Weird News

[xoxoxoBruce]

Obviously he got stuck on the ice and is melting it with pee. Nothing to see here, move along.

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Well, that's just using common sense right there.

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Sinkhole Inside Corvette Museum Swallows Eight (8) Corvettes



Authorities allowed museum officials to remove the world's only 1983 Corvette from the Dome.

List of Known Casualties:

1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors
2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil” on loan from General Motors
1962 Black Corvette
1984 PPG Pace Car
1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette
1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette
2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette
2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette



No one was injured.

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The Skydome camera is down at the moment, but keep checking here, you may get to see the hole on the Nat'l Corvette Museum's security camera network.

[glatt]

I think the "Streaming enthusiast" camera is adjacent to the sinkhole, because I keep seeing people walking by and gaping at the open doorway that's partially blocked off with those velvet rope poles. And maintenance guys went in there with a ladder.

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All their outdoor cameras used to be PTZ cams. You could control the pan/tilt/zoom functions. I just now noticed they have removed that function. Looks like they've also replaced some of their outdoor cameras. Pretty good vid quality on the 'Front Circle', and 'Motorsports Park North & South' cams. The Motorsports Park is under construction across I-65.

[Sundae]

Holey museum floor, Batman!
That's a real waste. At least the lions got a meal when Marius said hej hej. These beasts went to auto-heaven with no benefit to anyone.

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Corvette Museum Skydome camera is back up. Not a hole lot to see.<---

[sexobon]

From the better late than never category:

Vet Shocked to Learn of Medal of Honor: 'I fell to my knees'

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...y-knees-n36171

More than four decades later, as a way to try to correct potential acts of bias spanning three wars, President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Honor on the Florida man and 23 other veterans. They come after a decade-long congressionally mandated review of minorities who may have been passed over for the U.S. military's highest honor because of long-held prejudices.

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Yep, he said that to the Duke of Edinburgh.

London (AFP) - Britain's Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, fell about laughing Monday when a swearing soldier gave him the giggles.

The 92-year-old former naval officer -- himself no stranger to plain-speaking -- got a taste of some colourful language while watching a football match at an army barracks.

The Duke of Edinburgh is used to hearing people use the queen's English during his visits but got both barrels of some military-grade swearing on his trip to Aldershot, southwest of London.

When one exhausted player was substituted off during the game between guardsmen and corporals of 1st Battalion the Grenadier Guards, he was so shattered he did not realise quite who he was talking to.

Doubled up in agony on the touchline, the soldier appeared unaware that Prince Philip was standing only five metres away as he went through a lexicon of swear words to describe his pain.

"Are you all right? asked the royal patriarch.

"No, I'm fucked," replied the soldier, still bent double with his head down.

Prince Philip -- who never fails to tell it like it is -- laughed and then could not stop chuckling away to himself as the substituted player finally glanced up and walked off with a sheepish look.

The duke has been colonel of the Grenadier Guards infantry regiment since 1975. He was briefed on the 1st battalion's recent activities and presented long service medals to three sergeants.

The prince is well known for undiplomatic off-hand remarks, which have included asking a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to get eaten, then?" and telling a group of British students on a state visit to China: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed."

-from AFP, via YahooNews

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You should hear what he said to the House of Lords...

[Carruthers]

M25 cyclist in Surrey 'sent on motorway by phone app'.

It beggars belief that people can be so daft...

[glatt]

On Sunday, when I was at exactly this spot and turned onto the on ramp onto this parkway. There was a cyclist at the bloody smudge mark I've drawn onto the Street View picture. I was stuck behind him for 100 meters or so until the barricades ended, and I could cross illegally over the double yellow line to get around him.

I'm a nice guy, so I didn't tailgate him or honk for those 30 seconds. He wasn't so much daft as arrogant. But a bit daft too.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by glatt

On Sunday, when I was at exactly this spot and turned onto the on ramp onto this parkway. There was a cyclist at the bloody smudge mark I've drawn onto the Street View picture. I was stuck behind him for 100 meters or so until the barricades ended, and I could cross illegally over the double yellow line to get around him.

I'm a nice guy, so I didn't tailgate him or honk for those 30 seconds. He wasn't so much daft as arrogant. But a bit daft too.

I don't understand, probably me being foreign.
I'm honestly not questioning your opinion or judgement, I just don't get it. Can you explain (in simple terms!) please.

[glatt]

There is a sign to the right saying that bicycles are forbidden on this stretch of road. The sign is there because bikes are common on the road I'm turning from, and in fact there is a large bike lane on that road. But this road is a limited access road that leads to the Beltway, a 12 lane limited access highway that circles the city.

Just before this road meets up with the Beltway, there is a turn off that leads to a high security government installation on the one side, and a small picnic area on the other side. I imagine the bike was going to the picnic area. But this road is dangerous for bikes because it's heavily traveled, is narrow with no shoulders, and the speed limit greater than bikes can achieve. So they are forbidden.

Oh, and the "barricades" are down the center of the road, marking the lanes to keep traffic away from one another. It's just on the curve, and when the road straightens out, the barricades stop.