News Weird News Compilation

[nsaspook]

https://www.cp24.com/local/hamilton...foot-after-bike-stolen-during-failed-robbery/
Hamilton-area bank robber flees on foot after bike stolen during failed robbery

"A bumbling bank robbery suspect fled a Hamilton BMO empty-handed and discombobulated after his getaway bike was stolen during a curious convergence of criminality."

Hamilton police release a surveillance photo of a man wanted for stealing a bike left outside a Hamilton-area bank. (Hamilton Police)

 

[Hornbein]

Criminals target one another. If you steal from a bank robber or drug dealer he can't go to the cops.

 

[Tom.G]

If you steal from a bank robber or drug dealer he can't go to the cops.

You may, however, end up losing a fair amout of blood!

 

[berkeman]

Mike Johns was on his way to the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix last Monday when the self-driving car got stuck circling a roundabout in a parking lot.

He described what was going through his head as it circled: "If we got to the tenth loop, do I need to jump into the driver's seat?... What happens next? Because the car is still in control. I could bench press 300-plus, but am I able to control this?"

https://abc7news.com/post/waymo-ing...fter-driving-car-gets-stuck-circles/15766636/

 

[Borg]

Looks like he got Waymo than he expected.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A groundbreaking new study found the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in human arterial plaque.

The presence of microplastics in plaque was associated with a 4.5 fold increase in risk of heart attack, stroke, and death.
https://www.healthline.com/health-n...rstanding-the-health-impacts-of-microplastics

https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/microplastics-in-arteries-linked-to-heart-disease-risk

 

[Swamp Thing]

Londoners terrified by drug dealers and vandals told by police to 'play classical music' to fend off thugs...

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/londoner...-vandals-police-play-classical-st-johns-wood/

To their credit, the Met Police later said in a ridicule management message: “While clearly well intentioned, the advice in the email sent to the resident in this case doesn’t reflect Met policy.”

 

[Ivan Seeking]

My favorite weird news story is from Scientific American, Dec 18th, 1886. This was ten years before we discovered radiation.

 

[Tom.G]

WOW!
With those effects, who needs Fire and Brimstone!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

WOW!
With those effects, who needs Fire and Brimstone!

What makes this particularly fascinating is there seems to be no known natural source of radiation that could explain this. This chart on time to vomiting vs exposure to radiation suggests a very high dose based on the report. Very strange!

https://remm.hhs.gov/aboutvomiting.htm

 

[pinball1970]

Why in the hell would firefighters drive around a train stop gate arm?

No one killed luckily.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

My favorite weird news story is from Scientific American, Dec 18th, 1886. This was ten years before we discovered radiation.

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PS. I contacted Scientific American and verified this is legitimate.

 

[Borg]

Not the best PR.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...zed-ad-accused-evoking-911-attacks-rcna187912

 

[berkeman]

First it was Cocaine Bear in the US, then Cocaine Sharks in Brazil, and now...

Rats are consuming drugs that were seized and stored by Houston police and hundreds of cases could be vulnerable to the rodent infestation, officials said.

It's an issue that has prompted the district attorney to alert defense attorneys in more than 3,600 open drug-related cases, although only one active case has been impacted by the rodents.

"Just one example, we've got 400,000 pounds of marijuana in storage that the rats are the only ones enjoying," Houston Mayor John Whitmire said Friday at a news conference.

Joshua Reiss, general counsel at the Harris County District Attorney, said the rodents also got into packaging containing mushrooms.

 

[gmax137]

Joshua Reiss, general counsel at the Harris County District Attorney, said the rodents also got into packaging containing mushrooms.

Doesn't that set the stage for a Hunter S. Thompson story, "A horde of crazed rats, tripping on mushrooms took over the Seargent's desk at ..."

 

[Ivan Seeking]

First it was Cocaine Bear in the US, then Cocaine Sharks in Brazil, and now...

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In no time at all they will be addicts and next you'll see them living on the streets.

 

[pinball1970]

TFE, The final Experiment, four flat earthers were flown to Antarctica to prove the earth is flat.

https://www.iflscience.com/flat-ear...o-test-theories-but-are-quickly-humbled-77254

 

[Swamp Thing]

TFE, The final Experiment, four flat earthers were flown to Antarctica to prove the earth is flat.

https://www.iflscience.com/flat-ear...o-test-theories-but-are-quickly-humbled-77254

And they paid the expenses?

 

[pinball1970]

And they paid the expenses?

Not sure about the funding, the trip was paid for IIRC. What is interesting is that one of the leading flat earthers who went reported back to his community to admit defeat as he witnessed 4 days of continuous sun above the horizon.
They all said similar but he has now backed away from the flat earth "model"
Fair play to him, he seemed sincere and said he was wrong publicly.
However, he has now been called a liar by his own community and all sorts of crazy explanations have come out regarding the footage.

Perhaps they need to fly a few more of them out there. While they are at it, I totally do not accept the concept of New York.
Jazz clubs, five star hotels, Iconic architecture, libraries and museums? Come on.
Fly me out there for a couple of weeks then I will buy it. I can make room middle of May and I can free up most of September.
Business class please, I am allergic to children.

 

[Swamp Thing]

I totally do not accept the concept of New York.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Perhaps they need to fly a few more of them out there.

You could fly a thousand of them down there and it wouldn't matter.

The movie "Don't look up" really captured the essence of the times.

 

[pinball1970]

You could fly a thousand of them down there and it wouldn't matter.

The movie "Don't look up" really captured the essence of the times.

The guys that went changed their minds. The preparation was good, multiple cameras and camera angles including a drone live streamed.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The guys that went changed their minds. The preparation was good, multiple cameras and camera angles including a drone live streamed.

And in no time at all the cult back at the ranch was already dismissing their claims.

One thing I learned at PF is that nothing is more fleeting than the facts. It is said that lies travel 10x faster than the truth, on the internet.

 

[pinball1970]

And in no time at all the cult back at the ranch was already dismissing their claims.

Its a start.

These guys are not going to invade Poland and annex the Sudetenland but we do not want our kids thinking it's a thing because it's on the net.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Its a start.

These guys are not going to invade Poland and annex the Sudetenland but we do not want our kids thinking it's a thing because it's on the net.

They vote. QED.

I agree it's a problem but simply throwing facts around is useless. The problem is far deeper than that.

Interestingly, it is the same problem found in the world of UAPs/UFOs. No one can ever prove something wasn't faked. Claims might be falsified but nothing can ever be absolutely proven to be true.

 

[pinball1970]

They vote. QED.

I agree it's a problem but simply throwing facts around is useless. The problem is far deeper than that.

Interestingly, it is the same problem found in the world of UAPs/UFOs. No one can ever prove something wasn't faked.

Look Ivan, we can sit back and do nothing or try and explain why the earth ain't flat occasionally.
Same with Creationism.
We cannot have this seeping into school curriculums.

 

[jack action]

Claims might be falsified but nothing can ever be proven to be true.

Except God. It says so in the Bible.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Except God. It says so in the Bible.

You are trying to make my head explode, aren't you?

 

[pinball1970]

You are trying to make my head explode, aren't you?

In his defence I think it does say that.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

We cannot have this seeping into school curriculums.

Too late. Seven states require, allow, or are working to include the Bible or religion as part of a public education.

My theory is I somehow slipped into an alternate reality. I don't recognize this place.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

In his defence I think it does say that.

Actually, you are not allowed to demand proof.

Deuteronomy 6:16

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Many elderly women (especially) in Japan are committing crimes so they can go to jail. They find this preferable to being alone.
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/many-japans-elderly-women-prison-haven

This story has been around for awhile but was in the news again.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

TikTok has gone dark

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It's baaaaaaaack.

 

[berkeman]

A Connecticut man was arrested after he used a stolen fire department pickup truck to pull over drivers on Interstate 91 in Western Massachusetts early Saturday, according to the Massachusetts State Police.

The suspect, Kristian Avery, 46, of Windsor, Connecticut, was taken into custody at 5 a.m., according to a statement from Tim McGuirk of the State Police.

State Police in the Northampton barracks received reports that the driver of a Windsor (Connecticut) Fire Department pickup was “conducting suspicious motor vehicle stops” on I-91 north in Northampton and Whatley, the statement reads.

The driver activated emergency lights on the truck, pulled over drivers and spoke with them during each stop, according to the State Police.

A short time after a bulletin about the truck was issued to area law enforcement, a trooper saw the pickup on I-91 in Deerfield (mile marker 36) and pulled it over. The driver stopped briefly before attempting to flee with police in pursuit, according to the statement.

https://www.firehouse.com/apparatus...r-ct-fire-pickup-truck-conducts-traffic-stops

 

[Borg]

I guess that when he pulled them over he asked, Where's the fire?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I guess that when he pulled them over he asked, Where's the fire?

Right? I want to know what he said to them.

 

[berkeman]

Right? I want to know what he said to them.

"What are you supposed to do when you see red and blue lights behind you?!"

"Er, I mean red lights!"

 

[Swamp Thing]

 

[berkeman]

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Employees at Pho 21 restaurant in South San Jose had an unexpected showdown last weekend with what could be considered an attempted "robot kidnapper."

Surveillance footage from the restaurant captured the bizarre incident at around 7:40 a.m. last Saturday. A man entered the restaurant, asked to use the restroom and then emerged with a much stranger plan. He can be seen on surveillance talking with an employee and then, instead of leaving the shop, grabbing one of the restaurant's three robot servers and trying to haul it out the front door toward his car, which was parked right outside. The man appears to struggle slightly, at the weight of the device.

The scene turned chaotic as employees scrambled to intervene, yelling and struggling to wrestle the robot back. Eventually, they get the man to release the robot before calling the police.

According to the restaurant's owner, the robot is valued at approximately $18,000 but would have been worthless to the would-be thief. Owner of Pho 21, Tony Ngo says the device requires specialized programming to function, making it unusable outside of the restaurant.

No injuries were reported, and the robot server was not injured and is back on the clock - delivering bowls of pho to hungry customers.

https://abc7news.com/post/pho-real-...le-attempted-robot-server-kidnapper/15837443/

 

[Hornbein]

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https://abc7news.com/post/pho-real-...le-attempted-robot-server-kidnapper/15837443/

I first experienced the robot server two years ago in a Malacca shopping mall.

 

[Swamp Thing]

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https://abc7news.com/post/pho-real-...le-attempted-robot-server-kidnapper/15837443/

"Robot Server Kidnapper"

For a split second, before common sense kicked in, I thought it was a robot that kidnaps servers, or tries to.

 

[Borg]

Reese Witherspoon says people thought she was a real lawyer while serving jury duty after 'Legally Blonde'

 

[pinball1970]

In no time at all they will be addicts and next you'll see them living on the streets.

Unkempt and going through the garbage looking for food. A tragedy.

 

[pinball1970]

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-spanish-bulls-festival-reveals-crowd.html

I remember this kind of phenomena being discussed after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, crowds behaving like a fluid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/...wds-flow-water-in-amazing-and-terrifying-ways

 

[fresh_42]

In the Czech Republic, a beaver family has restored the Klabava River to its natural state with their dam. The surrounding communities had long considered how the river could be returned to its natural course. The beavers were not involved in this process and simply got started. Now their dam has saved around 1.2 million euros in project costs and the river is flowing naturally again. According to biologists, the animals also take care of the maintenance of the dam.

Source: Austrian News Channel (ORF - ZiB).

 

[jack action]

Tesla Cybertruck Crashes Itself, Driver Praises Safety Tech​

Despite the car’s self-driving technology apparently being the cause of the incident, Challinger praised the Cybertruck’s safety technology for him being left without injury.

 

[Borg]

Camera captures moment kayaker says he was briefly swallowed by humpback whale in Chilean Patagonia

 

[Hornbein]

 

[collinsmark]

'Sounds like it could be part of a thermodynamics homework problem here on PF.

Aerodynamics and extra weight aside, perhaps it could work, so long as she's always able to find a shady parking space. Things might backfire if she has to park for a while in a sunny spot.