Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'
- www.billboard.com Man Buys Taylor Swift-Inspired Guitar at Auction Only to Destroy It
A man in Ellis County, Texas, is going viral after he bought a guitar for $4000 at an auction only to destroy it.
- Montana man faces sentencing for cloning giant sheep to breed large sheep for captive trophy huntsapnews.com Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it
An 81-year-old Montana has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and ordered to pay $24,000 in penalties for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunts in Texas and Minnesota.
>HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An 81-year-old Montana man faces sentencing in federal court Monday in Great Falls for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.
>However, the sentencing memorandum also congratulates Schubarth for successfully cloning the endangered sheep, which he named Montana Mountain King. The animal has been confiscated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services. > >“Jack did something no one else could, or has ever done,” the memo said. “On a ranch, in a barn in Montana, he created Montana Mountain King. MMK is an extraordinary animal, born of science, and from a man who, if he could re-write history, would have left the challenge of cloning a Marco Polo only to the imagination of Michael Crichton,” who is the author of the science fiction novel Jurassic Park.
- www.wired.com How a 15-Year-Old Gamer Became the Patron Saint of the Internet
In 2025, Carlo Acutis will officially become the first millennial saint. But will he help the Catholic Church reach a younger audience?
“It’s a beautiful thing that for the first time in history you can see a saint dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a sweatshirt. That’s a great message,” Father Carlos Acácio Gonçalves Ferreira, the shrine’s rector, said at the time. A Franciscan monk based at the tomb, noted that “many young people” were visiting.
Now get rid of the homophobia, sex abuse scandals, sexism, and anti-choice bullshit, mmkay?
- Damian Lewis herds sheep over a London bridge as part of a quirky traditionapnews.com Damian Lewis herds sheep over a London bridge in homage to a medieval tradition
Actor Damian Lewis has driven a flock of sheep across the River Thames in homage to a centuries-old tradition.
- www.independent.co.uk Couple tried to sell baby for a 6-pack of beer and $1,000 at campground, police say
The neglected two-month-old was handed over to a drunken stranger at a campsite, according to police
Meanwhile IVF is north of $25k...
- bleedingcool.com Trump No Fallon Fan But Plan to Bring Back Carson Hits Major Snag
It looks like Donald Trump isn't a fan of Jimmy Fallon, urging NBC to bring back Johnny Carson. Ummm... who wants to tell him?
- viewfromthewing.com American Airlines Flight Attendant Rips Off Seat Cushions to Stop Passengers From Grabbing Free Extra Legroom - View from the Wing
You used to be able to take any open seat in your cabin once the doors closed. You might move closer to the front, grab an aisle seat, or head for an empty row in the back so you could stretch out.
- www.huffpost.com Secret Service Uniformed Officer Accidentally Shoots Self On Duty
The agency said an investigation into the one-person mishap is underway amid large-scale scrutiny over other incidents.
- www.boston.com Watch: 8 bulls go on the run from rodeo in North Attleborough
Eight bulls escaped a rodeo at the Emerald Square Mall, the North Attleborough Fire Department confirmed in a social media post.
Impromptu running of the bulls
- www.theguardian.com Six-year-old abducted from California park in 1951 found alive after seven decades
Niece locates her uncle Luis Armando Albino living on other side of the country after search sparked when she took online DNA test ‘just for fun’
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29541820
> A man who was abducted as a six-year-old while playing in a California park in 1951 has been found more than seven decades later thanks to the help of an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings. > > The Bay Area News Group reported on Friday that Luis Armando Albino’s niece in Oakland – with assistance from police, the FBI and the justice department – located her uncle living on the US east coast. > > Albino, a father and grandfather, is a retired firefighter and Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam, according to his niece, 63-year-old Alida Alequin. She found Albino and reunited him with his California family in June. > > On 21 February 1951 a woman lured the six-year-old Albino from the park in West Oakland, where he had been playing with his older brother, and promised him in Spanish that she would buy him candy.
- www.cbsnews.com Message in a bottle, written 200 years ago by an archaeologist, found on a French clifftop
P.J Féret, who conducted a dig at France's Cité de Limes site in January 1825, wrote the message, archaeologists say.
- www.theguardian.com Mouse crawling out of meal forces plane to make early landing
Rodent posed risk to electrical wiring on Scandinavian Airlines flight
- Elon Musk Owes You $100 - Cards Against Humanity Sues Elonwww.elonowesyou100dollars.com Elon Musk Owes You $100 • Cards Against Humanity Saves America Day 7
Elon Musk stole your land, and now he owes you $100.
- Two Men, One Cup: Man uses controversial “poop in cup” method to win Nissan Sentra at Oklahoma State Fairthelostogle.com Two Men, One Cup: Man uses controversial “poop in cup” method to win Nissan Sentra at Oklahoma State Fair. - The Lost Ogle
It looks like we forgot to include something on our list of 7 New Ways To Die at The Oklahoma State Fair! This year, in a bizarre effort to make the Oklahoma State Fair smell even worse than it already does, Dent Source sponsored and organized a competition called the Stinkin’ Sentra Giveaway. Simil...
NSFL warning
> > This year, in a bizarre effort to make the Oklahoma State Fair smell even worse than it already does, Dent Source sponsored and organized a competition called the Stinkin’ Sentra Giveaway. > > > > Similar to the B.O. GEO competition of years past, the premise is simple: four people are sent to live inside one Nissan Sentra in an outdoor fair exhibit. The contestants are only allowed to leave the car once every three hours for a 15-minute bathroom break, and anything they bring into the car—like discarded food, trash, or a carnie scalp—has to stay in the car. The last person to leave wins the car. > > > > According to local media reports, the competition concluded this past weekend. The winner was Brian Richmond, who outlasted the other three contestants and, according to witnesses, looks like he smells like a Walmart: > > > > ... > > > > Brian’s victory in the Stinkin’ Sentra competition didn’t come without some smelly and disgusting controversy. > > > >Meet Chris Deschner. He’s the guy who finished second in the competition, leaving the car after 80 hours of being trapped inside. > > > > In a Facebook video, Chris claims he exited the vehicle only after Brian went full Mr. Hankey and brought a cup of human excrement from the port-a-potty into the car following a bathroom break! > > > >Yep, you read that right. The winner brought a cup of human excrement from the port-a-potty into the car following a bathroom break. If you need to take a quick break to throw up in your mouth, feel free. > > > >Chris protested Brian’s septic stunt to contest organizers, but after holding a quick tribunal—hopefully while wearing hazmat suits—the Dent Source team determined that bringing human excrement into the Sentra was a violation of competition rules, but not enough to disqualify Brian. > > > >They removed the cup from the car and told Chris and Brian to resume play. > > > >Unfortunately, Chris couldn’t mentally recover from this clear violation of the laws of man. Claiming he had “more self-respect than that,” he dropped out of the competition like a loose turd, handing Brian the victory and a new, shitty car. > > > > ... > > > > If you ask me, Chris probably realized he had no chance of winning once he witnessed the sewage-level depths his opponent was willing to go for victory, so he quit under protest to try to sneak a win and save face. > > > >Honestly, I don’t blame Chris for this move. In fact, I consider him the winner! Not only does he still have his dignity, but even better—he won’t have to drive a Nissan Sentra.
- abcnews.go.com Python grabs Thai woman, squeezes her two hours before she can be freed
A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her
Should've used Go.
- New York teen accused of taking subway train for joyride and crashing itwww.bbc.com NY teens accused of joyriding and crashing subway train
A teenage girl and boy were arrested over the alleged incident, which resulted in a crash but no injuries.
- news.sky.com Gatwick train cancelled after squirrels board and 'refuse to leave'
The squirrels boarded "without tickets, breaching railway byeclaws", a spokesperson for the train operator joked.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/17610946
> >The squirrels jumped on the Great Western Railway (GWR) 8.54am train from Reading to Gatwick on Monday, forcing passengers to flee to other carriages. > > > >The passengers alerted staff, who tried to lure the squirrels off the train at Redhill with snacks, before trying to force them off with brooms - but to no avail. > > > >They subsequently called the journey off entirely.
- Disney World Trips Meant for Homeless N.Y.C. Students Used By School Employees Instead: Reportpeople.com Disney World Trips Meant for Homeless N.Y.C. Students Allegedly Used By School Employees Instead: Report
A new report from the special commissioner of investigations for the New York City School District alleges that multiple school employees went on Disney World trips meant for homeless students.
- www.palmbeachpost.com Grand prize winner of 2024 Florida Python Challenge announced
More than 14,500 pythons have been removed in Florida since 2017 by FWC and hunters. The most pythons removed in a single year was 2,629 in 2020.
- abcnews.go.com An 8-year-old Ohio girl drove an SUV on a solo Target run
Authorities say an 8-year-old girl took an SUV from her Ohio home and drove for miles to a store where she was later found unharmed
Not just a short drive, either.
- Maryland, Virginia beaches closed to swimming after reports of washed up ‘medical waste’wtop.com Maryland, Virginia beaches closed to swimming after reports of washed up ‘medical waste’ - WTOP News
Popular beach destinations along the coasts of Maryland and Virginia are closed Sunday to swimming as officials investigate reports of “medical waste,” washing up on shore.
Gross.
- Fake $100 Bills Spew From US Bank's ATM As Customers Receive Paper Marked For 'Motion Picture Purposes'dailyhodl.com Fake $100 Bills Spew From Bank's ATM As Customers Receive Paper Marked For 'Motion Picture Purposes': Report - The Daily Hodl
Customers at a billion-dollar bank say they're shocked after a worthless trip to the ATM. More than a dozen people received counterfeit $100 bills marked “for motion picture purposes” and “in props we trust” when they visited an Independence Bank ATM in Providence, Kentucky, reports the NBC-affiliat...
- www.independent.co.uk Arizona man discovers piece of Lego has been stuck in his nose for 26 years
Andi Norton, 32, who also goes by the name Ben Havoc, said in an Instagram post that he blew his nose and a Lego dot piece came out
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/17451059
> > Andi Norton, 32, who also goes by the name Ben Havoc, said in an Instagram post earlier this month that he blew his nose and, “low and behold,” a Lego dot piece came out. > > > >Havoc explained that, when he was six years old, he put the Lego dot up his nose. > > > >The toy was “too small for me to reach in my nose and grab it,” he said. So, he said he “had the brilliant idea” of shoving a Lego man up his nose to collect it. > > > >“At this point, I’ve panicked loudly and my mom came in and, in her panic, she’s looking at my nose and seeing there’s a Lego head stuck in my nostril,” he said. > > > >His mom pulled out that second toy with a tweezer – believing it to be the only piece. > > > >For the last 26 years, Havoc said he has suffered from multiple breathing issues including asthma and has recently been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. > > > > He said that his doctor had recommended he blow his nose in the shower during the summer months in order to take advantage of the steam and humidity. > > > > After following that advice for the past six months, one day he got a big surprise when the Lego piece fell out of his nose.
- apnews.com A bag of Cheetos created a huge impact on a national park ecosystem
It’s pretty simple — leave no trace. But at least one person didn’t get the message and left behind a bag of Cheetos at Carlsbad Caverns National Park during a visit earlier this summer.
"The bag could have been there a day or two or maybe just hours, but those salty morsels of processed corn made soft by thick humidity triggered the growth of mold on the cavern floor and on nearby cave formations.
“To the ecosystem of the cave it had a huge impact,” the park noted in a social media post, explaining that cave crickets, mites, spiders and flies soon organized to eat and disperse the foreign mess, essentially spreading the contamination."
- www.cbs58.com 'It was surreal:' Dane County man undergoes brain surgery with the help of an unusual instrument in the operating room
DANE COUNTY, Wis. (CBS 58) -- His love for the trombone first started by hearing his father and uncle play.Now, Brian Rust of McFarland, Wisconsin, is in a horn rock concert band, and covers multiple
- abc7ny.com Complete stranger obtains deed to $4M North Carolina home without homeowner's knowledge
The deed to a multi-million dollar home in North Carolina was swiped out from under the nose of the home's owner.
- Jon Bon Jovi helped persuade a woman to come off the ledge of a Nashville bridge, police say
The hero we don't deserve
- www.live5news.com ‘Do not store guns in your oven’: Loaded gun stored in oven fires multiple rounds after getting overheated
A loaded gun stored in the oven overheated letting out five rounds in Virginia, according to authorities.
- Bihar teen dies after fake doctor relies on YouTube videos for surgerywww.ndtv.com Bihar Teen Dies After Fake Doctor Relies On YouTube Videos For Surgery
A 15-year-old has died in Bihar's Saran after a self-styled 'doctor' allegedly relied on YouTube videos and performed an operation to remove a stone from his gall bladder.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/17245204
> > Family members of Krishna Kumar said they took him to Ganpati Hospital in Saran after he vomited several times. "We admitted him and the vomiting stopped soon after. But the doctor Ajit Kumar Puri said he needs to be operated upon. He conducted the operation by watching videos on YouTube. My son died later," Chandan Shaw. > > > > The family members said they do not know if the 'doctor' had proper qualifications. "We think he was self-styled and fake," they said. > > > >The teenager's grandfather said the boy was feeling better after the vomiting stopped. "But the doctor sent the father away on an errand and started operating on the boy without the family's consent. The boy was in pain. When we asked the doctor why he was in pain, he snapped at us and asked if we were doctors. Later in the evening, the boy stopped breathing. He was revived (with CPR) and then rushed to Patna. He died on the way. They left the boy's body on the stairs of the hospital and fled," said Krishna Kumar's grandfather Prahlad Prasad Shaw.
- www.theguardian.com Cat makes surprise return home four days after being ‘cremated’
Beloved pet Ted reunited with grieving North Yorkshire family after drowning mixup
Scratch one life
- www.latimes.com Disney-obsessed couple lose lawsuit to get back into exclusive Club 33
The club’s yearly dues were $31,500, and with travel and hotel expenses, the Arizona couple was spending close to $125,000 annually. Disney revoked their membership after an allegation that Scott Anderson was drunk in public.
The couple took over a decade to actually join the club, with annual dues of $31,500, but spending closer to $125,000 a year to visit the Anaheim parks. They were expelled from the club five years later when park security guards found the husband intoxicated in the park, a violation of club rules. The couple has since spent $400,000 suing to regain access to the club and ‘clear his reputation,’ claiming he was not drunk but suffering from a “vestibular migraine” which looks a lot like being drunk and can be triggered by red wine. They claim they were targeted for retaliation because they complained about a different club member harassing other club members and staff.
The couple plan to appeal.
- www.popsci.com The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent
'It’s not magic, but it’s still very powerful.'
- www.startribune.com School bus driver, believed to be ‘highly intoxicated’ at a bar, arrested on Iron Range route the next morning
There were 17 students on board the bus when the driver was arrested, with a preliminary BAC of 0.16%.
The wipers on the bus ARE TOO DAMNED LOUD
- www.ndtv.com Australian Air Traffic Controller Found Sleeping On Duty After 10 Night Shifts In 12 Days
Australia's air safety investigators have recommended reforms after a Brisbane air traffic controller was found asleep at his desk while covering an early-morning shift.
- www.forbes.com Viral ‘Chase Bank Glitch’ Isn’t The Hack People Thought It Was
While this so-called glitch is essentially a form of check fraud, it demonstrates the harmful nature of viral activity combined with financial stress.
Same people who tried to charge their iPhones in the microwave?
- www.wlbt.com Police looking for serial ‘porch pooper’ after man seen pooping on same porch multiple times
Police in Kentucky are looking for a man who has defecated on the same porch multiple times over the past week for no apparent reason.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16916591
> > Police in Kentucky are looking for a man who has defecated on the same porch multiple times over the past week for no apparent reason. > > > >Louisville Metro Police say they have received three police reports about the alleged “porch pooper,” who’s since gained lots of attention online after doorbell videos of him have been posted on Reddit and Instagram. > > > >The homeowner, who did not want to be identified, being targeted by the so-called porch pooper said he first noticed something was up on Tuesday. > > > >“I went out to my front porch that morning and noticed what I thought was cat poop,” he said. > > > >The homeowner said he cleaned it up and checked his Nest doorbell camera from the night before and that’s when he realized it certainly wasn’t a cat. > > > >“Not only did he defecate, but he also urinated on our welcome mat,” he said.