Weird News III - Beyond the Bizarre

[Takhisis]

Yeah, neighbour is spelled with a u.

 

[Kaitzilla]

Escaped Cloned Female Mutant Crayfish Take Over Belgian Cemetery

Dang, I was too slow!

Ok, raise your hand if you created the mutant crayfish that can replicate without sex and released it into the world.

Amazing that they are all genetically identical.

 

[Phrossack]

Greek minesweeper split in two after attempt to cut in front of container ship

It's a Twitter thread, but still

 

[Kyriakos]

After removing a lot of mines, it met the mine-mother.

I know of the story, but haven't been following it. One wonders what the officers on the minesweeper were actually doing. I haven't read if it was just them doing random stuff or the merchant ship was also being random.

 

[The_J]

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sp...ness-fans-camera-linesman-bald-head-ball-ayr/

Inverness fans rage after camera confuses linesman’s BALD HEAD for ball during Ayr clash

But supporters watching the clash on Caley's pay-per-view missed some of the action as the automated Pixellot camera confused John McCrossan's head for the ball.
[...]
And the camera is clearly focused on his head rather than what is actually going on in the game itself.

 

[Kyriakos]

^

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ulpture-stops-dutch-train-crashing-into-water

A metro train that overran the stop blocks at a station outside Rotterdam has been left balancing 10 metres above ground on the plastic tail of a whale sculpture.

The metro driver was reportedly able to free himself from the train without injury after the incident shortly after midnight on Monday morning. There were no passengers onboard.

Maarten Struijs, who made the sculpture of two tails emerging from water beneath the elevated metro line, said he was surprised the sculpture had held together.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-covid-conspiracy-theorist-charged-1.5790376

A notorious Metro Vancouver COVID-19 conspiracy theorist has been charged with breaking mandatory quarantine after returning from a Flat Earth conference in the U.S.

Mak Parhar is charged with three counts of breaking the Canada Quarantine Act, according to court records, and made his first appearance in court on Tuesday.

According to his Facebook page, Parhar recently travelled to Greenville, South Carolina for an event called Flatoberfest 2020 — a gathering of conspiracy theorists who believe the Earth is flat.

Parhar made an appearance at a rally in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday and bragged about breaking the mandatory 14-day self-isolation period upon his return to Canada.

"I'm not going to put myself in prison, because I'm a free man with god-given rights," Parhar told a small gathering of COVID-19 conspiracy theorists in a video posted to YouTube.

I suggest reading the entire article. It's hilarious.

 

[PhroX]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ulpture-stops-dutch-train-crashing-into-water

That was a lucky fluke...

 

[The_J]

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/one-million-yen-japan-mandarin-oranges-auction/index.html

Crate of oranges sells for $9,600 in Japan
How many mandarin oranges can you buy with one million yen -- or roughly $9,600?
For one fruit-loving buyer at an auction this week in Japan, the answer is just 100.
A single, 20-kilogram crate of 100 Japanese mandarins (also called mikan) hit the auction block on Thursday at Tokyo's central wholesale Ota Market.
[...]
Only about 100 farmers produce this special kind of mikan in the area.
"Hinomaru Mikan this year have been particularly good quality," Asai adds.

The high bid at Thursday's auction was considered "a very celebratory price" to mark the beginning of Japan's mikan season, according to a representative of Nishiuwa agricultural association.
[...]
The typical price of this type of high-end mandarin orange is usually around JPY7,800 (or $75) for 10 kilograms.

 

[Kyriakos]

Ok... Why?
8000 euros for 100 stupid fruit.

 

[Narz]

 

[r16]

they had it on the Voice of Russia , radio , no viewing at all and ı changed the channel for a while after 10 seconds . Don't people ever think ? (No , they don't , ı don't know why am even asking the question ...)

 

[The_J]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ds-press-conference-at-suburban-garden-centre

Keep on digging: Trump team holds press conference at suburban garden centre
Rudy Giuliani details strategy in the car park of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a suspected mixup with Four Seasons hotel in Philadelphia
[...]
On Saturday morning, as Trump played golf and continued to baselessly accuse the Democrats of stealing the election for Joe Biden, he announced, in a Tweet since deleted, that there would be a “Big press conference” at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia.

That was quickly clarified, however. It was not the noted hotel, but Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a suburban business situated between a crematorium and an adult book store on the outskirts of the city.

Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) I could write jokes for 800 years and I'd never think of something funnier than Trump booking the Four Seasons for his big presser, and it turning out to be the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot between a dildo store and a crematorium.

I'm looking at the picture of the press conference in the parking lot, and I'm just laughing .

 

[Takhisis]

^Made more ridiculous by the fact that Biden was announced as the winner of the Pennsylvania election right at that time and the journalists left Giuliani's press conference to go cover the actual election.

 

[Samson]

Sleepy candidate that won in 2008 declared winner after contested election with allegations of voter fraud:

A lengthy and bitter election campaign that dragged in competing interest groups and was sullied by a voter fraud scandal came to an unlikely end on Monday, when a fat, flightless and nocturnal parrot stunned pundits to claim an upset victory.
The kakapo, officially the world's heaviest parrot, won New Zealand's Bird of the Year vote after a weeks-long campaign that rivaled human political contests in intensity.
This year's event became particularly controversial after organizers detected that more than 1,500 fraudulent votes, cast using fake email addresses traced back to the same IP address, briefly pushed the little spotted kiwi to the top of the leaderboard.
Amid a flurry of endorsements for various contenders, sex toy retailer Adult Toy Megastore backed the hihi, which it said practices "consensual polyamory."
And campaigners for the different contenders sought to canvass votes across various media, with supporters of the takahe -- a large, flightless rail -- creating a TikTok account to boost youth turnout.
Ultimately, however, the defeated favorites graciously conceded defeat to the kakapo, which previously won the award in 2008.​

 

[Kyriakos]

NZ has a "bird of the year" award? :/
Sounds rather boring a contest.

 

[AmazonQueen]

NZ has a "bird of the year" award? :/
Sounds rather boring a contest.

More exciting than their elections. The story has fraud and sex.

 

[The_J]

https://metro.co.uk/2017/11/03/giant-wooden-penis-appears-on-top-of-a-mountain-7052049/

If you know a man who’s a bit insecure of his manhood, then I’d recommend they don’t visit the Austrian Alps.

Why? Because a giant wooden penis has been erected on top of a 1,893 metre-high (6,211 ft) mountain.

Actually not the article which I wanted to post, since it's 3 years old, but it's again in the news, because apparently it fell down, and got... er... erected again.

 

[Kyriakos]

https://metro.co.uk/2017/11/03/giant-wooden-penis-appears-on-top-of-a-mountain-7052049/


Actually not the article which I wanted to post, since it's 3 years old, but it's again in the news, because apparently it fell down, and got... er... erected again.

Why would anyone erect their wooden penis on a mountain?
Or anywhere else, tbh.