Weird News III - Beyond the Bizarre

[Arakhor]

I saw that very article in the Guardian this morning.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/air-force-helicopter-bear-1.5744778

Chalk it up to the perils of parking overnight on the tarmac of a northern airfield in Canada.

A CH-149 Cormorant search and rescue helicopter was damaged earlier this month by what appears to have been a puzzled polar bear in search of a meal.

The aircraft belong to 413 Squadron, which is based in Greenwood, N.S. It spent the night at a remote air strip in Saglek, Newfoundland and Labrador on Sept. 16, according to the air force's official Twitter account.

Poor weather over northern Labrador on that day had prevented the crew from reaching their preferred landing site, which was not identified.

In the darkness, the bear chose to conduct an inspection of the brightly painted helicopter, causing what the air forces said was "superficial damage" when it pushed on the side door.

The bear managed to pop out an emergency exit window and rip the cover off the nose cone.

"The polar bear did not get inside the helicopter and there were no crew members in the vicinity at the time," said the air force's Twitter post, which was accompanied by a series of photos that show the damaged side of the helicopter and the window with an oily paw smear.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/abbotsford-stolen-blueberry-harvester-1.5753499

Abbotsford police are asking the public to keep their eyes peeled for a $275,000 blueberry harvester that was stolen from a farm recently.

The six-metre-tall piece of machinery is believed to have been stolen from a blueberry farm in the 40000 block of North Parallel Road between Sept. 30 and Oct. 5.

The 2016 Oxbo 7420 harvester was driven off the property after the front gate was taken off its hinges, the Abbotsford Police Department said in a statement.

The metal harvester with yellow stairs would have been tough to miss, they say — it takes up a full lane of traffic and blueberry harvesting season is over, so most of the machines are off the road.

Anyone driving on Highway 1 or Sumas Prairie who may have seen the harvester is asked to contact police.

 

[Takhisis]

Stolen harvesters? Is this GTA: San Andreas?

 

[H4run]

One of my FB friend shared this news link, I gotta say omg omg omg this is beyooonnnddndndndnd bizarre! The paranoid level is hypnotizing!

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/genev...LxqJ7aFta65FV2v2u2_sq6zf60meEqe3-cypwe2D-NWms

In the Communist Bible Translation, Jesus Stones the Woman


As reported by Cameron Hilditch in his article China’s Communist Christ, the new Bible has not yet been released, but part of it has been published in a high-school text book on ethics and law. The passage is John 8:1-11, the account of the woman taken in adultery. You know the story, in which Jesus shames the crowd that was ready to stone her in accord with the Law, by saying, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” Whereupon one-by-one, her would-be executioners walk away.

But the new translation replaces the next part, in which Jesus says “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” Instead, the revised standard Communist version says this:

When the crowd disappeared, Jesus stoned the sinner to death saying, “I too am a sinner. But if the law could only be executed by men without blemish, the law would be dead.”

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[aimeeandbeatles]

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/sexuali...ewfoundland-advertisement-for-seeds-1.5136498

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. -- Facebook has reversed its decision to prevent a seed company in Newfoundland from using a photo of a pile of onions, which the social media giant had deemed "overtly sexual."

Jackson McLean, the manager of Gaze Seed Co. in St. John's, said Facebook approved the online advertisement on Wednesday after he asked for a review of the ban.

McLean said he was setting up ads for the onion seeds when he got an error response back from the site.

"A couple of them came back with errors, and I looked into it further to see what the error was, and for the onion photo it said that it was overtly sexual," he said.

McLean said there was nothing sexual about the ad for the Walla Walla sweet onion seeds. A photo on the packaging shows several whole onions piled in a wicker basket and a few sliced onions in the foreground.

"There was something about the round shapes being next to each other that set off some trigger," he said.

 

[amadeus]

I like the part where a multi-billion dollar technology company does not have the capacity to differentiate between the human female breast and a basket of onions.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

No, a pack of wolves has not been unleashed in rural Nova Scotia

The letter is written on what looks like Department of Lands and Forestry letterhead and states that eight grey wolves have been reintroduced to South Alton, Kings County, and that the animals would likely migrate south.

It goes on to say that the pack unexpectedly moved to the Annapolis Valley floor "in search of easy pray and livestock."

The letter even offers safety tips should someone unexpectedly run into the pack of predators.

"Do no provoke, engage or feed the animal," the letter states. "Back away slowly while remaining calm — do not turn and run."

I'm trying to figure out why someone would do this.

 

[AmazonQueen]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/poli...as-republican-in-nh/ar-BB19Tpt6?ocid=msedgdhphttps://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/poli...as-republican-in-nh/ar-BB19Tpt6?ocid=msedgdhp

Anti-police Satanist standing as Republican candidate for sheriff in NH.

 

[Takhisis]

Not that unbelievable.
Republican militias are already against legal authorities e.g. wherever she-Democrats are governors.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

No, a pack of wolves has not been unleashed in rural Nova Scotia



I'm trying to figure out why someone would do this.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...hind-fake-letter-of-loose-wolf-pack-1.5759266

The source of a mysterious fake letter warning people about grey wolves wandering in Nova Scotia has been found — and it's the Canadian military.

The letter appeared in a number of mailboxes, and it looked like an official note from the Department of Lands and Forestry. It claimed that eight grey wolves had been reintroduced to Kings County in August.

But earlier this week the department said the letter was fake.

It turns out the letter was actually created by a reserve army unit at Camp Aldershot in Kentville, N.S.

"It definitely wasn't for public consumption," said Lt. Lance Wade, a public affairs officer with an army reserve unit in Halifax. "It was purely for training purposes."

 

[Takhisis]

No bone to pick?

Science: Overzealous profanity filter bans paleontologists from talking about bones
A virtual conference was thrown into confusion when the platform hosting the event came with a pre-packaged ‘naughty word’ censor

Participants in a virtual paleontology session found themselves caught between a rock and a hard place last week, when a profanity filter prevented them from using certain words – such as bone, pubic, stream and, er, beaver – during an online conference.

The US-based Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) held its annual meeting virtually this year due to the pandemic, but soon found its audience stifled when they tried to use particular words.

Convey Services, which was was handling the conference, used a “naughty-word filter,” for the conference, outlawing a pre-selected list of words.

“Words like ‘bone’, ‘pubic’, and ‘stream’ are frankly ridiculous to ban in a field where we regularly find pubic bones in streams,” said Brigid Christison, a master’s student in biology attending the event, in an interview with Vice.

To root out wrongly identified “naughty words”, SVP members created a spreadsheet tracking all the words that seem to have been banned, and shared it on Twitter. It included: damn, hell, ball, stroke, pubis, wang, jerk, knob, stroke, stream, erection, dyke, crack and enlargement.

Having set up a Reddit thread for the conference where members of the public could ask questions, organizers apologized for the confusion, explaining that the platform they used to host the event was clearly set up for business and industry meetings, rather than science events.

“Apparently it came with a pre-packaged naughty-word filter. After getting a good belly laugh out of the way on the first day and some creative wording (my personal favorite was Heck Creek for Hell Creek), some of us reached out to the business office, and they’ve been un-banning words as we stumble across them,” an SVP member explained to Reddit users.

Some discovered bias in the algorithm, too. Jack Tseng, a vertebrate paleontologist from the University of Berkley pointed out that the filter had banned the common surname Wang but not Johnson – even though both are frequently used as slang words to describe a man’s genitals.​

 

[Takhisis]

Man runs Doom on potato-powered graphing calculator

(he lives in Idaho, btw)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mont...name-change-val-des-sources-1.5768512?cmp=rss

After nearly half the town's population voted on a new moniker, Asbestos, Que., is starting the process to change its name to Val-des-Sources.

"We are living in a truly historic moment," says the town's mayor, Hugues Grimard, in a statement issued Monday.

As officials looked to transition the town away from the name of a toxic mineral, voters also had the option of choosing L'Azur-des-Cantons, Jeffrey-sur-le-Lac or Larochelle.

Nearly 2,800 residents cast their votes between Oct. 14 to 18.

 

[IglooDame]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/poli...as-republican-in-nh/ar-BB19Tpt6?ocid=msedgdhphttps://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/poli...as-republican-in-nh/ar-BB19Tpt6?ocid=msedgdhp

Anti-police Satanist standing as Republican candidate for sheriff in NH.

She's a Libertarian that entered the Republican primary because in NH Libertarian Party candidates have to get a sufficient number of signatures to get on the ballot (almost impossible during a pandemic), rather than winning a primary, and it's thought that most Republican primary voters had no idea who she was. About the Satanism, the article explains:

She serves as the high priest of the Reformed Satanic Church, which is run from her home. The church doesn't believe Satan exists, DiMezzo said, but instead “stands for individualism and voluntarism, and opposes the god of the day” which she described as the state.

 

[Phrossack]

Escaped Cloned Female Mutant Crayfish Take Over Belgian Cemetery

 

[Zardnaar]

Escaped Cloned Female Mutant Crayfish Take Over Belgian Cemetery

It's 2020.

 

[Kyriakos]

It's 2020.

The crayfish will be there forever. It is self-replicating (needs no partner) and cannot be removed manually due to how little space it needs to survive.

Assuming it can adapt to life in the ocean - which the article seems to say it can - it will multiply to some insane number.

I am more surprised that people wanted to have this as a pet - I mean after a while you get thousands of crayfish, and those won't like your aquarium for one.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...ary-amount-trash-nova-scotia-shores-1.5772973

Forget vampires, witches, werewolves and mummies — the amount of garbage washing up on Nova Scotia's shores is far more terrifying.

Now that spooky season is upon us, a woman has created a Halloween display in the yard of her home in Eastern Passage, N.S. It is made entirely of trash hauled from the province's coastlines in the last month.

 

[amadeus]

Investor Bill Gross accused of blaring 'Gilligan's Island' song on loop to torment neighbor​

"Peace on all fronts or well [sic] just have nightly concerts big boy."
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amadeus commentary: rich people sound like jerks that can’t spell.