Weird News III - Beyond the Bizarre

[Narz]

Kissing is kinda overrated anyway

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The government of British Columbia suggested using non-standard sexual positions....

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://globalnews.ca/news/7320113/gender-reveal-party-wildfire-california/

A firework at a gender-reveal party triggered a wildfire in southern California that’s scorched more than 7,000 acres and forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes, local fire officials said.

The fire was caused by a “smoke-generating pyrotechnic device” used at a party Saturday morning in El Dorado Ranch Park in Yucaipa, about 140 kilometres east of Los Angeles, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said on Sunday.

Of course, the Beaverton has its own take on this:

STANFORD – The physics world has been turned on its head today by incontrovertible proof that our material universe began when a gender reveal party 15 billion years ago resulted in an explosion so huge it created reality as we know it.

“We’ve been studying the clues left over by the Big Bang for decades, but it wasn’t until one of our physicists lost their own home in a devastating forest fire caused by a recent gender reveal party that they were able to put two and two together,” said Dr. Laura Fredericks, the head of the University of Stanford’s Department of Theoretical Astrophysics.

“What we’d always seen as puzzling and even contradictory aspects of the background radiation from the Big Bang turns out to be the galactic equivalent of coloured glitter pushed out of a cannon at speeds high enough to destroy the dimension it was a part of and birth our own.”

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/banff-lake-louise-slingshot-cougar-disturb-wildlife-1.5712486

A Saskatchewan man faces rare charges under National Parks Wildlife regulations and potential fines of up to $125,000 after allegedly using a slingshot to hurl projectiles at a cougar in Banff National Park.

According to Parks Canada, an eyewitness provided key evidence — a number of photos that wardens used to build the case.

"Using a vehicle description and photos provided by the public, park wardens located the vehicle and arrested the individuals within," said Parks Canada in a statement to CBC News.

A 40-year-old man from Prince Albert, Sask., has been charged with two offences under National Parks Wildlife Regulations — disturbing an animal in a national park and possession of a loaded firearm outside of a vehicle in a national park, charges that are rarely laid.

Parks Canada said that, under the regulations, a slingshot is considered a firearm.

 

[Zardnaar]

NZ Police on the case. Mr Rabbits gone missing.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12363897

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...ad-trip-camping-gone-wrong-cobequid-1.5718982

How a Nova Scotia man ended up accidentally camping in the Atlantic Ocean
Grant Hatcher pitched a tent on land and woke up floating — naked — in Cobequid Bay

What began as a road trip to Cape Breton turned into an ocean adventure for a Nova Scotia man after he woke up floating in the Atlantic Ocean.

A few weeks ago, Grant Hatcher took off from Halifax on his motorcycle to visit family in the small fishing village of Neils Harbour, a five-hour drive. He had some errands to run that day and left a bit later than expected — around 7 p.m. He didn't want to be riding into the night, so he pulled off in Noel Shore, about 90 minutes into his journey, to find a place to camp.

"I was like, 'Oh, perfect, it's right by the ocean there, should be a great place to set up a tent,'" Hatcher told CBC's Maritime Noon. "And boy, was I wrong."

There were some red flags, Hatcher acknowledged. While the area was covered in tall grass, it was lying flat on the ground. Red flag No. 2 was the ground felt damp, but Hatcher believed at the time that it was because of the rain — "even though a part of me knew that it was a little too squishy."

And red flag No. 3 was he touched the grass and licked his finger, and found it tasted salty. But he thought it was due to the ocean spray.

With the night growing darker and rain starting to come down, Hatcher was desperate to find a place to sleep. So against his better judgment, he pitched his waterproof tent and fell asleep.

'I was clearly floating on water'
He was woken up a few hours later from a dew drop falling on his face. That was normal, he said, as tents tend to collect condensation from people breathing.

But when he turned over on his side, "that was the exact moment I realized something was really, really, really off."

"The only way I can explain the sensation, is my aunt had a water bed in the 90s or something like that, and that's literally what it felt like," Hatcher said. "I was in this tent, but I was clearly floating on water."

He had pitched his tent next to the Cobequid Bay, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy — which is known worldwide for its extremely high tidal range.

It appeared the tide had come in as Hatcher slept.

"It was kind of pure panic there for a second, because I didn't peg the tent down, so I was thinking, 'Am I halfway to P.E.I. right now? Where am I?'" said Hatcher.

As he moved around, he could feel himself bouncing on the ocean floor, which indicated he was only in about two feet of water. He could also hear crickets chirping. His panic began to subside.

"I knew I was going to live, but I was still in a predicament here," he said.

'It was just a complete mess'
Complicating matters was the fact Hatcher sleeps in the nude and all of his clothes were in his backpack.

But where it was pitch black and there was nobody else around, he decided to exit the tent.

"The moment I move to go close to the entrance of the door, the door dips below the level of the sea and instantly, the Cobequid Bay fills my entire tent with ocean water," he said.

"My sleeping bag was floating, my pillow was floating, my backpack was floating. I tripped over my backpack, dropped my boots into the water — it was just a complete mess."

Naked, Hatcher waded back to land, dragging his tent behind him. Once he was on relatively dry ground, he put his damp clothes back on. With still a few hours left in the night, he decided to head to Truro to try to find a warm place to rest.

The 45-minute trip "was probably the longest drive of my entire life," he said.

Hatcher got to a hotel at around 5:30 a.m., and got a hot shower and a couple hours of sleep before he left for Cape Breton later in the morning.

Initially, he was embarrassed about what happened and only told a couple of people. But he recently decided to share his story on Facebook, in a post that's since received more than 3,000 likes and 6,000 shares.

"If at least one person gets a smile out of this, then it'll be worth it," said Hatcher.

He said the experience taught him to "respect the tides" and be careful when choosing a place to pitch a tent.

Some of his belongings, including his leather jacket and comforter, did not survive the ordeal, but Hatcher said he still has the tent.

"Helluva tent," he said in the Facebook post.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://globalnews.ca/news/7328025/canada-post-john-a-macdonald-head/

Canada Post is apologizing after a sheet of stamps was printed showing the severed head of a John A. Macdonald statue that was recently toppled in Montreal.

The sheet of stamps was printed through the postal service’s Picture Postage program, which allows people to order stamps with personalized photos for a fee.

The man who ordered the stamps, a federal employee, said he made the order as a protest against colonialism.

 

[Zardnaar]

https://globalnews.ca/news/7328025/canada-post-john-a-macdonald-head/

Lol. Fair enough I assume you can't get obscenity done but don't complain if you offer this service and you get stuff like this.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Posting this one mainly for the headline:

Shortage of mason jars on P.E.I. leaving picklers in a jam

Are jammers also in a pickle?

 

[AmazonQueen]

Posting this one mainly for the headline:

Shortage of mason jars on P.E.I. leaving picklers in a jam

Are jammers also in a pickle?

Seems the ancient art of saving old jars and reusing them has been lost.

 

[Takhisis]

Actual ninja turtle detected! Climbs walls like Jackie Chan and/or the ninja from the game N!

Link to pic, because stupid imgur doesn't let me paste the animated image - hjälp?

From Geekologie.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Halifax gas station cashier thwarts robber armed with pointy stick

As robbery schemes go, this was not one of the great ones.

Not long after midnight, a man walked into the Irving gas station at 5450 Inglis St. in Halifax's south end, pulled out a pointy stick and demanded money from the cashier.

The cashier disarmed the wannabe robber, who then fled on foot with no weapon, cash or merchandise. No one was hurt.

At 1:28 a.m., Halifax Regional Police responded to a disturbance between two men near Inglis and Queen streets, a short distance from where the robbery occurred. When they got there, officers recognized one of the men as the robbery suspect and arrested him without incident.

The 49-year-old Halifax man is facing charges of robbery, breaching a probation order and failing to comply with release orders.

Not a pointed stick. A pointy one.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Link to pic, because stupid imgur doesn't let me paste the animated image - hjälp?

It's an MP4 unfortunately not a GIF. I don't think you can really embed those.

 

[Takhisis]

It's listed as a .gifv file

Halifax gas station cashier thwarts robber armed with pointy stick

I guess it's a too-specific type of anti-tank weaponry: it will only work against tanks.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/tesla-driver-napping-alberta-speeding-1.5727828

The RCMP in Alberta have charged a 20-year-old British Columbia man with speeding while he was asleep at the wheel of a Tesla electric car.

The RCMP received a call at about 4 p.m. on July 9 concerning a 2019 Tesla Model S speeding south on Highway 2 near Ponoka, about 100 kilometres south of Edmonton.

Both front seats were fully reclined, and both the driver and passenger appeared to be sound asleep, police say.

The car appeared to be driving on autopilot at more than 140 km/h, RCMP Sgt. Darrin Turnbull told CBC News on Thursday. The speed limit on that stretch of highway is 110 km/h.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/yarmouth-man-charges-child-trunk-1.5732614

A Yarmouth, N.S., man is facing charges after putting a small child in the trunk of a vehicle while he went into a strip mall on Saturday.

The person who reported the incident is now facing firearms charges.

RCMP said at 10:40 a.m. Saturday, a witness saw the 33-year-old man place the child into the trunk of a vehicle. The child was then left alone in the trunk while the man went inside a store. The man came out a short time later and removed the child from the trunk, placing her in the backseat.

The witness, a 19-year-old Yarmouth man, called police and then confronted the man with a firearm in an attempt to keep the man from leaving with the child.

This whole situation is weird.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Time to finally upgrade to a new TV....

For 18 months, residents of a village in Wales have been mystified as to why their broadband internet crashed every morning.

At 7 a.m. -- "like clockwork" -- the device "picked up a large burst of electrical interference in the village."
"The source of the 'electrical noise' was traced to a property in the village. It turned out that at 7 a.m. every morning the occupant would switch on their old TV which would in-turn knock out broadband for the entire village."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/uk/old-tv-breaks-broadband-village-scli-intl-gbr/index.html

 

[Takhisis]

It's the US military testing an EMP device.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I am reminded of the cattle that caused computer crashes.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/ai...nching-pumpkin-spice-mac-and-cheese-1.5115162

TORONTO -- In an announcement on the first day of fall, Kraft Heinz Canada says it is adding the flavour of a popular seasonal spice mix to one of its iconic comfort foods.

The company said Tuesday that it will be launching Pumpkin Spice Kraft Dinner (PSKD) in October, to "please KD lovers and the cult following of pumpkin spice latte aficionados."

While Kraft Heinz Canada is just the latest company to jump on the pumpkin spice bandwagon, it said its unusual new product "ain't no basic batch."

Oh no.