Weird News

[sexobon]

There's a highly trained flock of birds waiting to intercept it.

[Sundae]

From the BBC website:

A drought-affected district in eastern Australia is asking for government help to protect its villages against a "plague" of thirsty kangaroos, it's reported.

The mayor of sparsely populated Barcoo Shire, in the state of Queensland, says hordes of kangaroos are causing concern among local people because they're coming into residential areas looking for food and water, the Brisbane Times reports. "The sheer numbers, you can drive around and you'll see a mob of kangaroos and you lose count after 120 or 130, they are in plague proportions," says Mayor Julie Groves. Some of the animals are "taller than most men" and can be aggressive, she says. "We appreciate they are starving but you have to keep the little kids and the older people in the town safe."

Emphasis mine. My guess is that any child growing up in Australia who can't get out of the way of a dangerous animal taller than a man is going to have trouble sooner rather than later.

[Gravdigr]

Leaving a couple dozen of their dead bodies lying around ought to send some kind of message.

Usually does with most other species.

[Gravdigr]

This has to be bullshit. It just has to be bullshit. I'm calling bullshit.

Her psychologist poured drain cleaner in her eyes because she wanted to be blind.

The psychologist gave her eye-numbing drops before sprinkling a few droplets of drain cleaner into each pupil.

Sooo much bullshit in this story.

This just has to be triple-distilled, double-rectified bullshit.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Would the New York Post lie to you? Has the New York Post ever lied to you?
Gawker asks, "Is the New York Post Edited by a Bigoted Drunk Who Fucks Pigs?"
Obviously she didn't want to have to see herself in the mirror anymore.
Google has 148,000 links for Jewel Shuping, and this supposedly happened in 2006.

[Gravdigr]

How's this for weird:

The USS Constitution is now the only commissioned ship in the US Navy to have sunk an enemy ship in action.

WTF?

[glatt]

That is very weird and interesting.

[DanaC]

I dunno man - there are many recorded cases of people seeking limb amputation because of this condition - and there have been surgeons willing to carry out the operation.

If it's true - then the psychologist needs prosecuting.

[Gravdigr]

It wasn't me. I'm still alive, but, I wouldn't call it livin'.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Eh, he was cool.

[Lamplighter]

Maybe not "weird", but certainly off the wall ... street

Winklevoss Twins Win Approval to Open Bitcoin Exchange
NY Times - NATHANIEL POPPER - OCT. 5, 2015

After a long buildup, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have won approval to open
their Bitcoin exchange, Gemini, later this week. The twins, famous from their legal battles
with Facebook’s co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, announced on Monday that they
had received approval for their exchange from the New York State
Department of Financial Services, the state’s top financial regulator.

The agency, which has taken the lead in regulating the new virtual currency industry,
had already approved another company, ItBit, to operate under a
similar regulatory framework as a banklike trust company.

…The Winklevoss twins have been actively working with Bitcoin since 2012.
The first company they backed, BitInstant, did not survive.
They quickly began working on a Bitcoin-backed exchange-traded fund,
which is expected to trade on the Nasdaq exchange.
That fund is still waiting for regulatory approval.

I don't know much about trading in bitcoins, but I did start following headlines about them
back a few months ago when there were a lot of shenanigans(sp ?) going on.
The idea of who has the fastest computer with the best algorithm
wins the $ is interesting for me, not the evasion of authorities, etc.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I read a lot of articles about Bit-Coins. The more I read, the more confused I get. It's just as confusing as the stock market, securities, or banking, like they don't want you to know too much. But the whole, if you have a good computer, you can create Bit-Coins from the ether tells me, no, no thank you.

[monster]

Only in Ann Arbor....

Pro-pot mom worries dopers will get mistaken for deer and shot.... or something...???

[xoxoxoBruce]

Shoot the brown deer but don't shoot the white deer? Brown deer matter?

[Sundae]

Ridiculous.
We have to worry about the children and what they might be exposed to.
We have to worry about old people and how they might not be able to get out of the way of kangaroos (okay, only in Australia.)
Now we have to worry about criminals? Because although I am definitely NOT against people smoking dope, as far as I'm aware it's still illegal for recreational purposes.

Also, although I love animals, I heartily approve of culling. For me, it's along the same lines as treating farm animals well; even when I'm eating critters, I don't want them to have lived a miserable life. The only better solution (possibly untenable) for me would be to cull and then eat. Make some venison burgers for the stoners, maybe?

Oh, I know no-one was supporting the nutter in the article. At least not thus far.
I'm just waffling on.