Weird News III - Beyond the Bizarre

Status
Not open for further replies.
Soon, your living space can smell like McDonald's 24 hours a day! :love:
https://people.com/food/mcdonalds-is-selling-a-quarter-pounder-candle-pack/

McDonald’s announced a collection of new Quarter Pounder scented candles being released this week — because who wouldn’t want their home to smell like beef?

Each of the six votives in the set are inspired by one aspect of the sandwich: bun, ketchup, pickle, cheese, onion, and beef. They recommend burning them all at the same time for “maximum deliciousness.”
Click to expand...
 
BBC said:
Ilkeston NatWest hole in wall rises up TripAdvisor rankings
Internet jokers have turned a circular hole in a wall outside a bank into a tourist attraction.

Since December 2018, wags have been posting glowing reviews on TripAdvisor for the hole at NatWest in Ilkeston.

"NatWest hole" is now ranked fourth out of 16 attractions in the Derbyshire town based on user reviews.

One reviewer on TripAdvisor offered the spoof advice: "Can get very busy and you can queue for hours, but it's worth the wait."

Another wag wrote: "The city of Agra has the Taj Mahal, Paris has the Eiffel Tower and Sydney has its Opera House.

"But they all pale in comparison to the impact on the soul of first laying eyes on Ilkeston's Hole in the Wall."

Paul Miller, chairman of the Ilkeston and District History Society, said he was "gobsmacked" at the hole's high ranking.

"It doesn't really say a lot about the area if it's number four," he said.

"It's beat Bennerley Viaduct.

"I think it looks like a 1970s idea of something to look different. It doesn't really beat the pyramids though does it?"

A NatWest spokeswoman clarified the hole was introduced during a mid-1990s refurbishment as a safety feature so people using the cash machine could see if anyone was lurking behind the wall.

It is not the first time tongue-in-cheek reviews have propelled an unlikely attraction up the TripAdvisor rankings. In 2018, a plastic tunnel outside a Bude supermarket became the highest ranked place to visit in the Cornish resort - although TripAdvisor bosses later suspended reviews for the see-through walkway.
Click to expand...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-51576375
 
https://www.galwaydaily.com/news/dr...r-over-e53-million-in-bitcoin-in-galway-dump/
Clifton Collins (49) had 6,000 Bitcoin seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau, but the Irish Times reports that they cannot be accessed since the account codes are missing.

Collins, originally from Crumlin bought his Bitcoin in 2011, only to watch their value skyrocket into the tens of millions in recent years.

He printed off the codes, hid them in some fishing equipment in a house he had rented to grow cannabis, he was caught by police and went to jail. The landlord of the property dumped the codes.
 
China prepares 100,000 ducks to battle Pakistan's locust swarms
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51658145
China is preparing to deploy 100,000 ducks to neighbouring Pakistan to help tackle swarms of crop-eating locusts.
Chinese agricultural experts say a single duck can eat more than 200 locusts a day and be more effective than pesticides.
Pakistan declared an emergency earlier this month saying locust numbers were the worst in more than two decades.
Millions of the insects have also been devastating crops in parts of East Africa.
The Chinese government announced this week it was sending a team of experts to Pakistan to develop "targeted programmes" against the locusts.
Click to expand...
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51762753

A man in Texas who filmed himself licking ice cream and putting it back in the freezer of a Walmart supermarket has been jailed for 30 days.
Surveillance cameras in the shop showed he later took the ice cream back out of the freezer and bought it.
He was also given a six-month suspended sentence, 100 hours of unpaid work, a $1,000 (£770) fine, and was ordered to pay $1,565 to the ice cream company.
Click to expand...
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...woman-cared-perfect-plant-2-years/4968937002/
A California woman cared for her 'perfect' succulent plant for two years. Then she found out it was fake.
Click to expand...
Hah!
"I put so much love into this plant! I washed it’s leaves. Tried my hardest to keep it looking it’s best, and it’s completely plastic! How did I not know this."

That story resonated with thousands of people, and soon she began getting requests for interviews from around the world. Her plastic plant was featured on national TV multiple times, she said.
Click to expand...
:dubious:
 
‘Is that Tina Fey?’

:lmao:

The tweet is worth reporting:

In the course of about 10 minutes, Sarah Palin sang Baby Got Back on national TV, Trump banned travel from Europe, Tom Hanks revealed he had the virus and the NBA season got postponed.

— David Dennis Jr. (@DavidDTSS)
March 12, 2020​
 
BBC said:
New Zealand comic 'deeply sorry' for botched Jacinda Ardern cake
A comedian has apologised to New Zealand’s prime minister after she tried to bake a cake in her likeness and produced a calamitous result.

Laura Daniel baked the cake, meant to resemble Jacinda Ardern's face, during an episode of the TV programme Seven Sharp, which aired earlier this week.

Daniel challenged host Hilary Barry to a bake-off competition.

Both were tasked with baking an iconic Kiwi cake in 120 minutes without using flour.

Barry, an experienced baker, made pavlova in the shape of Mount Cook, the highest mountain in New Zealand, which she appeared pleased with.

Daniel, on the other hand, baked a lolly cake supposed to look like Ms Ardern, using a picture on the front of her autobiography for inspiration.

As images of the finished article show, the cake was hardly a dead ringer for Ms Ardern.

Reflecting on her cake catastrophe in an Instagram post, Daniel said she realised the wisdom of the phrase "don’t bake your heroes", but "wanted to try anyway".

"I’m deeply sorry Jacinda Ardern," Daniel wrote. "I truly tried my best with what I had available… it’s made from another NZ icon lolly cake."

The prime minister later commented in the post: "".

The cake promoted amusement and ridicule on social media, where people poked fun at Daniel’s crude creation.

One person described the cake as "truly haunting", while another wrote, apparently sarcastically, "spitting image" alongside a thumbs-up emoji.

Baking at home has increased in popularity during New Zealand’s lockdown, imposed by Ms Ardern to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Ms Ardern’s handling of New Zealand’s coronavirus outbreak has received widespread praise in the media.
Click to expand...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52309848
 
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/alligato...-turned-out-to-be-beaver-police-say-1.4922084

TORONTO -- A case of mistaken identity had police in Brampton, Ont., looking for an alligator in a storm drainage pond.

Peel Regional Police were called to the Brampton pond Friday night after some reported seeing the reptile -- said to be almost two-metres long.

Police tweeted they were "ready to provide Gator-aid" to animal control officers.

But after a few hours, police tweeted that Brampton Animal Control had reviewed video on social media and determined the gator was actually a beaver.
Click to expand...
 
Not to be outdone by Canada in the stupid stakes, police in Kent turn out the assault rifles and chopper to hunt a tiger that turns out to be a 20 year old sculpture.
 
Tyger, tyger, sitting tight, in the bushes of the night...
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Birdjaguar
[RD] War in Gaza: News Thread
24 25 26
Replies
510
Views
18K
Moriarte
Moriarte
Birdjaguar
  • Locked
[RD] Hamas/Israeli War News One: Hostages and Invasion
133 134 135
Replies
3K
Views
96K
Birdjaguar
Birdjaguar
Aiken_Drumn
  • Locked
Aiken's Weird News of the World
Replies
1
Views
540
Arakhor
Arakhor
Kyriakos
Weird News ε' - The fifth column
25 26 27
Replies
521
Views
23K
thetrooper
thetrooper
Kaitzilla
The Boeing Thread
3 4 5
Replies
88
Views
3K
innonimatu
innonimatu
Top Bottom