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The discussion revolves around sharing unusual and funny news stories. One highlighted case involves artist Peter Doig, who is being sued for $5 million by a man claiming a painting is his, despite Doig's insistence that he did not create it. Another story features inmates in Texas who broke out of their cell to save an unconscious guard, raising questions about their behavior. Additionally, a couple of dogs in the UK were caught damaging cars, leading to their eventual capture and a search for adoptive homes. The thread showcases a variety of bizarre incidents, emphasizing the oddities found in everyday news.
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Mysterious blue spiral over norway
 
  • #183
https://www.yahoo.com/news/babies-romeo-juliette-debut-florida-hospital-115650160.html in the same hospital
Hospital privacy laws almost kept the drama from playing out...
But the two families began searching for each other. Dad Justin Crouch says he thought about walking down the hall saying,"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo."
:oldtongue:
 
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  • #185
Woman Throws Coins Into Plane Engine 'For Good Luck,' Delaying Flight for Five Hours
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-throws-coins-plane-engine-205237945.html

I'm glad someone noticed that she threw coins into the jet engine (probably into the compressor or fan). Apparently she does not understand that debris in a jet engine could potentially cause it to catastrophically fail.
 
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  • #186
Astronuc said:
Woman Throws Coins Into Plane Engine 'For Good Luck,' Delaying Flight for Five Hours
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-throws-coins-plane-engine-205237945.html

I'm glad someone noticed that she threw coins into the jet engine (probably into the compressor or fan). Apparently she does not understand that debris in a jet engine could potentially cause it to catastrophically fail.

OMG !
 
  • #187
davenn said:
OMG !
FOD !
 
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  • #188
Astronuc said:
Woman Throws Coins Into Plane Engine 'For Good Luck,' Delaying Flight for Five Hours
:doh:
davenn said:
OMG !
I said exactly the same thing right before I saw your post.
I love the most-liked comment:
Confucious says, "Old lady who throw coin into plane engine, soon depart on unexpected trip."
:oldlaugh:
 
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  • #190
Why did the chicken(s) close the road?

 
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  • #192
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...f/2017/07/truck_full_of_eels_overturns_o.html
U.S. 101 full of eels
Eels slither all over U.S. 101 in Lincoln County after a truck carrying them overturned between Newport and Depot Bay, at milepost 131.

eel4jpg-b2e7c899c7cab5ac.jpg
 
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  • #193
Some apartment complexes now use DNA testing to identify residents who don't clean up after their dogs.

Mount Pleasant apartment complex using DNA to catch dog poop perps (Channel 4 news, Charleston SC)
Last week, Boulevard management notified residents they must register their dog into a DNA database or face a fine. DNA is collected by a simple cheek swab. It’s part of their new PooPrint program. It’s a way they can pin the poop to the owner responsible.
 
  • #195
PORK Stock in free fall
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/a-weird-florida-mystery-frozen-pork-falling-from-the-sky/ar-AAovZM4?OCID=ansmsnnews11
 
  • #196
Who owns Snopes.com? Dispute puts future of fact-checking site in question
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/sd-fi-snopes-legal-20170724-story.html

A legal dispute over ownership of the popular fact-checking site Snopes.com is threatening the existence of the online sleuthing service, which now purports to be in dire financial straits. As a result, Snopes on Monday started soliciting donations through a GoFundMe campaign and raised more than half of its $500,000 goal in its first day of fundraising.
Go figure. o_O
 
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There is a band named Suspected Spam:

https://www.facebook.com/suspectedspam/

I wonder what happened to their EP that was due out in the spring? Maybe their publicity emails all got flagged as...
 
  • #200
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-robots-taken-down-rogue-072538096.html
China has taken down two online robots that appeared to go rogue, responding to users' questions with one saying its dream was to travel to the United States and the other admitting it wasn't a huge fan of Chinese Communist Party.

Earlier this summer, there were reports that Facebook shutdown an AI research program after two bots developed their own private, unintelligible (to humans) language. Snopes rates the story as false.
http://www.snopes.com/facebook-ai-developed-own-language/
 
  • #202
I was looking for the writeup on a cute story about three sisters who had births just days apart recently in Quebec, but apparently that is not at all that odd, as per the number of hits that came up when searching for 'three sisters pregnant' to narrow down the news item on the net. - 94,200,000 hits.

Couldn't find the story I wanted.
Instead I present this dated one ( 2005 ) regarding early bloomers, which has more 'click-bait' value attached. IMO.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...es-their-mother-do-She-blames-the-school.html
and the same from a BBC report,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4572219.stm
 
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nsaspook said:
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https://www.facebook.com/r.beatty/posts/10214627024858104:0

:oldlaugh:

O.M.G.
I've heard of "spirit animals", but that kid is my "spirit grandchild".

I did a similar thing, 35 years ago.

ps. Note to young people: If you "know" you have to take "cheat" notes to an exam, just take the class again.
Save yourself the embarrassment. You'll be glad you did.
I think I got an F- on that test.
:doh:
 
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nsaspook said:
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https://www.facebook.com/r.beatty/posts/10214627024858104:0
This reminds me of the story, very likely not true, of the Oxford student who turned up for his exams and demanded a complimentary glass of sherry. The invigilators checked the 400-year-old rulebook and found that he was indeed entitled, and so provided a glass of sherry.

However, the next day, the student was fined for failing to wear his sword for the exam.
 
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  • #207
(Note, you just have love good Satire as well as Irony. This piece has both, too bad the stakes are so serious.)
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/bor...john-lyrics-kim-jong-un-calls-trump-honky-cat
"PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report)"In what some security experts fear could be a high-stakes war of Elton John lyrics, minutes after Donald Trump called Kim Jong Un "Rocket Man," the North Korean dictator responded by calling Trump "Honky Cat."
 
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  • #208
Only in Japan.:biggrin:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42009839
Management on the Tsukuba Express line between Tokyo and the city of Tsukuba say they "sincerely apologise for the inconvenience" caused.

In a statement, http://www.mir.co.jp/company/release/2017/post_109.html
 
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  • #209
Mild NSFW.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/graphic-obscene-skydrawings-spotted-in-okanogan-co/492521457

Ten Gallon Hat?
 
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  • #210
nsaspook said:
Mild NSFW.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/graphic-obscene-skydrawings-spotted-in-okanogan-co/492521457

Ten Gallon Hat?
:oldlaugh:

Maybe the pilot is a fan of that new TV show: "The Orville"

For those who haven't seen it: Gordon Malloy :oldeyes:

 
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