Weird News

[Big Sarge]

OK....just what have folks been eating in Australia?


ROCKHAMPTON, Australia - A man from the Royal Australian Air Force suffered life-threatening third-degree burns after a portaloo exploded Monday at an airport Down Under -- an incident connected to an ongoing US-led military exercise in the area, The Courier-Mail reported.Officials believe the man was using the portable toilet (also known as a port-a-potty) at Rockhampton Airport, in the state of Queensland, when he lit a cigarette. "There was some sort of explosion," a Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said. "He suffered burns to his head, face, arms, chest and airways."

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/offb...#ixzz1TL5O91bX

[TheMercenary]

Methane, would be my guess.

[glatt]

Or somebody illegally dumping paint thinner in the porta potty instead of paying the fee to dispose of it legally at teh hazardous waste place.

[BigV]

Circumcision ban to be stricken from SF ballot

SAN FRANCISCO -- A judge said Wednesday she intends to strike a ban on male circumcision from the city's November ballot.

Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi said in a tentative ruling that the proposed law prohibiting circumcision of male children violates a California law that makes regulating medical procedures a function of the state, not cities.

I wonder if there would have been a religious exemption.

[ZenGum]

I'm not certain this is true, but here it is:

Crop circles: Are they made by alien UFOs landing in corn fields, or are they made by something more sinister, like drug-fueled marsupials running amok on farm land? In Australia, it appears to be the latter.

Australian wallabies have been eating poppy seeds, then hoping around fields while "as high as a kite," according to Lara Giddings, the Attorney General for the island state of Tasmania.

The animals get so stoned that they begin running around in circular patterns.

"Then they crash," Giddings said. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

Apparently, this isn't uncommon for animals on opium.The same phenomenon has happened in sheep, who begin to walk in circle-formations after munching on poppy plants.

The crop circles have become so serious that they were debated at a parliamentary hearing on the security of poppy crops in Tasmania.

Farmers grow poppies for medicine, particularly painkillers, and Australia produces about 50 percent of the world's legally-grown opium. Opium is derived from the resin of the poppy flower, which can also be refined to make morphine and heroin.

Apparently this isn't a new development, and wallabies have been the cause of crop circles in Australian fields for years.

"They would just come and eat some poppies and they would go away. They'd come back again and they would do their circle work in the paddock," retired farmer Lyndley Chopping told the Australia Broadcasting Company.

A wallaby is a small pouched mammal, related to the kangaroo. They are smaller and often chubbier than the mighty kangaroo, and share much of the same habitat as they inter-species cousin.

Luckily, it appears that the wallabies know when enough opium is enough.

"They seem to know when they've had enough," added Chopping. "They'll still be around and they would leave them alone. It's hard to work out. Didn't seem to be any real pattern to their behaviour."

[Trilby]

Wallabies need N.A.

[classicman]

I'm gonna vote no. Wallabies are not going to make them into perfect geometric shapes

[ZenGum]

FOR. THE. WIN.

Festival-goers at a nationalist, right-wing concert in Germany were taken by surprise when souvenir T-shirts they were given had a secret anti-far right message that emerged only after being washed.

The slogan on the shirts first read "hardcore rebels" along with a skull and nationalist flags. But once washed the slogan turned into a message from a group offering help to right-wing extremists to break away from the neo-Nazi scene.

"If your T-shirt can do it, you can do it too - we'll help you get away from right-wing extremism," read the slogan on the shirts after their first wash.

More at http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-1...?section=world

[classicman]

That is beyond teh awesome. Great find ZG.

[TheMercenary]

This is funny. I am going to have to try a few of these shots.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-planking.html

[GunMaster357]

Her goal is to reach 1,160 pounds by her forties to claim the title. Eman has already passed the previous living record, held by 43-year-old Donna Simpson of New Jersey, who weighed 700 pounds.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/artic...#ixzz1VNwdJWb5

In French, I'd say she's digging her grave with her teeth. Is there a similar expression in English?

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by GunMaster357

In French, I'd say she's digging her grave with her teeth. Is there a similar expression in English?

Digging her grave with a spoon.

Ciel, mon mari!

[Crimson Ghost]

Originally Posted by GunMaster357

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/artic...#ixzz1VNwdJWb5

In French, I'd say she's digging her grave with her teeth. Is there a similar expression in English?

Oh, joy.

More glory for New Jersey.

Let me get my party hat...

[infinite monkey]

Hahahahahaaaaa. Sure you will Michelle. Sure you will. Singlehandedly, too, I bet.

Maroon.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/18/news....htm?hpt=hp_t2

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Hahahahahaaaaa. Sure you will Michelle. Sure you will. Singlehandedly, too, I bet.

Maroon.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/18/news....htm?hpt=hp_t2

Two-dollar a gallon gas is people!