Author Topic: Ridiculous News of the Day (Read 804374 times)

Wingnut · « **Reply #3450 on:** April 14, 2025, 07:36:14 pm »

Quote from: mountaineer on April 12, 2025, 11:38:07 am

People flocked from miles away to deeply breathe the smoke from the fire, I suspect.

That was why Mrs. Walz was out smelling MPLS burn.. She was looking for a secondary high.

verga · « **Reply #3451 on:** April 16, 2025, 07:36:26 am »

Quote from: mountaineer on April 11, 2025, 06:35:16 pm

"Good morning" is racist, y'all, cuz the slaves bein' tooken away, and such.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1910719971610538284

One of THE dumbest most ridiculous things I have hard in a long time.

mountaineer · « **Reply #3452 on:** April 21, 2025, 04:04:46 pm »

This is great. I've had several sets of twins as friends, but they never were quite on this wavelength with one another.

https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1914296908916670878

berdie · « **Reply #3453 on:** April 21, 2025, 05:58:20 pm »

An ex-sil had identical triplets. They would do that. Pretty freaky.

240B · « **Reply #3454 on:** May 01, 2025, 09:07:57 pm »

Powerball Winner Behind Bars For Battering Cop

The Smoking Gun
May 1, 2025

MAY 1--Days after claiming a $167.3 million Powerball jackpot, a Kentucky man is behind bars, charged with kicking a cop in the face during a melee at an oceanfront hotel in Florida, The Smoking Gun has learned.

According to court records, James Farthing, a 50-year-old ex-convict, was arrested Tuesday evening on felony and misdemeanor charges in connection with a fracas at the TradeWinds Resort in St. Pete Beach.

Farthing was at the resort with Jacqueline Fightmaster, his 42-year-old girlfriend. As seen in the above photo, Farthing and Fightmaster appeared Tuesday at a Kentucky Lottery press conference announcing the Powerball win (which Farthing is splitting with his 77-year-old mother).

Farthing, who won the April 26 Powerball drawing, purchased the winning ticket from Clark’s Pump-N-Shop in Georgetown, a city 15 miles north of Lexington.

On Tuesday evening--one day after posing with an oversized “Jackpot Winner” check--Farthing punched a male victim in the face during an argument at the TradeWinds, cops say. Subsequent to that alleged battery, a sheriff’s deputy sought to break up “an in progress fight between [Farthing] and another patron.”

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https://thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/powerball-winner-196078

Wingnut · « **Reply #3455 on:** May 02, 2025, 01:52:25 pm »

Money can't cure industrial grade stupidity.

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #3456 on:** May 03, 2025, 01:55:51 am »

Quote from: Wingnut on May 02, 2025, 01:52:25 pm

Money can't cure industrial grade stupidity.

True enough, but there is plenty of weapons-grade stupidity around.

mountaineer · « **Reply #3457 on:** May 21, 2025, 06:21:41 pm »

Oh. Never mind.

Pittsburgh Scanner
@pgh_scanner
Regent Square. Forbes Ave at South Braddock Ave. Caller said that there was a man walking down the street holding an assault rifle. The real time crime center pulled up a camera in the area and it appears to be a guy with an umbrella.
5:36 PM · May 16, 2025

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #3458 on:** May 21, 2025, 06:26:27 pm »

Quote from: mountaineer on May 21, 2025, 06:21:41 pm

Oh. Never mind.

Pittsburgh Scanner
@pgh_scanner
Regent Square. Forbes Ave at South Braddock Ave. Caller said that there was a man walking down the street holding an assault rifle. The real time crime center pulled up a camera in the area and it appears to be a guy with an umbrella.
5:36 PM · May 16, 2025

Well, if it was an ANTIFA, it might have been an assault umbrella...

240B · « **Reply #3459 on:** May 31, 2025, 05:15:16 pm »

Man arrested for trying to steal women’s underwear from laundromat; 450 items found at his home

Japan Today
May 31, 2025

Police in Osaka have arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion of attempting to steal women’s underwear from a laundromat.

According to police, Mitsuru Toyonaga, who is self-employed, was arrested on suspicion of attempting to steal four pieces of women's underwear from a dryer at a laundromat in Miyakojima Ward at around 8 p.m. on May 8, Sankei Shimbun reported.

...

About 450 items of women's underwear were found at his home, stored by color in a chest of drawers.

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https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-arrested-for-trying-to-steal-women%E2%80%99s-underwear-from-laundromat-450-items-found-at-his-home

Japanese men are obsessed with female panties, especially from underage schoolgirls. However despite the myth, there are no pantie vending machines in Japan.

Odd thing is he was stealing panties from the dryer. Wouldn't that cancel the entire point? From the dryer all he is going to smell is laundry detergent and fabreze. I guess the guy just loved panties, with or without the female component? Some kind of fashion critic I guess?

240B · « **Reply #3460 on:** June 02, 2025, 02:58:46 pm »

Student, 19, falls to her death after 'suffering a panic attack' and 'unbuckling her seatbelt' while parasailing during holiday to Montenegro

Daily Mail
By SOPHIA STANFORD
2 June 2025

A student has fallen to her death after she unclipped her safety belt while parasailing.

Tijana Radonjic, 19, was on holiday in Budva, Montenegro, when she plunged into the Adriatic Sea after flying at a height of 50 metres.

Despite emergency services rushing to find her, they confirmed she had died last Wednesday.

Harrowing footage of Ms Radnjic, from Novi Sad, Serbia, which MailOnline has chosen not to publish, showed her distressed in her parasailing seat.

She tries to pull herself up on the two straps on the side but then unbuckles the seatbelt and jacket.

The teen then twists around in her seat before tipping upside down and falls through the leg braces.

Horrified spectators on the beach are said to have heard Tijana screaming just moments before the fall: 'Put me down! Put me down!'.

Local outlet Republika said others heard her shout 'help me'.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14771479/Student-falls-death-unbuckling-seatbelt-parasailing.html

Definitely a Darwin Award
Reminds me of all the people who try to open an emergency door midflight on an airplane because they want to get out.

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #3461 on:** June 02, 2025, 04:34:24 pm »

That's the last panic attack she'll ever have.

mountaineer · « **Reply #3462 on:** June 09, 2025, 12:07:58 pm »

2 people killed on the Las Vegas Strip over a "conflict" that started over social media, according to police.

According to ABC 13, the incident allegedly stemmed from a conflict between social media personalities "Sin City Manny" and "Finny Da Legend."

Sin City Manny filmed himself driving around Las Vegas, apparently looking for "Finny" shortly before the incident. ...

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1932104995031429162

240B · « **Reply #3463 on:** June 09, 2025, 06:25:08 pm »

DoorDash driver arrested at customer’s house with gun after demanding cash tip, police say

KPTV News
By Mikhala Armstrong and Jordan Gartner
June 5, 2025

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KPTV/Gray News) - A now-former DoorDash driver is facing multiple charges after police say he went to a DoorDash customer’s house armed with a gun and demanded a cash tip.

According to Vancouver police, 59-year-old Robert Delehant came back to an area home the following day after an order demanding a bigger tip in cash.

A police report revealed the homeowner, Anthony Volino, told officers that his daughter ordered about $100 in groceries and tipped through the app, but Delehant was not satisfied.

The next morning at about 10 a.m. Volino says Delehant showed up angry, upset he had not gotten a cash tip the day before, which was actually noted on the order.

“He said you forgot to give me my tip,” Volino said.

Things quickly escalated into a scuffle, and that is when Volino spotted a gun tucked in Delehant’s waistband.

“He stepped to the right, I stepped to the left, and I reached behind him, and I felt the steel in his waistband, and as soon as I felt the gun in his waistband, my heart just sank,” Volino said. “The only thing on my mind was that I had to get the gun away from him. I was in a struggle for my life. I was thinking, it’s me or him.”

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https://www.wcax.com/2025/06/06/doordash-driver-arrested-customers-house-with-gun-after-demanding-cash-tip-police-say/

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #3464 on:** June 09, 2025, 09:45:46 pm »

Quote from: mountaineer on June 09, 2025, 12:07:58 pm

2 people killed on the Las Vegas Strip over a "conflict" that started over social media, according to police.

According to ABC 13, the incident allegedly stemmed from a conflict between social media personalities "Sin City Manny" and "Finny Da Legend."

Sin City Manny filmed himself driving around Las Vegas, apparently looking for "Finny" shortly before the incident. ...

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1932104995031429162

Either he's a bad shot, or someone got seven rounds in them...

mountaineer · « **Reply #3465 on:** June 11, 2025, 04:06:31 pm »

Bill is looking kind of rough. Kind of a surprise to see them together, I must say.

The Clintons show up somewhere to hawk a book, or something.

https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1932888051216527385

mountaineer · « **Reply #3466 on:** June 16, 2025, 06:31:59 pm »

Lesbian liberal snowflake has major meltdown after a man farts in her general direction while she's buying candy at Albertson's:

https://twitter.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1934667187731488977

berdie · « **Reply #3467 on:** June 16, 2025, 07:04:54 pm »

OMG!! No wonder she's on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Someone pooted!

Wingnut · « **Reply #3468 on:** June 16, 2025, 07:08:52 pm »

Quote from: mountaineer on June 16, 2025, 06:31:59 pm

Lesbian liberal snowflake has major meltdown after a man farts in her general direction while she's buying candy at Albertson's:

https://twitter.com/iAnonPatriot/status/1934667187731488977

I think she likes it. She keeps sniffing like she wants to smell it again. I think Peyton, her wife/husband/dyke should give her a dutch oven tonight.

mountaineer · « **Reply #3469 on:** June 16, 2025, 07:10:07 pm »

I like how she's so offended that store management didn't do anything about it. What should they do, hand out fans?

bigheadfred · « **Reply #3470 on:** June 16, 2025, 07:10:55 pm »

Then he screamed this is maga country!

Cyber Liberty · « **Reply #3471 on:** June 16, 2025, 07:20:07 pm »

Quote from: Wingnut on June 16, 2025, 07:08:52 pm

I think she likes it. She keeps sniffing like she wants to smell it again. I think Peyton, her wife/husband/dyke should give her a dutch oven tonight.

"Beef Stew!" (Sand Lot reference)

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #3472 on:** June 17, 2025, 05:22:38 am »

"Is this the standard for society?"

Thoughts:

People fart. Sh*t happens, too. Biology knows no boundaries, no pronouns.

Kids find farts funny.

Handle it. Not in the best of taste, but you have the ability to walk away (to clearer air).

If you want to have a meltdown, call security, the EPA, whatever, that's on you.

Is Albertson's a "No Fart Zone"? Because I haven't seen the signs.

(This is why I prefer 'fart bombing' the aisles (usually Walmart) with SBDs...it avoids the drama. Besides, when you get older, you don't trust them enough to really rip one out.)