Ridiculous News of the Day

[Smokin Joe]

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.

[bigheadfred]

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/great-grandma-accidentally-prays-lord-rings-figurine-years/

[corbe]

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/

[corbe]

“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/

[Mom MD]

“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/

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.

[EC]

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.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

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/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.

[Cyber Liberty]

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....

[EasyAce]

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


Don Imus as the Rev. Billy Sol Hargis, 1980

[TomSea]

St. Louis, MO.

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.


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?

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.

[TomSea]

Horse collapses and dies after big race in UK, file under "different" not really "ridiculous":

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

[Cyber Liberty]

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.

[bigheadfred]

@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.

[Cyber Liberty]

 

[EC]

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.

[jmyrlefuller]

@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.

[TomSea]

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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

[EasyAce]

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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?

[Wingnut]

Talk about being stuck on stupid.

[EasyAce]

Talk about being stuck on stupid.

Or animal magnetism.

[Sanguine]

Y'all are just jealous. 

[bigheadfred]

Talk about being stuck on stupid.

I can do something like that. I can throw my shorts against the wall and they stick.

[bigheadfred]

Y'all are just jealous.

Or properly bathed.

[Polly Ticks]

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.

[TomSea]

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/

[Wingnut]

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!...   Besides.  I have never known a women who knows the rules of etiquette when operating  your basic remote.

 

[Sanguine]

@Polly Ticks

Now you are just being mean!...   Besides.  I have never known a women who knows the rules of etiquette when operating  your basic remote.

 

Yes, but we know how to push buttons too.

[Wingnut]

Yes, but we know how to push buttons too.

Oh yes.  You certainly are good at pushing buttons!
 :sword:

[Polly Ticks]

@Polly Ticks

Now you are just being mean!...   Besides.  I have never known a women who knows the rules of etiquette when operating  your basic remote.

 

[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!

[Wingnut]

[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!

   Perfect!

[TomSea]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4184048/Restaurants-create-funny-signs-naughty-children.html

Funny restaurant signs.

[TomSea]

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.

[Cripplecreek]

Ridiculous news of yesterday.



 

[Wingnut]

Ridiculous news of yesterday.



 

She was going to sacrifice a virgin but couldn't find one

[Idaho_Cowboy]

New Zealand warns of exploding whale carcassess after mass stranding
https://www.yahoo.com/news/zealand-warns-exploding-whale-carcassess-071341411.html

[Smokin Joe]

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.

[Wingnut]

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

[Smokin Joe]

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...

[verga]

Sometimes things don't go as planned!  But this is an option


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5sPgV61bw

Nice

[EC]

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

[Smokin Joe]

Maybe they already had a boat...

[Sanguine]

Maybe they already had a boat...

They already stole the boat and now they needed all the accessories.

[Cyber Liberty]

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...

[bigheadfred]

It was tweakers. They didn't steal anything. Just took it all apart. They'll put it back together later...

[Smokin Joe]

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...

[EC]

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

 

[EC]

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

[don-o]

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.

[Cyber Liberty]

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.

[bigheadfred]

"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