Weird News of the World Thread

[Tanin]

Sounds like Putin is jealous. Porn stars should stay out of Russia.

At least they used his teeth as a indicator of age as well. Gotta make it seem at least a little credible.

 

[KevanG]

He's not a horse.

Unless he is...?

 

[TheDreamMaster]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/02/justice/wisconsin-girl-stabbed/index.html?hpt=hp_t1


Ugh. This is flat out insanity. Literally an Internet urban legend that can actually have its creation traces back to its source, and someone just had to take it seriously. Mental illness or just flat crazy, this is ****ed up.

Edit: crap can a mod change the title. They stabbed her 19 times, not her age.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Ya I posted this in the Stupid thread, it also got posted in the Weird News thread by Terry78 and Teelie posted it in the Creepypasta thread. Really does deserve it's own thread since it's pure insanity. I'm glad these little psychos are being tried as adults too, I don't buy their BS story

 

[Teelie]

It also got referenced in the Supernatural thread down in the television forum. Everyone's been hearing about this case from different sources it's so wild.

 

[Apollo]

Some days I really want to leave this planet..

 

[Warhammer]

Whoa.

 

[Teelie]

I've also seen it turn into a literal bogeyman for some of the media to spew at parents. "Beware the Slenderman! He's turning your children into killers!!!"

Like all of a sudden horror stories are some kind of new thing. Only on the internet. Oh wait.

 

[KevanG]

Didn't you know it's that darn internets turning our kids into killers! Along with video games, porn, death metal, rock n roll, loud music, books, communism, ect.

 

[Teelie]

Don't forget atheism, free love and hippies. Hippies are the worst.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Filthy hippieses

 

[OriginalMiles]

These girls are really ****ing messed up.

They should go to jail forever.

 

[DarkSentinel]

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.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Bill Gates Could Buy Every House in Boston

It can be hard to wrap your head around just how rich some very rich people are. To help you with this, the real estate firm Redfin has calculated which cities various billionaires could purchase as their very own.

From the report, here are a few of your favorite billionaires and the cities in which they could purchase every single home for themselves, and live as kings:

The Koch brothers could buy: Atlanta

The Walton Family could buy: Seattle

Bill Gates could buy: Boston

Warren Buffett could buy: Charlotte, NC

Michael Bloomberg could buy: Anaheim, CA

You, on the other hand, can't buy anything.

http://www.redfin.com/research/repo...that-billionaires-could-buy.html#.U5CD3Cj8bJQ

If I had that kind of money I couldn't resist buying a whole town and doing all manner of crazy stuff

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Military Jet Crashes Into Residential California Neighborhood

A Marine jet slammed into a Southern California home Wednesday, ultimately destroying three houses in the fiery crash. Amazingly, no one was seriously injured.

According to the AP, the pilot had already safely ejected from the jet when it crashed into a desert neighborhood in Imperial, California. After parachuting to the ground, the pilot was hospitalized for observation.

According to reports, the jet crashed directly into one home, but two other houses on the narrow street soon caught fire as well. Neighboring residents were briefly evacuated.

Neighbors later compared the impact to an earthquake or a bomb going off.

According to the AP, this is the second Harrier jet flying out of the Yuma airbase to crash this month.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/military-jet-crashes-california-neighborhood

Crazy stuff, glad nobody was hurt. But 2 Harriers in a month? I can't imagine the Marines are all that happy with those numbers

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Police Arrest Suspect in Brooklyn Stabbing Murders

Tonight police arrested a 27-year-old man who they say has been fatally stabbing people in Brooklyn.

Police say Daniel St. Hubert—who was paroled less than two weeks ago after serving seven years for attempted murder and several felony-assault charges—was only out of jail for a week before he attacked 18-year-old Tanaya Grant-Copeland, who was stabbed at least 32 times and left dying on the street.

Just two days later, police say St. Hubert struck again, this time accosting two children in an elevator with a knife. The kids, aged six and seven, were headed out to get ice cream, when St. Hubert began stabbing them.

One child was pronounced dead; the other remains in critical condition. Police say the same knife was used in both attacks.

The cops were evidently able to track down St. Hubert through DNA evidence pulled from the murder weapon.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/04/maniac-identified-in-fatal-child-stabbing/

This monster either needs to be put down or serve multiple life sentences with no chance for parole.

 

[Teelie]

They are children and are impressionable but that only goes so far. Tweens and teens are also said to have what's referred to as a "temporary sociopath" phases but most of them don't attempt to do this either.

It also has the hallmarks of Folie à deux (a madness shared by two) where one of the girls had a psychotic break and "transmitted" it to the other friend. It's pure speculation on my part but it sounds like this is the case.

 

[charl_huntress]

I'd like to find out what motivated him and also what prison officials thought of his character when he was paroled.

 

[KevanG]

With all the hormones from puberty and everything teenagers go nuts every now and then. There's been cases where teens have stabbed others over Twilight or various music tastes.

 

[KevanG]

I hope they got the right guy and they put him away.

 

[Teelie]

Harvard experts say book is bound with human skin

Looks like we found the Necronomicon.

It's reading matter not for the faint of heart.

Experts at Harvard said this week that they have confirmed that a 19th-century book housed in one of the university's libraries is bound in human skin.

Scientists and conservators carried out a series of tests on Houghton Library's copy of the French writer Arsene Houssaye's "Des destinees de l'ame" and concluded with 99.9% confidence that the binding material came from a human.

According to the library, Houssaye presented the text, described as "a meditation on the soul and life after death," to one of his friends, a book-loving medical doctor, in the mid-1880s.

The recipient, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, bound the book "with skin from the unclaimed body of a female mental patient who had died of a stroke," the library said.

Bouland left a note in the volume explaining what he had done.

"A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering," he wrote.

Centuries-old practice

Although binding a book in another person's skin may seem creepy nowadays, the library says it wasn't always so unusual and reviled.

"Termed anthropodermic bibliopegy, the binding of books in human skin has occurred at least since the 16th century," it said. "The confessions of criminals were occasionally bound in the skin of the convicted, or an individual might request to be memorialized for family or lovers in the form of a book."

Bouland refers in his note to another book in his collection, Séverin Pineau's "De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis," that was also covered in human hide.

The skin on that 17th-century volume, now in the collection of the Wellcome Library in London, is tanned with sumac, a natural dye.

Sheepskin rivals

The macabre version of "Des destinees de l'ame" was deposited at Houghton Library in 1934 by a book collector and given to the library permanently 20 years later by the collector's widow.

The Crimson, Harvard's college newspaper, reported in 2006 that there were at least three books in the university's vast collection that were bound in human skin.

But Houghton Library said that testing of the other two volumes, at the Harvard Law School Library and the Harvard Medical School's Countway Library, established that they were actually wrapped in sheepskin.

"Houghton's book is now the only known book at Harvard bound in human skin," said the library, the college's main repository for rare books and manuscripts.

Tests to rule out apes

The tests, taking microscopic samples from various parts of the binding, allowed analysts to identify the source of the material through its proteins.

The analysis of "Des destinees de l'ame" matched "the human reference, and clearly eliminated other common parchment sources, such as sheep, cattle and goat," said Bill Lane, the director of the Harvard Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Resource Laboratory.

But the scientists had to do further tests to make them confident that the binding didn't come from another primate closely related to humans, like the great apes and gibbons.

CNN

 

[KevanG]

Ookay. A tad creepy.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

People leather, it's a trend that never really caught on

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

EDIT: weird how that post ended up in here and even has the thread title form where it was supposed to be.

EDIT 2: Ok looks like a mod merged the threads for some reason

 

[Anubis]

The Necronomicon!