Weird And Funny News Stories...

Subby · Jun 14, 2007

I thought I'd start a thread on weird stories...I get mine generally from theage.com.au

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A woman arrested in the US last year for making faces at a police dog has had animal cruelty charges dropped. Jayna Hutchinson, 33, who was drunk at the time of the incident, was trying to complain about an assault to police, who told her to sober up[/b]

Subby · Jun 15, 2007

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Japan is to get its first nursing home for dogs, with round-the-clock monitoring by doctors and a team of puppies to help ageing pooches feel younger. Owners will pay 98,000 yen ($A954) a month to keep their dogs at the Soladi Care Home for pets, which will open today in Tochigi, eastern Japan.[/b]

Ninja Girl Momoko · Jun 20, 2007

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(06-14) 09:02 PDT BERLIN, Germany (AP) --

An unusually aggressive squirrel bit three people in a German town before its last victim finished it off with a crutch, police said.

The rodent jumped through a living-room window in Passau, on the Austrian border, on Tuesday and bit its first victim. With the squirrel hanging on by its teeth, the woman ran out into the street, where she managed to shake the animal off.[/b]

squirrel? We think subby may be behind this.

Snowbaby · Jun 20, 2007

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Charles D. McKinley, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y., had four weeks of vacation coming, so he decided to visit his parents in DeSoto, Texas. Rather than buy a plane ticket for $320, McKinley, a shipping clerk, packed himself into a shipping crate and air-expressed himself home, charging the fees to his employer. When the crate was delivered to his parents' front step, McKinley pushed out of the box and shook hands with the "shaken and frightened" delivery driver. The driver called the police. After an investigation by the FBI, the U.S. attorney, postal inspectors, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration, McKinley was charged as a stowaway, a federal misdemeanor.[/b]

Taken form thisistrue.com

Subby · Jun 27, 2007

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Pets in California may soon be eligible for restraining orders to protect them from their owner's vengeful former partners. The bill would allow judges to grant temporary custody orders or order abusive ex- partners to keep their distance from pets[/b]

Snowbaby · Jun 30, 2007

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TESTING HIS METTLE: Shiv Charan Yadav has failed his high school final
exams. Again. Yadav, who lives in the village of Kohari in Rajasthan,
India, had vowed that he would not marry until he passed high school.
This year's exam try was his 38th, and he is 73 years old; he has been
taking the exam each year since he was 35, and plans to try again next
year. "Once I pass I want to get married to a girl who's under 30," he
said. (Reuters) ...But no doubt, he'll fail her exam.[/b]

Subby · Jul 1, 2007

lmao!

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A Florida man awoke with a severe headache and asked his wife to drive him to hospital, where doctors found a bullet lodged behind his right ear. On this discovery, his wife fled from the emergency room. She was later arrested, having admitted she shot him while he slept.[/b]

Snowbaby · Jul 1, 2007

OMG!!

merisplit · Jul 1, 2007

bluestar · Jul 2, 2007

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A Cook County jury ordered a man to shell out $4,802 last week after he was sued by a husband from a Chicago suburb for stealing the affections of the man's wife.

"This guy ruined my life _ he backstabbed me," Arthur Friedman told the Chicago Sun-Times. "What he did was wrong. And I did what I had to do to get my point across."[/b]

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A peacock that roamed into a fast-food restaurant parking lot is attacked by a man who vilified the bird as a vampire, officials say. Asked what he was doing, the attacker reportedly explained, "I'm killing a vampire!"[/b]

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At Cherry Valley Golf Course in the Poconos, controversy is swirling after video surfaced of golfers being serviced by lap dancers on the course. Evidently, this isn't as rare as you might think -- the news account has a sidebar that lists three other recent "sex golf course cases."[/b]

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A truck driver from Wisconsin, driving down a major highway, gets distracted adjusting his mp3 player and tips his tuck which happened to be transporting around 40 tons of cow intestines and bones.

The mess was so bad that officials had to close parts of Interstate for two hours while it was cleaned up.

The truck driver was cited for inattentive driving and taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.[/b]

Subby · Jul 4, 2007

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Porno Pizza in Winnipeg, Canada, delivers pornography with every pie, revealing often hard-core pictures under each slice. Ignoring protests as business booms, owner Corey Wildeman says he will "never go broke appealing to the lowest common denominator". More than 75 per cent of custom in his first week of business has come from women.[/b]

Subby · Jul 5, 2007

Sorry... but I couldn't help but find this mildly amusing....

On theage.com.au they have a newswire, which lists the storys headline, and the time it was broken, or added to the site.... here are the last 3....

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6:49am Man faces child porn charge

6:49am Man robbed of backpack and iPod

6:34am Man faces charges after mugging woman[/b]

Now..... Does anyone else think that this man was a busy bee

Subby · Jul 13, 2007

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A New Zealand teenager who bungled a hold-up on a milk bar was persuaded to sign an IOU for the cigarettes he demanded, after he was recognised by the store owner.[/b]

merisplit · Jul 15, 2007

Where do you find these?

Subby · Jul 15, 2007

From the website I mentioned at the top... its one weird story per day in that paper

ninja kitty yukiko · Jul 21, 2007

cool!

Subby · Jul 22, 2007

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A Texas prison inmate, Willie Joe McAdams, who was mistakenly released 36 years early, was re-arrested after approaching his victim in a bar, shaking his hand and apologising for shooting him in the head, blinding him in one eye.[/b]

Subby · Jul 23, 2007

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A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to chips. The bird walks into a newsagents in Aberdeen when the door is open and makes off with cheese-flavoured corn chips. The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popular that locals have started paying for the chips.[/b]

Subby · Jul 27, 2007

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OSCAR the cat makes his grand entrances just as life is about to leave.

A hop onto the bed, a fastidious lick of the paws, then a snuggle beside a nursing home patient with little time left.

"He's a cat with an uncanny instinct for death," said David Dosa, assistant professor at the Brown University School of Medicine and a geriatric specialist. "He attends deaths. He's pretty insistent on it."

In the two years since Oscar was adopted into the dementia unit of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence, he has maintained close vigil over the deaths of more than 25 patients, according to nursing staff, doctors who treat patients there and an essay written by Dr Dosa, published in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine.When death is near, Oscar nearly always appears at the last hour or so. Yet he shows no special interest in patients who are simply in poor shape or even patients who may be dying but who still have a few days.

Authorities in animal behaviour have no explanation for Oscar's ability to sense imminent death. They theorise that he might detect some subtle change in metabolism — felines are as acutely sensitive to smells as dogs — but are stumped as to why he would show interest.

"It may just come down to empathy," said Dr Nicholas Dodman, a leading behaviorist and professor at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, when told about Oscar's eerie knack.

When Oscar settles on a patient's bed, caregivers take it as a sign that family members should be summoned immediately to bid their loved one farewell.

"We've come to recognise him hopping on the bed as one indicator the end is very near," said Mary Miranda, charge nurse in the Safe Haven Advanced Care Unit, the formal name of the surprisingly cheery floor that is home to 41 patients suffering the final stages of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke and other mentally debilitating diseases. "Oscar's been consistently right."

Said Dr Dosa, who treats patients at Steere: "This is a cat that knows death. His instincts that a patient is about to die are often more acute than the instincts of medical professionals."

"Caregivers are always there trying to make the patient comfortable until the very end," said Brenda Toll, a registered nurse and unit manager. "But Oscar's a component of dying … It's kind of weird, but kind of lovely. He's become part of the death ritual, along with lowered lights, aromatherapy and gentle music."

Keeping pets has been a trend in nursing home care for several years. The Steere Centre, founded in 1874, has 120 residents, six cats, a slew of parakeets and a floppy-eared rabbit.

Oscar's sole domain is the locked dementia ward. He came as a kitten, brought by a staff member to replace the floor's previous resident feline.

Occasionally, families are spooked by a cat keeping death watch. But others are deeply appreciative of Oscar.[/b]

.... And i thought it was black cats that were unlucky...

wabbit · Jul 29, 2007

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3 convicted of soliciting sex must wear chicken suit

PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A judge known for giving unusual sentences has ordered three men who pleaded guilty to soliciting sex to take turns dressing in a bright yellow chicken costume.

Painesville Municipal Judge Michael Cicconetti agreed to suspend a 30-day jail sentence if they wear the costume between 4 and 7 p.m. Friday outside the court while carrying a sign that reads "No Chicken Ranch in Painesville."

The sign and costume refer to the "World Famous Chicken Ranch," a prostitution house in Nevada where sex-for-money is legal.

Daniel Chapdelaine, 40, of Perry Township; Martin Soto, 44, of Ashtabula; and Fabian Rodriguez-Ramirez, 29, of Painesville, solicited sex from an undercover Painesville police officer earlier this summer.

Cicconetti has used barnyard animals to dispense justice in the past.

He ordered a man who called a policeman a pig to stand next to a live pig in a pen and hold a sign that read "This Is Not a Police Officer." A couple who stole a baby Jesus statue from a manger were sentenced to dress as Mary and Joseph and walk with a donkey.[/b]

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