Ridiculous News of the Day

[EC]

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!

[EC]

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]

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

[alicewonders]

He can always "self-deport" himself to heaven.

Just sayin'.

[Paladin]

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.

[EC]

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

[EC]

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. 

[alicewonders]

Hey, at least she's not carrying a gun!

[aligncare]

Reality is stranger than fiction...   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! 

[EC]

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

 

[EC]

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

[Paladin]

"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/

[EC]

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

[EC]

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

[EC]

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

[alicewonders]

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!

 

[EdinVA]

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

[alicewonders]

I want one of those!

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

[Right_in_Virginia]

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!   

[EC]

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/

[Paladin]

"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?

[aligncare]

A penis line-up? That's beyond ridiculous, that's bizarre.

[Paladin]

"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).

[EC]

One of the Porkys ones? Seems familiar.

[EC]

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?

[EC]

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!

[aligncare]

Even carnivorous rats deserve our special love... and a seat on a jetliner. 

[Paladin]

Back to Toronto, eh? Has the possum made any statement as to which sex it identifies with?

[PzLdr]

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].

[aligncare]

It's not a rat. It's a marsupial [the only one in North America, I believe].

Was artistic license, take a joke.  ^-^

[EC]

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

[alicewonders]

How can someone be that stupid and still be able to drive? 

 

[EC]

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/

[EC]

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/

[andy58-in-nh]

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...

[EC]

WD-40 for me. There's just something about the smell ....

[HAPPY2BME]

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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[HAPPY2BME]

Phuc Dat Bich: Man posts passport to Facebook to prove his name is real



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

[Paladin]

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/

[Paladin]

"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

[EC]

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

 

[PzLdr]

Guess he couldn't blame Vader, Vader being dead and all.

[EC]

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

[alicewonders]

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!   

[EC]

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/

[aligncare]

The 29-year-old got more head than he planned on.

[Free Vulcan]

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.

[EC]

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.

[Paladin]

"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.

[EdinVA]

http://wjla.com/news/local/abc7-news-crew-robbed-while-attending-anti-robbery-press-conference-in-dc

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.