Weird News of the World Thread

[The Endless]

He should be stabbed to death. With a SPOOON!

 

[X Knight]

How the **** do you stab a child to death??!!

Stories like this just make me sick, disgusted, and angry.

 

[Bim]

I was too busy playing with my dolls at 12 years old to even think about stabbing someone so i could prove my dedication to a fictional character. My god, how times have changed

 

[Teelie]

Times haven't changed really. Just some people's perception of them has.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Man when things get merged with no warning it really makes the thread confusing as all get out.

 

[Teelie]

I had to go back and re-read what happened too.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I do kind of find it offensive that the murder of a 6 year old got lumped in with weird news. I was under the impression I could post new threads sparingly if it warranted it's own thread. I hit up CC to see what the deal is. Last thing I want is to piss any mods off again

 

[Destructus86]

Well some screws are definitely loose up there, and kids especially are very impressionable. That combination is a particularly dangerous one, but this is just sad.

How do parents not know what's going on with their kids? There are always signs. ALWAYS.

 

[Teelie]

Signs aren't always obvious and parents aren't always aware of what their children do. Were your parents aware of everything you did growing up? Do you really think you'd know everything your children are up to?

 

[Hal_Jordan]

How do parents not know what's going on with their kids? There are always signs. ALWAYS.

Unless you have your child under 24 hour surveillance(and even then) you can't know everything your child does. Unless you home school, they have zero friends and never leave the house, and that's pretty much child abuse to do that to a kid.

 

[Tanin]

How do parents not know what's going on with their kids? There are always signs. ALWAYS.

As a parent umm.. no... that's just not true at all.

 

[Tanin]

While I agree Slenderman is weird... a murder in the weird news thread?
The mods have just gotten weird lately.

 

[Teelie]

Someone should write a report on the moderators acting weird and post it here.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Loaded Handgun Found in Target Toy Aisle

A worker at a Target in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina discovered a loaded handgun resting on top of a superhero Playskool box in the store's toy aisle on Friday night.

WMBF reports that the employee, a loss prevention worker, thought the gun was a toy at first. He later noticed that it was loaded with live ammunition.

From the Associated Press:

The employee told officers he had seen a man repeatedly walking around that section of the store, but authorities said they didn't know if that man had put the gun among the toys.

Authorities said the 9-mm handgun had not been reported stolen and had eight bullets inside. Officers said they would review security camera footage to try to determine who left the gun in the store.

Target released surveillance footage to police and issued a statement to WMBF.

"The safety and security of our team members and guests is a top priority for Target," Senior Specialist of Target's Public Relations Department, Evan Lapiska, said in the statement. "We take these matters very seriously and we are partnering with local law enforcement on this incident. Because this matter is under active investigation, we are unable to share additional information."

Earlier this week, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America launched a petition urging Target to ban the possession of firearms in its store. The petition, which has since garnered more than 10,000 votes, targets gun rights groups that have held open-carry demonstrations at several Targets.

The leader of one such group, Open Carry Texas, which held an open-carry demonstration at a Target this past January, told BuzzFeed gun control activists might have planted the pistol in the South Carolina store.

"I wouldn't doubt if a gun control extremist planted the gun there to further his agenda of blaming gun owners for deaths of children," CJ Grisham, the group's president, said. "Whoever did it is a despicable excuse for a human being and should be charged with attempted murder and fried in in a chair."

Seems like a reasonable guy.

http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/25698439/real-gun-found-in-toy-aisle

Yes, I'm quite sure that an anti-gun nut extremist went out and bought a 9mm, loaded and then left it in the toy aisle. That makes all the sense

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Two Dead, Three Injured in Attempt to Get Cellphone out of Toilet

Two people are dead and three others were injured after a woman dropped her mobile phone into a pit toilet in China's Henan Province. The woman's husband climbed into the cesspit to retrieve the lost device, but fainted from the stench, initiating a series of rescue attempts that ended in tragedy.

The South China Morning Post reports that the husband's mother entered the pit to save him, but also instantly lost consciousness. The owner of the phone herself then entered the pit, suffering the same fate.

Unbelievably, the woman's elderly father-in-law and two neighbors also became trapped inside the toilet during the rescue.

Other Xinxiang City residents worked together using ropes to pull six people out of the knee-deep waste. They were only inside the pit for 5 minutes, but the husband and his mother died at the hospital after waiting more than an hour for medical services to arrive. The man left behind a 1-year-old son.

A hospital doctor said the cause of death was suffocation.

The woman who dropped her phone is in intensive care, along with a neighbor. Her father-in-law was also injured.

None of the local reports mention the status of the phone, which the SCMP says was worth around $300.

http://shanghaiist.com/2014/06/05/two-dead-after-trying-to-retrieve-phone-in-cesspool.php

This is one of the craziest stories I've ever reported. I'm kind of speechless here

 

[Guts]

New species of soul-sucking wasp named after DEMENTORS from Harry Potter

The Ampulex dementor was discovered in Thailand in 2008 and has taken the name because of its ability to paralyse its prey's neural functions before eating them - similar to the dementors' ability to 'suck' the soul of its victims.

The wasps sting cockroaches and release a deadly toxin into their system - neutralising their brain and making them easy pickings.

The method is very similar to that used by their namesake in JK Rowling's books.

In the novels the dementors leave their victims in a vegetative state by sucking their soul from their body.

But the dementor attack can be stopped by using the Patronus spell (summoned by shouting 'expecto patronum') to chase them away - unlike with the wasps.

The new name was chosen after visitors to Berlin's Natural History Museum were asked to vote on a list of names.

Other more pedestrian options included A. mon, A. bicolor and A. plagiator.

The description for the A. dementor name at the museum read: "The species name refers to the dementors, which are fictional characters appearing in Harry Potter books.

"Dementors are magical beings, which can consume a person’s soul, leaving their victims as an empty but functional body without personality or emotions.

"The name is an allusion to the docility of the paralysed cockroach."

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Damn that's a nasty little critter right there. Glad they aren't in my country

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Newlywed Husband and Wife Die in Head-on Collision With Each Other

A newlywed husband and wife died Wednesday morning after their cars collided in a head-on crash in north Texas.

From the Associated Press:

The Wichita Falls Times Record News reports the husband and wife were alone in their vehicles during the wreck near the Marhard Pullet Farm. DPS identified the victims as 31-year-old Nicolas Cruz and 26-year-old Kristina Munoz.

The crash happened late Wednesday morning, on a road about 60 miles from Wichita Falls. Cruz and Munoz collided as they crested a hill near the farm where both work, according to KETK. Neither was wearing a seatbelt.

"This is a very narrow, blacktop county road and there are no markings," a state trooper told KFDX. "There are no shoulder markings and there are no center stripe markings."

Investigators are still looking into what caused the crash, though they believe speed may have been a factor.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/06/05/5875957/texas-couple-killed-when-their.html

What a tragic coincidence.

 

[Teelie]

Made all the worse that neither had a seatbelt.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Lothario Guinea Pig Infiltrates Female Enclosure, Sires Around 400

Hatton Country World animal park in Warwickshire, England is about to face something of a population boom, after a male guinea pig escaped the male-only enclosure, found his way to the female pen, and made The Rounds.

Staff is unsure exactly how the little horndog, aptly nicknamed Randy, actually infiltrated the female-only enclosure. While some think he managed to escape himself, it could be as simple as a child placing him in the wrong pen after holding him. They are also unsure how long Randy had been in with the females, though they suspect several weeks—enough for him to knock up the entire female population. Via ITV, Manager Richard Craddock estimates:

"We believe that the newly-named Randy could have impregnated up to 100 female guinea pigs, which have litters of about four, so if you do the maths we could be expecting quite a baby boom."

Way to throw off the genetic pool there, RANDY. JEEZ. Hatton Country World is now working to expand the guinea pig pen to make way for the (potentially) 400 mini-Randys that are about to be running around.

And this is why we can't have nice things, kids.

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-06-06/...-to-400-after-breaking-into-female-enclosure/

That's a lot of babies

 

[KevanG]

Randy, we salute you!

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Violin Worth $7-10 Million Was Stuffed in Heiress' Closet for 25 Years

Christie's auction house has begun accepting sealed bids for a precious Stradivarius violin that had been hidden in the closet of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark for roughly twenty-five years. Christie's estimates its worth is between 7.5 and 10 million dollars.

Kerry Keane, head musical instrument specialist at Christie's, told NBC News:

"There is a spectacular telegram that her parents sent her in Paris in 1920 that told her...when they were sailing and when they would be arriving in New York, and that her mother had just bought her, quote unquote, the most fabulous violin in the world."

The violin is supposedly so valuable because of where it came from. It was made by Antonio in 1731, whose 600 remaining violins are highly coveted by collectors, and was given to her by her parents, who were American royalty during the Gilded Age.

The violin was found in Clark's apartment in a closet, where it had been gathering dust. Huguette Clark herself is an interesting selling point for the violin. As Reuters notes, she was a "reclusive, eccentric heiress who owned sprawling Manhattan apartments and palatial homes but chose to spend her final decades living in a New York hospital where she died in 2011 at the age of 104."

The highest paid price for a Stradivarius was $16 million in 2011 in a charity sale for Japan disaster relief with the Nippon Foundation's Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hu...radivari-could-fetch-millions-auction-n124786

I hate it when I forget about the millions of dollars worth of things I have stuffed in the closet

 

[BestGirl]

Lothario Guinea Pig Infiltrates Female Enclosure, Sires Around 400

I love the expression on his face, like even he's in awe at the experience he just had.

 

[Godzilla2000]

Lothario Guinea Pig Infiltrates Female Enclosure, Sires Around 400

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-06-06/...-to-400-after-breaking-into-female-enclosure/

That's a lot of babies

Something like this but on a smaller scale happened decades ago to Guinea Pigs my family owned as kids. We had one male to two females. We ended up with a lot of babies. Cutest little buggers they are though. When born their like miniature adults.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Two Dead, Three Injured in Attempt to Get Cellphone out of Toilet

http://shanghaiist.com/2014/06/05/two-dead-after-trying-to-retrieve-phone-in-cesspool.php

This is one of the craziest stories I've ever reported. I'm kind of speechless here

WTF.