Weird News Stories of the Day.....

[RUDE BOY]

I didn't know Dominion did homecoming elections too

Hugo Chavez's ghost is out to do away with all fair elections because he always really only wanted to be accepted as the homecoming queen.

 

[strech]

On This Day: Elvis Presley Pays $1,000 Down Payment on Graceland in 1957

Elvis Presley put a down payment on the infamous Graceland mansion on this day in 1957. Now it has become a massive tourist sensation.

outsider.com

 

[macbill]

Whistleblower Exposes Jerk-Off Club Inside Australian Parliament​

The Australian parliament was rocked by yet more sex abuse allegations Monday when footage of a senior government staff member masturbating onto the desk of a female lawmaker was leaked by a whistleblower.

 

[macbill]

11 National Guard Soldiers transporting vaccines held at gunpoint in West Texas, suspect arrested​

An Arizona man has been arrested after he cut off and held at gunpoint a caravan of National Guardsmen transporting COVID-19 vaccines to Matador, Texas around 7 a.m. this morning, according to Idalou Police.

Harris told police he thought the people in the vans had kidnapped a woman and child. All 11 of the guardsmen were in uniform.

 

[macbill]

Utah governor signs divisive measure to require porn filters​

Utah is a step closer to requiring all cellphones and tablets sold in the conservative state to automatically block pornography after the Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday that critics call a significant intrusion of free speech.

Gov. Spencer Cox has said the measure would send an “important message” about preventing children from accessing explicit online content. The proposal is the latest move in Utah’s legislative campaign to curb the availability of porn.

 

[macbill]

Whoever Herd of Such a Thing?

 

[macbill]

Mafia fugitive was living a quiet island life. Then police found his YouTube cooking show.​

A mafia fugitive has been arrested in the Dominican Republic after inadvertently tipping off police with his culinary hobby.

After seven years on the run, Marc Feren Claude Biart was tracked down through a YouTube cooking channel he started with his wife, Italian police said in a statement.

 

[macbill]

Queens hoarder missing for months found dead in home under pile of debris, officials say​

A 66-year-old woman with a hoarding habit was found dead under a pile of debris inside her Queens home after family and friends spent months searching for her, officials said Wednesday. Evelyn Sakash was discovered dead under a pile of rubbish in her kitchen about 4:30 p.m.

 

[macbill]

Baby boy 'first in the world to be born with three penises', doctors say​

Doctors say a child in Iraq is the first to be born with three penises.
Experts say the boy has a rare condition called triphallia, the first case ever reported in the world.

 

[macbill]

Why some Christians want Target to stop carrying a bestselling book of prayers​

A bestselling book on prayer has some Christians upset and calling on Target stores to remove it from their shelves.

 

[Tranquility]

Why some Christians want Target to stop carrying a bestselling book of prayers​

A bestselling book on prayer has some Christians upset and calling on Target stores to remove it from their shelves.

I'm not sure why it's "weird" that Christians don't think the prayer isn't that Christiany. No matter how they dance around it, calling on God to help you hate another race isn't really a core value of the faith.

But it’s the “Prayer of a Weary Black Woman” by clinical psychologist and womanist theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes that has caught the attention of Fox News and conservative Christians on Twitter, some tweeting at Target to remove the book from its stores.

One line from the prayer in particular has caused the backlash, which reads: “Dear God, Please help me to hate White people.”

Bessey and other contributors to “A Rhythm of Prayer” responded to what they said has been a “firestorm of harassment, criticism, coordinated attacks, threats, and furor against her and the book” with a statement published Thursday evening (April 8) on Bessey’s website, saying critics are missing the point of the prayer.

“Dr. Walker-Barnes’ prayer is faithful, honest lament, modelled on Scripture. It is a gift of intimacy and vulnerability to the Church and we are grateful to her, not only the prayer, but for her work and her witness in the world,” the statement reads.

“The backlash that Dr. Walker-Barnes is facing because of her prayer ironically serves as proof of why such a prophetic, powerful, and potent prayer is necessary.”

Then again, I may be wrong. She's a professor and everything. From her faculty page that just screams Jesus(https://theology.mercer.edu/faculty-and-staff/walker-barnes/):

Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is associate professor of practical theology, teaching courses in pastoral care and counseling, spiritual formation, and reconciliation studies. Dr. Walker-Barnes began her career as a clinical research psychologist, earning degrees from Emory University (B.A., Psychology and African-American/African Studies) and the University of Miami (M.S. and Ph.D., Clinical Child/Family Psychology) and focusing her research and clinical work on ethnic minority families, adolescent development, and health disparities. She later earned her M.Div. from Duke University. With her unique background in behavioral health, theology, and race/gender studies, her work focuses upon identifying and healing the individual and societal legacies of racial and gender oppression.

Dr. Walker-Barnes is the author of Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength (2014) and I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (2019). She has written nearly two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles in child development, clinical psychology, and pastoral theology.

Beyond the classroom, Dr. Walker-Barnes spends most of her professional energy writing and ministering to clergy and faith-based activists. Her faith has been shaped by Methodist, Baptist, and evangelical social justice communities as well as by Buddhism and Islam. She is an ecumenical minister, ordained by an independent fellowship that holds incarnational theology, community engagement, social justice, and prophetic witness as its core values.

 

[vinnyzan]

Report: Homeless man fields punts at USC's football practice

 

[macbill]

Passenger survives being hit in the head by flying turtle​

A 71-year-old woman riding with her daughter on Florida’s Interstate 95 suffered a gashed forehead Wednesday when a turtle smashed through the windshield of their car, striking her, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports.

 

[macbill]

The mansion’s owner said they couldn’t get married at his $5.6 million estate. The couple tried anyway.​

“The guy figured it was a vacant house and didn’t realize Nathan lived on the property in a different home,” Keith Poliakoff, the town attorney, told the Sun Sentinel. “This guy had no idea he lived there. You know the shock that must have been on his face when he showed up at the gate and the owner was home?”

 

[macbill]

More flushed wipes are clogging pipes, sending sewage into homes​

Utilities say the wipes twist into ropy wads, either in a home’s sewer pipe or miles down the line. They then congeal with grease and other cooking fats improperly sent down drains to form sometimes massive “fatbergs” that block pumps and pipes, sending sewage backing up into basements and overflowing into streams.

 

[macbill]

Man Trying to Escape Raid on Superspreader Party in Brazil Was Impaled by a Spear​

[P]olice raided one of the parties, one male party-goer bolted toward the farmhouse’s steel gates, and—in an apparent effort to evade arrest—tried to climb over it. Instead, he ended up impaling himself after one of the gate’s top rods lodged right through his arm.

Photos of the man in question show him shirtless, dangling over the gate with the spear poking out of his arm. Firefighters who arrived on the scene worked together to saw the rod off of the gate, and the man was escorted to the hospital to have it surgically removed.

 

[macbill]

Police bomb squad called in to investigate hand grenade discover it was actually a sex toy​

A German police bomb squad called to investigate a suspected hand grenade in a Bavarian forest determined that the object actually was a rubber sex toy, authorities said Tuesday.

 

[macbill]

Decayed Corpse Found in Colorado ‘Cult’ HQ Identified as Group’s Leader​

Several members of a bizarre spiritual group called “Love Has Won” have been taken into custody after the badly decaying body of the group’s leader was found in its headquarters.

 

[macbill]

You get to choose how you die​

South Carolina House adds firing squad to execution methods​

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday to add a firing squad to the state's execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs — a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that once had one of the busiest death chambers in the nation.

 

[Cheebsy]

California condors swoop on home and 'declare war'​

South Carolina House adds firing squad to execution methods​

A flock of endangered California condors has laid claim to a home in the US state, "declaring war" with the property owner, the family says.

At least 15 of the birds reportedly descended on Cinda Mickols' house in the city of Tehachapi at the weekend.

"They still haven't left," her daughter Seana Quintero tweeted, adding that they had "absolutely trashed her deck".

 

[macbill]

Scientists may have found a new coronavirus rapid-testing method: Bees​

Dutch researchers on Monday said they have trained honeybees to stick out their tongues when presented with the virus’s unique scent, acting as a kind of rapid test.

Although it’s a less conventional method than lab tests, the scientists said teaching bees to diagnose the coronavirus could help fill a gap in low-income countries with limited access to more sophisticated technology, like materials for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.

 

[Bologna]

Pet thread? Interesting News thread.? Asshole Humans thread..? This one...?

Tiger roaming Houston street leads to tense confrontation​

By Kenneth Garger
May 10, 2021 | 1:56am | Updated

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1391613625517887488

A tiger was spotted on the loose in a Houston neighborhood Sunday night — with one man pointing what appears to be a gun at the wild animal.

The big cat with a collar was roaming around the residential area on Ivy Wall Drive at about 8 p.m. when the unidentified man armed with the apparent gun yells at another man to take the tiger inside, KHOU 11 reported.

“Get the f–k back inside. F–k you and your f–king tiger,” the man can be heard saying while training the apparent weapon at the animal, according to video posted to social media.

The other man, who claims to be the owner, replies, “I’ll get him, I’ll get him,” according to the video posted to Twitter by user @robwormald.

In another video, a woman shelters inside her home while watching the standoff.

“There is a freaking bengal tiger roaming in this yard and this dude needs to be careful,” the woman said. “What the heck? Why is there a tiger?”

The apparent owner eventually grabs the tiger and brings it back inside his home, photos show.

The incident was reported to police. It was not immediately clear if any charges will be filed.

 

[macbill]

China tourist left clinging to 100m-high bridge after glass panels smash​

A man was left stranded on a glass-bottomed suspension bridge in north-eastern China after sudden gale-force winds shattered the transparent panels around him.

 

[Tranquility]

Fuck you, pay me.

Carjacking victims told to pay DC tickets racked up by the criminals who took their car

Carjackers put a gun to 73-year-old Doug Nelson’s head as he arrived home a little after midnight. The Vietnam veteran and grandfather of 11 had just finished his usual late shift at the U.S. Postal Service.

Family gatherings, says Nancy Nelson, are one of their favorite activities. Photo: Richard Bennett

“As I was exiting the vehicle, this guy came up with the pistol and said ‘Give me the car. You know, what's happening. Give me a car,’” said Doug.

Without hesitation, Doug handed over the car, hoping that was all he would lose.

It would be days before police recovered the only vehicle that Doug and Nancy Nelson owned and relied upon.

And when they got it back, it would be returned with something extra.

“Over $2,000 worth of fines. Yes. Over $2,000 worth of fines,” Nancy Nelson said as we sat in their living room looking over a folder of paperwork and a pile of speeding tickets.

The criminals went on a dangerous joyride, often exceeding 70 mph in 30 mph zones, triggering speed cameras half a dozen times.

The Nelsons had no idea until they started receiving tickets.

“It was a notice of infraction and I looked at it and I said, ‘Oh, this is the time when they stole the car,’” said Nancy.

It all seemed simple enough, the Nelsons thought. Notify the District of Columbia that these tickets happened while the carjackers were at the wheel. The District's response?

“It came back saying, ‘You owe,’” said Nancy...

 

[vinnyzan]

Fuck you, pay me.

Carjacking victims told to pay DC tickets racked up by the criminals who took their car

Only fair the carjackers get a perentage of the revenue they helped to generate. In the 'fuck you pay me' business they call that a kick back.