Weird News Compilation

[Mark44]

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/amp/news/man-hospitalised-after-falling-in-anish-kapoor-installation?__twitter_impression=true

Some of this modern art I can't tell from a hole in the ground.

 

[Borg]

A new newspaper is being launched in Pulaski County, MO - The Uranus Examiner.

Of course the reporter just had to file his story in front of the Uranus Fudge Factory.

 

[CWatters]

So live in the UK and I'm really hungry, then in my news feed pops up a story about free Pizza ! Yea !

I see it's in the Daily Mail a UK based newspaper that sometimes does give away vouchers. Double Yea !

So I click on the link and...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6161905/Dominos-giving-away-free-pizza-entire-WEEK.html

the headline reads..

'Enjoy one on us': Domino's to offer FREE pizzas to customers for an entire week - including BBQ Meatlovers, Hawaiian and Supreme flavours

so I scroll down some more to find out how to get the deal and discover...

Australia's largest pizza makers are giving away free lunches to their customers for an entire week. Those lucky enough to be wandering past a Domino's in Melbourne...

Bastards.

 

[Borg]

Maybe they deliver.

 

[nsaspook]

A new newspaper is being launched in Pulaski County, MO - The Uranus Examiner.

Of course the reporter just had to file his story in front of the Uranus Fudge Factory.

Medicine Ig Nobel winner.
https://www.giejournal.org/article/S0016-5107(05)03012-9/abstract

Winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes receive a 10-trillion-dollar bill from Zimbabwe (worth about 40 US cents) and the opportunity to give a 60-second acceptance speech before an 8-year-old girl comes on stage saying “Please stop, I’m bored.”

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-...ll-winners-of-this-years-ig-nobel-awards/all/

 

[Mark44]

so I scroll down some more to find out how to get the deal and discover...

Australia's largest pizza makers are giving away free lunches to their customers for an entire week. Those lucky enough to be wandering past a Domino's in Melbourne...

Maybe they deliver.

Probably be cold by then...

 

[OCR]

So I click on the link and...

... hook, line and sinker.

.

 

[berkeman]

A racehorse runs into a bar. The bartender says...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/10/02/horse-runs-through-sports-bar-vpx.hln

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.kptv.com/no-one-hurt-after-truck-flips-through-air-lands-on/article_8d97f39a-9b9e-5d77-a745-c09cf8464e01.html

 

[fresh_42]

Still my favorite:

 

[OCR]

This seems weird... the post count doesn't look correct... .

Well, it's news and weird... .

.

 

[Borg]

One is total posts and the other is replies.

 

[berkeman]

One is total posts views and the other is replys.

Edited...

 

[Borg]

Edited...

No, that's not what I meant. When you look at your subscribed threads, it shows the total replies. But, when you get to the thread itself, it shows the total post count which is one higher.

 

[berkeman]

18,702 posts? Sorry, I'm probably not looking at the right thing...

 

[Borg]

OCR highlighted it in yellow. The top image shows 309 and the bottom one shows 310.

 

[fresh_42]

Could be, that the initial post isn't counted outside, which makes sense, in order to get a distinction between answered and unanswered, whereas the internal count runs over all posts. I find this pretty smart, rather than a contradiction.

 

[berkeman]

OCR highlighted it in yellow. The top image shows 309 and the bottom one shows 310.

Oh, thanks.

 

[OCR]

Ah, .

One is total posts and the other is replies.

Then...

Well, it's not news and not weird... .

Lol... thanks all. .

 

[berkeman]

I used to shoot at this range many years ago, including some trap shooting. I can see how if a plane crested the hill behind the trap range all of a sudden, it could fly through unintended buckshot... Yikes!

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area...en-flying-over-los-gatos-gun-range/1534579244

 

[Borg]

David Schimmer lookalike robs store in England.

Reminds me of the old country and western song - I've got Friends in low places.

 

[nsaspook]

David Schimmer lookalike robs store in England.

Reminds me of the old country and western song - I've got Friends in low places.

"He is known to have studied Karate and we believe he has mastered the art of Unagi, the state of total awareness,"

https://www.facebook.com/DumfriesGallowayPoliceDivision/posts/1930132160400419

 

[Stephenk53]

Balls fall out of truck and damages several cars. One car attempted to escape the “onslaught” of balls

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/metal-balls-seattle-street-weird_us_5bc91b45e4b055bc947ee4df

Oh balls, that doesn’t look right

 

[berkeman]

CDC: Don’t Dress Up Your Pet Chickens For Halloween

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/10/24/cdc-dont-dress-up-your-pet-chickens-for-halloween/

 

[DrGreg]

Giant inflatable colon has been stolen

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...ou-should-return-it-immediately/#fde339d76c4c

Inflatable Colon by A Healthier Michigan, on Flickr. (CC BY-SA 2.0).

But it looks like a semicolon to me.

 

[CWatters]

Did it blow away with the wind?

 

[OCR]

Giant inflatable colon has been stolen

Well, that took a lot of guts... .

.

 

[nsaspook]

Seems they are all crooks in a GoFundMe scam.
Time to call:


https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-jers...nt-viral-charged-gofundme-scam-193432689.html

It was a feel-good story for the ages — a homeless military veteran’s random act of kindness and a New Jersey couple intent on helping him get back on his feet during the holidays — that inspired people to donate than $400,000 in an online fundraiser when it went viral last fall.

But prosecutors say Mark D’Amico, Kate McClure and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. fabricated the story in an effort to raise money for themselves.

“The paying it forward story that drove this fundraiser might seem too good to be true,” Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said at a press briefing in Mount Holly, N.J., on Thursday afternoon. “Unfortunately it was. The entire campaign was predicated on a lie.”

The three were each charged with second-degree conspiracy and theft by deception. If convicted on all charges, D’Amico, McClure and Bobbitt would each face 10 to 20 years in prison.

 

[DaveC426913]

"He is known to have studied Karate and we believe he has mastered the art of Unagi, the state of total awareness,"

"It's KaratAY!"

"And we were on a BREAK!"

 

[Borg]

Man pulls gun on Popeyes worker in condiments clash.

Fortunately the police were able to catchup to him.