Weird News of the World Thread - Part 1

[KevanG]

This is from 2011 but I figured it counted as I went WTF? just reading the title.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/man-high-on-bath-salts-kills-neighbors-pet-goat-i

Man High On Bath Salts Kills Neighbor’s Pet Goat While Wearing Bra And Panties

So yeah...

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

If it's weird, post that ish Kev

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

An Innocent Rapper Could Go to Jail for Life Just for Releasing an Album

If you'd like to hear Tiny Doo's mixtape No Safety, you can do so here. But be aware that by listening to it, you may somehow be implicated in nine California shootings for which 14 men are about to stand trial. Tiny Doo himself is one of those men, and even prosecutors admit that the only crime he committed is releasing his music.

According to the San Diego County District Attorney's office, Tiny Doo—real name Brandon Duncan—is a documented member of the gang that allegedly perpetrated the attempted murders. No one is alleging that Duncan fired a gun himself, bought the weapons, or was at the scene of the crime—that he had anything to do with the shooting at all, really.

Instead, they're proposing the BS idea that Duncan's rapping makes him implicitly guilty, trotting out a little-used 2000 law that "allows for the prosecution of gang members if they benefit from crimes committed by other gang members," San Diego's 10News reports:

Though Duncan hasn't been tied to the shootings, prosecutors argued that he benefited from the shootings because his gang gained in status, allowing him to sell more albums.

"We're not just talking about a CD of anything, of love songs. We're talking about a CD (cover) … there is a revolver with bullets," said Deputy District Attorney Anthony Campagna.

Duncan's trial begins December 4, the Los Angeles Times reports, and he's being held on $1 million bail until then. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison, according to his attorney Brian Watkins. He has no prior criminal record.

The implications about artistic expression should be reasonably clear. Just in case, Watkins deflated the notion that No Safety had anything to do with perpetuating a crime by comparing it to a similarly gritty well-known work of art:

"If we are trying to criminalize artistic expression, what's next, Brian De Palma and Al Pacino?" Watkins said after visiting with his client in county jail.

"Every drug gangster loves 'Scarface.' Does it encourage violence?" asked Watkins, a reference to the 1983 movie directed by De Palma and starring Pacino.

The only pieces of evidence against Tiny Doo, Watkins told the Times, are the mixtape and a social media photo of him with a few of the alleged shooters.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rap-singer-20141120-story.html

That is pretty insane

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Prospective Home Buyers Find Dead Body in Fixer-Upper

A man in Milwaukee, Wisconsin got a surprise recently while touring a fixer-upper with a real estate agent and a friend: a trash cart full of live kittens. Ah! Later, the group also found a dead body.

In a story that is becoming too familiar, Milwaukee resident Phil Gustafson spotted the body in the foreclosed home while checking out a first-floor closet. The Kansas City Star reports he quickly ran from the room, shouting to his friend Keith Frank Jr., "There's a dude in there!"

Real estate agent Jack Alves reportedly approached the body, announcing who he was, but got no response. The men called 911 and, when paramedics and police officers arrived, found that the man they uncovered in the closet was dead. Alves told the Star:

"He was facing the inside of the closet, laying on his side, his back to the door. I could not see his face. He was covered with a blanket or a coat partially."

The man was identified by his fingerprints as John Ernest Abbott, and his address was reportedly listed on the morgue report as "Homeless in Milwaukee." According to the Star, there was no evidence he had been in the house long and it is not clear when he was last known to be alive. From the Star:

He pleaded guilty to breaking into a house in Franklin a year ago this week. He was looking for a place to sleep and seemed incensed that he was prosecuted. "It's not murder, it's homelessness," he told one psychologist.

The house in which he was found dead is one of more than 1,000 foreclosed homes owned by the city of Milwaukee.

Keith Frank Jr. said, "Needless to say, we're not very interested in that property anymore."

http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article4045558.html

All these dead people in homes that are for sale makes me wary to ever buy a house

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Doctors Find Wiggly Tapeworm in Headache Sufferer's Brain

While treating a 50-year-old patient suffering from headaches, British doctors say they found a years-old tapeworm living in the man's brain. Additionally, added everyone, UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH.

For four years—YEARS!—doctors tracked the progress of the mysterious coil-like creature as it wriggled from one side of the man's head to the other, only discovering its wormy nature after a biopsy of his brain.

Believed to have been infected in China, the patient exhibited symptoms ranging from headaches and seizures to memory flashbacks and "strange smells."

According to The Guardian, "Only 300 cases of infection by this parasite in humans have been reported since 1953," making infestation of your own brain pretty unlikely, but hey, you never know!

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/21/tapeworm-parasite-mans-brain-four-years-china

F*** THAT S***!

 

[squeekness]

Seriously, all those houses probably all have ghosts in them now.

 

[Duran Man]

Prospective Home Buyers Find Dead Body in Fixer-Upper

http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article4045558.html

All these dead people in homes that are for sale makes me wary to ever buy a house

I guess the house was to die for.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Siberians Stuck on Frozen Plane Had to Get Out and Push

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A flight from from Siberia's Igarka airport to Krasnoyarsk, the regional capital, was delayed due to temperatures of minus 52 Celsius. The plane was literally frozen on the runway. But the 70 passengers on board, who had already waited one day for their flight, refused to be grounded so easily: They got out and pushed.

"We just want to get back home," said one of the men working to free the frozen 30-ton aircraft.

The plane might have been able to take off, but the grease on the landing gear wasn't rated for such low temperatures, which caused the brake pads to freeze up, the Siberian Times reported.

Airport officials denied that the passengers—mostly oil workers on their way home from shifts in the Arctic—were actually responsible for moving the plane, saying it was just a social media stunt.

"Most likely, the plane's passengers, oil workers, decided to do a kind of 'selfie'. It was a good joke and it became a big thing on the Internet," airport chief Maxim Aksyonov told the Siberian Times.

But one of the men on board maintains passengers were asked to help because a tractor truck couldn't budge the aircraft alone.

"We pushed it a short distance, about five meters, maybe more," he said.

Not much, but good enough to get home. The flight was able to take off safely and made it to Krasnoyarsk without further incident.

http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0033-if-you-want-to-fly-give-the-plane-a-push/

Gotta do what you gotta do I guess

 

[SWAT]

I guess the house was to die for.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I guess the house was to die for.

I heard the price was killer.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Famous Scientologist Miraculously Escapes Near-Death Bus Attack

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OT-VII Tom Cruise employed full control over his environment in London recently when he narrowly escaped a double-decker bus collision, dodging the incapacitating bodily injury a Suppressive Person would have sustained.

When entering an enturbulated environment like a busy London street, it is important to retain your firm grip on MEST. To be sure, it is why you have shed yourself of your reactive mind; it is the reason you have travelled across the Bridge to Total Freedom.

Thank the Supreme Being. Thank havingness.

http://seriouslyomg.com/?p=47132

Good thing all those thetans weren't tying him down

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Univ. of Texas Can't Figure Out Where 100 Jars of Brains Went

The University of Texas, my alma mater, has a very large campus. Easy to lose stuff—like 100 jars of brains in formaldehyde.

About 200 brains, collected by Dr. Coleman de Chenar of Austin State Hospital (formerly known as: the Texas State Lunatic Asylum) from the 1950s to the mid-1980s, were gifted to the University of Texas in 1987 for research, beating out Harvard for the stash. In the intervening years, half of those brains apparently went missing. UT supposedly didn't realize until an excerpt from Alex Hannaford's forthcoming book, Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas State Mental Hospital, was published on The Atlantic's website yesterday. Whoops!

Allegedly among the missing brains: Charles Whitman's, the man who climbed the campus' 307-foot tower with a rifle and shot and killed 16 people in 1966. From the Atlantic:

Whitman's, it transpires, wasn't the only brain missing from the collection. Tim Schallert, a neuroscientist at UT and the collection's curator, says that when the original brains were bequeathed to the University of Texas, there were around 200 specimens. By the mid-1990s, they were taking up much-needed shelf space at the Animal Resources Center, and Dr. Jerry Fineg, the center's then-director, asked Schallert if he would move half of the jars elsewhere.

When Schallert got around to it, he says they had vanished. He asked Fineg if he knew what had happened to them, and Schallert says Fineg told him he got rid of them. "I never found out exactly what happened—whether they were just given away, sold or whatever—but they just disappeared."

"We're moving at breakneck speed to figure this all out," UT spokesman Gary Susswein told the Houston Chronicle today. "We obviously take this very seriously."

It was briefly believed, after a Los Angeles Times report quoting a UT professor, that the brains had been found on the school system's San Antonio campus. Turns out, the Chronicle reports, that professor had just repeated "something he had been told second-hand."

Update: Well, well, well—UT says the brains were destroyed. From the San Antonio Express-News:

UT spokesman Gary Susswein said Wednesday that workers with the university's Environmental Health and Safety division disposed of the brains in 2002. The brains arrived at the university in the 1980s.

"Faculty members determined they were in poor condition and not usable for research or teaching," Susswein said.

That the university ever had Whitman's brain is also contested. "We have no evidence at this time that any of the brain specimens came from Charles Whitman, though we will continue to investigate those reports," the school said in a statement.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...-brain-missing-from-UT-collection-5930209.php

Not being able to find brains in Texas is a common problem

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Woman Sleeps Next to Mummified Mother for Five Years

A suburban Munich woman was recently found to have been sleeping in the same bed as her elderly mother's mummified body.

The older woman, as it turns out, died five and a half years ago, which seems like a rather long time to hide a corpse without anyone becoming suspicious. Eventually, building management contacted social services, and the body was discovered. The cause of death was chalked up to natural causes.

Reports Worldcrunch.com:

When the police found the dead woman she was covered to the neck with a blanket. Because of the blanket, flies couldn't get at her body, explained Thomas Althaus, deputy head of death investigations with the criminal police. "That certainly helped to prevent putrefaction," he said.

According to Matthias Graw, head of forensics, mummification happens — among other circumstances — when a body dries out. Bacteria can't function properly if there are no body fluids. Ideal conditions are dry, warm, moving air. Police confirmed that the daughter had kept her mother's apartment impeccably clean and had aired it sufficiently. Apparently the mummification didn't engender smells that would have alerted neighbors.

The 55-year-old daughter has a history of mental illness, and is being treated in a psychiatric hospital while facing possible charges for "violation of burial laws."

And this story, while tragic, isn't unique. In July, a woman in Brooklyn was found to have been cohabiting with her long-dead mother's skeletal remains for over a year. In that case, the daughter was alleged to be "putting [the body] at the dinner table for a dining companion and cuddling next to it at night as she slept."

http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-...my-forensics-neighbors/c3s17534/#.VIDmPDHF-jU

Um, eewwww

 

[Duran Man]

Someone has mummy issues.

 

[Mike_D202]

Someone has mummy issues.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Proud British Lady Says No Court Can Stop Her Illegal Sex Screams

Despite receiving a court order, jail time, and at least 30 visits from police, a British woman refuses to silence the criminally noisy bone sessions that her neighbors have described as "unnatural" and "murder," The Daily Mirror reports.

"As far as I'm concerned, that's what you should be doing," said Caroline Cartwright. "Just relax, go with the flow."

In 2009, Cartwright was struck with an ASBO, a controversial civil order that turns various "anti-social" behaviors into criminal offenses—in this case, humping really loud.

Now she's one of the subjects of ASBO & Proud, a documentary that aired this week on Britain's Channel 5.

"I'm sure there could be a lot worse things I could be doing," Cartwright told the network. "They all thought it was stupid I was in prison."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-given-asbo-loud-sex-4746285

That is the weirdest thing I have have ever heard someone being put in jail over

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

"Strange Odor" Turns U.S. Airways Flight Into a Vomit-Soaked Nightmare

A Philadelphia-bound U.S. Airways flight had to make an emergency landing in Rome when passengers and crew members began vomiting all over the plane in a scene straight out of your worst nightmare.

Authorities say the Airplane!-esque scene began when a "strange odor" wafted through plane, which took off from Israel's Ben Gurion airport Friday night.

Trapped inside a metal room with the noxious odor and an obviously insufficient ventilation system, passengers and crew members alike began throwing up—prompting a chain reaction of vomit down the aisle.

Eventually fourteen crew members and two passengers became seriously ill, and the flight made an "unscheduled landing" in Rome. According to the AFP, other passengers reported suffering red eyes and nausea.

At least three flight attendants were rushed to a clinic in an ambulance, and the others were later treated at the same clinic and released, NBC reports.

A spokesperson for the airline said maintenance crews are working to discover the source of the odor—which shouldn't be too difficult. It's hardly the first time U.S. Airways has had this problem—in October another crew member had to be hospitalized after succumbing to a "cabin odor" on a domestic flight.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-airways-jet-israel-diverts-rome-after-16-get-n262946

Well that sounds absolutely horrible

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

19 Hospitalized After Possible Chemical Attack on Furry Convention

Attendees of Midwest FurFest—Illinois' premier convention for people who like dressing up as anthropomorphic animals—were forced to flee a suburban Chicago hotel in full costume after it was hit with a seemingly deliberate chlorine gas leak.

19 people were sent to the hospital Sunday morning after the third alarm chemical leak was discovered near the 10th floor of the Hyatt Regency O'Hare. According to CBS Chicago, police described the leak as "consistent with an intentional act" and are currently investigating it as a crime.

However, not everyone was concerned. "We have a lot of costumers out here with big fluffy costumes that'll keep people warm," one fur fan told Chicago's WBBM, "so at this point we're not worried."

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/12...olding-furfest-convention-deemed-intentional/

You can't make this stuff up people

 

[KevanG]

Sounds like the exterminators got a wee bit confused.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

There's a Barren Town in Japan With More Creepy Scarecrows Than People

Nagoro, a town in the mountains of Japan, once bustled with people. Now, thanks to deaths, the falling birthrate, a dearth of young people moving in, and one industrious artist, there are 35 living humans and three times as many limp and dead-eyed scarecrows.

Sixty-five-year-old Tsukimi Ayano, according to an amazing Associated Press report on Nagoro, is one of the dying village's youngest residents, and began making scarecrows to "help fill the days and replace neighbors who died or moved away."

The town's elementary school, which shuttered in 2012, contains "spotless classrooms populated with scarecrow students and teachers," the AP writes.

Here, Ayano works on a new scarecrow. "They bring back memories," she told the AP. "That old lady used to come and chat and drink tea. That old man used to love to drink sake and tell stories. It reminds me of the old times, when they were still alive and well."

Population decline isn't specific to Nagoro—it's endemic to the entire nation. An Economist article from March titled "The incredible shrinking country" reads:

Japan's population began falling in 2004 and is now ageing faster than any other on the planet. More than 22% of Japanese are already 65 or older. A report compiled with the government's co-operation two years ago warned that by 2060 the number of Japanese will have fallen from 127m to about 87m, of whom almost 40% will be 65 or older.

The government is pointedly not denying newspaper reports that ran earlier this month, claiming that it is considering a solution it has so far shunned: mass immigration. The reports say the figure being mooted is 200,000 foreigners a year. An advisory body to Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, said opening the immigration drawbridge to that number would help stabilise Japan's population—at around 100m (from its current 126.7m).

Thanks to Ayano's work, Nagaro has found life as a low-key tourist attraction. "If I hadn't made these scarecrows," she told the AP, "people would just drive right by."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7407.../scarecrows-outnumber-people-dying-japan-town

Pretty cool and odd at the same time

 

[Mike_D202]

There's a Barren Town in Japan With More Creepy Scarecrows Than People

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7407.../scarecrows-outnumber-people-dying-japan-town

Pretty cool and odd at the same time

That would make for a great short horror movie segment. Where they all come alive towards the end.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Scientists Say Horse Tranquilizers are Good for the Soul

Put away your Prozac; trash the Wellbutrin. The cure to depression is ketamine, and doctors are trip-sitting patients across the country.

Treating depression with ketamine isn't a new method, but now, via the New York Times, doctors and researchers at Yale, Mount Sinai and the National Institute of Mental Health are saying a few hours of tripping can have immediate, measurable effects on depressed patients.

And it's spawning a new ketamine industry, the Times reports.

Some doctors and patients are not waiting for the pharmaceutical industry. Because ketamine has long been approved for anesthesia, doctors are allowed to use it off-label to treat depression. Clinics charge from $300 to more than $1,000 per treatment. Insurance rarely covers the cost. Schedules vary by clinic and by patient, but some patients are treated every few days at first, then every two weeks to two months.

The medical environment also apparently had no effect on the drug's ability to turn people into stoned, idiot ravers. As one patient tells the Times, she felt "aware enough to change the tunes on her iPod, albeit slowly, but was 'transported into a completely different dimension.' She added, 'Everything there is completely vibrant or molten.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/b...-for-depression.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Special K has been around in the rave scene for as long as I can remember. It has some pretty nasty side effects for people that get addicted to it though.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Child Molester Won $3 Million Lottery Jackpot Because of His Good Karma

Florida's newest millionaire is a 43-year-old 450-pound convicted child molester who finally caught a break this week when he won a multi-million dollar scratch-off jackpot.

The Florida Lottery quickly pulled down images of Timothy Poole posing with his oversized check when he was identified as a convicted sex offender. He reportedly pleaded guilty to molesting two boys under the age of 12 in 2002 and spent three years in jail, just one of several violent charges on his rap sheet.

Poole ended up with a $3 million prize, but hesacrificed around $800,000 to take it as a one-time, lump-sum payment. Despite public outcry, the Florida Lottery declined to stop the payment, explaining that anyone can play the lottery.

Poole was reportedly working as a cab driver and dispatcher at his mother's taxi company when he bought the $20 scratch off at a 7/11 last weekend.

His friends tell reporters his good fortune was probably karma.

"He's a very positive person. Very kind. Giving. I think that's why he won. It's Christmastime and the dude deserves a break."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...s-3-million-lottery-jackpot-article-1.2040358

Well that is one of those things that piss you off for no real reason other than this a**hole shouldn't have got lucky

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

"Black Widow" Suspected of Killing at Least a Half-Dozen Men

A Japanese woman facing trial for poisoning her husband with cyanide may have also murdered as many as six former boyfriends, authorities say.

Police initially thought Chisako Kakehi's husband, Isao, died of a heart attack—until they discovered traces of cyanide in his blood. Investigators say at least six of Kakehi's romantic interests—all older, well-situated men—met similar ends.

Reports also suggest money was a factor, and Kakehi is rumored to have collected as much as $8 million from her dead paramours. Via the New York Times:

All were at least moderately wealthy, with homes and ample savings accounts accumulated over a lifetime of work in order to enjoy a comfortable retirement. Most died soon after drawing up wills that named her as the sole beneficiary.

Police also say they found a sachet of cyanide hidden in a flowerpot Kakehi tried to throw away.

Kaheki reportedly referred to herself as a "victim of doomed fate."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/world/a-black-widow-case-strikes-a-nerve-in-japan.html

She gives ScarJo a bad name

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

No BS Grandma Fights Off Three Teens Trying to Steal Her Car

Indianapolis police are searching for three teenagers who allegedly left 67-year-old Kay Kise with broken bones, bleeding on her brain, and an eye swollen shut after the group allegedly tried to steal the grandmother's van at gunpoint.

"I know it's just a vehicle, but it's the only thing I've got," Kise told the Indianapolis Star. "And I don't have no money to buy another one with. So they weren't going to take it from me."

The alleged altercation started, Kise told WTHR, when one of the teens stopped Kise outside her home and pretended to ask for directions. "He come up to my car and he said, 'Do you know where Hendricks Place is?'" Kise told the TV station. "I told him it was just two blocks over and continued grabbing my shopping bags. The next thing you know, I turned back around and he had this gun right in my face."

At some point, two more teens approached and a fight ensued:

That's when a brief struggle started outside the van. Kise suffered several blows to the face and head, but she does not remember getting hit. During the struggle, she screamed several times for help. Her screams got the attention of her 13-year-old next door neighbor Shantel Johnson.

After looking out the window, Shantel noticed her elderly neighbor outside her van.

"So I went down to see what was wrong, and her face was bleeding and it was swollen," said Johnson. "So I ran back upstairs and I was like, 'Mom, Mrs. Kay is hurt! Mrs Kay is hurt!'"

The Johnsons called 911, but by the time officers could get on the scene, the three suspects were long gone.

Kise, apparently undaunted by a gun pointed at her face, said she smacked the gun away from her attackers and told them, "You are not taking my car. I have not had it that long and you are not getting it."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feisty-indiana-senior-fights-pistol-packing-carjackers-n265486

Grandma is a BAMF!