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    ALLIGATOR LINGERING NEAR RESTAUTANT KILLED

    Shawnee, OKLA. A 3-foot alligator found loierting oustside a Mexican restaurant in Shawnee this wekk was not on the menu. And, said restaurant manager Javier Esquibel, "We didn't think it was good for business to have it hanging aournd" [well DUH] The alligator is believed to have been someone's pet, [ya think, how many alligators are found in Okalahoma?] and possibly came from a near by apt. complex, said an animal control spokesman. It's illegal to keep alligators, said Nels Rodefeld, of the state Wildlife dept.. The gator was taken to the animal shelter and later euthanized!

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    PHILLY PAPERS ADVERTISE FAKE AIRLINES

    MASHED TOMATOES.. What a horrible mess:scream:

    RARE BLACK WATERMELON, SELLS FOR $6,100
    I've never heard of this in my life:wtf:

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    Hen who lived at a McDonald's finally captured
    Monday June 9, 8:55 am ET

    TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) -- In the end, the elusive chicken that took up residence outside a McDonald's just got too comfortable in its new home.

    For four months customers tried unsuccessfully to catch the brown hen using bait or bare hands. Last week, the fast fowl was finally captured after it settled in for the night right on top of the drive-through window box.

    A group of employees distracted the bird with bites of hamburger bun and nabbed it.

    Restaurant manager Chona Cauley said the chicken's downfall was that it got a little bit too comfortable around the drive-through.

    "Normally, the chicken sleeps in the bushes," Cauley said.

    The bird won't end up on the menu. It has been sent to live as a pet with other chickens at the home of a restaurant worker.

    Since the chicken arrived, customers often found themselves waiting to order their McNuggets while the bird blocked the drive-through lane.
     
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    I saw that on TV funny:lol: now the chicken is on a farm and happy!

    MAN LEAPS FROM PLANE WITH CAMERA, NO CHUTE

    New YOrk..A 29-yr. old man leaped out of a plane with no parachute Saturday. His body was found next to a house in Duanesburg, N.Y. and caused damage to the roof! Sloan Carafello of Schenectady, N.Y. who was obeserving on the flight, followed an instructor student videographer out the door, wearing no skydiving equipment or gear. Police were confused and baffled by the incident, and have no explanation, why he did this!

    WOMAN ALIVE AFTER FALL DOWN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT

    New Jersey..A woman in a motorized wheelchair slammed into a hotel elevator, forcing the door open and then fell about 30 feet down the shaft on Saturday said a fire official in Atlantic City. It took firefighters about 45 minutes to rescue the woman at the Claridge Tower at Bally's Atlantic City. The woman was "extremely fortunate" to be alive said Battalion Chief Michael Mooney. Although she was severly injured, they said she would live! OUCH!


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    Man feels fine after being shot in head by nailgun
    Jun 10, 8:05 PM (ET)

    SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) - A suburban Kansas City man accidentally fired a 2.5-inch nail into the top of his head, but says he now feels fine after a doctor used a claw hammer to remove it. The mishap occurred Friday while George Chandler, of Shawnee, and a friend were working on a backyard project.

    The nail gun hose became tangled, causing the powerful tool to fire once. Chandler said Monday he told his friend he didn't know where the nail went, but he felt a sting on the top of his head.

    Soon they discovered that the nail was driven into Chandler's skull, so they called an ambulance. He was rushed to a hospital, where a doctor used a common claw hammer to remove the nail, Chandler said.

    Chandler said he feels "very lucky, very, very lucky" to have escaped serious injury.

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    Calif. police: Things get ugly at the gas pumps
    Jun 10, 8:06 PM (ET)

    CYPRESS, Calif. (AP) - Violence broke out at the gas pumps in Orange County. Police say a La Palma doctor waiting in line to buy gas at the Costco warehouse store in Cypress grabbed a tire iron and confronted a motorist who cut into the line.

    Sgt. Tom Bruce said the doctor was arrested and booked for investigation of brandishing a deadly weapon in a rude, angry or threatening manner, a misdemeanor.

    Witnesses told police the doctor was in line at the pumps Monday evening when another vehicle cut in front of him. When the doctor confronted the motorist with a tire iron, the other driver locked himself in his car and called police.

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    Man accused of drunken driving twice in 2 hours
    Jun 10, 8:06 PM (ET)

    SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) - A Sheboygan man is behind bars after being arrested twice for drunken driving within two hours early Tuesday. Police say the 24-year-old driver was stopped by an officer about 1:50 a.m. after he was spotted driving the wrong way on a one-way street in Sheboygan.

    The man was arrested, cited for driving drunk and released to his brother about 3 a.m. at the police station.

    Police say about 40 minutes later, an officer saw the same man, driving the same vehicle at 20 mph over the 30-mph speed limit.

    He was pulled over and cited again for operating while intoxicated. This time he was taken to the Sheboygan County Detention Center.
     
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    All pretty bizzare Dynamo:wtf:

    MAN HEADED TO PRISON DISAPPEARS ON BRIDGE

    New York, NY. A convicted hedge fund swindler who was supposed to be driving himself to prison, abandoned his car on a bridge with the phrase "Suicide is Painless" scraw;ed on the hood, but no body has been found in the river below..and the victims of the fraud say they doubt he killed himself. The FBI and state police are skeptical, saying they're still looking for Samuel Israel 111. Israel, 48, co-founder and chief executive of the now collapsed Bayou hedge funds, was sentenced in April to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy and fraud, was to began his sentence on Monday, and also ordered to pay back $300 million:wtf: to his one time victims!

    MARRIED 65 YEARS, THEY DIE WITHIN 23 HOURS

    Santa Ana, CA. The Orange County couple married for 65 years and in the end Jerry Aten couldn't last a day without his wife Marilyn. She died at home in her bed of gastric cancer, Jerry tired to give her one last kiss, but couldn't get out of his wheelchair. He held her hand and laid his head on her bed, and cried, 23 hours later he died of cardiopulmonary arrest. Jerry & Marilyn, 85, met on a 'blind date'. he was a Michigan farm boy, stationed in No.Calif. She was a small town Calirornia girl who always called him 'honey'. The couple had one son David 61! poor guy:( [this is the way it should be, he would be too grief stricken, with her gone, now they're together forever!

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    *HULK* STATUE WITH MISSING FEET GONE


    Lowell, Ma. Missing: an eight-foot-tall green man wearing ripped purple pants and mssing his feet. Police in Lowell, Mass. say a promotional stattue for the movie "The Incredible Hulk" disappeared from it's spot in front of a local theater this week. Polics Capt. James McPadden, says the statue is probably in some kids bedroom. But he thinks more than one person was involved and that a vehicle was need to wisk it away. The statue is missing it's feet and they were bolted to a platform so whoever took it snapped it off at the ankles! [why wouldd you want a statues feet?] crazy:vulcan:

    TERRITORIAL BIRDS DIVE-BOMB PASSERSBY

    Chicago, IL. Experts are telling Chicago residents to beware of the birds. The fiercely territorial behavior of the re-winged blackbirds is being blamed on several recent dive-bombing attacks. Just ask Holly Grosso. The businesswoman says she was pecked in he head ,and had to run and hide, [THE BIRDS]:eek: she called the incident 'bizzare' Field Museum ornithologist Doug Stotz says the birds favor parks and vacant lots near ponds but they think that people are in their territory, in late July after their nesting season they disappear!

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    Driver arrested after speeding 22 times in 45 days
    Jun 25, 2:47 PM (ET)

    PHOENIX (AP) - A Nevada woman has been arrested after photo enforcement cameras on a Phoenix freeway captured her behind the wheel of a car speeding 22 times in a 45-day span, authorities said.

    The woman, 24, was arrested by Arizona Department of Public Safety officers on suspicion of criminal speeding, reckless driving and endangerment.

    During a 45-day period starting in May, DPS officials said the woman was captured by photo enforcement cameras on Loop 101 in Scottsdale 22 times, with her top speed at 92 mph.

    The woman was living in Arizona temporarily when officers arrested her at her parent's north Scottsdale home last Friday, officials said.

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    Kid golfers, strippers share golf course
    Jun 25, 2:52 PM (ET)

    BROOMFIELD, Colo. (AP) - A close encounter between flirtatious strippers and children playing in a golf tournament was the result of "mistiming," golf course officials said Tuesday as they apologized to parents.

    The scantily clad women spilled out of a limousine as the youngsters were finishing their game as part of the Gold Crown Junior Golf Association tournament Monday. Tournament officials said they were not warned the strippers would be arriving before the end of the game for children, who ranged in age from 7 to 12.

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    Police: LI bank robbery suspect tried to hail cab
    Jun 25, 2:54 PM (ET)

    COPIAGUE, N.Y. (AP) - Police say a suspect in a bank robbery on Long Island tried to get away by hailing a cab. Police say a man walked into a Washington Mutual Bank on Merrick Road in Copiague about 10:02 a.m. Tuesday and passed a note to a teller announcing a robbery and demanding cash.

    The teller complied, handing over some money along with a dye pack.
    Police said the pack exploded as the man fled, causing him to drop the cash - but not before his clothes were stained red.

    A witness told responding officers of a man fitting the robber's description getting into a cab. Police tracked the passenger to his home where officers arrested him after noticing red dye on his clothes.

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    Man leaves Ga. jail naked, gets arrested again
    Jun 25, 3:06 PM (ET)

    SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Sometimes, it's better to look like a jailbird than sport a birthday suit. Police say Bill Merit, 49, left the Chatham County jail and began walking by the side of the road, naked. Witnesses called police, who arrested him and jailed him again on a charge of public indecency.

    A police report says Merit told an officer that he didn't take the clothes jailers gave him because he thought they were stolen. The report says the man "appeared rational, except for being naked."
     
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    Geez, what a bunch of losers, the women driver, get a clue, or give up your license:scream:

    37 HURT AS FIREWORKS SHELL ROARS INTO CROWD

    A 4th of July fireworks shell misfired in Charles City, Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people, officilas said. Most of the people treated after the Friday night incident suffered minor injuries said City Fire Department spokesman Eric Whipple. It appears there was a misfire involving 13 racks of firework tubes during the finale of the city sponsored show, although officials are unsure what caused the malfunction! [glad I wasn't at this show]:(

    MISTAKEN DELIVERY LEADS TO DRUG ARREST

    Baltimore, MD. FedEx prides itself on reliability. But a mistaken delivery tipped off police to a 200-lb shipment of mafijuana that someone tried to send from Pembroke Pines, Fla. to Baltimore via the shipping company. Ploice said they learned about the shipment when it was delivered to the wrong resident. Authorities posed as FedEx employees and arrested the shipment's intended recipient, 30yr-old Richard Gwariszo! busted, [big dummie:scream:]

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    BEHEADED WAX FIGURE OF HITLER TO BE FIXED

    Berlin, Germany..Madame Trussaauds wll repair the wax figure of Adolf Hitler that a visitor beheaded at it's new Berlin branch and return it to the museum "as quickly as possible" On Saturday, the 1st day the museum opened, a 41-yr. old man pushed aside two guards to attack the wax figure of Hitler, ripping off the head while shouting "No more war" [wacky] He was only the second person to enter the museum. The man, who has not been identified, was briefly detained by police and is being investigated by police on suspicion of damaging property and bodily harm! [hey dude the guys been dead for 60 some odd years get over it]:klingon:

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    Woman kills husband with folding couch
    Reuters - Wed Jul 9, 12:17 PM ETST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday.
     
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    Bad boys bad boys whatcha gonna do?
    Whatcha gonna do whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

    Dallas police find cocaine in car used by officers
    Jul 10, 7:20 AM (ET)

    DALLAS (AP) - Police didn't have to go far to find $400,000 worth of cocaine - it was in an undercover car they'd been driving for two months.

    An officer cleaning the car at a patrol station Wednesday discovered the nearly 50 pounds of cocaine carefully hidden in hydraulically controlled compartments.

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    $55,000 found in St. Louis County Jail bathroom
    Jul 9, 8:52 PM (ET)

    CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) - Someone at the St. Louis County Jail was flush with money. A correctional officer at the intake facility at the St. Louis County Justice Center last week found $55,000 stuffed behind a toilet paper dispenser.

    The bundle of money was in $100 and $50 bills, said Clayton Police Chief Thomas Byrne.

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    Man robbed buying crack calls cops who arrest him
    Jul 8, 11:39 PM (ET)

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - An East Hartford man called police to report he had been robbed while trying to buy crack cocaine.

    Max Minnefield called police Monday to tell them he had paid a man and a woman $8 for drugs he never received.

    Police charged him with criminal attempt to commit possession of narcotics.

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    Ark. suspect leaves behind cell phone for police
    Jul 8, 11:40 PM (ET)

    FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) - Forrest City police weren't able to catch their man after a high-speed chase through town, but the cell phone he left behind gave away his identity.

    The chase started just before 11 p.m. Monday after officers received a call about people "fighting in the street with guns," police said. When police arrived, they managed to block one car from getting away. The man in that car spoke briefly with officers before speeding away - and the chase was on.

    The man crashed his Toyota Camry into a house and ran away, police said. But as officers searched the car, the man's cell phone rang and the caller asked for the suspect by name.

    Officers said a search of the car uncovered a set of scales and two plastic bags, one containing marijuana and the other containing crack cocaine.
     
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    GEEZ those were unbeliveable, the cash in the bathroom $$$$ why can't I find that?:(

    TOP TEN ODDBALLS OF THE ANIMAL WORLD these are really weird and freaky and bizzare:wtf:

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