The thread for Strange News Stories

[QuikSand]

World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drugs test | Sport | The Guardian

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

Port Richey mayor 'lucky he's not dead' after shots fired during FDLE arrest

Arrested again: Ousted Port Richey mayor, with acting mayor, accused of intimidating police officer

This is tremendous!

[AlexB]

A comedian literally died on stage, and the audience spent five minutes laughing, thinking it was part of the act.

Ian Cognito: Comedian dies on-stage in Bicester - BBC News

[Warhammer]

Originally Posted by AlexB

A comedian literally died on stage, and the audience spent five minutes laughing, thinking it was part of the act.

Ian Cognito: Comedian dies on-stage in Bicester - BBC News

Echoes of Dick Shawn there...

[miami_fan]

Deputies: Publix shopper accidentally shoots himself while inside Land O’ Lakes store

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

Deputies: Publix shopper accidentally shoots himself while inside Land O’ Lakes store

Some member of my family visits this store at least once a week.

[Lathum]

An Interview With A Man Who Eats Leftover Food From Strangers' Plates In Restaurants

[miami_fan]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...olice-n1017256

[JPhillips]

iowa-official-resign-tupac-obsession

The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that 66-year-old Jerry Foxhoven was asked to resign after repeatedly declaring his unwavering dedication to ’90s rapper Tupac and his music during work hours.

[albionmoonlight]

"I am sure you are already aware that this Sunday is also 2Pac's birthday" is a sentence I am pretty sure I will never receive in an email from my boss.

[Critch]

Bishop defends saying gays exist because pregnant women enjoy anal sex

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Critch

Bishop defends saying gays exist because pregnant women enjoy anal sex

Whew.

I was worried my son may be gay, no chance of that now.

[panerd]

'I want more answers' | Man finds frozen baby in mom's freezer in south St. Louis | ksdk.com

[molson]

Man With 'Long, Long, History' Of Masturbating In Fields With Horses Jailed Again

[QuikSand]

FOX 5 Atlanta on Twitter: "U.S. & WORLD NEWS: Woman says meth found hidden inside vagina is not hers https://t.co/XaKOO8rwNj… "

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

FOX 5 Atlanta on Twitter: "U.S. & WORLD NEWS: Woman says meth found hidden inside vagina is not hers https://t.co/XaKOO8rwNj… "

At least there's no indication she claimed "I don't know how it got there".

That'd make this next level disturbing.

[PilotMan]

This one def qualifies:


Mom claims Ukrainian daughter, 9, she adopted was really a 22-year-old with dwarfism | Daily Mail Online

[QuikSand]

Texas woman says potential employer publicly shared her bikini photo to shame her about 'unprofessionalism' | TheHill

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

Texas woman says potential employer publicly shared her bikini photo to shame her about 'unprofessionalism' | TheHill

I'd buy it.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

Texas woman says potential employer publicly shared her bikini photo to shame her about 'unprofessionalism' | TheHill

Huh. Interesting one. Because of my years in close proximity to some high school football programs, my social media friend universe contains maybe a couple dozen high school and college coaches. At some point, just about every one of them has posted generic advice to young athletes about how their social media feed could cost them a scholarship and/or a job offer, and sometimes they use screen shots as example. I'm guessing that I see these sorts of "PSAs" once or twice a month. As a result, I probably have a bit of an inherent "she should have known better" bias that may not be fair in all cases. That said, if the potential employer asks you to follow their IG feed, shouldn't that be a least a yellow flag that they want you to make it easy for them to check out your online presence?

FWIW, a high enough percentage of my former YL kids use "altered" versions of their names on both FB and IG that I can only assume that it's a fairly well-known best practice to do so. This is the group that was in high school or college when FB first came out, and only high school kids, college kids, and people they invited had access to it. As a result, many of their feeds from back then are rampant with pics of drinking and/or weed smoking, profane rants, etc. I'm sure that if they don't want to delete their accounts, rather than trying to scrub stuff from 2005, it's just easier to change their names so that no potential employer can see that stuff. Examples: 31-year-old with initials of "T.M." now goes by "Taylor Made" on both FB and IG. Late-20s lawyer now goes by his first and middle names, last name nowhere to be found on social media. Even a certain former UT and Tucker High tailback who infamously shunned UGA because "UT plays for National Championships and Georgia goes to the Peach Bowl"--and then proceeded to play in and *lose* two Peach Bowls at UT--now uses a fake name despite his mug being easily recognizable to any serious SEC fan. In every single one of these cases I've seen, the person used to use their first and last name, but changed it, so it seems fairly clear that it's to avoid this sort of thing.

[JPhillips]

I have a lot of students and former students that use first/middle as a way to hide from any unwanted attention.

[Edward64]

WTF ??

Mother of man, 28, who died after injecting his scrotum with silicone sues his five boyfriends | Daily Mail Online

Mother of man, 28, who died after injecting his scrotum with silicone sues his five boyfriends after they 'forced her son to inflate his testicles to the size of a basketball'

[QuikSand]

"forced"

[NobodyHere]

I must have a really boring life.

[tyketime]

Maybe he should have quit streaming after 2 hours?


No, you can’t watch porn in your car while parked in public, N.J. appeals court rules - nj.com

[NobodyHere]

Sweet Jesus

A Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Using Alcohol. It Turns Out, His Gut Brews Its Own Booze. | Live Science

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Sweet Jesus

A Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Using Alcohol. It Turns Out, His Gut Brews Its Own Booze. | Live Science

That's one way to save money.

[cuervo72]

Russia's greatest Napoleonic re-enactor found drunk in a river with the severed arms of his lover in his backpack - SFGate

[JPhillips]

Three judges suspended for drunken 3 AM fight at White Castle — that ended with two shot

“The judges traveled to Indianapolis April 30 to attend a judicial conference the next day. Around 3 a.m. May 1, the judges, along with another magistrate who was not involved in the fight, tried to enter the Red Garter Gentleman’s Club in Downtown, but it was closed,” The Star noted. “They went to the nearby White Castle at 55 W. South St. instead.”

Things then escalated rapidly.

“Adams, Jacobs and Bell were standing outside the restaurant when Alfredo Vazquez and Brandon Kaiser drove past the trio in a blue SUV. According to charging documents from the Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications, either Kaiser or Vazquez yelled something out the window that prompted Bell to give the middle finger to the men,” the newspaper reported.

According to the opinion, the three judges then, “joined in a profane verbal altercation that quickly turned into physical violence and ended in gunfire, and in doing so, gravely undermined public trust in the dignity and decency of Indiana’s judiciary.”

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Three judges suspended for drunken 3 AM fight at White Castle — that ended with two shot

Sounds like they used...poor judgement.

[molson]

Originally Posted by Warhammer

Echoes of Dick Shawn there...

And Tommy Cooper. The video of whose death randomly surfaced after decades.

I know you never expect the comedian you're watching to die on stage, but, I'm not sure I'd think that falling over unconscious was "part of the show", as the audience did in all three cases.

[JPhillips]

Just watch ...

oh my god pic.twitter.com/vAXFAY81NG

— Backwoods Barbie ��️‍��⃠ (@AltMayo) November 13, 2019

[JPhillips]

dola

South Dakota taxpayers paid $450k for a new anti-meth PSA campaign. And here's what the state came up with https://t.co/1MATJPBULv pic.twitter.com/bsZKkXCPNL

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) November 18, 2019

[miami_fan]

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

A Miami professor who’s an expert on drug trafficking and organized crime was charged by the U.S. with laundering money from Venezuela, skimming more than $250,000 for himself.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

The title of the link makes me think that you're linking to a totally different (and more interesting) story.

[Edward64]

Not that strange but kind of funny. Good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes so far but not one I would watch.

Tom Hanks Learns He's a Distant Relative of Fred Rogers | PEOPLE.com

Won’t you be my relative?

Through research conducted by Ancestry, a genealogy service that charts users’ lineage via its database of more than 20 billion public records, Tom Hanks was shocked to learn that he is, in fact, sixth cousins with the late Fred Rogers.

Access Hollywood surprised Hanks, 63, with the results at a New York City screening of the star’s upcoming film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a drama in which Hanks steps into Rogers’ iconic sweater to embody the gentle children’s TV host.

“No, impossible … you’re pulling our leg,” the actor’s wife, Rita Wilson, said upon hearing the news, scanning a family tree diagram.

“Listen,” said Hanks, harping on the significance of the revelation, “it all just comes together, you see.”

[NobodyHere]

Eighty-two-year-old woman beats up burglar who broke into her home | US news | The Guardian

Imagine being the inmate in prison who will be asked how he got caught.

[Critch]

Apostrophe society shuts down because 'ignorance and laziness have won'

[Edward64]

Hmmmm. Unfortunately, can't un-see it.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/14/us/fa...rnd/index.html

Thousands of 'penis fish' washed up on a California beach

A horde of large, fat worms descended upon a central California beach, spooked out of their burrows by a bomb cyclone.

Wildlife enthusiast David Ford captured the foreboding scene, which looks as though a plane full of frankfurters flung open the hatch and let the dogs rain down upon the unassuming shore.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Edward64

Hmmmm. Unfortunately, can't un-see it.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/14/us/fa...rnd/index.html

Well that sucks and is definitely a prickly situation that is probably hard to solve and hopefully none of those birds will choke when trying to swallow them.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Well that sucks and is definitely a prickly situation that is probably hard to solve and hopefully none of those birds will choke when trying to swallow them.

You thought long and hard about this post didn't you. I'd hate to see the uncut version.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

You thought long and hard about this post didn't you. I'd hate to see the uncut version.

Not too long thankfully.

[Critch]

That's cute, they're like tiny little dicks.

[JPhillips]

Missouri church leader tried to pay for sex on Grindr with Arby’s card

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Missouri church leader tried to pay for sex on Grindr with Arby’s card

Wait...you can pay for sex with an Arby's card?

[JPhillips]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Wait...you can pay for sex with an Arby's card?

They have the meat.

[Kodos]

Well played.

[NobodyHere]

This isn't something you see every day.

[Critch]

Suffolk man ‘had sex with 450 tractors’

[Izulde]

Originally Posted by Critch

Suffolk man ‘had sex with 450 tractors’

That's a satire website, Jim.