Weird News of the World Thread - Part 2

[KevanG]

I know a lot of people, including family, that say they are allergic but maybe one actually is. The rest just say that an they have no problem eating wheat when we meet up for a family gathering.

 

[Teelie]

If you have no problem eating wheat then you do not have celiac's disease. Turns out I was right on the mark about the 1% estimate.

Globally coeliac disease affects between 1 in 100 and 1 in 170 people

 

[Marvolo]

Wheat doesnt just effect people with celiac disease. It can exacerbate a multitude of GI diseases. That is why they are recalling these, because more than 1% of the population relies on serial like this and because its better safe than a potential destructive lawsuit.

 

[Teelie]

True but the vast majority of people eating non-wheat cereal are those who have no medical reason not to. So maybe instead of 1% it might be 5% or 10%. I never said it shouldn't be recalled but that the main reason it even made the news is because of a fad diet.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

School District to Pay $600,000 Over Death of Teens Who Were Hypnotized by Principal

Four years after one of its principals hypnotized dozens of high school students, three of whom died within days, a Florida school district has agreed to pay $600,000 to the deceased teenager’s families.

The Herald Tribune reports that, earlier this year, former North Port High School principal George Kenney admitted to hypnotizing a 16-year-old student named Wesley McKinley the day before McKinley’s suicide. Following his admission, an investigation by the Sarasota County School District revealed that in 2011 Kenney hypnotized at least 75 people at the school, including students and staff. Two of those students, 17-year-old Brittany Palumbo and 16-year-old Marcus Freeman, died later that year, Palumbo from suicide and Freeman in a car accident, bringing the hypnotism-associated number of deaths to three.

From the Herald Tribune:

Kenney hypnotized Freeman, a quarterback for the North Port High football team, to help him concentrate and not worry about pain during games, according to court documents. Kenney began to teach Freeman how to hypnotize himself.

After a painful dentist visit on March 15, 2011, Freeman drove home with his girlfriend. His girlfriend said that during the ride Freeman got a strange look on his face and veered off of Interstate 75 near Toledo Blade Boulevard. Freeman later died from his injuries; his girlfriend survived.

McKinley was found hanging outside his home less than a month later on April 8. His friend Thomas Lyle said in a deposition for the case that McKinley was hypnotized by Kenney at least three times, including on the day he died. McKinley wanted to do better with his guitar practice for his audition with the Julliard School of the Arts, Lyle said. When McKinley would get on the school bus after sessions, sometimes he wouldn’t know his name, Lyle said. McKinley would ask who his friends were. The same day McKinley died, he asked Lyle to punch him in the face, the records stated.​

Palumbo also hanged herself, reportedly sometime after Kenney hypnotized her in an attempt to help her SAT scores.

Kenney, who resigned the following school year and now reportedly runs a bed-and-breakfast in North Carolina, was charged with two misdemeanors in 2012; he pleaded no contest to both and served a year of probation, during which he was forbidden from practicing hypnosis. The $200,000 awarded to each family is the maximum a Florida government agency can pay without special approval.

“It’s something they will never get over,” Damian Mallard, an attorney representing all three families, said Tuesday. “It’s probably the worst loss that can happen to a parent is to lose a child, especially needlessly because you had someone who decided to perform medical services on kids without a license. He altered the underdeveloped brains of teenagers, and they all ended up dead because of it.”

http://gawker.com/school-board-to-pay-600-000-over-death-of-teens-who-we-1735168352

This is a really weird one. From my understanding hypnosis can't make you kill yourself or do anything you don't want to do. I'll be the first to admit that I know next to nothing on the subject but this is very strange

 

[Marvolo]

That story sounds like a load of horse****.

 

[KevanG]

That does sound like horse****. I declare it to be fake unless proven otherwise.

 

[Teelie]

It's Gawker so I am also suspicious.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

It's pulled right from a local newspaper. Almost every story I've ever posted here and in the stupid thread has been from Gawker so the fact your suspicious now seems suspect. They may condense the crap out of everything but by and large they do their research

 

[Teelie]

It still sounds like a fish story. Gawker might have gotten it from a local source but that doesn't mean the source itself is above embellishment.

There has to be more to it than this. Reading the original story it doesn't indicate how this hypnosis is supposed to have made teenagers any more suicidally prone than they would be normally. They are in fact well known to be the highest risk for suicide so how did hypnosis tip them over the edge?

The whole thing sounds like grieving families looking for something besides the pressures of being a teenager as the cause and finger pointing at hypnosis seems to be their target.

 

[I Am The Knight]

So hypnosis is real?

 

[KevanG]

Hey Knight. You have your own theme song.

[YT]S2Wi0XWIdXA[/YT]

 

[I Am The Knight]

It's missing a K

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

So hypnosis is real?

That's debatable. From what I've read on it only certain people can be affected by it but even those who are open to suggestion can't be made to kill or tdo things they normally wouldn't do. You can YouTube Derren Brown and he does some amazing stuff to real people with the power of suggestion but even then the usually snap out of it very quickly. So yes it is real but nothing I have seen leads me to believe that this prinicpal would be the cause of their deaths. Like Teelie said it seems like this parents found a scapegoat and were able to win on a technicality because I guess their state requires a license to practice hypnosis.

 

[I Am The Knight]

That's debatable. From what I've read on it only certain people can be affected by it but even those who are open to suggestion can't be made to kill or tdo things they normally wouldn't do. You can YouTube Derren Brown and he does some amazing stuff to real people with the power of suggestion but even then the usually snap out of it very quickly. So yes it is real but nothing I have seen leads me to believe that this prinicpal would be the cause of their deaths. Like Teelie said it seems like this parents found a scapegoat and were able to win on a technicality because I guess their state requires a license to practice hypnosis.

Yeah, that was my understanding. This sounds crazy.

 

[Mike_D202]

I dunno, there was a hypnotist on America's Got Talent and he made Howie Mandel shake his hand.

Howie Mandel has Mysophobia, he does not shake hands for fear of germs.

 

[Marvolo]

It's pulled right from a local newspaper. Almost every story I've ever posted here and in the stupid thread has been from Gawker so the fact your suspicious now seems suspect. They may condense the crap out of everything but by and large they do their research

The reporters at that local newspaper probably aren't the most thorough journalists. I doubt they considered all other explanations and mitigating circumstances. They saw an opportunity for an eye catching headline and ran with it and the local yokels ate it up.

There are probably far more likely explanations for it all. Medication issues, seizures, depression, stress or any number of undiagnosed mental problems.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

The state awarded them the money for practicing hypnosis without a license. I'm sure there were other factors that were much more culpable but that's what the grieving parents focused on

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Scottish Robbers Steal 9 Freaking Tons of Cereal Bars in Overnight Heist

Thieves snuck into an industrial truck parking lot in Scotland around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, targeting a huge semi-trailer that contained nine metric tons of Kelloggs’s cereal bars. They stole the whole damn thing, worth nearly $70,000.

Police haven’t released any info about the suspects, but believe the heist was carefully planned and scouted ahead of time.

“We are currently carrying out investigations into what is a high-value theft which has obviously involved an element of planning,” a spokesperson for Scotland Police CID said, according to the Mirror.

“We are reviewing CCTV footage and want to hear from anyone who may have been in or around the area of the lorry park around the time of this theft, or indeed the hours and days prior to the theft as those responsible may have been in area carrying out some form of reconnaissance and planning.”

It’s not really clear how Dumfries’ answer to Ocean’s 11 managed to haul away what, based on the weight per case, must be around 190,000 cereal bars. And it’s even less clear what they plan to do with them.

Eat them? Find someplace to sell them for cash, brazenly ignoring the “not for individual resale” warning on each wrapper? Smush them together to build a creepy cottage in the woods?

I have no idea, but I bet the robbers feel greeeeeat today.

http://gawker.com/scottish-robbers-steal-9-freaking-tons-of-cereal-bars-i-1735649947

Such a weird thing to steal

 

[Teelie]

Breakfast is an important meal, so they say.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Pretty sure they will just flip them for drugs haha

 

[Teelie]

Still, this means somewhere there is a black market for cereal bars.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Hell, I hear that Tide is as good as gold on the black market. I just imagine some shady dude in an overcoat saying "I got the hook up on those breakfast bars" haha

 

[Teelie]

I read about that before too. There was some kind of coordinated criminal ring behind it or something.

 

[C. Lee]

There are local news stories every year or so here where I live about people stealing various things from big stores (WalMart, Target, Krogers, etc) and then selling them at little mom and pop stores (and it being all profit until caught)....so they could be doing that over there too.