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Ishmal 06-23-2005 06:13 PM

Weird News
 
hows about we start a thread that we can post "weird" news stories in???

things that are bizzare, or things that are down right disgusting(sp)

like the following article...

Quote:

Originally Posted by article
Australia - The Australian Police Journal reported that an elderly woman had already used about half of the powder in a custard packet when she discovered an object that appeared to be a large dead cockroach. However, when she brought it to the Health Department, food analysts determined it to be a dried-up human finger. The following investigation revealed that a factory worker had lost two fingers in a machine with rotating blades. One finger had been found. The other had made its way into the custard packet the woman had bought.

here is the link!!!

come'on Australia,

what weird news have you seen floating around the web???

cinnles 06-24-2005 12:06 AM

I heard the Australian cricket team were scared shitless after staying in a haunted hotel:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...6/s1398518.htm

spindles 06-24-2005 02:49 AM

they were actually worried about losing to bangladesh again, but decided to blame their paleness on ghosts :)

Meridae'n 06-24-2005 09:06 AM

Do they have to be true? I know a whole swag of stories that don't have one ounce of truth to them. Like the other night I dragged these two stunna's home from the Globe...

yasnooze 06-27-2005 12:23 AM

ahhha... i heard that finger one somewhere before

Ishmal 08-07-2005 07:25 PM

hows about this story???

Quote:

Mountain toilet can withstand 93 mph winds

Associated Press
Jul. 4, 2005 07:32 AM

CANBERRA, Australia - Scaling Australia's highest mountain will soon become a more civilized climb after the construction of the country's highest toilet.

Dubbed the "Loo with a View," the all-weather toilet block is to be built into the wind-swept side of Mount Kosciuszko, 390 feet below its snowcapped peak in a New South Wales state national park.

"The engineering challenges are in trying to build something in such a remote location and at that elevation," National Parks and Wildlife Service alpine area manager Andrew Harrigan said Thursday.

He described the toilet as "a bunker" built to withstand 93 mph winds and carved 20 feet into the mountain.

It will comprise three urinals and three unisex stalls - one with wheelchair access, he said.

The septic tank would have enough capacity to ensure that the toilet can last more than six months without a service when it is snowed in during winter. The toilet will also catch its own water.

It's part of a campaign to prevent walkers and campers from digging latrines in the earth or snow.

"Loo with a View"

Ishmal 09-22-2005 11:08 PM

Alleged drunk driver jumps to back seat

Associated Press
Sept. 12, 2005 04:06 PM


Quote:

Originally Posted by the Buzz
CANBERRA, Australia - An allegedly drunk driver stunned pursuing police in northern Australia by jumping into the back seat with his three passengers, leaving his car to careen out of control on an Outback road, police said Monday.

Police charged the 24-year-old man with resisting arrest and driving under the influence of alcohol after he abandoned the wheel on Saturday, ignoring the police car's siren and signals to pull over, said Sgt. Wayne Jenkinson, a police officer in the Northern Territory town of Katherine.

One of the car's passengers suffered minor injuries when she panicked and jumped from the driverless car while it was still rolling 25 miles per hour, he said.

The runaway car then rapidly lost speed, allowing a policeman to get out of his vehicle, chase it down on foot and bring it to a halt by applying the brake.

The man, who had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.178 percent — more than three-times the legal limit of 0.05 — was also charged with driving in a dangerous manner, driving while disqualified and driving an unregistered vehicle, Jenkinson said.

Jenkinson said the driver's hazardous maneuver was aimed at avoiding arrest.

"His cunning plan, in his muddled state of mind, was he wouldn't be the driver," Jenkinson said.

He will appear in a Katherine Magistrates Court this week.

link - So has anyone tried this trick b4??? LOL :lol: :crazy:

Ella 09-22-2005 11:56 PM

Haha...no, but I gotta give him 5 brownie points for quick (albeit dumb) thinking!

cinnles 09-23-2005 06:53 AM

and I thought that idiot kid who decided to hide under a train at town hall station was stupid ...

Ishmal 09-23-2005 06:43 PM

Power-dressing man leaves trail of destruction

Fri Sep 16,10:30 AM ET

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yahoo News
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.

Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together.

When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet.

"It sounded almost like a firecracker," Clewer told Australian radio Friday.

"Within about five minutes, the carpet started to erupt."

Employees, unsure of the cause of the mysterious burning smell, telephoned firefighters who evacuated the building.

"There were several scorch marks in the carpet, and we could hear a cracking noise -- a bit like a whip -- both inside and outside the building," said fire official Henry Barton.

Firefighters cut electricity to the building thinking the burns might have been caused by a power surge.

Clewer, who after leaving the building discovered he had scorched a piece of plastic on the floor of his car, returned to seek help from the firefighters.

"We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said.

"I've been firefighting for over 35 years and I've never come across anything like this," he said.

Firefighters took possession of Clewer's jacket and stored it in the courtyard of the fire station, where it continued to give off a strong electrical current.

David Gosden, a senior lecturer in electrical engineering at Sydney University, told Reuters that for a static electricity charge to ignite a carpet, conditions had to be perfect.

"Static electricity is a similar mechanism to lightning, where you have clouds rubbing together and then a spark generated by very dry air above them," said Gosden.

"click me"

dlish 09-23-2005 07:46 PM

what about the 'static man'.. leaves a trail of smoldering carpet wherever he goes..

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117...-29277,00.html

interesting stuff! and the weird thing about it is, is its true!

cinnles 09-24-2005 05:20 AM

hmm, same story, one says 30,000, one says 40,000. I guess 10,000 volts isn't too much of a difference! :lol:

Latch 09-24-2005 08:20 AM

Whatever it is, it's enough to burn carpet and melt plastic :)

I, myself, like the story of the two Aussie guys (who I noticed during a news break in today's Grand Final were called 'dumb and dumber' by the media) who robbed a bank in Colorado, USA... while wearing nametags.

Geniuses, really :D

cinnles 09-25-2005 02:33 AM

and they didn't bother to mask their aussie accents either.

Though I did like how they snowboarded their way to some rendezvous point, very action movie. :rolleyes:

dlish 09-25-2005 04:36 AM

aparently they robbed their own bank that they frequent, so they were easy to spot.. i'd give them 5 years for stupidity rather than the robbery itself.

aKula 09-26-2005 03:16 AM

This seems to fit the weird new story category. Seems like some rather dangerous dolphins have escaped.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/inter...577753,00.html
Quote:

Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina

by Mark Townsend Houston
Sunday September 25, 2005
The Observer

It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.

Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.

Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea. But those who have studied the controversial use of dolphins in the US defence programme claim it is vital they are caught quickly.

Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry, said he had received intelligence from sources close to the US government's marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped.

'My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire,' he said. 'The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?'

Usually dolphins were controlled via signals transmitted through a neck harness. 'The question is, were these dolphins made secure before Katrina struck?' said Sheridan.

The mystery surfaced when a separate group of dolphins was washed from a commercial oceanarium on the Mississippi coast during Katrina. Eight were found with the navy's help, but the dolphins were not returned until US navy scientists had examined them.

Sheridan is convinced the scientists were keen to ensure the dolphins were not the navy's, understood to be kept in training ponds in a sound in Louisiana, close to Lake Pontchartrain, whose waters devastated New Orleans.

The navy launched the classified Cetacean Intelligence Mission in San Diego in 1989, where dolphins, fitted with harnesses and small electrodes planted under their skin, were taught to patrol and protect Trident submarines in harbour and stationary warships at sea.

Criticism from animal rights groups ensured the use of dolphins became more secretive. But the project gained impetus after the Yemen terror attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Dolphins have also been used to detect mines near an Iraqi port.

GoldenOuroboros 09-26-2005 03:47 PM

Great, another reason not to go in the water
thanks aKula :p

Ishmal 10-23-2005 10:05 PM

Fined driver was dead at wheel

Quote:

Originally Posted by scotsman.com
A traffic warden slapped a parking ticket on a car - with a dead man slumped at the wheel - outside an Australian shopping mall.

The body of the 71-year-old man, whose identity was not immediately released, was discovered in a car park in Melbourne, The Age newspaper reported.


The man had been reported missing nine days earlier and was known to be seriously ill, the newspaper said.

Nevertheless, a parking officer who inspected the vehicle failed to notice the man inside and issued the parking fine two days before his body was discovered.

Paul Denham, the mayor of Maroondah Council, where the man was found, said the warden was "distressed" to learn that the dead man had been inside the car.

"Our local laws officer checked and wrote out the ticket at the rear of the vehicle and placed the ticket from the passenger side on the windscreen," Denham said.

"The local laws officer did not notice anything unusual regarding the vehicle, and is extremely distressed to have learned of the situation."

Link.

cchris 11-11-2005 08:01 AM

Breaking news........

John Howards proposed industrial reforms were today stalled in the senate after several members of the house became ill after eating seafood that had been left out in the sun for too long.

Whilst most of those affected were able to return after a quick porcelean bus ride,the speaker of the house refused to allow them back in saying that unless they provided a doctors certificate they could all go and get fucked.

Ishmal 11-17-2005 08:55 PM

Glowing meat alarms Australians

Australians have been told there is no need to panic after a recent "glow-in-the-dark pork chop" scare.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image..._pork203ap.jpg
If your pork chops do glow, it is best to throw them away

Quote:

Originally Posted by BBC News
A caller to a Sydney radio talk show sparked fears of radioactive contamination in the meat supply.

The New South Wales Food Authority said the glow was caused by the harmless Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria.

Food authority head George Davey said he understood people would be "shocked" to see their meat glowing in the fridge but said the bacteria were safe.

"It is important to remember that the micro organism responsible for the glow is not known to cause food poisoning," he said.

The bacteria are naturally present in meat and fish but they multiply quickly if food is not stored at the correct temperature.

So the glowing can be a sign that the food is starting to go off and Mr Davey recommends consumers throw any luminous pork chops - or other cuts of meat - straight into the dustbin.

"Remember this simple advice - if it glows, throw it."

linky


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