Weird News Stories of the Day.....

[C No Ego]

Twitter assault!

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/ne...-a-journalist-a-seizure-His-case-14911397.php

Kurt Eichenwald sat down at the desk in his Dallas home office and logged onto Twitter. The prominent journalist and author was used to Internet invective - especially then, in the weeks after he posted a particularly inflammatory tweet about President Donald Trump.

More than 170 notifications awaited him when he signed on that evening, Dec. 15, 2016. But he didn't make it past the first one: A GIF that strobed violently across his computer screen, flashing a red, yellow and blue geometric pattern behind the words "YOU DESERVE A SEIZURE FOR YOUR POSTS."

Within seconds, Eichenwald, who has epilepsy, suffered a seizure. He would have died, he has said, if his wife hadn't walked into the study and found him....​

nothing like the pot adverts with popping in and out flashing pot leaves in the Gifs.. the psychedelic colors and seizure making blinking is the norm everywhere now

 

[Tranquility]

https://boingboing.net/2019/12/18/best-substitute-teacher-ever-f.html
https://turnto10.com/news/local/sub...-for-allegedly-smoking-marijuana-in-classroom
Didn't hide it. Lit it up and discussed it. This is why we can't have nice things.

...A substitute teacher in Massachusetts shocked students and high school staff, authorities say, by lighting up some marijuana in class and inviting students to join in a discussion about cannabis....​

As one guy said in the comments to the boingboing article, "The tables have turned."

​

 

[macbill]

Boeing capsule launches to wrong orbit, skips space station

Boeing’s new Starliner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit after lifting off on its first test flight Friday, a blow to the company’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year.

 

[Ramahs]

Boeing capsule launches to wrong orbit, skips space station

Boeing’s new Starliner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit after lifting off on its first test flight Friday, a blow to the company’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year.

Between that, and the recent grounding of some of their planes. LoLz
They've been fucking up.

 

[C No Ego]

Boeing capsule launches to wrong orbit, skips space station

Boeing’s new Starliner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit after lifting off on its first test flight Friday, a blow to the company’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year.

is that the One that had the Weed on Board ?? those psychedelic plants in Space ?!

 

[macbill]

A father was unhappy with his son’s haircut and shot the barber three times, Texas police say

A 13-year-old boy made two trips to a barbershop in suburban Houston over the weekend: first to get his haircut, and a second time to witness his father argue with the barber over the outcome. Before it was all over, sheriff’s deputies say, the father shot the barber three times and then fled with his son.

 

[Ramahs]

A father was unhappy with his son’s haircut and shot the barber three times, Texas police say

A 13-year-old boy made two trips to a barbershop in suburban Houston over the weekend: first to get his haircut, and a second time to witness his father argue with the barber over the outcome. Before it was all over, sheriff’s deputies say, the father shot the barber three times and then fled with his son.

Now I just want to see the damn haircut!

 

[ClearBlueLou]

Sounds like where I grew up

 

[macbill]

"O" Shit
Sports company sues in letter ‘O’ dispute with Ohio State
https://apnews.com/0093c292c7f83467eb2f9ba94ba0e8e2
Oh no: A New York-based sports network has turned to the federal courts in its trademark dispute with Ohio State University over use of the letter “O.”

 

[grampa_herb]

Man loses money at casino, throws himself under bus. Man survives and collects large insurance payout. Man returns to casino, loses everything again, then sues casino for not stopping him. Can't make this shit up.

CASINO SUED BY COMPULSIVE GAMBLER FOR LETTING HIM LOSE $260,000

 

[macbill]

Woman sues TripAdvisor after falling off runaway camel
https://apnews.com/933fb0729cc09be302a8f74255463214
A woman is suing TripAdvisor after a runaway camel tossed her to the ground during a tour in Morocco.

Breanne Ayala, 24, is accusing Massachusetts-based TripAdvisor and its subsidiary Viator of negligence and breach of contract for failing to ensure the camel tour company was operating safely, The Boston Globe reported on Friday, citing the lawsuit. The suit was filed in Norfolk Superior Court on Monday.

 

[macbill]

Florida man wakes to find burglar sucking his toes, deputies say
A Florida man woke up on Christmas Eve to find a burglar sucking on his toes, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.

When the Bradenton resident asked the stranger what he was doing in his house, the stranger said he “was there to suck toes,” according to an incident report obtained by the Bradenton Herald.

 

[ClearBlueLou]

Florida man seeking whereabouts of toe-sucking stranger
“I just want to talk!”

 

[Ramahs]

"Florida Man" does a lot of crazy shit.

 

[TheThriftDrifter]

So the burglar was trying to steal toe jam?

 

[macbill]

Kids were throwing snowballs at cars and a driver retaliated — by shooting them

The group of children likely thought they were in for a night of harmless fun. The activity? Chucking snowballs at passing cars in a residential area on Milwaukee’s northwest side.

But then, police say things took a dangerous turn when one driver retaliated against the kids — with a gun.

 

[Tranquility]

Kids were throwing snowballs at cars and a driver retaliated — by shooting them

The group of children likely thought they were in for a night of harmless fun. The activity? Chucking snowballs at passing cars in a residential area on Milwaukee’s northwest side.

But then, police say things took a dangerous turn when one driver retaliated against the kids — with a gun.

Ima gonna go with shooting kids for throwing snowballs is bad. At the same time, the "solution" proposed by the alderman does not seem like it is going to help anything:

“They could have let down the window and told the kids not to do that,” Johnson said. “They could’ve yelled at the kids. They could’ve chased the kids home, told their parents.”​

Genius. Yelling at a bunch of middle-schoolers who are out throwing snowballs at cars to stop throwing snowballs at cars is not going to lessen snowball throwing, just saying. At least there would be a possibility of a different headline.

Edit:
Also, you don't have to be from Florida to be a toe sucker.

 

[macbill]

Not to diss the kink of toe sucking, it is the "Breaking and Entering an Occupied Domicile for the purpose to 'suck some toes' under duress" that makes Florida Man the Internet Winner here.

 

[grampa_herb]

As kids we used to do this on a busy street where young hoodlums were known to cruise. We had a perfect getaway, after clobbering them with snowballs and yelling unkind sentiments. Several gave chase, but none came close to catching us.

Kids were throwing snowballs at cars and a driver retaliated — by shooting them

The group of children likely thought they were in for a night of harmless fun. The activity? Chucking snowballs at passing cars in a residential area on Milwaukee’s northwest side.

But then, police say things took a dangerous turn when one driver retaliated against the kids — with a gun.

 

[macbill]

The Bizarre Fight Over a Wealthy Biochemist’s Frozen Head Keeps Getting Weirder
https://www.thedailybeast.com/heirs...n-over-dads-frozen-head-keeps-getting-weirder
A fraught, multi-million-dollar legal battle over the frozen head of a now-deceased biochemist escalated into fraud claims this week, after four years of wild allegations that at one point involved talk of a wax dummy head and an alleged hidden will.

 

[macbill]

Frozen iguanas falling from trees in South Florida

The National Weather Service in Miami issued a rare forecast warning Tuesday on Twitter.

“This isn’t something we usually forecast, but don’t be surprised if you see iguanas falling from the trees tonight,” the tweet said ahead of the region’s coldest temperatures in two years.

 

[Ramahs]

Weird, Unusual, and Heartwarming. I teared up a bit.
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Woman Adopts Senior Dog, Realizes It’s Her ‘Best Friend’ She Lost As A Child

Life is truly incredible sometimes the way it brings people and pets together after time lost apart.

Nicole Grimes grew up as an only child. As a result, when she was 10-years-old when her grandmother gave her every child’s dream birthday gift: a puppy. Nicole and her dog, a Pomeranian-Poodle cross, spent 4 years together as the best of friends.

Unfortunately, things changed after Nicole’s father changed jobs and transitioned to a home-based job, which required a quiet environment, free from any distractions – including barking.

Because of this, when Nicole was 14-years-old, her father dumped her beloved dog, Chloe, off at the Washington Area Humane Society. It was heart-breaking for both Nicole and Chloe.

8 years later, Nicole was scrolling through her Facebook, when she noticed some feed about a senior dog who was up for adoption. The dog was a Pomeranian-Poodle mix and was named Chloe. In addition, she was 11-years-old, the same age that Nicole’s Chloe would’ve been at the time.

Unable to shake a certain feeling that this could be the dog she was forced to give up at 14, Nicole went to go meet the dog. When they met, Chloe licked Nicole’s face just like she used to back in the day, and Nicole was convinced she was her Chloe. Despite this, her family was skeptical, so they took Chloe to the vet to have her scanned for a microchip – and it turned out to indeed be the Chloe who was surrendered to the shelter 8 years earlier.

Today, Nicole is married and has a 4-month-old daughter of her own. She is grateful for the second chance with Chloe – especially since the grandmother who gifted her the special pet passed away 3 years prior. Nicole is now making up for time lost with Chloe, and can’t wait for her own daughter to get to be best friends with her childhood dog.

 

[Poostuff]

Weird how Australia has cloned something from China for a change.

Australian scientists create lab-grown version of deadly coronavirus, paving way for vaccine
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/austral...-of-deadly-coronavirus-paving-way-for-vaccine

 

[macbill]

A zoo’s jungle cats would like your leftover perfume. Preferably Calvin Klein

Although fragrances such as Chanel No. 5 and Jovan Musk also contain civetone, the scent most popular with wildcats is Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men. Or at least that’s what one curator at the Bronx Zoo found after testing 24 different scents on cheetahs, leopards and tigers.

 

[macbill]

‘Antiques Roadshow’ guest collapsed when he learned the real value of his $345 watch

Then the appraiser noted the tiny word Oyster inscribed on the face. That made the trinket “extremely, extremely rare,” the kind of watch that sells for $400,000.

The man toppled backward to the ground with enough force that his feet flew up into the air.