Weird News

[ZenGum]

What, hasn't everyone always wanted to do this?

OSAKA, Nov. 24 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A man was arrested Monday in the act of spreading hundreds of worms inside a train running across Osaka Prefecture, local police said.

Manabu Mizuta, a 35-year-old company employee who is suspected of deliberately obstructing railway operations by his act, was quoted as saying, "It was fun to watch other passengers freak out when they looked at the creepy worms wiggling their way (inside the train)."

At the time of his arrest, Mizuta had about 3,600 worms contained in small, photographic film cases in his bag, the police said.

The incident took place as the train was traveling on the Keihan line through the city of Neyagawa around 10:05 a.m.

The suspect, a resident of Hyogo Prefecture, is believed to have scattered about 200 mealworms, the larva of the darkling beetle, a feeder insect for birds. The railway car was cleaned immediately but the train was delayed by about three minutes, according to the police.

Since earlier this month larvae have frequently been found inside Keihan trains, so railroad police officers have been put on alert.

And as for "cleaned in three minutes", I believe that. I have seen the "vomit squad" do a subway car - four men to wipe excess vomit off the seat, mop the floor, remove the seat cushions and install new ones, and spray air freshener ... in less than 60 seconds (I'd say closer to 30). In Japan, the trains run on time.

[ZenGum]

Not really weird but very very dumb.

AN Adelaide driver faces police charges after a video of him doing a burnout in a company ute was posted on the YouTube website.
After receiving a tip-off, police tracked down the motorist because the name and phone number of an auto parts company was emblazoned on the driver's door and clearly shown in the clip.

Traffic Enforcement Section officers visited the business on Friday, and after interviewing a middle-aged man, charged him with "misuse of a motor vehicle due to a sustained tail spin".

The utility was also immediately seized and impounded under the State Government's tough hoon driver laws.

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Not really weird but very very dumb.

Do you reckon that bloke still has a job? lol

[classicman]

Man Says Wife Was Accidentally Shot During Sex

A Tri-State woman is in critical condition Wednesday after police say her husband shot her while they were having sex.

Timothy Havens, 38, told Springfield police he was reaching for something on the nightstand when the pistol went off, hitting his estranged wife Carolyn in the upper chest. (Hear part of the 911 call)

Carolyn Havens, 42, is being treated at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.

This is isn't the first time there's been trouble for the Havens. Court documents showed Timothy served 60 days in jail for assaulting his wife and was ordered to go to anger management classes.

His arrest Tuesday for the weekend shooting was for violating a civil protection order that Carolyn had taken out against him earlier this year.

Bond was set at $75,000 after prosecutors asked for a high bond, "due to alleged prohibited contact between the parties (and) the suspicious nature of the circumstances surrounding (her injury)."

[Shawnee123]

Heh, saw that on the local news.

Why, it's not fishy at all!

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Heh, saw that on the local news.

Why, it's not fishy at all!

I saw that on the news, too. Yep. We're a wild bunch.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Brianna

I saw that on the news, too. Yep. We're a wild bunch.

Didja see wifey on the news last night? It was totally an accident, and she wants him home. He was only reaching to the nightstand. Or they were having sex and it went off. Or he threw it and it went off. Who knows?

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Didja see wifey on the news last night? It was totally an accident, and she wants him home. He was only reaching to the nightstand. Or they were having sex and it went off. Or he threw it and it went off. Who knows?

I've watched enough CourtTV to know that in a year or so it'll happen again.

[dar512]

They're testing the effects of Christmas music on sharks.

All I can say is they're lucky those sharks don't have fricken lasers.

[Pie]

Aha, but I do! :rubs hands gleefully:
The guy down the hall in the high-power laser lab will be happy to lend me one...

(We need a mad-scientist smilie.)

[binky]

I remember years ago, in my mid-twenties heavy metal phase, I worked in a fruit packing house next to 3 old ladies who played the same country christmas tape at least 3 times a day. I was ready to go postal on them

[morethanpretty]

Brits like squirells! As in eating them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/di...uirrel.html?em

These days, however, in farmers’ markets, butcher shops, village pubs and elegant restaurants, squirrel is selling as fast as gamekeepers and hunters can bring it in.

“Part of the interest is curiosity and novelty,” said Barry Shaw of Shaw Meats, who sells squirrel meat at the Wirral Farmers Market near Liverpool. “It’s a great conversation starter for dinner parties.”

Hey, I ain't judgin, vittles is vittles.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

Brits like squirells! As in eating them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/di...uirrel.html?em



Hey, I ain't judgin, vittles is vittles.

My great great grandmother used to kill squirrels and cook them up for my dad and his sisters. My dad said she was a great shot. I knew her when I was little, She was the toughest lady I ever met. She mowed her 4 acres on a hill with a push mower into her 80s. She had skin like leather.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Radar

My great great grandmother used to kill squirrels and cook them up for my dad and his sisters. My dad said she was a great shot. I knew her when I was little, She was the toughest lady I ever met. She mowed her 4 acres on a hill with a push mower into her 80s. She had skin like leather.

Say, cud yawl re-types that with a accent? It ud sound much betta.

[HungLikeJesus]

This is more humorous than weird:

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin drivers making their morning commute were in for a surprise when two road signs on a busy stretch of road were taken over by hackers. The signs near the intersection of Lamar and Martin Luther King boulevards usually warn drivers about upcoming construction, but Monday morning they warned of "zombies ahead."
"I thought it was pretty funny," said University of Texas sophomore Jane Shin, who saw the signs while driving down Lamar Bouelvard with friends Sunday night. "We wondered who did it."
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KXAN Austin News cameras caught many drivers slowing down to read the signs as they approached. Some read, "Zombies ahead! Run for your lives!"

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