Weird News of the World Thread - Part 1

[Monsieur Xavier]

San Diego Women Held Hostage By Cat


Another cat taking people hostage, just one more reason cats suck

LoL, how lame are this people to be held hostage by a cat.

 

[Teelie]

Obviously you've never been taken hostage by a cat.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Nope, cats love me, they tamed me well.

 

[squeekness]

I'd think you could ransom yourself easy with a can of tuna, lol. Works like a charm.

 

[redmarvel]

HitchBOT has made it all the way across Canada.

Without a hitch: hitchBOT arrives safely in Victoria
With a bucket for a body, pool noodle appendages and an unrelenting smile, hitchBOT arrived in Victoria, B.C., Sunday.

The hitchhiking robot set off from Halifax on July 27 and has since racked up thousands of kilometres -- and thousands of fans -- along its cross-Canada endeavour.

hitchBOT is a participatory art piece and an examination of human-robot interaction, according to its creators Frauke Zeller and David Harris Smith. The experiment, which will officially conclude at an art gallery reception on Thursday, went better than the two could have imagined.

The beginning of its journey.


And the final leg.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/without-a-hitch-hitchbot-arrives-safely-in-victoria-1.1965255

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Facebook of Incest apparently exists.

Caution: It's pretty freaking disgusting

http://www.vice.com/read/family4love-is-the-facebook-of-incest?utm_source=vicetwitterus

 

[MangleBoP]

The only major downside is shark meat is full of mercury. So feed the homeless and poison them at the same time.

If you're an adult who doesn't eat shark meat on a regular basis, the effects are negligible. It's only a real problem if you eat a LOT of it, or have other mercury exposures.

 

[Teelie]

Facebook of Incest apparently exists.

Caution: It's pretty freaking disgusting

http://www.vice.com/read/family4love-is-the-facebook-of-incest?utm_source=vicetwitterus

I think this is one of those misleading stories. I really doubt it's true or if it is that it's as accurate as portrayed.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Holy **** Look at This Giant Alligator Pulled Out of an Alabama Swamp

It took an Alabama family five hours to wrestle a 15-foot-long alligator from a swamp in Camden, Ala. over the weekend—the largest legal alligator killing by an Alabama hunter ever. After breaking a winch used to weigh gator catches, Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Biologists used a backhoe to lift the gator's body, which came in at 1,011.5 pounds.

"When I finally saw it the full-body mount at the Gee's Bend Terminal, the main thing I remembered was the size of its feet. When I saw the size of the foot on this one, I knew it was a good one," Mandy Stokes told AL.com. Stokes and her husband, as well as her brother-in-law and two nephews, were the crew who captured and killed the gator.

As AL.com's Jeff Dute reports, it was a long slog for the team to wrangle the creature. After battling the gator for some time from their boat, Mandy Stokes was able to fire a 20-gauge shotgun between the gator's eyes. Because the gator was too submerged, the shot ended up hitting the water.

"All it did was make this gator mad," Mandy Stokes said. "Fear had taken hold at this point." From AL.com:

The massive creature still hip-tied to the aluminum boat's cleats surged forward with its massive tail and began towing the 17-foot boat and its five passengers across the stump-strewn creek at a startling speed.

It was inevitable, but everyone onboard was still unprepared when the boat crashed into one of those stumps, sending the crew spilling on top of each other into the vessel's bottom.

It took several minutes to recover from the impact, but the crew found they were bruised but not yet beaten by the beast now hanging limply from the boat.

Shortly after their boat crashed into the stump, Stokes was able to fire off her shotgun once more, killing the gator. Hauling the gator back proved to be its own special challenge. From AL.com:

The reality of the need to now move the dead weight of such a huge animal set in when their best efforts to load the beast into the boat, including beaching it on the bank and trying to roll the gator in, proved fruitless.

They finally accepted the fact that the only way they were getting it back to the Shell Creek launch was to get as much of it as possible over the gunwale and strap it to the boat's side.

As much as possible equaled one front leg, one back leg and the tail.

It was in this manner, with the gator tied on one side and the five passengers hugging the opposite gunwale to provide counter-ballast, that they made the hour-long trek back to the truck.

"We give all the glory to God. Ten men couldn't have done what we did," John Stokes told AL.com.

http://www.al.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2014/08/new_state_record_potential_wor.html#incart_big-photo

I've seen some big ones here in FL but that is a true beast

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

"Penis Collector" Arrested for Keeping Jars Full of Dead Men's *****

A Croatian man known as "the Penis Collector" has been arrested for allegedly abusing his position as a hospital nurse to amass a large collection of human *****, taken from the bodies of dead patients.

The unnamed 52-year-old man, who worked as a registered nurse at a city hospital in Slavonski Brod, was arrested last week on charges of disturbing the deceased, Queerty reports.

In his apartment, police found "a few glass jars" full of penises, preserved in formaldehyde.

"On behalf of all employees of the hospital, I have to say that we are very unpleasantly surprised by an event that threw a shadow over this hospital," a hospital spokesperson said, according to Queerty. "Our apologies to families of the deceased."

According to InSerbia, the suspect is "a family man" with no previous criminal record. It's not clear what led police to the man and his morbid collection.

http://www.queerty.com/man-arrested...-penises-discovered-in-his-apartment-20140816

At what point and why did he ever wake up one day and decide he wanted to start collecting penises?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Pierced Man Denied Entry to Dubai Due to Claims of "Black Magic"

Rolf Buchholz, the world's most pierced man, claims he was denied entry to Dubai due to suspicions of "black magic" stemming from his many piercings. Buchholz currently holds the record for most piercings—453 in total. His various modifications include 278 piercings in or around his junk, horns implanted in his head and magnets in his fingertips.

He was supposed to appear at local nightclub Cirque le Soir, a favorite haunt of celebs like renowned Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger, which, according to its website, boasts a veritable buffet of performers from stilt walkers to drummers to magicians.

Buchholz told the Associated Press that he was allowed entry to the emirate, but was stopped before exiting customs and brought to a room with other deportees. While no official statement from airport authorities have made this claim, Buchholz spoke to airport workers, who mentioned that authorities were concerned that he might be a "practitioner of black magic."

When it came time for Buchholz, a normal man who is definitely not a warlock, to leave the airport after being denied entrance to a place that houses a nightclub that requests his presence, he had this to say:

"There were police at the plane, and I was not allowed to stop long enough so that people can see me. They told me that I should keep moving so that no one spots me."


Dubai is one of the more laid-back Islamic cities, and a playground for the vastly wealthy, but Islamic traditions and values still influence the day to day. Buchholz still hopes to return to Dubai one day. He told The National, "I think if people were a little more tolerant, then the world would be a better place. I hope there is a change in Dubai and the whole world, so that everyone can live in peace."

http://www.thenational.ae/uae/worlds-most-pierced-man-claims-he-was-denied-entry-into-uae

If this is true I find it hilarious. Holes in face = Black Magic

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Killer Owls Have Figured Out Doors, All Pets Doomed

Owls are one of nature's pure killing machines—and in Idaho they are apparently learning how to open doors and gorge themselves on mankind's innocent and beloved pets.

May God have mercy on us all, for the owls will show none.

According to the Couer d'Alene Press, an unidentified species of owl flew through an open sliding glass balcony door on the 10th floor of the Lake Tower Apartments on Sunday morning and ate one of Don and Sue Sausser's canaries.

The roughly six to eight-inch tall owl also injured a second canary, which was described as "visibly shaken" by the attack. It also reportedly left the Sausser's apartment covered in yellow feathers and bird ****.

The cunning owl had apparently worked out how to open the birdcage door to feast on the sweet and delicious canary flesh inside.

"It's the strangest thing I've ever heard of," Beth Paragamian, wildlife education specialist for Idaho Fish and Game and the Bureau of Land Management, told the Press—adding that it was a mystery why the owl would fly so high in an area without any tall trees, much less go through an open door and going through all the effort of figuring out how to open a birdcage.

Of course, science may be stumped—but research I conducted as a child shows that such advanced predatory behavior toward caged birds is not uncommon in other species.

The Saussers found the owl hiding behind some bedroom furniture. It then flew back out the door and back into the wilds of Idaho, presumably to plan its next rampage on the heretofore impregnable works of arrogant man.

But stalwart canary owner Don Sausser says he'll be ready for the next attack, thanks to a strategically-placed twist-tie on the birdcage door.

It may be our only hope.

http://cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_f57beda1-8a5c-5171-8f13-85c4b0ac997b.html

They are learning

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Strangers Moved Into a Man's House and Changed the Locks

Rod Nylund recently closed on a home in northeast Portland. He hired a contractor to do some work on the house. But when the contractor arrived at the home, he found people were already living there. Confused, Nylund called his realtor, who had come to discover that the people living in his home had changed the locks and already started utility service.

"It's kind of like buying a car and you walk out to get in it and somebody's sitting in there," Nylund told KPTV, who assumes the people living in his home must be squatters:

Nylund's realtor, Kim Spiess, said the home's previous owner has no idea who is currently living in the home, or how they got there.

Neighbors, who asked not to be identified, said they noticed the couple had recently moved into the home, which is near NE 170th and Glisan, after it had been standing vacant for several months.

Nylund said he has tried to communicate with the occupants, even offering them money to move out, but has had no luck.

"These people are pretty sharp," Nylund said. "They turned the power on 30 days prior to moving into it, and they paid the power bill while the home was vacant."

Apparently, there's nothing the police can do at the moment. KPTV, citing a lawyer, reports that Nylund "will have to go to court to remove the home's current occupants by filing a forcible entry and detainer action."

http://www.kptv.com/story/26343399/...ds-locks-changed-home-occupied?autostart=true

I think we have some squatters at the top of my street. It had been vacant for a while and one day people were there. They haven't done any fixing up of the place either so it still looks all run down and they just look sketchy if you see them

 

[Alex_Spider]

Meat Industry's Use Of "Meat Glue" Is Almost Impossible To Spot

When you go shopping for a steak at the local market, its the last thing you'd expect to have a secret, especially wrapped up in clear plastic. However, this will have you thinking twice!

The San Francisco Globe

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Ya that stuff has been around for awhile. Loves me some steak though!

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Hey DJ, did you happened to see an article about a French guy dropped out of a plane ( American Airlines ) because he was smelling bad ?

 

[KevanG]

Facebook of Incest apparently exists.

Caution: It's pretty freaking disgusting

http://www.vice.com/read/family4love-is-the-facebook-of-incest?utm_source=vicetwitterus

I've heard about the exact opposite thing in Iceland where they have apps to make sure you aren't related to anyone due to the crazy family trees they have.

 

[squeekness]

Strangers Moved Into a Man's House and Changed the Locks

http://www.kptv.com/story/26343399/...ds-locks-changed-home-occupied?autostart=true

I think we have some squatters at the top of my street. It had been vacant for a while and one day people were there. They haven't done any fixing up of the place either so it still looks all run down and they just look sketchy if you see them

I don't guy why the owner can't just boot these guys out? Since when do stealers like this have more rights than the actual owner? I'm confused.

 

[KevanG]

Because the law says you can't just shoot intruders in your home unless you live there first. After that though you can go all out on them with minimal repercussions.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

^^
The law also protect the criminals, in this case I think it's related to the fact they payed a bill, the police can not just kick then out.
There are stories like this here too, especially with apartments ranting, owners can have a hard time evicting bad payers.

 

[KevanG]

Its not just the bills issue though, I've heard of cases where people went on vacation for a month and people just moved in, threw out all their stuff and changed the locks all within that month. The cops couldn't do anything until the courts ruled it, despite it still being in the owners name.

 

[Spider-Who?]

I don't guy why the owner can't just boot these guys out? Since when do stealers like this have more rights than the actual owner? I'm confused.

There's several loop holes that "protect" squatters. Having/paying utilities for the house while it's technically vacant is one of those loop holes. Here's a pretty good run down of how it all works:

http://money.howstuffworks.com/squatting.htm

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Hey DJ, did you happened to see an article about a French guy dropped out of a plane ( American Airlines ) because he was smelling bad ?

I did not see that but by all means feel free to share it. I've had a ton of DJ tunes I've been trying to get sorted lately (240 gbs worth) so posting news has been on the backburner for me as of late. But anyone that finds a weird story should post it here, doesn't have to be just me

 

[squeekness]

Because the law says you can't just shoot intruders in your home unless you live there first. After that though you can go all out on them with minimal repercussions.

I wasn't saying shoot them, but how are they not arrested for criminal trespass? Why the whole court thing? Makes no sense to me.

 

[KevanG]

It's only a hassle because he DIDN'T shoot them first, jeez squeekers, it's not that hard.