News Weird News Compilation

[pinball1970]

I was once in a mostly deserted shopping center that had Last Christmas on, but whatever media player it was on was broken. It went

Last year I gave you my heart,
The very next d-
Last year I gave you my heart,
The very next d-
Last year I gave you my heart,
The very next d-

I did not stay long enough to find out how long it took them to get it fixed...

A loop of "All I want for xmas is you," by Maria Carey would be my worst nightmare.
East 17, 'Stay now' hot on its heels.
Lots of others but I don't want to ruin Sunday lunch.

 

[mfb]

I did not stay long enough to find out how long it took them to get it fixed...

Neither did the employees.

 

[nsaspook]

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/black-eyed-peas-my-humps-poopsie-slime-surprise-1235496721/
Black Eyed Peas’ ‘My Humps’ Ripped Off by Pooping Unicorn Toy, Lawsuit Claims

 

[Borg]

Not exactly news since the crash occurred over a decade ago but does qualify as weird.

Winganon Space Capsule​

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.​

 

[Ivan Seeking]

They hate Last Christmas because she worked in a place that had it on a loop. I can dig it. I stayed in a hotel in Nanjing for two days. They had van Beethoven's Fur Elise on a loop. I was so glad to leave.

The BIC Camera stores in Japan have a short stupid jingle on a loop. I could never work there. As it is I go in, buy what I need and get out

A loop of "All I want for xmas is you," by Maria Carey would be my worst nightmare.
East 17, 'Stay now' hot on its heels.
Lots of others but I don't want to ruin Sunday lunch.

When I was in college, I worked at a store in a small timber town. You haven't lived until you hear Jingle Bells played on chainsaws 30 times a day.

The rest of the year, we spent a lot of time worrying about Jake getting fed if his owner died before he awoke.

 

[Astronuc]

Weird, and tragic - Dog steps on rifle in backseat of truck, fatally shoots Kansas man, officials say
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dog-steps-rifle-backseat-truck-145705129.html

A dog stepped on an unsecured and loaded rifle, which inadvertently discharged striking a passenger in the back. "EMS personnel administered CPR before the victim was pronounced dead."

I have to wonder if the person who was fatally shot owned the rifle, or was it the owner/driver of the truck
Nevertheless, the recommended, but not mandatory, practice, is the "engage the safetey, unload/remove live ammunition until one is ready to use, and store in a safe container until withdrawn for use".

 

[Borg]

Stupid is as stupid does. It's part of the reason why I'm not friends with some people that I used to know. Guns are not toys and should always be treated as if they're loaded and can go off at any time.

 

[jrmichler]

Guns are not toys and should always be treated as if they're loaded and can go off at any time.

One of the fundamental rules of firearms safety. But it's only taught to hunters and those who take concealed carry courses.

I had an uncle that shot himself on two different occasions. The first case involved him grabbing a loaded gun from the back seat by the muzzle. The trigger snagged on something and he shot himself in the belly. He fully recovered from that one. The second time, he had both hands over the muzzle of a loaded gun that was resting on his foot. The butt slipped off his foot, the gun discharged, and both of his hands were were partly and permanently crippled. He eventually died of old age. All of that was in the days before hunter safety courses existed.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Weird, and tragic - Dog steps on rifle in backseat of truck, fatally shoots Kansas man, officials say
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dog-steps-rifle-backseat-truck-145705129.html

A dog stepped on an unsecured and loaded rifle, which inadvertently discharged striking a passenger in the back. "EMS personnel administered CPR before the victim was pronounced dead."

I have to wonder if the person who was fatally shot owned the rifle, or was it the owner/driver of the truck
Nevertheless, the recommended, but not mandatory, practice, is the "engage the safetey, unload/remove live ammunition until one is ready to use, and store in a safe container until withdrawn for use".

K.S.A. 12-16,124(d) provides that “no person shall be prosecuted under any ordinance, resolution or regulation for transporting a firearm in any air, land or water vehicle if the firearm is unloaded and encased in a container which completely encloses the firearm.”
https://www.concealedcarryonline.co...g the manner of transporting a loaded firearm.

 

[berkeman]

One of the fundamental rules of firearms safety. But it's only taught to hunters and those who take concealed carry courses.

And Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) and military personnel, of course.

Even so, accidents still happen. But as long as the two most fundamental firearm safety practices are used, hopefully there will be no injuries or deaths that result: 1) treat all firearms as if they are loaded, even if you know for sure that it is not, and 2) always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.

One accidental discharge that I witnessed was at a rural community shooting competition, where everybody was an experienced hunter. One participant was setting his shotgun in the bed of his pickup truck when it went off and shot a hole in the side of the bed of his truck, and luckily did not hit anybody. He was asked to leave that event after he unloaded his firearm.

One other incident ironically was inside the Sheriff's offices of a local agency, where I was in a meeting in the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) Briefing Room that was part of those offices. A plain clothes officer took off his coat and shoulder harness to hang them up in the bathroom stall while they relieved themselves. Unfortunately the trigger of the pistol in the holster in the harness snagged the hanger hook, and the pistol fired a round up through the roof. You can imagine the response when the shot was heard from the bathroom in the middle of the Sheriff's office in the middle of the day...

Stay safe folks.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

And Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) and military personnel, of course.

Even so, accidents still happen. But as long as the two most fundamental firearm safety practices are used, hopefully there will be no injuries or deaths that result: 1) treat all firearms as if they are loaded, even if you know for sure that it is not, and 2) always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.

One accidental discharge that I witnessed was at a rural community shooting competition, where everybody was an experienced hunter. One participant was setting his shotgun in the bed of his pickup truck when it went off and shot a hole in the side of the bed of his truck, and luckily did not hit anybody. He was asked to leave that event after he unloaded his firearm.

One other incident ironically was inside the Sheriff's offices of a local agency, where I was in a meeting in the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) Briefing Room that was part of those offices. A plain clothes officer took off his coat and shoulder harness to hang them up in the bathroom stall while they relieved themselves. Unfortunately the trigger of the pistol in the holster in the harness snagged the hanger hook, and the pistol fired a round up through the roof. You can imagine the response when the shot was heard from the bathroom in the middle of the Sheriff's office in the middle of the day...

Stay safe folks.

Years ago, we had a YT video of a cop teaching a gun safety class, who then accidently discharged a gun in the classroom.

 

[berkeman]

One other quick story / lesson learned. I grew up an Army brat (our family traveled with my career Army dad all over the world), and one of the stories he told me when I was a young lad (just starting to learn about firearm safety) was of one of the places he had been stationed where his barracks was near the Military Police (MP) station. The MPs had a rule that they had to unload their firearms before entering the station, and pull the trigger on their unloaded firearms while pointing them at a barrel full of sand before entering. Dad said they regularly heard several shots per week going into that sand barrel...

 

[Tom.G]

Sounds about right. The Army seems to take anyone whose legs are long enough to reach the ground.

 

[Borg]

1) treat all firearms as if they are loaded, even if you know for sure that it is not, and 2) always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.

Yes and Yes 100%

 

[pinball1970]

The gun thing in the states is a little alien to us here (UK)

When someone is killed by a gun it usually it is to do with a criminal or the police and is thankfully still relatively rare. (0.24 deaths per 100,000 population compared to 10.89)

The below was a shock and reminder if they can get it wrong, civvies would make a much worse mess.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...ter-news/funeral-of-pc-in-gun-accident-958775

 

[jack action]

The gun thing in the states is a little alien to us here (UK)

No need to specify your country, the statement is true everywhere outside the USA.

 

[pinball1970]

No need to specify your country, the statement is true everywhere outside the USA.

A few central American and south American countries are worse.

 

[Bystander]

civvies would make a much worse mess.

How so?

 

[fresh_42]

A few central American and south American countries are worse.

Yes, but Americans even shoot if it's not their business ...

Spark won in 45:02.4 after the jury revised the shooting performance of Michela Carrara, who seemed the winner but due to a cross-fire situation, the Italian's shooting score had to be adjusted from one to three misses. The final information to resolve the cross-fire came from the Italian coaching team - in a sign of true sportsmanship - who confirmed the Carrara did indeed miss 2 targets which were cleared by a cross-firing American.

https://www.biathlonworld.com/news/oech-lenzerheide-individuals/7uIlzigQ9cBY9CfkJIvZJD

 

[pinball1970]

How so?

You do not think that fire arms in the hands of civilians tend to make a mess?

 

[Bystander]

You do not think that fire arms in the hands of civilians tend to make a mess?

Law abiding? No.

 

[berkeman]

Let's try to avoid getting off into discussions that could devolve into political stuff. Thanks.

 

[fresh_42]

Let's try to avoid getting off into discussions that could devolve into political stuff. Thanks.

Well, I tried my best with that (weird) news (of today) about that biathlon incident. I found it especially funny because it matched the subject of the thread and the subject of the discussion.

 

[pinball1970]

Well, I tried my best with that (weird) news (of today) about that biathlon incident. I found it especially funny because it matched the subject of the thread and the subject of the discussion.

Skiing and shooting to me does not feel like a healthy marriage.
Edit. Probably because I suck at skiing and I would be a liability with any sort of gun.I probably would pick up a ski and accidentally shoot my partner with it.

 

[fresh_42]

Skiing and shooting to me does not feel like a healthy marriage.
Edit. Probably because I suck at skiing and I would be a liability with any sort of gun.I probably would pick up a ski and accidentally shoot my partner with it.

Continental!

 

[mfb]

Watch out for radioactive capsules in Western Australia. They lost one somewhere on the road and now they are trying to locate it.

 

[Astronuc]

Watch out for radioactive capsules in Western Australia. They lost one somewhere on the road and now they are trying to locate it.

Based on "The half-life of the substance is 30 years," I would expect the source to be ¹³⁷Cs, 0.6617 MeV gamma accompanying beta decay.

https://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nudat3/decaysearchdirect.jsp?nuc=137Cs&unc=NDS

 

[Hornbein]

Watch out for radioactive capsules in Western Australia. They lost one somewhere on the road and now they are trying to locate it.

The capsule is tiny – 6mm diameter by 8mm high. It was lost somewhere in 1400 km of road. It's so radioactive a searcher is wearing a full body suit. Motorists are advised to examine their tyres.

 

[Astronuc]

The capsule is tiny – 6mm diameter by 8mm high. It was lost somewhere in 1400 km of road. It's so radioactive a searcher is wearing a full body suit. Motorists are advised to examine their tyres.

A source of that size should have been secured in a larger container.

 

[Tom.G]

And here we have -- The universal, post-active, exclamation!

should have