadium became a hellscape.
by Molly Podlesny@mollypodlesny  Jan 16, 2017, 9:42am EST
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/1/16/14280348/chiefs-lose-to-steelers-sad-fans-leave-grills-in-arrowhead-stadium?yptr=yahoo

Imagine feeling so defeated by a football game you’ll do anything to get out of the stadium as fast as you can.

When your team loses in the playoffs and you just say the hell with it & leave the Weber in the parking lot. #chiefs pic.twitter.com/sFSGGtrTUb

— David Eulitt (@davidphotokc) January 16, 2017
That’s how some Chiefs fans felt after Sunday’s loss to the Steelers in the Divisional round of the playoffs....
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/1/16/14280348/chiefs-lose-to-steelers-sad-fans-leave-grills-in-arrowhead-stadium?yptr=yahoo

Must have been Hillary Clinton supporters in disguise.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on January 16, 2017, 06:07:26 pm
Must have been Hillary Clinton supporters in disguise.
Could be. Sounds like the Occupy movement. Black Grills Matter!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 16, 2017, 06:16:22 pm
Could be. Sounds like the Occupy movement. Black Grills Matter!

All things considered, the price of a Weber grill is peanuts compared to what the owner of the grill had to fork over for playoff tix.  Not sure I'd take it myself, even if my team won.  I'd never take a non-disposable grill to a tailgater, anyway.  It's silly.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on January 16, 2017, 06:25:50 pm
All things considered, the price of a Weber grill is peanuts compared to what the owner of the grill had to fork over for playoff tix.  Not sure I'd take it myself, even if my team won.  I'd never take a non-disposable grill to a tailgater, anyway.  It's silly.
Sorry, I'm to redneck to even be close to comprehending "disposable grill".  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 16, 2017, 06:32:23 pm
I thought from the headline they meant those teeth things:

(https://www.customgoldgrillz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/CZ4STB_1-580x580.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 16, 2017, 06:36:01 pm
Sorry, I'm to redneck to even be close to comprehending "disposable grill".  :laugh:

I guess I'm really "out there."  I decline to classify a Weber as a "grill."  It's a "Briquet Bucket."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 16, 2017, 06:36:18 pm
I thought from the headline they meant those teeth things:

(https://www.customgoldgrillz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/CZ4STB_1-580x580.jpg)

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on January 16, 2017, 06:37:53 pm
I thought from the headline they meant those teeth things:

(https://www.customgoldgrillz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/CZ4STB_1-580x580.jpg)

ROFLMAO!!!!!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 17, 2017, 12:05:30 pm
Sorry, I'm to redneck to even be close to comprehending "disposable grill".  :laugh:
That's when you pick up the grate and fill in the hole after you are done grilling, I reckon.

A couple of kids with a pickup could have backyard parties all summer just driving the lot and picking those up...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on January 19, 2017, 09:47:19 pm
Fun fact: Skittles contain gelatin, which is made from cow carcasses.

Keep that in mind when you read this story:

http://wbay.com/2017/01/18/skittle-spill-has-dodge-county-deputies-tasting-the-rainbow/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 19, 2017, 11:35:41 pm
Fun fact: Skittles contain gelatin, which is made from cow carcasses.

Keep that in mind when you read this story:

http://wbay.com/2017/01/18/skittle-spill-has-dodge-county-deputies-tasting-the-rainbow/

Reincarnation.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 19, 2017, 11:40:29 pm
Reincarnation.

I was thinking more along the lines of "Mad Cow Disease."  This is how it spreads.   **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on January 19, 2017, 11:43:48 pm
I was thinking more along the lines of "Mad Cow Disease."  This is how it spreads.   **nononono*
Shouldn't the cooking process to make the skittles kill it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 19, 2017, 11:49:07 pm
Shouldn't the cooking process to make the skittles kill it?

No.  Burning doesn't kill it.  It's not a life form as you and I know it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 20, 2017, 12:03:14 am
I was thinking more along the lines of "Mad Cow Disease."  This is how it spreads.   **nononono*

I thought that was from bone meal.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 20, 2017, 12:09:39 am
I thought that was from bone meal.

What's the difference?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 20, 2017, 12:38:13 am
Reincarnation.

Reincownation.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 20, 2017, 12:38:55 am
No.  Burning doesn't kill it.  It's not a life form as you and I know it.

Yeah, those prions are weird little critters.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 20, 2017, 12:59:32 am
What's the difference?

The way the are processed. I'm reading that the rules are stringent now so there may be no difference. But they were feeding contaminated bone meal to cows. The two studies I just scanned were done in the late 90's. And I read an article on recalled candy for fear it was contaminated with BSE-infected gelatin. The Germans said the gelatin was certified clean. The two studies said there wasn't enough evidence to prove the way gelatin was processed would disinfect it. They also said most processors won't take any spines, brains, or ocular parts.

Hope that helps.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 20, 2017, 01:01:25 am
Yeah, those prions are weird little critters.

Sounds like they will do what it takes to bring you into their fold.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 20, 2017, 01:05:52 am
The way the are processed. I'm reading that the rules are stringent now so there may be no difference. But they were feeding contaminated bone meal to cows. The two studies I just scanned were done in the late 90's. And I read an article on recalled candy for fear it was contaminated with BSE-infected gelatin. The Germans said the gelatin was certified clean. The two studies said there wasn't enough evidence to prove the way gelatin was processed would disinfect it. They also said most processors won't take any spines, brains, or ocular parts.

Hope that helps.

It doesn't.  I'm now convinced that if I eat Skittles my unit is going to turn black and fall off, right before my brain turns into cheese.

This is how quack rumors start.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 20, 2017, 01:28:34 am
It doesn't.  I'm now convinced that if I eat Skittles my unit is going to turn black and fall off, right before my brain turns into cheese.

This is how quack rumors start.

I wouldn't be much worried about the eating of Skittles, but more worried about eating the cows that are eating Skittles. Which may be more cows than you know. Besides, gelatin is in so many products. Maybe you should be more worried about bad leg makeup...

Since we are on the subject, I wonder what is in trump's tan?  Just what is soaking into his brain?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 20, 2017, 01:48:39 pm
Sounds like they will do what it takes to bring you into their fold.
Yep. They're pretty twisted.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 20, 2017, 01:51:02 pm
I wouldn't be much worried about the eating of Skittles, but more worried about eating the cows that are eating Skittles. Which may be more cows than you know. Besides, gelatin is in so many products. Maybe you should be more worried about bad leg makeup...

Since we are on the subject, I wonder what is in trump's tan?  Just what is soaking into his brain?
When we were in chem lab, one of the (clumsier) students ended up wearing a little nitric acid. That'll turn you orange in light doses. If it's strong, that's a different story. Tannic Acid will do the same thing, without as much corrosion.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 20, 2017, 01:52:30 pm
Fun fact: Skittles contain gelatin, which is made from cow carcasses.

Keep that in mind when you read this story:

http://wbay.com/2017/01/18/skittle-spill-has-dodge-county-deputies-tasting-the-rainbow/
Well, I reckon they will consider all the different aspics of the problem.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 22, 2017, 02:44:35 am
Great-grandma accidentally prays to Lord of the Rings figurine for years

A great-grandmother has been accidentally praying to a figure of Elrond, an elf from The Lord of the Rings, after mistaking it for a figurine of Saint Anthony, every day for years.

(http://howdyearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gabriela-brandc3a3o-390x250.jpg)

http://howdyearth.com/great-grandma-accidentally-prays-lord-rings-figurine-years/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 22, 2017, 03:07:22 am
Trump supporters horrified to learn their hats weren’t made in US
By Reuters

January 21, 2017 | 11:42am



One of the biggest cheers President Donald Trump received from supporters watching his inaugural address on Friday was his call to “buy American and hire American.”

It was a moment rich in irony.

Many of those supporters were sporting Trump’s trademark red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps that were made in China, Vietnam and Bangladesh.

Some were horrified when they discovered their Trump hats were foreign made.

Rob Walker, 44, who had driven to Washington from Georgia with his wife Abby, 36, had stopped at a truck stop on the way to buy a “Make America Great Again” cap.

“Oh God, I hope it’s not made in China,” Abby said, flipping the cap over to check. She looked at its label. “China! Don’t tell anyone!”


<..snip..>


http://nypost.com/2017/01/21/trump-supporters-horrified-to-learn-their-hats-werent-made-in-us/ (http://nypost.com/2017/01/21/trump-supporters-horrified-to-learn-their-hats-werent-made-in-us/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 23, 2017, 03:20:34 am
And while we’re doing the Lord’s work by ministering to the needs of God’s creation, they [Republicans] are ignoring those needs, which is to dishonor the God who made them.”

Nancy Pelosi
1/20/17

http://theresurgent.com/pelosi-democrats-are-doing-the-lords-work/ (http://theresurgent.com/pelosi-democrats-are-doing-the-lords-work/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Mom MD on January 23, 2017, 03:54:45 am
And while we’re doing the Lord’s work by ministering to the needs of God’s creation, they [Republicans] are ignoring those needs, which is to dishonor the God who made them.”

Nancy Pelosi
1/20/17

http://theresurgent.com/pelosi-democrats-are-doing-the-lords-work/ (http://theresurgent.com/pelosi-democrats-are-doing-the-lords-work/)

Nancy apparently thinks promoting abortion is the Lord's work.  I wouldn't want to be standing next to her when she finally meets Him.  Those are His children she is destroying.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on January 23, 2017, 03:57:03 am
Nancy apparently thinks promoting abortion is the Lord's work.  I wouldn't want to be standing next to her when she finally meets Him.  Those are His children she is destroying.

Almost made a comment about the Lord withering her where she stood for that bit of BS.

Then I remembered what she looks like.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on January 23, 2017, 04:47:53 pm
Great-grandma accidentally prays to Lord of the Rings figurine for years

A great-grandmother has been accidentally praying to a figure of Elrond, an elf from The Lord of the Rings, after mistaking it for a figurine of Saint Anthony, every day for years.

(http://howdyearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/gabriela-brandc3a3o-390x250.jpg)

http://howdyearth.com/great-grandma-accidentally-prays-lord-rings-figurine-years/
Elrond Patron Saint of Geeks and Fantasy Literature buffs.

I guess it's better than having a picture of Jesus that turned out to be Obi Wan.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 23, 2017, 04:51:23 pm
Elrond Patron Saint of Geeks and Fantasy Literature buffs.

I guess it's better than having a picture of Jesus that turned out to be Obi Wan.

Or a plastic statue of Jesus that turned into a Bhudda when the interior of the car got too hot....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on January 24, 2017, 01:08:19 am
Or a plastic statue of Jesus that turned into a Bhudda when the interior of the car got too hot....

Don Imus as the Rev. Billy Sol Hargis, 1972 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyvUgodZWo8)

Don Imus as the Rev. Billy Sol Hargis, 1980 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSJc-AkHu8)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 27, 2017, 04:30:37 am
St. Louis, MO.
Quote
Union man admits impersonating a deputy U.S. marshal
ST. LOUIS • A man from Union on Thursday admitted pretending to be a deputy U.S. marshal, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

Between January and October, Timothy Rossell, 29, was involved with a woman from Union and one who lived in Florida, prosecutors said. Both supported him “emotionally and financially,” lent him money and purchased luxury sports cars on credit for him, prosecutors said.

The 27-year-old Union woman knew him as Austyn Gardner, and the 27-year-old Florida woman knew him as Austyn Labella, court records show. The Florida woman said he persuaded her to buy a 2015 Lamborghini Gallardo and a 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Z6, court records show.

(http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/91/c91d9389-bbef-5e7d-8a21-b9d241398c7e/588a849f2f517.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C800)
A Lamborghini Gallardo on display in Bangkok, Thailand. Copyright: patrykkosmider / 123RF Stock Photo

Read More At: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/union-man-admits-impersonating-a-deputy-u-s-marshal/article_795b2c36-6178-5ec9-9377-76aa3080532b.html

What's up with this story? Where do you meet a woman who gets you a Lamborghini?

Quote
On Oct. 10, however, the Union woman found “suspicious paperwork” and counterfeit equipment, identification, badges and apparel from the U.S. Marshal Service, the U.S. attorney's office said.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 28, 2017, 09:29:01 pm
Horse collapses and dies after big race in UK, file under "different" not really "ridiculous":

Quote
Cotswold Chase: Many Clouds dies after beating Thistlecrack at Cheltenham

Many Clouds collapsed and died after narrowly beating Thistlecrack to win the Cotswold Chase at Cheltenham's Festival Trials Day.

King George winner Thistlecrack caught Many Clouds close to the finish but the 2015 Grand National winner, ridden by Leighton Aspell, fought back to win.

Many Clouds collapsed after the winning post and was treated by veterinary staff before he was pronounced dead.

Trainer Oliver Sherwood said the 10-year-old was the "horse of a lifetime".

More: http://www.bbc.com/sport/horse-racing/38782368
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 28, 2017, 11:23:15 pm
Horse collapses and dies after big race in UK, file under "different" not really "ridiculous":

@jmyrlefuller Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, no.  I don't think this would fit on the Obit thread.  But I had to ping you for a heads up.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 29, 2017, 12:26:08 am
@jmyrlefuller Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, no.  I don't think this would fit on the Obit thread.  But I had to ping you for a heads up.


I wonder how Thistlecrack feels? Having to go through life in second place. Knowing he'll never have another opportunity of beating a dead horse.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 29, 2017, 12:42:19 am
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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on January 29, 2017, 01:08:37 am


I wonder how Thistlecrack feels? Having to go through life in second place. Knowing he'll never have another opportunity of beating a dead horse.

OK. While the initial story is more sad than ridiculous ... it stays thanks to this horrible pun.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on January 29, 2017, 02:27:04 am
@jmyrlefuller Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, no.  I don't think this would fit on the Obit thread.  But I had to ping you for a heads up.
Yeah, I'd say that one's a bit too obscure to American audiences to include on the obit thread. If it were an American horse (such as Barbaro a few years back) I'd include it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 30, 2017, 03:51:05 pm
(https://gdb.rferl.org/EE79FB19-95F3-402C-8179-DDE884FACC8B_w987_s_s.jpg) 8

Nermin Halilagic, 38, poses in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Halilagic discovered earlier this year that he had the unusual ability to attach items to his body using what he says is a special energy radiating from his body. Without making any special preparations, he says he is able to hold on to spoons, forks, knives, and other kitchen appliances, as well as nonmetal objects like remote controls, plastic items, and cell phones. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)

http://www.rferl.org/a/top-shots-photos-of-the-week-4/28251658.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on January 30, 2017, 09:14:37 pm
(https://gdb.rferl.org/EE79FB19-95F3-402C-8179-DDE884FACC8B_w987_s_s.jpg) 8

Nermin Halilagic, 38, poses in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Halilagic discovered earlier this year that he had the unusual ability to attach items to his body using what he says is a special energy radiating from his body. Without making any special preparations, he says he is able to hold on to spoons, forks, knives, and other kitchen appliances, as well as nonmetal objects like remote controls, plastic items, and cell phones. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)

http://www.rferl.org/a/top-shots-photos-of-the-week-4/28251658.html

hmmmmm, wonder how much he'd charge to help me re-organise my kitchen?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 30, 2017, 10:06:03 pm
Talk about being stuck on stupid.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on January 30, 2017, 10:08:15 pm
Talk about being stuck on stupid.

Or animal magnetism.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2017, 10:13:44 pm
Y'all are just jealous. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 31, 2017, 12:07:49 am
Talk about being stuck on stupid.

I can do something like that. I can throw my shorts against the wall and they stick.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 31, 2017, 12:08:36 am
Y'all are just jealous.

Or properly bathed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on January 31, 2017, 01:59:11 pm

Nermin Halilagic, 38, poses in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Halilagic discovered earlier this year that he had the unusual ability to attach items to his body using what he says is a special energy radiating from his body. Without making any special preparations, he says he is able to hold on to spoons, forks, knives, and other kitchen appliances, as well as nonmetal objects like remote controls, plastic items, and cell phones. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)

Please.  Like that's anything special.  Show me a man who DOESN'T hold on to the remote control and then I'll be impressed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 31, 2017, 04:46:37 pm
This is more like "off-beat" news but another sad incident where an animal (tiger) was shot in killed in a zoo because of a human trespasser. This happened in China; and they scared a few tigers off to begin with, with fireworks the articles say.  Sad nonetheless. The human died of his injuries as well. These trespassers must not have been aware of how the zoo was built or if they did, you'd get what you'd deserve going into a tiger's den.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/01/30/Tiger-mauls-man-in-front-of-crowd-at-Chinese-zoo/9031485758538/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 31, 2017, 05:01:16 pm
Please.  Like that's anything special.  Show me a man who DOESN'T hold on to the remote control and then I'll be impressed.

@Polly Ticks

Now you are just being mean!... 22222frying pan  Besides.  I have never known a women who knows the rules of etiquette when operating  your basic remote.

 :silly: :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 31, 2017, 05:05:58 pm
@Polly Ticks

Now you are just being mean!... 22222frying pan  Besides.  I have never known a women who knows the rules of etiquette when operating  your basic remote.

 :silly: :silly:

Yes, but we know how to push buttons too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 31, 2017, 05:10:17 pm
Yes, but we know how to push buttons too.

Oh yes.  You certainly are good at pushing buttons!
 :sword:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on January 31, 2017, 05:18:17 pm
@Polly Ticks

Now you are just being mean!... 22222frying pan  Besides.  I have never known a women who knows the rules of etiquette when operating  your basic remote.

 :silly: :silly:

(https://media.giphy.com/media/aO7TEoT70mbrq/giphy.gif)

[Rex is Channel-surfing at a Slow Pace to find the Al's Toy Barn commercial]
Rex: I can't find it. It doesn't seem to be on any of these stations.
Hamm: Oh you're going too slow, let me do the job.
[Hamm starts Channel-surfing at a Breathtaking Speed]
Rex: It's too fast. How can you even tell what's on?
Hamm: I can tell.
[Hamm just skips right past the Al's Toy Barn commercial]
Rex: Go back, go back, you missed it!
Hamm: Too late, I'm in the 40's, gotta go around the horn!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 31, 2017, 05:42:46 pm
(https://media.giphy.com/media/aO7TEoT70mbrq/giphy.gif)

[Rex is Channel-surfing at a Slow Pace to find the Al's Toy Barn commercial]
Rex: I can't find it. It doesn't seem to be on any of these stations.
Hamm: Oh you're going too slow, let me do the job.
[Hamm starts Channel-surfing at a Breathtaking Speed]
Rex: It's too fast. How can you even tell what's on?
Hamm: I can tell.
[Hamm just skips right past the Al's Toy Barn commercial]
Rex: Go back, go back, you missed it!
Hamm: Too late, I'm in the 40's, gotta go around the horn!

 888high58888  Perfect!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on February 02, 2017, 05:39:07 pm
Quote
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/02/13/3CB9858900000578-4184048-Pets_are_welcome_here_but_children_must_be_leashed-a-45_1486041443406.jpg)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4184048/Restaurants-create-funny-signs-naughty-children.html

Funny restaurant signs.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on February 06, 2017, 06:45:07 am
Quote
Good Samaritan offers man a ride, winds up 'getaway driver' in Columbia bank heist
    JENNIFER TODD | Staff Writer Feb 1, 2017

A good Samaritan was an unwitting getaway driver in a bank robbery after offering a ride home to a man he met in a Columbia tavern Monday.

Greg Kreiser said he was just trying to help out the man when he expressed hesitation about driving after having a few drinks, and didn’t mind as the man asked if they could make a few stops on the way.

“He wanted to stop at Turkey Hill for cigarettes, wanted to check to make sure his car was OK,” Kreiser recalled.

“But then he started commenting on the dollar store, liquor store — and now I’m thinking to myself, ‘Now that’s kind of pushing it’.”

One stop Kreiser and his passenger did make was Union Community Bank at the Columbia Shopping Center, just outside Columbia Borough on Route 462.

He had no idea as he waited outside, that his passenger — later identified by police as Shannon E. Steckbeck, 50, of York County — was inside robbing the bank.

Continued: http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/good-samaritan-offers-man-a-ride-winds-up-getaway-driver/article_ffc789a4-e8cf-11e6-af3f-5f2b7bfa5560.html

Now, that is ridiculous.

I'd be afraid I couldn't convince the police I wasn't part of the robbery.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on February 06, 2017, 04:05:58 pm
Ridiculous news of yesterday.

(http://i.imgur.com/3KFmvED.png)

 :silly:

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 06, 2017, 05:24:58 pm
Ridiculous news of yesterday.

(http://i.imgur.com/3KFmvED.png)

 :silly:

She was going to sacrifice a virgin but couldn't find one
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on February 14, 2017, 12:59:00 am
New Zealand warns of exploding whale carcassess after mass stranding
https://www.yahoo.com/news/zealand-warns-exploding-whale-carcassess-071341411.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 14, 2017, 01:31:03 am
New Zealand warns of exploding whale carcassess after mass stranding
https://www.yahoo.com/news/zealand-warns-exploding-whale-carcassess-071341411.html
Well, there's talk of cutting holes in them so they don't blow up, but either way, I wouldn't want to be downwind.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 14, 2017, 01:36:03 am
Well, there's talk of cutting holes in them so they don't blow up, but either way, I wouldn't want to be downwind.

Sometimes things don't go as planned!  But this is an option

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5sPgV61bw
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 14, 2017, 01:42:57 am
Sometimes things don't go as planned!  But this is an option

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5sPgV61bw
That was an unmitigated splatterfest. (No wonder they try to push them back into the ocean.)  One half ton of dynamite just wasn't enough to achieve the level of particulate diffusion they wanted...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on February 14, 2017, 05:17:08 pm
Sometimes things don't go as planned!  But this is an option

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5sPgV61bw
Nice
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 14, 2017, 11:22:38 pm
Thieves steal trailer, motor, even seats, but leave the boat, Polk County deputies say

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Thieves, in Polk County apparently wanted everything they saw – a trailer, motor, seats, fishing poles, tackle and more – but didn’t care much for the boat.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported that a 21-foot Grizzly Bass Tracker was left behind when the trailer and everything on board was stolen from Homeland Avenue in Homeland.

The theft took place sometime between Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, investigators said.

The trailer that thieves made off with was a 1998 olive-green model with Florida license tag 367 4PZ, deputies said.

Also stolen were a 75-horse power outboard motor, trolling motor, four camouflage seats, the bow and stern lights, two batteries, rod holders and cleats, and fishing poles and tackle.

http://www.wftv.com/news/local/thieves-steal-trailer-motor-even-seats-but-leave-the-boat-polk-county-deputies-say/493907827
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 15, 2017, 12:38:36 am
Maybe they already had a boat...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on February 15, 2017, 12:44:21 am
Maybe they already had a boat...

They already stole the boat and now they needed all the accessories.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 15, 2017, 12:46:53 am
They already stole the boat and now they needed all the accessories.

So all they need to do is figure out who stole a POS boat...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on February 15, 2017, 01:01:15 am
It was tweakers. They didn't steal anything. Just took it all apart. They'll put it back together later...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 15, 2017, 01:09:07 am
It was tweakers. They didn't steal anything. Just took it all apart. They'll put it back together later...
Yeah. They'll make chairs out of the lights, lights out of the seats, and use the outboard for a room fan...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 15, 2017, 09:21:04 am
Police make personal injury claim against robbery victim

A man who was held at knifepoint in his home and had his car stolen has said he has been re-victimised by three personal injury claims made by police officers.

Terence Duffin's car was written off during a police chase.

He said he has now received civil claims from three police officers, even though he was not in the car.

The police said this was a private matter between the individual officers and the insurance companies involved.

Mr Duffin had just arrived home when two armed men forced themselves into his house in Newcastle, County Down, at the end of August 2016.

"They pushed me into the kitchen and proceeded to pull out carving knives," he said.

"The house was ransacked, items were stolen and they took my car."
Loss of confidence

He said police traced the car in Clough, County Antrim, and followed it to Belfast.

"It was on the Dunbar Link that the men rammed the police car and it wasn't until the Seven Mile Straight in Antrim that they were actually apprehended by police who had set up a road block."

Mr Duffin said he felt traumatised by the theft but that things were made worse when he was notified of the claims by his insurance company.

"I just couldn't believe this was happening to me," he added.

A Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) spokesman said it does not hold any information in relation to police officers making compensation claims against the owners of stolen vehicles.

More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38975662

 **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 15, 2017, 12:29:06 pm
New Mexico Reporter Arrested for DUI

KOB in Albuquerque has been spending time on a campaign to try and get the drunk driving laws in New Mexico toughen up.

The station has been reporting on DUI loop holes and aggressively covering DUI cases in the area.

In December Reporter Joy Wang did a story on a Domino's driver that was killed by a suspected drunk driver.

But what was odd, when Wang herself was busted for drunk driving last week, the station has made no mention of her arrest.

Wang was arrested on February 8th and charged with aggravated DUI and leaving the scene of an accident. Sources say that Wang hit a car in a parking lot and drove off.

When police arrested her, she refused to take a DUI test. She was then charged with aggravated DUI.

Now, for a station that has aggressively been reporting on DUI cases, to suddenly ignore the arrest of one of their own, seems a bit unethical to say the least.

Wang has gone silent on social media and her bio remains on the station's website, where the last reads, "“If you’re not living on the edge, then you’re taking up too much space."

http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/2/14/new-mexico-reporter-arrested-for-dui
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: don-o on February 16, 2017, 11:13:13 pm
Maxine Waters Says Trump Is Part of ‘Kremlin Clan’ So He Should Be Impeached

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/rep-waters-says-trump-is-part-of-kremlin-clan-so-he-should-be-impeached/

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) charged President Donald Trump with being part of a "Kremlin Clan" on MSNBC's "All In With Chris Hayes" Wednesday night, and said he should be impeached because of it.

"I've come to conclude that Trump has the ‘Kremlin Clan' surrounding him and have been involved with him for a long time and you named some of them this evening," Waters told Chris Hayes.

She named former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as members of the "Kremlin Clan."

"So, whether we're talking about any of them or Wilbur Ross or Carter Page, these are all people with ties that are documented with Russian and the Kremlin, and so I have named them ‘Trump's Kremlin Clan' because how is it that all of them with this background and with these connections end up in the same administration?" she asked.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 16, 2017, 11:33:12 pm
Maxine Waters Says Trump Is Part of ‘Kremlin Clan’ So He Should Be Impeached

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/rep-waters-says-trump-is-part-of-kremlin-clan-so-he-should-be-impeached/

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) charged President Donald Trump with being part of a "Kremlin Clan" on MSNBC's "All In With Chris Hayes" Wednesday night, and said he should be impeached because of it.

"I've come to conclude that Trump has the ‘Kremlin Clan' surrounding him and have been involved with him for a long time and you named some of them this evening," Waters told Chris Hayes.

She named former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as members of the "Kremlin Clan."

"So, whether we're talking about any of them or Wilbur Ross or Carter Page, these are all people with ties that are documented with Russian and the Kremlin, and so I have named them ‘Trump's Kremlin Clan' because how is it that all of them with this background and with these connections end up in the same administration?" she asked.

Just keep on beating that drum, Max.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on February 16, 2017, 11:50:36 pm
"I have named them ‘Trump's Kremlin Clan' because George Soros is paying me a ton of money to say it."

@don-o  @Cyber Liberty
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 16, 2017, 11:57:57 pm
If I found Maxine floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on February 17, 2017, 04:50:25 pm
Meet the man who lets his girlfriend have sex with other men… so that she doesn’t leave him

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2864302/meet-the-man-who-lets-his-girlfriend-have-sex-with-other-men-so-that-she-doesnt-leave-him/



WAKING up on a Saturday morning, Beatrice Gibbs takes one look at the naked stranger lying next to her before quickly putting on her clothes and leaving. As the 22-year-old make-up artist walks home, she texts her boyfriend Adam Gillet to tell him she’s on her way back. Beatrice feels no guilt as she walks through their front door – because Adam knows exactly where she has been and what she’s been doing.

The pair, who have been together for two years, have a one-sided open relationship.

Beatrice can sleep with who she wants, when she wants, despite Adam, 27, not having the same privileges.


Neuter it with a hedge trimmer, its the only way to be sure.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on February 17, 2017, 04:57:52 pm
Meet the man who lets his girlfriend have sex with other men… so that she doesn’t leave him

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2864302/meet-the-man-who-lets-his-girlfriend-have-sex-with-other-men-so-that-she-doesnt-leave-him/



WAKING up on a Saturday morning, Beatrice Gibbs takes one look at the naked stranger lying next to her before quickly putting on her clothes and leaving. As the 22-year-old make-up artist walks home, she texts her boyfriend Adam Gillet to tell him she’s on her way back. Beatrice feels no guilt as she walks through their front door – because Adam knows exactly where she has been and what she’s been doing.

The pair, who have been together for two years, have a one-sided open relationship.

Beatrice can sleep with who she wants, when she wants, despite Adam, 27, not having the same privileges.


Neuter it with a hedge trimmer, its the only way to be sure.
Umm Dude, she's already gone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6Z-eOWXZQ
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on February 17, 2017, 05:01:19 pm
Umm Dude, she's already gone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6Z-eOWXZQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqzhW6a1trQ
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on February 17, 2017, 05:13:49 pm
Umm Dude, she's already gone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6Z-eOWXZQ

This one works too:

JOHN HIATT LYRICS
"Gone"

Gone like my last paycheck, gone gone away
Gone like the car I wrecked, gone gone away
Gone like a fifth of gin, gone gone away
Gone like the shape I'm in, gone gone away
My baby's gone away

Gone like a Nixon file, gone gone away
Gone like my landlord’s smile, gone gone away
Gone like the furniture, gone gone away
Gone like the rest of her, gone gone away
My baby's gone away

Gone like the silhouette there by the bed where she undressed
Gone like the candlelight where we made love so sweet and bright
Gone like the one last turn she took before Atlanta burned
Gone like everything I learned, gone gone away

Gone like my last paycheck, gone gone away
Gone like the car I wrecked, gone gone away
Gone like a fifth of gin gone gone away
Gone like the shape I'm in, gone gone away
My baby's gone away

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on February 17, 2017, 11:34:54 pm
A Man's Pet Squirrel Stops a Would-Be Burglar in Idaho

A pet squirrel named Joey is being called a hero this week after attacking a would-be burglar who broke into an Idaho home.

It all started Tuesday when Meridian, Idaho resident Adam Pearl stepped into his house and realized something was wrong."I came in the front door and I saw snow prints out in the front driveway going to the back of the house, so I thought something was awry because no one usually goes through the yard," Pearl told KIVI-TV....
https://weather.com/science/nature/news/squirrel-attacks-idaho-burglar
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on February 18, 2017, 02:07:13 am
Arsonist botches effort to blow up home on Valentine's Day, police say

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2017/02/gas_line_cut_in_attempt_to_blo.html

GAINES TWP, MI - An inside gas line was cut near a burning candle in an effort to blow up a Gaines Township home on Valentine's Day, police said.

Instead of exploding, however, the suspected arsonist set the candle too close to the line.

"What they wanted to do was fill up the room with gas and blow up the house," said Gaines Township police Chief Mark Schmitzer, adding that firefighters found the broken gas line "spewing out a flame like a blow torch."


Ah stupid people. Who would we laugh at without them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 18, 2017, 05:15:45 pm
Got a special sort of stupid one for us today ....

Tenant violates terms of lease by dying so his family can’t get his deposit back

A landlord has refused to give a deposit back to a family because the tenant had violated the terms of the lease – by dying.

Dennis Hanel, 55, had stage four kidney failure and died last month of a heart attack, but his £1,122 deposit will not be returned to his family.

His sister was told that his death ‘violated the terms of his lease’ and a representative of the landlord told her: ‘He’s not getting anything back.’

Debra Tolbert told CrossCut she was planning to use the deposit to cover the cost of her brother’s cremation.

An organiser from the local group, Washington CAN, that is helping Debra said: ‘For a landlord to require someone to give notice that they are going to die in order to get a deposit back is outrageous and unethical, not to mention inhumane.

Xochhitl Maykovich continued: ‘I don’t understand how someone like that can sleep at night.’

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/17/tenant-violates-terms-of-lease-by-dying-so-his-family-cant-get-his-deposit-back-6454086/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on February 18, 2017, 05:28:22 pm
Got a special sort of stupid one for us today ....

Tenant violates terms of lease by dying so his family can’t get his deposit back

A landlord has refused to give a deposit back to a family because the tenant had violated the terms of the lease – by dying.

Dennis Hanel, 55, had stage four kidney failure and died last month of a heart attack, but his £1,122 deposit will not be returned to his family.

His sister was told that his death ‘violated the terms of his lease’ and a representative of the landlord told her: ‘He’s not getting anything back.’

Debra Tolbert told CrossCut she was planning to use the deposit to cover the cost of her brother’s cremation.

An organiser from the local group, Washington CAN, that is helping Debra said: ‘For a landlord to require someone to give notice that they are going to die in order to get a deposit back is outrageous and unethical, not to mention inhumane.

Xochhitl Maykovich continued: ‘I don’t understand how someone like that can sleep at night.’

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/17/tenant-violates-terms-of-lease-by-dying-so-his-family-cant-get-his-deposit-back-6454086/

I guess you can't terminate your lease by paying the ultimate price.

Hey! What kind of name is 'Xochhitl Maykovich'? Siberian?

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 18, 2017, 05:32:50 pm
Behind the Name site says Xochhitl is Native American derived from Spanish.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on February 18, 2017, 05:39:41 pm
Behind the Name site says Xochhitl is Native American derived from Spanish.  :shrug:

Welllll, since Maykovich sounds Russian and Xochhitl sounds Aztec I figured the name originated in Siberia and made it's way to us over some sort of bridge.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 18, 2017, 05:42:31 pm
The Metro has a few good ones today:

Man ‘discovers wife is prostitute after watching brothel raid on TV’

A man apparently discovered his wife was a prostitute after she was arrested on TV during a brothel raid.

Igor Alexeev had no idea his other half was a sex worker until he watched police storm the premises in Ufa, Bashkortostan, in Russia.

After doing some more research on the internet he apparently found his wife Maria was listed for various sexual services, according to Mundo.

He said her listing showed she charged clients 15,000 RUB (£200) per night.

Mr Alexeev is now trying to get a court order to prevent his wife seeing their six-year-old daughter because he thinks she would be emotionally scarred if she found out the truth.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/17/man-discovers-wife-is-prostitute-after-watching-brothel-raid-on-tv-6456145/

Just how oblivious is this guy?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on February 19, 2017, 12:51:56 am
Quote
Toy tiger used to nurse orphaned cubs back to health   
Park rangers at a tiger reserve in India came up with a unique way to nurse three orphaned cubs.

The rangers at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh have fitted a stuffed toy tiger with synthetic nipples and milk bottles for the cubs to feed from, CNN reported.
(http://www.ajc.com/rf/image_large/Pub/p8/CmgSharedContent/2017/02/18/Images/photos.medleyphoto.13251556.jpg)
http://www.ajc.com/news/world/toy-tiger-used-nurse-orphaned-cubs-back-health/qfZzvOpFjcFGfJZ3fZbNbL/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on February 19, 2017, 01:10:32 am


I have a doll sorta like that.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 19, 2017, 01:00:39 pm
A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

Police officer sacked for sending his boss picture of porn star that looked like her

A police officer has been sacked after he sent his female boss a picture of a porn star he thought looked like her.

PC Mark Scruby also showed the image to other colleagues telling them it looked just like Detective Sergeant Isobel Lee.

The officer of 14 years insisted it was a ‘joke’ but his boss said it left her feeling ‘humiliated and dirty’, at a misconduct hearing yesterday.

‘To try and keep face in front of the rest of my team for the rest of the day was really hard,’ she said.

He ‘repeatedly’ shared the explicit image with colleagues in a canteen and a report writing room, before he sent it to [DS] Lee over Whatsapp on February 5 last year.

Lee called him into her office at Crawley police station in West Sussex and told him: ‘You were inappropriate, unprofessional and out of order.’

The constable was hauled before a police misconduct hearing last May and was dismissed from the force after his actions were found to be a major breach of standards.

But he was later reinstated as an officer after he lodged an appeal against the ruling.

On Thursday, the case was brought back to a misconduct hearing where DS Lee said the incident left her feeling ’embarrassed and disgusted, humiliated and dirty.’

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/17/police-officer-sacked-for-sending-his-boss-picture-of-porn-star-that-looked-like-her-6454083/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 19, 2017, 06:23:30 pm
It's hard to take a side on this one.  A Police Supervisor should be a little tougher than this, but on the other hand he was showing it around to his peers (presumably also working for the Supervisor), making her the butt of the jokes which had the effect of undermining her authority.  Are there pictures of the porn star in the story so we can judge?   :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on February 19, 2017, 08:29:32 pm
A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

Police officer sacked for sending his boss picture of porn star that looked like her

A police officer has been sacked after he sent his female boss a picture of a porn star he thought looked like her.

PC Mark Scruby also showed the image to other colleagues telling them it looked just like Detective Sergeant Isobel Lee.

The officer of 14 years insisted it was a ‘joke’ but his boss said it left her feeling ‘humiliated and dirty’, at a misconduct hearing yesterday.

‘To try and keep face in front of the rest of my team for the rest of the day was really hard,’ she said.

He ‘repeatedly’ shared the explicit image with colleagues in a canteen and a report writing room, before he sent it to [DS] Lee over Whatsapp on February 5 last year.

Lee called him into her office at Crawley police station in West Sussex and told him: ‘You were inappropriate, unprofessional and out of order.’

The constable was hauled before a police misconduct hearing last May and was dismissed from the force after his actions were found to be a major breach of standards.

But he was later reinstated as an officer after he lodged an appeal against the ruling.

On Thursday, the case was brought back to a misconduct hearing where DS Lee said the incident left her feeling ’embarrassed and disgusted, humiliated and dirty.’

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/17/police-officer-sacked-for-sending-his-boss-picture-of-porn-star-that-looked-like-her-6454083/

When a fellow's not engaged in his employment
or maturing his felonious little plans,
his capacity for innocent enjoyment
is just as great as any honest man's.........


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 19, 2017, 08:31:56 pm
 :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 20, 2017, 09:56:10 pm
Ex-police officer attempted to create ZOMBIE SLAVES by killing four homeless people during occult rituals in Russian woodlands

    Former policeman allegedly performed occult sacrifices in Verkhnyaya Pyshma
    Arsen Bairambekov had worked as an police officer in Dagestan before killings
    Investigators allege that he tried to bring four vagrants back to life as 'zombies' 

By Naomi Leach For Mailonline

Published: 10:07, 20 February 2017 | Updated: 10:47, 20 February 2017

A former police officer has been accused of killing four homeless people and attempting to resurrect them as ‘zombies’ during occult rituals in a Russian forest.

Arsen Bairambekov allegedly lured the vagrants with free alcohol to a makeshift altar and bonfire in woodlands in Verkhnyaya Pyshma at night-time.

He sacrificed his victims then attempted to turn them into ‘zombies’ a Russian court heard.

After the sacrificial killings Mr Bairambekov buried the four bodies and is said to have returned ‘some time later’ in a bid to unleash his occult powers through further rituals.

Investigators told The Times: ‘He tried to bring the dead back to life then turn them into zombies. However, all his attempts were futile.’

Originally a police officer based in Dagestan in southern Russia, Mr Bairambekov moved to Verkhnyaya Pyshma, 900 miles east of Moscow, where the killings took place in 2014.

The former officer is also facing charges for two contact killings carried out on businessmen in 2002 and 2010 and for the illegal circulation of firearms.

According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, Mr Bairambekov underwent three psychiatric evaluations and was deemed fit to stand trial.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4241628/Ex-police-officer-attempted-create-ZOMBIE-SLAVES.html

If it's MailOnline BS, it's creative MailOnline BS. I prefer to think it's too ridiculous to be anything but the truth.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on February 21, 2017, 04:51:25 pm
Tennessee:
If one reads up on this, the police officer has only been disciplined with a suspension, a few weeks.

Mind you, if talking this way to someone is not bad enough, he also gave her some sort of video of himself as well.
Quote
Cop's indecent requests caught on secret recordings
Phil Williams
SOUTH CARTHAGE, Tenn. - Secret recordings obtained by Nashville-based WTVF show a Middle Tennessee police officer making all sorts of indecent requests to a woman he was supposed to be protecting.

Those recordings landed South Carthage officer Frank Geisenhoffer in trouble back in December.

For the victim, they raise questions about why he's still on the job.

"How can you defend speaking to a woman like that?" WTVF asked the veteran officer.

"Ok, sir," he replied. "I don't have any statements."

The recordings, made by convenience store clerk Elizabeth Restrepo, are crude.

"I don't do big girls," Geisenhoffer says at one point. "Don't have to -- not with this d...k."

At another point, he tells Restrepo, "You do look good, baby. F...ing hot!" Later, he comments on the appearance of her nipples.

More: http://www.abc15.com/news/national/cops-indecent-requests-caught-on-secret-recordings

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 21, 2017, 04:56:57 pm
The punishment certainly fits the ridiculous category.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on February 22, 2017, 02:19:47 am
The punishment certainly fits the ridiculous category.

I don't know. Suspension for two shifts. What were they suspending him by?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on February 22, 2017, 03:51:53 am
The thing about the Tennessee case above, is it does seem possible, one could be led on. It sounds like the cop and no one else did wrong but it might be more complex.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 22, 2017, 07:42:04 am
Headline (from the Post, which re-ran the article) and link (to the original article) only for this. I don't want to spoil the pleasure.

‘Vagina lipstick glue’ is even more terrible than it sounds (http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/the-insane-vagina-glue-no-woman-will-ever-want/news-story/77918aa0c2ae0c982d7a1c3c56556a68?from=rss-basic)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 22, 2017, 01:04:03 pm
Toxic Shock, anybody?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on February 22, 2017, 02:20:56 pm
Could go in the national news forum, will spare folks that. victim-less crime? 2 consenting whatever.

Mississippi:

Quote
DOG SEX RAP Woman, 43, arrested for having sex with a DOG after vile bestiality video was posted online
Footage showing the alleged disturbing sex session led cops to raid the home of Amy Graves
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2924410/woman-sex-with-dog-video-posted-online-arrested/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on February 22, 2017, 02:31:30 pm
Quote
SHARK ATTACK Shark attack bodyboarder dies on paradise island Reunion after being mauled in front of shocked holidaymakers
The bodyboarder was attacked by a shark while in a dangerous water area today off Saint-Andre
By ELLIE CAMBRIDGE
21st February 2017, 3:11 pm   
A BODYBOARDER bled to death on a beach in front of shocked honeymooners after being attacked by a SHARK.

The 26-year-old, now named as Alexandre Naussance, went into waters officially closed to swimmers – but the warning signs had been vandalised.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2919174/shark-attack-reunion-bodyboarder-dead-beach/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 22, 2017, 03:34:39 pm
Must have been a Naussance Shark.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on February 23, 2017, 10:46:13 pm
Giraffe stream flagged on YouTube for 'nudity & sexual content', park says

"For the millions of you that have been tuning in to take witness to this educational experience, a live giraffe birth, there are a handful of extremists and animal rights activists that may not agree with us, and that's okay, but have unfortunately reported our YouTube cam as sexually explicit or nude content, which has made for its removal," park officials said on Facebook Live....
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/237622553-story

 :huh?:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 23, 2017, 11:05:52 pm
Giraffe stream flagged on YouTube for 'nudity & sexual content', park says

"For the millions of you that have been tuning in to take witness to this educational experience, a live giraffe birth, there are a handful of extremists and animal rights activists that may not agree with us, and that's okay, but have unfortunately reported our YouTube cam as sexually explicit or nude content, which has made for its removal," park officials said on Facebook Live....
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/237622553-story

 :huh?:

Animal rights activists.  They griped the live-cam for something bogus they knew they could get it pulled down for.  The Lavender Mafia that runs Bookface does that too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on February 24, 2017, 06:40:02 pm
Spectacular General Lee stunt jump wows Autorama crowd

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/02/spectacular_general_lee_stunt.html

I'm a little surprised they got away with this primarily because of the flag on top of the car.

(http://i.imgur.com/zXasVo1.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPtcfv4dA7o



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 24, 2017, 07:32:05 pm
Spectacular General Lee stunt jump wows Autorama crowd

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/02/spectacular_general_lee_stunt.html

I'm a little surprised they got away with this primarily because of the flag on top of the car.

(http://i.imgur.com/zXasVo1.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPtcfv4dA7o

I thought the guy who owns that car said he was going to paint over the flag on the top?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on February 24, 2017, 07:45:18 pm
I thought the guy who owns that car said he was going to paint over the flag on the top?
@Cyber Liberty I am glad he did not.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 24, 2017, 08:05:23 pm
@Cyber Liberty I am glad he did not.

I think there are many copies of the General Lee, so who knows?  The ones used in the TV series are probably showpieces, not for driving stunts.  The car in CC's video looked like it was damaged from the jump.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 24, 2017, 08:07:27 pm
The car in CC's video looked like it was damaged from the jump.

A little Zaino and that will buff right out!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on February 24, 2017, 08:17:47 pm
I think there are many copies of the General Lee, so who knows?  The ones used in the TV series are probably showpieces, not for driving stunts.  The car in CC's video looked like it was damaged from the jump.

It was wrecked. That whole car is probably one of many made in a shop to be wrecked. There is nothing original there.

Slow mo. She's done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-DYBfKYk6E
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on February 24, 2017, 08:53:33 pm
These are snuggies, I had to look it up to make sure:
(http://www.tvtopten.com/images/snuggie_blanket.jpg)
Quote
Snuggie-clad goats found wandering Idaho neighborhood
By Daniel Uria   |   Feb. 24, 2017 at 2:34 PM
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/02/24/Snuggie-clad-goats-found-wandering-Idaho-neighborhood/4951487963332/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=2

Picture at link of the goats even. But it is a tweet, so one can go see for themselves.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on February 24, 2017, 09:58:16 pm
Angry anglers lead to attacks, feces-smearing at Florida pier

   

One Florida fishing pier is cracking down on vengeful fishermen who have gone as far as defecating on the pier’s in order to mark their space.

According to Florida Today, the good fishing at the Sebastian Inlet pier has led to increasing disputes among anglers, including aggressive tactics like throwing fishing weights and gear at each other and boaters, and the boaters sometimes retaliating in kind.

The problem doesn’t quiet at night, leading officials to consider closing the pier at night because injuries, including two victims being taken to the hospital.

"We've had reports of people defecating and spreading it on the rail to mark their territory so nobody will fish next to them," administrator for the Sebastian Inlet District Martin Smithson told Florida Today. "There have been several citations for public urination."

The inlet district passed a resolution this month asking for help from law enforecement. District officials hope the pier will be patrolled 24/7 by Florida wildlife officers, but the question of funding and how a patrol would work remain.

More: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime--law/angry-anglers-lead-attacks-feces-smearing-florida-pier/sD7L4p6et6DltBf2LEivLN/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 24, 2017, 10:08:01 pm
Angry anglers lead to attacks, feces-smearing at Florida pier

   

One Florida fishing pier is cracking down on vengeful fishermen who have gone as far as defecating on the pier’s in order to mark their space.

According to Florida Today, the good fishing at the Sebastian Inlet pier has led to increasing disputes among anglers, including aggressive tactics like throwing fishing weights and gear at each other and boaters, and the boaters sometimes retaliating in kind.

The problem doesn’t quiet at night, leading officials to consider closing the pier at night because injuries, including two victims being taken to the hospital.

"We've had reports of people defecating and spreading it on the rail to mark their territory so nobody will fish next to them," administrator for the Sebastian Inlet District Martin Smithson told Florida Today. "There have been several citations for public urination."

The inlet district passed a resolution this month asking for help from law enforecement. District officials hope the pier will be patrolled 24/7 by Florida wildlife officers, but the question of funding and how a patrol would work remain.

More: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime--law/angry-anglers-lead-attacks-feces-smearing-florida-pier/sD7L4p6et6DltBf2LEivLN/

That's pretty shitty....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on February 25, 2017, 02:53:23 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Nh987zH.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 25, 2017, 04:01:52 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/Nh987zH.jpg)

There's a Cop Shop in New England somewhere that has one of the most followed Bookface pages in the country.  Some funny guy writes up some of their happenings.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 26, 2017, 03:09:09 am
I have a doll sorta like that.
I was thinking that this story wasn't ridiculous.................and then I saw your comment :silly: :silly: :silly:
@bigheadfred
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 26, 2017, 03:12:59 am
Ex-police officer attempted to create ZOMBIE SLAVES by killing four homeless people during occult rituals in Russian woodlands

    Former policeman allegedly performed occult sacrifices in Verkhnyaya Pyshma
    Arsen Bairambekov had worked as an police officer in Dagestan before killings
    Investigators allege that he tried to bring four vagrants back to life as 'zombies' 

By Naomi Leach For Mailonline

Published: 10:07, 20 February 2017 | Updated: 10:47, 20 February 2017

A former police officer has been accused of killing four homeless people and attempting to resurrect them as ‘zombies’ during occult rituals in a Russian forest.

Arsen Bairambekov allegedly lured the vagrants with free alcohol to a makeshift altar and bonfire in woodlands in Verkhnyaya Pyshma at night-time.

He sacrificed his victims then attempted to turn them into ‘zombies’ a Russian court heard.

After the sacrificial killings Mr Bairambekov buried the four bodies and is said to have returned ‘some time later’ in a bid to unleash his occult powers through further rituals.

Investigators told The Times: ‘He tried to bring the dead back to life then turn them into zombies. However, all his attempts were futile.’

Originally a police officer based in Dagestan in southern Russia, Mr Bairambekov moved to Verkhnyaya Pyshma, 900 miles east of Moscow, where the killings took place in 2014.

The former officer is also facing charges for two contact killings carried out on businessmen in 2002 and 2010 and for the illegal circulation of firearms.

According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, Mr Bairambekov underwent three psychiatric evaluations and was deemed fit to stand trial.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4241628/Ex-police-officer-attempted-create-ZOMBIE-SLAVES.html

If it's MailOnline BS, it's creative MailOnline BS. I prefer to think it's too ridiculous to be anything but the truth.
I'm glad it didn't work, we already have too many democrats in the world.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 26, 2017, 04:19:39 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on February 26, 2017, 04:28:48 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k

 888high58888  Exactly!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 26, 2017, 09:02:54 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k
That's a classic!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on February 26, 2017, 11:01:00 am
Can I add one?.

It was 72 degrees here on Saturday. Today it's in the 30s and will be there all week.

Wacky weather.

It's not as good as you alls posts but...it's weird.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 26, 2017, 10:07:17 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k
I love The Ghost Breakers, one of Hope's best.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 02, 2017, 05:25:55 pm
Check out this dipstick...Having a choice of 34 genders isn't enough.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4274396/Man-spends-50-000-transform-genderless-ALIEN.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 02, 2017, 10:15:57 pm
A Tolkien Truther From Colorado Says He's the Real King of England


We may never get to see the uproarious hijinks of 1991’s comedy classic, King Ralph, but, thankfully, reality is often stranger than fiction. Take, for example, a Colorado man who believes that the works of J.R.R. Tolkien are “more than fiction” and has formally laid his claim to the title of King of England.

As spotted by David Mapstone, a journalist at Britain’s Sky News, Allan V. Evans of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, took out a lengthy ad in The Times of London on Wednesday claiming that due to his unbroken lineage—trailing back to the fictional Kingdom of Gondor, he says—makes him the rightful King of England. In the ad, Evans traces his ancestry through real historical kings such as Cunedda Wledig, founder of Wales, before finally arriving at where he appears to think history intersects with the stories of Tolkien, Wales being just a new name for what was once called Gondor.

Evans goes on to state that in 30 days from the post of the notice, he will be claiming his rightful lands, titles, assets, and all the rest, but will also wait until the natural death of Queen Elizabeth II.

The ad ends with a rousing call to his cause and countrymen, before the revealing final line, making any previous fictional reference explicit.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/king-england-newspaper-ad-times

So, who were saying weed is harmless again?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 02, 2017, 11:48:35 pm
This one is local to me @EC. Happened today.

Rigby pair busted with meth at federal courthouse

POCATELLO — A Rigby couple was found in possession of methamphetamine while being processed through the screening area at a federal courthouse.

Around 11:20 a.m. Monday, Pocatello Police officers responded to the Federal Courthouse on E Sherman St. to a report of a controlled substance found at a security checkpoint.

Officers say they discovered what they believed to be meth and a pipe used to smoke meth in a backpack belonging to Tera and John Mullins.

The backpack contained a small glass vial containing .2 grams of methamphetamine and 65 small plastic baggies, according to investigators.

https://www.eastidahonews.com/2017/03/rigby-pair-busted-meth-federal-courthouse/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 03, 2017, 12:52:35 am
A Tolkien Truther From Colorado Says He's the Real King of England


We may never get to see the uproarious hijinks of 1991’s comedy classic, King Ralph, but, thankfully, reality is often stranger than fiction. Take, for example, a Colorado man who believes that the works of J.R.R. Tolkien are “more than fiction” and has formally laid his claim to the title of King of England.

As spotted by David Mapstone, a journalist at Britain’s Sky News, Allan V. Evans of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, took out a lengthy ad in The Times of London on Wednesday claiming that due to his unbroken lineage—trailing back to the fictional Kingdom of Gondor, he says—makes him the rightful King of England. In the ad, Evans traces his ancestry through real historical kings such as Cunedda Wledig, founder of Wales, before finally arriving at where he appears to think history intersects with the stories of Tolkien, Wales being just a new name for what was once called Gondor.

Evans goes on to state that in 30 days from the post of the notice, he will be claiming his rightful lands, titles, assets, and all the rest, but will also wait until the natural death of Queen Elizabeth II.

The ad ends with a rousing call to his cause and countrymen, before the revealing final line, making any previous fictional reference explicit.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/king-england-newspaper-ad-times

So, who were saying weed is harmless again?

Not being a fan of the royals, I don't see the problem.  He couldn't be more effed up than Chas.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 03, 2017, 02:01:52 am
Alger (MI) man killed with ax for calling killer a 'pedophile,' police say

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2017/02/man_killed_alger_man_with_ax_f.html

The suspect.

(http://i.imgur.com/BYJtPyI.gif)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 03, 2017, 02:09:27 am
Alger (MI) man killed with ax for calling killer a 'pedophile,' police say

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2017/02/man_killed_alger_man_with_ax_f.html

The suspect.

(http://i.imgur.com/BYJtPyI.gif)

Looks clean.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 03, 2017, 02:49:09 am
Alger (MI) man killed with ax for calling killer a 'pedophile,' police say

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2017/02/man_killed_alger_man_with_ax_f.html

The suspect.

(http://i.imgur.com/BYJtPyI.gif)

That is gruesome!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on March 03, 2017, 04:30:30 am
Alger (MI) man killed with ax for calling killer a 'pedophile,' police say

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2017/02/man_killed_alger_man_with_ax_f.html

The suspect.

(http://i.imgur.com/BYJtPyI.gif)

Couple of neck bolts and a flat top and he's in business.  Is he afraid of fire?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 03, 2017, 11:46:04 am
That is gruesome!

You should have seen him before the replacement head arrived.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 03, 2017, 12:02:12 pm
You should have seen him before the replacement head arrived.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/cf/86/80/cf8680888bb9384c98fb9940e4628236.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 04, 2017, 02:32:27 pm
Tragedy as man drinks an entire bottle of tequila in one go to win a $630 bet and DIES moments later

    Kelvin Rafael Mejía, 23, died after drinking an entire bottle of tequila
    He placed a bet with fellow drinkers as to how much he could drink
    After winning $630 he passed out and fell to the floor
    Meija never regained consciousness and died shortly afterwards


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4280676/Man-wins-bet-chugging-bottle-tequila-dies.html#ixzz4aMrM8Xno
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 04, 2017, 02:36:13 pm
Play stupid games. Be interesting to see a tox report.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 04, 2017, 02:40:55 pm
Probably isn't fake news but could be.

But folks know, college kids and others, do play those stupid games.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Oceander on March 04, 2017, 02:48:47 pm
Alger (MI) man killed with ax for calling killer a 'pedophile,' police say

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2017/02/man_killed_alger_man_with_ax_f.html

The suspect.

(http://i.imgur.com/BYJtPyI.gif)

Turns out he had in fact been convicted for raping a teenager.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 04, 2017, 03:03:55 pm
Probably isn't fake news but could be.

But folks know, college kids and others, do play those stupid games.

Alcohol doesn't work that fast.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Elderberry on March 04, 2017, 03:07:49 pm
http://www.abc15.com/news/crime/drug-suspects-raid-pepperidge-farm-delivery-truck-for-cookies-police-say?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark (http://www.abc15.com/news/crime/drug-suspects-raid-pepperidge-farm-delivery-truck-for-cookies-police-say?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark)

MESA, AZ - Two drug suspects were busted in Mesa with marijuana, methamphetamine and several stolen boxes of Pepperidge Farm cookies.

Police report that on February 24 a Pepperidge Farm delivery driver came out of his apartment near University Drive and Dobson Road to deliver the products. Attached to his truck is a trailer full of snacks, and the victim noticed that the back door to the trailer was broken.

About $400 worth of cookies was gone.

Police searched the area and found 33-year-old Daniel Kim and 29-year-old Felecia Guthrie in a nearby alleyway along with the drugs and snacks.

Kim, who police say tried to hide the snacks, told police that he was homeless and hungry.

Both Kim and Guthrie have been charged with drug possession and burglary.




(http://media2.abc15.com/photo/2017/03/02/PicMonkey%20Collage_1488480102316_56188615_ver1.0_640_480.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 04, 2017, 03:17:50 pm
Alcohol doesn't work that fast.

I won't put it to the test.

I didn't want to get into a "tell us your drunk stories" area but... I know when younger, we were drinking Mezcal,  the drink made from the same plants as tequila but has the worm in it. I stood up from sitting on the floor and just as soon, I sat down on the floor again, right away. Virtually my only experience like that. Alcohol sure can do a number of things if one doesn't watch it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 04, 2017, 03:29:16 pm
I won't put it to the test.

I didn't want to get into a "tell us your drunk stories" area but... I know when younger, we were drinking Mezcal,  the drink made from the same plants as tequila but has the worm in it. I stood up from sitting on the floor and just as soon, I sat down on the floor again, right away. Virtually my only experience like that. Alcohol sure can do a number of things if one doesn't watch it.

I'm betting the guy passed out immediately then died sometime within the next hour or so.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 04, 2017, 03:33:03 pm
Quote
WOW! An AMBUSH Of Tigers AMBUSH A Drone [VIDEO]

https://youtu.be/Nhe_cyrHNpI

http://rightalerts.com/wow-an-ambush-of-tigers-ambushes-a-drone-video/

I think this fits the ridiculous news category: the chubby tigers, the music, the setting, the inevitability.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 04, 2017, 03:35:57 pm
Alcohol doesn't work that fast.

It can.  Alcohol gets absorbed through the stomach lining in addition to the small intestine, especially if there are ulcers involved.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on March 04, 2017, 03:39:53 pm
I'm betting the guy passed out immediately then died sometime within the next hour or so.

Many years ago I watched something akin to this occur.  Some guy I did not know (I was in the Army at the time) apparently made a wager that he could down a 1/2 pint bottle of everclear in one go and did. Won the bet but spent weeks in the hospital afterward. I'm told it was touch and go for awhile whether or not he would survive.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 04, 2017, 03:52:42 pm
Many years ago I watched something akin to this occur.  Some guy I did not know (I was in the Army at the time) apparently made a wager that he could down a 1/2 pint bottle of everclear in one go and did. Won the bet but spent weeks in the hospital afterward. I'm told it was touch and go for awhile whether or not he would survive.

A good way to get dain bramaged.  The leftist idiot who shot US Representative Gabby Giffords in the face in Tucson was a product of an almost fatal dose of alcohol poisoning years earlier.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 04, 2017, 04:05:52 pm
Many years ago I watched something akin to this occur.  Some guy I did not know (I was in the Army at the time) apparently made a wager that he could down a 1/2 pint bottle of everclear in one go and did. Won the bet but spent weeks in the hospital afterward. I'm told it was touch and go for awhile whether or not he would survive.

I found several teenagers a few years ago getting drunk on the state land near me as one of them was proceeding to die in the ditch.

I was taking a late night ride on the backroads and saw some legs sticking out of the ditch. It was a kid about 17, unresponsive, barely breathing with a slow weak pulse, laying with his head downhill. His friends started staggering out of the woods to see what was going on and telling me he was OK.

I made them get him sitting semi upright so he wouldn't choke if he started to throw up and sure enough he immediately started to throw up while he was passed out so I made them lean him forward to make sure nothing remained in his mouth. I called the ambulance and the friends all fled.

The paramedic said it looked like basic alcohol poisoning to him and they hauled him off to the hospital.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on March 04, 2017, 04:31:55 pm
A good way to get dain bramaged.  The leftist idiot who shot US Representative Gabby Giffords in the face in Tucson was a product of an almost fatal dose of alcohol poisoning years earlier.

From my point of view anyone who would do something that stupid didn't have much of a brain to damage!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on March 04, 2017, 04:32:35 pm
I found several teenagers a few years ago getting drunk on the state land near me as one of them was proceeding to die in the ditch.

I was taking a late night ride on the backroads and saw some legs sticking out of the ditch. It was a kid about 17, unresponsive, barely breathing with a slow weak pulse, laying with his head downhill. His friends started staggering out of the woods to see what was going on and telling me he was OK.

I made them get him sitting semi upright so he wouldn't choke if he started to throw up and sure enough he immediately started to throw up while he was passed out so I made them lean him forward to make sure nothing remained in his mouth. I called the ambulance and the friends all fled.

The paramedic said it looked like basic alcohol poisoning to him and they hauled him off to the hospital.

 **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 04, 2017, 04:43:34 pm
From my point of view anyone who would do something that stupid didn't have much of a brain to damage!

His mother is an extreme leftist with a management position in Pima county gooberment.  If you knew Tucson, you'd say she's a perfect fit.  She pulled strings with their Socialist Sheriff to keep information about her son's mental issues secret so he could legally keep the gun he shot the Congresswoman in the face with.  They both later declared the shooting (which also killed a child and a Federal Judge) was the fault of AZ "lax" gun laws.

Meanwhile, Giffords continues to prove one can shoot a Dem in the head and they'll still walk and talk.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 04, 2017, 07:09:10 pm
Play stupid games. Be interesting to see a tox report.
Really. Most people would just puke most of it back up.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 04, 2017, 07:15:07 pm
It can.  Alcohol gets absorbed through the stomach lining in addition to the small intestine, especially if there are ulcers involved.
Some does, but according to Widmark's research it takes 45 minutes to go full post-absorbtive (to fully disseminate the alcohol throughout the system).
It is the lag between drinking and the effects 'hitting them'.
The higher the concentration of alcohol in the stomach fluid, the more the body will absorb in an attempt to distribute it equally throughout.
That's the reason someone can go in the bar, down a 4 or 5 shots, drive a short distance home and still be sober enough to get there. The alcohol will still be entering their system when they walk in the door.
If they get stopped, though, by the time they get tested, they've absorbed enough they get a DUI.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 04, 2017, 07:17:58 pm
A good way to get dain bramaged.  The leftist idiot who shot US Representative Gabby Giffords in the face in Tucson was a product of an almost fatal dose of alcohol poisoning years earlier.
He had other problems long before that, iirc.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 04, 2017, 07:35:02 pm

What I am saying is the kid probably had a high amount of alcohol/drugs in his system so it didn't take long for the huge amount consumed quickly to put him out. Chugging a fifth would have taken minutes and not seconds for a sober person to pass out.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 04, 2017, 07:58:18 pm
What I am saying is the kid probably had a high amount of alcohol/drugs in his system so it didn't take long for the huge amount consumed quickly to put him out. Chugging a fifth would have taken minutes and not seconds for a sober person to pass out.
That's my guess, too. Kid should have stayed with beer.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 04, 2017, 08:25:03 pm
He had other problems long before that, iirc.

Well, there was his mother.  Probably the largest detriment to his life.  The alcohol incident almost killed him.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on March 06, 2017, 12:51:08 am
Alcohol doesn't work that fast.
Assuming he started with the Tequila. He probably needed some liquid courage to agree to a bet that stupid.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 08, 2017, 02:50:42 pm
Normally don't bother with the "dumb criminals" stuff in this thread - crime and ridiculous seem to go too well together - but this one was too delicious not to include.

Hours after being sentenced for theft, St. Paul man tries to steal again, charges say

Hours after he was sentenced for theft in Dakota County, authorities say a man tried to walk out of a St. Paul Sears store with layers of apparel he hadn’t paid for tucked under his clothing.
Alphonso Terry Whitelaw, 32, of St. Paul was charged Friday, March 3, 2017 in Ramsey County District Court with one count of first-degree aggravated robbery and another count of second-degree assault. He is accused of pulling a knife on a store employee after allegedly trying to steal clothing from a Sears in St. Paul. Photo courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office.
Alphonso Terry Whitelaw

On his way out of the store, Alphonso Terry Whitelaw dropped a couple of pairs of jeans and a hoodie, catching the attention of a nearby employee trained to spot stealing, according to the criminal complaint filed against him Friday in Ramsey County District Court.

The complaint charges the 32-year-old with one count of first-degree aggravated robbery and a second count of second-degree assault for the Feb. 21 offense, which authorities say took place at Sears at 425 Rice Street

Store staff saw Whitelaw walk into a dressing room with a stack of clothing and walk out with much of the attire seemingly layered under his clothes and other articles stuffed into his clothing, the complaint said.

When the employee stopped him, Whitelaw pulled out a knife and said “Don’t touch me,” before fleeing, the complaint said.

Police later tracked Whitelaw down after the employee found a warrant of commitment for Whitelaw left behind in his dressing room. It indicated the St. Paul man had been been in Dakota County District Court on misdemeanor theft charges earlier that morning and had received a stayed sentence along with the paperwork forgotten in the dressing room, according to the complaint.

http://www.twincities.com/2017/03/06/hours-after-being-sentenced-for-theft-st-paul-man-tries-to-steal-again-charges-say/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 08, 2017, 02:55:27 pm
@EC It looks like he was either incredibly dumb, or looking for 'three hots and a cot'.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 08, 2017, 02:57:51 pm
@EC It looks like he was either incredibly dumb, or looking for 'three hots and a cot'.

Well, there's this: 

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Staff also found a love letter written by Whitelaw to his wife that promised he would soon “put a ring on her finger,” the complaint said.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 08, 2017, 03:16:57 pm
Well, there's this:
If he'd meant it, he'd have mailed it...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 11, 2017, 12:46:54 am
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Police: Batz brothers’ battle in the buff terrorizes apartment complex
(http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/ut8xes/picture137690343/ALTERNATES/FREE_640/nakedbros)
Noah Batz (left), 24, and Timothy Batz, 21, were arrested in Indianapolis on Sunday after causing mayhem at an apartment complex. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
By Lisa Gutierrez  lgutierrez@kcstar.com

Residents of an Indiana apartment complex will likely never forget the day the Batz brothers battled in the buff.

Indianapolis police arrested Noah Batz, 24, and his younger brother Timothy, 21, after finding them walking around naked in a parking lot of the Lighthouse Landings apartments on the city’s south side Sunday afternoon, according to police.

The two had terrorized residents as they jumped on cars in the parking lot and yelled profanities at passersby, broke into vehicles and assaulted residents, according to police and eyewitness reports.

The brothers were naked all the while.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article137690348.html#storylink=cpy

The article goes on to mention one was smoking pot, the other mushrooms.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 11, 2017, 01:42:38 am
Exactly, EC.

The letter of the law can be stupid, asinine, cruel, devoid of judgment or common sense, or any number of other appropriate descriptions.

If as humans we can't recognize and follow the spirit of the law, when the intent of the law is shown to be (see above descriptions), then we are too stupid and inhuman to exist.
@aligncare

It goes for antiquated laws as well, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 11, 2017, 02:02:20 am
Exactly, EC.

The letter of the law can be stupid, asinine, cruel, devoid of judgment or common sense, or any number of other appropriate descriptions.

If as humans we can't recognize and follow the spirit of the law, when the intent of the law is shown to be (see above descriptions), then we are too stupid and inhuman to exist.

Its why juries have the irreversible right to find guilty men innocent.

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1789): I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

JOHN ADAMS (1771): It's not only ....(the juror's) right, but his duty, in that case, to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1804): Jurors should acquit even against the judge's instruction...."if exercising their judgement with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong."

U.S. vs. DOUGHERTY (1972) [D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals]: The jury has...."unreviewable and irreversible power...to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 11, 2017, 02:15:26 am

If as humans we can't recognize and follow the spirit of the law, when the intent of the law is shown to be (see above descriptions), then we are too stupid and inhuman to exist.


I happen to agree with this.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 11, 2017, 05:22:37 am
Schoolchildren filmed fighting with stolen mops in the middle of the street

Mop-wielding schoolchildren brought the streets of Brixton to a standstill.

A huge brawl broke out in the streets of London yesterday, as youths – some still wearing their school uniform – smacked one another with stolen mops outside Brixton police station.

Dozens of kids were involved in the street fight, which had to be split up by police.

The police arrested two females and one male on suspicion of affray.

More, plus video: http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/10/schoolchildren-filmed-fighting-with-stolen-mops-in-the-middle-of-the-street-6500451/

 :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on March 11, 2017, 04:03:03 pm
I'd say that They weren't affray of nuthing.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 11, 2017, 06:15:25 pm
Stop shitting up my thread.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 11, 2017, 07:03:44 pm
Stop shitting up my thread.
We dindu nuffin', man.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 11, 2017, 07:07:30 pm
 :tongue2:

Asked for clean up. Whoever did it missed my post.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 11, 2017, 10:43:46 pm
Here is more on the Batz brothers, the story is so odd, I thought it could be fake but now, other mainstream sources report it. The mushrooms, undoubtedly, must have made them crazed.
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'LOOK AT US!' Two brothers ‘on magic mushroom bender stripped naked, passionately kissed, smashed cars and punched neighbour in rampage’ at US apartment block

Noah Batz, 24, and Timothy Batz, 21, were arrested after allegedly taking eating the hallucinogenic fungi in Indianapolis, Indiana
By Lia Eustachewich, New York Post
11th March 2017, 5:01 pm
Updated: 11th March 2017, 5:02 pm

TWO brothers from Indiana stripped naked, “passionately” kissed and punched a woman in the face while on a magic-mushroom-fuelled bender that landed them behind bars, it has been reported.

Noah Batz, 24, and Timothy Batz, 21, allegedly went berserk last Sunday after eating the hallucinogenic fungi and running around an apartment complex in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, the New York Post reports.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3067001/brothers-magic-mushroom-naked-kissed-smashed-cars-punched-neighbour/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/naked-brothers-punched-woman-passionately-making-article-1.2993819
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 11, 2017, 10:51:09 pm
She's lucky they weren't on bath salts, they'd have eaten her instead of kissed her and punched her...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 11, 2017, 11:12:03 pm
Here is more on the Batz brothers, the story is so odd, I thought it could be fake but now, other mainstream sources report it. The mushrooms, undoubtedly, must have made them crazed.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/naked-brothers-punched-woman-passionately-making-article-1.2993819

I've seen the effects of mushrooms + alcohol before, and it's pretty impressive.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 11, 2017, 11:15:44 pm
Here is a fellow charged with a hate crime but if one reads his reasoning, he's absolutely nuts. Commit instead of punish? I'm not for leniency but this is crazy. Excerpted, there's more to the bizarre behavior at the link. 

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Hate crime suspect attacks employee at Middle Eastern restaurant with pipe

Salem, Ore. — A 52-year-old Salem man was arrested and charged with assault and intimidation after he allegedly beat an employee at a Middle Eastern restaurant with a pipe.

Jason Kendall. Photo by Marion Co. Sheriff’s Office

Salem police responded to the Al Aqsa Restaurant around at 1326 State Street around 3:05 p.m. after they received a call that a man was punching and causing a disturbance in the area.

The suspect, Jason Kendall, told police he was walking past the restaurant on what he called “a warrior’s path” when he spotted a woman inside the building.

Kendall said he believed the woman was being held as a slave because of the type of shirt she was wearing. He said the shirt was a signal and it was “what Arabs do.”

Continued: http://fox4kc.com/2017/03/11/hate-crime-suspect-attacks-employee-at-middle-eastern-restaurant-with-pipe/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Elderberry on March 11, 2017, 11:17:50 pm
I've seen the effects of mushrooms + alcohol before, and it's pretty impressive.
Traipse thru cow pastures much?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 11, 2017, 11:21:15 pm
Sounds like loco weed, the devil's weed, etc. Jimson weed.

I guess, a variety of mushrooms could do the same, after all, there are poisonous ones too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 12, 2017, 12:00:53 am
Here is a fellow charged with a hate crime but if one reads his reasoning, he's absolutely nuts. Commit instead of punish? I'm not for leniency but this is crazy. Excerpted, there's more to the bizarre behavior at the link.
Definitely a psychopath. It sounds like he was on a self appointed mission from God and looking for a fight, Bernhard Goetz style.


Trivia note: The name of the restaurant is alAqsa. This is what the Muslims call the Jewish temple mount in Jerusalem.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 12, 2017, 01:27:39 am
Traipse thru cow pastures much?
I have, but you don't want to step where those mushrooms grow... **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 12, 2017, 01:29:01 am
Definitely a psychopath. It sounds like he was on a self appointed mission from God and looking for a fight, Bernhard Goetz style.


Trivia note: The name of the restaurant is alAqsa. This is what the Muslims call the Jewish temple mount in Jerusalem.
The problem with guys like that is that if someone did stumble across a slave labor thing or the like, the nutters make the police a little less inclined to do anything.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 12, 2017, 03:41:46 am
Traipse thru cow pastures much?

 :silly:

No, as a medic. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 14, 2017, 03:54:51 am
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'Don't bag up dog poo in countryside', animal owners urged
    13 March 2017

Dog walkers are being urged not to bag up their pet's poo in the countryside - but to use a stick and flick it into the undergrowth instead.


Conservative MP Anne Main will advocate the method during a Westminster debate as a way of reducing the number of plastic bags blighting the countryside.

Mrs Main says better signage is needed at the entrance of parks and open spaces so dog owners know what to do.

She says poo-filled bags hanging from trees are a nationwide problem.

Continued: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39254072

Under the circumstances,  that sounds like the correct thing to do. In the US, raccoons and all kinds of creatures leave their scat out there, droppings, whatever is the correct term.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 16, 2017, 09:34:46 am
This guy went to McDonald’s and ended up just ordering a slice of cheese

Sometimes, less is more.

There are those days when all you want to eat is something simple, something delicious and yet uncomplicated in flavour and texture.

You don’t want pickles jostling next to juicy meat. There’s no need for a smattering of sauces.

And fortunately, restaurants and outlets are becoming a bit more sensitive to these sorts of whims.

Even at McDonald’s, for example, you can add and take away as many of the extras as you wish.

Indeed, you can even take away what some of us would consider to be the very essence of a burger meal.

Twitter user @coL_Merchant visited those golden arches a couple of days ago and decided to strip his lunch down to the very basics.

He ordered a cheeseburger and got rid of all the frills.

That included: no onion, sauces, pickles, meat patty and no bun.

In other words, he ordered a single slice of plastic-y American cheese.

More, and picture proof of being a complete idiot: http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/15/this-guy-went-to-mcdonalds-and-ended-up-just-ordering-a-slice-of-cheese-6510811/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on March 16, 2017, 02:19:10 pm
This guy went to McDonald’s and ended up just ordering a slice of cheese

Sometimes, less is more.

There are those days when all you want to eat is something simple, something delicious and yet uncomplicated in flavour and texture.

You don’t want pickles jostling next to juicy meat. There’s no need for a smattering of sauces.

And fortunately, restaurants and outlets are becoming a bit more sensitive to these sorts of whims.

Even at McDonald’s, for example, you can add and take away as many of the extras as you wish.

Indeed, you can even take away what some of us would consider to be the very essence of a burger meal.

Twitter user @coL_Merchant visited those golden arches a couple of days ago and decided to strip his lunch down to the very basics.

He ordered a cheeseburger and got rid of all the frills.

That included: no onion, sauces, pickles, meat patty and no bun.

In other words, he ordered a single slice of plastic-y American cheese.

More, and picture proof of being a complete idiot: http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/15/this-guy-went-to-mcdonalds-and-ended-up-just-ordering-a-slice-of-cheese-6510811/
No doubt he was an ass and got exactly what he ordered, the way he ordered it. Forty years ago you could order just a piece of cheese or meat or even a bun by itself. But if you were a jerk I would charge you as much as I could too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 16, 2017, 02:30:43 pm
You don’t want pickles jostling next to juicy meat. There’s no need for a smattering of sauces.
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Unfortunate choice of words.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 16, 2017, 06:20:30 pm
You don’t want pickles jostling next to juicy meat. There’s no need for a smattering of sauces.
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Unfortunate choice of words.
Quite. :nometalk:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 16, 2017, 06:37:25 pm
Quite. :nometalk:
You know, that is such an odd way to phrase something, you have to wonder if it was deliberate. I'm betting that there was some snickering by the author when he wrote that. It is too weird to be accidental.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 16, 2017, 06:39:24 pm
It's the Metro. They excel at more juvenile humor, and yes, the word choice is always deliberate. Still they are amazing good at ferreting out ridiculous news stories - could fill the thread from them alone.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 16, 2017, 06:46:57 pm
It's the Metro. They excel at more juvenile humor, and yes, the word choice is always deliberate. Still they are amazing good at ferreting out ridiculous news stories - could fill the thread from them alone.

I tripped over a great article there about selling your knickers online...to "normal" blokes.  Just what do you guys call "normal" blokes?  (Scare quotes are in the story)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 16, 2017, 06:58:06 pm
A normal bloke would be one who isn't buying them to wear.  :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 16, 2017, 07:06:00 pm
A normal bloke would be one who isn't buying them to wear.  :tongue2:

Muy Bueno.  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on March 16, 2017, 08:44:48 pm
A normal bloke would be one who isn't buying them to wear.  :tongue2:

Say what?   :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 16, 2017, 09:02:20 pm
Say what?   :pondering:

I have to rethink a lot of what I thought I knew.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 16, 2017, 09:05:42 pm
I have to rethink a lot of what I thought I knew.

Fine, but please keep it to yourself....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 16, 2017, 09:09:32 pm
Fine, but please keep it to yourself....
888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on March 16, 2017, 09:23:30 pm
Fine, but please keep it to yourself....

He might get his knickers in a knot?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on March 16, 2017, 09:28:55 pm
I have to rethink a lot of what I thought I knew.

I wish I wouldn't have know now what I never knew then.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 16, 2017, 09:31:52 pm
I wish I wouldn't have know now what I never knew then.

I now know what I never knew before.  I can buy used knickers on the interwebz.  Thank God and Al Gore!  (Actually not quite true.  I read an article in Cracked about a gal who made her college money doing that.)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 16, 2017, 09:36:37 pm
Yeah - she did custom orders, if I recall right.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 16, 2017, 09:37:33 pm
Yeah - she did custom orders, if I recall right.

Yup.  You read the same article.  That's where the big money was, too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 16, 2017, 09:37:52 pm
He might get his knickers in a knot?

I don't want to know, Wingy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 16, 2017, 09:54:17 pm
It's not just the guys who are into this. Been selling my skivvies to chicks online for years. At least I think they are chicks? Prices very depending on the brand, material, and how the purchaser wants them enhanced.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on March 16, 2017, 09:57:28 pm
Yeah - she did custom orders, if I recall right.

Yup.  You read the same article.  That's where the big money was, too.

Didn't she have her boy friend test drive a few pair n special request.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 16, 2017, 09:59:18 pm
It's not just the guys who are into this. Been selling my skivvies to chicks online for years. At least I think they are chicks? Prices very depending on the brand, material, and how the purchaser wants them enhanced.

:terror:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 16, 2017, 10:00:05 pm
Didn't she have her boy friend test drive a few pair n special request.

I can't recall.  I can't check right now either because Cracked makes my company firewall scream.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on March 16, 2017, 10:01:20 pm
German dog-walker has close call with coconut cannon

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN — Mar 15, 2017, 7:03 PM ET

A dog walker in the German capital can be thankful he turned out to be a fruitless target after his close call with a coconut cannon.

The man was walking in an industrial area on March 1 when he heard a bang and a ball-shaped projectile flew past him, hitting a nearby lamppost....
http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/german-dog-walker-close-call-coconut-cannon-46157921
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 16, 2017, 10:02:43 pm
German dog-walker has close call with coconut cannon

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN — Mar 15, 2017, 7:03 PM ET

A dog walker in the German capital can be thankful he turned out to be a fruitless target after his close call with a coconut cannon.

The man was walking in an industrial area on March 1 when he heard a bang and a ball-shaped projectile flew past him, hitting a nearby lamppost....
http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/german-dog-walker-close-call-coconut-cannon-46157921

But, wait, there's more:

Quote
A 23-year-old man told officers he had helped to build the cannon for an art project in the Antarctic and wanted to test it before it was shipped.

Police said Wednesday they impounded the cannon and prosecutors are investigating whether it breaches arms control laws.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 16, 2017, 10:11:48 pm
If there is any place on Earth that a coconut cannon would come in handy it is in Antarctica. Coconuts are everywhere and you can use them to shoot at the penguins. It will keep them at bay and prevent them from attacking so often.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 17, 2017, 12:54:02 am
If there is any place on Earth that a coconut cannon would come in handy it is in Antarctica. Coconuts are everywhere and you can use them to shoot at the penguins. It will keep them at bay and prevent them from attacking so often.
At least that lets the swallows off the hook....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 18, 2017, 11:39:14 am
Charity shop worker accidentally sells electrician’s toolbox while he is fixing light

A charity shop worker accidentally sold an electrician’s toolbox after he put it down for a moment.

Andrew Bickel, 39, was shocked when he found out his equipment (worth £200) had been sold for just £1 while he was away.

He had gone to his van to get a part he needed to fix a light at the store in Cardiff.

It was a job as a favour. They mentioned that they had a faulty light switch so I said I would come back and change the switch,’ he said.

‘I left my tools on a book case and went out to my van to get a switch. I came back in and my tools had gone.’

http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/17/charity-shop-worker-accidentally-sells-electricians-toolbox-while-he-is-fixing-light-6517111/

It's the bolded bit that turns it into comedy gold. The last line turns it into diamond.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 18, 2017, 12:14:15 pm
No good deed...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 18, 2017, 12:28:22 pm
Quote
Burlington man accused of trying to poison wife with Visine
By Evan Bolin   Mar 16, 2017 10:56 PM CST

BURLINGTON (WKOW) -- A Burlington man is accused of using eye drops to poison his wife. 

Prosecutors say 45-year-old Darin Tiedt squirted Visine into his wife's soda, possibly for weeks, before she caught him doing it on Sunday.

Continued: http://www.wkow.com/story/34935863/2017/03/16/burlington-man-accused-of-trying-to-poison-wife

There is a record of using this as a poison in other cases, who knows how often this has occurred in cases we don't know of?

http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/visine-poisoning-eye-drops-girlfriend/2013/03/11/id/494089/

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/02/maryland-mom-accused-poisoning-young-sons-with-visine.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 18, 2017, 12:33:16 pm
Quote
17 years in prison for Stevens Point man in samurai sword attack
http://www.waow.com/story/34942032/2017/03/17/17-years-in-prison-for-stevens-point-man-in-samurai-sword-attack
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 18, 2017, 01:01:27 pm
Quote
Mosque burglar: police ask for tips, release photos, say no evidence of hate crime
(http://media.al.com/news_impact/photo/Mosque%20security.jpg)
The Gadsden Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying a burglar suspected of stealing from mosques.

Three Alabama mosques have been burglarized in the past week in Anniston, Gadsden and Tuscaloosa, police said.

...

Tuscaloosa police said a suspect entered the building using the security key code.

...

More: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/mosque_burglar_police_ask_for.html


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 19, 2017, 01:21:44 pm
Not so much ridiculous as it is interesting.

Stunning Great Lakes view shows we left our lights on last night

http://www.mlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2017/03/stunning_great_lakes_view_show.html#incart_river_home

(http://i.imgur.com/Dl1NQPo.png)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 19, 2017, 01:29:04 pm
Not so much ridiculous as it is interesting.

Stunning Great Lakes view shows we left our lights on last night

Saturday night.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 19, 2017, 01:41:13 pm
Saturday night.

Thursday actually. Last night was solid clouds here in the south.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 19, 2017, 02:49:47 pm
Footballer accidentally thanks his wife and girlfriend in incredible man of the match speech

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/03/18/footballer-accidentally-thanks-wife-girlfriend-incredible-man/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 19, 2017, 02:50:28 pm
https://i.imgur.com/O2ZCWNY.gifv
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on March 19, 2017, 08:48:13 pm
‘Lick’ your cat with the purr-fectly crazy Licki Brush!


(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2647083.1464029637!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/cat24f-1-web.jpg)


I love cats, okay?  But if I got caught doing this, I would DESERVE to be sent to a rubber room.  Also smacked a few times.

@Freya


http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/lick-cat-purr-fectly-crazy-licki-brush-article-1.2647084 (http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/lick-cat-purr-fectly-crazy-licki-brush-article-1.2647084)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 19, 2017, 10:50:13 pm
‘Lick’ your cat with the purr-fectly crazy Licki Brush!

I love cats, okay?  But if I got caught doing this, I would DESERVE to be sent to a rubber room.  Also smacked a few times.

@Freya


http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/lick-cat-purr-fectly-crazy-licki-brush-article-1.2647084 (http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/lick-cat-purr-fectly-crazy-licki-brush-article-1.2647084)

You're supposed to use it on a cat.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 20, 2017, 08:23:10 am
The cats don't look overly thrilled by it either.  :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 20, 2017, 10:06:12 am
‘Lick’ your cat with the purr-fectly crazy Licki Brush!

I love cats, okay?  But if I got caught doing this, I would DESERVE to be sent to a rubber room.  Also smacked a few times.

@Freya




Thank god they don't make them for dogs.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on March 20, 2017, 10:26:57 am
‘Lick’ your cat with the purr-fectly crazy Licki Brush!


(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2647083.1464029637!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/cat24f-1-web.jpg)


I love cats, okay?  But if I got caught doing this, I would DESERVE to be sent to a rubber room.  Also smacked a few times.

@Freya


http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/lick-cat-purr-fectly-crazy-licki-brush-article-1.2647084 (http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/lick-cat-purr-fectly-crazy-licki-brush-article-1.2647084)

Not for me. @Hopalong Ginsberg would you use this on your kitties?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 20, 2017, 11:25:56 am
‘Lick’ your cat with the purr-fectly crazy Licki Brush!

I love cats, okay?  But if I got caught doing this, I would DESERVE to be sent to a rubber room.  Also smacked a few times.

I'd be concerned about toxoplasmosis. Let the cat do its own licking. The dog does...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 20, 2017, 11:57:16 am
I'd be concerned about toxoplasmosis. Let the cat do its own licking. The dog does...
Exactly. You would be stirring up a cloud of dander, mites, snd other filth, right under your nose and mouth. It would be like brushing your cat and then snorting whatever comes off like cocaine. This is an insanely bad idea.
Still waiting for someone to make the obvious sex joke with this. Surprised it hasn't happened already.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 20, 2017, 12:39:46 pm
I do try not to let this thread get overloaded with "dumb criminals" type stuff, but the headline writers do make it difficult to resist sometimes:

Woman assaults mother with cheeseburger

Police are investigating after a woman assaulted her mother with a cheeseburger at an east-side McDonald's.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police were called to the McDonald's at 21st Street and Shadeland Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

The two women got in a fight after the mom told her daughter she could no longer stay at her home, said IMPD Officer Aaron Hamer. The mom drove her daughter to someone else's house, but on the way, the daughter changed her mind about where she wanted to go.

The 60-year-old mother told officers her daughter, 39, started yelling at her, so she stopped at the McDonald's drive-thru. The daughter was screaming and yelling as they drove, Hamer said.

After stopping in the parking lot so other passengers in the car could use the bathroom, the mother told police her daughter said she wished her mom would die, Hamer said.

"While her daughter was seated in the front passenger seat she took a bite out of her cheeseburger," Hamer said. "The victim stated her daughter yelled 'B---h I outta kill you' and hit her in the left side of her face with her hand and the cheeseburger."

The mom told police she had pain on the left side of her face, and officers saw that she had ketchup and mustard down the front of her shirt. Pickles, ketchup and mustard were splattered across the interior door of the car. The mom's face was red and swollen, Hamer said.

The daughter got into another driver's vehicle and fled the scene, Hamer said.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/19/woman-assaults-mother/99387004/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on March 20, 2017, 12:57:46 pm
I do try not to let this thread get overloaded with "dumb criminals" type stuff, but the headline writers do make it difficult to resist sometimes:

Woman assaults mother with cheeseburger

Police are investigating after a woman assaulted her mother with a cheeseburger at an east-side McDonald's.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police were called to the McDonald's at 21st Street and Shadeland Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

The two women got in a fight after the mom told her daughter she could no longer stay at her home, said IMPD Officer Aaron Hamer. The mom drove her daughter to someone else's house, but on the way, the daughter changed her mind about where she wanted to go.

The 60-year-old mother told officers her daughter, 39, started yelling at her, so she stopped at the McDonald's drive-thru. The daughter was screaming and yelling as they drove, Hamer said.

After stopping in the parking lot so other passengers in the car could use the bathroom, the mother told police her daughter said she wished her mom would die, Hamer said.

"While her daughter was seated in the front passenger seat she took a bite out of her cheeseburger," Hamer said. "The victim stated her daughter yelled 'B---h I outta kill you' and hit her in the left side of her face with her hand and the cheeseburger."

The mom told police she had pain on the left side of her face, and officers saw that she had ketchup and mustard down the front of her shirt. Pickles, ketchup and mustard were splattered across the interior door of the car. The mom's face was red and swollen, Hamer said.

The daughter got into another driver's vehicle and fled the scene, Hamer said.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/19/woman-assaults-mother/99387004/


I Can Haz Cheezeburger! 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 20, 2017, 01:08:50 pm
Pickles, ketchup and mustard were splattered across the interior door of the car. The mom's face was red and swollen, Hamer said.

A testament to the rich variety of ingredients that can be found in a Mickey-Dee's Cheezeburger.  My only question is, "Where's the cheeze?"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 20, 2017, 01:13:20 pm
A question I ask every time I buy one.  :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 20, 2017, 01:42:05 pm
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/b0/d1/fc/b0d1fc36ae5501dd05e4255de8fb0814.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hopalong Ginsberg on March 20, 2017, 03:38:23 pm
Not for me. @Hopalong Ginsberg would you use this on your kitties?

Can't - I don't have a licker license.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 20, 2017, 03:49:14 pm
Can't - I don't have a licker license.

You got a CCW for that pun?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 21, 2017, 03:25:09 pm
Cheerios gave away flower seeds to save the bees, but they could do harm

Cheerios gave away 1.5 billion wildflower seeds to aid ailing bee populations this month, the brand said, depleting its supply and smashing its goal of 100 million donated seeds.

But unwanted buzz abounds: The packets Cheerios sent out included seeds for plants deemed invasive in some states and outright banned in others. As Llifehacker noted, the seeds include those for forget-me-nots, banned as a noxious weed in both Connecticut and Massachusetts, as well as for the California poppy, listed as an "invasive exotic pest plant" in the southeast. Many of the seeds aren't native to any part of the United States, the site reported.

More: http://www.khou.com/news/nation-now/cheerios-gave-away-flower-seeds-to-save-the-bees-but-they-could-do-harm/424097897

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Saving the bees is a good thing - if the bees die, we die.
Giving away flower seeds - a good thing in and of itself, there's too little beauty in life anyway.
Spending 10 minutes making sure the seeds won't overpower the environments they are released in - waaaayyyy too much trouble.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 21, 2017, 03:48:31 pm
Cheerios gave away flower seeds to save the bees, but they could do harm

Cheerios gave away 1.5 billion wildflower seeds to aid ailing bee populations this month, the brand said, depleting its supply and smashing its goal of 100 million donated seeds.

But unwanted buzz abounds: The packets Cheerios sent out included seeds for plants deemed invasive in some states and outright banned in others. As Llifehacker noted, the seeds include those for forget-me-nots, banned as a noxious weed in both Connecticut and Massachusetts, as well as for the California poppy, listed as an "invasive exotic pest plant" in the southeast. Many of the seeds aren't native to any part of the United States, the site reported.

More: http://www.khou.com/news/nation-now/cheerios-gave-away-flower-seeds-to-save-the-bees-but-they-could-do-harm/424097897

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Saving the bees is a good thing - if the bees die, we die.
Giving away flower seeds - a good thing in and of itself, there's too little beauty in life anyway.
Spending 10 minutes making sure the seeds won't overpower the environments they are released in - waaaayyyy too much trouble.

I need to confirm this, but I the bees in the "big-bee-die-off-scare" are the imported European honey bees.  I believe our native bees are fine. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on March 21, 2017, 03:51:52 pm
I need to confirm this, but I the bees in the "big-bee-die-off-scare" are the imported European honey bees.  I believe our native bees are fine.
Yeah, but we need them to pollinate our imported European crops.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 21, 2017, 03:56:30 pm
Cheerios gave away flower seeds to save the bees, but they could do harm

Cheerios gave away 1.5 billion wildflower seeds to aid ailing bee populations this month, the brand said, depleting its supply and smashing its goal of 100 million donated seeds.

But unwanted buzz abounds: The packets Cheerios sent out included seeds for plants deemed invasive in some states and outright banned in others. As Llifehacker noted, the seeds include those for forget-me-nots, banned as a noxious weed in both Connecticut and Massachusetts, as well as for the California poppy, listed as an "invasive exotic pest plant" in the southeast. Many of the seeds aren't native to any part of the United States, the site reported.

More: http://www.khou.com/news/nation-now/cheerios-gave-away-flower-seeds-to-save-the-bees-but-they-could-do-harm/424097897

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Saving the bees is a good thing - if the bees die, we die.
Giving away flower seeds - a good thing in and of itself, there's too little beauty in life anyway.
Spending 10 minutes making sure the seeds won't overpower the environments they are released in - waaaayyyy too much trouble.

I live in Phoenix.  A neighbor on the next street over planted his yard full of these and they were beautiful, but they're a major pest.  Now, almost every house on his street has yards full of them, and a few houses on my yard too.  Everybody's going through Roundup like it's going out of style.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 22, 2017, 12:12:28 am
I need to confirm this, but I the bees in the "big-bee-die-off-scare" are the imported European honey bees.  I believe our native bees are fine.


I know someone who does bees for a living. There is a mite that carries a virus and when a hive gets infested/infected it can/does collapse.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 22, 2017, 12:19:38 am

I know someone who does bees for a living. There is a mite that carries a virus and when a hive gets infested/infected it can/does collapse.

Exactly.  The commercial bees are susceptible.  Apparently, the natives are not.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 22, 2017, 01:23:55 am

I know someone who does bees for a living. There is a mite that carries a virus and when a hive gets infested/infected it can/does collapse.

One issue that no one mentions is that at one time virtually every farm raised their own bees so there were a lot more of them around being cared for. Even when I was a kid in the 70s I knew of several local farms that had bee hives and sold honey. My grandmother's neighbor had bees when I was a kid and the farm behind the church also had hives.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 22, 2017, 02:26:38 am
Excerpt:
Quote
Texas teacher charged for having sexual relationship with teen student smiles in mugshot

Her attorney, Jason Nassour, told KXAS-TV that she grinned in her mugshot because she knows she’s innocent.

 "You've got a young lady who was arrested on the statement of a 17-year-old kid with no corroborating evidence. This isn't a guilty person sitting there like they just got caught," Nassour told the TV station. "When everything's fleshed out it won't be as it appears."

The Lockhart High School student often met Fowlkes in person and communicated through messages, police said, adding that they "engaged in sexual contact."

Continued: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/texas-teacher-charged-sexual-relationship-teen-student-smiles-mugshot-article-1.3004991

I'd lean towards the teacher in this case, being innocent. There's certainly a number of these stories. Not sure if this is ridiculous news but not important enough to put in regular national news..
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 22, 2017, 02:30:06 am
Quote
VIDEO: Bull rams 11-inch horn up matador’s butt during bout (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/bull-rams-11-inch-horn-matador-butt-bout-graphic-article-1.3004956

Hideous sport, the poor bull, bloody.  2017 nowadays, when will it finally be a nonsport? 2050 and still doing these things?

There's a Columbo detective TV show episode, where Ricardo Montalban played a retired bullfighter legend. That was pretty good.

(http://a2.tvspielfilm.de/imedia/5163/2415163,twfuS4tPPG706OcVbNpW1pZ5p_Vno74ZQTb2VWkhGliGqX42JuFh34AhEvoXE_vtQSFs+b87AXiTQEXCn3AC3Q==.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 23, 2017, 01:35:43 am
Congratulations to Pennsylvania! You've made it.

Burglar nets plant, single dollar, police say

ALLENTOWN, Pa.

A suspected burglar in Allentown, Pennsylvania, didn’t get away with much in a recent break-in.

Police said Maico Rosado Jr. broke into a closed bar earlier this week, The Morning Call reported.

Little did Rosado know, the bar’s general manager was sleeping in the basement.

When the shopkeeper found Rosado in the bar, he said Rosado was armed, and had stolen a $1 keepsake bill from the bar, The Morning Call reported.

A half hour after the bar break-in, police said Rosado struck again, breaking into a home by firing a shot through a window to get in.

The homeowner said after Rosado left, she noticed a plant was missing from her house.

More: http://www.ajc.com/news/national/burglar-nets-plant-single-dollar-police-say/yHPKGy40L2tHxzhGhrRoBK/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 23, 2017, 01:48:25 am
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/europe/uk-parliament-firearms-incident/index.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on March 23, 2017, 03:09:49 pm
Hideous sport, the poor bull, bloody.  2017 nowadays, when will it finally be a nonsport? 2050 and still doing these things?

There's a Columbo detective TV show episode, where Ricardo Montalban played a retired bullfighter legend. That was pretty good.

(http://a2.tvspielfilm.de/imedia/5163/2415163,twfuS4tPPG706OcVbNpW1pZ5p_Vno74ZQTb2VWkhGliGqX42JuFh34AhEvoXE_vtQSFs+b87AXiTQEXCn3AC3Q==.jpg)
You mess with the bull, you get the horn.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 23, 2017, 03:38:26 pm
You mess with the bull, you get the horn.

Just be glad bulls don't have propellers.

Authorities ID Vicksburg man killed by airplane propeller

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2017/03/authorities_id_vicksburg_man_k.html#incart_river_home_pop
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 23, 2017, 04:54:58 pm
Ontario doctor argued he was too obese to have rubbed erection against patients

TORONTO – An Ontario dermatologist who argued he was too obese to have rubbed his penis against female patients has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

Two patients alleged Dr. Rodion Andrew Kunynetz pressed his genitals against their legs during the course of an examination.

The Barrie, Ont., doctor maintained that it was impossible for his genitalia to come into contact with the legs of the patients because a fold of abdominal fat covered all or part of his genitals due to his overall obesity.

An Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons discipline committee found that the allegations of genitalia contact could not be proved, but determined there was contact with the doctor’s abdomen that was not accompanied by any form of warning, apology or excuse.

http://globalnews.ca/news/3326948/ontario-doctor-who-argued-he-was-too-obese-to-have-rubbed-penis-against-patients-found-guilty/

So basically, "I'm a fat bastard" is no longer an alibi?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 24, 2017, 02:48:54 pm
Quote
PRI-MATES! Tourist lost in the Amazon rainforest for nine days says he was saved by MONKEYS who brought food and led him to shelter

The 25-year-old said the animals dropped pieces of fruit onto the ground from the branches above
By Caroline McGuire, Digital Travel Editor
24th March 2017, 1:47 pm
Updated: 24th March 2017, 2:05 pm

Continued: https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/3170647/tourist-lost-in-the-amazon-rainforest-for-nine-days-says-he-was-saved-by-monkeys-who-brought-food-and-led-him-to-shelter/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 24, 2017, 02:54:14 pm


Quote
The 25-year-old said the animals dropped pieces of fruit onto the ground from the branches above

Only when they were clean out of butt apples.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 24, 2017, 03:54:25 pm
Only when they were clean out of butt apples.

Sounds like he was nutzoid enough not to know the difference. Or care.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 25, 2017, 03:36:28 pm
Tennessee bills teen to replace guardrail that killed her

The state of Tennessee erroneously has billed a dead teen nearly $3,000 to replace the guardrail that killed her in a car crash in November.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/24/billed-for-guardrail-death/99601304/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 25, 2017, 08:51:40 pm
I think I'll leave this one right here.  Brad's wife deserves nothing less.

http://www.boredpanda.com/brads-wife-fired-cracker-barrel/

#JusticeForBradsWife
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 25, 2017, 11:30:49 pm
Harwich student served with no-trespass orders

Monomoy sixth-grader receives no-trespassing notices requested by neighbors for cutting through a neighbor's yard on the way to the bus stop.
By Cynthia McCormick

WEST HARWICH — Monomoy Regional Middle School sixth-grader Autumn Blanchard is not the first youngster to be scolded for cutting through a neighbor's yard on the way to the bus stop.

But at age 11 she may be among the youngest children ever to receive a no-trespassing notice from the Harwich Police Department.

"I am beyond distressed by this situation," said Krystal Blanchard, Autumn's mother. "I can't imagine why it had to go to this level. Someone should have spoken to me."

The neighbors who took out the complaint spoke to school officials, who warned 11-year-old Autumn against taking a shortcut to a friend's house on the way to the bus stop.

But no one involved Krystal Blanchard, who said she already had been lobbying school officials for a bus stop closer to the family's rental home on Bells Neck Road.

"I found out about it when the police showed up at my door with a no-trespass order," Blanchard said of the March 2 visit. "It's making it a hostile environment for my child to go to school."

Autumn, a book-loving, homework-hating sixth-grader who moved into the quiet neighborhood with her mother in September 2015, received a total of three pink no-trespass notices that day.

Two of them were signed by Jacqueline Leger of Arbutus Lane and one by Leger's mother, Patricia Taylor, who lives next door to the Blanchards on Bells Neck Road.

According to both Blanchard and Taylor, Autumn would cut through Taylor's property to get to Leger's driveway so she could walk to the bus stop with Leger's daughter.

More: http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20170324/harwich-student-served-with-no-trespass-orders

Going into to Ridiculous News because it's petty, spiteful and has an incompetent school principal as a bonus round.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 26, 2017, 12:05:01 am
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Canadian Man's Surname on License Plate Deemed Offensive



March 24, 2017 08:02 PM

A Canadian provincial government has withdrawn a man's eponymous personalized vehicle license plate, saying Lorne Grabher's surname is offensive to women when viewed on his car bumper.

Grabher said Friday that he put his last name on the license plate decades ago as a gift for his late father's birthday, and says the province's refusal to renew the plate late last year is unfair.
...

http://kstp.com/national/canadian-license-plate-offensive-surname/4435574/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 26, 2017, 12:58:49 am
@EC

Not being restricted to streets and sidewalks was a privilege of childhood but it appears to be another piece of fading nostalgia.

When I go to my old hometown I notice that all the worn pathways across grassy areas are long gone because kids aren't making or "maintaining" them anymore.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 26, 2017, 01:37:45 am
@EC

Not being restricted to streets and sidewalks was a privilege of childhood but it appears to be another piece of fading nostalgia.

When I go to my old hometown I notice that all the worn pathways across grassy areas are long gone because kids aren't making or "maintaining" them anymore.
As long as you didn't break anything or make a mess, that's generally true. Where people had manicured yards, it was best to avoid cutting across them, even then.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on March 26, 2017, 12:15:06 pm
I think I'll leave this one right here.  Brad's wife deserves nothing less.

http://www.boredpanda.com/brads-wife-fired-cracker-barrel/

#JusticeForBradsWife
@Cyber Liberty As if we need more proof that social media can be evil and that the masses are asses. It is none of anyone business except Brad and his wife. Yet everyone is piling on with this mob mentality. It is the same mentality that has overweight girls committing suicide when the anonymous masses pile on her making lewd and rude comments on her Facebook page. It is the same mentality that has mob violence being acceptable in places like Ferguson. People say things over the internet that they would never have the courage to say to another persons face.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on March 26, 2017, 12:18:02 pm
As long as you didn't break anything or make a mess, that's generally true. Where people had manicured yards, it was best to avoid cutting across them, even then.
Years ago in my youth one of the corner lots had a hedge that went at a 45 degree diagonal. It didn't stop us, it just gave us an obstacle to hurdle. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 26, 2017, 04:36:33 pm
@Cyber Liberty As if we need more proof that social media can be evil and that the masses are asses. It is none of anyone business except Brad and his wife. Yet everyone is piling on with this mob mentality. It is the same mentality that has overweight girls committing suicide when the anonymous masses pile on her making lewd and rude comments on her Facebook page. It is the same mentality that has mob violence being acceptable in places like Ferguson. People say things over the internet that they would never have the courage to say to another persons face.

The kicker is there appears to be no Brad, nor Brad's wife.  Some comedian made it up.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Rivergirl on March 26, 2017, 04:41:44 pm
How about this for ridiculous..........

Judge Napolitano supposedly on DT's list for USSC...........
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 26, 2017, 04:52:39 pm
How about this for ridiculous..........

Judge Napolitano supposedly on DT's list for USSC...........

Too bad he didn't make it, so he could have a higher platform from which he can be "always wrong" like on TeeVee.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on March 26, 2017, 05:03:50 pm
How about this for ridiculous..........

Judge Napolitano supposedly on DT's list for USSC...........

So's Judge Judy. :tongue2:

On a more serious note, I try not to select national level politics or celebrity stories for Ridiculous News. Politicians are idiots 24/7 - this is more to celebrate the idiots and Darwin Award candidates who do dumbass things without a national stage.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 26, 2017, 06:01:43 pm
@EC @Rivergirl @Cyber Liberty

Put Judge Joseph Wapner on there. Sit him next to Bader-Ginsburg and no one would notice he is dead.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 26, 2017, 06:09:04 pm
@EC @Rivergirl @Cyber Liberty

Put Judge Joseph Wapner on there. Sit him next to Bader-Ginsburg and no one would notice he is dead.

No good.  Being dead would make him a reliable Dem vote on the Bench.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Rivergirl on March 26, 2017, 06:16:56 pm
On to more ridiculous-ness.   DT created a bill for Merkel  saying that she owes billions for NATO.
Wonder what he will be creating for the Chinese delegation when they arrive at his nightclub in maralargo.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 26, 2017, 06:27:45 pm
On to more ridiculous-ness.   DT created a bill for Merkel  saying that she owes billions for NATO.
Wonder what he will be creating for the Chinese delegation when they arrive at his nightclub in maralargo.

A fortune cookie.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Rivergirl on March 26, 2017, 06:52:24 pm
Can't you just see the entire Chinese delegation wandering around maralargo........planting little listening devices...........etc.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on March 27, 2017, 11:45:45 am
The kicker is there appears to be no Brad, nor Brad's wife.  Some comedian made it up.
@Cyber Liberty So a perfectly good business gets raked over the coals as a joke. Someone needs a good @SS kicking.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 27, 2017, 12:51:53 pm
@Cyber Liberty So a perfectly good business gets raked over the coals as a joke. Someone needs a good @SS kicking.

I assume so, if CB can record a loss because of it, and the comedian has something to sue for. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 27, 2017, 11:58:46 pm
More reports of porn being left on cars popping up

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2017/03/police_investigate_a_dozen_cas.html#incart_river_home_pop

ISABELLA COUNTY, MI -- Police are now investigating more than a dozen cases of pornography and bizarre notes being left on shoppers' cars while they're in stores.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 28, 2017, 12:06:37 am
More reports of porn being left on cars popping up

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2017/03/police_investigate_a_dozen_cas.html#incart_river_home_pop

ISABELLA COUNTY, MI -- Police are now investigating more than a dozen cases of pornography and bizarre notes being left on shoppers' cars while they're in stores.

Well, it's Isabella...Mt. Pleasant and such...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 28, 2017, 12:18:23 am
Well, it's Isabella...Mt. Pleasant and such...

The definitely need to catch the guy.

He may be a harmless nut but he may also be a future skin wearer.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on March 28, 2017, 07:47:26 pm
Because maybe you need a laugh: This 3-year-old gets into everything, including an arcade toy machine

Damien Murphy's 3-year-old son, Jamie, is one of these curious, mischievous kids who gets into everything.


"Whenever I walk into a room and see something that could be trouble," said Murphy, of Nenagh, Ireland, in County Tipperary, "I instantly see Jamie in it. He's a real boundary pusher."


Once, for example, he and his dad were looking after an aunt's dog. Jamie "woke up early in the morning and cut a bunch of hair off it," Murphy, 35, told The Washington Post. Still, Murphy said, he didn't see it coming - it being Jamie's Great Toy Machine Caper - when he, Jamie and his brother Shane, 5, walked into Jump 'n' Gyms, a commercial play center that boasts a "multi-level play area" filled with kidly delights.


Among them was one of those big claw machines filled with cuddly stuffed teddy bears, doggies, giraffes and dragons, a contraption tantalizing to young and old alike but especially to 3-year-olds. Even though it says "Prize Every Time" in big yellow letters, 3-year-olds can't read and are smart enough anyway not to be taken in.


Indeed, as someone recently wrote, getting a prize can be tough "unless you're small enough to climb inside . . ."


Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0317/barbash032617.php3#EeQiEdlYyBggersP.99
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on March 29, 2017, 10:28:02 pm
Oregon hiker could face charges for bringing 'malnourished' bear cub to wildlife center

Animal officials in Oregon are reminding the public to leave wildlife alone after a hiker who discovered a bear cub in distress brought the animal to a wildlife center himself.


On Monday evening, Salem resident Corey Hancock, who could face charges for his actions, was hiking the Santiam River Trail outside the city when he came across the 3-month-old cub about two miles down the trail, he told ABC News today.


Hancock, who said he has been hiking the trail for more than 20 years, described the bear as "motionless" when he found it.


https://www.yahoo.com/gma/oregon-hiker-could-face-charges-bringing-malnourished-bear-171004324--abc-news-topstories.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 29, 2017, 11:13:08 pm
Oregon hiker could face charges for bringing 'malnourished' bear cub to wildlife center

Animal officials in Oregon are reminding the public to leave wildlife alone after a hiker who discovered a bear cub in distress brought the animal to a wildlife center himself.


On Monday evening, Salem resident Corey Hancock, who could face charges for his actions, was hiking the Santiam River Trail outside the city when he came across the 3-month-old cub about two miles down the trail, he told ABC News today.


Hancock, who said he has been hiking the trail for more than 20 years, described the bear as "motionless" when he found it.


https://www.yahoo.com/gma/oregon-hiker-could-face-charges-bringing-malnourished-bear-171004324--abc-news-topstories.html

Lucky idiot.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on March 30, 2017, 12:00:02 am
Lucky idiot.
Some days you get the bear... :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on March 30, 2017, 02:01:13 am
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SEE IT: Pigcasso brings life to South African animal sanctuary with ‘abstract’ art

Sow in the world?

A pig on a South African animal sanctuary spends her days painting “abstract” masterpieces. It’s true, and her paintings have sold for up to $2,000 a piece.

The adorable oinker, named Pigcasso, was rescued from a slaughterhouse after she began painting last October, ITV reports.

(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3012931.1490810422!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/pigcasso-painting-pig.jpg)
A pig who was destined to become a pork chop was saved from the slaughter house and has now become an artist. The pig, appropriately named Pigcasso, is thought to be the world's only painting pig. (Caters News Agency)

Continued: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pigcasso-brings-life-animal-sanctuary-abstract-art-article-1.3012932
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 30, 2017, 04:32:51 am
As you sow, so shall you reap...?

Maybe I can teach my lab to paint...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on March 30, 2017, 03:08:19 pm
As you sow, so shall you reap...?

Maybe I can teach my lab to paint...
Cast thy pig upon the paints and in many days he shall return unto thee a very rich pig.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 31, 2017, 01:49:46 am
Man shot in back Wednesday almost shot again following day

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2017/03/man_shot_in_back_wednesday_alm.html#incart_2box_news_jackson


JACKSON, MI - A man shot in the back early Wednesday morning was almost shot again Thursday morning when a house he was at was hit by bullets several times.

At 4:35 a.m., March 30, police investigating shots being fired at a home in the 1000 block of Cypress Drive were surprised to find a man who had been shot a different Jackson house the previous day, Interim Director of Police and Fire Services Elmer Hitt said.

The man, 19, was inside the home with another man and woman, both 21, when several bullets flew through a back window and a front window of the home, Hitt said.

The bullets passed through the home, hitting no one, Hitt said.

Given the shared victim and the shooting's similarity to the 1 a.m. shooting , March 29, in the 1100 block of Blair Park Drive, police believe the two incidents are related, Hitt said.


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 31, 2017, 02:01:33 am
Isn't Jackson a little tiny burg, @Cripplecreek ?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 31, 2017, 02:04:03 am
Isn't Jackson a little tiny burg, @Cripplecreek ?

Around 30,000 people with a thriving hood.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 31, 2017, 02:08:14 am
Around 30,000 people with a thriving hood.

Oh, bigger than I thought then.  Definitely the hood part.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 31, 2017, 02:12:49 am
Oh, bigger than I thought then.  Definitely the hood part.

I've lived most of my life in the outlying areas of the county and only go to town when I must.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 31, 2017, 04:57:05 am
Oh, bigger than I thought then.  Definitely the hood part.

I lived a couple blocks from where one of the shootings was.  It was a dump then, too....

Town industry is a Max Security prison.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on March 31, 2017, 09:45:20 am
I lived a couple blocks from where one of the shootings was.  It was a dump then, too....

Town industry is a Max Security prison.

(http://i.imgur.com/M8yb7TR.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on March 31, 2017, 06:53:46 pm
As you sow, so shall you reap...?

Maybe I can teach my lab to paint...
My Mastador paints things all the time, but he only works in shades of yellow :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 01, 2017, 12:08:22 am
My Mastador paints things all the time, but he only works in shades of yellow :whistle:
Well, at least he's healthy...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 01, 2017, 08:11:50 am
Not so much ridiculous, this one, as a mix of sad and incredibly clever.

Colorado woman's remains found under grave of WWII veteran

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man who pleaded guilty Friday to killing his estranged wife more than two decades ago recently led authorities to her body, which was buried under the grave of a World War II veteran.

John Sandoval, 52, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 1995 death of Kristina Tournai-Sandoval.

As part of a plea deal, he told investigators March 22 the remains were buried at a Greeley cemetery.

Sandoval found an open gravesite early in the morning on Oct. 20, 1995, that was scheduled for a burial that afternoon. Prosecutors say he dug about 2 feet (0.61 meters) below the grave and buried Tournai-Sandoval's body, which was wrapped in several layers of industrial-grade plastic.

Cemetery workers then unknowingly buried the veteran over her remains.

More: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Colorado-woman-s-remains-found-under-grave-of-11042572.php
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 01, 2017, 09:13:00 am
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Prosecutors say he dug about 2 feet (0.61 meters)...
For the writer:
Was that really important to the story? Does the .01 meters matter? Sorry, sometimes that stuff just seems absurd.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 03, 2017, 12:36:15 pm
Anybody seen the new Carl's Jr ad?

Sr is back in charge. Burgers not boobs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7H3DKMH1ms
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 03, 2017, 12:43:38 pm
Anybody seen the new Carl's Jr ad?

Sr is back in charge. Burgers not boobs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7H3DKMH1ms
Good ad! :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on April 03, 2017, 01:08:22 pm
Anybody seen the new Carl's Jr ad?

Sr is back in charge. Burgers not boobs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7H3DKMH1ms

That's great!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 03, 2017, 11:30:14 pm
Judge bans man from returning to his hometown

MARQUETTE - Eugene Rantanen always found trouble back home in Baraga, drinking, using drugs and hanging with "bad influences" in the Upper Peninsula village.

"I've got to remove myself from that area," he admitted.

A federal judge did just that for him.

Rantanen, 28, is banished from Baraga County for nearly nine years.

Rantanen, apparently having second thoughts, didn't want a complete ban. He appealed the judge's order but it was upheld by a federal appeals court.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/04/man_banished_from_hometown_too.html#incart_river_home_pop

A jurisdictional eviction is something you don't see every day. I've only seen it once before and that was to take effect after the guy served 40 years in prison.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 04, 2017, 03:25:49 am
Married woman ‘paraded on streets with lover after becoming stuck during sex’

A married woman has been paraded in the streets with a man she was ‘cheating with’ after they apparently became stuck together during sex.

A video reportedly showed them being transported in broad daylight on a street in Kenya.

They are said to have become entangled after having sex at a hotel called the Explor-Inn.

She is believed to have suffered from vaginismus – an involuntary muscle spasm that can have a variety of causes including a urinary tract or vaginal yeast infection.

It also has psychological triggers.

More: http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/03/married-woman-paraded-on-streets-with-lover-after-becoming-stuck-during-sex-6551978/

Actually saw this once - a couple wheeled into A&E dogknotted together. The ambulance crew got 10 out of 10 for not cracking a smile once, until they'd finished the delivery.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 04, 2017, 06:50:05 pm
HILARIOUS: Leftists Fall For Mock Petition Blasting Israel For Not Letting Palestinians Fish In The DEAD SEA

http://www.dailywire.com/news/15040/leftists-fall-mock-petition-blasting-israel-not-elliott-hamilton#

On March 29, a guy named Ian Brown in the United Kingdom started a Change.org petition titled, "Stop Israeli apartheid against Dead Sea fishermen - make Israel give them a fair deal." The petition says the following:



    Since Israel took control of the West Bank in 1967:

        It has not issued a single fishing permit to Palestinian fishermen for fishing in the Dead Sea.
        Irrigation projects have reduced the supply of fresh water entering the Dead Sea.
        It has allowed millions of Zionist tourists to bathe in the Dead Sea and to remove minerals from it, whilst not a single fish has been legally caught by local fishermen.

    Due to salinification, experts estimate that in 20 years' time there will be NO fish left in the Dead Sea. We need to act NOW.

    The Tories have made precisely no statement about this issue since being elected in 2010. They clearly do not care about Palestinian fishermen.

    This petition will be sent to Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Her Majesty's Opposition: as a self-described friend of Hamas and Hezbollah, we hope he can be relied upon to lead the fight against this Zionist aggression.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on April 04, 2017, 11:20:01 pm
Married woman ‘paraded on streets with lover after becoming stuck during sex’

A married woman has been paraded in the streets with a man she was ‘cheating with’ after they apparently became stuck together during sex.

A video reportedly showed them being transported in broad daylight on a street in Kenya.

They are said to have become entangled after having sex at a hotel called the Explor-Inn.

She is believed to have suffered from vaginismus – an involuntary muscle spasm that can have a variety of causes including a urinary tract or vaginal yeast infection.

It also has psychological triggers.

More: http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/03/married-woman-paraded-on-streets-with-lover-after-becoming-stuck-during-sex-6551978/

Actually saw this once - a couple wheeled into A&E dogknotted together. The ambulance crew got 10 out of 10 for not cracking a smile once, until they'd finished the delivery.
A number of years ago an under age student at a local college and his equally under age girlfriend were performing mutual oral sex on each other and both of their braces began entangled in each others nether regions. they were taken out on a stretcher to the local hospital by ambulance. Because they were both minors the parents had to be notified before the "surgery" could be performed. A woman I know as the one that had to make the calls, neither set of parents were overly happy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on April 05, 2017, 03:32:02 am
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Motorcyclist hit by flying object in Australia

4 April 2017 Last updated at 16:02 BST

This motorcyclist pulled out all the moves when he was hit by a flying object in a tunnel in Australia.

See Video: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39493099

The object looked to be a matress and luckily, it turns out okay for the motorcyclist, sometimes one hears story of flying tires and all kinds of other things.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 05, 2017, 04:06:06 pm
OK everybody, get your shocked faces ready and hold onto something.













Barry Manilow comes out as gay at 73 and reveals his partner of 39 years

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/barry-manilow-comes-73-reveals-boyfriend-39-years/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on April 05, 2017, 04:16:08 pm
Nearly naked California woman claims she's a mermaid
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/05/nearly-naked-california-woman-claims-shes-mermaid.html

A woman was found nearly naked wandering down a street in Fresno, Calif., Tuesday and investigators there say they need help identifying her.

Fresno police said the woman was found around 3 a.m. near the Eagle Spring Golf & Country Club with wet hair. She identified herself as Joanna and told officers that she was a mermaid, Fox 5 San Diego reported.

The woman, who has two webbed toes on both feet, told officers she has been in the water but couldn’t answer many more questions.

Officials said she is 5-foot-4, weighs about 150 pounds and has brown eyes and hair.

Police ask that anyone with information to call 559-621-2455 or email Det. Paul Hill at paul.hill@fresno.gov.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 05, 2017, 11:44:38 pm
Babysitter accuses woman of pistol whipping her in Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Police said the events that led up to a woman pistol whipping her babysitter began Monday night when the family’s dog got loose while the woman was at work.

According to a police report, Helen Solinger, 33, was at work at Club 76 when she got a call from her babysitter that the family’s dog, Toby, had gotten loose. Police said Solinger was not happy about that and started cursing at the babysitter saying, “You better pray Toby is back when I get home or some Sh** is going to go down!”

When Solinger came home at about 11:30 p.m., the babysitter said she was intoxicated and began to argue with her. As Solinger’s children were asleep in their rooms, the babysitter said Solinger put a gun to her face and said, I’m gonna blow your brains out,” the report stated. The babysitter then told police that Solinger pistol-whipped her.

While the assault was taking place, the babysitter was face-timing her boyfriend on Facebook and when Solinger realized it, she took the phone and hung it up, the report said. She then put the gun back to the babysitter’s head and asked her for $20, according to a police report.

The babysitter told police that called her mom to pick her up and told Solinger she would have her mom bring $20.

After that, Solinger and the babysitter sat down at the dining room table and had a “calm conversation” before police arrived, the report stated.

At some point in the evening, Toby came back home.

More: http://wkbn.com/2017/04/05/report-dancer-pistol-whips-babysitter-in-youngstown/

The place the woman works, Club 76, is, of course, a strip club.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 05, 2017, 11:46:34 pm
This one is just for the headline:

Man sexually assaulted barmaid after trying to insert pool balls into his rectum

http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/man-sexually-assaulted-barmaid-after-trying-to-insert-pool-balls-into-his-rectum/story-29644095-detail/story.html#MxuMlkz5tH3ejHt7.99
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 05, 2017, 11:49:51 pm
This one is just for the headline:

Man sexually assaulted barmaid after trying to insert pool balls into his rectum

http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/man-sexually-assaulted-barmaid-after-trying-to-insert-pool-balls-into-his-rectum/story-29644095-detail/story.html#MxuMlkz5tH3ejHt7.99

Boy if I had a nickle......
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 06, 2017, 12:06:19 am
This one is just for the headline:

Man sexually assaulted barmaid after trying to insert pool balls into his rectum

http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/man-sexually-assaulted-barmaid-after-trying-to-insert-pool-balls-into-his-rectum/story-29644095-detail/story.html#MxuMlkz5tH3ejHt7.99

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d1/26/66/d12666536ec3043f25d24fc09e57ba7a.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 06, 2017, 11:47:40 pm
Shia LaBeouf increases Man Down UK box office 200% by selling two more tickets

The UK box office woe continues for Shia LaBeouf’s new movie ‘Man Down’, which has managed to boost its takings by 200%, but only thanks to the sale of two more tickets.

The movie hit the headlines earlier this week, after it emerged that it had launched over here to just £6.90 in takings, according to cinema data company comScore, which kindly rounded it up to £7.

Admittedly, the movie had only been released on a single screen – the Reel Cinema in Burnley – but still, just one ticket sold was perhaps something of a disappointment.

However, Shia and Lionsgate can now add two more tickets to that burgeoning running total.

The Hollywood Reporter spoke to the cinema’s manager, who revealed: “I think we’ve sold three tickets in total.”

More: https://www.yahoo.com/news/shia-labeouf-increases-man-uk-box-office-200-selling-two-tickets-113113627.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 08, 2017, 12:36:47 am
Ohio man accused of chasing relative with hatchet

http://www.khou.com/news/weird/ohio-man-accused-of-chasing-relative-with-hatchet/429584065

Good lookin fella too.

(http://i.imgur.com/qOswu7K.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 08, 2017, 12:42:26 am
Thank you. Been having a bugger of a time finding suitably ridiculous stories today.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 08, 2017, 02:13:56 am
She pushed the button, but it was his money. So who gets the Hard Rock $100,000 jackpot?

Gambler Jan Flato supplied the money that went into the Double Top Dollar slot machine at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. But the woman who was nuzzling up to him pushed the button.

So when the bells rang, the lights flashed and the payline showed a $100,000 jackpot, Flato felt like a big winner.

He wasn’t.

When casino managers checked the video, it showed the woman, 35-year-old Marina Medvedeva Navarro, had actually started the slot wheels rolling, making her the rightful winner. Flato not only lost the cash, he has barely heard from his friend since she walked out that Jan. 31 night alone with a $50,000 check and another 50 grand in cash — after asking armed security to keep an eye on Flato as she left.

She sent him a text message a few weeks later asking, “Still hate me?” He responded: “How could you do that to me?” Her reply: “I miss you.”

More: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article142963604.html

It's a blandly cautionary tale. "What's it doing in Ridiculous News?" you ask.

Go to the article. Make sure you read the comments. Someone claiming to be the woman in the story makes an appearance and it gets amusing very fast.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 08, 2017, 02:22:17 am
It's a blandly cautionary tale. "What's it doing in Ridiculous News?" you ask.

Go to the article. Make sure you read the comments. Someone claiming to be the woman in the story makes an appearance and it gets amusing very fast.

:bigsilly: :bigsilly: :bigsilly: :bigsilly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 08, 2017, 03:18:36 am
Man fined $190 for not putting a leash on his pet snake, Lucy

Jerry Kimball of Sioux Falls, South Dakota received a $190 ticket because he failed to put a leash on his pet boa constrictor, Lucy, when he took her to a park. “He was literally asking me to put a rope around my snake,” Kimball told The Argus Leader. “I was like ‘dude, no.’ I was dumbfounded.”

Animal Control Supervisor Julie DeJong told the paper that the ticket was appropriate. “Snakes fall under the same restrictions as cats and dogs,” she stressed.

http://boingboing.net/2017/04/07/man-fined-190-for-not-putting.html

There's stupid. Then there's bureaucracy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 08, 2017, 09:35:31 am
Adrenaline junkie gets hit in face by a PIGEON while travelling 112mph on Europe's fastest rollercoaster

An adrenaline junkie trying Europe’s fastest and tallest rollercoaster was hit by a pigeon after being strapped in for his 112mph ride.

The thrill-seeker was left with blood on his face after being whacked by the bird as he enjoyed the Red Force vertical accelerator at Ferrari Land near Barcelona.

He didn’t appear to realise at first what had hit him just 12 seconds into the ride.

But a split-second later he looked down at his left shoulder to see the bird lying there as it appeared to be retained by the force of gravity.

It was not immediately clear when he managed to brush it off whether the pigeon was dead or alive and hit any of the people behind him on its way down.

Yes, there's video: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/adrenaline-junkie-gets-hit-face-10181120
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 09, 2017, 01:49:30 am
(http://i.imgur.com/4L6yVlu.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 09, 2017, 02:27:49 am


 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 09, 2017, 02:36:57 am
:silly:

Eyore got Christopher hooked on downers which was where his troubles began but things didn't really go south till a sizeable debt to Piglet for meth led to a drive by shooting in which Kanga was killed. Roo hooked up with Christopher for some payback on Piglet for the death of his mother. They caught Piglet coming out of a liquor store and opened fire. Piglet was killed and in the confusion Christopher shot Roo in the back of the head killing him instantly so he was convicted for 2 counts of homicide.

Shit got real in the hundred acre wood.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 09, 2017, 02:41:12 am
Eyore got Christopher hooked on downers which was where his troubles began but things didn't really go south till a sizeable debt to Piglet for meth led to a drive by shooting in which Kanga was killed. Roo hooked up with Christopher for some payback on Piglet for the death of his mother. They caught Piglet coming out of a liquor store and opened fire. Piglet was killed and in the confusion Christopher shot Roo in the back of the head killing him instantly so he was convicted for 2 counts of homicide.

Shit got real in the hundred acre wood.

Sorry for the cliche...but...oh, the huge manatee :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 09, 2017, 02:43:40 am
Sorry for the cliche...but...oh, the huge manatee :laugh:

Owl is doing time for child molesting

Oh and we can't say "Tigger" any more. The "T" word is their word'
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 09, 2017, 08:44:40 am
Bat reportedly found in packaged Fresh Express salad mix

 (CNN)Two people were recommended for post-exposure rabies treatment after a consumer in Florida reported finding a dead bat in a packaged salad mix, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.
The bat was sent to the CDC after it was found in a bag of Fresh Express Organic Marketside Spring Mix.

"The deteriorated condition of the bat did not allow for CDC to definitively rule out whether this bat had rabies," the Atlanta-based agency said.
The CDC said the risk of rabies transmission was extremely low but not zero, so the two people who ate salad mix were recommended for treatment as a precaution.
They are fine and show no signs of having rabies, the CDC said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/08/health/fresh-express-salad-bat-cdc/

Rates Ridiculous for the two who ate some of the salad anyway. Didn't they smell the rotting bat when they opened the bag?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 09, 2017, 03:06:41 pm
Rent-a-Chick program lets Omaha families have pets just for Easter

Between the clucks of the chickens, the cries of the baby goats and the chatter of children, it was hard to hear Mariel Barreras as she yelled out advice about caring for chicks.

About 50 soon-to-be chick baby sitters gathered in the Barreras’ small barn north of Omaha on Saturday morning to learn about how to feed chicks, how to let them safely roam outside and how to wipe their bottoms carefully.

And then, one by one, the families took their cardboard boxes up to the chicken pen and received two cute and fuzzy 2-day-old birds as part of the Barreras Family Farm’s Rent-a-Chick program.

Instead of buying a cute Easter chick that then grows up into a large, clucking chicken, families can pay $25 or $35 to take two little ones home with them for a week or two. Then the families take the chicks back to the farm to grow up and lay eggs.

More: http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/rent-a-chick-program-lets-omaha-families-have-pets-just/article_8b8b134b-01ac-5c51-a722-1e0423fa3e06.html

 *****rollingeyes*****

Credit to the farmer though - that's a handy extra bit of cash for a very small risk. No risk at all if she's dishing out male chicks for rent.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 09, 2017, 04:07:48 pm
Rent-a-Chick program lets Omaha families have pets just for Easter

Between the clucks of the chickens, the cries of the baby goats and the chatter of children, it was hard to hear Mariel Barreras as she yelled out advice about caring for chicks.

About 50 soon-to-be chick baby sitters gathered in the Barreras’ small barn north of Omaha on Saturday morning to learn about how to feed chicks, how to let them safely roam outside and how to wipe their bottoms carefully.

And then, one by one, the families took their cardboard boxes up to the chicken pen and received two cute and fuzzy 2-day-old birds as part of the Barreras Family Farm’s Rent-a-Chick program.

Instead of buying a cute Easter chick that then grows up into a large, clucking chicken, families can pay $25 or $35 to take two little ones home with them for a week or two. Then the families take the chicks back to the farm to grow up and lay eggs.

More: http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/rent-a-chick-program-lets-omaha-families-have-pets-just/article_8b8b134b-01ac-5c51-a722-1e0423fa3e06.html

 *****rollingeyes*****

Credit to the farmer though - that's a handy extra bit of cash for a very small risk. No risk at all if she's dishing out male chicks for rent.
As long as none of them catch the flu or some other 'bug' and bring it back, it could be a great deal.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 09, 2017, 09:13:14 pm
Police identify man killed in Benton Harbor shooting

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2017/04/police_identify_man_killed_in_4.html

BENTON HARBOR, MI -- Police identified a person shot and killed Friday as a man from Florida.

At 7:50 p.m. on April 7, officers were dispatched to 233 Michigan St. in the city of Benton Harbor, where they found John Conyers, 30, severely wounded by gunfire. The man was taken to Lakeland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.


 :thud:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 10, 2017, 03:10:08 pm
Two lobsters, 17 vodka oyster shots and a swim before jet ski arrest in Australia

A 33-year-old man ate two lobsters, downed 17 vodka oyster shots and six Coronas at a restaurant on Australia's Gold Coast before dodging the bill and running into the surf, police allege.

He allegedly stole another six-pack of beer from the Surfers Paradise restaurant before police on jet skis arrested him on Sunday afternoon.

Staff from the Omeros Brothers Seafood Restaurant chased the man after he allegedly fled the restaurant and dived into the ocean at Main Beach.

Lifeguards towed police officers out into the water on the back of jet skis to talk to the man.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/91396924/two-lobsters-17-vodka-oyster-shots-and-a-swim-before-jet-ski-arrest-in-australia

Typical aussies. Have to up the bar for everything.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on April 10, 2017, 03:20:37 pm
Two lobsters, 17 vodka oyster shots and a swim before jet ski arrest in Australia

A 33-year-old man ate two lobsters, downed 17 vodka oyster shots and six Coronas at a restaurant on Australia's Gold Coast before dodging the bill and running into the surf, police allege.

He allegedly stole another six-pack of beer from the Surfers Paradise restaurant before police on jet skis arrested him on Sunday afternoon.

Staff from the Omeros Brothers Seafood Restaurant chased the man after he allegedly fled the restaurant and dived into the ocean at Main Beach.

Lifeguards towed police officers out into the water on the back of jet skis to talk to the man.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/91396924/two-lobsters-17-vodka-oyster-shots-and-a-swim-before-jet-ski-arrest-in-australia

Typical aussies. Have to up the bar for everything.

I can't believe he was able to run after that!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on April 10, 2017, 03:36:52 pm
Bat reportedly found in packaged Fresh Express salad mix

 (CNN)Two people were recommended for post-exposure rabies treatment after a consumer in Florida reported finding a dead bat in a packaged salad mix, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.
The bat was sent to the CDC after it was found in a bag of Fresh Express Organic Marketside Spring Mix.

"The deteriorated condition of the bat did not allow for CDC to definitively rule out whether this bat had rabies," the Atlanta-based agency said.
The CDC said the risk of rabies transmission was extremely low but not zero, so the two people who ate salad mix were recommended for treatment as a precaution.
They are fine and show no signs of having rabies, the CDC said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/08/health/fresh-express-salad-bat-cdc/

Rates Ridiculous for the two who ate some of the salad anyway. Didn't they smell the rotting bat when they opened the bag?

Unless one reads closely, they don't note this was purchased at a Walmart.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39556826
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on April 10, 2017, 05:43:31 pm
Eyore got Christopher hooked on downers which was where his troubles began but things didn't really go south till a sizeable debt to Piglet for meth led to a drive by shooting in which Kanga was killed. Roo hooked up with Christopher for some payback on Piglet for the death of his mother. They caught Piglet coming out of a liquor store and opened fire. Piglet was killed and in the confusion Christopher shot Roo in the back of the head killing him instantly so he was convicted for 2 counts of homicide.

Shit got real in the hundred acre wood.
More like 100 acre hood.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 11, 2017, 12:06:44 am
I can't believe he was able to run after that!

This one says more. 21 shots

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjUnPiFjZvTAhVE52MKHULGDVAQqUMIKzAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brisbanetimes.com.au%2Fqueensland%2Fpolice-on-jet-skis-catch-man-who-dined-and-dashed-into-the-surf-20170409-gvhds9.html&usg=AFQjCNHW0xuShiGxnJcaXM5ElBUd-QfrQg&sig2=JE_YF0MQUzHE7V-ZxD4Jig
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on April 12, 2017, 03:22:17 am
@EC

Did this thread lose some posts? I swear I posted the 7200 gallon spill of mountain dew here, does it not belong? Or someone else posted it? Or is it not ridiculous?

Quote
Mountain Dew spill at Pepsi facility raises concerns in Howell

HOWELL, Mich. (WXYZ) - A Mountain Dew disaster gave city and state officials an unexpected jolt when a 7,200 gallon tank of the concentrated caffeinated syrup erupted at the Pepsi-Cola Production and Distribution plant in Howell on March 10th.

The company directed the spill into a pre-treatment system which dumped into a storm basin on the property holding more than 50,000 gallons according to Carla Davidson at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, speaking to 7 Action News over the phone from Lansing.

Two days later, the city of Howell got a wake up call.

Continued: http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/oakland-county/mountain-dew-spill-at-pepsi-facility-raises-concerns-in-howell
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 12, 2017, 03:28:44 am
Didn't remove any.

Fake edit: found it, you put it in the cheerful thread by mistake. Happens. I'll pull it from there now.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 12, 2017, 07:22:08 am
Amid allegations of unpaid taxes, neo-Nazism, and sex offender, Denver furry convention canceled

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/amid-allegations-of-unpaid-taxes-neo-nazism-and-sex-offender-denver-furry-convention-canceled

I'm not providing an excerpt for this. Not so much for the subject matter, but it's so badly written and so complicated you need a GPS to navigate the story.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 12, 2017, 09:26:08 am
Amid allegations of unpaid taxes, neo-Nazism, and sex offender, Denver furry convention canceled

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/amid-allegations-of-unpaid-taxes-neo-nazism-and-sex-offender-denver-furry-convention-canceled

I'm not providing an excerpt for this. Not so much for the subject matter, but it's so badly written and so complicated you need a GPS to navigate the story.

Just wow.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 12, 2017, 12:55:45 pm
Well, "Furries" do claim to be just like everybody else.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 12, 2017, 02:36:18 pm
Cross my heart - I didn't look for this. It just appeared on my feed.

Woman takes therapy dog to furry convention thinking it’s an event for pets

Furry conventions are not a place you take your pet – but one woman didn’t realise until it was too late.

So you can imagine Cheryl Wassus’ shock when she turned up with her therapy dog, Link, only to find a huge group of humans dressed as animals.

Cheryl and Link’s adventure was documented in a series of hilarious tweets by her son, Kenny Wassus.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/12/woman-takes-therapy-dog-to-furry-convention-thinking-its-an-event-for-pets-6569875/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 12, 2017, 03:14:00 pm
Cross my heart - I didn't look for this. It just appeared on my feed.

Woman takes therapy dog to furry convention thinking it’s an event for pets

Furry conventions are not a place you take your pet – but one woman didn’t realise until it was too late.

So you can imagine Cheryl Wassus’ shock when she turned up with her therapy dog, Link, only to find a huge group of humans dressed as animals.

Cheryl and Link’s adventure was documented in a series of hilarious tweets by her son, Kenny Wassus.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/12/woman-takes-therapy-dog-to-furry-convention-thinking-its-an-event-for-pets-6569875/

Maybe Ms. Wassus met someone nice there?  Aren't they all lovers of cute pets?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 12, 2017, 08:41:21 pm
East Palestine Police: 8-year-old drives 4-year-old sister to get cheeseburger

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -

It wasn't a Big Mac attack, but a hankering for a cheeseburger that prompted an eight-year-old boy from East Palestine to get behind the wheel of his dad's van and drive to the local McDonald's with his 4-year-old sister.

East Palestine Police officer Jacob Koehler tells 21 News that the boy pulled up to the drive-thru window of the restaurant at around 8 p.m. Sunday after driving from his home where his parents were sleeping about a half mile away.

The boy just wanted to buy a cheeseburger at the Market Street restaurant, according to police.

“He looked up videos on YouTube on how to drive,” said officer Koehler, who adds that witnesses say the boy followed the rules of the road, stopping for lights and keeping within speed limits.

The children did get to eat at McDonald's while they waited for their grandparents to pick them up.

No charges are being filed, according to Koehler.

http://www.wfmj.com/story/35131203/east-palestine-police-8-year-old-drives-4-year-old-sister-to-get-cheeseburger
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 12, 2017, 08:46:55 pm
Quote
“He looked up videos on YouTube on how to drive,” said officer Koehler, who adds that witnesses say the boy followed the rules of the road, stopping for lights and keeping within speed limits.

Maybe they should give him a driver's license since he's already doing better than 80% of the drivers on the roads today.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 12, 2017, 08:54:41 pm
Maybe they should give him a driver's license since he's already doing better than 80% of the drivers on the roads today.
Just don't give him a DS or a cell phone....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on April 13, 2017, 03:17:59 pm
Man eats 255 Peeps for World Record


http://kluv.cbslocal.com/2017/04/11/man-eats-255-peeps-in-5-minutes-to-break-the-world-record/ (http://kluv.cbslocal.com/2017/04/11/man-eats-255-peeps-in-5-minutes-to-break-the-world-record/)


Why!?  Why would someone do this to his body?  According to the nutrition facts for Peeps, each one contains 7 carbs.  So he ingested 1785 carbs at one sitting, almost all of them pure refined sugar.  I would think he could have blown his pancreas out, or at least done some damage.


(https://misfit120.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/bunny-peeps.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on April 13, 2017, 04:32:00 pm
Man eats 255 Peeps for World Record


http://kluv.cbslocal.com/2017/04/11/man-eats-255-peeps-in-5-minutes-to-break-the-world-record/ (http://kluv.cbslocal.com/2017/04/11/man-eats-255-peeps-in-5-minutes-to-break-the-world-record/)


Why!?  Why would someone do this to his body?  According to the nutrition facts for Peeps, each one contains 7 carbs.  So he ingested 1785 carbs at one sitting, almost all of them pure refined sugar.  I would think he could have blown his pancreas out, or at least done some damage.


(https://misfit120.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/bunny-peeps.jpg)
And here I was thinking. "Only 255, that's not so hard bet I could do 256." Not that I plan to try. I like having my pancreas.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 13, 2017, 04:35:09 pm
And here I was thinking. "Only 255, that's not so hard bet I could do 256." Not that I plan to try. I like having my pancreas.

Those things are just nasty anyway. The only thing worse are those marshmallow peanuts.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on April 13, 2017, 05:31:04 pm
And here I was thinking. "Only 255, that's not so hard bet I could do 256." Not that I plan to try. I like having my pancreas.

Yes, DON'T, lol!

@Idaho_Cowboy
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on April 13, 2017, 05:32:36 pm
Those things are just nasty anyway. The only thing worse are those marshmallow peanuts.

@Cripplecreek

That's the undeniable truth.  I tried to eat a circus peanut once, when I was a kid, and I gagged it right up.

I used to know a weird guy who loved Peeps, but only after they got stale and crusty. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 13, 2017, 05:54:29 pm
Glamour model with 'biggest boobs in Europe' shocks fans with 'crispy brown' look after extreme tanning injections

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/glamour-model-biggest-boobs-europe-10217073

Link only. People are eating.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on April 13, 2017, 06:27:29 pm
Glamour model with 'biggest boobs in Europe' shocks fans with 'crispy brown' look after extreme tanning injections

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/glamour-model-biggest-boobs-europe-10217073

Link only. People are eating.

@EC

YOU owe me a new keyboard!  :nono:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 13, 2017, 06:29:22 pm
I did warn you ...   :shrug:

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on April 13, 2017, 06:36:08 pm
I did warn you ...   :shrug:

 :laugh:

Warning was very insufficient for that!!   22222frying pan
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on April 13, 2017, 06:39:17 pm
Glamour model with 'biggest boobs in Europe' shocks fans with 'crispy brown' look after extreme tanning injections

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/glamour-model-biggest-boobs-europe-10217073

Link only. People are eating.

@EC

She needs to be committed.  "I want to push it to the limit"....with a 50-tube tanning bed at home.  You moron, the limit comes when skin cancer kills you.

Those balloon boobs look like she has a fat person sitting on her lap.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 13, 2017, 06:42:32 pm
@CatherineofAragon I'm surprised her boobs don't come to the boil every time she uses that tanning bed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on April 13, 2017, 06:43:16 pm
@CatherineofAragon I'm surprised her boobs don't come to the boil every time she uses that tanning bed.

I'm surprised she doesn't topple over whenever she tries to stand.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on April 13, 2017, 06:51:21 pm
I'm surprised she doesn't topple over whenever she tries to stand.

Give it a few more years and she'll be tripping over them when she walks.  There's not a bra in the world that's up to that challenge.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 13, 2017, 06:58:32 pm
You guys are being pretty generous with the pronouns.  That looks like a "he" to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on April 13, 2017, 07:18:39 pm
@CatherineofAragon I'm surprised her boobs don't come to the boil every time she uses that tanning bed.


@EC

Lolol
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 13, 2017, 07:30:49 pm
I did warn you ...   :shrug:

 :laugh:

Seems like she got a plan.
kind of over board with that tan.


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 13, 2017, 08:09:10 pm
Looks like Al Jolson with a blonde wig and a couple of basketballs in a wifebeater tee.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 13, 2017, 08:44:30 pm
Looks like Krylon.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2017, 12:18:34 am
WHY...do I have this sudden craving for dry crusty peeps?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 14, 2017, 12:19:44 am
WHY...do I have this sudden craving for dry crusty peeps?

All my friends are dry crusty peeps.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on April 14, 2017, 12:21:01 am
All my friends are dry crusty peeps.

Lol!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on April 14, 2017, 12:23:51 am
WHY...do I have this sudden craving for dry crusty peeps?


@bigheadfred

Lmao
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2017, 12:24:51 am
All my friends are dry crusty peeps.

I want to nibble on their tiny ears and nibble on their tiny feet.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 14, 2017, 12:28:25 am
Lol!

Its a country western Easter song.

All mah friends are dry crusty peeps
They's the kinda comp'ny ah keeps

Boiled eggs n plastic easter grass
if ya eat the wrong one you'll be pullin it out'cher ass
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2017, 12:32:20 am
Implants are saline these days, right? She could put herself out twice if she ever caught afire in that oven.

I wonder if they have valve stems? no I take that back.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2017, 12:33:40 am
Looks like Krylon.

Is Krylon the new code word for butt ugly?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 14, 2017, 12:34:59 am
Implants are saline these days, right? She could put herself out twice if she ever caught afire in that oven.

I wonder if they have valve stems? no I take that back.

Firm for handling, soft for traction? Speak now or forever hold your peace.

(http://i.imgur.com/YZc3Ofd.gif)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 14, 2017, 12:37:54 am
Is Krylon the new code word for butt ugly?

It is now.  Fred said it, the internet read it.  Congrats!   :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2017, 12:39:52 am
Firm for handling, soft for traction? Speak now or forever hold your peace.

I want a do over. I think if she fell forward the back of her skull would get crushed.

If you deflated them she would look like she was wearing one of Hillary's pant suits.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2017, 12:41:25 am
It is now.  Fred said it, the internet read it.  Congrats!   :beer:

Yay bud, that gurl is Krylon.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 14, 2017, 12:45:52 am
Is Krylon the new code word for butt ugly?

We used to classify women as medium and long range scuds.

A medium range scud looked pretty good till you got about 50 yards out and it was all "Holy crap! ABORT ABORT ABORT!"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2017, 12:51:54 am
We used to classify women as medium and long range scuds.

A medium range scud looked pretty good till you got about 50 yards out and it was all "Holy crap! ABORT ABORT ABORT!"


:laugh:

Kinda why I made a beeline for monogamy and never looked back. To the side maybe a few (thousand) times. But not back.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on April 14, 2017, 02:51:08 pm
I want to nibble on their tiny ears and nibble on their tiny feet.

@bigheadfred

HA!  I have a coffee mug with this graphic:


(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2J3cAR898nA/TkDINcXnX2I/AAAAAAAACNE/BjIwWZM2KPE/s1600/kliban.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 14, 2017, 02:56:10 pm
We used to classify women as medium and long range scuds.

A medium range scud looked pretty good till you got about 50 yards out and it was all "Holy crap! ABORT ABORT ABORT!"

Simple mind tricks the brain plays on us men.   There is more of them to see from a distance.  Before engaging one needs to wait till your eyes have better focus to judge the proportions of the distant target..
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2017, 04:39:42 pm
@bigheadfred

HA!  I have a coffee mug with this graphic:


(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2J3cAR898nA/TkDINcXnX2I/AAAAAAAACNE/BjIwWZM2KPE/s1600/kliban.jpg)

That's IT! I had the t-shirt...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on April 14, 2017, 05:39:56 pm
Give it a few more years and she'll be tripping over them when she walks.  There's not a bra in the world that's up to that challenge.
She's hoping for drone technology advances to be able to deal with the weight and then she'll use two of them as mini sky cranes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on April 14, 2017, 05:48:52 pm
You guys are being pretty generous with the pronouns.  That looks like a "he" to me.

Looks the same way to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 14, 2017, 07:52:55 pm
Looks the same way to me.

Maybe "Crispy" is a Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, or Jackie Curtis wannabe.? :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 14, 2017, 07:58:38 pm
Maybe "Crispy" is a Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, or Jackie Curtis wannabe.? :shrug:

I dunno, but that thing is scary.  Looks like it might pop a rod at any moment. :terror:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 14, 2017, 08:01:59 pm
I dunno, but that thing is scary.  Looks like it might pop a rod at any moment. :terror:


 :nometalk:
 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 14, 2017, 08:06:31 pm

 :nometalk:
 :silly:
:beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 14, 2017, 10:10:30 pm
University of Michigan student wins $25K scholarship from Pornhub, report says

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/04/report_university_of_michigan_11.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2bp4-pq7PE
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2017, 11:53:45 pm
University of Michigan student wins $25K scholarship from Pornhub, report says

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/04/report_university_of_michigan_11.html


Isn't Pornhub pretty much funded by the Philippines?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on April 14, 2017, 11:58:05 pm
Quote
Kim's special forces preparing to strike Donald Trump's missile bases

NORTH Korea's elite special forces have carried out meticulous exercises to prepare them for raiding missile bases.


http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/605600/North-Korea-Kim-Jong-un-special-forces-Donald-Trump-WW3-fears-exercises

They've got to just be making a joke here.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 15, 2017, 02:53:36 am
She's hoping for drone technology advances to be able to deal with the weight and then she'll use two of them as mini sky cranes.
Cat 5 rotor wash, dude...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on April 15, 2017, 02:58:20 pm
Quote
Russian Repair Truck Shows Up to Repair Pothole, Falls Into It

It took more than a year for Irkutsk officials to send a repair crew to fix two massive potholes in the town of Bratsky. When a repair crew finally showed up this week, one of the trucks promptly fell into one of the potholes.

According to the local website Ircity.ru, the ditches are more than six-feet deep.

Continued: https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-repair-truck-shows-up-to-repair-pothole-falls-into-it-57737
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 15, 2017, 08:06:21 pm
And from a story worthy of Laurel and Hardy to one that is ridiculous, yet oddly sad.

Underwear thief who has been stealing for 10 years is arrested as police use a TRUCK to remove thousands of bras and pants from his house

Bizarre images show police using a truck to remove thousands of bras and pants from an underwear thief's house in China.

The man was arrested on the afternoon of April 12 Jiujiang, China's Jiangxi province, reports Huanqiu, an affiliation with the People's Daily Online.

According to reports, he had been collecting underwear for 10 years. 

The Xunyang District Public Security Bureau's deputy director Liu Yingbin told reporters that he visited the local community and was told that a large amount of women's underwear had been stolen.

The woman who had her underwear stolen later saw the items hanging from a balcony of a nearby property.

Police decided to investigate and arrived at the property to find a large amount of women's underwear and personal clothing.

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-4408494/Underwear-thief-giant-collection-arrested.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 16, 2017, 08:53:46 am
Sometimes the ridiculous aspect is from the universe, not the people involved.

Husband and wife discover they are twins after shock DNA test

A married couple were told they were biological twins after they visited an IVF clinic because they were struggling to conceive a child.

A Jackson, Mississippi, fertility doctor informed the unidentified pair that they were biological twins after he noticed the striking similarities in their DNA, it was revealed on Thursday.

The siblings had been tragically separated at a young age after their biological parents died and they were adopted into different families, both not knowing about the other.

The devastated couple was left at a loss with what to do, as marriage between siblings is outlawed in the southern state.

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4414272/Married-couple-told-biological-twins.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 16, 2017, 09:49:17 pm
Poor people. I guess that takes kissing your sister to the next level.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 16, 2017, 10:06:32 pm
Poor people. I guess that takes kissing your sister to the next level.

Maury Povich could have retired on this.  He and Connie could have gone in leisure.  (I see they've been married for a long time, so I'm happy for them).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 16, 2017, 10:38:33 pm
No Problem.  Don't procreate.   Adopt.   Or find a 3rd cousin to fill the turkey baster.

That being said....I saw this in the comments:

FAKE NEWS ALERT! The Mississippi Herald is a FAKE newspaper website; the main Mississippi newspaper is The Sun Herald. This story is fake.


How they fake the story:
http://www.inquisitr.com/4149042/how-mississippi-herald-fooled-32500-people-into-sharing-fake-married-couple-are-twins-news-on-facebook/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 16, 2017, 11:41:35 pm
Poor people. I guess that takes kissing your sister to the next level.

Right. You can kiss your sister. Just don't do it with your tongue.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 17, 2017, 02:49:06 pm
'Exorcists' Attempt To Cast Demons Out Of Alleged NSA Spy Building In Tribeca

While the Christian world focuses on Easter today, a different group of people with spirituality on their minds showed up in Tribeca yesterday afternoon with the aim of casting out some devils from a building that's been reported to be an NSA listening station.

As mentioned earlier this week, a group of demonstrators organized by editors of The Quiet American showed up in front of the AT&T building at 33 Thomas Street to call attention to the purported NSA activity going on at the building and to "exorcise the malevolent energy and information coursing through the AT&T monolith."

Our photographer on the scene, Sai Mokhtari, described the demonstration in which participants wore tin foil hats and held mirrors up to the building to create "a giant surveillance feedback loop" as "creative and colorful, and quite over the top and funny."

More, and lots of photos: http://gothamist.com/2017/04/16/photos_exorcists_attempt_to_cast_de.php
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 17, 2017, 02:56:26 pm
'Exorcists' Attempt To Cast Demons Out Of Alleged NSA Spy Building In Tribeca


More, and lots of photos: http://gothamist.com/2017/04/16/photos_exorcists_attempt_to_cast_de.php

Its confirmed:

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,258861.msg1293568.html#msg1293568
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on April 17, 2017, 03:27:23 pm
Sometimes the ridiculous aspect is from the universe, not the people involved.

Husband and wife discover they are twins after shock DNA test

A married couple were told they were biological twins after they visited an IVF clinic because they were struggling to conceive a child.

A Jackson, Mississippi, fertility doctor informed the unidentified pair that they were biological twins after he noticed the striking similarities in their DNA, it was revealed on Thursday.

The siblings had been tragically separated at a young age after their biological parents died and they were adopted into different families, both not knowing about the other.

The devastated couple was left at a loss with what to do, as marriage between siblings is outlawed in the southern state.

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4414272/Married-couple-told-biological-twins.html
Obi Wan should have told them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 17, 2017, 11:33:17 pm
A Bar In Kerala Just Made A 250m-Long Maze Wall To Beat Supreme Court's 500m Rule

Since April 1 a large number of the bars, pubs and liquor shops across India has gone out of business, thanks to a Supreme Court order that the outlets should be at least 500m away from state and national highways.

The verdict, like most of the states was a blow to the booze lovers in Kerala too. But what made the situation worse in state is there was already a ban in place, by which only three-star hotels and above are allowed to serve liquor.

Most of the bars were then converted into beer and wine parlors, which were also forced to shut down after the SC order.

But a bar in Ernakulam district decide to make a way around it, literally!

The Aishwarya Bar in North Paravoor, a Kochi suburb has built a 250m-long maze-like walkway to the entrance, theoretically making it more than 500m away from the highway.

"We have done nothing illegal. The plot behind the bar also belongs to the owner and we have constructed an extended way to reach the bar. Now it is 520 metres from the highway. We are set to approach the circle inspector of excise with the new route map to authorize the reopening of the bar," said Shiju P, bar manager.

Even the excise officials admitted the move by the management is acceptable. A Vijayan IPS, additional excise commissioner said.

http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/a-bar-in-kerala-just-made-a-250m-long-maze-wall-to-beat-supreme-court-s-500m-rule-275175.html

 :beer: My hat off to the guv.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on April 18, 2017, 11:36:26 pm
Florida man calls his girlfriend fat. The end result is predictable.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida-woman-smashes-windshield-after-boyfriend-calls-her-fat-deputies-say
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 18, 2017, 11:43:53 pm
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life..."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 19, 2017, 11:20:22 am
Superior mirages over Chicago skyline now appearing

http://www.mlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2017/04/superior_mirages_over_chicago.html#incart_river_home

I really post this one for the comments section which has been invaded by real flat earthers and hilarity ensues.

Supremer517
7 hours ago

Ifers.123.st has alot of really good information for anyone who can handle the fact that we've been lied to and duped for so long. Don't bother visiting if your too proud or self absorbed to understand that.


Supremer517
7 hours ago

Why does the horizon always appear flat? Why does the horizon always rise to eye level regardless of altitude gained by the observer? How is it that the earth is supposedly 25,000 miles in circumference and 70% water yet the horizon always appears flat and there is no measurable curve when standing on the shore of the great lakes or the oceans? How is it that "gravity" is so powerful that it's able to hold buildings and people and water and cars to the bottom of a ball, yet weak enough to allow birds and tiny insects to fly? Why has no one ever circum-navigated the "globe"north to south over the "poles"?


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 19, 2017, 11:23:32 am
Flat Earthers. Because even conspiracy theorists need someone to look down on.  :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 19, 2017, 11:26:05 am
Flat Earthers. Because even conspiracy theorists need someone to look down on.  :tongue2:

You've been duped.

The earth has to be flat because birds can fly and buildings can't.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 19, 2017, 10:37:28 pm
Richard Simmons Speaks Directly to Fans for First Time in Three Years

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/richard-simmons-speaks-directly-to-fans-for-first-time-in-three-years/ar-BBA2WPd?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Since I know everyone has been waiting as anxiously as I have.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 19, 2017, 11:24:30 pm
You've been duped.

The earth has to be flat because birds can fly and buildings can't.
@EC

What about that house in Wizard of OZ?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 19, 2017, 11:27:52 pm
Richard Simmons Speaks Directly to Fans for First Time in Three Years

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/richard-simmons-speaks-directly-to-fans-for-first-time-in-three-years/ar-BBA2WPd?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Since I know everyone has been waiting as anxiously as I have.

Twitterpated. Yes I am.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 19, 2017, 11:30:55 pm
Twitterpated. Yes I am.

You're coined another word, Fred.  "Twitterpated."  New to me, anyway.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 20, 2017, 12:12:56 am
You're coined another word, Fred.  "Twitterpated."  New to me, anyway.

I think it is from Disney's 'Bambi'.

Thanks for thinking I craftitized it, though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 20, 2017, 12:33:45 am
I think it is from Disney's 'Bambi'.

Thanks for thinking I craftitized it, though.

Sorry Fred.  "You're?"   Look, I typsos a lot.  I hope you don't mind.  I'm addlepated.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 20, 2017, 12:41:22 am
Sorry Fred.  "You're?"   Look, I typsos a lot.  I hope you don't mind.  I'm addlepated.  :shrug:

I didn't even notice. Now I have to deal with THAT.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 20, 2017, 12:47:44 am
I didn't even notice. Now I have to deal with THAT.  :laugh:

The pain never ends, Fred my man.  We just bear it up.  Go figure.  Some old Greek mythology fits here somewhere.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 20, 2017, 02:27:34 am
Naked woman cited for indecent exposure after motorcyle ride through town

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2017/04/naked_woman_cited_for_indecent.html#incart_2box_news_jackson

JACKSON, MI - Morning commuters on Jackson's west side are not lying when they say they saw a totally nude woman riding on the back of a motorcycle Wednesday.

At about 9:15 a.m., April 19, Jackson Central Dispatch issued a notice to police in the Jackson area to be on the lookout for a woman riding on the back of a motorcycle without any clothes on, Interim Director of Police and Fire Services Elmer Hitt said.


A sure sign of spring
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on April 20, 2017, 10:28:58 am
Naked woman cited for indecent exposure after motorcyle ride through town

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2017/04/naked_woman_cited_for_indecent.html#incart_2box_news_jackson

JACKSON, MI - Morning commuters on Jackson's west side are not lying when they say they saw a totally nude woman riding on the back of a motorcycle Wednesday.

At about 9:15 a.m., April 19, Jackson Central Dispatch issued a notice to police in the Jackson area to be on the lookout for a woman riding on the back of a motorcycle without any clothes on, Interim Director of Police and Fire Services Elmer Hitt said.


A sure sign of spring
Following a blizzard in upstate NY, a former student of mine was arrested for driving a snowmobile down Main Street wearing nothing but a helmet. Yes a large amount of alcohol was involved and yes he was a redneck.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 20, 2017, 11:24:47 am
Naked woman cited for indecent exposure after motorcyle ride through town

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2017/04/naked_woman_cited_for_indecent.html#incart_2box_news_jackson

JACKSON, MI - Morning commuters on Jackson's west side are not lying when they say they saw a totally nude woman riding on the back of a motorcycle Wednesday.

At about 9:15 a.m., April 19, Jackson Central Dispatch issued a notice to police in the Jackson area to be on the lookout for a woman riding on the back of a motorcycle without any clothes on, Interim Director of Police and Fire Services Elmer Hitt said.


A sure sign of spring

Who wouldn't be on the lookout?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: driftdiver on April 20, 2017, 11:46:23 am
Following a blizzard in upstate NY, a former student of mine was arrested for driving a snowmobile down Main Street wearing nothing but a helmet. Yes a large amount of alcohol was involved and yes he was a redneck.

This was Jacksonville, chances are quite high this was a redneck too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 20, 2017, 11:52:43 am
Who wouldn't be on the lookout?

Me. The ones that get naked are NEVER the ones that should get naked.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 20, 2017, 12:20:46 pm
Me. The ones that get naked are NEVER the ones that should get naked.

Its never Lady Godiva, its always Lady Godawful.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 20, 2017, 12:23:31 pm
I'm gonna steal that. It's perfection.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 20, 2017, 12:44:02 pm
Me. The ones that get naked are NEVER the ones that should get naked.
Instead of 'perky' it's mudflaps....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 20, 2017, 01:02:51 pm
Instead of 'perky' it's mudflaps....


Usally when you take your hog out for a ride it means a Harley.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 20, 2017, 01:09:28 pm

Usally when you take your hog out for a ride it means a Harley.
"Nice Hog!" "That's a good looking bike, too!"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 20, 2017, 01:19:52 pm
"Nice Hog!" "That's a good looking bike, too!"

While there are no pictures of the naked rider in the article (probably a good thing) there is a picture of the bike (a great thing!).

I used to live in Jackson, and the West side was not the bad part of town (that was the south-east side).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 20, 2017, 01:22:29 pm
This was Jacksonville, chances are quite high this was a redneck too.

Hard to say with Jackson, MI.  Former industrial city (auto parts), the present town "company" is a max security Prison on the North side, surrounded by farmland.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 20, 2017, 01:24:29 pm
While there are no pictures of the naked rider in the article (probably a good thing) there is a picture of the bike (a great thing!).

I used to live in Jackson, and the West side was not the bad part of town (that was the south-east side).

I don't think there is a good side of town anymore. West and north are probably best though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 20, 2017, 01:26:19 pm
Hard to say with Jackson, MI.  Former industrial city (auto parts), the present town "company" is a max security Prison on the North side, surrounded by farmland.

(http://i.imgur.com/M8yb7TR.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 20, 2017, 01:27:34 pm
I don't think there is a good side of town anymore. West and north are probably best though.

There wasn't a "good side" when I lived there in the 70's.  It's interesting North Cooper was actually one of the best areas.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 20, 2017, 01:28:12 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/M8yb7TR.jpg)

AKA, "Cooper Street."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 20, 2017, 02:04:53 pm
AKA, "Cooper Street."

The world's largest walled prison at one point.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 21, 2017, 01:27:43 pm
@EC @Cripplecreek @Cyber Liberty @Smokin Joe @Wingnut

(http://i64.tinypic.com/2922ln8.png)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 21, 2017, 01:28:59 pm
@EC @Cripplecreek @Cyber Liberty @Smokin Joe @Wingnut

(http://i64.tinypic.com/2922ln8.png)
Watchoo say, Willis? We're supposed to be the knuckledraggers, here.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 21, 2017, 01:31:30 pm
Watchoo say, Willis? We're supposed to be the knuckledraggers, here.

Proud member checking in here with Joe.! 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 21, 2017, 01:40:51 pm
Proud member checking in here with Joe.!
888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on April 21, 2017, 08:53:36 pm
Naked woman cited for indecent exposure after motorcyle ride through town

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2017/04/naked_woman_cited_for_indecent.html#incart_2box_news_jackson

JACKSON, MI - Morning commuters on Jackson's west side are not lying when they say they saw a totally nude woman riding on the back of a motorcycle Wednesday.

At about 9:15 a.m., April 19, Jackson Central Dispatch issued a notice to police in the Jackson area to be on the lookout for a woman riding on the back of a motorcycle without any clothes on, Interim Director of Police and Fire Services Elmer Hitt said.


A sure sign of spring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJWBpq2dCF0
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on April 23, 2017, 04:39:23 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJWBpq2dCF0

Don't forget---Lady Godiva put everything she had on a horse.---W.C. Fields.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on April 23, 2017, 06:30:48 pm
"Her long blonde hair....... lyin' on the barber's floor,
Doesn't need it long any more......... "   :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 23, 2017, 06:33:16 pm
"Her long blonde hair....... lyin' on the barber's floor,
Doesn't need it long any more......... "   :whistle:

Peter and Gordon?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on April 23, 2017, 07:37:07 pm
Peter and Gordon?

A 1966 Classic!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on April 25, 2017, 05:16:46 pm
Quote
Nordstrom sells jeans with fake mud on them for $425; Critics let loose
(http://sharing.wxyz.com/sharescnn/photo/2017/04/25/Nordstrom%20MAIN_1493121836448_58826745_ver1.0_640_480.png)

http://www.wxyz.com/news/national/nordstrom-sells-jeans-with-fake-mud-on-them-for-425
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 25, 2017, 06:49:35 pm
Pay to look like that? I GET paid to look like that.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 25, 2017, 07:13:14 pm
Trust fund babies are usually idiots. They have never done any real work, never held a real job, and paid tutors do all their homework and assignments. Being rich doesn't make you intelligent, but it can easily turn you into an arrogant moron. Nordstrom has used this understanding of wealth to bilk rich morons out of millions of dollars.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 25, 2017, 07:19:03 pm
Trust fund babies are usually idiots. They have never done any real work, never held a real job, and paid tutors do all their homework and assignments. Being rich doesn't make you intelligent, but it can easily turn you into an arrogant moron. Nordstrom has used this understanding of wealth to bilk rich morons out of millions of dollars.

I'm with you.  I fully expect these stupid jeans to sell like hotcakes in the upscale malls.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 25, 2017, 07:32:04 pm
I'm with you.  I fully expect these stupid jeans to sell like hotcakes in the upscale malls.

Maybe for a few weeks, until the idiots get kicked out of restaurants, bars, and shops, for looking like a filthy hobo. I could make my jeans look just like that in five minutes in my backyard. But, I have more common sense than that. When my jeans look that way, legitimately, I change and wash them. I would never even consider 'going out' looking like that. But, I'm not a rich moron, so...

This looks like something straight out of Zoolander. It's still hard to comprehend that these guys are serious.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on April 25, 2017, 07:56:36 pm


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1512621355414669&id=116999698310182

The Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans aren’t pants. They’re not even fashion. They’re a costume for wealthy people who see work as ironic – not iconic....

Mike Rowe
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 25, 2017, 08:15:58 pm
It's being advertised as 'Dégoûtant fashion'. Fashion for the faire le pitre. Only $425 for one, or two for $995.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on April 25, 2017, 08:24:19 pm
Pay to look like that? I GET paid to look like that.  :laugh:
Everyone is going to know it isn't fake mud when it doesn't dry out and start falling on the floor. :laugh: Sheesh. If my jeans look like that I earned it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 25, 2017, 10:46:04 pm
I'm with you.  I fully expect these stupid jeans to sell like hotcakes in the upscale malls.
I'd sell them real jeans with real mud, grease, oil, tar, even horse poop on them for half of that. I'd even offer a variety! Mix and match!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on April 25, 2017, 10:51:50 pm
I'd sell them real jeans with real mud, grease, oil, tar, even horse poop on them for half of that. I'd even offer a variety! Mix and match!

Odd story - when I first went to uni, I was doing the registrations thing, and looking for interesting clubs to join at the SU wearing an old pair of jeans that were more patches than original fabric. A guy walked up to me and asked if I'd sell them.  :shrug:

I did. Bought new ones and a couple pints with the cash.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on April 25, 2017, 10:55:01 pm
Everyone is going to know it isn't fake mud when it doesn't dry out and start falling on the floor. :laugh: Sheesh. If my jeans look like that I earned it.


Not if you're not familiar with real mud.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on April 25, 2017, 11:09:34 pm
Odd story - when I first went to uni, I was doing the registrations thing, and looking for interesting clubs to join at the SU wearing an old pair of jeans that were more patches than original fabric. A guy walked up to me and asked if I'd sell them.  :shrug:

I did. Bought new ones and a couple pints with the cash.

Well played!  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 25, 2017, 11:14:33 pm
Well played!  :beer:

It's also a pretty good way to thin out the snob groups.  VERY well played indeed, @EC!  888high58888

I did that pledging Frats back in the 70's, but nobody offered to buy my jeans... 8888crybaby
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 25, 2017, 11:17:17 pm
Odd story - when I first went to uni, I was doing the registrations thing, and looking for interesting clubs to join at the SU wearing an old pair of jeans that were more patches than original fabric. A guy walked up to me and asked if I'd sell them.  :shrug:

I did. Bought new ones and a couple pints with the cash.
888high58888

 :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 25, 2017, 11:37:22 pm
It's being advertised as 'Dégoûtant fashion'. Fashion for the faire le pitre. Only $425 for one, or two for $995.

I like it. Buy one pair, get the second pair for twice the price.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 25, 2017, 11:57:36 pm
I like it. Buy one pair, get the second pair for twice the price.
Anyone stupid enough to buy fake dirty jeans wouldn't do the math. If you've got a rich fool in your shop, may as well get what you can get.

Nordstrom was selling these idiots rocks a couple of weeks ago.  Plain ordinary rocks, like you could find on the side of any road, for $85 - $100. It has no purpose, use, or function at all, and yet rich people bought them up. Check it out.
http://m.shop.nordstrom.com/s/made-solid-medium-leather-wrapped-stone/4497177
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 26, 2017, 12:02:24 am
Anyone stupid enough to buy fake dirty jeans wouldn't do the math. If you've got a rich fool in your shop, may as well get what you can get.


Nordstrom was selling these idiots rocks a couple of weeks ago.  Plain ordinary rocks, like you could find on the side of any road, for $85 - $100. It has purpose, use, or function at all, and yet rich people bought them up. Check it out.
http://m.shop.nordstrom.com/s/made-solid-medium-leather-wrapped-stone/4497177
The comments (reviews) are a hoot, too.

I wonder if we could sell them a traditional buffalo chip fire kit?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 26, 2017, 12:11:42 am
The comments (reviews) are a hoot, too.

I wonder if we could sell them a traditional buffalo chip fire kit?

All in the marketing.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 26, 2017, 12:15:30 am
All in the marketing.
Bow drill (with waxed faux sinew --no animals harmed in the making of this kit), dried grass (for tinder), and 5 lbs of genuine dried buffalo dung...in a box with a printed beadwork motif... Should be good for a couple hundred bucks.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on April 26, 2017, 12:15:31 am

I was a plumber, don't look like mud to me :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 26, 2017, 12:26:26 am
Nordstrom's next big product rollout is apparently going to be pre-stained underwear for men and women. You get a selection of different kinds of stains which you can select for a customized finish.

For the tee shirts, you can get pit-stains along with your choice of coffee, mustard, ice cream, and/or spaghetti sauce on the front. For the briefs/panties, you can get fake poop and/or urine stains along with menstrual leakage for the pretty ladies, and spermatum blasts for the discerning gentlemen.

All stains are guaranteed not to ever fade or wash out for the life of the product. I heard that you can preorder at the Nordstrom website for  $99 per set, one top and one bottom.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 26, 2017, 12:29:22 am
Nordstrom's next big product rollout is apparently going to be pre-stained underwear for men and women. You get a selection of different kinds of stains which you can select for a customized finish.

For the tee shirts, you can get pit-stains along with your choice of coffee, mustard, ice cream, and/or spaghetti sauce on the front. For the briefs/panties, you can get fake poop and/or urine stains along with menstrual leakage for the pretty ladies, and spermatum blasts for the discerning gentlemen.

All stains are guaranteed not to ever fade or wash out for the life of the product. I heard that you can preorder at the Nordstrom website for  $99 per set, one top and one bottom.

Can my babe get an offer for menstrual blood jeans?  I heard it's all the rage.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 26, 2017, 12:36:19 am
Bow drill (with waxed faux sinew --no animals harmed in the making of this kit), dried grass (for tinder), and 5 lbs of genuine dried buffalo dung...in a box with a printed beadwork motif... Should be good for a couple hundred bucks.

I want. Discount????   :laugh:

Actually, I should get in on this gig--with a twist

(http://i68.tinypic.com/ftlq4g.png)

Swing is free. Ceiling bracket is $300.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 26, 2017, 12:43:21 am
Can my babe get an offer for menstrual blood jeans?  I heard it's all the rage.
That's not a joke. I could picture some older ladies buying them because they want to represent. Put them online. I bet you'll get a buyer.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 26, 2017, 12:52:15 am
That's not a joke. I could picture some older ladies buying them because they want to represent. Put them online. I bet you'll get a buyer.

No Huevos.   :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 27, 2017, 08:34:12 pm
More than $1,000 worth of soil reported stolen from Grass Lake florist

http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2017/04/more_than_1000_worth_of_soil_r.html#incart_2box_news_jackson

The florist is now dirt poor.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 27, 2017, 08:43:28 pm
It's a common mistake. Her ex hired a P.I. and told him to stake out her business, and to bring back any dirt he could find.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 27, 2017, 08:57:25 pm
It's a common mistake. Her ex hired a P.I. and told him to stake out her business, and to bring back any dirt he could find.

Where's @Frank Cannon when you need him?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 27, 2017, 10:30:23 pm
Police warn of possibly drunk, 'very pushy' door-to-door meat salesmen

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/04/door-to-door_meat_salesmen_in.html#incart_river_home_pop

NORTHERN MICHIGAN - Michigan State Police are warning Northern Michigan residents of "scruffy" men going door-to-door trying to sell meat to residents.

MSP was contacted about two men in a small white pickup truck trying to sell meat out of the back of their pickup.

The men are described as "rough and scruffy." One has a dark complexion, is in his 50s and is heavy set. The other man is a white male with red-blond hair in his 30s with a medium build.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on April 27, 2017, 10:33:32 pm
Police warn of possibly drunk, 'very pushy' door-to-door meat salesmen

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/04/door-to-door_meat_salesmen_in.html#incart_river_home_pop

NORTHERN MICHIGAN - Michigan State Police are warning Northern Michigan residents of "scruffy" men going door-to-door trying to sell meat to residents.

MSP was contacted about two men in a small white pickup truck trying to sell meat out of the back of their pickup.

The men are described as "rough and scruffy." One has a dark complexion, is in his 50s and is heavy set. The other man is a white male with red-blond hair in his 30s with a medium build.


Don't leave us hanging what kind of meat and is it any good?  :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 27, 2017, 10:36:47 pm
Don't leave us hanging what kind of meat and is it any good?  :pondering:

What kind  "Mystery Meat."  Any good?  I'll let you know if I ever get off the crapper.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on April 27, 2017, 10:39:23 pm
What kind  "Mystery Meat."  Any good?  I'll let you know if I ever get off the crapper.
Come on. Didn't you see the other thread? You got 12 seconds....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 27, 2017, 10:39:47 pm
Don't leave us hanging what kind of meat and is it any good?  :pondering:

Soylent by products.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 27, 2017, 11:32:22 pm
(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/How_9bb7e6_2277276.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 27, 2017, 11:38:54 pm
(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/How_9bb7e6_2277276.jpg)
There are only two kinds of people in this world. There are those who believe that there are only two kinds of people in the world, and there are those who don't.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 27, 2017, 11:41:57 pm
There are only two kinds of people in this world. There are those who believe that there are only two kinds of people in the world, and there are those who don't.

Which one are you?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on April 27, 2017, 11:43:20 pm
A man tried to ride his snowmobile like a jetski over a body of water. Let's just say it didn't work out so well.

http://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2017/04/upstate_ny_man_ticketed_after_trying_to_skip_snowmobile_across_unfrozen_pond.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 27, 2017, 11:56:58 pm
A man tried to ride his snowmobile like a jetski over a body of water. Let's just say it didn't work out so well.

http://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2017/04/upstate_ny_man_ticketed_after_trying_to_skip_snowmobile_across_unfrozen_pond.html
Someone needs lessons or a better sled. :laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrIqh23h4nI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrIqh23h4nI)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 28, 2017, 12:00:10 am
(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/How_9bb7e6_2277276.jpg)

Pink Floyd fan, huh?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 28, 2017, 12:14:42 am
Pink Floyd fan, huh?
(http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/85/b1/79/85b17917c1e20a8d123263eb9d4d9f12.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 28, 2017, 12:16:48 am
Which one are you?
I voted, 'not sure'.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 28, 2017, 12:20:11 am
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat.
You. Yes you mi laddy. Come here!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 28, 2017, 12:40:28 am
Pink Floyd fan, huh?

I like pork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZM1WQKwpl0
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on April 28, 2017, 02:05:43 am
Pink Floyd fan, huh?
Which one's pink?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 28, 2017, 02:13:38 am
Which one's pink?

LOL...


Who knew!   
http://www.whichonespink.com/gigs.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 28, 2017, 02:33:16 am
LOL...


Who knew!   
http://www.whichonespink.com/gigs.html

I came across an Emerson, Lake and Palmer tribute band on Bookface, "Noddy's Puncture."  Keyboard guy was really good, friends with Emerson.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 28, 2017, 04:00:53 am
(http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/85/b1/79/85b17917c1e20a8d123263eb9d4d9f12.jpg)
When my youngest granddaughter was much younger, she had Bieber fever. I asked her what do you like and the sigh thing he did was it. I said that isn't new. I pulled up Thriller on YouTube (the music video) and showed her, and then told her he wasn't the first...
Now, about half of her 'tunes' are from the '60s and '70s and she's been singing old Patsy Cline songs lately (she has the voice for it). I consider that success.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on April 28, 2017, 03:55:18 pm
Police warn of possibly drunk, 'very pushy' door-to-door meat salesmen

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/04/door-to-door_meat_salesmen_in.html#incart_river_home_pop

NORTHERN MICHIGAN - Michigan State Police are warning Northern Michigan residents of "scruffy" men going door-to-door trying to sell meat to residents.

MSP was contacted about two men in a small white pickup truck trying to sell meat out of the back of their pickup.

The men are described as "rough and scruffy." One has a dark complexion, is in his 50s and is heavy set. The other man is a white male with red-blond hair in his 30s with a medium build.

Could it be...........Fred Garvin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqEHtZHlsf0
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 28, 2017, 04:04:11 pm
It bothers me a little that I knew who Fred Garvin was before looking at the YouTube.   :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 28, 2017, 04:21:47 pm
Could it be...........Fred Garvin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqEHtZHlsf0

Shake hands with beef.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHjpWo4edfw
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on April 28, 2017, 04:29:27 pm
Cremation of 'overly obese' corpse sets funeral home on fire
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cremation-apos-overly-obese-apos-124507710.html

A routine cremation at a Cincinnati funeral home took an unexpected turn when flames from an "overly obese" body spread, starting an unscheduled fire.

The "freak accident" took place at the Hillside Chapel Crematory in Ohio's third-largest city on Wednesday (26 April) night....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on April 28, 2017, 05:05:36 pm
Cremation of 'overly obese' corpse sets funeral home on fire
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cremation-apos-overly-obese-apos-124507710.html

A routine cremation at a Cincinnati funeral home took an unexpected turn when flames from an "overly obese" body spread, starting an unscheduled fire.

The "freak accident" took place at the Hillside Chapel Crematory in Ohio's third-largest city on Wednesday (26 April) night....

Oh, dear........... that's disturbing.

So many things I could say............................. but won't.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 29, 2017, 03:06:05 am
Cremation of 'overly obese' corpse sets funeral home on fire
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cremation-apos-overly-obese-apos-124507710.html

A routine cremation at a Cincinnati funeral home took an unexpected turn when flames from an "overly obese" body spread, starting an unscheduled fire.

The "freak accident" took place at the Hillside Chapel Crematory in Ohio's third-largest city on Wednesday (26 April) night....

Those "grease fires" can get away from you if you are not careful.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 29, 2017, 03:24:14 am
Those "grease fires" can get away from you if you are not careful.

You bastid!  Get OUT of my brain...  :laugh:

(I thought the exact same thing)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 29, 2017, 02:01:42 pm
You bastid!  Get OUT of my brain...  :laugh:

(I thought the exact same thing)

Once all that fat gets a burnin bout all you can do is stand back ...pop open a nice cold one  andbreak out weenies to roast Cuz that sucker is gonna be intense.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on April 29, 2017, 02:09:42 pm
Once all that fat gets a burnin bout all you can do is stand back ...pop open a nice cold one  andbreak out weenies to roast Cuz that sucker is gonna be intense.

I thought you were supposed to call the fire dept so they could run in there and spray a bunch of water on it!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 29, 2017, 02:11:09 pm
pie crusts
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 29, 2017, 02:29:03 pm
I thought you were supposed to call the fire dept so they could run in there and spray a bunch of water on it!

My bil set his carport on fire one thankgiving when he over filled the deep fat turkey fryer with oil and dropped the bird in it.  Once all that oil hit the flames it was all down hill.....and very entertaining.  He had spread  news paper out under the fryer to keep any grease splatters from staining the cement.  There is a reason they say oil and water don't mix.....once the water from the hose hit that paper and oil it looked like a scene out Tora Tora Tora...large fire barges floating on the water setting fire to everything in its path.   
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on April 29, 2017, 02:33:29 pm
My bil set his carport on fire one thankgiving when he over filled the deep fat turkey fryer with oil and dropped the bird in it.  Once all that oil hit the flames it was all down hill.....and very entertaining.  He had spread  news paper out under the fryer to keep any grease splatters from staining the cement.  There is a reason they say oil and water don't mix.....once the water from the hose hit that paper and oil it looked like a scene out Tora Tora Tora...large fire barges floating on the water setting fire to everything in its path.

ROFLMAO!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gn895y4wkc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3F4c5o4J7M

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 29, 2017, 02:33:49 pm
My bil set his carport on fire one thankgiving when he over filled the deep fat turkey fryer with oil and dropped the bird in it.  Once all that oil hit the flames it was all down hill.....and very entertaining.  He had spread  news paper out under the fryer to keep any grease splatters from staining the cement.  There is a reason they say oil and water don't mix.....once the water from the hose hit that paper and oil it looked like a scene out Tora Tora Tora...large fire barges floating on the water setting fire to everything in its path.

@Wingnut @Bigun And that, dear friends, is why you never try to put out a grease fire with agua.

I've fried a few turkeys, and I love them.  Mrs. Liberty, not so much so we don't do it very often.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on April 29, 2017, 02:38:24 pm
@Wingnut @Bigun And that, dear friends, is why you never try to put out a grease fire with agua.

I've fried a few turkeys, and I love them.  Mrs. Liberty, not so much so we don't do it very often.

We fry one or two (depending on how many folks are coming) every thanksgiving but we try not to kill anyone or burn the place down in the process!

Once you've experienced a properly fried turkey the baked ones will never work for you again.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 29, 2017, 02:40:09 pm
@Wingnut @Bigun And that, dear friends, is why you never try to put out a grease fire with agua.

True Dat.   Even in the crematorium.  ,)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 29, 2017, 02:40:31 pm
ROFLMAO!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gn895y4wkc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3F4c5o4J7M

I noticed at the end when the guy was doing it "properly" by lowering the turkey slowly it still had the plastic pop-up timer thingy.  Unless you want your turkey to taste like vaporized plastic it's best to pull that out and trash it.

A lot of the danger is because of the gas burner, which I used one time.  It was difficult to control the temperature with that, so I bought a much safer electric model with a thermostat.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 29, 2017, 02:42:31 pm
We fry one or two (depending on how many folks are coming) every thanksgiving but we try not to kill anyone or burn the place down in the process!

Once you've experienced a properly fried turkey the baked ones will never work for you again.

The problem the Mrs. has with it is you don't get drippings for gravy and no stuffing.  I find the meat beyond wonderful.  If I want a fried bird, it has to be in addition to another whole turkey. :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mystery-ak on April 29, 2017, 02:47:01 pm
Although it says indoor I use it in the garage....I prefer oven baked so I do one turkey in the fryer and one in the oven with stuffing...

http://www.qvc.com/qvc.product.K44633.html?sc=PSCH
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 29, 2017, 02:51:29 pm
Although it says indoor I use it in the garage....I prefer oven baked so I do one turkey in the fryer and one in the oven with stuffing...

http://www.qvc.com/qvc.product.K44633.html?sc=PSCH

Nice. But pricey.  One would have to do more than a few birds a year to make it pay off.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 29, 2017, 02:57:45 pm
Frying a bird outside doesn't fill the house with delicious baking turkey scents.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on April 29, 2017, 03:10:17 pm
I noticed at the end when the guy was doing it "properly" by lowering the turkey slowly it still had the plastic pop-up timer thingy.  Unless you want your turkey to taste like vaporized plastic it's best to pull that out and trash it.

A lot of the danger is because of the gas burner, which I used one time.  It was difficult to control the temperature with that, so I bought a much safer electric model with a thermostat.

We use the same burners we use with the fish fryers with no problems at all!  The key is making sure the bird is THROUGLY thawed out and at room temperature before you slowly lower it into the peanut oil.  And you have to have one of those new fangledy thermometer thingys!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on May 03, 2017, 01:12:10 am
This is sort of sad, so I'm not completely convinced it belongs here.

Quote
Lightning strike kills 32 cows near Cabool

As he does every morning, Texas County dairy farmer Jared Blackwelder started milking his cows around 4 a.m. Saturday. He finished up just before daylight and headed back to the barn. He was about to lock the gate when lightning struck hard and close.

"It was so bright I couldn't hardly see," he said. "It just brought fire down the fences."

Later in the day when it was time to milk again, Blackwelder returned to the field and found 32 of his certified organic cows dead....

http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/05/01/lightning-strike-kills-32-cows-near-cabool/101161336/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 03, 2017, 02:17:12 am
This is sort of sad, so I'm not completely convinced it belongs here.

Well those certified organic cows are certified pre cooked steak now.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 03, 2017, 03:52:30 am
This is sort of sad, so I'm not completely convinced it belongs here.

Ridiculous doesn't always have to be funny. It fits.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on May 03, 2017, 10:59:26 am
If you are a vegetarian this is one big missed steak.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 03, 2017, 11:31:07 am
I know there's a "choking" joke in here somewhere.
Quote
Report: Oregon Man Jailed, Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Chicken
May 3, 2017 7:13 AM

JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. (KDKA (http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/05/03/man-accused-sexually-assaulting-chicken/)) – An Oregon man is facing charges after he allegedly sexually assaulted a chicken.

According to CBS affiliate KVAL (http://kval.com/news/offbeat/oregon-man-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-a-chicken), Joshua Woltman, 27, was arrested this week.

Woltman allegedly, “unlawfully and for the purpose of arousing and gratifying the sexual desire of a person [touched or contacted] the sex organs of a chicken.”

He is facing a list of charges including, sexual assault of an animal and public indecency. He is also facing charges for violating the terms of his probation for possession of meth.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: rangerrebew on May 03, 2017, 12:09:27 pm
If a democrat controlled loony bin like Oregon believes you can change your gender anytime you feel like it, why can't a person change his species when he/she/xer/it wants?  All he has to do in Oregon is claim he was a chicken for a day. :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: driftdiver on May 03, 2017, 12:42:06 pm
(http://static.yourtango.com/cdn/farfuture/r91UjoG5zg2AOkgb8qzORy4pRKX91y5D2eCs2DAtE8A/mtime:1484395183/sites/default/files/styles/header_slider/public/image_blog/sexy-chicken.jpg?itok=DaJaH4AU)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hondo69 on May 03, 2017, 01:19:07 pm
I needed a good chuckle this morning, thanks.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 03, 2017, 01:32:48 pm
I know there's a "choking" joke in here somewhere.
:nometalk:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on May 03, 2017, 11:48:26 pm
:nometalk:
@mountaineer

I ain't skeered Wingy. The age-old question.

Which came first?????

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 03, 2017, 11:52:33 pm
@mountaineer

I ain't skeered Wingy. The age-old question.

Which came first?????
:nometalk:  Wingy don't lay that.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 07, 2017, 01:45:22 pm
The Metro comes through once more, after a short dry spell.

Elderly deaf man fined £85 for constantly playing porn too loud

An elderly man who struggles with his hearing has reportedly been fined £85 fine after continuously terrorising his neighbours with loud porn. 

The man, who has only been identified as a man over 75, allegedly made his neighbours’ lives hell by watching porn films with the volume turned all the way up at his home in Hennef, Germany.

His neighbours, a couple in their mid-sixties, said they had been so put off by the sexual noises from next door, they could no longer watch their favourite series in the afternoon.

They had already reached a settlement with the man in November 2015 before a district court in Bonn after the neighbours took the elderly pensioner to court.

More: http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/06/elderly-deaf-man-fined-85-for-constantly-playing-porn-too-loud-6619695/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 07, 2017, 05:04:54 pm
No earphones in Hennef?
(https://n1.sdlcdn.com/imgs/a/i/p/Philips-In-Ear-Headphones-SHE1360-1074667-1-2a516.jpg)
Knock yourself out, Franz.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 08, 2017, 10:31:39 pm
Driver who armed himself with a bat in road rage attack instantly regrets it

Getting angry because of someone’s driving is never wise – and it will almost always end in tears.

Which is exactly what happened to this passenger, who objected to the driver behind him sounding his horn.

He got out of the car, armed himself with a baseball bat and stormed over to the car behind to confront the offender, before swinging back the bat and smashing up the right wing.

But the driver in the car behind did not take well to his car being smashed up so got out and reacted with equal violence and ferocity.

With a single punch he knocked out the guy with the baseball bat then took on the baseball bat-wielding man’s passenger who had, perhaps foolishly, got out to (belatedly) defend his friend.

Meanwhile, the people in the car at the back of the line record the whole thing while calling for police and ambulance crews to come and help.

Moral of this story? Life’s too short for road rage.

Video (59 seconds): http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/08/driver-who-armed-himself-with-a-bat-in-road-rage-attack-instantly-regrets-it-6622811/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 09, 2017, 12:11:14 am
I'm not saying it is fake...but it is fake.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 09, 2017, 12:36:16 am
I'm not saying it is fake...but it is fake.

I don't know about that, but it seems like another normal day in Tempe.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on May 09, 2017, 11:14:41 am
I don't know about that, but it seems like another normal day in Tempe.

Everyone in Tempe is batty. Nice.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 09, 2017, 07:51:24 pm
Cow sex suspect hunted by police helicopter

Police scrambled a helicopter in a bid to track down a man suspected of committing a sex act on a cow.

The suspect was reportedly seen interfering with the farm animal near Denham Way, in Maple Cross, Hertfordshire, on Saturday morning.

Despite the aerial search, officers were unable to locate him after they were called at 07:18 BST, the St Albans and Harpenden Review reported.

Hertfordshire Police said the cow was unhurt.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-39859134

Slow day for the rozzers, I guess.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 09, 2017, 08:31:50 pm
Mr. Dick Chit Nyi Nyi Chitty, 34, of McLean, VA was arrested and charged with Bank robbery today.

McLean Wells Fargo Bank Robber Charged

https://patch.com/virginia/mclean/wells-fargo-bank-robber-arrested-mclean

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 09, 2017, 08:44:39 pm
Mr. Dick Chit Nyi Nyi Chitty, 34, of McLean, VA was arrested and charged with Bank robbery today.

McLean Wells Fargo Bank Robber Charged

https://patch.com/virginia/mclean/wells-fargo-bank-robber-arrested-mclean

You're been up all night binge watching Monty Python's Flying Circus again, haven't you?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 09, 2017, 08:58:23 pm
You're been up all night binge watching Monty Python's Flying Circus again, haven't you?

Sometime...you just can't make this Chit up my fellow Knight.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on May 10, 2017, 07:50:14 pm

2 Women Arrested After One Calls 911 On Herself For Drunk Driving


Police: A woman who called 911 on herself said her friend would not "comply" with her.

  By Bryan Kirk (Patch Staff) -      May 10, 2017 12:19 pm ET     

(https://cdn20.patch.com/users/22893546/20170510/104902/styles/raw/public/article_images/1494427742-1494427742-5832.jpg)

Marissa Ann Sluss (left) is charged with driving while intoxicated. Hannah Marie Webb (right) is charged with public intoxication. (Image: Friendswood Police)

FRIENDSWOOD, TX — Two Webster women are facing charges after one of the women called police to report she was too drunk to drive.

According to police, 25-year old Marissa Ann Sluss called 911 and and told police she was unsafe to drive her car because she was intoxicated, and that her friend, 20-year old Hannah Marie Webb, was also too drunk to drive.


<..snip..>

https://patch.com/virginia/ashburn/s/g49r4/2-women-arrested-after-one-calls-911-on-herself-for-drunk-driving (https://patch.com/virginia/ashburn/s/g49r4/2-women-arrested-after-one-calls-911-on-herself-for-drunk-driving)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 10, 2017, 08:04:33 pm
"she wasn't complying"?    She should have been pliable  with all the alcohol in her!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 10, 2017, 10:40:13 pm
Man with vehicle fetish sentenced to treatment and probation

SAGINAW, MI -- The 26-year-old man with a self-professed fetish for rough-running cars will avoid prison time and instead receive mental health and sex offender treatment, along with five years probation.

Jordan Haskins was sentenced Monday, May 8, on eight felonies in two separate auto incidents -- one late last year and one early in 2017.

Haskins is a habitual offender with a criminal history of multiple incidents involving a fetish he refers to as "cranking." The act entails removing a vehicle's spark plug wires to make the vehicle run roughly to help reach sexual self-gratification.


http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2017/05/man_with_cranking_fetish_gets.html#incart_most-read_news_article

There is some kind of joke here about cold cranking amps but damned if I'm going to try and find it.

BTW the guy is a former GOP candidate for the michigan house.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrUt7B1P6XU
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 10, 2017, 11:00:19 pm
When a man loves a Chevy,
Can't keep his mind on nothin' else,
He'd change the world for the good thing he's found.
If she is bad, he can't see it,
She can do no wrong,
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 15, 2017, 12:35:55 am
Man seeking free pizza rescued from snowy Arizona mountain
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/man-seeking-free-pizza-rescued-from-snowy-arizona-mountain/ar-BBB2gNR
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 15, 2017, 11:04:38 am
Pastor Tries To Walk On Water Like Jesus; Gets Eaten Alive By Crocodiles Instead

A pastor who tried to walk on water like Jesus died recently after being eaten by crocodiles.
Featured Image VIA

Jonathan Mthethwa from the Saint of the Last Days Church, attempted to prove to his congregation that he could reenact the famous Biblical moment. Unfortunately, he decided to try his luck in a river known simply as Crocodile River. What did he think was going to happen?

According to local newspaper The Herald Zimbabwe, Mthethwa walked into the water where he was fully submerged. He then attempted to ascend above the water to start walking, but his attempt was cut short when three crocodiles appeared out of nowhere to start munching on him.


http://www.sickchirpse.com/pastor-walk-on-water-jesus-eaten-crocodiles-instead/

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 15, 2017, 11:10:01 am
He then attempted to ascend above the water to start walking, but his attempt was cut short when three crocodiles appeared out of nowhere to start munching on him.
For my next trick, I'll be swallowed like Jonah by a great fish. Er, crocodile.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 15, 2017, 11:19:42 am
Pastor Tries To Walk On Water Like Jesus; Gets Eaten Alive By Crocodiles Instead

A pastor who tried to walk on water like Jesus died recently after being eaten by crocodiles.
Featured Image VIA

Jonathan Mthethwa from the Saint of the Last Days Church, attempted to prove to his congregation that he could reenact the famous Biblical moment. Unfortunately, he decided to try his luck in a river known simply as Crocodile River. What did he think was going to happen?

According to local newspaper The Herald Zimbabwe, Mthethwa walked into the water where he was fully submerged. He then attempted to ascend above the water to start walking, but his attempt was cut short when three crocodiles appeared out of nowhere to start munching on him.


http://www.sickchirpse.com/pastor-walk-on-water-jesus-eaten-crocodiles-instead/
If your knees are wet, you're doing it wrong...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 15, 2017, 05:33:56 pm
The Last Days Church.  Aptly named.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on May 15, 2017, 06:51:44 pm
Barron Trump 'took his entire fifth-grade class from his New York City school on a field trip to the White House where 80 students met the president and first lady
Daily Mail/UK, May 15, 2017

Barron Trump probably scored even more cool points with his friends after reportedly taking his entire fifth-grade class to tour the White House and meet his father during a secret trip.

The 11-year-old student at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School went to Washington, D.C. last Wednesday on a bus with roughly 80 classmates accompanied by their teachers and Secret Service agents, the New York Post reported.

'All the kids got dressed up: The girls were in dresses and the boys wore khaki pants and button-downs. It was so cute,' a source told the Post.

'They had a buffet lunch and a tour of the White House and met the president and the first lady, Melania Trump.

'President Trump gave them all a rousing speech about living up to your potential and being the best you could be for your country.

'Barron was really sweet. He was so excited to show his classmates around the White House.'

The large group of students also toured the nation's capital and stayed overnight at a hotel before traveling back to New York City on Thursday.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4507954/Barron-Trump-took-class-trip-White-House.html#ixzz4hAuKZw1N
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on May 15, 2017, 06:52:07 pm
I especially like how all the kids got dressed up.   ^-^
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 15, 2017, 07:46:45 pm
I especially like how all the kids got dressed up.   ^-^
Unless things have really changed, upscale prep school kids wear ties and suit coats as a matter of course. Less would be underdressed for school.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 16, 2017, 03:57:42 am
Halifax woman gets unexpected apology, gift after attempted break-in

An attempted break-in at a Halifax apartment resulted in an unexpected apology and a unique example of Nova Scotia kindness after a six-pack of Alexander Keith’s arrived on her doorstep.

Caitlynne Hines said a drunk man attempted to enter her North End apartment on May 5; he insisted a friend of his was staying at the apartment upstairs.

After she sent him on his way, the man returned a few minutes later and attempted to pick the apartment’s lock.

When that didn’t succeed, the man left again.

    “We didn’t call the police, but we were prepared to if he came back again,” wrote Hines in a Facebook message to Global News.

When she arrived at her home the next day, she found a six-pack of beer, along with a note, on her front door.

“It kind of clicked with me immediately once I recognized the box and I just said ‘oh my god I think it’s apology beer’ and we laughed for a good while over the note that was tucked inside,” wrote Hines.

The letter is signed by a man who identifies himself as Cliff, who said he hoped he didn’t make his friend upstairs look bad.

“I sincerely apologize for waking you up and being so disorderly in the middle of the night,” Cliff wrote in the note.

http://globalnews.ca/news/3451592/halifax-woman-unexpected-apology-attempted-beer/

Quintessentially Canadian.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 17, 2017, 01:49:09 pm
As a short break from the wankers in Congress ....

Police: Man says he stole security system to conceal masturbation

DUNBAR, WV (WCHS/WVAH) — Dunbar police said a burglary suspect told them he broke into a relative’s home to recharge his phone and then stole her security system because he didn’t want her to see him on camera when he masturbated to pornography.

Tristan Torelle Tucker, 27, of St. Albans was charged Thursday with daytime burglary after an incident that was reported April 23 on Dunbar Avenue, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Dunbar police said the relative said she believed Tucker had broken into her home because he had done this several previous times.

Police said Tucker told them he broke through a window using a glass breaking tool on the end of a knife because he wanted to charge his cell phone. While inside the residence, he said, he started watching pornography on the phone and began to masturbate, the complaint said.

The complaint said Tucker told police he stole the security cameras and the DVR box from the home because he didn’t want his relative to see him masturbating on camera. Police said he told officers he took the cameras behind a store and stomped on the DVR and then threw everything into the river so it could not be recovered.

http://wchstv.com/news/local/court-records-man-says-he-stole-security-system-to-conceal-masturbation
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 17, 2017, 02:22:29 pm
As a short break from the wankers in Congress ....

Police: Man says he stole security system to conceal masturbation



I use mine to make sure nobody can sneak up on me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 17, 2017, 02:40:15 pm
Some representative posts from Tristan's Facebook page:
Quote
Tristan Tucker
May 10 at 3:24am ·
Tell why disdude walks passed me ontha phone i guess with ha cops sayinh he got beat up they show up looked at me and said did u see it i just said i dont even know who that dude is and i been here for like 20 30 minutes so idk wtf he talking bout im wifi to wifi sir charging my phone playing a video games 😂😂😂😂💯😈🙊🔫

Tristan Tucker
May 9 at 12:23am ·
Dont no body even start to lecture me or run they mouth this how im living atm goodword im omw to grab something to eat and ig shit dont change soon bleep errybody but me

Tristan Tucker
May 8 at 5:13pm ·
Sleeping out side is suckin i almost look foward to jail so i can eat and not be bothered

Tristan Tucker
May 5 at 12:28am ·
Places for rent bleep no i dont want a roommate i wanna be alone
Words fail me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 17, 2017, 02:42:42 pm
And now I feel bad. I do try to keep the obviously mentally ill out of Ridiculous News.  **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 17, 2017, 02:44:57 pm
My guess, from a quick perusal of his Facebook page, is that he's poorly educated, stupid, lazy and probably doing drugs. In other words, like all too many of my West Virginia neighbors.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 17, 2017, 02:46:57 pm
My guess, from a quick perusal of his Facebook page, is that he's poorly educated, stupid, lazy and probably doing drugs. In other words, like all too many of my West Virginia neighbors.

Sounds like he's homeless by choice (Unless someone is willing to give him a free place to live)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 18, 2017, 06:54:16 am
MIT student sues CIA for info about agency’s Twitter jokes



CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts doctoral student is trying to force the CIA to open up about how it uses jokes on social media.

The CIA has been on Twitter since June 2014 when it tweeted, “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.” It was a humorous nod to the agency’s secrecy.

Now, Amy Johnson, a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is suing the CIA for failing to turn over documents she requested under open records laws in 2015. She is seeking, among other things, any training documents regarding the use of social media.

Her lawsuit says the matter is important to study because it’s rare for a federal agency, especially one with such serious duties, to employ humor in its public communications.


http://nypost.com/2017/05/18/mit-student-sues-cia-for-info-about-agencys-twitter-jokes/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on May 18, 2017, 07:24:54 am
The CIA has been on Twitter since June 2014 when it tweeted, “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.”

That wasn't the CIA you dummy. I tweeted that! It was just a joke. Lighten up you crazy B.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 18, 2017, 11:23:48 am
MIT student sues CIA for info about agency’s Twitter jokes



CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts doctoral student is trying to force the CIA to open up about how it uses jokes on social media.

The CIA has been on Twitter since June 2014 when it tweeted, “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.” It was a humorous nod to the agency’s secrecy.

Now, Amy Johnson, a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is suing the CIA for failing to turn over documents she requested under open records laws in 2015. She is seeking, among other things, any training documents regarding the use of social media.

Her lawsuit says the matter is important to study because it’s rare for a federal agency, especially one with such serious duties, to employ humor in its public communications.


http://nypost.com/2017/05/18/mit-student-sues-cia-for-info-about-agencys-twitter-jokes/
So she'll get a pile of paper with black all over it and little birdies.
 Or not.
How will she know?
If they give her something, it could be disinformation.
If they don't throw her a bone, she'll claim cover-up.

Imagine the interview:
"This conversation may not be recorded, and if referenced, did not take place.
Okay, You know all those famous monologues?
Nope, they weren't ours, unless they were...

The guy who kept calling for Rochester?
We can neither confirm nor deny.

The guy with the nose?
No, not that one, the other one, yeah, with a forehead, too.
Yeah, Him.
NO, not Nixon, HIM.
 I don't suppose you ever made it to a USO show?
Well, we can neither confirm nor deny..."

Either way, the joke's on her. They could tell her, but then they'd have to ... :laugh:

Cue: theme from Mission Impossible...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 19, 2017, 08:30:12 am
Mannequin in Vegas hotel room caused shock and injury, SoCal man's lawsuit says

LAS VEGAS --
A tourist from Southern California is suing a Las Vegas Strip hotel, claiming a life-sized mannequin in his darkened room caused him to flee and suffer injuries.

Kent Jacobs Boutwell filed the lawsuit Monday against the Planet Hollywood casino-hotel in Clark County District Court, seeking at least $10,000 in damages.

"I've got some experience handling hotel casino cases," said Boutwell's lawyer, Richard Johnson. "This was certainly a new set of facts."

Caesars Entertainment declined to comment on the lawsuit, citing pending litigation.

On the use of mannequins in their nearly 2,500 hotel rooms, a spokeswoman said Planet Hollywood has traditionally been decorated with memorabilia, which is now being removed as part of a renovation that will wrap up this year.

More: http://abc7.com/news/mannequin-in-vegas-hotel-room-leads-to-shock-injury-lawsuit/2009729/

Didn't know Planet Hollywood has mannequins. Ergo, too stupid to breath without instruction, yet not too stupid to go to court.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 19, 2017, 12:59:58 pm
The old Manfred "Manny" Quinn scam.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 20, 2017, 05:56:33 pm
Some of these - you just scratch your head.

Woman who dressed as dinosaur to spook horses turns self in

CHARLESTON, S.C. - A woman who police say wore a dinosaur costume and spooked carriage horses in South Carolina has turned herself in.

Charleston Police spokesman Charles Francis said in a statement that 26-year-old Nicole Wells is charged with disorderly conduct and wearing a mask or disguise.

Francis says Wells was dressed in an orange Tyrannosaurus rex costume and walked toward the horses pulling the carriage. She started growling Thursday even though the driver shouted several times for her to leave.

When the horses became spooked, the driver was thrown from the carriage, which ran over his leg. The horses and the passengers in the carriage were not injured.

Palmetto Carriage Works owner Tom Doyle suggested the event was a stunt by protesting animal rights activists. The police statement did not give a motive.

Wells didn't have a phone listing and it wasn't known if she had a lawyer.

https://www.local10.com/news/national/the-latest-police-woman-who-spooked-horses-turns-self-in
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 20, 2017, 06:36:57 pm
Some of these - you just scratch your head.

Woman who dressed as dinosaur to spook horses turns self in

CHARLESTON, S.C. - A woman who police say wore a dinosaur costume and spooked carriage horses in South Carolina has turned herself in.

Charleston Police spokesman Charles Francis said in a statement that 26-year-old Nicole Wells is charged with disorderly conduct and wearing a mask or disguise.

Francis says Wells was dressed in an orange Tyrannosaurus rex costume and walked toward the horses pulling the carriage. She started growling Thursday even though the driver shouted several times for her to leave.

When the horses became spooked, the driver was thrown from the carriage, which ran over his leg. The horses and the passengers in the carriage were not injured.

Palmetto Carriage Works owner Tom Doyle suggested the event was a stunt by protesting animal rights activists. The police statement did not give a motive.

Wells didn't have a phone listing and it wasn't known if she had a lawyer.

https://www.local10.com/news/national/the-latest-police-woman-who-spooked-horses-turns-self-in
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Not sure why she stepped forward, (glad she did, maybe there is some character involved and not just some protest) but hopefully it was just a moment of stupidity and a life lesson, and not some idiot protest.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 21, 2017, 11:28:53 pm
More strange than ridiculous, but whatevs.

Mystery over sudden appearance of scaffolding on couple’s home

A married couple returned from the supermarket to find their house covered in scaffolding and they have no idea why.

Liz and Ken Thompson let their home on Wirksworth Road in Duffiled, Derbyshire, at 10.45am on May 19 and returned a couple of hours later to see scaffolding surrounding their house.

The pensioners said they had no idea where the work was supposed to take place because no contractor’s name or sign was left at the house.

They said they were left ‘shocked and surprised’ at where it had come from and are waiting for a scaffolding company to arrive to tell them how the framework came to appear on their house.

The couple, who have lived in the house for 30 years, have contacted at least one local firm, who have said that the work hadn’t been done by them.

More: http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/21/mystery-over-sudden-appearance-of-scaffolding-on-couples-home-6650501/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 21, 2017, 11:33:36 pm
More strange than ridiculous, but whatevs.

Mystery over sudden appearance of scaffolding on couple’s home

A married couple returned from the supermarket to find their house covered in scaffolding and they have no idea why.

Liz and Ken Thompson let their home on Wirksworth Road in Duffiled, Derbyshire, at 10.45am on May 19 and returned a couple of hours later to see scaffolding surrounding their house.

The pensioners said they had no idea where the work was supposed to take place because no contractor’s name or sign was left at the house.

They said they were left ‘shocked and surprised’ at where it had come from and are waiting for a scaffolding company to arrive to tell them how the framework came to appear on their house.

The couple, who have lived in the house for 30 years, have contacted at least one local firm, who have said that the work hadn’t been done by them.

More: http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/21/mystery-over-sudden-appearance-of-scaffolding-on-couples-home-6650501/
Should have waited for the new siding and windows and then thanked them and asked who ordered it...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 21, 2017, 11:34:32 pm
Could be worse.  A demolition order.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on May 22, 2017, 10:31:14 am
Could be worse.  A demolition order.
@Wingnut Sounds like the beginning of a plot of a Douglas Adams Trilogy
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 22, 2017, 10:08:09 pm
A person on Transit Road reported a gallon-sized milk jug with “white liquid inside” left in a parking lot. It was milk. (http://www.amherstbee.com/news/2017-05-17/Police_Blotter/Milk_jug_left_in_lot_scares_bank_customer.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on May 22, 2017, 11:26:17 pm
A person on Transit Road reported a gallon-sized milk jug with “white liquid inside” left in a parking lot. It was milk. (http://www.amherstbee.com/news/2017-05-17/Police_Blotter/Milk_jug_left_in_lot_scares_bank_customer.html)

That curdles my blood.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 22, 2017, 11:46:58 pm
That curdles my blood.
They had to check it out if it was on the lot or the right of whey.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 23, 2017, 12:09:13 am
They had to check it out if it was on the lot or the right of whey.

Look out for Andrew Dice Clay...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 23, 2017, 12:25:48 am
Look out for Andrew Dice Clay...
I actually thought his stuff was funny before he got reeducated. Maybe my sense of humor changed...nah. I noticed that happened to Linda Ellerbee, too, back when. When they let her back on the air she had one of those butch buzzcuts and only was let out to do kids shows.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on May 23, 2017, 12:50:24 am
I actually thought his stuff was funny before he got reeducated. Maybe my sense of humor changed...nah. I noticed that happened to Linda Ellerbee, too, back when. When they let her back on the air she had one of those butch buzzcuts and only was let out to do kids shows.

You notice it was a patron of the bank that was interested. You sure can't get that kind of interest from a bank.

And yeah, Linda went Stepford.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 24, 2017, 04:20:51 am
Bay City laundromat's fresh concrete vandalized with 'giant penis' etching

BAY CITY, MI -- Police are looking for a pair of young scofflaws who defaced the parking lot of a Bay City laundromat by etching a phallus into some freshly laid concrete.

Malarie Cisnero, location manager at Totally Clean Coin Laundry at 1005 N. Henry St., said the business had poured cement in its lot Monday morning, May 22.

"I came to work this morning and one of the maintenance guys called me outside to view what was written in the brand new concrete," Cisnero said on Tuesday.

Inscribed in the lot was "Savage Squad" and a "giant penis," Cisnero said.


http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2017/05/bay_city_laundromats_fresh_con.html#incart_river_home_pop

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on May 24, 2017, 05:47:49 am
I noticed that happened to Linda Ellerbee, too, back when. When they let her back on the air she had one of those butch buzzcuts and only was let out to do kids shows.

You mean after she had breasts cancer treatment?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 24, 2017, 06:47:14 am
You mean after she had breasts cancer treatment?
I don't know why the show went off the air. Letterman was no replacement, that's for sure, at least not imho. I didn't know she had had breast cancer, but when she came back, she did not seem to be the same person and was significantly more politically correct.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 24, 2017, 12:03:25 pm
Human leg in fishing boot washes up on beach

JUNEAU, Alaska — A human leg with a fishing boot still on was found in a debris pile that collected in the waters near Alaska’s capital city.

Juneau Police Lt. David Campbell says the leg — from the knee down — was found by state game workers clearing out a debris pile Monday from Gastineau Channel near Sandy Beach.

It had deteriorated to the point they couldn’t determine race or gender. It’s been sent to the state medical examiner’s office in Anchorage for possible identification.

Police will search for other remains. He wasn’t aware of any missing people in Juneau this year.

Campbell says bodies show up in Juneau every few years. The last was in 2016 when a hiker found human remains near Mendenhall Glacier. He says those were of a person reported missing in 2010.


http://nypost.com/2017/05/24/human-leg-in-fishing-boot-washes-up-on-beach/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 24, 2017, 04:42:33 pm
Courthouse X-ray scanner finds live monkey in purse

BAY CITY, MI -- It's not unusual for security personnel at the Bay County Court Facility to see visitors attempt to bring odd or prohibited items past them.

Recently, though, something particularly exotic -- even tropical -- nearly made it into the courthouse: a squirrel monkey stowed away in a patron's purse.

Former Bay City resident Linda Stevenson on Thursday, May 18, visited the facility at 1230 Washington Ave. and put her purse on the X-ray machine at the building's security station.

"I pushed the button for it to go through when it started making noises," said Bay County Sheriff's Court Security Deputy Pat McIver. "I was like, 'What was that?' She goes, 'Oh, that's my monkey.'"

The X-ray captured an image of the diminutive simian's skeleton within Stevenson's purse.

"I said, 'I need to see your monkey,'"

More: http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2017/05/monkey_trial_courthouse_x-ray.html

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 24, 2017, 04:47:34 pm
"I need to see your monkey,'"

 :silly: :silly: :silly:

(Please, don't spank it!)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 24, 2017, 05:28:57 pm
"I need to see your monkey,'"

 :silly: :silly: :silly:

(Please, don't spank it!)

Bay City seems to be a fun place lately.

Giant Penises and Tiny Monkeys.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 25, 2017, 04:24:01 pm
Nude dancers push back against class-action settlement

A growing number of exotic dancers want to block a national class-action settlement alleging workplace exploitation by Michigan-based Déjà Vu clubs, saying it will pay many dancers only a few hundred dollars each.

Kalamazoo dancer Merry Clark said in a letter to the court that the proposed $6.5-million settlement is "nowhere near enough" for her and other dancers she says have been outrageously exploited by Déjà Vu Services and related companies for "sweaty gross work."

Also, dancers' attorneys from as far away as Massachusetts and Tennessee have filed objections to the settlement ahead of a June 6 hearing in federal court in Detroit, saying the proposal is not fair, reasonable, or adequate.

Attorneys for the lead plaintiffs and for Déjà Vu say the settlement is fair and contains many non-monetary benefits for the dancers. They say objectors still represent a tiny handful of the more than 28,000 dancers and former dancers who are class members.

U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy can't modify the proposed settlement, but can only accept it or reject it as is, attorneys say.

The case centers on whether the dancers are employees or independent contractors — a classification that affects issues such as whether the clubs must pay them a minimum hourly wage or can instead charge them for doing business inside the clubs.

Though it's billed as a $6.5-million settlement, the proposal would provide only $920,000 in cash payments to settle claims from more than 28,000 dancers who worked at 64 different clubs in 18 states, including 11 in Michigan, Boston attorney Harold Lichten argued in a May 12 court filing.

More: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/05/25/opposition-growing-class-action-settlement/340369001/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 25, 2017, 04:27:13 pm
From the sublime to the ridiculous

51 male and female South Koreans are arrested for smuggling TWO TONNES of gold nuggets worth £77million in their rectums and private parts

Dozens of South Koreans were arrested for smuggling gold in their private parts over a two year period, local media reports.

The smugglers are said to have sneaked in more than two tonnes of the precious metal worth around £77million since March 2015.

Male smugglers hid as many as six gold bars weighing 200g in their rectums while women stashed it in their vaginas.

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4537116/South-Koreans-arrested-smuggled-77million-gold-rectum.html

It's a shitty job.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 25, 2017, 05:45:33 pm
Nude dancers push back against class-action settlement


Though it's billed as a $6.5-million settlement, the proposal would provide only $920,000 in cash payments to settle claims from more than 28,000 dancers who worked at 64 different clubs in 18 states, including 11 in Michigan, Boston attorney Harold Lichten argued in a May 12 court filing.

More: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/05/25/opposition-growing-class-action-settlement/340369001/
Wow. Thirty two bucks and change each? That's not even an hour's tips on a slow night. But the whores of the court are going to get paid...(the lawyers).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on May 25, 2017, 11:40:48 pm
Wow. Thirty two bucks and change each? That's not even an hour's tips on a slow night. But the whores of the court are going to get paid...(the lawyers).
@EC

Why don't these girls form a union?

I'd look for the union label.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 25, 2017, 11:50:30 pm
@bigheadfred

I took a look - because you made me curious. There is a strippers union (it's part of the SEIU) but most strippers can't join, since they are treated as independant contractors by the venues.

http://www.bayswan.org/EDAunionLL.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 26, 2017, 12:05:42 am
@bigheadfred

I took a look - because you made me curious. There is a strippers union (it's part of the SEIU) but most strippers can't join, since they are treated as independant contractors by the venues.

http://www.bayswan.org/EDAunionLL.html
Well, there you go. Set up a Independent Stripper's Association and charge nominal dues (put it behind a paywall). Let complaints be lodged against venues for working conditions, nonpayment, etc and let the ladies sort out where they will or won't work. They could even discuss rates and other topics in a forum. At least they would have a reference they built and share to allow them to better choose where to work, and possibly even to exchange information to get work in better venues.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on May 28, 2017, 03:31:28 am
Bear assists police in catching three violent robbers in Tochigi Prefecture

Bears say only we can prevent forest fires, but they’ll help out when preventing robberies.

At around 2:50 pm on 23 May, three men ages 18 to 22 broke into a home in Utsunomiya, Tochigi. They then began assaulting the two 75-year-old women who resided there causing injuries. When violent invasion was all finished they ran off, taking with them a safe full of approximately 6.6 million yen (US$59,000) in jewelry.

Afterward, the trio were found by law enforcement in a car in Nikko City, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the scene of the crime. Tochigi Police gave pursuit in a helicopter as the fugitives tried to escape along the highway. In order to shake the chopper, they then ditched the car inside a tunnel on the highway and ran into the mountain forest.

And that’s when things went really bad for them.

As they ran through the woods the three men came face-to-face with a bear. And although they were tough stuff when it came to beating up elderly women, these thugs felt outmatched by the beast and quickly turned back the way they came.

More: http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/05/28/bear-assists-police-in-catching-three-violent-robbers-in-tochigi-prefecture/

200 part anime series coming next week.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 28, 2017, 04:29:30 am
Well, there you go. Set up a Independent Stripper's Association and charge nominal dues (put it behind a paywall). Let complaints be lodged against venues for working conditions, nonpayment, etc and let the ladies sort out where they will or won't work. They could even discuss rates and other topics in a forum. At least they would have a reference they built and share to allow them to better choose where to work, and possibly even to exchange information to get work in better venues.

Could they call it The Gilded Guild?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 28, 2017, 05:22:47 am
Could they call it The Gilded Guild?
They could call it anything they want...it would be theirs, after all.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on May 31, 2017, 05:25:33 pm

Police: Thieves using blowtorch to steal from Everett ATM accidentally set cash on fire
POSTED 11:26 AM, MAY 30, 2017, BY Q13 NEWS STAFF, UPDATED AT 09:52AM, MAY 31, 2017

EVERETT, Wash. -- Police in Everett say would-be ATM thieves thwarted their own burglary attempt by setting the cash on fire.

[...]

Aaron Snell with the Everett Police Department said the suspects used a blowtorch to try and access the ATM's cash box. In the process of doing so, they accidentally set the money on fire.

John Dickson, Chief Operations Officers of Coastal Community Bank, said the suspects were not able to get away with any money. [...]

More: http://q13fox.com/2017/05/30/police-thieves-using-blowtorch-to-steal-from-everett-atm-accidentally-set-cash-on-fire/

(https://tribkcpq.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/atm-theft-fire.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=450)
Photo credit: Everett Police Department
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on May 31, 2017, 05:29:18 pm
Police: Thieves using blowtorch to steal from Everett ATM accidentally set cash on fire
POSTED 11:26 AM, MAY 30, 2017, BY Q13 NEWS STAFF, UPDATED AT 09:52AM, MAY 31, 2017

EVERETT, Wash. -- Police in Everett say would-be ATM thieves thwarted their own burglary attempt by setting the cash on fire.

[...]

Aaron Snell with the Everett Police Department said the suspects used a blowtorch to try and access the ATM's cash box. In the process of doing so, they accidentally set the money on fire.

John Dickson, Chief Operations Officers of Coastal Community Bank, said the suspects were not able to get away with any money. [...]

More: http://q13fox.com/2017/05/30/police-thieves-using-blowtorch-to-steal-from-everett-atm-accidentally-set-cash-on-fire/

(https://tribkcpq.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/atm-theft-fire.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=450)
Photo credit: Everett Police Department

That is such an unexpected reaction - paper money and blow torch - that I can see how they didn't foresee it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on June 03, 2017, 04:21:32 pm

Police arrested a mail carrier accused of feeding a meatball full of nails to a dog

by Circa News


June 2, 2017

(http://florida.arrests.org/mugs/Lee/845886.jpg)

Police arrested an Alabama mail carrier Thursday after they say she fed a meatball full of nails to a dog along her route.

Susan Burhans was charged with aggravated animal cruelty by Madison County Sheriff deputies after a joint investigation with the Postal Service. 

Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Salomonsky said the investigation began two weeks ago when a complaint was filed and now at least one other resident has also filed a complaint.

<..snip..>

http://circa.com/circa-now/happening/mail-carrier-was-arrested-for-feeding-a-meatball-full-of-nails-to-a-dog (http://circa.com/circa-now/happening/mail-carrier-was-arrested-for-feeding-a-meatball-full-of-nails-to-a-dog)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 03, 2017, 04:32:28 pm
Police arrested a mail carrier accused of feeding a meatball full of nails to a dog



And now I appreciate inconvenience of going to the post office that much more.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on June 04, 2017, 02:26:47 am
Police arrested a mail carrier accused of feeding a meatball full of nails to a dog

by Circa News


June 2, 2017

(http://florida.arrests.org/mugs/Lee/845886.jpg)

Police arrested an Alabama mail carrier Thursday after they say she fed a meatball full of nails to a dog along her route.

Susan Burhans was charged with aggravated animal cruelty by Madison County Sheriff deputies after a joint investigation with the Postal Service. 

Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Salomonsky said the investigation began two weeks ago when a complaint was filed and now at least one other resident has also filed a complaint.

<..snip..>

http://circa.com/circa-now/happening/mail-carrier-was-arrested-for-feeding-a-meatball-full-of-nails-to-a-dog (http://circa.com/circa-now/happening/mail-carrier-was-arrested-for-feeding-a-meatball-full-of-nails-to-a-dog)
Well I think I have a suggestion for her next meal.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 04, 2017, 03:42:20 am
Well I think I have a suggestion for her next meal.
People like her just confirm my dog's reaction to Mail Carriers.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 04, 2017, 07:28:06 pm
Man mowing lawn near tornado "was keeping an eye on it"
(http://media.graytvinc.com/images/810*455/mowing+tornado+LF.jpg)

This Canuck has a very large pair! 

http://www.kwqc.com/content/news/Man-mowing-lawn-near-tornado-says-he-was-keeping-an-eye-on-it-426305481.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Oceander on June 04, 2017, 07:29:24 pm
Yes he does. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on June 04, 2017, 08:50:57 pm
Yes he does.

And absolutely NO functioning brain cells.......... 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 04, 2017, 09:32:24 pm
And absolutely NO functioning brain cells..........

He may be safe from the twister, but he's open for a good lightning strike pushing that nice metal lawnmower around that great big flat area.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 04, 2017, 09:45:47 pm
He may be safe from the twister, but he's open for a good lightning strike pushing that nice metal lawnmower around that great big flat area.

People seem to be increasingly foolish about lightning. I see people out on the lake here all the time with thunder rumbling and lightning flashing on the horizon.

When I know weather is heading in my direction I keep an eye on the sky and even dark clouds can send me edging toward where I launched the boat. Distant thunder sends me on a bee line for the launch and close thunder sends me to hug the shoreline and toward the launch.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 04, 2017, 11:26:23 pm
People seem to be increasingly foolish about lightning. I see people out on the lake here all the time with thunder rumbling and lightning flashing on the horizon.

When I know weather is heading in my direction I keep an eye on the sky and even dark clouds can send me edging toward where I launched the boat. Distant thunder sends me on a bee line for the launch and close thunder sends me to hug the shoreline and toward the launch.

My brother and I were on a boat on Duck Lake once (North of Albion) and a storm surprised us.  We noticeed our hair was standing on end, and had an "Oh Shit" moment.  We got low in the boat and beat it to the launch ASAP and got the snot outta there.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 05, 2017, 06:29:54 pm
I do usually try to steer clear of the  "dumb criminals" stories. This one was too perfect to pass up.

Man flashing money on Facebook Live arrested on drug charges

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida man joyfully flashing money live on the internet got a sudden surprise when police officers barged in and arrested him for allegedly selling drugs.

A man identified by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office as 22-year-old Breon Hollings went on Facebook Live to show friends a handful of money, saying, "It don't stop, man, it don't stop."

He then retrieves more money from another room and starts shuffling it when he hears Jacksonville officers warning over a loudspeaker they are about to raid the house. A stunned Hollings runs out of the room. Seconds later, officers barge in. Hollings was arrested off camera.

More: http://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2017/06/man_flashing_money_on_facebook.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 05, 2017, 06:45:57 pm
Rollin down the street, smokin indo, sippin on gin and juice

He was laid back with his mind on his money and his money on his mind
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 06, 2017, 10:47:16 pm
People rescued after apartment removes stairs

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - Firefighters rescued several people trapped on the second floor of an apartment building after the complex removed the stairs.

The staircase at the Maple Walk Apartments in Decatur is the only way in and out of several homes.

“This is crazy. How can you cut off access to the stairs and everybody's in their apartments?” neighbor Andre Williams said.

Neighbors told Channel 2’s Sophia Choi they woke up to the stairs being removed and no way to get down.

“What if there's a fire or anything? Or someone hyperventilates, anything, any health problems?" Quintas Harris asked.

They found notices on their doors saying there would be no access to the stairs until Thursday.

“They gave us no notice. No nothing. They were already taking the stairs down when we got the notice this morning,” Shawnta Tiller said.

Choi tried to get a comment from complex managers but no one answered the door or returned her call. The fire marshal wasn’t able to reach them either.

Video: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/2nd-floor-residents-trapped-after-apartment-removes-stairs/530037876
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 06, 2017, 10:51:28 pm
With a headline like this, it had to be included.

Post-Coital Battery Bust For Porn Star

JUNE 5--A porn actress is facing a domestic battery charge after allegedly socking her boyfriend in the face during a post-coital quarrel, police report.

According to investigators, Lauren Kaye Scott walloped the victim Saturday in his Pinellas Park home. The man suffered a “swollen lip with a cut” during the 4:55 AM confrontation, a police officer stated.

As detailed in an arrest affidavit, the 23-year-old Scott “would not get off the phone” after having sex with her boyfriend, who asked Scott to leave the residence. Scott, cops say, “became upset” and struck her beau of six months in the face.

More: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/domestic-battery-bust-for-adult-actress-890374

Apparently she's asked the judge nicely if she can leave Florida to go back to her husband, Milo's booking agent.  *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 06, 2017, 11:20:08 pm
Wow.  You just can't make these things up! 

Oh...Those stills vs the mug shot are very telling!   ouch.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 06, 2017, 11:33:44 pm
Her mama must be so proud... **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 06, 2017, 11:39:55 pm
Oh...Those stills vs the mug shot are very telling!   ouch.

Yep.

She sho' is ugly.

Certainly not worth a postcoital punch in the mouth.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 07, 2017, 12:20:14 am
Yep.

She sho' is ugly.

Certainly not worth a postcoital punch in the mouth.
Late model, but high mileage...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2017, 12:37:51 am
Late model, but high mileage...

Corp Lease return.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2017, 01:05:47 am
With a headline like this, it had to be included.

Post-Coital Battery Bust For Porn Star

JUNE 5--A porn actress is facing a domestic battery charge after allegedly socking her boyfriend in the face during a post-coital quarrel, police report.


(http://www.thehotcrazymatrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/6162239.jpg)

Danger Zone 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 07, 2017, 03:28:36 am
Quote
Man Identifying As 6-Year-Old Crushes Game-Winning Homer In Tee-Ball Championship

June 6, 2017

AUBURN, CA—Local 36-year-old man Nate Ripley, who identifies as a six-year-old, “absolutely crushed” a game-winning homer at a local tee-ball game and won the championship for his team Monday evening, reports confirmed.

Ripley reportedly walked up to the plate in the bottom of the 6th, pointed his bat toward the left-field wall looming 130 feet in the distance, and let her rip, sending the ball rocketing over the fence and into a parking lot as the fans cheered and his coach yelled out, “Attaboy, Nate! Good job, bud!”

His team, the Lil’ Padres, attempted to hoist him up on their shoulders in celebration of their great victory over the favored Tiny Tigers, but were unable to pick up the large 230-pound man.

Ripley’s feat comes at the end of a momentous tee-ball season, in which the self-identified six-year-old absolutely shattered every record set prior to that point. With a 1.000 batting average, 52 home runs, and an incredible showing at first base, second base, shortstop, third base, and pitcher, the man is being called an inspiration to other six-year-olds everywhere.

http://babylonbee.com/news/man-identifying-6-year-old-crushes-game-winning-homer-tee-ball-championship/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 07, 2017, 03:31:28 am
You see, this is just a glimpse of how absurd this nonsense is going to get, folks.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 07, 2017, 11:31:46 am
Not to worry, BabylonBee is like the Onion. #fakenews   ^-^
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 07, 2017, 11:57:16 am
With a headline like this, it had to be included.

Post-Coital Battery Bust For Porn Star



(the victim)Lecompte-Goble has recently worked as booking agent for Milo Yiannopoulos, the alt-right author/provocateur. Lecompte-Goble’s Facebook page lists him as “Chief Product Officer” for Yiannopoulos.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 07, 2017, 12:49:56 pm
Not to worry, BabylonBee is like the Onion. #fakenews   ^-^
@Old Warrior in Exile I believe we used to call that "satire", as other headlines on the site show.
Quote
Pentagon Officials Scramble To Change Nuclear Code From ‘Covfefe’

or

California Christians Must Now Register Bibles As Assault Weapons
Unfortunately, what used to be the exclusive territory of satire is ever merging with reality, and it is no less ridiculous for some 35 year old guy to 'identify' as a teenage girl than it is for one to identify as a six year old t-ball player. At least the (fictitious) ball player knew which restroom to use.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 07, 2017, 12:51:56 pm
It belongs. There are many ways in which things (or people) are ridiculous.  ^-^
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 07, 2017, 12:54:00 pm
It belongs. There are many ways in which things (or people) are ridiculous.  ^-^
If you backtrack the extrapolations found in satire, you often find these have a root somewhere in a real story that might not be quite so ridiculous, but is certainly pointing in that direction.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2017, 12:55:48 pm
I thought everyone would figure it was satire when i posted it.  But in this mixed up, muddled up, shook up world where girls will be boys, and boys will be girls, and white will be black it's hard to tell anymore.  My bad.  :(
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 07, 2017, 01:55:23 pm
I thought everyone would figure it was satire when i posted it.  But in this mixed up, muddled up, shook up world where girls will be boys, and boys will be girls, and white will be black it's hard to tell anymore.  My bad.  :(
LOL(A)!  :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2017, 01:56:39 pm
LOL(A)!  :silly:

 888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on June 07, 2017, 01:57:38 pm
I thought everyone would figure it was satire when i posted it.  But in this mixed up, muddled up, shook up world where girls will be boys, and boys will be girls, and white will be black it's hard to tell anymore.  My bad.  :(

No bad!  I knew what it was the instant I read it and thought the author had a pretty good handle on things!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 07, 2017, 03:38:04 pm
Peacock takes out $500 in wine after crashing liquor store
Amanda Lee Myers
The Associated Press
10:40 AM
Jun 7, 2017

ARCADIA, Calif. — A female peacock has ruffled more than just feathers at a Los Angeles-area liquor store.

Without a peep, the peahen strutted into the open door of the Royal Oaks Liquor Store in Arcadia on Monday. Store manager and college senior Rani Ghanem said he didn’t even know it was there until a customer walked in and asked him about “el pollo,” Spanish for “the chicken.”

Ghanem, a 21-year-old San Bernardino resident whose family owns the store, said he then tried to guide the sharp-clawed bird outside but that she spooked, at one point flying directly toward him and then up onto a top shelf of the store. ...

In all, Ghanem said the peahen was in the store for 90 minutes and broke $500 worth of the family store’s best bottles, including champagne.

“Yeah, he’s got expensive taste,” Ghanem joked in the store on Tuesday. “I’m like, ‘You break, you buy, dude.‘ But clearly he didn’t. He got away with it.” ...

Full story at Post-Gazette (http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2017/06/07/Peacock-liquor-store-500-damage/stories/201706070164).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 07, 2017, 03:41:30 pm
Peacock takes out $500 in wine after crashing liquor store

I would be searching for wine marinated peacock recipes...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2017, 07:27:06 pm
If they would have left him alone the gay dude would have left the store without all the drama.   But nooooo. they had to ruffle his plumage
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 07, 2017, 07:35:30 pm
If they would have left him alone the gay dude would have left the store without all the drama.   But nooooo. they had to ruffle his plumage

"Female peacock".  Which I guess to be accurate should have been "a peahen".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2017, 07:41:07 pm
"Female peacock".  Which I guess to be accurate should have been "a peahen".

I thought the boy cocks had the brightly colored feathers and strutted around tring to lure the plain and drab females to the bed  er nest
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 07, 2017, 08:49:30 pm
I thought the boy cocks had the brightly colored feathers and strutted around tring to lure the plain and drab females to the bed  er nest

I suppose drab females can strut. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2017, 08:53:33 pm
 :nometalk:  I'm gonna just back away slowly from that one Sang.... 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 07, 2017, 08:54:11 pm
:nometalk:  I'm gonna just back away slowly from that one Sang....

Probably a wise move.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 07, 2017, 08:59:45 pm
Probably a wise move.


:0001:

I ain't no democrat so I know when to hold em and when to fold em!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 07, 2017, 10:03:17 pm
"Female peacock".  Which I guess to be accurate should have been "a peahen".
Yep, and referred to as a 'her' instead of a 'he', at least in lieu of any evidence of gender confusion. The males have the blue/green and the ornate tail feathers, the hens are a dappled brown, and have far less ostentatious plumage. The hens are fairly large at maturity (Think the size of Guinea fowl), and have very long toes, but lack the spurs the males have.  They're a big enough bird to be a pain in a place like a liquor store or a china shop...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 08, 2017, 11:16:16 pm
It's a slow news day in Kent:

Littlebourne: Birthday balloon for Zachary Starr defies the odds

A helium balloon bought to celebrate a special occasion will usually deflate within a couple of weeks.

But for A-level student Zachary Starr, the decoration purchased at Kent and Canterbury Hospital to mark his birth 18 years ago is still going strong.

The King’s School pupil, of St Vincent’s Close, Littlebourne, posed with the balloon ahead of his landmark birthday tomorrow.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/birthday-balloon-lasts-18-years-126911/

Posting in Ridiculous because it's not actually possible.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 08, 2017, 11:30:58 pm
It's a slow news day in Kent:

Littlebourne: Birthday balloon for Zachary Starr defies the odds

A helium balloon bought to celebrate a special occasion will usually deflate within a couple of weeks.

But for A-level student Zachary Starr, the decoration purchased at Kent and Canterbury Hospital to mark his birth 18 years ago is still going strong.

The King’s School pupil, of St Vincent’s Close, Littlebourne, posed with the balloon ahead of his landmark birthday tomorrow.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/birthday-balloon-lasts-18-years-126911/

Posting in Ridiculous because it's not actually possible.

That's unlikely.  I had a friend that did balloons for a living (she owned a shop) and she told me helium balloons never last.  The helium (He2) molecules are tiny, and go right through the latex balloon.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 08, 2017, 11:39:32 pm
That's unlikely.  I had a friend that did balloons for a living (she owned a shop) and she told me helium balloons never last.  The helium (He2) molecules are tiny, and go right through the latex balloon.


Either it has been sprayed with some kind of acrylic coating to maintain its shape, or someone is surreptitiously refilling it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 08, 2017, 11:41:13 pm

Either it has been sprayed with some kind of acrylic coating to maintain its shape, or someone is surreptitiously refilling it.

I suspect the latter.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 08, 2017, 11:49:28 pm
I suspect the latter.


We don't actually get to see the aged balloon. The picture, I assume, was taken when he was 18. Therefore, the entire story is word of mouth. God only knows why someone would make this up.


If they kept it in a hermetically sealed chamber of some kind, that has adjustable barometric pressure, then possible, maybe, conceivably, perchance, it could have lasted this long. But I doubt it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 09, 2017, 12:07:40 am
That's supposedly the balloon bought at his birth in the picture.

I don't believe this for a second - heavy steel tanks of helium will empty themselves after a few years.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 09, 2017, 12:14:31 am
That's supposedly the balloon bought at his birth in the picture.


Oh! Well in that case there is no way. I am fairly sure the ink wouldn't last that long unless it is in a very dark cold place. It should fade over time. That balloon looks brand new. This is nonsense.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 09, 2017, 12:14:32 am
@EC @Cyber Liberty

(https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/a0e2b68e-fd7e-4cb4-9fc4-a9468ae821b6_1.a7b838f42e6bf858d9ef1cb07895ecde.jpeg?odnHeight=450&odnWidth=450&odnBg=FFFFFF)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 09, 2017, 12:25:39 am
@EC @Cyber Liberty

(https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/a0e2b68e-fd7e-4cb4-9fc4-a9468ae821b6_1.a7b838f42e6bf858d9ef1cb07895ecde.jpeg?odnHeight=450&odnWidth=450&odnBg=FFFFFF)

Fah-RAY-ed!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on June 09, 2017, 01:55:54 am
It's a slow news day in Kent:

Littlebourne: Birthday balloon for Zachary Starr defies the odds

A helium balloon bought to celebrate a special occasion will usually deflate within a couple of weeks.

But for A-level student Zachary Starr, the decoration purchased at Kent and Canterbury Hospital to mark his birth 18 years ago is still going strong.

The King’s School pupil, of St Vincent’s Close, Littlebourne, posed with the balloon ahead of his landmark birthday tomorrow.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/birthday-balloon-lasts-18-years-126911/

Posting in Ridiculous because it's not actually possible.
My aunt and uncle used to buy my cousin a new gold fish every time the old one died, took him years to figure out it was a different fish.... I'm just sayin......
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 09, 2017, 02:10:50 am
My aunt and uncle used to buy my cousin a new gold fish every time the old one died, took him years to figure out it was a different fish.... I'm just sayin......

Knew a guy who would buy a new road bike every year.  But it had to be black so when his wife was in the garage she wouldn't notice the difference.
Just say'n...  he's divorced now seems that wasn't the only cheating he was doing.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 09, 2017, 03:12:30 am
That's unlikely.  I had a friend that did balloons for a living (she owned a shop) and she told me helium balloons never last.  The helium (He2) molecules are tiny, and go right through the latex balloon.
This is one of those little Mylar ones. It would have to be unusually well sealed, for starters.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 09, 2017, 10:00:29 pm
EPD: Suspect allegedly shot man with shotgun shell filled with cereal

EUREKA, Calif. - Timothy Glass Jr., 29, Eureka, was arrested in Eureka for resisting arrest and probation violation after allegedly shooting a man with flare gun loaded with a shotgun shell filled with cereal, according to the Eureka Police Department.

More: http://www.krcrtv.com/north-coast-news/epd-suspect-allegedly-shot-man-with-a-shotgun-shell-filled-with-cereal/532087089

The victim declined to press charges. Don't know which is more ridiculous - shooting someone with cereal, or being shot by cereal.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 09, 2017, 10:04:51 pm
Must have ran out of rock salt.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 09, 2017, 10:13:28 pm
Comon @EC. There are cereal killers everywhere.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 09, 2017, 10:27:26 pm
Comon @EC. There are cereal killers everywhere.

Not of this Fiber.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 09, 2017, 11:04:54 pm
Not of this Fiber.

Oh yaw it says he got shot in the hand with Rice Krispies so this is just a puff piece.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 09, 2017, 11:07:49 pm
It were only his hand. Could have been shot in the Lucky Charms.  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 09, 2017, 11:42:22 pm
It were only his hand. Could have been shot in the Lucky Charms.  :whistle:

You have to be a sharp shooter to hit Grape Nuts. They are tiny.

(http://i67.tinypic.com/ohk0i0.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 09, 2017, 11:46:32 pm
EPD: Suspect allegedly shot man with shotgun shell filled with cereal

EUREKA, Calif. - Timothy Glass Jr., 29, Eureka, was arrested in Eureka for resisting arrest and probation violation after allegedly shooting a man with flare gun loaded with a shotgun shell filled with cereal, according to the Eureka Police Department.

More: http://www.krcrtv.com/north-coast-news/epd-suspect-allegedly-shot-man-with-a-shotgun-shell-filled-with-cereal/532087089

The victim declined to press charges. Don't know which is more ridiculous - shooting someone with cereal, or being shot by cereal.
A cereal killer!  **nononono* That isn't it. Really? Rice Krispies?  *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 10, 2017, 12:03:15 am
A cereal killer!  **nononono* That isn't it. Really? Rice Krispies?  *****rollingeyes*****

Big Pop. Not much crack and snapple
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 10, 2017, 12:07:13 am
Big Pop. Not much crack and snapple
Probably smoked the crack and drank the snapple...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 10, 2017, 12:13:31 am
Probably smoked the crack and drank the snapple...

Just spied his mug..   I'd say that is a distinct possibility!   

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 10, 2017, 06:02:46 am
Queer beer: Threes Brewing launching “Gender Neutral” beer for Pride

A Gowanus brewery will launch a new beer called “Gender Neutral” with a gay Pride party on June 22. The socially conscious beer makers say that the queer beer name is a playful way to get people thinking about gender issues while enjoying a drink, said one of the co-owners.

More, if you really must read it: http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/24/24-gender-neutral-threes-brewing-2017-06-16-bk.html

 *****rollingeyes*****

Can't they just stick with lager and lime, like decent poufters do?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: rodamala on June 10, 2017, 06:27:50 am
Queer beer: Threes Brewing launching “Gender Neutral” beer for Pride

A Gowanus brewery will launch a new beer called “Gender Neutral” with a gay Pride party on June 22. The socially conscious beer makers say that the queer beer name is a playful way to get people thinking about gender issues while enjoying a drink, said one of the co-owners.

More, if you really must read it: http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/24/24-gender-neutral-threes-brewing-2017-06-16-bk.html

 *****rollingeyes*****

Can't they just stick with lager and lime, like decent poufters do?

I have found that these Go Anus brewery beers to be a bit nutty.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 10, 2017, 02:01:56 pm
Grow an anus brewery?   You got to be shitting me.   
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 10, 2017, 02:25:51 pm
I have found that these Go Anus brewery beers to be a bit nutty.

A nice nutty New York value for ya. If they were in the midwest these Go Anus brewery beers would be a bit corny.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on June 10, 2017, 03:59:17 pm
Queer beer: Threes Brewing launching “Gender Neutral” beer for Pride

A Gowanus brewery will launch a new beer called “Gender Neutral” with a gay Pride party on June 22. The socially conscious beer makers say that the queer beer name is a playful way to get people thinking about gender issues while enjoying a drink, said one of the co-owners.

More, if you really must read it: http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/40/24/24-gender-neutral-threes-brewing-2017-06-16-bk.html

 *****rollingeyes*****

Can't they just stick with lager and lime, like decent poufters do?
Is it just me or does  it seem that "The love that dare not speak it's name" now a days won't sit down and shut the hell up.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 10, 2017, 04:00:33 pm
Is it just me or does  it seem that "The love that dare not speak it's name" now a days won't sit down and shut the hell up.

Too busy talking out its ass.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 10, 2017, 07:24:04 pm
Is it just me or does  it seem that "The love that dare not speak it's name" now a days won't sit down and shut the hell up.
It's a little short of skywriting, yet, but I miss the days when it was quietly in the closet.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 11, 2017, 07:24:24 pm
Vancouver man's first ride on electric skateboard ends with $600 ticket

A Vancouver man is “flabbergasted” after his first ride on his new, motorized longboard ended with a $598 fine.

Daniel Dahlberg, 25, was on his way to work, riding a Boosted Board v2 that he’d purchased just two days earlier from West 4th Avenue’s Boarder Labs. After rolling down a hill and coming to a stop at 3rd Avenue and Maple in Kitsilano, a Vancouver police officer on a motorcycle pulled him over, then wrote him a ticket.

“My jaw dropped to the ground and he hands me the ticket and it was for $598,” Dahlberg said. “That’s the most absurd part of everything.” ....


..... “I asked him why,” Dahlberg said. “He said it’s because I had no insurance. So then I asked him, I had no idea I needed it, how do I get it, and he told me that I wasn’t able to get insurance.

More and there is an explanation. I don't say a rational or sensible explanation, but there is an explanation: http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-mans-first-ride-on-electric-skateboard-ends-with-600-ticket
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 11, 2017, 08:12:04 pm
Is it just me or does  it seem that "The love that dare not speak it's name" now a days won't sit down and shut the hell up.


Just remember that the very worst thing you can ever say to a gay person, the very worst insult you could ever inflict, is to simply say the following three words, "I don't care." This cuts them to their soul. Since they define their entire being by homosexuality, they believe (falsely) that everyone else is consumed with it too.


As if I give one single damn about who you sleep with. I've got my own life and problems to deal with, I do not have time to deal with yours. Do what you do and be happy with it. "I don't care!"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 11, 2017, 08:21:39 pm
Vancouver man's first ride on electric skateboard ends with $600 ticket

A Vancouver man is “flabbergasted” after his first ride on his new, motorized longboard ended with a $598 fine.

Daniel Dahlberg, 25, was on his way to work, riding a Boosted Board v2 that he’d purchased just two days earlier from West 4th Avenue’s Boarder Labs. After rolling down a hill and coming to a stop at 3rd Avenue and Maple in Kitsilano, a Vancouver police officer on a motorcycle pulled him over, then wrote him a ticket.

“My jaw dropped to the ground and he hands me the ticket and it was for $598,” Dahlberg said. “That’s the most absurd part of everything.” ....


..... “I asked him why,” Dahlberg said. “He said it’s because I had no insurance. So then I asked him, I had no idea I needed it, how do I get it, and he told me that I wasn’t able to get insurance.

More and there is an explanation. I don't say a rational or sensible explanation, but there is an explanation: http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-mans-first-ride-on-electric-skateboard-ends-with-600-ticket

Idiot.  I rode a mini-bike since I was 13 and knew to stay off the friggin roads.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 11, 2017, 09:21:42 pm
Idiot.  I rode a mini-bike since I was 13 and knew to stay off the friggin roads.
Yeah, but it is easier to cut through the grass on a mini bike. :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 11, 2017, 09:24:26 pm
Yeah, but it is easier to cut through the grass on a mini bike. :shrug:

There wouldn't be a lot of point to having a mini-bike, or a motorized skateboard for that matter, in a city.  There's nowhere to ride.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 11, 2017, 09:46:40 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIatiHFo8HA
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 12, 2017, 03:13:29 am
There wouldn't be a lot of point to having a mini-bike, or a motorized skateboard for that matter, in a city.  There's nowhere to ride.
Skate boards are city fare. They don't do so well on a dirt road or gravel. (Between that fact and the mushy brine pocketed nature of ice in a tidewater estuary, I never learned to skate).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on June 12, 2017, 12:04:08 pm

Just remember that the very worst thing you can ever say to a gay person, the very worst insult you could ever inflict, is to simply say the following three words, "I don't care." This cuts them to their soul. Since they define their entire being by homosexuality, they believe (falsely) that everyone else is consumed with it too.


As if I give one single damn about who you sleep with. I've got my own life and problems to deal with, I do not have time to deal with yours. Do what you do and be happy with it. "I don't care!"
@240B my attitude has always been marry whomever you like, worship however you wish, as long as you are not torturing children or small fur bearing, or trying to convert me, I don't care.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 12, 2017, 12:43:29 pm
Spare the duct tape...spoil the job.



Coast Guard rescues Alaska man in homemade, duct-taped boat
(http://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/i/9261497196416/2017/1/14971967701526/Coast-Guard-rescues-Alaska-man-in-homemade-duct-taped-boat.jpg)

June 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard in Juneau, Alaska, said crew members rescued a man whose homemade, duct-taped water craft was taking on water.

Coast Guard Station Juneau said the 32-year-old man was attempting to get to Point Bishop by rowing in the Gastineau Channel in his inflatable boat Wednesday. The crew saw his craft was taking on water and transported the man and his dog to Douglas Harbor.

"I noticed the craft in the channel and I could tell the man was not wearing a life jacket and the craft was not safe," Lt. Joseph Schlosser said. "I contacted the sector command center and the Station's smallboat crew responded quickly and helped the man to safety."

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/06/11/Coast-Guard-rescues-Alaska-man-in-homemade-duct-taped-boat/9261497196416/?spt=slh&or=1



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 12, 2017, 12:50:44 pm
@240B my attitude has always been marry whomever you like, worship however you wish, as long as you are not torturing children or small fur bearing, or trying to convert me, I don't care.


@verga
Same with me. I think the entire 'gay' issue is overblown in the extreme. The homosexuals are making an issue of it not because they want to be 'equal'; what they want is to be 'special'. And I don't agree with that at all.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Restored on June 12, 2017, 12:58:36 pm
@240B my attitude has always been marry whomever you like, worship however you wish, as long as you are not torturing children or small fur bearing, or trying to convert me, I don't care.

That's just it. They are demanding that you convert over to their side. And it is NOT a request. It's an order.
Bake that cake or suffer the consequences.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 12, 2017, 02:11:08 pm
(https://sfcmac.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/rainbow_swastika.jpg?w=570)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 14, 2017, 01:05:55 pm
Kansas man who robbed bank to escape wife gets home-confinement sentence

A Kansas man who robbed a bank last September and told police that he was hoping to get caught so he would get prison time to escape his wife, was sentenced Tuesday to six months of home confinement after pleading guilty, The Kansas City Star reported.

Lawrence John Ripple took the guilty plea in January. He told the judge on Tuesday that he had heart surgery that left him depressed when he committed the bank robbery, the paper reported.

More: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/14/kansas-man-who-robbed-bank-to-escape-wife-gets-home-confinement-sentence.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 14, 2017, 01:19:19 pm
Sounds like it was the correct sentence based on extenuating circumstances.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article155936879.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 15, 2017, 11:58:51 am
The Future's so bright I gotta wear shades.

(http://i.imgur.com/UC1gPYa.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 15, 2017, 12:08:48 pm
The Future's so bright I gotta wear shades.
That wild raccoon must have scared the bejeezus out of him.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 15, 2017, 12:54:10 pm
That wild raccoon must have scared the bejeezus out of him.

He should have explained that the raccoon has better vision in the dark and he was going my way....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 15, 2017, 12:57:34 pm
The Future's so bright I gotta wear shades.

(http://i.imgur.com/UC1gPYa.jpg)

I Am Groot.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 15, 2017, 01:02:26 pm
I Am Groot.

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 15, 2017, 01:11:12 pm
The Future's so bright I gotta wear shades.

(http://i.imgur.com/UC1gPYa.jpg)

The explanation is almost funnier than the photo:  http://whnt.com/2017/06/14/local-officer-explains-how-barry-larry-terry-and-his-raccoon-became-a-social-media-sensation/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 15, 2017, 01:12:18 pm
Barry Larry Terry ... and my other brother Darryl. Er, Derry.  :pondering:

Great prank, though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 15, 2017, 03:47:58 pm
That wild raccoon must have scared the bejeezus out of him.
His ears look upside down.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on June 15, 2017, 07:10:19 pm
That wild raccoon must have scared the bejeezus out of him.

I'd be scared too if I had a wild raccoon sitting on top of my head.....


(Where's Cong. Traficant when you need him??  :dx1:)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 15, 2017, 08:33:30 pm
Traficant carried his pet ferret with him - on his head - everywhere he went. Except jail.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on June 15, 2017, 08:41:39 pm
Traficant carried his pet ferret with him - on his head - everywhere he went. Except jail.

Barry Larry Terry would have been a great cellmate for Traficant.

He could have shared the raccoon on his head with Jim, who lost the ferret on his.  :dx1:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 17, 2017, 06:52:03 am
Dumb criminal one today:

Police: Woman asked officers to check her needle for meth

PERU, Ind. – Police arrested a woman after they say she asked officers to check her needle for meth, according to WXIN.

Miami County Central Dispatch received a call on May 16 around 10:40 a.m. about a suspicious female at a residence in the 200 block of West Eighth Street in Peru, Indiana.

Officers say they identified the female as Sammi Y. Breeden, 20, of Peru.  She told them that she had been at another location in Peru earlier in the day where she had been using methamphetamine.

She said she shot up with a needle, but she didn’t think the substance was meth because it was making her feel different from her usual meth high.

More: http://wtkr.com/2017/05/17/police-woman-asked-officers-to-check-her-needle-for-meth/

How bloody high do you have to be to ask the cops to do meth quality control?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 17, 2017, 01:58:45 pm
Dumb criminal one today:

How bloody high do you have to be to ask the cops to do meth quality control?

Strangely enough, there was a guy here (Thursday) who was harassing people, peering in windows, acting weird, etc., downtown by the police station. The police, when they got there, said the guy told them he had gotten some bad meth and was looking for the good stuff. Asked them if they knew where the good stuff was. Wanted them to help in the search.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on June 17, 2017, 09:16:30 pm
'I'm going to hit you in the head,' woman named Miracle Crimes tells Springfield cop before allegedly kicking him in groin
Updated on June 17, 2017 at 8:09 AM Posted on June 17, 2017 at 8:01 AM
BY JACK FLYNN jflynn@repub.com

SPRINGFIELD - It started with a tray of doughnuts.

On May 30, Miracle Crimes allegedy hurled the tray at the assistant manager of the Pride Gas Station on Berkshire Avenue after being told to leave the store, according to the arrest report.

When police arrived, she resisted arrest and threatened to kill the officers before being Tasered and transported to police headquarters. Once there, she kicked an officer in the groin and renewed her threats, the report said.

"I'm going to kill you so call your kids and tell them goodbye," she said, according to the report.

...

Excerpt. Read more at http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/06/call_your_kids_and_tell_them_g.html

I think this is she, from a previous booking... the name "Miracle Crimes" can't be that common:

(http://linapps.s3.amazonaws.com/linapps/photomojo/wwlp.com/photos/2014/07/g13184-july-mug-shots-2014/249282-miracle-crimes-2dff7.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 17, 2017, 09:18:54 pm
Her parents must be so disappointed. They had dreams for her. No common crimes for her, but miraculous ones.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 17, 2017, 09:22:59 pm
Indeed, Crimes was pregnant at the time of her arrest...

Betcha they could add rape to the charge sheet.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 17, 2017, 09:34:07 pm
Strangely enough, there was a guy here (Thursday) who was harassing people, peering in windows, acting weird, etc., downtown by the police station. The police, when they got there, said the guy told them he had gotten some bad meth and was looking for the good stuff. Asked them if they knew where the good stuff was. Wanted them to help in the search.


I was in jail with a guy like that. He was sweating bullets. He go busted for buying crack cocaine. He was sweating it. Turns out they let him go.


He didn't have any cocaine on him at all. He was snorting powdered sugar. The Cops couldn't bust for a sugar rush. They had to let him go.


He spent like $100 on it. I've never seen anyone so happy that he was ripped off.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 18, 2017, 01:48:15 am

I was in jail with a guy like that. He was sweating bullets. He go busted for buying crack cocaine. He was sweating it. Turns out they let him go.


He didn't have any cocaine on him at all. He was snorting powdered sugar. The Cops couldn't bust for a sugar rush. They had to let him go.


He spent like $100 on it. I've never seen anyone so happy that he was ripped off.
A friend was so whiskey drink one night he ran off down the road. Very worried about him, his wife called the police station (small town) and asked if they'd seen him. "Yep, we have him in custody". "Oh! Thank God!" she replied. Then she realized what she'd said...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on June 19, 2017, 12:20:40 am
This is probably one of my favorite threads on this board.

Barry Terry Larry and his raccoon still have me laughing. :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 19, 2017, 01:14:41 am
This is probably one of my favorite threads on this board.

Barry Terry Larry and his raccoon still have me laughing. :laugh:

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 19, 2017, 01:15:55 am
Man facing charges after taking lion for pickup truck ride

June 15 (UPI) -- Authorities in Pakistan said a man is facing charges after a viral video showed him driving around Karachi with a lion in the bed of his pickup truck.

The video, recorded in the Karimabad area this week, shows the black pickup cruising down a street with the lion casually lounging in the back, unrestrained by anything except a leash held by a man inside the vehicle.

The video was reported to police, who identified the lion's owner as Saqlain Jawaid, a Karachi pet dealer.

......


Authorities said Jawaid is expected to face charges including negligence and spreading fear and panic.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/06/15/Man-facing-charges-after-taking-lion-for-pickup-truck-ride/3751497548482/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 19, 2017, 01:27:53 pm
Man who robbed store across street from own home heading to prison

JACKSON, MI - A man who was quickly located and arrested by police after he allegedly robbed a party store at gunpoint and then ran down the street to his home to count his stolen cash is heading to prison.

Jackson County Circuit Judge Thomas Wilson sentenced John Burgett to two-and-a-half to 10 years in prison for one felony count of armed robbery Thursday, June 15.

The charge stems from the incident that occurred the morning of Nov. 16, 2015, when Burgett, 25, allegedly pulled a handgun on a store clerk at Corner's Party Store, 501 W. Ganson St., demanded money and left with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.

While being held at gunpoint, the store clerk recognized Burgett, who was undisguised, from multiple visits to the store including two earlier that day, police said.

The clerk and witnesses directed police to Burgett's home, a nearby house that could be seen from the store, where he was found inside counting the money he had just stolen.


Police recovered stolen cash as well as an airsoft pistol that Burgett brandished "as if it were real" during the robbery and arrested Burgett without incident, police said.


(http://i.imgur.com/EeOcjQ8.jpg)



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 19, 2017, 01:30:08 pm
Man who robbed store across street from own home heading to prison

JACKSON, MI - A man who was quickly located and arrested by police after he allegedly robbed a party store at gunpoint and then ran down the street to his home to count his stolen cash is heading to prison.

Jackson County Circuit Judge Thomas Wilson sentenced John Burgett to two-and-a-half to 10 years in prison for one felony count of armed robbery Thursday, June 15.

The charge stems from the incident that occurred the morning of Nov. 16, 2015, when Burgett, 25, allegedly pulled a handgun on a store clerk at Corner's Party Store, 501 W. Ganson St., demanded money and left with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.

While being held at gunpoint, the store clerk recognized Burgett, who was undisguised, from multiple visits to the store including two earlier that day, police said.

The clerk and witnesses directed police to Burgett's home, a nearby house that could be seen from the store, where he was found inside counting the money he had just stolen.


Police recovered stolen cash as well as an airsoft pistol that Burgett brandished "as if it were real" during the robbery and arrested Burgett without incident, police said.


(http://i.imgur.com/EeOcjQ8.jpg)
Wow.. I'd say that wins the dumbass du jour award, but it's early yet.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 19, 2017, 01:34:09 pm
Wow.. I'd say that wins the dumbass du jour award, but it's early yet.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Drunk farmer ‘starts fight with his own pig but dies after having three fingers and his privates bitten off’

A FARMER has died after he brawled with a pig that bit him in the testicles and tore off three of his fingers, it has been reported.

The man was bitten in the privates and had three fingers severed in the brawl with his pig, it was claimed

El Debate reported that farmer Miguel Anaya Pablo, 60, died from an infection caused by the wounds he suffered during the brawl.

Miguel is alleged to have returned home drunk from a party and somehow begun fighting with the pig which he kept in his home.

The animal managed to bite his testicles and severe three fingers of his right hand, the paper claimed, and he was rushed to hospital.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3826112/drunk-farmer-starts-fight-with-his-own-pig-but-dies-after-having-three-fingers-and-his-privates-bitten-off/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 19, 2017, 01:39:56 pm
Just goes to show fighting with drunken pigs...drunks fighting sober pigs...Well, either way it's a bad deal. **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 19, 2017, 01:47:57 pm
Just goes to show fighting with drunken pigs...drunks fighting sober pigs...Well, either way it's a bad deal. **nononono*

Maybe there's something to the Alex Jones pigman army theory.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 19, 2017, 01:56:21 pm
Wow.. I'd say that wins the dumbass du jour award, but it's early yet.


I want to play! Vote for Pedro!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDj8kkVwisY
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 19, 2017, 04:59:01 pm
Pigs can be vicious.  Well, obviously.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 20, 2017, 12:37:44 am
Pigs can be vicious.  Well, obviously.

The smell of blood drives them to extremes.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 20, 2017, 08:34:33 am
Human toe stolen from Dawson City bar

A human toe has fallen prey to some sticky fingers in Dawson City, Yukon.

And not just any toe — the gnarled digit is the essential ingredient in the famous "Sourtoe Cocktail" at the Downtown Hotel.

"We are furious," said the hotel's "Toe Captain," Terry Lee, in a news release. "Toes are very hard to come by."

The traditional Sourtoe Cocktail — a Klondike-inspired invention — involves a shot of whisky with the digit bobbing in the glass. The toe must touch the brave drinker's lips.

The hotel's posted fine for swallowing or stealing the toe is $2,500. It had been $500 until August 2013, when a patron gulped back the entire cocktail — toe and all — and slapped $500 on the table.

According to a news release on Monday, the hotel intends to fine and charge the thief "unless the Toe is returned safe."

More: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/north/toe-stolen-yukon-dawson-city-sourtoe-cocktail-1.4168541

This one is going to be hard to beat.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 20, 2017, 01:01:57 pm
I'd like to know where they get replacement toes.  Well, maybe I don't.....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 20, 2017, 01:14:52 pm
Tastes like Toe-fu.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 20, 2017, 01:20:33 pm
The Downtown Hotel is a Toe Bar?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on June 20, 2017, 04:25:52 pm
I'd like to know where they get replacement toes.  Well, maybe I don't.....
The wife used to have to get on the phone at work and order body parts for the boss, but he was a Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon not a bartender. An amazingly lucrative business the buying and selling of body parts.............from the dead that is! :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 20, 2017, 04:31:19 pm
Can Dick Morris account for his whereabouts?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 20, 2017, 04:32:02 pm
I'd like to know where they get replacement toes.  Well, maybe I don't.....

A toe truck of course.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 20, 2017, 05:10:16 pm
A toe truck of course.

Groan....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 20, 2017, 05:23:33 pm
A toe truck of course.
:thud:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 20, 2017, 06:17:17 pm
:thud:

But only if you can foot the bill.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on June 20, 2017, 06:23:34 pm
But only if you can foot the bill.

Enough with the corn!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: rodamala on June 20, 2017, 06:35:09 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq4J9XzuLRs
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 20, 2017, 09:12:55 pm
The wife used to have to get on the phone at work and order body parts for the boss, but he was a Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon not a bartender. An amazingly lucrative business the buying and selling of body parts.............from the dead that is! :tongue2:

I don't think I could handle a live toe. Much less a drunk one.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 20, 2017, 09:14:01 pm
Enough with the corn!

I know, right?

The last thing people want is a corn on their toe.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on June 20, 2017, 09:33:39 pm
I know, right?

The last thing people want is a corn on their toe.

My very point.   888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 21, 2017, 04:16:54 am
I don't think I could handle a live toe. Much less a drunk one.

Try the Mojitoe
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 21, 2017, 05:33:48 pm
Woman who hid gun in her vagina gets probation in drug case

WACO, Texas (AP) - A Texas woman who police said packed a loaded pistol in her vagina has been sentenced to probation after she pleaded guilty to drug possession.

Ashley Cecilia Castaneda has been sentenced to 10 years on deferred probation for methamphetamine possession. The 33-year-old Waco woman also was fined $2,500.

Waco police say that when Castaneda was arrested in 2015, she told officers on her way to McLennan County Jail that she was packing a loaded handgun in her birth canal. Police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said a jail matron performed a cavity search and found the gun, right where Castaneda said she had hid it.

Castaneda's attorney, Seth Sutton, denied the story as impossible, but Swanton said the police department stood by it.

http://www.news9.com/story/35710497/woman-who-hid-gun-in-her-vagina-gets-probation-in-drug-case

There is no joke I could make that would be in good taste. Or even tolerable taste.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 21, 2017, 05:37:01 pm
Woman who hid gun in her vagina gets probation in drug case

Can we talk about the toe some more?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 21, 2017, 05:42:52 pm
Gives a whole new meaning to "you don't want to go there".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 21, 2017, 06:39:20 pm
Woman who hid gun in her vagina gets probation in drug case

S&W 629?  Ruger Super RedhHawk?

The important info has been left out of the story.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 21, 2017, 06:45:13 pm
 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 21, 2017, 07:19:31 pm
S&W 629?  Ruger Super RedhHawk?

The important info has been left out of the story.
Boys Anti tank rifle?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 21, 2017, 07:26:07 pm
Boys Anti tank rifle?

30 mm Gau?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 21, 2017, 08:04:55 pm
30 mm Gau?
The Boys (Boyes, as I recall the spelling from my youth) was a .55 caliber rifle built to take on light armour. It was pretty much obsolete by 1942 as an anti-tank weapon.  I remember seeing ads for them with 100 or so rounds of ammo fairly cheap before the '68 GCA.

(http://pics.gunbroker.com/GB/656017000/656017081/pix349952310.jpg)

Some have been redone to shoot .50 BMG.

If you can carry it, it should be covered. The 30mm GAU is a tad large to pack around.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on June 21, 2017, 08:09:04 pm
The Boys (Boyes, as I recall the spelling from my youth) . . .

It was "Boys"...named after the designer, Captain H.C. Boys.  I recall researching these when I was a wargamer in high school.  They were incredibly ineffective weapons for WWII tanks, except for lucky shots on the early tanks, practically doing more damage to the shooter than the target!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 21, 2017, 08:11:25 pm
Gives a whole new meaning to "you don't want to go there".
Just another reason I'm not a jail matron. Ewwww.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 21, 2017, 08:15:11 pm
Just another reason I'm not a jail matron. Ewwww.

Well, that and a whole lot of other reasons!   :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on June 22, 2017, 12:25:03 am
Well, that and a whole lot of other reasons!   :silly:

First I wonder about the logistics and how that could even happen. Then I wonder if the gun was loaded. :thud:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 22, 2017, 12:31:53 am
First I wonder about the logistics and how that could even happen. Then I wonder if the gun was loaded. :thud:

No worries unless she was pregnant. She might be able to hold it and aim it. But someone else would have to pull the trigger.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on June 22, 2017, 12:32:24 am
First I wonder about the logistics and how that could even happen. Then I wonder if the gun was loaded. :thud:

That was actually the first thing I thought of when I read this.

Loaded?  And what if it fired?

NOT a good plan, lady.......     **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on June 22, 2017, 11:12:36 am
Strangely enough, there was a guy here (Thursday) who was harassing people, peering in windows, acting weird, etc., downtown by the police station. The police, when they got there, said the guy told them he had gotten some bad meth and was looking for the good stuff. Asked them if they knew where the good stuff was. Wanted them to help in the search.
@bigheadfred When I read this the first time, I thought it said he was peeing in the windows. Whole different mental image.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 22, 2017, 02:53:43 pm
A French fitness blogger has died from an exploding cream dispenser

A FRENCH fitness and lifestyle blogger has been killed in a freak accident, after a whipped cream dispenser exploded and fatally struck her in the chest.

The death of Rebecca Burger was announced by her family on social media, which they called a “domestic incident”.

According to the BBC, French media reported Ms Burger, 32, died of cardiac arrest after the accident - despite receiving medical treatment.

On Burger’s Instagram account, family members warned her fans of the dangers of the dispenser - warning that “thousands of defective devices” were in circulation.

More: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/a-french-fitness-blogger-has-died-from-an-exploding-cream-dispenser/news-story/147ef701fe2a71dd4e054d52c41d39a0

Sometimes the ridiculous is the universe itself.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 22, 2017, 03:02:58 pm
A French fitness blogger has died from an exploding cream dispenser

A FRENCH fitness and lifestyle blogger has been killed in a freak accident, after a whipped cream dispenser exploded and fatally struck her in the chest.

The death of Rebecca Burger was announced by her family on social media, which they called a “domestic incident”.

According to the BBC, French media reported Ms Burger, 32, died of cardiac arrest after the accident - despite receiving medical treatment.

On Burger’s Instagram account, family members warned her fans of the dangers of the dispenser - warning that “thousands of defective devices” were in circulation.

More: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/a-french-fitness-blogger-has-died-from-an-exploding-cream-dispenser/news-story/147ef701fe2a71dd4e054d52c41d39a0

Sometimes the ridiculous is the universe itself.

Cardiac contusion. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 22, 2017, 03:11:27 pm
A French fitness blogger has died from an exploding cream dispenser

A FRENCH fitness and lifestyle blogger has been killed in a freak accident, after a whipped cream dispenser exploded and fatally struck her in the chest.

The death of Rebecca Burger was announced by her family on social media, which they called a “domestic incident”.

According to the BBC, French media reported Ms Burger, 32, died of cardiac arrest after the accident - despite receiving medical treatment.

On Burger’s Instagram account, family members warned her fans of the dangers of the dispenser - warning that “thousands of defective devices” were in circulation.

More: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/a-french-fitness-blogger-has-died-from-an-exploding-cream-dispenser/news-story/147ef701fe2a71dd4e054d52c41d39a0

Sometimes the ridiculous is the universe itself.

After reading the article, I am amazed you didn't include some pictures.  For example:

(https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/19228693_148090792406101_1446735853639434240_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 22, 2017, 09:37:37 pm
Quote
A FRENCH fitness and lifestyle blogger has been killed in a freak accident, after a whipped cream dispenser exploded and fatally struck her in the chest.

I have lived long enough to realize that there is no such thing as a coincidence and there are no freak accidents.

We all have it coming, I reckon.

Act accordingly.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 22, 2017, 10:14:32 pm
I have lived long enough to realize that there is no such thing as a coincidence and there are no freak accidents.

We all have it coming, I reckon.

Act accordingly.

I'm betting she was huffing the Nitrous in the whipped cream.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 24, 2017, 11:08:31 am
Lawsuit: Florida contractor fakes death to dodge angry homeowners

SEMINOLE — For weeks, Glenn Holland, 67, crawled out of bed before the sun rose to look for a dead man.

The retiree and Vietnam veteran spent several weeks on stakeout in his Ford F-150. Under the cover of darkness, he waited outside the home of a man he was told had died in a car crash.

For weeks, neither the Corvette, Hummer or pick-up truck in the driveway moved.

Holland nearly gave up. He waited one last time. It was 4 a.m. on a Friday in March.

Four hours later, the deceased walked outside and jumped into the truck.

Adrenaline shot through Holland. His heart started pounding. His mind raced:

Could Marc Anthony Perez be alive?

He was. The contractor who Holland said ripped him off, then faked his own death to get out of paying him back for a botched renovation, who left Holland and his cancer-stricken wife with nowhere to live, was still among the living.

More: http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/lawsuit-florida-contractor-fakes-death-to-dodge-angry-homeowners/2328232

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on June 24, 2017, 11:21:35 am
There's a very not nice place for people who take advantage of veterans and people with cancer.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 24, 2017, 04:32:44 pm
Human toe stolen from bar returned, with apology
by: Bob D Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk Updated: Jun 24, 2017
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending-now/human-toe-stolen-from-bar-returned-with-apology/539609570 (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending-now/human-toe-stolen-from-bar-returned-with-apology/539609570)

Quote
There’s good news afoot -- the toe stolen from the Downtown Hotel Sourdough Saloon in the Yukon has been returned to its rightful owner, along with a letter of apology.


“We’re happy as clams about it,” Sue Taylor told the Alaska Dispatch News.Taylor is a “toe captain” at the bar in Dawson City.

The mummified human toe that disappeared early Sunday is used as a bizarre garnish for the saloon’s signature drink, the Sourtoe Cocktail.

In a news release, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said ...

More at the link: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending-now/human-toe-stolen-from-bar-returned-with-apology/539609570 (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending-now/human-toe-stolen-from-bar-returned-with-apology/539609570)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 24, 2017, 05:30:35 pm
I am pleased in toto.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 24, 2017, 09:54:40 pm
Well, the joint is back to normal, now that mischief is no longer afoot.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Mod1 on June 25, 2017, 11:20:11 am
Merging into Ridiculous News
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on June 25, 2017, 07:48:14 pm
I'm betting she was huffing the Nitrous in the whipped cream.
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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 26, 2017, 12:57:11 am
Nigeria: Court Remands American Over Alleged U.S.$565,000 Fraud

An American national, Marco Antonio Ramirez, was yesterday remanded in prison by an Ikeja High Court for allegedly defrauding three Nigerians of $565,000.The defendant who acted as the Managing Director of three firms, USA Now Plc, Eagleford Instalodge Group and USA Now Energy Capital, pleaded not guilty to a 16-count charge of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

According to the EFCC prosecutor, V.O Aigboje, Ramirez committed the offences between February and August 2013. He was accused of allegedly collecting $10,000 from one Olukayode Sodimu under the pretext of facilitating an American Green Card with the U.S. Immigration Services.

More: http://allafrica.com/stories/201706230458.html

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 26, 2017, 01:01:26 am
Baffling deli sign asks customers not to talk about math

June 16 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania math professor shared a photo of an unusual sign at her local deli: "Please refrain from discussing mathematics while waiting in line."

Anna Haensch, professor of mathematics at Duquesne University, tweeted a photo she snapped while waiting near checkout at an unidentified deli in Pittsburgh.

"Please refrain from discussing mathematics while waiting in line," the sign reads.

"At the local deli. What could have happened to make them put up that sign??" Haensch tweeted.

More: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/06/16/Baffling-deli-sign-asks-customers-not-to-talk-about-math/5931497626979/

Your theories, please.

I'm going for: Someone attempted to explain to a blonde that 50% off is the same as buy one get one free.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 26, 2017, 01:35:37 am
Baffling deli sign asks customers not to talk about math

June 16 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania math professor shared a photo of an unusual sign at her local deli: "Please refrain from discussing mathematics while waiting in line."

Anna Haensch, professor of mathematics at Duquesne University, tweeted a photo she snapped while waiting near checkout at an unidentified deli in Pittsburgh.

"Please refrain from discussing mathematics while waiting in line," the sign reads.

"At the local deli. What could have happened to make them put up that sign??" Haensch tweeted.

More: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/06/16/Baffling-deli-sign-asks-customers-not-to-talk-about-math/5931497626979/ (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/06/16/Baffling-deli-sign-asks-customers-not-to-talk-about-math/5931497626979/)

Your theories, please.

I'm going for: Someone attempted to explain to a blonde that 50% off is the same as buy one get one free.


That one is fairly common around where I am. Lots of Deli's have them and it's understandable. I think they buy those signs online.


The sign the confuses me is on the door of a few establishments. It says,

Entry is not allowed if you are in possession of a chicken, in hand, in pocket, in a bag, or in a package of any kind.


There must be something behind it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 26, 2017, 01:40:14 am
Your theories, please.

Probably screws up the cashier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drq63VbdpXU

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 26, 2017, 01:56:57 am
I didn't order pie.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on June 26, 2017, 01:59:18 am
I didn't order pie.

I want pie.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 26, 2017, 02:34:35 am
I had pie tonight.  Pumpkin.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 26, 2017, 02:44:50 am
I had pie tonight.  Pumpkin.

My wife made a Mounds cake.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 26, 2017, 07:14:30 am
Quote
"But Uncle Jed, everybody know pie aren't square, pie are round!"

Jethro Bodine
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on June 26, 2017, 07:15:49 am
My wife made a Mounds cake.

That sounds yummy.

Never heard of one, what is it? 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 26, 2017, 11:32:46 am
That sounds yummy.

Never heard of one, what is it?

The wife bakes a devil's food cake in a 9"x13' pan. While it is still warm she pours a coconut chocolate syrup over it so the syrup soaks down through the cake. It is really rich.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Night Hides Not on June 26, 2017, 03:40:55 pm
Baffling deli sign asks customers not to talk about math

June 16 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania math professor shared a photo of an unusual sign at her local deli: "Please refrain from discussing mathematics while waiting in line."

Anna Haensch, professor of mathematics at Duquesne University, tweeted a photo she snapped while waiting near checkout at an unidentified deli in Pittsburgh.

"Please refrain from discussing mathematics while waiting in line," the sign reads.

"At the local deli. What could have happened to make them put up that sign??" Haensch tweeted.

More: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/06/16/Baffling-deli-sign-asks-customers-not-to-talk-about-math/5931497626979/

Your theories, please.

I'm going for: Someone attempted to explain to a blonde that 50% off is the same as buy one get one free.

The poor professor would not enjoy traveling along Route 66, what with all of the "unorthodox" messages that are found in gift shops.  My favorite? My niece bought a sign that said, "When I grow up, I want to be just like Barbie...the bi--- has everything!"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 26, 2017, 03:51:00 pm
Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino: a $55 Starbucks drink

http://boingboing.net/2014/05/29/sexagintuple-vanilla-bean-moch.html (http://boingboing.net/2014/05/29/sexagintuple-vanilla-bean-moch.html)

Quote
The Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino now holds the record for most expensive on-menu Starbucks beverage, coming in at a whopping $54; the 128 oz drink had 55 shots of espresso, with an estimated caffeine dose of 4.5g. Its owner, Andrew Chifari, spent about five days consuming it. He ordered it as his free bonus drink on the Starbucks loyalty card scheme, which gets him one free drink for every 12 (my own joke about this, worn as thin as onion-paper, goes like this: every tenth drink, I ask the folks at Giddy Up to give me "one of everything in a bucket with a piece of banana bread stuck in the top"). Andrew set out to break previous most-expensive-Starbucks-beverage record by enlisting the assistance of the baristas, as he explained to Consumerist:

    The key step for Andrew’s world-record run was getting the baristas on his side. He walked up to the counter and laid out his goals. “So, this might sound a little weird, but I saw a video on youtube where a guy orders the most expensive Starbucks drink. I want to beat the record.” The cashier had seen the video, and through math and teamwork they figured out how to make a record-busting drink that would fit in his cup and break the record.
(more at the link)

http://boingboing.net/2014/05/29/sexagintuple-vanilla-bean-moch.html (http://boingboing.net/2014/05/29/sexagintuple-vanilla-bean-moch.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 27, 2017, 07:11:45 pm
160-foot wind turbine blade snaps, dangles from rotor

(http://i.imgur.com/kmnyNtS.jpg)

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2017/06/wind_turbine_160-foot_blade_sn.html#incart_river_home_pop
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 27, 2017, 08:51:54 pm
"This is Sparta!"
 
"Sod off, lad. This is how we roll in England."

Guy gets hit by bus and immediately heads to the pub

Video via the New York Post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9xl6NQzcQU&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 27, 2017, 10:39:53 pm
"This is Sparta!"
 
"Sod off, lad. This is how we roll in England."

Guy gets hit by bus and immediately heads to the pub

Video via the New York Post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9xl6NQzcQU&feature=youtu.be

And immediately heads for the next pub. Where he was headed after he left the last pub.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 27, 2017, 10:42:46 pm
And immediately heads for the next pub. Where he was headed after he left the last pub.

They're pretty serious about their warm beer on that side of the pond.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 27, 2017, 11:05:40 pm
"This is Sparta!"
 
"Sod off, lad. This is how we roll in England."

Guy gets hit by bus and immediately heads to the pub

Video via the New York Post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9xl6NQzcQU&feature=youtu.be


The preacher man says it’s the end of time
And the Thames River she’s a goin’ dry
The interest is up and the Pound is down
And you only get mugged
If you go down town

English folks can survive!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on June 28, 2017, 12:20:00 am
And immediately heads for the next pub. Where he was headed after he left the last pub.

Whether I had just come from a pub or not, if that ever happens to me and I'm able to get up and walk away that handy pub will be my destination for sure! 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 28, 2017, 08:35:34 pm
Michigan daredevil killed in Niagara Falls plunge may have brought 7-foot snake along



NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - A Michigan man who found himself in the spotlight for surviving a plunge over Niagara Falls in 2003 was found dead after he went over again.

According to the Associated Press, the body of 53-year-old Kirk R. Jones of Canton was pulled out of the water June 2 in Youngstown, where the Niagara River feeds into Lake Ontario.

Niagara State Park Police say Jones was attempting to complete a stunt with a large inflatable ball, but its purpose was a mystery.

However, investigators now think they have an answer as to why the ball took the fateful 180-foot plunge with the daredevil.

The AP reports that Jones may have brought a boa constrictor along for the ride. That's based on a website discovered by New York State Park Police following Jones' death in which there are photos of him and the 7-foot snake named Misty previewing his plans and selling T-shirts and photos.

"Believe in the Impossible Kirk Jones + Misty Conquer Niagara Falls NY 2017," read the site, which has since been taken down.

Investigators believe Jones died April 19, the same day tourists spotted an 8-foot plastic ball spinning in the Niagara River.

The snake hasn't been found, though an empty snake cage was found in Jones' parked van, AP reported.

Jones became the first person known to survive the plunge over Niagara Falls without a safety device in October 2003. That's when he climbed over a rail and into the water in an apparent suicide attempt.

The feat brought fleeting fame for the then-unemployed salesman. He had been out of the public eye in recent years.


http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/06/michigan_daredevil_killed_in_n.html#incart_river_home
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 28, 2017, 08:45:38 pm
If at first you don't succeed......
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on June 28, 2017, 09:27:12 pm
Jamestown resident ticketed for keeping fawn on second floor of house

http://wivb.com/2017/06/28/jamestown-resident-ticketed-for-keeping-fawn-on-second-floor-of-house/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on June 29, 2017, 11:15:53 am
Michigan has cheapest cases of beer in America, study says



Michigan has the cheapest beer prices in America, according to one study.

Released by the team at Simple Thrifty Living earlier this week, the study measures the average cost of a 24-pack of beer in each of the 50 states. At $14.62, Michigan has the lowest average cost in the nation.

California ($14.87), Illinois ($15), North Carolina ($15.23) and Connecticut ($15.96) followed Michigan.

Pennsylvania has the most expensive beer, according to the study, at $21.98 per 24-pack. It's followed by Tennessee ($21.97) and Texas ($21.66).

Michigan's thriving craft beer is largely ignored for the purposes of the study which is based on national retailers. The study primarily uses prices from Walmart and Total Wine and focuses on America's two most-popular brands - Bud Light and Miller Lite.

Simple Thrifty Living analysts compared prices at up to 10 stores in each state in both rural and urban locations. They noted the price of the products from the specific store, then averaged them together and rounded to the nearest cent.


http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/06/michigan_has_cheapest_cases_of.html#incart_river_home
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 29, 2017, 11:35:48 am
Bud light and Miller light?  I thought they were talking about beer.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 29, 2017, 12:50:47 pm
Bud light and Miller light?  I thought they were talking about beer.

I was surprised to read they weren't talking about PBR.   ^-^
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 29, 2017, 12:59:29 pm
Bud light and Miller light?  I thought they were talking about beer.

Compared to Natty Lite those two are IPA's for the bubba crowd.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on June 29, 2017, 05:38:08 pm
Grandad spends 5 years and thousands of pounds renovating yacht - and it sinks 5 minutes after launch

A grandad spent five years and thousands of pounds renovating a yacht in his garden – only to see it sink within minutes of its launch.

Richard Ogilvy, 75, worked up to eight hours a day, five days a week, treating rotten timbers and getting the engine running.

But when he decided to test his his beloved Sea Wraithe in the North Sea she did not make it as far as the harbour wall and went down in minutes.

The former forester and sawmill owner said: “Obviously I would have liked to see the boat remain on the surface.

More: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grandad-spends-5-years-thousands-10710195
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 29, 2017, 05:45:27 pm
Grandad spends 5 years and thousands of pounds renovating yacht - and it sinks 5 minutes after launch

A grandad spent five years and thousands of pounds renovating a yacht in his garden – only to see it sink within minutes of its launch.

Richard Ogilvy, 75, worked up to eight hours a day, five days a week, treating rotten timbers and getting the engine running.

But when he decided to test his his beloved Sea Wraithe in the North Sea she did not make it as far as the harbour wall and went down in minutes.

The former forester and sawmill owner said: “Obviously I would have liked to see the boat remain on the surface.

More: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grandad-spends-5-years-thousands-10710195
Fire up the pump when the tide goes out, but look for where the water is coming out when the water is low. I'm curious why she went down. Auxiliary engine shaft seals/packing (assuming it is an inboard), intake valves for coolant and associated plumbing are always the first places to look. (Close the sea cocks.)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on June 29, 2017, 05:55:11 pm
Fire up the pump when the tide goes out, but look for where the water is coming out when the water is low. I'm curious why she went down. Auxiliary engine shaft seals/packing (assuming it is an inboard), intake valves for coolant and associated plumbing are always the first places to look. (Close the sea cocks.)

I was on the scene some years ago when the shipyard launched a many million dollar, state of the art work boat into the river at Morgan City.  Damned thing slid into the river perfectly and went straight to the bottom!  Turns out that it was launched with every single sea cock wide open.

OOPS!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 29, 2017, 06:12:26 pm
Grandad spends 5 years and thousands of pounds renovating yacht - and it sinks 5 minutes after launch

(https://www.bedbathhome.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/FlexSeal2.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 29, 2017, 06:29:45 pm
Grandad spends 5 years and thousands of pounds renovating yacht - and it sinks 5 minutes after launch



More: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grandad-spends-5-years-thousands-10710195

" Bless this ship, and all who sail on her. I christen thee The Flying WASP.."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 29, 2017, 06:35:09 pm
I was on the scene some years ago when the shipyard launched a many million dollar, state of the art work boat into the river at Morgan City.  Damned thing slid into the river perfectly and went straight to the bottom!  Turns out that it was launched with every single sea cock wide open.

OOPS!
Yep. Sh*t happens. Who was the actor who was going to rescue folks after katrina, launched the boat, and left the drain plug out?

When I was on the seawall crew (long long ago and far away) we had a pile driver on a wooden barge. We'd drive a set of pilings, set up the pumps and tow it to the railway for a re-caulking. Pier jobs were scheduled around when the railway was available, it was that serious. We kept a hatchet in the tow skiff to cut the line if the pump quit and she started to go down...We never lost her, though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on June 29, 2017, 06:37:46 pm
The former forester and sawmill owner said: “Obviously I would have liked to see the boat remain on the surface.

That British understatement...I love it!  Are we sure Mr. Ogilvy isn't English?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 29, 2017, 06:41:15 pm
That British understatement...I love it!  Are we sure Mr. Ogilvy isn't English?

I'm sure he is.  The story's in the Mirror.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 29, 2017, 06:44:23 pm
That British understatement...I love it!  Are we sure Mr. Ogilvy isn't English?

I think being long-term Scottish was demonstrated by the unwillingness to pay for caulk.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 29, 2017, 06:45:40 pm
I'm sure he is.  The story's in the Mirror.

Forres, Moray is in Scotland.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Forres,+UK/@57.8059544,-4.6395742,8.12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48857425595848a7:0x18134fe5bfad3038!8m2!3d57.609791!4d-3.61998
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 29, 2017, 06:51:54 pm
Forres, Moray is in Scotland.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Forres,+UK/@57.8059544,-4.6395742,8.12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48857425595848a7:0x18134fe5bfad3038!8m2!3d57.609791!4d-3.61998

Right you are.  And it was North Sea.  May @EC strike me dead for that.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 29, 2017, 07:28:03 pm
Right you are.  And it was North Sea.  May @EC strike me dead for that.

We should be forgiven since their countries are half the size of our decent states...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on July 01, 2017, 01:50:22 am
Jenks went off half cocked.
 
Florida man sits on gun, shoots self in penis, police say
NEWS
Florida man sits on gun, shoots self in penis, police say
38-year-old says gun was in driver's seat of car when he sat on it

By News4Jax.com Staff
Posted: 4:24 PM, June 30, 2017
Updated: 4:31 PM, June 30, 2017
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville man accidentally shot himself in the penis early Friday morning when he sat on a gun in the driver's seat of his car, police said.

Cedrick Jelks, 38, was taken to Memorial Hospital by 25-year-old Shanekia Roberts, who told police that Jelks was sitting in his Nissan Altima by himself and came into their home on Freedom Crossing Trail in a panic and ran straight to the bathroom.

She said she followed him and saw that he had a gunshot wound to his penis, so she took him to the hospital, where he underwent surgery.

She said Jelks told her he sat on the gun, which accidentally went off.

Police were called to the hospital just before 3 a.m. because of the gunshot wound.

Investigators found that Jelks was convicted of cocaine possession in 2004.

It's possible he will be facing charges for possessing a firearm, because he is a convicted felon.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida-man-sits-on-gun-shoots-self-in-penis-police-say
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 01, 2017, 03:14:46 am
Ouch. Now, which way did he go?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 01, 2017, 02:40:52 pm
Will just put these in this section:

Alaska: Bear walks into liquor store, video
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40465703/bear-walks-into-a-liquor-shop
http://www.ajc.com/news/national/joke-bear-wanders-into-alaska-liquor-store/y03BQdCUnaicj3zJvRcHpK/

Alaska: Bear crashes through boy's bedroom window:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bear-crashes-window-alaskas-boys-bedroom-48383182

Virginia: "Mr. Bear" continues to make himself at home in the neighborhood
https://pilotonline.com/news/local/columnist/life-23456/mr-bear-continues-to-make-himself-at-home-in-the/article_4807bfa2-62b3-5ff9-946f-e2d0dd7891ca.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on July 01, 2017, 03:12:17 pm
Tom Tom Tomtom (drumroll)

Thank you for keeping my bearings straight.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 03, 2017, 03:01:00 pm
I lost where the "cute thread" is, this belongs in there more but it can go here. 

Oh, I get it, there is a glass window separating them. Well, that changes things a bit. Still, good enough of a story.
Quote

A captive audience: The adorable moment a woman sits with a gorilla at Louisville Zoo and shows him videos of baby apes

    Lindsey Costello was enjoying her day at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky when she spotted a woman showing a gorilla baby animal videos
    The woman saw how excited she was to see the ape and let Costello sit with the gorilla and show more videos
    In a post on Instagram, Costello said: 'My new friend and I enjoy watching videos of baby gorillas'
    The Navy Behavioral Health Technician added the gorilla was extremely communicative while watching the videos
    Costello enjoyed her time at the zoo, even posting a photo of her riding a camel later on her Instagram
    'Best way to spend my last day home. My heart is so happy. (sic) #blessed' 

By Matthew Wright For Dailymail.com

Published: 21:06 EDT, 2 July 2017 | Updated: 08:52 EDT, 3 July 2017

A girl visiting a Kentucky zoo shared an adorable moment with a captivated gorilla by showing him videos of baby gorilla's on YouTube.

Lindsey Costello was checking out the animal's enclosure at the Louisville Zoo in Louisville, Kentucky, when she noticed a woman showing the beast videos of baby gorilla and switched places with her to show the ape more.

In a post on Instagram, Costello said: 'My new friend and I enjoy watching videos of baby gorillas.'

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/03/01/41FA768A00000578-0-image-m-2_1499043399541.jpg)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4660032/Woman-sits-gorilla-shows-videos-baby-apes.html#ixzz4lmTx6Ydj
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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on July 03, 2017, 04:36:57 pm
In a post on Instagram, Costello said: 'My new friend and I enjoy watching  gorilla porn videos.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on July 03, 2017, 04:39:32 pm
In a post on Instagram, Costello said: 'My new friend and I enjoy watching  gorilla porn videos.

Orangutan is the New Black
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 03, 2017, 04:47:44 pm
In a post on Instagram, Costello said: 'My new friend and I enjoy watching  gorilla porn videos.
Same old soundtrack. Lousy music and "ungh ungh ungh...."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on July 03, 2017, 05:04:00 pm
Same old soundtrack. Lousy music and "ungh ungh ungh...."

Plot was just another knuckle dragger.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on July 03, 2017, 10:49:48 pm


History Channel Reveals the Secret Alien Nazi Story Behind Washington At Gettysburgh

Posted at 6:35 pm on July 3, 2017 by streiff

<..snip..>

(http://www.redstate.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/history-channel-washington.jpg)

On the one hand if is baffling how George Washington was associated with Gettysburg. Other than this being a military image and we all know that one war is pretty much like another it has nothing to do with Gettysburg. But, on the other hand, it is certainly no more egregious than a lot of the programming that channel runs.

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/07/03/history-channel-gettysburg/ (http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/07/03/history-channel-gettysburg/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 05, 2017, 02:39:34 am
This Guy Hilariously Photoshops Himself Into the ‘Glamorous’ Lives of Celebrities

http://twentytwowords.com/this-guy-hilariously-photoshops-himself-into-the-glamorous-lives-of-celebrities/?utm_source=socialmob&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=influencer&utm_content=2889

Yes its clickbait but damn its worth it.

(http://i.imgur.com/krsPgux.jpg)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 05, 2017, 03:17:24 am
@Cripplecreek  Those are fun, thanks!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: rodamala on July 06, 2017, 03:43:40 am
" Bless this ship, and all who sail on her. I christen thee The Flying WASP.."

OKAY, DROP ANCHOR!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 06, 2017, 07:21:02 pm
Behind the scenes with Ann Arbor's deer sterilization crew on a Friday night

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/07/ann_arbor_approves_481k_to_con.html

ANN ARBOR, MI - After years of heated debate, public outcry, protests and lawsuits over Ann Arbor's deer management program, the City Council quietly voted this week to continue it.

The council voted unanimously and without discussion Monday night, July 3, to approve a two-year contract with White Buffalo Inc. for continuation of surgical sterilization and sharpshooting services at a cost of up to $170,000 per year, or $340,000 over two years.

No members of the public showed up to speak for or against the proposal.

White Buffalo is the same contractor that was hired to carry out the city's second-annual deer cull and first-ever sterilization program this past winter. The Connecticut-based nonprofit wildlife control company now will continue its work in Ann Arbor for another two years.


(http://i.imgur.com/eBvBR7C.jpg)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 06, 2017, 07:29:04 pm
Deer Steers?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 06, 2017, 07:30:12 pm
Deer Steers?

Ann Arbor. The place is overrun with steers.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on July 06, 2017, 07:44:00 pm
Ann Arbor. The place is overrun with steers.

and Queers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyFSdj1J5Vw&ab_channel=ghost7388
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on July 07, 2017, 11:46:10 pm
I heard that when Chris Christie took his family to the state beach he closed during the New Jersey
budget standoff over the holiday weekend, he was helicoptered to the area---I bet they called the
flight Operation Dumbo Drop.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 08, 2017, 12:06:26 am
I heard that when Chris Christie took his family to the state beach he closed during the New Jersey
budget standoff over the holiday weekend, he was helicoptered to the area---I bet they called the
flight Operation Dumbo Drop.
Not to his face--they'd be walking a beat in Camden.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on July 08, 2017, 12:51:36 am
Not to his face--they'd be walking a beat in Camden.
I didn't say they'd say it to his face. ;)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 08, 2017, 06:39:10 pm
Airport near Mackinac Island reminds travelers to 'remove fudge from bags'

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/07/airport_notice_near_mackinac_i.html

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - This has to be one of those "only in Michigan" moments.

It comes courtesy of Brighton author Charlene Kull, who captured this photo of a sign at Chippewa County International Airport near Sault Ste. Marie just before 7 p.m. on July 5.

As you can see, mixed among warning signs about removing items from your pockets and unpacking your leftover fireworks is a notice for passengers to remove fudge from their bags.


(http://i.imgur.com/jeXY5sX.png)

And after all that time I spent lovingly packing it too.  8888crybaby

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 08, 2017, 06:59:26 pm
Been there, had the fudge.....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on July 08, 2017, 08:01:43 pm
And after all that time I spent lovingly packing it too.  8888crybaby


If you're going to pack fudge, you have to be ready to pull it out when you are told to.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 08, 2017, 08:07:12 pm

If you're going to pack fudge, you have to be ready to pull it out when you are told to.

Anything to please the Crown.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on July 08, 2017, 08:07:34 pm
Childish bathroom humor.  Why I am just appalled at the both of you.


If you're going to pack fudge, you have to be ready to pull it out when you are told to.
Been there, had the fudge.....


Not a single ping to this thread was forwarded to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 09, 2017, 12:22:34 am
Childish bathroom humor.  Why I am just appalled at the both of you.


Not a single ping to this thread was forwarded to me.

When in doubt I whip it out

I got me some Mackinaw fudge.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 09, 2017, 12:28:39 am
Please unpack fudge.

(http://i.imgur.com/Z4QxFwu.gif)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on July 09, 2017, 01:20:45 am
When in doubt I whip it out

I got me some Mackinaw fudge.

Where's mine? If it is free for all.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on July 11, 2017, 02:43:05 am
Genetically modified pink pineapples a hit on Instagram
By Ben Hooper Contact the Author   |     July 10, 2017 at 12:01 PM



(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ_4LOHkDemotlSK2Xja-XOt94UVAzEKb9DG9ck4FZl2SLc66WS)
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTp40qHFFoqHV82esO2brXv-v6bBV8vrDS3vmDW4v6D-7iElooH)



July 10 (UPI) -- Pineapples genetically modified to have a pink hue are arriving in stores and are already a hit on social media.


The season that brought social media sensations including the Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino can now claim pink pineapples, which have been in development by companies including Del Monte and Dole since 2005.


(full article)
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/07/10/Genetically-modified-pink-pineapples-a-hit-on-Instagram/1341499700674/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=7
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on July 11, 2017, 12:07:53 pm
Genetically modified pink pineapples a hit on Instagram
By Ben Hooper Contact the Author   |     July 10, 2017 at 12:01 PM



(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ_4LOHkDemotlSK2Xja-XOt94UVAzEKb9DG9ck4FZl2SLc66WS)
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTp40qHFFoqHV82esO2brXv-v6bBV8vrDS3vmDW4v6D-7iElooH)



July 10 (UPI) -- Pineapples genetically modified to have a pink hue are arriving in stores and are already a hit on social media.


The season that brought social media sensations including the Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino can now claim pink pineapples, which have been in development by companies including Del Monte and Dole since 2005.


Very Apropos that this wonderful pinkness was preceded by people fudge packing.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on July 13, 2017, 04:40:58 pm
This isn't news...it's "olds"...  (and I find it interesting that neither of them was arguing for the pronunciation that's currently popular!)

The strange tale of the man who was shot point-blank for mispronouncing 'Newfoundland' — in the Old West
Mill workers in the frontier town of Larkspur, Colo., saw two men enter a cabin in search of a dictionary. Seconds later, they heard a gunshot
Tristin Hopper | January 14, 2016  8:14 PM EST | Last Updated July 13, 2017  11:33 AM EDT

Mill workers in the frontier town of Larkspur, Colo., saw two men enter a cabin in search of a dictionary. Seconds later, they heard a gunshot.

The Webster’s had not even been thumbed through when mill worker William Atcheson, 23, threw a punch. Teamster John P. Davis recovered and, “true to his Texan breeding and education,” drew a revolver and fired point-blank into his assailant’s abdomen.

The year was 1876 and Davis and Atcheson had just drawn first blood in a dispute that has divided Newfoundlanders ever since.

“One wanted to put the accent on ‘found,’ and the other on ‘land,’ ” said the Rocky Mountain News, which reported on the unusual brawl in its March 29, 1876 edition (https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/cgi-bin/colorado?a=d&d=RMW18760329.2.44&srpos=5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22William+Atchison%22-------2-#).

While the modern “noo-fn-land” is the undisputed leader in the battle over the correct pronunciation of the word Newfoundland, it arose out of a pitched struggle of rival inflections.

“It’s a generational thing, but just exactly what the dividing line is I don’t know, but if you’re born after 1970, chances are you primarily put the stress on the first syllable,” says Philip Hiscock, a folklorist at Memorial University and an expert on the Newfoundland dialect.

“And if you’re born before 1950, your primary pronunciation would be to stress the last syllable.”

...

(http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2016/01/murder.jpg?quality=60&strip=all)

...

Excerpt.  Read more at http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-strange-tale-of-the-man-who-was-shot-point-blank-for-mispronouncing-newfoundland-in-the-old-west/wcm/d21ba9a0-3e3e-47b6-b79b-4f4c71e65053
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 17, 2017, 02:53:04 am
‘Passed gas’ forces passengers from plane at Raleigh-Durham airport, spokesperson says
RALEIGH, NC (WNCN) -

A person who “passed gas” on an American Airlines plane on Sunday afternoon forced all passengers off the jet, officials said.

The incident happened when passengers on the flight became ill with nausea and headaches, according to a spokesperson with Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

The flight, which was not identified by RDU officials, landed at the airport around 4 p.m. when the incident was reported.

All the passengers were taken off the plane and after the incident was investigated it was determined that a passenger “passed gas,” the official said.


http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/35896677/passed-gas-forces-passengers-from-plane-at-raleigh-durham-airport-spokesperson-says

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 17, 2017, 11:16:03 am
It's what happens when you have that Sarin cocktail in the airport bar before boarding.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 17, 2017, 03:17:19 pm
Police: Pennsylvania Driver Taking ‘Selfie’ Before Crashing
July 17, 2017 11:02 AM
KDKA (http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/07/17/pennsylvania-driver-taking-selfie-before-crash/)


BIGLERVILLE, Pa. (AP) – State police say a Pennsylvania driver crashed after he became distracted by taking a selfie.

Troopers from the Gettysburg barracks say the man was seen using a cellphone behind the wheel when he crashed after 8 p.m. Saturday night in Franklin Township. That’s in Adams County, about 35 miles southwest of Harrisburg.

Police didn’t immediately say whether the driver will be cited or charged in the crash. They say he was taken to York Hospital for moderate injuries and was wearing a seat belt when he crashed.

The car crossed the road, onto a grassy area, then went airborne before landing on a concrete slab and knocking over an Animal Wellness Clinic sign. Police say the car’s engine block and front wheels came off from the impact.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on July 29, 2017, 01:37:30 am


   
Charges include sexual activities involving animals, burglary of an unoccupied structure and petit theft.

VALPARAISO — A 26-year-old Valparaiso man is facing multiple charges in connection with the molestation of a horse.
Darius Galloway of Okaloosa Avenue is charged with sexual activities involving animals, burglary of an unoccupied structure and petit theft. Burglary is a felony, while the two other charges are misdemeanors.
According to an arrest report from the Valparaiso Police Department, on April 25, the owner of a female horse that boards at a stable on Valparaiso Parkway, noticed oil on the horse’s rump. On June 20, the owner again observed oil on the horse, as well as a visible handprint in the oil.
A week later, on June 27, the horse’s owner notified the owner of the stable that she had again noticed oil on the equine’s rump, as well as a white substance she believed to be semen on the horse’s vagina, the report said. A trail camera was set up in the stable as a result.


According to police, on July 19 the camera captured images of Galloway entering the stable wearing a long-sleeve, hooded garment with a “skull and bones” design. Galloway reportedly could be seen on the video obtaining a folding chair and then standing on it shirtless behind the horse in her stall. When Galloway departed the area, his face was visible on the camera.
On July 26, the owner of the stable reportedly saw Galloway walk down her private driveway and head toward the stable around 11:32 p.m. The owner contacted the police department, and a short time later officers located Galloway in the horse’s stall.
According to the report, Galloway had his shirt around his neck, and his pants were sagging. He reportedly had the trail camera in his hand.
Authorities say Galloway admitted to having sexual activities involving the horse, and that he intended to take the camera with him and use it at his residence. He is currently being held without bond in the Okaloosa County Jail.

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20170728/valparaiso-man-charged-with-sexually-molesting-horse
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on July 29, 2017, 01:51:46 am
If you are going to have a night mare might as well enjoin it. Pics or it never happened.  @Wingnut
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on July 29, 2017, 12:43:24 pm
If you are going to have a night mare might as well enjoin it. Pics or it never happened.  @Wingnut

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 30, 2017, 10:52:45 pm
Before I post this I just want everyone to know how sorry I am for posting it.

I have a problem savme

St. Louis, Missouri | A 43-year old woman was arrested this morning by the St. Louis Police Department after she tore off her husband’s genitals with her own teeth as an act of vengeance for an alleged infidelity.

During her interrogation, Christina Palmer Anderson confessed that she had been planning her crime since she had surprised her husband performing oral sex on her crystal meth dealer, last weekend.

She told police that she had spent many hours sharpening her teeth with a nail file over the last week, in order to make the castration easier.


There is more indeed.

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/woman-arrested-for-emasculating-cheating-husband-with-her-teeth/

(http://i.imgur.com/ipB6mEo.jpg)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on July 30, 2017, 11:00:09 pm
Before the years of meth?


(http://i47.tinypic.com/2sa1amt.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on July 31, 2017, 01:39:19 am
(http://i.imgur.com/ipB6mEo.jpg)


!!!!!

I wouldn't touch that with yours, never mind mine.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on July 31, 2017, 02:08:30 am
(http://www.theamericanmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Nancy-Pelosi2.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on July 31, 2017, 02:09:00 am

!!!!!

I wouldn't touch that with yours, never mind mine.

Laz would hit it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on July 31, 2017, 03:46:40 am

!!!!!

I wouldn't touch that with yours, never mind mine.

She's actually relatively "attractive" compared to some of them I encounter every week at work. Working in a medical facility we face a constant onslaught of junkies who are sure there are drugs in the building.

We're not supposed to interact with them if we can avoid it because they're potentially dangerous. Its part of why I have to walk Doctors, Nurses, Techs etc to their cars.

(http://i.imgur.com/vImFuRu.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on July 31, 2017, 04:37:29 am
She's actually relatively "attractive" compared to some of them I encounter every week at work. Working in a medical facility we face a constant onslaught of junkies who are sure there are drugs in the building.

We're not supposed to interact with them if we can avoid it because they're potentially dangerous. Its part of why I have to walk Doctors, Nurses, Techs etc to their cars.

(http://i.imgur.com/vImFuRu.jpg)
The Japanese might just have the answer for dealing with those folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1JXhSYfLNE
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on August 01, 2017, 10:03:59 pm
The Japanese might just have the answer for dealing with those folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1JXhSYfLNE

A good science fiction story, Tangle Hold, by F.L. Wallace, had the police using "non-lethal" guns that fired a polymer net that constricted with struggling. 

(http://www.loyalbooks.com/image/detail/Tangle-Hold-by-F-L-Wallace.jpg) (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32161)

I don't think I'm spoiling too much to say that when not being observed, the police would fire into the mouth and involuntary peristaltic action tightened the threads... so much for "non-lethal".

Click the cover image or here (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32161) for Project Gutenberg link.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on August 04, 2017, 02:45:12 am
Quote
Naked 'Sasquatch' who attacked hunter in Oregon woods has conviction overturned
Updated on August 3, 2017 at 9:21 AM Posted on August 2, 2017 at 6:10 PM

By Everton Bailey Jr.

ebailey@oregonian.com

The Oregonian/OregonLive

The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man who attacked a hunter while naked in rural Washington County and told authorities he was "a Sasquatch ... from a family of Sasquatches."

Linus Norgren, who has bipolar disorder, was having a mental break in October 2013 and so couldn't have understood his Miranda rights despite telling a Washington County deputy he did, according to the court ruling. Norgren also made incriminating statements to the deputy in addition to identifying himself as "a Sasquatch," according to the court ruling.

But the appeals court said a Washington County Circuit judge was wrong to rule against a defense's motion to suppress Norgren's statements.

Continued: http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2017/08/naked_sasquatch_who_attacked_h.html#incart_river_index

It appears the poor young man indeed suffers from mental illness. Still, a very strange story.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on August 04, 2017, 02:57:42 am
He is a sensitive squach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X0Hi4eml0Q&ab_channel=rek231wa
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on August 10, 2017, 06:17:49 pm
Evidently, Walmart has apologized for the following display that's been making the rounds (no pun intended)...


(https://i.redd.it/g3b0dkd1iqez.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on August 12, 2017, 05:59:25 am
Evidently, Walmart has apologized for the following display that's been making the rounds (no pun intended)...


(https://i.redd.it/g3b0dkd1iqez.jpg)

Maybe it's not the best idea to give your advertisements to the part time kids working at Wally World????
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 12, 2017, 01:27:43 pm
Evidently, Walmart has apologized for the following display that's been making the rounds (no pun intended)...
I love it.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on August 12, 2017, 03:00:47 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dplpWIpofHI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ

Songs about school shootings (http://listafterlist.com/songs-about-school-shootings/)
I never realized there were so many.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 12, 2017, 07:34:33 pm
I read in today's paper the Walmart gun photo is fake.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 12, 2017, 07:40:18 pm
I read in today's paper the Walmart gun photo is fake.
Maybe, but I have also seen customers move displays around and do some ridiculous things with the complete disregard of management and employees. Of course this particular thing could never happen in a Walmart in my state, Wally's gave up trying to jump through California's hoops many years ago.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 15, 2017, 12:29:59 pm
Nudist shot in the buttock on Corsican beach
The Local
news.france@thelocal.com   
14 August 2017
15:02 CEST+02:00
Quote
A business owner in Corsica has been accused of shooting a woman with a pellet gun as he chased a group of nudists off a beach.

The woman, an Italian in her thirties, was with a group of friends, all of whom were nude during their visit to the beach in southern Corsica.

According to local media reports, the owner of a local beach bar had told the group to "get dressed or leave". He then got his rifle and allegedly fired several shots at the group, hitting the woman and leaving her slightly injured on her left buttock.  ...

The remote beach of Carataggio is not officially a nudist beach, but according to local media reports and comments left on travel review site TripAdvisor, it is located close to a naturist beach and nudity is common.  ...
Full story (https://www.thelocal.fr/20170814/italian-nudist-shot-in-the-buttock-on-a-beach-in-corsica)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on August 15, 2017, 12:35:58 pm
 They said it was a million Lira wound, but the Italian Government must keep that money 'cause I don't think she'll a nickel of that million.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EC on August 15, 2017, 04:55:13 pm
They said it was a million Lira wound, but the Italian Government must keep that money 'cause I don't think she'll a nickel of that million.

So .... 300 quid? Seems a fair settlement.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on August 15, 2017, 06:19:58 pm

Cops: Woman who set man on fire, doused him with urine dies


TARENTUM, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman accused of setting her sleeping boyfriend on fire and throwing buckets of urine on him to extinguish the flames has died of an apparent heroin overdose.

That is all.

https://apnews.com/7480cb16a9674118927a0a13bc85febf?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on August 15, 2017, 07:48:50 pm
Tainted Buffet At Jackson Strip Club Blamed After Severe Diarrhea Incident On Stage

contaminated buffet at the venue. While the investigation continues, the venue has not been named.

According to reports by local media, the strip club was nearly full on Friday night when the incident occurred, and both staff and customers were reported to have eaten from the free buffet, which included the usual selection of ribs, chicken and deep-fried shrimp.

While the results of the lab analysis are yet to come back, one source familiar with the investigation told reporters that bad shrimp was the most likely cause of the diarrhea. “Typically shrimp are involved in cases like this, particularly when they are not cleaned thoroughly.”

Patrons at the venue who were sitting near the stage were the most directly affected by the incident, which occurred close to 11pm. According to a witness at the venue, three dancers were performing on separate poles when the first sign of trouble emerged.


http://jacksontelegraph.com/2017/08/10/tainted-buffet-at-jackson-strip-club-blamed-after-severe-diarrhea-incident-on-stage/

Looks like a hoax but its still funny.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on August 15, 2017, 08:10:50 pm
They were crappy dancers.

and the story is fake.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 15, 2017, 08:27:46 pm
They were crappy dancers.

and the story is fake.
There are sickos out there who would have paid extra to sit up front... :terror:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 16, 2017, 12:23:26 am
There are sickos out there who would have paid extra to sit up front... :terror:
Up front? Hell they would have paid a premium for a lap dance!
I will never understand the japanese

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDcfOkOeTw

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 16, 2017, 01:12:17 am
Up front? Hell they would have paid a premium for a lap dance!
I will never understand the japanese

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDcfOkOeTw

Sigh...must be a fad. This, too, will pass.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on August 17, 2017, 06:14:50 pm
Car Thief Climbs Crane, Strips Naked at Port of Los Angeles in WILD Police Chase Caught on Camera
http://gcaptain.com/car-thief-climbs-crane-strips-naked-at-port-of-los-angeles-in-wild-police-chase-caught-on-camera/
August 17, 2017

...A bizarre incident at the Port of Los Angeles Wednesday night as a high-speed police chase ended with the suspect entering the port where he climbed a giant ship-to-shore crane and stripping naked before plunging to his death....

...News helicopters captured the man on camera pacing around, waving at police, dancing and doing “calisthenics”, as the media described it. After a few hours on the crane the man even took off his clothes.

Tragically, after more than three hours on the crane, the man either fell or jumped to his death, landing on the containership docked at the terminal....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 17, 2017, 07:20:30 pm
Car Thief Climbs Crane, Strips Naked at Port of Los Angeles in WILD Police Chase Caught on Camera
http://gcaptain.com/car-thief-climbs-crane-strips-naked-at-port-of-los-angeles-in-wild-police-chase-caught-on-camera/
August 17, 2017

...A bizarre incident at the Port of Los Angeles Wednesday night as a high-speed police chase ended with the suspect entering the port where he climbed a giant ship-to-shore crane and stripping naked before plunging to his death....

...News helicopters captured the man on camera pacing around, waving at police, dancing and doing “calisthenics”, as the media described it. After a few hours on the crane the man even took off his clothes.

Tragically, after more than three hours on the crane, the man either fell or jumped to his death, landing on the containership docked at the terminal....
Drugs? Most likely!  Sad that the crew had to clean that one off the decks...for the crew.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 17, 2017, 08:47:51 pm
Car Thief Climbs Crane, Strips Naked at Port of Los Angeles in WILD Police Chase Caught on Camera
http://gcaptain.com/car-thief-climbs-crane-strips-naked-at-port-of-los-angeles-in-wild-police-chase-caught-on-camera/
August 17, 2017

...A bizarre incident at the Port of Los Angeles Wednesday night as a high-speed police chase ended with the suspect entering the port where he climbed a giant ship-to-shore crane and stripping naked before plunging to his death....

...News helicopters captured the man on camera pacing around, waving at police, dancing and doing “calisthenics”, as the media described it. After a few hours on the crane the man even took off his clothes.

Tragically, after more than three hours on the crane, the man either fell or jumped to his death, landing on the containership docked at the terminal....
I don't usually watch these things, but this one was a bit different, especially when the guy bailed and started running up the steps, walking, walking really slow, those cranes are really high! You could see the guy wasn't right in the head, waving his arms and hands around. Glad I had better things to do than keep watching. Not surprised he jumped, he was erratic from the get go.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on August 17, 2017, 09:01:47 pm
I don't usually watch these things, but this one was a bit different, especially when the guy bailed and started running up the steps, walking, walking really slow, those cranes are really high! You could see the guy wasn't right in the head, waving his arms and hands around. Glad I had better things to do than keep watching. Not surprised he jumped, he was erratic from the get go.

Where the hell is Dirty Harry when you need him.   This all could have been prevented.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 18, 2017, 12:11:46 am
Where the hell is Dirty Harry when you need him.   This all could have been prevented.
Well I bet there will be a lot of second guessing and blaming the police for letting him spend so much time circling around the cranes before they move in.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on August 18, 2017, 01:01:13 am
Well I bet there will be a lot of second guessing and blaming the police for letting him spend so much time circling around the cranes before they move in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nglh-BExEus
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 21, 2017, 08:00:44 am
A different spin on bearing arms....

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2017/08/chinese-man-two-human-arms/#ieW11iFF4pUC7ZrL.97 (https://asiancorrespondent.com/2017/08/chinese-man-two-human-arms/#ieW11iFF4pUC7ZrL.97)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 23, 2017, 11:12:07 am
Quote
Charleston man arrested for alleged vandalism
By MetroNews  (http://wvmetronews.com/2017/08/22/charleston-man-arrested-for-alleged-vandalism/)Staff in News | August 22, 2017 at 10:16PM

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The man who allegedly spray-painted “Black Lives Matter” on the side of two Charleston buildings was arrested Tuesday evening.

Ray Hensley Jr., 36, of Charleston, allegedly painted the message on the side of the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences on Washington Street East and the building of Fox’s Pizza on Ruffner Avenue sometime early Tuesday morning.

Hensley was also arrested for four charges including one for obstructing, one for trespassing and two for shoplifting.

According to the Charleston Police Department, more charges are expected to be filed once a detailed examination of other sites are completed.
The ridiculous part of this story?

(http://wvmetronews.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ray-Hensley-e1503454488452-215x265.jpeg)
Yeah, he's white.
Apparently, he's been writing "Black Lives Matter" all over the place. (http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-cops-and-courts/20170822/charleston-man-arrested-for-black-lives-matter-graffiti-) Just standing up for his peeps.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 23, 2017, 06:13:06 pm
The ridiculous part of this story?

(http://wvmetronews.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ray-Hensley-e1503454488452-215x265.jpeg)
Yeah, he's white.
Apparently, he's been writing "Black Lives Matter" all over the place. (http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-cops-and-courts/20170822/charleston-man-arrested-for-black-lives-matter-graffiti-) Just standing up for his peeps.
Don't judge him by his "outside", he self identifies as a Watusi.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 23, 2017, 06:43:25 pm
Don't judge him by his "outside", he self identifies as a Watusi.

And I'm OK with that, as long as he doesn't have Diarrhea.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on August 23, 2017, 07:00:21 pm
Don't judge him by his "outside", he self identifies as a Watusi.

(http://68.media.tumblr.com/f880cfb3b3c5297103978a014e77ecff/tumblr_mk4lmtQXWC1rpmqb8o1_400.gif)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 23, 2017, 08:15:49 pm
I'd like to get one of those t-shirts, please.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 02, 2017, 10:34:56 pm
Melania Trump wears stilettos again on way to Texas

 By Josh Delk - 09/02/17 03:12 PM EDT


First lady Melania Trump wore stilettos for her departure Saturday to Texas to meet with victims of Hurricane Harvey, after facing criticism for wearing similar shoes on a trip earlier this week.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348992-melania-wears-stilettos-again-on-way-to-texas (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348992-melania-wears-stilettos-again-on-way-to-texas)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 02, 2017, 10:41:45 pm
Melania Trump wears stilettos again on way to Texas

 By Josh Delk - 09/02/17 03:12 PM EDT


First lady Melania Trump wore stilettos for her departure Saturday to Texas to meet with victims of Hurricane Harvey, after facing criticism for wearing similar shoes on a trip earlier this week.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348992-melania-wears-stilettos-again-on-way-to-texas (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348992-melania-wears-stilettos-again-on-way-to-texas)

They're just pissed she looks so damned good in them.  That gal from Vogue who bitched about it looked like a bag lady made up to look like Raggedy Ann.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on September 02, 2017, 11:05:12 pm
They're just pissed she looks so damned good in them.  That gal from Vogue who bitched about it looked like a bag lady made up to look like Raggedy Ann.

I can't find the thumbs up emogi...but thumbs up. It wouldn't have mattered what she wore...they would have found fault.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on September 05, 2017, 03:19:08 pm
Smugglers caught because they got their Chinese characters the wrong way round
Language blunder gives sugar carriers a bitter lesson after it attracts coastguards’ suspicions
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 05 September, 2017, 2:19pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 05 September, 2017, 2:19pm
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2109812/smugglers-caught-because-they-got-their-chinese-characters-wrong

(http://i.imgur.com/fRusuud.jpg)

A foreign ship was caught with smuggled cargo last week because the crew did not know Chinese and put the wrong characters on the front of the vessel.

[...]

But they raised the eyebrows of Chinese coastguards because they were painted the other way round. The paint was much fresher than that on the rest of the ship, which was docking at the Yancheng harbour on Thursday, according to the report.

[...]

Officers found 1,300 tonnes of sugar in the cargo bay, held in plastic bags with wording that suggested the origin of production was in Thailand.

[...]

The crew lowered the Panamanian flag and painted the Chinese characters on the bow, because Chinese authorities were less likely to inspect domestic ships.

But the painters did not speak Chinese and held the template in the wrong direction, getting the characters back-to-front.

[...]



I love the unmatched paint, too.  Not sure I believe the story, but it's amusing to think about.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on September 11, 2017, 03:49:05 pm
Chaos erupts as tick on display goes missing during press conference
September 6, 2017 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170906/p2a/00m/0na/003000c

MIYAZAKI -- An ixodid tick that was on display here during a press conference at the Miyazaki Prefectural Government office on Sept. 4 has gone missing, causing chaos, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned.

The tick was presented to the media as part of the prefectural government's drive to warn people about "severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS)," which is transmitted by ixodid ticks.

It had been brought to the conference venue by a prefectural government employee, and placed on a sheet of white paper together with another ixodid tick that had died after sucking some blood. The live tick suddenly went missing following a photo session.

The tick's sudden disappearance caused commotion in the room, with journalists and prefectural employees frantically searching for it, but to no avail. As a countermeasure, the prefectural government released two types of insecticide across the press room.

[...]

At a press conference the following day, Miyazaki Gov. Shuji Kono apologized, saying, "We should have taken better safety precautions."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 11, 2017, 04:02:59 pm
Artist's rendering of the missing tick....

(http://classicmarvelforever.com/cms/assets/images/profiles/comic_book/The%20Tick.png)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cripplecreek on September 11, 2017, 04:03:54 pm
Chaos erupts as tick on display goes missing during press conference

If someone comes into the medical facility where I work is found to have bedbugs, examining rooms are quarantined and the area where they sat in the reception area is roped off for several feet around. The funny thing is that the exterminator uses rubbing alcohol to kill them. The hospital wants those areas quarantined for 24 hours but the exterminator says 2 hours is more than enough.

They just shrug their shoulders over cockroaches.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on September 11, 2017, 04:09:05 pm
They just shrug their shoulders over cockroaches.

Surprising, considering some people are allergic to them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 20, 2017, 06:01:03 pm
Police seek 'mad pooper' woman jogger who's defecating shamelessly on people's front lawns
Fox News    
   

A woman dubbed as the "Mad Pooper" is accused of defecating in front of houses in Colorado Springs.

Colorado Springs cops are hunting a woman dubbed “the Mad Pooper,” who’s been caught defecating in front of houses for weeks.

Cathy Budde told KKTV the unidentified woman has been relieving herself in front of Budde’s Colorado Springs home for at least seven weeks. Her children even caught the “mad pooper” squatting with her pants down in front of the house.

"They are like, 'There's a lady taking a poop!' So I come outside, and I'm like…'are you serious?'" Budde told KKTV. "'Are you really taking a poop right here in front of my kids!?' She's like, 'Yeah, sorry!'"

<..snip..>

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/20/police-seek-mad-pooper-woman-jogger-whos-defecating-shamelessly-on-peoples-front-lawns.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/20/police-seek-mad-pooper-woman-jogger-whos-defecating-shamelessly-on-peoples-front-lawns.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 20, 2017, 06:07:11 pm
There is something in the air in the Front Range...

Lest we forget:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markmeckler/2017/06/now-can-legally-defecate-urinate-denver-sidewalks-thanks-liberals/ (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markmeckler/2017/06/now-can-legally-defecate-urinate-denver-sidewalks-thanks-liberals/)

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/06/12/denver-okays-public-pooping/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl (https://hotair.com/archives/2017/06/12/denver-okays-public-pooping/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on September 21, 2017, 04:53:44 pm
Greeneville, TN: Residents mistake Halloween decorations for an actual crime scene
http://wate.com/2017/09/20/greene-county-residents-mistake-halloween-decorations-for-crime-scene/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on September 23, 2017, 12:17:52 pm
Hurricane victims call sex hotline after FEMA mistakenly tweets wrong number
POSTED 7:17 PM, SEPTEMBER 22, 2017, BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE
http://wgntv.com/2017/09/22/hurricane-victims-call-sex-hotline-after-fema-mistakenly-tweets-wrong-number/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 23, 2017, 02:32:57 pm
Hurricane victims call sex hotline after FEMA mistakenly tweets wrong number
So that's what FEMA employees have been doing!  :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on September 23, 2017, 03:16:34 pm
So that's what FEMA employees have been doing!  :pondering:

 :silly: :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 23, 2017, 05:25:43 pm
That happened to me on a wellsite. I called an instrumentation company's tech support line and dialed "800" instead of "866"...and got a sex hotline. I just told the lady that was not the sort of technical support I was looking for...and got the number right the second try.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on October 04, 2017, 07:52:45 pm
Woman gets $400K package of oxycodone; wanted yoga mat
Tuesday, October 3rd 2017, 1:29 pm EDT    Tuesday, October 3rd 2017, 1:44 pm EDT
http://www.waff.com/story/36511109/woman-gets-400k-package-of-oxycodone-wanted-yoga-mat

ROCK HILL, SC (WSOC/CNN) - A woman walked out to meet her mail carrier, thinking a yoga mat she ordered had arrived. Instead, she was handed a heavy box filled with $400,000 worth of illegal oxycodone.

[...]

"Most of this is counterfeit, and it comes from other countries. And it's being shipped in," York County drug agent Marvin Brown said.

It's likely the package was supposed to be sent to the woman's old apartment that's now vacant, and someone was supposed to watch the place and pick it up, he said. Instead, it was forwarded to the woman's new address, he said.

[...]

Excerpt.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on October 04, 2017, 09:41:17 pm
FDA fines bakery for listing 'love' as one of the ingredients in its granola

ingredients “must be listed by their common or usual name. ‘Love’ is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient,” the FDA wrote.

http://wivb.com/2017/10/04/fda-love-is-not-a-real-ingredient-in-bakerys-granola/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on October 04, 2017, 09:45:19 pm
FDA fines bakery for listing 'love' as one of the ingredients in its granola

ingredients “must be listed by their common or usual name. ‘Love’ is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient,” the FDA wrote.

http://wivb.com/2017/10/04/fda-love-is-not-a-real-ingredient-in-bakerys-granola/
Just because their mommas didn't put love in any of their cookies when they were little, no doubt.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DCPatriot on October 04, 2017, 09:53:34 pm
FDA fines bakery for listing 'love' as one of the ingredients in its granola

ingredients “must be listed by their common or usual name. ‘Love’ is not a common or usual name of an ingredient, and is considered to be intervening material because it is not part of the common or usual name of the ingredient,” the FDA wrote.

http://wivb.com/2017/10/04/fda-love-is-not-a-real-ingredient-in-bakerys-granola/

I agree with the 'ridiculous' decision to fine them.

"ounces of Love"....tomorrow will see, "cup of tenderness", "commitment to perfection", and "angel's wings"

Ingredient labels are not supposed to be a marketing 'field'.   It's supposed to be a serious notice on the packaging.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on October 04, 2017, 10:00:32 pm
I agree with the 'ridiculous' decision to fine them.

"ounces of Love"....tomorrow will see, "cup of tenderness", "commitment to perfection", and "angel's wings"

Ingredient labels are not supposed to be a marketing 'field'.   It's supposed to be a serious notice on the packaging.
Maybe they were one of those outfits adding the 'special sauce' in the back...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 04, 2017, 10:02:00 pm
I agree with the 'ridiculous' decision to fine them.

"ounces of Love"....tomorrow will see, "cup of tenderness", "commitment to perfection", and "angel's wings"

Ingredient labels are not supposed to be a marketing 'field'.   It's supposed to be a serious notice on the packaging.

I'm with you on this.  I saw this story on Fox Business Channel this morning, and my wife said she thought FDA was being humorless.  I said, "So am I when it comes to ingredient labels.  It's difficult enough sifting through all the unpronounceable chemicals looking for the ones that will kill me without having to deal with the cutsie additions."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on October 04, 2017, 10:14:31 pm
I agree with the 'ridiculous' decision to fine them.

"ounces of Love"....tomorrow will see, "cup of tenderness", "commitment to perfection", and "angel's wings"

Ingredient labels are not supposed to be a marketing 'field'.   It's supposed to be a serious notice on the packaging.

Good thing there is no actual winery selling wine using this song for an ad.

Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on October 05, 2017, 01:05:18 pm
I agree with the 'ridiculous' decision to fine them.

"ounces of Love"....tomorrow will see, "cup of tenderness", "commitment to perfection", and "angel's wings"

Ingredient labels are not supposed to be a marketing 'field'.   It's supposed to be a serious notice on the packaging.

I am with you.  "Made with Love" is fine on the packaging.  Ingredients labels are not the place for marketing schemes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on October 11, 2017, 08:47:30 pm
Deputies: Pinellas Park man Googled 'how to rob a bank' then robbed a bank
Times staff
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:14pm
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/deputies-pinellas-park-man-googled-how-to-rob-a-bank-then-robbed-a-bank/2340560

(http://www.tampabay.com/resources/images/dti/rendered/2017/10/504570506_20154170_8col.jpg)
William Joe Johnson, 26, stole an undisclosed amount of money from Achieva Credit Union at 10125 Ulmerton Road, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. [Pinellas County Jail]

PINELLAS PARK — Sheriff's deputies on Monday arrested a man accused of robbing a bank near Largo last week, then using the money on utilities, rent and a drug binge.

[...]

After an investigation, deputies found him at the hotel. In an interview, detectives said Johnson told them he was in need of money and searched on Google "how to rob a bank."

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 11, 2017, 09:19:16 pm
Deputies: Pinellas Park man Googled 'how to rob a bank' then robbed a bank
Times staff
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 12:14pm
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/deputies-pinellas-park-man-googled-how-to-rob-a-bank-then-robbed-a-bank/2340560

(http://www.tampabay.com/resources/images/dti/rendered/2017/10/504570506_20154170_8col.jpg)
William Joe Johnson, 26, stole an undisclosed amount of money from Achieva Credit Union at 10125 Ulmerton Road, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. [Pinellas County Jail]

PINELLAS PARK — Sheriff's deputies on Monday arrested a man accused of robbing a bank near Largo last week, then using the money on utilities, rent and a drug binge.

[...]

After an investigation, deputies found him at the hotel. In an interview, detectives said Johnson told them he was in need of money and searched on Google "how to rob a bank."

[...]

Shoulda used "Ipswitch."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 12, 2017, 12:31:56 am
Quote
Johnson told them he was in need of money and searched on Google "how to rob a bank."
Should have googled "how to rob a bank but i'm really just kidding."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on October 12, 2017, 02:03:52 am
Should have googled "how to rob a bank but i'm really just kidding."
"Unsolved bank robberies" might be the best search term... :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 13, 2017, 12:13:29 pm
Another clever bank robber:
Quote
Wilkinsburg Man Robs Bank, Stops To Buy Beer Nearby Minutes Later
October 12, 2017 6:52 PM By Julie Grant

WILKINSBURG (KDKA) — A suspected bank robber is behind bars Thursday after police caught him buying beer down the street minutes after the robbery.

Police say after he robbed the bank he was caught minutes later buying beer down the street. Police also say, this isn’t his first robbery.  ...
More at KDKA Pittsburgh (http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/10/12/wilkinsburg-bank-robbery-beer/).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on October 15, 2017, 05:34:25 pm
Quote
Juvenile Prison Catches Worker Who Stole $1.2 Million Worth Of Fajitas

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/15/juvenile-prison-catches-worker-who-stole-1-2-million-worth-of-fajitas/

Texas prosecutors have charged a former juvenile detention center employee with stealing $1.2 million worth of fajitas over a nine-year period in a Tex-Mex food trafficking scheme.

The scheme came to light when Gilberto Escaramilla, an employee of the Cameron County Juvenile Justice Department, took off work Aug. 7 and a delivery driver tried to drop of 800 pounds of fajitas. The detention center does not serve fajitas.

“If it wasn’t so serious, you’d think it was a Saturday Night Live skit. But this is the real thing,” Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz told the Valley Morning Star.


------

Who wants to be a fajita millionaire?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on October 15, 2017, 06:40:12 pm
------

Who wants to be a fajita millionaire?

He must have been very hungry. Or very high.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 15, 2017, 06:46:54 pm
He must have been very hungry. Or very high.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5rlbOqQq7w
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on October 15, 2017, 07:05:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5rlbOqQq7w

No Jack In THe Boxes near me. We do have a sonic which is a big deal besides McDonalds and BK.

And White Castle!!! (Harold and Kumar were there)
@Cyber Liberty
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on October 16, 2017, 10:38:47 pm
------

Who wants to be a fajita millionaire?

My brother dated a descendant of the inventor of the "fajita".  "Fajita" is actually a cut of beef, not the strips.  But it has become corrupted, so "fajita strips" are now called "fajitas" and the word is used for chicken, etc.  The latter infuriated the family, who insisted that "fajita strips" were beef, and the others were just "chicken strips", etc.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 18, 2017, 10:53:00 am
Heel Striker: Woman Sets Marathon Record in 3-Inch Stilettos
As if 26.2 miles wasn't hard enough, one woman took her race to the next level.
By McGee Nall Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 1:30 pm

While training for a marathon, some runners might test their endurance by wearing heavy backpacks, tackling steep inclines, or running in intense heat. Irene Sewell's tactic of choice? Wearing high heels for 26.2 miles at Sunday's 7 Bridges Marathon in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The 27-year-old Blacksburg, Virginia native first got the idea when she heard about a London woman who attempted a Guinness World Record by running a marathon in heels a few years ago. Unfortunately, that woman was disqualified when she took off her shoes less than halfway through the course and finished the race barefoot. ...  Rest of story at Runners World (https://www.runnersworld.com/unconventional-world-records/heel-striker-woman-sets-marathon-record-in-3-inch-stilettos)

(https://www.runnersworld.com/sites/runnersworld.com/files/styles/article_main_image_2200px/public/22553591_10154949181089080_1865647249_o.jpg?itok=gXa2DV_f)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on October 18, 2017, 11:27:24 am
Heel Striker: Woman Sets Marathon Record in 3-Inch Stilettos
As if 26.2 miles wasn't hard enough, one woman took her race to the next level.
By McGee Nall Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 1:30 pm

While training for a marathon, some runners might test their endurance by wearing heavy backpacks, tackling steep inclines, or running in intense heat. Irene Sewell's tactic of choice? Wearing high heels for 26.2 miles at Sunday's 7 Bridges Marathon in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The 27-year-old Blacksburg, Virginia native first got the idea when she heard about a London woman who attempted a Guinness World Record by running a marathon in heels a few years ago. Unfortunately, that woman was disqualified when she took off her shoes less than halfway through the course and finished the race barefoot. ...  Rest of story at Runners World (https://www.runnersworld.com/unconventional-world-records/heel-striker-woman-sets-marathon-record-in-3-inch-stilettos)

(https://www.runnersworld.com/sites/runnersworld.com/files/styles/article_main_image_2200px/public/22553591_10154949181089080_1865647249_o.jpg?itok=gXa2DV_f)

Why?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on October 18, 2017, 11:41:09 am
Heel Striker: Woman Sets Marathon Record in 3-Inch Stilettos
As if 26.2 miles wasn't hard enough, one woman took her race to the next level.
By McGee Nall Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 1:30 pm

While training for a marathon, some runners might test their endurance by wearing heavy backpacks, tackling steep inclines, or running in intense heat. Irene Sewell's tactic of choice? Wearing high heels for 26.2 miles at Sunday's 7 Bridges Marathon in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The 27-year-old Blacksburg, Virginia native first got the idea when she heard about a London woman who attempted a Guinness World Record by running a marathon in heels a few years ago. Unfortunately, that woman was disqualified when she took off her shoes less than halfway through the course and finished the race barefoot. ...  Rest of story at Runners World (https://www.runnersworld.com/unconventional-world-records/heel-striker-woman-sets-marathon-record-in-3-inch-stilettos)

(https://www.runnersworld.com/sites/runnersworld.com/files/styles/article_main_image_2200px/public/22553591_10154949181089080_1865647249_o.jpg?itok=gXa2DV_f)

She's a better person than I. I wouldn't be able to do it. Not in those shoes
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on October 18, 2017, 01:17:40 pm
She's a better person than I. I wouldn't be able to do it. Not in those shoes

@Freya

She's not better than you---just dumber.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on October 19, 2017, 04:34:53 pm
@Freya

She's not better than you---just dumber.

I went to high school with a girl who couldn't walk or run unless she was wearing high heels, her legs had gotten so used to them.  She was allowed to wear heels in gym class.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on October 19, 2017, 04:37:10 pm
Newspaper stories ruined pimp's 'good reputation,' lawsuit claims
(https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.910528.1346272703!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.jpeg)
Human trafficker Reza Moazami exits Vancouver provincial courtroom in this Dec. 2011 file photo.

Andrew Weichel, Digital reporter/editor, CTV Vancouver  @ctvandrew
Published Monday, October 16, 2017 5:19PM PDT

A violent pimp currently serving 18 years in prison has filed a lawsuit alleging some of the newspaper coverage of his trial besmirched his name.

Reza Moazami was found guilty on dozens of charges in September 2014, including sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual interference and human trafficking offences. His 11 victims ranged in age from 14 to 19 years old.

[...]

"Words published in the Vancouver Sun Newspaper and National Post Newspaper ruined [Moazami's] good reputation and character," the suit claims.

"Words used… were either directly or inadvertently defamatory especially given that many of the alleged accusations were proven false in court."

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on October 19, 2017, 09:45:40 pm
I went to high school with a girl who couldn't walk or run unless she was wearing high heels, her legs had gotten so used to them.  She was allowed to wear heels in gym class.

Ooooo.................. did she have to pay for the damage to the gym floor??

@Suppressed
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on October 20, 2017, 05:01:02 pm
Spam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put the wildly popular canned meat in locked cases
 
The Washington Post Fred Barbash

1 day ago


(http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAtIl0p.img?h=1080&w=1920&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f)
 A “Hawaii collector’s edition” Spam can with a picture “spam musubi” is shown at a grocery store in Kailua, Hawaii in 2004. 

Last month in the Pearl City community on Oahu, Safeway customer Arlene Sua watched as a man suddenly grabbed eight cases of Spam and headed for the door. She thought “‘Okay, this isn’t real. No, he’s not going to take it, no, no,” she told KHON TV.

But it was real. The man took off with the Spam and disappeared.

Elsewhere on the island at about the same time, three women loaded up shopping carts at a Long’s drugstore with 18 cases of — you guessed it — Spam. They made a rush for the exit.  Fortunately, an alert customer, Kurt Fevella, saw the attempted heist in progress, stationed himself at the door on Spam patrol and stopped them in their tracks. They shoved the carts toward at him and took off, Fevella told KITV4.

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/spam-heists-in-hawaii-prompt-retailers-to-put-the-wildly-popular-canned-meat-in-locked-cases/ar-AAtInC9?li=BBgdrt0&ocid=ientp&fullscreen=true#image=1 (http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/spam-heists-in-hawaii-prompt-retailers-to-put-the-wildly-popular-canned-meat-in-locked-cases/ar-AAtInC9?li=BBgdrt0&ocid=ientp&fullscreen=true#image=1)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 20, 2017, 06:30:31 pm
Spam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put the wildly popular canned meat in locked cases
 
The Washington Post Fred Barbash

1 day ago


(http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAtIl0p.img?h=1080&w=1920&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f)
 A “Hawaii collector’s edition” Spam can with a picture “spam musubi” is shown at a grocery store in Kailua, Hawaii in 2004. 

Last month in the Pearl City community on Oahu, Safeway customer Arlene Sua watched as a man suddenly grabbed eight cases of Spam and headed for the door. She thought “‘Okay, this isn’t real. No, he’s not going to take it, no, no,” she told KHON TV.

But it was real. The man took off with the Spam and disappeared.

Elsewhere on the island at about the same time, three women loaded up shopping carts at a Long’s drugstore with 18 cases of — you guessed it — Spam. They made a rush for the exit.  Fortunately, an alert customer, Kurt Fevella, saw the attempted heist in progress, stationed himself at the door on Spam patrol and stopped them in their tracks. They shoved the carts toward at him and took off, Fevella told KITV4.

<..snip..>

http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/spam-heists-in-hawaii-prompt-retailers-to-put-the-wildly-popular-canned-meat-in-locked-cases/ar-AAtInC9?li=BBgdrt0&ocid=ientp&fullscreen=true#image=1 (http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/spam-heists-in-hawaii-prompt-retailers-to-put-the-wildly-popular-canned-meat-in-locked-cases/ar-AAtInC9?li=BBgdrt0&ocid=ientp&fullscreen=true#image=1)

Spam is very popular in HI.  Go into any grocery store, and there is at least 10 feet of shelf space (4 shelves high) of Spam products.  I do not know why.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on October 20, 2017, 06:40:04 pm
Spam is very popular in HI.  Go into any grocery store, and there is at least 10 feet of shelf space (4 shelves high) of Spam products.  I do not know why.

I pointed that out on another thread and got scoffed at!  Well, it was more like a deafening silence.  Either way, who can understand the dietary desires of Hawaiians?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 20, 2017, 06:56:38 pm
I pointed that out on another thread and got scoffed at!  Well, it was more like a deafening silence.  Either way, who can understand the dietary desires of Hawaiians?

I don't think it's the Haoles.  We should ask an expert on Hawaiian life.  @Emjay?  What's with the Spam out there?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on October 20, 2017, 06:59:02 pm
I don't think it's the Haoles.  We should ask an expert on Hawaiian life.  @Emjay?  What's with the Spam out there?

I think it goes back to WWII and the war effort in the South Pacific but not sure.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on October 20, 2017, 07:02:52 pm
I think it goes back to WWII and the war effort in the South Pacific but not sure.
As a former card-carrying (literally) member of the Official SPAM® Fan Club, I can confirm you are correct (though I'd say "Pacific," not just South Pacific).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Emjay on October 20, 2017, 07:16:26 pm
I don't think it's the Haoles.  We should ask an expert on Hawaiian life.  @Emjay?  What's with the Spam out there?

One thing you need to understand is that there is no majority ethic population in Hawaii... orientals and whites are the most with a lot of other groups mixed in.  I don't even see race anymore.

I go to a large fabulous Safeway in Maui.  Spam occupies about the same amount of shelf space as it does anywhere.

But cost of living is so high here that maybe people resort to Spam as a less costly way to get protein.

And, well, you can't beat a fried spam sandwich.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on October 20, 2017, 07:48:35 pm
One thing you need to understand is that there is no majority ethic population in Hawaii... orientals and whites are the most with a lot of other groups mixed in.  I don't even see race anymore.

I go to a large fabulous Safeway in Maui.  Spam occupies about the same amount of shelf space as it does anywhere.

But cost of living is so high here that maybe people resort to Spam as a less costly way to get protein.

And, well, you can't beat a fried spam sandwich.

Well, when you have to import beef from the US mainland and all you have are chickens, it's no wonder people eat Spam.  ^-^
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on October 20, 2017, 07:53:58 pm
Well, when you have to import beef from the US mainland and all you have are chickens, it's no wonder people eat Spam.  ^-^

Thre are some very large cattle operations in Hawaii. I serioulsy doubt that they have to import a lot of beef.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on October 20, 2017, 08:12:17 pm
Thre are some very large cattle operations in Hawaii. I serioulsy doubt that they have to import a lot of beef.

When we were there last year, the reason given for the exorbitant price of milk was the lack of cows.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on October 21, 2017, 01:04:05 am
When we were there last year, the reason given for the exorbitant price of milk was the lack of cows.

Have no idea about dairy operations but I do know they raise a lot of beef cattle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Ranch
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on October 21, 2017, 01:05:42 pm
Thre are some very large cattle operations in Hawaii. I serioulsy doubt that they have to import a lot of beef.

http://westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news/local-news/food-security-state-senate%E2%80%99s-plate.html

...“Hawaii imports approximately 92 percent of its food … Hawaii’s reliance on out-of-state sources of food places residents directly at risk of food shortages in the event of natural disasters, economic disruption and other external factors,” the bill reads.

Such dependency on imports means that Hawaii currently has an inventory of fresh produce that would supply consumers for no more than 10 days. A total of 90 percent of the beef, 67 percent of the fresh vegetables, 65 percent of the fresh fruits and 80 percent of all milk purchased in the state are imported....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on October 21, 2017, 01:12:56 pm
http://westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news/local-news/food-security-state-senate%E2%80%99s-plate.html

...“Hawaii imports approximately 92 percent of its food … Hawaii’s reliance on out-of-state sources of food places residents directly at risk of food shortages in the event of natural disasters, economic disruption and other external factors,” the bill reads.

Such dependency on imports means that Hawaii currently has an inventory of fresh produce that would supply consumers for no more than 10 days. A total of 90 percent of the beef, 67 percent of the fresh vegetables, 65 percent of the fresh fruits and 80 percent of all milk purchased in the state are imported....

That looks like the info we were given last year........ and the reason food is off-the-charts expensive.  Like $8.00 for a gallon of milk??  (It's less than $2 here).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on October 21, 2017, 05:54:45 pm
That looks like the info we were given last year........ and the reason food is off-the-charts expensive.  Like $8.00 for a gallon of milk??  (It's less than $2 here).
Sounds like a great place to start a dairy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on October 21, 2017, 09:26:40 pm
Sounds like a great place to start a dairy.

Not with the cost of feed and land in Hawaii.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on October 23, 2017, 05:41:23 pm
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                                 Thong Jeans an idea whose time has come?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on November 01, 2017, 08:37:47 pm
(https://media.tmz.com/2017/11/01/1101-oj-simpson-costume-photos-launch-3.jpg)
  11/1/2017 7:37 AM PDT

O.J. Simpson Dresses Up for Halloween, Greets Trick-Or-Treaters


Yes, O.J. actually greeted trick-or-treaters at the Las Vegas home where he's been living since getting out of prison -- and he even dressed up for the occasion. Sorta. Simpson grabbed one of his old Buffalo Bills jerseys -- maybe one he's planning to hawk online.

<..snip..>

http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/01/oj-simpson-halloween-costume-trick-or-treaters/ (http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/01/oj-simpson-halloween-costume-trick-or-treaters/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on November 02, 2017, 01:19:03 am
(https://media.tmz.com/2017/11/01/1101-oj-simpson-costume-photos-launch-3.jpg)
  11/1/2017 7:37 AM PDT

O.J. Simpson Dresses Up for Halloween, Greets Trick-Or-Treaters


Yes, O.J. actually greeted trick-or-treaters at the Las Vegas home where he's been living since getting out of prison -- and he even dressed up for the occasion. Sorta. Simpson grabbed one of his old Buffalo Bills jerseys -- maybe one he's planning to hawk online.

<..snip..>

http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/01/oj-simpson-halloween-costume-trick-or-treaters/ (http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/01/oj-simpson-halloween-costume-trick-or-treaters/)
Years ago When I was a kid, they would have open practices at one of the colleges. My father took me to see it. After the practice all us kids were lined up for autographs. Simpson was one of the few that stuck around and made sure that every kid that wanted an autograph got one. Flash forward and I still remembered this and ha da difficult time believing that one of my childhood heros had committed a horrific crime.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on November 03, 2017, 06:21:09 pm
No bond for man who shot himself in penis while robbing hot dog stand

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/man-who-shot-himself-in-penis-charged-with-west-pullman-robbery/

A 19-year-old man who shot himself in the penis after allegedly holding up a South Side hotdog stand Tuesday won’t be going home when he’s released from the hospital.

Terrion Pouncy remained at Christ Hospital recovering from his injuries on Thursday, missing a bond hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on two counts of armed robbery.

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My vote for best headline ever.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on November 03, 2017, 06:34:16 pm
No bond for man who shot himself in penis while robbing hot dog stand

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/man-who-shot-himself-in-penis-charged-with-west-pullman-robbery/

A 19-year-old man who shot himself in the penis after allegedly holding up a South Side hotdog stand Tuesday won’t be going home when he’s released from the hospital.

Terrion Pouncy remained at Christ Hospital recovering from his injuries on Thursday, missing a bond hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on two counts of armed robbery.

----

My vote for best headline ever.

The jokes write themselves.......  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on November 04, 2017, 01:15:10 pm
No bond for man who shot himself in penis while robbing hot dog stand

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/man-who-shot-himself-in-penis-charged-with-west-pullman-robbery/

A 19-year-old man who shot himself in the penis after allegedly holding up a South Side hotdog stand Tuesday won’t be going home when he’s released from the hospital.

Terrion Pouncy remained at Christ Hospital recovering from his injuries on Thursday, missing a bond hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on two counts of armed robbery.

----

My vote for best headline ever.
He must have been angry.... I mean he went off half cocked...... To soon?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 04, 2017, 01:59:30 pm
We only can hope this suggests the unlikelihood of a Terrion Pouncy, Jr.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 04, 2017, 08:54:45 pm
He must have been angry.... I mean he went off half cocked...... To soon?
:silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly:

For some people it's never too soon to go off half cocked.  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 05, 2017, 01:05:14 am
Donald Trump Found In A Dogs Ear
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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 05, 2017, 01:54:25 pm
Quote
Man killed paramour after she refused marriage proposal, cops say
 Posted Nov 3
By Sarah Cassi
Full story at Lehigh Valley Live (http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/lehigh-county/index.ssf/2017/11/cops_man_claims_he_killed_para.html)



A man accused of killing a Lehigh County woman claims he did so after she refused his marriage proposal.

Christopher Tucker reportedly told police after he asked Tara Marie Serino to marry him, she refused and said she was seeing other men.

The 34-year-old Tucker said Serino made a comment that he should just kill her and he did, according to police.  ...
Nothing demonstrates the depth of one's love like beating the beloved with a hatchet and snapping her neck.  **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 06, 2017, 03:10:57 pm
Nothing demonstrates the depth of one's love like beating the beloved with a hatchet and snapping her neck.  **nononono*

Alleged Perp, Christopher Ryan Tucker (34): (https://media.wfmz.com/mara-wfmz-media-us-east-1/photo/2017/11/03/11-2-17%20Christopher%20Ryan%20Tucker_1509719438903_9206451_ver1.0_640_360.jpg)

Vic, Tara Marie Serino (19): (http://ak-cache.legacy.net/legacy/images/cobrands/mcall/photos/photo_011238_5290746_1_photo1_cropped_20171105.jpgx?w=130&h=180&option=1&v=0x000000005193e9fe)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on November 14, 2017, 01:23:33 am
Detroit, Michigan. The police department's 11th precinct decided to go undercover as a drug dealer in a sting on buyers. Meanwhile, the 12th precinct decided to go undercover as a drug buyer in a sting on dealers.

The end result: the cops ended up calling a sting on each other.

http://tribunist.com/news/detroit-police-officers-battle-each-other-in-undercover-operation-gone-wrong/?utm_source=GSL
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on November 22, 2017, 06:59:42 am
Ex-Alabama cop had to watch Roy Moore in case he harassed cheerleaders at ball games in the 80s
BY Elizabeth Elizalde  NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 
Tuesday, November 21, 2017, 3:26 PM

 
A retired Alabama police officer said she was told to keep an eye on Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore because he was known to harass teenage cheerleaders at local school ball games in the 1980s.

Ex-Gadsden cop Faye Gray told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell that rumors of Moore liking young girls were heard on a daily basis and she was even informed that he had been suspended from Gadsden Mall because he would often target young female employees.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ex-ala-prevent-roy-moore-harassing-cheerleaders-article-1.3648980 (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ex-ala-prevent-roy-moore-harassing-cheerleaders-article-1.3648980)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 22, 2017, 07:10:42 am
Ex-Alabama cop had to watch Roy Moore in case he harassed cheerleaders at ball games in the 80s
BY Elizabeth Elizalde  NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 
Tuesday, November 21, 2017, 3:26 PM

 
A retired Alabama police officer said she was told to keep an eye on Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore because he was known to harass teenage cheerleaders at local school ball games in the 1980s.

Ex-Gadsden cop Faye Gray told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell that rumors of Moore liking young girls were heard on a daily basis and she was even informed that he had been suspended from Gadsden Mall because he would often target young female employees.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ex-ala-prevent-roy-moore-harassing-cheerleaders-article-1.3648980 (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ex-ala-prevent-roy-moore-harassing-cheerleaders-article-1.3648980)
Sure heard a lot of rumors, but never had anything to act on...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 30, 2017, 04:29:33 pm
Woman left homeless after thieves steal her HOUSE
The mobile home was stolen by criminals who would have needed specialist equipment, say police
by Neil Shaw  12:35, 29 NOV 2017    UPDATED15:57, 30 NOV 2017
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/local-news/woman-left-homeless-after-thieves-849927 (http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/local-news/woman-left-homeless-after-thieves-849927)

Thieves have stolen a mobile home by loading it on to a low-loader and driving off, leaving a woman homeless.

Police are now urgently seeking information following the theft of the motor home in Willand, near Cullompton.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on November 30, 2017, 04:34:51 pm
Woman left homeless after thieves steal her HOUSE
The mobile home was stolen by criminals who would have needed specialist equipment, say police
by Neil Shaw  12:35, 29 NOV 2017    UPDATED15:57, 30 NOV 2017
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/local-news/woman-left-homeless-after-thieves-849927 (http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/local-news/woman-left-homeless-after-thieves-849927)

Thieves have stolen a mobile home by loading it on to a low-loader and driving off, leaving a woman homeless.

Police are now urgently seeking information following the theft of the motor home in Willand, near Cullompton.

Taking the tires off no longer enough, not even removing the hitch.  Did these folks bring out a large crane as well to set on the lowboy?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 30, 2017, 04:38:49 pm
Taking the tires off no longer enough, not even removing the hitch.  Did these folks bring out a large crane as well to set on the lowboy?
Jacks and timbers will get the thing high enough to back a lowboy under it. Pretty cheeky, tough.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on November 30, 2017, 04:43:21 pm
Jacks and timbers will get the thing high enough to back a lowboy under it. Pretty cheeky, tough.

True, as long as it was passable underneath.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on November 30, 2017, 04:58:28 pm
How sad for her!

(https://i2-prod.plymouthherald.co.uk/incoming/article849918.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Stolen-park-home.jpg)

Doesn't look like it would have been easy to do.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on December 04, 2017, 06:41:41 pm
Irish villagers complain Viagra plant fumes have men and dogs walking around with ‘hard-ons’
December 4, 2017,  By  Aidan Lonergan

(http://irishpost.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ringaskiddy-viagra-n.jpg)
The rural village of Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork, has been the site of a Viagra plant for 20 years (Picture: iStock)

RESIDENTS of a tiny Irish village where Viagra is manufactured have complained that fumes from a nearby factory have been giving them a hard time.

Pharmaceutical firm Pfizer have produced the erectile dysfunction drug in Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork for the last two decades.

Villagers claim that Ringaskiddy’s proximity to the plant and its “love fumes” has been giving local men – and even their canine friends – enormous sexual powers.

Barmaid Debbie O’Grady told the Sunday Times: “One whiff and you’re stiff. We’ve been getting the love fumes for years now for free"

[...]

Excerpt.  Read more at http://irishpost.co.uk/irish-villagers-complain-viagra-plant-fumes-men-dogs-walking-around-hard-ons/. (http://irishpost.co.uk/irish-villagers-complain-viagra-plant-fumes-men-dogs-walking-around-hard-ons/.)  Original Times article here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/irelands-viagra-village-of-ringaskiddy-laughs-off-stiff-british-competition-c3nc27wlp (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/irelands-viagra-village-of-ringaskiddy-laughs-off-stiff-british-competition-c3nc27wlp)



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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on December 04, 2017, 09:16:09 pm
Irish villagers complain Viagra plant fumes have men and dogs walking around with ‘hard-ons’
December 4, 2017,  By  Aidan Lonergan

(http://irishpost.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ringaskiddy-viagra-n.jpg)
The rural village of Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork, has been the site of a Viagra plant for 20 years (Picture: iStock)

RESIDENTS of a tiny Irish village where Viagra is manufactured have complained that fumes from a nearby factory have been giving them a hard time.

Pharmaceutical firm Pfizer have produced the erectile dysfunction drug in Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork for the last two decades.

Villagers claim that Ringaskiddy’s proximity to the plant and its “love fumes” has been giving local men – and even their canine friends – enormous sexual powers.

Barmaid Debbie O’Grady told the Sunday Times: “One whiff and you’re stiff. We’ve been getting the love fumes for years now for free"

Sounds like an marketing-minded hotel owner could use this story to increases the tourist trade.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 05, 2017, 05:52:18 am
Sounds like an marketing-minded hotel owner could use this story to increases the tourist trade.
At least open a Bed and skip Breakfast....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Frank Cannon on December 05, 2017, 06:02:59 am
(http://irishpost.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ringaskiddy-viagra-n.jpg)

What a terrible place to live. You have a nice house and yard surrounded by tenement looking slums.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on December 05, 2017, 06:07:22 am
I'll bet the women aren't complaining.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 05, 2017, 01:00:28 pm
(http://irishpost.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ringaskiddy-viagra-n.jpg)

What a terrible place to live. You have a nice house and yard surrounded by tenement looking slums.

With the tenants around you humping like rabbits....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 05, 2017, 01:17:18 pm
With the tenants around you humping like rabbits....
Makes you wonder what effect it has on the rabbits....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on December 05, 2017, 10:39:56 pm
With the tenants around you humping like rabbits....


How is that any different than any tenement in America? You just described all of them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 05, 2017, 11:30:27 pm

How is that any different than any tenement in America? You just described all of them.

True, but this is Ireland, and the picture shows a couple of palatial estates surrounded by rabbit-rutting tenements.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on December 05, 2017, 11:54:23 pm
True, but this is Ireland, and the picture shows a couple of palatial estates surrounded by rabbit-rutting tenements.
@Cyber Liberty

In Ireland, the palatial estates are where the Noblemen live, and the tenements are for their surfs. It is made that way intentionally. They want their maids, butlers, horsemen, general laborers, glass blowers, archers, blacksmiths, etc. To be close at hand. Also, if there were ever an invasion from another Estate, they would have to get through the serfs before they could make it to the Keep.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 06, 2017, 12:12:46 am
@Cyber Liberty

In Ireland, the palatial estates are where the Noblemen live, and the tenements are for their surfs. It is made that way intentionally. They want their maids, butlers, horsemen, general laborers, glass blowers, archers, blacksmiths, etc. To be close at hand. Also, if there were ever an invasion from another Estate, they would have to get through the serfs before they could make it to the Keep.

And there's the occasional Maiden that needs "help."  Gotta love the Feudal system.  Can't really do that here because the serfs are not good picking.  Crack whores.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on December 06, 2017, 01:09:33 am
With the tenants around you humping like rabbits....

I've lived in apartments in my life and some were not so nice. Every night from about 10pm to 11pm the rabbits would start up. Thumping on my ceiling was metronome. And you never knew how long or how loud it would be. Not only was it annoying, it was also kind of embarrassing. And sometimes other neighbors would join in, and it would be coming through in stereo.

That's why your quote was so familiar to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 06, 2017, 01:19:31 am
I've lived in apartments in my life and some were not so nice. Every night from about 10pm to 11pm the rabbits would start up. Thumping on my ceiling was metronome. And you never knew how long or how loud it would be. Not only was it annoying, it was also kind of embarrassing. And sometimes other neighbors would join in, and it would be coming through in stereo.

That's why your quote was so familiar to me.

BTDT.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on December 06, 2017, 02:56:32 am
Not a single comment on the musical piece I provided. I'm disappointed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on December 10, 2017, 09:52:35 pm
Woman burns down Cincinnati, Ohio, home trying to kill bedbugs
December 9, 2017, 5:32 PM
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cincinnati-ohio-woman-burns-down-home-trying-to-kill-bedbugs/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cincinnati-ohio-woman-burns-down-home-trying-to-kill-bedbugs/)

CINCINNATI -- Authorities said that three people were injured and 10 people were left homeless after a woman accidentally started a fire while trying to kill bed bugs with rubbing alcohol at a multi-family home in Cincinnati.

WXIX-TV (http://www.fox19.com/story/37030597/woman-trying-to-kill-bed-bugs-accidentally-sets-multi-family-home-ablaze) reports it's the second time in two weeks that a fire sparked by attempts to kill bed bugs has caused extensive damage in Cincinnati.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 10, 2017, 10:46:44 pm
Quote
woman accidentally started a fire while trying to kill bed bugs with rubbing alcohol
Was that before or after she lit a match to see whether there was any gas in her car's tank?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on December 11, 2017, 12:04:20 am
Was that before or after she lit a match to see whether there was any gas in her car's tank?

Musta been before.  ^-^
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Slip18 on December 11, 2017, 05:47:06 pm
Not a single comment on the musical piece I provided. I'm disappointed.

Suppressed, I listened to your piece of "music."  Cute graphics.  Music?  Hmmmmmm.

Sing along with me! "Silent night, holy night.  All is bright..."

Perhaps I should not be in here.

Okay, you can do this to me.  I deserve it! 22222frying pan
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on December 12, 2017, 04:39:19 pm
Numerous photos, I picked the one I like best.

Quote
They drove us to it! Bad parkers FINALLY get their comeuppance as passers-by hit back with graffiti, Saran wrap and quick-witted notes

    Victims have hit back with everything from graffiti to clingfilm - as well as the classic passive aggressive note
    Others returned to their vehicles to find them surrounded by shopping trolleys or carefully coated in foil
    In one particularly egregious example of poor parking, a silver car can be seen perched in the middle of a helicopter landing pad - with the aircraft left hovering overhead in wait

By Scott Campbell For Mailonline

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/12/12/08/4735FF1F00000578-5168437-Of_2_000_adults_questioned_for_the_study_38_per_cent_said_they_h-a-4_1513067976592.jpg)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5168437/Bad-parkers-finally-comeuppance-hilarious-photos.html#ixzz5147hvA3f (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5168437/Bad-parkers-finally-comeuppance-hilarious-photos.html#ixzz5147hvA3f)
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on December 16, 2017, 05:25:53 pm
Okay, an old story, but I just saw it posted to reddit today.

18 year-old is Elected Miss Prostitute 2013 in Belo Horizonte
10/01/2013
FROM SÃO PAULO

In its second edition, the Miss Prostitute contest took place last Saturday (28) in the city of Belo Horizonte (MG). At the same time that, the city was electing Miss Brazil.

Marcelina Gomes Teixeira, 18, has worked for 6 month in the profession, won the title and the awards this year: R$ 1,200 in cash, plus R$ 350 inshopping certificates and gifts from a store downtown. She beat nine other candidates.

"I do not advertise in the newspaper. I have my contacts," says the Miss, and reveals a bit more about herself: she lives with her grandmother, does not like music or watch movies or browse on the internet often - "I do not care much for these things", she said in an interview with UOL.

[...]

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2013/10/1349995-18-year-old-is-elected-miss-prostitute-2013-in-belo-horizonte.shtml (http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2013/10/1349995-18-year-old-is-elected-miss-prostitute-2013-in-belo-horizonte.shtml)

(https://i.redd.it/86fj3r8y37401.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on December 18, 2017, 04:11:55 pm
'Safer' 20mph zones led to rise in number of road deaths but too costly to reverse, council admits
Hayley Dixon • 17 DECEMBER 2017 • 5:57PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/17/20mph-limit-dangerous-costly-reverse-council-admits/ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/17/20mph-limit-dangerous-costly-reverse-council-admits/)

Reducing the speed limit to 20mph has caused a rise in death and serious injuries, a council has admitted, but is refusing to reverse the scheme because it will cost too much.

Bath and North East Somerset Council spent £871,000 bringing in the 13 new speed zones just 12 months ago.

But one year on, a report has found that the rate of people killed or seriously injured has gone up in seven out of the 13 new 20mph zones.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on December 30, 2017, 01:46:47 am
Man Spends Free Time Posing As Cop To Pull People Over And Cuff Them

https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/man-spends-free-time-posing-as-cop-to-pull-people-over-and-cuff-them/

Officials caught an Arizona man impersonating a police officer last week when he began stopping and searching people at random, even handcuffing one of them.

The Tucson Police Department posted a video of one of the incidents on Facebook Wednesday and said they responded to a “suspicious activity call” Dec. 19, when the impostor pulled over three different people while pretending to be law enforcement.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on December 30, 2017, 01:49:20 am
WATCH: Horse Bettor Loses Out on $571,000 When a Jockey Falls Off Right Before the Wire

https://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-a-horse-bettor-lose-out-on-571000-when-a-jockey-falls-off-his-horse-right-before-the-wire/ (https://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-a-horse-bettor-lose-out-on-571000-when-a-jockey-falls-off-his-horse-right-before-the-wire/)

We’ve chronicled some absolutely horrific gambling losses since launching sports coverage here at Mediaite in July 2016. But this one might be the most brutal yet.

On Thursday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, FL, an unlucky horse racing gambler lost out on a massive, six-figure payout when a jockey fell off his horse just yards before he almost certainly would’ve crossed the wire first.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQchuZcBOcU&feature=youtu.be#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on January 02, 2018, 09:20:19 pm
Man In Critical Condition After His Champagne Bottle Exploded In His Crotch.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/02/man-in-critical-condition-after-his-champagne-bottle-exploded-in-his-crotch/ (http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/02/man-in-critical-condition-after-his-champagne-bottle-exploded-in-his-crotch/)

A Danish man is in critical condition after a champagne bottle he held between his legs exploded in his crotch on New Year’s Eve, according to a report Tuesday.

A Danish man was put in an induced coma after a champagne bottle exploded. A shard of glass cut through an artery in his leg, causing significant blood loss, reported the Daily Mail. The man is currently in one of Denmark’s largest hospitals called the Copenhagen Rigshospitalet and remains in critical condition, according to regional police officer Brian Munch, reported The Local Denmark.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on January 05, 2018, 07:41:09 pm
Bihar Engineer Forced To Marry At Gunpoint, Kept Crying, Ordeal On Video
Ever since the incident, Vinod's family has been getting threat calls asking him to accept the girl forcing them to seek police protection
All India | Reported by Manish Kumar | Updated: January 05, 2018 16:37 IST

PATNA:  A 29-year-old engineer was reportedly kidnapped and forced to marry a woman at gunpoint in Bihar. The video clips from the wedding show Vinod Kumar, a junior manager at Bokaro Steel Plant, dressed as a groom, being thrashed and forced to perform wedding rituals in Patna's Pandarak area. As he begs to be released and continues to cry for help, a group of women, allegedly from the woman's family, try to convince him to cooperate.

When he refuses to apply vermillion to the bride, her relatives are heard saying, "We are only performing your wedding, not hanging you."

Local media quoted the engineer as saying one of the bride's relatives had pointed a pistol at him after they met at a mutual friend's wedding and ordered him to marry her. His allegations are being investigated by the police.

[...]

(https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-01/abducted-groom-in-bihar_650x400_71515147414.jpg)

Quote
The official figures, as reported by news agency AFP, show police received nearly 3,000 complaints of groom kidnapping in 2016. None of the marriages were annulled.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 05, 2018, 08:06:03 pm
Bihar Engineer Forced To Marry At Gunpoint, Kept Crying, Ordeal On Video
Ever since the incident, Vinod's family has been getting threat calls asking him to accept the girl forcing them to seek police protection
All India | Reported by Manish Kumar | Updated: January 05, 2018 16:37 IST

PATNA:  A 29-year-old engineer was reportedly kidnapped and forced to marry a woman at gunpoint in Bihar. The video clips from the wedding show Vinod Kumar, a junior manager at Bokaro Steel Plant, dressed as a groom, being thrashed and forced to perform wedding rituals in Patna's Pandarak area. As he begs to be released and continues to cry for help, a group of women, allegedly from the woman's family, try to convince him to cooperate.

When he refuses to apply vermillion to the bride, her relatives are heard saying, "We are only performing your wedding, not hanging you."

Local media quoted the engineer as saying one of the bride's relatives had pointed a pistol at him after they met at a mutual friend's wedding and ordered him to marry her. His allegations are being investigated by the police.

[...]

(https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-01/abducted-groom-in-bihar_650x400_71515147414.jpg)

Linky:  https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bihar-engineer-forced-to-marry-at-gunpoint-kept-crying-during-rituals-1796252 (https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bihar-engineer-forced-to-marry-at-gunpoint-kept-crying-during-rituals-1796252)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Restored on January 05, 2018, 09:05:39 pm
A friend was being forced into a marriage. The bride-to-be was pregnant and he was the father du jour. He got out of it by convincing the family that he had $122,000 in debt from a failed business. If they got married, it meant that she had $122,000 in debt. The bride's father quickly deduced that another man was actually the father and the new father stood to inherit a large amount of family land. Unbeknownst to the FIL to be, the land had liens against it.   
After the marriage, my friend discharged the debt in bankruptcy and opened a car repair business. The FIL, who now had a deadbeat penniless SIL, would get his car fixed there so he could tell my friend "That child looks just like you" which was an obvious lie.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 05, 2018, 09:10:17 pm
Bihar Engineer Forced To Marry At Gunpoint, Kept Crying, Ordeal On Video
There is much about India I find curious. This qualifies, of course. Bollywood, also.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on January 18, 2018, 06:39:18 pm
Fan arrested after punching police horse at Eagles-Falcons game
Tom Schad, USA TODAY Published 1:22 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2018
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2018/01/16/fan-arrested-punching-police-horse-eagles-lincoln-financial-field-philadelphia/1036481001/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2018/01/16/fan-arrested-punching-police-horse-eagles-lincoln-financial-field-philadelphia/1036481001/)

(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/20f50b7087bde3e564d07f9bd26cc6489bec99f2/c=25-0-775-1000&r=537&c=0-0-534-712/local/-/media/2018/01/16/USATODAY/USATODAY/636517049618790860-Taylor-Hendricks.jpg)

A Pennsylvania man was arrested for punching a police horse and its rider at Lincoln Financial Field over the weekend.

Taylor Hendricks, a 22-year-old from Whitehall, Penn., was ejected from Saturday's game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons because he was intoxicated and did not have a ticket, according to Philadelphia police. Following his ejection, police said, he approached a mounted officer and "began punching the horse in the face, neck and shoulder area."

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 18, 2018, 07:05:26 pm
Fan arrested after punching police horse at Eagles-Falcons game
Tom Schad, USA TODAY Published 1:22 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2018
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2018/01/16/fan-arrested-punching-police-horse-eagles-lincoln-financial-field-philadelphia/1036481001/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2018/01/16/fan-arrested-punching-police-horse-eagles-lincoln-financial-field-philadelphia/1036481001/)

(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/20f50b7087bde3e564d07f9bd26cc6489bec99f2/c=25-0-775-1000&r=537&c=0-0-534-712/local/-/media/2018/01/16/USATODAY/USATODAY/636517049618790860-Taylor-Hendricks.jpg)

A Pennsylvania man was arrested for punching a police horse and its rider at Lincoln Financial Field over the weekend.

Taylor Hendricks, a 22-year-old from Whitehall, Penn., was ejected from Saturday's game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons because he was intoxicated and did not have a ticket, according to Philadelphia police. Following his ejection, police said, he approached a mounted officer and "began punching the horse in the face, neck and shoulder area."

[...]

Thought he is Mongo.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 18, 2018, 07:12:10 pm
Thought he is Mongo.

Is Mongo another word for "really, really stupid"?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 18, 2018, 07:49:43 pm
Is Mongo another word for "really, really stupid"?

(https://cdn3.whatculture.com/images/2014/03/mongo.jpg)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cDfnQD0ws#)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 18, 2018, 10:47:53 pm
Is Mongo another word for "really, really stupid"?
Nah, Mongo was a genius compared to that idiot. The officer showed great restraint in not letting the horse tap dance on the suspect.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on January 19, 2018, 04:39:43 pm
Thought he is Mongo.
@Cyber Liberty First thing I thought of GMTA
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 19, 2018, 06:09:05 pm
In Scotland, pretty sick:

Quote
Shock as woman, 39, pleads guilty to filming self in sex acts with pet dog, whipped cream

Fox News

  A woman in Scotland who shot cellphone video of herself in a sex act involving her pet dog and whipped cream has pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing pornography.

Cops in the West Lothian region of Scotland found the video – along with a cache of sickening child pornography photos – back in March, when they raided the home of Suzy Cairns, following a tip to the Cyber Crime Unit of Scotland’s national police force.

Read more at: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/01/11/shock-as-woman-39-pleads-guilty-to-filming-self-in-sex-acts-with-pet-dog-whipped-cream.html (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/01/11/shock-as-woman-39-pleads-guilty-to-filming-self-in-sex-acts-with-pet-dog-whipped-cream.html)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on January 21, 2018, 03:49:21 am
Virginia Man Uses Flamethrower to Clear Snow from Driveway

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/20/virginia-man-uses-flamethrower-to-clear-snow-from-driveway/ (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/20/virginia-man-uses-flamethrower-to-clear-snow-from-driveway/)

(http://media.breitbart.com/media/2018/01/flamethrower-melting-snow-Image-courtesy-of-WSET-640x480.jpg)

A man from Amherst, Virginia used a flamethrower to melt away snow from his driveway, WRIC reports.

Instead of using the traditional tool, a shovel, Nathanael Caplinger wanted to explore a quicker way of dispelling the snow.

After reading an ad in a local magazine about a blowtorch purported to do a brilliant job of clearing snow, he decided to try it out.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on January 21, 2018, 07:32:36 pm
Maud City Officials Try To Break Off Ice From Water Tower With A Shotgun
Posted: Jan 09, 2017 3:39PM CST
Aaron Brilbeck, News 9
http://m.news9.com/story.aspx?story=34218947&catId=112032 (http://m.news9.com/story.aspx?story=34218947&catId=112032)

The small City of Maud faced a serious problem over the weekend.

Ice build up on a leaking water tower raised concerns that the tower could topple.

So, the City came up with a 12-gauge solution. They opened fire on the ice Friday night with a shotgun.

"We took a few shots and tried to knock the ice off. Didn't work very well," Maud City Clerk Don Zeller said.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on January 21, 2018, 07:50:31 pm
Virginia Man Uses Flamethrower to Clear Snow from Driveway

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/20/virginia-man-uses-flamethrower-to-clear-snow-from-driveway/ (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/20/virginia-man-uses-flamethrower-to-clear-snow-from-driveway/)

(http://media.breitbart.com/media/2018/01/flamethrower-melting-snow-Image-courtesy-of-WSET-640x480.jpg)

Looks like he missed a spot under the car.

A man from Amherst, Virginia used a flamethrower to melt away snow from his driveway, WRIC reports.

Instead of using the traditional tool, a shovel, Nathanael Caplinger wanted to explore a quicker way of dispelling the snow.

After reading an ad in a local magazine about a blowtorch purported to do a brilliant job of clearing snow, he decided to try it out.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on January 23, 2018, 02:57:01 am
@CatherineofAragon

Amherst ping!


Virginia Man Uses Flamethrower to Clear Snow from Driveway

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/20/virginia-man-uses-flamethrower-to-clear-snow-from-driveway/ (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/20/virginia-man-uses-flamethrower-to-clear-snow-from-driveway/)

(http://media.breitbart.com/media/2018/01/flamethrower-melting-snow-Image-courtesy-of-WSET-640x480.jpg)

A man from Amherst, Virginia used a flamethrower to melt away snow from his driveway, WRIC reports.

Instead of using the traditional tool, a shovel, Nathanael Caplinger wanted to explore a quicker way of dispelling the snow.

After reading an ad in a local magazine about a blowtorch purported to do a brilliant job of clearing snow, he decided to try it out.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on January 23, 2018, 05:12:04 pm
Camels disqualified from Saudi beauty contest over Botox
A dozen beasts have been thrown out because their handlers used Botox to make them more handsome
Reuters Mon 22 Jan 2018 06:31 PM
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/culture-society/388145-camels-disqualified-from-saudi-beauty-contest-over-botox (http://www.arabianbusiness.com/culture-society/388145-camels-disqualified-from-saudi-beauty-contest-over-botox)

The dromedaries paraded down a dusty racetrack as judges rated the size of their lips, cheeks, heads and knees. Crowds of men watched from the bleachers, hooting when the beasts representing their own tribe loped down the track.

A dozen beasts have been disqualified from this year's Saudi "camel beauty contest" because their handlers used Botox to make them more handsome.

"The camel," explained the chief judge of the show, Fawzan al-Madi, "is a symbol of Saudi Arabia. We used to preserve it out of necessity, now we preserve it as a pastime."

Much is changing in Saudi Arabia: the country is getting its first movie theatres. Soon women will be permitted to drive. The authorities eventually hope to diversify the economy away from the oil that has been its lifeblood for decades.

But as they seek to transform the conservative kingdom, the Saudi authorities are trying to smooth the path for reform by emphasising traditional aspects of their culture. And for the Bedouin of Arabia, nothing is more essential than the camel, used for centuries for food, transport, as a war machine and companion.

So, the authorities have ramped up the country's annual month-long camel festival [...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Silver Pines on January 23, 2018, 05:15:07 pm
@CatherineofAragon

Amherst ping!


LOL, we saw this on the local news a few days ago.  Hey--it works!   :laugh:

Thanks for the ping, @Hoodat.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 23, 2018, 05:48:13 pm
Quote
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/New-Hampshire-man-arrested-for-biting-police-dog-539590

New Hampshire man arrested for biting police dog

By REUTERS
January 23, 2018 19:03
Breaking news

Breaking news. (photo credit: JPOST STAFF)

A New Hampshire man was arrested for biting a police dog while officers were investigating reports of a shooting in the town of Boscawen, police officials said on Tuesday.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on January 23, 2018, 06:51:04 pm
I used to be amazed at the thought of a camel beauty contest.

But I spent the last 5 days helping my daughter compete with her heifer at the Fort Worth Stock Show.

Folks were having professional groomers spend over 3 hours doing clipping of their long hair breeds.  After wash and blow dry, we spent 2.5 hours clipping our short hair Santa Gertudis.

Beauty Contest may just be translation...

Or the stock show may really be a beauty contest...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on January 28, 2018, 08:02:13 am
Woman pretends to be sex doll after being caught with cheating boyfriend

http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/26/woman-pretends-to-be-sex-doll-after-being-caught-with-cheating-boyfriend-7263513/?ito=cbshare (http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/26/woman-pretends-to-be-sex-doll-after-being-caught-with-cheating-boyfriend-7263513/?ito=cbshare)

[Warning...language in video.]

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on January 29, 2018, 12:25:58 pm
Tourists take a holiday in Cambodia. The end result is... well... predictable.

Ten tourists face a year in Cambodian prison for dancing "pornographically" (fully clothed in a private rented house).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cambodia-pornogaphic-dancing-arrests-1.4506038 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cambodia-pornogaphic-dancing-arrests-1.4506038)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on January 29, 2018, 06:21:20 pm
Sex toys, light bulbs among anonymous Amazon packages sent to Canadian universities
At least 7 university student unions have received unsolicited items from Amazon
By Sophia Harris, CBC News Posted: Jan 27, 2018 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 28, 2018 10:45 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sex-toys-amazon-anonymous-packages-1.4506318 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sex-toys-amazon-anonymous-packages-1.4506318)

Several Canadian university student unions are stumped as they continue to receive anonymous packages containing random goods — everything from sex toys to light bulbs to record players to computer cables.

The items come in Amazon packaging, but there's no indication who's ordering the goods from the online retail giant.

[...]

(https://i.cbc.ca/1.4506391.1517001897!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/susanne.jpg)
Ryerson's Students Union president, Susanne Nyaga, holds anonymously purchased items her office has received from Amazon. (CBC)

(https://i.cbc.ca/1.4506421.1517003937!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/shawn-wiskar-student-union-regina-university.jpg)
Shawn Wiskar, University of Regina Students’ Union vice-president of student affairs, shows one of many anonymous items his office has received — a digital kitchen scale. (Shawn Wiskar)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on January 29, 2018, 06:22:37 pm
Creepy thing is, I've purchased some of those exact items myself...that kitchen scale, that first-aid kit, etc.  Not the sex toy, though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on January 29, 2018, 10:48:41 pm
Creepy thing is, I've purchased some of those exact items myself...that kitchen scale, that first-aid kit, etc.  Not the sex toy, though.
@Suppressed That's your story nd your sticking to it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 29, 2018, 10:51:26 pm
@Suppressed That's your story nd your sticking to it?

Well, he does call himself "Suppressed".    :smokin:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on January 29, 2018, 10:59:48 pm
Well, he does call himself "Suppressed".    :smokin:

"Suppressed", not "Repressed"!

Still, that device looked scary, with that sharp point!  Whew!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 29, 2018, 11:01:42 pm
"Suppressed", not "Repressed"!

Still, that device looked scary, with that sharp point!  Whew!

Wow, after looking at the photo, I'm feeling pretty repressed!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Slip18 on February 03, 2018, 08:15:12 pm
I guess this goes on this thread.

Talked to my sis yesterday in Orange County, CA.  Remember the no plastic bag thing they had going in CA.?  Well, now you can purchase those very same plastic bags at your local grocery store for ten cents each.

I guess plastic bags aren't so awful there, just expensive.

 **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on February 04, 2018, 01:25:59 am
I guess this goes on this thread.

Talked to my sis yesterday in Orange County, CA.  Remember the no plastic bag thing they had going in CA.?  Well, now you can purchase those very same plastic bags at your local grocery store for ten cents each.

I guess plastic bags aren't so awful there, just expensive.

 **nononono*

Same thing in Austin, Texas.   **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 04, 2018, 03:18:02 am
Same thing in Austin, Texas.   **nononono*
Gee whiz, they still use them here. I use them to line small trash cans and carry a couple when I walk the dog...  It isn't as if they never get used for other things after you get the groceries home, but a dime a time, and I'd be hauling everything in totes (except meat).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 05, 2018, 03:33:33 am
I guess this goes on this thread.

Talked to my sis yesterday in Orange County, CA.  Remember the no plastic bag thing they had going in CA.?  Well, now you can purchase those very same plastic bags at your local grocery store for ten cents each.

I guess plastic bags aren't so awful there, just expensive.

 **nononono*
When the new law took affect in California they pulled all the plastic bags that were in the stores until they got the supply of new heavier Gaia worshiper approved bags in, those are the ones they charge a dime for, they are much thicker than the old throw away bags and are meant to be reused several times. hardware stores still supply the old thinner bags for free and of course you can **ahem** acquire a few extra bags from the fruit and vegetable department for your securing your pets 'gifts'.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on February 05, 2018, 02:48:28 pm
I guess plastic bags aren't so awful there, just expensive.

The reason stores switched from paper to plastic in the first place was because of cost.  Paper is a very energy intensive product.  Plastic uses much less energy to produce, does not require water, and takes up less space for shipping.  Paper bags require seven times the landfill space than plastic.  And 84 plastic bags can be recycled at the cost of recycling one paper bag.

So no, plastic isn't more expensive.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 05, 2018, 03:00:40 pm
We do most of our grocery shopping at Kroger, which has a bin outside each store for depositing old plastic bags (even non-Kroger ones) for recycling. Sounds like commonsense to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on February 05, 2018, 03:02:23 pm
I have several canvas bags from Kroger, but even when I put them in the car, I can't remember to take them in.    :shrug:

That's a great solution if people remember to use them. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2018, 03:03:07 pm
The reason stores switched from paper to plastic in the first place was because of cost.  Paper is a very energy intensive product.  Plastic uses much less energy to produce, does not require water, and takes up less space for shipping.  Paper bags require seven times the landfill space than plastic.  And 84 plastic bags can be recycled at the cost of recycling one paper bag.

So no, plastic isn't more expensive.
IIRC, a big part of the concept sales was that using plastic would "save a tree". (70s 'n all that).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 05, 2018, 03:03:54 pm
The reason stores switched from paper to plastic in the first place was because of cost.  Paper is a very energy intensive product.  Plastic uses much less energy to produce, does not require water, and takes up less space for shipping.  Paper bags require seven times the landfill space than plastic.  And 84 plastic bags can be recycled at the cost of recycling one paper bag.

So no, plastic isn't more expensive.

It is when you throw government's lust for punishing what they don't like.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2018, 03:05:32 pm
I have several canvas bags from Kroger, but even when I put them in the car, I can't remember to take them in.    :shrug:

That's a great solution if people remember to use them.
Those can be handy, but you don't want the meat juices leaking into them. Some things just travel better in plastic.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 05, 2018, 03:05:59 pm
We do most of our grocery shopping at Kroger, which has a bin outside each store for depositing old plastic bags (even non-Kroger ones) for recycling. Sounds like commonsense to me.

Out here in Phoenix Fry's (Kroger) was paying a nickel bounty for every bag you turned in at the register.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 05, 2018, 03:07:11 pm

Transgender College Student Files Complaint Against Professor for Not Using Preferred Pronouns
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
February 5, 2018 9:53 am

Quote
A transgender man has filed a complaint against an 88-year-old New York University psychology professor for not using the preferred pronouns when referring to transgender students.

August Enzer, a junior at NYU, wants Professor Edgar Coons, who has taught at the college since 1965, to be disciplined and for the resolution to be made public, the New York Post reported Saturday.  ...More at Free Beacon (http://freebeacon.com/culture/transgender-college-student-files-complaint-professor-pronouns/)
I suspect an 88-year-old psychologist remembers when a woman who truly believed she was a man would have been considered nuts.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 05, 2018, 03:07:36 pm
Those can be handy, but you don't want the meat juices leaking into them. Some things just travel better in plastic.

Also, they're large.  They over-pack them so they're too heavy for Mrs. Liberty to lift.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 05, 2018, 03:08:38 pm
Transgender College Student Files Complaint Against Professor for Not Using Preferred Pronouns
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
February 5, 2018 9:53 am
I suspect an 88-year-old psychologist remembers when a woman who truly believed she was a man would have been considered nuts.

Last I heard, "Gender Dysphoria" is still listed as an illness.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 05, 2018, 03:17:50 pm
"Preachers argue for private jets because demons travel on normal ones"

For fairness and balance on this story be sure to read:

"New Obama vacation costs uncovered; They now exceed $70 million"
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,189004.0/topicseen.html (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,189004.0/topicseen.html)

Also bear in mind that Copeland, Creflo Dollar, and Jesse Duplantis get their money from the voluntary donations of their supporters, who may be fools, but it's their money. When it comes to Obama he gets his money through coercing the taxpayers, including you.

@Paladin

Isn't there a passage in the Bible about shearing the sheep? That would apply to both the followers of the preachers that preach God,and the preachers that preach Marx.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2018, 03:22:32 pm
Transgender College Student Files Complaint Against Professor for Not Using Preferred Pronouns
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
February 5, 2018 9:53 am
I suspect an 88-year-old psychologist remembers when a woman who truly believed she was a man would have been considered nuts.
I'm a mite old school, and there is something I am having trouble figuring out.

Is a "transgender man" a guy who thinks he is a she or a she who thinks she is a he?

I mean, now that we aren't allowed to summarily dismiss such delusions as being "nuts" (or "sick") and are expected to cater to every split-hair designation these folks can come up with (which lets them have a go-zillion different "organizations" line up at the microphone), ordinary (normal) folks are left at a disadvantage in all this stuff (except for the fact that we aren't suffering from that particular delusion and the misery it likely brings).
I just find it difficult to pander to them when I don't even get what their descriptions mean, and I'd like to avoid the ugliness that comes with triggering someone's psychotic break.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on February 05, 2018, 03:23:02 pm
Last I heard, "Gender Dysphoria" is still listed as an illness.

I believe it is.  However, the left won't let a little thing like that get in the way of their "narrative".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on February 05, 2018, 04:15:02 pm
I have several canvas bags from Kroger, but even when I put them in the car, I can't remember to take them in.    :shrug:

That's a great solution if people remember to use them.

How often do you wash yours?

What's in your shopping bag? Bacteria
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/sns-green-bacteria-in-shopping-bags-story.html (http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/sns-green-bacteria-in-shopping-bags-story.html)

...The researchers tested 84 of the bags for bacteria. They found whopping amounts in all but one bag, and coliform bacteria (suggesting raw-meat or uncooked-food contamination) in half. And yes, the much-feared E. coli was among them -- in 12% of the bags.

Here's the full report, (yes it's a long title)Assessment of the Potential for Cross Contamination of Food Products by Reusable Shopping Bags...

https://medical-center.lomalindahealth.org/sites/medical-center.lomalindahealth.org/files/docs/LIVE-IT-Sinclair-Article-Cross-Contamination-Reusable-Shopping-Bags.pdf (https://medical-center.lomalindahealth.org/sites/medical-center.lomalindahealth.org/files/docs/LIVE-IT-Sinclair-Article-Cross-Contamination-Reusable-Shopping-Bags.pdf)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 05, 2018, 04:22:23 pm
I have a couple of those canvas shopping bags, but never put meats or produce in them. Yecchh.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 05, 2018, 04:42:20 pm
IIRC, a big part of the concept sales was that using plastic would "save a tree". (70s 'n all that).
It's nice propaganda but for a very long time paper companies have been growing and harvesting trees specifically for paper production, I remember being impressed by the operations when we went to see Mount St. Helens.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2018, 04:48:40 pm
It's nice propaganda but for a very long time paper companies have been growing and harvesting trees specifically for paper production, I remember being impressed by the operations when we went to see Mount St. Helens.
Yep, it was propaganda. That's all it was then, and all it is now. If I ever use the line "Save a tree...", I follow up with "...use it for firewood".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 05, 2018, 04:57:48 pm
If I ever use the line "Save a tree...", I follow up with "...use it for firewood".
Or build a house.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 05, 2018, 06:10:28 pm
Yep, it was propaganda. That's all it was then, and all it is now. If I ever use the line "Save a tree...", I follow up with "...use it for firewood".

My comeback is, "...or choke a fish?  Tough call."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on February 05, 2018, 06:27:46 pm
Trees are a crop.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 05, 2018, 07:01:55 pm
This is where all this transgender mental illness is heading. And it makes perfect sense. If a woman can wake up one day and say, 'Today, I am a man.' Then of course, why can't she wake up and say, 'Today, I am a cat.'? or a dog, or a horse, or a cow,....If we are going all-in on insanity as legitimate fact, then why should there be any limits? There is no limit to crazy. Once you start living in crazy-town, and truly believe that it is real and normal, well then, anything goes and reality has no meaning.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sObPHx2QMY0
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on February 12, 2018, 01:23:52 am
Romanian study claims snow is unsafe to eat if it's been on the ground more than a day, because bacteria and stuff... (https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1323406&binId=1.1147261&playlistPageNum=1)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on February 12, 2018, 01:35:21 am
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpNn1nht0_8#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on February 12, 2018, 02:01:12 pm
Romanian study claims snow is unsafe to eat if it's been on the ground more than a day, because bacteria and stuff... (https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1323406&binId=1.1147261&playlistPageNum=1)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLIppgE45wM#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on February 12, 2018, 10:10:11 pm
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLIppgE45wM#)
(https://i.imgflip.com/24fzje.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 14, 2018, 03:40:29 pm
Skier Missing In New York Found A Week Later 2,900 Miles Away In California, Confused And Still Wearing Helmet, Goggles
by Joseph Curl
February 14, 2018
Quote
Constantinos Filippidis, 49, went on a ski trip with his buddies from Toronto, crossing into the U.S. to ski at Whiteface Mountain in upstate New York.

On Wednesday of last week, Filippidis -- known as "Danny" -- told his pals he was going to squeeze in one more run, and headed out to the slopes alone. Then he vanished.

Authorities conducted a massive search of the mountain for Danny. Hundreds of volunteers spent some 7,000 hours combined combing every inch of the ski resort.   ...

On Tuesday, six days later, he was found -- 2,900 miles away in Sacramento, California. He was in confused state -- still wearing his ski helmet and goggles, officials said.

No one knows how he got there. He had left behind his car and his passport, so authorities say he likely didn't fly.  ...
More at Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/27125/skier-missing-new-york-found-2800-miles-away-joseph-curl).

Also reported in the U.K. Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5390295/Skier-missing-New-York-state-turns-California.html).
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/14/14/4935B42700000578-5390295-image-a-1_1518619250699.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 14, 2018, 08:48:42 pm
Skier Missing In New York Found A Week Later 2,900 Miles Away In California, Confused And Still Wearing Helmet, Goggles
by Joseph Curl
February 14, 2018More at Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/27125/skier-missing-new-york-found-2800-miles-away-joseph-curl).

Also reported in the U.K. Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5390295/Skier-missing-New-York-state-turns-California.html).
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/14/14/4935B42700000578-5390295-image-a-1_1518619250699.jpg)
(http://i44.tinypic.com/sg9g.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on February 14, 2018, 09:21:13 pm
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 15, 2018, 04:58:56 am
Cocaine is a helluva drug.

@Hoodat

Think maybe he ran all the way to Ca?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on February 15, 2018, 07:48:27 am
Sex toys, light bulbs among anonymous Amazon packages sent to Canadian universities
At least 7 university student unions have received unsolicited items from Amazon
By Sophia Harris, CBC News Posted: Jan 27, 2018 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 28, 2018 10:45 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sex-toys-amazon-anonymous-packages-1.4506318 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sex-toys-amazon-anonymous-packages-1.4506318)

Several Canadian university student unions are stumped as they continue to receive anonymous packages containing random goods — everything from sex toys to light bulbs to record players to computer cables.

The items come in Amazon packaging, but there's no indication who's ordering the goods from the online retail giant.

[...]

(https://i.cbc.ca/1.4506391.1517001897!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/susanne.jpg)
Ryerson's Students Union president, Susanne Nyaga, holds anonymously purchased items her office has received from Amazon. (CBC)

(https://i.cbc.ca/1.4506421.1517003937!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/shawn-wiskar-student-union-regina-university.jpg)
Shawn Wiskar, University of Regina Students’ Union vice-president of student affairs, shows one of many anonymous items his office has received — a digital kitchen scale. (Shawn Wiskar)

Another case of someone getting mailed lots of Amazon packages anonymously:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/someone-is-sending-amazon-sex-toys-to-strangers-amazon-has-no-idea-how-to-stop-it (https://www.thedailybeast.com/someone-is-sending-amazon-sex-toys-to-strangers-amazon-has-no-idea-how-to-stop-it)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on February 15, 2018, 09:24:40 pm
Skier lost in New York doesn’t know how he got to California
AP, updated on February 14, 2018
https://www.boston.com/sports/skiing/2018/02/14/missing-skier-new-york-california (https://www.boston.com/sports/skiing/2018/02/14/missing-skier-new-york-california)

WILMINGTON, N.Y. (AP) — Police on Wednesday were trying to piece together how a 49-year-old skier whose disappearance sparked a massive search on a snowy New York mountainside ended up six days later in California, confused and still in ski clothes.

Toronto firefighter Constantinos ‘‘Danny’’ Filippidis told investigators he doesn’t know what happened after he was reported missing Wednesday, Feb. 7, from Whiteface Mountain during an annual ski trip with colleagues. The search ended Tuesday when Filippidis turned up in Sacramento, California, some 2,500 miles west of the Adirondacks.

[...]

Filippidis told deputies he remembered little, but thought he’d suffered a head injury, rode in a ‘‘big rig-style truck’’ and slept ‘‘a lot,’’ Sgt. Shaun Hampton of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department told the Post-Standard of Syracuse.

Filippidis said he bought an iPhone to call his wife and told deputies that a truck dropped him off in downtown Sacramento, where he got a haircut, Hampton said.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 19, 2018, 02:06:15 pm
Farty passenger forces flight to make emergency landing
By Fox News
February 18, 2018 | 5:53pm

A pilot made an emergency landing after a fight broke out over a passenger who allegedly refused to stop passing gas.

Two Dutchmen sitting next to the flatulent passenger reportedly asked the man to stop, but he refused and continued to break wind aboard the Transavia Airlines flight from Dubai to Amsterdam Schiphol.

The budget airline crew allegedly did not help the passengers after their complaints, Metro reports, leading to a fight between the men. Despite a warning from the pilot, the altercation continued and forced the airplane to be diverted to Vienna Airport, where it made an emergency landing.

Police boarded the plane once it landed and removed two women and two men whom the pilot reported as “passengers on the rampage,” Metro reports.  ...   More at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2018/02/18/farty-passenger-forces-flight-to-make-emergency-landing/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on February 21, 2018, 10:06:26 pm
Barge sinks after nude sighting in Texas
Partygoers crowded one side of vessel to catch glimpse of bathers
KXAN-TV
updated 5/3/2004 12:49:42 PM ET
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4890829/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/barge-sinks-after-nude-sighting-texas/ (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4890829/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/barge-sinks-after-nude-sighting-texas/)

AUSTIN, Texas — Partygoers apparently hoping to catch a glimpse of nude sunbathers crowded on one side of a floating barge, prompting the ship to capsize and dump all 60 people into Lake Travis.

Two people were hospitalized with minor injuries Sunday after the rented double-decker barge sank near Hippie Hollow, a lakeside park and the only public nude beach in Texas.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 21, 2018, 11:50:06 pm


AUSTIN, Texas — Partygoers apparently hoping to catch a glimpse of nude sunbathers crowded on one side of a floating barge, prompting the ship to capsize and dump all 60 people into Lake Travis.

Two people were hospitalized with minor injuries Sunday after the rented double-decker barge sank near Hippie Hollow, a lakeside park and the only public nude beach in Texas.

[...]

@Suppressed

"Hippie Hollow"???? What a GREAT name!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 22, 2018, 12:32:01 am
What men will do to see boobs is absolutely incredible.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 22, 2018, 01:21:59 am
What men will do to see boobs is absolutely incredible.
Really. How sheltered were these boaters, anyway?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on February 22, 2018, 02:08:29 am
Barge sinks after nude sighting in Texas
Partygoers crowded one side of vessel to catch glimpse of bathers
KXAN-TV
updated 5/3/2004 12:49:42 PM ET
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4890829/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/barge-sinks-after-nude-sighting-texas/ (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4890829/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/barge-sinks-after-nude-sighting-texas/)

AUSTIN, Texas — Partygoers apparently hoping to catch a glimpse of nude sunbathers crowded on one side of a floating barge, prompting the ship to capsize and dump all 60 people into Lake Travis.

Two people were hospitalized with minor injuries Sunday after the rented double-decker barge sank near Hippie Hollow, a lakeside park and the only public nude beach in Texas.


The tltle  cracked me up...it's just so...Austinish.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 22, 2018, 02:17:27 am
What men will do to see boobs is absolutely incredible.

@240B

Well,that depends of if they are boobs you have seen often,or boobs you have never seen before.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 22, 2018, 02:26:28 am
If it's a place called "Hippie Hallow," I think I'd pass.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 22, 2018, 02:30:13 am
As the redhead feminist beauty yelled at me, Yes! Damn it! I have boobs and a vigina! Get over it!

She was wearing shorts and her legs had red hair. It mesmerized me. I guess I got lost in thought and didn't pay attention to how long I was staring at her legs.

I don't think naked people on a beach would make me tip a boat. It might be interesting. But come on.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 22, 2018, 04:24:24 am
@240B

Well,that depends of if they are boobs you have seen often,or boobs you have never seen before.
Or to put more concisely, just how bodacious the Ta-tas are!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Slip18 on February 27, 2018, 01:16:41 pm
Or to put more concisely, just how bodacious the Ta-tas are!

My dad was taking six of us to Mass one fine Sunday.  About a block before we got to church, a woman was mowing her lawn attired in shorts and a bikini top.  She bent over to pick up some grass clippings about 100 feet before we reached her home.  As she bent over, her string bikini top busted off exposing all of her upper body.  My dad ran into the curb.

We did arrive at Mass on time.  Poor dad was red faced.

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 27, 2018, 01:31:57 pm

Police chase naked man riding quad bike the wrong way along motorway
It's a bum rap, copper

A MAN in America has redefined the term ‘naked bike’ after attempting to evade police on a quad bike (ATV) while in a state of undress.

The chase, which took place yesterday (February 25) near Kansas City, Missouri lasted for an hour and involved a section of Interstate, where the ATV-rider drove into oncoming traffic.

The pursuit ended near former Sam’s Town Casino, according to local news reports.   ...


Video at link (https://www.driving.co.uk/video/police-chase-naked-man-riding-quad-bike-wrong-way-along-motorway/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 27, 2018, 01:34:11 pm
Man's explanation for naked ATV chase in KC is detailed in charges: 'No stopping him'
By Glenn E. Rice And Ian Cummings
February 26, 2018 03:41 PM
Updated February 26, 2018 05:59 PM

A man who led authorities on a high-speed pursuit Sunday afternoon along a stretch of Interstate 435 in the Northland while he was naked on an ATV has been charged with burglary and tampering, according to Clay County prosecutors.

Johnathon A. Menth, 27, of Excelsior Springs also faces charges of property damage and sexual misconduct in connection with the incident, part of which was captured on video that has been viewed more than 2.3 million times on Facebook.

But some elements of the incident, including the reason why Menth had no clothes on, remain a mystery. A statement taken by a Kansas City police detective records Menth's explanation that he was high on drugs, "freaked out" when surrounded by police and was in "flight mode."   ...

Read more at Kansas City Star (http://www.kansascity.com/news/article202186339.html#storylink=cpy)
(http://www.kansascity.com/latest-news/2s1fza/picture202230844/alternates/FREE_768/ATV%20keyframe%203.JPG)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Slip18 on February 27, 2018, 02:27:49 pm
@mountaineer

"Flight mode"???

Kansas City?  Little chilly there now.  No earthquakes that I can find.

Hmmmmm.

 *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 27, 2018, 02:55:30 pm

Man Force-Fed Goat Cocaine And Booze, Cops Say
Jailed for animal cruelty, perp faces boot from U.S.

FEBRURY 16--A horse trainer is locked up on a felony animal cruelty charge after Georgia cops obtained video showing him force-feeding a goat cocaine and whiskey.

Deputies with the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office yesterday arrested Sergio Palomares-Guzman, 28, at the farm in the city of Grayson where he lives and works.

Pictured at right, Palomares-Guzman is being held in the county jail in lieu of $11,200 bond. However, he is also subject to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer, apparently due to his status as an alien.

http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/animals/goat-abuse-case-013907
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on February 27, 2018, 04:29:56 pm
Man's explanation for naked ATV chase in KC is detailed in charges: 'No stopping him'
By Glenn E. Rice And Ian Cummings
February 26, 2018 03:41 PM
Updated February 26, 2018 05:59 PM

A man who led authorities on a high-speed pursuit Sunday afternoon along a stretch of Interstate 435 in the Northland while he was naked on an ATV has been charged with burglary and tampering, according to Clay County prosecutors.

Johnathon A. Menth, 27, of Excelsior Springs also faces charges of property damage and sexual misconduct in connection with the incident, part of which was captured on video that has been viewed more than 2.3 million times on Facebook.

But some elements of the incident, including the reason why Menth had no clothes on, remain a mystery. A statement taken by a Kansas City police detective records Menth's explanation that he was high on drugs, "freaked out" when surrounded by police and was in "flight mode."   ...

Read more at Kansas City Star (http://www.kansascity.com/news/article202186339.html#storylink=cpy)
(http://www.kansascity.com/latest-news/2s1fza/picture202230844/alternates/FREE_768/ATV%20keyframe%203.JPG)
About 20 years ago I had a student that was Liquored up while under the legal drinking age. He got on a snowmobile buck naked (except for a helmet) and rode down Main street after one of our blizzards. Damn near ended up in the canal, before they caught him. When asked why he stated that it just seemed like a good idea at the time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 27, 2018, 06:41:46 pm
Man Force-Fed Goat Cocaine And Booze, Cops Say
Jailed for animal cruelty, perp faces boot from U.S.

FEBRURY 16--A horse trainer is locked up on a felony animal cruelty charge after Georgia cops obtained video showing him force-feeding a goat cocaine and whiskey.

Deputies with the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office yesterday arrested Sergio Palomares-Guzman, 28, at the farm in the city of Grayson where he lives and works.

Pictured at right, Palomares-Guzman is being held in the county jail in lieu of $11,200 bond. However, he is also subject to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer, apparently due to his status as an alien.

http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/animals/goat-abuse-case-013907

@240B
Maybe that was how he seduced goats back home,and the poor,innocent immigrant just didn't know the rules are different here?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 27, 2018, 06:42:44 pm
Man Force-Fed Goat Cocaine And Booze, Cops Say
Jailed for animal cruelty, perp faces boot from U.S.

FEBRURY 16--A horse trainer is locked up on a felony animal cruelty charge after Georgia cops obtained video showing him force-feeding a goat cocaine and whiskey.

Deputies with the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office yesterday arrested Sergio Palomares-Guzman, 28, at the farm in the city of Grayson where he lives and works.

Pictured at right, Palomares-Guzman is being held in the county jail in lieu of $11,200 bond. However, he is also subject to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer, apparently due to his status as an alien.

http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/animals/goat-abuse-case-013907
Hey, he always does that to get his women to loosen up, one look at him and you understand why.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 08, 2018, 02:59:32 pm
Australian Teen Left Disabled For Life After Swallowing Slug As Dare
 International Business Times
Shreesha Ghosh
6 hrs ago

The mother of a former Australian rugby player, who was paralyzed after swallowing a slug on a challenge at a birthday party, is fighting the administration after they essentially cut his advantages for medicinal care, reports said Wednesday.

Sam Ballard, 19 years old at the time, ate a garden slug at a 2010 birthday party that everybody at first thought was safe and harmless, however later caused the high schooler to become paralyzed and unable to convey or care for himself.

The slug, which Ballard swallowed, was carrying an uncommon disease called "Angiostrongyliasis," otherwise called rodent lungworm. Slugs usually secure the parasite when they ingest defecation from contaminated rats, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).   ...

Reports recently said that Ballard’s insurance benefits package from Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme was recently cut down from 492,000 Australian dollars ($383,700) to about AU$135,000 ($105,000).  ...

After the administration cut down on Ballard’s benefits, the officials did not call or disclose to the teen’s mother that the financing was cut but allegedly sent her an instant message suggesting her to look into her child’s record for his most recent subsidizing result, which ultimately revealed the reduction.   ... IBT via MSN (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/australian-teen-left-disabled-for-life-after-swallowing-slug-as-dare/ar-BBK0oxh?li=BBnb4R7)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 08, 2018, 03:23:29 pm
Quote
Hartford Police Say Man Drove Stolen Car to Court To Face Stolen Car Charge

A Hartford man due in court to answer a charge of stealing a car apparently stole a car to get to court, police said.

Jonathan Rivera, 25, was at Superior Court in Hartford on Wednesday to answer a charge of first-degree larceny and tampering with a motor vehicle involving the theft of a car in Hartford on Feb. 17.

As he waited to appear before a judge, Hartford Parking Authority agents scanning license plates for parking violators got a hit on a white 2014 Subaru Legacy parked near the courthouse. The license plates had been reported stolen and the car itself had been stolen from Newington because a key fob was left in it, police said....

http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-hartford-stolen-car-to-court-0308-story.html (http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-hartford-stolen-car-to-court-0308-story.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 08, 2018, 06:07:45 pm
Like the DUI defendants who show up for court drunk, I suppose.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 08, 2018, 07:04:44 pm


@Sanguine

Some people just ain't happy unless they are feeling sorry for themselves.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 08, 2018, 07:48:05 pm
@Sanguine

Some people just ain't happy unless they are feeling sorry for themselves.

True statement,  Pete.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 14, 2018, 01:51:30 pm
Man hurt while using garden hose to rappel from Huntington parking garage

By WTAP, WSAZ |
Posted: Mon 4:02 PM, Mar 12, 2018

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A man was hurt after police say he tried to rappel with a garden hose from the third floor of a parking garage in downtown Huntington.

Christopher Sowards fell onto the alley near the parking garage at the intersection of 3rd Avenue and 8th Street – just across from the Big Sandy Superstore Arena. It happened Sunday night.

Interim Huntington Police Department Chief Hank Dial says Sowards also is a suspect, saying he broke into two vehicles in the parking garage.  ...   Rest of story (http://www.thenewscenter.tv/content/news/Man-hurt-while-using-garden-hose-to-rappel-from-Huntington-parking-garage-476586063.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on March 22, 2018, 11:22:23 pm
Oklahoma mother will go to jail for marrying her daughter
15 March 2018
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43418891 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43418891)

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The mother and daughter married in 2016

An Oklahoma mother who married her daughter after the pair "hit it off" has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Patricia Ann Spann, 45, pleaded guilty to the felony offence of incest and admitted wedding her biological daughter, Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 26.

The mother lost custody of her children and reunited with her daughter in 2014.

The two married in March 2016 after same-sex marriage became legal in the state.

Investigators later discovered Patricia Ann Spann had previously wed her son.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 22, 2018, 11:34:25 pm
Oklahoma mother will go to jail for marrying her daughter
15 March 2018
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43418891 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43418891)

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The mother and daughter married in 2016

An Oklahoma mother who married her daughter after the pair "hit it off" has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Patricia Ann Spann, 45, pleaded guilty to the felony offence of incest and admitted wedding her biological daughter, Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 26.

The mother lost custody of her children and reunited with her daughter in 2014.

The two married in March 2016 after same-sex marriage became legal in the state.

Investigators later discovered Patricia Ann Spann had previously wed her son.

[...]

She was trying to keep the dating pool small.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 23, 2018, 12:34:17 am
She was trying to keep the dating pool small.

@Cyber Liberty

A family that sleeps together,stays together.

Maybe she things she is a part of a Royal Family?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 23, 2018, 12:47:56 am
@Cyber Liberty

A family that sleeps together,stays together.

Maybe she things she is a part of a Royal Family?

Hey, she thought it was legit.  Her name wasn't on the Birth Certificate!  (How in the heck can a Mother's name not be on it?  Fathers, yeah quite often in some neighborhoods, but the Mother??)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on March 23, 2018, 01:18:31 am
Little Annie Fanny steps in it again . . .

Quote
Ann Coulter attacks immigrants as ugly rapists, prompts walkout in Boulder (https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/d374c528-5c60-36c0-9a37-ee2ed2a71b4a/ss_ann-coulter-attacks.html)

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter spent most of the first 15 minutes of her appearance Wednesday at the University of Colorado deriding immigrants as ugly rapists who depress wages and “block vote” for Democrats.

“I’m totally a ‘looksist,’ ” Coulter said, and claimed she could determine who should be allowed in the United States solely by physical appearance. “I told Donald Trump when he was running that he could completely get rid of (Immigration and Naturalization Services) and I’d do it all before breakfast on Tinder,” she said . . .
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 23, 2018, 01:29:43 am
Little Annie Fanny steps in it again . . .

 **nononono*   22222frying pan
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 25, 2018, 10:52:33 pm
Driver's Car Seized After Showing Homer Simpson's License During Stop
by HollyMatkin
16 mins

Milton Keynes, England – A Thames Valley police constable was presented with cartoon character Homer Simpson’s driver’s license during a traffic stop earlier this month, the department said.

When the police constable pulled over an unnamed male driver for a traffic infraction, she went about her regular routine of asking the man for his driver’s license, FOX News reported.

She was presented with a fake license, which bore an animated photo of the yellow Simpson patriarch as he made his famous “D’oh!” face, with his hand raised to his head. ...

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Rest of story (https://www.themaven.net/bluelivesmatter/news/driver-s-car-seized-after-showing-homer-simpson-s-license-during-stop-HIwGqkstxUyipwg22LZVqg?full=1)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 25, 2018, 11:05:47 pm
Looks legit.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 28, 2018, 12:34:05 pm
Manager of Washington County opioid treatment facility indicted on drug charges
Gideon Bradshaw
 Mar 27, 2018 Updated 10 hrs ago
Quote
The manager of a Washington County-based drug treatment clinic faces federal drug and fraud charges.

Christopher Handa, 47, of Pittsburgh, was charged by a four-count indictment a federal grand jury returned March 21. Federal prosecutors allege he and others conspired to create and submit unlawful prescriptions for buprenorphine – a narcotic painkiller used in the treatment of opioid addiction that’s commonly distributed under the brand names Subutex and Suboxone – and then unlawfully dispensed those controlled substances to others. ...

Federal prosecutors allege in court papers Handa helped a physician – identified only as “M.B.” – who was a contractor at Redirections’ Washington location illegally provide a patient with Suboxone for no legitimate medical purpose on two occasions in August.  ...
More at the Washington, Pa., Observer-Reporter (https://observer-reporter.com/news/localnews/manager-of-washington-county-opioid-treatment-facility-indicted-on-drug/article_3272135a-31e1-11e8-84a7-4baa66c06d7a.html).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 28, 2018, 07:46:37 pm
WATCH: Self-taught rocket maker shoots himself 1,875 feet to prove Earth is flat
Posted on March 28, 2018

A self-taught rocket scientist who believes the Earth is flat and wants to run for California governor shot himself up about 1,875 feet in the air in his homemade rocket on Saturday.

“Mad” Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limo driver, promised last year to propel himself up in the air and snap a photo proving that astronauts conspired to fabricate the shape of the planet. The stunt was supposed to be the first phase of the flat-Earth space program and received backing from flat-Earth groups.  ... Video and more at True Pundit (https://truepundit.com/watch-self-taught-rocket-maker-shoots-himself-1875-feet-to-prove-earth-is-flat/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on March 30, 2018, 10:12:04 am
WATCH: Self-taught rocket maker shoots himself 1,875 feet to prove Earth is flat
Posted on March 28, 2018

A self-taught rocket scientist who believes the Earth is flat and wants to run for California governor shot himself up about 1,875 feet in the air in his homemade rocket on Saturday.

“Mad” Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limo driver, promised last year to propel himself up in the air and snap a photo proving that astronauts conspired to fabricate the shape of the planet. The stunt was supposed to be the first phase of the flat-Earth space program and received backing from flat-Earth groups.  ... Video and more at True Pundit (https://truepundit.com/watch-self-taught-rocket-maker-shoots-himself-1875-feet-to-prove-earth-is-flat/)

Quote
“Am I glad I did it? Yeah. I guess. I’ll feel it in the morning. I won’t be able to get out of bed. At least I can go home and have dinner and see my cats tonight,” Hughes said after the stunt.

Uh huh.  So where are the pictures, Mike??
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 07, 2018, 10:54:02 pm
Florida woman blames cocaine in purse on 'windy day,' police say

By: WFLA
Updated: Apr 07, 2018 05:01 PM EDT

         
Quote
FORT PIERCE, FL (WFLA) -- A Florida woman who was busted with cocaine last month told officers the wind must have blown it into her purse, WPLG reports.

Kennecia Posey, 26, was one of two passengers in a car that was stopped by Fort Pierce police after it was seen swerving in the roadway on March 21.

When officers approached the vehicle, they detected the smell of marijuana coming from inside the car. Officers later found cocaine and marijuana inside Posey's purse.

According to police, Posey admitted the marijuana was hers, but denied having any cocaine.

“I don’t know anything about any cocaine. It’s a windy day, it must have flown through the window and into my purse,” Posey said, according to police.

She was arrested and booked into the county jail.


http://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/florida-woman-blames-cocaine-in-purse-on-windy-day-police-say/1106380969 (http://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/florida-woman-blames-cocaine-in-purse-on-windy-day-police-say/1106380969)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WingNot on April 07, 2018, 11:09:30 pm
It could happen.

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on April 08, 2018, 03:47:05 am
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/13/1413212678905_wps_14_True_Romance_jpg_Cocaine_.jpg)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rly_ZOAq6v4#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on April 10, 2018, 02:33:24 pm
Quote
Man lights Molotov cocktail at Little League game after dispute over pit bull, cops say
By Don Sweeney dsweeney@sacbee.com

Little League coaches in Salinas, Calif., boarded up a fence two weeks ago to stop a neighbor’s dog from coming onto the playing field.

On Monday afternoon, the dog’s owner, Michael Dean Jones, 54, showed up at a baseball game with a Molotov cocktail and threatened to burn the place down, Salinas police told KSBW. Parents tackled Jones after he ignited a fluid inside a small plastic container.

“He definitely came there to cause harm,” said Justin Kleinfeldt, Little League vice president. About 100 people were at the ballpark, he told KSBW, including Little League players as young as 6 years old. “A lot of them saw it. It was pretty scary and traumatizing.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article207121184.html (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article207121184.html)

There almost has to be more to the story, but what?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on April 17, 2018, 01:16:53 pm
Renegade driver lost police during chase, but got caught when he called to report his car was stolen
http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/04/16/renegade-driver-lost-police-during-chase-but-got-caught-when-called-to-report-his-car-was-stolen.html (http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/04/16/renegade-driver-lost-police-during-chase-but-got-caught-when-called-to-report-his-car-was-stolen.html)

A reckless driver with a need for speed led cops on a death-defying cat and mouse chase - before ringing them hours later to say his car had been "stolen."

A four-minute-long heart-pounding video showed Warren Gray driving through red lights in a busy city center while being tailed by police cars....

...Nine minutes later Gray jumped out of his vehicle and sought refuge in a nearby field where officers couldn't find him.

Gray then decided to report his car as stolen five hours later.

Officers then attended his address and arrested him as they identified him as the driver of the vehicle....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WingNot on April 17, 2018, 08:48:29 pm
 South Yorkshire, UK.  Figures.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 04, 2018, 01:16:24 am
Quote
New Jersey 'mystery pooper' was schools chief, say police

Police hunting a suspect who relieved himself on school grounds "on a daily basis" in the US state of New Jersey have arrested a top education official.

Kenilworth school superintendent Thomas Tramaglini, 42, was detained after investigators set up a sting operation to snare the "mystery pooper".

Police were called after students complained of frequent excrement near their school running track and field.

Mr Tramaglini is charged with lewdness, littering and defecating in public.

Read more at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43998174 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43998174)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 04, 2018, 01:20:35 am
These threads in this area are really suppose to be about politics, government mainly, not stories like this that are not directly on those topics. If one wishes to move it to any other forum, that is fine. Bizarre story. Maybe it belongs in general.

Moved to Ridiculous News:

@AbaraXas
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ABX on May 04, 2018, 01:21:33 am
This has South Park written all over it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 04, 2018, 01:24:14 am
Vomit warning.
 :3:
Quote
Jurors sick of hearing about prison guard’s huge, stinky penis
By Priscilla DeGregory and Ruth Brown
May 2, 2018 | 7:56pm
New York Post (https://nypost.com/2018/05/02/jurors-sick-of-hearing-about-prison-guards-huge-stinky-penis/)

Jurors in a Brooklyn corrections officer’s sex-assault trial appear to be sick of hearing about his huge, stinky penis.

The jurors were visibly glum and, in some cases, exasperated Wednesday as prosecutors continued a second day of grilling accusers on the shape and odor of Lt. Eugenio Perez’s phallus — which the feds say is so distinctive, it helped them confirm the women’s stories. ...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 04, 2018, 01:33:09 am
 *bouche* :terror:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on May 04, 2018, 04:49:32 am
  (http://i67.tinypic.com/3467qtx.gif) (http://i66.tinypic.com/14m6tm1.gif)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on May 04, 2018, 01:58:07 pm
Wow.  I thought my jury duty was pretty bad ...
I guess it could have been worse.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 04, 2018, 02:01:54 pm
Wow.  I thought my jury duty was pretty bad ...
I guess it could have been worse.
Waaayyyyyy worse!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on May 05, 2018, 10:47:25 am
Wow.  I thought my jury duty was pretty bad ...
I guess it could have been worse.
I got called for Jury duty about 20 years ago. I was in the last group called for Voir Dire and had been listening to all the questions. The Defense attorney finally got to me and asked if there was any reason I should be eliminated. I told him: I have a masters degree in education was pursuing one in Theology and I was a lifetime member of the NRA. Both sides fell over themselves to reject me. Have not been called since. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on May 06, 2018, 05:36:25 am
Woman fined after urine sample damages 7-Eleven microwave, police say

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/06/woman-fined-after-urine-sample-damages-7-eleven-microwave-police-say.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/06/woman-fined-after-urine-sample-damages-7-eleven-microwave-police-say.html)

A Denver woman was cited Thursday for allegedly causing damage to a 7-Eleven store's microwave oven when she tried to heat a urine sample, authorities said.

A store clerk reported seeing the suspect, identified as Angelique Sanchez, 26, place something in the Aurora, Colo., store’s microwave before hearing a “loud bang” seconds later, Denver’s KUSA-TV reported, citing an Aurora Police Department report.

The clerk reportedly told Sanchez to clean up the mess or she would alert police. Sanchez then “wiped out the microwave onto the floor” with napkins and left, Pueblo’s KOAA-TV reported, also citing the police report...

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 06, 2018, 01:48:56 pm
Woman fined after urine sample damages 7-Eleven microwave, police say

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/06/woman-fined-after-urine-sample-damages-7-eleven-microwave-police-say.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/06/woman-fined-after-urine-sample-damages-7-eleven-microwave-police-say.html)

A Denver woman was cited Thursday for allegedly causing damage to a 7-Eleven store's microwave oven when she tried to heat a urine sample, authorities said.

A store clerk reported seeing the suspect, identified as Angelique Sanchez, 26, place something in the Aurora, Colo., store’s microwave before hearing a “loud bang” seconds later, Denver’s KUSA-TV reported, citing an Aurora Police Department report.

The clerk reportedly told Sanchez to clean up the mess or she would alert police. Sanchez then “wiped out the microwave onto the floor” with napkins and left, Pueblo’s KOAA-TV reported, also citing the police report...

If that is the best plan she can come up with to pass a piss test,she is on her way back to jail.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 06, 2018, 02:41:37 pm
If that is the best plan she can come up with to pass a piss test,she is on her way back to jail.
I guess she thought she could boil all the drugs out of it.  :thud:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 06, 2018, 02:46:38 pm
Flaming Kites From Gaza Thwarted by Winds
By Iyad Abuheweila and Isabel Kershner
May 4, 2018

BUREIJ, Gaza Strip — Gaza’s flaming-kite squadrons had worked for days to prepare for Friday’s protest along the border with Israel, building hundreds of flimsy-framed sails with tails meant to carry crude incendiary devices, like rags soaked in gasoline.

Their battle plan was to fly them in swarms into Israel with the aim of igniting the dry fields of the rural communities on the other side of the border fence. They were counting on help from a heavy heat wave to fan the fires.

But the plan largely failed because of another quirk of nature: The wind was blowing the other way.

Instead, the protesters claimed another David vs. Goliath kind of aerial victory, saying they had downed two Israeli military surveillance drones with stones hurled from slingshots. ...  New York Times (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-flaming-kites-protest.html#click=https://t.co/TQi737SnAk)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on May 06, 2018, 03:16:39 pm
I guess she thought she could boil all the drugs out of it.  :thud:

Maybe the sample belonged to someone other than her and she had to bring it up to body temperature to turn it in?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 06, 2018, 03:23:11 pm
Maybe the sample belonged to someone other than her and she had to bring it up to body temperature to turn it in?
That, too! Maybe the "clean" friend has a supply of urine in the freezer for all her druggie friends. $25 a pop, you have to warm it up.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on May 06, 2018, 03:38:49 pm
That, too! Maybe the "clean" friend has a supply of urine in the freezer for all her druggie friends. $25 a pop, you have to warm it up.  :laugh:

A budding entrepreneur!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 06, 2018, 03:50:16 pm
Maybe the sample belonged to someone other than her and she had to bring it up to body temperature to turn it in?

I'm sure of that, actually.  She likely miscalculated the time required to heat it up.  Convenience store microwave ovens are much more powerful than kitchen models.  That sample was for a drug screen.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 06, 2018, 06:28:09 pm
I guess she thought she could boil all the drugs out of it.  :thud:

@mountaineer

LOL! You may be right! I hadn't even thought of that.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 06, 2018, 06:32:09 pm
Maybe the sample belonged to someone other than her and she had to bring it up to body temperature to turn it in?

@Sanguine

Yup. I do not know this for a fact,but I have been told that some people on parole have been known to buy urine to help them pass the drug tests so they can remain on parole.

I'm thinking these people must not want to stay out of prison all that much. The simplest thing to do would to just not do any drugs until you are off probation. If you can't do that,you are so simple-minded you might be better off in prison,where you have people to tell you when to eat,sleep,and wake up.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on May 06, 2018, 08:49:11 pm
If that is the best plan she can come up with to pass a piss test,she is on her way back to jail.

Here's how you pass a piss test:

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmLhlCfSE30#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 06, 2018, 10:47:00 pm
Here's how you pass a piss test:

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmLhlCfSE30#)

@Hoodat

Ahhh,Frank Gallager! There ain't NOTHING he won't do to try to beat a system,ANY system. "Shameless" is not only the most accurately named series to ever air on television,but maybe also the funniest. I never miss a episode.

Remember when the kids discovered that Frank had been lying to them about them needing to collect rent money for him to send to their aunt in Wyoming,and that he had just buried her out in the back yard after she OD'd one night at a party?

He  had not only been collecting non-existent rent money from his own children and keeping it for himself to buy drugs and drink,but had been cashing her SS checks for years.  IIRC,the truth came out when they got a letter from the city saying they were going to dig up the back yard to replace the water lines. She was buried right next to the water line.

I also loved the story line where his mother was got an early release from prison because she was dying from cancer,and came home to live with Frank and her grandchildren. She may have been the only person in the world that scared him to death.  She even helped his 10 year old son start up a meth lab in the basement,"Because the boy is ten,and needs to learn a trade." How's THAT for a "Hallmark Moment"?

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 07, 2018, 12:55:03 pm
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Couple gets ‘creepy’ note from neighbors sick of seeing them naked
By Dorothea Jacobs, The Sun
May 6, 2018 | 8:21pm

A young couple was shocked to receive an angry letter from their neighbors which claimed to be sick of seeing them naked.

Karin and Jay Stone from Lemington, a town in northeast England, were baffled by the nasty note which comments on the size of their body parts – supposedly seen by the writer through their windows.  ...

The anonymous note reads: “Would you please close your blinds when getting dressed or undressing.  We are sick of seeing big bum big boobs and little willy [sic] and we will report you both for indecent exposure.

“Your neighbors.”  ...
More at the NY Post (https://nypost.com/2018/05/06/couple-gets-creepy-note-from-neighbors-sick-of-seeing-them-naked/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 07, 2018, 10:08:18 pm
I guess she thought she could boil all the drugs out of it.  :thud:
They buy (yes, buy) clean urine samples in case they get a random test or pre-employment test. Problem is, any more the temperature gets checked, and 'cold' samples are rejected, requiring an on the spot re-test. So they will try most anything to get the sample up to temp because otherwise they'll fail the drug test.

A driller who had become somewhat erratic tried the same stunt on an oil rig I worked on and when the cold sample was rejected, failed his actual test (losing a $100K+ job in the process).  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 07, 2018, 10:39:52 pm
They buy (yes, buy) clean urine samples in case they get a random test or pre-employment test. Problem is, any more the temperature gets checked, and 'cold' samples are rejected, requiring an on the spot re-test. So they will try most anything to get the sample up to temp because otherwise they'll fail the drug test.

A driller who had become somewhat erratic tried the same stunt on an oil rig I worked on and when the cold sample was rejected, failed his actual test (losing a $100K+ job in the process).  :shrug:

Measuring the temperature of the urine has been part of the corporate drug testing protocol for at least two decades.  I assumed from the top, when I first read this story, warming up the specimen is what the subject was trying to do.

Additionally, there is a cottage industry that sprang up when corporate drug testing became widespread:  Legitimate sales of "clean" urine to the labs doing the testing, for instrument calibration.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 07, 2018, 10:43:02 pm
Measuring the temperature of the urine has been part of the corporate drug testing protocol for at least two decades.  I assumed from the top, when I first read this story, warming up the specimen is what the subject was trying to do.

Additionally, there is a cottage industry that sprang up when corporate drug testing became widespread:  Legitimate sales of "clean" urine to the labs doing the testing, for instrument calibration.
That would beat donating blood..... :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 07, 2018, 11:03:15 pm
That would beat donating blood..... :shrug:

Makes me glad I don't work for a lab that does these "bodily fluid" testing (or the calibration labs).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 07, 2018, 11:32:35 pm
Makes me glad I don't work for a lab that does these "bodily fluid" testing (or the calibration labs).
Me, too, but it seems they always have job openings....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 10, 2018, 12:58:25 pm
Another vomit alert.
Quote
Tennessee man accused of sex act with horse twice in one week
By Circa


NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A 30-year-old Tennessee man has been jailed on two counts of sex act with an animal in Madison County.

According to the arrest warrants for Michael Jemison, he was captured after owners of the horse reviewed surveillance video to watch the recently pregnant horse give birth.

While reviewing the footage captured on April 29, the owner observed Jemison enter the barn and engage in multiple forms of intercourse with the horse.

The owner called a veterinarian who took swabs and submitted the DNA evidence to police along with the video. ...
https://www.circa.com/story/2018/05/09/whoa/tennessee-man-accused-of-sex-act-with-horse-twice-in-one-week (https://www.circa.com/story/2018/05/09/whoa/tennessee-man-accused-of-sex-act-with-horse-twice-in-one-week)

I had to show the URL. Whoa!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on May 11, 2018, 01:29:45 am

‘Lunacy of the left’: ‘Sex expert’ urges parents to ask newborns for consent for diaper changes [Video]

The American Mirror
MAY 10, 2018
BY VICTOR SKINNER

Self-professed “sexuality educator, speaker and author” Deanne Carson is on the front lines of combating the so-called “rape culture,” working to replace it with a “culture of consent” beginning at birth.

Carson appeared with florescent pink hair on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in Melbourne, Australia this week to discuss consent laws and advocate for parents to broach the subject with their children well before they’re able to understand the concept.

(more)
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/lunacy-of-the-left-sex-expert-urges-parents-to-ask-newborns-for-consent-for-diaper-changes/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 11, 2018, 01:46:33 am
Quote
“’I’m going to change your nappy now, is that okay?’ Of course the baby is not going to respond ‘yes mum, that’s awesome. I’d love to have my nappy changed,’” she said.

“But if you leave space, and wait for body language and wait to make eye contact, then you’re letting that child know that their response matters,” Carson said.
I have the distinct impression this stupid woman has never ever been in the presence of an infant.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 11, 2018, 01:48:07 am
Another vomit alert.https://www.circa.com/story/2018/05/09/whoa/tennessee-man-accused-of-sex-act-with-horse-twice-in-one-week (https://www.circa.com/story/2018/05/09/whoa/tennessee-man-accused-of-sex-act-with-horse-twice-in-one-week)

I had to show the URL. Whoa!  :laugh:

@mountaineer

I am predicting this is not a man who is going to do well in prison.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on May 11, 2018, 01:51:50 am
I have the distinct impression this stupid woman has never ever been in the presence of an infant.

She most certainly has never been a mother, and therefore doesn't have a single clue what she is talking about. Wake up at 3a.m. to a screaming child groggy and half-asleep and I'm going to ask permission to change a diaper? Maybe I should have to ask my dog for permission to give it a bath?

It says, Lunacy on the Left for a reason.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 12, 2018, 03:16:34 am

Quote
Bear breaks into SUV in Morris County, eats 24 cupcakes
ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP -

A Morris County family says that a bear broke into their SUV overnight and ate two dozen cupcakes that were inside.

Christine Allen owns the popular vegan shop Mo’Pweeze Baker in Denville. The Rockaway Township resident says that the bear broke into her SUV early Thursday morning and ate the treats that were inside.

“Every time we heard a little sound or noise we were just on edge thinking that it's going to come back,” Allen says.

Read more at: http://newjersey.news12.com/story/38172752/bear-breaks-into-suv-in-morris-county-eats-24-cupcakes (http://newjersey.news12.com/story/38172752/bear-breaks-into-suv-in-morris-county-eats-24-cupcakes)

If one goes on to read the rest of the story, yes, the bear broke windows to enter the vehicle. Must have smelled the cupcakes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 12, 2018, 01:02:05 pm
The bear ate two dozen vegan cupcakes? Was he later found saying, "Yecchh, what the heck was that?!?"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 12, 2018, 01:10:25 pm
If one goes on to read the rest of the story, yes, the bear broke windows to enter the vehicle. Must have smelled the cupcakes.

"Allen says that she hopes that this doesn’t happen. She just wants the bear to leave her family alone."

Maybe she can ask it nicely,and swat it on the nose with a newspaper while saying "Bad Bear,Bad!" to teach it a lesson?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on May 12, 2018, 01:34:49 pm
The bear ate two dozen vegan cupcakes? Was he later found saying, "Yecchh, what the heck was that?!?"

I wondered about the concept of "leftover cupcakes".  Now I understand. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 12, 2018, 01:58:02 pm
I wondered about the concept of "leftover cupcakes".  Now I understand.

@Sanguine

That's the dirty little secret of why vegans are so thin. Even THEY don't want to eat that swill.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 14, 2018, 03:28:54 am
Get a load of this, this could easily go into National News, the main forum but I will be respectful enough to post it here, because it is RIDICULOUS!

Quote
Bounce house flies onto California highway with child inside
Nicole Darrah

A bounce house — with a 9-year-old child inside — suddenly got swept onto a nearby highway in Southern California and slammed into a vehicle amid strong winds Saturday afternoon.

Fortunately, the child survived with minor injuries.

Deputies responded to the incident on Highway 395 in Adelanto just after 3 p.m., the Victor Valley branch of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a news release.

Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bounce-house-flies-onto-california-highway-with-child-inside/ar-AAxdqry (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bounce-house-flies-onto-california-highway-with-child-inside/ar-AAxdqry)

I just saw a house in the neighborhood, I guess, they were having a birthday for a child and they had one of these air houses, "bounce houses", I never knew that term.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 14, 2018, 01:33:32 pm
Get a load of this, this could easily go into National News, the main forum but I will be respectful enough to post it here, because it is RIDICULOUS!

I just saw a house in the neighborhood, I guess, they were having a birthday for a child and they had one of these air houses, "bounce houses", I never knew that term.
Those things are really popular at little carnivals and festivals out this way, but in North Dakota, they're tied down better than most overseas deck cargo even before they're inflated. .
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on May 14, 2018, 07:15:57 pm
American Airlines Announces New Support Animal Policy: Goats Not Allowed, Trained Mini Horses Are
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/05/14/no-goats-allowed-on-american-airlines/ (http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/05/14/no-goats-allowed-on-american-airlines/)

Starting July 1, ferrets, goats and hedgehogs can no longer fly American Airlines, even if they’re support animals.

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/special-assistance/service-animals.jsp (https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/special-assistance/service-animals.jsp)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 16, 2018, 12:19:05 pm
Geese flip the script, chase off alligator on Florida golf course
Richard Tribou
Orlando Sentinel


A flock of geese were cocks of the walk chasing off an alligator on a Florida golf course.

Video of the encounter was captured by Ryan Witkowski of Jupiter while attending a charity golf event at PGA National golf course in Palm Beach Gardens earlier this month.

Witkowski posted the video to his Facebook page and you can see eight determined geese running off the smallish gator while onlooking golfers gawk from the safety of their golf carts.  ...  link to story, with video (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/audience/richard-tribou/os-florida-geese-vs-alligator-20180514-story.html)
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/videos/99208698-132.html (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/videos/99208698-132.html)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on May 16, 2018, 09:49:33 pm
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/mother-renames-son-after-tattooist-makes-spelling-error/news-story/16c8ce213f7ea3b40dbce6a64ff7d7f3 (http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/mother-renames-son-after-tattooist-makes-spelling-error/news-story/16c8ce213f7ea3b40dbce6a64ff7d7f3)

Mother renames son after tattooist makes spelling error
MAY 17, 20186:45am
Unfortunately one Swedish mother fell victim to an embarrassing typo after her tattooist misspelled her son Kevin’s name as Kelvin.

But rather than let it get her down — and face an expensive, painful removal process — 30-year-old Johanna Giselhäll Sandström had an ingenious solution: She had her son’s name legally changed.

[...]

(http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/ff76e1cb248abb947e49357317784da1)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on May 17, 2018, 11:48:40 am
...Unfortunately one Swedish mother fell victim to an embarrassing typo after her tattooist misspelled her son Kevin’s name as Kelvin.

But rather than let it get her down — and face an expensive, painful removal process — 30-year-old Johanna Giselhäll Sandström had an ingenious solution: She had her son’s name legally changed.

And now, for the rest of his life, people will misspell her son's name.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 18, 2018, 05:17:30 pm
I wondered about the concept of "leftover cupcakes".  Now I understand.

 000hehehehe
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 19, 2018, 12:33:25 am
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/mother-renames-son-after-tattooist-makes-spelling-error/news-story/16c8ce213f7ea3b40dbce6a64ff7d7f3 (http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/mother-renames-son-after-tattooist-makes-spelling-error/news-story/16c8ce213f7ea3b40dbce6a64ff7d7f3)

Mother renames son after tattooist makes spelling error
MAY 17, 20186:45am
Unfortunately one Swedish mother fell victim to an embarrassing typo after her tattooist misspelled her son Kevin’s name as Kelvin.

But rather than let it get her down — and face an expensive, painful removal process — 30-year-old Johanna Giselhäll Sandström had an ingenious solution: She had her son’s name legally changed.

[...]

(http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/ff76e1cb248abb947e49357317784da1)

@Suppressed

Now that I look at it again,it looks like it says "Nova and Kelvin". Aren't both energy/heat measurements? My GAWD! Somebody might see that dingbat and think she is a Physicist!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on May 20, 2018, 08:46:37 pm
Quote
Man to North Ridgeville police: Help me … I’m being followed by a pig

Posted 2:05 pm, May 19, 2018, by Lindsay Buckingham

NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio — Imagine a police officer receiving this call: “Help me. I’m being followed by a pig.”

We’re not sure of the exact wording, but that’s pretty much what happened in North Ridgeville early Saturday morning.

Police say a man called the station just before 5:30 a.m., saying he was being stalked by a pig on Center Ridge Road.

They thought he was drunk, but when officers responded...

http://fox8.com/2018/05/19/man-to-north-ridgeville-police-help-me-im-being-followed-by-a-pig/ (http://fox8.com/2018/05/19/man-to-north-ridgeville-police-help-me-im-being-followed-by-a-pig/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WingNot on May 20, 2018, 08:57:57 pm
I wonder if the pig likes donuts?

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 23, 2018, 02:43:46 am
Quote
Florida man climbs playground equipment, allegedly yells to children about how babies are born
(http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2018/05/22/florida-man-climbs-playground-equipment-allegedly-yells-to-children-about-how-babies-are-born/_jcr_content/par/featured_image/media-0.img.jpg/931/524/1526971714598.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
Otis Dawayne Ryan, 30, was arrested after he allegedly yelled a "vulgar" term to describe where babies come from to children on a playground.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/22/florida-man-climbs-playground-equipment-allegedly-yells-to-children-about-how-babies-are-born.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/22/florida-man-climbs-playground-equipment-allegedly-yells-to-children-about-how-babies-are-born.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork)

Barring more serious circumstances, such as say a criminal record, this is the kind of stuff, people would get committed for.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 23, 2018, 02:48:51 am
Barring more serious circumstances, such as say a criminal record, this is the kind of stuff, people would get committed for.

The facial tats would be sufficient for that.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WingNot on May 23, 2018, 12:38:09 pm
Either that or the circus was in town.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 02, 2018, 02:00:15 pm

Lawyer in hazmat suit held man hostage, pulled out bolt cutters to slice his genitals, Ala. cops say
BY JARED GILMOUR
April 26, 2018 02:59 PM
Updated April 26, 2018 04:14 PM

An Alabama lawyer is headed to prison after orchestrating a kidnapping that nearly cost his hostage a finger — and his genitals.

The lawyer's motive? It was all over $60 the victim was supposed to pay the lawyer in exchange for some tires, prosecutors said.

On Thursday, a judge sentenced James William Woolley, 52, to 20 years in prison on the robbery, kidnapping and attempted murder charges that a jury convicted Woolley of last month, the Birmingham News reports.

Woolley’s kidnapping plot was set into motion on Jan. 25, 2016, with some help from an accomplice. Kimberly Murphy, 33, lured the victim to her Birmingham home by promising she would return a piercing kit the victim had left there, according to prosecutors.

http://www.theolympian.com/news/nation-world/national/article209917689.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 03, 2018, 08:18:45 pm
Lawyer in hazmat suit held man hostage, pulled out bolt cutters to slice his genitals, Ala. cops say
BY JARED GILMOUR
April 26, 2018 02:59 PM
Updated April 26, 2018 04:14 PM

An Alabama lawyer is headed to prison after orchestrating a kidnapping that nearly cost his hostage a finger — and his genitals.

The lawyer's motive? It was all over $60 the victim was supposed to pay the lawyer in exchange for some tires, prosecutors said.

On Thursday, a judge sentenced James William Woolley, 52, to 20 years in prison on the robbery, kidnapping and attempted murder charges that a jury convicted Woolley of last month, the Birmingham News reports.

Woolley’s kidnapping plot was set into motion on Jan. 25, 2016, with some help from an accomplice. Kimberly Murphy, 33, lured the victim to her Birmingham home by promising she would return a piercing kit the victim had left there, according to prosecutors.

http://www.theolympian.com/news/nation-world/national/article209917689.html
Well, he's re-tired now!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on June 05, 2018, 05:04:42 pm
Woman's obituary takes a dark turn: 'World is a better place without her'

Quote
An 80-year-old woman’s seemingly straightforward obituary took a dark turn that no one could have predicted.

The obituary for Kathleen Dehmlow (Schunk) first appeared in the Redwood Gazette this week. It stated she was born on March 19, 1938, and resided in Springfield, Minn. She married Dennis Dehmlow in 1957 and had two children with him -- Gina and Jay.

…

“In 1962 she became pregnant by her husband’s brother Lyle Dehmlow and moved to California. She abandoned her children, Gina and Jay who were raised by her parents in Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schunk,” the obituary reads.

…

“She passed away on May 31, 2018, in Springfield and will now face judgment. She will not be missed by Gina and Jay, and they understand that this world is a better place without her,” the obituary concluded.
 

www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/05/womans-obituary-takes-dark-turn-world-is-better-place-without-her.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/05/womans-obituary-takes-dark-turn-world-is-better-place-without-her.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WingNot on June 05, 2018, 05:15:13 pm
I believe that is called an "Obitchuary
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 05, 2018, 10:05:53 pm
Woman's obituary takes a dark turn: 'World is a better place without her'

www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/05/womans-obituary-takes-dark-turn-world-is-better-place-without-her.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/05/womans-obituary-takes-dark-turn-world-is-better-place-without-her.html)

@Applewood

I can't speak for anyone else,but I'm loving it!

NOWHERE on the planet is more hypocrisy on display than at a funeral. Not even in Congress or the UN.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 06, 2018, 12:30:34 am
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She will not be missed by Gina and Jay, and they understand that this world is a better place without her
The lesson to be learned here is "don't piss off the people who will end up writing your obituary." Of course, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" also works.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 06, 2018, 12:47:12 am
The lesson to be learned here is "don't piss off the people who will end up writing your obituary." Of course, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" also works.

Wise words, Mountaineer.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on June 06, 2018, 10:43:09 am
Quote
Man Shot by Gun Hidden in Oven

Police say they've solved a shooting in Ohio that left a man wounded.

The oven did it.

The Vindicator in Youngstown reports 44-year-old Robin Garlock received wounds to both shoulders while trying to retrieve a handgun he'd hidden inside the broiler unit of his oven.

Warren police say Garlock put the gun in the broiler because children were coming over.

His girlfriend, unaware of the gun's presence, turned on the oven Sunday to bake. Police say she called out to Garlock when she thought she heard a gunshot fired outside. Police say Garlock was struck by bullets or bullet fragments when they exploded inside the gun.

...

No charges have been filed against the oven.
 
More at:

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Man-Shot-by-Gun-Hidden-in-Oven-484590001.html (https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Man-Shot-by-Gun-Hidden-in-Oven-484590001.html)



 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 06, 2018, 11:08:10 am
Is that a gun in the oven or are you happy to see me?

Nope, loses something in translation.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on June 06, 2018, 01:10:47 pm
(http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2018/06/06/virginia-police-chase-stolen-armored-personnel-carrier-for-more-than-60-miles-soldier-arrested/_jcr_content/article-text/article-par-4/inline_spotlight_ima/image.img.jpg/612/344/1528287276410.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

Virginia police chase stolen armored personnel carrier for more than 60 miles, soldier arrested

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/06/virginia-police-chase-stolen-armored-personnel-carrier-for-more-than-60-miles-soldier-arrested.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/06/virginia-police-chase-stolen-armored-personnel-carrier-for-more-than-60-miles-soldier-arrested.html)

A solider stole an armored personnel carrier from a Virginia National Guard base and led authorities on more than a 60-mile chase before being arrested in the state's capital city on Tuesday, officials said.

Virginia State Police said in a news release the incident began around 7:50 p.m., when the armored personnel carrier was driven away from Fort Pickett in Nottoway County. The military vehicle, which moves on tracks similar to a tank, was not equipped with any weaponry and is the property of the Virginia National Guard.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 06, 2018, 06:31:11 pm
(http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2018/06/06/virginia-police-chase-stolen-armored-personnel-carrier-for-more-than-60-miles-soldier-arrested/_jcr_content/article-text/article-par-4/inline_spotlight_ima/image.img.jpg/612/344/1528287276410.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

Virginia police chase stolen armored personnel carrier for more than 60 miles, soldier arrested

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/06/virginia-police-chase-stolen-armored-personnel-carrier-for-more-than-60-miles-soldier-arrested.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/06/virginia-police-chase-stolen-armored-personnel-carrier-for-more-than-60-miles-soldier-arrested.html)

Logic ain't that boy's strong point,is it?

A solider stole an armored personnel carrier from a Virginia National Guard base and led authorities on more than a 60-mile chase before being arrested in the state's capital city on Tuesday, officials said.

Virginia State Police said in a news release the incident began around 7:50 p.m., when the armored personnel carrier was driven away from Fort Pickett in Nottoway County. The military vehicle, which moves on tracks similar to a tank, was not equipped with any weaponry and is the property of the Virginia National Guard.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 06, 2018, 11:34:18 pm
More on the happy Schunk family, from FOX:
Quote
Survivors penning 'revenge obituaries' to settle scores with the departed
By Andrew O'Reilly | Fox News

The posthumous pillorying of the dead – or the "revenge obituary" – is part of a growing trend that has family members digging up dirt on the deceased and getting the final word.

The latest is a local newspaper obituary for Kathleen Dehmlow, who passed away last week at a nursing home in Springfield, Minn., and could barely have hit any harder.  ...

After reading Kathleen Dehmlow's obit, one of her relatives, Dwight Dehmlow, told the Star Tribune Kathleen was sorry for the way she treated her children.

“She made a mistake 60 years ago, but who hasn’t?” he said. “Has she regretted it over the years? Yes.”

Dwight Dehmlow added he believed that Kathleen's son was behind the obituary. “He’s very upset,” he said. “He decided to go out with hate. I can’t believe he did this. ... This is going to hurt a lot of people.”  ...
The article (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/06/survivors-penning-revenge-obituaries-to-settle-scores-with-departed.html) recounts other vengeful obits, as well.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WingNot on June 06, 2018, 11:40:15 pm
More on the happy Schunk family, from FOX:The article (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/06/survivors-penning-revenge-obituaries-to-settle-scores-with-departed.html) recounts other vengeful obits, as well.

F*cking your husbands brother and deserting you family after the birth of the bastard child made from that unholy union might leave a bad taste on the offspring left without their mother.  But what would I know?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 06, 2018, 11:43:31 pm
F*cking your husbands brother and deserting you family after the birth of the bastard child made from that unholy union might leave a bad taste on the offspring left without their mother.  But what would I know?
I definitely understand their anger and pain. As noted in the article I posted, sometimes writing an angry obit serves as catharsis for the aggrieved family members.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WingNot on June 06, 2018, 11:49:22 pm
I definitely understand their anger and pain. As noted in the article I posted, sometimes writing an angry obit serves as catharsis for the aggrieved family members.

To head off any such nonsense after my passing I already paid for my Obit and left a copy for print at the Newspaper and county organ of record.  I also left instructions with my wife that it be posted here on TBR.   

It starts with a friendly opening:  "Kiss my Ass" 

You can read the rest later.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 07, 2018, 12:01:41 am
You'll outlive us all, just to be ornery.  22222frying pan
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WingNot on June 07, 2018, 12:10:52 am
You'll outlive us all, just to be ornery.  22222frying pan

They say everyone needs a goal. :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 07, 2018, 09:06:33 pm
I listened to this on the way to work this morning, as they figured out it was a fake.

Boy Scout's novelty grenade prompts scare at Hobby Airport
http://abc13.com/boy-scouts-novelty-grenade-prompts-scare-at-hobby-airport-/3572413/ (http://abc13.com/boy-scouts-novelty-grenade-prompts-scare-at-hobby-airport-/3572413/)
June 07, 2018

A security checkpoint at Hobby Airport is back open after authorities were sent in to investigate a suspicious device early Thursday morning.

Houston police confirmed the device was a novelty grenade found in a 17-year-old Boy Scout's bag...

- - - - - -

The radio broadcast turned into a discussion of what not to bring or discuss while at the security check-in for the airport.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WingNot on June 07, 2018, 10:00:17 pm
(http://media.graytvinc.com/images/690*388/TSA+airport+security+-+MGN.jpg)

TSA agent prepares for body cavity search of boy scout looking for other explosive devices.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on June 08, 2018, 01:24:40 am
Cattle battle: Bulls caught fighting in California neighborhood

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De-TMdKV4AAoG5I.jpg)

An impromptu “bullfight” broke out in a California neighborhood, police said Tuesday, after the animals reportedly took off from a rancher.

The Fremont Police Department shared video of two large, black bulls duking it out in the middle of the street. The pair charged at each other before one skittered away and the other lost its footing.

-----------------

I call BS.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on June 08, 2018, 03:33:45 am
Man Interviewed After Finding A Dead Body; Arrested Later For Murdering His Mom

He pretty much snitched on himself with this interview

Written by Wayne Dupree · 1 hour ago

A Pennslyvania man killed his 60-year-old mother and then took a TV interview about claiming he just found the body.

Matthew Haverly killed his mother Patricia and tried to trick the news crew and police as if he just found the body at the creek. During the interview, he tried to give scenarios of what he thought happened, and he couldn’t stop talking.

It was found it a few hours later that the dead body was his mom and the police quickly arrested him and charged him with murder.

VIDEO AT LINK

<..snip..>

https://www.waynedupree.com/man-kills-mom-then-gives-interview/ (https://www.waynedupree.com/man-kills-mom-then-gives-interview/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 10, 2018, 07:43:01 pm
Quote
Man And His Monkey Are Caged By Cops
Capuchin named Monk was clinging to auto theft arrestee

JUNE 8--A man arrested this morning for auto theft had a small diaper-clad monkey clinging to his chest when Florida cops apprehended him after he drove the hot wheels into a ditch.

Investigators allege that Cody Blake Hession, 23, took a vehicle from the driveway of a St. Petersburg residence early this morning (keys to the unlocked auto were on the floorboard). Hession then drove the car about 35 miles to Holiday, a Tampa-St. Pete suburb, where he “drove off the edge of a parking lot, into a ditch,” according to a complaint affidavit.

When Pasco County Sheriff’s Office deputies detained Hession, who had fled the vehicle, there was a leashed Capuchin monkey attached to Hession’s pink polo shirt....

http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/animals/man-and-his-monkey-029734 (http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/animals/man-and-his-monkey-029734)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 10, 2018, 07:48:43 pm
Quote
FIGHT NIGHT Tyson Fury crowd explodes into huge 15-man brawl which distracts the boxers midway through fight

Blokes could be seen leaping out of their chairs to throw punches during the brutal rumble during Fury's victory over  Sefer Seferi
By James Cox

10th June 2018, 7:09 pm
Updated: 10th June 2018, 7:11 pm

The brutal rumble exploded during Fury's victory over Sefer Seferi as blokes leaped from their chairs to throw punches.

Fury, 29, even took some time out of his boxing clash to watch the punch-up at Manchester Arena.

Instead of taking advantage of Fury losing his concentration, Seferi stood motionless, and looked out over the ropes too...

(https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/watch2.png?w=960)

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/6491936/tyson-fury-sefer-seferi-crowd-15-man-brawl/ (https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/6491936/tyson-fury-sefer-seferi-crowd-15-man-brawl/)

Oh, those blokes.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on June 12, 2018, 01:50:04 am
Oh, those blokes.   :laugh:
Wow the last time I went to a boxing match the only thing that happened was a Hockey game broke out.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on June 13, 2018, 03:48:23 am
Man poops on another man in Pennsylvania road rage episode, police say
Associated Press  June 11, 2018
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-pa-ap-road-rage-poop-20180611-story.html (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-pa-ap-road-rage-poop-20180611-story.html)

Police say one man pooped on another man during a road rage episode in Pennsylvania.

Authorities say a New Tripoli man got into an argument with another man at about 8:45 a.m. Friday and defecated on the victim.

The altercation happened in Heidelberg Township, which is about 17 miles north of Allentown.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 13, 2018, 03:56:13 am
Man poops on another man in Pennsylvania road rage episode, police say
Associated Press  June 11, 2018
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-pa-ap-road-rage-poop-20180611-story.html (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-pa-ap-road-rage-poop-20180611-story.html)

Police say one man pooped on another man during a road rage episode in Pennsylvania.

Authorities say a New Tripoli man got into an argument with another man at about 8:45 a.m. Friday and defecated on the victim.

The altercation happened in Heidelberg Township, which is about 17 miles north of Allentown.

[...]

TWFW*


*Too weird for words.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on June 13, 2018, 05:58:12 pm
Man poops on another man in Pennsylvania road rage episode, police say
Associated Press  June 11, 2018
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-pa-ap-road-rage-poop-20180611-story.html (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-pa-ap-road-rage-poop-20180611-story.html)

Police say one man pooped on another man during a road rage episode in Pennsylvania.

Authorities say a New Tripoli man got into an argument with another man at about 8:45 a.m. Friday and defecated on the victim.

The altercation happened in Heidelberg Township, which is about 17 miles north of Allentown.

[...]

I have a question about this.....

The process takes time.

Why didn't the other guy just move out of the way?   :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 13, 2018, 08:01:57 pm
I have a question about this.....

The process takes time.

Why didn't the other guy just move out of the way?   :shrug:

@musiclady

I do not know and am only GUESSING,but MY best guess is there was throwing involved,and at least the thrower is from the Muddle East.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on June 13, 2018, 09:01:16 pm
@musiclady

I do not know and am only GUESSING,but MY best guess is there was throwing involved,and at least the thrower is from the Muddle East.

Good guess.

But also even more disgusting if he picked it up with his own hand to throw it.   :terror:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 13, 2018, 09:06:04 pm
Good guess.

But also even more disgusting if he picked it up with his own hand to throw it.   :terror:

@musiclady

No big deal for desert people. Not much toilet paper or any leafs in the desert. Why do you think they insist on only using one hand to eat with?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on June 13, 2018, 09:09:49 pm
@musiclady

No big deal for desert people. Not much toilet paper or any leafs in the desert. Why do you think they insist on only using one hand to eat with?

Yeah......... I know.  Same is true in parts of India.  You eat with your non-wiping hand.  (No wonder every traveler gets sick in these parts!)

Nasty stuff.   **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on June 13, 2018, 11:02:54 pm
Asylum Seeker Raped Disabled Belgian Woman for Three Days Hoping for Anchor Baby

A 30-year-old asylum seeker in Belgium has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after he raped a mentally disabled woman hoping to get her pregnant so he could use the child as an excuse to remain in the country.

The migrant, named Karim, met with the 19-year-old girl in November 2014 in the city of Liege and held her for three days at a squat where he was living, raping her repeatedly, Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure reports.

The mother of the girl, who despite being 19 is said to have a mental capacity equal to a seven or eight-year-old child, told the court that 30-year-old Karim wanted to get the girl pregnant as he had previously been deported from the country and banned from living there for six years.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/13/asylum-seeker-rapes-mentally-disabled-belgian-woman-anchor-baby/ (http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/13/asylum-seeker-rapes-mentally-disabled-belgian-woman-anchor-baby/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 14, 2018, 02:07:46 am
Asylum Seeker Raped Disabled Belgian Woman for Three Days Hoping for Anchor Baby

A 30-year-old asylum seeker in Belgium has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after he raped a mentally disabled woman hoping to get her pregnant so he could use the child as an excuse to remain in the country.

The migrant, named Karim, met with the 19-year-old girl in November 2014 in the city of Liege and held her for three days at a squat where he was living, raping her repeatedly, Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure reports.

The mother of the girl, who despite being 19 is said to have a mental capacity equal to a seven or eight-year-old child, told the court that 30-year-old Karim wanted to get the girl pregnant as he had previously been deported from the country and banned from living there for six years.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/13/asylum-seeker-rapes-mentally-disabled-belgian-woman-anchor-baby/ (http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/13/asylum-seeker-rapes-mentally-disabled-belgian-woman-anchor-baby/)

So he gets to spend the next 4 years living off the backs of the Belgian taxpayers,which is basically a paid vacation for scum like him?

And the Belgians SERIOUSLY believe that 4 years is a stiff sentence for kidnapping,raping,and beating a mentally defective woman?

Hell,let HIM out of prison and put the Belgian politicians in there in his place. They are more dangerous criminals than he is.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on June 14, 2018, 03:18:13 pm
@musiclady

I do not know and am only GUESSING,but MY best guess is there was throwing involved,and at least the thrower is from the Muddle East.


Well, it does say he's from New Tripoli!   Close enough?

I suppose he'd have to throw with his left hand.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on June 14, 2018, 05:10:14 pm
So he gets to spend the next 4 years living off the backs of the Belgian taxpayers,which is basically a paid vacation for scum like him?

And the Belgians SERIOUSLY believe that 4 years is a stiff sentence for kidnapping,raping,and beating a mentally defective woman?

Hell,let HIM out of prison and put the Belgian politicians in there in his place. They are more dangerous criminals than he is.
Well the Germans think fifteen years is a stiff sentence for murder so yeah the Belgians would seem to take their chocolate more seriously then heinous crimes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 14, 2018, 06:56:26 pm
Belgian Chocolate is wayyyy better than Swiss Chocolate.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 15, 2018, 02:38:16 pm
Women set strip and dip record on secluded Wicklow beach
https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/women-set-strip-and-dip-record-on-secluded-wicklow-beach-471687.html (https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/women-set-strip-and-dip-record-on-secluded-wicklow-beach-471687.html)
June 11, 2018

The substantial funds raised from the successful world record-breaking skinny dip over the weekend will be used to purchase a furnished, family-friendly house in Dublin for cash-strapped parents of cancer-stricken children visiting the capital for extended hospital stays.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 15, 2018, 02:45:45 pm
Women set strip and dip record on secluded Wicklow beach
https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/women-set-strip-and-dip-record-on-secluded-wicklow-beach-471687.html (https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/women-set-strip-and-dip-record-on-secluded-wicklow-beach-471687.html)
June 11, 2018

The substantial funds raised from the successful world record-breaking skinny dip over the weekend will be used to purchase a furnished, family-friendly house in Dublin for cash-strapped parents of cancer-stricken children visiting the capital for extended hospital stays.

Weren't they concerned about exposing that much white to the sun at one time? That many Irish getting naked outdoors at the same time could suck up all the suns rays,and maybe kill it!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on June 15, 2018, 04:00:58 pm
Weren't they concerned about exposing that much white to the sun at one time? That many Irish getting naked outdoors at the same time could suck up all the suns rays,and maybe kill it!
@sneakypete
Don't you think the greater risk was of potentially blinding the observers? The reflected light must have been harsh, let alone just the sight of some of the participants.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 21, 2018, 04:05:02 pm

Woman accused of killing lover, serving remains at barbecue, police say

Posted: Jun 20, 2018 7:34 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 21, 2018 10:51 AM EDT


(Meredith) – Police say a woman in Michigan may have barbecued the remains of her ex-lover and served them to her neighbors in 2014.

According to USA Today, Kelly Cochran was arrested and brought to trial, where she told her plan to the court. She said she and her husband, Jason, lured Chris Regan, her former lover, to their home where they shot and dismembered him. She said that she and her husband made a pact that they would get rid of anyone “involved in their extramarital affairs.”

They then dumped Regan's remains in the woods, but some believe the couple may have served part of Regan to their neighbors. WJBK-TV reported that during the barbecue, one of her friends said the burgers were “strange-tasting.”

Two years later, authorities said she injected Jason with a fatal dose of heroin and choked him to death because he “took the only good thing” in her life, referring to Regan.  ...   Full story (http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/38472204/woman-accused-of-killing-lover-serving-remains-at-barbecue-police-say)
 8888huh
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on June 21, 2018, 04:14:42 pm

Woman accused of killing lover, serving remains at barbecue, police say

Posted: Jun 20, 2018 7:34 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 21, 2018 10:51 AM EDT


(Meredith) – Police say a woman in Michigan may have barbecued the remains of her ex-lover and served them to her neighbors in 2014.

According to USA Today, Kelly Cochran was arrested and brought to trial, where she told her plan to the court. She said she and her husband, Jason, lured Chris Regan, her former lover, to their home where they shot and dismembered him. She said that she and her husband made a pact that they would get rid of anyone “involved in their extramarital affairs.”

They then dumped Regan's remains in the woods, but some believe the couple may have served part of Regan to their neighbors. WJBK-TV reported that during the barbecue, one of her friends said the burgers were “strange-tasting.”

Two years later, authorities said she injected Jason with a fatal dose of heroin and choked him to death because he “took the only good thing” in her life, referring to Regan.  ...   Full story (http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/38472204/woman-accused-of-killing-lover-serving-remains-at-barbecue-police-say)
 8888huh

 :terror: :terror: :terror: :terror:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on June 21, 2018, 04:34:42 pm
That's gross. 

Reminds me of an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode where a woman kills her husband by assaulting him with a frozen leg of lamb.  WhIle the detectives are looking for the murder weapon, the wife has it roasting in the oven.  When the roast was done, the wife fed some of it to the detectives.  They were eating the murder weapon.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 21, 2018, 04:46:28 pm
That's gross. 

Reminds me of an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode where a woman kills her husband by assaulting him with a frozen leg of lamb.  WhIle the detectives are looking for the murder weapon, the wife has it roasting in the oven.  When the roast was done, the wife fed some of it to the detectives.  They were eating the murder weapon.

@Applewood

I LOVED the old "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" teebee show. The man was a freaking genius,and funny as hell on top of it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on June 21, 2018, 05:08:34 pm
@Applewood

I LOVED the old "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" teebee show. The man was a freaking genius,and funny as hell on top of it.

Agreed.  He and Rod Serling were both geniuses.    Serling in particular was way ahead of his time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 21, 2018, 08:01:08 pm
That's gross. 

Reminds me of an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode where a woman kills her husband by assaulting him with a frozen leg of lamb.  WhIle the detectives are looking for the murder weapon, the wife has it roasting in the oven.  When the roast was done, the wife fed some of it to the detectives.  They were eating the murder weapon.
That was a great story. Well done (or at least somewhat rare).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on June 22, 2018, 05:46:05 am

Woman accused of killing lover, serving remains at barbecue, police say

Posted: Jun 20, 2018 7:34 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 21, 2018 10:51 AM EDT


(Meredith) – Police say a woman in Michigan may have barbecued the remains of her ex-lover and served them to her neighbors in 2014.

According to USA Today, Kelly Cochran was arrested and brought to trial, where she told her plan to the court. She said she and her husband, Jason, lured Chris Regan, her former lover, to their home where they shot and dismembered him. She said that she and her husband made a pact that they would get rid of anyone “involved in their extramarital affairs.”

They then dumped Regan's remains in the woods, but some believe the couple may have served part of Regan to their neighbors. WJBK-TV reported that during the barbecue, one of her friends said the burgers were “strange-tasting.”

Two years later, authorities said she injected Jason with a fatal dose of heroin and choked him to death because he “took the only good thing” in her life, referring to Regan.  ...   Full story (http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/38472204/woman-accused-of-killing-lover-serving-remains-at-barbecue-police-say)
 8888huh

Only in Carolina would someone claim to BBQ a burger.

Of course, those people also put rotten cabbage on pulled pork.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 22, 2018, 06:45:52 pm

Woman accused of killing lover, serving remains at barbecue, police say

Posted: Jun 20, 2018 7:34 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 21, 2018 10:51 AM EDT


(Meredith) – Police say a woman in Michigan may have barbecued the remains of her ex-lover and served them to her neighbors in 2014.

According to USA Today, Kelly Cochran was arrested and brought to trial, where she told her plan to the court. She said she and her husband, Jason, lured Chris Regan, her former lover, to their home where they shot and dismembered him. She said that she and her husband made a pact that they would get rid of anyone “involved in their extramarital affairs.”

They then dumped Regan's remains in the woods, but some believe the couple may have served part of Regan to their neighbors. WJBK-TV reported that during the barbecue, one of her friends said the burgers were “strange-tasting.”

Two years later, authorities said she injected Jason with a fatal dose of heroin and choked him to death because he “took the only good thing” in her life, referring to Regan.  ...   Full story (http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/38472204/woman-accused-of-killing-lover-serving-remains-at-barbecue-police-say)
 8888huh

@InHeavenThereIsNoBeer   @mountaineer

I try to always look on the bright side of things instead of obsessing on the negative,and the good thing about this is there are now a MINIMUM of 3 fewer Dim voters next election,and maybe as many as 10!

If that ain't good news I don't know what would be!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on June 22, 2018, 07:10:18 pm
Bank robbery suspect gives ID, easily tracked by police
Associated Press • June 22, 2018
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bank-robbery-suspect-gives-id-easily-tracked-police-105614880.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/bank-robbery-suspect-gives-id-easily-tracked-police-105614880.html)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — [...]

Authorities say the man walked into a Huntington Bank in Columbus on June 4 and gave the teller a note saying he was armed and demanding money.

The teller gave the man a stack of cash, but then he demanded more money from the electronic cash recycle machine in the bank's lobby.

Police say the teller told the man the machine needed a driver's license to dispense cash, so the man handed his own license over.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 22, 2018, 07:24:17 pm
Bank robbery suspect gives ID, easily tracked by police
Associated Press • June 22, 2018
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bank-robbery-suspect-gives-id-easily-tracked-police-105614880.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/bank-robbery-suspect-gives-id-easily-tracked-police-105614880.html)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — [...]

Authorities say the man walked into a Huntington Bank in Columbus on June 4 and gave the teller a note saying he was armed and demanding money.

The teller gave the man a stack of cash, but then he demanded more money from the electronic cash recycle machine in the bank's lobby.

Police say the teller told the man the machine needed a driver's license to dispense cash, so the man handed his own license over.

[...]

@Suppressed

Well,the truth is he needs to be in jail for his own safety,where he will have someone tell him when to go to bed,when to get up,when to eat,etc,etc,etc. He doesn't seem to do well on his own.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on June 26, 2018, 04:11:49 am
Army veteran decapitated his mom using a butter knife and his teeth, deputy says in court
BY ANITA LEE  calee@sunherald.com
June 20, 2018 01:39 PM    Updated June 21, 2018 03:06 PM
http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article213510814.html (http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article213510814.html)

WIGGINS -- Terrelle Johnson confessed to killing his mother the morning after her decapitated body was found June 6 in their backyard in Stone County, a sheriff's deputy testified at a preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon.

[...]

When that was done, they interviewed Johnson. He confessed on audiotape to killing his mother, Boggs said. Johnson said that he and his mother got into an argument over credit cards. He said he tried to walk away, but the argument escalated into a fight.

"He told me that he beat her up real bad," Boggs testified. " . . . He said it got out of hand."

Johnson said he then choked his mother until she stopped breathing. He decapitated her with a butter knife, he said, also using his hands and teeth to remove her head. He said he took her body to the backyard so the house would not smell bad.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 26, 2018, 04:17:16 am
Army veteran decapitated his mom using a butter knife and his teeth, deputy says in court
BY ANITA LEE  calee@sunherald.com
June 20, 2018 01:39 PM    Updated June 21, 2018 03:06 PM
http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article213510814.html (http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article213510814.html)

WIGGINS -- Terrelle Johnson confessed to killing his mother the morning after her decapitated body was found June 6 in their backyard in Stone County, a sheriff's deputy testified at a preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon.

[...]

When that was done, they interviewed Johnson. He confessed on audiotape to killing his mother, Boggs said. Johnson said that he and his mother got into an argument over credit cards. He said he tried to walk away, but the argument escalated into a fight.

"He told me that he beat her up real bad," Boggs testified. " . . . He said it got out of hand."

Johnson said he then choked his mother until she stopped breathing. He decapitated her with a butter knife, he said, also using his hands and teeth to remove her head. He said he took her body to the backyard so the house would not smell bad.

[...]

I've always appreciated a considerate person....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 26, 2018, 04:37:40 am
Army veteran decapitated his mom using a butter knife and his teeth, deputy says in court


@Suppressed

Butter knife???  HTH do you cut anything tougher than butter with a butter knife?

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 26, 2018, 04:44:34 am
@Suppressed

Butter knife???  HTH do you cut anything tougher than butter with a butter knife?

I'm still trying to figure out how to cut butter with a butter knife.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 26, 2018, 04:49:50 am
I'm still trying to figure out how to cut butter with a butter knife.

@Cyber Liberty

You wait until the butter is room temperature,and then you just spread it around. No actual cutting required. You could use a spoon just as well.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on June 27, 2018, 06:51:19 am
Woman forced ex to have sex holding machete to his face: cops

(http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops/_jcr_content/par/featured_image/media-0.img.jpg/931/524/1530070482546.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

A Montana woman broke into a man’s house with a machete, ordered him to take off his clothes and forced him to have sex with her, police said.

Samantha Ray Mears, 19, was charged Friday with two felonies — aggravated burglary and assault with a weapon — as well as several misdemeanors for the incident at her ex-boyfriend’s Great Falls home, according to the Great Falls Tribune.

Mears reportedly broke into her ex of seven years’ house Friday while he was away. When he returned, she confronted him with the large knife, demanded that he take off all his clothes and ordered him to lie on his bed.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops.html)

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It'd probably take a machete for me too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on June 27, 2018, 07:03:48 am
Woman forced ex to have sex holding machete to his face: cops

(http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops/_jcr_content/par/featured_image/media-0.img.jpg/931/524/1530070482546.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

A Montana woman broke into a man’s house with a machete, ordered him to take off his clothes and forced him to have sex with her, police said.

Samantha Ray Mears, 19, was charged Friday with two felonies — aggravated burglary and assault with a weapon — as well as several misdemeanors for the incident at her ex-boyfriend’s Great Falls home, according to the Great Falls Tribune.

Mears reportedly broke into her ex of seven years’ house Friday while he was away. When he returned, she confronted him with the large knife, demanded that he take off all his clothes and ordered him to lie on his bed.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops.html)

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It'd probably take a machete for me too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 27, 2018, 01:59:52 pm
Woman forced ex to have sex holding machete to his face: cops

(http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops/_jcr_content/par/featured_image/media-0.img.jpg/931/524/1530070482546.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

A Montana woman broke into a man’s house with a machete, ordered him to take off his clothes and forced him to have sex with her, police said.

Samantha Ray Mears, 19, was charged Friday with two felonies — aggravated burglary and assault with a weapon — as well as several misdemeanors for the incident at her ex-boyfriend’s Great Falls home, according to the Great Falls Tribune.

Mears reportedly broke into her ex of seven years’ house Friday while he was away. When he returned, she confronted him with the large knife, demanded that he take off all his clothes and ordered him to lie on his bed.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops.html)

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It'd probably take a machete for me too.

She was 12 when they started their relationship?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: skeeter on June 27, 2018, 02:05:32 pm
Woman forced ex to have sex holding machete to his face: cops

(http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops/_jcr_content/par/featured_image/media-0.img.jpg/931/524/1530070482546.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

A Montana woman broke into a man’s house with a machete, ordered him to take off his clothes and forced him to have sex with her, police said.

Samantha Ray Mears, 19, was charged Friday with two felonies — aggravated burglary and assault with a weapon — as well as several misdemeanors for the incident at her ex-boyfriend’s Great Falls home, according to the Great Falls Tribune.

Mears reportedly broke into her ex of seven years’ house Friday while he was away. When he returned, she confronted him with the large knife, demanded that he take off all his clothes and ordered him to lie on his bed.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/27/woman-forced-ex-to-have-sex-holding-machete-to-his-face-cops.html)

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It'd probably take a machete for me too.

I'm marveling at her ex's powers of concentration. I doubt I could cope with the machete distraction.

"When an argument ensued soon after, an enraged Mears ripped a piece of trim from the victim’s wall and deliberately urinated in his bed, according to KFBB."

And I definitely could not cope with this.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on June 27, 2018, 02:34:59 pm
She was 12 when they started their relationship?

Good catch.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on June 27, 2018, 04:51:21 pm
@Cyber Liberty

You wait until the butter is room temperature,and then you just spread it around. No actual cutting required. You could use a spoon just as well.
I heard the butter wouldn't melt so he put it in a pie.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on June 27, 2018, 05:27:47 pm
Police trying to figure out who left house in middle of road
POSTED 3:41 AM, JUNE 27, 2018, BY DARREN SWEENEY  Fox8 Cleveland
https://fox8.com/2018/06/27/police-trying-to-figure-out-who-left-house-in-middle-of-road/

DOVER, Delaware — It’s not the kind of thing you just leave behind.

But someone in Delaware left a house in the middle of the road.

The Dover Police Department posted pictures on Facebook that showed a mobile home sitting in the middle of a road.

[...]

(https://i.imgur.com/9fWtSFn.png)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 30, 2018, 12:56:56 pm
Man armed with sword, Bible caught at 'haunted house' in Wilkes-Barre
James Halpin, The Citizens Voice | Thursday, June 28, 2018, 9:00 a.m.

 WILKES-BARRE — He's ghost busted.

A city resident who tried entering the infamous Welles House — a purportedly haunted property at 46 S. Welles St. — was arrested early Wednesday morning after being found armed with a shotgun, sword, brass knuckles, a pocket knife and a copy of the Bible, according to police.

Anthony Parker, 33, of 586 Carey Ave., told police he was at the home to “look for ghosts,” according to the charges. ...

When officers circled around the home, they found Parker holding a pry bar in his left hand, with a 24-inch sword tied to his back, the charges say. Parker was also wearing red gloves, despite the warm weather, police said.

Parker complied with orders to drop the pry bar and to untie the sword, and lay on the ground while police frisked him, police said. The search turned up a silver brass-knuckle bladed weapon that was in Parker's pocket as well as a folding pocket knife and a Bible, the charges allege.

Parker also had a Crown Royal bag containing 10 shotgun shells that was tied to his belt, the complaint says. Parker claimed he had left the shotgun home, but police subsequently found a loaded pistol-grip shotgun in the rear of the home, police said.   ... Rest of story (https://triblive.com/state/pennsylvania/13811772-74/man-armed-with-sword-bible-caught-at-haunted-house-in-wilkes-barre)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 30, 2018, 01:37:13 pm
Man armed with sword, Bible caught at 'haunted house' in Wilkes-Barre
James Halpin, The Citizens Voice | Thursday, June 28, 2018, 9:00 a.m.

 WILKES-BARRE — He's ghost busted.

A city resident who tried entering the infamous Welles House — a purportedly haunted property at 46 S. Welles St. — was arrested early Wednesday morning after being found armed with a shotgun, sword, brass knuckles, a pocket knife and a copy of the Bible, according to police.

..........
Parker also had a Crown Royal bag containing 10 shotgun shells that was tied to his belt, the complaint says. Parker claimed he had left the shotgun home, but police subsequently found a loaded pistol-grip shotgun in the rear of the home, police said.   ... Rest of story (https://triblive.com/state/pennsylvania/13811772-74/man-armed-with-sword-bible-caught-at-haunted-house-in-wilkes-barre)

I don't know what the problem is.  You have to be prepared when anticipating encountering ghosts, right?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on June 30, 2018, 02:08:04 pm
Weird story. So he was planning to shoot the ghost with a shotgun, or cut them up with a sword, or beat the hell out of them with brass knuckles. That's an odd plan. Apparently this guy has no idea what a ghost is? (if they even exist at all)

The Bible was on target. Along with that he should have sage, holy water, a blessed silver crucifix, lots of lights (ghosts hate light for some reason) and a video recorder. To say this guy is a couple of slices short of a whole pizza would not do it justice. He sounds retarded and heavily prone to violence. Probably a very good coincidence for everybody that he did this and got himself arrested, before he showed up at a mall somewhere looking for people who are demons.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on July 02, 2018, 04:43:20 am
Shark drags woman into crocodile-infested waters in Australia

A “once-in-a-lifetime” trip in May for a woman in Australia quickly turned into a harrowing experience when she suffered a bite while feeding a shark, which then dragged her into the water.

Melissa Brunning, 34, was on a yacht in the remote Kimberley region in the northwest part of the country, located about 1,550 miles north of Perth, when she tried to hand-feed up to four tawny nurse sharks swimming around her boat.

Brunning told the West Australian that she didn't realize she shouldn’t hand feed a shark, until the animal became "like a Hoover," sucking her right index finger into its mouth full of rows of razor-sharp teeth...

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/01/shark-drags-woman-into-crocodile-infested-waters-in-australia.html (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/01/shark-drags-woman-into-crocodile-infested-waters-in-australia.html)

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WingNot on July 02, 2018, 12:22:11 pm
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The 34-year-old told the West Australian the incident was “completely my fault," and "just a blonde doing a stupid thing."

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on July 03, 2018, 02:00:08 pm


Those who published that hoax story have asked that it not be republished because of the use of an innocent mother and child photo.  It's not stock photography.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/porn-to-be-wild/ (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/porn-to-be-wild/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 03, 2018, 02:13:35 pm
Those who published that hoax story have asked that it not be republished because of the use of an innocent mother and child photo.  It's not stock photography.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/porn-to-be-wild/ (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/porn-to-be-wild/)

Too bad.  Somehow I knew a fellow could not be that dain bramaged.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 04, 2018, 01:14:16 pm
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MCSO: 92-year-old refuses assisted living, shoots and kills son in Fountain Hills
Seth Pines
3:28 PM, Jul 3, 2018
2 hours ago

FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ - A 92-year-old woman is facing multiple charges after she allegedly shot and killed her son in Fountain Hills Monday because she refused to be admitted into an assisted living facility.

According to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, around 10 a.m., deputies responded to a call of an unknown trouble at a home near Palisades and Saguaro boulevards.

Officials say deputies found that Anna Mae Blessing, 92, had shot and killed her 72-year-old son.

"According to statements provided by suspect Blessing and received by the detectives, she had been contemplating for several days her son’s intentions to place her in an assisted living facility," MCSO said in a news release.

Blessing had reportedly concealed two pistols in the pockets of her robe and then confronted her son in his bedroom. ...
Full story (https://www.abc15.com/news/region-northeast-valley/fountain-hills/mcso-92-year-old-refuses-assisted-living-shoots-and-kills-son-in-fountain-hills)

Be nice to your mother!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 04, 2018, 01:30:59 pm
Full story (https://www.abc15.com/news/region-northeast-valley/fountain-hills/mcso-92-year-old-refuses-assisted-living-shoots-and-kills-son-in-fountain-hills)

Be nice to your mother!

Quote
According to Blessing, her son had told her that she had become "difficult to live with," so he was going to put her in an assisted living home.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on July 04, 2018, 03:14:25 pm
Full story (https://www.abc15.com/news/region-northeast-valley/fountain-hills/mcso-92-year-old-refuses-assisted-living-shoots-and-kills-son-in-fountain-hills)

Be nice to your mother!

We knew a few years ago this day is coming for my Father-In-Law.  I took all the guns out of his house back then.  Besides, the dementia had started then and he isn't in his right mind too often.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on July 04, 2018, 03:25:04 pm
By doing what she did, she only proved that he was right to be concerned about her. She proved him right.
The assisted living facility she is headed for now will be a lot less comfortable than the one she killed to stay out of.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 04, 2018, 07:14:31 pm
By doing what she did, she only proved that he was right to be concerned about her. She proved him right.
The assisted living facility she is headed for now will be a lot less comfortable than the one she killed to stay out of.
Sad, really. But there was some sort of irreconcilable difference apparently, and she 'reconciled it'.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on July 05, 2018, 02:20:09 pm
Bhopal man shoots self at girlfriend’s house to ‘prove his love’, now brain dead
The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha leader’s friends said he had been in a relationship with the woman, a bank employee, for the last 13 years.
INDIA Updated: Jul 04, 2018 23:46 IST   Hindustan Times, Bhopal
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/man-shoots-himself-after-girlfriend-s-father-asks-him-to-prove-love-through-suicide/story-OrdiklJEs3xQsGlIJ1xoJJ.html (https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/man-shoots-himself-after-girlfriend-s-father-asks-him-to-prove-love-through-suicide/story-OrdiklJEs3xQsGlIJ1xoJJ.html)

A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youth wing shot himself at his girlfriend’s house in Bhopal on Tuesday night, allegedly after he was asked by the woman’s father to “prove his love by killing himself”. He was declared brain dead by doctors and is now on ventilator.

Police said Atul Lokhande, vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) for Arera Mandal went to the woman’s house around 9.30 pm and shot himself in the head with a country made revolver.

According to a Facebook post put up earlier by Lokhande, the woman’s father had told him to prove his love for her by killing himself.

He allegedly promised to let the marriage happen if the youth survived, and if he did not, they could always unite in their next birth.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 09, 2018, 01:10:32 pm
Sad.
Quote
Tourists on honeymoon collide while zip-lining, leaving husband dead and wife injured
Samantha Schmidt
1 hr ago

An Israeli newlywed couple on their honeymoon collided while zip-lining in Honduras, leaving the husband dead and the wife seriously injured, Honduran authorities said.

The wife was zip-lining amid the treetops in Roatán, the largest of Honduras’s Bay Islands, when she became stuck shortly before 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Wilmer Guerrero, commander of the Roatán fire department, told The Washington Post.

As she remained halfway down the cable, her husband came gliding down the zip line from behind, slamming into her, Guerrero said. While the Israeli Foreign Ministry declined to name the couple, the Honduran news outlets identified the husband as 24-year-old Egael Tishman and the wife as 27-year-old Shif Fanken. ...
More at WashPost via MSN (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tourists-on-honeymoon-collide-while-zip-lining-leaving-husband-dead-and-wife-injured/ar-AAzMwaI?li=BBnb7Kx)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 09, 2018, 08:18:59 pm
I saved Mrs. Liberty from being hit by a bus, right in front of the US Treasury Building, across the street from the White House on our Honeymoon...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on July 11, 2018, 10:52:48 pm
(http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2018/07/11/armless-miami-man-charged-with-stabbing-chicago-tourist/_jcr_content/par/featured_image/media-0.img.jpg/931/524/1531346749024.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

Armless Miami man charged with stabbing Chicago tourist

An armless homeless man in Miami, Florida has been charged with stabbing a Chicago tourist with scissors.

Jonathan Crenshaw, 46, used his feet to hold scissors and stabbed Cesar Coronado, 22, Miami Beach police said Wednesday.

Crenshaw told police he was lying down just after midnight Tuesday when Coronado kicked him in the head. The man then allegedly stabbed Coronado twice before fleeing the scene, according to the arrest report.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/11/armless-miami-man-charged-with-stabbing-chicago-tourist.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/11/armless-miami-man-charged-with-stabbing-chicago-tourist.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 13, 2018, 11:35:11 pm
This one isn't the least bit amusing, just bizarre.
Quote
Daughter kills father after finding his child porn collection
By Jeff Tavss - Executive Producer
Posted: 3:56 PM, July 13, 2018
Updated: 3:56 PM, July 13, 2018

STOCKPORT, ENGLAND - A woman turned herself in to authorities and admitted to killing her father after she found his child porn collection 12 years earlier.

Barbara Coombes, 63, was gardening outside her father's Stockport, England house in 2006 when she found the pornographic images on the table, some of which included her, according to USA Today.

Coombes hit her father, Kenneth, with a shovel and then slit his throat. She later buried his body in the garden.

Coombes, who was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday, testified that her father was a "violent bully" who physically and verbally attacked her while keeping her daughter as a sex slave.

During the trial, Coombes said her father raped her hundreds of times ...

Story at WPLG (https://www.local10.com/news/international/daughter-kills-father-after-finding-his-child-porn-collection) (here's a link (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/13/woman-killed-father-shovel-child-porn/782713002/) to the USA Today story referenced).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on July 13, 2018, 11:39:50 pm
This one isn't the least bit amusing, just bizarre.
Story at WPLG (https://www.local10.com/news/international/daughter-kills-father-after-finding-his-child-porn-collection) (here's a link (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/13/woman-killed-father-shovel-child-porn/782713002/) to the USA Today story referenced).

If she's telling the truth sounds like she did society a favor.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 13, 2018, 11:41:45 pm
If she's telling the truth sounds like she did society a favor.
It's hard to shed a tear for the deceased, isn't it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on July 15, 2018, 02:10:30 am
Barbara Coombes, 63, was gardening outside her father's Stockport, England house in 2006 when she found the pornographic images on the table,
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 15, 2018, 12:30:26 pm
Barbara Coombes, 63, was gardening outside her father's Stockport, England house in 2006 when she found the pornographic images on the table,

@InHeavenThereIsNoBeer

Noticed that,did ya?

MY favorite part was her outrage at "discovering he was a child molester" after claiming he raped her hundreds of times when she was a child.

After being raped by him 100's of times her first clue he was a child molester was when she saw photos?

If ANYTHING,it seems to me she killed him in a fit of jealousy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 15, 2018, 12:42:10 pm
Another account was a little more clearly written. As I understand it, she saw that he had been looking at old photos of child porn (it wasn't clear whether the table was inside the house or in the yard) and realized she was pictured in some of them. She snapped over the realization that her father was still getting off on seeing her as a naked child and, thus, whacked him with her gardening spade.  It wasn't that she only just then realized he was a molester.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 15, 2018, 04:09:23 pm
Another account was a little more clearly written. As I understand it, she saw that he had been looking at old photos of child porn (it wasn't clear whether the table was inside the house or in the yard) and realized she was pictured in some of them. She snapped over the realization that her father was still getting off on seeing her as a naked child and, thus, whacked him with her gardening spade.  It wasn't that she only just then realized he was a molester.

@mountaineer

Don't get me wrong. If he really did rape her and there are photos of it,I would stand up and cheer her is she set him on fire and filmed him running around in circles trying to beat the flame out.

I have a zero tolerance for child rapists mindset. I don't want to hear about their troubled upbringing,or how they were bullied at school. All I want to hear about them is that they are now dead and will never do it again.

Children should be left alone to enjoy the brief period of childhood innocence they are blessed with. It only lasts a brief while,and once they lose it they are adults with adult responsibilities for the rest of their lives.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 15, 2018, 07:39:42 pm
@mountaineer

Don't get me wrong. If he really did rape her and there are photos of it,I would stand up and cheer her is she set him on fire and filmed him running around in circles trying to beat the flame out.

I have a zero tolerance for child rapists mindset. I don't want to hear about their troubled upbringing,or how they were bullied at school. All I want to hear about them is that they are now dead and will never do it again.

Children should be left alone to enjoy the brief period of childhood innocence they are blessed with. It only lasts a brief while,and once they lose it they are adults with adult responsibilities for the rest of their lives.
Agreed, on all points.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 15, 2018, 07:49:20 pm
@mountaineer

Don't get me wrong. If he really did rape her and there are photos of it,I would stand up and cheer her is she set him on fire and filmed him running around in circles trying to beat the flame out.

I have a zero tolerance for child rapists mindset. I don't want to hear about their troubled upbringing,or how they were bullied at school. All I want to hear about them is that they are now dead and will never do it again.

Children should be left alone to enjoy the brief period of childhood innocence they are blessed with. It only lasts a brief while,and once they lose it they are adults with adult responsibilities for the rest of their lives.

Well said, @sneakypete!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on July 16, 2018, 11:53:04 am
More details:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/11/manchester-woman-barbara-coombes-admits-killing-her-father (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/11/manchester-woman-barbara-coombes-admits-killing-her-father)

She fslsely claimed benefits for him and caring for him all those years, too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 16, 2018, 06:48:28 pm
More details:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/11/manchester-woman-barbara-coombes-admits-killing-her-father (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/11/manchester-woman-barbara-coombes-admits-killing-her-father)

She fslsely claimed benefits for him and caring for him all those years, too.

@Suppressed

Something is starting to smell fishy to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 16, 2018, 07:02:54 pm
@Suppressed

Something is starting to smell fishy to me.

Apparently the porn was there, so it's not a question that he was a pedophile.  I suspect that she felt "entitled" due to his prior abuse, and figured he or "they" owed it to her.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 16, 2018, 07:08:38 pm
Apparently the porn was there, so it's not a question that he was a pedophile.  I suspect that she felt "entitled" due to his prior abuse, and figured he or "they" owed it to her.
That's what it sounded like to me. He abused her, so 1) she was entitled to kill him and 2) take "his" money.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 17, 2018, 03:52:38 am
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’Lava bomb’ from Hawaii volcano injures 23 on boat
AFP
’Lava bomb’ from Hawaii volcano injures 23 on boat/node/1340176/offbeat
July 17, 2018 00:56

    Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanos and one of five on the island
    The eruption has destroyed hundreds of homes since it began on May 3


LOS ANGELES: A projectile from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii struck a boat carrying people watching lava from the two-month-old eruption, injuring 23, the fire department said.
Thirteen of them required hospitalization and the rest were treated at a harbor when the boat engaged in a “lava tour” returned to the Big Island, also known as Hawaii.

Lava flowing into the Pacific is a spectacular sight, producing a foggy haze known in Hawaii as “laze.”

One woman was in serious condition with a fractured femur.

Read more at: http://www.arabnews.com/node/1340176/offbeat (http://www.arabnews.com/node/1340176/offbeat)

This was put in "offbeat", so I decided, close enough.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 18, 2018, 12:50:30 am
Dateline Moscow, (I know, sometimes I miss this area but this is where this belongs) Fake? The article says similar has happened before in Spain. This one has to be fake, the one in Spain the article refers to, apparently was so:
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July 17 2018 - 16:07
Trump Doppelganger Spotted on a Russian Bus Before Putin Meeting

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Rostov Glavny / Vkontakte

An uncanny lookalike of Donald Trump was spotted riding a bus in southern Russia on the day the real U.S. president met his Russian counterpart thousands of miles away.

(https://themoscowtimes.com/static/uploads/publications/2018/7/17/c97fec0fda4a48e89378f1fc0c1c9660.jpg)

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/trump-doppelganger-spotted-on-russian-bus-before-putin-meeting-62274
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 18, 2018, 01:04:13 am
Disguised as a woman. Sure.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 29, 2018, 02:10:49 am
Posted in ridiculous news 'cos it is...

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Croatia taxpayer anger at $44m tunnel 'to nowhere'
By News from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring

Croatians in the south of the country are steaming over a tunnel that has cost taxpayers 280m kuna (£33m; $44m) and "leads to nowhere".

According to the TV station RTL Croatia, construction has halted on a 1,471-metre tunnel through a mountain range near the town of Omis, which was meant to connect with an existing bypass and solve the town's severe traffic problems.

The tunnel was supposed to link to the Omis Bridge and was hailed as part of an "important infrastructure project" in providing a faster connection for residents between the town and the main coastal road. It was also hoped that the route would alleviate the "major traffic jams" that the town suffers from during its main tourist season.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-44982830 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-44982830)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 30, 2018, 03:53:22 pm
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Kuwaiti couple banned from leaving Sri Lanka over airport assault

A Sri Lankan court Monday impounded the passports of a Kuwaiti couple who tried to smuggle a dog into the country and assaulted five customs officers who tried to stop them.

A magistrate ordered immigration authorities to prevent the couple from leaving Sri Lanka and fixed a court hearing for August 10.

The 32-year-old woman and her 29-year-old male partner were arrested on Friday after they turned violent after being informed of quarantine requirements.

Read more at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2018/07/30/Kuwaiti-couple-banned-from-leaving-Sri-Lanka-over-airport-assault.html

Posting this in ridiculous news, it's almost comical that this man and woman started fighting with customs officials in Sri Lanka over trying to get a dog into the country.  Quarantine shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 30, 2018, 03:59:20 pm
Posting this in ridiculous news, it's almost comical that this man and woman started fighting with customs officials in Sri Lanka over trying to get a dog into the country.  Quarantine shouldn't be that big of a deal.

Can't eat the dog if its in quarantine.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 31, 2018, 01:20:02 pm
Government Forces 91-Year-Old Woman to Dismantle Home Wheelchair Ram
by Brock Simmons
 July 30, 2018

Confined to her wheelchair, 91-year-old Evelyn Strahle used to have her 94-year-old husband, David Strahle, help lift her up and down the small staircase on their front porch whenever they wanted to leave the home. As the couple got older, it became increasingly difficult for David to help Evelyn. They turned to their son for a solution.

Bob Strahle works in construction. Rather than watch his parents spend $5000 on a wheelchair ramp through a contractor company, he bought the lumber himself and built it for them. His mother was then free to travel about and leave the home in her wheelchair without fear of her husband getting hurt trying to lift her.  ...

Then the government happened.

A building code inspector for Prince George’s County (Maryland) saw the wheelchair ramp and immediately ordered it to be dismantled. The letter he sent to the Strahle’s warned that they would face fines and imprisonment if they did not show up to court to explain they had an unpermitted wheelchair ramp.  ...  Gateway Pundit (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/government-forces-91-year-old-woman-to-dismantle-home-wheelchair-ramp/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on July 31, 2018, 01:57:57 pm
Government Forces 91-Year-Old Woman to Dismantle Home Wheelchair Ram
by Brock Simmons
 July 30, 2018

Confined to her wheelchair, 91-year-old Evelyn Strahle used to have her 94-year-old husband, David Strahle, help lift her up and down the small staircase on their front porch whenever they wanted to leave the home. As the couple got older, it became increasingly difficult for David to help Evelyn. They turned to their son for a solution.

Bob Strahle works in construction. Rather than watch his parents spend $5000 on a wheelchair ramp through a contractor company, he bought the lumber himself and built it for them. His mother was then free to travel about and leave the home in her wheelchair without fear of her husband getting hurt trying to lift her.  ...

Then the government happened.

A building code inspector for Prince George’s County (Maryland) saw the wheelchair ramp and immediately ordered it to be dismantled. The letter he sent to the Strahle’s warned that they would face fines and imprisonment if they did not show up to court to explain they had an unpermitted wheelchair ramp.  ...  Gateway Pundit (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/government-forces-91-year-old-woman-to-dismantle-home-wheelchair-ramp/)

That is both ridiculous and frightening.

I thought the leftist nanny state was supposed to help people.   *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 31, 2018, 04:45:00 pm
That is both ridiculous and frightening.

I thought the leftist nanny state was supposed to help people.   *****rollingeyes*****

@musiclady

The first job of ANY government is to help itself. They were upset because someone made improvements to the home without buying the proper permits that would allow government employees to justify their jobs by issuing permits and inspecting it,and by not allowing the county the chance to raise their property taxes because of the addition.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on July 31, 2018, 05:05:16 pm
That is both ridiculous and frightening.

I thought the leftist nanny state was supposed to help people.   *****rollingeyes*****
Heh heh that's where you are wrong. The governments function in the view of leftists is to make your life miserable and collect fees, or fines.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on July 31, 2018, 05:34:43 pm
Heh heh that's where you are wrong. The governments function in the view of leftists is to make your life miserable and collect fees, or fines.

I know, I know.......... My tongue was firmly planted in my cheek when I made that comment.   happy77
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 01, 2018, 07:31:53 am
@musiclady

The first job of ANY government is to help itself. They were upset because someone made improvements to the home without buying the proper permits that would allow government employees to justify their jobs by issuing permits and inspecting it,and by not allowing the county the chance to raise their property taxes because of the addition.
Exactly. Gotta have the rubber stamps on the site plan, EIS, engineer's assessment, inspections, zoning approval, permits, inspections, and pay the fees...etc., etc., etc. Lotsa palms to get greased along the way...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on August 03, 2018, 03:36:08 pm
Man drives to police station to prove he's sober. Police say... he wasn't.
Driver's blood-alcohol level was one-and-a-half times the legal limit, police allege
The Canadian Press · Posted: Aug 02, 2018 5:40 PM ET | Last Updated: August 2
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/drunk-driver-mississauga-1.4772189 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/drunk-driver-mississauga-1.4772189)

Police say a man is facing an impaired driving charge after attempting to prove to his friends that he wasn't drunk.

Peel Regional Police allege the man was drinking at a bar early Wednesday morning and set out to show his friends he wasn't impaired.

It's alleged he drove to a Mississauga, Ont., police station to prove his point.

Police say he asked for a breath test and officers obliged.

A police spokeswoman says his blood-alcohol level was allegedly one-and-a-half times the legal limit.

[...]
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 03, 2018, 03:54:55 pm
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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 03, 2018, 06:55:30 pm
Man drives to police station to prove he's sober. Police say... he wasn't.
Driver's blood-alcohol level was one-and-a-half times the legal limit, police allege
The Canadian Press · Posted: Aug 02, 2018 5:40 PM ET | Last Updated: August 2
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/drunk-driver-mississauga-1.4772189 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/drunk-driver-mississauga-1.4772189)

Police say a man is facing an impaired driving charge after attempting to prove to his friends that he wasn't drunk.

Peel Regional Police allege the man was drinking at a bar early Wednesday morning and set out to show his friends he wasn't impaired.

It's alleged he drove to a Mississauga, Ont., police station to prove his point.

Police say he asked for a breath test and officers obliged.

A police spokeswoman says his blood-alcohol level was allegedly one-and-a-half times the legal limit.

[...]

@Suppressed

I love it when the trash takes itself out.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 04, 2018, 08:18:18 pm
A police spokeswoman says his blood-alcohol level was allegedly one-and-a-half times the legal limit.

Okay, but was he impaired?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 04, 2018, 08:25:18 pm
A police spokeswoman says his blood-alcohol level was allegedly one-and-a-half times the legal limit.

Okay, but was he impaired?

I get your point, and I agree with the concept (I have known people who were such consistent drinkers there was no obvious impairment at levels even higher than that), but legally, he is defined as impaired, whether ill effects are apparent or not. It is certain he was not exercising good judgement, and one of the fundamental problems with acute excessive alcohol consumption is that judgement is impaired. Kind of a 'Hold my beer and watch this, eh." moment.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 04, 2018, 08:25:58 pm
A police spokeswoman says his blood-alcohol level was allegedly one-and-a-half times the legal limit.

Okay, but was he impaired?


It's Toronto.  Who cares, as long as the Poutine diesn't get cold?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on August 04, 2018, 08:54:05 pm


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Peel Regional Police allege the man was drinking at a bar early Wednesday morning

Drinking early in the morning on a weekday, unless you are fishing, camping, or at a ball game, is usually a big sign of a potential problem.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 04, 2018, 09:29:05 pm

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Peel Regional Police allege the man was drinking at a bar early Wednesday morning

Drinking early in the morning on a weekday, unless you are fishing, camping, or at a ball game, is usually a big sign of a potential problem.

Yeah, chronic unemployment is but one of them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on August 15, 2018, 01:57:32 pm
Woman has a pen cap lodged in her lung for 40 years after accidentally swallowing it as a child

A woman in China who accidentally swallowed a plastic pen lid as a child has discovered that it was still lodged inside her body 40 years later.

The 49-year-old woman, from Shandong Province, had been admitted to the hospital after suffering from pain in her abdomen.

Doctors found a foreign object in her right lung after running a CT scan, but didn't realise it was a four-decade-old pen cap until they removed parts of her lung tissue to extracted the lodged item. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6062305/Woman-49-pen-cap-lodged-lungs-40-years-swallowing-child.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6062305/Woman-49-pen-cap-lodged-lungs-40-years-swallowing-child.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on August 15, 2018, 02:03:34 pm
Attacker goes after four young girls in attempted kidnapping, quickly finds he’s no match for them

A 22-year-old man reportedly attacked a group of young girls, ages 11 to 14, and they took matters into their own hands — possibly saving their own lives.
What are the details?

The incident occurred Friday night in Millington, Michigan, when Bruce Hipkins reportedly decided to follow four young girls who were in a Speedway gas station.
Special: Wall Street about to pour $5 trillion into Bitcoin? Prepare and get rich

WJRT-TV reported that Hipkins — who was also inside the gas station — watched the girls while they were inside the store, buying beverages. Hipkins reportedly followed the group on foot when they left the store.

The girls reportedly noticed that Hipkins was following them, so they crossed the street to a better lit area in order to avoid the lurking man. Hipkins, the girls said, followed them anyway...

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/08/15/attacker-goes-after-four-young-girls-in-attempted-kidnapping-quickly-finds-hes-no-match-for-them (https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/08/15/attacker-goes-after-four-young-girls-in-attempted-kidnapping-quickly-finds-hes-no-match-for-them)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 15, 2018, 03:28:32 pm
Attacker goes after four young girls in attempted kidnapping, quickly finds he’s no match for them

A 22-year-old man reportedly attacked a group of young girls, ages 11 to 14, and they took matters into their own hands — possibly saving their own lives.
What are the details?

The incident occurred Friday night in Millington, Michigan, when Bruce Hipkins reportedly decided to follow four young girls who were in a Speedway gas station.
Special: Wall Street about to pour $5 trillion into Bitcoin? Prepare and get rich

WJRT-TV reported that Hipkins — who was also inside the gas station — watched the girls while they were inside the store, buying beverages. Hipkins reportedly followed the group on foot when they left the store.

The girls reportedly noticed that Hipkins was following them, so they crossed the street to a better lit area in order to avoid the lurking man. Hipkins, the girls said, followed them anyway...

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/08/15/attacker-goes-after-four-young-girls-in-attempted-kidnapping-quickly-finds-hes-no-match-for-them (https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/08/15/attacker-goes-after-four-young-girls-in-attempted-kidnapping-quickly-finds-hes-no-match-for-them)

@Free Vulcan

The best news I have read in a long time. I am hoping that animal goes away for a long,long time. You can bet your bippy this wasn't his first time at bat,and that the police will do all they can do to check his background.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 15, 2018, 06:39:54 pm
I get your point, and I agree with the concept (I have known people who were such consistent drinkers there was no obvious impairment at levels even higher than that), but legally, he is defined as impaired, whether ill effects are apparent or not. It is certain he was not exercising good judgement, and one of the fundamental problems with acute excessive alcohol consumption is that judgement is impaired. Kind of a 'Hold my beer and watch this, eh." moment.
I used to work with one, we one time had a job out of town and shared a room, I watched him down a six pack, and then another and then he walked to the liquor store and came back with two tall boys and down them all in less than two hours and he showed not one visible sign of inebriation, no slurred speech or unsteadiness. I made damn sure after that that he never drove when we were together.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 15, 2018, 06:59:40 pm
I once asked one of my grandkids what they'd do, what they'd say if someone grabbed them and dragged them down the street. The shouted response? "I DIDN'T DO IT!!"

After a good laugh, we told and taught them how to resist, but one better to never travel alone (call us we will come and get you) to run toward an area where there are adults--especially a business, and to travel in groups.

Good for these girls. Glad they got the perp.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 16, 2018, 12:37:34 am
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Mayor to female commissioner: You make a living off anal bleaching. It’s a #MeToo moment, she says
By Sarah Blaskey
miamiherald.com
August 15, 2018 04:02 PM
Updated 2 hours 19 minutes ago

When Hallandale Beach Mayor Keith London said “sphincter bleaching is a very up and coming business,” during the City Commission’s budget discussion Monday night, he may have been right. But whether he thought anal bleach had anything to do with public safety budgets — the topic being discussed — remains unclear.

Why London thought it relevant, much less appropriate, to accuse a female commissioner of making her living from bleaching her own anus is even more baffling.

“Was it getting my sphincter bleached, is that what I earned my income for?” London said to Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub, as the two exchanged personal attacks. “No that would be you.”  ...

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article216726340.html#storylink=cpy (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article216726340.html#storylink=cpy)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 16, 2018, 12:39:49 am
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article216726340.html#storylink=cpy (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article216726340.html#storylink=cpy)

“Was it getting my sphincter bleached, is that what I earned my income for?” London said to Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub, as the two exchanged personal attacks. “No that would be you.”  ...

@mountaineer

Am I the only one curious about how he knew that about her?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 16, 2018, 12:45:41 am
@mountaineer

Am I the only one curious about how he knew that about her?
I only can assume it's a topic about which he's devoted considerable thought.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on August 16, 2018, 12:51:42 am
I only can assume it's a topic about which he's devoted considerable thought.

 888mouth
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 16, 2018, 12:59:02 am
I only can assume it's a topic about which he's devoted considerable thought.

@mountaineer

This is one of those rare political times when you really don't want to know any more,and think you may have already heard too much.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on August 16, 2018, 12:40:38 pm
Man shouldn’t have gone to jail for getting a job at Michael’s instead of Home Depot, court rules
By Andrew Pantazi
Posted Aug 14, 2018 at 4:21 PM
Updated Aug 14, 2018 at 6:19 PM
     
Alfred Scott was arrested for a first-time marijuana offense last year, but he was willing to plead guilty and he even lined up a full-time job at Home Depot to show he deserved mercy.

But when that job fell through and he got a job at Michael’s instead, Judge Russell Healey seemed to insist that the job needed to be at Home Depot. Healey decided his mercy had been worn out. For getting a job at the wrong store, Healey sent Scott to jail for 90 days.

[...]

http://www.jacksonville.com/news/20180814/man-shouldnt-have-gone-to-jail-for-getting-job-at-michaels-instead-of-home-depot-court-rules (http://www.jacksonville.com/news/20180814/man-shouldnt-have-gone-to-jail-for-getting-job-at-michaels-instead-of-home-depot-court-rules)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 16, 2018, 12:58:27 pm
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Police Commander Filmed Sex On Department Bodycam
Sandy Malone
BlueLivesMatter (https://www.themaven.net/bluelivesmatter/news/police-commander-filmed-sex-on-department-bodycam-b7qEPCR37USghvt4bnlzNQ/)

Superior, AZ – A police commander was fired after his department found a bodycam video of him having sex with a woman in his office.

A Pinal County Sheriff’s Office report said the videos were found in a folder called “FUN TIME” that was saved on the computer of former Superior Police Commander Anthony Doran’s department-issued computer, KPNX reported.

The sheriff’s report described a nearly four-minute video dated April of 2017 that showed then-Commander Doran wearing a uniform shirt with the Superior police patch, but no pants or underwear, Heavy reported.

“Anthony is sitting in an office chair and straddling him is a naked adult female (who is not a police employee),” the report said.

In the video, it appeared the commander had removed his bodycam and placed it in a position to record himself having sex with a woman in his office desk chair.  ...

Investigators also found naked pictures of the commander’s five-year-old daughter in the “FUN TIME” folder, prompting “suspicion that some grooming behavior may be present,” the sheriff’s department’s report said.  ...
:thud:

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on August 16, 2018, 01:39:19 pm
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Georgia police use Taser on 87-year-old woman using knife to cut dandelions
"If three police officers couldn't handle an 87-year-old woman, you might want to reconsider hanging up your badge," said the woman's great-nephew.
by Associated Press / Aug.16.2018 / 7:07 AM ET

CHATSWORTH, Ga. — A Georgia police chief said an officer was justified in using a Taser to stun an 87-year-old woman after she didn't obey commands to drop a knife in her hand.

Martha Al-Bishara was charged with criminal trespass and obstructing an officer Friday, when police held her at gunpoint before bringing her to the ground with a jolt from the electrified prongs of a stun gun.

Relatives said Al-Bishara doesn't speak English and was merely out cutting dandelions with a kitchen knife near her home in Chatsworth, about 85 miles north of Atlanta.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/georgia-police-use-taser-87-year-old-woman-using-knife-n901196 (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/georgia-police-use-taser-87-year-old-woman-using-knife-n901196)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 16, 2018, 02:00:34 pm
:thud:

Quote
The sheriff’s report described a nearly four-minute video


@mountaineer

WOW! A whole 4 minutes! Wadda stud! </S>

Quote
Investigators also found naked pictures of the commander’s five-year-old daughter in the “FUN TIME” folder, prompting “suspicion that some grooming behavior may be present,” the sheriff’s department’s report said.  ...

Just kill him and be done with it.


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 16, 2018, 02:05:47 pm
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Just kill him and be done with it.
I can't disagree. What a slime.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on August 17, 2018, 09:44:48 pm
Beer deliverymen talk man out of jumping off bridge by offering him a 12-pack of Coors Light
Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post | on August 17, 2018

Jason Gaebel and Kwame Anderson don't usually cross the bridge over Interstate 94 in St. Paul, Minn. But this Wednesday morning, for no reason in particular, the beer deliverymen decided to take a different route, they told local news stations.

[...]

https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Beer-deliverymen-talk-man-out-of-jumping-off-13162924.php
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on August 17, 2018, 09:56:02 pm
Beer deliverymen talk man out of jumping off bridge by offering him a 12-pack of Coors Light
Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post | on August 17, 2018

Jason Gaebel and Kwame Anderson don't usually cross the bridge over Interstate 94 in St. Paul, Minn. But this Wednesday morning, for no reason in particular, the beer deliverymen decided to take a different route, they told local news stations.

[...]

https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Beer-deliverymen-talk-man-out-of-jumping-off-13162924.php

Good story.  Sometimes it's something as simple as a conversation and a 12-pack that makes all the difference.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 17, 2018, 11:26:53 pm
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Man freed by Innocence Project accused of child sexual assault
Natasha Lindstrom and Rich Cholodofsky | Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, 5:51 p.m.
Updated 47 minutes ago

A man freed from prison in May after a judge vacated his 1991 rape conviction in Westmoreland County was arrested Thursday on charges of sexually assaulting a 7-year-old child at his home in McKees Rocks.

John Kunco, 53, previously of Harrison, was arraigned Friday on charges of aggravated indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption, endangering the welfare of children and indecent assault.

Court documents list the date of the offenses as May 23, the day Kunco was released from prison after serving nearly 28 years of a 45- to 90-year sentence in an unrelated rape case.  ...
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Full story at Tribune Review (https://triblive.com/local/allegheny/13984262-74/man-freed-from-prison-in-may-awaiting-rape-retrial-accused-of-child)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on August 27, 2018, 01:26:02 pm
Man Busted with 800 Pounds of Stolen Lemons in SoCal
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/california/Man-Busted-Pounds-Stolen-Lemons-491721071.html (https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/california/Man-Busted-Pounds-Stolen-Lemons-491721071.html)

Published at 10:29 PM PDT on Aug 25, 2018

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Riverside County Sheriff's Department
Dionicio Fierros was arrested after police say they found 800 pounds of allegedly stolen lemons in his vehicle.

A 69-year-old man was arrested in Thermal, California, for possessing hundreds of pounds of lemons allegedly stolen from a nearby farm, a sheriff's sergeant said Saturday.

Dionicio Fierros of Los Angeles was pulled over at 9:45 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Grapefruit Boulevard and Pierce Street and was arrested when deputies found 800 pounds of freshly picked lemons in his vehicle that sheriff's officials said were stolen.

The arrest was part of a larger ongoing investigation into agriculture theft in the Coachella Valley, Riverside Country Sheriff's Sgt. Chris Frederick said.

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on August 27, 2018, 09:14:42 pm
Bride cancels wedding, breaks up with fiancé after friends and family refuse to pay for $60G nuptials

Quote
A woman’s long-winded tirade blaming her friends and family for canceling her dream $60,000 wedding has gone viral on social media.

...

The bride, identified as Susan, then reveals that she and her fiancé have broken up “due to some recent and irreparable problems” before going on to blame her friends and family for “ruin[ing] my marriage and life.”

...

“How could we have OUR wedding that WE dreamed of without proper funding? We’d sacrificed so much and only asked each guest for around $1,500.”

The bride also explained she “made it CLEAR. If you couldn’t contribute, you weren’t invited to our exclusive wedding. It’s a once and a lifetime [sic] party.”

Much to the bride’s dismay, she and her fiancé quickly discovered that people were not willing to pay $1,500 to attend their special day.

...


This is hilarious.  Read more at:

www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2018/08/27/bride-cancels-wedding-breaks-up-with-fianc-after-friends-and-family-refuse-to-pay-for-60g-nuptials.html (http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2018/08/27/bride-cancels-wedding-breaks-up-with-fianc-after-friends-and-family-refuse-to-pay-for-60g-nuptials.html)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on August 30, 2018, 12:56:09 am
Amanda Smith Hayes convicted after trying to feed Laura Ackerson's body to alligators

Amanda Smith Hayes, a North Carolina woman convicted of helping her husband dispose of his ex-girlfriend's body, has now been convicted of trying to dissolve the remains in acid and then throwing them into an alligator-infested creek.

In 2014, Smith (formerly Hayes) and her husband Grant Ruffin Hayes III were found guilty in the 2011 death and dismemberment of 27-year-old Laura Ackerson.

Prosecutors said the couple killed Ackerson at their Raleigh apartment during a long-running custody dispute over Grant's two oldest children.

https://abc11.com/1315221/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on August 30, 2018, 12:13:27 pm
Amanda Smith Hayes convicted after trying to feed Laura Ackerson's body to alligators

Amanda Smith Hayes, a North Carolina woman convicted of helping her husband dispose of his ex-girlfriend's body, has now been convicted of trying to dissolve the remains in acid and then throwing them into an alligator-infested creek.

In 2014, Smith (formerly Hayes) and her husband Grant Ruffin Hayes III were found guilty in the 2011 death and dismemberment of 27-year-old Laura Ackerson.

Prosecutors said the couple killed Ackerson at their Raleigh apartment during a long-running custody dispute over Grant's two oldest children.

https://abc11.com/1315221/

I wonder if the acid threw off the gators and led them to getting caught.

In unrelated news, I still have the six and eight foot gators in my slough.  No luck catching them over the past 10 days.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 30, 2018, 12:19:09 pm
Bride cancels wedding, breaks up with fiancé after friends and family refuse to pay for $60G nuptials
Sounds like he finally caught on to what a *itch she was.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 30, 2018, 02:06:00 pm
Amanda Smith Hayes convicted after trying to feed Laura Ackerson's body to alligators

Amanda Smith Hayes, a North Carolina woman convicted of helping her husband dispose of his ex-girlfriend's body, has now been convicted of trying to dissolve the remains in acid and then throwing them into an alligator-infested creek.

In 2014, Smith (formerly Hayes) and her husband Grant Ruffin Hayes III were found guilty in the 2011 death and dismemberment of 27-year-old Laura Ackerson.

Prosecutors said the couple killed Ackerson at their Raleigh apartment during a long-running custody dispute over Grant's two oldest children.

https://abc11.com/1315221/

@Free Vulcan

Sadly,this happy couple have now filed for divorce after both being convicted. The report I read said they had resolved their property issues,so I am assuming one of them now owns a Bic lighter,free and clear.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 30, 2018, 02:07:01 pm
I wonder if the acid threw off the gators and led them to getting caught.

In unrelated news, I still have the six and eight foot gators in my slough.  No luck catching them over the past 10 days.

@thackney

I bet a rifle bullet can catch them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on August 30, 2018, 02:09:26 pm
@thackney

I bet a rifle bullet can catch them.

I've got too much to lose, and too many people that know about them, for the risk on a Federal Charge.  I have already opened a Nuisance Control Case with Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 30, 2018, 02:13:08 pm
I've got too much to lose, and too many people that know about them, for the risk on a Federal Charge.  I have already opened a Nuisance Control Case with Texas Parks and Wildlife.

@thackney

There is a Feral law against killing dangerous monsters invading your territory?

If that is the case,call the feds and tell them to come get their damn pets.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on August 30, 2018, 02:21:55 pm
@thackney

There is a Feral law against killing dangerous monsters invading your territory?

If that is the case,call the feds and tell them to come get their damn pets.

They can be killed, but there is a process to follow.  While no longer endangered, they are still protected.  And I need my federal and state paper to do my job.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on August 31, 2018, 01:27:40 am
They can be killed, but there is a process to follow.  While no longer endangered, they are still protected.  And I need my federal and state paper to do my job.

The process is really not that difficult.  We learned this in the second episode of South Park.

JIMBO
That there's a Rocky Mountain Black
Bear. One of the few remaining of
its kind. Isn't it beautiful?

The bear just sits there and blinks.

JIMBO
My God it's coming right for us!!!

Jimbo whips out his huge rifle and shoots the bear dead.

Stan can't believe his eyes.

STAN
Hey! It wasn't coming right for us!
It was just sitting there!

JIMBO
SHHH! Not so loud!! Now that there's
just a technicality.

KYLE
What d'ya mean?

JIMBO
You see boys, the Democrats have
passed a lot of laws trying to stop
us from hunting.

CARTMAN
Democrats piss me off!

JIMBO
They say we can't shoot certain
animals anymore unless they're posing
an immediate threat. Therefore, before
we shoot something, we have to say;
"It's coming right for us!"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 31, 2018, 02:40:01 am
Bride cancels wedding, breaks up with fiancé after friends and family refuse to pay for $60G nuptials


This is hilarious.  Read more at:

www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2018/08/27/bride-cancels-wedding-breaks-up-with-fianc-after-friends-and-family-refuse-to-pay-for-60g-nuptials.html (http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2018/08/27/bride-cancels-wedding-breaks-up-with-fianc-after-friends-and-family-refuse-to-pay-for-60g-nuptials.html)
Some day, that guy will drop to his knees and thank The Almighty that he dodged that bullet.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 31, 2018, 02:42:25 am
I've got too much to lose, and too many people that know about them, for the risk on a Federal Charge.  I have already opened a Nuisance Control Case with Texas Parks and Wildlife.
Maybe they'll come in, capture them and distribute them to a bunch of other sloughs where they can reproduce.....

Job Security, an' all that.....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on September 01, 2018, 10:14:23 pm
Maybe they'll come in, capture them and distribute them to a bunch of other sloughs where they can reproduce.....

Job Security, an' all that.....

They don't do anything.  They just allow me to hire a licensed Alligator company that can operate under my permit.  I cannot do it myself without going through their certification.

But I did find a guy who would work with me to control cost.  Rather than charging for travel to come out to rebait, I take care of freshening up the chicken parts and checking the lines.  I call him if we get one.  I've gotten a big snapping turtle and lots of stolen baits, but no gators so far.  I even had to extend the permit time another ten days.

Today was fun.  While baiting another chicken onto a monster hook hanging over the slough, the 2 inch branch holding the line, and me, broke, sending me face first into the algae covered, alligator infested, water. All the time while I'm falling, looking straight down into water I cannot see past the algae, I am thinking EIGHT FOOT ALLIGATOR IN THERE!!!!

So, in spite of having dripping bait in my hand, no gators were seen. I did go completely under, along with my wallet and my 1 week old phone. We did decide to put insurance on it, unlike my old phone.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on September 01, 2018, 10:28:10 pm
They don't do anything.  They just allow me to hire a licensed Alligator company that can operate under my permit.  I cannot do it myself without going through their certification.

But I did find a guy who would work with me to control cost.  Rather than charging for travel to come out to rebait, I take care of freshening up the chicken parts and checking the lines.  I call him if we get one.  I've gotten a big snapping turtle and lots of stolen baits, but no gators so far.  I even had to extend the permit time another ten days.

Today was fun.  While baiting another chicken onto a monster hook hanging over the slough, the 2 inch branch holding the line, and me, broke, sending me face first into the algae covered, alligator infested, water. All the time while I'm falling, looking straight down into water I cannot see past the algae, I am thinking EIGHT FOOT ALLIGATOR IN THERE!!!!

So, in spite of having dripping bait in my hand, no gators were seen. I did go completely under, along with my wallet and my 1 week old phone. We did decide to put insurance on it, unlike my old phone.

Sorry, I'm not laughing AT you, but with you.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on September 01, 2018, 10:35:26 pm
They don't do anything.  They just allow me to hire a licensed Alligator company that can operate under my permit.  I cannot do it myself without going through their certification.

But I did find a guy who would work with me to control cost.  Rather than charging for travel to come out to rebait, I take care of freshening up the chicken parts and checking the lines.  I call him if we get one.  I've gotten a big snapping turtle and lots of stolen baits, but no gators so far.  I even had to extend the permit time another ten days.

Today was fun.  While baiting another chicken onto a monster hook hanging over the slough, the 2 inch branch holding the line, and me, broke, sending me face first into the algae covered, alligator infested, water. All the time while I'm falling, looking straight down into water I cannot see past the algae, I am thinking EIGHT FOOT ALLIGATOR IN THERE!!!!

So, in spite of having dripping bait in my hand, no gators were seen. I did go completely under, along with my wallet and my 1 week old phone. We did decide to put insurance on it, unlike my old phone.

Eight foot?   Man up, dude.  Punch the little bugger on both sides of the head, and if that doesn't put him down pound him with the stumps until he stays down.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on September 02, 2018, 01:11:58 am
I've got too much to lose, and too many people that know about them, for the risk on a Federal Charge.  I have already opened a Nuisance Control Case with Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I still think it is legal to shoot a lawyer in Texas.  Try and get the gators to pass the bar, then shoot 'em.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on September 02, 2018, 01:47:50 am
Eight foot?   Man up, dude.  Punch the little bugger on both sides of the head, and if that doesn't put him down pound him with the stumps until he stays down.

They have killed one of my calves.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 02, 2018, 01:56:31 am
They have killed one of my calves.

Up here, at that point. the 3s permit becomes valid.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 02, 2018, 08:13:29 am
They don't do anything.  They just allow me to hire a licensed Alligator company that can operate under my permit.  I cannot do it myself without going through their certification.

But I did find a guy who would work with me to control cost.  Rather than charging for travel to come out to rebait, I take care of freshening up the chicken parts and checking the lines.  I call him if we get one.  I've gotten a big snapping turtle and lots of stolen baits, but no gators so far.  I even had to extend the permit time another ten days.

Today was fun.  While baiting another chicken onto a monster hook hanging over the slough, the 2 inch branch holding the line, and me, broke, sending me face first into the algae covered, alligator infested, water. All the time while I'm falling, looking straight down into water I cannot see past the algae, I am thinking EIGHT FOOT ALLIGATOR IN THERE!!!!

So, in spite of having dripping bait in my hand, no gators were seen. I did go completely under, along with my wallet and my 1 week old phone. We did decide to put insurance on it, unlike my old phone.
Something about new phones and water....

Not to make light of your predicament, but I bet that was one for pay-per-view. :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 02, 2018, 08:14:16 am
Up here, at that point. the 3s permit becomes valid.
"But sheriff, we caught 'em rustlin', red-handed!"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on September 02, 2018, 12:57:36 pm
Up here, at that point. the 3s permit becomes valid.

I agree with the concept, but far too many people already know about them.  They were first found by contractors I hired to clear the area of brush and trees.  Plus the neighbors' kids and my own.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on September 02, 2018, 12:59:28 pm
Sorry, I'm not laughing AT you, but with you.   :laugh:

Of course @Sanguine .  That is why I shared.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on September 02, 2018, 01:08:38 pm
Some day, that guy will drop to his knees and thank The Almighty that he dodged that bullet.

The fiancé even suggested forgetting about the big wedding and marrying in Vegas instead, but she refused to compromise.  That doesn't bode well for a successful marriage. 

Yes, he was smart to get away from her as fast as he could.  No doubt he could see what married life would have been like with her if he had married her. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on September 02, 2018, 01:32:35 pm
Sometimes you are better off being single. It’s not so bad being single.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on September 02, 2018, 01:52:53 pm
Of course @Sanguine .  That is why I shared.

It would have scared the pea-waddling out of me!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on September 02, 2018, 03:47:29 pm
Sometimes you are better off being single. It’s not so bad being single.

I agree @Freya  My mother used to tell me if I didn't marry, I would be lonely.  Well, I'm not.  I have family and friends.  And there are many times when I would rather be alone.  Like right now.  I'm in my brand new recliner typing away on my laptop.  Later, I will binge watch something on Netflix or Amazon Prime.  A big bowl of popcorn and a drink and I'll be all set.  Might not be able to do those things if I were married.  Nothing wrong with being single.  It's a good life.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on September 02, 2018, 05:49:59 pm
It would have scared the pea-waddling out of me!

That's okay, I was completely soaked.  No one would have noticed the extra moisture.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 02, 2018, 06:08:59 pm
I agree with the concept, but far too many people already know about them.  They were first found by contractors I hired to clear the area of brush and trees.  Plus the neighbors' kids and my own.

Actually, I think defense of livestock is always legit and legal - caught in the act, I mean...  Might be off on griz... That always changes... But as a general rule, if there's dead livestock, and a dead predator, the warden ain't going to look too hard.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on September 02, 2018, 06:53:14 pm
This is ridiculous and furthermore, unbelievably bad. I didn't want to just make a post for it in the regular forum.  It's almost too difficult to believe, in PA.  I need to make a crack pipe so I cut the brake lines. Sheesh.  I think the comment at the article must be true, this was just a murder, cut the brake lines to cause an accident.

Quote

A mother of 5 died when her car hurtled into a tree. Police say her boyfriend cut the brake lines to make a crack pipe.


By Allyson Chiu, Washington Post
Published: September 2, 2018

Tammy Fox was driving along Pine Street, a quiet tree-lined road in Scranton, Pennsylvania, when suddenly her car started picking up speed. Zipping by cars parked along the side of the street, Fox pumped the brakes of her black Hyundai Sonata as it hurtled toward an intersection.

Accelerating at about 60 mph, it plowed into parked cars and hit a tree, according to Pennsylvania State Police and the Scranton Times-Tribune. A witness saw brake lights flash, but the car still didn’t slow down, according to the Times-Tribune.

Fox, a 38-year-old mother of five, died from "serious injuries sustained in the crash," police said. Organizers of a GoFundMe page raising money for her funeral expenses said Fox was killed "in a tragic car accident" on Aug. 22.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/A-mother-of-5-died-when-her-car-hurtled-into-a-tree-Police-say-her-boyfriend-cut-the-brake-lines-to-make-a-crack-pipe-_171358863 (https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/A-mother-of-5-died-when-her-car-hurtled-into-a-tree-Police-say-her-boyfriend-cut-the-brake-lines-to-make-a-crack-pipe-_171358863)

Those Colorado murders on a related note, that Chris Watts now, it appears was in a homosexual relationship, so kill your family to make room for that??? More terrible news.

https://hollywoodlife.com/2018/08/29/chris-watts-relationship-man-gay-lover-video/ (https://hollywoodlife.com/2018/08/29/chris-watts-relationship-man-gay-lover-video/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on September 02, 2018, 07:33:37 pm
Actually, I think defense of livestock is always legit and legal - caught in the act, I mean...  Might be off on griz... That always changes... But as a general rule, if there's dead livestock, and a dead predator, the warden ain't going to look too hard.

The dead livestock gave me permission to start a gator nuisance permit.  At the time, it was a dead calf found in the morning, dead for hours and no sign of the gator.  But the water in the slough is covered in plants, which I'm working on but it is a long haul to clear it.  We have been trying for ~2 weeks to catch one of the big ones.  I haven't seen the 6 or the 6 footer since before the calf was killed.

Honestly, I'm only guessing the gator killed the calf.  But it is the excuse I'm using to go after the gators out of season.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on September 04, 2018, 03:36:16 pm
Facepalm: Some Idiot Drives Truck Onto a NorCal Jetty Last Year To Watch Waves… Needed An Airlift Out
https://gcaptain.com/facepalm-some-idiot-drives-truck-onto-a-norcal-jetty-to-watch-waves-needs-airlift-out/ (https://gcaptain.com/facepalm-some-idiot-drives-truck-onto-a-norcal-jetty-to-watch-waves-needs-airlift-out/)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=46A7eYkCRI8#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on September 04, 2018, 03:49:08 pm
Facepalm: Some Idiot Drives Truck Onto a NorCal Jetty Last Year To Watch Waves… Needed An Airlift Out
https://gcaptain.com/facepalm-some-idiot-drives-truck-onto-a-norcal-jetty-to-watch-waves-needs-airlift-out/ (https://gcaptain.com/facepalm-some-idiot-drives-truck-onto-a-norcal-jetty-to-watch-waves-needs-airlift-out/)

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=46A7eYkCRI8#)

That's so stupid, it's painful to watch.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on September 04, 2018, 03:58:13 pm
That's so stupid, it's painful to watch.

It was.  After the strong waves push his truck around, he gets out of the truck.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 14, 2018, 11:31:18 pm
Quote
We only eat fruit, and haven’t brushed our teeth in two years
By Josie Griffiths, The Sun
September 14, 2018 | 2:32pm

This woman claims she has eaten almost nothing but fruit for five years and says her extreme diet makes her “feel high.”

Interior architect Tina Stoklosa, who’s originally from Warsaw, Poland, first tried the fruitarian diet as a pre-Christmas cleanse, way back in December 2013.

The 39-year-old instantly saw results, but she found the diet hard to stick to at home, because of temptations to go for meals out.

She decided to move to Bali three years ago, to discover more exotic fruit and go fully fruitarian and it was here that she met her fiance Simon Beun, 26, from Izegem, Belgium.

The couple haven’t brushed their teeth in two years, claiming they don’t need to on the diet and say they would never go back to “normal” food.  ...

Despite the high-sugar diet, they haven’t brushed their teeth in two years – because they think the fiber from the fruit cleans them.

Stoklosa said: “The benefits are weight loss, you can eat an unlimited amount of fruit every day, increased sleep quality, crazy amounts of energy. Feeling more connected to nature, to yourself and others. Feeling like you are getting younger each day – from a scientific standpoint you are on this diet.

“It cures depression, cures so many mental illnesses, relieves anxiety. Cures all chronic digestive issues. There are thousands of personal accounts of people who have cured cancer on this diet.  ...
Rest of story and photos at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2018/09/14/we-only-eat-fruit-and-havent-brushed-our-teeth-in-two-years/)
I'm sure they're very pleasant to be around.  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 15, 2018, 01:27:12 am
That's so stupid, it's painful to watch.

Anybody have any idea why that yahoo didn't just put it in reverse and start backing up when the first wave came over the road instead of driving further out into the sea?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 15, 2018, 01:39:48 am
Anybody have any idea why that yahoo didn't just put it in reverse and start backing up when the first wave came over the road instead of driving further out into the sea?

Looked a little wider at the end... I think he was looking for the wider part to turn around.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 15, 2018, 01:40:55 pm
Looked a little wider at the end... I think he was looking for the wider part to turn around.

@roamer_1

Probably,but you would think a wall of water running directly at him would be a good first clue he needed to get back to where he just came from. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to puzzle out "Gee,there is a wall of water in front of me that is coming at me,and there is no water behind me where I just came from,so which way should I go?"

Unless of course he is a Kennedy relative. None of them should be allowed to leave their houses without a babysitter.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 15, 2018, 06:28:00 pm
@roamer_1

Probably,but you would think a wall of water running directly at him would be a good first clue he needed to get back to where he just came from. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to puzzle out "Gee,there is a wall of water in front of me that is coming at me,and there is no water behind me where I just came from,so which way should I go?"

Unless of course he is a Kennedy relative. None of them should be allowed to leave their houses without a babysitter.

@sneakypete
Well Pete, the very fact he is THERE means we are giving him too much credit. :P
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 15, 2018, 06:34:40 pm
@sneakypete
Well Pete, the very fact he is THERE means we are giving him too much credit. :P

@roamer_1

Point taken.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 17, 2018, 03:47:41 pm
Quote
Pampers is ditching ‘Sesame Street’ diapers amid gender concerns
By Lisa Fickenscher
September 16, 2018
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2018/09/16/pampers-quietly-pull-sesame-street-characters-from-diapers/)

The characters from “Sesame Street” are quietly getting pulled from Pampers — and it might be because they’re mostly dudes.

In a major move this summer that hasn’t been officially announced, the world’s biggest diaper brand has quietly wiped characters like Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch from most of its diapers. ...

“The Pampers rep said … parents who have daughters thought that the ‘Sesame Street’ characters are too masculine,” Wong-Benjamin told The Post.

Asked whether parents had complained that “Sesame Street” characters lack female representation, a Pampers spokeswoman dodged the question initially before saying “No” in an email to The Post.  ...

 Wong-Benjamin says she demanded — and got — a refund from her local Walgreens after her 2-month-old son, Xavier, leaked more with the new Pampers, which instead of Muppets have generic-looking designs of paper airplanes and cameras on them.

“I thought this could be something made in China — like something you’d buy at the dollar store,” Wong-Benjamin told The Post. “I mean, who puts a camera on a diaper?”
Better than putting a camera in a diaper, eh, Patton Oswalt, James Gunn, Michael Ian Black?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on September 17, 2018, 11:49:43 pm
In a major move this summer that hasn’t been officially announced, the world’s biggest diaper brand has quietly wiped characters like Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch from most of its diapers. ...

Big Bird is a dude?  Elmo has to be trans, and just because Cookie Monster has a deep voice doesn't mean it is a guy.  The girl's 4th grade gym teacher Ms. Longtree (never married) had a deep voice too.

 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on September 20, 2018, 05:33:27 pm
Quote
Minke whale removal turns into public spectacle after carcass washes up on Rye beach
By JASON SCHREIBER
UNION LEADER CORRESPONDENT
(http://www.unionleader.com/storyimage/UL/20180917/NEWS01/180919551/AR/0/AR-180919551.jpg?q=77&stamp=&maxw=800)

RYE — A dead minke whale became a sad spectacle after it washed up on Jenness State Beach Monday morning and later was dropped onto the ground as crews attempted to move the mammal to a facility where a necropsy can be done to determine its cause of death.


The two-ton male juvenile whale ended up ashore after its body was spotted Sunday just off the coast between Rye and the Isles of Shoals; it was reported to be entangled in fishing gear. 


“We had a feeling it was going to wash in. It was just a matter of when and where because the winds were favorable for that,” said Ashley Stokes, manager of the Seacoast Science Center’s Marine Mammal Rescue Team.
...


http://www.unionleader.com/animals/minke-whale-removal-turns-into-public-spectacle-after-carcass-washes-up-on-rye-beach-20180917 (http://www.unionleader.com/animals/minke-whale-removal-turns-into-public-spectacle-after-carcass-washes-up-on-rye-beach-20180917)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 21, 2018, 02:28:13 am

At least it was fresh enough it didn't break open....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on September 21, 2018, 03:40:46 pm
British woman in Tenerife found with turtle in vagina after night out partying
The 26-year-old, who went to an emergency room complaining of pain in her genital area, has no memory of what could have happened
PEDRO MURILLO
Santa Cruz de Tenerife 21 SEP 2018 - 16:45   CEST
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/09/21/inenglish/1537528934_632413.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on September 22, 2018, 04:00:06 am
It's all fun and games until someone gets a turtle...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 22, 2018, 04:06:00 am
It's all fun and games until someone gets a turtle...

And how.

How many times have I heard those very words...  **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 22, 2018, 07:29:43 pm
   You Rang?

(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/180920-dead-tortoise-woman-vagina-feature.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=915)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 22, 2018, 07:36:36 pm
It's all fun and games until someone gets a turtle...
Words to live by.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on September 23, 2018, 01:08:38 am
uh huh

yeah

she is cute

but she prolly has a red snapper in her pants

thank god for nongamy

no...wait...

thank god for monogamy
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on September 28, 2018, 12:44:37 am
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/distracted-boyfriend-meme-ruled-sexist-by-swedish-watchdog/ar-BBNC4cM?ocid=spartandhp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/distracted-boyfriend-meme-ruled-sexist-by-swedish-watchdog/ar-BBNC4cM?ocid=spartandhp)
'Distracted boyfriend' meme ruled sexist by Swedish watchdog

"The committee finds that the woman in red... is presented as a sex object."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on October 03, 2018, 05:52:57 pm
Saudi woman barred from marrying 'musical' suitor
AFP•October 2, 2018
Riyadh (AFP) - A Saudi woman has lost a judicial battle to marry the man of her choice as a court deemed him "religiously" unfit because he plays a musical instrument, a Saudi newspaper reported Tuesday.

[...]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/saudi-woman-barred-marrying-musical-suitor-131543289.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/saudi-woman-barred-marrying-musical-suitor-131543289.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on October 08, 2018, 09:00:11 pm
Quote
AP October 8, 2018, 7:45 AM
Inmates find unique escape means: trash cans

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Authorities in Kentucky are searching for two inmates who escaped a Louisville jail by hiding in trash cans.

The Courier Journal reports a statement by Louisville Metro Corrections says Justin Stumler and Jeremy Hunt escaped Saturday night. It says the minimum security inmates were working in the jail's kitchen when they hid in food waste trash cans taken outside for disposal.

It says a witness saw the men and notified a corrections officer. Authorities still were searching for the men as of Sunday morning.

Read more at: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/louisville-inmates-find-unique-escape-means-trash-cans-justin-stumler-jeremy-hun/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/louisville-inmates-find-unique-escape-means-trash-cans-justin-stumler-jeremy-hun/)

Minimum security prisoners, perhaps this was not a smart move.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 08, 2018, 09:17:18 pm
Minimum security prisoners, perhaps this was not a smart move.

Quote
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Authorities in Kentucky are searching for two inmates who escaped a Louisville jail by hiding in trash cans.

They probably got the idea from watching "Hogan's Heroes."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on October 08, 2018, 10:47:04 pm
They probably got the idea from watching "Hogan's Heroes."
SCHULTZ!!
(http://i46.tinypic.com/xnvkh1.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 09, 2018, 10:57:39 pm
Quote
An Airbnb guesthouse of horrors
 By Sean P. Murphy Globe Staff 
October 08, 2018

Jaleesa Jackson and Chiedozie Uwandu headed out of town in June for a week of rest and relaxation in Southern California.

As medical residents in anesthesiology at big, busy hospitals in Boston, Jackson and Uwandu live under constant stress, each putting in 14-hour shifts five or six days a week while regularly being on-call around the clock.

They figured traveling 3,000 miles to lounge on the beach would allow them to unwind. So they found a small guesthouse in Los Angeles on Air-bnb. It had excellent reviews and a host who had so impressed Airbnb that the popular short-term rental company had ranked him one of its best — a “super host.”   ...

Then the vacation took a truly frightening turn.

They were asleep at about 2 a.m. when a man came crashing through a large window in their darkened bedroom, sending shards of glass everywhere and leaving him sprawled on the floor, face down.  ...

The man wore a gray sweat shirt with the hood pulled over his head. But when Jackson got a glimpse of his face, she recognized him: It was JJ, Airbnb’s vaunted “super host.” ...
Read the entire story at Boston Globe. (https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/10/08/airbnb-guesthouse-horrors/NJhq55qg0a2h6nO0aOsEJK/story.html?p1=BGMenu_Article)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on October 09, 2018, 11:57:29 pm
Wow!  I guess I won't be renting a vacation home from Airbnb. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on October 10, 2018, 03:02:47 pm
Quote
4-foot alligator found swimming in Lake Michigan
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2018/10/09/4-foot-alligator-found-swimming-lake-michigan/38104557/ (https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2018/10/09/4-foot-alligator-found-swimming-lake-michigan/38104557/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 10, 2018, 06:13:44 pm
Woman with 'emotional support squirrel' removed from plane
    By SOPHIA ROSENBAUM Associated Press 50 min ago


NEW YORK (AP) — Police at a Florida airport removed a passenger who refused to get off a Cleveland-bound flight after she was found carrying an "emotional support squirrel."

Passengers had already boarded Frontier Airlines Flight 1612 at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday night when they were told there was a "situation" and everyone needed to get off the plane, according to passenger Brandon Nixon.  ...

Frontier says the passenger had noted in her reservation that she was bringing an emotional support animal with her on the flight, but she did not indicate it was a squirrel. Rodents, including squirrels, are not one of the emotional support animals allowed on Frontier flights, according to its website.

The airline says police were called when the passenger refused to leave the plane. Nixon captured video of the moment the woman was escorted through the terminal, pumping her fist in the air as she clutched her carry-on bag with the squirrel on her lap.  ... More (https://www.wvnews.com/newsfeed/us/woman-with-emotional-support-squirrel-removed-from-plane/article_55a74ee2-380f-5973-b461-19969343e243.html)

 *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on October 10, 2018, 08:07:37 pm
...The airline says police were called when the passenger refused to leave the plane. Nixon captured video of the moment the woman was escorted through the terminal, pumping her fist in the air as she clutched her carry-on bag with the squirrel on her lap

Welcome to the TSA no-fly list.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 13, 2018, 02:44:29 pm
Transgender man identifies as a DOG and says chasing sticks and playing on all fours has brought him closer to his husband

    Tony McGinn, known as 'Tony Bark' to his friends, enjoys animal role-play in LA
    Tony, who was born female and is transgender, is supported by his husband
    Andrew accompanies Tony to regular play dates with other role-players
    Andrew said: 'I provide him with lots of attention and tell him he is a good boy'

By Charlie Moore For Mailonline
Published: 06:49 EDT, 12 October 2018 | Updated: 10:11 EDT, 12 October 2018   

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/10/12/10/4982116-0-image-m-34_1539337565434.jpg)
A good bit of cleavage for a man, er, dog.

Full story at the Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6269051/My-partner-dog-transgender-man-identifies-canine.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on October 14, 2018, 10:55:41 pm
https://kutv.com/news/local/panty-selling-may-cause-candidate-to-drop-out-of-race

KUTV) — A city council candidate in Evanston, Wyoming, is dealing with blow back after community members discovered what she thought was her secret identity online.

Candidate Deborah Reno, who works as a massage therapist and yoga instructor, worked on a side hustle under the name Mystee Crockett. She’s seen stripteasing in videos and has an online storefront that caters to “used panty buyers.” She’s also sold “dirty gym shorts” for $20 plus shipping.

(https://static-25.sinclairstoryline.com/resources/media/3402337a-7f8e-4681-81de-4485fcceb2e5-large16x9_lockreno7.PNG?1539392223723)

Reno said she’s been on the website for about a year.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 15, 2018, 12:11:06 am
The thought of used underwear just made me throw up a little.  :2barf:  No chance of patronizing "Mystee."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on October 15, 2018, 12:20:32 am
Believe it or not, that used panties thing is huge in Japan. But they want panties from young girls. Not 'bloomers' from grown women.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_4-YllXaojc/T6I4SiPLg7I/AAAAAAAAy94/Gv9y6KUe7zY/s1600/Used_schoolgirl_panties_vending_machine.jpg)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 17, 2018, 10:31:28 pm
Teen baked her grandfather's ashes into sugar cookies and brought them to school, police say
By Hailey Branson-Potts
Oct 16, 2018 | 7:30 PM



A Davis high school student allegedly baked her grandfather’s ashes into a batch of sugar cookies and gave them to classmates, some of whom were aware they contained human remains before they ate them, authorities said Tuesday.

A female student at Da Vinci Charter Academy, a public charter high school, brought the cookies to school on Oct. 4 and gave them to at least nine other students, said Davis Police Lt. Paul Doroshov. Some ate the cookies without knowing the extra ingredient and were horrified, he said. Others knew.

“Some students knew beforehand and still consumed the cookies,” Doroshov said.

Asked if the allegation seems credible, Doroshov gave a long sigh.

“Yeah.”   ...   Rest of story at L.A. Times (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-davis-cookies-grandfather-ashes-20181016-story.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 17, 2018, 11:06:51 pm
:terror:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 17, 2018, 11:54:09 pm
A bit obvious in a sugar cookie, I should think. Perhaps she could have made oatmeal cookies.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 18, 2018, 12:29:29 am
(https://pics.me.me/here-s-the-cake-the-government-forced-me-to-bake-29477315.png)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on October 19, 2018, 04:30:06 pm
Quote
Man falls down Arizona mine shaft, breaks both legs, fights off 3 rattlesnakes and survives
 By Adam Frisk
National Online Journalist, Viral/Trends    Global News

https://globalnews.ca/news/4572036/arizona-mine-shaft-rattlesnakes-rescue/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on October 19, 2018, 04:32:22 pm


The stuff of nightmares.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 19, 2018, 07:50:29 pm
Man falls down Arizona mine shaft, breaks both legs, fights off 3 rattlesnakes and survives
I saw that story in today's newspaper. Incredible!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 19, 2018, 08:33:12 pm


There are abandoned mine shafts all over the place out here.  Sneks too.  Tarantulas are everywhere, but they are harmless and actually quite gentle.  I was sitting on a rock having a beer and I watched one just stroll over my foot.  He didn't seem to mind my invading his home.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on October 20, 2018, 08:29:10 pm
http://cbsnews10.com/erie-pennsylvania-woman-high-on-meth-dies-after-pumping-gasoline-into-her-anus/ (http://cbsnews10.com/erie-pennsylvania-woman-high-on-meth-dies-after-pumping-gasoline-into-her-anus/)

A 32-year old Erie, Pennsylvania woman has been killed after an overdose on meth caused her to insert a gas pump nozzle into her anus and begin pumping gasoline.

The woman, who is yet to be formally identified by authorities, is believed to have a record for multiple drug offences in Pennsylvania. Officials who are involved in the investigation believe the latest incident was caused by the woman overdosing on meth.

“The victim has been known to abuse multiple substances, but her drug of choice is meth,” said one investigator. According to witnesses, the woman ran across several lanes of traffic to the gas station and grabbed a pump nozzle before pulling down her skirt.

Horrified motorists looked on as the woman proceeded to shove the nozzle into her anus and begin pumping gas. “Oh that feels good!” she is said to have called out to the onlookers, who were too shocked to attempt to stop her.

More at link...

Don't try this at home kids. :nono:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on October 20, 2018, 08:52:22 pm
http://cbsnews10.com/erie-pennsylvania-woman-high-on-meth-dies-after-pumping-gasoline-into-her-anus/ (http://cbsnews10.com/erie-pennsylvania-woman-high-on-meth-dies-after-pumping-gasoline-into-her-anus/)

A 32-year old Erie, Pennsylvania woman has been killed after an overdose on meth caused her to insert a gas pump nozzle into her anus and begin pumping gasoline.

The woman, who is yet to be formally identified by authorities, is believed to have a record for multiple drug offences in Pennsylvania. Officials who are involved in the investigation believe the latest incident was caused by the woman overdosing on meth.

“The victim has been known to abuse multiple substances, but her drug of choice is meth,” said one investigator. According to witnesses, the woman ran across several lanes of traffic to the gas station and grabbed a pump nozzle before pulling down her skirt.

Horrified motorists looked on as the woman proceeded to shove the nozzle into her anus and begin pumping gas. “Oh that feels good!” she is said to have called out to the onlookers, who were too shocked to attempt to stop her.

More at link...

Don't try this at home kids. :nono:


Just yesterday I was thinking about warning labels, and how some may do more harm than good.  I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of kids who get their tongue stuck to a flagpole would never have even considered doing that if they hadn't been warned first.

Every E10 enema from here on out is on you, bro.  I hope you're happy with yourself.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 20, 2018, 10:11:54 pm
I can't begin to understand what drives a person to do that. My brother is a falling down drunk whom I expect to die any day now (not in an auto accident involving other people, I earnestly pray), but it's unlikely that even he in his diminished condition would do something this weird.  **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on October 21, 2018, 03:06:27 am

Just yesterday I was thinking about warning labels, and how some may do more harm than good.  I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of kids who get their tongue stuck to a flagpole would never have even considered doing that if they hadn't been warned first.

Every E10 enema from here on out is on you, bro.  I hope you're happy with yourself.
I don't think items should have warning labels, Darwin was right. Survival of the fittest. If you are stupid enough to stick your hand in the business end of a snow blower or lawn mower while it is running you deserve to get hurt. If you hold scalding hot coffee between your legs while you are driving, Hey it is your problem, but you never do that again.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on October 21, 2018, 04:16:32 am
The closest I have heard of this is people soaking tampons in vodka and sticking them up there to get drunk. Never tried it, but I hear it works. In fact, some people have ODed doing that.

That part of our body is designed to absorb nutrients. What she did was she essentially gave herself an intravenous shot gasoline straight into her bloodstream.

BTW, it is fairly common for drunks to try to drink ethanol gasoline. I've read a few stories about it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on October 21, 2018, 05:42:40 pm
Quote
Man, 72, 'stoned to death by monkeys' in India
Police say the monkeys rained bricks on the man, 72, from a treetop after earlier collecting them from a run down building.

https://news.sky.com/story/man-72-stoned-to-death-by-monkeys-in-india-11531791
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 23, 2018, 07:30:20 pm
Quote
Broncos backup QB Chad Kelly arrested, charged with criminal trespassing
Tom Schad, USA TODAY
Published 1:08 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2018 | Updated 2:43 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2018

Denver Broncos quarterback Chad Kelly was arrested early Tuesday morning and charged with first-degree criminal trespassing, the Englewood (Colorado) Police Department said in a news release.

Kelly was taken into custody after police responded to a call about "a male standing outside a residence" around 1 a.m. According to court records, a man and woman told police a man came into their home uninvited after 1 a.m. Tuesday and sat down on the couch "mumbling incoherently."

The records say the man chased the intruder out, striking him in the back with a vacuum tube.  ...  More (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/broncos/2018/10/23/chad-kelly-arrested-denver-broncos-criminal-trespassing/1739431002/)
By "vacuum tube," I don't know whether they mean something that goes on a  vacuum cleaner or a part from an antique radio.   :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on October 23, 2018, 09:14:37 pm
By "vacuum tube," I don't know whether they mean something that goes on a  vacuum cleaner or a part from an antique radio.   :pondering:
I doubt there are many reporters today that would even have a clue as to what a  electronic vacuum tube was. But your comment brings back memories of going to the local Thrifty Drug Store and using their free tube tester.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 23, 2018, 09:21:21 pm
I have a 1947 Magnavox console radio/phono/sw that probably needs tubes. It used to work but doesn't now. I don't suppose young Mr. Kelly can be of assistance.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 24, 2018, 01:11:41 pm
I believe the children are our future ...   :whistle:
Quote
Freshman dies after ‘initiation’ party where students bobbed for apples in urine
By Daniel Hall, The Sun
October 23, 2018

Students bobbed for apples in a mixture of booze and urine as part of a drink-fuelled initiation ceremony where a British student died, an inquest heard.

First-year economics student Ed Farmer, 20, died after being found slumped in a corridor not breathing at the end of a student society’s night out in Newcastle in 2016.

Although he was rushed to the hospital, he died the next day with his parents at his bedside. ...

The inquest continues.
New York Post (https://nypost.com/2018/10/23/teen-dies-after-initiation-party-where-students-bobbed-for-apples-in-urine/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on October 24, 2018, 02:41:01 pm
I believe the children are our future ...   :whistle:New York Post (https://nypost.com/2018/10/23/teen-dies-after-initiation-party-where-students-bobbed-for-apples-in-urine/)
*Newcastle in 2016. How is this news in 2018?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 24, 2018, 05:06:18 pm
*Newcastle in 2016. How is this news in 2018?
The story is reporting on a coroner's inquest that currently is underway.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on October 31, 2018, 06:28:47 pm
Quote
Florida mayor solicited sex for speed bumps, ethics panel finds

David Stewart has been the mayor of Lantana, Florida, since 2000.
Oct. 31, 2018 / 9:20 AM CDT
By Kalhan Rosenblatt

A Florida mayor is accused of soliciting sex from a constituent in exchange for speed bumps, according to the Florida Commission on Ethics and local reports.

In a press release on Oct. 24, the commission found that there was probable cause to find that David Stewart, the mayor of Lantana, Florida, "misused his position to attempt to obtain a sexual benefit for himself."

Stewart solicited sex from a constituent "based on an understanding his vote, official action, or judgment would be influenced," the commission said....

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-mayor-solicited-sex-speed-bumps-ethics-panel-finds-n926671 (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-mayor-solicited-sex-speed-bumps-ethics-panel-finds-n926671)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 31, 2018, 06:42:44 pm


Mayoring sure has interesting perks, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 01, 2018, 01:54:09 am

A Florida mayor is accused of soliciting sex from a constituent in exchange for speed bumps


@Sanguine

I CAN'T be the only one that sees both irony and humor in that first sentence.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on November 01, 2018, 01:58:09 am
@Sanguine

I CAN'T be the only one that sees both irony and humor in that first sentence.

 888mouth
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 01, 2018, 03:46:21 am
@Sanguine

I CAN'T be the only one that sees both irony and humor in that first sentence.
A hump for a bump? Or is that a bump for a hump?  :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mirraflake on November 01, 2018, 10:06:27 pm
Applied peanut butter to his crotch so dog would lick his privates.   Wrong result.   Bestiality folks are whack jobs.


Police in Scotland found the man unconscious, in a pool of his own blood
He was taken to hospital but his organs could not be reattached
No one has been charged with any offence which relates to the incident


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6343269/Man-penis-testicles-eaten-bulldog-room-animal.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6343269/Man-penis-testicles-eaten-bulldog-room-animal.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mystery-ak on November 01, 2018, 10:14:53 pm
Bullys love peanut butter..not that I have applied it to any part of my body...I give it to them on a spoon...don't judge :bullie smokin:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 01, 2018, 10:16:28 pm
Nuts.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: skeeter on November 01, 2018, 10:17:03 pm
On the bright side he now has much better political representation.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: andy58-in-nh on November 01, 2018, 11:18:09 pm
Pfffff.. Just another "dog bites man" story...  :doglick:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on November 01, 2018, 11:31:22 pm
   That's why I quit dating crazy white girls
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Frank Cannon on November 02, 2018, 12:00:28 am
Dumb Scotsman had the wrong type of bitch do this.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on November 02, 2018, 02:21:12 am
@mirraflake

Your posting got put in the ridiculous news area...... more proper here, sorry.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on November 02, 2018, 02:48:53 am
Leave it to a Scotsman to be too bleep cheap to just pay a hooker.

Sheep ain't cheap.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 02, 2018, 07:54:21 am
   That's why I quit dating crazy white girls

@corbe

There are other types?

Are they being kept hidden in secret government labs somewhere?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 02, 2018, 07:55:43 am
On a positive note,he did want to get his nuts off,and no one can claim he wasn't successful.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on November 02, 2018, 10:16:01 am
Bullys love peanut butter..not that I have applied it to any part of my body...I give it to them on a spoon...don't judge :bullie smokin:
Raimo get Phenobarbital for his seizures and something for his heart murmur every day. He gets it in peanut butter, and of course Cassie wants what ever her brother gets, so she gets peanut butter too, sans drugs.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 05, 2018, 05:14:01 pm
Rugby player Sam Ballard dies eight years after swallowing slug as dare left him paralysed
Richard Hartley-Parkinson  Monday 5 Nov 2018 6:25 am

A man who ate a garden slug as part of a dare has died. Sam Ballard, 28, became a paraplegic and suffered for eight years after eating the slug at a party when he was 19. He lost his fight for life as a result of medical complications on Friday and his last words to his mother were ‘I love you’.

His friend Jimmy Galvin previously revealed that he swallowed the slug while at a party in 2010. He told The Project: ”We were sitting, having a bit of a red wine appreciation night, trying to act as grown-ups and a slug came crawling across. ‘The conversation came up: “Should I eat it?” off Sam went. Bang. That’s how it happened.’ Within hours he fell seriously ill and it was later discovered that he had been infected with rat lungworm.

[...]

https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/05/rugby-player-sam-ballard-dies-eight-years-after-swallowing-slug-as-dare-left-him-paralysed-8105145
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 05, 2018, 05:26:41 pm
Rugby player Sam Ballard dies eight years after swallowing slug as dare left him paralysed


I guess that proves a story can be both ridiculous and sad at the same time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on November 05, 2018, 06:12:04 pm
I guess that proves a story can be both ridiculous and sad at the same time.

As is much of life. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 06, 2018, 04:30:37 am
MAN FALLS THROUGH CEILING AT WAFFLE HOUSE IN TUSCUMBIA
A 27-year-old from Birmingham, Wesley Glenn Bost, fell through the ceiling at a Waffle House in Tuscumbia Sunday morning.
Posted: Nov. 5, 2018 8:40 PM  Updated: Nov. 5, 2018 9:00 PM   Posted By: Ashley Thusius

A 27-year-old from Birmingham, Wesley Glenn Bost, fell through the ceiling at a Waffle House in Tuscumbia Sunday morning.

(https://media.heartlandtv.com/images/Wesley+Glenn+Bost.png)

Tuscumbia Police say surveillance video shows Bost went into the bathroom, locked himself in and tied his blue jeans to the door. He then climbed into the ceiling and fell through. They said he did a lot of damage to the restaurant and broke the sink and toilet.

After Bost fell through the ceiling, jumped into his car and police chased him. He then left the car and fled on foot. Police are getting warrants on him for the damage caused at the Waffle House.

[Video of him crashing through the ceiling at link...Language Warning -- but it's got classic Waffle House chatter, with even a pregnant woman!]
https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/Man-falls-through-roof-at-Waffle-House-in-Tuscumbia-499737021.html (https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/Man-falls-through-roof-at-Waffle-House-in-Tuscumbia-499737021.html)

@Freya
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 06, 2018, 04:42:07 am
BARE BUNS: HALF-NAKED WOMAN FALLS THROUGH COOK OUT CEILING
Police in Tennessee say a half-naked woman fell twice through a restaurant's ceiling and landed in its kitchen.
Posted: Nov. 1, 2018 10:34 AM  Posted By: AP

(https://media.heartlandtv.com/images/COOK+OUT.jpg)
Cook Out/Twitter

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Tennessee say a half-naked woman fell twice through a restaurant's ceiling and landed in its kitchen.

News outlets report 26-year-old Harley C. Morton was arrested Tuesday on charges including trespassing and disorderly conduct.

A Kingsport police report says a Cook Out employee called 911 when the naked bottom half of a woman dropped through the ceiling tiles.

[...]

https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/Bare-buns-Half-naked-woman-falls-through-Cook-Out-ceiling-499291561.html (https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/Bare-buns-Half-naked-woman-falls-through-Cook-Out-ceiling-499291561.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 06, 2018, 11:39:17 am
As is much of life.

@Sanguine

Which itself can be pretty damn random. I personally knew a man that was shot between the eyes with a AK-47 at less than 50's yards,and survived.  He was knocked unconscious and placed face down on a stretcher to be medi-evaced,and ended up coughing the bullet up.

Look at all the couples who tried to have children and couldn't,but had the wife get pregnant after adopting a child.

Not much more random than life itself.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 06, 2018, 02:44:37 pm
Quote
HE COULD BE FACING A DIFFICULT RE-ELECTION ... The mayor of Achille, Okla., and his roommate, who were both high on meth, crashed a car into a ditch and walked 15 minutes to a house in Calera, which they began to burglarize when the homeowner woke up, pulled a shotgun on them, and held them for police. Boston Herald (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/offbeat_news/2018/11/compliments_to_the_chef)
The mayor then explained the whole situation:
Quote
... Mayor David Northcutt said he and his friend were backroading in a Jeep along the river bottom. He said wild hogs ran in front of their vehicle that they hit and killed. That's when it all started.

"We had no intention of burglarizing, no intention of stealing," said Northcutt.

Northcutt said he and Joshua Doughty were driving to his cousin's house.

"I got the Jeep stuck in mud, and we were going to walk down the road either to his home, or to find assistance to help us get the jeep out of the mud," Northcutt said.

He said they knocked on the door of a house that he thought was his cousin's or one of that cousin's neighbors.

"Someone did aid us and we went through the front door and we were given blankets, and we were planning on sleeping until daylight," he said.

Northcutt said they woke up about an hour and a half later.

"I found myself at the end of a shot gun and being chased off that property," he said.  ...
KXII (https://www.kxii.com/content/news/Achille-mayor-speaks-out-after-arrest-499365201.html)

(https://media.graytvinc.com/images/810*451/northcutt+web.JPG)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on November 06, 2018, 03:46:16 pm
Quote
Antarctica Scientist Stabbed Colleague for Spoiling Book Endings (https://nypost.com/2018/10/30/antarctica-scientist-stabbed-colleague-for-spoiling-book-endings-report/)

This is the coldest case ever.

In the first attempted murder ever on the frozen continent of Antarctica, a Russian scientist reportedly snapped and allegedly tried to stab a colleague to death because the victim kept giving away the endings of books.

Sergey Savitsky had been trying to use literature to pass the lonesome months at Bellingshausen Station on King George Island, but his colleague Oleg Beloguzov was making it impossible to enjoy his hobby.

“[He] kept telling [him] the endings of books before he read them,” The Sun reported, citing an unnamed source.


He was completely justified!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on November 07, 2018, 03:53:09 am
He was completely justified!
In Russia mystery book murders you.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 07, 2018, 06:38:41 am
BARE BUNS: HALF-NAKED WOMAN FALLS THROUGH COOK OUT CEILING
Police in Tennessee say a half-naked woman fell twice through a restaurant's ceiling and landed in its kitchen.
Posted: Nov. 1, 2018 10:34 AM  Posted By: AP

(https://media.heartlandtv.com/images/COOK+OUT.jpg)
Cook Out/Twitter

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Tennessee say a half-naked woman fell twice through a restaurant's ceiling and landed in its kitchen.

News outlets report 26-year-old Harley C. Morton was arrested Tuesday on charges including trespassing and disorderly conduct.

A Kingsport police report says a Cook Out employee called 911 when the naked bottom half of a woman dropped through the ceiling tiles.

[...]

https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/Bare-buns-Half-naked-woman-falls-through-Cook-Out-ceiling-499291561.html (https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/Bare-buns-Half-naked-woman-falls-through-Cook-Out-ceiling-499291561.html)
(http://i66.tinypic.com/214wkm1.jpg)

If the ass end looked as bad as the fore, I feel really sorry for the poor restaurant employees!  ***suicide***
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 07, 2018, 02:42:39 pm
(http://i66.tinypic.com/214wkm1.jpg)

If the ass end looked as bad as the fore, I feel really sorry for the poor restaurant employees!  ***suicide***

@GtHawk

I disagree. She would clean up nice if you gave her a couple of days to get "sober",comb her hair,etc,etc,etc.

I can understand a junkie planning on breaking in through the ceiling to steal after the joint is closed,but I can't even begin to guess why she was naked from the waist down. Was she drunk and fell down while trying to get undressed so she didn't get cooking grease on her clothes?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 07, 2018, 03:51:45 pm
@GtHawk

I disagree. She would clean up nice if you gave her a couple of days to get "sober",comb her hair,etc,etc,etc.

I can understand a junkie planning on breaking in through the ceiling to steal after the joint is closed,but I can't even begin to guess why she was naked from the waist down. Was she drunk and fell down while trying to get undressed so she didn't get cooking grease on her clothes?
@sneakypete
Or, if you're in a hurry...............  (http://i64.tinypic.com/mhttz4.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 10, 2018, 07:21:35 pm
Quote
Man dies after injecting silicone in genitals, mom blames sex ‘cult’ master
By Alexandra Klausner
November 7, 2018

A Washington kink enthusiast died last month after silicone injections in his genitals led to fatal bleeding, but his mom believes a gay sex “cult” is to blame.

Jack Chapman, a 28-year-old Australian living in Seattle, died from “silicone embolism syndrome” resulting in hemorrhaging in the lungs, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office told The Stranger this week.

Chapman — who went by “Tank Heathcliff Hafertepen” and “Pup Tank” — was an active member of San Francisco and later Seattle’s gay BDSM community. Chapman served as one of several slaves to master Dylan Hafertepen, known as the nickname “Noodles and Beef.”  ...

Chapman’s mother, Linda, is blaming Hafertepen for turning her son on to the dangerous body modification that resulted in his death. She likened her son’s relationship with his master to a cult. ...

Linda detailed a contract her son signed with Hafertepen which promised his master total control over his mind and body. She said her son was required to take Hafertepen’s last name, give him his salary, wear a chain around his neck and cut off contact with anyone outside his BDSM circle. ...
Rest of story (https://nypost.com/2018/11/07/man-dies-after-injecting-silicone-in-genitals-mom-blames-sex-cult-master/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 10, 2018, 09:19:55 pm
Rest of story (https://nypost.com/2018/11/07/man-dies-after-injecting-silicone-in-genitals-mom-blames-sex-cult-master/)

Linda detailed a contract her son signed with Hafertepen which promised his master total control over his mind and body. She said her son was required to take Hafertepen’s last name, give him his salary, wear a chain around his neck and cut off contact with anyone outside his BDSM circle. ...


@mountaineer

If she has proof of that,his death is partially her fault because all she would have had to have done was take the contract to court and she could have had her son declared mentally incompetent and gained custody  to have him put away.

Why do people expect the government to do all the work for them?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on November 10, 2018, 11:08:40 pm
"kink enthusiast"?  That's a thing, huh?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on November 10, 2018, 11:09:49 pm
@mountaineer

If she has proof of that,his death is partially her fault because all she would have had to have done was take the contract to court and she could have had her son declared mentally incompetent and gained custody  to have him put away.

Why do people expect the government to do all the work for them?

If he signed it of his own free will, nothing a court would have done about it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 10, 2018, 11:26:16 pm
If he signed it of his own free will, nothing a court would have done about it.

@Sanguine

Someone found to be mentally incompetent by docs has no free will,and this boy was "barking at the moon" mad.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 11, 2018, 12:24:15 am
Having someone legally declared incompetent is much easier said than done, even when the subject truly is incapable of properly caring for himself.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 11, 2018, 08:15:42 pm
Judge calls Toronto cop who ate marijuana-laced chocolate bar seized in raid a ‘complete idiot'
LIAM CASEY | THE CANADIAN PRESS | PUBLISHED 2 DAYS AGO

A Toronto police officer who stole and ate a marijuana-laced chocolate bar seized during a pot-shop raid was a “complete idiot” for tampering with evidence, a judge said Friday as the man pleaded guilty in the case.

Vittorio Dominelli, a 36-year-old constable who resigned from the force this week, pleaded guilty to attempting to obstruct justice in connection with the January incident.

[...]

“From the point of view of public interest, the impact is profound,” she said. “The conduct here you cannot describe as anything other than stupid.”

Misener added that the fact that Dominelli had taken a marijuana-infused item was not the issue.

“He might have taken cough syrup or a pair of woolly comfortable socks that he wanted to try on his feet,” she said. “It’s interfering with evidence.”

[...]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cannabis/article-judge-calls-toronto-cop-who-ate-marijuana-laced-chocolate-bar-seized/ (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cannabis/article-judge-calls-toronto-cop-who-ate-marijuana-laced-chocolate-bar-seized/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 11, 2018, 08:16:31 pm
Why do people expect the government to do all the work for them?

What...like interfere with a contract?  Sounds like she probably tied to deal with it herself, rather than involve the government.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 11, 2018, 09:08:35 pm
What...like interfere with a contract?  Sounds like she probably tied to deal with it herself, rather than involve the government.

@Suppressed

Ok,please splain how you are going to overthrow a legal contract without going to a court. The court isn't going to take notice of a wrong unless someone presents that wrong to the court. In cases like this,that is the responsibility of a family member.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 11, 2018, 09:55:21 pm
@Suppressed

Ok,please splain how you are going to overthrow a legal contract without going to a court.

@sneakypete

Convince someone not to sign it, or, after the fact, try to get it revoked voluntarily.  Which is what she probably was trying to do.  I can only speculate.  But in any case, your solution involves government.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 11, 2018, 09:57:25 pm
@sneakypete

Convince someone not to sign it, or, after the fact, try to get it revoked voluntarily.  Which is what she probably was trying to do.  I can only speculate.  But in any case, your solution involves government.

@Suppressed

When the problem involves the government,so does the solution.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 11, 2018, 10:01:22 pm
@Suppressed

When the problem involves the government,so does the solution.

Agreed.  That's why I think that before having socialized medicine, we need to socialize the legal profession. 

But that's another topic . . .
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 11, 2018, 10:05:34 pm
Agreed.  That's why I think that before having socialized medicine, we need to socialize the legal profession. 

But that's another topic . . .

@Suppressed


Ahhhh,leftist lawyers flinging themselves off bridges,hanging themselves,setting their Porsche's on fire with them in them,etc,etc,etc. That will make pleasant pictures in my mind of a better world as I lay down to go to sleep tonight.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 11, 2018, 10:07:48 pm
@Suppressed


Ahhhh,leftist lawyers flinging themselves off bridges,hanging themselves,setting their Porsche's on fire with them in them,etc,etc,etc. That will make pleasant pictures in my mind of a better world as I lay down to go to sleep tonight.

 :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Suppressed on November 14, 2018, 05:12:57 pm
Boy gets six points on future driving licence for scooter speeding
Boy, 15, caught by police who clocked him at ‘high speed’ on electric scooter in north-east England

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b607cd020f2f67f943ce025b530fd8e7b4ab35be/257_546_2987_1792/master/2987.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=aaed54e54af5e5e0f178b22fd67065d9)

It is perhaps not unusual for overexcited new drivers to clock up a few points on their licence in their first year or two behind the wheel.

But pity the 15-year-old boy who, having never put pedal to the metal on a public highway, already has six points on his licence. The teenager appeared in court last month after he was caught by police in Cleveland, north-east England, for clocking a “high speed” on an electric scooter.

[...]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/14/boy-gets-six-points-on-future-driving-licence-for-scooter-speeding (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/14/boy-gets-six-points-on-future-driving-licence-for-scooter-speeding)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: WarmPotato on November 14, 2018, 11:53:32 pm
This thread is a grab bag of craziness!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 15, 2018, 12:18:29 am
This thread is a grab bag of craziness!
I believe that's the point.  It's wild, it's wacky, it's ridiculous. :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 15, 2018, 02:26:25 pm
Boy gets six points on future driving licence for scooter speeding
Boy, 15, caught by police who clocked him at ‘high speed’ on electric scooter in north-east England

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b607cd020f2f67f943ce025b530fd8e7b4ab35be/257_546_2987_1792/master/2987.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=aaed54e54af5e5e0f178b22fd67065d9)

It is perhaps not unusual for overexcited new drivers to clock up a few points on their licence in their first year or two behind the wheel.

But pity the 15-year-old boy who, having never put pedal to the metal on a public highway, already has six points on his licence. The teenager appeared in court last month after he was caught by police in Cleveland, north-east England, for clocking a “high speed” on an electric scooter.

[...]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/14/boy-gets-six-points-on-future-driving-licence-for-scooter-speeding (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/14/boy-gets-six-points-on-future-driving-licence-for-scooter-speeding)
I have a grandson who has been clocked over 40 MPH on a conventional (foot powered) scooter on one of the longer hills in town. (speed limit there is 35) I have little doubt he has gone faster....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on November 15, 2018, 05:45:22 pm
I have a grandson who has been clocked over 40 MPH on a conventional (foot powered) scooter on one of the longer hills in town. (speed limit there is 35) I have little doubt he has gone faster....
I was once clocked doing 40 in a 30 MPH on my bike. The officer was a friend of mine and told me that I was fine as long as I wasn't being "reckless".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 15, 2018, 06:43:58 pm
I was once clocked doing 40 in a 30 MPH on my bike. The officer was a friend of mine and told me that I was fine as long as I wasn't being "reckless".
They are a mite pickier here. I know a guy who got a DUI on a bicycle, for instance (and another who got one on a mule).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on November 20, 2018, 04:27:30 am
Quote
IKEA Praised After Allowing Stray Dogs to Sleep in Store During Winter
BY JACK PHILLIPS
November 19, 2018 Updated: November 19, 2018 Share
   
IKEA received praise after one of its locations opened a store to stray dogs during the winter months.

In a video shared on Facebook, dogs could be seen resting on IKEA rugs inside staging rooms in Catania, Italy.

Most IKEA stores have a “no dogs” policy in the United States and in other countries. “The only animals allowed inside of IKEA U.S. stores are certified service dogs,” states the chain on its website.

Read more and see pictures at: https://www.theepochtimes.com/ikea-praised-after-allowing-stray-dogs-to-sleep-in-store-during-winter_2719384.html (https://www.theepochtimes.com/ikea-praised-after-allowing-stray-dogs-to-sleep-in-store-during-winter_2719384.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on November 20, 2018, 04:55:19 am
I was once clocked doing 40 in a 30 MPH on my bike. The officer was a friend of mine and told me that I was fine as long as I wasn't being "reckless".

When I was a teenager I went over 55 mph on a highway (down hills) riding a 10 speed bicycle... And that was the speed limit back then... I was going as fast as the cars... T shirt, jeans and tennis shoes...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on November 20, 2018, 01:09:13 pm
When I was a teenager I went over 55 mph on a highway (down hills) riding a 10 speed bicycle... And that was the speed limit back then... I was going as fast as the cars... T shirt, jeans and tennis shoes...
And no helmet. I am still amazed i lived through my youth. Riding the Radio Fly wagon down stairs. Sledding into the street. "Riding" bent saplings down the hills.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on November 20, 2018, 08:50:09 pm
And no helmet. I am still amazed i lived through my youth. Riding the Radio Fly wagon down stairs. Sledding into the street. "Riding" bent saplings down the hills.
@verga
I lived in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx when I was little, right off Kingsbridge road a block up from Sedgwick Avenue. Starting at Sedgwick, Kingsbridge Road has a ferocious drop down to just above the Major Deegan Expressway at Bailey Avenue. We kids used to sled down that drop in winter and come back up in one piece (and it was one helluva walk back up that long drop dragging your sled behind you) and do it again. I was seven the first time I got to try that one and I didn't dare tell my parents about it---they would have killed me. (My parents, alas, were ahead of their time for childhood paranoia and a few other not so nice things, unfortunately.) On a drop that steep (I wondered how many bus drivers earned commendation medals for surviving it!) you probably hit 35-40 mph before you had to brake the sled at bottom.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on November 20, 2018, 11:54:24 pm
@verga
I lived in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx when I was little, right off Kingsbridge road a block up from Sedgwick Avenue. Starting at Sedgwick, Kingsbridge Road has a ferocious drop down to just above the Major Deegan Expressway at Bailey Avenue. We kids used to sled down that drop in winter and come back up in one piece (and it was one helluva walk back up that long drop dragging your sled behind you) and do it again. I was seven the first time I got to try that one and I didn't dare tell my parents about it---they would have killed me. (My parents, alas, were ahead of their time for childhood paranoia and a few other not so nice things, unfortunately.) On a drop that steep (I wondered how many bus drivers earned commendation medals for surviving it!) you probably hit 35-40 mph before you had to brake the sled at bottom.
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 21, 2018, 12:12:31 am
And no helmet. I am still amazed i lived through my youth. Riding the Radio Fly wagon down stairs. Sledding into the street. "Riding" bent saplings down the hills.

... Hookey-bobbin to school... Riding in the back of pickups...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 01, 2018, 11:53:56 pm
Teach your children well...
Quote
Boy, 14, is found shot in the head 30 minutes after carjacking 70-year-old man in St. Louis
    From staff reports Nov 28, 2018


ST. LOUIS • A 14-year-old boy was found shot near a stolen car about half an hour after he took the vehicle in a carjacking Monday afternoon, police said.

The boy was shot in the head, police said. His condition was not available, but police said he was stable.

The violence began when the boy and another robber carjacked a 70-year-old man in the Greater Ville neighborhood just before 5 p.m. The man was getting out of his Toyota Corolla  in the 4500 block of Lexington Avenue when the robbers approached and demanded his vehicle at gunpoint.

They got in the victim's car and left. The victim was not hurt.  ... 
More at St. Louis Post-Dispatch (https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/boy-is-found-shot-in-the-head-minutes-after-carjacking/article_a64b5131-6991-509d-9120-80193f11311f.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 02, 2018, 12:43:21 am
Teach your children well...More at St. Louis Post-Dispatch (https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/boy-is-found-shot-in-the-head-minutes-after-carjacking/article_a64b5131-6991-509d-9120-80193f11311f.html)

@mountaineer

So,we are supposed to believe him and his homie carjacked the old guy,and then his homie shot him to death less than a mile away?

WTF?????? I can't even begin to guess what that is all about.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 02, 2018, 01:24:11 pm
So,we are supposed to believe him and his homie carjacked the old guy,and then his homie shot him to death less than a mile away?
That's the most likely possibility. Apparently, St. Louis is awash with teenaged boys waving guns around. It could have been anyone.  **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 02, 2018, 02:13:07 pm
That's the most likely possibility. Apparently, St. Louis is awash with teenaged boys waving guns around. It could have been anyone.  **nononono*

@mountaineer

St.Louis has ALWAYS been awash with men,women,and children carrying guns. Back in my drinking and wandering around the country days I once became instantly sober at around 2 AM one Sunday morning,and discovered that I seemed to be the only white men in East St.Louis. It was like Mogadishu,but without the charm. Trashcan fires and black men,women,and children of all ages wandering up and down the street with all of them giving me the "fisheye",and there I was by myself with only a six shot revolver and no reloads. It was almost enough to make me stop drinking.

My best guess is the only thing that saved me is they all thought it might be a police sting,and I was the white bait. I could literally FEEL the hatred coming off those stares.

To this day I have no idea why I was there. The only two friends I ever had from St.Louis were both KIA in VN,so I wasn't visiting anyone I knew. I can tell you it didn't take me long to get the hell out of there,though.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 02, 2018, 02:51:02 pm
Yeah, ESL will sober up anyone. I lived in the St. Louis area for 19 years, finally leaving in 1991. It wasn't nearly as bad back then as it is now, though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 02, 2018, 04:28:01 pm
Yeah, ESL will sober up anyone. I lived in the St. Louis area for 19 years, finally leaving in 1991. It wasn't nearly as bad back then as it is now, though.

Missouri now has constitutional carry, like AZ. :2popcorn:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: SZonian on December 04, 2018, 05:11:57 pm
"A 300-pound woman has pleaded guilty to killing her 120-pound boyfriend by sitting on him"

A 300-lb Pennsylvania woman who killed her boyfriend by hitting him with a table leg, then sitting on him has pleaded guilty to third degree murder. Windi Thomas allegedly told police she had been drinking and craving crack cocaine when she smothered 120-lb. Keeno Butler during an altercation in March.

The cause of death was “respiratory insufficiency secondary to blunt force trauma to the neck and thoracic compression, exacerbated by blunt force trauma to the head,” according to Goerie.com.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-news-300-pound-woman-120-pound-man-murder-20181203-story.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-news-300-pound-woman-120-pound-man-murder-20181203-story.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 04, 2018, 05:18:19 pm
"A 300-pound woman has pleaded guilty to killing her 120-pound boyfriend by sitting on him"

A 300-lb Pennsylvania woman who killed her boyfriend by hitting him with a table leg, then sitting on him has pleaded guilty to third degree murder. Windi Thomas allegedly told police she had been drinking and craving crack cocaine when she smothered 120-lb. Keeno Butler during an altercation in March.

The cause of death was “respiratory insufficiency secondary to blunt force trauma to the neck and thoracic compression, exacerbated by blunt force trauma to the head,” according to Goerie.com.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-news-300-pound-woman-120-pound-man-murder-20181203-story.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-news-300-pound-woman-120-pound-man-murder-20181203-story.html)

Twasn't the suffocating that did him in, it was the blunt-force trauma from the table leg.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 04, 2018, 08:37:37 pm
Just a little break in the news to bring you today's fun mugshot.
(https://arre.st/Jails/WVJails.info/images2/Andrew-Lester-12032018.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on December 04, 2018, 08:47:38 pm
Just a little break in the news to bring you today's fun mugshot.
(https://arre.st/Jails/WVJails.info/images2/Andrew-Lester-12032018.jpg)

He looks like one of those drunken fraternity pranks, except that presumably he did this to himself.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on December 04, 2018, 10:05:55 pm
"A 300-pound woman has pleaded guilty to killing her 120-pound boyfriend by sitting on him"

A 300-lb Pennsylvania woman who killed her boyfriend by hitting him with a table leg, then sitting on him has pleaded guilty to third degree murder. Windi Thomas allegedly told police she had been drinking and craving crack cocaine when she smothered 120-lb. Keeno Butler during an altercation in March.

The cause of death was “respiratory insufficiency secondary to blunt force trauma to the neck and thoracic compression, exacerbated by blunt force trauma to the head,” according to Goerie.com.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-news-300-pound-woman-120-pound-man-murder-20181203-story.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-news-300-pound-woman-120-pound-man-murder-20181203-story.html)

Sounds like suicide to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 04, 2018, 11:29:47 pm
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A 300-pound woman has pleaded guilty to killing her 120-pound boyfriend by sitting on him
That reminded me of a couple at a church I used to attend. He was about 125 pounds. She wasn't 300, more like 220 pounds, but he admitted that there was something about large women that he really found attractive.  :shrug: To each his own. They seemed happy and, as far as I know, she never crushed him to death.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on December 08, 2018, 02:11:32 am
(https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/WLlx08XGikL2EtK4Py4qmmYAvLE=/950x534/filters:quality(90)/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F292881%2Fnativitiy.jpg)

https://mashable.com/2016/11/21/modern-nativity-hipster-nativity-set/#jhxrYz_OhkqK

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on December 08, 2018, 02:33:29 am
(https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/WLlx08XGikL2EtK4Py4qmmYAvLE=/950x534/filters:quality(90)/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F292881%2Fnativitiy.jpg)

https://mashable.com/2016/11/21/modern-nativity-hipster-nativity-set/#jhxrYz_OhkqK
Rather than ridiculous, I am leaning more towards sad/sick. I realize that I am a lapsed Catholic, however I still have a firm belief in God and am old enough to have been brought up with respect for religion and the beliefs of others. Apparently Millennials have been brought up with neither.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 08, 2018, 06:24:20 pm
Soooo...they are brought down by not being brought up?? :pondering:  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on December 08, 2018, 06:30:57 pm
(https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/WLlx08XGikL2EtK4Py4qmmYAvLE=/950x534/filters:quality(90)/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F292881%2Fnativitiy.jpg)

https://mashable.com/2016/11/21/modern-nativity-hipster-nativity-set/#jhxrYz_OhkqK

Skinny Jeans?  Oh hell no.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on December 10, 2018, 04:44:20 am
(https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/WLlx08XGikL2EtK4Py4qmmYAvLE=/950x534/filters:quality(90)/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F292881%2Fnativitiy.jpg)

https://mashable.com/2016/11/21/modern-nativity-hipster-nativity-set/#jhxrYz_OhkqK
Are there bearing essential oils, crypto-currency, and a Keruig coffee maker? Can't raise the dead without coffee.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Skeptic on December 11, 2018, 02:49:00 pm
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6evFKKruJ0c#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on December 11, 2018, 02:51:33 pm
That is not news.  That is a stupid human trick! 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on December 11, 2018, 02:57:41 pm
So, did he get the bug?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Machiavelli on December 11, 2018, 05:25:39 pm
Donald Trump Invented A Weird New Way To Toss A Coin, And People Can’t Get Over It

Lee Moran
HuffPost
December 11, 2018

Quote
President Donald Trump used a bizarre technique to toss the coin before the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, and people noticed.

Twitter users poked fun at Trump after he launched the coin at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday into the air like this:

Read tweets and watch video clips (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-coin-toss-army-navy-football-game-2018_us_5c0f6c18e4b08bcb27ebdf5c)

Some of the tweets are pretty funny, especially those defending Trump.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on December 13, 2018, 03:37:27 am
Quote
Man trapped for two days in grease vent

A man has been rescued after spending two days trapped in a grease vent at a vacant Chinese restaurant in California, police say.

Emergency crews responded to reports of "a faint voice calling for help" from the building in the San Francisco area.

The man was said to have been exhausted and suffering from dehydration, but he is expected to make a full recovery.

Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/man-trapped-for-two-days-in-grease-vent/ar-BBQSO3m (https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/man-trapped-for-two-days-in-grease-vent/ar-BBQSO3m)

I'm glad they got him out. That would be scary.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 13, 2018, 04:49:32 am
 OMGGGGGGG
I'm glad they got him out. That would be scary.
That wasn't pork..... OMGGGGGGG
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Frank Cannon on December 13, 2018, 05:00:45 am
I'm glad they got him out. That would be scary.

I'll say. The grease in the vent of a San Fran Chinese restaurant isn't going to be beef or pork fat. Meow.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on December 13, 2018, 07:14:54 am
I'll say. The grease in the vent of a San Fran Chinese restaurant isn't going to be beef or pork fat. Meow.

 Do you fancy Chinese food?

              No. You're not supposed to eat that stuff.

              They use cats in the chop suey.

              Don't eat that stuff.
(http://i64.tinypic.com/34q4v7k.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Machiavelli on December 13, 2018, 05:49:14 pm
I'll say. The grease in the vent of a San Fran Chinese restaurant isn't going to be beef or pork fat. Meow.

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmXxrMC5Pv4#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on December 15, 2018, 10:22:41 pm
WSU stocks men's bathrooms with FREE menstrual products

Celine Ryan
California Senior Campus Correspondent @celinedryan
on Dec 14, 2018 at 5:27 PM EDT


•Washington State University has begun stocking men's bathrooms on one of its campuses with free menstrual products.

•The new offering is part of a system-wide effort to be more inclusive of transgender individuals.

In an effort to demonstrate its “commitment to inclusivity,” Washington State University has begun stocking men’s restrooms with free menstrual products.

The initiative is one of many focusing on “improving the transgender community experience on campus,” and is currently being tested in three restrooms on the Pullman, Wash. campus.  The university is in the process of “assessing similar needs” at other WSU campuses to determine which men’s rooms will receive new accommodations. 

Additional changes include allowing students to choose a name other than their legal name for their student identification card and a new policy requiring all new buildings to have gender-neutral single-user restrooms. Some individuals found the practice of requiring a legal name on student identification cards “alienating” for transgender students who use chosen names.

<..snip..>

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11645 (https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11645)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 15, 2018, 10:25:20 pm
WSU stocks men's bathrooms with FREE menstrual products
(https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-so-this-is-what-insanity-is-not-goofy-behavior-but-watching-a-sudden-change-in-the-world-toni-morrison-146-16-25.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 15, 2018, 11:25:32 pm
WSU stocks men's bathrooms with FREE menstrual products

Celine Ryan
California Senior Campus Correspondent @celinedryan
on Dec 14, 2018 at 5:27 PM EDT


•Washington State University has begun stocking men's bathrooms on one of its campuses with free menstrual products.

•The new offering is part of a system-wide effort to be more inclusive of transgender individuals.

In an effort to demonstrate its “commitment to inclusivity,” Washington State University has begun stocking men’s restrooms with free menstrual products.

The initiative is one of many focusing on “improving the transgender community experience on campus,” and is currently being tested in three restrooms on the Pullman, Wash. campus.  The university is in the process of “assessing similar needs” at other WSU campuses to determine which men’s rooms will receive new accommodations. 

Additional changes include allowing students to choose a name other than their legal name for their student identification card and a new policy requiring all new buildings to have gender-neutral single-user restrooms. Some individuals found the practice of requiring a legal name on student identification cards “alienating” for transgender students who use chosen names.

<..snip..>

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11645 (https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11645)

Somebody PLEASE explain to me why any of us should give a damn about some freaks who are MAYBE 1/4 of 1 percent of the population getting offended because we don't kiss their asses?

Call me naive,but I was under the impression we elected representatives to run and defend the nation,not hold hands with the mentally ill.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 24, 2018, 05:08:09 pm
Quote
Police: Traffic stop leads to head-butting, flying underwear
The Associated Press
Posted: Dec. 24, 2018 8:00 am Updated: Dec. 24, 2018 10:31 am

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a suspected drunk driver head-butted a state trooper and his wife threw her shoes and underwear in protest after they were pulled over on Long Island.

New York State Police say Michael and Alexandra Nelson quickly turned belligerent during the 1:30 a.m. Sunday stop on the Southern State Parkway in Hempstead, New York.  ...  Rest of story (https://www.njherald.com/article/20181224/AP/312249936)
Come on, now, who among us has not tossed panties at a cop now and again? Was that wrong?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 24, 2018, 05:12:29 pm
Oh, the humanity!
Quote
Food and beer spill ties up Friday's Route 80 commute
By Jennifer Jean Miller New Jersey Herald
Posted: Dec. 23, 2018 12:01 am

ALLAMUCHY -- An overturned truck on Route 80 westbound in Warren County on Friday evening complicated commuters' rides home, with the left lane of the highway shut down for cleanup efforts for about five hours.

Cases of beer and frozen food spilled from the back of the truck onto the highway  ...
Rest of story (https://www.njherald.com/20181223/food-and-beer-spill-ties-up-fridays-route-80-commute)  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 24, 2018, 05:29:39 pm
Dancing FBI agent who accidentally shot man at Denver bar pleads guilty


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DENVER (AP) — A dancing FBI agent who accidentally shot a man in the leg after doing a backflip at a Denver bar will avoid jail time after pleading guilty Friday to third-degree assault.

Chase Bishop, 30, struck a plea deal with prosecutors and was sentenced to two years of probation, The Denver Post reported . He also must pay more than $1,600 in fines and court costs.

Footage of the June 2 shooting at Mile High Spirits and Distillery shows Bishop dancing in the middle of a circle of people before doing the backflip. The gun falls to the ground mid-flip and discharges as Bishop picks it up. The agent then puts the gun into a waistband holster and walks away with his hands up.

More at:

https://www.ksl.com/article/46453471/dancing-fbi-agent-who-accidentally-shot-man-at-denver-bar-pleads-guilty (https://www.ksl.com/article/46453471/dancing-fbi-agent-who-accidentally-shot-man-at-denver-bar-pleads-guilty)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 24, 2018, 06:29:24 pm
Oh, the humanity!Rest of story (https://www.njherald.com/20181223/food-and-beer-spill-ties-up-fridays-route-80-commute)  :beer:

(http://boozeandchooze.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/homer-simpson-beer-shower.gif)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 24, 2018, 08:23:17 pm
Quote
Scott MacFarlane  Verified account @MacFarlaneNews
FLASHER arrested outside White House. Person stopped by police after lowering pants, facing White House and taking picture with friends
10:51 AM - 24 Dec 2018
Okay, which Briefer is in D.C. today?

Quote
A man was arrested outside the White House early Sunday morning after a police officer saw him pull down his pants while facing the White House to take a photo with friends.

According to police, a group of four people were getting their photo taken by a fifth person outside the White House just before 1:30 a.m. Sunday. One person turned his back to the camera man and pulled down his pants, exposing himself.
- Advertisement -   

An officer witnessed the incident and placed the man under arrest.

The man, whose name was not released, was charged with indecent exposure and later released.  WXXV (https://www.wxxv25.com/2018/12/24/flasher-snapping-pic-with-friends-arrested-outside-white-house/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on December 24, 2018, 08:42:15 pm
So dropping trow and "mooning" is against the law in DC?  With all the assholes in that town the jails would be full.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 24, 2018, 08:47:28 pm
He was facing the White House. Not sure if he was mooning the photographer or making a political statement toward the president.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 24, 2018, 09:26:57 pm
He was facing the White House. Not sure if he was mooning the photographer or making a political statement toward the president.  :shrug:

I'm surprised he wasn't arrested for impersonation...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on December 24, 2018, 09:27:59 pm
Come on, now, who among us has not tossed panties at a cop now and again? Was that wrong?

Somehow, @mountaineer , that has never worked out very well for me.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on December 24, 2018, 11:58:24 pm
Somehow, @mountaineer , that has never worked out very well for me.  :shrug:

Whose panties are you throwing? 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 25, 2018, 12:03:55 am
Whose panties are you throwing?

Is that some kind of offer?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on December 25, 2018, 12:11:03 am
Is that some kind of offer?

 22222frying pan
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on December 25, 2018, 12:49:27 am
Whose panties are you throwing?

Yeah... boxers mostly... Maybe that's the problem....  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: SZonian on December 25, 2018, 05:41:50 pm
Bear Rips Off, Eats Woman’s Arm At Christmas Party

https://www.ibtimes.com/bear-rips-eats-womans-arm-christmas-party-2745753 (https://www.ibtimes.com/bear-rips-eats-womans-arm-christmas-party-2745753)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 25, 2018, 06:06:24 pm
Bear Rips Off, Eats Woman’s Arm At Christmas Party

Bet the bear would have liked to beat her with it first.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 25, 2018, 06:30:47 pm
Who invited the bear to the party anyway? 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 25, 2018, 06:34:20 pm
Who invited the bear to the party anyway?

A party so bad it was unbearable?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 25, 2018, 06:43:12 pm
The good news is she has finally lost the 20 lbs she has been trying to lose for years.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 25, 2018, 07:26:04 pm
A party so bad it was unbearable?
Fred, your humor is simply disarming.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on December 25, 2018, 07:30:07 pm
Who invited the bear to the party anyway?

Lord Buckley or maybe Jimmy Buffett?

Quote
"Mr. Bear, I love every hair on your 27 acre body. I know you got a lotta friends over there on the other side of the hill. There's ole' Rear Bear, Tall Bear, Freddy Bear, Kelly Jair, Relly Bear, Smelly the Bear, Smokey the Bear, Pokey the Bear; I want you to go back over there tonight and tell 'em I'm feelin' right. You tell 'em I love each and every one of 'em like a brother and a sister; but if they give me any trouble tonight, I'm gonna run every Goddamned one of 'em off the hill."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 25, 2018, 08:13:39 pm
Fred, your humor is simply disarming.

The poor thing. Lost it playing poker. Now nothing left but a life of crime. Unless she works at a casino as a...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on December 25, 2018, 09:51:51 pm
Bear Rips Off, Eats Woman’s Arm At Christmas Party

https://www.ibtimes.com/bear-rips-eats-womans-arm-christmas-party-2745753 (https://www.ibtimes.com/bear-rips-eats-womans-arm-christmas-party-2745753)
Teh second part of this sentence goes without saying: The unnamed 53-year-old woman was reportedly an employee at the guesthouse and was spotted heavily drinking at the party, according to reports.
Reminds me of the time several years ago that another drunk jumped into the bear pit in the NYC zoo. They had to shoot the bear. bad choice, there are a whole lot more drunks than bears in NYC.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Skeptic on December 26, 2018, 12:44:05 am
That can't be good.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on December 26, 2018, 01:09:36 am
The bear was likely starving. It saw the arm as food and ate it. I've heard of this before. People buy lions and tigers and bears for pets, and then can't afford to feed them the hundreds of pounds of meat they need per week. When the owners run out of food, they usually become the substitute entre'e, if they are stupid enough to enter the cage.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 26, 2018, 01:30:53 am
The bear was likely starving. It saw the arm as food and ate it. I've heard of this before. People buy lions and tigers and bears for pets, and then can't afford to feed them the hundreds of pounds of meat they need per week. When the owners run out of food, they usually become the substitute entre'e, if they are stupid enough to enter the cage.

It seems more and more, the term "dangerous wild animal", refers to a person.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 27, 2018, 12:23:34 am
Well, here's someone desperate for attention:
Quote
This Portlander Is Getting Married to a Boyfriend Made from Boxed Wine
Mazel tov to the happy couple.
By Rebecca Jacobson 11/20/2018 at 11:00am Published in the December 2018 issue of Portland Monthly

If you can’t be with the one you love, Stephen Stills wrote, love the one you’re with. Or, if you’re Michael James Schneider and the one you love has just shattered your heart, build yourself a whole new swain out of drained boxes of wine. There’s a good chance you’ve already come across Schneider’s project: last February, the Portlander tweeted four photos of himself posing with a somewhat cubist, very DIY sculpture. “i do not have a boyfriend so i made one out of boxes of wine,” he wrote. Within a day, the tweet had gone viral. Stories from Vice, BuzzFeed, the British tabloid Metro, and even an Armenian newspaper followed. ...

Since then, the couple has enjoyed bike rides, breakfast in bed, and summertime sandcastles, all meticulously documented—like any other true romance of our time—on Instagram. And in August, #boxwineboyfriend popped the big question in the scenic surrounds of Southeast Portland’s Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden. Nuptials are slated for Saturday, February 9, at downtown’s Hi-Lo Hotel (located on SW Harvey Milk Street, natch).  ...
(https://res.cloudinary.com/sagacity/image/upload/c_crop,h_1856,w_2412,x_0,y_84/c_limit,dpr_auto,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_80,w_1080/1218-dispatch-box-wine-boyfriend_bshay0.jpg)

Rest of story at Portland Monthly (https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2018/11/20/this-portlander-is-getting-married-to-a-boyfriend-made-from-boxed-wine)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 27, 2018, 03:14:49 am
Well, here's someone desperate for attention:

@mountaineer

Ok,and can someone explain to me WHY this nutcase is allowed to run around free?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 27, 2018, 03:24:55 am
It's nearly impossible to involuntarily commit the mentally ill anymore,  no matter how much they need psychiatric help.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on December 27, 2018, 03:35:50 am
It's nearly impossible to involuntarily commit the mentally ill anymore,  no matter how much they need psychiatric help.
As anyone whose been to Portlandia can attest. Let's all thank the democrats and the ACLU for making our streets safer.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 27, 2018, 03:41:55 am
Because more and more people are losing themselves and in the deceit, they truly believe in their utopia and do NOT understand it is really a dystopia.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Skeptic on December 27, 2018, 04:42:01 am
I already responded to this once but I guess someone erased my post. I said,
"That can't be good."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on December 27, 2018, 01:17:15 pm
Well, here's someone desperate for attention:
The other day my wife and I watched an episode of SWAT. The bisexual female team member was contemplating entering into a polyamorous relationship with a couple that was getting married. The wife asked if this was a "new thing". I reminded her that the media has been trying to define deviancy down for quite a while and that they will do anything to "normalize the most bizarre behaviors. Reminded me of a quote I heard years ago. "You point to any item in the Sears catalog and somewhere in the world, there is someone that either wants to worship it as a god or have sex with it."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 27, 2018, 01:56:35 pm
I reminded her that the media has been trying to define deviancy down for quite a while and that they will do anything to "normalize the most bizarre behaviors. Reminded me of a quote I heard years ago. "You point to any item in the Sears catalog and somewhere in the world, there is someone that either wants to worship it as a god or have sex with it."
Isn't that the sad truth!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 27, 2018, 02:55:58 pm
The other day my wife and I watched an episode of SWAT. The bisexual female team member was contemplating entering into a polyamorous relationship with a couple that was getting married. The wife asked if this was a "new thing". I reminded her that the media has been trying to define deviancy down for quite a while and that they will do anything to "normalize the most bizarre behaviors. Reminded me of a quote I heard years ago. "You point to any item in the Sears catalog and somewhere in the world, there is someone that either wants to worship it as a god or have sex with it."

So Rule 34 was around longer than the Internet?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on December 27, 2018, 05:48:23 pm
So Rule 34 was around longer than the Internet?
@Cyber Liberty actually had to look that one up, thanks for the reminder.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on December 27, 2018, 06:44:33 pm
I only know and live by the Gibbs rules.   
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 06, 2019, 12:55:20 am
Quote
NAACP links earthquake signs in Oregon to white supremacy
Associated Press
4 hrs ago

ORTLAND, Ore. — A new city policy requiring public signs on brick buildings warning they might collapse in an earthquake is part of a long history of white supremacy aimed at forcing black people to move out of neighborhoods, the NAACP of Portland, Oregon, says.

The group on Thursday decried the policy affecting some 1,600 unreinforced masonry buildings that are on average 90 years old, many in areas with a predominantly black population, The Oregonian/OregonLive reports.

The policy "exacerbates a long history of systemic and structural betrayals of trust and policies of displacement, demolition, and dispossession predicated on classism, racism, and white supremacy," the group said.

The NAACP said the policy will make it tougher for owners of brick buildings to get loans and will discourage investment. It says that means buildings will have to be sold, and that developers will demolish and redevelop, increasing the cost to live there and forcing current residents out. ...  More (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/naacp-links-earthquake-signs-in-oregon-to-white-supremacy/ar-BBRQaqC?ocid=spartanntp)
Fine. Let a building fall on your heads, who cares?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 07, 2019, 06:02:27 pm
Man Denies Ownership Of Syringes Found In His Rectum During Jail Strip Search

(http://thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/wesleyscott1.jpg)
 
A Florida Man denied ownership of three syringes removed from his rectum during a 4:30 AM strip search at a county jail, according to a criminal complaint.

Cops arrested Wesley Scott, 40, early Friday on an outstanding warrant charging him with drug possession. While being searched in the field, Scott denied having any illegal items concealed on (or in) his body.

But when Scott, seen at right, arrived at the Pinellas County jail and was subjected to a strip search, he “removed three syringes from his rectum and provided them” to a jailer. Scott then claimed that he “found” the syringes and that "they were not his."

<..snip..>

http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/contraband/syringe-story-stinks-482093 (http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/contraband/syringe-story-stinks-482093)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 07, 2019, 07:16:25 pm
Man Denies Ownership Of Syringes Found In His Rectum During Jail Strip Search

(http://thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/wesleyscott1.jpg)
 
A Florida Man denied ownership of three syringes removed from his rectum during a 4:30 AM strip search at a county jail, according to a criminal complaint.

Cops arrested Wesley Scott, 40, early Friday on an outstanding warrant charging him with drug possession. While being searched in the field, Scott denied having any illegal items concealed on (or in) his body.

But when Scott, seen at right, arrived at the Pinellas County jail and was subjected to a strip search, he “removed three syringes from his rectum and provided them” to a jailer. Scott then claimed that he “found” the syringes and that "they were not his."

<..snip..>

http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/contraband/syringe-story-stinks-482093 (http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/contraband/syringe-story-stinks-482093)

@corbe

Did he name who it is that owns his ass? Is it the company sto? Jesus? His pimp?

Enquiring minds,and all dat.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on January 07, 2019, 07:38:26 pm
Man Denies Ownership Of Syringes Found In His Rectum During Jail Strip Search

(http://thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/wesleyscott1.jpg)
 
A Florida Man denied ownership of three syringes removed from his rectum during a 4:30 AM strip search at a county jail, according to a criminal complaint.

Cops arrested Wesley Scott, 40, early Friday on an outstanding warrant charging him with drug possession. While being searched in the field, Scott denied having any illegal items concealed on (or in) his body.

But when Scott, seen at right, arrived at the Pinellas County jail and was subjected to a strip search, he “removed three syringes from his rectum and provided them” to a jailer. Scott then claimed that he “found” the syringes and that "they were not his."

<..snip..>

http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/contraband/syringe-story-stinks-482093 (http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/contraband/syringe-story-stinks-482093)
Wreck um Damn near killed Um
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on January 07, 2019, 08:01:23 pm
Well, at least he was keeping them sanitary for use.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on January 07, 2019, 11:40:59 pm
Man Denies Ownership Of Syringes Found In His Rectum During Jail Strip Search

(http://thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/wesleyscott1.jpg)
 
A Florida Man denied ownership of three syringes removed from his rectum during a 4:30 AM strip search at a county jail, according to a criminal complaint.

Cops arrested Wesley Scott, 40, early Friday on an outstanding warrant charging him with drug possession. While being searched in the field, Scott denied having any illegal items concealed on (or in) his body.

But when Scott, seen at right, arrived at the Pinellas County jail and was subjected to a strip search, he “removed three syringes from his rectum and provided them” to a jailer. Scott then claimed that he “found” the syringes and that "they were not his."

<..snip..>


http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/contraband/syringe-story-stinks-482093 (http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/contraband/syringe-story-stinks-482093)





I would have paid to hear the conversation about how "it ain't mine".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on January 08, 2019, 02:56:55 pm
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/human-foot-in-boot-washes-ashore-on-everett-island/ (https://www.heraldnet.com/news/human-foot-in-boot-washes-ashore-on-everett-island/)

We know how much you like feet, Frank.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on January 08, 2019, 02:58:54 pm
(https://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Cannibal-Christmas.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 08, 2019, 03:22:36 pm
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/750/931/1e6)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 08, 2019, 03:33:43 pm
Man caught licking doorbell of California home
Chris Pastrick | Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, 9:12 a.m.


Maybe someone triple-dog dared him to do it.

A man was caught licking the doorbell of a house in Salinas, Calif. As if that's not odd enough, police say he did it for three hours.

Of course, there's surveillance footage.  ...
(https://triblive.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=GVkhj41dn2W_JGR6tp2GkM$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYs0F6qHdXk7YSpffEPJCInPWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpeg)

Rest of story (https://triblive.com/usworld/world/14481240-74/man-caught-licking-doorbell-of-california-home)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 08, 2019, 04:34:07 pm
Oh, this happened in Wash. Well, we'll let it sit here a spell and then, move it over probably to ridiculous news.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 08, 2019, 04:40:55 pm
    Begs the question:  Where is the rest of Franks deadbeat tenant at?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 08, 2019, 04:46:35 pm
    Begs the question:  Where is the rest of Franks deadbeat tenant at?

My regular enforcer was on vacation for Christmas and I had to use his dopey brother in law. Otherwise there wouldn't be parts being found on the beach.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Ghost Bear on January 08, 2019, 08:17:48 pm
This sort of thing has been happening literally for years. There's even a Wikipedia entry on the topic. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 08, 2019, 08:52:01 pm
Runner Pepper-Sprays Dog Allegedly Attacking Her, Then Gets Bitten by Its Owner
Police say the human bite caused significant injury.
By Jordan Smith   
Jan 7, 2019

A woman trying to protect herself from an alleged dog attack instead got bitten by a human.

The incident occurred on the Goldenrod Trail at the Anthony Chabot Regional Park in Oakland, California, on Thursday, January 3. The runner attempted to defend herself when a dog reportedly attacked her on the trail by spraying it with pepper spray.

Then, the dog’s owner approached the runner, and “a physical altercation ensued,” according to an alert by the East Bay Regional Park District Police. The dog’s owner bit the runner, a police spokesman told Runner’s World.

The suspect also tackled and punched the runner before biting her in the forearm, according to NBC Bay Area. The runner shot a video on her phone of the suspect as she walked away. ...

Runners' World (https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a25781016/runner-bitten-by-dog-owner/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: RoosGirl on January 08, 2019, 10:59:59 pm
Oh, this happened in Wash. Well, we'll let it sit here a spell and then, move it over probably to ridiculous news.

Human feet washing up on the beach is "ridiculous news" ? 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 08, 2019, 11:03:18 pm
Human feet washing up on the beach is "ridiculous news" ?

It would be "ridiculous" if  a human foot had an ass attached to it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: RoosGirl on January 08, 2019, 11:09:00 pm
It would be "ridiculous" if  a human foot had an ass attached to it.

Definitely!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 08, 2019, 11:16:30 pm
      Frank kept the azz in a COSTCO pickle Jar in his China cabinet to look fondly upon when he slacks in here.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on January 09, 2019, 12:01:43 am
Runner Pepper-Sprays Dog Allegedly Attacking Her, Then Gets Bitten by Its Owner
Police say the human bite caused significant injury.
By Jordan Smith   
Jan 7, 2019

A woman trying to protect herself from an alleged dog attack instead got bitten by a human.

The incident occurred on the Goldenrod Trail at the Anthony Chabot Regional Park in Oakland, California, on Thursday, January 3. The runner attempted to defend herself when a dog reportedly attacked her on the trail by spraying it with pepper spray.

Then, the dog’s owner approached the runner, and “a physical altercation ensued,” according to an alert by the East Bay Regional Park District Police. The dog’s owner bit the runner, a police spokesman told Runner’s World.

The suspect also tackled and punched the runner before biting her in the forearm, according to NBC Bay Area. The runner shot a video on her phone of the suspect as she walked away. ...

Runners' World (https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a25781016/runner-bitten-by-dog-owner/)
Maybe the dog attacked and maybe the runner was just paranoid and attacked the dog and the dogs owner was just sick and tired of paranoid runners threatening or attacking their dog. Still nice twist on man bites dog story.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 09, 2019, 12:03:30 am
Moving to ridiculous news.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 09, 2019, 12:09:30 am
Moving to ridiculous news.
Moving it back.
 888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: RoosGirl on January 09, 2019, 12:39:23 am
Moving it back.
 888high58888

 888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on January 15, 2019, 10:25:50 pm
And the Stupid Burglar Award goes to this guy:

Burglar smashes door of Shadyside jeweler with crowbar, leaves empty-handed
 

Quote
PITTSBURGH —
Pittsburgh police are trying to identify a man who used a crowbar to smash the glass front door of a jewelry store in Shadyside.
Officers responded early Tuesday morning to Henne Jewelers on Walnut Street.

"We leave nothing in the showcases at night, and there was nothing to get, so he ran out within 20 seconds," said John Henne, president of Henne Jewelers.

"It's shocking that this would even happen, because we actually leave the lights on the showcases so you can see there's nothing in here to grab while we're closed."

https://www.wtae.com/article/police-investigating-after-attempted-burglary-in-shadyside-henne-jewelers/25900150 (https://www.wtae.com/article/police-investigating-after-attempted-burglary-in-shadyside-henne-jewelers/25900150)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on January 16, 2019, 02:01:03 am
Smash Mouth proves their lead singer isn't Guy Fieri
http://loudwire.com/smash-mouth-prove-singer-guy-fieri-not-same-person/ (http://loudwire.com/smash-mouth-prove-singer-guy-fieri-not-same-person/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 16, 2019, 10:24:28 pm
Quote
A Transgender Person is the New Leader of a Jewish Sorority in Ohio
By Sarahbeth Caplin
January 12, 2019

In a milestone for both the transgender and Jewish communities, a religious sorority has named a trans woman as their president.

Elliot Draznin, who is nonbinary and uses the pronoun “they,” will lead Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi, or SAEPi, at the University of Cincinnati.

"It was a lot of deciding that I believe in this mission, so even though I don’t identify as a woman, I’m going to stay in this gendered space to keep the idea of a Jewish space for women alive on the University of Cincinnati’s campus,” Draznin told JTA last week.   ... From some site called Friendly Atheist (https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/01/12/a-transgender-person-is-the-new-leader-of-a-jewish-sorority-in-ohio/)
Going by the photo at the above link, I'd say "Elliott" is a rather uncomely female - however the heck she identifies - with a kind of soyboy haircut. "Nonbinary"  is just one of the new meaningless words adopted by the chronically messed up.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 16, 2019, 10:30:02 pm
And the Stupid Burglar Award goes to this guy:

Burglar smashes door of Shadyside jeweler with crowbar, leaves empty-handed
 

https://www.wtae.com/article/police-investigating-after-attempted-burglary-in-shadyside-henne-jewelers/25900150 (https://www.wtae.com/article/police-investigating-after-attempted-burglary-in-shadyside-henne-jewelers/25900150)


@Applewood

This happened in Pittsburg. The guy was just as likely wanting to break something to cost someone else money and grief as he was to try to get money from robbing the joint.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on January 16, 2019, 11:23:01 pm

@Applewood

This happened in Pittsburg. The guy was just as likely wanting to break something to cost someone else money and grief as he was to try to get money from robbing the joint.

Not so sure about that.  I believe the video report at the link shows surveillance video inside the store.  After the robber gets inside, he runs around from display case to display case only to finally realize all of the cases are empty.  The video also shows a sign in the front window to the effect that the store does not leave jewelry in display cases overnight; the merchandise is locked away in a vault.  The store started doing this after a burglary some years ago where a thief drove his vehicle through the front door and took everything in the display cases. 

The cases stay lighted overnight and are visible from the street.  But even if the robber didn't see that, he should have seen the sign in the front window.  As bugs Bunny would say, "what a maroon!" 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on January 18, 2019, 03:07:23 pm
Man jumps from 11th story cruise ship balcony, gets lifetime ban from Royal Caribbean

Quote
Royal Carribean has banned a group of men from ever traveling with the cruise line again after one of them jumped off a ship’s deck and posted a video of the stunt on social media.

Nick Naydev, of Vancouver, Washington, posted the video on Instagram Friday showing him standing on the balcony of the Symphony of the Seas and then jumping off into the waters in the Bahamas where the ship was docked. The video has more than 80,000 views and more than 1,000 comments. One of his friends Konstantin Kryachun recorded the video and posted the full video which shows Naydev splashing into the water and wading.

“I was still drunk from the previous night. When I woke up I just decided to jump,’’ he responded to a user on Instagram. “My feet were actually fine. It was my neck and tailbone that hurt.”

“I could barely walk for 3 days because my ass hurt so bad. The flight home was a nightmare but I’m fine now.”




https://www.sun-sentinel.com/travel/fl-ne-royal-caribbean-passengers-banned-for-life-jumping-ship-20190117-story.html (https://www.sun-sentinel.com/travel/fl-ne-royal-caribbean-passengers-banned-for-life-jumping-ship-20190117-story.html)

(emphasis added)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 18, 2019, 03:51:09 pm
Man jumps from 11th story cruise ship balcony, gets lifetime ban from Royal Caribbean

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/travel/fl-ne-royal-caribbean-passengers-banned-for-life-jumping-ship-20190117-story.html (https://www.sun-sentinel.com/travel/fl-ne-royal-caribbean-passengers-banned-for-life-jumping-ship-20190117-story.html)

(emphasis added)

And here I thought I was pushing my luck with Royal Caribbean by sneaking a bottle of Whiskey on board....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on January 19, 2019, 07:20:11 pm
If that was me, I would have kicked the ass out of whomever was holding the camera.  How can you not get a shot of him hitting the water?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 24, 2019, 04:34:35 pm
This is interesting and enough mainstream, it could have gone into normal stories, it's real strange too:
Quote
Magazine
How a Trump judicial nominee reignited the debate over dwarf tossing


By Scott Nover
January 22

If you've never heard the term "dwarf tossing," you're probably picturing some antiquated practice nestled between gladiator duels and damnatio ad bestias (execution by wild beasts) atop the Colosseum playbill. But it's not from ancient Rome. It's a modern form of pub entertainment in which patrons throw little people — paid performers, generally — onto mattresses or against Velcro walls. Over the years, it has periodically been a source of both controversy and disgust. And now, thanks to Neomi Rao — President Trump's nominee to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — it's in the news once again.

Dwarf tossing is believed to have originated in Australia in the early to mid-1980s and arrived in America soon after. (It makes an appearance as a symbol of financial-sector excess in the 2013 film “The Wolf of Wall Street.”) Florida banned the practice in 1989, and New York followed suit in 1990. “Any activity which dehumanizes and humiliates these people is degrading to us all,” New York Gov. Mario Cuomo said at the time.

In 1991, when the Paris suburb of Morsang-sur-Orge banned dwarf tossing at discotheques, Manuel Wackenheim, a little person, sued because he wanted to continue making a living being tossed. France’s highest administrative court upheld the ban in 1995, stating that dwarf tossing “affronted human dignity.” The United Nations Human Rights Committee upheld the decision in a 2002 ruling on similar grounds. The Wackenheim case has since appeared in legal ethics journals and textbooks. (Wackenheim, now 51, lives in Sarreguemines on the French-German border and earns a living repairing computers. “People did not really understand the show,” he said in an email, referring to his dwarf-tossing days. “There are people who found it a little degrading, but for me this had made it all the more daring.”)
.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-a-trump-judicial-nominee-reignited-the-debate-over-dwarf-tossing/2019/01/22/65fd885a-0d21-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html?utm_term=.115cd02ad8a4 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-a-trump-judicial-nominee-reignited-the-debate-over-dwarf-tossing/2019/01/22/65fd885a-0d21-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html?utm_term=.115cd02ad8a4)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on January 26, 2019, 02:22:30 pm
Not an entirely accurate headline... but hey, English tabloids:

Man's fury as mum tries to split him and girlfriend up - because she's his sister
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mans-fury-mum-try-split-13890113 (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mans-fury-mum-try-split-13890113)

(Disclaimer: they weren't related when they started dating, but then their divorced parents got married and now they're trying to split the young couple up.)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 26, 2019, 03:12:03 pm
And here I thought I was pushing my luck with Royal Caribbean by sneaking a bottle of Whiskey on board....

Sneaking one on board may not be that much of an issue. Jumping from an 11th story height to get some more lands you in hot water.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 26, 2019, 05:27:39 pm
Sneaking one on board may not be that much of an issue. Jumping from an 11th story height to get some more lands you in hot water.

@bigheadfred

Or a cold slab in the morgue if you're not lucky.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 26, 2019, 05:39:12 pm
@bigheadfred

Or a cold slab in the morgue if you're not lucky.

Seems like drunks walk away from crashes that others don't survive.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 26, 2019, 05:39:44 pm
@bigheadfred

Or a cold slab in the morgue if you're not lucky.

That fellow on the cruise ship has to be the luckiest man on Earth.  I've seen people killed doing much shorter jumps, and (according to the story) this supposedly happened at pier, so if the impact didn't kill, it's likely the relatively shallow depth of the water should have when he hit bottom.  Must have had cliff-diving experience.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 26, 2019, 06:27:31 pm
Seems like drunks walk away from crashes that others don't survive.

@bigheadfred

Ain't THAT the truth!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 26, 2019, 06:31:01 pm
@bigheadfred

Ain't THAT the truth!

As someone who worked many years as a medic, I can attest to that being true.  Sadly, the sober ones (frequently children) paid the price while the drunken driver did not. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 26, 2019, 06:31:51 pm
That fellow on the cruise ship has to be the luckiest man on Earth.  I've seen people killed doing much shorter jumps, and (according to the story) this supposedly happened at pier, so if the impact didn't kill, it's likely the relatively shallow depth of the water should have when he hit bottom.  Must have had cliff-diving experience.

@Cyber Liberty

Had a similar occurrence within a mile of me a couple of years ago. Three local "youts" were crossing a body of water on a bridge that went up high enough for ships to sail under it,and got the bright idea to jump off the bridge. The first one did jump,and when he didn't come back up to the surface,the other two ran to get help. These rocket scientists didn't consider how deep the water was,or more correctly,how deep it WASN'T,and when he hit he sank in the mud up to his knees and couldn't get out. He drowned right there.

And come to find out,the guy that jumped thinking he was playing and would be ok wasn't the first one to try it.

You would think local boys would know better,but teens don't always think before they act. Don't ask me how I know this. It's too painful to discuss.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 26, 2019, 06:57:06 pm
@Cyber Liberty

Had a similar occurrence within a mile of me a couple of years ago. Three local "youts" were crossing a body of water on a bridge that went up high enough for ships to sail under it,and got the bright idea to jump off the bridge. The first one did jump,and when he didn't come back up to the surface,the other two ran to get help. These rocket scientists didn't consider how deep the water was,or more correctly,how deep it WASN'T,and when he hit he sank in the mud up to his knees and couldn't get out. He drowned right there.

And come to find out,the guy that jumped thinking he was playing and would be ok wasn't the first one to try it.

You would think local boys would know better,but teens don't always think before they act. Don't ask me how I know this. It's too painful to discuss.

My kids used to bridge jump out at the park where I fish sometimes. When they were in high school. About a 20' jump. Lots of kids did then. They have since banned it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 26, 2019, 10:42:59 pm
As someone who worked many years as a medic, I can attest to that being true.  Sadly, the sober ones (frequently children) paid the price while the drunken driver did not.
Yep. We had a passenger (back in the days of the steel dashboard) go feet first through the windshield, drunk as a lord, only identified while wandering around with the usual looky-loos by the amazing amount of grass in his afro and a few scuff marks. He'd been sober enough to see they were going to hit the tree, and put his feet on the dash to brace himself. They slipped on impact and he went out through the windshield feet first, into the weeds, limber enough to not suffer any serious injury. The driver was pinned, broken leg, facial injuries from the steering wheel, and had to have the car pried from around him.... :shrug: Go figure. He wasn't the first, nor the last, person who was drunk who survived unscathed what seriously injured others more sober.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 27, 2019, 01:29:06 am
Police: Man drives stolen car to jail to bond out girlfriend who was arrested for driving stolen car 

Both suspects behind bars

By Isabel Hughes


(https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/gwinnettdailypost.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/9/90/990e94d8-3c54-5365-a99e-683d697f90a9/5c4b838185418.image.jpg)

Akhria Cooper, left, and Derrick Taylor-Canty

Ride sharing services can be useful for a lot of things — like providing a means of transportation so you don’t have to drive to jail in a stolen car.

Yet that’s exactly what one man did recently when he went to bond out his girlfriend — who had been arrested for driving a different stolen vehicle — from the Gwinnett County Jail, police said.

Duluth residents Derrick Taylor-Canty, 26, and Akhria Cooper, 24, are now both behind bars, having been charged with felony and misdemeanor theft by receiving stolen property, altering serial numbers and several other charges for having four stolen cars in their possession, police said.

<..snip..>

https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/police-man-drives-stolen-car-to-jail-to-bond-out/article_45b70821-ceed-590f-923b-fab36ae37f7f.html (https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/police-man-drives-stolen-car-to-jail-to-bond-out/article_45b70821-ceed-590f-923b-fab36ae37f7f.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on January 27, 2019, 01:48:45 am
Lots of stories like this. I can't remember how many articles I have read about defendants showing up to court drunk while being charged with DUI. And they drove to get there.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 30, 2019, 01:07:09 am
Quote
Good News
Published December 10
Men say ‘Voice of God’ saved them from highway crash that mangled their vehicle

Two men traveling on the Ohio Turnpike say the voice of God helped spare their lives right before a semi totaled their vehicle.

Jordan Cole and Kenneth Bryant were traveling to a pastor’s conference, along with other men, when their MudMan Food Truck, part of a non-profit that sells hamburgers to raise money for Potter’s Field Ministries, broke down and led to their divine encounter.

“We heard a voice,” Cole told FOX 8 Cleveland, “and it was to get out of the truck and I look down and I saw a semi swerving toward us.”

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/us/voice-of-god-saved-men-from-highway-crash-that-mangled-their-vehicle?intcmp=oborg_fai&intcmp=ob_article_footer_text (https://www.foxnews.com/us/voice-of-god-saved-men-from-highway-crash-that-mangled-their-vehicle?intcmp=oborg_fai&intcmp=ob_article_footer_text)

I just saw this at fox news too, with the cold weather some are having:
Quote
Iowa
Published 1 day ago
Iowa teen found dead after running away from home in frigid temps over fight with parents, police say

An Iowa teen who ran away from home in freezing temperatures after arguing with his parents was found dead Sunday morning, police said.

Corey Brown’s body was discovered in a secluded area of Marshalltown, according to a news release from Marshalltown Police Chief Michael Tupper. Police didn’t give the exact location.

“This is still an active investigation, and all possible scenarios will be thoroughly investigated,” Tupper said.

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/us/iowa-teen-found-dead-after-running-away-from-home-in-frigid-temperatures-over-fight-with-parents-police-say (https://www.foxnews.com/us/iowa-teen-found-dead-after-running-away-from-home-in-frigid-temperatures-over-fight-with-parents-police-say)

May the Lord have mercy on his soul, poor boy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 11:17:51 am
I just saw this at fox news too, with the cold weather some are having:
May the Lord have mercy on his soul, poor boy.

@TomSea

Seems like a case of Mother Nature Natural Selection to me. That boy was destined to die early.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on January 30, 2019, 11:38:47 am
I just saw this at fox news too, with the cold weather some are having:
May the Lord have mercy on his soul, poor boy.

Attempting to restore the subject name of the thread.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 11:52:07 am
@TomSea

Seems like a case of Mother Nature Natural Selection to me. That boy was destined to die early.
Cold is to be respected. I knew two people who froze to death, and one more saved by his folks letting the yapper dog out--it woke him up, and he only lost some fingertips. Nothing to mess with.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on January 30, 2019, 05:28:16 pm
Cold is to be respected. I knew two people who froze to death, and one more saved by his folks letting the yapper dog out--it woke him up, and he only lost some fingertips. Nothing to mess with.
Yeah but here in the south at least it is a dry cold /Sarc
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 08:50:10 pm
Yeah but here in the south at least it is a dry cold /Sarc
Dry cold just means you get freezer burn quicker.... :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on January 30, 2019, 11:30:26 pm
Dry cold just means you get freezer burn quicker.... :shrug:
It was a commentary on my uncle telling me that the heat in Arizona was a dry heat, so it was more tolerable.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 31, 2019, 01:14:27 am
Famed opera singer David Daniels, husband arrested for felony sex assault
By Gabrielle Fonrouge
January 30, 2019
Quote
A world-famous opera singer, who is also a University of Michigan professor, was arrested along with his conductor husband on felony sexual assault charges for a nearly decade old incident in Houston, police said Wednesday.

Opera man David Daniels and his husband Scott Walters were arrested separately yesterday around 1:30 p.m. and are currently being held at Washtenaw County Jail, Ann Arbor police confirmed to The Post.

The couple, who were wed by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2014, face extradition to Texas where they’re accused of raping opera singer Samuel Schultz in May 2010 when Schultz was 23 and pursuing his master’s degree, according to the Houston Police Department and a statement on Schultz’s website. ...

Schultz’s allegation isn’t the first time Daniels, a renowned countertenor, has been accused of sexual misconduct.

He’s named in a federal civil lawsuit against former UM student Andrew Lipian on “quid pro quo sexual harassment” allegations, court papers show. Lipian claims he was invited to Daniels’ apartment in March 2017 to watch “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” because Daniels was “lonely,” records show. Lipian alleges Daniels gave him “several drinks of bourbon” and tricked him into taking ambien that Lipian mistook for Tylenol PM, court papers say.

Daniels then removed Lipian’s clothes and “forced himself upon” Lipian and “groped and touched his genitals and face.”  ...  Full story at New York Post (https://nypost.com/2019/01/30/famed-opera-singer-david-daniels-husband-arrested-for-felony-sex-assault/)
(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/190130-opera-felony-arrest.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
The perps (Daniels at right)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 31, 2019, 05:14:48 am
Famed opera singer David Daniels, husband arrested for felony sex assault
By Gabrielle Fonrouge
January 30, 2019(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/190130-opera-felony-arrest.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
The perps (Daniels at right)

@mountaineer

Am I the only one that thinks those look like before and after photos of the same guy taken 20 years apart?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2019, 05:31:34 am
@mountaineer

Am I the only one that thinks those look like before and after photos of the same guy taken 20 years apart?

The facial expressions of attitude are certainly the same....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on January 31, 2019, 02:33:27 pm
@mountaineer

Am I the only one that thinks those look like before and after photos of the same guy taken 20 years apart?

LOL.  No, I thought that too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 31, 2019, 02:55:21 pm
I think the ears and noses are different enough to say it's not the same person. Clearly, the opera singer likes 'em young, though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 31, 2019, 03:12:28 pm
He looks like a gay harvey weinstein. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 02, 2019, 01:50:34 am
Boy, 13, arrested after telling Siri he wanted to shoot up a school
By Natalie O'Neill
February 1, 2019 | 2:30pm | Updated


An Indiana middle schooler was busted for telling Siri he planned to open fire on a school — prompting the digital assistant to suggest possible ones nearby, police said in reports Friday.

The unnamed 13-year-old boy is accused of telling Siri, “I am going to shoot up a school,” the Valparaiso Police Department told the Northwest Indiana Times.

The voice-activated iPhone assistant then responded with recommendations for several schools in the Valparaiso area — an interaction the boy posted in a screenshot on social media, police told the paper. One of the kid’s friends saw the post and quickly called cops, according to police.  ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/02/01/boy-13-arrested-after-telling-siri-he-wanted-to-shoot-up-a-school/)
 :thud:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 02, 2019, 02:05:34 am
Boy, 13, arrested after telling Siri he wanted to shoot up a school
By Natalie O'Neill
February 1, 2019 | 2:30pm | Updated


An Indiana middle schooler was busted for telling Siri he planned to open fire on a school — prompting the digital assistant to suggest possible ones nearby, police said in reports Friday.

The unnamed 13-year-old boy is accused of telling Siri, “I am going to shoot up a school,” the Valparaiso Police Department told the Northwest Indiana Times.

The voice-activated iPhone assistant then responded with recommendations for several schools in the Valparaiso area — an interaction the boy posted in a screenshot on social media, police told the paper. One of the kid’s friends saw the post and quickly called cops, according to police.  ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/02/01/boy-13-arrested-after-telling-siri-he-wanted-to-shoot-up-a-school/)
 :thud:

Digital Assistants can be helpful...sometimes.  I asked Alexa to recommend a Bordello, but she snubbed me, even though Nevada is right across the river.  I guess she never heard of Pahrump?

The system needs work.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 03, 2019, 08:08:01 am

Man Wants to Sue Parents for Giving Birth to Him Without His Consent

OddityCentral
By Spooky
February 1st, 2019

A 27-year-old man from New Delhi, India, wants to take his parents to court for bringing him into this world without first asking for his consent.

Raphael Samuel is an anti-natalist, a person who believes that people should abstain from procreation because giving birth to sentient beings without asking for their consent is morally wrong. Samuel doesn’t have anything against children or life itself, he simply believes that a life form which has not given its consent to live should not be brought into the world and thus to be subject to the hardships of life. Because he considers himself a victim of life without “forced life”, the young Indian plans to take his parents to court.

(more)
https://www.odditycentral.com/news/man-wants-to-sue-parents-for-giving-birth-to-him-without-his-consent.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 03, 2019, 01:42:25 pm
Man catches fire after being tased outside restaurant
By Jon Rogers, The Sun
February 2, 2019 | 9:35pm

This is the shocking moment a man caught fire after he was tased outside a restaurant in Philadelphia.

Witness Pat Tackney, who filmed the incident, said he saw the man being confronted outside of Jim’s Steaks in the south of the US city.

Pat claims the man refused to leave the restaurant and was forcibly removed.

The video shows two men, thought to be security guards from the restaurant, use a stun gun on the unnamed man before his leg catches fire. ...

Sun via NY Post; video at link (https://nypost.com/2019/02/02/man-catches-fire-after-being-tased-outside-restaurant/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on February 04, 2019, 01:30:09 pm
Man catches fire after being tased outside restaurant
By Jon Rogers, The Sun
February 2, 2019 | 9:35pm

This is the shocking moment a man caught fire after he was tased outside a restaurant in Philadelphia.

Witness Pat Tackney, who filmed the incident, said he saw the man being confronted outside of Jim’s Steaks in the south of the US city.

Pat claims the man refused to leave the restaurant and was forcibly removed.

The video shows two men, thought to be security guards from the restaurant, use a stun gun on the unnamed man before his leg catches fire. ...

Sun via NY Post; video at link (https://nypost.com/2019/02/02/man-catches-fire-after-being-tased-outside-restaurant/)

Spilled a shot on his leg before they drug him outside?  Flamed up quick and back out quick.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on February 04, 2019, 03:12:24 pm
Spilled a shot on his leg before they drug him outside?  Flamed up quick and back out quick.
Wow, if this had gone a little more sideways, he could have been listed in the Obit 2019
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 04, 2019, 08:54:33 pm
Spilled a shot on his leg before they drug him outside?  Flamed up quick and back out quick.

@thackney

Is that really possible?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 04, 2019, 08:59:36 pm
Spilled a shot on his leg before they drug him outside?  Flamed up quick and back out quick.

Something... Gasoline would have burned longer... Pretty yellow flame for alcohol...  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2019, 02:59:55 am
Something... Gasoline would have burned longer... Pretty yellow flame for alcohol...  :shrug:
Must be rotgut. Strong rotgut, but rotgut. Should burn blue...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 05, 2019, 03:52:26 am
@thackney

Is that really possible?

Bacardi Rum 151 will catch fire, as will Absinthe. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2019, 05:07:48 am
Bacardi Rum 151 will catch fire, as will Absinthe.
Old grandad had a high proof (150, iirc) and some brandies will burn, too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 05, 2019, 07:59:58 am
Bacardi Rum 151 will catch fire, as will Absinthe.

@Cyber Liberty

I know. So will a lot of whiskey. My question is "Will a taser ignite alcohol on clothing? It seems unlikely to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 05, 2019, 04:02:00 pm
@Cyber Liberty

I know. So will a lot of whiskey. My question is "Will a taser ignite alcohol on clothing? It seems unlikely to me.

I saw it on Mythbusters.  Yup.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 05, 2019, 04:27:44 pm
I saw it on Mythbusters.  Yup.

@Cyber Liberty

Myth Busters is still on? What channel?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 05, 2019, 04:45:58 pm
@Cyber Liberty

Myth Busters is still on? What channel?

They rebooted with kids running experiments (with Jamie watching).  It's not nearly as good as it once was.  I guess Adam and Jamie did not like each other.  I saw the episode about the flaming Tasers several seasons back.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on February 05, 2019, 07:11:08 pm
I saw it on Mythbusters.  Yup.

I think that was pepper spray.

https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/fireball-stun-gun-minimyth (https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/fireball-stun-gun-minimyth)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 05, 2019, 07:35:20 pm
I think that was pepper spray.

https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/fireball-stun-gun-minimyth (https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/fireball-stun-gun-minimyth)

Yes, it was.  I think they used an oil-based spray.  Water-based does not burn.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 05, 2019, 11:21:10 pm
They rebooted with kids running experiments (with Jamie watching).  It's not nearly as good as it once was.  I guess Adam and Jamie did not like each other.  I saw the episode about the flaming Tasers several seasons back.

@Cyber Liberty

Jamie was the fruit with the french hat and stylish stache,right? I don't think he liked anybody but himself.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 06, 2019, 12:00:56 am
@Cyber Liberty

Jamie was the fruit with the french hat and stylish stache,right? I don't think he liked anybody but himself.

I'm talking about the other guy. Must be Adam.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 06, 2019, 04:00:18 pm
Scientology Goes After Planters Icon Mr. Peanut For Critiquing Its Super Bowl Ad
 By Emily Zanotti
February 5, 2019
Quote
Poor Mr. Peanut. This year's Super Bowl left something to be desired and the commercials were no exception. But when the well-known legume decided to become a Twitter critic of the Church of Scientology's creepy 30-second spot on Sunday, he found himself in more trouble than he anticipated.

Planters had its own commercial featuring Alex Rodriguez and Charlie Sheen, but the company's spokes-peanut also appeared on Twitter, and when Scientology aired its ad, Mr. Peanut responded directly.
Quote
    Watching the @Scientology ad like... pic.twitter.com/iCnkfmTS8l
    — Mr. Peanut (@MrPeanut) February 4, 2019
Scientology doesn't take kindly to critics, and social media users were quick to point out in their responses to the tweet that Mr. Peanut better watch his back — and probably his front lawn, as Scientology is known to dispatch private investigators to hunt down dirt on detractors, whom they label as SPs or "suppressive persons" (or, in this case, "suppressive peanut"), in a process known to Scientologists as "Fair Game."  ...

It turns out, it wasn't far off the mark. Within minutes of Planters' tweet, prominent Scientologists, including some heavily involved in the Church's "Stand League," which operates as something of a "digital rapid response" operation, were tweeting that Planters was exhibiting "anti-religious bigotry."  ...
Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/43096/scientology-goes-after-planters-icon-mr-peanut-emily-zanotti)

There's anti-religious bigotry, and then there's anti-oppressive fascistic cult bigotry.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on February 09, 2019, 12:47:26 am
Quote
Robbers in clown masks had machetes, so grandma beat them with a scooter, Texas cops say
By Matthew Martinez    February 07, 2019

The robbers in clown masks had the element of surprise, but the Texas couple they threatened fought back, police say.

Two men wearing clown masks and wielding machetes pulled up alongside a couple sitting in their truck in their driveway in Texas City just before 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 1, according to a police report obtained by KPRC.

Texas City is a town of nearly 50,000 residents that sits along Galveston Bay near the Gulf Coast.

Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article225912220.html#storylink=cpy (https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article225912220.html#storylink=cpy)

The scooter I gather is one of those little scooters you see kids playing on, toy scooter.  If one reads the story, it's pretty ridiculous.   What a couple of goof balls and good for the couple that defended themselves.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 12, 2019, 06:24:14 pm

Man Batters Girlfriend With A Burrito

The Smoking Gun
FEBRUARY 12, 2019

FEBRUARY 12--For the second time in as many weeks, a Florida Man has been arrested for battering a  woman with a burrito, according to court records.

Police charge that Peter Elacqua, 41, got into an argument with his girlfriend Friday in their Port Richey residence.

After Elacqua allegedly shoved the woman into a chair in their bedroom, he “threw his burrito at the Victim,” striking her in the face with the food item.

When a sheriff’s deputy arrived at the home in response to a 911 call, the woman had “the contents of the burrito dispersed across her face, neck, and left chest/shoulder area.”

(more)
http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/another-burrito-battery-803261

Lamest 'domestic abuse' case I've heard of. So I guess all the movies with people getting a pie in the face was really assault and battery? What about all the times a woman throws a drink in a man's face? He lost his temper and let off steam by throwing a burrito.  Imagine all the things he could have done which would have been much worse.

What a weird country America is becoming.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 12, 2019, 06:50:06 pm
Unless the burrito was about 200 degrees and loaded with hot peppers, I'm sure she's okay.  :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on February 12, 2019, 06:57:14 pm
 888mouth
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 12, 2019, 07:39:36 pm
Is that what they are calling it these post Bezos days. A burreto.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 12, 2019, 08:28:55 pm
Is that what they are calling it these post Bezos days. A burreto.

I hope, in the name of all things Holy, we're never treated to "Burrito Pics."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 12, 2019, 08:36:30 pm
I hope, in the name of all things Holy, we're never treated to "Burrito Pics."
Uh oh, what did Carlos Danger call little Carlito?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on February 13, 2019, 12:03:19 am
Man Batters Girlfriend With A Burrito

The Smoking Gun
FEBRUARY 12, 2019

FEBRUARY 12--For the second time in as many weeks, a Florida Man has been arrested for battering a  woman with a burrito, according to court records.


If it was any other state, I think everyone would just assume that it was the same guy getting busted twice.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on February 13, 2019, 02:56:23 am
Some of my students were talking today in class and they said just for fun google "Florida man", They did and about 20 stories came up with that as the first words of the opening sentence, followed by either "detained" or "arrested for" each one was more ridiculous than the one before. There was one story about one Fl resident that engaged in "beasteality" with his neighbors pony.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 14, 2019, 12:29:04 pm
A dead man heads to a runoff election.  :thud:
Quote
Voters keep late Edmond mayor on ballot for general election, select new Norman mayor
By Josh Wallace
Published: Wed, February 13, 2019 1:04 AM


A deceased man is headed to the general election for Edmond mayor after voters on Tuesday gave late Mayor Charles Lamb enough votes for a top-two finish with former Mayor Dan O’Neil.

O’Neil garnered 3,492 votes, or 55.91 percent of the vote with all precincts reporting, while Lamb took 2,038 votes, or 32.63 percent.  ...

O'Neil and Lamb will be on the ballot in the April 2 general election.  ...

O’Neil said he will reach out to the community in the coming weeks to explain how he would govern if elected, saying there would not be much difference between him and Lamb.   Full story (https://newsok.com/article/5622812/voters-keep-late-edmond-mayor-on-ballot-for-general-election-select-new-norman-mayor)
Except for the breathing thingey, of course.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on February 14, 2019, 12:50:26 pm
...O’Neil garnered 3,492 votes, or 55.91 percent of the vote with all precincts reporting...

I thought a majority vote eliminated the need for a run-off.  Dead man should already be the mayor.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on February 14, 2019, 03:17:24 pm
They gave blacks the right to vote, next thing you know blacks are getting elected.

They gave women the right to vote, next thing you know women are getting elected.

Who didn't see this one coming?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 14, 2019, 03:43:01 pm
I thought a majority vote eliminated the need for a run-off.  Dead man should already be the mayor.

It's not a run-off, it's a General Election.  The rules say the top two go to the General.  One is dead, and if he wins the General, the City Counsel will replace him.  If he were disqualified by virtue of being dead, there would still be a General Election in April, but with the dead guy replaced with the third-place finisher.

The dead guy, by the way, did not get the 55%.  He came in second with 33%. :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 14, 2019, 03:51:01 pm
The dead guy, by the way, did not get the 55%.  He came in second with 33%. :shrug:
He served as mayor before his death (presumably before his death, anyway  :laugh:), and the voters didn't want him back in office.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 14, 2019, 04:00:01 pm
He served as mayor before his death (presumably before his death, anyway  :laugh:), and the voters didn't want him back in office.

That's what it looks like to me, too.  I'd give him about zero probability of winning the General, dead or alive.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 14, 2019, 04:06:03 pm
That's what it looks like to me, too.  I'd give him about zero probability of winning the General, dead or alive.
Don't rule out the sympathy vote.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 14, 2019, 07:17:31 pm
They gave blacks the right to vote, next thing you know blacks are getting elected.

They gave women the right to vote, next thing you know women are getting elected.

Who didn't see this one coming?
Beautiful!  :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on February 16, 2019, 08:20:56 pm
"Honey, if you want to get me some flowers this Valentine's Day, could you get me some tulips?"
"What's that, sweetheart? Turnips??? Well, OK, if that's what you want!"

https://www.wivb.com/news/kentucky-man-mistakenly-gets-wife-turnips-instead-of-tulips-for-valentine-s-day/1787996641 (https://www.wivb.com/news/kentucky-man-mistakenly-gets-wife-turnips-instead-of-tulips-for-valentine-s-day/1787996641)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 16, 2019, 11:59:19 pm
I prefer parsnips, but that's just me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on February 17, 2019, 02:22:44 pm
"Honey, if you want to get me some flowers this Valentine's Day, could you get me some tulips?"
"What's that, sweetheart? Turnips??? Well, OK, if that's what you want!"

https://www.wivb.com/news/kentucky-man-mistakenly-gets-wife-turnips-instead-of-tulips-for-valentine-s-day/1787996641 (https://www.wivb.com/news/kentucky-man-mistakenly-gets-wife-turnips-instead-of-tulips-for-valentine-s-day/1787996641)
w
At least she didn't turn up her nose at the gift once they got to the root of the problem.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Machiavelli on February 23, 2019, 11:12:48 pm
Man punches his lawyer in the face after being sentenced to 45 years in prison

Cory Shaffer
cleveland.com
February 20, 2019

Quote
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Warrensville Heights man shocked a courtroom full of spectators Tuesday when he sucker-punched his own defense attorney after a judge sentenced him to 45 years in prison, witnesses told cleveland.com.

Cuyahoga County sheriff’s deputies took down David Chislton after the 42-year-old struck lawyer Aaron Brockler in the face with both of his handcuffed fists, the witnesses said. Chislton spurred an hours-long police standoff in 2017 when he pistol-whipped his girlfriend and set his apartment complex on fire.

Brockler was visibly shaken up but seemed to be in good spirits as deputies and Cleveland EMTs wheeled him out of Common Pleas Court Judge Nancy Margaret Russo’s courtroom on a stretcher.

More (https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2019/02/man-punches-his-lawyer-in-the-face-after-being-sentenced-to-45-years-in-prison.html)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDDEsHa0A5k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDDEsHa0A5k)
? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDDEsHa0A5k#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on February 24, 2019, 12:14:59 am
What a guy!   Pistol whips his girlfriend, sets his apartment complex on fire, then sucker punches his own attorney. 

Think the guy has some anger management issues?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 24, 2019, 12:25:33 am
What a guy!   Pistol whips his girlfriend, sets his apartment complex on fire, then sucker punches his own attorney. 

Think the guy has some anger management issues?
You just described the majority of guys in prison. He'll fit right in.
Likely he would have punched anyone. His attorney just happened to be the closest person to him.
Accepts no responsibility for his own behavior. It's all da man keepin' him down.
He prolly should have been there years ago.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 24, 2019, 01:00:23 am
You just described the majority of guys in prison. He'll fit right in.
Likely he would have punched anyone. His attorney just happened to be the closest person to him.
Accepts no responsibility for his own behavior. It's all da man keepin' him down.
He prolly should have been there years ago.

I'm sure the pistol-whipped GF agrees with you.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 27, 2019, 06:57:09 pm
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man was jailed on felony charges after appearing to dip his testicles into a container of salsa that a customer had ordered online.

The delivery driver allegedly recorded it and posted a video online, saying "This is what you get when you give an 89 cents tip for an almost 30-minute drive."

News outlets report that the passenger, 31-year-old Howard Matthew Webb, was arrested last week and charged with adulteration of food. ...  Rest of story (https://www.wsmv.com/news/us_world_news/man-faces-felony-charge-after-allegedly-dipping-testicles-in-customer/article_60355c0a-6197-5293-a552-edb804afecfa.html)

(https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/wsmv.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/e7/de727ca1-ddd0-5cc8-8878-0fdb16c9783d/5c76bb7c69238.image.png?resize=750%2C422)
The spicy perp.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on February 27, 2019, 07:05:43 pm
@mountaineer

Aw geez!  And I just had "Mexicali Chicken" (made with fresh salsa) for lunch.  I think I'm going to be sick.  LOL
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 27, 2019, 07:08:31 pm
Aw geez!  And I just had "Mexicali Chicken" (made with fresh salsa) for lunch.  I think I'm going to be sick.  LOL
:laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on February 27, 2019, 07:17:58 pm
I guess he's lucky it's Tennessee hot sauce.  Texas salsa would have delivered its own justice.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 27, 2019, 10:29:12 pm
I'm sure the pistol-whipped GF agrees with you.

@Cyber Liberty

Think what you want,but just don't bet any money on it. There is no shortage of women who like to be beaten so they can play the role of victim.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 28, 2019, 12:23:07 am
@Cyber Liberty

Think what you want,but just don't bet any money on it. There is no shortage of women who like to be beaten so they can play the role of victim.

ISIS brides come immediately to mind.  They love being beaten.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on February 28, 2019, 12:28:00 am
ISIS brides come immediately to mind.  They love being beaten.

I don't think so.  Most of them weren't volunteers. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 28, 2019, 01:51:50 am
I don't think so.  Most of them weren't volunteers.

Yeah, that's probably true of the Syrian brides.  Trying to understand the Brits and Americans that immigrated to Syria with the express purpose of marrying into the cultists. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on February 28, 2019, 02:05:27 am
Yeah, that's probably true of the Syrian brides.  Trying to understand the Brits and Americans that immigrated to Syria with the express purpose of marrying into the cultists.

According to this, there were about 550 to 1,000 foreign, Western, voluntary brides.  That leaves the vast number of women abused by ISIS as non-volunteers or from the region.

https://ctc.usma.edu/jihadi-brides-examining-female-guesthouse-registry-islamic-states-caliphate/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on February 28, 2019, 02:45:41 am
Quote
‘Emotional support animal’ mauls 5-year-old girl at Portland airport, $1.1 million lawsuit says

By Aimee Green | The Oregonian/OregonLive

WARNING: This story contains a graphic photo below.

The mother of a 5-year-old girl mauled in the face by a pit bull at Portland International Airport has filed a $1.1 million lawsuit against the Port of Portland for allegedly letting a dangerous “emotional support animal” into the airport without a carrier.

The lawsuit lists two other defendants: the dog’s owner, Michelle Brannan, and Alaska Airlines. The suit claims Brannan should have known that her dog had “vicious propensities.” The suit says the airline is at fault for allegedly allowing Brannan to bring a dangerous dog into the gate waiting area, where the attack happened, when the dog wasn’t a trained service animal and wasn’t properly confined.

Mirna Gonzalez is suing on behalf of her daughter, Gabriella, who was 5 at the time of the attack on Dec. 18, 2017, and has since turned 7....

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/02/emotional-support-animal-mauls-5-year-old-girl-at-portland-airport-11-million-lawsuit-says.html (https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/02/emotional-support-animal-mauls-5-year-old-girl-at-portland-airport-11-million-lawsuit-says.html)


This one might fall into the "more sad than ridiculous" category.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 28, 2019, 07:39:42 am
This one might fall into the "more sad than ridiculous" category.
The Mother may have a hard row to hoe suing the the Port Authority. Since Washington, like California puts some pretty big road blocks in the way of even authorities asking for actual proof. This is what the have to work with after the legislature passed new laws to make it harder for people to falsify their animals as service animals:

If a service animal’s trained purpose is not apparent, a place of public accommodation or a police officer can ask:

Do you need the animal because of a disability?

What work or task has it been trained to perform?

They cannot ask for

a demonstration of the animal’s training

proof that it is a service animal


I understand she is going after the Port Authority because it has deep pockets, but it also has it's hands tied by state law as far as requiring proof that a dog is a legal assistance animal. This is why we have all sorts of untrained and dirty animals being taken into grocery stores and even restaurants by old people that just can't be away from their babies and mentally ill people who think their normal and have to take their freaking dogs every where they go.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 28, 2019, 07:42:17 am
This one might fall into the "more sad than ridiculous" category.
Prayers up for the kid...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 28, 2019, 10:56:40 am


I understand she is going after the Port Authority because it has deep pockets, but it also has it's hands tied by state law as far as requiring proof that a dog is a legal assistance animal. This is why we have all sorts of untrained and dirty animals being taken into grocery stores and even restaurants by old people that just can't be away from their babies and mentally ill people who think their normal and have to take their freaking dogs every where they go.


@GtHawk

I see an elderly couple at the local grocery store fairly often that has some sort of minature bull dog that probably weighs 15-20 lbs in the top shelf of their basket near the handlebar. The dog IS quiet and well-behaved,and is always wrapped up in it's own colorful blanket. Probably the oddest thing is the couple are always staring at people's faces,like they are just waiting to jump on someone for objecting.

I would object if the dog were running around on a lease and relieving himself,humping someone's leg,chewing on boxes,etc,etc,etc,but I still think it is more than a little bit odd they can't shop without taking their freaking dog with them,and the look on their faces when you look at the dog is a little disturbing.  These seem to be people with an emotional problem.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on February 28, 2019, 11:44:01 am
This one might fall into the "more sad than ridiculous" category.
I have fostered all sorts of dogs that have had any number of issues. Most of these fall in the abused or neglected categories. 99.99% of bad behaviors of animals is due to the owners or the person interacting with the animal. So my question is is does the dog have a bite history, or was the kid trying to shove crayons up it's @$$?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on February 28, 2019, 12:29:51 pm
Quote
FBI finds 2,000 ancient human bones in Indiana man’s house
By Tamar Lapin              February 27, 2019

A man who ran an amateur museum out of his Indiana home kept a collection of thousands of stolen Native American bones, officials revealed this week.

Federal investigators probed the trove of 42,000 relics belonging to Don Miller, who died in in 2015, because they suspected many of the items were obtained in violation of antiquities laws.

But what they found was horrifying.

Read more at: https://nypost.com/2019/02/27/fbi-finds-2000-ancient-human-bones-in-indiana-mans-house/

Okay, this is bad. These are artifacts, it's inexcusable, at least, they were not fresh kills it appears but relics. Still, he raided apparently, people's bones, tribal bones, sounds like he violated likely burial grounds.  He also, had a lot of other stuff, like pottery and so on.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on February 28, 2019, 02:19:34 pm
I have fostered all sorts of dogs that have had any number of issues. Most of these fall in the abused or neglected categories. 99.99% of bad behaviors of animals is due to the owners or the person interacting with the animal. So my question is is does the dog have a bite history, or was the kid trying to shove crayons up it's @$$?

I am very familiar with rescue dogs, and I think that much more of their behavior is biologically determined.  But, the owner means a lot, and in particular should create an environment where the dog can do well.  This dog was in an airport, which is not a normal dog environment, and the child did the correct thing and asked to pet him. The owner said she could.  I wouldn't take my big dog into an airport and then allow a child to pet him because I know that he would be massively stressed out by the crowds and the space and the odd smells and noises and general air of chaos.  I don't know that he would do anything bad, but I wouldn't risk it. But then, my dog isn't an "emotional support dog".  He's just a regular old good dog.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 28, 2019, 02:30:35 pm
This particular "emotional support dog" should have been wearing a muzzle.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 28, 2019, 03:39:23 pm
@GtHawk

I see an elderly couple at the local grocery store fairly often that has some sort of minature bull dog that probably weighs 15-20 lbs in the top shelf of their basket near the handlebar. The dog IS quiet and well-behaved,and is always wrapped up in it's own colorful blanket. Probably the oddest thing is the couple are always staring at people's faces,like they are just waiting to jump on someone for objecting.

I would object if the dog were running around on a lease and relieving himself,humping someone's leg,chewing on boxes,etc,etc,etc,but I still think it is more than a little bit odd they can't shop without taking their freaking dog with them,and the look on their faces when you look at the dog is a little disturbing.  These seem to be people with an emotional problem.
@sneakypete
I find it objectionable whether on the floor on a leash and more so when they put their usually grungy dirty dog in a shopping cart that other people with no way of knowing put their food in. Legitimate service animals are wearing vests, or harnesses for the blind, and they are different from the phony vests and certificates they sell to anyone on line.

Maybe that old couple you were describing were looking for someone to dare them because they knew they could tell whoever did to screw off because your state may also make it illegal to ask for proof.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on February 28, 2019, 06:13:12 pm
https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/maryville-man-accused-of-dipping-testicles-in-customers-salsa/1815551455 (https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/maryville-man-accused-of-dipping-testicles-in-customers-salsa/1815551455)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: andy58-in-nh on February 28, 2019, 06:20:46 pm
https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/maryville-man-accused-of-dipping-testicles-in-customers-salsa/1815551455 (https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/maryville-man-accused-of-dipping-testicles-in-customers-salsa/1815551455)
Wouldn't that make it "balsa"?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on February 28, 2019, 06:22:35 pm
Wouldn't that make it "balsa"?

 :silly:

Frank Cannon lives in Pennsylvania right?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on February 28, 2019, 06:29:17 pm
:silly:

Frank Cannon lives in Pennsylvania right?

What happened to Frank Cannon?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on February 28, 2019, 06:34:00 pm
What happened to Frank Cannon?

He was an ambassador.  Maybe Trump fired him.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on February 28, 2019, 06:35:07 pm
What happened to Frank Cannon?

Food poisoning?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 28, 2019, 08:45:04 pm
Okay, this is bad. These are artifacts, it's inexcusable, at least, they were not fresh kills it appears but relics. Still, he raided apparently, people's bones, tribal bones, sounds like he violated likely burial grounds.  He also, had a lot of other stuff, like pottery and so on.

Quote
“About 2,000 human bones,” Tim Carpenter, who heads the FBI’s art crime unit, told CBS News on Tuesday.

“To the best of our knowledge right now, those 2,000 bones represent about 500 human beings.”


It depends on which bones they are, but the ordinary human has 208 bones.  It would require a collection of the same 4 bones from each burial to get to 500 humans, something which is archaeologically unlikely.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on February 28, 2019, 09:17:11 pm
I guess he's lucky it's Tennessee hot sauce.  Texas salsa would have delivered its own justice.



And that is the honest to gosh truth!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 28, 2019, 10:54:04 pm

It depends on which bones they are, but the ordinary human has 208 bones.

Unless you get hit by a train. Then there's more.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 01, 2019, 12:14:06 pm
Bizarre final words, fight in death chamber at inmate’s execution
By Associated Press
March 1, 2019 | 1:19am
Quote
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate was executed Thursday evening for the killings nearly 30 years ago of his estranged wife’s parents and her brother, who was a police officer. ...

Asked to make a final statement, Coble replied: “That’ll be $5.”

He told the five witnesses he selected to be in attendance that he loved them, then again said: “That’ll be $5.” Coble nodded to the witnesses and added, “take care.”

He gasped several times and began snoring.

As Coble was finishing his statement, his son, a friend and a daughter-in-law became emotional and violent. They were yelling obscenities, throwing fists and kicking at others in the death chamber witness area.

Officers stepped in and the witnesses continued to resist. They were eventually moved to a courtyard and the two men were handcuffed.

“Why are you doing this?” the woman asked. “They just killed his daddy.” ...
Full story (https://nypost.com/2019/03/01/bizarre-final-words-fight-in-death-chamber-at-inmates-execution/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 01, 2019, 12:40:38 pm
Good riddance to bad trash,and looooong overdue.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 01, 2019, 01:49:00 pm
(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/242/001/ded.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on March 01, 2019, 05:34:53 pm
Top-ranked bridge player suspended for doping
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/top-ranked-bridge-player-suspended-for-doping-on-synthetic-testosterone-female-fertility-drug (https://www.foxnews.com/sports/top-ranked-bridge-player-suspended-for-doping-on-synthetic-testosterone-female-fertility-drug)

The World Bridge Federation is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and, as such, abides by World Anti-Doping Agency rules.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 01, 2019, 05:38:05 pm
Top-ranked bridge player suspended for doping
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/top-ranked-bridge-player-suspended-for-doping-on-synthetic-testosterone-female-fertility-drug (https://www.foxnews.com/sports/top-ranked-bridge-player-suspended-for-doping-on-synthetic-testosterone-female-fertility-drug)

The World Bridge Federation is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and, as such, abides by World Anti-Doping Agency rules.

Quote
Kari-Anne Opsal, president of the Norwegian Bridge Federation, said in a statement on their website that the drugs were “not performance enhancing.”

Huh?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on March 01, 2019, 05:42:27 pm
Huh?

Roid raged Bridge player gives new meaning to the term "Slam"

(the other bridge players will get it)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 01, 2019, 07:15:28 pm
Huh?

@Sanguine

Fertility drugs enhance a DIFFERENT kind of performance. I dunno. Maybe somebody somewhere calls it "bridge",but it makes no sense to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on March 01, 2019, 08:47:35 pm
Town seizes debt-ridden family's pug, Edda, and sells her on eBay

by Vaishnavee Sharma

March 01, 2019 03:40 PM

 
Officials in a German town sold a pet dog named Edda on eBay after the family that owned it could not pay back their debts.

City workers from the town of Ahlen seized the local family’s belongings that included a laptop, a coffee machine, a wheelchair, and the one-year-old purebred pug, according to the Washington Post.

They listed the beloved family pet for sale online for roughly $850, drawing intense criticism on social media for their actions. Town officials defended their actions, claiming they were unable to find anything else of value to sell after Edda’s family had failed to pay off their debts to the town, including a dog tax.

<..snip..>

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/town-seizes-debt-ridden-familys-pug-edda-and-sells-her-on-ebay (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/town-seizes-debt-ridden-familys-pug-edda-and-sells-her-on-ebay)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 01, 2019, 09:12:38 pm
The 'ridiculous' part of this story is that the State seized somebody's wheelchair to sell for debt and all the press cares about is a dog.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 01, 2019, 09:40:08 pm
The 'ridiculous' part of this story is that the State seized somebody's wheelchair to sell for debt and all the press cares about is a dog.
What he said.  888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 06, 2019, 02:57:14 pm
Quote
Vegans accused of killing piglets by accident after storming farm to cuddle them

(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2019/03/06/Vegan-protest-inside-Lincoln-farm_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqR9RRdoohtJOHZ1h3_dBTtOrccsz_e-dAyLYPmt7i40Q.jpg?imwidth=1400)

A farmer has accused vegans of crushing two piglets to death after causing a stampede during their efforts to cuddle the newborn pigs.

200 vegans from the group "Meat the Victims" stormed a farm in Lincolnshire in order to protest against pork.

However, in their efforts to raise awareness about the "cruelty" of pig farming, they were accused of causing distress to the animals and inadvertently causing the death of two....

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/06/vegans-accused-killing-piglets-accident-storming-farm-cuddle/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/06/vegans-accused-killing-piglets-accident-storming-farm-cuddle/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 06, 2019, 03:21:19 pm
Poor little piggies.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 06, 2019, 03:56:02 pm
Why don't they just stay home and hug their turnips or something?

Imagine being a little piglet and facing the horror of a stampede of Vegans... **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 06, 2019, 03:58:37 pm
I guess they just love piggies to death....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 07, 2019, 06:55:24 am
The 'ridiculous' part of this story is that the State seized somebody's wheelchair to sell for debt and all the press cares about is a dog.

@240B

I think they are focusing on the dog to draw attention to how outrageous this whole business is to start with.

Seizing and selling someone's wheelchair is not only stupid,it's counterproductive since now the state  is going to have to cough up the money to buy the owner a new one.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on March 07, 2019, 05:53:32 pm
http://wtae.com/article/police-man-assaulted-over-christmas-music-on-route-28-in-east-deer-township/26745135?src=app (http://wtae.com/article/police-man-assaulted-over-christmas-music-on-route-28-in-east-deer-township/26745135?src=app)


Police: Man assaulted over Christmas songs on Route 28 in East Deer Township


Quote
EAST DEER TOWNSHIP, Pa. —
A man is facing several charges after assaulting another man over Christmas music during a drive on Route 28 on Monday, police said.

State police say Clayton Lucas, 25, assaulted the man because the victim was singing Christmas songs while transporting Lucas from a halfway house to a treatment class.

Investigators said Lucas became enraged that the victim was playing the music and began to strike and choke the victim, causing him to almost lose consciousness.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 07, 2019, 06:16:16 pm
http://wtae.com/article/police-man-assaulted-over-christmas-music-on-route-28-in-east-deer-township/26745135?src=app (http://wtae.com/article/police-man-assaulted-over-christmas-music-on-route-28-in-east-deer-township/26745135?src=app)


Police: Man assaulted over Christmas songs on Route 28 in East Deer Township


One can only take so many verses of Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on March 07, 2019, 06:45:46 pm
One can only take so many verses of Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer.

In the same vein.....

(https://reverb-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/v1400774607/AnimalHouse_rse76f.gif)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on March 07, 2019, 08:20:24 pm
http://wtae.com/article/police-man-assaulted-over-christmas-music-on-route-28-in-east-deer-township/26745135?src=app (http://wtae.com/article/police-man-assaulted-over-christmas-music-on-route-28-in-east-deer-township/26745135?src=app)


Police: Man assaulted over Christmas songs on Route 28 in East Deer Township

Maybe I could understand if it was July... but March, come on.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on March 07, 2019, 08:27:38 pm
One can only take so many verses of Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer.

Says the guy was on his way to a treatment class.  The twelve steps to Christmas might not have been the song he wanted to hear.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Rivergirl on March 09, 2019, 04:47:11 pm
Unless things have really changed, upscale prep school kids wear ties and suit coats as a matter of course. Less would be underdressed for school.
Most likely the reporter was unaware of the dress codes at private schools.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 12, 2019, 10:50:30 pm
Quote
Black trans woman charged with hate crimes after NYC pepper spray attacks
In at least two of the alleged assaults, the suspect is accused of targeting the victims because they are white.
March 12, 2019, 5:02 PM EDT
By Brooke Sopelsa
Full story at NBC News (https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/black-trans-woman-charged-hate-crimes-after-nyc-pepper-spray-n982391)

A black transgender woman has been charged with multiple hate crime felonies and misdemeanors following a series of pepper spray attacks in New York City.

Tasha Heard was arrested Saturday evening in connection with at least two separate attacks, though police were reportedly questioning her about several other similar incidents.

Tasha Heard was charged with multiple hate-crime felonies and misdemeanors after attacking people with pepper spray in New York.New York Police Department

In one alleged incident, Heard is accused of approaching a white couple in their 50s on Friday afternoon while they shopped in the Bronx. She reportedly told the couple she hated white people before assaulting them.

"They were approached by the defendant who kicked both victims and sprayed a substance in their face," an NYPD spokesperson stated in an email. ...

Court documents did not list an attorney for Heard, who is referred to in official documents and police reports by her legal first name, Thomas.  ...
:pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on March 13, 2019, 12:55:30 am
:pondering:

"Trans woman" is another way of saying "man in women's clothing".  I cannot, in good conscience, call him a woman, trans or otherwise.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on March 13, 2019, 12:57:28 am
"Trans woman" is another way of saying "man in women's clothing".  I cannot, in good conscience, call him a woman, trans or otherwise.

I cannot and will not.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 13, 2019, 01:48:06 am
I cannot and will not.

@Bigun @Sanguine   Dittos!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on March 13, 2019, 11:48:41 am
:pondering:
Reminds me of a meme I saw years ago. One side had Bo Derek with the corn rows in her hair and the other had Stevie Wonder with the corn rows in his hair. the Caption read: Before and after of the first sex and race change operation.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on March 18, 2019, 09:37:27 pm
Runaway Cow Leads Police On A Chase To Nearby Chick-Fil-A


A runaway cow in Noblesville, Indiana led police on a crazy chase through the streets until authorities stopped the animal outside of a local Chick-Fil-A. The police department shared photos on Facebook of their “run with the bulls” and asked residents to share any photos or videos they may have taken of the "wild bovine."

https://whoradio.iheart.com/content/2019-03-18-runaway-cow-leads-police-on-a-chase-to-nearby-chick-fil-a/

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on March 18, 2019, 10:22:20 pm
(https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/chik-fil-a_cow-eat-mor-chikin.jpg)

C'mon. You know I had to...  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on March 20, 2019, 01:39:08 am
(https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/chik-fil-a_cow-eat-mor-chikin.jpg)

C'mon. You know I had to...  :shrug:
Bull-oney!  wink777
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on March 26, 2019, 11:22:24 am
San Diego woman wins child support from ex-husband nearly 50 years after divorce

Anderson admits she rents her part of the house. And now that she's retired, money is tight. Then it dawned on her. "I realized in the middle of the night one night last year, 'Hey, there's no statute of limitations on child support.'"

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/carlsbad-woman-wins-child-support-from-ex-husband-nearly-50-years-after-divorce (https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/carlsbad-woman-wins-child-support-from-ex-husband-nearly-50-years-after-divorce)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 26, 2019, 12:15:21 pm
I don't know if this qualifies as "ridiculous," but it certainly is different. An obit for someone who overdosed:
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Simon Joseph McAteer, formerly of Wheeling and recently a resident in Pennsylvania, died Saturday night, March 24, in the Shadyside area of Pittsburgh. The cause was an overdose of drugs and alcohol.

Simon was born in Washington, DC, on April 12, 1986. His first decade of life was spent living and traveling in Africa and Italy with his parents, who were part of the U.S. Diplomatic Corps. It is possible that the sense of relative freedom and affluence he enjoyed in these years contributed to Simon’s somewhat casual regard for the law in later times.

Simon graduated from Wheeling Central Catholic in 2004, and briefly attended Community Colleges in the region. He is survived by his parents, John Egan McAteer and Angela Dagnolo McAteer, as well as his brother Marius Peter McAteer, all residents of Wheeling.

From his youth on, Simon struggled to find an acceptable way to employ and develop his high intelligence and great health. He made many poor decisions, for which he frequently paid a heavy price. He was one of very few individuals to be officially expelled from both the Boy Scouts of America and the U.S. Army. But Simon never complained about his punishments, choosing to conform and adapt where necessary. He was always ready for hard work, whether it meant delivering newspapers, cleaning toilets or vigorous yard work.

He was successful in finding employment in landscaping in Pittsburgh and at the time of his death, had completed a promising apprenticeship in painting/interior decorating in Wheeling. Of more importance, Simon used that time in Wheeling to restore and strengthen his family relationships. Uninvoked and unacknowledged, God’s grace was clearly at work in Simon’s last days. ...
link (http://www.theintelligencer.net/obituaries/2019/03/simon-mcateer/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 26, 2019, 06:41:31 pm
A few weeks old, but still entertaining:
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Police Arrest Transgender Woman In Bronx Pepper Spray Attack, Links To More Hate Crimes Being Investigated
March 9, 2019 at 11:59 pm

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police on Saturday arrested a transgender woman they say attacked a white couple in the Bronx and may be behind a series of attacks in upper Manhattan as well.

Investigators say the transgender suspect, who is black, confronted a couple on E. 187th Street near Crotona Avenue in the Bronx. The attacker allegedly approached the couple and asked the woman if she was white before pepper spraying her.  ...

The man says he tried to approach the suspect but backed off when she pulled a knife. Moments later, they helped lead police to 37-year-old Thomas Herd, who was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she is set to undergo a mental evaluation before facing charges.  ...
CBS New York (https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/03/09/manhattan-harlem-pepper-spray-attack/)
A girl named Thomas? Is that like a boy named Sue?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 26, 2019, 07:01:33 pm
Well, I have enough inner city experience to know that if some strange person approaches you with a question, there are only a few options. Either ignore them and keep walking, which is what I do most of the time and it works, or put my hand on my knife, back away, and get ready for a fight. My knife is offensive, but just holding it in my fist when I punch can break a jaw.

If anybody talks to you on the street in the city, it is only because they either want something from you or they are crazy. I would have punched their lights out at the question, and then quickly left the scene. Duck in somewhere quick and change my appearance in any way I can. Then continue on home.

You can tell, you get that sense, when someone is approaching you to engage you in something. When I get that sense, I immediately go into fight mode. I'm ready before they get anywhere close to me. If I ignore them and they press the issue, then it is not my fault.

I don't speak to anybody that I do not know on the street. And I certainly do not allow anyone to speak to me. That's just how I roll.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 26, 2019, 07:03:34 pm
A few weeks old, but still entertaining:CBS New York (https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/03/09/manhattan-harlem-pepper-spray-attack/)
A girl named Thomas? Is that like a boy named Sue?

Apparently "Thomas" was still on his Driver License?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on March 27, 2019, 12:29:53 pm
A few weeks old, but still entertaining:CBS New York (https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/03/09/manhattan-harlem-pepper-spray-attack/)
A girl named Thomas? Is that like a boy named Sue?

I wonder if the 'mental evaluation' will include the problem of being a boy who thinks he's a girl?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 31, 2019, 01:03:52 pm
There just ain't no justice, mate.
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Man loses lawsuit claiming boss bullied him by farting
By Associated Press
March 29, 2019

MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian appeals court on Friday dismissed a bullying case brought by an engineer who accused his former supervisor of repeatedly breaking wind toward him.

The Victoria state Court of Appeal upheld a Supreme Court judge’s ruling that even if engineer David Hingst’s allegations were true, flatulence did not necessarily constitute bullying.  ...

The 56-year-old is seeking 1.8 million Australian dollars ($1.3 million) damages from his former Melbourne employer, Construction Engineering.

Hingst testified that he had moved out of a communal office space to avoid supervisor Greg Short’s flatulence.  ...
Full story (https://nypost.com/2019/03/29/man-loses-lawsuit-claiming-boss-bullied-him-by-farting/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 31, 2019, 01:51:05 pm
Well, I have enough inner city experience to know that if some strange person approaches you with a question, there are only a few options. Either ignore them and keep walking, which is what I do most of the time and it works, or put my hand on my knife, back away, and get ready for a fight. My knife is offensive, but just holding it in my fist when I punch can break a jaw.

If anybody talks to you on the street in the city, it is only because they either want something from you or they are crazy. I would have punched their lights out at the question, and then quickly left the scene. Duck in somewhere quick and change my appearance in any way I can. Then continue on home.

You can tell, you get that sense, when someone is approaching you to engage you in something. When I get that sense, I immediately go into fight mode. I'm ready before they get anywhere close to me. If I ignore them and they press the issue, then it is not my fault.

I don't speak to anybody that I do not know on the street. And I certainly do not allow anyone to speak to me. That's just how I roll.

@240B

Having lived "in the wild of the city" myself on a few occasions,my only disagreement with you is MY belief is if the SOB gets close enough to touch you,the time for threats or warnings has passed. Punch their freaking lights out immediately before saying a word,and if they are still moving when they hit the ground,kick them in the head a few times before leaving to make sure they can't get up and pull their knife or gun and go after you.

To be honest,the best defense is to walk around looking aggressive and fearless. These people are losers looking for victims,not brave people looking to become victims. If they think there is even the tiniest chance of their prey fighting back,they will look for a harmless target instead. I was once surrounded by 4 or 5 Mexican gangbangers in Denver after slapping the snot out of one of them in a restaurant for being rude and verbally threatening to a new 18 year old waitress. I ate there every night,knew the girl was new,and when she started crying,it was more than I could deal with,so I just slapped the snot out of him and told him I was going to beat him to death if he didn't apologize and leave her a 10 dollar tip before leaving. He did,and I managed to calm her down to the point she didn't just walk off her first job.

My mistake was being a regular customer there,and having my Harley parked right outside by the window where I could keep an eye on it. Because it was a regular joint for me,I hung around,drank some coffee,and talked with the regulars before I left. The end result was he was back with several punk friends,waiting for me when I walked to my bike. HIS mistake was thinking 4 or 5 punks was a threat to me instead of an amusement. I just backed against the brick wall of the building,put my hand in my coat pocket,and told them " I have a gun in my coat pocket and will shoot anybody that comes after me. I will beat any survivors to death with the gun butt. Bleep with me and find out.",and then I smiled at them and told them to take their time making a decisions because I was in no real hurry.  At NO TIME did I take the gun (a Charter Arms Bulldog 44 Special with Valment exploding bullets) out of my pocket or describe it to them so they could call the cops on me and say I pulled it on them.

They shuffled their feet around for a few minutes,and decided they heard their mamas calling,and hauled ass. I guess they COULD have tried to ambush me there the next night,but I didn't think they had the stones,and honestly didn't care if they did. I happened to be more than a little aggressive at the time,and was bored.

It has been MY experience that street punks only attack people they see as defenseless victims. They NEVER go after anybody they think will fight back unless it's a drive-by at 40 mph where one or more of them practices "spray and pray" shooting. On the other hand,I hit what I shoot at,and have been shot at more than once.

I just had a thought. This was in Denver,and there were/are several hard-core Outlaw MC clubs in Denver. Given I was riding a chopped bike,had hair half-way down my back,and a beard several inches long,part of their caution could have been due to fear I was a member of a outlaw biker club. If there is anybody street punks are afraid of,it is outlaw bikers because they KNOW those people WILL come after them if they try to ratpack any of their brothers. I had several friends in different clubs,but was not and have never been a member of a biker club in my life. I was always a lone rider because I liked coming and going according to my own schedule.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 31, 2019, 01:58:27 pm
Serious question to ponder.

"WHAT differs ridiculous news of the day" from regular news of the day these days?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 31, 2019, 06:16:18 pm
Serious question to ponder.

"WHAT differs ridiculous news of the day" from regular news of the day these days?
There are plenty of times I go to post an article and have to ponder whether the proper category is "ridiculous" or "politics. "
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 01, 2019, 11:56:28 pm
Argentina soccer fan digs up grandfather's skull to celebrate championship in streets of Buenos Aires

Thanks to this die-hard Racing Club fan, we might have witnessed the weirdest championship celebration

by  Roger Gonzalez   

2 hrs ago • 1 min read


In Buenos Aires, Argentina, fans of soccer teams have many spots to celebrate important victories, especially winning trophies. But they often venture to the city center to El Obelisco, similar to the Washington Monument, just much smaller. There you will see flags, hear singing and see a celebration that is like nothing else.

And that's where Racing fan Gabriel was on Sunday night ... with a special guest. You see, Gabriel seems to do things a bit differently. After his team clinched the Superliga title on Sunday with a 1-1 draw with Tigre, he was seen holding something quite peculiar. Speaking to TNT Sports Latin America, Gabriel said he dug up his dead grandfather's skull to celebrate the title. Below you'll see him conducting an interview while holding the skull:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3E1lOGW0AEx7Di.jpg)

https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/argentina-soccer-fan-digs-up-grandfathers-skull-to-celebrate-championship-in-streets-of-buenos-aires/ (https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/argentina-soccer-fan-digs-up-grandfathers-skull-to-celebrate-championship-in-streets-of-buenos-aires/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 02, 2019, 01:32:15 am
Argentina soccer fan digs up grandfather's skull to celebrate championship in streets of Buenos Aires

https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/argentina-soccer-fan-digs-up-grandfathers-skull-to-celebrate-championship-in-streets-of-buenos-aires/ (https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/argentina-soccer-fan-digs-up-grandfathers-skull-to-celebrate-championship-in-streets-of-buenos-aires/)

What, should he be drinking wine from it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 03, 2019, 01:48:30 am
I'm trying to figure this one out, but am pretty sure it's ridiculous. Two long-retired staples of St. Louis TV news saw each other (the female was a guest on the male's radio show) and he had the audacity to tell her she "looked great." Someone at the radio station thought that was a horribly sexist thing for a 80-year-old man to say to a female friend, age 75. The radio station made such a stink, he resigned, even though the woman didn't have the slightest problem with the greeting.
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KWMU host says he quit because bosses asked him about remark to Karen Foss
    By Jeremy Kohler
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Apr 1, 2019

ST. LOUIS • Don Marsh, who quit his job on Wednesday as a longtime host at St. Louis Public Radio, said Sunday he did so after managers asked him about a remark he had made to a guest a day earlier that a colleague had felt was sexist.

The station’s general manager, Tim Eby, said on Sunday that the remark was not the purpose of the meeting between managers and Marsh. He would not specify the meeting’s purpose. Although the colleague’s complaint came up in the meeting, Eby said it was “not something that management was concerned about.”

Marsh’s guest on Tuesday’s edition of “St. Louis on the Air” was Karen Foss, who retired in 2006 as anchor for KSDK-TV (Channel 5). Marsh said in an interview with the Post-Dispatch on Sunday that when he greeted Foss before the 21-minute interview, “I told her she looked great.”

Foss, 75, wrote on Facebook on Saturday that she accepted the greeting from Marsh, 80, as a “common way for those of us who are aged to greet each other.”

“As a woman who has long argued for the equitable treatment of women, I am highly alert to sexism and discrimination and I sensed absolutely none of that in his greeting.”  ...

He said that the comments after Foss’ post showed that many people feel a culture of over-sensitivity was “out of control.”

He said, “This is very much a generational thing. Look at what’s going on with Joe Biden right now.”
Full story at Post-Dispatch (https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/kwmu-host-says-he-quit-because-bosses-asked-him-about/article_669b6c11-012a-5a1c-9402-01c1d5c14dfb.html).

Uh, Don, Joe Biden didn't just tell women they looked nice. He pawed them, stuck his nose into their hair like he was a pig searching for truffles.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 04, 2019, 03:44:21 pm
Male tourists in Poland may face arrest for wearing mankinis
By Associated Press via New York Post (https://nypost.com/2019/04/04/male-tourists-in-poland-may-face-arrest-for-wearing-mankinis/)
April 4, 2019 | 11:02am
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POLAND — Police in southern Poland say they are investigating four English-speaking tourists spotted last week in the historic city of Krakow wearing only mankinis.

The four men were caught on CCTV and by an Associated Press photographer Friday as they walked in the picturesque Renaissance Market Square and got into a horse cab. They were wearing lime green mankinis, as worn by Borat, the fictional Kazakh alter ego of comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen.

Krakow province police spokesman Sebastian Glen said Thursday police are investigating the “indecent antics.” If convicted, the men could face up to 30 days in custody or fines of $1,300 each. ...
(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/mankini1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 04, 2019, 03:47:06 pm
Couple dies trying to protect classic car in a giant plastic bag
By Yaron Steinbuch
April 2, 2019 | 11:22am | Updated
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A classic car-collecting British couple died from carbon monoxide poisoning when they backed their Mercedes-Benz into a giant plastic bag, an inquest found.

William Reid, 67, of High Seaton, Workington, bought the 1980s Mercedes 230 in the US and once it arrived across the pond, decided to store the luxury ride in the bag to protect it from the elements during the winter in late 2017, according to the Telegraph.

The retired truck driver reversed the car into the bag in his garage with the help of his partner, Kathryn Workman, 70, but the vehicle began filling with exhaust fumes.

Workman managed to crawl out of the bag and called emergency services, who initially told her to stay clear of the area before an operator advised her to try to help the stricken man.

She tried to wake Reid before being overcome by the fumes herself, according to the inquest. ...
Full story (https://nypost.com/2019/04/02/couple-dies-trying-to-protect-classic-car-in-a-giant-plastic-bag/)
(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/monoxide-poison-2-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on April 04, 2019, 03:48:04 pm
Male tourists in Poland may face arrest for wearing mankinis
By Associated Press via New York Post (https://nypost.com/2019/04/04/male-tourists-in-poland-may-face-arrest-for-wearing-mankinis/)
April 4, 2019 | 11:02am
Quote
POLAND — Police in southern Poland say they are investigating four English-speaking tourists spotted last week in the historic city of Krakow wearing only mankinis.

The four men were caught on CCTV and by an Associated Press photographer Friday as they walked in the picturesque Renaissance Market Square and got into a horse cab. They were wearing lime green mankinis, as worn by Borat, the fictional Kazakh alter ego of comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen.

Krakow province police spokesman Sebastian Glen said Thursday police are investigating the “indecent antics.” If convicted, the men could face up to 30 days in custody or fines of $1,300 each. ...
(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/mankini1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)

Not much sunshine where they come from.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on April 06, 2019, 08:54:46 pm
The return of Florida Man!
Florida man arrested for burglary minutes after leaving jail

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The St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office says 37-year-old Casey Lewis bonded out of jail Thursday, only to be caught by deputies burglarizing several cars outside the jail.

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-man-arrested-burglary-minutes-leaving-jail-190113650.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on April 06, 2019, 09:00:54 pm
Couple dies trying to protect classic car in a giant plastic bag
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Charles_Darwin_seated_crop.jpg/182px-Charles_Darwin_seated_crop.jpg)
Give that man a Darwin Award. (His wife, alas, was postmenopausal and thus does not qualify.)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on April 07, 2019, 01:03:10 am
The return of Florida Man!
Florida man arrested for burglary minutes after leaving jail

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-man-arrested-burglary-minutes-leaving-jail-190113650.html

Lewis was booked inside the jail on burglary charges and then released a second time that day on bond.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 07, 2019, 02:19:37 am
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Charles_Darwin_seated_crop.jpg/182px-Charles_Darwin_seated_crop.jpg)
Give that man a Darwin Award. (His wife, alas, was postmenopausal and thus does not qualify.)

He's disqualified too if he had any offspring.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 07, 2019, 03:23:03 am
I'm trying to figure this one out, but am pretty sure it's ridiculous. Two long-retired staples of St. Louis TV news saw each other (the female was a guest on the male's radio show) and he had the audacity to tell her she "looked great." Someone at the radio station thought that was a horribly sexist thing for a 80-year-old man to say to a female friend, age 75. The radio station made such a stink, he resigned, even though the woman didn't have the slightest problem with the greeting.Full story at Post-Dispatch (https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/kwmu-host-says-he-quit-because-bosses-asked-him-about/article_669b6c11-012a-5a1c-9402-01c1d5c14dfb.html).

Uh, Don, Joe Biden didn't just tell women they looked nice. He pawed them, stuck his nose into their hair like he was a pig searching for truffles.
The same thing happened to me, in a way. A young Hispanic 20 something intern came into a meeting to give me a memo. I took the memo and said, 'Gracias. Usted esta muy bonita.' and thought nothing of it. Little did I know that management was losing their minds over this. Apparently all behind my back, there were discussions and emails about it. They called the girl in who could barely even remember what they were all upset about. And eventually they dropped it.

In today's environment of hyper-political correctness, going to work anywhere near women is like tip-toeing through a minefield. You can say to any guy, 'Hey, you look great! Is that a new suit?' Say the exact same thing to a woman and you could get fired.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 07, 2019, 04:16:36 am
The same thing happened to me, in a way. A young Hispanic 20 something intern came into a meeting to give me a memo. I took the memo and said, 'Gracias. Usted esta muy bonita.' and thought nothing of it. Little did I know that management was losing their minds over this. Apparently all behind my back, there were discussions and emails about it. They called the girl in who could barely even remember what they were all upset about. And eventually they dropped it.

In today's environment of hyper-political correctness, going to work anywhere near women is like tip-toeing through a minefield. You can say to any guy, 'Hey, you look great! Is that a new suit?' Say the exact same thing to a woman and you could get fired.

That's "third-party" harassment.  It's the absolute worst of the types of harassment claims because neither party in the exchange has a problem, but some eavesdropper complains.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 07, 2019, 05:37:30 am
That's "third-party" harassment.  It's the absolute worst of the types of harassment claims because neither party in the exchange has a problem, but some eavesdropper complains.
It's a classic form of SJW warriordom. Obviously, the people who should be offended (according to the SJWs) aren't intelligent enough to be offended, so they will be appropriately offended for you and make all the necessary complaints. It is the reason the NCAA went after the University of North Dakota's sports teams (The Fighting Sioux_ and the logo, despite the fact that it was designed by an American Indian and approved by the local Sioux tribe.) This crap is commonplace, now, so that even though the principals aren't offended nor intended offense, someone will make a big deal out of  it so they can seem important (and maybe eliminate more competent people who might stand in the way of their personal advancement.)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 07, 2019, 03:53:33 pm
What they did not comprehend is that in Mexico City, when and where I was, that was EXACTLY what I was expected to say.
Liberals have a huge problem with cultural differences. This is why they call Black people across the globe, "African Americans".
All they know is America. They cannot digest that there are other ways of thinking in the world.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 09, 2019, 10:52:03 pm
Police: Man buys $8 million island then steals from Kmart

April 9, 2019


(https://www.weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/lippi-andrew-300x240.jpg)

In this April 6, 2019, photo made available by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Fla., shows Francis Lippi under arrest. Key West police said Lippi was arrested on a felony charge of grand theft. Lippi recently bought an $8 million island off Key West. He is accused in a scheme to steal $300 in household items from Kmart. (Monroe County Sheriff's Office via AP)


KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A man who had just bought an $8 million island off of Key West was arrested Saturday for participating in what police described as a scheme to steal $300 in household items from Kmart.

Officials at Kmart called Key West police April 5 after they say Andrew Francis Lippi, 59, had purchased several items, including a Keurig coffeemaker and light bulbs, and returned the original boxes for a refund. But police say the boxes were stuffed with other items. For example, store officials said a basketball was inside the Keurig box.

The store’s loss prevention officer provided detectives with video of Lippi buying and returning all of the items between March 30 and April 5, according to an arrest report.

<..snip..>

https://www.weaselzippers.us/417176-man-who-just-bought-8-million-island-accused-of-trying-to-scam-k-mart-out-of-300/#disqus_thread (https://www.weaselzippers.us/417176-man-who-just-bought-8-million-island-accused-of-trying-to-scam-k-mart-out-of-300/#disqus_thread)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on April 11, 2019, 01:32:29 pm
FLORIDA MAN CALLING HIMSELF 'THE SAINT' THREATENED TO UNLEASH HIS ARMY OF TURTLES TO DESTROY TOWN

Florida man Thomas Devaney Lane referred to himself as “the saint” as he threatened to release his turtle army to destroy people in the town of Indialantic, according to police.

The 61-year-old is also accused of yelling obscenities and causing disturbances at businesses along N. Miramar Avenue on Sunday, including Starbucks Coffee, Surfanista Café and Sassy Granny’s Smoothies, Click Orlando reported.

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-turtle-army-saint-destroy-town-1391514 (https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-turtle-army-saint-destroy-town-1391514)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 11, 2019, 01:42:18 pm
FLORIDA MAN CALLING HIMSELF 'THE SAINT' THREATENED TO UNLEASH HIS ARMY OF TURTLES TO DESTROY TOWN
(https://metvcdn.metv.com/gcCdr-1487621282-1397-blog-thesaint_jamesbond.png)
Excuse me?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on April 11, 2019, 01:48:13 pm
Police stormed a bathroom with guns drawn to catch a burglar. They found a Roomba.

Quote
Pounding noises kept coming from the bathroom in a suburban home outside Portland, Ore. Cops had surrounded the door, and a trained canine panted nearby. The officers unholstered their guns, shouted that they were police and demanded that the burglary suspect holed up inside let them in.

No response. Just more banging. Probably, the police decided, the intruder was trying to force open a window to run away.
All at once, the cops burst in, ready to fire.

Then, they saw it: a little Roomba robot vacuum, stuck in a corner and slamming repeatedly into the shower door.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/10/police-stormed-bathroom-with-guns-drawn-catch-burglar-they-found-roomba/?utm_term=.0fd351d4e56d (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/10/police-stormed-bathroom-with-guns-drawn-catch-burglar-they-found-roomba/?utm_term=.0fd351d4e56d)


 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 11, 2019, 01:56:20 pm
Police stormed a bathroom with guns drawn to catch a burglar. They found a Roomba.
That's hilarious.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 11, 2019, 03:18:48 pm
FLORIDA MAN CALLING HIMSELF 'THE SAINT' THREATENED TO UNLEASH HIS ARMY OF TURTLES TO DESTROY TOWN

Florida man Thomas Devaney Lane referred to himself as “the saint” as he threatened to release his turtle army to destroy people in the town of Indialantic, according to police.

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-turtle-army-saint-destroy-town-1391514 (https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-turtle-army-saint-destroy-town-1391514)

I love "Florida Man" stories....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 11, 2019, 11:45:26 pm
   Wish I would have thought of this.

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http://www.dvdrewinder.com/ (http://www.dvdrewinder.com/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 12, 2019, 01:03:21 am
Someone is stealing wheels off of police cruisers in Mississippi
 
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Tires taken from JPD Training Academy. (SOURCE: WLBT Viewer)

By KNOE

Posted: Tue 12:08 PM, Apr 09, 2019

 
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) -  For the second time in several weeks, thieves have stolen the wheels off of Jackson Police Department cars.

Sgt. Roderick Holmes says three police cars were towed Saturday after police found that their wheels had been stolen.

The cars were parked behind a police museum in downtown Jackson and police aren’t sure when the wheels were taken.

This is the second time wheels have been stolen from patrol cars in recent weeks. A car was left on blocks outside the west Jackson police training academy in March after thieves stole the tires and rims.

https://www.wtvy.com/content/news/Someone-is-stealing-wheels-off-of-police-cruisers-in-Mississippi-508324591.html (https://www.wtvy.com/content/news/Someone-is-stealing-wheels-off-of-police-cruisers-in-Mississippi-508324591.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 12, 2019, 01:17:41 am
Used to be we just stole the hubcaps from cop cars.  Progress!  But...the good times...gooood times.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on April 12, 2019, 01:24:20 am
The Memphis effect.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 12, 2019, 01:03:57 pm
   Wish I would have thought of this.

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@corbe

Some people really do LOVE new gadgets,so I am betting they sold a few.

Kudos to the business owner and his sale staff for creating opportunity where none existed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on April 12, 2019, 01:10:43 pm
Someone is stealing wheels off of police cruisers in Mississippi
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Those 'rocks' look like bags of concrete that were left outdoors.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 12, 2019, 01:46:18 pm
Those 'rocks' look like bags of concrete that were left outdoors.

Musta run outta cinder blocks.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on April 12, 2019, 03:51:43 pm
Someone is stealing wheels off of police cruisers in Mississippi
 
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Tires taken from JPD Training Academy. (SOURCE: WLBT Viewer)

By KNOE

Posted: Tue 12:08 PM, Apr 09, 2019

 
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) -  For the second time in several weeks, thieves have stolen the wheels off of Jackson Police Department cars.

Sgt. Roderick Holmes says three police cars were towed Saturday after police found that their wheels had been stolen.

The cars were parked behind a police museum in downtown Jackson and police aren’t sure when the wheels were taken.

This is the second time wheels have been stolen from patrol cars in recent weeks. A car was left on blocks outside the west Jackson police training academy in March after thieves stole the tires and rims.

https://www.wtvy.com/content/news/Someone-is-stealing-wheels-off-of-police-cruisers-in-Mississippi-508324591.html (https://www.wtvy.com/content/news/Someone-is-stealing-wheels-off-of-police-cruisers-in-Mississippi-508324591.html)
That takes Chutzpah to an all new level.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 12, 2019, 05:00:49 pm
That takes Chutzpah to an all new level.

@verga

You are assuming it wasn't the cops or some other city workers who didn't steal the wheels and tires themselves to run on their cars or pickups.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 12, 2019, 05:39:17 pm
@verga

You are assuming it wasn't the cops or some other city workers who didn't steal the wheels and tires themselves to run on their cars or pickups.

Good point.  The thieves knew to leave the cars on blocks because it wasn't noticed for quite some time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 12, 2019, 09:07:00 pm
Good point.  The thieves knew to leave the cars on blocks because it wasn't noticed for quite some time.

@Cyber Liberty

They also knew that if they didn't leave the brake drums sitting on something they would lose their jack and only get to steal one wheel and tire.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 19, 2019, 10:34:51 pm
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Rabid bobcat attacks Connecticut golfer and nearby horse
By Dylan Dethier
April 19, 2019

A golfer and a horse are in recovery after a rabid bobcat attack on Thursday at Mohegan Sun Golf Club in Connecticut.

While the 60-something golfer was playing the 7th hole, the bobcat attacked, jumping on his back. He was able to fight it off with his club, according to WFSB.

“He thought it was dead. As he walked a few steps away, it ended up jumping back up and taking off on him,” said Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) officer Chris Dwyer to WFSB.  ...

The golfer wasn’t the bobcat’s only target; the feline also worked its way into the stables at a nearby home and attacked a horse. Loree Osowski, the horse’s owner, said the animal suffered “lacerations to the neck and eye.”  ...
Full story (https://www.golf.com/news/2019/04/19/rabid-bobcat-golfer-attack-connecticut/)
No word on whether the golfer took a mulligan on #7.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 20, 2019, 12:00:16 am
Full story (https://www.golf.com/news/2019/04/19/rabid-bobcat-golfer-attack-connecticut/)
No word on whether the golfer took a mulligan on #7.

@mountaineer

I'm surprised they have bob cats in Ct. How do they pay their taxes,by mugging golfers?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 20, 2019, 12:20:18 am
I'm surprised they have bob cats in Ct. How do they pay their taxes,by mugging golfers?
News to me, too. They're very rare in my neck of the woods.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 20, 2019, 02:34:20 pm
News to me, too. They're very rare in my neck of the woods.

We have them, but the Mountain Lions help keep their population in check.  The Yotes only go after them if they are very hungry.  The Lions don't care.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 25, 2019, 02:03:05 am
Feds charge Rhode Island man who allegedly threatened to kill and eat a pro-choice college professor

BY MICHAEL BURKE - 04/24/19 08:35 PM EDT
 
 
Feds charge Rhode Island man who allegedly threatened to kill and eat a pro-choice college professor
Federal authorities have charged a Rhode Island man who is accused of threatening to rape, kill and eat a college professor with pro-choice views, according to MassLive.

Matthew Haviland, who was charged with cyberstalking and sending threatening messages, allegedly wrote in a March email to the unidentified professor that the professor and others with left-wing views deserved to be "slaughtered," according to the report.

“You will have your face ripped off and eaten by me, personally,” Haviland is accused of writing. “I will enjoy raping your body after you’re dead.”

<..snip..>

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/440575-feds-charge-rhode-island-man-who-allegedly-threatened-to-kill (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/440575-feds-charge-rhode-island-man-who-allegedly-threatened-to-kill)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 25, 2019, 02:35:37 am
That's a little...non-traditional.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on April 28, 2019, 01:41:18 am
Cops claim that mice ate half a ton of missing marijuana

Eight police officers in Argentina who were fired were so desperate that they put the blame on mice and claimed the rodents ate half a ton of marijuana that had gone missing.

The cannabis was noticed to be missing when police made an inspection of the warehouse in which it was stored in Pilar in Argentina. Javier Specia, the former police commissioner, had left 13,000 pounds of cannabis unsigned when stepping down from his post one year ago. The successor to him conducted a search with officers and found that half a ton of the substance was missing.

Food experts from Buenos Aires University said that there is no way that the mice would have mistaken the cannabis for food. They went on to say that even if the mice had found it and thought it was food they would have found a huge group of dead mice in the warehouse, after ingesting it.

https://www.disclose.tv/cops-claim-that-mice-ate-half-a-ton-of-missing-marijuana-332589 (https://www.disclose.tv/cops-claim-that-mice-ate-half-a-ton-of-missing-marijuana-332589)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 28, 2019, 08:16:35 am
Cops claim that mice ate half a ton of missing marijuana

Eight police officers in Argentina who were fired were so desperate that they put the blame on mice and claimed the rodents ate half a ton of marijuana that had gone missing.

The cannabis was noticed to be missing when police made an inspection of the warehouse in which it was stored in Pilar in Argentina. Javier Specia, the former police commissioner, had left 13,000 pounds of cannabis unsigned when stepping down from his post one year ago. The successor to him conducted a search with officers and found that half a ton of the substance was missing.

Food experts from Buenos Aires University said that there is no way that the mice would have mistaken the cannabis for food. They went on to say that even if the mice had found it and thought it was food they would have found a huge group of dead mice in the warehouse, after ingesting it.

https://www.disclose.tv/cops-claim-that-mice-ate-half-a-ton-of-missing-marijuana-332589 (https://www.disclose.tv/cops-claim-that-mice-ate-half-a-ton-of-missing-marijuana-332589)
Just imagine all the stoned cats walking around with a second hand buzz....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 02, 2019, 02:49:10 pm
Thieves try to siphon gas from bus, instead tap into sewage tank

Quote
the discarded cap and lack of fuel stolen suggested they had failed to get away with what they were hoping to steal. “We can infer they beat a very hasty retreat, with a somewhat bitter taste in their mouth, ”

https://thewest.com.au/news/offbeat/thieves-get-the-bad-oil-from-bus-sewage-tank-ng-ya-135357
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on May 02, 2019, 04:09:01 pm
Cue the scene from "Christmas Vacation"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 03, 2019, 07:41:57 am
Thieves try to siphon gas from bus, instead tap into sewage tank

https://thewest.com.au/news/offbeat/thieves-get-the-bad-oil-from-bus-sewage-tank-ng-ya-135357
Some crimes are their own reward.... :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 03, 2019, 12:36:16 pm
Some crimes are their own reward.... :silly:

@Smokin Joe

I have read of this happening several times,and am stunned each time. You would think the smell when you take the cap off would be a good first clue.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 03, 2019, 02:08:40 pm
Lawyer names son after himself. Son follows in dad's footsteps to become a lawyer. Father sues son for using his own name.

Lowcountry lawyer George Sink is suing his son who has created a firm with a similar name as his father’s firm.

The George Sink P.A. Injury Lawyers firm is suing George “Ted” Sink Jr. and his firm George Sink II for trademark infringement, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices.

https://www.wtoc.com/2019/05/03/lowcountry-lawyer-george-sink-sues-son-george-sink-jr-over-similar-firm-name/ (https://www.wtoc.com/2019/05/03/lowcountry-lawyer-george-sink-sues-son-george-sink-jr-over-similar-firm-name/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 03, 2019, 02:13:40 pm
Lawyer names son after himself. Son follows in dad's footsteps to become a lawyer. Father sues son for using his own name.

Lowcountry lawyer George Sink is suing his son who has created a firm with a similar name as his father’s firm.

The George Sink P.A. Injury Lawyers firm is suing George “Ted” Sink Jr. and his firm George Sink II for trademark infringement, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices.

https://www.wtoc.com/2019/05/03/lowcountry-lawyer-george-sink-sues-son-george-sink-jr-over-similar-firm-name/ (https://www.wtoc.com/2019/05/03/lowcountry-lawyer-george-sink-sues-son-george-sink-jr-over-similar-firm-name/)

@jmyrlefuller

I can see the father's POV on this one. Evidentially they do not get along or the son would be a partner in the father's law firm,and NOBODY with an established business wants someone new using the same name because of the danger of their screw-ups being laid at the door step of the original.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on May 04, 2019, 03:31:19 pm
@Smokin Joe

I have read of this happening several times,and am stunned each time. You would think the smell when you take the cap off would be a good first clue.
When I was younger we had a trailer that had a toilet in it. My Job was to empty it once a week or so. There is no doubt when you take the cap off what you are dealing with.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on May 04, 2019, 04:02:09 pm
When I was younger we had a trailer that had a toilet in it. My Job was to empty it once a week or so. There is no doubt when you take the cap off what you are dealing with.

Maybe not if you're high and not too bright to begin with.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on May 04, 2019, 04:33:09 pm
Maybe not if you're high and not too bright to begin with.
Touche'  :rolling:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 04, 2019, 08:45:36 pm
Maybe not if you're high and not too bright to begin with.
Maybe they were looking for a jenkem fix.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on May 04, 2019, 08:48:31 pm
Maybe they were looking for a jenkem fix.

I had to look that up.  Wish I hadn't.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 05, 2019, 06:06:39 am
I had to look that up.  Wish I hadn't.
Sorry.

If I was that hard up for a 'buzz', I think I'd rather sit in the hot sun without food or water and maybe whack myself in the head with a plank from time to time until I 'saw' things before I'd resort to that.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 07, 2019, 05:49:27 pm
A 'sorcerer' promised to help people find love. Instead, he orchestrated a 'witchcraft extortion scheme.'

The love ritual began with candles, alcohol, vegetables and photographs, all carefully arranged. Then clients were told to send photos and videos of themselves reciting graphic statements and performing sex acts to a Paraguayan business specializing in witchcraft to finish the magic spell aimed at finding a soul mate.

That's when a self-described sorcerer started another familiar rite: extortion.

Ariel Boiteux, an Argentine national who masterminded an international scheme that entangled an estimated 200 victims in at least 12 countries, threatened to post the photos and videos of the intimate acts unless his clients paid "large sums of money," according to authorities, sometimes demanding six-figure payoffs.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-sorcerer-promised-to-help-people-find-love-13825060.php (https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-sorcerer-promised-to-help-people-find-love-13825060.php)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 07, 2019, 05:50:11 pm
^^ Side note:

I always did wonder what was up with those kinds of ads you see in tabloids and farmer's almanacs. Now I know.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on May 09, 2019, 12:02:49 am
Georgia child finds $40G of meth in box of Legos: officials

Investigators with the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia said a child found something other than a messy pile of colorful plastic bits in a gift from his mom. He discovered 3.2 pounds of methamphetamine -- street value, $40,000 -- tucked into what appeared to be an ordinary box of Legos.

Investigator Jim Riggs with the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News that a Statesboro, Ga., mother and a couple of her friends drove for about two hours to Charleston, S.C., where they bought the Legos from a consignment shop.

He said when the women returned from the trip and the mother gave her child the toy, there were no Legos to be found inside the container.

What there was, however, was a "big bag of meth."

“The methamphetamine inside of the box was vacuum sealed, and that keeps it from moving around too much and also helps mask the smell,” said Riggs. He said this was the first time his office had made such a find, “especially in this quantity.”....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-child-finds-40g-of-meth-in-box-of-legos-officials (https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-child-finds-40g-of-meth-in-box-of-legos-officials)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on May 09, 2019, 01:23:11 am
Georgia child finds $40G of meth in box of Legos: officials

Investigators with the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia said a child found something other than a messy pile of colorful plastic bits in a gift from his mom. He discovered 3.2 pounds of methamphetamine -- street value, $40,000 -- tucked into what appeared to be an ordinary box of Legos.

Investigator Jim Riggs with the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News that a Statesboro, Ga., mother and a couple of her friends drove for about two hours to Charleston, S.C., where they bought the Legos from a consignment shop.

He said when the women returned from the trip and the mother gave her child the toy, there were no Legos to be found inside the container.

What there was, however, was a "big bag of meth."

“The methamphetamine inside of the box was vacuum sealed, and that keeps it from moving around too much and also helps mask the smell,” said Riggs. He said this was the first time his office had made such a find, “especially in this quantity.”....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-child-finds-40g-of-meth-in-box-of-legos-officials (https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-child-finds-40g-of-meth-in-box-of-legos-officials)

Riggs told Fox News the child’s father called the sheriff’s office and told deputies he suspected the box contained illicit drugs.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 09, 2019, 12:20:57 pm
Riggs told Fox News the child’s father called the sheriff’s office and told deputies he suspected the box contained illicit drugs.

@InHeavenThereIsNoBeer

Don't ya just HATE it when your mom cleans your room and throws your Leggos away without asking you if you want to keep them?

Somebody had some splain-in to do after that boo-boo.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on May 16, 2019, 02:31:45 pm
Televangelist's show sells $45 Trump coin as 'point of contact' to God

By Aris Folley - 05/16/19 09:54 AM EDT


"The Jim Bakker Show" recently promoted a coin decorated with President Trump's face as a "point of contact" with God.

In a viral clip of the promotion, evangelical author Lance Wallnau described the $45 coin as a means for believers to establish a “point of contact” with God.

“When I asked the Lord ‘Why the coin?’ he said ‘Because when you take the coin, it’s a point of contact,'” Wallnau said in the clip, which was shared on Twitter by Right Wing Watch, which "monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations."

“So your faith is being released with a million other believers to pray protection and peace and wisdom and counsel over the president of the United States and over his family," he added.

<..snip..>

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/443997-televangelist-sells-45-trump-coin-being-peddled-to-believers-as (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/443997-televangelist-sells-45-trump-coin-being-peddled-to-believers-as)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 22, 2019, 12:54:49 pm
Coming soon: Justin Bieber Deodorant. (https://pagesix.com/2019/05/21/justin-bieber-is-making-his-own-deodorant/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 22, 2019, 01:07:18 pm
Coming soon: Justin Bieber Deodorant. (https://pagesix.com/2019/05/21/justin-bieber-is-making-his-own-deodorant/)

I wonder if it has dumb stuff written all over it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on May 22, 2019, 01:30:16 pm
@InHeavenThereIsNoBeer
Don't ya just HATE it when your mom cleans your room and throws your Leggos away without asking you if you want to keep them?
No one should ever throw Leggos away under any circumstances. Those things last for eternity. Give them to your children when they come, a neighbor, a cousin, or just donate them anywhere. It is a crime to throw them away.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on May 22, 2019, 03:17:42 pm
No one should ever throw Leggos away under any circumstances. Those things last for eternity. Give them to your children when they come, a neighbor, a cousin, or just donate them anywhere. It is a crime to throw them away.
My BIL had a complete set of the Original Hardy Boys books. My MIL threw them all out.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 22, 2019, 05:22:20 pm
Televangelist's show sells $45 Trump coin as 'point of contact' to God

By Aris Folley - 05/16/19 09:54 AM EDT


"The Jim Bakker Show" recently promoted a coin decorated with President Trump's face as a "point of contact" with God.

In a viral clip of the promotion, evangelical author Lance Wallnau described the $45 coin as a means for believers to establish a “point of contact” with God.

“When I asked the Lord ‘Why the coin?’ he said ‘Because when you take the coin, it’s a point of contact,'” Wallnau said in the clip, which was shared on Twitter by Right Wing Watch, which "monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations."

“So your faith is being released with a million other believers to pray protection and peace and wisdom and counsel over the president of the United States and over his family," he added.

<..snip..>

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/443997-televangelist-sells-45-trump-coin-being-peddled-to-believers-as (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/443997-televangelist-sells-45-trump-coin-being-peddled-to-believers-as)

@corbe

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Wallnau said in the clip, which was shared on Twitter by Right Wing Watch, which "monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations."

This idiot is confusing religious loons with the right. Just ain't so. Most religious loons are leftists,and worship communism. Most are too stupid to understand that,but it doesn't change anything.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on May 24, 2019, 10:26:04 pm
Owners of Noah's Ark replica sue insurers over rain damage

By Brooke Seipel - 05/24/19 05:38 PM EDT
 

(https://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_small_article/public/noahs.ark_.png?itok=dISb9UVE)

The owners of a replica of Noah's Ark featured at the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Ky., sued its insurers who refused to cover rain damage.

The ark's owner said heavy rains in 2017 and 2018 caused a landslide on its property and its five insurance carriers refused to cover damages totaling nearly $1 million. The ark itself was reportedly undamaged in the rains.

Ark Encounter is asking for compensatory and punitive damages and a jury trial in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court. The suit names Swiss-based Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings, its use company and three other carriers.

<..snip..>

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/445497-owners-of-noahs-ark-replica-sue-insurers-over-rain-damage (https://thehill.com/homenews/news/445497-owners-of-noahs-ark-replica-sue-insurers-over-rain-damage)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 24, 2019, 10:53:56 pm
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The ark itself was reportedly undamaged in the rains.
Well, duh.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on May 26, 2019, 02:45:29 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7aS_JuXoAArTid.jpg)

If you go to CVS you get it, what's up with those people? Too many receipts to keep track of though, yes, you can save money. You can also go to a machine when you go in and pick up coupons if you present your card code to it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on May 26, 2019, 03:14:59 am
Speaking of ridiculous, I've wondered about this one for a long time.  Driving down the highway today I passed several sites where warning signs were posted on each side of the highway saying "Guardrail Damage Ahead".  And, sure enough, there was guardrail damage in each spot.  On the shoulder.  Well out of the traffic lanes.

Someone committed a lot of taxpayer money to have those signs printed and then placed and later collected on the ever-changing guardrail damage sites. 

So, what am I to make of the signs?  What action are they requiring me to do?  Genuflect as I pass?  Not veer off the highway and hit the damaged guardrail?  Neither?  Both?  Is there perhaps a fear that passing motorists will become mesmerized by the damage and like a moth to the flame, flame out on the damaged guardrail unless there are signs to tell you to expect the guardrail impairment?  I don't feel mesmerized when I pass those places, but maybe you don't know when you've been mesmerized.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on May 26, 2019, 03:49:04 am
Speaking of ridiculous, I've wondered about this one for a long time.  Driving down the highway today I passed several sites where warning signs were posted on each side of the highway saying "Guardrail Damage Ahead".  And, sure enough, there was guardrail damage in each spot.  On the shoulder.  Well out of the traffic lanes.

Someone committed a lot of taxpayer money to have those signs printed and then placed and later collected on the ever-changing guardrail damage sites. 

So, what am I to make of the signs?  What action are they requiring me to do?  Genuflect as I pass?  Not veer off the highway and hit the damaged guardrail?  Neither?  Both?  Is there perhaps a fear that passing motorists will become mesmerized by the damage and like a moth to the flame, flame out on the damaged guardrail unless there are signs to tell you to expect the guardrail impairment?  I don't feel mesmerized when I pass those places, but maybe you don't know when you've been mesmerized.

Protecting the state in case you hit a previously damaged guard rail and want to sue because it didn't protect you?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on May 26, 2019, 04:13:44 am
Speaking of ridiculous, I've wondered about this one for a long time.  Driving down the highway today I passed several sites where warning signs were posted on each side of the highway saying "Guardrail Damage Ahead".  And, sure enough, there was guardrail damage in each spot.  On the shoulder.  Well out of the traffic lanes.

Someone committed a lot of taxpayer money to have those signs printed and then placed and later collected on the ever-changing guardrail damage sites. 

So, what am I to make of the signs?  What action are they requiring me to do?  Genuflect as I pass?  Not veer off the highway and hit the damaged guardrail?  Neither?  Both?  Is there perhaps a fear that passing motorists will become mesmerized by the damage and like a moth to the flame, flame out on the damaged guardrail unless there are signs to tell you to expect the guardrail impairment?  I don't feel mesmerized when I pass those places, but maybe you don't know when you've been mesmerized.
Lets you know there were accidents in the area. Use caution.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 26, 2019, 03:15:45 pm
Speaking of ridiculous, I've wondered about this one for a long time.  Driving down the highway today I passed several sites where warning signs were posted on each side of the highway saying "Guardrail Damage Ahead".  And, sure enough, there was guardrail damage in each spot.  On the shoulder.  Well out of the traffic lanes.

Someone committed a lot of taxpayer money to have those signs printed and then placed and later collected on the ever-changing guardrail damage sites. 

So, what am I to make of the signs?  What action are they requiring me to do?  Genuflect as I pass?  Not veer off the highway and hit the damaged guardrail?  Neither?  Both?  Is there perhaps a fear that passing motorists will become mesmerized by the damage and like a moth to the flame, flame out on the damaged guardrail unless there are signs to tell you to expect the guardrail impairment?  I don't feel mesmerized when I pass those places, but maybe you don't know when you've been mesmerized.

Last time I was in TX I recall a sign at the beginning of construction zones:  It's the law to read all signs.  Still do that?  In CA they post the applicable fine for every sign, like carpool lanes.  "$257 fine for violation."  Signs designed to threaten more than to warn.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on May 26, 2019, 05:34:43 pm
Protecting the state in case you hit a previously damaged guard rail and want to sue because it didn't protect you?

A lot of stupid signs and warnings come out of lawsuits.  My favorite is the warning on hair dryers -- DO NOT USE IN TUB OR SHOWER.  Manufacturers have to put those warnings on electric items because some idiot or idiots died trying to dry their hair while sitting in a tub of bath water and their loved ones sued.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on May 29, 2019, 12:02:14 pm
Rescue Goat Suffering From Anxiety Only Calms Down In Her Duck Costume
http://justsomething.co/rescue-goat-suffers-anxiety-calms-duck-costume/ (http://justsomething.co/rescue-goat-suffers-anxiety-calms-duck-costume/)

This is Polly, and she is not like all the other goats. She is a rescue goat suffering neurological problems, blindness, and is severely underweight. According to her owner Leanne Lauricella from Goats of Anarchy, Polly has been showing signs of anxiety and is restless whenever she can’t find her owner. The corners of the house they live is full of sucking marks due to Polly’s nervous habit of sucking on the wall.

All that changed, however, when Lauricella brought home a duck costume she bought at the kids’ section at Marshalls. From the first moment it was put on Polly, the costume had an instant calming effect on her. She transforms from a bundle of nerves to a serene duck-clad goat in moments....

(http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/rescue-goat-suffers-anxiety-calms-duck-costume.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: rustynail on May 29, 2019, 12:07:09 pm
Brian Kolfage’s Private Border Wall Hit With Cease And Desist..

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/28/kolfage-border-wall-cease-desist/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 29, 2019, 12:53:34 pm
Rescue Goat Suffering From Anxiety Only Calms Down In Her Duck Costume
http://justsomething.co/rescue-goat-suffers-anxiety-calms-duck-costume/ (http://justsomething.co/rescue-goat-suffers-anxiety-calms-duck-costume/)

This is Polly, and she is not like all the other goats. She is a rescue goat suffering neurological problems, blindness, and is severely underweight. According to her owner Leanne Lauricella from Goats of Anarchy, Polly has been showing signs of anxiety and is restless whenever she can’t find her owner. The corners of the house they live is full of sucking marks due to Polly’s nervous habit of sucking on the wall.

All that changed, however, when Lauricella brought home a duck costume she bought at the kids’ section at Marshalls. From the first moment it was put on Polly, the costume had an instant calming effect on her. She transforms from a bundle of nerves to a serene duck-clad goat in moments....

(http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/rescue-goat-suffers-anxiety-calms-duck-costume.jpg)

@thackney

It's easy to become cynical about human nature,but then a story like this pops up.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on May 29, 2019, 12:56:54 pm
@thackney

It's easy to become cynical about human nature,but then a story like this pops up.

That goat has spent way too much time with humans.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 29, 2019, 01:02:08 pm
That goat has spent way too much time with humans.

@thackney

Naw,goats are too stupid to understand what humans are. Hell,they barely understand what goats are.

Being blind on top of that means this one would starve to death or be killed in a day if it weren't for the kindness of the humans that take care of it.

Not that the humans don't benefit,too. They do. They get to feel good about themselves,and rightly so.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on May 30, 2019, 01:44:20 am
@thackney

Naw,goats are too stupid to understand what humans are. Hell,they barely understand what goats are.

Being blind on top of that means this one would starve to death or be killed in a day if it weren't for the kindness of the humans that take care of it.

Not that the humans don't benefit,too. They do. They get to feel good about themselves,and rightly so.
Still what the hell would ever give you the idea to put a duck costume on a goat? Seriously If I had a goat that was doing that stuff my first thought would not be "Hey Duck Costume" Hell it wouldn't be my 10th thought.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on May 30, 2019, 02:01:12 am
Sorry guys. I apologize in advance. I have a ton of goat recipes and goat is delicious. I love it.
I have a cure for a blind nervous goat. It is not a duck costume.
Suppose this puts me outside of the 'empathetic' circle of society.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on May 30, 2019, 11:15:34 am
Still what the hell would ever give you the idea to put a duck costume on a goat? Seriously If I had a goat that was doing that stuff my first thought would not be "Hey Duck Costume" Hell it wouldn't be my 10th thought.

But it might be your eleventh thought???
 :pondering: :laugh: :beer:

This is just goofy. Of course he calmed down - About every critter I know calms down if you wrap it tightly in a blanket or some such.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on May 30, 2019, 11:17:06 am
Sorry guys. I apologize in advance. I have a ton of goat recipes and goat is delicious. I love it.

That's right.

Quote
I have a cure for a blind nervous goat. It is not a duck costume.
Suppose this puts me outside of the 'empathetic' circle of society.

Welcome  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 30, 2019, 11:46:42 am
I had some delicious goat at a Spanish/Portuguese restaurant in Pittsburgh, and would love to try it again.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on May 30, 2019, 01:39:10 pm
But it might be your eleventh thought???
 :pondering: :laugh: :beer:
maybe, or 12th

This is just goofy. Of course he calmed down - About every critter I know calms down if you wrap it tightly in a blanket or some such.
Absolutely, my grandmother had a "Thundershirt" for her one dog, but it wasn't a duck costume.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on June 04, 2019, 12:53:07 am
warning signs were posted on each side of the highway saying "Guardrail Damage Ahead".  And, sure enough, there was guardrail damage in each spot.  On the shoulder.  Well out of the traffic lanes.


So, what am I to make of the signs?  What action are they requiring me to do? 

;::::sigh::::: I have to explain everything.

See, if you are going to crash, be sure you crash where the guardrails are NOT damaged!  That isn't difficult.
It's like the "BABY ON BOARD" stickers on cars.  Crash in to ANOTHER car, not them.

My wife once commented on a bright yellow truck, how easy it was to see. 
I replied, "Yeah, that's good. If was black, I was going to run right into it."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 04, 2019, 02:19:04 am
;::::sigh::::: I have to explain everything.

See, if you are going to crash, be sure you crash where the guardrails are NOT damaged!  That isn't difficult.
It's like the "BABY ON BOARD" stickers on cars.  Crash in to ANOTHER car, not them.

My wife once commented on a bright yellow truck, how easy it was to see. 
I replied, "Yeah, that's good. If was black, I was going to run right into it."

You're right, @DeerSlayer.  That must be the correct course of action.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 04, 2019, 02:21:28 am
You're right, @DeerSlayer.  That must be the correct course of action.

Next time the truck will be painted properly.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 04, 2019, 07:36:24 am
;::::sigh::::: I have to explain everything.

See, if you are going to crash, be sure you crash where the guardrails are NOT damaged!  That isn't difficult.
It's like the "BABY ON BOARD" stickers on cars.  Crash in to ANOTHER car, not them.

My wife once commented on a bright yellow truck, how easy it was to see. 
I replied, "Yeah, that's good. If was black, I was going to run right into it."

@DeerSlayer

Is your new wife more reasonable?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on June 04, 2019, 09:46:10 pm
Police: Shots fired at men cutting grass in Armstrong County

Quote
Police said they investigated a report of someone firing shots at two landscapers as they cut grass in the area of 135 Hillview Lane around 11 a.m.
…
Police said investigators traced the gunshots to Joseph Michael Riederer, 31, who lives at the Hillview Lane address near where the landscapers had been working.

While at Riederer’s home, police said they saw marijuana plants and processed marijuana. A search warrant served at the residence later that day turned up 76 marijuana plants, processed marijuana, materials used to grow marijuana plants and three guns.

He faces drug and assault charges...

Excerpt.  More at:

https://triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/police-man-shoots-at-men-cutting-grass-in-armstrong-county/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 04, 2019, 10:50:40 pm
 That's a shame.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on June 04, 2019, 11:34:53 pm
He knows that "grass" is just a euphemism for marijuana, right?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on June 05, 2019, 10:56:56 am
When Taco Bell runs out of tacos, who do you call? One person reportedly called the police

Quote
When a Louisiana Taco Bell allegedly ran out of tacos, a consumer called the city's police department to report the "travesty."

The Slidell Police Department took to its Facebook page Monday to share "another 'we can’t make this stuff up' story."

"Somebody called in to complain that the Taco Bell on Gause Boulevard ran out of both hard and soft taco shells," the post said. "While this is truly a travesty, the police can’t do anything about this."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2019/06/04/taco-bell-runs-out-tacos-and-travesty-called-police/1347051001/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2019/06/04/taco-bell-runs-out-tacos-and-travesty-called-police/1347051001/)

 :thud:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 05, 2019, 11:12:28 am
When Taco Bell runs out of tacos, who do you call? One person reportedly called the police
There was a elderly woman in the small town in which we used to live who regularly called 911 whenever she was out of cigarettes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 05, 2019, 01:13:47 pm
When Taco Bell runs out of tacos, who do you call?

Sorry... I'm a Taco John's kinds guy   :shrug: :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on June 05, 2019, 06:55:41 pm
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2d09b1d7a9cf9332de961e1cf53581a83cab23f88f364cb985575ea8b477696d.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 05, 2019, 06:58:17 pm
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2d09b1d7a9cf9332de961e1cf53581a83cab23f88f364cb985575ea8b477696d.jpg)

Okay. Now that's funny I don't care if you are a Kraut.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on June 05, 2019, 09:30:16 pm
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2d09b1d7a9cf9332de961e1cf53581a83cab23f88f364cb985575ea8b477696d.jpg)




That actually made me ROFL.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on June 05, 2019, 09:37:11 pm



That actually made me ROFL.

Me to!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jafo2010 on June 19, 2019, 02:43:13 pm
Hilarious!

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 19, 2019, 05:14:28 pm
There was a elderly woman in the small town in which we used to live who regularly called 911 whenever she was out of cigarettes.

@mountaineer

That's different. Chain smokers actually NEED cigarettes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 19, 2019, 05:15:53 pm
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2d09b1d7a9cf9332de961e1cf53581a83cab23f88f364cb985575ea8b477696d.jpg)

@corbe

Well,it is the truth. Germany sure participated on the D-Day festivities,and they were allies with Japan.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on June 19, 2019, 05:23:49 pm
Alabama man allegedly fed 'attack squirrel' methamphetamine to keep it aggressive

An "attack squirrel" housed in an Alabama apartment and fed methamphetamine by its owner to make sure it stayed aggressive was rescued Monday, officials said.

The squirrel was removed from the alleged drug den by investigators following a bust at an apartment in Athens, according to authorities.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/alabama-man-attack-squirrel-meth-aggressive (https://www.foxnews.com/us/alabama-man-attack-squirrel-meth-aggressive)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 19, 2019, 05:25:34 pm
"Attack Squirrel?" 

Sic 'em, Flooffy!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 19, 2019, 05:27:09 pm
"Attack Squirrel?" 

Sic 'em, Flooffy!

@Cyber Liberty

Why is it I think the squirrel had more working brain cells than the speed freak?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on June 19, 2019, 06:30:54 pm
"Attack Squirrel?" 

Sic 'em, Flooffy!
Those squirrels from the Deep South can get gnarly...

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 19, 2019, 08:09:07 pm
Alabama man allegedly fed 'attack squirrel' methamphetamine to keep it aggressive

An "attack squirrel" housed in an Alabama apartment and fed methamphetamine by its owner to make sure it stayed aggressive was rescued Monday, officials said.

The squirrel was removed from the alleged drug den by investigators following a bust at an apartment in Athens, according to authorities.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/alabama-man-attack-squirrel-meth-aggressive (https://www.foxnews.com/us/alabama-man-attack-squirrel-meth-aggressive)

Finally, we have learned what was the prequel to the squirrel grenade story:

http://thecryptmag.com/Online/38/SQUIRREL.HTM (http://thecryptmag.com/Online/38/SQUIRREL.HTM)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on June 21, 2019, 11:33:28 pm
Those squirrels from the Deep South can get gnarly...

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU#)
Hey some of these little B@$T@RD$ that live here in Virginia can be pretty darn nasty as well.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 22, 2019, 04:39:46 pm
Hey some of these little B@$T@RD$ that live here in Virginia can be pretty darn nasty as well.

@verga

I blame it on all the meth they find hidden.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on June 24, 2019, 10:09:08 am
Florida sheriff's deputy detained a tortoise for blocking the road. He got away with a warning and a selfie

Quote
Florida law enforcement detained a slow-moving Florida native after the suspect refused to clear the road when asked.

The gopher tortoise was walking along Nocatee Parkway, north of St. Augustine, when St. Johns County Sheriff's Deputy L. Fontenot spotted it during a routine patrol.

When asked to clear the road, the suspect, identified as "Gopherus Genus," age unknown, continued its stroll.

Fontenot quickly detained the suspect. The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that the two had a "heartfelt conversation regarding this risky behavior" and the suspect was "released on his own recognizance.".

More at:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/23/us/florida-tortoise-detained-trnd/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/23/us/florida-tortoise-detained-trnd/index.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on June 30, 2019, 02:00:46 am
Quote
WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Wichita Falls police banned a woman from Walmart after she reportedly ate half of a cake and refused to pay for the uneaten half, according to the Wichita Falls Times Record News.

Police responded to a theft call June 25 at the Walmart; they were told a woman entered the store, ate half of a cake and refused to pay for the other half when asked.

According to the Times Record News, the woman was banned from the store by police for the theft.

This is not the first time a Wichita Falls Walmart has been forced to ban a customer this year.

In January, a woman was banned from a Wichita Falls Walmart for reportedly drinking wine out of a Pringles can while riding around on an electric shopping cart.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on June 30, 2019, 02:36:45 am
(https://a.disquscdn.com/get?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic6.businessinsider.com%2Fimage%2F5a64b83f7101ad241c12accb-480%2Feating-cake.jpg&key=-58j0p3eFFN4V--EqFs5zQ&w=600&h=360)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 30, 2019, 03:19:17 am
In January, a woman was banned from a Wichita Falls Walmart for reportedly drinking wine out of a Pringles can while riding around on an electric shopping cart.

Hmm... Sounds like a good candidate for the Redneck Olympic Games. A twist on a PBR in a koozie and riding on a garden tractor... Which happens all the time...  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 30, 2019, 12:42:21 pm
Quote
In January, a woman was banned from a Wichita Falls Walmart for reportedly drinking wine out of a Pringles can while riding around on an electric shopping cart.
In my defense, at least I didn't take a wineglass from the housewares department.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 30, 2019, 03:16:27 pm
In my defense, at least I didn't take a wineglass from the housewares department.

@mountaineer

Ahhhh,nothing says "sophisticated palate" quite like Wal-Mart wine!

You realize,of course,that it is now only a matter of time before someone starts posting "Walmartian videos"?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 30, 2019, 07:41:41 pm
In my defense, at least I didn't take a wineglass from the housewares department.

Your mamma raised you right.
 :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on June 30, 2019, 10:36:49 pm
Guy Checks A Single Can Of Beer After Airline Told Him He Couldn’t Board With It

(http://justsomething.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/guy-checks-a-single-can-of-beer-after-airline-told-him-he-couldn-t-board-with-it-01.gif)

Millions of passengers are constantly annoyed by airlines’ policies, and the rules are getting more absurd and unreasonable. They overcharge tickets, overbook flights, and are often inconsiderate towards their passengers.

Sometimes, an act of defiance is necessary to shake up authorities because these actions show them that it’s unacceptable to mistreat their clients. That’s probably what this passenger had in mind when he created a scene at a Melbourne airport.

http://justsomething.co/guy-checks-a-single-can-of-beer-after-airline-told-him-he-couldnt-board-with-it/?fbclid=IwAR0jx1JD2faKSeiqrNapISWZUEJ2nqJUMngFmH22S_bvFWB2JWVgZ35XA0U (http://justsomething.co/guy-checks-a-single-can-of-beer-after-airline-told-him-he-couldnt-board-with-it/?fbclid=IwAR0jx1JD2faKSeiqrNapISWZUEJ2nqJUMngFmH22S_bvFWB2JWVgZ35XA0U)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on June 30, 2019, 10:49:56 pm
Guy Checks A Single Can Of Beer After Airline Told Him He Couldn’t Board With It



Sounds like something I'd do.   I do swear it wasn't me though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 01, 2019, 01:28:29 am
Guy Checks A Single Can Of Beer After Airline Told Him He Couldn’t Board With It
That’s probably what this passenger had in mind when he created a scene at a Melbourne airport.


LOL!
I was thinking...
Either American redneck, Irish, or Ozzie...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 02, 2019, 12:18:41 pm
Quote
Serial toilet clogger sentenced to 150 days in jail, 3 years of probation
Diana Dombrowski

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - A 26-year-old Wisconsin man was sentenced Monday to three years of probation for clogging women's toilets in Deland Park and at his place of work.

Patrick D. Beeman  was originally charged with 12 misdemeanors of criminal damage to property, but seven of the charges were dismissed in early June.

As conditions of probation, Beeman will have to serve 150 days in jail, pay more than $5,500 in restitution, not be allowed to possess or consumer alcohol or any controlled substances, and complete 100 hours of community service.  ...

According to a criminal complaint, officers found a toilet in the women's bathroom at Deland Community Center clogged by a plastic bottle last March. Water was overflowing from the toilet.

Officers had checked the restrooms the previous evening and the toilets were not damaged. Officers reviewed 10 similar incidents beginning in April 2017 where toilets were clogged. The city determined each incident caused about $200 in damage, the complaint said.  ...
USA Today via MSN (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/serial-toilet-clogger-sentenced-to-150-days-in-jail-3-years-of-probation/ar-AADJ5Gv?li=BBnbcA1)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 02, 2019, 12:34:15 pm
Quote
Mom: United put teen son on the wrong international flight
Associated Press | Tuesday, July 2, 2019 7:53 a.m.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina woman says United Airlines put her teenage son on the wrong international flight, nearly sending him to Germany instead of Sweden.

Christer Berg tells WRAL-TV that her 14-year-old son was traveling alone to visit his grandparents and realized something was wrong as the plane prepared for takeoff. She says her son texted her from the runway that it was odd a flight to Sweden was filled with so many people who spoke German.  ...
More (https://triblive.com/news/world/mom-united-put-teen-son-on-the-wrong-international-flight/)

Seems to me Mom is at least as culpable. The flight number and destination are clearly indicated at the gate.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 02, 2019, 01:45:57 pm
More (https://triblive.com/news/world/mom-united-put-teen-son-on-the-wrong-international-flight/)

Seems to me Mom is at least as culpable. The flight number and destination are clearly indicated at the gate.  :shrug:

And, the 14 year old should have some awareness.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 02, 2019, 01:55:23 pm
And, the 14 year old should have some awareness.

He was sharp enough to notice the other passengers were speaking the "wrong" language.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 09, 2019, 04:26:31 pm
Quote
Woman trying to shoot someone in road rage incident ends up shooting husband in head: Sheriff

    By     emily shapiro  Jul 9, 2019

 A woman was allegedly trying to shoot someone in a road rage incident in Alabama when she ended up shooting her husband instead, authorities said.

The alleged road rage altercation took place at about 6:45 p.m. Saturday on a highway in Dodge City and carried over to a home in Bremen, according to the Cullman County Sheriff's Office.

Erica Cole was trying to shoot an unidentified person, according to the sheriff's office, but instead a bullet struck her husband, Nicholas Cole, in the head.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-shoot-road-rage-incident-ends-shooting-husband/story?id=64213597
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 09, 2019, 05:44:17 pm

@TomSea

 
Quote
Erica Cole was trying to shoot an unidentified person, according to the sheriff's office, but instead a bullet struck her husband, Nicholas Cole, in the head.

Don't ya just HATE it when that happens?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 09, 2019, 06:10:22 pm
Quote
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1148647463093448704

BREAKING: Multiple people stabbed by naked man in downtown Seattle; suspect in custody - KOMO

One tweet said it happened at a Nordstrom's dept. store.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on July 09, 2019, 06:47:37 pm
I think this one fits here as well!


Bill Clinton claims he ‘knows nothing’ about Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex crimes


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-clinton-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-crimes-2019-07-09 (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-clinton-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-crimes-2019-07-09)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on July 09, 2019, 08:50:35 pm
I think this one fits here as well!


Bill Clinton claims he ‘knows nothing’ about Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex crimes


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-clinton-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-crimes-2019-07-09 (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-clinton-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-crimes-2019-07-09)





It absolutely belongs here.  "I did not sleep with that woman" comes to mind.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 10, 2019, 12:18:06 am
I think this one fits here as well!


Bill Clinton claims he ‘knows nothing’ about Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex crimes


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-clinton-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-crimes-2019-07-09 (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-clinton-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-crimes-2019-07-09)

@Bigun

"Ah did not have sex with that woman,Monica Lewinsky."

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 10, 2019, 08:51:05 am
@Bigun

"Ah did not have sex with that woman,Monica Lewinsky."
I watched that presser. He was doing the finger pointing thing when he said "I did not have sex with that woman." (Pointing at Helen Thomas), then after that little pause, he said "Monica Lewinsky", which came off as a non-sequitur more than a denial of having sex with her.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 10, 2019, 01:05:39 pm
I watched that presser. He was doing the finger pointing thing when he said "I did not have sex with that woman." (Pointing at Helen Thomas), then after that little pause, he said "Monica Lewinsky", which came off as a non-sequitur more than a denial of having sex with her.

@Smokin Joe

Didn't really matter. It was Bubba Bill,and everybody knew it was both a joke and a lie.

Remember the "Hit all depends on whut the meaning of the word "is" is.",with a big smile?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 10, 2019, 03:01:25 pm
Quote
Dixon woman drove car with 2 kids inside inflatable pool on roof, police say

Updated 27 minutes ago

DIXON, Ill. (WLS) -- A woman in Dixon Illinois has been charged with child endangerment after police said she was driving a car with a pool on the roof with two children inside.

Police received a complaint at about 3:07 p.m. Tuesday and found a white Audi driving west on IL Route 2 west of Palmyra Road with a blue inflatable pool with two children inside on top of the car.

After conducting a traffic stop, police said the driver, 49-year-old Jennifer Yeager, told them that she drove into town to inflate the pool at a friend's house and had her two daughters ride inside the empty pool to hold it down on the drive home...

https://abc7chicago.com/dixon-woman-drove-car-with-2-kids-in-pool-on-roof-police-say/5387140/

It makes perfect sense.   :pondering:

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 10, 2019, 03:17:06 pm
 :rolling:
It makes perfect sense.   :pondering:

@Sanguine

That's funny,in a truly sick,distorted way.

I had to check to see she wasn't from Florida.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 10, 2019, 03:24:20 pm
Loud fart gives away suspect's hiding spot, leads to arrest
Posted Jul 09 2019 04:34PM CDT
Updated Jul 09 2019 06:23PM CDT

CLAY COUNTY, Mo. (FOX 9) - When tracking down a suspect, law enforcement might use a K-9 to track down a scent.

This was not necessary for a recent arrest in Missouri.

According to the Clay County Sheriff's Office, over the weekend, Liberty police were searching for a person who a felony warrant for arrest. The person was wanted for possession of a controlled substance.

The suspect hid to avoid police, but apparently let out a fart so loudly, it gave up their hiding spot.

"We’ve gotta give props to Liberty PD for using their senses to sniff him out!" read a Facebook comment from the Clay County Sheriff's Office.
source (http://www.fox9.com/news/loud-fart-gives-away-suspect-s-hiding-spot-leads-to-arrest?fbclid=IwAR2DuNwpz8zGt4YJExYkOcbyny1tabsrprFNhPu-Pd6gFa8LyBvEY7SQ5P4)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on July 10, 2019, 04:28:58 pm
@mountaineer

That is hilarious.  LOL
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 10, 2019, 05:00:09 pm
The suspect hid to avoid police, but apparently let out a fart so loudly, it gave up their hiding spot.

I hate it when that happens.  **nononono*
Nervous flatulence.
It's a thing.
How I suffer.
Poor guy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on July 10, 2019, 07:22:33 pm
Dixon woman drove car with 2 kids inside inflatable pool on roof, police say

(http://i63.tinypic.com/33wquf5.png)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 10, 2019, 08:05:17 pm
(http://i63.tinypic.com/33wquf5.png)


 **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on July 10, 2019, 08:24:07 pm
(http://i63.tinypic.com/33wquf5.png)




In my mind I hear the conversation that might have taken place..

O.K. kids, get in the pool so we can get it home....and hold on tight.

O.K. Mom!!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 10, 2019, 08:29:41 pm

 **nononono*

Yeah.
If she'd have been thinking, she might have just filled it up with water.
Then the kids could have done their swimmin and been tired by the time they got home.
And the car would be washed. What a time saver that would be.

But no diving board. That wouldn't be safe  :nono:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on July 11, 2019, 12:20:23 am
Yeah.
If she'd have been thinking, she might have just filled it up with water.
Then the kids could have done their swimmin and been tired by the time they got home.
And the car would be washed. What a time saver that would be.

But no diving board. That wouldn't be safe  :nono:

Now you're just being silly.  You put 2-300# of water in a flexible pool, how are you going to lift up and put in on top of a car?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 11, 2019, 07:32:12 am
Now you're just being silly.  You put 2-300# of water in a flexible pool, how are you going to lift up and put in on top of a car?
Put the pool on top, then add the water...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on July 11, 2019, 11:46:04 am
Put the pool on top, then add the water...

Are straps or rope really such a complicated topic that she wouldn't consider using them?

Because the water, when she first accelerates....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 11, 2019, 01:47:53 pm
Are straps or rope really such a complicated topic that she wouldn't consider using them?

Because the water, when she first accelerates....

Well, reading between the lines, she and the girls were doing fine right up to when she got stopped. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 11, 2019, 01:59:48 pm
Now you're just being silly.  You put 2-300# of water in a flexible pool, how are you going to lift up and put in on top of a car?

ROTFLMAO!!!

Well, a backhoe of course. You DO have a backhoe, right?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on July 11, 2019, 05:43:11 pm
ROTFLMAO!!!

Well, a backhoe of course. You DO have a backhoe, right?
(http://i64.tinypic.com/14lk7b8.jpg)                Black Ho? That's racist..........oh you said backhoe? Never mind
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 11, 2019, 06:35:50 pm
Black Ho? That's racist..........oh you said backhoe? Never mind

LOL!

No really. Everybody needs a backhoe.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 11, 2019, 10:15:36 pm
LOL!

No really. Everybody needs a backhoe.
I'd love to have one. It could be handy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on July 11, 2019, 11:23:22 pm
I'd love to have one. It could be handy.

Yes indeed.  It is on the wish list.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on July 11, 2019, 11:27:10 pm
ROTFLMAO!!!

Well, a backhoe of course. You DO have a backhoe, right?

I'd need a fronthoe and a backhoe, because my property is so small there's no way to get one from the front yard to the back.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 11, 2019, 11:54:25 pm
I'd love to have one. It could be handy.

We got rid of the 580 Case... It's a loader and a hoe, and nothing else. Got rid of a JD 410 Extendahoe a while before that.. for the same reason... Funny that we did that twice, but that's how diggity having a hoe can be...

I can't remember which one it is right now, but we've a little mid-range JD 4wd and I am looking for the hoe attachment for that for more versatility.

I'd kinda like a bigger Massey or Ford from back in the day... Would be nice for the ability for a bigger brush hog, tine aerator, and a real box scraper... I know the old Fords could take a hoe attachment, and maybe the Masseys too... But if I could trip over something like that, that would be even better... Other than anything that old ain't gonna be joysticks on the hoe, and I ain't run that old school stuff for a long, long time...

 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 11, 2019, 11:56:36 pm
I'd need a fronthoe and a backhoe, because my property is so small there's no way to get one from the front yard to the back.

I'd have to move.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on July 12, 2019, 12:17:48 am
I'd have to move.  :shrug:

Part of me would like to be able to shoot a rifle off my porch without any chance of hitting anyone who wasn't trespassing.  Another part wanted to be able to drop my boat in salt water w/o having to trailer it to a ramp.  I picked one, then got too old and ornery to ever want to move again.

I suppose I could go back and work another 30 years so I could afford both, but then I'd be too old to enjoy them [I'll get back to you in 30 years and we can review the "too old" part].
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 12, 2019, 12:31:45 am
Part of me would like to be able to shoot a rifle off my porch without any chance of hitting anyone who wasn't trespassing.  Another part wanted to be able to drop my boat in salt water w/o having to trailer it to a ramp.  I picked one, then got too old and ornery to ever want to move again.

I suppose I could go back and work another 30 years so I could afford both, but then I'd be too old to enjoy them [I'll get back to you in 30 years and we can review the "too old" part].

If my neighbor is in his front yard, and I am in mine, and I can pick up a rock, chuck it at his head, and actually hit him, that's way too close.

I am barely in that condition now... And if I were younger and my arm worked like it used to, I would be all the way in that condition... It's too dang close.

If I ever get my legs all the way back, I am heading for the sticks. There is something very important about waking up in the morning, walking out the door, and peeing off the porch.

I have found that waiving at my neighbor while doing that can be distracting.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 12, 2019, 12:35:25 am
We got rid of the 580 Case... It's a loader and a hoe, and nothing else. Got rid of a JD 410 Extendahoe a while before that.. for the same reason... Funny that we did that twice, but that's how diggity having a hoe can be...

I can't remember which one it is right now, but we've a little mid-range JD 4wd and I am looking for the hoe attachment for that for more versatility.

I'd kinda like a bigger Massey or Ford from back in the day... Would be nice for the ability for a bigger brush hog, tine aerator, and a real box scraper... I know the old Fords could take a hoe attachment, and maybe the Masseys too... But if I could trip over something like that, that would be even better... Other than anything that old ain't gonna be joysticks on the hoe, and I ain't run that old school stuff for a long, long time...

@roamer_1

Take a look at the TYM line of tractors. Most parts made in Korea,but mine has a Japanese diesel engine,and they are assembled in central NC. I THINK they also have an assembly plant somewhere in the west. They are also sometimes called "Case" these days. Or at least the smaller and mid-sized ones. Don't believe me,take a look at the TYM's and then go take a look at the new Case tractors.

I love my old 58 HP 345D Ford,but it is configured as only a front end loader right now,and it's only 2wd and a lot of the work I do with it is in soft ground. SOB is HEAVY and hard to get out when it's stuck and both (slick) back tires are spinning free. I bought it from a small city that only used it with a side mounted mower to mow the ditches along the roads,so it doesn't have that many hours,but tractor tires don't last long on asphalt or concrete roads.

 I needed a 4x4,so I bit the bullet and bought the new TYM with 4x4,bucket,box blade,cab,and air-conditioning and heat as well as a AM-FM radio. One of the smaller ones that weighs about 3,000 lbs,which is less than half of what the 345D weighs.

I have to admit I like the column mounted shuttle shift on the 345D more than I do the two pedals in the floor for forward and backwards. Already ran into the side of my new truck when I hit the "brake" pedal without thinking,and instead of stopping it went forward . The 12 speed shuttle shift is a dream to work with
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 12, 2019, 12:59:31 am
@roamer_1

Take a look at the TYM line of tractors. Most parts made in Korea,but mine has a Japanese diesel engine,and they are assembled in central NC. I THINK they also have an assembly plant somewhere in the west. They are also sometimes called "Case" these days. Or at least the smaller and mid-sized ones. Don't believe me,take a look at the TYM's and then go take a look at the new Case tractors.

@sneakypete
I looked at Yanmar pretty hard. I am governed by parts and dealership, and around here that's gonna be JD or Kubota for the most part. I can do Case parts through a local shop here, but it ain't a real dealer. Yanmar is down in Missoula though, which is 120 miles off... Which ain't that bad for a midrange tractor... I can toss it on a trailer and have it there in a couple hours.

But local is better, and it can't be Kubota, because I dotted the owners eye a while back and ever since then we really don't get along. So... I wound up sticking with John Deere.

Quote
I love my old 58 HP 345D Ford,

That's just about exactly what I am looking for. If it has the hooks on the back for the backhoe, that, or something just about like it would be the ticket.

That midrange of ours is somewhere around that HP, and 4wd, But I will tell you right now, it don't stand in the shade of that ol Ford. Too light. Won't side hill (this is MT after all). Can't put the tine aerator on it at all, unless I only fill it part way up. And the cheesy little box scraper i got ain't half of a real one, and that JD has trouble with it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on July 12, 2019, 01:17:40 am
If my neighbor is in his front yard, and I am in mine, and I can pick up a rock, chuck it at his head, and actually hit him, that's way too close.

I am barely in that condition now... And if I were younger and my arm worked like it used to, I would be all the way in that condition... It's too dang close.

If I ever get my legs all the way back, I am heading for the sticks. There is something very important about waking up in the morning, walking out the door, and peeing off the porch.

I have found that waiving at my neighbor while doing that can be distracting.  :shrug:

Try waiving with your left hand.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 12, 2019, 03:30:36 am
Try waiving with your left hand.

 :silly: :silly: :silly:
 :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 12, 2019, 11:39:13 am
Try waiving with your left hand.

@InHeavenThereIsNoBeer

Well,he could wave with his right hand,but his neighbor might think he is trying to brag.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 12, 2019, 09:35:48 pm
This is fun:

https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2019/07/11/4011217508578575266/1024x576_MP4_4011217508578575266.mp4
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 12, 2019, 09:57:41 pm
This is fun:

https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2019/07/11/4011217508578575266/1024x576_MP4_4011217508578575266.mp4

@Sanguine

I am betting they could have all ran a great deal faster if someone had just added ONE real T-Rex to the race.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 12, 2019, 10:03:55 pm
@Sanguine

I am betting they could have all ran a great deal faster if someone had just added ONE real T-Rex to the race.

Yeah, but they're hard to load into those race chute thingies.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 12, 2019, 10:39:46 pm
Yeah, but they're hard to load into those race chute thingies.

@Sanguine

Nothing worth doing is ever easy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on July 13, 2019, 09:59:18 am
(https://i.imgur.com/kvllQ6S.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 13, 2019, 01:39:46 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/kvllQ6S.jpg)

Austin must be some Toddlin' Town.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 13, 2019, 02:06:58 pm
Austin must be some Toddlin' Town.

It is amazing now.  In a bad way.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 13, 2019, 02:26:42 pm
It is amazing now.  In a bad way.

I spent a couple nights at The Driskill once.  A wild place then.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 13, 2019, 02:28:54 pm
I spent a couple nights at The Driskill once.  A wild place then.

I loved the piano bar there.  Lovely place.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 13, 2019, 02:32:31 pm
I loved the piano bar there.  Lovely place.

My room was next to the LBJ suite.  Nice place, for a old hotel.  I had some friends who stayed in the newer section.  Sixth Street was loaded with good bars.  I was there back in the 80's, and there were hookers aplenty.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on July 13, 2019, 02:55:01 pm
You confused me there for a minute until I realized there are Driskills in both San Antonio and Austin.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 13, 2019, 03:02:26 pm
You confused me there for a minute until I realized there are Driskills in both San Antonio and Austin.

OK, @Cyber Liberty which one are you talking about?  And, I don't remember any hookers.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 13, 2019, 03:10:40 pm
OK, @Cyber Liberty which one are you talking about?  And, I don't remember any hookers.

Austin on 6th St.  The hookers were obvious once it was past Midnight.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 13, 2019, 03:18:54 pm
Austin on 6th St.  The hookers were obvious once it was past Midnight.

Oh.   I thought they were college kids. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 13, 2019, 03:23:58 pm
Oh.   I thought they were college kids.

 :laugh:

It's hard to tell.  The only functional difference is you had to pay one kind.  And they were mostly trannies, even back then.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on July 13, 2019, 04:43:51 pm
Austin on 6th St.  The hookers were obvious once it was past Midnight.

6th street in Austin is very much like Bourbon Street in New Orleans.  (If you happen to drop your wallet on 6th street kick it for about 10 blocks before you pick it up.)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on July 13, 2019, 04:56:15 pm
Surprised they used the term 'drunk driver'.
You can get anything you want in Austin.
I doubt these guys were 'drunk' on alcohol in Austin.
Drinking...is kind of a low priority item.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on July 18, 2019, 05:28:58 pm
   I was too embarrassed to post this in @Sanguines Texas Thread.

'She's trying to swipe that mother****** to get some merchandise': Hilarious video shows the moment a slurring woman tries to pay for goods with toy bank cards at a Texas store before 'making a call' on her fake phone

•Woman tried to use a toy credit and debit card to pay for goods in online video
•Store manager explained to the slurring lady that her cards aren't real
•A fellow shopper attempted to help only to find it was a fake card too
•After the first failed, she drew out second plastic toy labelled 'debit card'
•In disbelief, she tried to call someone on her phone that is also clearly a kids' toy
•The 1 min 40 clip from a 7-Eleven, in San Antonio, Texas has over 109,000 views

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/07/14/17/16035414-7246185-image-m-61_1563122398634.jpg)

<..Video at link..>

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7246185/Video-shows-slurring-woman-tries-pay-goods-toy-credit-debit-cards-Texas-store.html?ito=video_player_click (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7246185/Video-shows-slurring-woman-tries-pay-goods-toy-credit-debit-cards-Texas-store.html?ito=video_player_click)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on July 18, 2019, 08:45:03 pm
 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on July 18, 2019, 09:12:42 pm
   Is that Monopoly $$$ hanging out of her Bra?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 18, 2019, 09:13:10 pm
That's some good stuff @corbe.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 19, 2019, 10:49:04 pm
Woman's neck sliced open in freak lawn mower accident
Updated: 11:40 AM EDT Jul 19, 2019
Chelsea Robinson
Quote
BRIDGEWATER, S.D. —

A South Dakota woman is lucky to be alive after a freak lawn mower accident.

Kendra Jensen told KSFY that her husband was mowing their lawn when the mower kicked up a piece of debris.
Advertisement

"I thought that I got hit by a rock. It felt like something hit me, and then fell off me," Kendra Jensen said. "I didn't know that my neck had been sliced open."  ...
Rest of story (https://www.wtae.com/article/woman-s-neck-sliced-open-in-freak-lawn-mower-accident/28447957)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on July 19, 2019, 10:54:29 pm
Woman's neck sliced open in freak lawn mower accident
Updated: 11:40 AM EDT Jul 19, 2019
Chelsea RobinsonRest of story (https://www.wtae.com/article/woman-s-neck-sliced-open-in-freak-lawn-mower-accident/28447957)

Good case to be made for keeping people and pets far away from the mower.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 21, 2019, 11:45:24 am
Here's a reason not to wear those things.
Quote
DNA from dreadlocks at 2015 Pittsburgh murder scene leads to Va. man’s arrest
Joe Napsha | Friday, July 19, 2019 11:49 p.m.
Pittsburgh Tribune Review (https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/dna-from-dreadlocks-at-2015-pittsburgh-murder-scene-leads-to-va-mans-arrest/)

A Virginia man whose two dreadlocks containing body tissue were found at a 2015 murder scene in Pittsburgh was arrested this week after DNA tests matched him with the hair samples, Pittsburgh police said.

The suspect, Aaron Cross, who is incarcerated in Riverside Regional Jail in North Prince George County, Va., is accused of murdering Shakiem Williams of New York City, during a robbery in Crafton Heights, on July 30, 2015.  ...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 21, 2019, 10:53:16 pm
Quote
Police departments ask would-be criminals to hold off on committing crimes until after heat wave

Saturday, July 20, 2019 5:17PM

BRAINTREE, Mass. -- It's so hot in some parts of the country that police departments are asking would-be criminals to hold off on committing crimes until the heat wave passes.

"It is straight-up hot as soccer balls out there," police in Braintree, Massachusetts, wrote Friday in a light-hearted Facebook post. "Conducting criminal activity in this extreme heat is next-level henchmen status and also very dangerous."

Braintree is a community of more than 35,000 people situated approximately 20 minutes south of Boston. The National Weather Service placed the city under an excessive heat warning Saturday, with high temperatures in the 90s expected throughout the weekend...

https://abc7ny.com/5408228/?ex_cid=TA_WABC_TW&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+New+Content+(Feed)&utm_content=5d33939f68db170001ed9d02&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 24, 2019, 03:13:11 am
Quote
Grocery worker found in shop where he worked after 10-year search

Police say the body of a man who went missing in 2009 has been discovered behind a freezer in the now-closed supermarket where he worked.


Investigators in Council Bluffs, Iowa, say Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada, 25, had apparently fallen into an 18-inch (45cm) gap at No Frills supermarket.

Noise from the coolers probably muffled his cries for help, according to investigator Sgt Brandon Danielson.

No foul play was detected and his death was ruled to be accidental.

More: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49078557 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49078557)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on July 24, 2019, 03:17:31 am
♫ Someone's in the kitchen with Di-nah ♫
♫ Someone's laying dead by the sto-o-o-ove. ♫
♫ Someone's in the kitchen with Di-nah ♫
♫ And the smell is really hurting my nose. ♫
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on July 26, 2019, 05:31:24 pm
Here's a strange one I'll just put in this thread as well.

Quote
Ex-Israeli military soldier tells flasher 'I’m going to get you darling', condemns passersby for not helping
By Paulina Dedaj | Fox News

A Massachusetts woman, once a member of the Israeli military, has told the man that flashed her last week “I’m going to get you, darling”, as she hit out at the several witnesses who refused to help her accost him.

Aia Polansky, a 33-year-old mother of two, was jogging down Memorial Drive near Vassar Street in Cambridge on July 18 at around 7:30 a.m. when a man jogging past her exposed himself twice.

“He pulled his pants once and I didn’t react too much I thought it’s awkward,” she told Boston’s WBZ-TV Wednesday. “As he came closer he pulled them again then I understood maybe it’s not what I think it is and then he reached his hand out.”

https://www.foxnews.com/us/israeli-military-soldier-mother-flasher-darling-condemns-passersby (https://www.foxnews.com/us/israeli-military-soldier-mother-flasher-darling-condemns-passersby)

Aia Polansky, the victim here is 6'1", she was able to pin this guy down but nobody came to her help to call the police, so he was able to get away per the story.

Unfortunately, I think women, some women,  must have to run into things like this from time to time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 26, 2019, 09:11:37 pm
Here's a strange one I'll just put in this thread as well.

Aia Polansky, the victim here is 6'1", she was able to pin this guy down but nobody came to her help to call the police, so he was able to get away per the story.

Unfortunately, I think women, some women,  must have to run into things like this from time to time.

@TomSea

If she needs someone to practice on,I'm available.

Just saying......
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on July 30, 2019, 12:16:52 pm
West Mifflin, PA: Woman urinates on potatoes in the Wal-Mart produce aisle, still at large
https://www.wivb.com/news/pa-police-seek-woman-who-urinated-on-potatoes-in-walmart/ (https://www.wivb.com/news/pa-police-seek-woman-who-urinated-on-potatoes-in-walmart/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 30, 2019, 12:36:32 pm
West Mifflin, PA: Woman urinates on potatoes in the Wal-Mart produce aisle, still at large
I just watched the local Pittsburgh TV coverage of this story. Good grief. I've shopped at that Walmart. In fact, I was there last Tuesday, but not to buy produce!  **nononono*

I think that's what you might call "peetatoes."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on July 30, 2019, 02:48:54 pm
@mountaineer

It's a shame that Walmart has been getting such bad publicity lately.   People are starting to think that the stores are infested with lowlifes, gangbangers and weird people. and I fear many Walmarts  will lose business.  The store in West Mifflin that you mentioned is in an ok area, but it brings in bad people by some rather good bus service.  Now the one closest to me has only very sparse bus service and it requires a good bit of walking between the store and the closest bus stop.  So I have yet to see anyone there that would make me apprehensive to shop at that store. 

You and I are not lowlifes.  We shop at Walmart for groceries and maybe some other things.  Since I retired, I don't get dressed up much.  So I buy my casual wear there.  Why pay large amounts of money for, say, jeans at some upscale store when a pair from Walmart do nicely?  But when I tell people I shop at Walmart, they give me a rather disapproving look  as if to say, why are you shopping with all the low class people?  and more recently, I get, "aren't you afraid to shop at Walmart?" -- because of the recent crimes at some Walmart stores.

I think Walmart had better beef up security or their stores are going to end up like many of the shopping malls.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 30, 2019, 03:17:43 pm
@mountaineer

It's a shame that Walmart has been getting such bad publicity lately.   People are starting to think that the stores are infested with lowlifes, gangbangers and weird people. and I fear many Walmarts  will lose business.  The store in West Mifflin that you mentioned is in an ok area, but it brings in bad people by some rather good bus service.  Now the one closest to me has only very sparse bus service and it requires a good bit of walking between the store and the closest bus stop.  So I have yet to see anyone there that would make me apprehensive to shop at that store. 

You and I are not lowlifes.  We shop at Walmart for groceries and maybe some other things.  Since I retired, I don't get dressed up much.  So I buy my casual wear there.  Why pay large amounts of money for, say, jeans at some upscale store when a pair from Walmart do nicely?  But when I tell people I shop at Walmart, they give me a rather disapproving look  as if to say, why are you shopping with all the low class people?  and more recently, I get, "aren't you afraid to shop at Walmart?" -- because of the recent crimes at some Walmart stores.

I think Walmart had better beef up security or their stores are going to end up like many of the shopping malls.

@Applewood

Maybe they can talk their Chinese masters into sending a platoon or two of Red Army troops to each of their China Outlet Stores to provide security? THAT would get the gangbangers high-stepping in a hurry!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on July 30, 2019, 03:30:01 pm
@Applewood

Maybe they can talk their Chinese masters into sending a platoon or two of Red Army troops to each of their China Outlet Stores to provide security? THAT would get the gangbangers high-stepping in a hurry!

@sneakypete

Oh I knew you or some other anti-Walmart member here would make a crack about Walmart's Chinese-made goods.  Well, if you want to buy your American made casual clothes at some retailer that will charge you an arm and a leg, you have my permission. 

 :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 30, 2019, 03:38:54 pm
@sneakypete

Oh I knew you or some other anti-Walmart member here would make a crack about Walmart's Chinese-made goods.  Well, if you want to buy your American made casual clothes at some retailer that will charge you an arm and a leg, you have my permission. 

 :tongue2:

@Applewood

Just stop whining about the Chinese taking over when you furnish them with the money and access.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on July 30, 2019, 03:55:20 pm
@Applewood

Just stop whining about the Chinese taking over when you furnish them with the money and access.

@sneakypete

Well, dear, many products are made overseas because, thanks mostly to greedy unions, companies figured out if they wanted to make a profit and stay in business, they would have to have them made in other countries where production costs less.  Don't blame me for buying merchandise made in China or elsewhere.  In some cases, you can't find American made anymore and what little there is costs a fortune.  Maybe you are sitting on a pile of cash and can afford $100 jeans.    I can't and even if I could, I'm not going to spend that much on several yards of denim. 

If you want to complain, complain to the manufacturers and the unions which drove manufacturing away from the US.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 30, 2019, 04:05:16 pm
I'm trying to blame the Chinese for this trashy woman urinating on the potatoes, but just can't figure out how to do it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 30, 2019, 04:16:17 pm
I'm trying to blame the Chinese for this trashy woman urinating on the potatoes, but just can't figure out how to do it.

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 30, 2019, 04:41:50 pm
@sneakypete

Well, dear, many products are made overseas because, thanks mostly to greedy unions, companies figured out if they wanted to make a profit and stay in business, they would have to have them made in other countries where production costs less.  Don't blame me for buying merchandise made in China or elsewhere.

@Applewood

Why? Is someone forcing you to buy that junk crap against your will?

Or are you one of those "Me,Me,ME,DAMMIT!" people who think the world revolves around them,and what is good for them is good for the world.

I suspect the second question is the correct one. It fits in with your "I hate Trump and don't care if him losing the election results in the destruction of America because I am more important than any mere country!" POV.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on July 30, 2019, 04:44:31 pm
I'm trying to blame the Chinese for this trashy woman urinating on the potatoes, but just can't figure out how to do it.

I agree with @Sanguine    :beer: to both of you.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on July 30, 2019, 05:07:55 pm
@Applewood

Why? Is someone forcing you to buy that junk crap against your will?

Or are you one of those "Me,Me,ME,DAMMIT!" people who think the world revolves around them,and what is good for them is good for the world.

I suspect the second question is the correct one. It fits in with your "I hate Trump and don't care if him losing the election results in the destruction of America because I am more important than any mere country!" POV.

@sneakypete

Nobody forces me to buy anything.  A lot of what I buy at Walmart is actually rather good.  In fact, I've bought some American made items that were more junk than similar items I've bought at Walmart.    American made does not mean better quality.   

And your "I hate Trump" BS is just that.  Trump's trade war temper tantrums have not and will not bring manufacturing jobs back to the US on the scale this country enjoyed earlier in my lifetime.  All it has done is drive manufacturers to other countries, wreck a few retirement nest eggs, cause companies here to go bankrupt or teeter on the edge and raise prices for the American consumer.  I don't "hate" Trump; I just don't fall for his baloney as you do.



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Elderberry on July 30, 2019, 05:45:52 pm
@Applewood

Why? Is someone forcing you to buy that junk crap against your will?


@sneakypete

I'm not forced, nor brainwashed, to purchase goods at Walmart. I've shopped at Walmart for a good portion of my life. I was shopping at Walmart much before my wife began working(17yrs. now) at Sam's, a Walmart company. I'm not saying that they don't sell some junk. Most/All discount stores sell some junk, but not all their products are junk.

You do know the sayin' " let the buyer beware".

With stores in general, the quality of goods has been going down for a long time. Especially tools. More and more I look at the used/surplus market first, and even antique stores, before looking at what goes for a new tool these days. People are now buying cheap tools to get them thru the present task they are working on. Instead of tools that will last for a lifetime. Harbor Freight, for example. There may not be a single good tool in the whole store. Sure they sell many that may get you by for a while. And Now Northern Tool is just as bad. When they were named Northern Hydraulics they weren't too bad, but not anymore. Junk, junk, junk.  I was fitting out  gin poles for my 56 to pull the engine/trans out of the hunting camp bus. I went to Northern tool for chain and fittings. Sure they had plenty of graded chain. But they had ZERO graded fittings. It was all ungraded Chinese fittings. NO SALE.

MY son had a mechanic swap engines in his Vette with a 454 Crate engine. Afterward my son noticed a vibration he hadn't felt before. And then he got orders to Guam. We trailered the car home and later I found that the shop had used the orig harmonic balancer and flex plate. Well the pulled engine must of been internally balanced and the new one externally. As there are only a few bolts connecting the flex plate to the trans I wanted to go with new bolts. What an ordeal. I started with auto parts stores. The only bolts of that type were blister packed from China with no grading. I wouldn't of trusted them even if they were graded. You have heard all about counterfeit graded bolts from China, haven't you? So I went to several "Speed Centers" They were selling the same crap.  I ended up buying a box of 50 graded Johansen bolts from McMaster for cheaper than those Chinese blister packs were going for.

So don't go hard on Walmart without realizing its all around you.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 30, 2019, 05:50:42 pm
This has nothing to do with the spud piddler, which is infinitely more interesting than all this Walmart-bashing, but Walmart always has tried to buy American-made products, where available. Unfortunately, it's hard to find them. We just don't make a lot of consumer goods in this country anymore. So Walmart either gets its shower curtains, coffeemakers and the like from foreign sources, or they stop selling them altogether.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 30, 2019, 07:27:01 pm
@sneakypete

Quote
I'm not forced, nor brainwashed, to purchase goods at Walmart. I've shopped at Walmart for a good portion of my life. I was shopping at Walmart much before my wife began working(17yrs. now) at Sam's, a Walmart company. I'm not saying that they don't sell some junk. Most/All discount stores sell some junk, but not all their products are junk.

You do know the sayin' " let the buyer beware".

With stores in general, the quality of goods has been going down for a long time. Especially tools. More and more I look at the used/surplus market first, and even antique stores, before looking at what goes for a new tool these days. People are now buying cheap tools to get them thru the present task they are working on. Instead of tools that will last for a lifetime. Harbor Freight, for example. There may not be a single good tool in the whole store. Sure they sell many that may get you by for a while. And Now Northern Tool is just as bad. When they were named Northern Hydraulics they weren't too bad, but not anymore. Junk, junk, junk.


@Elderberry

You know why? Because people were buying the junk because it was cheap. I once was forced to buy a hammer at a Dollar General while off on a road trip to bring a car home. My trailer deck is wooden,and I 2x8 wooder planks to make my ramp less steep. I needed a hammer to nail the wooden ramps to the wooden deck right behind the front tires and right ahead of the rear tires as an additional safely measure,and to keep them from blowing off going down the road. When I went to pull the nails out of the ramps so I could position them and winch the car up on the trailer,damned if the head didn't bend on the metal shaft. I ended up having to go to a home depot and buy a good hammer despite having 3 good hammers at home.

How much did I save? Not a nickel. I lost money by having to buy a hammer twice,I lost time by having to make two trips to buy a freaking hammer,and I lost money by having to pay for the diesel and the wear and tear on my truck  to find a Home Depot to buy a hammer.

I agree that most people not only don't need "contractor grade" hand or power tools,but that doesn't mean they should buy junk. Sears as well as other companies used to make and sell an "ecomomy" line of hand and power tools that was just as strong as the professional line,but not as well polished or "accessorized". Now,with the exceptions of a few stores,Sears sells nothing.

The reason for this is they lost their customers due to idiots buying Chinese junk that the Chinese sold below costs in order to destroy the  US manufacturing markets so they could later move in and sell their junk at the same price US manufactured items used to sell for.

Meanwhile,all the people that worked in the factories designing and manufacturing all those tools no longer have jobs.

Yeah,we saw a TINY amount of this after WW-2 when the Japanese were allowed to flood our market with cheap crap so they could rebuild their cities and get back on their feet,but that period didn't last very long because the Japanese took their profits and used the money to design and build better items.

With the Chinese there is no freaking end because the heads of the Dim and the alleged Republican parties are in bed with them Nancy Pelosi's husband is their chief legal counsel (Norinco) in the US,and it was Nancy that tipped her husband off on the BATF raid of their warehouses at Long Beach,Ca to confiscate the machine guns that Norinco was smuggling into the country and selling to drug gangs,as well as to drug gangs in Mexico

The BATF was/is required by law to brief a Senate Committee that she chaired (IIRC,the Foreign Relations Committee) on any upcoming raids or arrests of foreign nationals at least a day before it happens,so they did. That very same night every single Norinco official in the US flew out of America. Either straight back to China,on to some place they could get a direct flight.
Not a single one was arrested.

 I was fitting out  gin poles for my 56 to pull the engine/trans out of the hunting camp bus. I went to Northern tool for chain and fittings. Sure they had plenty of graded chain. But they had ZERO graded fittings. It was all ungraded Chinese fittings. NO SALE.

Quote
MY son had a mechanic swap engines in his Vette with a 454 Crate engine. Afterward my son noticed a vibration he hadn't felt before. And then he got orders to Guam. We trailered the car home and later I found that the shop had used the orig harmonic balancer and flex plate. Well the pulled engine must of been internally balanced and the new one externally. As there are only a few bolts connecting the flex plate to the trans I wanted to go with new bolts. What an ordeal. I started with auto parts stores. The only bolts of that type were blister packed from China with no grading. I wouldn't of trusted them even if they were graded. You have heard all about counterfeit graded bolts from China, haven't you? So I went to several "Speed Centers" They were selling the same crap.  I ended up buying a box of 50 graded Johansen bolts from McMaster for cheaper than those Chinese blister packs were going for.

You are making my case for me. Thanks!

Quote
So don't go hard on Walmart without realizing its all around you.

Oh,I do realize that. I mostly go after Wal-Mart because it was probably the first to betray us .Bubba was governor of Ark,and Bubbette! was appointed to a board seat at Wal-Mart based on her extensive business experience of none at all. The Bush Crime Family was in the WH,and they had to pull the political strings to lower tariffs and let Chinese crap into the US.
EVERYBODY got to dip their beaks into that one. The thing that pisses me off the most about it is this was happening at the same time that Wal-Mart was advertising "Our products are 98 percent made in America!" That may have been true for about 15 minutes,but the Chinese cargo ships were already at sea.

BTW,the Bush Crime Family connection is related to Poppy having been the 1st US Ambassador to China,and had also been the head of the CIA. He knew who was who there,and who to make the connections with. China opened up to the US,and Poppy immediately sent his uncle there to open the "US-China Chamber of Commerce" to handle the paperwork for all the deals between the Chinese government and US Merchants.

I'm sure that and Bubbette! being on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart is just a coinkydink,and has nothing to do with why they are still such great good friends,even today.

Now we have given them American money in exchange for cash,and created a monster in Asia we are going to have to deal with for the foerseen future. 

And this ain't even getting into how Poppy and Boy Jorge opened the flood gates to US schools for members of the PLA to steal our technology.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 30, 2019, 07:29:52 pm
Quote
This has nothing to do with the spud piddler, which is infinitely more interesting than all this Walmart-bashing, but Walmart always has tried to buy American-made products, where available.

@mountaineer

What are your other favorite fairy tales?


 
Quote
Unfortunately, it's hard to find them. We just don't make a lot of consumer goods in this country anymore.

Gee,I wonder why?

 
 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 30, 2019, 08:17:46 pm
@sneakypete

Please!  This is a lighthearted thread!  Leave the Bush thing to a serious thread?

TIA
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on July 30, 2019, 08:35:43 pm
Well, in case anyone cares -- the woman who allegedly did her business on the produce at Walmart turned herself in.

https://www.wtae.com/article/police-search-for-woman-accused-of-urinating-on-produce-at-west-mifflin-walmart/28547837 (https://www.wtae.com/article/police-search-for-woman-accused-of-urinating-on-produce-at-west-mifflin-walmart/28547837)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 30, 2019, 09:31:23 pm
I agree with @Sanguine    :beer: to both of you.

 888high58888 @Applewood
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 30, 2019, 09:35:35 pm
Well, in case anyone cares -- the woman who allegedly did her business on the produce at Walmart turned herself in.

https://www.wtae.com/article/police-search-for-woman-accused-of-urinating-on-produce-at-west-mifflin-walmart/28547837 (https://www.wtae.com/article/police-search-for-woman-accused-of-urinating-on-produce-at-west-mifflin-walmart/28547837)

I wonder if it's sinking in that for the rest of her life when anyone does a search for her name, the fact that she climbed up into a bin of potatoes in a grocery store and peed on them is going to show up? 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 30, 2019, 09:41:41 pm
I wonder if it's sinking in that for the rest of her life when anyone does a search for her name, the fact that she climbed up into a bin of potatoes in a grocery store and peed on them is going to show up?

She might think it's cool!   :cool:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 31, 2019, 01:09:20 am
I'm trying to blame the Chinese for this trashy woman urinating on the potatoes, but just can't figure out how to do it.
Seriously? Haven't you heard of the "Yellow Peril"?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 31, 2019, 01:11:09 am
Seriously? Haven't you heard of the "Yellow Peril"?

HA!
 888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on July 31, 2019, 01:14:48 am
Finally!  The link has been made.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 31, 2019, 01:31:49 am
Well, in case anyone cares -- the woman who allegedly did her business on the produce at Walmart turned herself in.

https://www.wtae.com/article/police-search-for-woman-accused-of-urinating-on-produce-at-west-mifflin-walmart/28547837 (https://www.wtae.com/article/police-search-for-woman-accused-of-urinating-on-produce-at-west-mifflin-walmart/28547837)

@Applewood

She is claiming she made a mistake. Maybe she thought she was urinating on a bag of carrots or tomatoes?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 31, 2019, 01:36:44 am
@Applewood

She is claiming she made a mistake. Maybe she thought she was urinating on a bag of carrots or tomatoes?

Give her a break. Pissing is hard.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on July 31, 2019, 04:54:18 pm
79-year-old woman sentenced to 10 days in jail for feeding stray cats
https://www.ajc.com/news/national/year-old-woman-sentenced-days-jail-for-feeding-stray-cats/BLPFXqa62gGyp4vPf7y09M/ (https://www.ajc.com/news/national/year-old-woman-sentenced-days-jail-for-feeding-stray-cats/BLPFXqa62gGyp4vPf7y09M/)

...Nancy Segula of Garfield Heights said she started feeding them a few years ago when the cats would visit her on her back porch....

...But Segula's neighbors called the authorities who issued her a citation.She received three others. The final one told her to appear in front of a judge who sentenced her to 10 days in the Cuyahoga County Jail. She has to report on Aug. 11, WJW reported....

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 31, 2019, 08:29:35 pm
I know you all have been wondering:
Quote
Woman who urinated on potatoes at West Mifflin Walmart seemed drunk, police say
Tom Davidson | Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:29 p.m.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/woman-who-urinated-on-potatoes-at-west-mifflin-walmart-appeared-drunk-police-say/)

Police said a woman caught on camera urinating on potatoes at a West Mifflin Walmart appeared to be drunk when she walked into the store, according to a criminal complaint filed against her.

About $200 worth of potatoes were tainted by the urine, police said in a criminal complaint.

The woman, Grace Brown of Whitehall, and her attorney met with police Tuesday, and she told authorities she was the woman caught in surveillance video from the store, police said.

Brown made no further statement to police. Her attorney, Casey David White, didn’t return messages seeking comment Wednesday.

At about 10 p.m. July 24, surveillance camera footage captured a woman entering the grocery side doors of the Walmart. She appeared unsteady on her feet and intoxicated, police wrote in the criminal complaint. She walked to the produce section, pulled her pants down and squatted on a produce rack where potatoes and other vegetables were displayed for sale, according to the complaint.

She stood up, pulled up her pants and walked out of the store, leaving a puddle of liquid that was found by an employee who reported it to security, police said. The woman then re-entered the store and sat on a bench for a few minutes before leaving with an unidentified male, police said.

While at the station, police played clips of the footage to Brown. Police said she identified herself as the woman in the video.

Brown is facing charges of open lewdness, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.

Walmart disposed of the tainted potatoes and sanitized the area.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on July 31, 2019, 08:46:15 pm
This is part of a new internet fad. Teenagers are opening products and spitting in them while being filmed. In other cases they open a product and lick it, then reseal it. Then they post the video of them committing the act on youtube or facebook or whatever.

It makes no sense at all. Of course many of them have been arrested, since they post a video of their own guilt on the internet as this woman did.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: musiclady on July 31, 2019, 09:48:29 pm
I know you all have been wondering:

Ick.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on August 02, 2019, 07:56:06 pm
Michigan Man Uses Blowtorch to Kill Weeds, Sets Trailer Park on Fire

Quote
A man using a blowtorch to clear weeds in a mobile home community accidentally started a fire that forced dozens of residents to temporarily evacuate.

The blaze began Wednesday around 5:15pm in Green Oak Township, Michigan, about 50 miles from Detroit. According to Fire Chief Kevin Gentry, the fire began in a shed, but when firefighters arrived just a minute later, it had already spread to one trailer, and then another. In all three units were damaged.

At least one resident lost their home and their pet, reports Fox 2 in Detroit.

https://www.newsweek.com/blowtorch-trailer-park-fire-michigan-1452292 (https://www.newsweek.com/blowtorch-trailer-park-fire-michigan-1452292)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 02, 2019, 10:46:06 pm
Michigan Man Uses Blowtorch to Kill Weeds, Sets Trailer Park on Fire
Well, better than the usual case of a guy lighting a match to look into his gas tank to see if there's any gas in there. I suppose.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on August 05, 2019, 08:43:45 pm
The Beetl Is An Autonomous Robot That Finds And Picks Up Dog Poop
https://odditymall.com/beetl-autonomous-dog-poop-robot

Using cloud networking, computer vision and a mechanical design, the Beetl dog poop cleaning robot uses its front camera and live image analysis to hunt down dog poop in your yard. Once it finds it, the robot rolls directly over it, and drops down a mechanical claw that picks up it and places it into a sealed internal container to be disposed of once it's done.

(https://odditymall.com/includes/content/upload/the-beetl-is-an-autonomous-robot-that-finds-and-picks-up-dog-poop-5779.gif)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on August 05, 2019, 09:13:33 pm
The Beetl Is An Autonomous Robot That Finds And Picks Up Dog Poop
https://odditymall.com/beetl-autonomous-dog-poop-robot

Using cloud networking, computer vision and a mechanical design, the Beetl dog poop cleaning robot uses its front camera and live image analysis to hunt down dog poop in your yard. Once it finds it, the robot rolls directly over it, and drops down a mechanical claw that picks up it and places it into a sealed internal container to be disposed of once it's done.

(https://odditymall.com/includes/content/upload/the-beetl-is-an-autonomous-robot-that-finds-and-picks-up-dog-poop-5779.gif)

Someone should get rich off of this.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on August 05, 2019, 10:30:38 pm
Someone should get rich off of this.




Absolutely!! A Roomba for the yard!!  I would buy one in a heartbeat. :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on August 08, 2019, 09:36:41 pm
Louisiana woman says meth found hidden inside body part is not hers: police

Nicole Darrah By Nicole Darrah | Fox News


(https://www.weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-08-at-10.37.48-AM-300x209.png)

A Louisiana woman allegedly caught with meth hidden inside her vagina said she didn't know where the drugs came from, police said.

Ashley Beth Rolland, 23, was accused on July 31 of stealing $5,000 from the apartment of a man she'd been staying with for about a week, according to documents published by the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office.

<..snip..>

https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-woman-meth-vagina-not-hers (https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-woman-meth-vagina-not-hers)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 08, 2019, 10:13:55 pm
A Louisiana woman allegedly caught with meth hidden inside her vagina said she didn't know where the drugs came from, police said.
This is one of those "How Many Times Has This Happened to You?!?!!!" kind of things.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 08, 2019, 10:55:27 pm
Louisiana woman says meth found hidden inside body part is not hers: police

Nicole Darrah By Nicole Darrah | Fox News


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A Louisiana woman allegedly caught with meth hidden inside her vagina said she didn't know where the drugs came from, police said.

Ashley Beth Rolland, 23, was accused on July 31 of stealing $5,000 from the apartment of a man she'd been staying with for about a week, according to documents published by the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office.

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-woman-meth-vagina-not-hers (https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-woman-meth-vagina-not-hers)

She looks "Not Guilty" to me...

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 09, 2019, 01:19:57 am
Louisiana woman says meth found hidden inside body part is not hers: police

Nicole Darrah By Nicole Darrah | Fox News


(https://www.weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-08-at-10.37.48-AM-300x209.png)

A Louisiana woman allegedly caught with meth hidden inside her vagina said she didn't know where the drugs came from, police said.

Ashley Beth Rolland, 23, was accused on July 31 of stealing $5,000 from the apartment of a man she'd been staying with for about a week, according to documents published by the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office.

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-woman-meth-vagina-not-hers (https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-woman-meth-vagina-not-hers)

@corbe

Don't ya just HATE it when that happens? Pretty girl. I'm sure she had it by accident because she looks so innocent.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on August 09, 2019, 02:55:55 am
I think she's in cohoots with this guy...

https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/clearwater-man-says-3-syringes-found-in-his-rectum-arent-his/ (https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/clearwater-man-says-3-syringes-found-in-his-rectum-arent-his/)

Each one carrying the other's stash so they can claim it's not theirs.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on August 19, 2019, 05:10:10 pm
Fake Cop Arrested After Pulling over Real Detectives, Police Say

Quote
Valiery Portlock, 25, is charged with first-degree criminal impersonation of an officer, second-degree reckless endangerment, unlawful fleeing from a police officer, and other traffic violations, in Nassau County, New York, according to Newsday.

The defendant, a resident of the hamlet of Hicksville, was driving a Nissan Sentra at about 11 a.m., cops said. He attempted to pull over an unmarked van by using an air horn and emergency lights, officers said. Surprise, surprise, there was electronic squad detectives inside. That van stopped, and the real police approach him with their shields, cops said.

Portlock is accused of making a less-than-graceful escape. He swerved onto oncoming traffic, and entered the Long Island Expressway at 85 mph, officers said. Highway patrol officers arrested him, cops said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fake-cop-arrested-after-pulling-over-real-detectives-police-say/ar-AAFYMWr?ocid=spartandhp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fake-cop-arrested-after-pulling-over-real-detectives-police-say/ar-AAFYMWr?ocid=spartandhp)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 20, 2019, 12:40:13 pm
Not that anyone around here would do this ...
Quote
Woman breaks into bar, drinks until employees show up in the morning: cops
By Kenneth Garger
August 20, 2019
New York Post (https://nypost.com/2019/08/20/woman-breaks-into-bar-drinks-until-employees-show-up-in-the-morning-cops/)

It’s five o’clock somewhere.

A Kentucky woman was arrested for allegedly breaking into a closed bar and drinking there until employees showed up to open the watering hole in the morning, according to a report.

Donna Martin is accused to busting into the Slainte Public House in Georgetown, Ky., early Monday, Lex 18 reported.

Employees arriving shortly before 8 a.m. found Martin posted up at the bar, the outlet said.  The workers called police, who charged Martin with burglary and public intoxication.
(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/wowza.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
What, me worry?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on August 20, 2019, 02:06:44 pm
Someone should get rich off of this.

I hope it has better reliability that those junk Roombas.  But you are right, this is going to be someone's goldmine.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on August 20, 2019, 06:40:04 pm
Living in the Houston Humidity, this thread seems the right place for this:

Energy Star's thermostat recommendations surprise the internet
https://abcnews.go.com/US/energy-stars-thermostat-recommendations-surprise-internet/story?id=65072381

A federal program is taking some serious heat for recommending that homes be kept at 78 degrees during the day.

Energy Star, a program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, said people should set their thermostat to 78 degrees when they are home and "need cooling" in an effort to save energy during the spring and summer.

And when you're sleeping or away, the suggested temperatures go up. When sleeping, it's recommended that the thermostat is kept at 82 degrees, and when away, people should set the thermostat to 85 degrees, Energy Star said....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on August 20, 2019, 06:48:29 pm
Living in the Houston Humidity, this thread seems the right place for this:

Energy Star's thermostat recommendations surprise the internet
https://abcnews.go.com/US/energy-stars-thermostat-recommendations-surprise-internet/story?id=65072381

A federal program is taking some serious heat for recommending that homes be kept at 78 degrees during the day.

Energy Star, a program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, said people should set their thermostat to 78 degrees when they are home and "need cooling" in an effort to save energy during the spring and summer.

And when you're sleeping or away, the suggested temperatures go up. When sleeping, it's recommended that the thermostat is kept at 82 degrees, and when away, people should set the thermostat to 85 degrees, Energy Star said....

What's wrong with that?  Mine's set to 78 most of the year, though I might go as low as 76 for a few hours if I'm going to be working outside.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on August 20, 2019, 06:59:51 pm
Mine runs about 82 during the day, but my room goes down to 74 at night.  I can't sleep at 85.  What are they talking about? 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 20, 2019, 07:02:17 pm
Living in the Houston Humidity, this thread seems the right place for this:

Energy Star's thermostat recommendations surprise the internet
https://abcnews.go.com/US/energy-stars-thermostat-recommendations-surprise-internet/story?id=65072381

A federal program is taking some serious heat for recommending that homes be kept at 78 degrees during the day.

Energy Star, a program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, said people should set their thermostat to 78 degrees when they are home and "need cooling" in an effort to save energy during the spring and summer.

And when you're sleeping or away, the suggested temperatures go up. When sleeping, it's recommended that the thermostat is kept at 82 degrees, and when away, people should set the thermostat to 85 degrees, Energy Star said....

Turning the thermostat down is harder on the A/C unit that has to work harder to bring the temperature down.  I have not found it economical to do so at all, and I lived in Phoenix.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on August 20, 2019, 07:04:49 pm
Well, I had some young puppy installing my new air conditioner suggest I set my thermostat to 73 to 75 degrees "to get the humidity out of the air."  I told him at my age I don't move around as much as I did when I was at his age, so at 73-75 degrees, I'd be freezing my tail off. 

My former HVAC guy, now retired, told me to keep the thermostat in summer at 78-80 and in winter from 70-73.  Following his advice has worked for me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 20, 2019, 07:05:48 pm
Mine runs about 82 during the day, but my room goes down to 74 at night.  I can't sleep at 85.  What are they talking about?

They are saying what's comfortable for them should be comfortable enough for you.  Now comply, you serf.  I'd lay a good bet the bureaucrats responsible for the edict don't run their houses at 82F at night.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on August 20, 2019, 09:30:23 pm
They are saying what's comfortable for them should be comfortable enough for you.  Now comply, you serf.  I'd lay a good bet the bureaucrats responsible for the edict don't run their houses at 82F at night.

Coming soon to a socialst USA near you.....   The Thermostat Police.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 20, 2019, 10:19:54 pm
Coming soon to a socialst USA near you.....   The Thermostat Police.

Why do you suppose they want everybody with an Alexa to buy a Nest thermostat?  "Near you" will be on the wall just outside your bedroom.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 20, 2019, 10:26:59 pm
Why do you suppose they want everybody with an Alexa to buy a Nest thermostat?  "Near you" will be on the wall just outside your bedroom.
Just another reason not to have Alexa or the other always-listening devices in your home.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 20, 2019, 10:29:56 pm
Just another reason not to have Alexa or the other always-listening devices in your home.

Verizon was selling the thermostats in their store, along with Alexas.  There was a nice rebate from the electric company when you buy the thermostat.  I laughed.  My wife laughed.  The Alexa laughed, so I shot it.

Good times!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 20, 2019, 10:30:24 pm
Quote
St. Louis County councilwoman sworn into office using a Dr. Seuss book
Posted 11:20 am, August 20, 2019, by Associated Press

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A newly elected St. Louis County councilwoman has been sworn into office using a Dr. Seuss book.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the council doesn’t require members to be sworn in on a Bible, and newly elected 2nd District member Kelli Dunaway chose “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” Her 5-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter held it for her during last week’s ceremony.  ...
More at KTVI/FOX2 (https://fox2now.com/2019/08/20/st-louis-county-councilwoman-sworn-into-office-using-a-dr-seuss-book/)

If I had voted for her, I'd be just a smidge annoyed at how flippantly she views her oath of office, but that's just me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on August 20, 2019, 10:33:44 pm
Verizon was selling the thermostats in their store, along with Alexas.  There was a nice rebate from the electric company when you buy the thermostat.  I laughed.  My wife laughed.  The Alexa laughed, so I shot it.

Good times!

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on August 20, 2019, 10:43:15 pm
Verizon was selling the thermostats in their store, along with Alexas.  There was a nice rebate from the electric company when you buy the thermostat.  I laughed.  My wife laughed.  The Alexa laughed, so I shot it.

Good times!

 :silly: :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on August 20, 2019, 10:50:15 pm
More at KTVI/FOX2 (https://fox2now.com/2019/08/20/st-louis-county-councilwoman-sworn-into-office-using-a-dr-seuss-book/)

If I had voted for her, I'd be just a smidge annoyed at how flippantly she views her oath of office, but that's just me.

A Democrat, I'll bet. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on August 20, 2019, 11:14:45 pm
Just another reason not to have Alexa or the other always-listening devices in your home.
Just got hit with an ad from Amazon as a long term Prime Customer, they said they would give me an Echo/Alexa for free. I respectfully declined their gracious offer. Don't want it. Even for free.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on August 20, 2019, 11:16:16 pm
 
Just got hit with an ad from Amazon as a long term Prime Customer, they said they would give me an Echo/Alexa for free. I respectfully declined their gracious offer. Don't want it. Even for free.

Same here.  Don't want it and won't have it under any circumstances.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 20, 2019, 11:21:17 pm

Same here.  Don't want it and won't have it under any circumstances.
I get annoyed enough at my old dumb phone when I bump the button and it cranks out with "Say a Command", among a host of other things, it doesn't seem to recognize "exit", so I just give it the silent treatment or set it next to the radio.

Alexa is out.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on August 20, 2019, 11:35:32 pm
I get annoyed enough at my old dumb phone when I bump the button and it cranks out with "Say a Command", among a host of other things, it doesn't seem to recognize "exit", so I just give it the silent treatment or set it next to the radio.

Alexa is out.

My wife uses the voice command thing on her phone and gets annoyed with me for refusing to.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on August 20, 2019, 11:48:59 pm
I predict that for the next generation there will be no way to opt-out of Alexa.
Alexa will be embedded in everything with no way to disable it.
New car - Alexa automatically enabled
New cell phone - Alexa automatically enabled
New computer - Alexa automatically enabled
New television - Alexa automatically enabled
New home/apartment - Alexa automatically enabled
Eventually it will come to Alexa embedded in your refrigerator/new kitchen appliances/alarm clocks/washing machine/well...everything. I believe we will live to see this in our lifetime.

Then that will really be 24hr surveillance of everything you say, everywhere you go, everything you do. By correlating data from various sources associated with you, the NSA will know your wife is cheating and with whom before you do. They will know if you are about to get married or divorced. They will know if you are about to get a bonus or declare bankruptcy. They will know if you are getting a raise or getting fired at work. They will know everything about you life situation. And they will know it before you even have a clue what is about to happen.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 21, 2019, 12:10:33 am
I predict that for the next generation there will be no way to opt-out of Alexa.
Alexa will be embedded in everything with no way to disable it.
New car - Alexa automatically enabled
New cell phone - Alexa automatically enabled
New computer - Alexa automatically enabled
New television - Alexa automatically enabled
New home/apartment - Alexa automatically enabled
Eventually it will come to Alexa embedded in your refrigerator/new kitchen appliances/alarm clocks/washing machine/well...everything. I believe we will live to see this in our lifetime.

Then that will really be 24hr surveillance of everything you say, everywhere you go, everything you do. By correlating data from various sources associated with you, the NSA will know your wife is cheating and with whom before you do. They will know if you are about to get married or divorced. They will know if you are about to get a bonus or declare bankruptcy. They will know if you are getting a raise or getting fired at work. They will know everything about you life situation. And they will know it before you even have a clue what is about to happen.
Think about that, and the power it would give people to eff with you at the worst possible times....

The potential for personal and petty abuse is astronomical. How many people could resist the temptation to get back at someone who had just ticked them off? (Too few, I'd wager, but it would only take one.)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on August 21, 2019, 02:57:33 am
I predict that for the next generation there will be no way to opt-out of Alexa.
Alexa will be embedded in everything with no way to disable it.
New car - Alexa automatically enabled
New cell phone - Alexa automatically enabled
New computer - Alexa automatically enabled
New television - Alexa automatically enabled
New home/apartment - Alexa automatically enabled
Eventually it will come to Alexa embedded in your refrigerator/new kitchen appliances/alarm clocks/washing machine/well...everything. I believe we will live to see this in our lifetime.

Then that will really be 24hr surveillance of everything you say, everywhere you go, everything you do. By correlating data from various sources associated with you, the NSA will know your wife is cheating and with whom before you do. They will know if you are about to get married or divorced. They will know if you are about to get a bonus or declare bankruptcy. They will know if you are getting a raise or getting fired at work. They will know everything about you life situation. And they will know it before you even have a clue what is about to happen.

Yet President Bush is the bad guy because he listened in on cell phone conversations in Pakistan which violated their Constitutional rights.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 21, 2019, 03:03:42 am
Yet President Bush is the bad guy because he listened in on cell phone conversations in Pakistan which violated their Constitutional rights.
Pakistan has a Constitution? With Rights? Who knew?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 22, 2019, 04:09:47 pm
Pamela Geller agrees with me about the St. Louis County Council member sworn in on a Dr. Seuss book (and confirms the councilwoman is a Democrat):
Quote
What is this attention whoring but making a mockery of American governance and elected office? She did this in front of her son and daughter, teaching them the same contempt for America. These know-nothings haven’t the vaguest idea of the singular greatness of America and what it was our founding fathers achieved.
https://gellerreport.com/2019/08/democrat-gets-sworn-in-dr-seuss-book.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 22, 2019, 09:32:33 pm
Pamela Geller agrees with me about the St. Louis County Council member sworn in on a Dr. Seuss book (and confirms the councilwoman is a Democrat):https://gellerreport.com/2019/08/democrat-gets-sworn-in-dr-seuss-book.html
Maybe the Grinch will steal her Christmas if she violates her oath....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on August 23, 2019, 03:09:20 am
Just got hit with an ad from Amazon as a long term Prime Customer, they said they would give me an Echo/Alexa for free. I respectfully declined their gracious offer. Don't want it. Even for free.

They should be paying you for the privilege of spying on you in your own home.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 23, 2019, 10:56:50 pm
How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space
By Mike Baker
    Aug. 23, 2019
    Updated 6:38 p.m. ET
Quote
Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer living in Kansas, has been in the midst of a bitter separation and parenting dispute for much of the past year. So she was surprised when she noticed that her estranged spouse still seemed to know things about her spending.  ...

Ms. Worden put her intelligence background to work, asking her bank about the locations of computers that had recently accessed her bank account using her login credentials. The bank got back to her with an answer: One was a computer network registered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

[Here's the ridiculous news aspect of this]:   Ms. Worden’s spouse, Anne McClain, was a decorated NASA astronaut on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. She was about to be part of NASA’s first all-female spacewalk. But the couple’s domestic troubles on Earth, it seemed, had extended into outer space.

Ms. McClain acknowledged that she had accessed the bank account from space, insisting through a lawyer that she was merely shepherding the couple’s still-intertwined finances.   ...

The couple’s dispute revolved largely around Ms. Worden’s son, who was born about a year before the two met.

Ms. Worden, who had previously worked at the National Security Agency, resisted allowing Ms. McClain to adopt the child, even after they were married at the end of 2014.  ...
New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html)

Glad to see we have such stable individuals serving as astronauts.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 23, 2019, 11:00:24 pm
How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space
By Mike Baker
    Aug. 23, 2019
    Updated 6:38 p.m. ETNew York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html)

Glad to see we have such stable individuals serving as astronauts.

Less bizarre that the astronaut lady who drove cross-country wearing diapers to kill her lover's girlfriend.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 23, 2019, 11:01:05 pm
How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space
By Mike Baker
    Aug. 23, 2019
    Updated 6:38 p.m. ETNew York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html)

Glad to see we have such stable individuals serving as astronauts.

Less bizarre that the astronaut lady who drove cross-country wearing diapers to kill her lover's girlfriend.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on August 23, 2019, 11:03:05 pm
Less bizarre that the astronaut lady who drove cross-country wearing diapers to kill her lover's girlfriend.

There seems to be a trend...  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on August 23, 2019, 11:04:35 pm
How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space
By Mike Baker
    Aug. 23, 2019
    Updated 6:38 p.m. ETNew York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html)

Glad to see we have such stable individuals serving as astronauts.
Not surprised. I once worked at a Top Secret government installation. We all were vetted and had clearances to be there. Never met such a crazy group of weirdos in my life. Furthermore, there were Chinese and other foreigners in the group, which I couldn't believe.

Government vetting is not done by the U.S. Government. They contract it out to contractors who get paid by the unit. These guys will 'clear' just about anybody. After all, that's their job. That's how they get paid.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on August 24, 2019, 01:54:55 am
There seems to be a trend...  :shrug:

Yep.

Women are nuts.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 24, 2019, 01:25:26 pm
How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space
By Mike Baker
    Aug. 23, 2019
    Updated 6:38 p.m. ETNew York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html)

Glad to see we have such stable individuals serving as astronauts.
Well, doggone it, they just wanted a normal family, like everyone else....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 24, 2019, 08:19:20 pm
Well, doggone it, they just wanted a normal family, like everyone else....
Well it looks like they finally got what they wanted, to be just like married heterosexuals, bitter divorces, custody battles and spying on each other. May they thoroughly enjoy the fruits of marriage they demanded. :silly: :silly: :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 24, 2019, 09:51:23 pm
Well it looks like they finally got what they wanted, to be just like married heterosexuals, bitter divorces, custody battles and spying on each other. May they thoroughly enjoy the fruits of marriage they demanded. :silly: :silly: :silly:
Yeah. If they'd just shacked up, splitting the sheets could have been a lot simpler.

A cousin of mine observed in the '70s that this particular preference group seems to be rife with people who are jealous and insecure (a vicious circle). That not only devastates their relationships, but often costs lives through conflict or suicide.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on August 26, 2019, 09:09:33 pm
Quote
Oklahoma mother who forced kids to eat dog feces avoids prison

JAY, Okla. – A Delaware County woman who starved her children and made them eat dog feces will avoid jail time after pleading no contest to charges connected to the crime.

According to court documents obtained by News 4, Mary Elizabeth Moore’s 5-year-old and 3-year-old children were hospitalized in the intensive care unit and were “so malnourished that hospital staff had to place them on a special diet and applied nasal feeding tubes to both children.”

Investigators say the 5-year-old weighed just 26 pounds, while the 3-year-old weighed 18 pounds.

https://kfor.com/2019/08/26/oklahoma-mother-who-forced-kids-to-eat-dog-feces-avoids-prison/

It sounds like a joke headline but the kids really suffered and child services apparently did take the children away from her. 

I'd think someone like that should be committed, pictures of the mother look like she is off her rocker.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 27, 2019, 01:39:48 am
Incredible.  I know the sheriff of this county.  He must have been sickened by this case.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on August 27, 2019, 02:05:01 am
I hope they took away her guns so she won't be able to hurt anyone.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 27, 2019, 04:02:58 am
It sounds like a joke headline but the kids really suffered and child services apparently did take the children away from her. 

I'd think someone like that should be committed, pictures of the mother look like she is off her rocker.
I saw her picture and the only thing I could think was 'How drunk or stoned did someone have to be.....................'
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on August 28, 2019, 06:46:44 pm
Even puns are offensive now

A comedian has been asked to apologise for a vegetable-based joke.

Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel has been asked to apologise for a joke he made at the Edinburgh Fringe.

The joke was as follows: ‘I keep randomly shouting out “broccoli” and “cauliflower” – I think I might have florets.’ TV channel Dave awarded it the ‘Joke of the Fringe’ prize.

But not everyone was amused. Suzanne Dobson, chief executive of Tourette’s charity Tourette’s Action, thought the joke was ‘rubbish’. Fair enough.

But she went further. She also demanded an apology from the comedian: ‘Humour is a great way of educating people – but not only is it not funny to poke fun at people with Tourette’s, it’s not even that funny a joke, is it?’ She also said the joke brought ‘shame on Dave’. (Arguably a funnier statement than the joke itself.)

Of course, there is nothing offensive about this joke and people with Tourette’s are clearly not the target of it. It was a pun, not some covert incitement to hatred.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/22/even-puns-are-offensive-now/ (https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/22/even-puns-are-offensive-now/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 28, 2019, 06:49:21 pm
Puns don't kill people...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on August 28, 2019, 06:50:33 pm
Even puns are offensive now

A comedian has been asked to apologise for a vegetable-based joke.

Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel has been asked to apologise for a joke he made at the Edinburgh Fringe.

The joke was as follows: ‘I keep randomly shouting out “broccoli” and “cauliflower” – I think I might have florets.’ TV channel Dave awarded it the ‘Joke of the Fringe’ prize.

But not everyone was amused. Suzanne Dobson, chief executive of Tourette’s charity Tourette’s Action, thought the joke was ‘rubbish’. Fair enough.

But she went further. She also demanded an apology from the comedian: ‘Humour is a great way of educating people – but not only is it not funny to poke fun at people with Tourette’s, it’s not even that funny a joke, is it?’ She also said the joke brought ‘shame on Dave’. (Arguably a funnier statement than the joke itself.)

Of course, there is nothing offensive about this joke and people with Tourette’s are clearly not the target of it. It was a pun, not some covert incitement to hatred.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/22/even-puns-are-offensive-now/ (https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/22/even-puns-are-offensive-now/)

10 years from now there will be nothing left but white guy jokes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 28, 2019, 06:59:08 pm
10 years from now there will be nothing left but white guy jokes.

Even those are doomed.  No fun of any kind!

(http://archive.boston.com/sports/columnists/pierce/dean%20wormer.png)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 28, 2019, 10:22:23 pm
Puns don't kill people...
Shhhhhhhh!

They'll be picketing for Pun Control next!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on August 29, 2019, 12:27:41 pm
Even puns are offensive now

A comedian has been asked to apologise for a vegetable-based joke.

Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel has been asked to apologise for a joke he made at the Edinburgh Fringe.

The joke was as follows: ‘I keep randomly shouting out “broccoli” and “cauliflower” – I think I might have florets.’ TV channel Dave awarded it the ‘Joke of the Fringe’ prize.

But not everyone was amused. Suzanne Dobson, chief executive of Tourette’s charity Tourette’s Action, thought the joke was ‘rubbish’. Fair enough.

But she went further. She also demanded an apology from the comedian: ‘Humour is a great way of educating people – but not only is it not funny to poke fun at people with Tourette’s, it’s not even that funny a joke, is it?’ She also said the joke brought ‘shame on Dave’. (Arguably a funnier statement than the joke itself.)

Of course, there is nothing offensive about this joke and people with Tourette’s are clearly not the target of it. It was a pun, not some covert incitement to hatred.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/22/even-puns-are-offensive-now/ (https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/22/even-puns-are-offensive-now/)
I think Susan Dobson is a vegetable based joke.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on August 30, 2019, 03:51:52 pm
Tennessee man sues Popeyes for running out of chicken sandwiches

Quote
The Times Free Press reports that Craig Barr of East Ridge, Tennessee is challenging the company. The newspaper said the lawsuit accuses Popeyes of false advertising, deceptive business practices and causing him to waste "countless time driving" to and from local chains to find the sandwich.

Barr also claimed he was scammed out of money from a person who posted an ad online claiming he could get sandwiches from a location where they had some of them hidden in the back. He paid $25 but claims he received nothing in return.
…
Barr claimed he suffered tire damage and that one of his rims was cracked during his search from the sandwich.
He is seeking $5,000 in damages.
 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/tennessee-man-sues-popeyes-for-running-out-of-chicken-sandwiches/ar-AAGwIip?ocid=spartandhp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/tennessee-man-sues-popeyes-for-running-out-of-chicken-sandwiches/ar-AAGwIip?ocid=spartandhp)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on August 31, 2019, 01:37:02 pm
Tennessee man sues Popeyes for running out of chicken sandwiches

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/tennessee-man-sues-popeyes-for-running-out-of-chicken-sandwiches/ar-AAGwIip?ocid=spartandhp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/tennessee-man-sues-popeyes-for-running-out-of-chicken-sandwiches/ar-AAGwIip?ocid=spartandhp)

They should decide in his favor but only award a coupon for a chicken sandwich.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on August 31, 2019, 02:21:09 pm
They should decide in his favor but only award a coupon for a chicken sandwich.

But that won't pay for all the "damages" he suffered.   :rolling:
 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 01, 2019, 07:04:08 am
They should decide in his favor but only award a coupon for a chicken sandwich.
And his attorney should be made to scrub the bathrooms with a toothbrush! Sheesh!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Elderberry on September 02, 2019, 02:52:54 pm
Man accidentally shoots himself twice in one night in Detroit

WXYZ 8/31/2019

https://www.wxyz.com/news/man-accidentally-shoots-himself-twice-in-one-night-in-detroit?fbclid=IwAR3-3HPpoBGf_RT_p4r5RcYratElmdTc_zOcW4iTFTmodzzzgf1W7zIQdoo (https://www.wxyz.com/news/man-accidentally-shoots-himself-twice-in-one-night-in-detroit?fbclid=IwAR3-3HPpoBGf_RT_p4r5RcYratElmdTc_zOcW4iTFTmodzzzgf1W7zIQdoo)

Quote

DETROIT (WXYZ) — A man is in stable condition after accidentally shooting himself twice in one night in Detroit.

Around 2:00 a.m. Saturday, scouts were dispatched to a local hospital on a "Shooting/Cutting RPT" call. Officers arrived and spoke to the 31-year-old victim, who said he shot himself at his home and then later at a bar on the 7000 block of W. Warren where he was dee-jaying.

Police say the victim sustained one gunshot wound to the thigh and was privately taken to a nearby hospital.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on September 02, 2019, 03:01:48 pm
Well, I believe his story.   :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 02, 2019, 03:06:30 pm
Man accidentally shoots himself twice in one night in Detroit

WXYZ 8/31/2019

https://www.wxyz.com/news/man-accidentally-shoots-himself-twice-in-one-night-in-detroit?fbclid=IwAR3-3HPpoBGf_RT_p4r5RcYratElmdTc_zOcW4iTFTmodzzzgf1W7zIQdoo (https://www.wxyz.com/news/man-accidentally-shoots-himself-twice-in-one-night-in-detroit?fbclid=IwAR3-3HPpoBGf_RT_p4r5RcYratElmdTc_zOcW4iTFTmodzzzgf1W7zIQdoo)

So that goes in the statistics as two shootings....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on September 02, 2019, 03:19:48 pm
Man accidentally shoots himself twice in one night in Detroit

WXYZ 8/31/2019

https://www.wxyz.com/news/man-accidentally-shoots-himself-twice-in-one-night-in-detroit?fbclid=IwAR3-3HPpoBGf_RT_p4r5RcYratElmdTc_zOcW4iTFTmodzzzgf1W7zIQdoo (https://www.wxyz.com/news/man-accidentally-shoots-himself-twice-in-one-night-in-detroit?fbclid=IwAR3-3HPpoBGf_RT_p4r5RcYratElmdTc_zOcW4iTFTmodzzzgf1W7zIQdoo)

"Victim"?   Wouldn't that be "31 year old self-shooter"?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on September 02, 2019, 07:49:22 pm
Man accidentally shoots himself twice in one night in Detroit

WXYZ 8/31/2019

https://www.wxyz.com/news/man-accidentally-shoots-himself-twice-in-one-night-in-detroit?fbclid=IwAR3-3HPpoBGf_RT_p4r5RcYratElmdTc_zOcW4iTFTmodzzzgf1W7zIQdoo (https://www.wxyz.com/news/man-accidentally-shoots-himself-twice-in-one-night-in-detroit?fbclid=IwAR3-3HPpoBGf_RT_p4r5RcYratElmdTc_zOcW4iTFTmodzzzgf1W7zIQdoo)

Did the second shooting happen while he was describing the first?

Here, let me show you how it happened....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 02, 2019, 08:02:53 pm
Quote
Did the second shooting happen while he was describing the first?

Here, let me show you how it happened....

Article says:

Quote
Police say the victim sustained one gunshot wound to the thigh and was privately taken to a nearby hospital.

What, did he miss the first time he shot himself?  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on September 02, 2019, 08:08:37 pm
Fairly common actually. Punks are constants shooting themselves in their junk, in their butts, in their thighs and feet. This is what happens when they get all their 'weapons training' from TV and movies. These are the guys who will try to shoot a rifle with one hand, and hold their pistols sideways.

Punks with guns typically do not understand what a 'safety' is for, and many of them don't even know what or where it is. And they always grab their weapon by the trigger, as if the trigger is some kind of handle for picking the weapon up. If your finger is on the trigger, you are supposed to be aiming at something and ready to fire. They don't understand this.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 03, 2019, 01:42:16 pm

Woman Found Dead In Port-A-Potty On W&J College Campus
By Amy Wadas
September 3, 2019 at 9:33 am

WASHINGTON, Pa. (KDKA) — Authorities are investigating after a woman’s body was found in a port-a-potty this morning on the campus of Washington & Jefferson College in Washington County.

According to a college spokesperson, the body of a woman was found just before 7 a.m. inside the portable toilet   ...

College officials say one of the contractors tried to get in the port-a-potty, but it was locked and remained that way for quite a while.  ...  Rest of story at KDKA (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/09/03/washington-and-jefferson-college-portable-toilet-body/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 03, 2019, 01:55:41 pm
Ridiculous News from the land down under, where women glow and men plunder.
Quote
Vegan woman demands neighbour stop using meat on barbecue due to smell
A frustrated vegan woman from Perth has taken her neighbours to court over the meat and smoke smells wafting into her backyard.
by Shireen Khalil

Frustrated vegan Cilla Carden is so fed up with her two neighbours she has taken them to court over the meat and smoke smells coming from their barbecue.

The Perth woman said she couldn’t enjoy her backyard in the suburb of Girrawheen, claiming her neighbours deliberately allow their barbecue meat and fish smells to waft into her yard.

“They’ve put it there so I smell fish, all I can smell is fish … I can’t go out there,” Ms Carden told Nine News.  ...

She told Nine News she believed her neighbours were “absolutely deliberate” in allowing their smells to cross into her yard.

And it’s not just the smell of meat and fish that has made her furious — it’s the smell of cigarettes and the sound of children playing with basketballs.

“It’s been devastating, it’s been turmoil, it’s been unrest, I haven’t been able to sleep,” Ms Carden said.  ...
Rest of story (https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/vegan-woman-demands-neighbour-stop-using-meat-on-barbecue-due-to-smell/news-story/722227ad0000e8cbf9ac8a0e8a554b95)

Twitter response:
Quote
Cameron Gray  @Cameron_Gray
Dear @WeberGrills
: Please send this awful woman's neighbors a few of the largest grills you make.

9:31 AM · Sep 3, 2019
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 03, 2019, 02:15:03 pm
STFU/STFD (Shut up/ sit down)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on September 03, 2019, 03:40:18 pm
It's not just the grilling that bothers this chippie.  She also doesn't like her neighbors' kids playing basketball or the smell of her neighbors' cigarettes.  She's gone to court over her complaints a few times and is still going to court.   One neighbor has curtailed the barbecuing and the kids' basketball playing, so now she's going after the other neighbors. Seems to me she's a bitter, miserable harpie trying to make her neighbors as miserable as she is.  A smart judge would tell this woman that since she is apparently the only one in the neighborhood with these problems, maybe she should move.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 03, 2019, 04:37:23 pm
It's not just the grilling that bothers this chippie.  She also doesn't like her neighbors' kids playing basketball or the smell of her neighbors' cigarettes.  She's gone to court over her complaints a few times and is still going to court.   One neighbor has curtailed the barbecuing and the kids' basketball playing, so now she's going after the other neighbors. Seems to me she's a bitter, miserable harpie trying to make her neighbors as miserable as she is.  A smart judge would tell this woman that since she is apparently the only one in the neighborhood with these problems, maybe she should move.

I'd settle for the Judge declaring her a Vexatious Litigator.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on September 03, 2019, 04:41:45 pm
I'd settle for the Judge declaring her a Vexatious Litigator.

That's even better.  But I don't know if that sort of thing exists in Australia.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 03, 2019, 04:44:03 pm
That's even better.  But I don't know if that sort of thing exists in Australia.

 :shrug:

Then make the loser pay for the legal costs of her targets.  Treble it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on September 03, 2019, 04:55:19 pm
:shrug:

Then make the loser pay for the legal costs of her targets.  Treble it.

Working for lawyers, I've seen my share of frivolous lawsuits.  We have remedies here, but I think they haven't been applied nearly enough. 

Years ago, there was a local guy who was always suing someone.  He was a lawyer and as far as I could tell, his only client was himself.  The firm I worked for at the time represented a dentist who was sued because he allegedly did 't tell this lawyer that a root canal would hurt.  Really?  The dentist (actually his malpractice insurance carrier) settled for a few thousand.   I guess they figured it would be cheaper than  fighting this guy in court.  Judges knew this man was a flake, but they wouldn't dismiss his actions.  Actually, one judge did and the lawyer promptly sued the judge.  Judges were afraid of him, I guess.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 03, 2019, 05:20:02 pm
Working for lawyers, I've seen my share of frivolous lawsuits.  We have remedies here, but I think they haven't been applied nearly enough. 

Years ago, there was a local guy who was always suing someone.  He was a lawyer and as far as I could tell, his only client was himself.  The firm I worked for at the time represented a dentist who was sued because he allegedly did 't tell this lawyer that a root canal would hurt.  Really?  The dentist (actually his malpractice insurance carrier) settled for a few thousand.   I guess they figured it would be cheaper than  fighting this guy in court.  Judges knew this man was a flake, but they wouldn't dismiss his actions.  Actually, one judge did and the lawyer promptly sued the judge.  Judges were afraid of him, I guess.

Lawfare is rampant.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 03, 2019, 05:29:30 pm
It's not just the grilling that bothers this chippie.  She also doesn't like her neighbors' kids playing basketball or the smell of her neighbors' cigarettes.  She's gone to court over her complaints a few times and is still going to court.   One neighbor has curtailed the barbecuing and the kids' basketball playing, so now she's going after the other neighbors. Seems to me she's a bitter, miserable harpie trying to make her neighbors as miserable as she is.  A smart judge would tell this woman that since she is apparently the only one in the neighborhood with these problems, maybe she should move.
QFT  :beer: At some point the judicial system has got to say "Enough is enough."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on September 03, 2019, 05:36:52 pm
Lawfare is rampant.

Well, I suspect that's how this lawyer made a living since it seems he didn't have any clients except for himself.  Basically, he was running an extortion racket allowed by the courts.

Haven't heard anything about him lately.  Wonder if he's still alive.  If he is, he would have to be close to 100.  Maybe too feeble to go around suing people now.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 03, 2019, 05:38:41 pm
Triggered vegan takes neighbor to court over BBQ ‘odor’

Andrew West  September 3, 2019


(https://freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/shutterstock_645672055.jpg)
 
The funny thing about tolerance is that those who profess to possess it tend to be the first to infringe on other people’s lives.

Mankind should be tolerant, of course – it is perhaps one of the most noble traits that we have as sentient beings.  We can look at one another and chalk up our differences to the fact that we are one of the very few animals on this planet with differences of opinion.  This diversity makes us who we are, and separates us from the rest of the wildlife we encounter on a daily basis.

But tolerance and entitlement must always remain separate.  The civilized world doesn’t aim to force personal choices like religion or lifestyle on one another.

Different strokes for different folks, right?

<..snip..>

https://freedomoutpost.com/triggered-vegan-takes-neighbor-to-court-over-bbq-odor/ (https://freedomoutpost.com/triggered-vegan-takes-neighbor-to-court-over-bbq-odor/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 03, 2019, 05:46:53 pm

Everything’s at steak on this case.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on September 03, 2019, 05:47:46 pm
Everything’s at steak on this case.

 22222frying pan 

LOL
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on September 03, 2019, 05:49:17 pm
Everything’s at steak on this case.

I dunno.  Something fishy about the whole thing.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 03, 2019, 05:58:33 pm
Everything’s at steak on this case.

Ah, gentle ribbing...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 04, 2019, 04:07:28 am
QFT  :beer: At some point the judicial system has got to say "Enough is enough."
Yes, you'd think so, but to what purpose? This is all money in the bank for lawyers.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 04, 2019, 04:09:57 am
Everything’s at steak on this case.
Yabbut.....Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 04, 2019, 01:50:10 pm
Geraldo Rivera says that AR-15 owners have ‘small penises’

by Julio Rosas

September 03, 2019 09:31 PM

 
Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera accused AR-15 rifle owners of using the gun to compensate for small penis size.

Responding to comedian Sarah Silverman's tweet that mocked hunters for possessing similar insecurities, Rivera said, "AR15 are the symptom of small penises."
 
Claiming "their products are used for their only intended purpose: to mimic military assault weapons to kill and maim people," Rivera had said earlier that companies manufacturing AR-15 rifles should be sued for damages, much like opioid makers and tobacco companies.

<..snip..>

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/geraldo-rivera-says-that-ar-15-owners-have-small-penises (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/geraldo-rivera-says-that-ar-15-owners-have-small-penises)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 04, 2019, 02:04:43 pm
Geraldo Rivera says that AR-15 owners have ‘small penises’

by Julio Rosas

September 03, 2019 09:31 PM

 
Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera accused AR-15 rifle owners of using the gun to compensate for small penis size.

Responding to comedian Sarah Silverman's tweet that mocked hunters for possessing similar insecurities, Rivera said, "AR15 are the symptom of small penises."
 
Claiming "their products are used for their only intended purpose: to mimic military assault weapons to kill and maim people," Rivera had said earlier that companies manufacturing AR-15 rifles should be sued for damages, much like opioid makers and tobacco companies.

<..snip..>

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/geraldo-rivera-says-that-ar-15-owners-have-small-penises (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/geraldo-rivera-says-that-ar-15-owners-have-small-penises)
Jerry Rivers has his head up his AOC (Didn't we used to have a Donkey Smiley?)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 04, 2019, 02:57:05 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/wEdvqEZ.png)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on September 04, 2019, 02:59:21 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/wEdvqEZ.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/t7Kjjyp.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 04, 2019, 11:33:38 pm
Geraldo Rivera says that AR-15 owners have ‘small penises’

by Julio Rosas

September 03, 2019 09:31 PM

 
Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera accused AR-15 rifle owners of using the gun to compensate for small penis size.

Responding to comedian Sarah Silverman's tweet that mocked hunters for possessing similar insecurities, Rivera said, "AR15 are the symptom of small penises."
 
Claiming "their products are used for their only intended purpose: to mimic military assault weapons to kill and maim people," Rivera had said earlier that companies manufacturing AR-15 rifles should be sued for damages, much like opioid makers and tobacco companies.

<..snip..>

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/geraldo-rivera-says-that-ar-15-owners-have-small-penises (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/geraldo-rivera-says-that-ar-15-owners-have-small-penises)
Well, geez, if they are just for killing and maiming people, and there are between 5 and 10 million out there (not counting all the AKs and such, too), the streets should be running with blood, and the undertakers should be working overtime.  Reality is that a tiny fraction of these firearms are used by criminals to perpetrate murder and maiming, and Jerry should just wring out his panties, untie the knots in them and hit the shower.

Flying and driving Kennedys have killed far more people than my AR.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on September 08, 2019, 06:48:41 pm
The Daily Mail asking the important questions: "Is Meghan Markle a jinx on Serena Williams?"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7439447/Disappointed-Meghan-Markle-watches-Serena-Williams-lose-friend-fails-win-Open.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7439447/Disappointed-Meghan-Markle-watches-Serena-Williams-lose-friend-fails-win-Open.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 08, 2019, 10:00:51 pm
The Daily Mail asking the important questions: "Is Meghan Markle a jinx on Serena Williams?"
Works for me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 10, 2019, 02:07:23 am
Vegan influencer Mythical Mia who 'rescued' 16 rabbits in violent raid on bunny farm in Spain 'killed nearly 100 more' and left others with severed spines

•Vegan activist 'Mythical Mia' said she had rescued 16 rabbits from a Spanish farm
•Reports in Spain say several of them had just given birth, leaving bunnies behind
•Another five pregnant rabbits are said to have died during the chaotic raid


By Tim Stickings For Mailonline

Published: 04:41 EDT, 9 September 2019  | Updated: 06:39 EDT, 9 September 2019 


(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/09/05/13/18099892-7430613-Mia_known_as_Mythical_Mia_was_left_covered_in_blood_on_her_face_-m-7_1567686761207.jpg)

A vegan activist's 'rescue mission' at a rabbit farm in Spain last week actually led to the deaths of nearly 100 bunnies, it has been claimed.

'Mythical Mia', as she calls herself, was left covered in blood and claimed angry farmers had shot at her through a car window as she made her escape.

The British activist proudly said she had saved 16 rabbits from the farm in Osona, but reports in Spain say several of the 'rescued' animals had just given birth, leaving dozens of bunnies stranded without a mother. 

Unable to fend for themselves, 90 helpless bunnies had to be put down, according to La Vanguardia.

On top of that, five pregnant rabbits died during the raid while others are said to have lost their babies. Others still suffered broken spines, it is reported.

<..snip..>

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7442869/Vegan-rescue-mission-killed-nearly-100-rabbits-Spain.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7442869/Vegan-rescue-mission-killed-nearly-100-rabbits-Spain.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 10, 2019, 02:10:47 am
"Broken spines?" 9999hair out0000

 :soangry:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on September 10, 2019, 02:27:12 am
I think she got off lucky.

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/3/3c/Monty_Python_killer_rabbit_zpse790d266.gif/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/300?cb=20140409192641)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 10, 2019, 02:52:59 am
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/04615382236086f0cf49e4560cac3e86be884840500aee15fc6782ab502cd89c.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 10, 2019, 02:57:47 am
   The Rabbits have now formed a Union and got extra security.

(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ce9fd0f42939447f7ce1c60d25edcc51a17e4ee11d21784549bbf1f423cbe07e.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdJames on September 10, 2019, 02:57:51 am
I bet that she doesn’t kill rabbits.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 10, 2019, 03:27:29 am
(https://a.disquscdn.com/get?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthumbs.gfycat.com%2FNauticalPowerlessBudgie-size_restricted.gif&key=P3UBRAV3CX1gXFUKCbnKDA&w=600&h=256)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 10, 2019, 06:49:09 am
I bet that she doesn’t kill rabbits.

There is a pregnancy joke in there somewhere... But I could not figure out a way to use it.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 10, 2019, 02:45:20 pm
Kentucky police: Woman stole school bus while under the influence

Billy Kobin, Louisville Courier Journal
 
4 hrs ago

 
A Kentucky woman was arrested Sunday after she allegedly stole a school bus and drove it while intoxicated, according to police.

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Teresa M. Wells, 35, of Cawood, was arrested Sunday morning on Ky. 1137 in Cawood after she stole a school bus from Cawood Elementary School and drove it around the area in a "reckless manner," according to Kentucky State Police.
 
An employee with Harlan County Schools stopped Wells and the bus on the state road and asked her what she was doing.

Michael Cox, the director of transportation for Harlan County Schools, told WYMT that Wells claimed to be a state transportation office employee who was "test-driving the bus."

<..snip..>

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/kentucky-police-woman-stole-school-bus-while-under-the-influence/ar-AAH4XJI?ocid=ientp (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/kentucky-police-woman-stole-school-bus-while-under-the-influence/ar-AAH4XJI?ocid=ientp)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 10, 2019, 03:37:11 pm
An employee with Harlan County Schools stopped Wells and the bus on the state road and asked her what she was doing.

In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky
That's the place where I traced my bloodline
And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone
"You'll never leave Harlan alive"


Hate to say it @corbe , but she sounds like the kind of gal I'd have... I'd be heading over about now to throw her bail... not for the first time...  :whistle: :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 10, 2019, 03:40:20 pm
Dave Alvin - Harlan County Line

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8N_YWOELY#)

   #MeToo @roamer_1
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 10, 2019, 04:49:38 pm
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/04615382236086f0cf49e4560cac3e86be884840500aee15fc6782ab502cd89c.jpg)

Okay..you post her up for all to see but you send me this?  :pondering:

Keep it clean Please.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 10, 2019, 05:51:08 pm
Okay..you post her up for all to see but you send me this?  :pondering:

Removed.

@The Ghost

Hmmmm,a couple of questions come to mind.

1: Did you ever do a lot of drinking?

2: When you were drinking,did it seem like flash bulbs were going off often?

3: Did any of your ancestors ever claim to have been "movie stars" in "small movies you probably never heard of."?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on September 10, 2019, 06:00:56 pm
@The Ghost

Hmmmm,a couple of questions come to mind.

1: Did you ever do a lot of drinking?

2: When you were drinking,did it seem like flash bulbs were going off often?

3: Did any of your ancestors ever claim to have been "movie stars" in "small movies you probably never heard of."?

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 12, 2019, 01:04:08 pm
Ridiculous, maybe?
Quote
Patti Smith is the new face of Saint Laurent
By Emily Kirkpatrick
September 11, 2019

Patti Smith is officially a high-fashion muse.

The 72-year-old rock and roll legend is set to become the newest celebrity to lend her face to one of Saint Laurent‘s ad campaigns. ...
(https://nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/patti-smith.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)

Full story (https://pagesix.com/2019/09/11/patti-smith-is-the-new-face-of-saint-laurent/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on September 12, 2019, 02:30:49 pm
It's not often that a Patti Smith reference comes up.

Patti Smith  -  Amerigo

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7zKcSgXXkY#)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Elderberry on September 16, 2019, 08:35:40 pm
West Texas drug runner leaves behind 1,100 pounds of pot and wallet; cops offer to return ID

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/West-Texas-drug-runner-leaves-behind-1-100-pounds-14442964.php (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/West-Texas-drug-runner-leaves-behind-1-100-pounds-14442964.php)

Quote
Early Saturday morning, Brewster County Sheriff's deputies and Border Patrol agents recovered approximately 1,127 pounds of marijuana in an abandoned SUV,  according to a Facebook post from the BCSO.

"The driver left the scene before he could meet our friendly deputies and agents, but left his wallet in the vehicle," the post read. "We would really like to return it."

To add insult to injury, the cops trolled the drug runner fail with hashtags like #lostandfound, #yourIDishere, #jointoperation, #buds, and of course #weedliketotalk.

(https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/05/54/33/18269891/4/gallery_xlarge.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 16, 2019, 11:56:45 pm
West Texas drug runner leaves behind 1,100 pounds of pot and wallet; cops offer to return ID

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/West-Texas-drug-runner-leaves-behind-1-100-pounds-14442964.php (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/West-Texas-drug-runner-leaves-behind-1-100-pounds-14442964.php)

(https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/05/54/33/18269891/4/gallery_xlarge.jpg)

@Elderberry

Did that car have Florida plates?

NOBODY is ever going to accuse that guy of being clever when it comes to hiding stuff.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on September 17, 2019, 01:23:15 am
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/04615382236086f0cf49e4560cac3e86be884840500aee15fc6782ab502cd89c.jpg)
(https://i.imgflip.com/3aqufr.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 17, 2019, 06:06:52 am
@Elderberry

Did that car have Florida plates?

NOBODY is ever going to accuse that guy of being clever when it comes to hiding stuff.
Maybe tinted windows....

If the vehicle hadn't been left behind (had run okay and been operated reasonably) his odds were not so bad.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on September 18, 2019, 05:41:47 pm
Two Amish men escape police after being pulled over for drinking and driving their horse and buggy

Quote
Two Amish men drinking spiked iced tea in a horse and buggy, a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra sitting atop their horse and buggy and a giant stereo system inside.
…
Deputy Joe Dragovich was on patrol that early morning on September 15. When he attempted to stop and question the two men about drinking and driving, they leapt out of the buggy and made their great escape -- disappearing into the woods on the side of the road, according to the report obtained by CNN affiliate WJW.
…
Meanwhile, the horse pulling the buggy also took off running, but Dragovich managed to catch up to it. The men, though, were gone.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/us/amish-men-drinking-and-driving-trnd/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/us/amish-men-drinking-and-driving-trnd/index.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 18, 2019, 05:46:27 pm
Two Amish men drinking spiked iced tea in a horse and buggy, a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra sitting atop their horse and buggy and a giant stereo system inside.

@Applewood

Does that sound like the plot line for a new Cheech and Chong movie,or what?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on September 18, 2019, 08:36:43 pm
@Applewood

Does that sound like the plot line for a new Cheech and Chong movie,or what?




Lol! It sounds like one to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 27, 2019, 11:31:41 pm
If you want to be in TBR's Ridiculous News of the Day, just have sex and really mess it up.
Quote
Naked couple fall to deaths during balcony sex romp
By Natalie O'Neill
September 27, 2019

A naked couple fell to their deaths while having sex on a third-floor balcony after a house party in Ecuador, according to a report Friday.

The woman, a 28-year-old mother, and her 35-year-old lover were locked in a passionate embrace when they slipped over the edge — and plunged onto the terrace below, twnews.co.uk reports.  ...

Local media reports said the couple wasn’t paying attention to the height of the balcony wall and toppled over it while having sex.
Full story at NYPost (https://nypost.com/2019/09/27/naked-couple-fall-to-deaths-during-balcony-sex-romp/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on September 27, 2019, 11:37:21 pm
I can actually top the above story.

Casey Anthony wants another baby.

https://hollywoodlife.com/2019/09/27/casey-anthony-wants-another-child-acquitted-murder-daughter-caylee/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 28, 2019, 02:28:00 am
Ah...

There once was a man from Adair
who tried to make love on the stair.
On the twenty-third stroke,
the bannister broke
and he finished her off in midair.


Jussayin.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 28, 2019, 09:42:30 am
Ah...

There once was a man from Adair
who tried to make love on the stair.
On the twenty-third stroke,
the bannister broke
and he finished her off in midair.


Jussayin.
Sounds like he came before he went...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 28, 2019, 12:26:44 pm
Many years ago I was reading a Spanish newspaper in a college library (because I didn't want to do any actual studying), and came upon a similar story. It seems the woman had a heart attack, aneurysm or something, and died suddenly just as she climaxed, and the man couldn't, um, extricate himself. It presented a bit of a problem for the paramedics.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on September 28, 2019, 01:24:33 pm
Ah...

There once was a man from Adair
who tried to make love on the stair. .  .


Oh goody.  Are limericks back on?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 29, 2019, 12:01:13 am
Sounds like he came before he went...

 :cool: :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 29, 2019, 12:02:42 am
Oh goody.  Are limericks back on?

Forgive me... It is the tamest one I know, and so very apropos....
 :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on September 30, 2019, 05:11:00 pm
Two Amish men escape police after being pulled over for drinking and driving their horse and buggy

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/us/amish-men-drinking-and-driving-trnd/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/us/amish-men-drinking-and-driving-trnd/index.html)
It happens a lot more than you realize.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 30, 2019, 05:39:49 pm
@jmyrlefuller

Quote
Hermsdorfer turned the horse over to a local farmer until the two men came forward. The sheriff's department has attempted to call different people to pick up the horse, but no one has answered the phone, according to the report.

Amish people have phones?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 30, 2019, 06:19:49 pm
@jmyrlefuller

Amish people have phones?

And computers with internet connections.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on September 30, 2019, 06:43:29 pm
@jmyrlefuller

Amish people have phones?

Just not in their homes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 30, 2019, 07:11:40 pm
It happens a lot more than you realize.
Yeah, but the horse knows the way home.

A guy here got a DUI on a mule, and tried the same defense (the mule knew where it was going). It didn't work.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 30, 2019, 11:06:29 pm
And computers with internet connections.

@Cyber Liberty

I have to admit I am surprised. Never known any practicing Amish,but I have known a few Mennonites,and I would be surprised if any of them own computers.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 30, 2019, 11:22:23 pm
@Cyber Liberty

I have to admit I am surprised. Never known any practicing Amish,but I have known a few Mennonites,and I would be surprised if any of them own computers.

Amish here have a study center where they would have phones and internet in order to communicate for business.

The Mennonites and Hutterites around here are just like you and me, having phones and internet like anyone else.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 30, 2019, 11:26:19 pm
Amish here have a study center where they would have phones and internet in order to communicate for business.

The Mennonites and Hutterites around here are just like you and me, having phones and internet like anyone else.

It's for business.  They sell a crapton of good furniture.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 30, 2019, 11:36:07 pm
It's for business.  They sell a crapton of good furniture.

That's right - I have one of their infra-red electric heaters in a beautiful cherry-wood case... Fixin to buy another one to build into the bench going in the shed/shop... That little heater will keep that shed way above freezing... Nice even though I have a wood stove for when I am out there...
 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on October 01, 2019, 10:13:36 am
Amish here have a study center where they would have phones and internet in order to communicate for business.

The Mennonites and Hutterites around here are just like you and me, having phones and internet like anyone else.
Because the Mennonite church does not have a singular head the local leaders have a lot of latitude as to what they will allow and won't.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on October 01, 2019, 02:23:34 pm
Because the Mennonite church does not have a singular head the local leaders have a lot of latitude as to what they will allow and won't.

Which is why I said 'around here'.  happy77
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on October 02, 2019, 08:02:34 pm
A woman risked her life when she climbed into an enclosure at the Bronx Zoo in New York and appeared to taunt a lion inside. Police are still looking for the intruder, according to CBS New York.

Video of the woman's reckless romp with a lion was posted on Instagram over the weekend. The woman is seen waving and dancing

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bronx-zoo-lion-woman-climbs-into-exhibit-at-new-york-bronx-zoo-appears-to-taunt-lion-caught-on-camera-instagram/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bronx-zoo-lion-woman-climbs-into-exhibit-at-new-york-bronx-zoo-appears-to-taunt-lion-caught-on-camera-instagram/)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on October 02, 2019, 09:49:04 pm
A woman risked her life when she climbed into an enclosure at the Bronx Zoo in New York and appeared to taunt a lion inside. Police are still looking for the intruder, according to CBS New York.

Video of the woman's reckless romp with a lion was posted on Instagram over the weekend. The woman is seen waving and dancing

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bronx-zoo-lion-woman-climbs-into-exhibit-at-new-york-bronx-zoo-appears-to-taunt-lion-caught-on-camera-instagram/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bronx-zoo-lion-woman-climbs-into-exhibit-at-new-york-bronx-zoo-appears-to-taunt-lion-caught-on-camera-instagram/)
And if the lion had attacked/ killer her, they would have shot the lion. I am willing to be that either drugs or alcohol was involved.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 05, 2019, 11:38:21 pm
PICTURED: Woman, 38, wearing a bag of meth as a hair BOW is pulled over by cop for a traffic stop

    Jessica Bernice Kropp, 38, was caught wearing a bag of methamphetamine as a bow in her hair in Flippin, Arkansas
    Kropp used a rubber band to bind the bag in a bow-like shape and clipped it to her hair with a bobby pin
    The discovery was made by an officer who pulled her over for routine traffic stop on the evening of September 24
    She initially claimed she didn't know the bow was there and that someone put it in her hair without her knowledge
    The officer found multiple bags of methamphetamine and other drug paraphernalia after searching the vehicle
    She was booked at the Marion County Sheriff's Office and given a $22,530 bond

By Lauren Edmonds For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:49 EDT, 4 October 2019 | Updated: 11:02 EDT, 4 October 2019

An Arkansas woman has been arrested after cops found  bag of methamphetamine dressed up as a bow in her hair.

Flippin police officer Kenneth Looney pulled over Jessica Bernice Kropp and found the drug inspired hair piece on September 24.  ...  Full story at Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7538017/PICTURED-Arkansas-woman-38-wears-bag-meth-BOW-hair.html)
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/10/04/14/19298798-7538017-image-a-30_1570197546256.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sanguine on October 05, 2019, 11:47:57 pm
"Flippin, Arkansas"   :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 06, 2019, 01:11:38 am
"Flippin, Arkansas"   :silly:
NOT Florida! omg
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on October 06, 2019, 03:25:52 am
NOT Florida! omg

@mountaineer

There is a difference?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 26, 2019, 01:55:26 pm
Southwest flight attendant caught pilots watching bathroom livestream: suit
By Ben Feuerherd
October 25, 2019 | 9:59pm
Quote
A flight attendant for Southwest Airlines says in a shocking new lawsuit that she caught two pilots streaming hidden-camera footage into the cockpit — live, from the airplane’s bathroom, a report said Friday.

Attendant Renee Steinaker alleges in her lawsuit that she discovered the sick surveillance during a 2017 flight from Pittsburgh to Phoenix, Arizona Central  (https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/10/25/southwest-airlines-lawsuit-pilots-livestreamed-plane-bathroom-flight-attendant-claims/2458570001/)reported.

At some point during the flight, the pilot, Capt. Terry Graham, asked her to come to the cockpit so he could go to the bathroom, the suit alleges.  ...

Steinaker noticed an iPad on the windshield showing a livestream video playing on it of Graham in the bathroom, according to the report. ...
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/10/25/southwest-flight-attendant-caught-pilots-watching-bathroom-livestream-suit/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 28, 2019, 02:01:13 pm
Man Hurt in Golf Cart Crash at Maryland Nudist Resort
By Associated Press and NBC Washington Staff
Published 3 hours ago

A man was hurt this weekend in a golf cart crash at a nudist resort in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

The man crashed into a tree Saturday afternoon at the Maryland Health Society, The Capital Gazette reported. The group is the oldest nonprofit, clothing-optional health resort and campground in the country, its website says. ...

He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash
.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Hurt-in-Golf-Cart-Crash-at-Maryland-Nudist-Resort-563970311.html (https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Hurt-in-Golf-Cart-Crash-at-Maryland-Nudist-Resort-563970311.html)

No helmet!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on October 28, 2019, 05:48:03 pm
@mountaineer

Quote
He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.

Did he have anything to protect his...uh...balls? 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on October 28, 2019, 05:58:05 pm
Not sure where to put this, but it has made national news and I thought it might qualify as ridiculous:

Pittsburgh bus with passenger aboard swallowed by massive sinkhole

Quote
The morning commute was more of a struggle than usual for commuters in the Steel City Monday, after a large sinkhole opened up in downtown Pittsburgh and swallowed part of a bus.

The Port Authority of Allegheny County said the incident happened on Penn Avenue at 10th Street during the height of the morning rush hour, when the sinkhole opened up and swallowed the back section of the bus.

Photos from the scene showed the entire rear of the bus in the sinkhole, with the front part of the vehicle sticking up in the air.

More of the story and a photo of the bus at:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sinkhole-bus-pittsburgh-swallowed-pennsylvania (https://www.foxnews.com/us/sinkhole-bus-pittsburgh-swallowed-pennsylvania)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on October 28, 2019, 07:03:30 pm
Not sure where to put this, but it has made national news and I thought it might qualify as ridiculous:

Pittsburgh bus with passenger aboard swallowed by massive sinkhole

More of the story and a photo of the bus at:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sinkhole-bus-pittsburgh-swallowed-pennsylvania (https://www.foxnews.com/us/sinkhole-bus-pittsburgh-swallowed-pennsylvania)

First sinkhole I have seen with perfectly straight and square lines.

(https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2019/10/1862/1048/PortAuthorityPittsburghBus.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on October 28, 2019, 07:22:39 pm
First sinkhole I have seen with perfectly straight and square lines.

(https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2019/10/1862/1048/PortAuthorityPittsburghBus.jpg)
Damn those 3D street artists are making those drawings of hole more realistic all the time!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on October 28, 2019, 07:26:49 pm
@GtHawk

I think you're looking at a shadow of the bus on the street.  This video has a closeup of the bus -- the hole is more irregular here:

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/10/28/port-authority-bus-sinkhole-downtown-pittsburgh/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on October 28, 2019, 08:10:58 pm
@mountaineer

Did he have anything to protect his...uh...balls?




It does give one a thought, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 28, 2019, 08:19:40 pm
@Applewood  I've been laughing about the PAT bus ever since this morning. Glad no one was hurt, but it really is kind of funny.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on October 28, 2019, 08:23:07 pm
@mountaineer

Did he have anything to protect his...uh...balls?

Hope the shaft on his putter wasn't damaged.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on October 28, 2019, 08:28:21 pm



It does give one a thought, doesn't it?
Maybe they were in his golf bag... :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on October 28, 2019, 08:32:36 pm
@GtHawk

I think you're looking at a shadow of the bus on the street.  This video has a closeup of the bus -- the hole is more irregular here:

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/10/28/port-authority-bus-sinkhole-downtown-pittsburgh/
Examining the available images at the link, the straight lines are the result of pavement parting at seams created by when the pavement was laid down (the machines that lay the surfacing material lay a strip roughly a lane wide). If there is an electrical vault and gas lines beneath, there was a structural failure in the subsurface construction which may or may not be related to natural processes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on October 28, 2019, 09:32:57 pm
@Applewood  I've been laughing about the PAT bus ever since this morning. Glad no one was hurt, but it really is kind of funny.

While I was looking for a better photo for @GtHawk I found several other stories about buses falling into sinkholes, including one story from Japan.  I guess this happens more often than we think. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on October 28, 2019, 09:49:08 pm
Examining the available images at the link, the straight lines are the result of pavement parting at seams created by when the pavement was laid down (the machines that lay the surfacing material lay a strip roughly a lane wide). If there is an electrical vault and gas lines beneath, there was a structural failure in the subsurface construction which may or may not be related to natural processes.

Thanks for the explanation.  You know more about this stuff than I.  Actually, I was thinking the cause might be a water main break or underground pipe burst    The City of Pittsburgh has an antiquated water system.  Used to have water main breaks only in winter; now it's year round. And that's on top of periodic problems with the water itself, necessitating boil water advisories and sometimes shutoffs.   No money and no desire to fix the system or to upgrade it.  At one point it was suggested that the city transfer responsibility for the water system to a private company, but the powers that be put the kabosh on that idea.  Where I live in the 'burbs, we have a private water company which keeps our water and the mains and pipelines in top condition. 

And yes, the street is probably in bad shape.  Pittsburgh, like most of Pennsylvania, has awful roads.  When they fix or build a road, they use the cheapest materials they can find.  Roads are always being dug up and fixed, but a few months later, they have to be fixed again.  Sometimes when there is no money, a bad road can be in disrepair for months or years. 

it will be interesting to see and hear what the investigators determine as the cause. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 28, 2019, 09:54:00 pm
If there is an electrical vault and gas lines beneath, there was a structural failure in the subsurface construction which may or may not be related to natural processes.
The bus is still in the hole. Officials are trying to determine the status of underground gas, electric, water, etc., lines.
Quote
...  “The problem that we’re having is that we have to lift that Port Authority bus straight up, because we have a Duquesne Light electrical vault involved, we have several gas lines involved and we don’t want to create any further problems than what we have now. Traffic is going to be a problem for the next eight to 10 hours. I know that we have a Steelers game tonight.”

The sinkhole is about 20 feet deep.

Authorities say the bus is sitting on three major power lines. Those will need to be turned off before the bus can be removed. During that process, some downtown businesses could lose power, and at least one is already without water. ...
KDKA (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/10/28/port-authority-bus-sinkhole-downtown-pittsburgh/)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EH-GtthWkAASphR?format=jpg&name=360x360)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on October 29, 2019, 02:41:30 am
@GtHawk

I think you're looking at a shadow of the bus on the street.  This video has a closeup of the bus -- the hole is more irregular here:

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/10/28/port-authority-bus-sinkhole-downtown-pittsburgh/
No I was actually making a joke, kinda like in the cartoons where the Coyote paints a tunnel on a a cliff and the Roadrunner runs through it -- But obviously it came across a lot more irregular where you are :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on October 29, 2019, 11:04:45 am
In case anyone cares, here is a report and video of the bus being lifted out of the sinkhole:

https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-sinkhole-port-authority-bus/29607762 (https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-sinkhole-port-authority-bus/29607762)

And @GtHawk you were right.  The hole was more squared than I thought.  You can see it better in the second aerial view video at the link. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on October 29, 2019, 12:26:43 pm
That was a big sink hole
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 29, 2019, 11:16:24 pm
It happens.
Quote
Deputies: Man Stabs Woman Over Fear She Would ‘Feed Him To Zombies’
October 29, 2019 at 4:33 pm

MONETTA, S.C. (CBS Local) — A South Carolina man allegedly stabbed a woman because he feared she would feed him to zombies, according to investigators.

William Berry, 29, of Aiken was arrested Saturday in Monetta after a woman was stabbed five or six times in the back, according to an Aiken County Sheriff’s Office incident report. ...

Berry allegedly told deputies he “poked someone” because “they were trying to feed him to zombies and being mean to him,” according to the incident report. ...
Rest of story (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/10/29/deputies-man-stabs-woman-over-fear-she-would-feed-him-to-zombies/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on October 29, 2019, 11:23:58 pm
It happens.Rest of story (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/10/29/deputies-man-stabs-woman-over-fear-she-would-feed-him-to-zombies/)

@mountaineer

Well,ya can't blame him for that. Nobody wants to get fed to zombies.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on October 30, 2019, 12:01:27 am
Oh goody.  Are limericks back on?
There once-ler from Nantucket.
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
But his daughter, named San FranNan,
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nanfucket.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 30, 2019, 12:39:48 am
It happens.Rest of story (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/10/29/deputies-man-stabs-woman-over-fear-she-would-feed-him-to-zombies/)

Bath salts?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on October 30, 2019, 01:23:17 pm
Bath salts?
There is a local place the youth hangout to do various foolish youthful pursuits. There is rather tall rock face that a former student decided to "fly off of" after taking bath salts. It took about 5-6 of her "friends" to hold her back so she wouldn't. This was the straw that broke the camels back for her parents to finally get her some help.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on October 30, 2019, 01:28:26 pm
There is a local place the youth hangout to do various foolish youthful pursuits. There is rather tall rock face that a former student decided to "fly off of" after taking bath salts. It took about 5-6 of her "friends" to hold her back so she wouldn't. This was the straw that broke the camels back for her parents to finally get her some help.
At least she didn't try to eat their faces...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 30, 2019, 01:31:20 pm
At least she didn't try to eat their faces...
Yeah, that seems to be a typical effect of the drug.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 31, 2019, 01:15:55 pm
 Woman cracks mother’s skull with crucifix during fight: report
By Ben Feuerherd
October 29, 2019

 A Texas woman attacked her mother with a crucifix on Sunday, repeatedly hitting her in the head and fracturing her skull, a report said.

The suspect, 25-year-old Christian Lydia Martinez, got into a fight with her 45-year-old mother after she came home after a day of drinking in San Antonio, the Smoking Gun reported.

During the fight, Martinez allegedly grabbed a crucifix from the wall and socked her mother in the head with it, according to the report.  ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/10/29/woman-cracks-mothers-skull-with-crucifix-during-fight-report/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on October 31, 2019, 01:31:32 pm
Woman cracks mother’s skull with crucifix during fight: report
By Ben Feuerherd
October 29, 2019

 A Texas woman attacked her mother with a crucifix on Sunday, repeatedly hitting her in the head and fracturing her skull, a report said.

The suspect, 25-year-old Christian Lydia Martinez, got into a fight with her 45-year-old mother after she came home after a day of drinking in San Antonio, the Smoking Gun reported.

During the fight, Martinez allegedly grabbed a crucifix from the wall and socked her mother in the head with it, according to the report.  ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/10/29/woman-cracks-mothers-skull-with-crucifix-during-fight-report/)
I am confused, which one was out all night drinking?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 31, 2019, 02:18:09 pm
I am confused, which one was out all night drinking?
I believe it was the daughter.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 08, 2019, 04:26:11 pm
The Number Two Tavern is world’s first poo-powered pub
Steven Adams | Thursday, November 7, 2019 1:44 p.m.

It may look like a traditional Yorkshire pub but it’s flush with new technology.

The Number Two Tavern in Leeds, England, is a pop-up demonstration of a cutting-edge energy production using power created by anaerobic digestion, according to Yorkshire Water. The process converts sewage into biogas that can generate heat and electricity.

Visitors may pooh-pooh the limited menu, offering nothing but water. But visitors can quench their thirst while posing for photos with a prop toilet. ...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1192461992872816640/tWF3T6o5?format=jpg&name=600x314)

Rest of story (https://triblive.com/news/world/the-number-two-tavern-is-worlds-first-poo-powered-pub/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 08, 2019, 05:09:03 pm
The Number Two Tavern is world’s first poo-powered pub
Steven Adams | Thursday, November 7, 2019 1:44 p.m.

This is Ridiculous!  Whoever heard of a proper "Tavern" that serves only water?  Water would be the one thing I would not want from there!  That sounds like a place where only the distilled spirits are safe.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on November 09, 2019, 05:31:27 pm
   Frank has been spotted.


Drunken Clearfield man placed in jail with his vacuum

by: Bill Shannon
Posted: Nov 8, 2019 / 09:11 AM EST    / Updated: Nov 8, 2019 / 10:38 AM EST
   

LAWRENCE TWP. CLEARFIELD CO, Pa. (WTAJ) — Lawrence Township Police responded to a man struggling to walk down the Clearfield Shawville Highway with a vacuum cleaner on Thursday, November 7.

Jason Schmoke, 38, was seen walking the white fog line of the highway, in and out of traffic, struggling with a large box containing his Bissell vacuum cleaner.

<..snip..>

https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/local-news/drunken-clearfield-man-reportedly-placed-in-jail-with-his-vacuum/ (https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/local-news/drunken-clearfield-man-reportedly-placed-in-jail-with-his-vacuum/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on November 09, 2019, 05:36:16 pm
Ahwatukee couple fed up with dog poop sets up mouse trap

Posted: 10:19 PM, Nov 08, 2019 Updated: 11:19 PM, Nov 08, 2019
 
By: Karla Navarrete


AHWATUKEE, AZ — Peggy Hogan has lived in Ahwatukee for about one year, and since moving into her home, she says she'd had nothing but trouble in getting dog owners to pick up after their pets.

"It needs to stop. We are tired of it, we get cigarette butts thrown in our yard and the dogs...can I say crap?" says the woman who, along with her husband, has recently placed a mousetrap in their front yard.

"I guess they are too damn lazy to pick up after their dog," adds Hogan.

Hogan tells ABC15 she and her husband at first put up signs asking residents to pick up after their dogs, but the droppings kept coming.

<..snip..>

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/ahwatukee/ahwatukee-couple-fed-up-with-dog-poop-sets-up-mouse-trap (https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/ahwatukee/ahwatukee-couple-fed-up-with-dog-poop-sets-up-mouse-trap)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 09, 2019, 05:40:35 pm
Ahwatukee couple fed up with dog poop sets up mouse trap

Posted: 10:19 PM, Nov 08, 2019 Updated: 11:19 PM, Nov 08, 2019
 
By: Karla Navarrete


AHWATUKEE, AZ — Peggy Hogan has lived in Ahwatukee for about one year, and since moving into her home, she says she'd had nothing but trouble in getting dog owners to pick up after their pets.

"It needs to stop. We are tired of it, we get cigarette butts thrown in our yard and the dogs...can I say crap?" says the woman who, along with her husband, has recently placed a mousetrap in their front yard.

"I guess they are too damn lazy to pick up after their dog," adds Hogan.

Hogan tells ABC15 she and her husband at first put up signs asking residents to pick up after their dogs, but the droppings kept coming.

<..snip..>

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/ahwatukee/ahwatukee-couple-fed-up-with-dog-poop-sets-up-mouse-trap (https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/ahwatukee/ahwatukee-couple-fed-up-with-dog-poop-sets-up-mouse-trap)

A novel approach, doomed to failure when the first dog gets bitten by it, and the cops show up with a Cruelty to Animals warrant.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 09, 2019, 05:43:11 pm
A novel approach, doomed to failure when the first dog gets bitten by it, and the cops show up with a Cruelty to Animals warrant.

A mouse trap is not capable of doing harm to a dog of any size...
 :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 09, 2019, 05:56:14 pm
A mouse trap is not capable of doing harm to a dog of any size...
 :shrug:

Tell that to the screaming meemie of a dog mommy or daddy of a Foo-foo dog that gets scared of the flipping trap.  I didn't say the charge wouldn't be frivolous, just what I know would happen in leftist Ahwatukee.  The fellow in the story who noticed the trap was...walking his dog, and he admits his dog has "loitered" in the trapper's yard in the past.  That guy would be the first to cry to the cops with a demand they "do something."

The cops would oblige.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 09, 2019, 06:04:21 pm
Tell that to the screaming meemie of a dog mommy or daddy of a Foo-foo dog that gets scared of the flipping trap.  I didn't say the charge wouldn't be frivolous, just what I know would happen in leftist Ahwatukee.  The fellow in the story who noticed the trap was...walking his dog, and he admits his dog has "loitered" in the trapper's yard in the past.  That guy would be the first to cry to the cops with a demand they "do something."

The cops would oblige.

SMH. The world is upside down.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 09, 2019, 06:08:45 pm
SMH. The world is upside down.

It got that way from the excessive leftward tilt. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on November 09, 2019, 06:25:52 pm
They are all over the place”: Aggressive gaggle of wild turkeys terrorizing 55-and-up community

They are all over the place," says Jack Adams, of Toms River. "They're are massive amounts of turkeys in here. I did stop the truck yesterday and they were gobbling, gobbling, gobbling and I bet they can chase some people around."

Others say if you don't provoke them, they won't bother you -- and actually see them as a benefit in the neighborhood.

"They're like traffic cops," says Richard Flecker, of Toms River. "People speed down the highway all the time and instead of speed bumps, we have turkeys."

Drivers are slowing down when the turkeys are crossing the road.

http://newjersey.news12.com/story/41294445/they-are-all-over-the-place-aggressive-gaggle-of-wild-turkeys-terrorizing-55andup-community (http://newjersey.news12.com/story/41294445/they-are-all-over-the-place-aggressive-gaggle-of-wild-turkeys-terrorizing-55andup-community)

🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on November 09, 2019, 06:26:46 pm
They are all over the place”: Aggressive gaggle of wild turkeys terrorizing 55-and-up community

They are all over the place," says Jack Adams, of Toms River. "They're are massive amounts of turkeys in here. I did stop the truck yesterday and they were gobbling, gobbling, gobbling and I bet they can chase some people around."

Others say if you don't provoke them, they won't bother you -- and actually see them as a benefit in the neighborhood.

"They're like traffic cops," says Richard Flecker, of Toms River. "People speed down the highway all the time and instead of speed bumps, we have turkeys."

Drivers are slowing down when the turkeys are crossing the road.

http://newjersey.news12.com/story/41294445/they-are-all-over-the-place-aggressive-gaggle-of-wild-turkeys-terrorizing-55andup-community (http://newjersey.news12.com/story/41294445/they-are-all-over-the-place-aggressive-gaggle-of-wild-turkeys-terrorizing-55andup-community)

🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

Don’t you drink wild turkey?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 09, 2019, 06:59:46 pm
They are all over the place”: Aggressive gaggle of wild turkeys terrorizing 55-and-up community

They are all over the place," says Jack Adams, of Toms River. "They're are massive amounts of turkeys in here. I did stop the truck yesterday and they were gobbling, gobbling, gobbling and I bet they can chase some people around."

Others say if you don't provoke them, they won't bother you -- and actually see them as a benefit in the neighborhood.

"They're like traffic cops," says Richard Flecker, of Toms River. "People speed down the highway all the time and instead of speed bumps, we have turkeys."

Drivers are slowing down when the turkeys are crossing the road.

http://newjersey.news12.com/story/41294445/they-are-all-over-the-place-aggressive-gaggle-of-wild-turkeys-terrorizing-55andup-community (http://newjersey.news12.com/story/41294445/they-are-all-over-the-place-aggressive-gaggle-of-wild-turkeys-terrorizing-55andup-community)

🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

So what's the problem? Sounds like everybody can have a great Thanksgiving!

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 09, 2019, 07:03:27 pm
So what's the problem? Sounds like everybody can have a great Thanksgiving!

This would be a lot like the Turkey Incident on WKRP in Cincinnati.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 09, 2019, 07:07:48 pm
Tell that to the screaming meemie of a dog mommy or daddy of a Foo-foo dog that gets scared of the flipping trap.  I didn't say the charge wouldn't be frivolous, just what I know would happen in leftist Ahwatukee.  The fellow in the story who noticed the trap was...walking his dog, and he admits his dog has "loitered" in the trapper's yard in the past.  That guy would be the first to cry to the cops with a demand they "do something."

The cops would oblige.

@Cyber Liberty

The best thing for those people to do is put a fence up in their yard.  Yeah,it costs money they shouldn't have to spend,but how much is your peace of mind worth?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 09, 2019, 07:12:45 pm
This would be a lot like the Turkey Incident on WKRP in Cincinnati.

We have wild turkeys here in abundance. I am hoping to go out and knock one in the head this year for the first time in  a long, long time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on November 09, 2019, 09:26:59 pm
Quote
"They're like traffic cops," says Richard Flecker, of Toms River. "People speed down the highway all the time and instead of speed bumps, we have turkeys."

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCPwOKvwugc#)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 11, 2019, 06:46:11 am
So what's the problem? Sounds like everybody can have a great Thanksgiving!
My thoughts, too. Just don't hit them with the tires...

Oh, I see. All those vehicles are plastic in front... **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 11, 2019, 07:54:25 am
My thoughts, too. Just don't hit them with the tires...

Oh, I see. All those vehicles are plastic in front... **nononono*

LOL! Yeah that's right... I forget there's folks that don't have a steel bumper on their rigs...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on November 11, 2019, 01:49:47 pm
This would be a lot like the Turkey Incident on WKRP in Cincinnati.

Except those wild ones can fly!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on November 11, 2019, 01:51:47 pm
This would be a lot like the Turkey Incident on WKRP in Cincinnati.

One of the best TV episodes of all time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on November 11, 2019, 01:53:32 pm
This would be a lot like the Turkey Incident on WKRP in Cincinnati.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on November 11, 2019, 01:55:01 pm
  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p00nBSNIPwg#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 11, 2019, 09:37:43 pm
Don’t you drink wild turkey?
Wild Turkey was the favorite drink of all the cops I knew. I have never seen so many people drink so much and then blithely get behind the wheel and drive home. I wonder how many ended up catch and release because of 'professional courtesy'.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 13, 2019, 01:18:32 pm
Judge says woman arrested in CIA trespass looking for ‘Agent Penis’ later visited Obama home
Neal Augenstein | @AugensteinWTOP
November 12, 2019, 1:03 PM


The woman who allegedly trespassed three days in a row at the CIA headquarters and requested “to speak with Agent Penis” recently showed up at the home of former President Barack Obama, according to a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia.

During a status hearing, U.S. District Court Judge John Anderson said he had been informed that Jennifer G. Hernandez, 58, of North Carolina — who is charged with trespassing at an agency installation without authorization for repeatedly visiting the CIA in May — later showed up at Obama’s D.C.-area home, despite the court’s order to stay away from all government-related facilities. She had been released before the trial.  ... WTOP (https://wtop.com/local/2019/11/judge-says-woman-arrested-in-cia-trespass-looking-for-agent-penis-later-visited-obama-home/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on November 13, 2019, 01:22:48 pm
Judge says woman arrested in CIA trespass looking for ‘Agent Penis’ later visited Obama home
Neal Augenstein | @AugensteinWTOP
November 12, 2019, 1:03 PM


The woman who allegedly trespassed three days in a row at the CIA headquarters and requested “to speak with Agent Penis” recently showed up at the home of former President Barack Obama, according to a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia.

During a status hearing, U.S. District Court Judge John Anderson said he had been informed that Jennifer G. Hernandez, 58, of North Carolina — who is charged with trespassing at an agency installation without authorization for repeatedly visiting the CIA in May — later showed up at Obama’s D.C.-area home, despite the court’s order to stay away from all government-related facilities. She had been released before the trial.  ... WTOP (https://wtop.com/local/2019/11/judge-says-woman-arrested-in-cia-trespass-looking-for-agent-penis-later-visited-obama-home/)

Whacked women probably got visited by Agent PENI 5.  Shit happens with undercover operations. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 13, 2019, 07:05:03 pm
Judge says woman arrested in CIA trespass looking for ‘Agent Penis’ later visited Obama home
Neal Augenstein | @AugensteinWTOP
November 12, 2019, 1:03 PM


The woman who allegedly trespassed three days in a row at the CIA headquarters and requested “to speak with Agent Penis” recently showed up at the home of former President Barack Obama, according to a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia.

During a status hearing, U.S. District Court Judge John Anderson said he had been informed that Jennifer G. Hernandez, 58, of North Carolina — who is charged with trespassing at an agency installation without authorization for repeatedly visiting the CIA in May — later showed up at Obama’s D.C.-area home, despite the court’s order to stay away from all government-related facilities. She had been released before the trial.  ... WTOP (https://wtop.com/local/2019/11/judge-says-woman-arrested-in-cia-trespass-looking-for-agent-penis-later-visited-obama-home/)

@mountaineer

Interesting. Did she say she was there to visit Manchelle? I seriously doubt Bathhouse Barry would be of much use to her.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on November 19, 2019, 08:44:00 pm
A vegan man claims Burger King cooked Impossible Whopper alongside meat

Quote
A man is suing Burger King because the meatless Impossible Whopper is cooked on the same grill as meat products, the lawsuit alleges.

The class action lawsuit, filed Monday in the Southern District of Florida, claims that although the burger chain advertises its vegan option as meat-free, it is contaminated by meat by-product because it's cooked on the same grill as meat products.

The suit accuses Burger King of false advertising and benefiting monetarily from offering a vegan option that is not in fact vegan.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/burger-king-impossible-burger-lawsuit-trnd/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/burger-king-impossible-burger-lawsuit-trnd/index.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 19, 2019, 09:31:43 pm
A vegan man claims Burger King cooked Impossible Whopper alongside meat

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/burger-king-impossible-burger-lawsuit-trnd/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/burger-king-impossible-burger-lawsuit-trnd/index.html)

I guess they named the burger well:  "Impossible."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on November 19, 2019, 09:49:32 pm
*For guests looking for a meat-free option, a non-broiler method of preparation is available upon request..

https://company.bk.com/menu-item/impossible-whopper
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on November 23, 2019, 02:33:24 am
2 gas cans in the car and "smoking materials" involved, I don't think anyone was hurt seriously, minor burns.

Quote
VIDEO: Car explodes at Connecticut intersection, passerby pulls driver to safety

STAFFORD, Conn. -- A car that burst into flames at a Connecticut intersection could have killed the driver, but a passerby quickly sprang into action and saved the driver.

The incident was caught on video by a traffic camera, WTIC reported.

On November 1, Glenwood Little was driving with two gas cans in the backseat of when his car exploded, according to the Stafford Fire Department.

More: https://abc7chicago.com/video-car-explodes-passerby-pulls-driver-to-safety/5713438/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on November 23, 2019, 02:36:11 am
Here is another odd one:

Quote
Border Patrol seizes 154 pounds of prohibited bologna
Ronnie Das

EL PASO, TX (WLNS) – Border patrol officers seized 154 pounds of bologna on Thursday morning.

Officers located 14 rolls of Mexican bologna behind the rear seat of a vehicle heading over the border.

More: https://www.wlns.com/news/international/border-patrol-seizes-154-pounds-of-prohibited-bologna/ (https://www.wlns.com/news/international/border-patrol-seizes-154-pounds-of-prohibited-bologna/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on November 23, 2019, 10:57:53 am
Here is another odd one:

 🎵My bologna has a first name...🎵
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 23, 2019, 12:36:13 pm
🎵My bologna has a first name...🎵
It's P-e-d-r-o ...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 23, 2019, 02:41:51 pm
It's P-e-d-r-o ...

 888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: PeteS in CA on November 23, 2019, 08:04:54 pm
It's P-e-d-r-o ...

 P-e-d-r-o M-e-y-e-r

Burrito-Mobile?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on November 24, 2019, 12:37:02 am
Here is another odd one:

(https://i.imgflip.com/3hcvxx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on November 24, 2019, 01:00:28 am
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.wp.com%2Fredheadcandecorate.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F10%2FFried-Bologna-Onion-Sandwich-Recipe.jpg%3Ffit%3D700%252C781%26ssl%3D1&f=1&nofb=1)


You haven't lived until you've had a fried bologna sandwich.
I prefer thicker slices than this, but you get the idea.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 24, 2019, 01:27:54 am
You haven't lived until you've had a fried bologna sandwich.
I prefer thicker slices than this, but you get the idea.

Crappy white bread - one buttered, one mayo'd
2 pieces of bologna.
1 piece crappy American cheese.
too many dill pickle chips

buttered bread
bologna
cheese
pickles
mayo'd bread.

serve with chips.

Standard fare of my youth. I can;t even imagine how many thousand of those sandwiches I have eaten in my life... And I still eat them from time to time with a big sloppy heap of nostalgia.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on November 24, 2019, 01:31:19 am
Crappy white bread - one buttered, one mayo'd
2 pieces of bologna.
1 piece crappy American cheese.
too many dill pickle chips

buttered bread
bologna
cheese
pickles
mayo'd bread.

serve with chips.

Standard fare of my youth. I can;t even imagine how many thousand of those sandwiches I have eaten in my life... And I still eat them from time to time with a big sloppy heap of nostalgia.

Is there such a thing as too many dill pickle chips?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on November 24, 2019, 01:34:33 am
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You haven't lived until you've had a fried bologna sandwich.
I prefer thicker slices than this, but you get the idea.

Grilled too.  And yes, the bologna has to be thick cut. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 24, 2019, 01:39:10 am
Is there such a thing as too many dill pickle chips?

All I know is the restaraunt never puts enough on... two sad little dill chips. What's up with that?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on November 24, 2019, 01:49:40 am
All I know is the restaraunt never puts enough on... two sad little dill chips. What's up with that?

Way back I was a swing manager in a Mickey d's. a guy ordered and asked for extra pickles. I could sense his addiction. I put as many on as I could. He came back and I think he would have hugged me if he could have outrun me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 24, 2019, 01:52:53 am
Way back I was a swing manager in a Mickey d's. a guy ordered and asked for extra pickles. I could sense his addiction. I put as many on as I could. He came back and I think he would have hugged me if he could have outrun me.

I eat over to the Bojangles, or at Sykes Diner... All them pretty little waitresses know better that to give me two dang ol dill chips...

Same with french fries - If you can count em, there ain't enough.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on November 24, 2019, 02:00:59 am
I eat over to the Bojangles, or at Sykes Diner... All them pretty little waitresses know better that to give me two dang ol dill chips...

Same with french fries - If you can count em, there ain't enough.

You got fry sauce up there? Mayo/ketchup mixed? If you do and like it, make some with Heinz 57 instead of ketchup.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 24, 2019, 02:04:13 am
You got fry sauce up there? Mayo/ketchup mixed? If you do and like it, make some with Heinz 57 instead of ketchup.

YUP... With just a bit of mustard, and a squirt of Siracha... Or Franks - I put that sh*t on everything.
 :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 24, 2019, 09:57:41 am
(https://i.imgflip.com/3hcvxx.jpg)
Hey buddy! You gonna finish that?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 24, 2019, 01:57:27 pm
Quote
LeBron James farts at fans after they ask for his autograph
By Jon Levine
November 23, 2019 | 12:44pm | Updated

The King has tooted.

Basketball star LeBron James responded to a fan request for an autograph by farting at him while leaving an Oklahoma steakhouse.

LeBron and fellow basketballer Chris Paul were leaving the Mohagany Prime Steakhouse in Oklahoma City when the fans, who were recording the encounter, approached.

Before entering a waiting SUV, James lifted his leg and offered a burst of flatulence so loud it was picked by the camera’s audio from the other side of the parking lot, TMZ reported.

It’s been a banner week for farting news, with Rep. Eric Swalwell also making national headlines after what appeared to be a loud fart during a live interview with MSNBC host Chris Matthews.

The network later said the sound was not a fart but was in fact caused by Matthews dragging his coffee cup across the desk.
NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/11/23/lebron-james-farts-at-fans-after-they-ask-for-his-autograph/)

I saw the Swalwell video. That was no coffee cup. The above link has the James video. Bleah! Too much flatulence! Maybe AOC can tell Bronnie to tone it down - for the environment.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on November 24, 2019, 02:37:46 pm
LeBron has such class.   *****rollingeyes*****

The congressman -- well, that could have been accidental.  Sometimes those things come out without warning. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on November 24, 2019, 02:41:18 pm
LeBron has such class.   *****rollingeyes*****



He is just another thug example of why I quit watching this sport decades ago.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on November 24, 2019, 07:38:57 pm
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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 24, 2019, 07:45:02 pm
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b8B4Pz79is0/Xdk00wbb_WI/AAAAAAAAIqE/8s3KviEI8F8QCuRHRZiabG8uLyclB9RkACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/40.jpg)

@corbe

If you want to see a crime,see what I do to any weenie waver I catch coming out of a girls restroom.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 24, 2019, 09:50:23 pm
Sometimes those things come out without warning.

Well yeah... But then it's no longer a fart.

 :silly: :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 24, 2019, 11:29:42 pm

 @sneakypete 's quote If you want to see a crime,see what I do to any weenie waver I catch coming out of a girls restroom. Followed by @roamer-1 's post with @Applewood 's  quote Sometimes those things come out without warning. right under it really tickled my funny bone!

(https://i.imgur.com/AkXapjh.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 24, 2019, 11:35:06 pm
@GtHawk

 :beer: :seeya:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on November 25, 2019, 12:33:04 am
Glad we could give you a good laugh @GtHawk
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 05, 2019, 12:26:32 am
Man with distinctive 'Pot Head' tattoo sought in Ohio
by JEFF MORRISWednesday
 December 4th 2019

MARIETTA, Ohio (WCHS/WVAH) – The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Marietta, Ohio, is looking for a suspect who has quite a distinctive look.

Douglas Perry Christopher, 51, has a tattoo on his face that says “Pot Head” with a pot leaf across his forehead and eyebrows, according to a Facebook post Wednesday from the sheriff’s office. ...
(https://wtov9.com/resources/media/a895b9cc-2707-46c5-a76a-c22eaf9fb32e-large16x9_webchristopher2.jpg?1575487066198)

Link to story (https://wtov9.com/news/offbeat/man-with-distinctive-pot-head-tattoo-sought-in-ohio)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 05, 2019, 01:04:00 am
Man with distinctive 'Pot Head' tattoo sought in Ohio
by JEFF MORRISWednesday
 December 4th 2019

MARIETTA, Ohio (WCHS/WVAH) – The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Marietta, Ohio, is looking for a suspect who has quite a distinctive look.

Douglas Perry Christopher, 51, has a tattoo on his face that says “Pot Head” with a pot leaf across his forehead and eyebrows, according to a Facebook post Wednesday from the sheriff’s office. ...
(https://wtov9.com/resources/media/a895b9cc-2707-46c5-a76a-c22eaf9fb32e-large16x9_webchristopher2.jpg?1575487066198)

Link to story (https://wtov9.com/news/offbeat/man-with-distinctive-pot-head-tattoo-sought-in-ohio)

@mountaineer

Is there a toll-free number when I can call and get the reward for telling them he has obviously moved back home in Florida?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 05, 2019, 01:10:29 am
Man with distinctive 'Pot Head' tattoo sought in Ohio
by JEFF MORRISWednesday
 December 4th 2019

MARIETTA, Ohio (WCHS/WVAH) – The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Marietta, Ohio, is looking for a suspect who has quite a distinctive look.

Douglas Perry Christopher, 51, has a tattoo on his face that says “Pot Head” with a pot leaf across his forehead and eyebrows, according to a Facebook post Wednesday from the sheriff’s office. ...
(https://wtov9.com/resources/media/a895b9cc-2707-46c5-a76a-c22eaf9fb32e-large16x9_webchristopher2.jpg?1575487066198)

Link to story (https://wtov9.com/news/offbeat/man-with-distinctive-pot-head-tattoo-sought-in-ohio)

"
Christopher is wanted on warrant for failure to provide a change of address for his sex registration

Currently, he is believed to be homeless
"

 :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 05, 2019, 01:32:27 am
"Did the man who raped you have any distinguishing tattoos?"  :silly:

Whack that fellow's pee pee.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on December 08, 2019, 04:19:27 pm
This happened too, not really ridiculous news but I don't think it is so big as to be posted in the NN forum and if no one posted it already: 

Quote
A bald eagle broke into an H&R Block in Virginia Beach, and it's the most American thing you'll see all day

A bald eagle was seen "hanging out" in an H&R Block in Virginia Beach after breaking through a window of the building.

Ali Weatherton, a reporter for local news station WVEC, posted a video of the unsuspecting eagle perched on the window of the building.

Bald eagles sightings were rare in the past, as the birds of prey were at the verge of extinction due to habitat destruction, illegal shooting, and food source contamination, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-bald-eagle-broke-into-hr-block-building-virginia-beach-2019-12?amp%3Butm_medium=referral (https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-bald-eagle-broke-into-hr-block-building-virginia-beach-2019-12?amp%3Butm_medium=referral)

Video at link and here:   https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1203705824629215232 (https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1203705824629215232)

I'm glad the eagle appears to be okay, you know, sometimes birds fly into windows and die. And I guess a Bald Eagle can break windows being so big as happened here.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on December 08, 2019, 04:23:45 pm
This happened too, not really ridiculous news but I don't think it is so big as to be posted in the NN forum and if no one posted it already: 

Video at link and here:   https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1203705824629215232 (https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1203705824629215232)

I'm glad the eagle appears to be okay, you know, sometimes birds fly into windows and die. And I guess a Bald Eagle can break windows being so big as happened here.
@TomSea
Almost eighty years ago, a bald eagle provided a pair of classic mishaps on live old-time network radio:

The Fred Allen Show, "An Eagle Gets Loose in the Studio" (NBC, 20 March 1940) (https://otrrlibrary.org/OTRRLib/Library%20Files/F%20Series/Fred%20Allen%20-%20Fred%20Allen%20Show%20(39-40)/Fred%20Allen%20-%20Fred%20Allen%20Show%20(39-40)%2040-03-20%20(25)%20Eagle%20Gets%20Loose%20in%20the%20Studio.mp3)
Texaco Star Theater with Fred Allen, "The Eagle is Back" (CBS, 20 November 1940) (https://otrrlibrary.org/OTRRLib/Library%20Files/F%20Series/Fred%20Allen%20-%20Texaco%20Star%20Theater/Fred%20Allen%20-%20Texaco%20Star%20Theater%2040-11-20%20(07)%20The%20Eagle%20Is%20Back.mp3)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on December 08, 2019, 06:28:15 pm
Quote
Tiger shark chomps on inflatable board, chases paddleboarders to shore in Hawaii
By Don Sweeney
December 04, 2019 10:41 AM

Beaches are closed on Maui after a 10- to 12-foot tiger shark bit a paddleboard Monday, throwing a 57-year-old man into the ocean, the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources says in a release.

Larry Oberto had been turning to go back to shore after spotting the shark about 10 a.m. when it bit the back of his inflatable stand-up board, instantly deflating it, Hawaii News Now reported.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article238031214.html (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article238031214.html)

Then this, translated. It might not make news here but this sounds absolutely terrible near the island of Guadalupe.  Apparently, there is film of this, "GRAPHIC" photos at link, so a disclaimer, yes, the shark bled to death. This is their nature, I'm very sorry this tragedy happened.

Quote
Minutes of panic on Guadalupe Island: a white shark bled to death in a tourist cage

(https://www.infobae.com/new-resizer/Ze4plKyQAXFhH8xg3zajir3ckME=/750x0/filters:quality(100)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-infobae.s3.amazonaws.com/public/N4T6YQ47X5AC5ASVJVETPNBKVQ.jpg)

....

Every year, thousands of intrepid tourists visit and descend in cages at the bottom of the ocean to interact with the towering squats and see them in their habitat. A fascinating natural spectacle, which only two months ago left, however, terrifying images.

This was denounced this weekend by environmental activist Arturo Islas Allende, via a video on Twitter. The recording captured the moment when a white shark rammed a cage of tourists, and died trapped and bled to death between bars.

https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2019/12/08/minutos-de-panico-en-isla-guadalupe-un-tiburon-blanco-murio-desangrado-en-una-jaula-de-turistas/ (https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2019/12/08/minutos-de-panico-en-isla-guadalupe-un-tiburon-blanco-murio-desangrado-en-una-jaula-de-turistas/)

Tourists going down to watch the shark, okay, they need better cages so this won't happen.






Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on December 08, 2019, 07:41:49 pm
I've got a website now.

No you don't have a website now:

Future home of something quite cool.
If you're the site owner, log in to launch this site
If you are a visitor, check back soon.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on December 08, 2019, 10:16:56 pm
She really got upset, running event:

Quote
Jogger Slaps Georgia TV Reporter’s Behind Live On-Air
December 8, 2019

Reporter Alex Bozarjian from WSAV-TV was on air with joggers as they ran past her at the Savannah Bridge Run 10K Saturday, when a man in a hat and sunglasses appeared to smack her as he ran past, video shows.

Bozarjian appeared stunned before composing herself and continuing her broadcast. She later tweeted:

See tweet and video:   https://newsbreakinglive.com/2019/12/08/jogger-slaps-georgia-tv-reporters-behind-live-on-air/

Some runners were gracious or festive.

Screenshots of slapper here:   https://twitter.com/GrrrlZilla/status/1203306427818926081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1203372986948112391&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewsbreakinglive.com%2F2019%2F12%2F08%2Fjogger-slaps-georgia-tv-reporters-behind-live-on-air%2F
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on December 08, 2019, 10:53:38 pm
She really got upset, running event:

Some runners were gracious or festive.

Screenshots of slapper here:   https://twitter.com/GrrrlZilla/status/1203306427818926081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1203372986948112391&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewsbreakinglive.com%2F2019%2F12%2F08%2Fjogger-slaps-georgia-tv-reporters-behind-live-on-air%2F

Assualt charges at 10, Jim.    :cool:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on December 09, 2019, 12:47:01 am
No you don't have a website now:
The original poster stopped posting here (alas) a couple years ago. You quoted a link from 2015.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on December 09, 2019, 08:02:33 am
Assualt charges at 10, Jim.    :cool:
GMTA
(https://i.imgur.com/Xs70TlA.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on December 09, 2019, 02:20:27 pm
The original poster stopped posting here (alas) a couple years ago. You quoted a link from 2015.

For me, 2015 is like yesterday.  So...…

Time is relative.  When you're 10, 1 year is 10% of your life. When you're 50, it's 2%.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 09, 2019, 02:57:11 pm
For me, 2015 is like yesterday.  So...…

Time is relative.  When you're 10, 1 year is 10% of your life. When you're 50, it's 2%.

Be that as it may, I miss @EC quite a lot. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 09, 2019, 11:22:38 pm
For me, 2015 is like yesterday.  So...…

Time is relative.  When you're 10, 1 year is 10% of your life. When you're 50, it's 2%.
@Cyber Liberty

That is an outstanding example that you CAN pick your relatives.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 12, 2019, 03:36:12 pm
Quote
DMV made a woman walk without her cane before it would renew her license. She fell and broke her wrist
Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A Wisconsin Division of Motor Vehicles worker told a 78-year-old woman she had to walk across the room without her cane before she could renew her license.  Under protest, the woman complied, and in the process fell, broke her wrist and was denied renewal. ...

Her husband, Ronald Wobschall, objected and asked the examiner how walking without her cane related to his wife's license renewal. The examiner insisted, and Mary got up, without her cane, and tried to follow orders.

She fell and broke her wrist. The examiner denied her renewal and gave her a form saying she would need a general medical examination "due to fall at DMV + confusion" before she could renew.

Wobschall had surgery on her wrist. She died four months later, from other causes. ...
Rest of story via MSN (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dmv-made-a-woman-walk-without-her-cane-before-it-would-renew-her-license-she-fell-and-broke-her-wrist/ar-AAK3wda)
Confusion?! She's lying on the floor in pain with a broken wrist because this DMV numnutz made a woman with two knee replacements walk without her cane. The family is suing the state.
Link to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story (https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2019/12/11/dmv-made-woman-walk-without-her-cane-she-fell-and-broke-her-wrist/4383915002/).

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 12, 2019, 03:50:56 pm
Rest of story via MSN (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dmv-made-a-woman-walk-without-her-cane-before-it-would-renew-her-license-she-fell-and-broke-her-wrist/ar-AAK3wda)
Confusion?! She's lying on the floor in pain with a broken wrist because this DMV numnutz made a woman with two knee replacements walk without her cane. The family is suing the state.
Link to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story (https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2019/12/11/dmv-made-woman-walk-without-her-cane-she-fell-and-broke-her-wrist/4383915002/).

@mountaineer

PLEASE tell me they are also suing that examiner personally. I like the idea of him spending the rest of his live living in a tent.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 12, 2019, 04:57:20 pm
That DMV guy must have been trained by the TSA.  The TSA makes me walk through without my cane too. 

Stupid bureaucracies.  I hope this lady's estate wrings every dime it can get from these idiots.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Elderberry on December 15, 2019, 02:02:10 pm
CBS News Touts Going Meatless After 2030 To Avoid Climate ‘Crisis’

Climate Change Dispatch by by Joseph Vazquez on Dec 13, 2019

https://climatechangedispatch.com/cbs-meatless-2030-climate-crisis/ (https://climatechangedispatch.com/cbs-meatless-2030-climate-crisis/)

Quote
It looks like livestock production is contributing to climate change and we need to hit “peak meat” by 2030 to avoid an “ecological disaster.” At least, that’s the idea CBS News is touting from “scientists.”

In a bizarre Dec. 12 article headlined “World must hit ‘peak meat’ by 2030 to avoid climate crisis, scientists say,” CBS News reported that “in a letter published in the Lancet Planetary Health, more than 50 scientists recommend setting 2030 as the peak year for meat consumption, after which it needs to drop dramatically.”

Stranger still, CBS summarized the letter’s claims in the beginning paragraph, suggesting, “With livestock production contributing to climate change, people need to drastically reduce how much meat they eat to help stave off ecological disaster, a group of scientists warn.”

So, does this mean we all need to become vegans now?

More at link.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on December 15, 2019, 02:09:39 pm

Sounds like some PETA whackos must have infiltrated CBS management ranks.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on December 15, 2019, 02:32:51 pm
This little piggy went to court: German piglets 'sue over castration


Berlin (AFP) - Little piggies go to market, but in Germany they also go to court.

In a legal first, animal rights activists have asked Germany's top court to ban the practice of castrating young male pigs without anaesthetic -- with the piglets themselves listed as the plaintiffs.

The painful procedure has become increasingly controversial in Europe and has been banned in Sweden, Norway and Switzerland.

Farmers argue that the castration of piglets a few days after birth is necessary to prevent "boar taint", the occasional occurrence of a foul smell when cooking pork from male pigs past puberty.

https://news.yahoo.com/little-piggy-went-court-german-piglets-sue-over-033201501.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on December 15, 2019, 02:41:09 pm
I am really starting to foster an extreme extreme dislike of animal rights activist. 

Just think if every $ wasted at PETA and ASPCA was re-directed to local pet shelters.  Now that's a Christmas wish.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 15, 2019, 11:30:49 pm
I am really starting to foster an extreme extreme dislike of animal rights activist. 

Just think if every $ wasted at PETA and ASPCA was re-directed to local pet shelters.  Now that's a Christmas wish.
For the most part it is best to keep your charity local. We give to St Jude's and a couple of other larger outfits, but most goes locally.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on December 16, 2019, 01:20:38 pm
For the most part it is best to keep your charity local. We give to St Jude's and a couple of other larger outfits, but most goes locally.

I give to St Jude’s too, but I agree with local.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Elderberry on December 16, 2019, 01:55:56 pm
Man posted photos of himself with stacks of cash after stealing from bank, charges say

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/12/man-posted-photos-of-himself-with-stacks-of-cash-after-stealing-from-bank-charges-say/ (https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/12/man-posted-photos-of-himself-with-stacks-of-cash-after-stealing-from-bank-charges-say/)

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A newly unsealed criminal indictment says a North Carolina man who posted photos on social media of himself posing with stacks of cash is now facing theft, embezzlement and fraud charges.

Henderson is accused of stealing more than $88,000 from a vault at a Charlotte bank where he worked, the release says.

News outlets, including the Charlotte Observer, have published photos that reportedly show Henderson posing with large sums of cash. The release says Henderson posted photos of himself holding stacks of cash in July and August.

He allegedly took tens-of-thousands of dollars in cash over the course of 18 or more occasions this year and used some of the money as a $20,000 cash down payment on a 2019 Mercedes-Benz.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 16, 2019, 02:15:48 pm
Quote
used some of the money as a $20,000 cash down payment on a 2019 Mercedes-Benz.
Nothing suspicious about that!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 16, 2019, 02:37:00 pm
You would think a person who commits a crime would keep quiet about it.  Did this guy really think law enforcement doesn't follow social media?  Or did he want to get caught?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 16, 2019, 02:42:30 pm
You would think a person who commits a crime would keep quiet about it.  Did this guy really think law enforcement doesn't follow social media?  Or did he want to get caught?

@Applewood

Can you say "AA Quota Hire"?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 16, 2019, 02:46:19 pm
@Applewood

Can you say "AA Quota Hire"?

@sneakypete

Maybe.  But I see this kind of behavior in people of all ethnic backgrounds.  I guess arrogance and stupidity know no skin color. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 16, 2019, 02:51:07 pm
@sneakypete

Maybe.  But I see this kind of behavior in people of all ethnic backgrounds.  I guess arrogance and stupidity know no skin color.

@Applewood

Exactly! A feeb is a feeb,and a feeb is an AA hire.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 16, 2019, 09:00:50 pm
Quote
Creditors want to exhume body of cryptocurrency boss who died with passwords
By James Rogers | Fox News
Dec. 16, 2019

Lawyers representing users of the collapsed QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange want Canadian authorities to exhume the body of the company’s founder amid ongoing controversy over the firm’s demise.

Gerald Cotten, the 30-year-old founder of QuadrigaCX, died in India on Dec. 9, 2018, due to complications from Crohn’s disease, according to a sworn affidavit by his wife following his death. Cotten’s body was reportedly brought back to his native Canada for burial.

At the time of his death, Cotten was the only person with the passwords to access the customers' funds. ...

Cotten’s death left customers unable to access more than $160 million in funds and controversy still swirls around the company and its founder.  ...
Full story (https://www.foxnews.com/tech/creditors-want-the-body-of-cryptocurrency-boss-who-died-with-passwords-exhumed)
It's not that they want to see whether the passwords were buried with him. They seem to doubt he died at all.  :pondering:

 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 16, 2019, 10:09:27 pm
Full story (https://www.foxnews.com/tech/creditors-want-the-body-of-cryptocurrency-boss-who-died-with-passwords-exhumed)
It's not that they want to see whether the passwords were buried with him. They seem to doubt he died at all.  :pondering:

I'm glad you explained that.  I was thinking, how do they suppose to elicit passwords from a dead guy?   :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 16, 2019, 10:39:36 pm
I have always heard "There is a fool born every minute",but it sounds like that number needs to be raised considerably.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on December 17, 2019, 04:13:47 pm
It's a sad story, it's ridiculous that this would happen too.


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California groom, 30, is beaten to death with baseball bats at his reception by 'wedding crasher brothers' as he tried to protect guests
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7801573/Groom-beaten-death-reception-wedding-crasher-brothers.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7801573/Groom-beaten-death-reception-wedding-crasher-brothers.html)


There's details but the headline is basically the story, those who killed apparently did not even know who the groom was.  Pointless violence barring any unforeseen details that show this was more than about crashing a party.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 17, 2019, 04:24:36 pm
What California needs is a new Bat Control and Confiscation Law so that senseless tragedies like this can never happen again!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on December 17, 2019, 09:18:27 pm
What California needs is a new Bat Control and Confiscation Law so that senseless tragedies like this can never happen again!
That would be awesome, if we could get rid of old bats like Pelosi, Feinstein, waters............Oh, not the kind of bats you were talking about?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 17, 2019, 11:21:46 pm
That would be awesome, if we could get rid of old bats like Pelosi, Feinstein, waters............Oh, not the kind of bats you were talking about?

@GtHawk

I'm flexible on this issue,and willing to go either or both ways.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 17, 2019, 11:44:58 pm
Umpteenth reminder that we never know how long we have on this earth.
Quote
A Georgia man is facing charges after a tire flew off his truck and hit the head of a woman who was walking her dog — killing her in a “freak accident,” authorities said.

Brian Seth Carmichael, 25, of Fort Valley, was driving his 2003 Dodge Ram pickup late Sunday when one of its tires somehow got loose and shot 400 yards from an overhead bridge into a trailer park below, Houston County Sheriff’s Lt. Kent Bankston told The Post.

The tire struck Kimberly Touchton, 22, who was walking her dog at the time near Georgia State Route 49 and Highway 11. She was likely unaware what hit her, Bankston said.

“It severed her spine,” Bankston said. “It broke her neck and although they did attempt life-saving measures out there on the scene, she was dead when they got to the hospital. I don’t think she even knew what hit her.” ...
Full story (https://nypost.com/2019/12/17/georgia-man-charged-after-tire-flies-off-pickup-truck-kills-woman-walking-dog/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on December 17, 2019, 11:55:16 pm
It's a sad story, it's ridiculous that this would happen too.

There's details but the headline is basically the story, those who killed apparently did not even know who the groom was.  Pointless violence barring any unforeseen details that show this was more than about crashing a party.
Sounds like a classic 'mob hit' from the 50s.
The attackers may not have known the groom, but likely somebody who sent them there did.
I would guess that there is a deeper side to this story.
The story seems too stupid and too random to be completely random.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on December 18, 2019, 12:01:31 am
Umpteenth reminder that we never know how long we have on this earth.Full story (https://nypost.com/2019/12/17/georgia-man-charged-after-tire-flies-off-pickup-truck-kills-woman-walking-dog/)

Wheel in the sky keeps on turning...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 18, 2019, 12:08:06 am
In the same vein as the young woman struck by a tire from 400 yards away is the story about the architect (https://nypost.com/2019/12/17/architect-erica-tishman-identified-as-woman-killed-by-falling-facade-in-nyc/) walking along a NYC street when part of a building fell on her and killed her. It must be freak accident week.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 18, 2019, 12:10:56 am
Oh, the humanity!
Quote
Tractor carrying 17 tons of M&Ms crashes, shuts down interstate
By Tamar Lapin
December 16, 2019 | 10:15pm

...  A tractor-trailer carrying 17 tons of M&Ms crashed in Tennessee last week, spilling some candy and shutting down an interstate for hours.

The sticky situation started when the driver swerved to avoid hitting something on the exit ramp of Interstate 40 at around 5:30 a.m. Friday, the Knoxville Sentinel (https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2019/12/13/overturned-truck-full-candy-shuts-down-40-ramp-papermill/2635922001/) reported. ...
Story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/12/16/tractor-carrying-17-tons-of-mms-crashes-shuts-down-interstate/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on December 18, 2019, 12:39:48 am
Oh, the humanity!
Quote
Tractor carrying 17 tons of M&Ms crashes, shuts down interstate
By Tamar Lapin
December 16, 2019 | 10:15pm

...  A tractor-trailer carrying 17 tons of M&Ms crashed in Tennessee last week, spilling some candy and shutting down an interstate for hours.

The sticky situation started when the driver swerved to avoid hitting something on the exit ramp of Interstate 40 at around 5:30 a.m. Friday, the Knoxville Sentinel (https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2019/12/13/overturned-truck-full-candy-shuts-down-40-ramp-papermill/2635922001/) reported. ...
Story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/12/16/tractor-carrying-17-tons-of-mms-crashes-shuts-down-interstate/)

This is precisely why there is always a #2 scoop shovel in the back of my truck  happy77
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 18, 2019, 02:59:30 pm
Brentwood woman receives more than a dozen packages that weren’t hers from FedEx

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A woman from Brentwood received more than a dozen packages that weren’t hers from Fed Ex.

Rose Stack said, "There's probably Christmas presents in there and things people need."

Stack said it took a week for the company to respond to her request to pick up the packages.
 

More, including video of interview with Miss Stack at:

https://www.wtae.com/article/fed-ex-package-mix-up/30263414 (https://www.wtae.com/article/fed-ex-package-mix-up/30263414)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 18, 2019, 03:15:43 pm
Brentwood woman receives more than a dozen packages that weren’t hers from FedEx

More, including video of interview with Miss Stack at:

https://www.wtae.com/article/fed-ex-package-mix-up/30263414 (https://www.wtae.com/article/fed-ex-package-mix-up/30263414)

So that's where my stuff went!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on December 20, 2019, 03:44:40 pm
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG29kwg85Zw#)

Quote
BNO News
@BNONews
·
14h
WATCH: The moment a pickup truck crashes into Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport in Florida; the driver has a history of DUIs and was seriously injured
(Video) https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1207829679572426752 (https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1207829679572426752) 

https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/2019/12/19/video-shows-sarasota-bradenton-international-airport-truck-crash/2700635001/ (https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/2019/12/19/video-shows-sarasota-bradenton-international-airport-truck-crash/2700635001/)

How anyone could drive like that is beyond me but one is under the influence, I guess it could happen.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on December 20, 2019, 04:42:46 pm
In the spirit of Christmas.    :rolling:    This one had me laughing so hard I had tears rolling down my cheeks.   

Dad orders wrong inflatable Santa, watches it inflate to the size of his two-story house


Santa Claus is comin’ to town — and he’s looming ominously over an English man’s home.

Matty James, 32, is now the proud owner of a 25-foot inflatable Santa decoration after accidentally ordering the wrong item on eBay around “a month ago.”

James, from Southport, was reportedly expecting an 8-foot-tall Santa, and only became aware of his mistake once he started inflating.

“I remember thinking it looked weird and then all of a sudden, once I started putting the air in it, it kept growing and growing,” James said, according to The Sun. “I did wonder if it was ever going to stop.”

(https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2019/12/640/320/inflatable-santa-kennedy-news.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/dad-orders-wrong-inflatable-santa (https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/dad-orders-wrong-inflatable-santa)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 20, 2019, 06:27:41 pm
That is funny @libertybele.  Thanks for the laugh. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on December 20, 2019, 08:18:02 pm
In the spirit of Christmas.    :rolling:    This one had me laughing so hard I had tears rolling down my cheeks.   

Dad orders wrong inflatable Santa, watches it inflate to the size of his two-story house


Santa Claus is comin’ to town — and he’s looming ominously over an English man’s home.

Matty James, 32, is now the proud owner of a 25-foot inflatable Santa decoration after accidentally ordering the wrong item on eBay around “a month ago.”

James, from Southport, was reportedly expecting an 8-foot-tall Santa, and only became aware of his mistake once he started inflating.

“I remember thinking it looked weird and then all of a sudden, once I started putting the air in it, it kept growing and growing,” James said, according to The Sun. “I did wonder if it was ever going to stop.”

(https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2019/12/640/320/inflatable-santa-kennedy-news.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/dad-orders-wrong-inflatable-santa (https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/dad-orders-wrong-inflatable-santa)




That's hilarious! I just wish we had a picture of the guy's face.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on December 20, 2019, 08:25:17 pm



That's hilarious! I just wish we had a picture of the guy's face.

Right.  His neighbors got a good laugh as well.  Merry Christmas -- I definitely needed this laugh!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 20, 2019, 11:14:00 pm
Therapy dog for police department steals, hoards Christmas toys meant for families in-need

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The Franklin Police Department learned a valuable lesson about keeping Christmas toys meant for charity away from their inquisitive therapy dog.

Ben the Golden Retriever therapy dog is a fixture at the Franklin Police Department (FPD). He often visits local schools in the area to the delight of students.

On Thursday, the FPD reported that the clever K-9 got into a little trouble at the station when he began stealing toys from the station’s pile of donated gifts meant for the “Santa Foundation” — an organization that provides gifts for families in need at Christmas time.

The FPD posted a video Thursday afternoon of the dog stealing a baby doll in a basket and trotting back to his “office.” Ben then curls up under the desk where he has hidden other toys he stole from the gift pile.

https://www.wtnh.com/news/animals-and-wildlife/therapy-dog-for-massachusetts-police-department-steals-hoards-christmas-toys-meant-for-families-in-need/ (https://www.wtnh.com/news/animals-and-wildlife/therapy-dog-for-massachusetts-police-department-steals-hoards-christmas-toys-meant-for-families-in-need/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 20, 2019, 11:48:01 pm
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG29kwg85Zw#)

https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/2019/12/19/video-shows-sarasota-bradenton-international-airport-truck-crash/2700635001/ (https://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/2019/12/19/video-shows-sarasota-bradenton-international-airport-truck-crash/2700635001/)

How anyone could drive like that is beyond me but one is under the influence, I guess it could happen.
While it might have just been the air pressure from the wall being breached, It sure seemed like the automatic (?) doors opened up for the debris...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 20, 2019, 11:50:01 pm
Therapy dog for police department steals, hoards Christmas toys meant for families in-need

https://www.wtnh.com/news/animals-and-wildlife/therapy-dog-for-massachusetts-police-department-steals-hoards-christmas-toys-meant-for-families-in-need/ (https://www.wtnh.com/news/animals-and-wildlife/therapy-dog-for-massachusetts-police-department-steals-hoards-christmas-toys-meant-for-families-in-need/)
Just a dog doing what dogs do, comical as it is. Ours would flip his toys out of reach, and the neighbor dog would steal them...(I'd go over and round them up every few days)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on December 22, 2019, 06:26:31 pm
In the spirit of Christmas ...  His pants are perfect!  The tree appears to have lights, I wonder if he'll stop and plug in!   :rolling:

Man dresses as Christmas tree, roams streets of New York

(https://wbbh.images.worldnow.com/images/19048959_G.jpeg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&height=560&fit=bounds&lastEditedDate=1576976811000)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on December 22, 2019, 06:29:20 pm
Even better .... what would a subway train be without Mr. Christmas Tree?   :rolling:

(https://wzvn.images.worldnow.com/images/19048910_G.jpeg)

 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 23, 2019, 03:33:39 am
In the spirit of Christmas ...  His pants are perfect!  The tree appears to have lights, I wonder if he'll stop and plug in!   :rolling:

Man dresses as Christmas tree, roams streets of New York

(https://wbbh.images.worldnow.com/images/19048959_G.jpeg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&height=560&fit=bounds&lastEditedDate=1576976811000)
Good thing it isn't San Francisco. ("presents" under the tree...)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EasyAce on December 23, 2019, 04:11:37 am
In the spirit of Christmas ...  His pants are perfect!  The tree appears to have lights, I wonder if he'll stop and plug in!   :rolling:

Man dresses as Christmas tree, roams streets of New York

(https://wbbh.images.worldnow.com/images/19048959_G.jpeg?auto=webp&disable=upscale&height=560&fit=bounds&lastEditedDate=1576976811000)
So this is one of the Tree People?  wink777
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 24, 2019, 01:14:53 pm
Bird drops catfish on North Carolina driver’s car, shattering windshield
By Amanda Woods
December 23, 2019

Things got a little fishy on this North Carolina driver’s commute.

Rhesa Walston was heading to her Beaufort home Wednesday afternoon when she spotted a bird carrying a large catfish, she told local outlet ABC 4.

Little did she know that the bird would drop its meal — sending the whiskered fish smashing into her windshield.

“It was one of those slow-motion moments in life. I saw the fish and I saw him drop it,” Walston told the outlet. “There was glass all over my front seat … Glass on my lap.” ...

(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/catfish-car-14.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/12/23/bird-drops-catfish-on-north-carolina-drivers-car-shattering-windshield/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 24, 2019, 03:14:24 pm
Quote
Toronto man accidentally shoots himself trying to escape with stolen puppy
By Jackie Salo
December 22, 2019 | 3:44pm

A Canadian puppy thief really hamstrung himself when he accidentally shot himself in the leg while trying to make a getaway, police said.

The 20-year-old suspect, who wasn’t identified, arranged through an online classifieds section to purchase a nine-week-old American Bulldog named “Tarzan” in Brampton on Friday, according to Peel Regional Police.

But when the pooch was handed over to him, the man refused to pay and brandished a firearm at the seller, authorities said.

But when he ran away with the dog he mistakenly shot himself in the leg and then fell to the ground, according to the police report. ...
Full story (https://nypost.com/2019/12/22/toronto-man-accidentally-shoots-himself-trying-to-escape-with-stolen-puppy/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 24, 2019, 03:16:11 pm
AZ woman tries to set boyfriend on fire for not celebrating new Subway job: police
By Frank Miles, Fox News
December 23, 2019

A woman in Arizona is facing serious charges after she allegedly tried to set her boyfriend on fire because he wouldn’t celebrate her new job at a Subway restaurant, according to a report.

Kathy Jones, 46, was arrested on one count each of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal damage for the Dec. 11 incident ....Full story (https://nypost.com/2019/12/23/az-woman-tries-to-set-boyfriend-on-fire-for-not-celebrating-new-subway-job-police/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 24, 2019, 03:47:04 pm
Bird drops catfish on North Carolina driver’s car, shattering windshield
By Amanda Woods
December 23, 2019

Things got a little fishy on this North Carolina driver’s commute.

Rhesa Walston was heading to her Beaufort home Wednesday afternoon when she spotted a bird carrying a large catfish, she told local outlet ABC 4.

Little did she know that the bird would drop its meal — sending the whiskered fish smashing into her windshield.

“It was one of those slow-motion moments in life. I saw the fish and I saw him drop it,” Walston told the outlet. “There was glass all over my front seat … Glass on my lap.” ...

(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/catfish-car-14.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2019/12/23/bird-drops-catfish-on-north-carolina-drivers-car-shattering-windshield/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter)

@mountaineer

Fish are unusual,but birds dropping oysters to break the shells isn't. You just don't hear about it very often because even with bird brains,it seems like the gulls are smart enough to only drop them on secondary roads or in parking lots where there isn't much traffic. I HAVE seen seagulls walking on roads and dodging traffic,though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 24, 2019, 03:49:47 pm
Full story (https://nypost.com/2019/12/22/toronto-man-accidentally-shoots-himself-trying-to-escape-with-stolen-puppy/)

@mountaineer

I love a story with a happy ending.

As for the puppy,the owner is NOT going to have a hard time finding someone else that wants him. I suspect everyone that sees his photo wants him.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 24, 2019, 03:52:14 pm
AZ woman tries to set boyfriend on fire for not celebrating new Subway job: police
By Frank Miles, Fox News
December 23, 2019

A woman in Arizona is facing serious charges after she allegedly tried to set her boyfriend on fire because he wouldn’t celebrate her new job at a Subway restaurant, according to a report.

Kathy Jones, 46, was arrested on one count each of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal damage for the Dec. 11 incident ....Full story (https://nypost.com/2019/12/23/az-woman-tries-to-set-boyfriend-on-fire-for-not-celebrating-new-subway-job-police/)

Is that really a woman,or is it an actor from The Walking Dead named Eugene on the show?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on December 24, 2019, 10:58:15 pm

Fish are unusual,but birds dropping [...]

@sneakypete
Actually, while it is not usual, it is fairly common around here.
Eagles and ospreys often try to catch fish bigger than they can really lift... They'll get them up and off a ways, and then figure they cannot pack it, and just drop it right there.

Another thing that is just as common is one eagle/osprey attacking another, forcing them to drop their prey to defend... Where upon the prey is snatched up by the usurper... Albeit that often times, neither gets the prize as it plummets to the ground.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 25, 2019, 02:27:39 am
It's been said that Christmastime can be very stressful.
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Police: Fight Breaks Out When Man Sees Girlfriend Wrapping Present For Other Boyfriend
By Ross Guidotti
December 24, 2019 at 5:22 pm

TRAFFORD, Pa. (KDKA) – A Westmoreland County couple is facing aggravated assault charges after police say a drunken fight broke out while they were wrapping presents.  ...

According to court documents, the pair both got very drunk and into a fight. They were allegedly drinking Four Lokos.

 As DiBucci was wrapping gifts, one of the presents being wrapped sparked Hill’s temper.  ...

According to police, DiBucci was putting a bow on a present for one of her other alleged beaus.

What followed was a violent brawl between the couple: punches, biting and furniture thrown about the Duquesne Avenue duplex.  ...   More from KDKA (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/12/24/trafford-couple-fight-while-wrapping-presents/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 25, 2019, 04:54:13 am
It's been said that Christmastime can be very stressful.

@mountaineer

Nothing says "Christmas" like a drunken family brawl,does it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on December 25, 2019, 01:12:49 pm
Grandma charges family £35 a head for Christmas dinner

Hayley Garbutt is expecting about a dozen of her family members to show up for Christmas dinner this year and isn't planning on letting them into her house for free.

The grandma of four says she plans on charging 35 pounds ($45) per person to enter her home on Christmas, according to Caters News Agency.

https://kutv.com/news/offbeat/grandma-charges-family-45-a-head-for-christmas-dinner
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 25, 2019, 01:47:56 pm
Dinner had better be prime rib, at least, for that price.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 25, 2019, 02:41:22 pm
Dinner had better be prime rib, at least, for that price.

The article says Grandma is serving "beef, turkey, pork, chicken, pizza, quiche, cheeses, and champagne."

I'm wondering if this family is fairly well off and expecting a big feast which Grandma may not be able to afford. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on December 25, 2019, 02:44:17 pm
@mountaineer

Nothing says "Christmas" like a drunken family brawl,does it?

@sneakypete

There are some people who  shouldn't drink.  When I drank, I became mellow and sleepy.  But I know some people who are decent when sober, but give them an alcoholic beverage and they turn into monsters. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on December 25, 2019, 02:46:16 pm
Four Loko's?

Had to look that up.  And my suspicions were confirmed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 25, 2019, 08:19:33 pm
Quote
Lil Wayne may face charges after gold-plated gun, drugs found on his plane
Miami Herald | Tuesday, December 24, 2019 8:27 p.m.

MIAMI — Lil Wayne is free to celebrate Christmas in Miami after federal agents searched his private jet, but the rapper still faces potential charges after agents found at least one handgun and drugs, according to law enforcement sources.

The gun also qualified as bling — a gold-plated .45 caliber handgun with a pearl grip, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the plane search. The weapon, they said, was found in the musician’s Coach bag along with drugs, after the jet landed at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport following a flight from California. Investigators also found MDMA in pill and crystal form as well as weed, cocaine and heroin in the bag ...
(https://triblive.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2109838_web1_AP_19351808806545.jpg)
Yes, he's the intelligent looking one in the big glasses.

Full story (https://triblive.com/aande/celebrity-news/lil-wayne-may-face-charges-after-gold-plated-gun-drugs-found-on-his-plane/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 25, 2019, 09:23:02 pm
Oh,NO! NOT Lil Wayne??? Tell me this ain't true!

I'm shocked! SHOCKED,AH TELLS YA!

My heart goes out to all the retards that will miss the noise he makes when he goes to jail for 2nd offense.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on December 28, 2019, 12:32:34 am
Denver Metro:

Dozens Of Cars May Be Damaged After Diesel Was Switched With Gasoline At King Soopers – CBS Denver
https://worlddaily.us/dozens-of-cars-may-be-damaged-after-diesel-was-switched-with-gasoline-at-king-soopers-cbs-denver/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on December 30, 2019, 10:19:00 pm
Quote
Lily Tomlin Arrested at Capitol Hill Protesting Climate Change
Headline  Dec 30, 2019

(https://www.democracynow.org/images/headlines/53/50653/quarter_hd/h15-lily-tomlin-arrested-capitol-hill-protesting-climate-change-fire-drill-friday.jpg)

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/30/headlines/lily_tomlin_arrested_at_capitol_hill_protesting_climate_change (https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/30/headlines/lily_tomlin_arrested_at_capitol_hill_protesting_climate_change)

Of course, many of us know her from 'Laugh In', I was trying to think of a show or movie she was in, I know she was in the news for "Grandma" for, unfortunately, I think a show about abortion, I think! I don't want to be wrong here and slanderous.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005499/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005499/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 30, 2019, 10:32:58 pm
Of course, many of us know her from 'Laugh In', I was trying to think of a show or movie she was in, I know she was in the news for "Grandma" for, unfortunately, I think a show about abortion, I think! I don't want to be wrong here and slanderous.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005499/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005499/)

@TomSea

Other than Laugh In,AFAIK,the only times she has been seen is with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton (9 to 5 movie,and they are pals) ,and a couple of things to do with lesbianism. Not totally 100 percent sure about the lesbianism thing,though. It could have been a coincidence there were a lot of lesbians involved. I didn't,and don't care enough about her to look it up.

IOW,she is mostly famous for being famous these days. This is probably part of a desperate cry to be considered relevant,and maybe get a job.

It is interesting to see she thinks the government is in charge of the climate,though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on December 30, 2019, 10:46:24 pm
@TomSea

Other than Laugh In,AFAIK,the only times she has been seen is with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton (9 to 5 movie,and they are pals) ,and a couple of things to do with lesbianism. Not totally 100 percent sure about the lesbianism thing,though. It could have been a coincidence there were a lot of lesbians involved. I didn't,and don't care enough about her to look it up.

IOW,she is mostly famous for being famous these days. This is probably part of a desperate cry to be considered relevant,and maybe get a job.

It is interesting to see she thinks the government is in charge of the climate,though.
Tomlin is a seriously to the left alphabet souper. They ran the old Laugh In shows on one of those retro TV broadcast stations and I found that her schtick which I found amusing  back in the day I now found so irritating as to be unwatchable  for me today. Also I get a lot more irritated with the Laugh In ensemble's  oh so intellectual jabs at anything remotely conservative.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 30, 2019, 10:59:12 pm
Other than Laugh In,AFAIK,the only times she has been seen is with Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton (9 to 5 movie,and they are pals) ,and a couple of things to do with lesbianism. Not totally 100 percent sure about the lesbianism thing,though.
She is a lesbian, with a longtime partner.
(https://www.closerweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Lily-Tomlin-Reveals-secret-to-marriage.jpg?crop=0px%2C167px%2C2400px%2C1360px&resize=940%2C529)
This seems to be the new hip thing for former celebrities, from Jane Fonda to Sam Waterston. Hey, I know! Let's get arrested at an idiotic protest. Any publicity is good publicity, after all!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 30, 2019, 11:14:25 pm
Cancer patient accidentally set on fire during surgery in Romania
By Amanda Woods
December 30, 2019 | 1:30pm | Updated

A cancer patient went up in flames during surgery in Romania — when doctors used an alcohol-based disinfectant, then touched her with an electric scalpel, according to a new report.

The unidentified 66-year-old woman died a week after she was seriously burned in the botched procedure, which took place in Bucharest on Dec. 22, the BBC reported.

The woman, who was suffering from pancreatic cancer, was undergoing an operation at Floreasca Hospital when surgeons used the flammable disinfectant, according to the report.

When they later started using an electric scalpel and it came in contact with the alcohol, she caught on fire — suffering burns to 40% of her body, the BBC says.  ...New York Post (https://nypost.com/2019/12/30/cancer-patient-accidentally-set-on-fire-during-surgery-in-romania/)
 :thud:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 30, 2019, 11:20:32 pm
She is a lesbian, with a longtime partner.
(https://www.closerweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Lily-Tomlin-Reveals-secret-to-marriage.jpg?crop=0px%2C167px%2C2400px%2C1360px&resize=940%2C529)

This seems to be the new hip thing for former celebrities, from Jane Fonda to Sam Waterston.

Jane Fonda is a lesbian now,and Sam Waterston isn't a old guy that played in a lot of cowboy movies?

I am seriously out of touch with the "D grade celebrities"  that don't mean anything these days!

Quote
Hey, I know! Let's get arrested at an idiotic protest. Any publicity is good publicity, after all!

And there it is.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 30, 2019, 11:23:10 pm
Jane Fonda is a lesbian now,and Sam Waterston isn't a old guy that played in a lot of cowboy movies?
He starred on "Law & Order" as the prosecutor from 1994-2010.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY4MjA2MzMwOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzQ3MDgzMw@@._V1_UY317_CR16,0,214,317_AL_.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 30, 2019, 11:28:00 pm
He starred on "Law & Order" as the prosecutor from 1994-2010.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY4MjA2MzMwOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzQ3MDgzMw@@._V1_UY317_CR16,0,214,317_AL_.jpg)

@mountaineer

Thanks for the correction and the photo. NOW I remember him. Pretty good actor,and he seemed likeable,not a nutcase. He must have had a stroke,or something,to make him think hooking up with Fonda was a good idea.

BTW,the line I quoted from another poster sounded to me like Fonda had gone lesbian too,and was hooked up with Sam Waterston. That's why I thought it was a woman with that name.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on December 31, 2019, 05:18:24 pm
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Entire West Virginia Correctional Officer Class Fired Following Investigation Into Nazi Salute Photo
By Matt Stieb

On Monday, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice fired close to 30 correctional officer trainees who posed in a Nazi salute for a class photo, following a state report into the photograph, which recommended their termination. “I condemn the photo of Basic Training Class 18 in the strongest possible terms,” Justice said in a statement. “This act needed to result in real consequences — terminations and dismissals.”

Earlier in December, two academy trainers and a cadet were fired, and 34 employees were suspended without pay as the state’s Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety conducted its investigation. At the top of the photograph is the phrase “Hail Byrd!” referring to the trainees’ instructor Karrie Byrd, who claimed in the investigation that she was not familiar with the “historical or racial implications of the gesture” and that it was “simply a greeting.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/west-virginia-c-o-class-fired-after-nazi-salute-photo.html

I don't know what they are thinking, this is getting some play nationally, but pretty ridiculous, were they just clowning around?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 31, 2019, 05:53:35 pm
I don't know what they are thinking, this is getting some play nationally, but pretty ridiculous, were they just clowning around?

@TomSea

I can't even guess. In my entire life I have never once seen anyone give a Nazi salute unless it was on film or on tv.

Maybe I just lived a sheltered life?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 31, 2019, 06:00:32 pm
@TomSea

I can't even guess. In my entire life I have never once seen anyone give a Nazi salute unless it was on film or on tv.

Maybe I just lived a sheltered life?

@sneakypete

"Sheltered?"  Hardly, you are just another who remembers the past, and are frustrated at the ones who don't dragging you down with them.  We're in the same Club.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 31, 2019, 06:09:52 pm
I don't know what they are thinking, this is getting some play nationally, but pretty ridiculous, were they just clowning around?
Sad to say, apparently they were ordered to do it. Some say they were afraid of losing their jobs if they didn't.  Stupidity all around.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 31, 2019, 06:12:10 pm
@TomSea

I can't even guess. In my entire life I have never once seen anyone give a Nazi salute unless it was on film or on tv.

Maybe I just lived a sheltered life?
I have, but they were being sarcastic. No one who really meant it and approved of the Nazis or their philosophies.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 31, 2019, 06:14:50 pm
Some of them had a closed fist, not a Nazi salute at all. But none said, "Uh, no, I'd rather just sit nicely for the class photo. "
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 31, 2019, 06:27:07 pm
Obviously, none of the former cadets had Grandparents who were Vets from WW2.  I'm a Boomer, Dad was WW2 Navy/Pacific and I can't imagine any situation where the distinctive Nazi salute is a good idea.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on December 31, 2019, 06:56:20 pm
@TomSea

I can't even guess. In my entire life I have never once seen anyone give a Nazi salute unless it was on film or on tv.

Maybe I just lived a sheltered life?

And still you see millions of punks constantly flashing gang signs.  Sure wish some outrage was shared in that direction.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 01, 2020, 12:12:52 am
And still you see millions of punks constantly flashing gang signs.  Sure wish some outrage was shared in that direction.

@catfish1957

That doesn't disturb me because I am a geezer and had no idea what any of those "signs" means. I just know "Yo MAMA!" seems to be an appropriate response is someone flashes one at me.

The Nazi salute is pretty obvious to everyone that isn't blind,though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 05, 2020, 01:44:23 pm
Wasn't sure whether to put this one in the Education category...
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High school teacher caught after allegedly defecating in park multiple times per day for 2 years
By Austin Williams
Published 1 day ago

WHITEWATER, Wis. - A high school English teacher from Wisconsin was reportedly caught defecating in a public park, and officials allege he’d been doing it repeatedly for two years.

According to WITI, Jeffrey Churchwell was confronted by the Fox 6 news team attempting to leave Natureland Park, which is roughly an hour south of Madison, Wisconsin, after allegedly committing the act that remained the scourge of the Walworth County Public Works Department for two years. ...

According to the Janesville Gazette, Churchwell wrote a letter to the sheriff’s department apologizing for his actions.

“I’m so disappointed in myself. I have the great opportunity to teach ‘Political Rhetoric.’ … In this class, I stress the importance of involved citizenship,” wrote Churchwell. “And then there I am being a lousy citizen of Walworth County. My hypocrisy now sickens me.” ...
Full story (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/high-school-teacher-caught-after-allegedly-defecating-in-park-multiple-times-per-day-for-2-years)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 05, 2020, 03:29:41 pm
Wasn't sure whether to put this one in the Education category...Full story (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/high-school-teacher-caught-after-allegedly-defecating-in-park-multiple-times-per-day-for-2-years)

"My hypocrisy now sickens me."

It must be contagious, because now I'm sickened too. **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on January 05, 2020, 09:43:12 pm
Hypocrite educator????  NOOOO!  How is that possible!

They preach the virtues of public schools and yet send their own children to private schools at higher rates than the public in general.   So did the Clintons, the Gores, the Obamas, and Jesse Jackson.

They teach and preach socialism while condemning the Holy Bible and prayer of any kind in school.

"Public education is a  socialist monopoly, a real one." - The Late Milton Friedman

http://TheEducationFraud.wordpress.com (http://TheEducationFraud.wordpress.com)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on January 06, 2020, 09:48:53 pm
Wasn't sure whether to put this one in the Education category...Full story (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/high-school-teacher-caught-after-allegedly-defecating-in-park-multiple-times-per-day-for-2-years)
:laugh:


Maybe his plumbing was on the fritz?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 07, 2020, 06:37:39 pm
Quote
Tulare County man arrested for smearing feces on church, throwing oranges and eggs at it
Tuesday, December 31, 2019 5:36PM

The Tulare County Sheriff's Office has arrested a man and charged him with vandalizing church property in Dinuba.

The pastor of the Iglesia Christiana Fuente de Vida church told deputies someone smeared feces on the door, egged the building and threw oranges on the fence.

The person also left bananas in the mailbox. ...
Rest of story (https://abc30.com/tulare-co-man-arrested-for-smearing-feces-on-church/5797545/?fbclid=IwAR0bGDVospHc47WXS-2536pcr7YmR8guQbB8_uZpVobJM0BNanioHXjsBbk)

Bananas in the mailbox? As Joe Biden might say, "Aw, come on, man!"

(https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/5797577_122919-kfsn-church-vandal-img.jpg?w=1280&r=16%3A9)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 07, 2020, 06:42:28 pm
Either those are really big peanuts, or really small bananas...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on January 07, 2020, 06:43:05 pm
Rest of story (https://abc30.com/tulare-co-man-arrested-for-smearing-feces-on-church/5797545/?fbclid=IwAR0bGDVospHc47WXS-2536pcr7YmR8guQbB8_uZpVobJM0BNanioHXjsBbk)

Bananas in the mailbox? As Joe Biden might say, "Aw, come on, man!"

(https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/5797577_122919-kfsn-church-vandal-img.jpg?w=1280&r=16%3A9)

There are varying degrees of "insane". I would venture 99.999999% chance that this guy meets that criteria
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on January 09, 2020, 07:29:07 pm
'These aren't my pants:' Shoplifting suspect tries to avoid charges by telling police pants he was wearing weren't his

Quote
Officers say they found several items from the store in his pocket, along with stamp bags of heroin.

Williams told police that he planned to pay for the items, despite police saying the items were removed from their original packaging.

He also told police the pants he was wearing were not his.

Police did not buy the story, and Williams is facing several charges, including drug possession and retail theft.

https://www.wtae.com/article/shoplifting-suspect-police-pants-werent-his-bridgeville/30457177 (https://www.wtae.com/article/shoplifting-suspect-police-pants-werent-his-bridgeville/30457177)

By the way, in looking for this story, I found other similar stories where the suspect claimed the pants weren't his.  Those suspects, too, were not believed by the police.


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdinVA on January 09, 2020, 07:34:20 pm
'These aren't my pants:' Shoplifting suspect tries to avoid charges by telling police pants he was wearing weren't his

https://www.wtae.com/article/shoplifting-suspect-police-pants-werent-his-bridgeville/30457177 (https://www.wtae.com/article/shoplifting-suspect-police-pants-werent-his-bridgeville/30457177)

By the way, in looking for this story, I found other similar stories where the suspect claimed the pants weren't his.  Those suspects, too, were not believed by the police.
Well, ya gotta try...  :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on January 09, 2020, 07:41:09 pm
'These aren't my pants:' Shoplifting suspect tries to avoid charges by telling police pants he was wearing weren't his

https://www.wtae.com/article/shoplifting-suspect-police-pants-werent-his-bridgeville/30457177 (https://www.wtae.com/article/shoplifting-suspect-police-pants-werent-his-bridgeville/30457177)

By the way, in looking for this story, I found other similar stories where the suspect claimed the pants weren't his.  Those suspects, too, were not believed by the police.

The pants probably weren't his. He probably stole those too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on January 09, 2020, 08:34:14 pm
I was thinking with so many stories like this, maybe we need a subsection for stupid criminals.

Mods?

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on January 09, 2020, 08:57:21 pm
'These aren't my pants:' Shoplifting suspect tries to avoid charges by telling police pants he was wearing weren't his

https://www.wtae.com/article/shoplifting-suspect-police-pants-werent-his-bridgeville/30457177 (https://www.wtae.com/article/shoplifting-suspect-police-pants-werent-his-bridgeville/30457177)

By the way, in looking for this story, I found other similar stories where the suspect claimed the pants weren't his.  Those suspects, too, were not believed by the police.



This sounds like a very sanitized version of the folks with drugs in their booty that scream..."But they're not mine!!"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 10, 2020, 02:23:48 pm
How did we miss this one?
Quote
Hairstylist named Kevin Bacon killed, eaten by Grindr date from hell: cops
By Ben Feuerherd
January 7, 2020 | 12:22am

A Michigan man named Kevin Bacon was mutilated and killed by a man he met on the LGBTQ dating app Grindr, reports said.

Bacon, a 25-year-old hairstylist, met up with suspected killer Mark Latunski on Christmas Eve after they spoke on the app, according to Michigan Live. ...

Inside the house, police found Bacon’s body hanging from the rafters with rope tied around his ankles, a local NBC affiliate reported.

Latunski told cops he killed Bacon by stabbing him in the back and slitting his throat, according to the report.  He also told cops he cut off Bacon’s testicles and ate them during the murder, WILX reported. ...
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/hairstylist-named-kevin-bacon-killed-eaten-by-grindr-date-from-hell-cops/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 10, 2020, 02:40:54 pm
How did we miss this one?Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/hairstylist-named-kevin-bacon-killed-eaten-by-grindr-date-from-hell-cops/)

I used to work at WILX....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 10, 2020, 02:41:16 pm
If true, that one needs to be put down.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on January 10, 2020, 11:35:03 pm
Gywneth Paltro Is Selling A Candle That Smells Like Her Vagina

by dev  3 hours


(https://dailytruthreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-10-at-4.03.47-PM-768x462.png)

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is selling a candle that smells like her vagina at $75 a pop for her lifestyle and wellness company Goop. The name of the candle is none other than, you guessed it, “This Smells Like My Vagina.”

Paltrow first came across a scent that she said reminded her of the smell of her own vagina, she claims. The scent was then finalized for the “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle, which reportedly sold out within hours of its test run.

“This candle started as a joke between perfumer Douglas Little and GP — the two were working on a fragrance, and she blurted out, ‘Uhhh … this smells like a vagina,’” Goop outlined.

<..snip..>

https://dailytruthreport.com/gywneth-paltro-is-selling-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina/ (https://dailytruthreport.com/gywneth-paltro-is-selling-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 10, 2020, 11:43:33 pm
 Her ex-boyfriend Brad Pitt, commented and reportedly said:  If it is true to the smell  then the fragrance is most like a standing near a shithouse door on a tuna boat?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 10, 2020, 11:47:27 pm
Gywneth Paltro Is Selling A Candle That Smells Like Her Vagina

 

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is selling a candle that smells like her vagina at $75 a pop for her lifestyle and wellness company Goop. The name of the candle is none other than, you guessed it, “This Smells Like My Vagina.”

Paltrow first came across a scent that she said reminded her of the smell of her own vagina, she claims. The scent was then finalized for the “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle, which reportedly sold out within hours of its test run.


@corbe

Ok,I am going to make an admission here I never expected to make. I am totally bewildered by this. WTH were ANY of them thinking? Especially the people that spent 75 bucks to buy a "vagina candle"?

Then again,I guess I should be grateful there are things I don't understand.
 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 10, 2020, 11:48:45 pm
For some unknown reason that reminds me of this thing I heard about on the radio driving home from work... @corbe

"Subaru's lineup at the 2020 Singapore Motor Show featured several shiny new cars, including the Viziv Adrenaline Concept and the Impreza.

There was also a new Subaru featured called the Forester Ultimate Customized Kit Special edition.

Yes, you read that acronym right."



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 10, 2020, 11:57:17 pm

@corbe

Ok,I am going to make an admission here I never expected to make. I am totally bewildered by this. WTH were ANY of them thinking? Especially the people that spent 75 bucks to buy a "vagina candle"?

Then again,I guess I should be grateful there are things I don't understand.

Well, just think about all the people laughing at people who would pay $75 for a $5 candle they can DIY. Wax off. Wax on.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on January 11, 2020, 12:04:00 am
Her ex-boyfriend Brad Pitt, commented and reportedly said:  If it is true to the smell  then the fragrance is most like a standing near a shithouse door on a tuna boat?

You choose, either way you lose.


A. (https://i.imgur.com/XAWI5bU.jpg)

B.(https://i.imgur.com/tnRqwB0.jpg)

C.(https://i.imgur.com/UtUtCa4.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 11, 2020, 12:05:55 am
Well, just think about all the people laughing at people who would pay $75 for a $5 candle they can DIY. Wax off. Wax on.

@bigheadfred

"Wax off"??????

ROFLMAO!

Good one,Fred!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on January 13, 2020, 01:25:19 am

@corbe

Ok,I am going to make an admission here I never expected to make. I am totally bewildered by this. WTH were ANY of them thinking? Especially the people that spent 75 bucks to buy a "vagina candle"?

The herring candles are only 8 bucks.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 13, 2020, 01:55:15 am
The herring candles are only 8 bucks.

@Hoodat

 888mouth
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 13, 2020, 05:25:40 am
Make yer own, a little fish oil in the wax....

(And here I thought candles were considered phallic....)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 14, 2020, 12:02:52 am
Hairstylist named Kevin Bacon killed, eaten by Grindr date from hell: cops
This case has taken an even stranger turn:

Quote
He's a father of 4 and worked as a chemist. Now he's accused of murder and cannibalism
Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press
 Published 6:00 a.m. ET Jan. 13, 2020 | Updated 10:11 a.m. ET Jan. 13, 2020

...  Latunski, 50, has identified himself by several names since Dec. 28, 2019, when Kevin Bacon of Swartz Creek was found dead, naked and hanging by his ankles in Latunski’s Bennington Township basement.

On the felony advice of rights form he was given on Dec. 30, Latunski signed with the Olykos alias. That alias is associated with a Facebook page believed belonging to Latunski and with images connected to a gay escort profile.  ...

Latunski has a long history of mental illness, according to divorce filings by his ex-wife, Emily Latunski. The two were married in 2001, divorced in 2013 and had four children. The Tyrrell Road dwelling was their marital home.

Latunski was diagnosed in 2010 and 2012 with severe, recurrent and chronic major depression with psychotic features, adjustment disorder with depression and anxiety with paranoid schizophrenia, and borderline personality traits, according to an August 2019 motion to suspend parenting time. ...   Full story (https://www.freep.com/story/news/2020/01/13/accused-grindr-killer-cannibal-father-4-worked-chemist/4439756002/)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 14, 2020, 01:56:31 am
Latunski has a long history of mental illness,...

@mountaineer

Ya think?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on January 16, 2020, 09:31:10 pm
Either those are really big peanuts, or really small bananas...

You've never seen walnuts before, obviously.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 17, 2020, 12:55:13 am
You've never seen walnuts before, obviously.
Is that like those things they hang on the hitch? Only for walls?

(I have, but we grew up with black walnuts, and they look a mite different.)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on January 17, 2020, 01:59:38 am
(I have, but we grew up with black walnuts, and they look a mite different.)

Off the tree, yes.  Good for throwing at people though.  Almost as good as horse apples.

(https://s3.amazonaws.com/ogden_images/www.ljworld.com/images/2009/10/22143630/walnuts-683x1024.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 17, 2020, 02:01:06 am
Off the tree, yes.  Good for throwing at people though.  Almost as good as horse apples.

(https://s3.amazonaws.com/ogden_images/www.ljworld.com/images/2009/10/22143630/walnuts-683x1024.jpg)
Hard as a rock and they leave a mark (brown stain that has to wear off).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 17, 2020, 02:05:06 am
Hard as a rock and they leave a mark (brown stain that has to wear off).

We called the tiny red ones, "Bastard Berries."  Great wrist-rocket fodder.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 17, 2020, 02:08:53 am
Hard as a rock and they leave a mark (brown stain that has to wear off).

A mouth full of popcorn kernels and a peashooter, and I'll cut a hole in you :)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 17, 2020, 02:11:19 am
A mouth full of popcorn kernels and a peashooter, and I'll cut a hole in you :)
Yeah, but get hit with a black walnut and the bruise will fade long before the stain wears off.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 17, 2020, 02:14:30 am
Yeah, but get hit with a black walnut and the bruise will fade long before the stain wears off.

Yeah... The thing with the popcorn is, you get to laughing so hard hearing your buddy scream like a little girl that you really do risk inhaling em..  :shrug: :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 17, 2020, 02:15:07 am
Yeah... The thing with the popcorn is, you get to laughing do hard hearing your buddy scream like a little girl that you really do risk inhaling em..  :shrug: :whistle:
Well, just another 'marker'....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 17, 2020, 02:18:16 am
Fly tie some yarn on a household pin and use a blowgun... Or a peashooter, or disassembled Bic pen if you're in in math class  :laugh: Shot Kelly Anne in the ass, kinda by mistake, and got kicked out of school for 3 days.  :shrug:

No sense of humor, that principal...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 17, 2020, 02:20:51 am
Fly tie some yarn on a household pin and use a blowgun... Or a peashooter, or disassembled Bic pen if you're in in math class  :laugh: Shot Kelly Anne in the ass, kinda by mistake, and got kicked out of school for 3 days.  :shrug:
I had a blowgun. Guy I bought it from sold it to me because he'd nailed a jerk he was working with in the hind cheek and sank the dart in a couple inches with just a puff.... He knew he'd want to do that again, so he sold the blowgun rather than just get fired over it.

Good thing I didn't know about those in grade school, that's all I can say.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 17, 2020, 02:22:57 am
I had a blowgun. Guy I bought it from sold it to me because he'd nailed a jerk he was working with in the hind cheek and sank the dart in a couple inches with just a puff.... He knew he'd want to do that again, so he sold the blowgun rather than just get fired over it.

Good thing I didn't know about those in grade school, that's all I can say.

That reminds me...I got that crossbow with a pistol grip.  It's an "Assault Crossbow." 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 17, 2020, 02:25:15 am
Good thing I didn't know about those in grade school, that's all I can say.

Ever shot a deer with a crossbow bolt fired from a wrist rocket? That's some learning.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 17, 2020, 02:25:59 am
Ever shot a deer with a crossbow bolt fired from a wrist rocket? That's some learning.
No. Now that'd be a worthwhile skill.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 17, 2020, 02:27:31 am
No. Now that'd be a worthwhile skill.

Refit it with surgical tubing and you can get a 45/50lb pull... More than enough...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 17, 2020, 02:27:51 am
Ever shot a deer with a crossbow bolt fired from a wrist rocket? That's some learning.

I have some of those quad-tipped razor bolts.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 17, 2020, 02:35:19 am
I have some of those quad-tipped razor bolts.

Well to be fair, if you have a crossbow, that works way better.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 17, 2020, 02:42:59 am
Well to be fair, if you have a crossbow, that works way better.

Yes, but it's impressive, what a wrist-rocket can do.  I just did a quick look at Amazon, and there are some really tricked out models.  And .50 caliber ammo bags.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 17, 2020, 02:55:46 am
Yes, but it's impressive, what a wrist-rocket can do.  I just did a quick look at Amazon, and there are some really tricked out models.  And .50 caliber ammo bags.

Mine is a stock rocket, modified with the surgical tubing, and a homemade modified fold-down whisker rest for crossbow bolts and fishing arrows... a nut on the front holds a PVC fishing spool...Other than that it's a 12 dollar rocket.

An important piece, that resides in my go-bag all the time. Pretty good with it... I can knock a grouse in the head more times than not... Barking a squirrel... not quite as well... But if I am ever caught out, that's the tool, rather than using up limited ammo.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 17, 2020, 01:24:27 pm
Wisconsin man busted for selling weed told cops he ‘ingested’ his mom’s ashes
By Ben Feuerherd
January 17, 2020 | 2:25am

A Wisconsin man busted for selling weed and possessing other drugs told police he ingested his dead mother’s ashes, a report said Thursday.

Austin Schroeder, 26, allegedly sold drugs to undercover cops a number of times from November 2019 to January 2020 in Waukesha County, west of Milwaukee, a local Fox affiliate reported.

A drug task force executed a search warrant for his apartment on Jan. 10 and found glass pipes, MDMA, bongs and an “unknown powder,” according to the report. ...

He told cops he mixed his mother’s ashes with a variety of substances, “some of which he ultimately ingested,” according to the report. ... Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/01/17/man-busted-for-selling-weed-told-cops-he-ingested-his-moms-ashes/)
(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/austin-schroeder.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
Was that wrong?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 17, 2020, 01:29:55 pm
Do you really need the sound?  :shrug:
Quote
Deaf man from Brooklyn sues Pornhub over lack of closed captioning
By Yaron Steinbuch
January 17, 2020 | 8:24am

A deaf man from Brooklyn is moaning that he can’t fully enjoy videos on Pornhub because they don’t provide closed captioning – so he has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the site is in violation of federal law.

Yaroslav Suris claims the porn site has violated his and others’ rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act because the deaf and hearing-impaired can’t understand the audio portion of the skin flicks. ...

“We understand that Yaroslav Suris is suing Pornhub for claiming we’ve denied the deaf and hearing-impaired access to our videos,” Pornhub VP Corey Price told TMZ.

“While we do not generally comment on active lawsuits, we’d like to take this opportunity to point out that we do have a closed captions category,” he added.
Full story (https://nypost.com/2020/01/17/deaf-man-from-brooklyn-sues-pornhub-over-lack-of-closed-captioning/)

Seriously? Closed captioning?
Quote
[grunts]
[moans]
Yes, that really enhances the presentation, I'm sure.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdinVA on January 17, 2020, 02:13:11 pm
Do you really need the sound?  :shrug: Full story (https://nypost.com/2020/01/17/deaf-man-from-brooklyn-sues-pornhub-over-lack-of-closed-captioning/)

Seriously? Closed captioning? Yes, that really enhances the presentation, I'm sure.
:silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 17, 2020, 02:36:37 pm
Do you really need the sound?  :shrug:Full story (https://nypost.com/2020/01/17/deaf-man-from-brooklyn-sues-pornhub-over-lack-of-closed-captioning/)

Seriously? Closed captioning? Yes, that really enhances the presentation, I'm sure.
Fine. Give them closed captioning, large print for the visually impaired. That should take up half the screen...and likely cover what they were there to see, anyway.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 21, 2020, 02:16:21 pm
Pa. public defender accused of stabbing her fiancé, also a public defender
Updated Jan 20, 8:59 AM;Posted Jan 20, 8:03 AM
Quote
By John Luciew

Rocker Jackson Browne once sung about “Lawyers in Love,” but never like this: A public defender in Allegheny County is accused of stabbing her fiance, who is a fellow public defender.

The Associated Press cites a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Elizabeth LaForgia, 31, has been charged in the stabbing in Avalon, Pa.

Police there say she stabbed her fiancé and fellow public defender George Saba with a 12-inch kitchen knife -- and kicked him in the crotch. The incident followed a night of drinking last week, police said.  ...
More (https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2020/01/pa-public-defender-accused-of-stabbing-her-fiance-also-a-public-defender.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 21, 2020, 04:25:18 pm
She stabbed him "in the woods"?

Is that some sort of local slang? I sure hope that isn't an edited "She stabbed him in the woody".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Applewood on January 21, 2020, 10:35:13 pm
"The incident followed a night of drinking last week, police said."

Not surprising.  Seems most incidents like this between family members, spouses and friends occur after one or both drink too much. 

Some people just should never drink alcohol.  When I drank, I either fell asleep or mellowed out.  But for so many, alcohol makes them mean and/or violent


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 21, 2020, 10:48:15 pm
"The incident followed a night of drinking last week, police said."

 

Some people just should never drink alcohol.  When I drank, I either fell asleep or mellowed out.  But for so many, alcohol makes them mean and/or violent

@Applewood

I always wanted to dance and sing. It was other people who wanted to beat on me to make me quit singing and dancing that caused the trouble.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 21, 2020, 11:13:49 pm
@Applewood

I always wanted to dance and sing. It was other people who wanted to beat on me to make me quit singing and dancing that caused the trouble.
Right. Same here. For some reason they didn't see the same things I thought funny with the same sense of humor...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 22, 2020, 12:54:18 am
Fine. Give them closed captioning, large print for the visually impaired. That should take up half the screen...and likely cover what they were there to see, anyway.

Might as well call it clothed captioning.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 23, 2020, 04:16:04 pm
Mutant goat born with human-like face will be ‘worshipped as an avatar of God' in India: report
 Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

A mutated goat with a face that looks eerily like a human has been born in India, shocking onlookers.

Images and videos of the mutated mammal have gone viral, The Sun reports. Initially, the deformed mammal perplexed villagers in Nimodia, India, but it is now believed it will be "worshipped as an avatar of God," The Sun added, citing local reports. ... Full story at FOX (https://www.foxnews.com/science/mutant-goat-born-human-face-worshipped-india)
(https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/01/1862/1048/mutant-goat-Newsflare.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 23, 2020, 05:24:13 pm
Bring that goat to America,and within a couple of years it will be a Dim congresscritter,and maybe even one of the smarter ones.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on January 23, 2020, 05:47:05 pm
Bring that goat to America,and within a couple of years it will be a Dim congresscritter,and maybe even one of the smarter ones.
My bad! I thought it was a picture of a Dim congresscritter. :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 23, 2020, 05:51:17 pm
My bad! I thought it was a picture of a Dim congresscritter. :whistle:
Al Green, maybe.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 23, 2020, 07:34:34 pm
Al Green, maybe.
@mountaineer

I'm cool with that goat if he can sing like Al Green!

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiIC3A0ROM#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 23, 2020, 08:16:14 pm
Not that Al Green, the congressman who looks like a California raisin!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on January 23, 2020, 08:18:12 pm
Not that Al Green, the congressman who looks like a California raisin!  :laugh:

You mean this Al Green:

(https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/02/Rep.-Al-Green-640x480.jpg)

Dumber than a box of rocks and insists on proving it every day.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 23, 2020, 08:19:23 pm
Massachusetts woman trying to turn Natick into San Francisco East:
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Massachusetts serial pooper busted for defecating in parking lot eight times
By Natalie O'Neill
January 23, 2020 | 2:08pm

A Massachusetts woman was busted for allegedly turning a store parking lot into her own personal potty — pooping there a staggering eight times in roughly a month.

Dubbed the “Parking Lot Pooper,” Andrea Grocer, 51, of Ashland was allegedly caught dropping trou near the Natick Outdoor Store on Wednesday morning after she was nabbed on camera in the act, according to metrowestdailynews.com. ...

Cops linked Grocer to all eight poops  — leaving store owner Henry Kanner flush with excitement. ...
(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/andrea-grocer-mugshot-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
Someone's having a crappy day.

Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/massachusetts-serial-pooper-busted-for-defecating-in-parking-lot-eight-times/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 23, 2020, 08:41:55 pm
Massachusetts woman trying to turn Natick into San Francisco East:(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/andrea-grocer-mugshot-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
Someone's having a crappy day.

Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/massachusetts-serial-pooper-busted-for-defecating-in-parking-lot-eight-times/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow)

Oh, thank God!  Another sh*tty story to get this thread on track, and away from that California raisin. :patriot:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: TomSea on January 23, 2020, 08:45:31 pm
Mutant goat born with human-like face will be ‘worshipped as an avatar of God' in India: report
 Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

A mutated goat with a face that looks eerily like a human has been born in India, shocking onlookers.

Images and videos of the mutated mammal have gone viral, The Sun reports. Initially, the deformed mammal perplexed villagers in Nimodia, India, but it is now believed it will be "worshipped as an avatar of God," The Sun added, citing local reports. ... Full story at FOX (https://www.foxnews.com/science/mutant-goat-born-human-face-worshipped-india)
(https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/01/1862/1048/mutant-goat-Newsflare.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

That story is I'm sure true. Some stories out of India, I do a double-take on but they are probably true.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 23, 2020, 08:49:22 pm
Oh, thank God!  Another sh*tty story to get this thread on track, and away from that California raisin. :patriot:

Quote

“At first, [workers] thought it was an animal but then they noticed toilet paper and other wipes — items animals would not have access to,” said police spokeswoman Lt. Cara Rossi, who said the first feces was found in early December.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/massachusetts-serial-pooper-busted-for-defecating-in-parking-lot-eight-times/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Now there's some top-flight detecting!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 23, 2020, 10:50:53 pm
Now there's some top-flight detecting!
See! It pays to know your sh*t!
When are they deporting her to San Fraancisco?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 23, 2020, 10:56:52 pm
See! It pays to know your sh*t!

 :silly: :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 23, 2020, 10:58:40 pm
You mean this Al Green:

(https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/02/Rep.-Al-Green-640x480.jpg)

Dumber than a box of rocks and insists on proving it every day.

@Bigun

YIKES! The goat doesn't look all that bad anymore.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on January 23, 2020, 11:01:36 pm
Massachusetts woman trying to turn Natick into San Francisco East:(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/andrea-grocer-mugshot-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
Someone's having a crappy day.

Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/massachusetts-serial-pooper-busted-for-defecating-in-parking-lot-eight-times/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow)


Are we completely sure this isn't false reporting? She really lives in Florida, doesn't she?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: dancer on January 24, 2020, 06:34:38 am
Not that Al Green, the congressman who looks like a California raisin!  :laugh:
Caveman.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 25, 2020, 01:36:22 pm
The hamburglar strikes again!
Quote
Vandal In Whitehall ‘Topping’ Cars, Road Signs With Sliced Cheese
January 24, 2020 at 1:53 pm

WHITEHALL (KDKA) — Residents in Whitehall are saying that a vandal has been leaving slices of cheese on cars, roads, and even on stop signs.

Several community members have posted to social media pictures of their cars with cheese slices on the windshield. ... More at KDKA (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/01/24/cheese-on-cars-whitehall/)
(https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909642/2020/01/cheese-on-windshield.jpg?resize=620,349)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 25, 2020, 10:15:18 pm
The hamburglar strikes again!(https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909642/2020/01/cheese-on-windshield.jpg?resize=620,349)

LOLWhut!!  :silly:

What does that even mean?

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 27, 2020, 02:31:04 pm
Quote
Frank Sinatra’s golden toilets auctioned off in Atlantic City
By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
January 26, 2020 | 12:22pm

It’s where Frank Sinatra did it his way.

Three gold-topped toilets from the legendary crooner’s “Chairman’s Suite” at the Golden Nugget hotel in Atlantic City went up for auction Sunday — where they went for several thousand a pop.

The lavish Italian marble-and-gold loos, made by the New York City-based Sherle Wagner International, were among a collection of Sinatra goodies up for grabs by SS Auction Inc. ...
(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/80171592_3_x.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1045)
Full story (https://nypost.com/2020/01/26/frank-sinatras-golden-toilets-being-auctioned-in-atlantic-city/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 27, 2020, 02:42:30 pm
(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/80171592_3_x.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1045)


How anybody could spend that kind of money on a place to take a dump is entirely beyond me.  **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 27, 2020, 02:45:21 pm
Some folks' poo is fancier than others, I guess.  :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on January 27, 2020, 03:00:04 pm
Some folks' poo is fancier than others, I guess.  :pondering:

I understand collector interest in celebrity memoriabilia.  However, some lines I just don't understand being crossed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 27, 2020, 03:02:34 pm
Some folks' poo is fancier than others, I guess.  :pondering:

I dunno... Seem like a whole lot of ado about nothin. Folks put on airs the craziest ways.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on January 27, 2020, 08:01:13 pm
I understand collector interest in celebrity memoriabilia.  However, some lines I just don't understand being crossed.
Think about the person who won one of these treasures, they can honestly tell all their friends " You won't believe what I won at the Sinatra auction, it's the shits!"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on January 27, 2020, 08:02:35 pm
I dunno... Seem like a whole lot of ado about nothin. Folks put on airs the craziest ways.

 :yowsa: That they do!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on January 27, 2020, 08:49:08 pm
(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/80171592_3_x.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1045)
Full story (https://nypost.com/2020/01/26/frank-sinatras-golden-toilets-being-auctioned-in-atlantic-city/)




Other than ostentasious...when I look at that potty I can't imagine how hard it would be to keep clean. *bouche*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 28, 2020, 01:50:04 am



Other than ostentasious...when I look at that potty I can't imagine how hard it would be to keep clean. *bouche*

Since I have been cleaning for myself, the next bathroom I build will have a built-in pressure washer, and be made to take it... with a drain in the middle of the floor too... Bathrooms suck.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on January 28, 2020, 02:31:40 am
Since I have been cleaning for myself, the next bathroom I build will have a built-in pressure washer, and be made to take it... with a drain in the middle of the floor too... Bathrooms suck.

I don't mind cleaning bathrooms since I HAVE one.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 28, 2020, 02:58:05 am
I don't mind cleaning bathrooms since I HAVE one.

Hey! Just because it ain't inside...

 :silly: :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 28, 2020, 05:35:52 am
Since I have been cleaning for myself, the next bathroom I build will have a built-in pressure washer, and be made to take it... with a drain in the middle of the floor too... Bathrooms suck.
Keep the pressure down, bro. You don't want to turn all the lovely things you'd be washing out into aerosols....not unless you're in a biohzard suit with piped in air...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on January 29, 2020, 09:48:22 pm
Since I have been cleaning for myself, the next bathroom I build will have a built-in pressure washer, and be made to take it... with a drain in the middle of the floor too... Bathrooms suck.



I like that idea @roamer_1 . It beats my unrealistic one of a self cleaning bathroom where you just close the door and turn it on...kind of like a self cleaning oven.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2020, 01:06:49 am
Keep the pressure down, bro. You don't want to turn all the lovely things you'd be washing out into aerosols....not unless you're in a biohzard suit with piped in air...

@Smokin Joe , I been shoveling and throwing, and pushing and dozing, and loading and dumping, sweeping and washing sh*t ALL my life.

I am certainly immune.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2020, 01:08:06 am


I like that idea @roamer_1 . It beats my unrealistic one of a self cleaning bathroom where you just close the door and turn it on...kind of like a self cleaning oven.

Yeah @berdie ... that'd be a little harder to do... Probably easier to hire a cleaning lady :D
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on January 30, 2020, 12:30:50 pm


I like that idea @roamer_1 . It beats my unrealistic one of a self cleaning bathroom where you just close the door and turn it on...kind of like a self cleaning oven.

I imagine a dishwasher large enough for a toilet and shower.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2020, 02:23:04 pm
I imagine a dishwasher large enough for a toilet and shower.

That's absolutely brilliant... and the door... Handicap accessible   :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 30, 2020, 10:27:21 pm
Don'tcha hate when this happens?
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New homeowner finds corpse of former resident in house
By Christopher Cameron
January 29, 2020 | 2:45pm

Not all housewarming gifts are welcome. The happy buyer of a home in Maryland got more than they bargained for when they discovered the corpse of the previous owner still inside.

The new owner bought the house, on Upland Avenue in District Heights, at a foreclosure auction but only last Saturday discovered the body of the 39-year-old woman who had called the property home. It’s unclear how long she had been dead  ...
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/new-homeowner-finds-corpse-of-former-resident-in-house/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2020, 10:35:39 pm
39?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 30, 2020, 10:38:18 pm
39?
Apparently, she suffered from some sort of handicap.
Still ...  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2020, 10:42:13 pm
Apparently, she suffered from some sort of handicap.
Still ...  :shrug:

I always imagined that would happen at my house.  Somebody would find us months later, our corpses stripped to the bones from cats feasting on our remains.  I wonder about that sometimes whenever I see them prowling about the Castle.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 30, 2020, 10:45:10 pm
I always imagined that would happen at my house.  Somebody would find us months later, our corpses stripped to the bones from cats feasting on our remains.  I wonder about that sometimes whenever I see them prowling about the Castle.
I'm sure you have nothing to worry about.
(https://i.imgur.com/RIMjpT5.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2020, 11:07:40 pm
I always imagined that would happen at my house.  Somebody would find us months later, our corpses stripped to the bones from cats feasting on our remains.  I wonder about that sometimes whenever I see them prowling about the Castle.

@Cyber Liberty

I hope mine don't hesitate to use me as a food source if I keel over and die in the house. It won't hurt me,and it will save them. A body is just a body. A "mobility device". Once you die it is of no use to you or anyone else.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 31, 2020, 01:31:33 am
@Smokin Joe , I been shoveling and throwing, and pushing and dozing, and loading and dumping, sweeping and washing sh*t ALL my life.

I am certainly immune.
I'm immune to lots of things I find unpleasant.

Wearing a little sh*t is one thing, but inhaling sh*t is not high on my list of things to do.
I was the one who got to catch the sheep for my great uncle, who didn't dock their tails, and pretty much let them roam until they either needed to be sheared or went to market. Needless to say, those pristine 4-H show animals were not represented in the crap crusted critters I dealt with. Add in mucking out everything from stalls to henhouses to 100 year old barns, and I have dealt with plenty (not to mention clearing frozen temporary sewer lines on oil rigs, and dealing with out houses which should have been moved long before they were. Yep, been there, done that, burned the t-shirt...

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 31, 2020, 01:34:14 am
@Cyber Liberty

I hope mine don't hesitate to use me as a food source if I keel over and die in the house. It won't hurt me,and it will save them. A body is just a body. A "mobility device". Once you die it is of no use to you or anyone else.
A friend passed in summer, with his dogs locked in with him. We found him about a week later. He had fed the dogs. Not pretty, but as you say, he was gone, what was left was meat.
No one who knew wanted to adopt the dogs, though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on January 31, 2020, 02:58:33 am
I'm immune to lots of things I find unpleasant.

That's why they call it work (a four letter word)

Quote
Yep, been there, done that, burned the t-shirt...

 :laugh: That's right.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 31, 2020, 03:03:42 am

No one who knew wanted to adopt the dogs, though.

@Smokin Joe

I can certainly understand that,but house cats are EXTREMELY unlikely to take you down,kill you,and then eat you. They ain't cougars.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 01, 2020, 01:23:15 am
(https://i.imgur.com/b7uiaDQ.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 04, 2020, 11:37:23 pm
This story is ridiculous in a very horrible and sad kind of way:
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Dying mom falls on infant son, crushing him to death
By Jackie Salo
February 4, 2020

An Arizona mom crushed her infant son to death as she fell on him while suffering a fatal medical episode at her home, officials said.

Larinique Meadows, 38, and her 4-month-old son Denari Meadows were both found dead Saturday night at their townhouse in Tempe, authorities said.

The mom had been using her cellphone to search for symptoms of chest pain before she collapsed on top of her son, according to police. It is believed that she had some sort of heart condition. ...
Full story (https://nypost.com/2020/02/04/dying-mom-falls-on-infant-son-crushing-him-to-death/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 04, 2020, 11:39:34 pm
New mom has baby taken away after failing drug test — by eating poppy seed bread
By Joshua Rhett Miller
February 4, 2020 | 3:27pm

An Alabama mother had her newborn baby taken away from her after a drug-test detected traces of opiates in her system — from poppy seed bread she ate a day earlier, according to reports.

Rebecca Hernandez, of Huntsville, was given a drug test after giving birth at Crestwood Medical Center last Tuesday — and her son was swiftly removed after it came back positive for opiates, WAFF reports.

By the time a more official state laboratory test came back Friday stating she was clean, the new mother had lost three days with her new baby.

The original test turned out to be a “false-positive,” a result that Hernandez’s doctor attributed to the poppy seed bread she consumed on Monday, WAFF reports. ... Rest of story (https://nypost.com/2020/02/04/new-mom-has-baby-taken-away-after-failing-drug-test-by-eating-poppy-seed-bread/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 04, 2020, 11:55:15 pm
This story is ridiculous in a very horrible and sad kind of way:Full story (https://nypost.com/2020/02/04/dying-mom-falls-on-infant-son-crushing-him-to-death/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter)

@mountaineer

I'm guessing Tinker Belle weighted in north of 300 lbs.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 04, 2020, 11:57:34 pm
I'm guessing Tinker Belle weighted in north of 300 lbs.
Don't know. It wouldn't take much to smother a baby that small, though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 05, 2020, 01:43:53 am
Don't know. It wouldn't take much to smother a baby that small, though.

@mountaineer

When was the last time you heard of a woman with a name like "Larinique" that didn't weigh 300 lbs?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2020, 05:43:00 am
New mom has baby taken away after failing drug test — by eating poppy seed bread
By Joshua Rhett Miller
February 4, 2020 | 3:27pm

An Alabama mother had her newborn baby taken away from her after a drug-test detected traces of opiates in her system — from poppy seed bread she ate a day earlier, according to reports.

Rebecca Hernandez, of Huntsville, was given a drug test after giving birth at Crestwood Medical Center last Tuesday — and her son was swiftly removed after it came back positive for opiates, WAFF reports.

By the time a more official state laboratory test came back Friday stating she was clean, the new mother had lost three days with her new baby.

The original test turned out to be a “false-positive,” a result that Hernandez’s doctor attributed to the poppy seed bread she consumed on Monday, WAFF reports. ... Rest of story (https://nypost.com/2020/02/04/new-mom-has-baby-taken-away-after-failing-drug-test-by-eating-poppy-seed-bread/)
Why a lot of us who work in the oil industry won't eat anything with poppy seeds on it. If you get picked for a random drug panel or are on a crew that has an accident, you could lose your job and your career.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on February 05, 2020, 10:38:30 am
My sister and I both either worked on Wall Street or for companies based there. Yes, when they hired you they said “random blood tests” and warned us “don’t eat poppy seed bagels”

Personally, I like egg bagels best.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2020, 11:19:44 am
My sister and I both either worked on Wall Street or for companies based there. Yes, when they hired you they said “random blood tests” and warned us “don’t eat poppy seed bagels”

Personally, I like egg bagels best.
I like the onion ones...but unfortunately, we just can't get them fresh here. :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on February 05, 2020, 12:20:51 pm
New mom has baby taken away after failing drug test — by eating poppy seed bread
By Joshua Rhett Miller
February 4, 2020 | 3:27pm

An Alabama mother had her newborn baby taken away from her after a drug-test detected traces of opiates in her system — from poppy seed bread she ate a day earlier, according to reports.

Rebecca Hernandez, of Huntsville, was given a drug test after giving birth at Crestwood Medical Center last Tuesday — and her son was swiftly removed after it came back positive for opiates, WAFF reports.

By the time a more official state laboratory test came back Friday stating she was clean, the new mother had lost three days with her new baby.

The original test turned out to be a “false-positive,” a result that Hernandez’s doctor attributed to the poppy seed bread she consumed on Monday, WAFF reports. ... Rest of story (https://nypost.com/2020/02/04/new-mom-has-baby-taken-away-after-failing-drug-test-by-eating-poppy-seed-bread/)

Poppy seeds are a well known false-positive for those of us whose job requires drug test.  I really like poppy seeds but avoid them like the plaque for that reason.  Not worth the possible hassle.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 05, 2020, 01:04:11 pm
Quote
Poppy seeds are a well known false-positive for those of us whose job requires drug test.
That was a storyline in a Seinfeld episode once.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 06, 2020, 06:27:12 pm
Sex in the snack aisle: Gas station faces possible closure over porn video
Posted 9:55 am, February 6, 2020, by Nexstar
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MILWAUKEE (WITI) - A Milwaukee gas station is fighting to keep its business license after a porn video was recorded in the snack aisle.

The man who apparently shot - and participated in - the video makes money by making sex videos in public places all over the Milwaukee area. ...

The incident happened in July 2018, when convicted felon Frederick Allen turned the gas station into a porn set while the business was open.

"He had nothin' on but a bathrobe!" said Clifton Daly, who lives behind the store.

The video shows Allen, an aspiring rapper and amateur porn model, having sex in the center aisle. ...
Full story (https://fox2now.com/2020/02/06/sex-in-the-snack-aisle-gas-station-faces-possible-closure-over-porn-video-tmw/?taid=5e3c4773ecb7110001ba4aa3&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter)

Right next to the chips and across from the sunflower seeds.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 17, 2020, 12:29:57 am
Wild West, Ohio style.
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Stuntwoman, husband reportedly killed in shootout with her ex and his new wife
By Lee Brown
February 16, 2020 | 11:24am

A leading Hollywood stuntwoman was shot dead alongside her husband in a wild gun battle after they tried to ambush her ex-husband and his new wife at their home in Ohio, according to reports and authorities.

Cheryl Sanders, 59 — who appeared in “Back to the Future II” and has been a stunt double for Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman and Jessica Alba — died alongside her husband Reed Sanders, 56, on Wednesday.

They traveled at least six hours from their home in North Carolina to confront the stuntwoman’s ex-husband, Lindsey Duncan, and his wife Molly outside their home in Yellow Springs, according to reports.

“All of a sudden, hell began,” Duncan told a press conference of the “absolute, total ambush” that sparked two gun battles with hundreds of shots fired.

Duncan ultimately shot dead his ex-wife and her husband, authorities say.  ...
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/02/16/stuntwoman-husband-reportedly-killed-in-shootout-with-her-ex-husband-and-his-new-wife/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 17, 2020, 02:30:41 am
Wild West, Ohio style.Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/02/16/stuntwoman-husband-reportedly-killed-in-shootout-with-her-ex-husband-and-his-new-wife/)

@mountaineer

Just guessing,but MY guess is this is the sort of thing that happens to people who have been in hundreds of imaginary firefights shooting blanks,and not used to really taking aim.

i know it always bothered me to aim off to the side while in the army and on training missions. Even though we were all firing blanks and had blank adaptors in our weapons,I still couldn't knowingly point a weapon at someone or something I didn't intend to kill,and then pull the trigger.

Just can't do it. I can deal with killing someone purposely,but not by accident.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 17, 2020, 02:35:56 am
@mountaineer

Just guessing,but MY guess is this is the sort of thing that happens to people who have been in hundreds of imaginary firefights shooting blanks,and not used to really taking aim.

i know it always bothered me to aim off to the side while in the army and on training missions. Even though we were all firing blanks and had blank adaptors in our weapons,I still couldn't knowingly point a weapon at someone or something I didn't intend to kill,and then pull the trigger.

Just can't do it. I can deal with killing someone purposely,but not by accident.

A "blank" will kill a feller, by accident.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 17, 2020, 03:23:57 am
A "blank" will kill a feller, by accident.

@Cyber Liberty

I don't think they will if there is a blank adaptor in the bore. I COULD be wrong about this,so do NOT take my word on it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 17, 2020, 04:13:57 am
@Cyber Liberty

I don't think they will if there is a blank adaptor in the bore. I COULD be wrong about this,so do NOT take my word on it.
:shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on February 18, 2020, 04:34:37 pm
@Cyber Liberty

I don't think they will if there is a blank adaptor in the bore. I COULD be wrong about this,so do NOT take my word on it.
Jon Erik Hexum was killed by a "blank" I am not sure if the pistol had an adapter or not.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 18, 2020, 05:05:03 pm
Jon Erik Hexum was killed by a "blank" I am not sure if the pistol had an adapter or not.

@verga

It did,but even blank adaptors MUST have a hole in them to vent the gasses,and he was so ignorant of firearms that he didn't realize this,and when he put the pistol to his head and pulled the trigger,it was those hot,expanded gasses that blew a hole in his skull and killed him,not a bullet.

A tragic death due to ignorance and carelessness,not a suicide. He was literally joking around in front of friends.

BTW,blank adaptors for prop guns are installed inside the barrel by boring it out,threading it,and screwing the blank adaptor inside the bore,out of sight. as I wrote above,blank adaptors have holes drilled in them to release the gasses. The prime difference between movie prop gun blank adaptors and move blank adaptors is the military ones are temporary,stick outside the bore to make it obvious they are installed,and need no tools to install or remove.

You do NOT want to pull the trigger on a firearm with a blank adaptor installed if it is loaded with actual bullets. If you are lucky,all you will lose will be the use of a hand.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 19, 2020, 12:52:52 pm
Man goes into bathroom at PPG Arena (where the Pittsburgh Penguins play), dies, and isn't found for a couple of days.
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The family of a man who was found dead in a bathroom at PPG Paints Arena still has many questions.

On Oct. 5, 2019, Tim Helbig — working as a sound technician for AT&T Sports during the Penguin-Blue Jacket game — told co-workers he was in pain and had to leave.

On Oct. 7th, his body was found inside a locked family bathroom on the arena’s third-floor concourse.

It appears Helbig had been in that bathroom — undiscovered — for more than 40 hours, and his family is asking why no one checked the bathroom sooner. ...
Died of overdose, not the smartest thing to do while you're on the job!

Story at KDKA (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/02/18/family-of-tim-helbig-still-has-questions/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 19, 2020, 12:55:20 pm
Man goes into bathroom at PPG Arena (where the Pittsburgh Penguins play), dies, and isn't found for a couple of days.Died of overdose, not the smartest thing to do while you're on the job!

Story at KDKA (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/02/18/family-of-tim-helbig-still-has-questions/)

@mountaineer

I have sympathy for his family,but oding on the job makes it hard for me to work up much sympathy for him.

Sometimes the trash just takes itself out.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 19, 2020, 12:57:35 pm
It's ... the arts.
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Artist’s dryer lint sculptures to be displayed inside Pittsburgh laundromat
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop | Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:21 p.m.

Clothes lint from dryers became the medium for artist Cheryl Capezzuti, so a pop-up art installation at a laundromat seems to be a natural progression.

On Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., some of Capezzuti’s works of lint sculptures will be displayed inside the Butler St. Coin-op Laundromat on Butler St. in Lawrenceville.  ...
Full story (https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/artists-dryer-lint-sculptures-to-be-displayed-inside-pittsburgh-laundromat/)

(https://triblive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2338346_web1_PTR-MORELINT.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on February 19, 2020, 01:52:27 pm
It's ... the arts.Full story (https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/artists-dryer-lint-sculptures-to-be-displayed-inside-pittsburgh-laundromat/)

She should do something with more punch. Make something out of those socks after your washer/dryer eats the other one of the pair.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on February 19, 2020, 02:12:39 pm
She should do something with more punch. Make something out of those socks after your washer/dryer eats the other one of the pair.

Full blame needs to go to Jackson Pollock.  Garbage constituting art has now been vogue now for 80 years.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 19, 2020, 02:58:13 pm
Full blame needs to go to Jackson Pollock.  Garbage constituting art has now been vogue now for 80 years.

@catfish1957

You can't blame the seller. If the purchasers didn't buy it,it would die off. The artists/sellers are just filling a demand and making a few bucks while doing it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 19, 2020, 03:04:03 pm
This Banana Was Duct-Taped to a Wall. It Sold for $120,000.
(https://media.gq.com/photos/5deaebe2ac31250008d319d7/16:9/w_2560%2Cc_limit/ABMB19%2C%252520Galleries%2C%252520Perrotin%2C%252520PR_9652.jpg)

https://www.gq.com/story/suddenly-the-koons-is-this-100k-banana (https://www.gq.com/story/suddenly-the-koons-is-this-100k-banana)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on February 19, 2020, 04:43:06 pm
@catfish1957

You can't blame the seller. If the purchasers didn't buy it,it would die off. The artists/sellers are just filling a demand and making a few bucks while doing it.

@sneakypete

True, but PT Barnum's "Sucker Born Every Minute" is a sad truth in this collectable area.

Reason why you can buy a nice Bierstadt at auction for under  $20K (proper provenance included) , while a low end Pollock will run at least a million. 



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 19, 2020, 05:15:52 pm
@sneakypete

True, but PT Barnum's "Sucker Born Every Minute" is a sad truth in this collectable area.

@catfish1957

MY problem with these people is "Where the HELL are they when *I* need to sell something?"

 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 19, 2020, 05:19:26 pm
@catfish1957

MY problem with these people is "Where the HELL are they when *I* need to sell something?"

You have to be totally lacking in ethics, like my Great-Great Grand Pappy, whom you are referencing.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on February 20, 2020, 04:04:49 pm
Died of overdose, not the smartest thing to do while you're on the job!

Just like Elvis.  Shooting dope on the toilet.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 20, 2020, 10:57:41 pm
Just like Elvis.  Shooting dope on the toilet.
SISO. (at least when the sphincter releases).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 22, 2020, 05:22:43 pm
WTH: A Facebook Employee Reportedly Blow-Dried Mark Zuckerberg’s Armpits to get Rid of His Anxiety Sweat
February 21, 2020

How’s your Friday going America? Pretty good until you read that headline right?

The following is from our friends at BusinessInsider.com (https://www.businessinsider.com/zuckerberg-sweat-armpit-hair-blow-dry-big-events-new-book-2020-2)
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According to a new report, members of Facebook’s communications team reportedly blow-dry Mark Zuckerberg’s armpits before big speeches to get rid of his anxiety-induced sweat.

The anecdote comes from “Facebook: the Inside Story,” a new book coming out this month by Wired’s Steven Levy, according to a review by Bloomberg’s Austin Carr.

Notably, there’s some historical context here that supports the notion that Zuckerberg sweats under pressure: Famously, Zuckerberg visibly sweated in an on-stage interview with tech journalist Kara Swisher at an event in 2010.
... DC Patriot (https://thedcpatriot.com/wth-a-facebook-employee-reportedly-blow-dried-mark-zuckerbergs-armpits-to-get-rid-of-his-anxiety-sweat/)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 23, 2020, 02:41:21 pm
Unibrowed model Sophia Hadjipanteli takes London Fashion Week by storm
By Spencer Bergen
February 19, 2020

Models have to make their mark, and model/influencer Sophia Hadjipanteli has done just that with her signature unibrow. She's the founder of the #UnibrowMovement on social media, recently landed the cover of Glamour UK, and was a fixture at London Fashion Week this season. So, is the fashion world ready for the tweezer-less revolution?
(https://nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/sophia-hadjipanteli-11.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=387)
NY Post (https://pagesix.com/2020/02/19/unibrowed-model-sophia-hadjipanteli-takes-london-fashion-week-by-storm/#1)

 *****rollingeyes*****

Look at me, I'm a model!
(https://sciencemadefun.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/caterpillar-399166_1920-1024x602.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 23, 2020, 02:49:46 pm
(https://nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/sophia-hadjipanteli-11.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=387)
Don't that thing is, man, woman, or half of each.
But I do know that my dog would never stop barking at it, if it came around here.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 23, 2020, 02:50:51 pm
I almost didn't notice that she's wearing a Froot Loops necklace. Seems appropriate.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 23, 2020, 02:52:57 pm
Don't that thing is, man, woman, or half of each.
But I do know that my dog would never stop barking at it, if it came around here.

Let's see,here. Fake hair color,fake eyebrows and eyebrow color,and fake lips.

I have to wonder what this thing looked like before all this,and just exactly what it is about her that makes her attractive enough to heterosexual men to qualify her to work as a professional model.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 23, 2020, 07:48:43 pm
Don't that thing is, man, woman, or half of each.
But I do know that my dog would never stop barking at it, if it came around here.
Whatever it is should be the new picture accompanying the definition of FUGLY!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 23, 2020, 07:55:49 pm
Unibrowed model Sophia Hadjipanteli takes London Fashion Week by storm
By Spencer Bergen
February 19, 2020

Models have to make their mark, and model/influencer Sophia Hadjipanteli has done just that with her signature unibrow. She's the founder of the #UnibrowMovement on social media, recently landed the cover of Glamour UK, and was a fixture at London Fashion Week this season. So, is the fashion world ready for the tweezer-less revolution?
(https://nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/sophia-hadjipanteli-11.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=387)
NY Post (https://pagesix.com/2020/02/19/unibrowed-model-sophia-hadjipanteli-takes-london-fashion-week-by-storm/#1)

 *****rollingeyes*****

Look at me, I'm a model!
(https://sciencemadefun.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/caterpillar-399166_1920-1024x602.jpg)

I didn't know they still make those wax lips!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 23, 2020, 08:00:25 pm
Imagine that: she used to look half-way normal.
(https://www.inkedmag.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_597/MTYyNDU3NTIxODMzOTExNjcz/screen-shot-2019-03-06-at-103023-am.webp)
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... Hadjipanteli attributes her bold brow to genetics, with her parents having immigrated to the United States from Cyprus, Greece. However, the model does stimulate hair growth by applying castor oil at night before bed, a skin care process that she swears by. ...
:silly:
source (https://www.inkedmag.com/original-news/unibrow-model)

I'm going to have to make this one small, so no one freaks out.
(https://dazedimg-dazedgroup.netdna-ssl.com/703/azure/dazed-prod/1250/2/1252834.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mystery-ak on February 23, 2020, 08:02:57 pm
I'm already freaked out....she looks like a Halloween mask
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 23, 2020, 11:37:36 pm
I ain't got much understanding for all the preening women do...
And being around hilljillies as I am, hairy armpits and hairy legs are pretty commonplace to a degree that most all y'all would probably balk at...

But those are generally Scot-Irish and native gals, not prone to much hair anyhow...

That caterpillar crawling around on that gal's face ain't alright - even to me...  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 23, 2020, 11:42:49 pm
I ain't got much understanding for all the preening women do...
And being around hilljillies as I am, hairy armpits and hairy legs are pretty commonplace to a degree that most all y'all would probably balk at...

But those are generally Scot-Irish and native gals, not prone to much hair anyhow...

That caterpillar crawling around on that gal's face ain't alright - even to me...  :whistle:
Now,now, brother. Don't forget that someday, that caterpillar will be a butterfly.


(wait for it...)



OK
 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 23, 2020, 11:54:27 pm
Imagine that: she used to look half-way normal.
(https://www.inkedmag.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_597/MTYyNDU3NTIxODMzOTExNjcz/screen-shot-2019-03-06-at-103023-am.webp) :silly:
source (https://www.inkedmag.com/original-news/unibrow-model)

I'm going to have to make this one small, so no one freaks out.
(https://dazedimg-dazedgroup.netdna-ssl.com/703/azure/dazed-prod/1250/2/1252834.jpg)

@mountaineer

She obviously had an eyebrow fixation even back then or she would have never make them so black,and would have trimmed them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 24, 2020, 12:00:19 am
@mountaineer

She obviously had an eyebrow fixation even back then or she would have never make them so black,and would have trimmed them.
Maybe she does (trim them).... :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 24, 2020, 12:19:36 am
Maybe she does (trim them).... :shrug:

@Smokin Joe

Naw,if they would grow longer she would probably braid them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 24, 2020, 01:05:00 am
Now,now, brother. Don't forget that someday, that caterpillar will be a butterfly.


(wait for it...)



OK
 :silly:

Or mebbe a moth  :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 24, 2020, 11:06:32 pm
Or mebbe a moth  :silly:
I was being optimistic, dagnabit!  :chairbang:

 :beer: :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 05, 2020, 04:06:23 pm
I thought these people weren't supposed to drink alcohol.
Quote
American Airlines Passenger Attacks Air Marshals, Threatens To Kill Everyone
Holly Matkin
12 hours ago

Dana Ghazi Mustafa has been released from jail while the federal case against her is pending.


Dulles, VA – A drunken United Airlines passenger assaulted a federal air marshal and threatened to kill everyone aboard her recent flight from Germany to Virginia, according to court documents.

“I’m going to stab everyone on the plane, then kill myself,” 27-year-old Dana Ghazi Mustafa declared during her Feb. 22 flight, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office press release. “I’m Palestinian! That’s how we get down.”  ...

Once she was subdued, the marshals plopped Mustafa down in a seat beside them, then spotted a half-empty liter bottle of Absolut vodka resting inside her open carry-on luggage, FOX News reported.

Mustafa claimed that she was allowed to drink the vodka on her earlier flight, then began hurling threats about stabbing the other passengers and killing herself.  ...
Full story (https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter/news/american-airlines-passenger-attacks-air-marshals-threatens-to-kill-everyone-yiA2m9b-o0KBj9wCJH1MDQ?fbclid=IwAR031-EA6lJ8l7EI7kaRVJvuq-XrnOQvyoVjYmNCUAwivunfBm0h_GWdrWE)
(https://imageproxy.themaven.net/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fmaven-user-photos%2Fbluelivesmatter%2Finternal%2FIFAB6Pm_7Ue7PnzqTRRuTA%2F7aNW6k5ULUyifiAX8bI3iw?w=788&q=40&h=412.38666666666666&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&fp-z=1&fp-debug=false)
In happier, more sober times.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 05, 2020, 04:17:31 pm
Let me count the ways this Muslim woman has offended Allah.
Muslims are not allowed to consume alcohol.
Muslim women are not allowed to wear makeup, especially lipstick like an Infidel whore.
Muslim women, even the 'reformed' ones are not allowed to show their hair.
Muslim women are not allowed to travel without being accompanied by a related man.
In many Islamic countries, this woman would be arrested and jailed for defaming Islam.
And yet, she reserves her anger for free Western Nations that allow her to do these things.
This is very typical of the hypocrisy of Islam. They follow the way of Allah as long as he stays out of their life.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 05, 2020, 05:45:27 pm

This is very typical of the hypocrisy of Islam. They follow the way of Allah as long as he stays out of their life.

@240B

"They follow the way of Allah as long as it gives them permission to hate and punish others." Islam is the only religion that revers sociopaths.

There,fixed it for you.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 05, 2020, 06:25:58 pm
@240B

"They follow the way of Allah as long as it gives them permission to hate and punish others." Islam is the only religion that revers sociopaths.

There,fixed it for you.
Nah. If Leftism isn't a religion, it's at least a cult. They hate, and given the opportunity, they wreak their vengeance on whomever they can. It's why they are so desperate to disarm us all.

 
Quote
“After we win this election, it’s our turn.  Payback time.  Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay."   Valerie Jarrett

It's why the Leftists and the Muslims are pals. They share that mentality.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 06, 2020, 02:26:54 am
Nah. If Leftism isn't a religion, it's at least a cult. 

@Smokin Joe

Sometimes it really is hard to tell the difference,ain't it?

Unlike most cults,Islam is a death cult devoted to the murders of non-believers,and even believers the most fundamental Muslims consider to not be "devout enough".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on March 06, 2020, 02:52:54 am
Ok ...I have a hard time believing that someone could be this dumb.

Woman waters plant for 2 years, discovers it’s plastic

Caelie Wilkes was rightfully proud of her houseplant gardening skills.

Not only had she managed to keep her succulent alive for a couple of years, it was beautiful.

No, hold that, it was beyond beautiful. It was an “overall perfect plant,” Wilkes said in a Facebook post. “I absolutely loved my succulent.”

The cruel truth wasn’t revealed until she decided to transplant it.   :rolling: :rolling:

Picture @ link!!!   :rolling:

https://www.nbc12.com/2020/03/04/woman-waters-plant-years-discovers-its-plastic/ (https://www.nbc12.com/2020/03/04/woman-waters-plant-years-discovers-its-plastic/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 06, 2020, 03:00:18 am
Ok ...I have a hard time believing that someone could be this dumb.

Woman waters plant for 2 years, discovers it’s plastic

Caelie Wilkes was rightfully proud of her houseplant gardening skills.

Not only had she managed to keep her succulent alive for a couple of years, it was beautiful.

No, hold that, it was beyond beautiful. It was an “overall perfect plant,” Wilkes said in a Facebook post. “I absolutely loved my succulent.”

The cruel truth wasn’t revealed until she decided to transplant it.   :rolling: :rolling:

Picture @ link!!!   :rolling:

https://www.nbc12.com/2020/03/04/woman-waters-plant-years-discovers-its-plastic/ (https://www.nbc12.com/2020/03/04/woman-waters-plant-years-discovers-its-plastic/)

@libertybele

This rarely happens,but I have to admit I feel embarrassed for her.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 06, 2020, 03:56:54 am
Ok ...I have a hard time believing that someone could be this dumb.

Woman waters plant for 2 years, discovers it’s plastic

Caelie Wilkes was rightfully proud of her houseplant gardening skills.

Not only had she managed to keep her succulent alive for a couple of years, it was beautiful.

No, hold that, it was beyond beautiful. It was an “overall perfect plant,” Wilkes said in a Facebook post. “I absolutely loved my succulent.”

The cruel truth wasn’t revealed until she decided to transplant it.   :rolling: :rolling:

Picture @ link!!!   :rolling:

https://www.nbc12.com/2020/03/04/woman-waters-plant-years-discovers-its-plastic/ (https://www.nbc12.com/2020/03/04/woman-waters-plant-years-discovers-its-plastic/)

Did you poach that from Bookface?  I think I saw that.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 24, 2020, 05:34:40 am

A MAN TRIED TO ROB A BANK AFTER PAYING $500 TO A WIZARD TO MAKE HIM INVISIBLE

(https://factualfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/wizard-bank-robber.jpg)

Never trust strangers. That is something most of us were taught by our parents or guardians at an early stage of our life, especially if the stranger says he is a sorcerer who can turn you invisible whilst you rob a bank!

Unfortunately, for one man in Iran, he made the mistake of trusting a fake sorcerer who convinced him that he was invisible and could rob a bank safely. The man explained to the court that he had paid five million rials (just under £290) to a wizard imposter, who in return gave him a set of spells to tie to his arm. The fake sorcerer explained to him that the spells would make him invisible, and that he could then rob banks all he wanted.

(more)
https://factualfacts.com/a-man-tried-to-rob-a-bank-after-paying-500-to-a-wizard-to-make-him-invisible/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 24, 2020, 05:37:55 am
I'm sure it sounded legit.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 24, 2020, 08:15:16 am
A MAN TRIED TO ROB A BANK AFTER PAYING $500 TO A WIZARD TO MAKE HIM INVISIBLE

(https://factualfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/wizard-bank-robber.jpg)

Never trust strangers. That is something most of us were taught by our parents or guardians at an early stage of our life, especially if the stranger says he is a sorcerer who can turn you invisible whilst you rob a bank!

Unfortunately, for one man in Iran, he made the mistake of trusting a fake sorcerer who convinced him that he was invisible and could rob a bank safely. The man explained to the court that he had paid five million rials (just under £290) to a wizard imposter, who in return gave him a set of spells to tie to his arm. The fake sorcerer explained to him that the spells would make him invisible, and that he could then rob banks all he wanted.

(more)
https://factualfacts.com/a-man-tried-to-rob-a-bank-after-paying-500-to-a-wizard-to-make-him-invisible/
Rule No. 1:

If it sounds too good to be true....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on March 24, 2020, 11:40:43 am
A MAN TRIED TO ROB A BANK AFTER PAYING $500 TO A WIZARD TO MAKE HIM INVISIBLE

(https://factualfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/wizard-bank-robber.jpg)

Never trust strangers. That is something most of us were taught by our parents or guardians at an early stage of our life, especially if the stranger says he is a sorcerer who can turn you invisible whilst you rob a bank!

Unfortunately, for one man in Iran, he made the mistake of trusting a fake sorcerer who convinced him that he was invisible and could rob a bank safely. The man explained to the court that he had paid five million rials (just under £290) to a wizard imposter, who in return gave him a set of spells to tie to his arm. The fake sorcerer explained to him that the spells would make him invisible, and that he could then rob banks all he wanted.

(more)
https://factualfacts.com/a-man-tried-to-rob-a-bank-after-paying-500-to-a-wizard-to-make-him-invisible/
I actually had to read this to see if it should be in the "Florida man thread."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 24, 2020, 12:06:28 pm
I actually had to read this to see if it should be in the "Florida man thread."
That's what I thought too. Never knew Florida Man has kinfolk in Iran.
Think of this.
He walk into the bank grabbing money from customer's hands.
Thinking he was invisible and would not be seen.
But even if he actually was invisible, wouldn't they see the money floating around the bank in mid-air?
This guy is not the brightest bulb in the box.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on March 24, 2020, 01:26:17 pm
I actually had to read this to see if it should be in the "Florida man thread."

HA! I did too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 24, 2020, 01:28:09 pm
A MAN TRIED TO ROB A BANK AFTER PAYING $500 TO A WIZARD TO MAKE HIM INVISIBLE
I saw that episode of NYPD Blue. Life imitates art.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 24, 2020, 04:13:45 pm
That's what ya get when you go to street wizards,instead of wizards with degrees from accredited colleges,like Harvard,NYU,etc,etc,etc.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 24, 2020, 04:16:41 pm
I actually had to read this to see if it should be in the "Florida man thread."

@verga

Florida Man,Iran Man. It makes no difference because none of them are even sure where or what they are.

The good news here is this one isn't registered to vote Dim.

Probably.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on March 24, 2020, 04:55:21 pm
@verga

Florida Man,Iran Man. It makes no difference because none of them are even sure where or what they are.

The good news here is this one isn't registered to vote Dim.YET
Probably.
Fixed it for you.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on March 28, 2020, 11:46:32 pm
Quarantined New Yorker Tries to Recreate ‘Italy Magic’ By Singing Out Window — But is Told to ‘Shut The F**k Up’

https://www.theamericanmirror.com/2020/03/video-quarantined-new-yorker-tries-to-recreate-italy-magic-by-singing-out-window-but-is-told-to-shut-the-fk-up/ (https://www.theamericanmirror.com/2020/03/video-quarantined-new-yorker-tries-to-recreate-italy-magic-by-singing-out-window-but-is-told-to-shut-the-fk-up/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 28, 2020, 11:54:26 pm
Since he is a Big City denizen,you would think he would have known better.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 29, 2020, 02:40:48 am
Since he is a Big City denizen,you would think he would have known better.
Especially in NYC, where "Hey! F*** You, Buddy!" is a somewhat common street greeting.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 30, 2020, 06:22:21 pm
Is there anything in the news reports these days that isn't ridiculous? Nevertheless, we must persist.
Quote
Moment paralyzed deaf-mute teenager attempts to rob a jewelry shop in Brazil with a fake gun held with his FEET
By Adry Torres For Dailymail.com
Published: 17:33 EDT, 26 May 2020 | Updated: 03:47 EDT, 28 May 2020

This is the moment a paralyzed deaf-mute teenager tried to rob a jewelry store in Brazil by aiming a fake gun with his feet.

The astonishing incident unfolded Monday afternoon at a shop in Canela, Rio Grande de Sul, when the 19-year-old placed a threatening note on the counter using his feet.

The note from the suspect, who authorities say has cerebral palsy and cannot move his hands, read: 'Hand over everything. Don't raise attention.'

A store surveillance camera captured the disabled teen in his wheelchair before he aimed a plastic toy gun wedged between his bare feet at the counter. ...
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/05/26/21/28854364-8359145-image-m-12_1590526143076.jpg)
Full story at Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8359145/Paralyzed-deaf-mute-teen-tried-rob-jewelry-shop-Brazil-holding-fake-gun-feet.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 31, 2020, 04:43:19 am
Nobody can accuse him of being lacking in ambition.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 12, 2020, 01:17:58 pm
21-year-old Colorado woman shot dead after argument about dog poop
By Kenneth Garger
June 12, 2020 | 1:58am
Quote
A woman was fatally shot and her boyfriend wounded by a gunman who reportedly took issue with how the couple told their dog to poop during a walk in Denver on Wednesday.

The victims — identified in reports as Isabella Thallas, 21, and Darian Simon — were walking their pooch near Coors Field when 36-year-old suspect Michael Close quarreled with them from inside his apartment, the Denver Post reported.

“The suspect got into a verbal altercation with the victims related to the victims telling the dog to poop,” according to a probable cause statement obtained by the newspaper.

Close reportedly asked the couple if they were going to train their pooch or just yell at it, the police records state.  ...
New York Post (https://nypost.com/2020/06/12/colorado-woman-shot-dead-after-argument-about-dog-poop/)

(https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/thallas.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)
Thallas
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 12, 2020, 01:19:59 pm
Life imitates art (silo scene from the movie "Witness")?
Quote
North Dakota woman drowns in giant vat of sunflower seeds
By Yaron Steinbuch
June 12, 2020 | 8:21am

A 56-year-old North Dakota drowned in a giant vat of sunflower seeds when she lost her footing and was sucked inside the grain bin, according to a report.

The unidentified Montpelier woman met her fate in the ghastly accident at the Glinz Farm in Pingree, where she had been helping two trucks unload seeds on Wednesday, the Jamestown Sun reported.

The woman was wearing a harness, but it was not attached at the time of the accident and she plunged inside the massive container, according to the news outlet. ...
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/06/12/north-dakota-woman-drowns-in-giant-vat-of-sunflower-seeds/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on June 12, 2020, 01:39:06 pm
Life imitates art (silo scene from the movie "Witness")?Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/06/12/north-dakota-woman-drowns-in-giant-vat-of-sunflower-seeds/)

Unharnessed harness?  That's up there with the guy who made the 190 foot bungee jump with a 200 foot cord.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 12, 2020, 09:16:14 pm
Life imitates art (silo scene from the movie "Witness")?Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/06/12/north-dakota-woman-drowns-in-giant-vat-of-sunflower-seeds/)
That is a hazard of working in any grain bin.
"Drowning" might not be as accurate as suffocated, because wen you exhale, the grain shifts to fill the space your body leaves when you breathe out, and each successive breath will be smaller.
The overall effect is the same.
Between 20-30 people a year get killed this way.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 12, 2020, 09:17:10 pm
Unharnessed harness?  That's up there with the guy who made the 190 foot bungee jump with a 200 foot cord.
I knew of a derrick hand on an oil rig who forgot to tie off his harness...90 ft. to the drill floor.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 22, 2020, 12:41:59 pm
 Man allegedly caught at airport with cocaine inside artificial penis
By Kenneth Garger
June 21, 2020 | 11:04pm

A British man arrested in a Brussels airport with cocaine inside of an artificial penis could face up to three years in prison for the offense, prosecutors said last week.

The man was busted trying to smuggle the drugs from Jamaica into Belgium last February, The New Zealand Herald (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=12341781) reported.

He allegedly told investigators that he intended to use the cocaine for personal use once he returned home. ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/man-allegedly-caught-at-airport-with-fake-penis-filled-with-cocaine/)
 :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 22, 2020, 01:00:55 pm
Man allegedly caught at airport with cocaine inside artificial penis
By Kenneth Garger
June 21, 2020 | 11:04pm

A British man arrested in a Brussels airport with cocaine inside of an artificial penis could face up to three years in prison for the offense, prosecutors said last week.

The man was busted trying to smuggle the drugs from Jamaica into Belgium last February, The New Zealand Herald (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=12341781) reported.

He allegedly told investigators that he intended to use the cocaine for personal use once he returned home. ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/man-allegedly-caught-at-airport-with-fake-penis-filled-with-cocaine/)
 :shrug:

@mountaineer

Uhhhhh,there seems to be some important details missing from this report.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdinVA on June 22, 2020, 01:03:00 pm
@mountaineer

Uhhhhh,there seems to be some important details missing from this report.
@sneakypete
I dunno... I got all the details I needed out of the headline... lol
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on June 22, 2020, 01:04:52 pm
@mountaineer

Uhhhhh,there seems to be some important details missing from this report.

Like how he is related to Florida Man....    :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 22, 2020, 02:58:41 pm
Like how he is related to Florida Man....    :silly:I w

@catfish1957

Or even "Florida Undecided",who "dresses" appropriately for whatever party it is going to attend.a

I was just wondering if maybe it was a guy who thought nobody would find an xray image of a man with TWO penises to be somewhat unusual,and worthy of a closer look.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on June 22, 2020, 03:08:37 pm
@catfish1957

Or even "Florida Undecided",who "dresses" appropriately for whatever party it is going to attend.a

I was just wondering if maybe it was a guy who thought nobody would find an xray image of a man with TWO penises to be somewhat unusual,and worthy of a closer look.

Well, you know this transgender shit has gotten out of hand.   :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 22, 2020, 03:11:25 pm
Well, you know this transgender shit has gotten out of hand.   :silly:

@catfish1957

I guess in some cases that would depend on how many free hands you have.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on June 22, 2020, 07:15:50 pm
@catfish1957

I guess in some cases that would depend on how many free hands you have.
You are D@MN lucky I had swallowed my drink,before I read you comment.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 23, 2020, 05:20:07 pm
Thank goodness for the NY Post.
Quote
Man’s bladder explodes after holding in pee for 18 hours after beer binge
By Ben Cost
June 23, 2020 | 12:30pmUrine trouble.

In an incident that redefines “sleeping it off,” a Chinese man’s bladder burst when he unknowingly held his pee in for 18 hours after binging on booze.

The 40-year-old man, identified only as Mr. Hu, reportedly fell asleep — ahem, passed out? — after downing 10 bottles of beer during a heavy drinking session the night prior — without heeding nature’s call once, reports Zhuji Daily. ...

... [A] CT scan revealed that his bladder was torn in three places. ... Even worse, one of the holes had ruptured toward the patient’s abdominal cavity and forced part of his intestines to spill into the bladder — a complication doctors deemed potentially fatal if not fixed immediately. ...
Full (bladder) story (https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/mans-bladder-explodes-after-holding-pee-for-18-hours-after-beer-binge/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 23, 2020, 08:00:41 pm
Nope. Not buying it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 23, 2020, 08:07:23 pm
Nope. Not buying it.
Most would pass a garden sized stone with that much pressure, or awaken in a huge puddle or wet.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DCPatriot on June 23, 2020, 11:13:18 pm
(http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/105916080_3439228326089412_4502655710606322363_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_sid=1480c5&_nc_ohc=kGJy9uO-7BkAX8V6dMu&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=564b7dcf31d465ce01fff746bb57e692&oe=5F1966BE)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 29, 2020, 07:50:31 pm
Quote
Flightradar24  @flightradar24
SAS flight #SK2184 is delayed by about 90 minutes as some activists glue themselves to the aircraft body before departure from Ängelholm in Sweden
https://flightradar24.com/SAS2184/24cff673 (https://flightradar24.com/SAS2184/24cff673)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbtB_uXXkAYr_WP?format=jpg&name=small)
3:38 PM · Jun 29, 2020
I can't read Swedish, but https://www.nsk.se/2020/06/29/personer-hindrar-flygplan-i-angelholm-att-lyfta/ (https://www.nsk.se/2020/06/29/personer-hindrar-flygplan-i-angelholm-att-lyfta/)
Also, this Swedish story, which seems to indicate they're climate activists. Figures. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/helsingborg/personer-hindrade-flygplan-pa-angelholms-flygplats-fran-att-lyfta (https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/helsingborg/personer-hindrade-flygplan-pa-angelholms-flygplats-fran-att-lyfta)

Probably too much to ask that the glue-on-flesh sensation is very unpleasant.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 29, 2020, 08:05:14 pm
If it were REALLY good glue,the airplane could have taken off anyway.

Wouldn't want one of them sucked into an engine and cause a crash.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 29, 2020, 09:03:34 pm
Extinction Rebellion Sverige  @ExtinctionR_SV
Breaking: SAS Flight Blocked by Rebels – No Bailouts for Dirty Industries! Activists are physically blocking the domestic flight, demanding that no taxpayers’ money be used to bail out the airline industry. 
#BailoutThePlanet #extinctionrebellion #climatechange #jointherebellion
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbtE7nMXgAUB1qB?format=jpg&name=small)
Extinction Rebellion and 3 others
3:50 PM · Jun 29, 2020
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 29, 2020, 09:07:47 pm
If it were REALLY good glue,the airplane could have taken off anyway.

Wouldn't want one of them sucked into an engine and cause a crash.
Yeah, some good 100 MPH tape and they'd just have increased the fuel requirements and changed the trim...

Oh wait, is that a turboprop?  888bravo
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdinVA on June 29, 2020, 09:07:48 pm
Extinction Rebellion Sverige  @ExtinctionR_SV
Breaking: SAS Flight Blocked by Rebels – No Bailouts for Dirty Industries! Activists are physically blocking the domestic flight, demanding that no taxpayers’ money be used to bail out the airline industry. 
#BailoutThePlanet #extinctionrebellion #climatechange #jointherebellion
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbtE7nMXgAUB1qB?format=jpg&name=small)
Extinction Rebellion and 3 others
3:50 PM · Jun 29, 2020
eh, a little after burner will take care of them
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on June 29, 2020, 09:36:46 pm
If it were REALLY good glue,the airplane could have taken off anyway.

Wouldn't want one of them sucked into an engine and cause a crash.

Better outcome would be being peeled off based on  turbluence of going 500 mph at 30,000 feet. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 29, 2020, 09:45:49 pm
Better outcome would be being peeled off based on  turbluence of going 500 mph at 30,000 feet.

Sweet... Like a Bandaid... Rip it off quick!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 29, 2020, 10:14:50 pm
Better outcome would be being peeled off based on  turbluence of going 500 mph at 30,000 feet.
:silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 29, 2020, 10:49:50 pm
I really think the corpses glued to the roof of the cockpit would cause an unacceptable amount of drag, and may not even make cruising altitude.  :shrug: 

They'd have to land somewhere downrange, and scrape them off onto the waiting pickup trucks, and then file a new flight plan. Extra drinks for the passengers and they're good to go within an hour or so.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DCPatriot on June 29, 2020, 11:09:24 pm
(http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/106269824_10221491597693545_3927223328602273443_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_sid=ca434c&_nc_ohc=0ASxzkaGEAgAX9GVikh&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=7fe2c87970447578da9bd9cd2be007d3&oe=5F21278E)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 29, 2020, 11:15:48 pm
I can't read Swedish, but https://www.nsk.se/2020/06/29/personer-hindrar-flygplan-i-angelholm-att-lyfta/ (https://www.nsk.se/2020/06/29/personer-hindrar-flygplan-i-angelholm-att-lyfta/)
Also, this Swedish story, which seems to indicate they're climate activists. Figures. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/helsingborg/personer-hindrade-flygplan-pa-angelholms-flygplats-fran-att-lyfta (https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/helsingborg/personer-hindrade-flygplan-pa-angelholms-flygplats-fran-att-lyfta)

Probably too much to ask that the glue-on-flesh sensation is very unpleasant.


Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6Tn8sRInU#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 29, 2020, 11:18:29 pm
(http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/106269824_10221491597693545_3927223328602273443_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_sid=ca434c&_nc_ohc=0ASxzkaGEAgAX9GVikh&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=7fe2c87970447578da9bd9cd2be007d3&oe=5F21278E)
I always thought Mrs. Butterworth was white. I'm so confused.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 29, 2020, 11:41:59 pm
This story is a few days old. I heard about it on the radio driving home from work.

San Francisco Giants commit to cardboard cutouts instead of fans for 2020 season

Whether fans will be able to see live-action baseball from a stadium seat this season remains to be seen. MLB has not ruled it out or enacted a league-wide plan in its 2020 season agreement with the players.

The San Francisco Giants, though, have ruled that no fans will be allowed at Oracle Park this year. And in their place, season ticket holders will be allowed to submit photos to be used as cardboard cutouts in the seats.

Link (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjr87-llqjqAhWBvZ4KHX_LDj4QFjALegQICRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Fsan-francisco-giants-commit-cardboard-025403788.html&usg=AOvVaw0M6dZX9tNkwrahWC4zJre3)

I was only half listening but for $99 you could submit a photo and get a cutout. I don't know if you had a choice of seat selection. I don't know what team you are supposed to be rooting for.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 29, 2020, 11:58:29 pm
(http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/106269824_10221491597693545_3927223328602273443_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_sid=ca434c&_nc_ohc=0ASxzkaGEAgAX9GVikh&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=7fe2c87970447578da9bd9cd2be007d3&oe=5F21278E)

Which really sucks for Mrs. Butterworth because she's not black.  It's like that guy who plays a cartoon character on Fox.  Outta work for NOT being black.  :shrug:  He did it to himself.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 30, 2020, 12:00:36 am
This story is a few days old. I heard about it on the radio driving home from work.

San Francisco Giants commit to cardboard cutouts instead of fans for 2020 season

Whether fans will be able to see live-action baseball from a stadium seat this season remains to be seen. MLB has not ruled it out or enacted a league-wide plan in its 2020 season agreement with the players.

The San Francisco Giants, though, have ruled that no fans will be allowed at Oracle Park this year. And in their place, season ticket holders will be allowed to submit photos to be used as cardboard cutouts in the seats.

Link (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjr87-llqjqAhWBvZ4KHX_LDj4QFjALegQICRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Fsan-francisco-giants-commit-cardboard-025403788.html&usg=AOvVaw0M6dZX9tNkwrahWC4zJre3)

I was only half listening but for $99 you could submit a photo and get a cutout. I don't know if you had a choice of seat selection. I don't know what team you are supposed to be rooting for.

What would "rooting" look like in this context, anyway?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 30, 2020, 12:19:50 am
What would "rooting" look like in this context, anyway?

Compost. For the price, you should be laminated. All weather all season fan. Just think. With the right wind conditions you could see what a real wave should look like. Or an orgy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on June 30, 2020, 02:21:54 am
Extinction Rebellion Sverige  @ExtinctionR_SV
Breaking: SAS Flight Blocked by Rebels – No Bailouts for Dirty Industries! Activists are physically blocking the domestic flight, demanding that no taxpayers’ money be used to bail out the airline industry. 
#BailoutThePlanet #extinctionrebellion #climatechange #jointherebellion
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbtE7nMXgAUB1qB?format=jpg&name=small)
Extinction Rebellion and 3 others
3:50 PM · Jun 29, 2020
Is it wrong for me to think it would be hilarious for someone to walk up to them and crank up a chain saw and tell them sorry but the planes gotta go so............................
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 30, 2020, 02:26:05 am
Is it wrong for me to think it would be hilarious for someone to walk up to them and crank up a chain saw and tell them sorry but the planes gotta go so............................

No more wrong I think than seeing how long they can keep up...  :whistle:

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on June 30, 2020, 05:17:58 pm
No more wrong I think than seeing how long they can keep up...  :whistle:

 :laugh:
Reminds me of that scene from "Vacation" When they left the dog's leash on the bumper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbBL62IiRE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbBL62IiRE)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 30, 2020, 05:37:56 pm
Reminds me of that scene from "Vacation" When they left the dog's leash on the bumper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbBL62IiRE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbBL62IiRE)

LOL! I remember that.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on June 30, 2020, 05:42:51 pm
Reminds me of that scene from "Vacation" When they left the dog's leash on the bumper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbBL62IiRE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbBL62IiRE)

 :rolling: :rolling:  One of the funniest scenes in the whole movie.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on July 01, 2020, 12:25:38 am
Sex addict claims hot female gamers caused him to injure his penis

(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/twitch-gaming-lawsuit-03.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)

Excessive gaming is known to damage one’s joystick.

A California sex addict is suing the video streaming platform Twitch for $25 million after claiming that the site’s overabundance of “scantily clad gamers” have caused him to injure his penis, according to the lawsuit.

In the legal document filed at a Santa Clara County court on June 15, San Francisco’s Erik Estavillo claimed that the Amazon subsidiary had “subjected him to overly suggestive and sexual content from various female streamers.”

https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/sex-addict-claims-hot-female-gamers-caused-him-to-injure-penis/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 01, 2020, 12:34:57 am
Sex addict claims hot female gamers caused him to injure his penis

(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/twitch-gaming-lawsuit-03.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)

Excessive gaming is known to damage one’s joystick.

A California sex addict is suing the video streaming platform Twitch for $25 million after claiming that the site’s overabundance of “scantily clad gamers” have caused him to injure his penis, according to the lawsuit.

In the legal document filed at a Santa Clara County court on June 15, San Francisco’s Erik Estavillo claimed that the Amazon subsidiary had “subjected him to overly suggestive and sexual content from various female streamers.”

https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/sex-addict-claims-hot-female-gamers-caused-him-to-injure-penis/
Bloody wanker...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on July 01, 2020, 12:44:04 am
Bloody wanker...

I see what you did there.  :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 01, 2020, 12:45:34 am
I see what you did there.  :silly:
Moi? I just read the article...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 01, 2020, 12:46:17 am
I always thought Mrs. Butterworth was white. I'm so confused.  :shrug:

@mountaineer

Actually,pink under that black skin.

We ain't supposed to notice or talk about that,though.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on July 01, 2020, 12:48:56 am
NASA-Designed Perfume Brings The Smell Of Outer Space To Earth

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/nasa-designed-perfume-brings-the-smell-of-outer-space-to-earth-2253910 (https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/nasa-designed-perfume-brings-the-smell-of-outer-space-to-earth-2253910)

Astronauts have described the smell of space as "a mix of gunpowder, seared steak, raspberries and rum".

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 01, 2020, 12:51:08 am
NASA-Designed Perfume Brings The Smell Of Outer Space To Earth

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/nasa-designed-perfume-brings-the-smell-of-outer-space-to-earth-2253910 (https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/nasa-designed-perfume-brings-the-smell-of-outer-space-to-earth-2253910)

Astronauts have described the smell of space as "a mix of gunpowder, seared steak, raspberries and rum".

So...your average Pirate ship?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on July 01, 2020, 12:52:19 am
Moi? I just read the article...

I can't read print. Not since I went blind from all that gaming.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 01, 2020, 12:53:41 am
I can't read print. Not since I went blind from all that gaming.
Should stopped when you just needed glasses!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on July 01, 2020, 12:57:41 am
So...your average Pirate ship?

Absolutely!

Makes it sound like fun. An adventure.

Cause if they told the truth, that it really smells like ass, no one would want to go there.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on July 03, 2020, 03:58:18 pm
Home Depot modifies rope sales after nooses found in stores

Spools in pre-cut lengths most commonly requested will be sold

By Audrey Conklin FOXBusiness

Home Depot is modifying the way it sells rope after discovering that people were making nooses out of the spooled rope in some of its stores.

The home improvement retailer has taken away spools of rope and is instead selling pre-cut rope in lengths that are most commonly sold, Home Depot spokesperson Margaret Smith told FOX Business.

"Unfortunately, we’ve had some instances where spooled rope was used to create hate symbols and we’re not going to tolerate it," Smith said in a statement. "Out of an abundance of caution, we temporarily removed spooled rope from our aisles."

<..snip..>

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/home-depot-rope-nooses (https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/home-depot-rope-nooses)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 03, 2020, 03:59:36 pm
Loops are hate symbols. What a world.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 03, 2020, 04:22:43 pm
The whole world is filled with morons.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdinVA on July 03, 2020, 04:31:51 pm
The whole world is filled with morons.
And we certainly have our share
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 03, 2020, 05:41:58 pm
And we certainly have our share

No doubt, and well said. The problem is, most of ours seem to be running the show.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on July 03, 2020, 06:31:53 pm
Loops are hate symbols. What a world.
I wonder if I can still get my noos, er ropes at Lowes, I never cared for them before but unlike Home Depot they didn't restrict entry or or require masks which moved them a notch above the other guy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 03, 2020, 07:03:44 pm
Makes me wonder if they'd know a bowline from a noose from a fisherman's knot...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on July 03, 2020, 09:15:30 pm
Makes me wonder if they'd know a bowline from a noose from a fisherman's knot...
Reality doesn't matter, only appearances.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on July 03, 2020, 09:53:04 pm
I can't wait to slip them the Sheep Shank.....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on August 03, 2020, 10:53:49 pm
Animal rights group offers $5,000 reward for information on who put 'Trump 2020' sticker on a bear
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200803121946-01-trump-sticker-bear-trnd-exlarge-169.jpg)
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200803121944-02-trump-sticker-bear-trnd-exlarge-169.jpg)


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/us/trump-bear-collar-trnd/ (https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/us/trump-bear-collar-trnd/)
<snipit>
(CNN)Black bears will not be voting in the upcoming election, but that's not stopping one bear from unknowingly showing a little support for the incumbent president.

Help Asheville Bears (HAB), an organization in North Carolina, has put out a $5,000 reward to find the person or people responsible for putting a "Trump 2020" sticker on the tracking tag of a black bear......

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 03, 2020, 11:14:26 pm
Animal rights group offers $5,000 reward for information on who put 'Trump 2020' sticker on a bear
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200803121946-01-trump-sticker-bear-trnd-exlarge-169.jpg)
(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200803121944-02-trump-sticker-bear-trnd-exlarge-169.jpg)


https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/us/trump-bear-collar-trnd/ (https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/us/trump-bear-collar-trnd/)
<snipit>
(CNN)Black bears will not be voting in the upcoming election, but that's not stopping one bear from unknowingly showing a little support for the incumbent president.

Help Asheville Bears (HAB), an organization in North Carolina, has put out a $5,000 reward to find the person or people responsible for putting a "Trump 2020" sticker on the tracking tag of a black bear......

@catfish1957

Who ever did that gets MEGA points for both creativity and stones.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 03, 2020, 11:28:32 pm
@catfish1957

Who ever did that gets MEGA points for both creativity and stones.

For that prize I'm rooting for the fellow in the "pleasure craft" who photobombed the Dragon Crew recovery after splashdown who was flying the "Trump 2020" flag.  I literally LMAO.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 03, 2020, 11:37:46 pm
For that prize I'm rooting for the fellow in the "pleasure craft" who photobombed the Dragon Crew recovery after splashdown who was flying the "Trump 2020" flag.  I literally LMAO.

@Cyber Liberty

I saw the news report film of that,but the film shown was shot from so far away without the telephoto lens I couldn't see a flag.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 18, 2020, 01:45:39 pm
Man angry over dinner arrangements threw wife in Provo River, police say
By Pat Reavy
 Aug 17, 2020, 1:11pm MDT

PROVO CANYON — A Pleasant Grove man was charged Monday with throwing his wife into the Provo River and threatening bystanders who tried to help her.

Douglas Harold Green, 61, is charged in 4th District Court with aggravated kidnapping in the course of committing unlawful detention, a third-degree felony; and assault, a class B misdemeanor.

On Sunday, Green and his wife were at Provo River Resort when employees told police that Green had thrown his wife into the Provo River, according to a police affidavit.

Green said he threw her into the river “after she refused to do what he asked. The victim claimed she and Douglas were arguing over dinner arrangements. ..." Full story (https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/8/17/21372406/man-angry-over-dinner-arrangements-threw-wife-in-provo-river-police-say)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 19, 2020, 12:57:43 am
WOW! That's pretty damn impressive!

Most guys in their 60's need a crane to pick their wife up,and this guy is tossing her in a river!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on August 20, 2020, 12:45:29 am
The Quiet Man - John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara

  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Y5GpnWt5k#)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on August 20, 2020, 04:38:34 pm
The Quiet Man - John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara

  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Y5GpnWt5k#)
Greatest movie of ALL time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on August 25, 2020, 02:03:48 pm
KFC drops 'Finger Lickin’ Good' slogan during coronavirus pandemic

by Zachary Halaschak, Breaking News Reporter
August 24, 2020 08:55 PM


KFC's chicken is “finger lickin’ good,” but it will no longer be using the slogan given the coronavirus pandemic.

The Kentucky-based fast-food restaurant chain announced the change on Monday in a playful news release where KFC declared itself the “winner of the award for the most inappropriate slogan for 2020.”

“Think we can all agree, this year has been like no other and, right now, our slogan doesn’t feel quite right,” the company said. “So, for that reason, we’ll be pressing pause on using it in our advertising, for a little while.”

<..snip..>

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kfc-drops-finger-lickin-good-slogan-during-coronavirus-pandemic (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kfc-drops-finger-lickin-good-slogan-during-coronavirus-pandemic)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 25, 2020, 05:59:57 pm
KFC drops 'Finger Lickin’ Good' slogan during coronavirus pandemic

by Zachary Halaschak, Breaking News Reporter
August 24, 2020 08:55 PM


KFC's chicken is “finger lickin’ good,” but it will no longer be using the slogan given the coronavirus pandemic.

The Kentucky-based fast-food restaurant chain announced the change on Monday in a playful news release where KFC declared itself the “winner of the award for the most inappropriate slogan for 2020.”

“Think we can all agree, this year has been like no other and, right now, our slogan doesn’t feel quite right,” the company said. “So, for that reason, we’ll be pressing pause on using it in our advertising, for a little while.”

<..snip..>

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kfc-drops-finger-lickin-good-slogan-during-coronavirus-pandemic (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kfc-drops-finger-lickin-good-slogan-during-coronavirus-pandemic)
My Bad, I thought they were dropping the slogan because it has become connected to Joe.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 25, 2020, 06:24:09 pm
(https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_large/public/headlines/biden_ad_0.jpg?itok=37nOpKHM)

"I did not lick that finger, Colonel Sanders!"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 07, 2020, 02:16:21 pm
Explosive device used at gender-reveal party causes fire and mass evacuations in California
A fire that has destroyed over 7,000 acres and forced the evacuation of 3,000 residents was caused by a "smoke generating" explosive used at a gender-reveal party, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. "With the dry conditions and critical fire weather, it doesn’t take much to start a wildfire. Those responsible for starting fires due to negligence or illegal activity can be held financially and criminally responsible," the statement said.
https://abc7.com/el-dorado-fire-sparked-by-pyrotechnic-device-officials-say/6412483/ (https://abc7.com/el-dorado-fire-sparked-by-pyrotechnic-device-officials-say/6412483/)

These "gender reveal" parties have gotten out of hand!

Incidentally, it's a boy!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1302422785617166336/gJxoj6Zh?format=jpg&name=small)
CNN: Officials release video from gender reveal party that ignited a 47,000-acre wildfire (https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/27/us/arizona-gender-reveal-party-sawmill-wildfire-trnd/index.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 07, 2020, 03:23:09 pm
Look at that long grass... Such an unexpected result. Really. I am shocked!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 07, 2020, 08:29:00 pm
Look at that long grass... Such an unexpected result. Really. I am shocked!
You expected common sense?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdinVA on September 08, 2020, 04:20:25 pm
Toddler gets his head stuck in toilet seat, dad has to saw him out

That’s definitely the wrong way to use the potty (https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle).
A Florida family (https://www.foxnews.com/category/lifestyle/parenting) found themselves in an unusual situation when their 2-year-old son got his training toilet stuck around his neck. The family filmed the removal process, which required a saw and apparently a toddler who is amazingly good at standing still for his age.
(https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/09/1862/1048/toddler-stuck-in-toilet.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/toddler-head-stuck-toilet-seat-dad-saw (https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/toddler-head-stuck-toilet-seat-dad-saw)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 08, 2020, 04:38:28 pm
Don't make ME be the one that has to ask the obvious question here.

I do think I have an obvious nickname for him,though.

Don't ask.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 08, 2020, 04:41:30 pm
Don't make ME be the one that has to ask the obvious question here.

I do think I have an obvious nickname for him,though.

Don't ask.
:silly: I don't have to... :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 17, 2020, 12:06:27 pm
Dentist who extracted tooth on hoverboard sentenced to 12 years in prison
By Jackie Salo
September 16, 2020 | 5:34pm
Quote
An Alaska dentist who extracted a patient’s tooth while riding on a hoverboard has been sentenced to 12 years behind bars for that stunt and other wheel-y bad crimes.

Seth Lookhart was sentenced Monday in Anchorage Superior Court on dozens of charges that stemmed from his scooting antics to Medicaid fraud and removing a patient’s teeth without their permission, the Anchorage Daily News reported.

He was convicted back in January on charges of reckless endangerment, illegally practicing dentistry and medical assistance fraud. ...
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/dentist-who-extracted-tooth-on-hoverboard-gets-12-years/)
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/dentist-hoverboard.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=662)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 17, 2020, 03:03:46 pm
I suspect his prison sentence had more to do with practicing medicine without a license than hover boarding.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on September 17, 2020, 03:29:04 pm
I suspect his prison sentence had more to do with practicing medicine without a license than hover boarding.

Is this why so many people get anxiety when they go to the dentist?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on September 18, 2020, 02:34:40 pm
Delingpole: Socially-Distanced German Soccer Team Gets Thrashed 37-0

(https://media.breitbart.com/media/2020/09/GettyImages-1269928863-e1600435672251-640x480.jpg)

A German soccer team has been thrashed 37-0 because its players insisted on observing rules about ‘social distancing.’

The defeated amateur football team SG Ripdorf/Molzen II were worried that their opponents SV Holdenstedt II had been exposed in a previous fixture to a player who had tested positive for Chinese coronavirus.

So, to protect themselves from this deadly threat SG Ripdorf/Molzen II decided to field only seven players (the minimum required to avoid a fine for forfeiting the game). The players then failed to participate in the game – allowing their opponents to walk all over them.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/18/socially-distanced-german-soccer-team-gets-thrashed-37-0/ (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/18/socially-distanced-german-soccer-team-gets-thrashed-37-0/)

-----------------

The ultimate in virtue signaling.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on September 20, 2020, 11:54:22 pm
I have no words ...

Scientists win award for giving an alligator helium and making it shout

A group of scientists who put an alligator in a helium-filled box and made it shout have won an ‘Ig’ Nobel Prize, a prestigious-ish award that commemorates the science world’s more unusual experiments.

The team, led by researchers from Austria and Japan, were trying to figure out if alligators’ vocal communications relate to their body size — but it was their method, rather than their hypothesis, that caught the eye of the awards committee.

The Ig Nobels have been held since 1991 to parody the more established Nobel Prizes. This years award ceremony was livestreamed as a result of the pandemic.

American researcher Richard Vetter won the entomology prize for “collecting evidence that many entomologists (scientists who study insects) are afraid of spiders, which are not insects.”

“The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people laugh, then think,” the award organizers write on their website. .........

https://nbc-2.com/news/science/2020/09/18/scientists-win-award-for-giving-an-alligator-helium-and-making-it-shout/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 21, 2020, 06:56:49 am
 22222frying pan What? No audio?  :thud:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on September 21, 2020, 12:34:11 pm
22222frying pan What? No audio?  :thud:

There was audio. The shout ws so high pitched humans couldn't hear it. :shrug: :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on September 21, 2020, 02:59:48 pm
IG Nobel and Darwin awards, are sooo good.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 22, 2020, 01:29:38 pm
This type of story probably isn't all that uncommon ...
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Oregon man shoots self in groin while showing off gun in supermarket checkout line, cops say
Updated Sep 21, 2020; Posted Sep 21, 2020
By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | The Oregonian/OregonLive

An Oregon man is on the mend after police say he accidentally shot himself in the groin while flaunting a concealed handgun at a Lincoln City supermarket.

The mishap occurred Sunday night when Nicholas J. Ellingford, 29, brandished his Glock 9mm in the checkout line at McKay’s Market on U.S. 101 and tried to show it off to a buddy, according to the Lincoln City Police Department.

Ellingford mistakenly pulled the trigger as he stuffed the piece back into his pants, police said. A bullet tore through the gunslinger’s groin and exited his thigh, just barely missing the man’s femoral artery.  ...
Portland Oregonian (https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/09/oregon-man-shoots-self-in-groin-while-showing-off-gun-in-supermarket-checkout-line-cops-say.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 22, 2020, 04:19:31 pm
If you are flaunting it, it isn't concealed...

Something about re-holstering a pistol with your finger on the trigger that makes for a bit of excitement...

and just missing the Femoral Artery is lucky, because that's a wound all too easy to bleed out with.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on September 22, 2020, 06:11:05 pm
This type of story probably isn't all that uncommon ...Portland Oregonian (https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/09/oregon-man-shoots-self-in-groin-while-showing-off-gun-in-supermarket-checkout-line-cops-say.html)

'Excuse me while I whip this out!'
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 22, 2020, 06:31:15 pm
'Excuse me while I whip this out!'

@Free Vulcan

"What are popular lines in singles clubs,for $200,Gene?"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 23, 2020, 12:37:53 am
This type of story probably isn't all that uncommon ...Portland Oregonian (https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/09/oregon-man-shoots-self-in-groin-while-showing-off-gun-in-supermarket-checkout-line-cops-say.html)
You might say he went off half cocked. Too Soon?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 23, 2020, 02:04:08 am
You might say he went off half cocked. Too Soon?
:laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 26, 2020, 03:15:32 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiznsAqXcAAlkW3?format=jpg&name=900x900)
https://twitter.com/libertylineman/status/1309676367546650629/photo/1
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 26, 2020, 03:43:28 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiznsAqXcAAlkW3?format=jpg&name=900x900)
https://twitter.com/libertylineman/status/1309676367546650629/photo/1
Dang I was really hoping this would not get out for at least another month.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on September 26, 2020, 04:21:45 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiznsAqXcAAlkW3?format=jpg&name=900x900)
https://twitter.com/libertylineman/status/1309676367546650629/photo/1

I always wondered how National Lampoon came up with their plot lines.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 26, 2020, 04:46:23 pm
" Racoon" must mean something else in California,because you might grab a wild one in the south,but you damn sure ain't going to grab one around here and carry him to your car,never mind squeeze him to make him blow into your breathalyzer because you are going to be too busy trying to let go of him.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on September 26, 2020, 05:30:22 pm
" Racoon" must mean something else in California,because you might grab a wild one in the south,but you damn sure ain't going to grab one around here and carry him to your car,never mind squeeze him to make him blow into your breathalyzer because you are going to be too busy trying to let go of him.
@sneakypete
I don't know what kind of coon this clown got a hold of, but I have run into wild Racoons too closely twice in southern California. Once I was doing work on a commercial building at 3am and went to the main to turn the water off, there was what I thought from the distance was a cat...........until it stood up and hissed and started towards me, if you're wondering I was the one that turned tail. The second time it was on my residential street in Anaheim at night but that time I had my young 150 pound dog with me and it was the Racoon that turned tail. There are two scavengers I don't want to corner, Raccoons and friggin Opossums! I did wonder that the story made no mention of the guy needing rabies shots.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on September 27, 2020, 12:05:59 am
Lived in a neighborhood with racoons years ago.
Wife was terrified of them when they came in our yard.
I would have to go out and chase them off.
But if I ran toward them and they stood their ground, that was it. No way.
That means they are sick.
If you ever got close enough to one to actually pick it up you are likely in big trouble.
I see videos of people praising what they call their 'trash pandas'. They keep them as pets.
And I just shake my head. These guys have no idea what they are playing with.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 27, 2020, 12:10:38 am
That feller is part hillbilly, I'd bet.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 27, 2020, 12:28:55 am
That feller is part hillbilly, I'd bet.

It is singularly amazing that he could get sufficient breath volume out of a racoon to trip a DUI interlock.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on September 27, 2020, 01:11:08 am
That feller is part hillbilly, I'd bet.

Yep. The only person I can think of who had a raccoon as a pet was Ellie May Clampett.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 27, 2020, 03:55:59 am
It is singularly amazing that he could get sufficient breath volume out of a racoon to trip a DUI interlock.
(Mebbe he cheated and blew in the other end... 888mouth
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 27, 2020, 04:44:38 am
(Mebbe he cheated and blew in the other end... 888mouth

And people think I am crazy for having a bicycle pump always close to hand...  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 27, 2020, 05:30:51 am
And people think I am crazy for having a bicycle pump always close to hand...  :whistle:
Keeps your breath sweeter (and here he thought that taste in his mouth was from being hung over). :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 27, 2020, 06:54:03 am

 Lived in a neighborhood with racoons years ago.
Wife was terrified of them when they came in our yard.
I would have to go out and chase them off.
But if I ran toward them and they stood their ground, that was it. No way.
That means they are sick.
If you ever got close enough to one to actually pick it up you are likely in big trouble.

@240B

Bet you that you only do that once.

Quote
I see videos of people praising what they call their 'trash pandas'. They keep them as pets.
And I just shake my head. These guys have no idea what they are playing with.

I had one for a pet when I was a kid,maybe 6 years old. It's mother had been ran over while trying to cross the road,and the baby coon was just sitting beside her crying,so we picked him up and took him home.

SOB grew to be huge eating dry dog food and table scraps. Loved to play hide and seek. He would run behind a chair and I would poke my head around it pretending to be trying to catch him,and he would jump off the top of the chair to the top of my head and hang on. It was like wearing a live Davy Crocket cap. He was as tame as a kitten.

Loved to steal shiny stuff and hide it,too. Just loved to steal,period. Had a uncle come to visit once we rarely saw,and he didn't know there was a coon in the house,and it just never occured to use to tell him. So,he is sitting in a big padded sofa-type chair talking,and I see the coon coming up the back of the chair and started to panice. I kept my cool though,and decided THAT was not the perfect time to tell him we had a coon,and it was right behind him.

As usual,he had play/stealing on his mind. I sat there and watched him steal a couple of Lucky Strikes from my uncle's shirt pocket,one by one,then go back down to the floor and run off to hide it.

Then my asshat father decided having a coon in the house wasn't cool,despite the fact he had lived and slept in the house since the day we got him,and build a cage to attach to the outside wall of our house,and put him in there. That didn't last long because nobody could sleep for all the barking and snarling going on as the neighborhood dogs discovered there was a coon "cornered in a box" on our back wall. 

We ended up taking him out to the edge of the deep woods and letting him go.

Later,after we moved back out to live in a rural area,my father was trapping coons to skin and sell their hides,and he had a bunch of them in a pen waiting for the price to go back up when it went even lower,so he decided to just let them go. A couple of them hung around for a few weeks before leaving.

Coons are VERY smart animals,and pretty easy to tame. All you have to do is feed them.

NOT a good idea to pick a wild one up,though. There is no where you can grab him that he can't turn around in his skin and start eating you alive. They are FIERCE when scared.


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 27, 2020, 06:55:38 am
That feller is part hillbilly, I'd bet.

@Smokin Joe

Not a chance. Hillbillies know better.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 27, 2020, 01:34:00 pm
@Smokin Joe

Not a chance. Hillbillies know better.
There is one in every crowd.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 27, 2020, 03:01:43 pm
@240B

Bet you that you only do that once.

I had one for a pet when I was a kid,maybe 6 years old. It's mother had been ran over while trying to cross the road,and the baby coon was just sitting beside her crying,so we picked him up and took him home.

SOB grew to be huge eating dry dog food and table scraps. Loved to play hide and seek. He would run behind a chair and I would poke my head around it pretending to be trying to catch him,and he would jump off the top of the chair to the top of my head and hang on. It was like wearing a live Davy Crocket cap. He was as tame as a kitten.

Loved to steal shiny stuff and hide it,too. Just loved to steal,period. Had a uncle come to visit once we rarely saw,and he didn't know there was a coon in the house,and it just never occured to use to tell him. So,he is sitting in a big padded sofa-type chair talking,and I see the coon coming up the back of the chair and started to panice. I kept my cool though,and decided THAT was not the perfect time to tell him we had a coon,and it was right behind him.

As usual,he had play/stealing on his mind. I sat there and watched him steal a couple of Lucky Strikes from my uncle's shirt pocket,one by one,then go back down to the floor and run off to hide it.

Then my asshat father decided having a coon in the house wasn't cool,despite the fact he had lived and slept in the house since the day we got him,and build a cage to attach to the outside wall of our house,and put him in there. That didn't last long because nobody could sleep for all the barking and snarling going on as the neighborhood dogs discovered there was a coon "cornered in a box" on our back wall. 

We ended up taking him out to the edge of the deep woods and letting him go.

Later,after we moved back out to live in a rural area,my father was trapping coons to skin and sell their hides,and he had a bunch of them in a pen waiting for the price to go back up when it went even lower,so he decided to just let them go. A couple of them hung around for a few weeks before leaving.

Coons are VERY smart animals,and pretty easy to tame. All you have to do is feed them.

NOT a good idea to pick a wild one up,though. There is no where you can grab him that he can't turn around in his skin and start eating you alive. They are FIERCE when scared.

@sneakypete

My brother and I had a pet raccoon also.  You described "Mike" to a tee - right down to gorging himself anytime he could climb into the dogfood bag (we had beagles).  In open spaces you could rough house with him and chase and play.  We were very careful if he ever felt cornered - he could turn into a Beast in a flash.  He definitely established the pecking order with our hounds.

He loved driving my Mother crazy by climbing up and ringing the doorbell.  He would do it incessantly.

I saw enough of raccoons to know you don't mess with them.  Fierce, fierce, fierce when they feel threatened.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 27, 2020, 04:16:55 pm
@Smokin Joe

Not a chance. Hillbillies know better.
Maybe the ones you know, but not the "Hey fellas, hold my beer and watch this" crowd.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on September 27, 2020, 04:34:03 pm
@Smokin Joe

Not a chance. Hillbillies know better.

Dang right.  Genetically, I am half hillbilly, and can say all the ones I know, know better than hand grab critters with sharp teeth and nasty dispostions.  Then add the fact that as far as rabies risk, the racoon is number 3 behind bats and skunks. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on September 27, 2020, 11:35:20 pm
Haven't messed with raccoons. Badgers are a different story.

Dad, brother and I were driving around the edge of a field one day. Two badgers were hunting. I told my dad to stop. I got out, screamed at one of them and started running after it. It screamed and started running away. That lasted until he figured it out. Badger locked up the breaks. Turned, screamed at me and started running after me. I screamed and started running for the pickup. I was yelling for my brother to OPEN the door. They were laughing so hard all I could do was dive into the bed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 28, 2020, 12:57:15 am
Haven't messed with raccoons. Badgers are a different story.

Dad, brother and I were driving around the edge of a field one day. Two badgers were hunting. I told my dad to stop. I got out, screamed at one of them and started running after it. It screamed and started running away. That lasted until he figured it out. Badger locked up the breaks. Turned, screamed at me and started running after me. I screamed and started running for the pickup. I was yelling for my brother to OPEN the door. They were laughing so hard all I could do was dive into the bed.

I am almost certainly the only person you know that can say this:

I stepped on a wolverine. That was a bad day.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on September 28, 2020, 01:40:52 am
Badgers are the baddest meanest toughest mammals on the planet.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 28, 2020, 01:51:15 am
I am almost certainly the only person you know that can say this:

I stepped on a wolverine. That was a bad day.

@roamer_1

Could have been a LOT worse. You are still alive and mobile,and your plumbing is intact.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 28, 2020, 02:00:27 am
When I was 6, I stepped on a 10-foot rattlesnake that was as big around as a coffee can (well, it was a little garter snake but it felt big).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on September 28, 2020, 02:15:52 am
Late last night I stepped on the new puppies squeaky ball.............................scared the crap out of me! :silly: :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 28, 2020, 03:14:41 am
@roamer_1

Could have been a LOT worse. You are still alive and mobile,and your plumbing is intact.

@sneakypete

That will teach you about one-handed ad-hoc use of your weapon while accomplishing a weird semi-ballet dance thing across natural woodland... I kinda do remember firing upside down between my legs mid-cartwheel... It was bloody hard to concentrate... Somebody was screaming like a woman the whole damn time... I put four of six (colt .45) in that dang thing, all of em at point blank, and he was still coming. Finished him off with a stump, and that took some doing too.... Came away a little wiser... Bit four times, twice through the same boot... Roughed up otherwise... and a helluva sore throat.

But yeah... I made it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 28, 2020, 03:20:39 am
@sneakypete

That will teach you about one-handed ad-hoc use of your weapon while accomplishing a weird semi-ballet dance thing across natural woodland... I kinda do remember firing upside down between my legs mid-cartwheel... It was bloody hard to concentrate... Somebody was screaming like a woman the whole damn time... I put four of six (colt .45) in that dang thing, all of em at point blank, and he was still coming. Finished him off with a stump, and that took some doing too.... Came away a little wiser... Bit four times, twice through the same boot... Roughed up otherwise... and a helluva sore throat.

But yeah... I made it.

@roamer_1

That's what ya get for all that screaming like a woman.....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 28, 2020, 03:25:24 am
Late last night I stepped on the new puppies squeaky ball.............................scared the crap out of me! :silly: :silly:

Butt nekkid stumbling through the house in the dead of night... Because there was pre-cut pumpkin pie and whipped cream in the fridge (Pumpkin pie is at it's very best in the middle of the night by the fridgerator light)... I bumped something, and suddenly a bright light and a wailing noise... Seconds later the main lights went on and my wife was asking why I was destroying her vacuum cleaner.

True story.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 28, 2020, 03:27:22 am
@roamer_1

That's what ya get for all that screaming like a woman.....

Hey. I kept my mud... Mostly.  :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 28, 2020, 10:34:13 am
@sneakypete

That will teach you about one-handed ad-hoc use of your weapon while accomplishing a weird semi-ballet dance thing across natural woodland... I kinda do remember firing upside down between my legs mid-cartwheel... It was bloody hard to concentrate... Somebody was screaming like a woman the whole damn time... I put four of six (colt .45) in that dang thing, all of em at point blank, and he was still coming. Finished him off with a stump, and that took some doing too.... Came away a little wiser... Bit four times, twice through the same boot... Roughed up otherwise... and a helluva sore throat.

But yeah... I made it.
Sounds like something Patrick F. McManus would have written about.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 28, 2020, 02:42:48 pm
Something is going on with the raccoons. This time it's personal.
Quote
Paula Reid @PaulaReidCBS
Strong Pawnee vibes at White House this morning as a raccoon attacked multiple news crews on North Lawn.
Raccoon  allegedly grabbed pant leg of a photographer & then a corespondent before being fended off.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjAhe_dXYAY4VJ3?format=jpg&name=small)
 pictured here in more peaceful times.
10:17 AM · Sep 28, 2020·
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on September 28, 2020, 04:24:54 pm
Something is going on with the raccoons. This time it's personal.
Coulda been worse, coulda been a bunny just ask Jiiiimmmuuuh!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 28, 2020, 09:07:57 pm
Sounds like something Patrick F. McManus would have written about.

a fine and pleasant misery...  happy77
But true all the same. The only thing that is a mystery is why he let me step on him in the first place. I kinda think he was sick... All I know is that I stepped over a big log, like I have done a thousand times before... but felt a squish at the bottom... And then the whole world exploded.  :shrug:

Many years later, I am still a mite touchy about stepping over logs...  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 28, 2020, 09:43:54 pm
Sounds like something Patrick F. McManus would have written about.

@verga
Maybe Roamer is really Rancid Crabtree?

“Further Teachings of Rancid Crabtree,” A Fine And Pleasant Misery
“A Hunker is Not a Squat,” The Grasshopper Trap
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 28, 2020, 09:49:02 pm
Aggressive Raccoon Attacks ‘Multiple News Crews’ Outside White House
By  Emily Zanotti
Sep 28, 2020   DailyWire.com


Reporters for CBS News and other outlets were sent scrambling Monday morning after an aggressive raccoon began attacking news crews outside the White House.

CBS News’ Paula Reid was the first to break the news of the attack, which targeted one photographer and one correspondent.  ...

Even The Hill — one of the few outlets to initially report on the raccoon incident — got in on the fun.

“The Hill has reached out to the National Park Service and the General Services Administration for comment on the raccoon incident. The raccoons could not be reached for comment,” the outlet reported late Monday. “No evidence has emerged to suggest the raccoons were politically motivated.” More at Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/aggressive-raccoon-attacks-multiple-news-crews-outside-white-house?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on September 28, 2020, 09:57:53 pm
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That you Rocket?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 28, 2020, 10:02:14 pm
2020 in a nutshell.  Coons Gone Wild.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 28, 2020, 10:07:40 pm
2020 in a nutshell.  Coons Gone Wild.
:pondering: Yes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 28, 2020, 10:12:33 pm
@verga
Maybe Roamer is really Rancid Crabtree?

That's kinda a close comparison... One I would rather not admit.  :whistle:

Close, but with a lot more bathing.  happy77
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 29, 2020, 11:18:35 am
That's kinda a close comparison... One I would rather not admit.  :whistle:

Close, but with a lot more bathing.  happy77sasa
My favorite one, and I don't recall the title, was the one where he ended up wearing the Blue dress.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 29, 2020, 12:05:53 pm
My favorite one, and I don't recall the title, was the one where he ended up wearing the Blue dress.

I couldn't pick one if I tried. The dog putting on a show out the picture window when the preacher was over... The attempted flight down the barn roof with the soap box airplane.... His first deer which he tied behind him on his bicycle with the forelegs tied to the handlebars, and the hind legs tied to the pedals, where upon he was going home, and the deer came back alive.... Him and rancid Crabtree and the ice fishing shack... The deep sea diving expedition in the creek with the bucket and the bicycle pump...

All of those are comparable at least to fond memories of my own childhood.  :silly:
Thanks for bringing him up. I lost those books in the divorce. I think I'm going to have to go buy the whole set again.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 29, 2020, 05:34:16 pm
I hold one Rancidism dearly as truth.   Rancid Crabtree convince me that baths are bad because soap and water will eat holes in your protective crust.  This is why we Have Covid 19.  We are too clean.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 29, 2020, 06:52:22 pm
I couldn't pick one if I tried. The dog putting on a show out the picture window when the preacher was over... The attempted flight down the barn roof with the soap box airplane.... His first deer which he tied behind him on his bicycle with the forelegs tied to the handlebars, and the hind legs tied to the pedals, where upon he was going home, and the deer came back alive.... Him and rancid Crabtree and the ice fishing shack... The deep sea diving expedition in the creek with the bucket and the bicycle pump...

All of those are comparable at least to fond memories of my own childhood.  :silly:
Thanks for bringing him up. I lost those books in the divorce. I think I'm going to have to go buy the whole set again.
Amazon has them fairly cheap if you are willing to go with used paperbacks. I had read most of his stuff in F&S over the years. Our school Librarian was discarding "How I got this way". I reread that then went on amazon and picked up 4-5 to reminisce. kind of like hanging out with the guys I grew up with over a glass of Makers Mark. Inevitably one or more of the wives mutters, how the hell are they still all alive with their limbs intact?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 29, 2020, 07:34:25 pm
I hold one Rancidism dearly as truth.   Rancid Crabtree convince me that baths are bad because soap and water will eat holes in your protective crust.  This is why we Have Covid 19.  We are too clean.

There is more wisdom in that than it first appears... I firmly DO believe that modernity is too clean.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 29, 2020, 08:21:33 pm
Amazon has them fairly cheap if you are willing to go with used paperbacks. I had read most of his stuff in F&S over the years. Our school Librarian was discarding "How I got this way". I reread that then went on amazon and picked up 4-5 to reminisce. kind of like hanging out with the guys I grew up with over a glass of Makers Mark. Inevitably one or more of the wives mutters, how the hell are they still all alive with their limbs intact?

Nah. I will be buying the full rack. As it turns out, I was not aware of his continuation... The first boxed set is what I knew... And there's another other boxed set after that, and then some! So I have a happy 'catching up' to look forward to - And it's all your fault.  :laugh: :beer:

And yeah, reminisce is right... He's over in Idaho, which is spitting distance around here... So if you rub off the humor, that's my life he's talking about. I lived it too.

like the soapbox airplane and the barn roof... Not quite the same, but we built a long ramp out of snow so we could sled from the top of the barn roof, across the barnyard, down the hill and across the pond...

I experienced that same exhilaration he described, sitting there on the barn peak with my Flexible Flyer... I too came oh-so-close to mishap, though unlike him, I DID complete my run successfully, just the one time, to include not falling off the side of the ramp (ice by that time), and shooting the gap, remembering to duck under the propped up barbed wire, so it only tore the back of my winter coat to shreds, and wholly deprived me of the ass of my pants and underpants, as I shot through at 247 miles an hour... leaving grooves in my butt that the old man could use for measurement as he applied my soon-to-come whoopin.

It seems the roof of the barn was made of tin type... A very thin aluminum cast-off from news-printing back in the day. And it seems a robust young lad, on a Flexible Flyer with sharpened runners, is not considered a warrantable use of a tin type roof, and it turns out, is a mass quite beyond the  shear strength of four roofing nails and easily transgresses the mil thickness of the thin aluminum... rending it and rendering it useless as a roofing product - that is, where it did not just tear away altogether. 

That is how the barn got a brandy-spankin new corrugated tin roof at top-dollar prices, and I got a brand new parka and pants to cover my freshly paddled butt.

Ah, those were the days, right?  :laugh: :beer: :seeya:



 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 29, 2020, 08:33:49 pm
Until now, I'd never heard of "Rancid Crabtree."  Not sure if that's good or not.

@Gefn  How was your Yom Kippur?  Did you get things set straight for the next year?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 29, 2020, 08:42:02 pm
Until now, I'd never heard of "Rancid Crabtree."  Not sure if that's good or not.

If you have not read McManus, you are REALLY missing out. I believe 'They Shoot Canoes, Don't They' is the first book, and I flatly defy you to get through a single chapter without at least a healthy chortle. The book shaking around, and the tears from laughing make them very hard books to read.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 29, 2020, 10:04:11 pm
If you have not read McManus, you are REALLY missing out. I believe 'They Shoot Canoes, Don't They' is the first book, and I flatly defy you to get through a single chapter without at least a healthy chortle. The book shaking around, and the tears from laughing make them very hard books to read.

@roamer_1    That is the Gods honest truth.  I have honestly fallen on the floor laughing several times reading that book.  The man was a marvel!  I miss him and his writings.  RIP Pat McManus. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 29, 2020, 10:06:11 pm
@roamer_1    That is the Gods honest truth.  I have honestly fallen on the floor laughing several times reading that book.  The man was a marvel!  I miss him and his writings.  RIP Pat McManus.

FACTS  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 29, 2020, 11:41:30 pm
Nah. I will be buying the full rack. As it turns out, I was not aware of his continuation... The first boxed set is what I knew... And there's another other boxed set after that, and then some! So I have a happy 'catching up' to look forward to - And it's all your fault.  :laugh: :beer:

And yeah, reminisce is right... He's over in Idaho, which is spitting distance around here... So if you rub off the humor, that's my life he's talking about. I lived it too.

like the soapbox airplane and the barn roof... Not quite the same, but we built a long ramp out of snow so we could sled from the top of the barn roof, across the barnyard, down the hill and across the pond...

I experienced that same exhilaration he described, sitting there on the barn peak with my Flexible Flyer... I too came oh-so-close to mishap, though unlike him, I DID complete my run successfully, just the one time, to include not falling off the side of the ramp (ice by that time), and shooting the gap, remembering to duck under the propped up barbed wire, so it only tore the back of my winter coat to shreds, and wholly deprived me of the ass of my pants and underpants, as I shot through at 247 miles an hour... leaving grooves in my butt that the old man could use for measurement as he applied my soon-to-come whoopin.

It seems the roof of the barn was made of tin type... A very thin aluminum cast-off from news-printing back in the day. And it seems a robust young lad, on a Flexible Flyer with sharpened runners, is not considered a warrantable use of a tin type roof, and it turns out, is a mass quite beyond the  shear strength of four roofing nails and easily transgresses the mil thickness of the thin aluminum... rending it and rendering it useless as a roofing product - that is, where it did not just tear away altogether. 

That is how the barn got a brandy-spankin new corrugated tin roof at top-dollar prices, and I got a brand new parka and pants to cover my freshly paddled butt.

Ah, those were the days, right?  :laugh: :beer: :seeya:
:beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 30, 2020, 12:05:34 am
Until now, I'd never heard of "Rancid Crabtree."  Not sure if that's good or not.

@Gefn  How was your Yom Kippur?  Did you get things set straight for the next year?

I read the short stories in Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazines for years but don't think I've ever seen a McManus book.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 30, 2020, 05:22:02 pm
I read the short stories in Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazines for years but don't think I've ever seen a McManus book.

(https://scontent-mia3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/c0.120.1600.836a/s843x403/10006076_747479635276004_1401666799_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_sid=e3f864&_nc_ohc=HeEJMCsCznMAX_wPO7r&_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-2.xx&_nc_tp=28&oh=43baa7287468b5871e4e34a0c93e8e61&oe=5F99F83A)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 06, 2020, 07:45:49 pm
 Colorado Golfer Gored By Elk On Course ... Kidney Shredded
10/6/2020 12:03 PM PT
Quote

A Colorado golfer nearly died on the 17th hole of a course Saturday ... after an elk rammed the man's cart and gored him straight through his back with its horn.

The story is insane ... Megan Bornhoft says her husband, Zak, was finishing up a round at Evergreen G.C. in Evergreen, Colo. with his buds -- when disaster struck at around 6:30 p.m.

Megan says an elk charged Zak's golf cart ... and speared the man in "the right side of his lower back" with its horn.

Megan says Zak was rushed to the hospital ... and after doctors checked him out -- they found some horrific injuries.

"His kidney was cut into two pieces," Megan said.   ...
TMZ (https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/06/golfer-gored-by-elk-on-colorado-course-kidney-shredded/)
The wildlife at our course is mostly Canada geese and turtles, thank goodness.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on October 06, 2020, 07:51:49 pm
Colorado Golfer Gored By Elk On Course ... Kidney Shredded
10/6/2020 12:03 PM PT TMZ (https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/06/golfer-gored-by-elk-on-colorado-course-kidney-shredded/)
The wildlife at our course is mostly Canada geese and turtles, thank goodness.
Friend of mine in Park City Utah, has moose.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on October 06, 2020, 08:10:26 pm
Colorado Golfer Gored By Elk On Course ... Kidney Shredded
10/6/2020 12:03 PM PT TMZ (https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/06/golfer-gored-by-elk-on-colorado-course-kidney-shredded/)
The wildlife at our course is mostly Canada geese and turtles, thank goodness.

Damn I thought Chubbs Peterson had it bad.....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 14, 2020, 08:38:32 pm
Who knew the folks in India were so fanatical about oral hygiene?
Quote
Toothbrush removed from man’s stomach after he swallowed it while brushing
 Jen Mills
Tuesday 22 Sep 2020 5:35 pm
Full story at Metro News (https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/22/toothbrush-removed-from-mans-stomach-after-he-swallowed-it-while-brushing-13310218/?ito=cbshare)

A bloodied toothbrush had to be removed from a man’s stomach after he swallowed it while cleaning the back of his throat.

Doctors removed the 19cm-long brush within 24 hours, fearing that leaving it any longer could have been fatal.

The patient, 39, whose name has been withheld, was brushing his teeth on September 15 when it slipped. He rushed to a nearby health clinic, which quickly referred him to a hospital more than 100km away. ...

An X-ray and further tests couldn’t locate the brush in the man’s throat – leading doctors to conclude it was in his stomach. A minor operation was performed a short time later and the brush was removed.  ...



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on October 14, 2020, 10:54:50 pm
I can see that. I nearly swallowed a lit cigar one time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 14, 2020, 10:56:36 pm
I can see that. I nearly swallowed a lit cigar one time.
I hope you flossed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 27, 2020, 07:36:22 pm
A Skull Sat on Fireplace Mantel with Sunglasses on It — and Now Police Say It Was Missing Man
October 27, 2020

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office has been informed that a positive identification (through DNA testing performed by Knox County Regional Forensics Center and the UT Department of Anthropology) has been made of a human skull that was found allegedly in March of 2019 by an individual in the Gobey area of Morgan County.

Someone subsequently placed the skull on a fireplace mantle where a pair of sunglasses were added. The skull remained there until the Sheriff’s Office was informed of its existence.

 The MCSO retrieved the skull and sent it for testing using DNA from family members of Junior Willie McCann who had been missing since September 2012. The DNA from the family members and the skull were a match. ...
(https://breaking911.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/VJlFLju-696x391.jpg)

Full story at Breaking 911 (https://breaking911.com/a-skull-sat-on-fireplace-mantel-with-sunglasses-on-it-and-now-police-say-it-was-missing-man/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 04, 2020, 02:26:21 pm
Man’s wife sells his PlayStation 5 after she discovers he lied and said it was an air purifier
by: Char'Nese Turner and Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Dec 3, 2020 / 06:22 AM EST   / Updated: Dec 3, 2020 / 06:22 AM EST   
Quote
(NewsNation Now) — A Taiwanese man was lucky enough to score the newest Playstation 5, but his time with the device was short-lived because his wife sold the console when she found out it wasn’t an air purifier like he’d told her.

The buyer, Jin Wu, shared the experience on Facebook. Wu said he arranged to meet up with the seller in person and even called to verify the purchase, but was met by a female voice, who he said didn’t sound like she was much of a gamer. ...

After a short exchange about where the device was purchased, the husband admitted that he tricked his wife into thinking the game console was an air purifier.

“It’s my wife who wants to sell it,” the Facebook post read. “I went silent after seeing the look in his eyes. I could feel his pain.” ...
Full story at FOX8 (https://myfox8.com/news/mans-wife-sells-his-playstation-5-after-she-discovers-he-lied-and-said-it-was-an-air-purifier/?utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 04, 2020, 02:43:09 pm
WATCH: High School Football Player Gets Ejected, Delivers Vicious Hit on Referee
by Clint Lamb about 12 hours ago
Outkick
Quote
Football is an emotional game, but there is a such thing as too much emotion.

A perfect example of that occurred during a high school in the state of Texas. Edinburg was taking on Pharr-San Juan-Alamo (or PSJA) High School when Edinburg’s best defensive player, Emmanuel Duron, was ejected for a late hit and unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

Not a big deal, right? Well, unsportsmanlike behavior wasn’t done, apparently.

Duron came off the sidelines and shockingly went after the referee who had just ejected him. One user on Twitter with the name Santiago (@_7santiago) posted a clip of the violent hit. ...

The thread from Andrew McCulloch, a journalist from The Monitor News, included a lot more detail into the exchange, but the referee was apparently down for an extended period of time.

After originally bringing out a cart, the ref was eventually able to get off the field under his own power, but he was being evaluated for a concussion. Duron, on the other hand, was escorted out of the stadium by police. ...
Videos, etc., at Outkick (https://www.outkick.com/watch-high-school-football-player-gets-ejected-delivers-vicious-hit-on-referee/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on December 04, 2020, 08:14:26 pm
Man’s wife sells his PlayStation 5 after she discovers he lied and said it was an air purifier
by: Char'Nese Turner and Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Dec 3, 2020 / 06:22 AM EST   / Updated: Dec 3, 2020 / 06:22 AM EST    Full story at FOX8 (https://myfox8.com/news/mans-wife-sells-his-playstation-5-after-she-discovers-he-lied-and-said-it-was-an-air-purifier/?utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral)

So are they still together?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on December 04, 2020, 08:23:25 pm
"We don’t currently know much about Duron — well, except for the fact that he was his team’s top defensive player. But any chance he had of playing at the next level might have just ended with that completely unnecessary hit."

Might be correct since he did this before.  Had he not...being a member of a protected class...he might have go a pass.  Play at a JUCO for a few years then transfer his riod raged ass to the SEC.

Quote
Duron was suspended for the remainder of the 2019-20 soccer season after a similar incident occurred during a match on the pitch last year against crosstown rival Edinburg Vela.

(https://d31029zd06w0t6.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2020/12/120320.FOOTBALL_ARREST.jm_.005.jpg)

FYI the school forfeited the game.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 04, 2020, 09:13:16 pm
"We don’t currently know much about Duron — well, except for the fact that he was his team’s top defensive player. But any chance he had of playing at the next level might have just ended with that completely unnecessary hit."
This kid is a potential resident of death row.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on December 04, 2020, 09:17:54 pm
"We don’t currently know much about Duron — well, except for the fact that he was his team’s top defensive player. But any chance he had of playing at the next level might have just ended with that completely unnecessary hit."

Might be correct since he did this before.  Had he not...being a member of a protected class...he might have go a pass.  Play at a JUCO for a few years then transfer his riod raged ass to the SEC.

(https://d31029zd06w0t6.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2020/12/120320.FOOTBALL_ARREST.jm_.005.jpg)

FYI the school forfeited the game.

Saw where the thug kicked a 51 yd FG this year.  That's pretty amazing for a HS kid.  Sucker thumping a referee on a call?  I pretty much think any college now would pass on that level of risk. Article I read about him didn't say anything about the Soccer incident.  Roid rage maybe?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 04, 2020, 09:30:08 pm
Saw where the thug kicked a 51 yd FG this year.  That's pretty amazing for a HS kid.  Sucker thumping a referee on a call?  I pretty much think any college now would pass on that level of risk. Article I read about him didn't say anything about the Soccer incident.  Roid rage maybe?

Black Privilege seems more likely.  He got special favors his whole life because of oppression, and likely has an attitude that it's proper to body-slam a ref.  He'll do the same thing to a cop, too.  Then he'll get shot, and we'll have another batch of riots starting in the shithole city in which he lives.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 05, 2020, 12:28:24 am
This kid is a potential resident of death row.

@mountaineer

Providing someone doesn't pull his plug before he rises to that level.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 05, 2020, 12:50:55 am
@mountaineer

Providing someone doesn't pull his plug before he rises to that level.

@sneakypete

His is the Thug Life, and that road leads to many destinations.  Life is cheap.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: PeteS in CA on December 05, 2020, 01:38:02 am
https://notthebee.com/article/new-covid-rules-for-ohio-high-school-wrestling-says-students-can-wrestle-but-they-cant-shake-hands

New Covid rules for Ohio high school wrestling say students can wrestle but they can't shake hands.

Quote
It's 'rastling season and to try and limit the spread of Covid officials with the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) have done the responsible thing and released some updated requirements for players and coaches.

The students are still being allowed to wrestle. In fact, they don't even have to wear face masks while they do so. But they will no longer be allowed to shake hands before and after the match.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 05, 2020, 06:21:14 am
Saw where the thug kicked a 51 yd FG this year.  That's pretty amazing for a HS kid.  Sucker thumping a referee on a call?  I pretty much think any college now would pass on that level of risk. Article I read about him didn't say anything about the Soccer incident.  Roid rage maybe?
You just aren't supposed to do that from the bench. Just have to wait for an opportunity during play... :whistle:   (which may or may not present)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 05, 2020, 02:56:53 pm
You just aren't supposed to do that from the bench. Just have to wait for an opportunity during play... :whistle:   (which may or may not present)

He couldn't, he was ejected from the game for Unsportsmanlike Behavior.  He just felt like it was the thing to do, for whatever reason.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on December 05, 2020, 03:57:58 pm
WATCH: High School Football Player Gets Ejected, Delivers Vicious Hit on Referee
by Clint Lamb about 12 hours ago
OutkickVideos, etc., at Outkick (https://www.outkick.com/watch-high-school-football-player-gets-ejected-delivers-vicious-hit-on-referee/)
I hope to God that his parents let him spend at least one night in the Gray bar motel.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 05, 2020, 04:11:26 pm
I hope to God that his parents let him spend at least one night in the Gray bar motel.

It's more than likely they won't, and probably never have shown him any discipline.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on December 05, 2020, 04:50:15 pm
It's more than likely they won't, and probably never have shown him any discipline.
Saw an article after I commented that his $10,000 was posted that night. Years ago my cousin got into trouble. His Mother could not afford his bail and asked my parents to help out. My Dad said he would.... in the morning. My aunt was beside herself. My father her that she was free to have someone else do it. We bailed him out in the morning. I honestly don't know how much good it did, but it sure didn't  hurt.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 05, 2020, 11:28:49 pm
He couldn't, he was ejected from the game for Unsportsmanlike Behavior.  He just felt like it was the thing to do, for whatever reason.
Yeah. That's why vengeance is a dish best served cold. I bagged one in college in an inter-mural game, took him off his feet and slid him a good 10 yards on the astroturf. Jerk had been ignoring violations by the other team (his dorm team).
I just said I was watching the play and coming in for the sack (another of our guys got the QB when I nailed him). "Sorry 'bout that...Here, let me help you up...." happy77 :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 17, 2020, 06:55:20 pm
Police: Allegheny County Jail Inmate, Woman Charged With Child Sex Abuse After ‘Disturbing’ Virtual Visit
Jail officials were screening inmates' video visitation sessions on tablets when they noticed the "disturbing behaviors."
December 17, 2020 at 12:47 pm
By: KDKA-TV News Staff
Quote
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – An Allegheny County Jail inmate and woman are facing child sex abuse charges after a virtual visit.

County police say jail officials alerted them of “disturbing behaviors” while screening inmates’ video visitation sessions on tablets.

Police say while talking to 27-year-old inmate Justin Henderson, 23-year-old Natika Maddox was partially nude and performing sex acts on camera while her 22-month-old child was present.  ...
Rest of story at KDKA (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/12/17/allegheny-county-jail-child-sex-abuse/)

(https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909642/2020/12/justin-henderson-natika-maddox.png?w=500)
The happy couple. Nice neck art.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 18, 2020, 04:46:34 am
Police: Allegheny County Jail Inmate, Woman Charged With Child Sex Abuse After ‘Disturbing’ Virtual Visit
Jail officials were screening inmates' video visitation sessions on tablets when they noticed the "disturbing behaviors."
December 17, 2020 at 12:47 pm
By: KDKA-TV News StaffRest of story at KDKA (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/12/17/allegheny-county-jail-child-sex-abuse/)

(https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909642/2020/12/justin-henderson-natika-maddox.png?w=500)
The happy couple. Nice neck art.
Yabbut....If she'd left the kid in the next room, that would have been child neglect.... :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on February 13, 2021, 05:51:34 pm
(CNN)This week, the world was introduced to Tessica Brown, a young woman from Louisiana who made possibly the most unfortunate haircare mixup in history. Instead of using regular hairspray on her hair, she grabbed a can of Gorilla Glue spray adhesive and went to town.

The result was, well, exactly what you think would happen if you coated your head in industrial-strength glue.
Her hair became an impenetrable helmet, and as her social media videos about the incident racked up millions of views, people became obsessed with her predicament.
Do you roll your eyes at someone who's gotten themselves into such a situation? Do you feel bad?
Cynicism or empathy: It's a choice we often face as we observe an endless parade of online strangers whipping out their mistakes, poor decisions and unfortunate mishaps for all the world to see.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/11/us/gorilla-glue-challenge-hair-tessica-brown-trnd/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/11/us/gorilla-glue-challenge-hair-tessica-brown-trnd/index.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 13, 2021, 10:24:01 pm
Quote
Cynicism or empathy: It's a choice we often face as we observe an endless parade of online strangers whipping out their mistakes, poor decisions and unfortunate mishaps for all the world to see.
There's something very pathetic about people who share everything about their lives, even the most intimate and personal and nauseating stuff, on social media. Why are people so starved for attention? Why do college-age kids take dozens of photos of themselves every day and post them online, apparently hoping for "Oh, you're so beautiful" comments?  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 19, 2021, 08:20:11 pm
Bear Attacks Alaska Woman in Outhouse Toilet
by Bobby Burack
updated about an hour ago   

More bad news in America. While a woman was using an outhouse in the Alaska wilderness, a bear hiding in the toilet attacked her from behind and bit her butt.

“I got out there and sat down on the toilet, and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told AP.

“I jumped up, and I screamed when it happened.”

Awful, just awful.

Stevens’ brother heard her scream, ran to the outhouse, and lifted the toilet to see what had bitten her. It was a bear. ...  Outkick (https://www.outkick.com/bear-attacks-alaska-woman-in-outhouse-toilet/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on February 19, 2021, 08:24:59 pm
Bear Attacks Alaska Woman in Outhouse Toilet
by Bobby Burack
updated about an hour ago   

More bad news in America. While a woman was using an outhouse in the Alaska wilderness, a bear hiding in the toilet attacked her from behind and bit her butt.

“I got out there and sat down on the toilet, and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told AP.

“I jumped up, and I screamed when it happened.”

Awful, just awful.

Stevens’ brother heard her scream, ran to the outhouse, and lifted the toilet to see what had bitten her. It was a bear. ...  Outkick (https://www.outkick.com/bear-attacks-alaska-woman-in-outhouse-toilet/)

I'm not sure the bear should be held liable. He was obviously there first.  Unless it's a two-seater, proper etiquette would be to wait your turn.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 20, 2021, 09:12:34 am
My reaction would lead to the bear being described much in the same way as if it had been kneewalking drunk...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 21, 2021, 11:52:42 am
Typical of the last year and a half in this world.  Everything is turned toppsy turvey.  Now we learn that Bears don't shit in the woods.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 21, 2021, 01:14:34 pm
Typical of the last year and a half in this world.  Everything is turned toppsy turvey.  Now we learn that Bears don't shit in the woods.

@Wingnut

See what happens when people elect Dims? Or more correctly,people allow Dims to get away with electing themselves?

As Forest Gump,or maybe Boy Jorge Bush, used to say,"Whut wuz up is now doawn,n what wuz doawn iz now up! BTW,whurs mah mama? Ah think mah diapur needs changin."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 21, 2021, 03:03:08 pm
Typical of the last year and a half in this world.  Everything is turned toppsy turvey.  Now we learn that Bears don't shit in the woods.

Well, technically that's not what we've learned... A bear may still sh*t in the woods...

What is true is this:

A bear sh*ts wherever the hell it wants to.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 23, 2021, 01:33:57 pm
New York dad-to-be killed by exploding gender reveal device
By Tamar Lapin
February 22, 2021 | 5:15pm

A dad-to-be in upstate New York was killed when a device he was building for a gender reveal party exploded, state police said Monday.

Christopher Pekny, 28, was working on the device for his child’s gender reveal party in the Catskills town of Liberty when it blew up just before noon on Sunday, cops said.

The blast killed Pekny and injured his brother, 27-year-old Michael Pekny, who was treated for his injuries at the Garnet Medical Center in Middletown, according to police. ... Rest of story (which doesn't mention whether the baby is a boy or girl). (https://nypost.com/2021/02/22/catskills-dad-to-be-killed-by-exploding-gender-reveal-device/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 23, 2021, 02:28:16 pm
What happened to just telling people,or putting up a balloon with "It's a boy!" or "it's a girl!" in your yard?

People need cannons now?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 23, 2021, 02:32:58 pm
What happened to just telling people,or putting up a balloon with "It's a boy!" or "it's a girl!" in your yard?

People need cannons now?

At least he didn't start a forest fire this time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 23, 2021, 03:16:36 pm
Cannons explode all the time, and they always have all throughout history.
In this case, he had a 'ceremonial' cannon which was meant to make a big noise.
That is to say, it was not designed to fire a projectile.
It exploded because he stuffed it with confetti (or whatever) and caused a backfire.
Or, he got excited and wanted to impress the crowd so he went crazy with the gunpowder, or both.
Bottom line is, backyard cannons are great 99% of the time, like lawn darts or smoking at the gas station.
But that 1% of the time, is deadly.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 23, 2021, 04:40:03 pm
What happened to just telling people,or putting up a balloon with "It's a boy!" or "it's a girl!" in your yard?

People need cannons now?
Handing out cigars with the appropriate label or ribbon them was healthier...
Smoking them was optional.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 23, 2021, 06:34:28 pm
Bubble gum cigars, in shades of pink or blue, also are available.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 24, 2021, 12:26:19 am
To be fair, if I had to live in Oregon, I'd probably drink a lot, too.
Quote
REPORT: Oregon Man Arrested For Allegedly Driving While Drunk Had A BAC Of .77
David Hookstead
February 23, 2021 5:23 AM ET


Oregon man Nathan Danzuka reportedly had the highest BAC ever recorded during a recent arrest.

According to results obtained by TMZ, Danzuka was arrested by Warm Springs police earlier in February for allegedly driving while drunk, and his BAC was allegedly .778 at the time of his arrest, which is nine times the legal limit.

TMZ reported that it’s the highest blood alcohol concentration on record. As of this time, charges are still pending. ...
Daily Caller (https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/23/report-oregon-man-arrested-dui-record-high-bac/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on February 24, 2021, 01:54:34 pm
What ever happened to parents who wait until baby pops out to learn if it’s a boy or girl?

To know in advance is like kids who open their Christmas presents before Christmas and then rewrap them hoping their parents won’t notice.

I wouldn’t want to know if I was pregnant.....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 24, 2021, 10:18:28 pm
What ever happened to parents who wait until baby pops out to learn if it’s a boy or girl?

To know in advance is like kids who open their Christmas presents before Christmas and then rewrap them hoping their parents won’t notice.

I wouldn’t want to know if I was pregnant.....
Interesting, there are a couple of ways to read that statement  :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 26, 2021, 02:06:10 pm
Quote
WAS GAGA TARGETED? Lady Gaga cops probing whether dognapper shooting was ‘politically motivated’ after she sang at Biden’s inauguration
Exclusive

    Grant Hodgson, Mollie Mansfield, Teresa Roca and Jessica Kwong
    Feb 25 2021, 18:30 ETUpdated: Feb 26 2021, 0:50 ET

INVESTIGATORS are probing whether the kidnapping of Lady Gaga's bulldogs was politically motivated because she sang at President Joe Biden's inauguration.

FBI officials specialized in kidnapping and ransom cases
are working with Los Angeles Police Department detectives, The Sun learned on Thursday.

"Lady Gaga is high profile of course but she sang at President Biden's inauguration which takes this case to another level," one source said.

"The FBI wants to know exactly what motivated this incident."

An FBI spokesperson told The Sun: "While the Bureau provides resources if/where requested to our local partners, I would refer you to LAPD for comment as they are leading this investigation." ...
The Sun (https://www.the-sun.com/news/2404675/lady-gaga-cops-dognapper-shooting-politically-motivated-biden/)

Thank goodness for the FBI.  *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on February 26, 2021, 02:57:30 pm
The Sun (https://www.the-sun.com/news/2404675/lady-gaga-cops-dognapper-shooting-politically-motivated-biden/)

Thank goodness for the FBI.  *****rollingeyes*****

Hell with the money, she sang at Biden's inauguration. /s

Political exploitation at it's best.  I hope everything comes out okay for the Frenchies, but hell with gag gag.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 26, 2021, 03:36:13 pm
The Sun (https://www.the-sun.com/news/2404675/lady-gaga-cops-dognapper-shooting-politically-motivated-biden/)

Thank goodness for the FBI.  *****rollingeyes*****

@mountaineer

Thank goodness they don't have anything else to do that is more  than investigating the dognapping of a celeb's dogs.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on February 26, 2021, 03:55:56 pm
@mountaineer

Thank goodness they don't have anything else to do that is more  than investigating the dognapping of a celeb's dogs.

Well the dog walker was shot in the process too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 26, 2021, 04:00:12 pm
Well the dog walker was shot in the process too.
Definitely a federal case!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 26, 2021, 04:28:51 pm
Definitely a federal case!
If there is a ransom attempt, maybe.

(Seriously? Kidnap dogs over her singing at Biden's installation? Who watched that crap anyway?)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 26, 2021, 04:57:20 pm
Well the dog walker was shot in the process too.

@catfish1957

Yes,but the shooting is barely mentioned. Kidnapping GaGa's dogs is the headline.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 26, 2021, 04:59:21 pm
If there is a ransom attempt, maybe.

(Seriously? Kidnap dogs over her singing at Biden's installation? Who watched that crap anyway?)

@Smokin Joe

Truthfully,I didn't even know anybody sang,or that the inauguration was public. I thought he was already being kept concealed in a special box to protect him and nobody was allowed to see or speak to him,even back then.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on February 26, 2021, 05:05:15 pm
Just another bullshit attempt by the media to paint all people who disagree with their specific point of view as being the same as their Antifa stormtroopers. They want so badly for nice, polite, civilized people on the Right to be violently, criminally aggressive, like they are, that they just 'make it up' whenever they can. This accusation is pure propaganda nonsense. It is a Leftist fantasy, which of course they had no problem publishing to the worldwide media.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 26, 2021, 05:44:04 pm
Just another bullshit attempt by the media to paint all people who disagree with their specific point of view as being the same as their Antifa stormtroopers. They want so badly for nice, polite, civilized people on the Right to be violently, criminally aggressive, like they are, that they just 'make it up' whenever they can. This accusation is pure propaganda nonsense. It is a Leftist fantasy, which of course they had no problem publishing to the worldwide media.
The problem is, as with any Big Lie, if they say it often enough people will believe it, at least until they realize 'that is ME they are talking about!'.

Some will be cowed by that nonsense, but frankly, like being called a 'racist' because of my skin color, it either wears out and has no effect on me, or it makes people angry that they are being so summarily, callously, and recklessly mischaracterized.

I, for one, am sick of being called and accused names appropriate for what the Left is doing and I am not, while they get lauded for their behaviour. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on March 02, 2021, 02:17:47 am
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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 02, 2021, 02:32:21 am
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@corbe

Do they have any sort of explanation for why they are doing this?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 02, 2021, 02:34:18 am
WTH
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on March 02, 2021, 02:40:55 am
@corbe

Do they have any sort of explanation for why they are doing this?


   You mean to tell me @sneakypete you never hung out at the methadone clinic parking lot in the mornings to 'swap spit' with a pretty junkie, they never swallow (much).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 02, 2021, 03:04:32 am

   You mean to tell me @sneakypete you never hung out at the methadone clinic parking lot in the mornings to 'swap spit' with a pretty junkie, they never swallow (much).

@corbe

Nope! I gotta admit,that one slipped by me,even though I was a "hit it and get it" guy from the 70's until,well,tomorrow. I can't remember even giving a female I met casually my real name,never mind tell her where I lived or worked.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 02, 2021, 03:35:15 am
@corbe

Do they have any sort of explanation for why they are doing this?
I think the objective is to cut down on the needles all over...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Lincolncollector on March 11, 2021, 08:58:05 pm
I heard today on Fox News that the House Democrats are looking to declare pronouns and any other reference to gender as "illegal" or something to be condemned. This has to do with pleasing the "LBGT community" with is offended by any references to gender. I guess everyone is now an "it" these days or better still "a comrade."

An exclusive private school in New York City sent a memo to parents telling them "mom" and "dad" are unacceptable. Now they are "family members." I guess we are headed toward that village that Hillary Clinton called for years ago in the raising of children.

"Merry Christmas" is also unacceptable, which has been true for a while. Now you must say, "Happy Holidays" or "Have a nice winter break."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 13, 2021, 03:51:28 am
I heard today on Fox News that the House Democrats are looking to declare pronouns and any other reference to gender as "illegal" or something to be condemned. This has to do with pleasing the "LBGT community" with is offended by any references to gender. I guess everyone is now an "it" these days or better still "a comrade."

An exclusive private school in New York City sent a memo to parents telling them "mom" and "dad" are unacceptable. Now they are "family members." I guess we are headed toward that village that Hillary Clinton called for years ago in the raising of children.

"Merry Christmas" is also unacceptable, which has been true for a while. Now you must say, "Happy Holidays" or "Have a nice winter break."
Just call them idiots. Idiots might not be bright enough to be offended, although there is always some halfwit in the wings who will be offended for them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on March 13, 2021, 05:43:54 am
Just call them idiots.

I think a more expressive and descriptive expletive should be employed, myself. No sense in being polite about it.  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 13, 2021, 05:44:59 am
I think a more expressive and descriptive expletive should be employed, myself. No sense in being polite about it.  :whistle:
No matter what you say, they will have a fit. Just as soon not get the church ladies in on it... :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on March 13, 2021, 05:54:41 am
No matter what you say, they will have a fit. Just as soon not get the church ladies in on it... :shrug:

I am the sort to let it all hang out in such a situation. Better to apologize than ask permission... And most of the church ladies I know would titter and give me a pat on the way by for speaking truth... After a suitable apology for losing my patience.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Lincolncollector on March 13, 2021, 12:31:24 pm
When you think about it, all of this fuss about gender based pronouns might come down to a few questions.

Are the members of the LGBT community ashamed of what they are? Are they offended because because the use of a gender based pronouns makes them feel inferior? I remember when gay people talked about "gay pride." Has that now become unacceptable?

This foolishness is one more example of the "Throw it up on the wall and see if it sticks" school of politics. If it does stick, it represents one more way to control behavior and thoughts and destroy western civilization. That's what these people want, and the time has come to shout and emphatic NO! to them. The time has come for decent people to rise up and oppose the rule of political correctness before it destroys our lives.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mikezpen on March 26, 2021, 04:26:03 pm
Under Biden, I think at least some public school systems will be encouraged to adopt this and kids will have to comply.Colleges certainly.

Of course, there are plenty of states under Republican control, and they could use the power of the budget to stop this nonsense. But as usual, they'll complain a lot and do nothing.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 27, 2021, 02:51:30 pm
‘Now we close the doggie door at night’; South Carolina woman finds coyote in her kitchen
by: Scottie Kay, Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Mar 27, 2021 / 07:14 AM CDT   / Updated: Mar 27, 2021 / 07:14 AM CDT   
Quote
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – A South Carolina woman recently had a surprise guest in her kitchen.

“One of my dogs came through here, and he started barking and looking all over, like there was a mouse or something,” Sandie Ferguson said as she walked through her kitchen.

Ferguson is a dog-lover. She has two pups of her own and decorates her home with dog-themed art. But the kind of “dog” she got a surprise visit from last weekend was a coyote. She told WSPA he came through a doggie door and pinned himself in the corner of her breakfast room.  ...

When police got there, she said they used dog toys and were able to get the coyote back out the same doggie door he came in. ...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1375783626818867201/kZKlW0NM?format=jpg&name=small)
Full story (https://fox2now.com/news/national/now-we-close-the-doggie-door-at-night-south-carolina-woman-finds-coyote-in-her-kitchen/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=socialflow)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on March 27, 2021, 02:55:44 pm
‘Now we close the doggie door at night’; South Carolina woman finds coyote in her kitchen
by: Scottie Kay, Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Mar 27, 2021 / 07:14 AM CDT   / Updated: Mar 27, 2021 / 07:14 AM CDT   (https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1375783626818867201/kZKlW0NM?format=jpg&name=small)
Full story (https://fox2now.com/news/national/now-we-close-the-doggie-door-at-night-south-carolina-woman-finds-coyote-in-her-kitchen/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=socialflow)

Small breed dogs are like caviar to coyotes. No doubt it thought it had a meal.

Probably wasn't a good idea to coax that critter out.  Coyotes are the 3rd most prevalant carriers of rabies, behind bats and skunks.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 27, 2021, 04:06:02 pm
Small breed dogs are like caviar to coyotes. No doubt it thought it had a meal.

Probably wasn't a good idea to coax that critter out.  Coyotes are the 3rd most prevalant carriers of rabies, behind bats and skunks.

@catfish1957

Probably because they eat skunks,bats,and anything else that doesn't eat them first.

I have been told that coyote's are VERY smart animals,but everything has to eat,no matter how smart it is.

Unfortunately for them,they are genetically inclined to wander instead of settle down and be tamed,so that is what they do.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 27, 2021, 04:10:19 pm
@catfish1957

Probably because they eat skunks,bats,and anything else that doesn't eat them first.

I have been told that coyote's are VERY smart animals,but everything has to eat,no matter how smart it is.

Unfortunately for them,they are genetically inclined to wander instead of settle down and be tamed,so that is what they do.

They hang around the Castle, but I haven't had to shoot any yet....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 27, 2021, 04:14:02 pm
They hang around the Castle, but I haven't had to shoot any yet....

@Cyber Liberty

I am at the stage of life where I no longer kill anything that doesn't have to be killed,with the exception of poisonous snakes and rabid animals. I will go after both to keep them from getting away.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 27, 2021, 06:25:20 pm
Fayetteville man receives last paycheck in oil-covered pennies dumped on his driveway
By Janice Yu
Published 3 days ago
Quote
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. - A Fayetteville man said his last paycheck from his former employer came in the form of over 90,000 oil- or grease-covered pennies dumped on his driveway.

Andreas Flaten said he left his job at A OK Walker Autoworks in November 2020. He said he was supposed to get his final paycheck, but was having difficulty getting it. ...

In mid-March, Flaten said he finally received the $915 he was owed, but it was not in the form he was expecting.

Flaten said he was leaving his home to go to the store when he noticed the pile of oil-covered pennies. He said on top of the pile was an envelope that said "f--- you" and contained his last paystub.  ...
FOX5Atlanta (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fayetteville-man-receives-last-paycheck-in-oil-covered-pennies-dumped-on-his-driveway)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 27, 2021, 07:42:24 pm
Fayetteville man receives last paycheck in oil-covered pennies dumped on his driveway
By Janice Yu
Published 3 days agoFOX5Atlanta (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fayetteville-man-receives-last-paycheck-in-oil-covered-pennies-dumped-on-his-driveway)

I saw this on TeeVee.  The wife was happy, because she's already found some rare pennies in it.  She's washing them, and then searching.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on March 27, 2021, 07:57:32 pm

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO MAKE A PENNY?

About 2.5 cents.

If you`re an average working man or woman in the US, you probably know what is a penny and how one looks. But how much does it really cost to make it ? Without giving it too much thought you’d say it shouldn’t cost more than the actual penny value. This isn’t the case, it costs more making a penny than its value. Why would the US government spend more to make a penny than it would get from its value? It’s easy: the coin will be used in a lot of transactions, so the cost does worth it when you think about it.

https://www.thepricer.org/how-much-does-it-cost-to-make-a-penny/

He could sell them back to the treasury for double the price, and they would both make money.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on March 29, 2021, 11:18:54 am
They hang around the Castle, but I haven't had to shoot any yet....
One of my former students keeps a .22 mag Rifle next to the kitchen door. when she lets her 12 lb dog out in the evening. the gun goes with her. so far she has had to put down 3 of them in 5 years. I asked her if a .22 mag wasn't kind of light for a coyote. She said one shot in t he head is all it takes. She is one heck of a good shot.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 01, 2021, 03:04:01 pm
US man returns from swift shopping trip to find 15,000 bees in his car
New Mexico man did not initially notice giant swarm, which had got in through an open window while he was inside supermarket
April 1, 2021
The Guardian (U.K.) (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/01/new-mexico-man-bees-car-supermarket?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1617284006)
Quote
A man who went shopping in New Mexico returned to a car filled with 15,000 honey bees who had apparently got in through an open window while he spent 10 minutes buying groceries.

Astonishingly, the man – who was not named in the New York Times report detailing his unexpected travel companions – did not notice the sudden presence of a giant swarm of buzzing insects on his vehicle’s back seat until he was driving away.

“Then he turned back and looked and like was ‘holy cow’,” Jesse Johnson, an off-duty firefighter and paramedic whose hobby is beekeeping, said of the man’s reaction in an interview with the paper. “He called 911 because he didn’t know what to do.” ...
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/70ee91721d3c226a8dc3a47bee2a124b4fc80ce2/0_154_2048_1229/master/2048.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c87a0a21511cd3ea03f8e5e2130fdb65)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on April 01, 2021, 03:44:24 pm
US man returns from swift shopping trip to find 15,000 bees in his car
New Mexico man did not initially notice giant swarm, which had got in through an open window while he was inside supermarket
April 1, 2021
The Guardian (U.K.) (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/01/new-mexico-man-bees-car-supermarket?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1617284006)(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/70ee91721d3c226a8dc3a47bee2a124b4fc80ce2/0_154_2048_1229/master/2048.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c87a0a21511cd3ea03f8e5e2130fdb65)
Not unusual when the bees are following a queen to make a new colony, I had smaller swarms three times in trees at a home in Anaheim. It was unnerving in a tree in the yard, I can't imagine it inside my car especially if I started to get in before I noticed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 02, 2021, 03:43:38 am
Nearly naked man was doing ‘walk of shame’ after cheating on his wife

Brian Niemietz  7 hrs ago


(https://www.bing.com/images/blob?bcid=TgsJh0MCqpMCKw)

A South Carolina man wearing only a “clear bag over his genitals” while walking around with a joint in his hand told Spartanburg police he’d cheated on his wife and was doing “the walk of shame” as penance.

According to a police report posted to The Smoking Gun, Michael Boatman told cops he had also smoked meth before going on his 1 a.m. stroll. The 41-year-old was wrestled to the ground after telling police he had to complete his walk, trying to wander away and ignoring verbal commands to stop.

   <..snip..>

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/nearly-naked-man-was-doing-walk-of-shame-after-cheating-on-his-wife/ar-BB1fdqnh?ocid=msedgntp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/nearly-naked-man-was-doing-walk-of-shame-after-cheating-on-his-wife/ar-BB1fdqnh?ocid=msedgntp)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 02, 2021, 09:31:16 am
HOW did he manage to walk from Florida to South Carolina while dressed with only a clear bag over his genitals?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on April 02, 2021, 09:59:47 am
HOW did he manage to walk from Florida to South Carolina while dressed with only a clear bag over his genitals?

He must have had a rubber band...  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on April 02, 2021, 10:33:23 am
Nearly naked man was doing ‘walk of shame’ after cheating on his wife

Brian Niemietz  7 hrs ago


(https://www.bing.com/images/blob?bcid=TgsJh0MCqpMCKw)

A South Carolina man wearing only a “clear bag over his genitals” while walking around with a joint in his hand told Spartanburg police he’d cheated on his wife and was doing “the walk of shame” as penance.

According to a police report posted to The Smoking Gun, Michael Boatman told cops he had also smoked meth before going on his 1 a.m. stroll. The 41-year-old was wrestled to the ground after telling police he had to complete his walk, trying to wander away and ignoring verbal commands to stop.

   <..snip..>

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/nearly-naked-man-was-doing-walk-of-shame-after-cheating-on-his-wife/ar-BB1fdqnh?ocid=msedgntp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/nearly-naked-man-was-doing-walk-of-shame-after-cheating-on-his-wife/ar-BB1fdqnh?ocid=msedgntp)

I love karma.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 02, 2021, 03:39:55 pm
I support the police on this one.  When you see a naked man holding a clear bag plasitc covering a hard-on while walking around with a joint in his hand... I take it he's not out collecting for the Red Cross.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 05, 2021, 08:04:20 pm
Am I the only one who can't accept the notion of calling a person with testicles "she"?
Quote
Transgender woman, 24, is forced to have testicle removed after it became twisted in agonising injury caused by 'tucking'

    Trans woman, 24, gave herself testicular torsion by tucking them into her body
    She was admitted to hospital in Davao City, Philippines, because of the pain 
    Doctors explained removing both testicles would cause permanent infertility

By Joe Davies For Mailonline (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9417843/Transwoman-forced-testicle-removed-years-tucking.html)
Published: 05:59 EDT, 5 April 2021 | Updated: 11:59 EDT, 5 April 2021

A transgender woman needed to have one of her testicles removed because of her habit of 'tucking' – made famous through hit TV show Ru Paul's Drag Race.

The unidentified 24-year-old, from the Philippines, had not yet undergone full gender reassignment surgery.

The avid cross-dresser pushed her testicles back into her stomach four times a week ever since becoming an adult, in an effort to hide her genitals.  ...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 05, 2021, 08:14:20 pm
Am I the only one who can't accept the notion of calling a person with testicles "she"?
Not at all. I have known some women who have "balls", but that is a figurative term, not literal, and often one of respect. That being >ahem< twisted resulted in some progress toward the apparent identity this person craves (but will never attain) seems pitifully  ironic to me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 14, 2021, 02:08:47 pm
      It's not exactly News but it is ridiculous

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on April 14, 2021, 03:14:30 pm
      It's not exactly News but it is ridiculous

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What, is Marshall Tucker back in town?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on April 14, 2021, 03:40:00 pm
US man returns from swift shopping trip to find 15,000 bees in his car
New Mexico man did not initially notice giant swarm, which had got in through an open window while he was inside supermarket
April 1, 2021
The Guardian (U.K.) (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/01/new-mexico-man-bees-car-supermarket?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1617284006)

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A man who went shopping in New Mexico returned to a car filled with 15,000 honey bees who had apparently got in through an open window while he spent 10 minutes buying groceries.

Astonishingly, the man – who was not named in the New York Times report detailing his unexpected travel companions – did not notice the sudden presence of a giant swarm of buzzing insects on his vehicle’s back seat until he was driving away.

“Then he turned back and looked and like was ‘holy cow’,” Jesse Johnson, an off-duty firefighter and paramedic whose hobby is beekeeping, said of the man’s reaction in an interview with the paper. “He called 911 because he didn’t know what to do.” ...

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Nothing that smoking a little weed won't fix. Right, @corbe ?

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on April 14, 2021, 03:42:30 pm
Am I the only one who can't accept the notion of calling a person with testicles "she"?

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on April 14, 2021, 09:36:08 pm
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO MAKE A PENNY?

About 2.5 cents.

Thus sounds EXACTLY like the type of enterprise our federal government would be involved.  They  figure they can make up the difference in volume.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2021, 11:18:21 pm
I support the police on this one.  When you see a naked man holding a clear bag plasitc covering a hard-on while walking around with a joint in his hand... I take it he's not out collecting for the Red Cross.

Right. Red wings.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 14, 2021, 11:21:37 pm
From the Great White North:
Quote
Member of Parliament seen naked while on zoom in the House of Commons
At this time, it is unclear who the alleged Liberal Member of Parliament is, but a Quebec flag is seen in the frame of the individual’s office. On social media, users are speculating that the man seen naked on a parliament zoom call is William Amos, a Liberal MP for Pontiac in Quebec.
    Marie Oakes
    April 14, 2021

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ey9x3EyXAAEgH5b?format=jpg&name=small)

... UPDATE: Liberal MP William Amos has since confirmed it was him nude on zoom during the House of Commons question period.  ...
Westphalian Times (https://westphaliantimes.com/breaking-canadian-liberal-member-of-parliament-seen-naked-while-on-zoom-in-the-house-of-commons/)


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on April 14, 2021, 11:35:08 pm
For @corbe
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 14, 2021, 11:38:07 pm
   I like @Gefn
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on April 14, 2021, 11:53:21 pm
   I like @Gefn

Yay! I’m sorry I couldn’t post it properly
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 14, 2021, 11:53:25 pm
For @corbe

LOL
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 15, 2021, 06:35:55 am
Right. Red wings.
Not the work boots, either... **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 15, 2021, 06:38:43 am
For @corbe
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 15, 2021, 09:42:31 am
Not the work boots, either... **nononono*

@Smokin Joe

I have to wonder how many here understand the reference to "red wings". My best GUESS is "very few".

And "No,I will NOT explain this on a public board,so don't ask.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 15, 2021, 09:55:25 am
@Smokin Joe

I have to wonder how many here understand the reference to "red wings". My best GUESS is "very few".

And "No,I will NOT explain this on a public board,so don't ask.
You don't need to explain to a guy who spent his 'bad ol' days' on a motorcycle... :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 15, 2021, 11:23:57 am
You don't need to explain to a guy who spent his 'bad ol' days' on a motorcycle... :beer:

@Smokin Joe

One of these days I am going to find and post the last surviving photo of me sitting on the 40 Knucklehead with the 3/4 rake,15 over springer,"lightening" cam and valve train,and peanut tank that I finished building after getting out  of the army in 1970.

I was literally the only Harley rider in a 3 county area,plus I had a long beard,long hair,and was not/am not open to the idea of being abused.

I was once described in traffic court as "a long-haired individual with a hippy-looking beard riding a chopper-style motorcycle that was passing traffic."

The cop didn't seem to be happy when *I* described him in court as a "a neo-Nazi with a shaved head that looked like Porky Pig."

I may have still be a bit aggressive that soon after getting out of the army.

They couldn't hit me up with a speeding ticket because the scoot "profile" was too thin to be recorded.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 15, 2021, 07:43:01 pm
@Smokin Joe

One of these days I am going to find and post the last surviving photo of me sitting on the 40 Knucklehead with the 3/4 rake,15 over springer,"lightening" cam and valve train,and peanut tank that I finished building after getting out  of the army in 1970.

I was literally the only Harley rider in a 3 county area,plus I had a long beard,long hair,and was not/am not open to the idea of being abused.

I was once described in traffic court as "a long-haired individual with a hippy-looking beard riding a chopper-style motorcycle that was passing traffic."

The cop didn't seem to be happy when *I* described him in court as a "a neo-Nazi with a shaved head that looked like Porky Pig."

I may have still be a bit aggressive that soon after getting out of the army.

They couldn't hit me up with a speeding ticket because the scoot "profile" was too thin to be recorded.
:beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 15, 2021, 11:43:42 pm
Long hair gives the cops something to get a good grip on. Don't ask how I know that.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 15, 2021, 11:53:40 pm
Long hair gives the cops something to get a good grip on. Don't ask how I know that.

@bigheadfred

Yeah,but that is a double-edged sword. If I am close enough they can grab me,they are close enough I can get my hands on them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 16, 2021, 01:55:36 pm
2 women busted for trying to use a $1M bill — at a Dollar General store

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News  11 hrs ago


Who wants to be a millionaire?
 A pair in Tennessee attempted to pass off a $1,000,000 bill to cover a purchase at a Dollar General store in the Knoxville area.

Tennessee’s Amanda McCormick and relative Linda Johnson sure tried, and now they’re paying for it, sort of, The Smoking Gun reported Wednesday.

McCormick, 39, tried to pay for several gift cards with a counterfeit $1 million bill at the Dollar General in Knoxville-area Maryville, where she was joined by 61-year-old Johnson, according to the police report obtained by the outlet. The story was first reported by local paper The Daily Times.

McCormick claimed to have received the bill “in the mail from a church, but could not provide the church information,” the report notes.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2-women-busted-for-trying-to-use-a-1m-bill-at-a-dollar-general-store/ar-BB1fHJjP?ocid=msedgntp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2-women-busted-for-trying-to-use-a-1m-bill-at-a-dollar-general-store/ar-BB1fHJjP?ocid=msedgntp)


    The image below is just 2 women from Tennessee and has absolutely nothing to do with the above article

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on April 16, 2021, 03:13:36 pm
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McCormick, 39, tried to pay for several gift cards with a counterfeit $1 million bill at the Dollar General in Knoxville-area Maryville .  .  .

That's 'Mar-vul', just south 'Alcoa.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on April 16, 2021, 05:32:21 pm
2 women busted for trying to use a $1M bill — at a Dollar General store

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News  11 hrs ago


Who wants to be a millionaire?
 A pair in Tennessee attempted to pass off a $1,000,000 bill to cover a purchase at a Dollar General store in the Knoxville area.

Tennessee’s Amanda McCormick and relative Linda Johnson sure tried, and now they’re paying for it, sort of, The Smoking Gun reported Wednesday.

McCormick, 39, tried to pay for several gift cards with a counterfeit $1 million bill at the Dollar General in Knoxville-area Maryville, where she was joined by 61-year-old Johnson, according to the police report obtained by the outlet. The story was first reported by local paper The Daily Times.

McCormick claimed to have received the bill “in the mail from a church, but could not provide the church information,” the report notes.

<..snip..>

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2-women-busted-for-trying-to-use-a-1m-bill-at-a-dollar-general-store/ar-BB1fHJjP?ocid=msedgntp (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2-women-busted-for-trying-to-use-a-1m-bill-at-a-dollar-general-store/ar-BB1fHJjP?ocid=msedgntp)


    The image below is just 2 women from Tennessee and has absolutely nothing to do with the above article

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Dang @corbe I was gonna say 39 and 61? Those Tennessee women age good!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on April 17, 2021, 12:23:47 am
@bigheadfred

Yeah,but that is a double-edged sword. If I am close enough they can grab me,they are close enough I can get my hands on them.

Ahem...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 23, 2021, 05:00:09 pm

'Large explosion' caused by 80 pounds of tannerite in New Hampshire gender reveal party, police say
by Haley Victory Smith
April 22, 2021 07:24 PM

In yet another example of a gender reveal gone wrong, a Kingston, New Hampshire, celebration caused a "large explosion" using 80 pounds of tannerite, according to local police.

Law enforcement responded to reports of an explosion on Tuesday and confirmed in a press release that it was due to "an over-the-counter, explosive target used for firearms practice [and] sold in kit form" that was set off at a quarry.

The people who were involved told law enforcement they felt like it was the safest place to set it off, according to local reports.

No injuries were reported, but residents in the area said the explosion shook their homes.

(more)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/80lbs-tannerite-gender-reveal-explosion

80lbs of boom boom! Apparently it was felt and heard miles away.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on April 23, 2021, 05:41:22 pm
'Large explosion' caused by 80 pounds of tannerite in New Hampshire gender reveal party, police say
by Haley Victory Smith
April 22, 2021 07:24 PM

In yet another example of a gender reveal gone wrong, a Kingston, New Hampshire, celebration caused a "large explosion" using 80 pounds of tannerite, according to local police.

Law enforcement responded to reports of an explosion on Tuesday and confirmed in a press release that it was due to "an over-the-counter, explosive target used for firearms practice [and] sold in kit form" that was set off at a quarry.

The people who were involved told law enforcement they felt like it was the safest place to set it off, according to local reports.

No injuries were reported, but residents in the area said the explosion shook their homes.

(more)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/80lbs-tannerite-gender-reveal-explosion

80lbs of boom boom! Apparently it was felt and heard miles away.
WTF 80lbs of tannerite, are you kidding me. What kind of rednecks are they growing in New Hampshire?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on April 23, 2021, 06:19:32 pm

Couple planned wedding at Florida mansion. But no one told the owner.
They sent elaborate invitations to the two-day festivities at their "dream home and estate."

(https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2021_16/3466983/210422-florida-wedding-mb-1802_31bfb2e083d9a191a108de51503b16a0.fit-2000w.jpg)

NBC
By Hayley Vaughn
April 22, 2021, 9:49 PM CDT

A Florida couple attempted to host a two-day wedding celebration at a mansion they didn't have permission to use, and when the owner found out about it on the day of their planned nuptials, he called the police.

Courtney Wilson, the groom, and Shenita Jones, the bride, sent elaborate invitations to family and friends to attend their wedding at their "dream home and estate." But they never got permission from the owner, Nathan Finkel, to hold the event there, NBC affiliate WTVJ in Miami reported.

(more)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/couple-planned-wedding-florida-mansion-no-one-told-owner-n1264962
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on April 24, 2021, 12:35:17 am
Couple planned wedding at Florida mansion. But no one told the owner.
They sent elaborate invitations to the two-day festivities at their "dream home and estate."

(https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2021_16/3466983/210422-florida-wedding-mb-1802_31bfb2e083d9a191a108de51503b16a0.fit-2000w.jpg)

NBC
By Hayley Vaughn
April 22, 2021, 9:49 PM CDT

A Florida couple attempted to host a two-day wedding celebration at a mansion they didn't have permission to use, and when the owner found out about it on the day of their planned nuptials, he called the police.

Courtney Wilson, the groom, and Shenita Jones, the bride, sent elaborate invitations to family and friends to attend their wedding at their "dream home and estate." But they never got permission from the owner, Nathan Finkel, to hold the event there, NBC affiliate WTVJ in Miami reported.

(more)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/couple-planned-wedding-florida-mansion-no-one-told-owner-n1264962
Shenita Jones, the bride, 888mouth
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 24, 2021, 04:38:45 am
Shenita Jones, the bride, 888mouth

@GtHawk

The most amazing things about that story to ME were these idiots didn't even know the owner was living in an outbuilding on the property,and the fact that they were so arrogant they went ahead and spend a freaking PILE of money setting it up.

Talk about "feeling entitled!"

What do you think the odds are of them filing a racial discrimination law suit?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 24, 2021, 04:39:56 am
Shenita ......, the bride, 888mouth

@GtHawk

What an odd way to spell,well,you know.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on April 24, 2021, 04:42:04 am
@GtHawk

What an odd way to spell,well,you know.
I was kind of relieved there weren't any pictures.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 24, 2021, 04:47:40 am
I was kind of relieved there weren't any pictures.

@GtHawk

I saw a photo. Her family must have money.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on May 23, 2021, 03:36:00 am


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https://www.businessinsider.com/tardigrades-survive-being-shot-gun-2021-5?op=1 (https://www.businessinsider.com/tardigrades-survive-being-shot-gun-2021-5?op=1)

Scientists shot tardigrades out of a gun at more than 2,000 mph to see if the critters could survive.



<snipit>

These microscopic creatures can survive in the vacuum of space, inside a volcano, and in an Antarctic lake nearly a mile underground. They have even returned to normal functioning after being frozen for three decades.

But according to a recent study in the journal Astrobiology, even seemingly indestructible tardigrades have their limits.

The researchers shot canisters full of tardigrades out of a high-speed gun at various speeds to see if the creatures could survive the pressure of each resulting impact.

==================================================================================

Fodder for thought the next time your Alma Mater calls begging for research $ donations.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 24, 2021, 10:41:03 pm
Body of missing man discovered inside dinosaur statue
Phil Shiver
May 24, 2021

A 40-year-old man was found dead inside a large papier-mâché dinosaur statue in Spain after being reported missing by his family only hours earlier, multiple Spanish outlets reported over the weekend.

The man, whose identity has been protected, was discovered when a father and son who frequent the area alerted police after noticing a foul smell and seeing what they perceived to be a human leg through a crack in the statue, local news outlet La Vanguardia reported.

When firefighters arrived on the scene, they were forced to cut the statue open in order to remove the man's corpse.  ... The Blaze (https://www.theblaze.com/news/missing-man-dead-inside-dinosaur-statue?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)

(https://www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/styles/video_1920x1080/public/images/2021-05/PaperDinosaur.jpg?h=733c762c&width=1280&height=720)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on May 25, 2021, 01:39:07 am
Body of missing man discovered inside dinosaur statue
Phil Shiver
May 24, 2021

A 40-year-old man was found dead inside a large papier-mâché dinosaur statue in Spain after being reported missing by his family only hours earlier, multiple Spanish outlets reported over the weekend.

The man, whose identity has been protected, was discovered when a father and son who frequent the area alerted police after noticing a foul smell and seeing what they perceived to be a human leg through a crack in the statue, local news outlet La Vanguardia reported.

When firefighters arrived on the scene, they were forced to cut the statue open in order to remove the man's corpse.  ... The Blaze (https://www.theblaze.com/news/missing-man-dead-inside-dinosaur-statue?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)

(https://www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/styles/video_1920x1080/public/images/2021-05/PaperDinosaur.jpg?h=733c762c&width=1280&height=720)
Not what you want to find in a Pinata.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on May 25, 2021, 01:40:41 am

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dork_85Q8uI/maxresdefault.jpg)

https://www.businessinsider.com/tardigrades-survive-being-shot-gun-2021-5?op=1 (https://www.businessinsider.com/tardigrades-survive-being-shot-gun-2021-5?op=1)

Scientists shot tardigrades out of a gun at more than 2,000 mph to see if the critters could survive.



<snipit>

These microscopic creatures can survive in the vacuum of space, inside a volcano, and in an Antarctic lake nearly a mile underground. They have even returned to normal functioning after being frozen for three decades.

But according to a recent study in the journal Astrobiology, even seemingly indestructible tardigrades have their limits.

The researchers shot canisters full of tardigrades out of a high-speed gun at various speeds to see if the creatures could survive the pressure of each resulting impact.

==================================================================================

Fodder for thought the next time your Alma Mater calls begging for research $ donations.
Sounds like the cockroaches got some competition for sole survivor.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 25, 2021, 01:51:33 am
Sounds like the cockroaches got some competition for sole survivor.

@GtHawk

Noticed that to date nobody has even bothered to shoot cockroaches out of a gun at high speed to see if THEY survive?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on May 25, 2021, 02:47:25 am
@GtHawk

Noticed that to date nobody has even bothered to shoot cockroaches out of a gun at high speed to see if THEY survive?
I'd like to just how much alcohol was consumed before someone thought of shooting tardigrades out of a gun?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 25, 2021, 03:12:32 am
I'd like to just how much alcohol was consumed before someone thought of shooting tardigrades out of a gun?

@GtHawk

Given the probable IQ's of the people involved,I suspect it was something a lot more sophisticated than alcohol involved this "Hold mah......" discussion.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on May 25, 2021, 03:59:33 am
@GtHawk

Given the probable IQ's of the people involved,I suspect it was something a lot more sophisticated than alcohol involved this "Hold mah......" discussion.

I dunno. In that case there would likely be tannerite.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on May 25, 2021, 07:26:17 pm
Ohio man dies after homemade explosives explode in garage

DailyNews
KATE FELDMAN  6 hrs ago

An Ohio man accidentally blew himself up while making improvised explosive devices at home in his garage.

Michael Hopkins, 55, died Saturday from injuries sustained in the blast, which shook his Jefferson Township neighborhood, the Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Department said Monday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ohio-man-dies-after-homemade-explosives-explode-in-garage/ar-AAKmHVn

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Apparently he was making bombs 'for sale', to pay off his lawn mower.
Question: Who the hell is going to buy a freaking homemade bomb from a guy in his garage? And why? How would he advertise that he has bombs for sale?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 25, 2021, 08:10:53 pm
How would he advertise that he has bombs for sale?
CraigsList, I guess.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on May 25, 2021, 08:17:36 pm
Ohio man dies after homemade explosives explode in garage


Apparently he was making bombs 'for sale', to pay off his lawn mower.
Question: Who the hell is going to buy a freaking homemade bomb from a guy in his garage? And why? How would he advertise that he has bombs for sale?

That story is "Florida Man" worthy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 25, 2021, 08:25:40 pm
Looks like everyone is going crazy these days.
Quote
Southwest Airlines flight attendant bloodied, loses teeth in assault by rowdy passenger
The Dallas Morning News
 Tuesday, May 25, 2021 2:07 p.m.

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant lost two teeth and walked away bloodied after she was physically assaulted by a passenger Sunday morning, part of a disturbing uptick in traveler misconduct.

“This past weekend, one of our Flight Attendants was seriously assaulted, resulting in injuries to the face and a loss of two teeth,” TWU Local 556 president Lyn Montgomery wrote in a letter to Southwest Airlines management. “Unfortunately, this is just one of many occurrences.”

Southwest’s flight attendant union said there were 477 passenger misconduct incidents on the carrier’s flights between April 8 and May 15, including an incident Sunday morning on a flight landing at San Diego International Airport.  ...

A woman who shared a video of the aftermath of the incident on Facebook said the flight attendant told a passenger to keep her seat belt fastened while the plane was still moving. ...
Full story at Pittsburgh Tribune Review (https://triblive.com/news/world/southwest-airlines-flight-attendant-bloodied-loses-teeth-in-assault-by-rowdy-passenger-2/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on May 26, 2021, 04:16:37 am
Looks like everyone is going crazy these days.Full story at Pittsburgh Tribune Review (https://triblive.com/news/world/southwest-airlines-flight-attendant-bloodied-loses-teeth-in-assault-by-rowdy-passenger-2/)

@mountaineer

You can bet your bippy that unless they are related to a major politician,whoever did that is going to really get hammered for that. Judges ain't know to treat any violent action towards a commercial air crew lightly. IIRC,such things even violate federal laws.

All I can say to this is "sic 'em,Judge!"

Flight attendents already have too much crap to put up with from the public to have to deal with being physically assaulted on top of it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 26, 2021, 12:55:54 pm
Quote
... San Diego Harbor Police on Tuesday identified the passenger as Vyvianna Quinonez, 28, and said she was charged with battery causing serious bodily injury, a felony, local outlets reported.

The flight attendant, who was not publicly identified, was treated at a hospital and later released. Southwest said it flew a friend to San Diego to be with her.   ...
NY Post (https://nypost.com/2021/05/25/southwest-flight-attendant-gets-teeth-knocked-out-by-unruly-passenger/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 27, 2021, 01:02:30 pm
 Nude streaker hides in tube at Nationals game – and it doesn’t end well
By Ryan Gaydos, Fox News
May 27, 2021 | 8:41am
Quote
The Washington Nationals’ game against the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday night was suspended in the fourth inning due to the wicked weather that rolled through the Northeast.

The stormy situation didn’t stop a naked fan from getting onto the field at Nationals Park. The fan went over the centerfield fence and ran toward the tarp covering the dirt in the infield.

Once the man got into the tarp, he immediately slipped and fell.

In a scene straight out of the pages of “Benny Hill,” the man tried to evade security by running into the tube that holds the tarp in place. Security was able to handle the streaker after a few moments. ...
NY Post (https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/nude-streaker-hides-in-tube-at-nationals-game-and-it-doesnt-end-well/)
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/streaker.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: BassWrangler on May 27, 2021, 03:54:51 pm
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1397935894041006081?s=21
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on May 27, 2021, 05:46:08 pm
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1397935894041006081?s=21

Atlanta councilman Antonio Brown, who voted to defund police, has car stolen

They can do better.  Surely with just a little effort, this could happen every week.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on May 27, 2021, 10:09:46 pm
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1397935894041006081?s=21
Have they sent a social worker to counsel him yet? :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 27, 2021, 10:30:56 pm
Priceless. It was a Mercedes Benz. The councilman is blaming the whole thing on poverty and lack of opportunities. It's not the fault of the teens themselves, of course.
Quote
... "This is a generational poverty issue," Brown told local news. "These kids, it's 12:30 in the afternoon. Why aren't they in school? Why aren't we enforcing systems to ensure that if they are not in school, they're in recreational centers?" he said, according to Fox News.  ...
Full story at the Post Millennial (https://thepostmillennial.com/defund-the-police-pol-mercedes-stolen-children)

According to Andy Ngo (https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1397983360501252098), Brown was indicted by the feds last year for defrauding banks.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DCPatriot on May 30, 2021, 12:38:57 pm
(http://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/193632445_4886236868101227_4300330985332408261_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=G-EAwp60XlUAX9gj25z&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=0e7786b23fa5ab894a0a8840c37bf653&oe=60D8F500)

When I tried to post the original link of this on Facebook, it was blocked from being posted with a "This is not allowed.  It is against our community standards"

So, I saved the pic and posted it as my own with a different file name.   EFF Facebook!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on May 30, 2021, 01:08:56 pm
Why aren't they in school?

Because the Democrats shut down all their schools, and refuse to open them again forever.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: thackney on June 21, 2021, 04:55:13 pm
Don't hand your beer to a cop during a traffic stop
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/drunk-driving-game-warden-arrest-16257874.php
June 18, 2021

...The game wardens were patrolling near Lake Waco when they were cut off by the driver of a pickup.

The man then drove on the wrong side of the road before the wardens pulled him over, police said.

When wardens approached the truck, the man was having trouble turning down his music, they said. As he fumbled with the radio, he apparently handed one of the wardens an open beer so he could concentrate....

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 21, 2021, 09:54:13 pm
Don't hand your beer to a cop during a traffic stop
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/drunk-driving-game-warden-arrest-16257874.php
June 18, 2021

...The game wardens were patrolling near Lake Waco when they were cut off by the driver of a pickup.

The man then drove on the wrong side of the road before the wardens pulled him over, police said.

When wardens approached the truck, the man was having trouble turning down his music, they said. As he fumbled with the radio, he apparently handed one of the wardens an open beer so he could concentrate....

@thackney

It's all about PRIORITIES,people!

I can remember when not spilling my beer was my main focus.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on June 21, 2021, 10:28:02 pm
I actually know some people that would do that. 88finger point
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 21, 2021, 10:50:31 pm
Don't hand your beer to a cop during a traffic stop


Did that once.  The bastard drank it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on June 21, 2021, 11:22:06 pm
Looks like everyone is going crazy these days.


You got that one right, that's why for the most part we stay home.  Crazies are everywhere and liberal females are the worst!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: rustynail on June 22, 2021, 12:05:24 am
Professors Call For Hate Speech Protections To Be Extended To Animals

The need for speech criminalization is based on the view that “some animals do seem to have their social confidence eroded because of their awareness of the risk of violence.”


https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/professors-call-hate-speech-protections-be-extended-animals
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 22, 2021, 12:18:31 am
Professors Call For Hate Speech Protections To Be Extended To Animals

The need for speech criminalization is based on the view that “some animals do seem to have their social confidence eroded because of their awareness of the risk of violence.”


https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/professors-call-hate-speech-protections-be-extended-animals

@rustynail

Now they are just making stuff up.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on June 22, 2021, 02:19:04 am
@rustynail

Now they are just making stuff up.
Oh no, they are taking action to protect their fellow jackasses.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on June 24, 2021, 01:24:28 am
(https://www.bing.com/images/blob?bcid=SAUT8gpbgOYCPA)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 27, 2021, 12:48:17 pm
Be gone, demon of high lumber prices!
Quote
Police stop ‘exorcism’ in Home Depot lumber aisle
By Mark Lungariello
June 24, 2021 | 11:36pm

Pennsylvania police claim they were called to a Home Depot on a report of “disorderly people having an exorcism” in the lumber aisle.

The exorcism was for the dead trees and the would-be wood exorcists were escorted out of the building, according to a now-viral post from the Dickson City Police Department. ...
NY Post (https://nypost.com/2021/06/24/police-stop-exorcism-in-home-depot-lumber-aisle/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter)



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on June 27, 2021, 01:46:32 pm
"Your mother sucks 2X4's in Hell"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on June 27, 2021, 08:52:40 pm
"Your mother sucks 2X4's in Hell"

I thought it was "Your mother sews socks that smell."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 08, 2021, 12:48:26 pm
Boris Becker’s Catching Heat For Calling Tennis Player’s Fiancée ‘Pretty’ During Wimbledon Broadcast
by Joe Kinsey
 about 15 hours ago  updated 23 minutes ago   

Imagine living in a world where a tennis legend gets in trouble during a Wimbledon broadcast for calling a tennis player’s fiancée “very pretty.” WE’RE LIVING IN THAT WORLD! Boris Becker, working BBC’s Wimbledon coverage, caused an uproar for commenting on Márton Fucsovics’s future wife Anett Böszörményi.

“That’s Fuscovics’ fiancée,” Becker’s broadcast partner John Inverdale said as highlights Novak Djokovic’s straight-sets victory over Fucsovics were shown. “Her name is Anett Boszormenyi. If you’re a tennis player, always good to have a partner called Anett.”

According to The Daily Mail, Becker responded: “They do say they have the most beautiful women in Hungary. I wouldn’t know that, but she’s certainly very pretty.”

And that was it. Arrows started being launched at Becker. It was go-time for the British feminists who refuse to allow a man to call a woman “very pretty.” The first group to be offended was the Women in Sport and Perception Agency, whatever that is. ... Story at Outkick (https://www.outkick.com/boris-beckers-catching-heat-for-calling-tennis-players-fiancee-pretty-during-wimbledon-broadcast/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on July 08, 2021, 01:05:56 pm
Good lord.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on July 08, 2021, 01:40:29 pm
Pure Jealousy. I would bet that the women 'pushing' this idiocy have never been called 'very pretty' in their life.
That's why they are angry. It has nothing to do with Becker. They are angry at other things that have happened to them in their lives. And they are itching to release that pent up lifelong anger on somebody/anybody.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on July 08, 2021, 02:13:21 pm
Boris Becker’s Catching Heat For Calling Tennis Player’s Fiancée ‘Pretty’ During Wimbledon Broadcast


Pretty?  Good thing the cancel culture wasn't reading my mind when Sharipova was playing.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on July 08, 2021, 04:49:50 pm
Pure Jealousy. I would bet that the women 'pushing' this idiocy have never been called 'very pretty' in their life.
That's why they are angry. It has nothing to do with Becker. They are angry at other things that have happened to them in their lives. And they are itching to release that pent up lifelong anger on somebody/anybody.
While they most likely have never been called very pretty or even just pretty as far as their looks I would imagine it a safe bet that they were often called pretty bitchy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on July 09, 2021, 08:43:55 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efYhCP_gifc
While the Leftist obsess on innocent "nothing" comments like this, Biden who has a documented history of sniffing, groping, and kissing, little girls and wives, is never mentioned at all. He has his "Old White Democrat" get out of jail free card.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 09, 2021, 09:00:06 am
Pure Jealousy. I would bet that the women 'pushing' this idiocy have never been called 'very pretty' in their life.
That's why they are angry. It has nothing to do with Becker. They are angry at other things that have happened to them in their lives. And they are itching to release that pent up lifelong anger on somebody/anybody.
Just less attractive women making themselves less attractive.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 09, 2021, 03:03:21 pm
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence put out a report on the hiring and retention of minorities, women and persons with disabilities in the U.S. intelligence community. Clearly, for such a report, one needs a photo of, well, minorities, women and persons with disabilities, right? They purchased a stock photo and went with this:
https://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1413200678588137486

Well, kind of. The original stock photo didn't have the woman in a wheelchair or a blind guy (whose dog, you'll notice, is not wearing the correct harness for being a seeing-eye dog) - so they had to photoshop them onto the cover.  :silly:
https://twitter.com/ltthompso/status/1413225868680441859

I guess the only question is which one (or more) is LGBTQXYZ? Because, you know, intelligence.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 09, 2021, 03:03:32 pm
 22222frying pan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efYhCP_gifc
While the Leftist obsess on innocent "nothing" comments like this, Biden who has a documented history of sniffing, groping, and kissing, little girls and wives, is never mentioned at all. He has his "Old White Democrat" get out of jail free card.

@240B

 I hate to say it,but Biden appeared to be not only normal,but pretty sharp in that video.

BTW,anyone know when "journalism" became a subject in elementary school?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on July 09, 2021, 03:13:22 pm
22222frying pan
@240B

 I hate to say it,but Biden appeared to be not only normal,but pretty sharp in that video.

BTW,anyone know when "journalism" became a subject in elementary school?

Are you kidding?  The mere fact he has his hands on this girl just shows he is flaunting his pedophilia.  He's the disgusting old Uncle who you know you don't leave the kids alone with.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on July 09, 2021, 03:20:28 pm
22222frying pan
@240B

 I hate to say it,but Biden appeared to be not only normal,but pretty sharp in that video.

BTW,anyone know when "journalism" became a subject in elementary school?
Still a little creepy how Slo-Joe is fixated on little girls, even when he is giving a speech.
The Fascist Communists at YouTube have scrubbed all the other ones which were really, really, creepy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 09, 2021, 03:55:43 pm
Still a little creepy how Slo-Joe is fixated on little girls, even when he is giving a speech.

@240B

MIGHT a small PART of that be due to the fact that he somehow sences he and small children are on the same intellectual/comprehension level,so he feels more comfortable talking with them?

I also like,as in feel affection,NOT lust, for little girls. What man doesn't? It is essential to the survival of the human race because if you feel affection for them,you will even put your own life on the line to defend them from harm.

It is PROBABLY not a really good idea to accuse me of lusting after little girls OR little boys,though. BIG time Bozo No-No.

GAWD,I feel so dirty ALMOST defending Biden!

Or giving an alternate explanation of why he goes to children so often. I may be wrong,but it is worth considering.

He is still  one of the crookedest and most evil people to hold office,as well as a borderline retard due to being senile,though. The fact that he is the President of the United States and has their faults makes him evil as well as dangerous to the survival of America. He has never had a conscience to start with,and there are now NO restraints on his conduct.




The Fascist Communists at YouTube have scrubbed all the other ones which were really, really, creepy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Slide Rule on July 11, 2021, 11:59:38 am
"Your mother sucks 2X4's in Hell"


An effective communicator. I like effective.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on July 14, 2021, 02:09:43 am
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2702b2a6e73d1f23a511bfb8e8e72b421667794462570938541e3f812a0ae15e.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on July 15, 2021, 02:38:30 pm
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2702b2a6e73d1f23a511bfb8e8e72b421667794462570938541e3f812a0ae15e.jpg)

Is it the chronic?  Or just some shwag?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on July 15, 2021, 02:47:59 pm
You have to smoke it 1st.  Then get the jab and a box of Twinkies.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 15, 2021, 02:52:48 pm
My offering to this thread is: "Anything Joe Biden says."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: PeteS in CA on July 16, 2021, 06:51:31 pm
You have to smoke it 1st.  Then get the jab and a box of Twinkies.

The Twinkies cost extra you Ding-Dong! yogi555
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on July 16, 2021, 08:40:09 pm
The Twinkies cost extra you Ding-Dong! yogi555
I hear Harris will be handing out HOHO's.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 16, 2021, 10:58:54 pm
I here Harris will be handing out HOHO's.

@GtHawk

I wonder if any of them will be close relatives?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on July 16, 2021, 11:34:27 pm
The Twinkies cost extra you Ding-Dong! yogi555

Not if you're a ho...ho.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on July 17, 2021, 01:07:40 am
   I might consider getting the jab if comealot would perform on me that thing...you know.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on July 17, 2021, 01:11:51 am
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2702b2a6e73d1f23a511bfb8e8e72b421667794462570938541e3f812a0ae15e.jpg)


What song is @corbe listening to.
“One toke over the line”
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on July 17, 2021, 01:12:27 am
Not if you're a ho...ho.


 :facepalm2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 25, 2021, 02:02:16 pm
This was too ridiculous to put in the Sports category.
Quote
USTA announces slate of mental health resources ahead of U.S. Open
By Amy Tennery
August 25, 2021  1:04 AM EDT
Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/usta-announces-slate-mental-health-resources-ahead-us-open-2021-08-24/)

NEW YORK, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The United States Tennis Association (USTA) announced a mental health initiative for players on Tuesday, with the main draw of the U.S. Open kicking off next week.

Competitors at Flushing Meadows will have access to the tournament's "comprehensive medical services program," which will include access to mental health providers and "quiet rooms" on site, the USTA said in a written statement.

"The issue of mental health awareness has been brought to the forefront over the course of the global pandemic, as many individuals, players included, have struggled with the stresses and emotions that have come as a result of COVID-19," said U.S. Open Tournament Director Stacey Allaster. ...
I hope they offer coloring books and teddy bears, too.

(https://cdn.thinglink.me/api/image/800080219791687682/1024/10/scaletowidth/0/0/1/1/false/true?wait=true)
But there is in tennis and gymnastics.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on August 25, 2021, 02:05:06 pm
If you're having troubles, why not just take it out on the tennis balls?  Seems to me the game itself would be the best therapy available.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 25, 2021, 02:06:05 pm
If you're having troubles, why not just take it out on the tennis balls?  Seems to me the game itself would be the best therapy available.
One time I played tennis mad - and kept hitting the ball over the fence. Had to tone it down a little.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on August 25, 2021, 02:06:35 pm
One time I played tennis mad - and kept hitting the ball over the fence. Had to tone it down a little.

Fair enough!  But then, all they'd need to do was raise the fences around the courts, no?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 25, 2021, 02:07:55 pm
Fair enough!  But then, all they'd need to do was raise the fences around the courts, no?
:silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on August 26, 2021, 10:55:27 am
This was too ridiculous to put in the Sports category. I hope they offer coloring books and teddy bears, too.

(https://cdn.thinglink.me/api/image/800080219791687682/1024/10/scaletowidth/0/0/1/1/false/true?wait=true)
But there is in tennis and gymnastics.
The greatest generation has given birth to the wimpiest generation.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on August 26, 2021, 10:59:20 am
If you're having troubles, why not just take it out on the tennis balls?  Seems to me the game itself would be the best therapy available.


Never fall in love with a Tennis player

To them, love is nothing.

🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 26, 2021, 12:55:47 pm

Never fall in love with a Tennis player

To them, love is nothing.

🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾
@Gefn Oh no you didn't!  :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Gefn on August 26, 2021, 02:19:24 pm
@Gefn Oh no you didn't!  :silly:
i

I am glad to give you a laugh @mountaineer

The world seems to be going to heck in a hand basket today  888cryingkitty
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 18, 2021, 05:18:56 pm
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1439274771775098880
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 18, 2021, 05:27:55 pm
https://twitter.com/LisaBennatan/status/1439268939322822660
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: skeeter on September 18, 2021, 05:31:28 pm
https://twitter.com/LisaBennatan/status/1439268939322822660
Has the assault begun? How many law enforcement officers have been injured?

Is AOC OK?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 18, 2021, 05:34:28 pm
https://twitter.com/gregkellyusa/status/1439281232731426823
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 18, 2021, 06:38:26 pm
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1439274771775098880

How cute. Little storm Troopers.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on September 18, 2021, 07:39:00 pm
How cute. Little storm Troopers.
When did the anti American squad start carrying Captain America style round shields and how could they pass up the irony by not painting them like the Captain America shield?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 18, 2021, 08:24:50 pm
When did the anti American squad start carrying Captain America style round shields and how could they pass up the irony by not painting them like the Captain America shield?
Not one smiley face, either (on the shields).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 18, 2021, 11:24:08 pm
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1439274771775098880

@Bigun

Am I the only one thinking "If their suits and other gear was white instead of black,they would look just like Starship Troopers?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: EdinVA on September 18, 2021, 11:27:56 pm
@Bigun

Am I the only one thinking "If their suits and other gear was white instead of black,they would look just like Starship Troopers?
@sneakypete
They did look a tad silly guarding all that grey hair... they sure don't look like terrorists to me..
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 18, 2021, 11:40:39 pm
Can we get this thread back to Ridiculous News stories?  This J6 stuff is politics, though they do look ridiculous....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on September 19, 2021, 12:01:43 am
The greatest generation has given birth to the wimpiest generation.

Yep.  They need to remove the word 'boomers' in describing them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 19, 2021, 12:12:06 am
Can we get this thread back to Ridiculous News stories?  This J6 stuff is politics, though they do look ridiculous....

It may take awhile. Have Patience!  lol
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 19, 2021, 12:17:04 am
Can we get this thread back to Ridiculous News stories?  This J6 stuff is politics, though they do look ridiculous....


I have rarely seen anything more ridiculous than this J6 stuff today.  Maybe that's just me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 19, 2021, 12:19:43 am
@Bigun

Am I the only one thinking "If their suits and other gear was white instead of black,they would look just like Starship Troopers?

Hadn't thought of that until you mentioned it @sneakypete but yes! Spitting image.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 19, 2021, 12:27:53 am
Hadn't thought of that until you mentioned it @sneakypete but yes! Spitting image.

C'Mon man.  It was obvious.  Darth Vader forces of evil!  lol
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on September 19, 2021, 12:33:27 am
Even the news is reporting that there were more Cops, Reporters, and FBI infiltrators than attendees.
The best thing about the white armored Star Wars troopers is that their armor did nothing at all, and they couldn't hit a barn with 100 shots.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 19, 2021, 12:41:17 am
Even the news is reporting that there were more Cops, Reporters, and FBI infiltrators than attendees.
The best thing about the white armored Star Wars troopers is that their armor did nothing at all, and they couldn't hit a barn with 100 shots.

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b2/e7/15/b2e715d938fa6fcd5ad9fe926479829a.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 19, 2021, 12:54:35 am

I have rarely seen anything more ridiculous than this J6 stuff today.  Maybe that's just me.
Theater of the Absurd.  I'd bet all the MSM cameras will focus on the heroic defenders of the Capitol, and not on the folks who showed up--except a few 'made for teevee' types.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 19, 2021, 01:13:51 am
   Never known to be one to shy away from Cameras, Tape Recorders or Publicity in General, even Trump figured it out and refused to participate.
    You can have a Ralley anywhere why set yourself up at the Capitol?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on September 19, 2021, 01:40:24 am
   Never known to be one to shy away from Cameras, Tape Recorders or Publicity in General, even Trump figured it out and refused to participate.
    You can have a Ralley anywhere why set yourself up at the Capitol?
It was a Nancy Pelosi production starring Donald Trump as the fall guy, and it bombed at the box office. Once Trump said he would not participate, at that moment Pelosi knew it was all a waste of time. Pelosi was the spider spinning a web to catch nasty 'American patriots' and Trump for dessert. Even Capitol Police, Antifa, and BLM pulled out once they saw how stupid it was. Since everyone was on to them, they had no hope of finishing Pelosi's "Insurrection II" the final cut!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 19, 2021, 12:20:03 pm
FBI asking themselves, "How could we hold an insurrection and have nobody come?"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 19, 2021, 01:49:53 pm
Wired Willie!

Teen gets USB cable stuck in penis in backfired attempt to measure length

He backed up his hard drive — and his penis.

A U.K. teen had to undergo emergency surgery after a bananas attempt to measure his manhood resulted in him getting a USB cable lodged in his urethra.

The phallic fiasco reportedly began after an unnamed 15-year-old boy was "triggered by sexual curiosity" and inserted a USB wire into his urethra, per a wince-worthy study published in the medical journal Urology Case Reports.

The sexperiment backfired when the cable became lodged in the curious teen’s scrotum like an electronic catheter. Despite attempts to extract it himself, the USB cord became tangled so terribly that both ends were left hanging out of his wired willy.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/teen-usb-cable-penis-length
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 19, 2021, 02:09:34 pm
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/900d913598bc569339352c271f69bea9cbdf2f3b1b6ace170c68b62e5fab4550.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 19, 2021, 02:50:16 pm
@Wingnut that story has a pucker-factor of 10. :terror:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 19, 2021, 02:54:32 pm
@Wingnut that story has a pucker-factor of 10. :terror:

LOL.  All I know is They better put that kid on a short cord.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on September 19, 2021, 03:51:35 pm
LOL.  All I know is They better put that kid on a short cord.

USB - Urethra Stimulating B___r ?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 19, 2021, 04:16:48 pm
Wired Willie!

Teen gets USB cable stuck in penis in backfired attempt to measure length

He backed up his hard drive — and his penis.

A U.K. teen had to undergo emergency surgery after a bananas attempt to measure his manhood resulted in him getting a USB cable lodged in his urethra.

The phallic fiasco reportedly began after an unnamed 15-year-old boy was "triggered by sexual curiosity" and inserted a USB wire into his urethra, per a wince-worthy study published in the medical journal Urology Case Reports.

The sexperiment backfired when the cable became lodged in the curious teen’s scrotum like an electronic catheter. Despite attempts to extract it himself, the USB cord became tangled so terribly that both ends were left hanging out of his wired willy.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/teen-usb-cable-penis-length
@Wingnut

Betcha he doesn't do THAT one again!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 19, 2021, 04:17:44 pm
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/900d913598bc569339352c271f69bea9cbdf2f3b1b6ace170c68b62e5fab4550.jpg)

@corbe

True dat!

Makes no sense at all.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 19, 2021, 04:19:02 pm
USB - Urethra Stimulating B___r ?

@DB

Maybe he is a VERY imaginative kid,and was hoping for a long-distance phone call?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 19, 2021, 06:11:10 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZT7gcBi4Pc
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on September 19, 2021, 06:14:04 pm

Bradley Hill, 32, was arrested for kicking a woman all the way down escalator stairs after she coached him in manners, telling him to say "Excuse me" for pushing her aside earlier.  "That's the New York way," said the victim.

NYC man who kicked woman down Brooklyn subway escalator arrested

https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/nyc-man-who-kicked-woman-down-brooklyn-subway-escalator-arrested/ (https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/nyc-man-who-kicked-woman-down-brooklyn-subway-escalator-arrested/)

So too is the violence of Bradley Hill "The New York Way."  The nonchalant third party who moved aside so the woman could fall all the way down could have caught her, but instead simply watched the event unfold and offered not the slightest bit of assistance.  That too is "The New York Way."  You may be sure that Mr. Hill and the unconcerned citizen are both Democrat Biden supporters.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on September 19, 2021, 06:15:24 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZT7gcBi4Pc

Bigun, America needs more patriots like you.
Yore friend truly. (Kin I borry $20 til next week?)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 19, 2021, 06:18:12 pm
Bigun, America needs more patriots like you.
Yore friend truly. (Kin I borry $20 til next week?)

Damn! Here I was thinkin bout hittin YOU up!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 19, 2021, 06:22:10 pm
Bradley Hill, 32, was arrested for kicking a woman all the way down escalator stairs after she coached him in manners, telling him to say "Excuse me" for pushing her aside earlier.  "That's the New York way," said the victim.

NYC man who kicked woman down Brooklyn subway escalator arrested

https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/nyc-man-who-kicked-woman-down-brooklyn-subway-escalator-arrested/ (https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/nyc-man-who-kicked-woman-down-brooklyn-subway-escalator-arrested/)

So too is the violence of Bradley Hill "The New York Way."  The nonchalant third party who moved aside so the woman could fall all the way down could have caught her, but instead simply watched the event unfold and offered not the slightest bit of assistance.  That too is "The New York Way."  You may be sure that Mr. Hill and the unconcerned citizen are both Democrat Biden supporters.

@DeerSlayer

I really,REALLY hope he moves somewhere south and tries that again while in the presence of genuine southerners,not yankee refugees.

You kick a woman down some stairs/escalator in front me me,and you are likely to have some problems that will last a while. Doesn't matter to me if she is young or old,black or white,or anything else. You hurt a woman in front of me,and I will hurt you.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on September 19, 2021, 06:43:19 pm
Damn! Here I was thinkin bout hittin YOU up!

Just private mail me yore bank account and routing number and leave it up to me.  I'll take care of everthin.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 19, 2021, 06:48:16 pm
Just private mail me yore bank account and routing number and leave it up to me.  I'll take care of everthin.

Bank account??? Routing number??? What de hell is dat?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on September 19, 2021, 06:55:18 pm
Bradley Hill, 32, was arrested for kicking a woman all the way down escalator stairs after she coached him in manners, telling him to say "Excuse me" for pushing her aside earlier.  "That's the New York way," said the victim.

NYC man who kicked woman down Brooklyn subway escalator arrested

https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/nyc-man-who-kicked-woman-down-brooklyn-subway-escalator-arrested/ (https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/nyc-man-who-kicked-woman-down-brooklyn-subway-escalator-arrested/)

The question before us now is, will he even make it to court without Kamala intervening to set him free, or will he get a medal from BLM for attacking an old Asian lady?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 19, 2021, 08:32:31 pm
@DeerSlayer

I really,REALLY hope he moves somewhere south and tries that again while in the presence of genuine southerners,not yankee refugees.

You kick a woman down some stairs/escalator in front me me,and you are likely to have some problems that will last a while. Doesn't matter to me if she is young or old,black or white,or anything else. You hurt a woman in front of me,and I will hurt you.

Yep... Goes for out west too.  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 20, 2021, 12:01:16 pm
Bradley Hill, 32, was arrested for kicking a woman all the way down escalator stairs after she coached him in manners, telling him to say "Excuse me" for pushing her aside earlier.  "That's the New York way," said the victim.

NYC man who kicked woman down Brooklyn subway escalator arrested

https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/nyc-man-who-kicked-woman-down-brooklyn-subway-escalator-arrested/ (https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/nyc-man-who-kicked-woman-down-brooklyn-subway-escalator-arrested/)

So too is the violence of Bradley Hill "The New York Way."  The nonchalant third party who moved aside so the woman could fall all the way down could have caught her, but instead simply watched the event unfold and offered not the slightest bit of assistance.  That too is "The New York Way."  You may be sure that Mr. Hill and the unconcerned citizen are both Democrat Biden supporters.
Might be time for me to get new glasses. I thought he was arrested for LICKING  her down an escalator.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on September 20, 2021, 04:26:42 pm
Might be time for me to get new glasses. I thought he was arrested for LICKING  her down an escalator.
Kinky!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 20, 2021, 04:56:00 pm
Might be time for me to get new glasses. I thought he was arrested for LICKING  her down an escalator.

@verga

So......

You need the glasses so you can make sure you don't miss anything when the re-runs are aired?

Kinky,dood!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 20, 2021, 09:30:45 pm
Might be time for me to get new glasses. I thought he was arrested for LICKING  her down an escalator.

HAHAHAHAHA! I love getting old... The things I read, and the things people say...  :beer: :seeya:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 21, 2021, 12:46:19 am
HAHAHAHAHA! I love getting old... The things I read, and the things people say...  :beer: :seeya:
I just blame it on the bifocals.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on September 21, 2021, 01:28:52 am
HAHAHAHAHA! I love getting old... The things I read, and the things people say...  :beer: :seeya:
I'm not quite so enamored at getting old...because of the things I thought I read and the things I thought I heard people say  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 21, 2021, 01:52:18 am
I'm not quite so enamored at getting old...because of the things I thought I read and the things I thought I heard people say  :shrug:

@GtHawk

The one thing that is essential when you start to get old is a sense of humor about yourself.

Don't ask me how I know this. I don't want to embarrass any neighbors.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 21, 2021, 08:24:43 am
I'm not quite so enamored at getting old...because of the things I thought I read and the things I thought I heard people say  :shrug:

LOL! Nah... I know I don't hear it right... I don't remember now what she really said, but I got to hear my sainted mother tell my sister to go piss up a pipe... Of course those words would never enter her mind, not to mention leaving her tongue. But it still brings a giggle every time I think about it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 21, 2021, 08:26:49 am
My sister heard 'In Purple Patootie' instead of 'in perpetuity' one time... That still cracks us both up. Now I use it all the time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 21, 2021, 11:29:14 am
@GtHawk

The one thing that is essential when you start to get old is a sense of humor about yourself.

Don't ask me how I know this. I don't want to embarrass any neighbors.
MY mother and all of my friends parents are in the same age group (Over 85), and every single one of them has lost ALL of their filters. My mother is constantly saying things I would have got my mouth washed out with soap for, or grounded for a month. and then when you say something to them they reply, "Well it's  true."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on September 21, 2021, 12:44:26 pm
MY mother and all of my friends parents are in the same age group (Over 85), and every single one of them has lost ALL of their filters. My mother is constantly saying things I would have got my mouth washed out with soap for, or grounded for a month. and then when you say something to them they reply, "Well it's  true."

Know the drill. Several years ago  I was adjusting the pantry cabinets in my inlaws kitchen before floor remodeling, and my near blind and crippled Alzheimer mother in law, lumbered over to me and starting whacking me with her cane. Get up she yelled, you are not going to die on my clean floors.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 21, 2021, 12:46:37 pm
MY mother and all of my friends parents are in the same age group (Over 85), and every single one of them has lost ALL of their filters. My mother is constantly saying things I would have got my mouth washed out with soap for, or grounded for a month. and then when you say something to them they reply, "Well it's  true."

@verga

Not much old wimmins love more than shocking their children and grandchildren. The grandchildren seem to handle it better than the children,though. Younger people and seniors seen ti have a better comic sense for the outrageous than middle-aged people.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on September 21, 2021, 03:13:14 pm
MY mother and all of my friends parents are in the same age group (Over 85), and every single one of them has lost ALL of their filters. My mother is constantly saying things I would have got my mouth washed out with soap for, or grounded for a month. and then when you say something to them they reply, "Well it's  true."

Not to mention using terms that were common when they were younger but are now considered seriously politically incorrect.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 22, 2021, 04:43:47 am
Not to mention using terms that were common when they were younger but are now considered seriously politically incorrect.
The sad thing is that no one considered them offensive then, but people have found ever more creative ways to be offended..
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 08, 2021, 03:50:24 pm
Curiously, not Florida Man. Pittsburgh man.
Quote
The man suspected of gunning down a mail carrier Thursday in Collier told investigators he believed the carrier had poisoned him, according to charges filed in federal court.

Eric Kortz, 53, of Pittsburgh, is charged with murder of an employee of the United States and possession of a firearm, court records show. ...

The complaint, filed by U.S. Postal Inspector Erik Bohin, said Kortz told investigators that he shot Vignone because he believed Vignone and his family had poisoned Kortz and his family with cyanide.

The complaint said Kortz told police that he and Vignone used to be neighbors.

According to investigators, Kortz said he was familiar with Vignone’s mail route and drove to where he was on Suburban Avenue to “put some bullets in him.” ...
Pittsburgh Tribune Review (https://triblive.com/local/carlynton/mail-carrier-shot-and-killed-in-collier-suspect-in-custody)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 09, 2021, 12:28:17 pm
Man plunges nine stories from NJ high-rise, lands on BMW — and survives
By Natalie O'Neill and Reuven Fenton   
October 7, 2021 2:31pm
Quote
A man plunged nine stories from a high-rise in Jersey City, New Jersey, landed on a BMW — and miraculously survived, according to officials and a witness.

The 31-year-old  crashed through the roof of the black Beemer 330i parked below 26 Journal Square at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday, then stood up with his right arm  dangling at his side  and asked, “What happened?” onlooker Christina Smith, 21, told The Post. ...
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/fall.jpg?quality=90&strip=all)
She quickly called 911, then took jaw-dropping photos and videos of the aftermath, including graphic footage of the man screaming in pain with upper body injuries. The video also shows a face mask strap still dangling from the guy’s ear, despite falling roughly 100 feet.

According to one onlooker, the man popped up with a broken arm and asked, “What happened?”

The man, who jumped from an open window on the ninth floor, was rushed to a hospital by ambulance and was in critical condition Thursday, said Jersey City spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione. ...
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, speculated on Twitter the fellow's mask is what saved him.   :laugh:

Story and photos at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2021/10/07/new-jersey-man-survives-9-story-plunge-by-landing-on-a-bmw/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on October 09, 2021, 12:47:38 pm
Man plunges nine stories from NJ high-rise, lands on BMW — and survives
By Natalie O'Neill and Reuven Fenton   
October 7, 2021 2:31pmScott Adams, creator of Dilbert, speculated on Twitter the fellow's mask is what saved him.   :laugh:

Story and photos at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2021/10/07/new-jersey-man-survives-9-story-plunge-by-landing-on-a-bmw/)

@mountaineer

Well,that,and the desire of the German car to seem to be unaggressive.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 15, 2021, 03:51:35 pm
Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com
@stillgray
·
48m
Teen Vogue is teaching teens how to have anal sex and it’s referring to women as “non-prostate owners.”
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBv7HMWVUAM9xU1?format=jpg&name=small)
11:02 AM · Oct 15, 2021


Just shoot me now.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on October 15, 2021, 05:55:14 pm
Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com
@stillgray
·
48m
Teen Vogue is teaching teens how to have anal sex and it’s referring to women as “non-prostate owners.”
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBv7HMWVUAM9xU1?format=jpg&name=small)
11:02 AM · Oct 15, 2021
Being a decades long owner of a prostate, and not be of the Buttjigger persuasion, I can state categorically that never once did I received pleasure or enjoyment during a prostate exam  (https://i.imgur.com/FqdL9QG.jpg?1) **nononono* **nononono* :


Just shoot me now.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 15, 2021, 06:06:10 pm
I think it's racist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic and anti-woman - and enormously triggering - to refer to women as non-prostate owners, when they could just as easily refer to men as non-uterus owners.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on October 15, 2021, 06:32:46 pm
I think it's racist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic and anti-woman - and enormously triggering - to refer to women as non-prostate owners, when they could just as easily refer to men as non-uterus owners.

I personally don't see anything wrong with referring to men as men and women as women.

You know, the XY XX thing.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on October 15, 2021, 07:17:11 pm
I personally don't see anything wrong with referring to men as men and women as women.

You know, the XY XX thing.


IOW @Bigun , a little thing we like to call 'reality'.  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on October 15, 2021, 07:25:22 pm
IOW @Bigun , a little thing we like to call 'reality'.  :beer:

Yeah! Exactly!   :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on October 15, 2021, 07:29:35 pm
I'm sure I was sheltered in my teen years...but I would not have had a clue what a prostate was...much less if I owned one. :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on October 15, 2021, 07:42:40 pm
I think it's racist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic and anti-woman - and enormously triggering - to refer to women as non-prostate owners, when they could just as easily refer to men as non-uterus owners.

OR, we could just forget all this silly nonsense altogether and call them men and women, as has been the case across the breadth of history among Hoomin Beans.

It ain't that complicated.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 15, 2021, 07:46:58 pm
I hope you know I was kidding about the non-uterus thing and being triggered.
 There's male and female. That's it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on October 15, 2021, 07:50:28 pm
I hope you know I was kidding about the non-uterus thing and being triggered.
 There's male and female. That's it.

Of course.  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on October 15, 2021, 07:55:46 pm
I hope you know I was kidding about the non-uterus thing and being triggered.
 There's male and female. That's it.

There is an art to being facetious @mountaineer and you are good at it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 23, 2021, 02:26:21 pm
Woman tossed from church service after cilantro mistaken for weed
Churchgoer beseeches accusers to smell the plant to confirm she didn’t bring drugs into the place of worship.
Angela Stelmakowich
 Nov 22, 2021 
Quote
An Oklahoma woman is feeling anything but welcomed after she reports being kicked out of church for “weed” when, in fact, the green substance at issue was just cilantro.

In a recently posted TikTok video, which has since gone viral and is believed to be from the woman, she says she’s not looking to cause a fuss or gather sympathy. She’s just ticked that she was kicked out before any check was done to ensure the claim was, in fact, accurate. ...

In an interview with KOCO News, the woman reportedly said that she brought Menudo in a plastic bag with all the fixings, including onion, lime, cilantro and oregano. She and her sister planned to eat the meal at the church, as they had done before.

A church statement acknowledges the Nov. 14 incident involved “a person who was upset because the staff did not allow her to give a bag of food to a family member who is an inmate attending church services,” KOCO News reports.

The church is involved in a program that allows inmates to attend service. That said, inmates [I think they mean churchgoers] “are not allowed to give food items to the inmates to take back to correctional facilities,” it adds.   ...
some pro-MJ site called The Growth Op (https://www.thegrowthop.com/cannabis-news/woman-tossed-from-church-service-after-cilantro-mistaken-for-weed?fbclid=IwAR089IKcFOvcsbIwDJJigbQg3FwDlhamSxm8XmLt4m9nIGAUSu0ND4-pxTM)

I'm a cook, not a partaker of weed, but even I know marijuana doesn't look anything like this:
(https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital/thegrowthop/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1298068307-e1637343412778.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=564&h=423&type=webp)

However, it appears the woman overreacted at least as much as people in the church.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 23, 2021, 02:57:29 pm
As da Pastor seys,"Weeze gits high on da Lawd,not no wacky tabaccy!

Kin ah gets ah Amen?"

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on November 23, 2021, 03:31:13 pm
I have done quite a bit of prison ministry with Residents Encounter Christ weekends, and there are VERY strict rules about what interactions are allowed with the inmates/residents. Any infraction at all can result in the shut down of the entire program if the warden decides to do so. At least for us, bringing food is a strict no-no, so it sounds like she was already pushing the limits.

Having said that, yeah, I would think one should be able to easily differentiate between weed and cilantro.

(https://y.yarn.co/e712f01c-6499-4f54-964b-1104ca89994b_text.gif)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 25, 2021, 01:49:26 pm
Dollar General Investigating After Store In McKeesport Had Santa Display With Gun
Customers at the store told KDKA that they were appalled by the decoration.
November 24, 2021 at 11:10 pm

MCKEESPORT, Pa. (KDKA) — A Santa Claus display is under fire in McKeesport after it was decorated with Jolly Old Saint Nick holding a gun and baton. ...

The Santa can also be seen in the picture wearing a necklace that reads. “Ho, Ho, Ho MF.”   ...
(https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909642/2021/11/snapshot-2021-11-24T230813.529-e1637813322638.jpg?resize=620,349)
Full story at KDKA (https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/11/24/dollar-general-santa-display-gun/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 25, 2021, 04:02:58 pm
And Santa is black. Wonder why there was no mention of that?

Seems almost like the store manager is fed up,and WANTS to be fired,doesn't it?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 25, 2021, 04:04:41 pm
And Santa is black. Wonder why there was no mention of that?
Well, it's McKeesport. I guess a white Santa would look out of place.  *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 25, 2021, 04:48:52 pm
Well, it's McKeesport. I guess a white Santa would look out of place.  *****rollingeyes*****
Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that if it had been a White Santa not a single damn would have been given?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 25, 2021, 06:48:25 pm
Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that if it had been a White Santa not a single damn would have been given?
It was the black folks in the neighborhood who reacted with outrage - some were interviewed on camera. They thought it sent a terrible message to children that Santa had a gun, not to mention the "MF" necklace.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 25, 2021, 09:34:01 pm
It was the black folks in the neighborhood who reacted with outrage - some were interviewed on camera. They thought it sent a terrible message to children that Santa had a gun, not to mention the "MF" necklace.

@MountainMoment
I can see where the "MF" necklace would be a step too far.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 25, 2021, 10:38:26 pm
@MountainMoment
I can see where the "MF" necklace would be a step too far.

There is something wrong with a My Friend necklace? We used my friend as an alternative, among others, when we were doing work in somebodies lab instead at new construction sites.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 25, 2021, 10:43:33 pm
There is something wrong with a My Friend necklace? 
@GtHawk

Hard to say. I don't know your friends.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 25, 2021, 11:01:33 pm
@GtHawk

Hard to say. I don't know your friends.
Ah Pete, ya don't need to know them, and they aren't really my friends. I have no doubt that you don't have to know someone to figure out they are a Mutha F****r, you could probably spot it at 25 yards at least :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 25, 2021, 11:53:39 pm
From England:
Quote
Teesside woman accused of exposing penis, using sex toy and masturbating in public
Chloe Thompson, 41, from Middlesbrough, has pleaded not guilty to the three charges
    by Georgia Banks
Gazette (https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/teesside-woman-accused-using-sex-22260053.amp)
    06:00, 25 Nov 2021  Updated 13:44, 25 Nov 2021
Okay, let's stop right there. Woman exposes whose penis? Hers? Well, then we're not talking about an actual woman, are we? Alright then, carry on:
Quote
A woman accused of indecent exposure, masturbating in public and using a sex toy in a public place, will stand trial early next year.

Chloe Thompson, of Borough Road, Middlesbrough, appeared at Teesside Magistrates' Court on Wednesday after denying the offences.

She is charged with committing a public nuisance by indecently exposing her penis to other members of the public, whilst masturbating from a property window.
There, now you've done it again. If this is a woman, it couldn't possibly be her penis she's exposing. Are the press somehow unaware that women do not have such body parts? 

Oh, here s/he is, trying to escape public scrutiny:
(https://i2-prod.gazettelive.co.uk/incoming/article22259543.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/0_94216738-e141-49fe-9799-d8173a57bc4c.jpg)

We'll wait to find out why this jackass is being referred to as a woman. Meanwhile, God save the Queen.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 26, 2021, 03:48:17 am
It really is mind-boggling how adult reporters can't seem to understand something so basic that even 10 year olds "get it".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 26, 2021, 05:16:30 am
It really is mind-boggling how adult reporters can't seem to understand something so basic that even 10 year olds "get it".
Remember Kindergarten Cop, probably not but if they made it today you would never hear the kid say this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_cs2pGXneA&ab_channel=Slydguitar
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 26, 2021, 02:46:41 pm
Wait, this story gets even mo' better.
Quote
A transgender woman who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl, has been charged for allegedly exposing "her penis" to the public and masturbating from a property window. ...

Chloe Thompson, formerly Andrew McNab, is a sex offender convicted of carrying out a sexual assault on a teenage girl in 2011. Thompson was issued with a ten-year notification requirement order to alert authorities to Thompson's whereabouts and activities.

Earlier this year, Thompson violated the order for the 11th time since 2011. Thompson did so by creating an alias to go on TikTok, which is prohibited under the current guidelines of Thompson's legal penalty. ...
Post Millennial (https://thepostmillennial.com/transgender-sex-offender-charged-with-indecent-exposure?utm_campaign=64471)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on November 29, 2021, 02:10:00 pm
Woman At A Vegas Golden Knights Game Uses Her Fake Leg During A Brawl

(https://images.dailycaller.com/image/width=1280,height=549,fit=cover,f=auto/https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Knights_Fight-e1638186092641.jpg)

A woman used her fake leg during a brawl in an insane video making the rounds online.

In a video tweeted by @hockey_db, a woman at the Vegas Golden Knights/Edmonton Oilers game popped off her prosthetic leg and swung it around during an altercation with some fellow fans.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/29/vegas-golden-knights-prosthetic-leg-fight-video/

------------

Gentleman do not let this one get away.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 29, 2021, 04:54:40 pm
Woman At A Vegas Golden Knights Game Uses Her Fake Leg During A Brawl

(https://images.dailycaller.com/image/width=1280,height=549,fit=cover,f=auto/https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Knights_Fight-e1638186092641.jpg)

A woman used her fake leg during a brawl in an insane video making the rounds online.

In a video tweeted by @hockey_db, a woman at the Vegas Golden Knights/Edmonton Oilers game popped off her prosthetic leg and swung it around during an altercation with some fellow fans.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/29/vegas-golden-knights-prosthetic-leg-fight-video/

------------

Gentleman do not let this one get away.

@Free Vulcan

No kidding. She's a real charmer. Could be useful if you lived near the border for smuggling,too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on November 29, 2021, 04:56:47 pm
BTW,when did the Golden Knights become a sports team?

Last I heard,they were the official U.S. Army parachute team.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Free Vulcan on November 29, 2021, 05:02:29 pm
@Free Vulcan

No kidding. She's a real charmer. Could be useful if you lived near the border for smuggling,too.

@sneakypete

She would definitely have a leg up on that career choice.  :smokin:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 29, 2021, 05:44:52 pm
Was she ever married to Paul McCartney?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on December 06, 2021, 06:29:17 am
Bomb squad called to ER after a patient turned up with a WWII artillery shell lodged in his rectum

Damn near killed him
Bomb disposal experts were called to a hospital in Gloucester, England after a man told doctors that there was a World War II anti-tank shell lodged inside of him, authorities said.

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team (EOD) arrived at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Wednesday morning after hearing that "a patient had presented with a munition in his rectum," a spokesperson for Gloucestershire Constabulary told Insider.

The item had already been removed by doctors by the time the bomb squad arrived, the spokesperson added, and the EOD confirmed that the shell was "not live" and "therefore not a danger to the public."

The Sun was first to report that the unnamed patient told doctors at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital that he "slipped and fell" on the two-inch-wide artillery shell.

https://news.yahoo.com/bomb-squad-called-er-patient-100800683.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 06, 2021, 08:56:52 am
Bomb squad called to ER after a patient turned up with a WWII artillery shell lodged in his rectum

Damn near killed him
Bomb disposal experts were called to a hospital in Gloucester, England after a man told doctors that there was a World War II anti-tank shell lodged inside of him, authorities said.

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team (EOD) arrived at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Wednesday morning after hearing that "a patient had presented with a munition in his rectum," a spokesperson for Gloucestershire Constabulary told Insider.

The item had already been removed by doctors by the time the bomb squad arrived, the spokesperson added, and the EOD confirmed that the shell was "not live" and "therefore not a danger to the public."

The Sun was first to report that the unnamed patient told doctors at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital that he "slipped and fell" on the two-inch-wide artillery shell.

https://news.yahoo.com/bomb-squad-called-er-patient-100800683.html
Lucky it was a 37mm or 47mm and not an  88...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on December 06, 2021, 04:11:00 pm
Bomb squad called to ER after a patient turned up with a WWII artillery shell lodged in his rectum

Damn near killed him
Bomb disposal experts were called to a hospital in Gloucester, England after a man told doctors that there was a World War II anti-tank shell lodged inside of him, authorities said.

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team (EOD) arrived at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Wednesday morning after hearing that "a patient had presented with a munition in his rectum," a spokesperson for Gloucestershire Constabulary told Insider.

The item had already been removed by doctors by the time the bomb squad arrived, the spokesperson added, and the EOD confirmed that the shell was "not live" and "therefore not a danger to the public."

The Sun was first to report that the unnamed patient told doctors at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital that he "slipped and fell" on the two-inch-wide artillery shell.

https://news.yahoo.com/bomb-squad-called-er-patient-100800683.html
Giving new meaning to the phrase 'blow it up your arse'.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 07, 2021, 02:44:51 am
You just don't see headlines like that anymore.

I am temped to ask "WHY?" and "HOW" is got "there",but I am afraid he would tell me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on December 11, 2021, 11:58:38 pm
Florida Man Angry Over Neighbors' Parking Habits Uses Flamethrower at Occupied Car: Police

KATIE WERMUS  |  12/10/21  |  11:52 AM EST


AFlorida man used a flamethrower on a car with three teenagers inside after he was angry about a running feud with his neighbor's parking habits.

Andre Abrams, 57, admitted to using a flamethrower, which shoots flames up to 20 feet, towards his neighbor's parked car over what he says is a long-running feud over their parking. However, he denied targeting the teens, police said.

"This family, how could I say this—the worst thing that could ever happen to a neighborhood," Abrams said. "They've had issues with other residents, and it needs to be brought to light."

Armani Singleton, one of the three teenagers in the car, was sitting in the driver's seat when she and the others saw Abrams come towards them and start spraying fire before they escaped.

"You better not burn up my car," she said, according to police.

Ashley Gainey, the mother of one of the teens, confronted Abrams as he was shooting flames towards the vehicle.

"When I got to the door, he was still shooting it," she said. "I asked him, 'What is your effin' problem?'"

This isn't the first time Abrams has used a flamethrower in the neighborhood. Gainey said Abrams often sprayed flames to scare away visitors at her home.

"When he shoots it, it lights the whole road up," Gainey said. "It's like it's daylight outside. He'll do it in the middle of the night."

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-angry-over-neighbors-parking-habits-uses-flamethrower-occupied-car-police-1658177



I would have paid money to see this.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on December 12, 2021, 12:00:37 am
Well... we have a resident Briefer that has flaming, exploding golf balls ... maybe we can team them up.  :whistle:  :rolling:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: rustynail on December 12, 2021, 12:13:04 am
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLUGsn-NOis
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 12, 2021, 01:49:36 am
Well... we have a resident Briefer that has flaming, exploding golf balls ... maybe we can team them up.  :whistle:  :rolling:

I want a flamethrower....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on December 12, 2021, 01:50:29 am
I want a flamethrower....

 :rolling:  I knew it!! 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on December 12, 2021, 01:53:39 am
I want a flamethrower....

Can of WD40 and a lighter?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 12, 2021, 01:57:38 am
Can of WD40 and a lighter?

I used to use a can of Lysol.  That shit lights right up!  Unless they made it "safe" these days.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on December 12, 2021, 01:58:29 am
Of course .... a song comes to mind.  :silly: (I love this tune by the way).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbo6WhbNRsc
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on December 12, 2021, 01:58:59 am
I used to use a can of Lysol.  That shit lights right up!  Unless they made it "safe" these days.

OMG!  :rolling: :silly: :thud:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on December 12, 2021, 02:06:05 am
@Cyber Liberty  there's always Silly String.

(https://i0.wp.com/www.maafirm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/avoid-injuries-from-silly-string.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on December 12, 2021, 02:20:07 am
I want a flamethrower....

I HAVE a flamethrower... Well, sorta... Home made...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on December 12, 2021, 04:10:53 am
I HAVE a flamethrower... Well, sorta... Home made...

Who hasn't had a flame thrower at some point in their life?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on December 12, 2021, 06:37:54 am
Who hasn't had a flame thrower at some point in their life?

I know, right? Redneck 101.  :laugh: :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on December 14, 2021, 08:37:27 pm
Somebody sure is desperate for attention.
Quote
Published 5 days ago
Secularist group targets decades-long tradition of laying wreaths on soldiers' tombs
Wreaths Across America is accused of taking part in an 'unconstitutional' act
By Kyle Morris | Fox News

A secularist non-profit organization that strongly urges separation of church and state in America is taking issue with Wreaths Across America's nearly 30-year tradition of placing wreaths on thousands of military graves.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is calling out Wreaths Across America, telling the Colorado Springs Gazette that the organization's actions in placing wreaths on military gravesites around the country are "unconstitutional, an atrocity and a disgrace."  ...

"The gravesites of Christians and non-Christians alike will be adorned with this hijacked-from-paganism symbol of Christianity — circular and made of evergreen to symbolize everlasting life through Jesus Christ — whether the families of the deceased veterans like it or not," Rodda wrote.  ...

Weinstein, who is Jewish, concluded in his conversation with the Gazette that the process of laying wreaths should "be an aspect of respect," adding that it is "almost like a fundamentalist Christian gang sign to put a symbol of the Christian season of Christmas on any grave." ...
FOX News (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/religious-freedom-group-targets-decades-long-tradition-put-on-by-wreaths-across-america)
This is the first I've heard there was Christian symbolism attached to a wreath.
 Would they have every circle-shaped object banned, too, or is it the pine that offends them?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on December 15, 2021, 12:19:15 am
Some people just ain't happy unless they have something to be mad about.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on December 15, 2021, 02:05:44 am
Some people just ain't happy unless they have something to be mad about.
...or they are vexing others...

Whatever happened to "tolerance"?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on February 01, 2022, 10:51:00 pm
WATCH: Massive Brawl Breaks Out In Bensalem Golden Corral Over Alleged Steak Shortage...

(Strangely, this event did not involve Florida Man.  Just a bunch of customers who had a beef with other customers and the restuarant.

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/02/01/watch-massive-brawl-breaks-out-in-bensalem-golden-corral-over-alleged-steak-shortage/ (https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/02/01/watch-massive-brawl-breaks-out-in-bensalem-golden-corral-over-alleged-steak-shortage/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdf5ol3XU44 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdf5ol3XU44)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 02, 2022, 06:28:51 pm
I think Frank Cannon tried to use an expired GC gift card.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 04, 2022, 04:51:48 pm
Quote
Former soldier, 47, dubbed the 'Naked Carpenter' who was stopped by police for wearing SEE-THROUGH trousers revealing his buttocks and genitals as he walked to a Wetherspoon's pub LOSES his appeal against conviction for exposure

    Robert Jenner, 47, was stopped by police dressed in the black mesh trousers
    Maidstone Crown Court heard he had worn the transparent garment without underwear to go drinking in a nearby Wetherspoon's in Maidstone, Kent
    Jenner was found guilty by magistrates of exposure and breaching a CBO
    He appealed his conviction yesterday but was unsuccessful 

By Henry Martin For Mailonline
Published: 08:09 EST, 4 February 2022 | Updated: 08:20 EST, 4 February 2022

A naturist once dubbed The Naked Carpenter has lost his appeal against conviction for walking through a town centre at night wearing see-through trousers.

Robert Jenner, 47, was stopped by police dressed in the black mesh trousers which revealed his buttocks and genitals.

Maidstone Crown Court heard he had worn the transparent garment without underwear to go drinking in a nearby Wetherspoon's in Maidstone, Kent, and was arrested in St Faith's Street at 11.20pm on January 19, 2020. ...

He denied having any intention to expose himself, claiming his fleece went lower than his waistline.

Accused by prosecutor Honor Fitzgerald of wanting to reveal his manhood to cause 'alarm or distress', Jenner said: 'No, never. That has never been my intention.'

The court heard statements from four Kent Police officers, who described his clothing as see-through and 'completely inappropriate'. ...
Rest of story and, alas, photos at Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10476777/Naked-Carpenter-LOSES-appeal-against-conviction-exposure.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 04, 2022, 06:35:23 pm
Rest of story and, alas, photos at Daily Mail

Nope. Thx. I'm good.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 06, 2022, 02:24:38 pm
Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187
@ScottMGreer
·
11h
Netflix turned Jarl Haakon, the last pagan ruler of Norway, into a black woman in its new Vikings show
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIe4fDWQAAIcOw?format=png&name=240x240)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIe8QnX0AMsTpG?format=jpg&name=small)
9:23 PM · Mar 5, 2022·
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on March 06, 2022, 02:37:42 pm
Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187
@ScottMGreer
·
11h
Netflix turned Jarl Haakon, the last pagan ruler of Norway, into a black woman in its new Vikings show
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIe4fDWQAAIcOw?format=png&name=240x240)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIe8QnX0AMsTpG?format=jpg&name=small)
9:23 PM · Mar 5, 2022·


:facepalm2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on March 06, 2022, 02:50:17 pm
Box of human heads stolen in Denver

By Jesse O’Neill
March 5, 2022

A box of human heads intended for scientific research was stolen from a medical truck in Denver Thursday.

Someone broke into the parked truck in broad daylight and stole the box of human remains, along with a dolly, according to KVDR.

The macabre crime happened in Denver’s leafy Central Park neighborhood, the TV station reported.

The situation was “pretty shocking,” resident Isaac Fields told the station.

*  *  *

Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/03/05/box-of-human-heads-stolen-in-denver/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 06, 2022, 02:55:43 pm
Box of human heads stolen in Denver

By Jesse O’Neill
March 5, 2022

A box of human heads intended for scientific research was stolen from a medical truck in Denver Thursday.

Someone broke into the parked truck in broad daylight and stole the box of human remains, along with a dolly, according to KVDR.

The macabre crime happened in Denver’s leafy Central Park neighborhood, the TV station reported.

The situation was “pretty shocking,” resident Isaac Fields told the station.

*  *  *

Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/03/05/box-of-human-heads-stolen-in-denver/

Somebody is gonna flip their lid over this, and heads are going to roll...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 06, 2022, 03:02:07 pm
I'd like to know how my box of heads ended up in Colorado. Darn post office.

As for Netflix's black female Viking king, I have to say - as a descendant of a Viking king - I'm so triggered now I'm shaking! Quick, I need a coloring book and a safe space!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on March 06, 2022, 03:04:12 pm
Somebody is gonna flip their lid over this, and heads are going to roll...


:silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 06, 2022, 03:31:36 pm
Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187
@ScottMGreer
·
11h
Netflix turned Jarl Haakon, the last pagan ruler of Norway, into a black woman in its new Vikings show
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIe4fDWQAAIcOw?format=png&name=240x240)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIe8QnX0AMsTpG?format=jpg&name=small)
9:23 PM · Mar 5, 2022·

@mountaineer

I won't be watching it,and neither should anyone who is aware of this.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on March 06, 2022, 05:11:15 pm
Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187
@ScottMGreer
·
11h
Netflix turned Jarl Haakon, the last pagan ruler of Norway, into a black woman in its new Vikings show
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIe4fDWQAAIcOw?format=png&name=240x240)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIe8QnX0AMsTpG?format=jpg&name=small)
9:23 PM · Mar 5, 2022·
Maybe Netflix hired Mike Obama as a producer or technical advisor for the show?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 06, 2022, 07:35:52 pm
Maybe Netflix hired Mike Obama as a producer or technical advisor for the show?

@GtHawk

Wes iz da wurld.......

Wez iz da peep-pulls....

Sang hit wid me bruthas and sistas!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on March 07, 2022, 02:36:59 pm
Box of human heads stolen in Denver

By Jesse O’Neill
March 5, 2022

A box of human heads intended for scientific research was stolen from a medical truck in Denver Thursday.

Someone broke into the parked truck in broad daylight and stole the box of human remains, along with a dolly, according to KVDR.

The macabre crime happened in Denver’s leafy Central Park neighborhood, the TV station reported.

The situation was “pretty shocking,” resident Isaac Fields told the station.

*  *  *

Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/03/05/box-of-human-heads-stolen-in-denver/
Kind of like the movie "8 heads in a duffle bag"
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on March 07, 2022, 02:39:09 pm
Kind of like the movie "8 heads in a duffle bag"


Well, Mom always did say that two heads are better than one!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 07, 2022, 02:51:27 pm
Rampant skulduggery...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on March 12, 2022, 04:45:46 pm
Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187
@ScottMGreer
·
11h
Netflix turned Jarl Haakon, the last pagan ruler of Norway, into a black woman in its new Vikings show
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIe4fDWQAAIcOw?format=png&name=240x240)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIe8QnX0AMsTpG?format=jpg&name=small)
9:23 PM · Mar 5, 2022·

On about the 3rd episode.  When that lady showed up, I yelled that woke shit has gone past the ridiculously implausbile. Netflix sucks.

Think about about ....  A black woman ruler in 1050 Norway?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 12, 2022, 05:51:17 pm
On about the 3rd episode.  When that lady showed up, I yelled that woke shit has gone past the ridiculously implausbile. Netflix sucks.

Think about about ....  A black woman ruler in 1050 Norway?

@catfish1957

Why not?

Everybody knows those Viking guys were wusses.

"We iz da wurld.......

We iz da wusses......
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 13, 2022, 02:47:26 pm
Two men killed by camel that escaped from Tennessee petting zoo
By Patrick Reilly   
March 12, 2022 3:30am

Two men were killed by a rampaging camel that escaped from a petting zoo in Tennessee, according to local officials.

Bobby Matheny, 42, and Tommy Gunn, 67, both from The Volunteer State, died after they were cornered and attacked by the frenzied camel Thursday in Obion, roughly 100 miles northeast of Memphis.

The humped beast was killed by responding law enforcement officers.  ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2022/03/12/tennessee-petting-zoo-camel-kills-two-men-bobby-matheny-tommy-gunn-after-escape/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 13, 2022, 03:23:23 pm
Two men killed by camel that escaped from Tennessee petting zoo
By Patrick Reilly   
March 12, 2022 3:30am

Two men were killed by a rampaging camel that escaped from a petting zoo in Tennessee, according to local officials.

Bobby Matheny, 42, and Tommy Gunn, 67, both from The Volunteer State, died after they were cornered and attacked by the frenzied camel Thursday in Obion, roughly 100 miles northeast of Memphis.

The humped beast was killed by responding law enforcement officers.  ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2022/03/12/tennessee-petting-zoo-camel-kills-two-men-bobby-matheny-tommy-gunn-after-escape/)

I hope they didn't walk a mile for the camel....

(The picture at the Post is actually a Dromedary, I think.)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on March 13, 2022, 03:29:18 pm
I hope they didn't walk a mile for the camel....

(The picture at the Post is actually a Dromedary, I think.)

Make it 1001.

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/718F3AOSVpL._RI_.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on March 13, 2022, 03:34:08 pm
Quote
The humped beast was killed by responding law enforcement officers.

My 1st thought was, Damn they got Hillary!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on March 13, 2022, 03:35:38 pm
My 1st thought was, Damn they got Hillary!

If it was humped beast, I figured WJC was nearby.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on March 21, 2022, 10:03:07 pm
UNDERCOVER: Crowder Infiltrates “FAT STUDIES” Conference | Louder with Crowder
Crowder goes undercover to present a paper to a REAL CONFERENCE of "Fat Studies" scholars. Will they be able to tell he's an imposter? Watch to find out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekDq_Ebi2I&list=PL3e1orPYt_4Yn4K43wBiHZt-bz8aRqr4X&index=39
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 17, 2022, 10:15:27 pm
We don't have a section for the really stupid stuff. The stuff that makes you shake your head in disbelief, laugh at the workings of insta-karma or just stretch the bounds of the ridiculous. Yet we do all need a laugh.

So - post 'em here if you find one!

I miss EC.   The starter of this thread and long time poster who dropped of the radar.  Hope ie is well this Easter and not dead.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 17, 2022, 10:39:50 pm
I miss EC.   The starter of this thread and long time poster who dropped of the radar.  Hope ie is well this Easter and not dead.

@Wingnut

Well,if he is dead,he is as free of suffering as he can get.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 17, 2022, 10:45:56 pm
I hope they didn't walk a mile for the camel....

(The picture at the Post is actually a Dromedary, I think.)

@Cyber Liberty

The younger guy was so fat I doubt he could walk much more than 20 feet at a time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 17, 2022, 11:43:51 pm
@Wingnut

Well,if he is dead,he is as free of suffering as he can get.


Everyone talks to God in the end. If he is gone I hope the angels took his demons away.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 21, 2022, 10:10:07 pm
When nature calls! Woman plunges HEAD FIRST into filthy national forest vault toilet after dropping her phone and using dog leash as harness to lower herself in to retrieve it

A California woman was rescued from a vault toilet after plunging head-first into it while trying to retrieve her cell phone by using a dog leash as a harness
The rescue, which occurred on top of a Washington hiking trail Tuesday, required two fire departments to free the woman from the toilet
She tried to use a dog leash as a harness to lower herself into the toilet, however it did not support her weight and she fell into the vault head-first
The woman spent around 20 minutes attempting to get out of the vault toilet before ultimately finding her phone and calling 911
Rescue crews were eventually able to free the woman from the toilet after making a 'cribbing platform' that was lowered down for the woman to stand on
The woman told rescue crews that she was uninjured, and refused medical attention despite being encouraged to after being exposed to human waste
 
By MATT MCNULTY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 09:39 EDT, 21 April 2022 | UPDATED: 13:08 EDT, 21 April 2022


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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10739397/Woman-rescued-falling-vault-toilet-trying-retrieve-phone-hiking-trail.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10739397/Woman-rescued-falling-vault-toilet-trying-retrieve-phone-hiking-trail.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 21, 2022, 10:46:58 pm
When nature calls! Woman plunges HEAD FIRST into filthy national forest vault toilet after dropping her phone and using dog leash as harness to lower herself in to retrieve it

A California woman was rescued from a vault toilet after plunging head-first into it while trying to retrieve her cell phone by using a dog leash as a harness
The rescue, which occurred on top of a Washington hiking trail Tuesday, required two fire departments to free the woman from the toilet
She tried to use a dog leash as a harness to lower herself into the toilet, however it did not support her weight and she fell into the vault head-first
The woman spent around 20 minutes attempting to get out of the vault toilet before ultimately finding her phone and calling 911
Rescue crews were eventually able to free the woman from the toilet after making a 'cribbing platform' that was lowered down for the woman to stand on
The woman told rescue crews that she was uninjured, and refused medical attention despite being encouraged to after being exposed to human waste
 
By MATT MCNULTY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 09:39 EDT, 21 April 2022 | UPDATED: 13:08 EDT, 21 April 2022


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Shit Happens.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 21, 2022, 11:47:48 pm
Shit Happens.

Leave it to @corbe to shitpost the shit stories...that's why he's my bud.  I might mail him a care package one of these days....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 21, 2022, 11:50:49 pm
    I categorically deny that I have any semblance of a $hit fantasy!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on April 22, 2022, 01:46:47 am
When nature calls! Woman plunges HEAD FIRST into filthy national forest vault toilet after dropping her phone and using dog leash as harness to lower herself in to retrieve it


Green Rooms. Construction sites. This sh*t is right up my alley. The stories are endless.

Once I took a dump 30 miles back in the woods... spent two days up that way before getting home and noticing my wallet was gone.

Drove all the way back up there... Yep. There it was.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Hoodat on April 22, 2022, 03:27:40 am
Green Rooms. Construction sites. This sh*t is right up my alley. The stories are endless.

Once I took a dump 30 miles back in the woods... spent two days up that way before getting home and noticing my wallet was gone.

Drove all the way back up there... Yep. There it was.

You're lucky a bear didn't find it and spend all your cash on sushi.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on April 22, 2022, 03:41:22 am
You're lucky a bear didn't find it and spend all your cash on sushi.
:laugh:

Another time in a green room on a construction site, pulled up my britches and felt the pocket flip over... Saw the wallet bounce on the seat... Even took a swipe at it... Nope.

There was 400 bucks in that wallet.
Driver's license.
Fishing license.

I thought about it, I really did...
But about 40 construction guys had been doing their business in there... Every morning there's a line around 10 o'clock...

NOPE.

Took 4 weeks to get those licenses straightened out.

I wonder if the sewer doer dude got the tip.  :whistle: :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 22, 2022, 12:21:29 pm
Green Rooms. Construction sites. This sh*t is right up my alley. The stories are endless.

Once I took a dump 30 miles back in the woods... spent two days up that way before getting home and noticing my wallet was gone.

Drove all the way back up there... Yep. There it was.

That's when the thirty-point buck comes sauntering into view during hunting season, too. :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on April 22, 2022, 12:22:52 pm
:laugh:

Another time in a green room on a construction site, pulled up my britches and felt the pocket flip over... Saw the wallet bounce on the seat... Even took a swipe at it... Nope.

There was 400 bucks in that wallet.
Driver's license.
Fishing license.

I thought about it, I really did...
But about 40 construction guys had been doing their business in there... Every morning there's a line around 10 o'clock...

NOPE.

Took 4 weeks to get those licenses straightened out.

I wonder if the sewer doer dude got the tip.  :whistle: :shrug:
That's why I always carry a multi tool (Leatherman). If it didn't sink, you can fetch it out with that.

If it did, well, humans are washable...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on April 22, 2022, 01:56:13 pm
Green Rooms. Construction sites. This sh*t is right up my alley. The stories are endless.

Once I took a dump 30 miles back in the woods... spent two days up that way before getting home and noticing my wallet was gone.

Drove all the way back up there... Yep. There it was.

I wasn't quite that far back in but otherwise my story is the same.  One of the major reasons I now carry my wallet in my left FRONT pocket.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on April 22, 2022, 01:58:25 pm
That's when the thirty-point buck comes sauntering into view during hunting season, too. :silly:

Yeah... backed up to a tree, the rifle this [] far from your extended reach...  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on April 22, 2022, 01:59:31 pm
I wasn't quite that far back in but otherwise my story is the same.  One of the major reasons I now carry my wallet in my left FRONT pocket.

I got pretty partial to overalls... TOP pocket.  :silly:

 888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on April 22, 2022, 02:02:29 pm
I got pretty partial to overalls... TOP pocket.  :silly:

 888high58888

LOL!  That's for my phone.  Zipped up.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on April 22, 2022, 02:04:49 pm
That's why I always carry a multi tool (Leatherman). If it didn't sink, you can fetch it out with that.

If it did, well, humans are washable...

Nope. If it would have caught up on something I would have figured something out. Ploonk! Right in the tidy bowl.

I even offered all the money to anyone willing to go scuba diving... Just to get my licenses back...

No takers. Just a whole lot of construction guys barely keeping a straight face as they gave me that 'hard times' pat on the back... walking away in fits of laughter.

You know how that's gonna go.   *****rollingeyes***** :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 22, 2022, 03:35:30 pm
Green Rooms. Construction sites. This sh*t is right up my alley. The stories are endless.

Once I took a dump 30 miles back in the woods... spent two days up that way before getting home and noticing my wallet was gone.

Drove all the way back up there... Yep. There it was.

Good thing the area was still ripe since most tree's in the woods look alike!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on April 22, 2022, 06:01:40 pm
Good thing the area was still ripe since most tree's in the woods look alike!

Well, I was up there two days after...  That was three 10:30 Expresses. Not one. I pretty well had to track myself all the way back to the offending er... site.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 27, 2022, 08:09:12 pm
The sad thing is that she's serious.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRXYErgVcAA4xnm?format=jpg&name=small)

 *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on April 27, 2022, 08:12:43 pm
The sad thing is that she's serious.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRXYErgVcAA4xnm?format=jpg&name=small)

 *****rollingeyes*****


:facepalm2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 27, 2022, 08:36:25 pm
The sad thing is that she's serious.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRXYErgVcAA4xnm?format=jpg&name=small)

 *****rollingeyes*****

That's like saying the real evil of 9/11/01 was the probability normal people might get a bit miffed at Moslems in general.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 12, 2022, 10:11:28 pm
Ridiculous news with an international flair:
Quote
Elephant kills woman, 70, in India and returns to trample on her corpse at funeral after lifting her body from pyre as family performed last rites
Story at Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10908709/India-news-Dalma-Wildlife-Sanctuary-elephant-kills-woman-returns-trample-corpse.html)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on June 12, 2022, 10:45:08 pm
Ridiculous news with an international flair:Story at Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10908709/India-news-Dalma-Wildlife-Sanctuary-elephant-kills-woman-returns-trample-corpse.html)
Reincarnated husband?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 13, 2022, 05:13:02 am
Reincarnated husband?
:silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 17, 2022, 03:08:45 pm
This happened in Russia.
Quote
Woman eaten by 20 pet cats after collapsing dead
By Henry Holloway, The Sun   
June 17, 2022 11:02am

A woman was eaten by her 20 cats after she collapsed at her home and was not discovered by cops for two weeks.

Police were horrified when they discovered the partially eaten remains of the woman – who has not been named – after receiving a call from a concerned co-worker.

The woman was a cat breeder who kept the 20 giant Maine Coon pedigree cats in her home. ...
NY Post (https://nypost.com/2022/06/17/woman-eaten-by-20-pet-cats-after-collapsing-dead/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 17, 2022, 03:21:46 pm
This happened in Russia.NY Post (https://nypost.com/2022/06/17/woman-eaten-by-20-pet-cats-after-collapsing-dead/)
It can happen anywhere. A friend died one summer and was not discovered until over a week later.  His dogs were in the trailer house with him...

No one wanted to adopt the dogs.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 15, 2022, 11:04:12 pm
I thought my husband was constipated: Actually, he had a water bottle in his butt
By Brittany Miller   
July 15, 2022 6:32pm

This guy really did have something up his butt.

A married man from Iran is recovering after doctors removed a 7 ½ inch water bottle from his rectum.

The suspect suppository was discovered after the 50-year-old arrived at the hospital with his wife, who grew concerned once he stopped eating and began to suffer from abdominal pain and constipation. ...

Doctors at the Imam Khomeini Hospital in Sari did not mention why exactly how the bottle got stuck there, but did say that sexual gratification is usually behind these sorts of situations. The man was also known to have a history of depression, according to the Clinical Case Reports. ...
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/ccr36062-fig-0001-comp.jpg?quality=75&strip=all)
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/iranian-man-has-water-bottle-removed-from-anus/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on July 16, 2022, 12:18:57 am
I thought my husband was constipated: Actually, he had a water bottle in his butt
By Brittany Miller   
July 15, 2022 6:32pm

This guy really did have something up his butt.

A married man from Iran is recovering after doctors removed a 7 ½ inch water bottle from his rectum.

The suspect suppository was discovered after the 50-year-old arrived at the hospital with his wife, who grew concerned once he stopped eating and began to suffer from abdominal pain and constipation. ...

Doctors at the Imam Khomeini Hospital in Sari did not mention why exactly how the bottle got stuck there, but did say that sexual gratification is usually behind these sorts of situations. The man was also known to have a history of depression, according to the Clinical Case Reports. ...
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/ccr36062-fig-0001-comp.jpg?quality=75&strip=all)
Full story at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/iranian-man-has-water-bottle-removed-from-anus/)

Looks like it got hung up on the end of his spine.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on July 31, 2022, 09:55:02 pm
Trans Cheerleader Booted From Camp For Allegedly Choking Female Teammate: Called Me ‘Man With A Penis’
By  Ryan Saavedra
Jul 31, 2022 
Quote
A transgender cheerleader, who is a biological male, was criminally charged last week for allegedly choking a female teammate at a cheerleading camp.

Fox News reported that the incident occurred at Ranger College in Texas after the female teammate allegedly called Averie Chanel Medlock “a man” and said that Medlock should not be on the team.

“Well guys I’m officially retired as a cheerleader as of last night at 5:30 AM. A girl on the team was being very disrespectful and told me I am a MAN with a PENIS and that [guys] should not be on the team,” the transgender cheerleader, Averie Chanel Medlock, reportedly posted on Facebook. ...

Medlock reportedly said the alleged attack on the female cheerleader was a joke. Nevertheless, law enforcement officials charged Medlock with assault and removed Medlock from the campus. ...
Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-cheerleader-booted-from-camp-for-allegedly-choking-female-teammate-called-me-man-with-a-penis?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on July 31, 2022, 10:00:49 pm
Trans Cheerleader Booted From Camp For Allegedly Choking Female Teammate: Called Me ‘Man With A Penis’
By  Ryan Saavedra
Jul 31, 2022  Daily Wire (https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-cheerleader-booted-from-camp-for-allegedly-choking-female-teammate-called-me-man-with-a-penis?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter)

@mountaineer

This really ain't all that complicated. If you have a penis,you ARE a male.

You can call yourself a Buick if that's what makes you happy,but nobody is going to be able to drive you to work,and after the first time they fill you up with gasoline,you won't be around any more to bother anyone.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 01, 2022, 04:05:06 am
@mountaineer

This really ain't all that complicated. If you have a penis,you ARE a male.

You can call yourself a Buick if that's what makes you happy,but nobody is going to be able to drive you to work,and after the first time they fill you up with gasoline,you won't be around any more to bother anyone.
It's not that simple since women have had the AddaDicktoMe and men have had the Dickectomy surgeries, the one simple biological fact that can not be changed is chromosomes.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 01, 2022, 02:50:58 pm
It's not that simple since women have had the AddaDicktoMe and men have had the Dickectomy surgeries, the one simple biological fact that can not be changed is chromosomes.

@GtHawk

Does nothing to alter your DNA.

These people don't have a gender problem,they have a mind problem.

So,following THEIR logic,shouldn't they be cutting their heads off instead of their genitals?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on August 01, 2022, 04:07:53 pm
@GtHawk

Does nothing to alter your DNA.

These people don't have a gender problem,they have a mind problem.

So,following THEIR logic,shouldn't they be cutting their heads off instead of their genitals?
The truly sad thing is that the suicide rate is almost the same for them pre and post transition. They need help that does not include the use of a scalpel.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 01, 2022, 04:33:04 pm
Does nothing to alter your DNA.

If I wanted to alter my DNA I'd have gotten all the clot shots.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 02, 2022, 02:03:01 am
@GtHawk

Does nothing to alter your DNA.

These people don't have a gender problem,they have a mind problem.

So,following THEIR logic,shouldn't they be cutting their heads off instead of their genitals?
Depends on which head is doing the thinking...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 02, 2022, 02:03:44 am
The truly sad thing is that the suicide rate is almost the same for them pre and post transition. They need help that does not include the use of a scalpel.
Yep. It's just an additional layer of misery for them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 12, 2022, 02:14:07 pm
That does it. I'm never going to the beach again.
Quote
South Carolina woman dies after being impaled by beach umbrella
By Patrick Reilly   
August 11, 2022 11:39pm

A South Carolina woman was killed after she was impaled in the chest by a beach umbrella that had blown away in a gust of wind, local officials said.

Tammy Perreault was at a Garden City beach when the umbrella broke loose from its anchor and struck her around 12:40 p.m. on Wednesday, Horry County Chief Deputy Coroner Tamara Willard told reporters. ...

Injuries and deaths from beach umbrellas careening down beaches after they’ve been caught in the wind are not uncommon.

The spiked end of the umbrellas can become lethal once a gust of wind catches the device’s canopy and sends it flying, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

The federal agency estimates about 3,000 people are injured by beach umbrellas every year. ...
NY Post (https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/south-carolina-woman-dies-after-being-impaled-by-beach-umbrella/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on August 12, 2022, 02:15:18 pm
The truly sad thing is that the suicide rate is almost the same for them pre and post transition. They need help that does not include the use of a scalpel.

Exactly.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 12, 2022, 04:20:21 pm
That does it. I'm never going to the beach again.NY Post (https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/south-carolina-woman-dies-after-being-impaled-by-beach-umbrella/)
Congress needs to enact umbrella control laws immediately, all umbrellas must be registered and owners must have mandatory training classes and licenses.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on August 12, 2022, 04:26:30 pm
Darn those assault beach umbrellas!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on August 12, 2022, 06:44:35 pm
Those thinks are just oversize Lawn Jarts. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on August 12, 2022, 06:47:25 pm
The spiked end of the umbrellas can become lethal once a gust of wind catches the device’s canopy and sends it flying, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

The federal agency estimates about 3,000 people are injured by beach umbrellas every year. ...

@mountaineer

I kinda doubt that. I have lived on a beach or near a beach for over half of my life,and this is the first time I have ever heard of this happening.

BUT......,IF it IS  a problem,it is a simple one to solve. Just demand the manufacturers of Beach Umbrellas use a large rounded or even a blunt end on them instead of a pointed end.

This ain't rocket science,folks.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on August 12, 2022, 08:19:40 pm
@mountaineer

I kinda doubt that. I have lived on a beach or near a beach for over half of my life,and this is the first time I have ever heard of this happening.

BUT......,IF it IS  a problem,it is a simple one to solve. Just demand the manufacturers of Beach Umbrellas use a large rounded or even a blunt end on them instead of a pointed end.

This ain't rocket science,folks.
Pete here's a story from 2018   https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/5/17080536/beach-umbrella-death-fatal-chest-injury-case-report

This article claims millions worldwide being killed(I will take it with a boulder sized grain of salt)
https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/story/lifestyle/2017/05/18/his-common-household-item-is-killing-millions-of-people-worldwide/116637412/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DefiantMassRINO on August 12, 2022, 08:46:19 pm
New Jersey US Senator Menendez tried to warn and protect Americans from the menace of improperly secured beach umbrellas in 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ls6cWy2Vc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ls6cWy2Vc)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 12, 2022, 09:04:34 pm
@mountaineer

I kinda doubt that. I have lived on a beach or near a beach for over half of my life,and this is the first time I have ever heard of this happening.

BUT......,IF it IS  a problem,it is a simple one to solve. Just demand the manufacturers of Beach Umbrellas use a large rounded or even a blunt end on them instead of a pointed end.

This ain't rocket science,folks.
People have been getting killed with sharp pointy things for a long time.

Whether this one blew in or had human help is another question. I suspect there were witnesses...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 13, 2022, 10:56:46 pm
Hempfield woman told police she was going to sell 40 bricks of heroin to raise cash for son's attorney
Renatta Signorini | Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 5:10 p.m.

A Hempfield woman told police she bought 40 bricks of heroin to earn money and was going to sell the drugs to pay for her son’s defense attorney, according to court papers.

Misty D. Giron, 46, was arrested last week on drug charges. She is accused of talking with her son, who is being held at the Westmoreland County Prison on rape and drug charges, about illegal substances left behind at his Youngwood apartment, according to court papers.

Giron was found with vape pens and wax containing THC — the active psychoactive component of marijuana — on Feb. 4, the same items Brandon Giron described to her on a recorded line from the Hempfield prison a few days earlier, troopers said. Police said they also seized 40 bricks of suspected heroin and fentanyl. ... Pittsburgh Tribume-Review (https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/hempfield-woman-told-police-she-was-going-to-sell-40-bricks-of-heroin-to-raise-cash-for-sons-attorney/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on September 14, 2022, 12:06:26 pm
Apples and trees.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 16, 2022, 07:14:35 pm
Arizona Police Find Mummified Body in Bathtub While Investigating Burglary
Published: September 16, 2022
  By Cassandra Fairbanks
Quote
Police in Arizona discovered a mummified body in a bathtub while investigating a reported burglary-in-progress at the home.

The Bullhead City Police Department had been called to the scene at approximately 3:30 a.m. on September 10.

Christine Lee Walters, 65, was found inside the residence and there were pry marks on the door indicating a forced entry, according to a press release from the police department.

“Police learned that Walters had also been to the residence on September 8 and removed purses, bags and clothing of the victim to attempt to sell online,” the department said in a statement, which was posted to Facebook. ...
More (https://timcast.com/news/arizona-police-find-mummified-body-in-bathtub-while-investigating-burglary/)

I have questions, @Cyber Liberty  **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 16, 2022, 08:42:34 pm
Arizona Police Find Mummified Body in Bathtub While Investigating Burglary
Published: September 16, 2022
  By Cassandra FairbanksMore (https://timcast.com/news/arizona-police-find-mummified-body-in-bathtub-while-investigating-burglary/)

I have questions, @Cyber Liberty  **nononono*

Local story from my paper:

Police still looking for answers after body discovered in home

By BILL McMILLEN
The Daily News
Sep 15, 2022 1:58 AM

Quote
BULLHEAD CITY — The curious case of a body found in a Bullhead City home on Saturday has more questions than answers.

The Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Office has yet to complete its report on the body that was discovered in an otherwise-empty bathtub at a residence in the 100 block of Palm Avenue, between Sixth and Seventh streets in Old Bullhead, at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday.

The discovery came during an apparently unrelated burglary investigation after police were called for a report of someone inside the thought-to-be-vacant home.

I have no clue who these people are, but I do know the addresses of the dead homeowner and the burglar.  She's in a crapton of trouble, but so far she only has 2 counts of Burglary against her.

All fun starts in BHC.  The gal who was Alec Baldwin's Armorer lives here, too (last time I checked).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 16, 2022, 11:34:07 pm
Arizona Police Find Mummified Body in Bathtub While Investigating Burglary
Published: September 16, 2022
  By Cassandra FairbanksMore (https://timcast.com/news/arizona-police-find-mummified-body-in-bathtub-while-investigating-burglary/)

I have questions, @Cyber Liberty  **nononono*

 :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 17, 2022, 12:15:28 am
:silly:

 :silly:

@mountaineer knows this is my current home town, Bullhead City.  Shit seems to happen here.   :shrug: :thud:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on September 17, 2022, 12:24:31 am
Local story from my paper:

Police still looking for answers after body discovered in home

By BILL McMILLEN
The Daily News
Sep 15, 2022 1:58 AM

I have no clue who these people are, but I do know the addresses of the dead homeowner and the burglar.  She's in a crapton of trouble, but so far she only has 2 counts of Burglary against her.

All fun starts in BHC.  The gal who was Alec Baldwin's Armorer lives here, too (last time I checked).

Good grief!   8888huh
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 17, 2022, 12:36:36 am
Good grief!   8888huh

To think I left nice, peaceful Phoenix for this!  :happyhappy:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on September 24, 2022, 01:55:34 am
Cannibal admits to killing and eating a man called Kevin Bacon he met on Grindr in 2019 - after previously claiming an insanity defense

DAILYMAIL.COM
By HOPE SLOOP
PUBLISHED: 17:22 EDT, 23 September 2022

WARNING: This story contains graphic content
The self proclaimed cannibal pleaded guilty in court Thursday to murdering and eating a 25-year-old college student in 2019
Mark David Latunski allegedly lured Kevin Bacon back to his home on Christmas Eve where he later stabbed and ate parts of him
The 52-year-old Latunski could face life in prison without parole 

(more)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11244177/Michigan-cannibal-admits-killing-eating-man-called-Kevin-Bacon-met-Grindr-2019.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 24, 2022, 02:11:02 am
I love this thread.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 25, 2022, 03:19:43 pm
And you thought your ex was bad: New Jersey man is caught making daily visits to PEE on grave of ex-wife he divorced 48 years ago by woman's horrified children - and he even took current spouse to watch

A man has been caught on camera urinating on his ex-wife's grave

Michael Murphy, 43, first noticed something was amiss after spotting a bag of feces had been left at the gravesite on several visits

He and his sister got permission to get up a trail camera to video visitors

The man, who was married to his mother 48 years ago, was seen getting out of his car and then peeing on the gravesite

The police said there's nothing they can do as there's no physical threats

By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 22:31 EDT, 24 September 2022 | UPDATED: 02:51 EDT, 25 September 2022


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11247055/Man-caught-PEEING-grave-ex-wife-divorced-48-years-ago-womans-stunned-children.html ****slapping (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11247055/Man-caught-PEEING-grave-ex-wife-divorced-48-years-ago-womans-stunned-children.html ****slapping)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 25, 2022, 11:00:44 pm
And you thought your ex was bad: New Jersey man is caught making daily visits to PEE on grave of ex-wife he divorced 48 years ago by woman's horrified children - and he even took current spouse to watch

A man has been caught on camera urinating on his ex-wife's grave

Michael Murphy, 43, first noticed something was amiss after spotting a bag of feces had been left at the gravesite on several visits

He and his sister got permission to get up a trail camera to video visitors

The man, who was married to his mother 48 years ago, was seen getting out of his car and then peeing on the gravesite

The police said there's nothing they can do as there's no physical threats

By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 22:31 EDT, 24 September 2022 | UPDATED: 02:51 EDT, 25 September 2022


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11247055/Man-caught-PEEING-grave-ex-wife-divorced-48-years-ago-womans-stunned-children.html ****slapping (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11247055/Man-caught-PEEING-grave-ex-wife-divorced-48-years-ago-womans-stunned-children.html ****slapping)

@corbe

THERE is a guy that really knows how to hold a grudge!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 26, 2022, 12:36:56 am
@corbe

THERE is a guy that really knows how to hold a grudge!

I can understand the sentiment... I truly can.  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 26, 2022, 12:47:50 am
I can understand the sentiment... I truly can.  :whistle:
See? I just thanked the Lord for my freedom and moved on.

All that animosity chews on a fellow.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 26, 2022, 12:55:32 am
@corbe

THERE is a guy that really knows how to hold a grudge!

But not his Bladder.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 26, 2022, 03:06:29 am
See? I just thanked the Lord for my freedom and moved on.

All that animosity chews on a fellow.

That's right... But I can understand it all the same.  happy77 :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sighlass on September 26, 2022, 05:12:01 am
Would be tempted to hook up some electric shock device.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on November 03, 2022, 12:42:53 am
:laugh:

Another time in a green room on a construction site, pulled up my britches and felt the pocket flip over... Saw the wallet bounce on the seat... Even took a swipe at it... Nope.

There was 400 bucks in that wallet.
Driver's license.
Fishing license.

I thought about it, I really did...
But about 40 construction guys had been doing their business in there... Every morning there's a line around 10 o'clock...
NOPE.

You're a construction guy and you askeered of getting poo poo on your wittow hands?  Holy s*** Batman.   Soap and water, hello!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 03, 2022, 12:58:00 am
You're a construction guy and you askeered of getting poo poo on your wittow hands?  Holy s*** Batman.   Soap and water, hello!

@DeerSlayer LOL!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on November 03, 2022, 01:01:19 am
I love this thread.

It has its moments!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 03, 2022, 02:52:30 am
You're a construction guy and you askeered of getting poo poo on your wittow hands?  Holy s*** Batman.   Soap and water, hello!

I can do it. And HAVE done it... Is it worth it for 400 bucks?
NOPE. Oddly enough, it wasn't worth it to anyone else there at the time, as I'd have gladly paid em the money to get the rest of the wallet back. Not a one.

So you're welcome to it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 03, 2022, 02:54:10 am
I can do it. And HAVE done it... Is it worth it for 400 bucks?
NOPE. Oddly enough, it wasn't worth it to anyone else there at the time, as I'd have gladly paid em the money to get the rest of the wallet back. Not a one.

So you're welcome to it.
Oddly enough, I always have a pair of nitrile gauntlets in my gear...so long as it didn't sink too far, it'd be easy money.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 03, 2022, 02:58:52 am
Oddly enough, I always have a pair of nitrile gauntlets in my gear...so long as it didn't sink too far, it'd be easy money.

You mean them  ones you use for AI cows that go clean to your armpit? Might've had a shot then...  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 03, 2022, 03:04:54 am
You mean them  ones you use for AI cows that go clean to your armpit? Might've had a shot then...  :shrug:
Not quite that long...but a wallet should have some floater factor...A lot would depend on the last time the thing had been cleaned out.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 03, 2022, 07:03:50 am
Not quite that long...but a wallet should have some floater factor...A lot would depend on the last time the thing had been cleaned out.

 Well, y'all would have been welcome to try. Although even the rotorootor guy didn't look for it.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on November 03, 2022, 02:45:11 pm
I can do it. And HAVE done it... Is it worth it for 400 bucks?
NOPE. Oddly enough, it wasn't worth it to anyone else there at the time, as I'd have gladly paid em the money to get the rest of the wallet back. Not a one.

So you're welcome to it.

I take it all you hardasses never changed a baby's diaper.
I've gotten a lot dirtier doing oil changes and cleaning fish.
Didn't hurt me a bit.
Cowboy up!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 03, 2022, 02:48:15 pm
I take it all you hardasses never changed a baby's diaper.
I've gotten a lot dirtier doing oil changes and cleaning fish.
Didn't hurt me a bit.
Cowboy up!
Changed quite a few, actually.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 03, 2022, 03:05:05 pm
I take it all you hardasses never changed a baby's diaper.
I've gotten a lot dirtier doing oil changes and cleaning fish.
Didn't hurt me a bit.
Cowboy up!


LOL! Like I said, you'd have been welcome to try.

I'm a redneck. I am in sh*t every day of my life.
I wasn't willing to go scuba-diving in that tidy-bowl. And neither was anyone else - INCLUDING the sh*t-pumper guy who could have sucked the most of it out and have a whole lot less to deal with.

*NO* takers. Not just me.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 03, 2022, 03:09:26 pm
Changed quite a few, actually.

4 kids... yeah, me too. That's a far cry from the combined product of twenty-five or thirty carpenters, contractors, and truck drivers...

 :terror: :3:

I'll take cleaning a pig pen any day...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 03, 2022, 03:12:44 pm
4 kids... yeah, me too. That's a far cry from the combined product of twenty-five or thirty carpenters, contractors, and truck drivers...

 :terror: :3:

I'll take cleaning a pig pen any day...
Yeah, it gets to be the assh*les you know versus the assh*les you don't...

But I was EMS back when, so as long as I can glove up... :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 03, 2022, 03:22:01 pm
Yeah, it gets to be the assh*les you know versus the assh*les you don't...

But I was EMS back when, so as long as I can glove up... :shrug:

Oh, I'll do it... Worst I ever been was in a cold-water irrigation well a cow fell into...
By the time they found her, she was dang near soup. bones disarticulated...

It was AWFUL being down in that well... and even with a wet-suit, the stank of it didn't wear off for months. I might do that again... but it would cost you plenty.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 03, 2022, 06:10:29 pm
Oh, I'll do it... Worst I ever been was in a cold-water irrigation well a cow fell into...
By the time they found her, she was dang near soup. bones disarticulated...

It was AWFUL being down in that well... and even with a wet-suit, the stank of it didn't wear off for months. I might do that again... but it would cost you plenty.
888high58888
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 04, 2022, 01:11:28 am
Oh, I'll do it... Worst I ever been was in a cold-water irrigation well a cow fell into...
By the time they found her, she was dang near soup. bones disarticulated...

It was AWFUL being down in that well... and even with a wet-suit, the stank of it didn't wear off for months. I might do that again... but it would cost you plenty.
No thanks! I had too many experiences as a plumber doing commercial work, What is it about people when you tell them no using the toilet and they say yes I understand but the second you have cut out the piece of overhead sewer line they take a huge dump and flush it? I also was down in the collection tank of a campground to strip and recoat the concrete tank...same, excuse me shit! I told the boss nope no more, I wanna go back to working in nice clean research and virology labs.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on November 04, 2022, 01:29:31 am
No thanks! I had too many experiences as a plumber doing commercial work, What is it about people when you tell them no using the toilet and they say yes I understand but the second you have cut out the piece of overhead sewer line they take a huge dump and flush it? I also was down in the collection tank of a campground to strip and recoat the concrete tank...same, excuse me shit! I told the boss nope no more, I wanna go back to working in nice clean research and virology labs.

HAHAHA! Being a painter as my last official business before I got sick, We've done industrial sewage tanks - Not too many companies will deal with old skool epoxies like that... But being painters, they know we get a little uppity... The tank was given to me already pumped and steam cleaned, and of a surety, with both the inlet(s) and outlet(s) properly plugged so there could be no surprises.

So all we had to do is get through the acid etching, pressure wash, and then get seriously stoned on epoxy fumes in an enclosed space. Epoxy is a pretty nice high if you eat a big greasy burger beforehand (tech hack)... But either way, you get lit as hell, even with a proper mask.

So epoxy day was always a blast.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 09, 2022, 07:43:59 pm
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
A biological male won “Miss Greater Derry” which is a beauty pageant in New Hampshire under the “Miss America” organization.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhIoEpiUcAMmM1K?format=jpg&name=900x900)
11:16 AM · Nov 9, 2022


Not even a blind person would take this fat guy for a woman. Give me a break.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 09, 2022, 08:02:34 pm
Soy rage. You hate to see it.
https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1590205687975776298
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on November 09, 2022, 08:06:58 pm
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
A biological male won “Miss Greater Derry” which is a beauty pageant in New Hampshire under the “Miss America” organization.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhIoEpiUcAMmM1K?format=jpg&name=900x900)
11:16 AM · Nov 9, 2022


Not even a blind person would take this fat guy for a woman. Give me a break.

It's simply astounding how all of those oh-so-vociferous feminists are oh-so-silent now when real men who have a sexual fetish for playing dress-up are actually coopting women's events and women's accomplishments, and generally colonizing the concept of being female.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 09, 2022, 08:11:19 pm
It's simply astounding how all of those oh-so-vociferous feminists are oh-so-silent now when real men who have a sexual fetish for playing dress-up are actually coopting women's events and women's accomplishments, and generally colonizing the concept of being female.
And with the most ridiculous stereotypes of femaleness. How many real women even come close to resembling the cartoonishness of this bloated nutjob in NH or the drag queens on TV?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on November 09, 2022, 08:31:40 pm
And with the most ridiculous stereotypes of femaleness. How many real women even come close to resembling the cartoonishness of this bloated nutjob in NH or the drag queens on TV?

Exactly.  They are not only coopting and colonizing what it means to be female, they are degrading it and invalidating it; reducing it to a mean caricature of the "painted lady" sort.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 15, 2022, 03:17:27 pm
HelloFresh accused of using coconut milk obtained from monkey labor
By Kate Gibson
Updated on: November 14, 2022 / 4:35 PM / MoneyWatch
Quote
HelloFresh uses coconut milk obtained from monkey labor in Thailand, according to allegations from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which is calling for a boycott of the meal delivery service.

Monkeys are chained, whipped, beaten and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts, an investigation by PETA Asia alleges. Claims of animals abuse are alleged at 57 operations in nine provinces of Thailand, according to the findings released on Monday.

In a statement to CBS MoneyWatch, HelloFresh said the company receives written assurances from its suppliers that its coconuts are not procured using monkeys.  ...

Most of the monkeys are kidnapped from their families in nature, even though the species exploited by the coconut trade are threatened or endangered, according to the animal-welfare group. ...
CBS (https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/hellofresh-monkeys-coconut-milk-peta-animal-abuse/)

But no objection to having your Nike shoes and clothing made by human slaves in China, I bet.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Kamaji on November 15, 2022, 03:50:24 pm
HelloFresh accused of using coconut milk obtained from monkey labor
By Kate Gibson
Updated on: November 14, 2022 / 4:35 PM / MoneyWatch CBS (https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/hellofresh-monkeys-coconut-milk-peta-animal-abuse/)

But no objection to having your Nike shoes and clothing made by human slaves in China, I bet.

Are we sure this isn't some Babylon Bee article?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 25, 2022, 01:41:51 pm
W.Va. woman is not quite "Florida man," but we'll get there eventually.
Quote
W.Va. woman dies after stealing ambulance from hospital, authorities say
By The Associated Press
WFSB (https://www.wfsb.com/2022/11/24/wva-woman-dies-after-stealing-ambulance-hospital-authorities-say/)
Published: Nov. 24, 2022 at 6:02 PM EST|Updated: 14 hours ago

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman died Thanksgiving Day after she stole an ambulance from a capital city hospital emergency room and crashed it into the Kanawha River, authorities said.

Elizabeth Reed of Hinton was a patient at Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital when she took Cedar Grove Volunteer Fire Department Ambulance Unit 64 just after 12:30 a.m., Charleston Police Department officials said in a news release. Reed then began driving toward Kanawha Boulevard.

Five minutes later, she struck a concrete barrier near Chesapeake Avenue and went over the embankment into the Kanawha River, police said. ...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 25, 2022, 04:38:27 pm
W.Va. woman is not quite "Florida man," but we'll get there eventually.
Really don't care that some whack a doodle offed her self, the sad thing about this story is an ambulance removed from service and how many people will be affected by slower response times.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 25, 2022, 05:11:11 pm
Really don't care that some whack a doodle offed her self, the sad thing about this story is an ambulance removed from service and how many people will be affected by slower response times.
The fire department that owns the ambulance is in my father's very tiny hometown, too. I'd be surprised if they have another in service.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 11, 2023, 12:27:52 am
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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 11, 2023, 06:43:32 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FopIL0EXwAA_vM7?format=jpg&name=360x360) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FopIL0BWAAg8hnF?format=jpg&name=360x360)

@mountaineer

He "had no idea how it got there" translates into "I will see you later."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 11, 2023, 08:30:31 pm
Before I die I just want to see an x-ray of someone's boot up an ass.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on February 11, 2023, 08:37:51 pm
Before I die I just want to see an x-ray of someone's boot up an ass.

A good place to start:

https://radiopaedia.org/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 11, 2023, 10:45:40 pm
@mountaineer

He "had no idea how it got there" translates into "I will see you later."
Well, at least the gerbil got away... :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 11, 2023, 11:31:43 pm
One in a million chance, doc.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: ChemEngrMBA on March 05, 2023, 10:33:27 pm
The California Reparations Commission has recommended upping reparations from $220,000 to every black Californian
to $360,000.  This will "help them stop stealing" say the racist Commission Cultists.
What about poor white trash, hmmm?  Don't care if they keep on stealing?
Chinese immigrants and their offspring were discriminated against until the end of World War II.
The Chinese Exclusionary Act was not repealed until after the war.
Japanese and Germans were imprisoned during WWII.  No money for them, sorry.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on March 12, 2023, 10:58:30 pm
Man shoots himself in the balls after being caught relieving himself by police

Another day, and yet another example of karma working its wicked way once again.

A man who was caught urinating in the street accidentally shot himself in the privates while attempting to get rid of a gun he was carrying.

Javier Thomas, 26, was caught relieving himself in a Brooklyn street in the early hours of Saturday, and immediately attempted to throw away his 9-mm Glock pistol.

But he was left in agony when he accidentally pulled the trigger and shot himself in the privates, police said.

Thomas was taken to Kings County Hospital with a non-life threatening wound, and was later arrested on charges of weapon possession and reckless endangerment.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/09/28/man-shoots-himself-in-the-balls-after-being-caught-relieving-himself-by-police-5411260/

@EC

Has to be tough to buy a 9mm Glock in London.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 25, 2023, 12:35:31 pm
American Airlines passenger urinates on another traveler during flight from JFK: reports
By Allie Griffin   
April 25, 2023 2:36am
Quote
A rowdy American Airlines passenger urinated on another traveler aboard a flight from New York to Delhi over the weekend.

The man, who was reportedly drunk and “unruly,” was arrested after Flight 292 out of JFK Airport landed at the Delhi airport around 9 p.m. Sunday, New Delhi Television reported.

American Airlines confirmed that a disruption happened on the flight in a statement but spared the stomach-turning details.

“American Airlines flight 292 with service from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) was met by local law enforcement upon arrival in DEL due to a disruption on board,” the company told local outlets. ...
NY Post (https://nypost.com/2023/04/25/american-airlines-passenger-urinates-on-another-traveler-during-flight-from-jfk-reports/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on April 25, 2023, 12:38:53 pm
Why are today's wacky stories urine-related? Eww.
Quote
Pensioner urinating on a train track is killed by a flying cow that was hit by a carriage and flung 100ft through the air
    Another man had been standing nearby the tracks and only narrowly avoided being struck by the flying animal
By Rohan Gupta
Published: 08:32 EDT, 23 April 2023 | Updated: 04:40 EDT, 24 April 2023

Shivdayal Sharma, 82, died immediately after being struck by a flying cow which was hit and flung 100 feet into the air by an express train.

Sharma had been urinating on the track in the region of Alwar, India, when the freak incident occurred. ...

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that measures such as garbage and vegetation removal had begun to cull the cows.

The incident caused many officials to rally for improved regulation on the train route, which sees a lot of cow incidents on its tracks. ...
Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12004403/Pensioner-urinating-train-track-killed-flying-cow-hit-carriage.html?ito=facebook_share_article-top)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 25, 2023, 01:22:23 pm
Why are today's wacky stories urine-related? Eww.Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12004403/Pensioner-urinating-train-track-killed-flying-cow-hit-carriage.html?ito=facebook_share_article-top)

Killed by a sacred cow!.  How Ironic.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on April 25, 2023, 01:39:54 pm
Before I die I just want to see an x-ray of someone's boot up an ass.

There is animation of the Richard Gere event......

(http://southparkstudios.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/south-park/clip-thumbnails/season-6/0614/south-park-s06e14c07-lemmiwinks-adventure-begins-16x9.jpg)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on April 25, 2023, 01:49:09 pm
There is animation of the Richard Gere event......

(http://southparkstudios.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/south-park/clip-thumbnails/season-6/0614/south-park-s06e14c07-lemmiwinks-adventure-begins-16x9.jpg)

 :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: andy58-in-nh on April 25, 2023, 03:43:11 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FopIL0EXwAA_vM7?format=jpg&name=360x360) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FopIL0BWAAg8hnF?format=jpg&name=360x360)

Nature abhors a vacuum.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on April 25, 2023, 09:51:03 pm
Quote
Police: Man tried to steal Bremerton fast ferry for upcoming ‘revolution’

By L.B. GILBERT, MyNorthwest Content Editor
April 25, 2023 at 12:18 pm PDT


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BREMERTON, Wash. — Police in Bremerton arrested a man Sunday who illegally boarded an out-of-service fast ferry and allegedly tried to steal it.

A woman and her two kids were waiting for a ferry to Seattle and watched from nearby as the man pushed buttons in the wheelhouse.

A ferry captain on a different ferry saw the man on the fast ferry and alerted authorities.

Bremerton Police spokesperson Aaron Elton says the man is in his 40s and told police a revolution was coming, and that’s why he needed to take the boat.

The man faces charges of burglary, theft, malicious mischief, and unlawful transit conduct.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on April 25, 2023, 09:58:38 pm


Where's his Army?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on April 25, 2023, 11:47:20 pm
Why are today's wacky stories urine-related? Eww.Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12004403/Pensioner-urinating-train-track-killed-flying-cow-hit-carriage.html?ito=facebook_share_article-top)
Question, is getting killed by a cow in India considered having a religious experience?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on April 26, 2023, 12:03:47 am
Nature abhors a vacuum.

@andy58-in-nh

Is it just me,or is there  also a cowboy boot up there?

If the boot doesn't have  spurs on it,he's a wuss and will never be popular in NYC or Hollywood.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on May 15, 2023, 11:09:57 pm
Quote
DUI suspect in Colorado reportedly tried to switch seats with his dog when pulled over by police
By Tony Keith
Published: May. 15, 2023 at 1:59 PM EDT|Updated: 5 hours ago

SPRINGFIELD, Colo. (KKTV) - It appears a man suspected of DUI in Colorado was trying to get out of the charges by putting his dog behind the wheel of the car he was driving.

The Springfield Police Department (SPD) shared details for the odd incident on their Facebook page. According to police, the suspect was pulled over in the Springfield area on the south side of Colorado at about 11:30 on Saturday night. The driver was reportedly driving 52 MPH in a 30 MPH zone.

“The driver attempted to switch places with his dog who was in the passenger seat, as the SPD officer approached and watched the entire process,” part of a post by Springfield Police reads. “The male party then exited the passenger side of the vehicle and claimed he was not driving. The male party showed clear signs of intoxication and when asked about his alcohol consumption the male party ran from the Officer. The male party was apprehended quickly within about 20 yards of the vehicle.” ...
https://www.kktv.com/2023/05/15/dui-suspect-colorado-reportedly-tried-switch-places-with-his-dog-when-pulled-over-by-police/

As the dyslexic drunk driver said, "Dog is my co-pilot."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 15, 2023, 11:29:00 pm
https://www.kktv.com/2023/05/15/dui-suspect-colorado-reportedly-tried-switch-places-with-his-dog-when-pulled-over-by-police/

As the dyslexic drunk driver said, "Dog is my co-pilot."

And he almost got away with it....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on June 11, 2023, 02:12:30 pm
OJ Simpson has some legal advice for Donald Trump [VIDEO]

JUN. 10, 2023 11:14 AM BY THE RIGHT SCOOP


In light of the indictment of Donald Trump, OJ Simpson took to Twitter yesterday to share the best legal advice he’d ever been given.

And it was clearly a message to Trump.

It’s in the first 1:10 seconds of the video below:

<..snip..>

https://therightscoop.com/oj-simpson-has-some-legal-advice-for-donald-trump-video/ (https://therightscoop.com/oj-simpson-has-some-legal-advice-for-donald-trump-video/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 11, 2023, 02:17:48 pm
OJ Simpson has some legal advice for Donald Trump [VIDEO]

JUN. 10, 2023 11:14 AM BY THE RIGHT SCOOP


In light of the indictment of Donald Trump, OJ Simpson took to Twitter yesterday to share the best legal advice he’d ever been given.

And it was clearly a message to Trump.

It’s in the first 1:10 seconds of the video below:

<..snip..>

https://therightscoop.com/oj-simpson-has-some-legal-advice-for-donald-trump-video/ (https://therightscoop.com/oj-simpson-has-some-legal-advice-for-donald-trump-video/)


@corbe

All I got was an ad trying to sell me a browser.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on June 11, 2023, 02:43:23 pm
   It works for me @sneakypete  I don't think you need another Browser~ You need to download, install and run this 30 day FREE PROGRAM.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/thankyou (https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/thankyou)



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 11, 2023, 04:11:48 pm
   It works for me @sneakypete  I don't think you need another Browser~ You need to download, install and run this 30 day FREE PROGRAM.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/thankyou (https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/thankyou)

@corbe

Thanks,but I am afraid of "30 day free" plans,and the problems they can cause when the 30 days runs out and you don't buy  the plan.

Right now I  am VERY "vexed" at Norton for selling me a virus protection program that was NOT cheap,and having that program include  software that told me I needed to upgrade  immediately for $79.95 if you don't want  to be turned into a frog!"

"Vexed" to the point I sent them a nastygram about this,and am considering demanding a full refund of the money I have already paid them.

Been a Norton customer since I got my first computer,and this crap is staring to really get me steamed.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on June 11, 2023, 04:50:38 pm
   Malwarebytes does not ask for a credit card upon the 30 day free trial. Don't ever give them a cc number and they can't charge you, simple as that.  Just delete/uninstall the APP when done.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 11, 2023, 05:13:45 pm
Been a Norton customer since I got my first computer,and this crap is staring to really get me steamed.

@sneakypete

Norton is crap. And has been since the 90s. Jussayin
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on June 11, 2023, 05:18:17 pm
@sneakypete

Norton is crap. And has been since the 90s. Jussayin

 :yowsa:  :amen:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on June 11, 2023, 06:31:02 pm
@sneakypete

Norton is crap. And has been since the 90s. Jussayin

Have to agree with that. One might even say it is malware.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 11, 2023, 07:07:31 pm
Have to agree with that. One might even say it is malware.

Yep. McAfee too.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on June 11, 2023, 07:52:13 pm
Yep. McAfee too.

No argument here.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 11, 2023, 08:30:42 pm
   Malwarebytes does not ask for a credit card upon the 30 day free trial. Don't ever give them a cc number and they can't charge you, simple as that.  Just delete/uninstall the APP when done.

@corbe

Thanks,I will give it a shot. 99 percent certain I will be cancelling Norton and demanding a refund.
Just waiting to see what their reply is.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 11, 2023, 08:32:00 pm
@sneakypete

Norton is crap. And has been since the 90s. Jussayin

@roamer_1

What do you recommend?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 11, 2023, 08:33:27 pm
Ok,since I now  plan on deleting Norton if I hear  what I expect to hear from them,what anti-virus  programs do you  all recommend?

Please keep in mind  that I am not a computer pro,and I am on a limited budget.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on June 11, 2023, 08:35:56 pm
Ok,since I now  plan on deleting Norton if I hear  what I expect to hear from them,what anti-virus  programs do you  all recommend?

Please keep in mind  that I am not a computer pro,and I am on a limited budget.

I use the free version of Avast and haven't had any problems.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on June 11, 2023, 09:09:22 pm
Ok,since I now  plan on deleting Norton if I hear  what I expect to hear from them,what anti-virus  programs do you  all recommend?

Please keep in mind  that I am not a computer pro,and I am on a limited budget.

Just doing that (removing Norton) can be quite a challenge as it spreads itself all over your hard drive and running the uninstall program just makes you think it's gone @sneakypete .  I've had to wipe the whole thing (hd) off and start over to actually get rid of it in the past.  Now I won't even allow it in the same room with any machine I own.

This might sound unbelievable to you, but the standard MS Defender that comes free with Windows now has worked just fine around here for years normally with three computers on the network all the time.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 11, 2023, 09:17:56 pm
I use the free version of Avast and haven't had any problems.

@bigheadfred

Thanks!

That is a name I haven't heard in a long time,and wouldn't even have thought of looking it up.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 11, 2023, 09:20:57 pm
Just doing that (removing Norton) can be quite a challenge as it spreads itself all over your hard drive and running the uninstall program just makes you think it's gone @sneakypete .  I've had to wipe the whole thing (hd) off and start over to actually get rid of it in the past.  Now I won't even allow it in the same room with any machine I own.

This might sound unbelievable to you, but the standard MS Defender that comes free with Windows now has worked just fine around here for years normally with three computers on the network all the time.


@Bigun

Thanks,it would have never even occured to me to look for that one.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 11, 2023, 09:24:48 pm
Thanks,it would have never even occured to me to look for that one.

Not up to  reformatting any hard drives at this point in my life,though. Chemo fried my short-term memory,and I get confused from just changing screens to check my email. This is one of the reasons I get into so many political arguments here. People challenge me to post info I post,and I can't remember where I got it from.

I can actually remember back to wearing diapers in color,but have no freaking clue as to what I did,said,or who I saw and talked with  3 days ago.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on June 11, 2023, 09:28:19 pm
Not up to  reformatting any hard drives at this point in my life,though. Chemo fried my short-term memory,and I get confused from just changing screens to check my email. This is one of the reasons I get into so many political arguments here. People challenge me to post info I post,and I can't remember where I got it from.

I can actually remember back to wearing diapers in color,but have no freaking clue as to what I did,said,or who I saw and talked with  3 days ago.


LOL! I know! It's a LOT easier than it used to be but I hope you don't have to do it. @sneakypete

And BTW: I can remember every detail of something that happened 50 or 60 years ago but what I had for breakfast this morning is sometimes a challenge.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 11, 2023, 09:44:19 pm
LOL! I know! It's a LOT easier than it used to be but I hope you don't have to do it. @sneakypete

And BTW: I can remember every detail of something that happened 50 or 60 years ago but what I had for breakfast this morning is sometimes a challenge.


@Bigun

This is clearly punishment for us not having had enough fun while we were still young enough to have fun.

I am not sure it is all MY fault,though. It's not like I didn't try.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 11, 2023, 09:47:56 pm
@roamer_1

What do you recommend?

Ok,since I now  plan on deleting Norton if I hear  what I expect to hear from them,what anti-virus  programs do you  all recommend?

Please keep in mind  that I am not a computer pro,and I am on a limited budget.

@sneakypete

Basically... Nothing. If you ain't high risk, going to porn sites or hacker sites, or un-reputable movie sites, AND YOU ARE CONSISTENTLY BEHIND A ROUTER, and not at public sites, you're probably alright with Microsoft's onboard AV and firewall.

This box I am on seldom leaves this house, and I have *NO* added security features beyond the stock Windows stuff... It has never had a virus in years, and I can back that up, because I keep Emsisoft's EEK Emergency kit onboard as a secondary system and check it frequently.

Now, if you don't want to play nice...

The king is still Kaspersky IMHO. But just their AV... If you get the full suite it's a fat pig.
Eset's NOD is top shelf.

Either of those if you are high risk.

Sophos is super too - and free. It is an end-point rig, so not a lot of controls in your box... you have to go online to do all that... But it is good. really good.

My house is Kaspersky on the operational boxen... All the stuff that might come in contact with boxes coming across my bench...

The rest of it, all the business stuff and media stuff is (paid) Sophos.


Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on June 11, 2023, 09:57:42 pm
@sneakypete

Basically... Nothing. If you ain't high risk, going to porn sites or hacker sites, or un-reputable movie sites, AND YOU ARE CONSISTENTLY BEHIND A ROUTER, and not at public sites, you're probably alright with Microsoft's onboard AV and firewall.

This box I am on seldom leaves this house, and I have *NO* added security features beyond the stock Windows stuff... It has never had a virus in years, and I can back that up, because I keep Emsisoft's EEK Emergency kit onboard as a secondary system and check it frequently.

Now, if you don't want to play nice...

The king is still Kaspersky IMHO. But just their AV... If you get the full suite it's a fat pig.
Eset's NOD is top shelf.

Either of those if you are high risk.

Sophos is super too - and free. It is an end-point rig, so not a lot of controls in your box... you have to go online to do all that... But it is good. really good.

My house is Kaspersky on the operational boxen... All the stuff that might come in contact with boxes coming across my bench...

The rest of it, all the business stuff and media stuff is Sophos.

I use ESet's NOD32 Antivirus and highly recommend it. I also agree to only install NOD32 and not the full suite of Internet protection programs.

I will say that there is substantial risk just reading the news and/or visiting other various mainline sites due to the ad servers. I've had multiple virus/trojan blocking events due to infected ads on otherwise common sites. If you use the internet, you need protection - at least on a Windows based machine.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 11, 2023, 10:00:55 pm
This might sound unbelievable to you, but the standard MS Defender that comes free with Windows now has worked just fine around here for years normally with three computers on the network all the time.

@Bigun

YEP. Just check back every now and then with a good alternative on-demand scanner.

Emsisoft's EEK (https://www.emsisoft.com/en/home/emergency-kit/) is one I use a lot. Emsisoft is the old A-Squared trojan hunter, so I have been with em since Hector was a pup.

Their EEK kit installs to your root directory and does nothing. It is all on-demand. But it has a built in updater for both the program and the defs, so just running it will update it to the newest version and defs.

That little kit is on most all of my boxes, just sitting there. But when it is needed, it is still among the best... It is a badass hunter/killer.

I can recommend other on-demand scanners, but I like this one the best. And I have a paid subscription that I maintain, even though I don't use their main software much. I use the dickens out of that EEK kit.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 11, 2023, 10:06:31 pm
I will say that there is substantial risk just reading the news and/or visiting other various mainline sites due to the ad servers. I've had multiple virus/trojan blocking events due to infected ads on otherwise common sites. If you use the internet, you need protection - at least on a Windows based machine.

Ain't been bit in years and years... But then, I also run Ublock Origin add-on in all my browsers, so ad scripts are all blocked. I never see em. If you are not running an ad-blocker you ought to be.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on June 11, 2023, 10:12:13 pm
Ain't been bit in years and years... But then, I also run Ublock Origin add-on in all my browsers, so ad scripts are all blocked. I never see em. If you are not running an ad-blocker you ought to be.

I've not been bit either. But without the protection I would have been.

And yes, I should block all adds. Doing so tends to break other legitimate things too though. Nothing is simple anymore...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 11, 2023, 10:15:47 pm
I've not been bit either. But without the protection I would have been.

And yes, I should block all adds. Doing so tends to break other legitimate things too though. Nothing is simple anymore...

UBlock is pretty seamless, and you have the option to shut it off for trusted sites... It white-lists.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on June 11, 2023, 10:19:33 pm
UBlock is pretty seamless, and you have the option to shut it off for trusted sites... It white-lists.

Thank you.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 12, 2023, 08:25:44 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyNri9jXwAAHnRp?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 12, 2023, 08:31:48 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyNri9jXwAAHnRp?format=jpg&name=large)

@mountaineer

I am guessing he isn't quit as popular at homo parties as he used to be.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 16, 2023, 03:01:47 pm
New York Post
@nypost
19h
Naked creep busted having passionate ‘sex’ with tree in busy UK park https://t.co/JLfFxjJoBu
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FysEARuXsAAl1hm?format=jpg&name=small)

Chef Andrew Gruel
@ChefGruel
That’s a lot of wood
4:01 PM · Jun 15, 2023
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on June 16, 2023, 05:57:50 pm
New York Post
@nypost
19h
Naked creep busted having passionate ‘sex’ with tree in busy UK park https://t.co/JLfFxjJoBu
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FysEARuXsAAl1hm?format=jpg&name=small)

Chef Andrew Gruel
@ChefGruel
That’s a lot of wood
4:01 PM · Jun 15, 2023
That’s just Knotty!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 16, 2023, 08:20:37 pm
New York Post
@nypost
19h
Naked creep busted having passionate ‘sex’ with tree in busy UK park https://t.co/JLfFxjJoBu
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FysEARuXsAAl1hm?format=jpg&name=small)

Chef Andrew Gruel
@ChefGruel
That’s a lot of wood
4:01 PM · Jun 15, 2023
Nah, it's just a stump.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 16, 2023, 08:59:05 pm
I hope he checked for bees.  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 16, 2023, 09:05:19 pm
Or termites.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 16, 2023, 09:28:05 pm
New York Post
@nypost
19h
Naked creep busted having passionate ‘sex’ with tree in busy UK park https://t.co/JLfFxjJoBu
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FysEARuXsAAl1hm?format=jpg&name=small)

Chef Andrew Gruel
@ChefGruel
That’s a lot of wood
4:01 PM · Jun 15, 2023

@mountaineer

We have ALL heard of "getting wood",but that is ridiculous!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 16, 2023, 09:30:00 pm
Seriously,  how pathetic is this? My gosh, sex in a tree?  **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 16, 2023, 09:44:23 pm
Seriously,  how pathetic is this? My gosh, sex in a tree?  **nononono*

That's sex with a tree....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on June 16, 2023, 09:46:04 pm
It's a little of both - in and with. Either way,  yuck.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on June 16, 2023, 10:11:31 pm
That's sex with a tree....

@Cyber Liberty

For some odd  reason,the old 50's song "Poison Ivy" comes to mind.......
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 16, 2023, 10:14:34 pm
Seriously,  how pathetic is this? My gosh, sex in a tree?  **nononono*

Hold on now... It was long ago, but I had sex in a tree... But it looked nothing like that...  :shrug:

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on June 16, 2023, 10:16:06 pm
That's sex with a tree....

LOL! Yup... That's different.

Brings to mind that dude that liked humping his car's exhaust pipe...

Somebody needs to tell these folks they're doing it wrong...  :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 04, 2023, 01:27:12 pm
Quote
Man charged after he strangles pet cat and skins it
By Lootpress News (https://www.lootpress.com/man-charged-after-he-strangles-pet-cat-and-skins-it/) Staff   
Monday, September 4, 2023 8:39 am

A man faces charges after he killed and skinned a cat.

According to a criminal complaint, on August 27, a public service call requested a welfare check on Bryan Schooley. The caller stated that she was informed Schooley had killed and skinned a cat the day prior and was concerned about his mental health.

When authorities arrived, Schooley said he strangled his pet cat and skinned it to “try his hand at taxidermy.” ...
**nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 04, 2023, 02:20:11 pm
**nononono*

I guess there is only one way to skin a cat....   8888crybaby
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 04, 2023, 04:20:46 pm
 :shrug:

I don't get it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 04, 2023, 11:15:41 pm
:shrug:

I don't get it.

@roamer_1

You don't understand domestic animal abuse?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 04, 2023, 11:48:25 pm
He was a nutcase. There's no explaining it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 05, 2023, 01:41:21 am
@roamer_1

You don't understand domestic animal abuse?

I've skinned a whole lot of critters, including cats. Ain't no abuse about it so long as the critter was properly dispatched.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 05, 2023, 01:45:25 am
I've skinned a whole lot of critters, including cats. Ain't no abuse about it so long as the critter was properly dispatched.

Strangled, in this case.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 05, 2023, 01:57:28 am
Strangled, in this case.  :shrug:

so long as it was humane.  :shrug:

It's a different picture for rural life. I know I see it different from most of y'all.
Someone else's cat, there's a claim, and a different story...  BUT a feral, or his own, don't see why the Law is involved.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Sighlass on September 05, 2023, 03:13:42 am
so long as it was humane.  :shrug:

It's a different picture for rural life. I know I see it different from most of y'all.
Someone else's cat, there's a claim, and a different story...  BUT a feral, or his own, don't see why the Law is involved.
"

Agreed, a while back some busy bodies got hot under the collar about other countries killing and eating dogs. I didn't see a problem with it, leave them alone. If a person raises dogs to eat here in the US, it is their business IMHO.

Back in the day we had "barn cats" that lived to keep the rat population down in the barn, when their population got to high, we shot them.

 OMGGGGGGG  :MiniGun:  buh bye  ***hair on fire  8888madkitty 9999what

It was just country living. Of course we had a pet or two, but we had farm animals and cats were part of the ecosystem.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 05, 2023, 04:57:34 am
It was just country living. Of course we had a pet or two, but we had farm animals and cats were part of the ecosystem.

Yeah. There's a different definition for 'pet' that folks don't  get I guess... many things are working animals, many are meant for harvest... and while they're all loved after a fashion, and cared for,, they're gonna have one bad day. And that day is comin, sure enough.

Sets different expectations on most things... Exceptions for us being dogs, horses, milk cows, house cats, and to some degree, barn cats. all of those tend to have long life on the ranch... with dogs, horses and house cats very likely to die of old age. everybody else has an expiration date - either by harvest or by nature.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 05, 2023, 01:15:38 pm
From the  :poohappen: files ...

Delta flight forced into emergency landing by passenger’s diarrhea: ‘This is a biohazard’
By Marjorie Hernandez   
September 4, 2023 3:32pm

It was a crappy situation.

A Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after a passenger “had diarrhea all the way through the plane.”

The Airbus A350 aircraft was two hours into a trans-Atlantic flight from Georgia to Spain on Friday when the pilot asked to come back because of the fecal fiasco. ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2023/09/04/delta-flight-forced-into-emergency-landing-by-passengers-diarrhea/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 05, 2023, 02:26:09 pm
The San Francisco of airplane flights.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on September 05, 2023, 02:31:21 pm
From the  :poohappen: files ...

Delta flight forced into emergency landing by passenger’s diarrhea: ‘This is a biohazard’
By Marjorie Hernandez   
September 4, 2023 3:32pm

It was a crappy situation.

A Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after a passenger “had diarrhea all the way through the plane.”

The Airbus A350 aircraft was two hours into a trans-Atlantic flight from Georgia to Spain on Friday when the pilot asked to come back because of the fecal fiasco. ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2023/09/04/delta-flight-forced-into-emergency-landing-by-passengers-diarrhea/)

Reminds me of a Knoxville bit in one of his movies.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYJjR3dd1I8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYJjR3dd1I8)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 05, 2023, 03:00:41 pm
From the  :poohappen: files ...

Delta flight forced into emergency landing by passenger’s diarrhea: ‘This is a biohazard’
By Marjorie Hernandez   
September 4, 2023 3:32pm

It was a crappy situation.

A Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after a passenger “had diarrhea all the way through the plane.”

The Airbus A350 aircraft was two hours into a trans-Atlantic flight from Georgia to Spain on Friday when the pilot asked to come back because of the fecal fiasco. ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2023/09/04/delta-flight-forced-into-emergency-landing-by-passengers-diarrhea/)

Well, $hit happens.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 05, 2023, 03:05:20 pm
Sounds like something Joe Biden would do on AF1
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 05, 2023, 03:32:03 pm
Sounds like something Joe Biden would do has done a zillion times on AF1
Fixed it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 05, 2023, 04:14:04 pm
From the  :poohappen: files ...

Delta flight forced into emergency landing by passenger’s diarrhea: ‘This is a biohazard’
By Marjorie Hernandez   
September 4, 2023 3:32pm

It was a crappy situation.

A Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after a passenger “had diarrhea all the way through the plane.”

The Airbus A350 aircraft was two hours into a trans-Atlantic flight from Georgia to Spain on Friday when the pilot asked to come back because of the fecal fiasco. ... NY Post (https://nypost.com/2023/09/04/delta-flight-forced-into-emergency-landing-by-passengers-diarrhea/)

My dog Chewy did that to the laundry room one time... 3ft up the wall all around, and the entire floor, not to mention most of himself... I seriously thought about lighting a match and burning the place down...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 05, 2023, 05:16:53 pm
Fixed it.

Thank you!!!  :)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 05, 2023, 09:05:46 pm
I've skinned a whole lot of critters, including cats. Ain't no abuse about it so long as the critter was properly dispatched.

@roamer_1

So,you would have no problem killing,skinning,and  eating a loyal pet?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 05, 2023, 09:14:30 pm
so long as it was humane.  :shrug:

It's a different picture for rural life. I know I see it different from most of y'all.
Someone else's cat, there's a claim, and a different story...  BUT a feral, or his own, don't see why the Law is involved.

@roamer_1

I have seen my share of feral cats. Almost always former pets that  were taken to the island I live on and abandoned. They  tend to stay feral because they no longer trust humans,but it is still in their nature to hang around close and eat the local mice and other varmits that are their natural prey.

On the other hand,I have two of the nicest cats that were ever born living right here in the house with me that were abandoned house cats someone dumped off on the island because "cats are natural predators and can  always survive".

This is NOT true of cats that have lived inside their whole lives and been fed canned and bagged cat food. I came home from somewhere in both cases to find them trying to hide behind wind-blown grass,and trembling with fear. I walked right up to each  one  on  each  occasion,and  just picked them up and took them into the house.

They are super affectionate,and one even got between me and the rescue squad one night when they came to the house to take me to the hospital,and spit and snarled at the EMT's. I had to calm her down before they could get to me. VERY small "Sylvester" female cat that MIGHT weigh 5 lbs,and she was going to take on a 200+ lb EMT to protect me.

Or at least pretend to take him on in an  effort to scare him away. Happily,neither  me or the EMT had to  find out how serious she was  after  I petted her to  calm her down and then put her in another room.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 05, 2023, 09:58:12 pm
@roamer_1

So,you would have no problem killing,skinning,and  eating a loyal pet?

Nope. Not if I'm hungry enough... though I would have to be pretty dang hungry... And that is a pretty unlikely scenario - Something other is bound to come along. I won't be that hungry, because I'll be poaching long before I'd kill and eat my dog or my horse.

ETA: Not that I now have either a dog or a horse...😢
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 05, 2023, 10:11:29 pm

I have seen my share of feral cats. Almost always former pets that  were taken to the island I live on and abandoned. They  tend to stay feral because they no longer trust humans,but it is still in their nature to hang around close and eat the local mice and other varmits that are their natural prey.


I know @sneakypete ... I have too. I made my bones as a hunter and trapper getting rid of varmints for farmers and ranchers... Among them, feral cats that can become a blight, bringing disease and parasites to barn and house cats. So I removed them.

That said, we have also had cats walk in and become exemplary and long lived barn cats. we've nursed young feral cats back from the brink of death, and have had feral mamma cats come get us to care for ailing kittens.

So it depends on the situation I guess. I ain't without mercy.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 05, 2023, 11:47:28 pm
I know @sneakypete ... I have too. I made my bones as a hunter and trapper getting rid of varmints for farmers and ranchers... Among them, feral cats that can become a blight, bringing disease and parasites to barn and house cats. So I removed them.

That said, we have also had cats walk in and become exemplary and long lived barn cats. we've nursed young feral cats back from the brink of death, and have had feral mamma cats come get us to care for ailing kittens.

So it depends on the situation I guess. I ain't without mercy.

@roamer_1

I feed the stray cats abandoned behind the  dumpsters at a local shopping center every day. Found a new-born black kitten yesterday whose mama obviously dropped her off by the dumpsters hoping someone would rescue her. I say this because my experience with feral cats is they quickly abandon a kitten or two if they think they won't have enough milk to feed them all.

Also,it was obvious this newborn kitten  did NOT walk to the dumpster on her own. The kitten was laying in a little hole,and when I first spotted her,I was wondering "What is that black thing?" until I got the food and water all put out,and went to look,and damned if it wasn't a kitten. So tiny she was smaller than  the palm of my hand,and once I picked her up,she immediately  moved towards my half-folded fingers to warm up.

I drove to the nearest vet,and they were closed,so I drove to the next nearest vet 30 miles away,and damned if they weren't closed,too. I forgot all about memorial day.

Anyhow,I took her to a local farm woman who not only likes cats,but  needs a bunch  of them to keep the mice,snakes, and other varmits out of her grain bins. This woman has been through  this before,and had the special milk powder for new-born kittens,as well as knowing how to use it.

Hell,I even learned something. I had no idea that to get new-born  kittens to have  a bowel movement after eating/drinking the special milk,you have to take a moist rag and wipe  their butts with it. For some odd reason they won't have bowel movements and will die if you don't.

Called her around noon today,and she is working with her tractor with the kitten sleeping in her t-shirt pocket,and doing great according to  her.

I had planned on trapping (capture cage) all the young females I could find and getting them spayed  before this happened,but got sick and was unable to do it,so now I have bigger problems.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin on September 06, 2023, 01:19:40 am
@sneakypete being a softie for cats may be my favorite random thing about TBR.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 06, 2023, 04:17:42 pm
Three-legged bear named ‘Tripod’ breaks into Florida home, guzzles ... wait for it ... three White Claws. Story at NY Post (https://t.co/OA9oShgsSr).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 06, 2023, 04:35:37 pm
Three-legged bear named ‘Tripod’ breaks into Florida home, guzzles ... wait for it ... three White Claws. Story at NY Post (https://t.co/OA9oShgsSr).

White Claw? 
Damn.  A Gen Z bear.

Jimmy Buffett would be rolling over in his grave :)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 06, 2023, 07:09:05 pm
White Claw? 
Damn.  A Gen Z bear.

Jimmy Buffett would be rolling over in his grave :)
It's hard to make Margaritas when you don't have a leg to stand on. :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 06, 2023, 07:37:19 pm
It's hard to make Margaritas when you don't have a leg to stand on. :shrug:

If anyone can do it, it'd be Jimmy Buffet.  happy77
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 06, 2023, 08:42:43 pm
If anyone can do it, it'd be Jimmy Buffet.  happy77
Yeah, he stepped on a pop top and blew out a flip-flop, but the booze was already in the blender... :shrug:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 06, 2023, 09:51:16 pm
Yeah, he stepped on a pop top and blew out a flip-flop, but the booze was already in the blender... :shrug:

It's 5 o'clock somewhere...  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 06, 2023, 09:59:15 pm
It's 5 o'clock somewhere...  :beer:
Always! :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 06, 2023, 11:02:24 pm
It's 5 o'clock somewhere...  :beer:
That's what the bear said.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 07, 2023, 03:34:53 am
It's hard to make Margaritas when you don't have a leg to stand on. :shrug:

HA! Had to come back because I missed the pirate/pegleg reference...  :laugh: :beer:  :patriot:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 07, 2023, 03:35:39 am
That's what the bear said.

Yabbut... White Claw? Does that even count?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 07, 2023, 03:41:20 am
Yabbut... White Claw? Does that even count?

Not where I live, no.  Same in Montana I'm sure.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 07, 2023, 03:50:14 am
Yabbut... White Claw? Does that even count?
Any port in a storm...:drunk:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on September 07, 2023, 11:31:31 am
Yabbut... White Claw? Does that even count?
Ain't no laws when you're drinking Claws... and I mean, a bear has claws, so it's fitting.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 16, 2023, 02:01:22 pm
Woman Knocked Out Cold As Wedding Party Gets Into Wild Brawl With Cops
by Sean Joseph
 September 16, 2023, 9:03 am   
Outkick (https://www.outkick.com/woman-knocked-out-cold-as-wedding-party-gets-into-wild-brawl-with-cops/)
Quote
A group of guests at a wedding in Rhode Island last weekend attempted to keep the party going into the early morning the following day. They ended up in an all out brawl with police that resulted in six of them being arrested.

The wild scene unfolded around 1 am on Sunday morning in Newport, Rhode Island. Police were called to a restaurant by the name of The Landing. A man, later identified as David Onik, refused to leave the establishment. He shoved an employee and took a swing at another.

According to the police, when they arrived on the scene an attempted to speak with Onik, his wife Rachael intervened. An officer then attempted to remove her from the situation by walking her away so they could speak with Onik. As they did so, she tripped and fell.

Other members of the wedding party then surrounded the officer. While attempting to get them to back away one of the women kicked the officer in the groin. He threw a punch and all hell broke loose as the woman’s husband started throwing punches. ...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on September 16, 2023, 03:28:44 pm
Woman Knocked Out Cold As Wedding Party Gets Into Wild Brawl With Cops
by Sean Joseph
 September 16, 2023, 9:03 am   
Outkick (https://www.outkick.com/woman-knocked-out-cold-as-wedding-party-gets-into-wild-brawl-with-cops/)
Article with pictures. Caution, shitstorm of ads! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12513843/wedding-guest-trying-grab-cops-gun-brawl.html
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on September 19, 2023, 08:17:11 pm
Pennsylvania Woman Arrested for Attacking Scarecrow

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A Bradford woman is in McKean County Jail after allegedly attacking a scarecrow.

According to City Police, early Tuesday morning 34-year-old Jacqueline Suzanne Horton was seen having a conversation with one of the scarecrow decorations for Pumpkinfest. Horton then allegedly dismantled the scarecrow, scattering straw and stealing the clothes.

https://wesb.com/2023/09/19/bradford-woman-arrested-for-attacking-scarecrow/
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 19, 2023, 08:19:54 pm
Pennsylvania Woman Arrested for Attacking Scarecrow

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A Bradford woman is in McKean County Jail after allegedly attacking a scarecrow.

According to City Police, early Tuesday morning 34-year-old Jacqueline Suzanne Horton was seen having a conversation with one of the scarecrow decorations for Pumpkinfest. Horton then allegedly dismantled the scarecrow, scattering straw and stealing the clothes.

https://wesb.com/2023/09/19/bradford-woman-arrested-for-attacking-scarecrow/

@jmyrlefuller

Keep in mind that this woman is PROBABLY in the divorce process,and looking for a new husband.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 19, 2023, 08:21:36 pm
Quote
...and stealing the clothes.

Pretty hard up for a new outfit?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: jmyrlefuller on September 19, 2023, 08:23:22 pm
@jmyrlefuller

Keep in mind that this woman is PROBABLY in the divorce process,and looking for a new husband.
Well what do you know? I happen to visit that city on a regular basis...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on September 19, 2023, 08:45:18 pm
My ridiculous news of the day: John Fetterman is an actual senator.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 19, 2023, 08:47:50 pm
My ridiculous news of the day: John Fetterman is an actual senator.
Which one?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 19, 2023, 08:51:36 pm
Well what do you know? I happen to visit that city on a regular basis...

May I suggest Kelvar underwear on that trip?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 19, 2023, 08:53:03 pm
My ridiculous news of the day: John Fetterman is an actual senator.

@Weird Tolkienish Figure

If  you think THAT is ridiculous,ponder the FACT that Joe Biden  is our President.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: libertybele on September 19, 2023, 09:15:43 pm
@Weird Tolkienish Figure

If  you think THAT is ridiculous,ponder the FACT that Joe Biden  is our President.

 :yowsa:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 19, 2023, 09:29:29 pm
Well what do you know? I happen to visit that city on a regular basis...
Ha ha, a couple of good friends from college are from Bradford.
 Scarecrow woman does look a little older than her stated age, I must say.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 19, 2023, 09:31:49 pm
   That scarecrow used to sell her meth.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on September 21, 2023, 01:29:13 pm
Ukraine's English-speaking spokesperson is an American male leftist activist who wears a wig and calls himself Sarah Ashton. I'm not making this up.
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1704639398313374204
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1704639402063065279
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: rangerrebew on September 21, 2023, 01:59:56 pm
California woman drops phone in outhouse and falls inside

Brinnon Fire Department
By Ricardo Tovar
 
Published April 22, 2022 10:36 AM

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BRINNON, Calif. (KION-TV)-- The Brinnon Fire Department and Quilcene Fire Rescue helped a woman in her 40s who fell into a vault toilet after dropping her cell phone inside it.

The woman stated that while using the toilet she dropped her cell phone and tried to dismantle the toilet to receive it.

After taking out the seat and the housing, she tried using her dog's least to fish it out but that failed.

She then attempted to use the leash to help support herself, which also failed, and she slid in and fell headfirst.

https://kion546.com/news/2022/04/22/california-woman-drops-phone-in-outhouse-and-falls-inside/#:~:text=The%20woman%20stated%20that%20while%20using%20the%20toilet,failed%2C%20and%20she%20slid%20in%20and%20fell%20headfirst.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: rangerrebew on September 21, 2023, 02:00:56 pm
The value of a California education on display! :silly:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 21, 2023, 02:07:06 pm
California woman drops phone in outhouse and falls inside

Brinnon Fire Department
By Ricardo Tovar
 
Published April 22, 2022 10:36 AM

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BRINNON, Calif. (KION-TV)-- The Brinnon Fire Department and Quilcene Fire Rescue helped a woman in her 40s who fell into a vault toilet after dropping her cell phone inside it.

The woman stated that while using the toilet she dropped her cell phone and tried to dismantle the toilet to receive it.

After taking out the seat and the housing, she tried using her dog's least to fish it out but that failed.

She then attempted to use the leash to help support herself, which also failed, and she slid in and fell headfirst.

https://kion546.com/news/2022/04/22/california-woman-drops-phone-in-outhouse-and-falls-inside/#:~:text=The%20woman%20stated%20that%20while%20using%20the%20toilet,failed%2C%20and%20she%20slid%20in%20and%20fell%20headfirst.

@rangerrebew

Uhhh,just how much did that damn cell phone cost,anyhow?

Sometimes ya just gotta admit you  screwed up,and walk away from something.

BTW,who the HELL talks to anyone on their phone while they  are on the toilet,anyway?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on September 21, 2023, 04:24:16 pm
What is a vault toilet?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin on September 21, 2023, 05:18:26 pm
Ha ha, a couple of good friends from college are from Bradford.
 Scarecrow woman does look a little older than her stated age, I must say.

You're too kind.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on September 21, 2023, 06:25:10 pm
What is a vault toilet?

It's one where you have to use a pole....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin on September 21, 2023, 06:54:02 pm
It's one where you have to use a pole....

Some of us bring our own.

 :bullie smokin:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: goatprairie on September 22, 2023, 02:09:49 am
What is a vault toilet?
(https://cdn.homedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Publict-Vault-Toilet.jpg) What used to be called an outhouse. Vault toilet sounds classier. Like the kind Scrooge McDuck would have inside his money vault.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 22, 2023, 02:21:15 am
What used to be called an outhouse. Vault toilet sounds classier. Like the kind Scrooge McDuck would have inside his money vault.

That's still an outhouse up in here. A vault is for gold or guns... Dunno what you fellers are a'guarding  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 22, 2023, 02:24:05 am
That's still an outhouse up in here. A vault is for gold or guns... Dunno what you fellers are a'guarding  :whistle:

Vaults are also what people are buried in...as a sarcophagus for a coffin.  Made of concrete.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on September 22, 2023, 02:28:02 am
That's still an outhouse up in here. A vault is for gold or guns... Dunno what you fellers are a'guarding  :whistle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxyw38tODKg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 22, 2023, 05:25:34 am
[...]


 :laugh:

Ya know... Next week some time I am to receive a brand new chair... Not a Lazy Boy for the first time in my life - I'll never buy another. But the funny part is, I mentioned to my dear sainted mother that it's brandy-spankin' right from the factory, whereupon she informed me I'd still have to fart in it a while before I could call it my own...  :silly:

But the really funny part is that she was right.  :silly: :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on September 22, 2023, 03:14:10 pm
:laugh:

Ya know... Next week some time I am to receive a brand new chair... Not a Lazy Boy for the first time in my life - I'll never buy another. But the funny part is, I mentioned to my dear sainted mother that it's brandy-spankin' right from the factory, whereupon she informed me I'd still have to fart in it a while before I could call it my own...  :silly:

But the really funny part is that she was right.  :silly: :beer:

Your Mother is a saint!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: goatprairie on September 22, 2023, 05:13:13 pm
That's still an outhouse up in here. A vault is for gold or guns... Dunno what you fellers are a'guarding  :whistle:
Are you saying fecal material can't have value?    9999hair out0000
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on September 22, 2023, 05:17:25 pm
   Maybe Trump had it right, after all   :shrug:

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Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 22, 2023, 06:50:04 pm
Are you saying fecal material can't have value?    9999hair out0000

Of course not. But now you are talking about Yah's economy, not Man's...

As for valuable fecal matter, I've a fair hill of it out behind the barn, just sitting there... never had anyone try to take it.  happy77
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 22, 2023, 06:51:16 pm
Your Mother is a saint!

A veritable font of wisdom... That she is.  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: goatprairie on September 22, 2023, 08:11:28 pm
Of course not. But now you are talking about Yah's economy, not Man's...

As for valuable fecal matter, I've a fair hill of it out behind the barn, just sitting there... never had anyone try to take it.  happy77
"never had anyone try to take it."
 
 Ever consider advertising?  :tongue2:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on September 23, 2023, 05:48:23 am
A veritable font of wisdom... That she is.  :beer:

It sounds like you are feeling better. I'm glad.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 23, 2023, 06:20:20 am
It sounds like you are feeling better. I'm glad.

Oh, I feel terrific! Have ever since the back surgery - Came out with way less pain than when I went in... And now, virtually none... That's twenty years of screaming pain... ~GONE~. Virtually no pain now.

Now the trouble is in getting my undercarriage to work. Not a lot of feeling south of the border, balance is bad, because my feet ain't where my brain says they are... I'm alright on my buggy, but pretty tippy on my stick. And walking without either is out of the question.

100 ft of driveway is my entire world right now. But, good Lord willing, improvements will happen over the next 16 months. Even if I'm never mobedda, just being out of pain is a miracle.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 23, 2023, 09:10:15 am
Oh, I feel terrific! Have ever since the back surgery - Came out with way less pain than when I went in... And now, virtually none... That's twenty years of screaming pain... ~GONE~. Virtually no pain now.

Now the trouble is in getting my undercarriage to work. Not a lot of feeling south of the border, balance is bad, because my feet ain't where my brain says they are... I'm alright on my buggy, but pretty tippy on my stick. And walking without either is out of the question.

100 ft of driveway is my entire world right now. But, good Lord willing, improvements will happen over the next 16 months. Even if I'm never mobedda, just being out of pain is a miracle.


@roamer_1

This is a common problem. I SUSPECT part of it is your body still remembers the "adjustments" it had to make over the last couple of decades so you  could walk,and it is reluctant to toss them away. Muscles have memories,and they are NOT real fond of the idea of making adjustments. Don't ask me how I know this.

As I am sure you already know,the "key" is to not make any sudden moves when you first try to stand up and take a step. You have to take your time and make sure everything is working properly  before you get too "cocky wid it".

Sadly,the only physical thing that happens quickly are missteps that lead to pain.

On the positive side,what do you have to do that is more important than learning to make the adjustments you need to make?

"No sudden moves" are words to live by.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin on September 23, 2023, 02:24:22 pm
Oh, I feel terrific! Have ever since the back surgery - Came out with way less pain than when I went in... And now, virtually none... That's twenty years of screaming pain... ~GONE~. Virtually no pain now.

Now the trouble is in getting my undercarriage to work. Not a lot of feeling south of the border, balance is bad, because my feet ain't where my brain says they are... I'm alright on my buggy, but pretty tippy on my stick. And walking without either is out of the question.

100 ft of driveway is my entire world right now. But, good Lord willing, improvements will happen over the next 16 months. Even if I'm never mobedda, just being out of pain is a miracle.

 :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 23, 2023, 03:19:07 pm
Sadly,the only physical thing that happens quickly are missteps that lead to pain.

On the positive side,what do you have to do that is more important than learning to make the adjustments you need to make?

"No sudden moves" are words to live by.

Your whole post is right @sneakypete

Right now, as big as I am, I cannot fall down. Even now the surgeon is insisting upon the critical care protocols I came out of surgery with. In this gig, my large frame is working against me, and even yet, a fall might burst the wound open.

It's pretty frustrating, since I feel so good. Right now I can't leave the cabin without using a handicap van service, and that only for appointments... So I have been NOWHERE but to doctors since Aug 1 when this whole thing started.

All of which matters damn little when it's all I can do to get a couple hundred feet on a dang buggy. So frustration has replaced pain in equal measures at this point. Grabbing my 45/70 and walking off into the bush seems a very long way off... And I might not get that far.

But I will get what I can. It's just a damn long row to hoe... A year and some in recovery is a long, long time.

Thanks for your words. I will take my time. I can do no other. And I will get through this just fine. It's what is on the other end that is in question.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on September 23, 2023, 03:43:43 pm
Oh, I feel terrific! Have ever since the back surgery - Came out with way less pain than when I went in... And now, virtually none... That's twenty years of screaming pain... ~GONE~. Virtually no pain now.

Now the trouble is in getting my undercarriage to work. Not a lot of feeling south of the border, balance is bad, because my feet ain't where my brain says they are... I'm alright on my buggy, but pretty tippy on my stick. And walking without either is out of the question.

100 ft of driveway is my entire world right now. But, good Lord willing, improvements will happen over the next 16 months. Even if I'm never mobedda, just being out of pain is a miracle.

That's great news! Having things turn around and go in the right direction for a change after so many years of pain is huge. Now for your body to relearn how to do things again, and it will with practice.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 23, 2023, 03:50:55 pm
That's great news! Having things turn around and go in the right direction for a change after so many years of pain is huge. Now for your body to relearn how to do things again, and it will with practice.

 :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: goatprairie on September 23, 2023, 08:44:52 pm
Oh, I feel terrific! Have ever since the back surgery - Came out with way less pain than when I went in... And now, virtually none... That's twenty years of screaming pain... ~GONE~. Virtually no pain now.

Now the trouble is in getting my undercarriage to work. Not a lot of feeling south of the border, balance is bad, because my feet ain't where my brain says they are... I'm alright on my buggy, but pretty tippy on my stick. And walking without either is out of the question.

100 ft of driveway is my entire world right now. But, good Lord willing, improvements will happen over the next 16 months. Even if I'm never mobedda, just being out of pain is a miracle.
Good grief!  Sorry to hear about your pain problems. Glad you're getting better. :seeya:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 23, 2023, 09:10:43 pm
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Your whole post is right @sneakypete

Right now, as big as I am, I cannot fall down. Even now the surgeon is insisting upon the critical care protocols I came out of surgery with. In this gig, my large frame is working against me, and even yet, a fall might burst the wound open.

It's pretty frustrating, since I feel so good. Right now I can't leave the cabin without using a handicap van service, and that only for appointments... So I have been NOWHERE but to doctors since Aug 1 when this whole thing started.

All of which matters damn little when it's all I can do to get a couple hundred feet on a dang buggy. So frustration has replaced pain in equal measures at this point. Grabbing my 45/70 and walking off into the bush seems a very long way off... And I might not get that far.

Yeah,but with some patience and some luck,some day  in the near future the bush WILL be close enough to touch. And truthfully,what else do you  have to do that is more important than healing? Healing will put you back on your feet and back in the hills again,and both are priceless accomplishments.


But I will get what I can. It's just a damn long row to hoe... A year and some in recovery is a long, long time.


True,but what else do you have to do with your  time?

BTW,here is a little tech-tip from someone who has been there.  IF the time comes when you find yourself temped to just say "Screw it,I ain't getting no better so why bother to  put myself through  all this pain",force yourself to turn on your tv and watch soap operas for a couple of weeks. If THAT doesn't inspire you to be willing to deal with  the pain  in order to get better,nothing will.

CAUTION! Do NOT have any loaded firearms within reach while viewing that swill because both you and your tv may be at risk.

And while watching it,stop to remember that there are people out there who are "whole" (physically,if not mentally) who look forward to viewing that crap,and call it entertaining.


Quote
Thanks for your words. I will take my time. I can do no other. And I will get through this just fine. It's what is on the other end that is in question.

That will always remain the unanswered question for as long as you are able to ask yourself questions. It is the  same for all of us.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 23, 2023, 10:12:28 pm
Good grief!  Sorry to hear about your pain problems. Glad you're getting better. :seeya:

It's all good.  :beer: :seeya:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 23, 2023, 10:37:03 pm
Yeah,but with some patience and some luck,some day  in the near future the bush WILL be close enough to touch. And truthfully,what else do you  have to do that is more important than healing? Healing will put you back on your feet and back in the hills again,and both are priceless accomplishments.


Well, that's kinda right @sneakypete ... First, while I will heal up from the surgery (I pretty much AM healed up), there is no guarantee that my actual infirmity will get any better at all. I may never get balance back. I may never get feeling back. This may be it, right now. All I was guaranteed was that I would not get any worse. As it is, *ALL* my pain left, and that's a huge gain. I already got more than I deserve out of it.

Now, since there is a God in heaven (heh, heh), I don't believe that. He's told me I will get up off my ass and see the Chinese Wall again. That's 10 days to 2 weeks walking back up in there to that escarpment on the Great Divide, And I will cling to that. Some day I will be there again, at least once more... And there are only two means of doing that... A'horseback, or on these two feets. Either way is fine by me.  happy77
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on September 23, 2023, 10:56:28 pm
Well, that's kinda right @sneakypete ... First, while I will heal up from the surgery (I pretty much AM healed up), there is no guarantee that my actual infirmity will get any better at all. I may never get balance back. I may never get feeling back. This may be it, right now. All I was guaranteed was that I would not get any worse. As it is, *ALL* my pain left, and that's a huge gain. I already got more than I deserve out of it.

Now, since there is a God in heaven (heh, heh), I don't believe that. He's told me I will get up off my ass and see the Chinese Wall again. That's 10 days to 2 weeks walking back up in there to that escarpment on the Great Divide, And I will cling to that. Some day I will be there again, at least once more... And there are only two means of doing that... A'horseback, or on these two feets. Either way is fine by me.  happy77

@roamer_1

Not true. There is also 3 and 4 wheelers. I suspect you  may dislike that concept even more than I do,but it IS an option if all else fails,and believe it or not,but *I* am one of those people who fill themselves with hope when that is all that is left. Getting there to suck in the peace,quiet,and the beauty is more important than HOW you get there.

And,who knows,just being able to get there at some time in the near future on a 3 wheeler just might inspire you to work a miracle or two?

Yeah,it sucks to even think about the noise disturbing the solitude of those areas,but you can turn the damn thing off once you  get there. The important thing is getting there and sucking in the beauty and peace of nature,not how you  arrived.

 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: berdie on September 23, 2023, 10:58:01 pm
Well, that's kinda right @sneakypete ... First, while I will heal up from the surgery (I pretty much AM healed up), there is no guarantee that my actual infirmity will get any better at all. I may never get balance back. I may never get feeling back. This may be it, right now. All I was guaranteed was that I would not get any worse. As it is, *ALL* my pain left, and that's a huge gain. I already got more than I deserve out of it.

Now, since there is a God in heaven (heh, heh), I don't believe that. He's told me I will get up off my ass and see the Chinese Wall again. That's 10 days to 2 weeks walking back up in there to that escarpment on the Great Divide, And I will cling to that. Some day I will be there again, at least once more... And there are only two means of doing that... A'horseback, or on these two feets. Either way is fine by me.  happy77


I am glad to hear @roamer_1 that you are not in pain! Your surgery hasn't been that long ago. There is no doubt in my mind that if you want to go  China, the holler or down by the creek to fish...you will do it! Now riding a horse...that's a different matter. :rolling:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 23, 2023, 11:02:25 pm

I am glad to hear @roamer_1 that you are not in pain! Your surgery hasn't been that long ago. There is no doubt in my mind that if you want to go  China, the holler or down by the creek to fish...you will do it! Now riding a horse...that's a different matter. :rolling:

I'm pretty darned sure that @roamer_1 will do whatever he puts his mind to doing @berdie . He'll figure out a way.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 24, 2023, 12:29:35 am
@roamer_1

Not true. There is also 3 and 4 wheelers. I suspect you  may dislike that concept even more than I do,but it IS an option if all else fails,and believe it or not,but *I* am one of those people who fill themselves with hope when that is all that is left. Getting there to suck in the peace,quiet,and the beauty is more important than HOW you get there.


Not up in there @sneakypete No motors allowed past Spotted Bear, and that, road only... Spotted Bear is 80 miles in at the back of Hungry Horse Reservoir, And the start of the White River Trail - The 10 days to 2 weeks begins right there... That's where I am used to going... Where there are no roads - Not even trails - and it's too dang straight up and down for anything but feet or a horse. And there's hundreds of miles like that all around me.

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And,who knows,just being able to get there at some time in the near future on a 3 wheeler just might inspire you to work a miracle or two?

Yeah,it sucks to even think about the noise disturbing the solitude of those areas,but you can turn the damn thing off once you  get there. The important thing is getting there and sucking in the beauty and peace of nature,not how you  arrived.

That's right - where it's possible. And I ain't against it. Already looking for a wore out side by side to fix up, and around a 22 ft tandem axle camper busted enough that I can afford it. Heck, I'm looking for a 3/4T full size utility van with a 4x4 conversion because I can get in the side door of that sooner than the regular doors. I can get into that right now.

So I ain't blind to it... and I can say I am already re-rigging for overlanding, somewhat like you said. But I am not under the idea that those places I can go to like that... Well, that's not anywhere near the deep woods. and nothing like it. But I DO appreciate your thought... And I am already looking that way, as a faster way to get up and around a bit.

Anyhow, if you care to reply, let's take this PM so the ridiculous thread can get back to being ridiculous.  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 24, 2023, 12:51:15 am

I am glad to hear @roamer_1 that you are not in pain! Your surgery hasn't been that long ago. There is no doubt in my mind that if you want to go  China, the holler or down by the creek to fish...you will do it! Now riding a horse...that's a different matter. :rolling:


@berdie

The Chinese Wall is not the one in China... It's a 50 mile long escarpment hundreds (maybe a thousand) feet high, way back in the Bob Marshall Wilderness... And my favorite playground.  happy77

As to a horse, getting on it is the hard part... I have every confidence that once I am on it, I ain't coming off - At least on an older duffer horse like me, not interested in shaking his giggles out before we go on... Couldn't handle a hot-rod right now.

An old friend of mine is still around... An apple jack (Appaloosa Mule) that I used to drag around the mountains when he was young. He'd be surprised to see me (though he will remember me as a friend), and even more surprised for me to try to get up on him, as I always lead him... But I bet we could figger it out.

IF I can get on him, the rest is second nature to me. And if I can't use my feet, a horse would be next best.  happy77 :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 24, 2023, 01:07:41 am
I'm pretty darned sure that @roamer_1 will do whatever he puts his mind to doing @berdie . He'll figure out a way.

As much as is possible @Bigun ... Not as much I can do if I never get my legs back to right. But thanks for your confidence.  :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on September 24, 2023, 02:19:09 am
As much as is possible @Bigun ... Not as much I can do if I never get my legs back to right. But thanks for your confidence.  :beer:

We've never met in person @roamer_1 but I'm sorta familiar with the type.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on September 24, 2023, 03:27:29 am
@roamer_1

Just a reminder: All things are possible with The Lord.

He who can move mountains, can surely get your ass up one (and back).
He might require some faith and a lot of sweat on your part, though.
I believe you are capable of both.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 24, 2023, 05:45:57 pm
@roamer_1

Just a reminder: All things are possible with The Lord.

He who can move mountains, can surely get your ass up one (and back).
He might require some faith and a lot of sweat on your part, though.
I believe you are capable of both.

Thanks for that Smoke...  I know it, and that's what I am shooting for...  happy77 :beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on September 24, 2023, 05:46:32 pm
We've never met in person @roamer_1 but I'm sorta familiar with the type.


:beer:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 09, 2023, 11:12:29 pm
Parents in Seattle, Washington, confront a naked man at a JCPenney store after he allegedly attempted to inappropriately touch their children.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1711483127812808940
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on October 09, 2023, 11:18:28 pm
Parents in Seattle, Washington, confront a naked man at a JCPenney store after he allegedly attempted to inappropriately touch their children.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1711483127812808940

Take your damn millennial manbag backpacks off and beat the shit out of him.  God we have bred a generation of pu$$y's.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on October 10, 2023, 12:13:22 am
Take your damn millennial manbag backpacks off and beat the shit out of him.  God we have bred a generation of pu$$y's.

There are plenty of usable weapons on all the shelves they passed.  I'd have grabbed the first thing that would cause pain.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on October 10, 2023, 01:16:18 am
There are plenty of usable weapons on all the shelves they passed.  I'd have grabbed the first thing that would cause pain.

Yup.  A real man would have beat him like  Kunta Kinte  on holiday.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: DB on October 10, 2023, 05:17:24 am
I'm an opportunist...

I'll use whatever is handy as a weapon...

A place like that is filled with opportunity...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on October 11, 2023, 07:56:04 pm
Ukraine's English-speaking spokesperson is an American male leftist activist who wears a wig and calls himself Sarah Ashton. I'm not making this up.
Still: Do you think anyone will take Ukraine’s army seriously with a man wearing a wig as the face of the military?
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1711960657749221409
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: 240B on November 02, 2023, 12:00:56 pm
Wild video shows moment NAKED man beats up a Las Vegas cop then steal his patrol truck
(more)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12698697/Naked-man-Vegas-steal-cop-car-brawl-video.html

All persons named Sara Conner were notified to be careful.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 21, 2023, 12:15:06 pm
R A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Police are responding to a report of Numerous angry raccoons surrounding a vehicle trapping a person inside in Seattle Washington. 🦝
10:30 PM · Nov 20, 2023

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1726820630732177793
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 27, 2023, 02:08:13 pm
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Turkey fryer explodes in home after cook falls asleep
by: Kenzie Finch   
Posted: Nov 26, 2023 / 05:09 PM EST   
Updated: Nov 27, 2023 / 05:38 AM EST   

BURLINGTON, N.C. (WAVY) — A North Carolina family is lucky to be alive after a turkey fryer exploded inside their home.

According to authorities, a propane tank fueling the fryer exploded at a home in Burlington earlier this week. The explosion was so strong, it blew out the windows in the back of the house.

Investigators said the person cooking the turkey fell asleep and left the boiling oil unattended.  ...
More (https://www.wtrf.com/news/national-news/turkey-fryer-explodes-inside-nc-home-after-the-cook-falls-asleep-police/)

Not just falling asleep while frying, but operating a turkey fryer inside a house. Good grief.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on November 27, 2023, 04:00:14 pm
More (https://www.wtrf.com/news/national-news/turkey-fryer-explodes-inside-nc-home-after-the-cook-falls-asleep-police/)

Not just falling asleep while frying, but operating a turkey fryer inside a house. Good grief.

And THAT is why I invested in an ELECTRIC turkey fryer.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: goatprairie on November 28, 2023, 01:28:03 am
More (https://www.wtrf.com/news/national-news/turkey-fryer-explodes-inside-nc-home-after-the-cook-falls-asleep-police/)

Not just falling asleep while frying, but operating a turkey fryer inside a house. Good grief.
"Investigators said the person cooking the turkey fell asleep and left the boiling oil unattended"

Was it a Jukes or a Kallikak? 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on November 29, 2023, 10:56:09 pm
Rapper making a music video has his house shot at by rivals in the middle of it.  :silly:
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1729993379210264706
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on November 29, 2023, 11:09:14 pm
Rapper making a music video has his house shot at by rivals in the middle of it.  :silly:
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1729993379210264706
You asked for the Thug life so enjoy living the Thug life! Of course you know he will make it part of his cRAP video which will make him very popular with all his Thug admirers.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on November 30, 2023, 01:57:07 am
It be gettin' really real on the reel...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 25, 2024, 01:14:59 pm
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Woman arrested after shredding pet gecko in garbage disposal
Lootpress News Staff   by Lootpress News Staff   
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 5:00 pm

PUTNAM COUNTY, WV (LOOTPRESS) (https://www.lootpress.com/woman-arrested-after-shredding-pet-gecko-in-garbage-disposal/) – A couple who planned on having sex when they got home turned violent, leading to their pet gecko being shredded to pieces in the garbage disposal.

Hurricane Police say they responded to Hickory Mills Apartment about a potential domestic in progress earlier in the day. When police approached the apartment, they made contact with a male victim and the suspect, Hannah Nicole Jones. The male victim told police that they were going to have sex when they got home, but it did not work out as planned. An argument allegedly started, and the male victim stated that he called Jones a slut, in which she then struck him twice on the forearm with a curtain rod.

When police spoke to the suspect, Hannah Nicole Jones, she advised that they got into a verbal argument, where she got distraught and began to throw things. She said she threw flowerpots against the wall and busted a fish tank. She further stated that she took their pet gecko, put it in the garbage disposal, and then turned it on. The pet gecko was shredded to pieces in the garbage disposal. ...
No, she said, I don't want your %*$# home and auto insurance!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 25, 2024, 01:56:13 pm
No, she said, I don't want your %*$# home and auto insurance!

@mountaineer

My advise to the husband is to file charges,and while she is locked away,to run for your life! Maybe even change your name,for safety sake.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 25, 2024, 04:00:20 pm
@mountaineer

My advise to the husband is to file charges,and while she is locked away,to run for your life! Maybe even change your name,for safety sake.
File for divorce, too.

You think shredding his lizard might have been a warning?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 25, 2024, 11:28:03 pm
File for divorce, too.

You think shredding his lizard might have been a warning?

@Smokin Joe

I'd call it a pretty good first clue.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 26, 2024, 11:38:24 am
No, she said, I don't want your %*$# home and auto insurance!

Now I see why Geico has brought the "Caveman" out of retirement.   
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 31, 2024, 03:43:22 pm
Police detain young miscreant, pull pistol out of his pants. Mom arrives, innocent youth tells her, "Mom, I did nuffin'."
Police officer shows mom the weapon, tells her, "I just pulled this out of his ass."

Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
“Mom, I did nuffin.” He stored a gun in his butt.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1752630008538145170
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on January 31, 2024, 04:43:43 pm
Hey Rocky watch me pull a gun out of my ass!
Rocket J. Squirrel: Again?
Bullwinkle J. Moose: Nothin' up my sleeve -
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2024, 05:40:14 pm
Din Du Nuffin.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on January 31, 2024, 05:56:18 pm
Hey Rocky watch me pull a gun out of my ass!
Rocket J. Squirrel: Again?
Bullwinkle J. Moose: Nothin' up my sleeve -
:pondering: Could give new meaning to the phrase 'explosive diarrhea' or maybe '@$$ banging'  :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 31, 2024, 05:59:49 pm
:pondering: Could give new meaning to the phrase 'explosive diarrhea' or maybe '@$$ banging'  :whistle:

@GtHawk

I have been following along under the ASSUMPTION that it was the writer who had his head up his ass instead of the punk with a gun hidden inside his pants.

I just see no way even a small handgun can be hidden inside a rectum.

Other than by surgery,and that boy doesn't look like the kind of guy that hangs out with surgeons.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2024, 06:27:34 pm
@GtHawk

I have been following along under the ASSUMPTION that it was the writer who had his head up his ass instead of the punk with a gun hidden inside his pants.

I just see no way even a small handgun can be hidden inside a rectum.

Other than by surgery,and that boy doesn't look like the kind of guy that hangs out with surgeons.

@sneakypete

That is my assumption as well.  This is all based on a comment from an arresting Officer about taking the gun "from the kid's ass." 

The "Dint Du Nuffin" is what's making me laugh....
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Polly Ticks on January 31, 2024, 07:20:53 pm
:pondering: Could give new meaning to the phrase 'explosive diarrhea' or maybe '@$$ banging'  :whistle:

Looks like he had one in the chamber.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on January 31, 2024, 07:28:59 pm
I'd say he had the loaded, chambered pistol in his butt cheeks, at best - not all the way into his lower intestine.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 31, 2024, 10:37:35 pm
:pondering: Could give new meaning to the phrase 'explosive diarrhea' or maybe '@$$ banging'  :whistle:
CSI: Exit wound only...
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 31, 2024, 10:42:53 pm
@sneakypete

That is my assumption as well.  This is all based on a comment from an arresting Officer about taking the gun "from the kid's ass." 

The "Dint Du Nuffin"
is what's making me laugh....


@Cyber Liberty

I  think there may be some sort of law that requires blacks to say that when dealing with  cops/courts.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on January 31, 2024, 10:46:01 pm
I'd say he had the loaded, chambered pistol in his butt cheeks, at best - not all the way into his lower intestine.

@mountaineer

I suspect you are right,but since there is no way  in HELL he could get it out and shoot an attacker in order to defend himself before he died.

Not much sense in carrying a gun if you can't get to it when/if you need it.

Unless of course you are a "Hood Rat" and need it to gain "status".
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2024, 11:45:48 pm

@Cyber Liberty

I  think there may be some sort of law that requires blacks to say that when dealing with  cops/courts.

That must be the rule book that says, "Go ahead with fighting the cop."
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: corbe on February 09, 2024, 06:16:17 pm
TRANSGENDER WOMAN
SUED EX-BF OVER TOSSED-OUT BALLS ...
But Judge Says, No Case!!!

2/9/2024 8:52 AM PT
William Wojciechowski main


(https://imagez.tmz.com/image/07/4by3/2024/02/09/07e2caf99be74c398434de8bb642b82f_md.png)

A transgender woman who sued her ex-boyfriend for throwing out her balls apparently didn't have a case worth litigating ... 'cause a judge tossed her suit, not to mention the BF's.

Brianna Kingsley had recently filed a lawsuit against William Wojciechowski in Detroit -- whom she was dating a couple years ago as she was transitioning ... and who she claims discarded her surgically-removed testicles in the wake of their breakup.

At first, Kingsley was suing Bill for allegedly not returning her balls to her -- claiming in her small claims suit that he was holding them hostage, and keeping them in a mason jar in his fridge next to a carton of eggs. However, after she sued him ... her ex countersued her, claiming she'd humiliated him and also noting that he'd already thrown the testicles away.

It was a lot of back and forth for a while ... and the absurd case was highlighted by a quote Kinglsey had said in court at one point -- saying, "We’re talking about my nuts … I wanted them in my fridge -- not his. The damages were the loss of these nuts."

<..snip..>

https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/09/transgender-woman-sued-ex-boyfriend-balls-thrown-out-lawsuit-tossed/ (https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/09/transgender-woman-sued-ex-boyfriend-balls-thrown-out-lawsuit-tossed/)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 09, 2024, 06:29:59 pm
First World Problem.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: goatprairie on February 09, 2024, 06:43:35 pm
I'm already getting sick to my stomach from reading about these deranged people.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 09, 2024, 06:46:53 pm
Well... Nuts.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: bigheadfred on February 09, 2024, 06:49:57 pm
Well... Nuts.

Deez Nuts
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 09, 2024, 07:28:38 pm
Deez Nuts

That's right.

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 09, 2024, 07:45:03 pm
TRANSGENDER WOMAN
SUED EX-BF OVER TOSSED-OUT BALLS ...
But Judge Says, No Case!!!

2/9/2024 8:52 AM PT
William Wojciechowski main


(https://imagez.tmz.com/image/07/4by3/2024/02/09/07e2caf99be74c398434de8bb642b82f_md.png)

A transgender woman who sued her ex-boyfriend for throwing out her balls apparently didn't have a case worth litigating ... 'cause a judge tossed her suit, not to mention the BF's.

Brianna Kingsley had recently filed a lawsuit against William Wojciechowski in Detroit -- whom she was dating a couple years ago as she was transitioning ... and who she claims discarded her surgically-removed testicles in the wake of their breakup.

At first, Kingsley was suing Bill for allegedly not returning her balls to her -- claiming in her small claims suit that he was holding them hostage, and keeping them in a mason jar in his fridge next to a carton of eggs. However, after she sued him ... her ex countersued her, claiming she'd humiliated him and also noting that he'd already thrown the testicles away.

It was a lot of back and forth for a while ... and the absurd case was highlighted by a quote Kinglsey had said in court at one point -- saying, "We’re talking about my nuts … I wanted them in my fridge -- not his. The damages were the loss of these nuts."

<..snip..>

https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/09/transgender-woman-sued-ex-boyfriend-balls-thrown-out-lawsuit-tossed/ (https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/09/transgender-woman-sued-ex-boyfriend-balls-thrown-out-lawsuit-tossed/)
The ex should have told the judge 'he/she/it had already had their nuts returned, Bill should have told how he cooked them and served them up to he/she/it for dinner one night :whistle:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 11, 2024, 12:50:45 pm
iamyesyouareno
@iamyesyouareno
Murdering someone for some free watermelon. This didn’t spark any national media outrage because it didn’t fit the narrative.
Lock him up and throw away the key.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GF1vE4cXUAAfnog?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: GtHawk on February 11, 2024, 04:34:48 pm
iamyesyouareno
@iamyesyouareno
Murdering someone for some free watermelon. This didn’t spark any national media outrage because it didn’t fit the narrative.
Lock him up and throw away the key.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GF1vE4cXUAAfnog?format=jpg&name=small)
Demarian gonna be someone's little bitch in the big house......how sad for him /s, I don't think you get a lot of street cred for murdering someone over watermelon **nononono*
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 11, 2024, 05:19:59 pm
And people think blacks and watermelons is stereotypical. 
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 11, 2024, 08:52:48 pm
I can't  be  the only one surprised  to see a teen get charged as an adult.

Who says there is never any  good news?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: goatprairie on February 11, 2024, 09:27:38 pm
And people think blacks and watermelons is stereotypical.
There is basically a national crisis of young, violent, black males turning many large cities into risky, dangerous places.
Nobody of importance, either liberal or conservative, wants to admit it.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 11, 2024, 09:33:13 pm
There is basically a national crisis of young, violent, black males turning many large cities into risky, dangerous places.
Nobody of importance, either liberal or conservative, wants to admit it.

To the contrary (kinda)... I think it is purposeful.

It's fixed in mere weeks with the DA turning a blind eye for a week or two, letting the LEOs bust some heads to regain order. Then prosecute perps the hard way... Enforce the law with every prejudice (heh, mebbe a poor word). Order will be restored. The hard way.

But that's not what they're doing.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on February 11, 2024, 09:44:46 pm
To the contrary (kinda)... I think it is purposeful.

It's fixed in mere weeks with the DA turning a blind eye for a week or two, letting the LEOs bust some heads to regain order. Then prosecute perps the hard way... Enforce the law with every prejudice (heh, mebbe a poor word). Order will be restored. The hard way.

But that's not what they're doing.

So few seem to realize that the laws of natural selection not only apply to the animal kingdom due lawlessness  Sad, but honest.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 11, 2024, 09:52:07 pm
So few seem to realize that the laws of natural selection not only apply to the animal kingdom due lawlessness  Sad, but honest.

That's right - But more to the point, the solution to the problem is plain. That it is not being implemented speaks volumes. It is purposeful. Then the proper question is 'why?'...  :pondering:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 11, 2024, 09:59:24 pm
That's right - But more to the point, the solution to the problem is plain. That it is not being implemented speaks volumes. It is purposeful. Then the proper question is 'why?'...  :pondering:

@roamer_1

As a wise man once noted,"Out of chaos comes order".

It remains to be seen who will be giving the orders after the next elections,the UN,or the citizens of the United States.

I have never in my life hoped to be so wrong,but even though Trump is in the lead now,the globalists WILL find a way to remain in control. Many of them having been working towards this their whole lives,and some are now the adult children of parents that spent their whole lives working towards "World  Wide Government,Inc",and the total control it would give them.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 11, 2024, 10:17:08 pm
@roamer_1

As a wise man once noted,"Out of chaos comes order".

It remains to be seen who will be giving the orders after the next elections,the UN,or the citizens of the United States.

I have never in my life hoped to be so wrong,but even though Trump is in the lead now,the globalists WILL find a way to remain in control. Many of them having been working towards this their whole lives,and some are now the adult children of parents that spent their whole lives working towards "World  Wide Government,Inc",and the total control it would give them.

You're right of course, or close to it.
Except the Tump shtick.
Tumpy ain't gonna change a damn thing.
He's the distraction that keeps the change from happening.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 12, 2024, 02:00:02 am
You're right of course, or close to it.
Except the Tump shtick.
Tumpy ain't gonna change a damn thing.
He's the distraction that keeps the change from happening.

@roamer_1

Not if the dummies that refuse to vote for him stay home.

Then again,all you care about is making sure that "Rude,Rich,Orange Man" gets beaten.

IF this happens,I am going to be ALL up in your Biden EVERY time I see you whining about what is happening to America.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 12, 2024, 02:44:48 am
@roamer_1

Not if the dummies that refuse to vote for him stay home.

Then again,all you care about is making sure that "Rude,Rich,Orange Man" gets beaten.

IF this happens,I am going to be ALL up in your Biden EVERY time I see you whining about what is happening to America.

@sneakypete

Doesn't matter if he wins. If he does, 4 more years of crazy high cost, governing by EO, and all wiped out the minute he leaves office. A giant waste of time, and money, going right back to normal the moment he's gone.

All y'all will never learn. Your messiahs can't get a damn thing done. That's the problem with populism... And ts utter failure, every dang time.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 12, 2024, 04:14:58 am
@sneakypete

Doesn't matter if he wins. If he does, 4 more years of crazy high cost, governing by EO, and all wiped out the minute he leaves office. A giant waste of time, and money, going right back to normal the moment he's gone.

All y'all will never learn. Your messiahs can't get a damn thing done. That's the problem with populism... And ts utter failure, every dang time.

@roamer_1

So,it's better to let the Dims win/steal another election so they don't have to waste any time in their quest to destroy us as a free and independent nation/people?

When did  you become a "surrender monkey?

The TRUTH is that like it or not,Trump is the ONLY chance America has of remaining independent BECAUSE he is not a career politician,and the ONLY thing he cares about is how he gets written up in the history books.

IF he is able to defeat the Dim and all their illegal alien/non-existent human votes,it will,at a minimum,give us another  4 years to come up with someone to run and "pick up the ball and run  with it."

BTW,since WHEN has it been necessary for a SANE voters to think a Presidential candidate is his personal "Goomba" before they will vote for him?

Yeah,I DO get the "almost everybody loved Reagan" thing,but that was a rare happening and we just don't have the time to wait around for "another Reagan" to pop up and save us.

To keep from losing America come the next election,we MUST vote for the candidate we get,even if it isn't the one we/you want.

AND......,the FACT that Trump can only serve ONE full term before  having to leave office means he won't start running for re-election the day he is sworn in,like almost all of them do.

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 12, 2024, 07:28:03 am
@roamer_1

So,it's better to let the Dims win/steal another election so they don't have to waste any time in their quest to destroy us as a free and independent nation/people?

When did  you become a "surrender monkey?


It literally makes no difference to me @sneakypete . What the Dems want and what y'all want is the same damn thing to me.

You think your idea of big government is better than their idea of big government... It's not to me.
What I want is SMALL government.Cut the government by a quarter or a half, and balance the dang checkbook. That's good for starters.

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The TRUTH is that like it or not,Trump is the ONLY chance America has of remaining independent BECAUSE he is not a career politician,and the ONLY thing he cares about is how he gets written up in the history books.


The truth is, like it or not, he ain't gonna change a damn thing, as proven by his first term. End of story.

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IF he is able to defeat the Dim and all their illegal alien/non-existent human votes,it will,at a minimum,give us another  4 years to come up with someone to run and "pick up the ball and run  with it."

Yeah... Same old bullshit as the booshies. and the romulans. and the mcain'tiacs. Y'all never tire of kickin the can as the country burns.

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BTW,since WHEN has it been necessary for a SANE voters to think a Presidential candidate is his personal "Goomba" before they will vote for him?

Yeah,I DO get the "almost everybody loved Reagan" thing,but that was a rare happening and we just don't have the time to wait around for "another Reagan" to pop up and save us.

To keep from losing America come the next election,we MUST vote for the candidate we get,even if it isn't the one we/you want.

AND......,the FACT that Trump can only serve ONE full term before  having to leave office means he won't start running for re-election the day he is sworn in,like almost all of them do.

Yeah, I don't love Reagan. I love people I know. But I respect him very much. Not for what he said... For what he did. Which ain't what Tumpy's doing, even though he steals from Reagan. Not by a long shot.

And no. There is no 'we'. YOU (y'all) split them sheets. I am under no obligation to vote for your clown or pay for his circus. You broke it, YOU bought it... Not me. I will not vote for your big liberal government. EVER.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 12, 2024, 01:39:44 pm
Good grief. Can we get back to the murder of the watermelon vendor?
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on February 12, 2024, 01:46:43 pm
Good grief. Can we get back to the murder of the watermelon vendor?

I live about 100 SW of supposedly where the best Watermelons are in the world.  Wife it seems once a year forces a trip up there to get one that is fresh and genuine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugartown,_Louisiana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugartown,_Louisiana)

Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 12, 2024, 02:14:37 pm
We need to come up with another bit of ridiculous news, stat!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: catfish1957 on February 12, 2024, 02:18:28 pm
We need to come up with another bit of ridiculous news, stat!

This one is kind of old, 8 months, but here is our Texas Speaker of the House in action....  Wonder if the house provides him a designated driver?  Briefer poll.....  drunk or not drunk? :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz_cCuuwyEo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz_cCuuwyEo)



Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 14, 2024, 02:52:23 pm
New bodycam footage shows Okaloosa County, FL Deputy Jesse Hernandez declaring "shots fired!" and "I'm hit!" and shooting at the handcuffed, unarmed suspect inside of his police car.

He had not been shot, rather, it was determined that he heard an acorn drop onto the car. ...

Sgt Beth Roberts responded quickly to Deputy Hernandez erroneously calling "shots fired" in response to an acorn dropping from a tree.

"Where? Right there?" Roberts asked before also firing at the handcuffed, unarmed man in their car.

Luckily, both cops missed every shot.  ...
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1757536607572279482
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 14, 2024, 04:04:05 pm
Am I the  only one wondering why police officers inside the US,who are SUPPOSED to be US citizens,are speaking in Spanish?

BTW,whoever is responsible for hiring that panicking coward needs to be fired,and the cop needs to be fired for endangering the public by firing wild shots.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Wingnut on February 14, 2024, 04:08:42 pm
Both deputies have been fired.
It's a pretty big News story here.  The two of them sure made swiss cheese out of the Ford Explorer Cop SUV!
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 14, 2024, 04:20:26 pm
Both deputies have been fired.
It's a pretty big News story here.  The two of them sure made swiss cheese out of the Ford Explorer Cop SUV!

:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 14, 2024, 09:48:16 pm
That's right - But more to the point, the solution to the problem is plain. That it is not being implemented speaks volumes. It is purposeful. Then the proper question is 'why?'...  :pondering:
Well the alternative to bustin' a few noggins is to leave a few cases of ammo laying around, but with the way hoodrats shoot, there would likely be a LOT of collateral damage.  :whistle: :shrug:

I am not sure that the damage isn't done, in one regard. The police have been so severely undercut by the politicians pandering to the criminal demographic, their uniforms might as well have a target printed on the back. I don't know that there wouldn't be a war between the crooks and cops in short order.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: mountaineer on February 14, 2024, 10:42:01 pm
Wouldn't you hate to be a guy handcuffed and tossed into the back of a cruiser for spittin' on the sidewalk or some such thing, and have the cop blast you full of holes because he mistook an acorn for a barrage of bullets?

https://twitter.com/NBC10Boston/status/1757916106029953036
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: roamer_1 on February 15, 2024, 12:29:24 am
Well the alternative to bustin' a few noggins is to leave a few cases of ammo laying around, but with the way hoodrats shoot, there would likely be a LOT of collateral damage.  :whistle: :shrug:

I am not sure that the damage isn't done, in one regard. The police have been so severely undercut by the politicians pandering to the criminal demographic, their uniforms might as well have a target printed on the back. I don't know that there wouldn't be a war between the crooks and cops in short order.

Still it has to happen. The only other option is to continue to subsidize criminals until all the major cities are hollowed clean out like Detroit.

We already know where this goes. We've seen it in our lifetime.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 15, 2024, 06:08:27 am
Still it has to happen. The only other option is to continue to subsidize criminals until all the major cities are hollowed clean out like Detroit.

We already know where this goes. We've seen it in our lifetime.
Yeah, the BLM riots were a replay of the 1960s, with only lies for justification.
The old,mostly healed wounds of racial strife were gouged open by CRT and tons of propaganda as a preparatory bombardment, salted, infected, and left to fester, with lots of stick poking using reparations as a money motive (because who doesn't want 'free' money?).

ANTIFA, because these communists aren't against the war. They cant really work the Muslims into their paradigm, because the Muslims would just as soon behead them or throw them off the nearest tall building.

Media attack on Trump, like on Nixon, who did bring our troops home, as promised. Whatever you may say about Trump, he wasn't really feeding the MIC like a Democrat or GOPe'er, and that just would not do.

(It was the Congress that cut off funding that could have had the South Vietnamese bombing massed concentrations of NVA troops and taking out armored columns, if they'd had the money for fuel and munitions.) It was the Media spin on Tet that lost the war, because EVERY provincial capital that was attacked was held or retaken--which was a massive military defeat of the North, only mis-portrayed somehow as a defeat of the South and US forces by the talking heads, foremost of which was Walter Cronkite. The VC were practically eliminated.

So, SSDD (Same sh*t,different decade).
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: verga on February 15, 2024, 11:51:50 am
Am I the  only one wondering why police officers inside the US,who are SUPPOSED to be US citizens,are speaking in Spanish?

BTW,whoever is responsible for hiring that panicking coward needs to be fired,and the cop needs to be fired for endangering the public by firing wild shots.
@sneakypete How dare you apply common sense and logic to a situation involving firearms and unqualified people. Don't you know by now you can apply your feelings.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: Bigun on February 15, 2024, 02:22:34 pm
Am I the  only one wondering why police officers inside the US,who are SUPPOSED to be US citizens,are speaking in Spanish?

BTW,whoever is responsible for hiring that panicking coward needs to be fired,and the cop needs to be fired for endangering the public by firing wild shots.

Uvalde Texas is looking for replacements I hear tell.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 15, 2024, 04:23:14 pm
Yeah, the BLM riots were a replay of the 1960s, with only lies for justification.
The old,mostly healed wounds of racial strife were gouged open by CRT and tons of propaganda as a preparatory bombardment, salted, infected, and left to fester, with lots of stick poking using reparations as a money motive (because who doesn't want 'free' money?).

ANTIFA, because these communists aren't against the war. They cant really work the Muslims into their paradigm, because the Muslims would just as soon behead them or throw them off the nearest tall building.

Media attack on Trump, like on Nixon, who did bring our troops home, as promised. Whatever you may say about Trump, he wasn't really feeding the MIC like a Democrat or GOPe'er, and that just would not do.

(It was the Congress that cut off funding that could have had the South Vietnamese bombing massed concentrations of NVA troops and taking out armored columns, if they'd had the money for fuel and munitions.)

@Smokin Joe

That was still happening,but Congress didn't know anything  about it. There WERE USSF troops on the ground in Cambodia,Laos,and North Vietnam (USN Seal teams on the coast) inserting and picking up SVN/NVA agents. Away from the coast,it was the USSF being inserted into Cambodia,Laos,and even NVN using small teams of 6 to Platoons to ambush NVA convoys,snatch prisoners,pull off ambush  hits on  NVA  moving south along the Ho Chi Mihn Trail,and pretty much  anything else you can think of.

It was never publicized,but the Soviets also had Spetnaz teams being inserted into some of the same areas to try to capture/kill the USSF teams.

I have no idea if it is true or not,but I HEARD via "rumor control" that a whole recon team from CCN got aboard the wrong helicopter after calling for an extraction,and were nevezr heard from again. The fact that we were all suddenly told to make sure we recognized the markings on any  helicopter that landed to pick us up,and to take appropriate action if we didn't recognize the door gunner. The pilots were hard  to  recognize due to being  so far away from the doors and because they were wearing helmets.

 
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It was the Media spin on Tet that lost the war, because EVERY provincial capital that was attacked was held or retaken--which was a massive military defeat of the North, only mis-portrayed somehow as a defeat of the South and US forces by the talking heads, foremost of which was Walter Cronkite. The VC were practically eliminated.

Yup! I am not so  sure about VC activity,but  the NVA took a long  time to recover from the hits they took.

The North Vietnamese lost a LOT of VC cadre due to exposing  themselves during Tet. The ones that didn't get killed from exposing  themselves due to  leading attacks had to either flee to NVN,or face being tracked down and executed.

The famous photo of the SVN officer shooting a VC in the head in the streets of Saigon are proof of this. The media tried to make this out to be a murder,but  the man shot was a NVN officer working  in plan clothes in SVN,and partially responsible for the attacks in Saigon.

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So, SSDD (Same sh*t,different decade).

Seems like nothing really changes. Same script,different actors.
Title: Re: Ridiculous News of the Day
Post by: sneakypete on February 15, 2024, 04:25:47 pm
@sneakypete How dare you apply common sense and logic to a situation involving firearms and unqualified people. Don't you know by now you can apply your feelings.

@verga

Sorry!

My bad!