Weird News III - Beyond the Bizarre

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappen...or-life-from-australian-outback-pub-1.5670880

Carol and Kevin are no longer welcome in Chris Gimblett's pub.

That's because the large, rowdy siblings keep stealing food off customers' plates and going to the bathroom all over the place.

"They have been banned for life, I'm afraid," Gimblett, who runs the Yaraka Hotel and Pub in Yaraka, Australia, told As It Happens guest host Susan Bonner.

"They've taken it pretty well, actually. They do hang around at the bottom of the steps, peering up into dining room."

Carol and Kevin are, of course, a pair of emus who have taken up residency in the tiny Queensland town of about 18, much to the delight of locals and tourists alike.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Someone is putting bumper stickers on bears.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/03/us/trump-bear-collar-trnd/index.html

 

[amadeus]

"Whoever put these political stickers on these bears is cruel and heartless,"

It's a sticker on a plastic tag that was already on the bear. Scrape it off and move on with your life.

Himmler was cruel and heartless. This is a sticker.

 

[Samson]

"Whoever put these political stickers on these bears is cruel and heartless,"

It's a sticker on a plastic tag that was already on the bear. Scrape it off and move on with your life.

Himmler was cruel and heartless. This is a sticker.

How did they get that close? It does sound like the bears are habituated to humans, so perhaps they did not trap the bear, but they must have constrained it somehow, and if they are responsible for habituating the bears to humans that is very dangerous to the bears.

 

[amadeus]

American black bears aren't that dangerous. I mean, I still wouldn't go poking one for the fun of it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...wild-boar-that-stole-laptop-berlin-teufelssee

A nudist bather who chased a wild boar near a Berlin lake after it stole his laptop was applauded by onlookers after a successful pursuit.

The photographer who captured the drama said the unidentified nudist was happy for her to share the images, which show him in bare-bottomed pursuit of the boar and her two piglets while fellow bathers look on in amusement.

“Nature strikes back,” wrote Adele Landauer, a personal coach, on Facebook. “I showed the man the photos, he laughed heartily and gave me permission to make them public.”

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/can...using-the-maori-word-for-pubic-hair-1.5055435

A beer brand in Canada and a leather shop in New Zealand have apologized after they came under fire for unwittingly taking their name from the Maori word for pubic hair.

The companies had understood the word "huruhuru" to mean "feather" or "fur," said Te Hamua Nikora, a Maori from Wellington in New Zealand, who pointed out the dual meaning of the word in a series of social media posts.

On August 1, he posted on Facebook to say there was a leather shop called "Huruhuru" in Wellington and shared screenshots of messages he shared with the store challenging whether the owners understood its meaning, informing them it was a term commonly used for pubic hair.

"Yes I know huruhuru means feather, fur and even hair of the head," he wrote. "I know this. But it is most commonly used as hair from a person's privates."

 

[Samson]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/can...using-the-maori-word-for-pubic-hair-1.5055435

There is a chain of apple stores in the UK called "Stormfront". I think this is even more weird than getting a Maori word wrong.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/beavers-with-satellite-1.5680189

Brian Edwards was driving to work along Onion Lake Road in Thunder Bay, Ont., one morning in May when he saw something that made him question if he'd had enough coffee before leaving the house.

"It's a beaver pond," he explained, "so kind of a swampy area, [a] beaver house, so mud, sticks — and a grey satellite dish sitting on top."

After a moment's thought, Edwards decided it made perfect sense: The NHL was planning its comeback after a lengthy pause brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clearly this beaver was a hockey fan. It needed a solid sports TV package to see all the games, Edwards said.

 

[Kyriakos]

Crocodile Dundee.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...atlantic-lottery-17-million-dollars-1.5691762

The Cape Breton man who won $17.4 million in this weekend's Lotto 6/49 jackpot is no stranger to a multi-million dollar prize.

Raymond Lillington of Dingwall, N.S. won a $3.2 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot in 2013.

On Wednesday, The Atlantic Lottery Corp. announced Lillington and his wife Gaye held the ticket sold in Victoria County that was Saturday's jackpot winner worth $17,405,149.

"This can't be real. This is impossible, this doesn't happen," Lillington said at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.

what in the hell

 

[Samson]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...atlantic-lottery-17-million-dollars-1.5691762



what in the hell

I wonder how much of the 1st 3.2 million he spent on lottery tickets?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://globalnews.ca/news/7285795/chocolate-rain-snow-switzerland-cocoa/

Dreams do come true — or at least they do in Switzerland, where chocolate fell from the sky due to a malfunction at the Lindt & Sprüngli factory in the town of Olten.

The chocolate maker says a ventilation problem launched cocoa powder into the open air outside its facility last Friday morning. The wind caught the powder and spread it across the neighbourhood, leaving a fine dusting of sweet, sweet chocolate.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/vent-police-chase-1.5696743

A police chase that began when officers in Red Deer, Alta., noticed a stolen licence plate, ended with a man getting stuck in the vent of an elementary school.

@Valka D'Ur

 

[amadeus]

Incident dramatization

 

[Valka D'Ur]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/vent-police-chase-1.5696743



@Valka D'Ur

Mountview School; according to Google, it's one of the elementary schools that shifted to French immersion. It's on the East Hill, not far from a few places I've been, albeit many years ago.

 

[Kyriakos]

"Invade BLM now, for the Italy!"

(it's a meme, for those who don't know)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/...e-obelish-openstreetmap-bing-maps-data-glitch

Microsoft Flight Simulator players spotted a giant mountain-high obelisk in Australia this week. While Flight Simulator has done a great job at recreating the real world, this unusually huge structure doesn’t exist in real life. Players have now discovered that its existence stems from a simple typo.

University student Nathan Wright made an edit to OpenStreetMap data for part of his degree work last year, adding more than two hundred stories to a building that’s actually just two stories. Wright meant to type 2, but instead he typed 212 in the data section for floors. “I think it’s so funny as it was the first time I was using OpenStreetMap,” says Wright in an email to The Verge. “I was using it for a university task and had to add data for class. I didn’t think I would have to see it again.”

Welcome to City 17...?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cattle-mow-grass-wildfire-south-cranbrook-1.5699985

A wildfire prevention project in southeastern B.C. has enlisted an army of unusual soldiers to help keep dry grasses and other tinder in check.

Two-hundred cattle spent June grazing on a 52 sq. km area of Crown land south of Cranbrook, B.C., as part of the pilot project. Targeted grazing is a fire risk mitigation method already being used in southern Europe and some parts of the U.S.

The grazing is "targeted" in terms of when and where the natural biofuels are being consumed. It often has to be combined with other methods, such as prescribed burning.

Removing conifers — a major source of forest fires — is part of the Cranbrook project managed by Mike Pritchard, wildfire prevention coordinator with the B.C. Cattlemen's Association. This practice may boost the growth of grasses and increase fire risk, but those grasses are more likely to be eaten by cattle.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-sex-idUSKBN25T2Y9

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Skip kissing and consider wearing a mask when having sex to protect yourself from catching the coronavirus, Canada’s chief medical officer said on Wednesday, adding that going solo remains the lowest risk sexual option in a pandemic.