Weird News

[ZenGum]

Oh Darwin, I love you.

Both the scientist who explained the importance of thinning the herd, and the city in the Top End where the herd thinning takes place.

Northern Territory police say a party trick with a firecracker has left a Darwin man with severe burns to his buttocks.

Watch Commander Garry Smith says police were responding to reports of firecrackers being let off in the suburb of Rapid Creek on Saturday night.

He says police were conducting patrols when they were flagged down by people requesting an ambulance.

"It appears that a party was in full progress when a young male decided to place a firework between the cheeks of his bottom and light it," he said.

"What must have seemed to be a great idea at the time has obviously backfired and resulted in the male receiving quite severe and painful burns to his cheeks, back and private bits."

The man was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital.

Fireworks can only be let off in the Northern Territory on July 1 to celebrate Territory Day.

"I just remind people, they face a $282 fine on the spot for possessing and discharging fireworks outside of that designated period," Commander Smith said.

"And apparently they're not designed for that particular placement."

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

"And apparently they're not designed for that particular placement."

Cheeky!

[xoxoxoBruce]

There must be a hundred videos on the net of people making that same mistake.

[Gravdigr]

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Working in a stout former bank building with windows closed and air conditioners humming, Orleans County sheriff's deputies didn't know what was happening in their parking lot until a neighbor called 911.

A man on a big farm tractor, angry about his recent arrest for resisting arrest and marijuana possession, was rolling across their vehicles — five marked cruisers, one unmarked car and a transport van.

By the time they ran outside, the tractor was down the driveway and out onto the road.

With their vehicles crushed, "We had nothing to pursue him with," said Chief Deputy Philip Brooks.

Thursday afternoon's incident ended when city police in Newport, the county seat of the northern Vermont county, caught up with Roger Pion, 34, a short distance away.

No one was injured. At least two deputies had gone inside a few moments before after washing their vehicles, officials said.

"Nobody was hurt. That's the thing everybody's got to cherish," said Sheriff Kirk Martin.

Vermont State Police said in a statement that Pion would face seven counts of felony unlawful mischief, one count of misdemeanor unlawful mischief, one count aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, one count of gross negligent operation, and one count of leaving the scene of an accident.

Pion was being held at the Northern State Correctional Center in Newport on $15,000 bail.

Sheriffs said they did not know if Pion had a lawyer. A phone number for him could not be located.

Martin estimated damage to the vehicles at more than $300,000; state police put it at more than $250,000.

Not only were their roofs and hoods caved in, but "the radios are ruined, the radar detectors, the cages in the cars ... We're going to have to get the jaws of life up here to pry the trunks open and see about the rifles and shotguns," Martin said.

Brooks said the destroyed vehicles constituted more than half the fleet of sheriff's cruisers in the rural county on the Canadian border. Others were out on patrol at the time of the incident.

This makes me laugh.

[glatt]

It's like a scene from a movie. I hope video camera footage make it to the internet.

[Lamplighter]

Dunkin Donuts announced today it's new delivery service.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by glatt

It's like a scene from a movie. I hope video camera footage make it to the internet.

'Tank!'...I just knew that was what that link was gonna link to...I just knew it!

[Gravdigr]

from The Sideshow at Yahoo!News

Found: Lost camera reunited with owner after three years

A bagel shop, a purple door, and a street sign helped re-connect a lost camera with its owner after three long years.

John Noerr uncovered a soggy Cannon XT digital camera in a creek in upstate New York near his parents' home. The art educator from Poultney, Vt. realized that the memory card of the camera amazingly still worked, and with 581 photos, there could be enough information to track down the owner.

According to the Post-Star, the super-sleuth spent three weeks combing through the photos looking for clues to the owner.

After plenty of dead ends scrolling through hundreds of images, Noerr found two pictures he called the "Holy Grail." A woman sitting on a stoop in front of a purple door with the street number 327, and a shot of a sign: Third Street.

A random snap of a bagel shop helped lead the 39-year-old to conclude he was looking for someone in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. Using Google Maps for street views, he located the address. Tax records gave him a family name: Comeau.

A search on the Web led him to Twitter, where he sent a message to a woman that he might have found her camera. She responded that she hadn't lost a camera, but her brother did.

Noerr said, "There was a moment it could have belonged to any number of 7 billion people. Then, there was a moment when it belonged to just one."

That was one lucky Michael Comeau, who had dropped his camera on a bridge three years back while on a camping trip and had long since given up on ever recovering the gadget.

The photos included long-forgotten images, including some of now-deceased relatives. Comeau called the return of his camera "totally bizarre," adding, "I can't wait to get it back."

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This makes me laugh.

Reminds me of the time someone stole all of the toilets from the Police station.

The detectives had nothing to go on...

Try the Vermont Maple Syrup