News Stories that Make You Wonder?!?!

[EIR Loe.307]

BELGRADE, Serbia (Reuters) -- A 23-year old Serb was found dead and half-eaten in the bear cage of Belgrade Zoo at the weekend during the annual beer festival.
The man was found naked, with his clothes lying intact inside the cage. Two adult bears, Masha and Misha, had dragged the body to their feeding corner and reacted angrily when keepers tried to recover it.
"There's a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage," zoo director Vuk Bojovic told Reuters.
Local media reported that police found several mobile phones inside the cage, as well as bricks, stones and beer cans.

I'm guessing that he was drunk for sure. Maybe the stuff in the cage was from people throwing it at the bears to get them to let go? Either way you shouldn'y be in the zoo drunk :lol:. Wonder if the bears caught a buzz from the guy.:confused::rolleyes:

[saltysurprise]

"Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage,"

Ummm.... DUH!:rolleyes:


Maybe the stuff in the cage was from people throwing it at the bears to get them to let go? Either way you shouldn'y be in the zoo drunk :lol:. Wonder if the bears caught a buzz from the guy.:confused::rolleyes:

I won't go to the zoo without a few wobbly-pops in me. But I'm clearly not an idiot. Instead of thowing beercans and cellphones into the cage, why didn't one of the idiot's, idiot friends use the cellphone to... Wait for it.......

Call for HELP??? That's Darwin at work for ya:thumbsup:

I like this thread. I'll be sure to keep it busy:cool:

[EIR Loe.307]

Ya, I wanted to get different stories on here like a "story of the day" type thing. Maybe we can sticky it.

[saltysurprise]

Maybe we can sticky it.

No need... I'm sure it will be active enough on it's own:thumbsup:

[Ryan]

I saw an add for ******l tightening in the paper today.

EDIT: lol, I guess we'll never know...:eek:

[saltysurprise]

I saw an add for ******l tightening in the paper today.

EDIT: lol, I guess we'll never know...:eek:

Where do I sign up! My ******l is getting a little on the sloppy side:lol::lol: Thus, not very aerodynamic.

[EIR Loe.307]

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Two Irish men who stole a fishing trawler after missing their ferry had to be rescued off the British coast where they were going in circles because they did not know how to sail.
After hours at sea, the men called what they thought was the Irish coastguard for help.
"They thought they were just off the coast of Ireland," said Ray Steadman, press officer of the Holyhead lifeboat in north Wales, about 66 miles east of Ireland.
In fact, the two were just 12 miles north of where they started in Holyhead and had called the British coastguard, Steadman told Irish broadcaster RTE Monday.
Lifeboats and a helicopter were sent out to rescue the men, who were detained by police before being released.
They were later rearrested after the boat owner discovered some damage to his trawler.


Ahhh that's Guinness at it's best. How many pints did these guys have??:lol:

[saltysurprise]

Nice cut and paste Alice!:rolleyes:

I'm not even gonna read it 'till you fix that damn font. For shaaaame:( Tisk tisk...

[saltysurprise]

ROCHELLE, Ga. - A woman was arrested after she called police to help "get her money back" after she was unhappy with the crack cocaine she purchased.

Juanita Marie Jones, 53, called Rochelle Police late Thursday night after she purchased what she thought was a $20 piece of crack cocaine.She told officers she broke the rock into three pieces and smoked one, only to discover the drugs were "fake". She took an Officer and Deputy of the Wilcox County Sheriff's Office into her kitchen and showed them the drugs.

She was promptly arrested on charges of possession of cocaine.

See kids, drugs make you stupid. Even fake ones. Drugs are bad mmmkay.

[Harakimi]

Oh shit what an idiot :)

[JoStream]

Oh shit what an idiot :)

I doubt it. She probably wanted to get arrested because she owed her dealer too much :rolleyes: :lol:

[saltysurprise]

I doubt it. She probably wanted to get arrested because she owed her dealer too much :rolleyes: :lol:

No, she's just stupid... at 53 no less:rolleyes:

[EIR Loe.307]

No, she's just stupid... at 53 no less:rolleyes:

Or both!! :lol:

[saltysurprise]

Or both!! :lol:

Sometimes you make my brain ache...

[JoStream]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A teenage couple having sex for the first time were interrupted when candles set fire to the girl's attic bedroom and forced them to flee naked from her parents' house, German daily Bild reported on Friday.

The girl had wanted to create a romantic atmosphere for the occasion. But when the room suddenly became engulfed with flames, they had to make a hasty escape.

The couple, both 18, were pictured naked in the paper among the burned wreckage of the attic. A charred teddy had survived but the fire wrecked the entire top floor of the house causing around 100,000 euros (68,000 pounds) worth of damage.

What 'A Night To Remember' :rolleyes:

[Harakimi]

Two Swiss students on holiday played frisbee with an object they found on a beach unaware it was a live land mine. A bomb squad then arrived to make safe what turned out to be an old Soviet 6 kilogrammes anti-tank mine.

[EIR Loe.307]

Two Swiss students on holiday played frisbee with an object they found on a beach unaware it was a live land mine. A bomb squad then arrived to make safe what turned out to be an old Soviet 6 kilogrammes anti-tank mine.

Holy S**t!! That coulda been a hell of a suprise! :eek:

[EIR Loe.307]

This is funny.

Apparently a retirement home decided to ban the free donuts that they were offering, citing that they were unhealthy.

The residents were very unhappy about losing their donuts andin-turn pettitoned to get them back. They eventually got them back claiming "We're old enough to decide what we want to eat!" :lol:

Ok it was funnier when I heard it on the radio. I can just imagine a 78 yr. old grandpa. "Where the hell are my donuts....and my pants!!":lol:

[EIR Loe.307]

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have detained a 45-year-old municipal worker for stealing a bridge.
The 5-meter span metal bridge disappeared from a river crossing in the Ryazan region, east of Moscow. Police said they tracked it down to the man, who had used his work truck to remove it and then chopped it up and sold it for scrap.
In a statement, Ryazan region police called it "the bulkiest theft of the year."

[EIR Loe.307]

Aug. 31 - A case on behalf of Jesus Christ has reached Kenya's High Court after two millennia.
A group called Friends of Jesus is seeking to clear the name of Jesus Christ. They say his human rights were violated when he was convicted and crucified without a fair trial. They also want a ruling on whether Jesus' sentencing was legal, arguing that the correct penalty for blasphemy at the time was stoning, not crucifixion.

[EIR Loe.307]

ULYANOVSK, Russia (Reuters) - The governor of a central Russian province urged couples to skip work Wednesday and make love instead to help boost Russia's low birth-rate.
And if a woman gives birth in exactly nine months time -- on Russia's national day on June 12 -- she will qualify for a prize, perhaps even winning a new home.
"It's normally something for the home -- a fridge or a television set," Yelena Yakovleva at the Ulyanovsk regional administration press office, said.
"It doesn't matter if it's a girl or a boy."

:thumbsup:

[saltysurprise]

ULYANOVSK, Russia (Reuters) - The governor of a central Russian province urged couples to skip work Wednesday and make love instead to help boost Russia's low birth-rate.
And if a woman gives birth in exactly nine months time -- on Russia's national day on June 12 -- she will qualify for a prize, perhaps even winning a new home.
"It's normally something for the home -- a fridge or a television set," Yelena Yakovleva at the Ulyanovsk regional administration press office, said.
"It doesn't matter if it's a girl or a boy."

:thumbsup:

I saw that in the paper the other day... There's a well thought out plan:rolleyes:

Sometimes the people that run the world make me shake my head (here and everywhere else). I should really just stop paying attention to current events.

Oh dear, there goes my blood pressure... There is going to be a headline one of these days that gives ol' Salty a giant jammer of a coronary:eek:

[EIR Loe.307]

I saw that in the paper the other day... There's a well thought out plan:rolleyes:

Sometimes the people that run the world make me shake my head (here and everywhere else). I should really just stop paying attention to current events.

Boss: "Where do you think you're going Daniel?"
Me: "Didn't you hear? It's national Go Home and F**K day!!"
Boss: "OOooohhhh yeeaaaaa. I forgot. Well I was going to tell you you were going to get that raise, but I guess you'll get enough of that at home!":lol:
Me: "DOH!!"

Waaa waaa waaaaaa!

[EIR Loe.307]

LONDON (Reuters) -- An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?
Not surprisingly, the majority of Britons questioned in a survey -- 54 percent -- said they would like to spend it either with or on the phone to their loved ones.
But the survey revealed a strong hedonistic streak -- 13 percent would sit back, accept the inevitable and reach for a glass of champagne.
Sex appealed to only nine percent while just three percent would turn to prayer.


Two percent intriguingly said they would reach for some fatty food while another two percent decided, with just an hour's life to go, that it was time to start looting.

The survey was commissioned by Ziji Publishing to mark the release of "Cloud Cuckoo Land" by debut novelist Steven Sivell who "uses the classic premise of an impending meteorite collision as a metaphor for threats to the human race."
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I guess I fall in that 9% range.:thumbsup:

[Ryan]

Nevermind this!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[saltysurprise]

Nevermind this!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I didn't see anything:wonder:

But this news story I saw in the paper this morning kinda made me think of you:lol:

Courtesy of Reuters (Berlin)

A teenager speeding through a German town in a go-kart with seven squad cars in hot pursuit managed to give the frustrated officers the slip.
After leading the convoy on a five-kilometer chase through the winding streets of Moenchengladbach, the 18-year old driver spotted a garage with an open door, where he decided to lie low.
"The squad cars couldn't keep up because the go-kart was able to take the corners faster," police spokesman Willy Thevissen said.
Police later discovered his hiding place. He was questioned and charged with driving without a licence and driving a go-kart on a public street.

[EIR Loe.307]

Navy Mistakenly Drops Dummy Bomb In Virginia Beach

(AP) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. The Navy said a small, inert training bomb fell Tuesday from an fighter jet that was heading to Oceana Naval Air Station. No one was hurt.

The Navy said the bomb landed near a warehouse in the resort city of Virginia Beach. Minimal damage was reported.

The F/A-18C Hornet was returning to Oceana following a training mission at the Navy's bombing range in Dare County, N.C., when it dropped the bomb. The jet landed safely.

Naval authorities were investigating.

**Hell we're bombing ourselves now!!**

[Harakimi]

26th of October, Finland

A industry hall burned down on friday night and one worker who was arrested for being prosecuted as arsonist was released today by the Police. He told officers in the hearing that he was moving gasoline from one canister to another and was checking how much gas is in the canister with a lighter and ofcourse the gasoline lighted up then. After that he paniced and accidentaly knocked over both canisters and spilled about 5 gallons of burning gasoline all over the floor. He and 2 other workers couldn't kill the fire anymore and the hall burned down with 2 lorrys, several classic cars, over ten motorcycles and dozens of scooters in it....

oops! :lol:

[EIR Loe.307]

Forgotten WW2 plane found on the beach in Wales.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Sixty-five years after it ran out of gas and crash-landed on a beach in Wales, an American Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter plane has emerged from the surf and sand where it lay buried -- a World War II relic long forgotten by the U.S. government and unknown to the British public.
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During those decades, beach strollers, sunbathers and swimmers were often within a few yards of the aircraft, utterly unaware of its existence just under the sand.
Only this past summer did it suddenly reappear due to unusual conditions that caused the sands to shift and erode.

[Ryan]

What is there to wonder about that?:confused:

That sort of thing happens all the time. About 10 years ago a dozen almost perfectly preserved P-38's and a couple B-17's were found in a receding Greenland glacier after running out of fuel when storms prevented them from reaching Iceland in the early days of WWII.

[EIR Loe.307]

What is there to wonder about that?:confused:

That sort of thing happens all the time. About 10 years ago a dozen almost perfectly preserved P-38's and a couple B-17's were found in a receding Greenland glacier after running out of fuel when storms prevented them from reaching Iceland in the early days of WWII.

Receding glaciers are one thing, but just under your feet on the beach is another. Makes me wonder how they never saw it sooner, and how do you forget about a down plane??

[Ryan]

Receding glaciers are one thing, but just under your feet on the beach is another. Makes me wonder how they never saw it sooner, and how do you forget about a down plane??

Most beaches in the British Isles were closed during the war. It not have been difficult for downed plane to go unnoticed for months or years and become buried in the sand.

[saltysurprise]

Most beaches in the British Isles were closed during the war. It not have been difficult for downed plane to go unnoticed for months or years and become buried in the sand.

Months or years, fine. But 60!?!? That = strange story. It's not like they just opened the beach up last week for people to walk on.

Go back to reading about Ceasar salad, Capt. Negative:rolleyes:

[EIR Loe.307]

Most beaches in the British Isles were closed during the war. It not have been difficult for downed plane to go unnoticed for months or years and become buried in the sand.
Maybe by the public but 30 planes go out 29 come in and you're going to tell me that no one would notice. What about the crews buddies on base of the families?? All the planes has #'s as well. It's VERY hard to just FORGET a downed P38, especially when it was almost surly part of a flight group.

[Ryan]

Months or years, fine. But 60!?!? That = strange story. It's not like they just opened the beach up last week for people to walk on.

emerged from the surf and sand where it lay buried

How do you know it's there if it's buried under the sand?

Maybe by the public but 30 planes go out 29 come in and you're going to tell me that no one would notice. What about the crews buddies on base of the families?? All the planes has #'s as well. It's VERY hard to just FORGET a downed P38, especially when it was almost surly part of a flight group.

It was a war. Planes went missing over the Channel and Irish Sea all the time. If you search around that area you'll probably find more planes that no one knew were there. There were thousands of planes that went down over the Seas around Britain during WWII.

[EIR Loe.307]

How do you know it's there if it's buried under the sand?

It was a war. Planes went missing over the Channel and Irish Sea all the time. If you search around that area you'll probably find more planes that no one knew were there. There were thousands of planes that went down over the Seas around Britain during WWII.

You're missing what I'm saying. Losing a plane and forgetting a plane are two significantly different things. Like I said would seem very hard to FORGET a plane not so hard to lose a plane. They find debris in the Bermuda Triangle area all the time of lost planes but never forgotten ones.

[saltysurprise]

How do you know it's there if it's buried under the sand?

If you search around that area you'll probably find more planes that no one knew were there.

You're missing what I'm saying.

Let me sum this up..

THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT STRANGE!! Sheesh Ryan:rolleyes:

People have been searching for missing planes for YEARS now. It's like a friggin' hobby for some folks. Yes you are right. If you looked even harder you could find more! This one happened to be on a beach. Where people walked. All the time. For many years. Not 600 feet beneath the sea or on a remote damn glacier.

[Ryan]

Man sets his house on fire trying to kill bee's.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (AP) - A man who tried to keep bees off his property accidentally set fire to his house instead, causing at least $500 damage.

Franklyn Pigott Jr. set his home ablaze Wednesday while attempting to destroy a nest of bees that had formed outside the home, the Fort Myers News-Press reported Thursday.

When Pigott, 38, mixed a product called Real Kill Indoor Fogger with WD-40, it became a "flame-thrower" and melted the home's vinyl siding, according to a police incident report.

Batman siting puts schools into lockdown.

Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP) --
To an Arizona middle school, Batman! Three schools in the north Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek were on lockdown for about 45 minutes Wednesday morning after a student at Desert Arroyo Middle School reported seeing a person dressed as Batman run across campus, jump a fence and disappear into the desert, Scottsdale police Sgt. Mark Clark said.

The student described the person as 6 feet 3 inches tall and possibly male.
"We're assuming it was male, although they did have a mask on," Clark said.
Officers combed the desert around the middle school. A nearby elementary school and high school also were on lockdown as officers sought the caped crusader.

The result — no Batman.

"It's just one of those interesting little stories that we looked into but we couldn't find anyone," Clark said.

Nedda Shafir, a spokeswoman for the Cave Creek Unified School District, said putting all the schools on lockdown was a precautionary measure.
"We didn't want to take any chances," Shafir said. "We just don't want to put anyone at risk."

[saltysurprise]

Thank you Mr. Obvious:rolleyes:

Those ARE both strange stories. Happy now you got your point across?:lol:

[Ryan]

Thank you Mr. Obvious:rolleyes:

Those ARE both strange stories. Happy now you got your point across?:lol:

Well that wasn't my intention at all. I just some funny articles and posted them.:o

[JoStream]

Man sets his house on fire trying to kill bee's, causing at least $500 damage.

Are you sure that number is right? You make it sound like he burned his house down because of a bee :rolleyes:

[EIR Loe.307]

Hahahaha, the Batman thing is just funny. Made me think of fear and loathing in Las Vegas. "You can't stop here!! This is bat country!!"

[queen_dee]

A Moscow woman set fire to her ex-husband's ***** as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka. The couple divorced three years ago but continued to share a small flat.

"I was burning like a torch," the wounded ex-husband told Tvoi Den newspaper. "I don't know what I did to deserve this."

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In another unusual living arrangement, a German man left his dead mother seated in her favorite armchair at their shared home for two years after her death of natural causes at age 92.

Yet not everything that smelled like a corpse was really dead in 2007. In the German town of Kaiserslautern, police broke into a darkened flat expecting to find a corpse after neighbors complained of a nasty smell seeping out into the hallway.

But instead they found a tenant with very smelly feet asleep in bed next to a pile of extremely foul-smelling laundry.

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There were sadly many deaths in 2007 that were hardly noticed, such as in Zagreb, where a Croatian man who boarded a night tram and died in his seat rode through the city for more than six hours before the driver discovered he was dead.

[DanicaRules]

That first story....Ouch!:eek:

The second story, I think the guy watched the movie.."Psycho" one too many times.

[JoStream]

That first story....Ouch!:eek:

The second story, I think the guy watched the movie.."Psycho" one too many times.

LOL :lol:, a man can't have a shot in peace and quiet anymore :p

But that second story is messed up. Talk about not caring :eek:

[saltysurprise]

But that second story is messed up. Talk about not caring :eek:

Or not 'letting go'..

[DanicaRules]

Yeah, all the stories are quite disturbing..:(

[queen_dee]

Or not 'letting go'..

Ooooo....That got me :(

Ok I have another really weird one...

BREMERTON, Wash. - A 25-year-old woman was arrested for investigation of second-degree assault for getting into an argument with her boyfriend over whether his dog should be in the bathroom while the couple were taking a shower together.

A police report said the man, 26, wanted his dog to join them in the bathroom, but the woman objected on Thursday night.

The woman told her boyfriend that if the dog doesn't stay out, she didn't want to be his girlfriend anymore. He replied that maybe his next girlfriend would appreciate the dog more, and called her a name.

The police report said the woman punched him in the face several times and the man dislocated his shoulder after the naked couple grappled. He told police his girlfriend threw a picture frame, which broke and cut him.

The woman was taken to the Kitsap County Jail in Port Orchard. Bail has been set at $50,000.

Why $50,000??? Thats ALOT :sick:

[saltysurprise]

Why $50,000??? Thats ALOT :sick:

That's pretty much a standard bail for a domestic violence charge in the state of Washington..

These two people obviously shouldn't have been together in the first place:lol:.. Why on earth would someone want their DOG in the bathroom whilst showering with their partner anyway?:huh: Creeeepyyy. :rolleyes:

[EIR Loe.307]

WTF?? I love my dogs but not like that. :sick:

[EIR Loe.307]

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish state-owned firm has found a cheap, eco-friendly source of energy to warm one of its offices: body heat from a quarter million commuters steaming through Stockholm's central train station.

Body heat already warms the station itself but the surplus, currently let out in thin air, will be redirected to provide as much as 15 percent of the heating in a planned 4,000 square meter office building, real estate firm Jernhusen said.

"We had a look at it and thought 'We might actually be able to use this'," said Karl Sundholm, project leader at Jernhusen, which also owns the station. "This feels good. Instead of just airing the leftover heat out we try to make use of it."

Jernhusen markets the building as "environment smart" and aims for its energy consumption to be half of what a corresponding building usually is.

The bodily warmth from the central station will be redirected to heat up water. The investment will be around 200,000 Swedish crowns ($31,200), Sundholm said.

"The ventilator aggregates are already there, and even some of the pipes. All we need to do is complement with a few pumps and pipes."

[saltysurprise]

I was going to say, 'Ugh! I wonder what that room smells like'. Until I read that it will heat water..:rolleyes:

Those crafty Swedes! First it's 'Some assembly required' furniture straight out of a Buck Rogers movie, now this! I tell's ya, they're planning world domination:eek: Run for your lives!!

[Ryan]

I was going to say, 'Ugh! I wonder what that room smells like'. Until I read that it will heat water..:rolleyes:

Those crafty Swedes! First it's 'Some assembly required' furniture straight out of a Buck Rogers movie, now this! I tell's ya, they're planning world domination:eek: Run for your lives!!

The Swedes are coming! The Swedes are coming!:eek::eek:

[EIR Loe.307]

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas man is facing charges for selling liquor without a license after he was found peddling bottles of vodka containing dead baby rattlesnakes.

Bob Popplewell, who runs "Bayou Bob's Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch" tourist attraction west of Fort Worth, was believed to be selling the vodka in the Asian community, where snakes are seen having aphrodisiac properties, state authorities said.

[EIR Loe.307]

HOUSTON (AP) — Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a marijuana bong.
Police found a grave in the city of Humble that had been disturbed, but were still investigating the rest of the teens' story, Houston police Sgt. John Chomiak said.

Kevin Wade Jones, 17, and Matthew Richard Gonzalez, 17, both of Kingwood, were arrested Wednesday night and were being held on misdemeanor charges of abuse of a corpse, Chomiak said. The juvenile was referred to the Harris County juvenile justice system.

Police believe the grave is that of an 11-year-old boy who died in 1921. Preliminary reports indicate it was part of a 19th-century veterans cemetery, Chomiak said.

and my favorite quote: Asked why Jones would volunteer such a story, Chomiak said, "We can only speculate and guess to what goes on in the criminal mind."

[Harakimi]

Villagers were shocked after a monkey-like piglet was born in China.

Curious locals flocked to the home of owner Feng Changlin after news of the piglet spread in Fengzhang village, Xiping township.

"It's hideous. No one will be willing to buy it, and it scares the family to even look at it!" Feng told Oriental Today. He says the piglet looks just like a monkey, with two thin lips, a small nose and two big eyes. Its rear legs are also much longer than its forelegs, causing it to jump instead of walk.

Feng's wife said the monkey-faced piglet was one of five newborns of a sow which the family had raised for nine years.

"My God, it was so scary. I didn't known what it was. I was really frightened," she said. "But our son likes to play with it, and he stopped us from getting rid of it. He even feeds it milk."

Neighbours have suggested the couple keep the piglet to see how it looks as it matures.

(Ananova)

[saltysurprise]

Good LAWD! That's one messed up looking unit!:huh::eek:

What's with those eyes??:confused: Yeeeach!

[FAlonso]

Damn that looks scary. You're better not on LSD when seeing this at first. :eek::eek:

[Ryan]

Freaky!:eek::eek: