Bizarre News

[Gaidal Cain]

It might just get him the igNobel prize..

[ThunderTitan]

Damn right too:

Yanagisawa calls women 'birth-giving machines'

MATSUE, Shimane Pref. (Kyodo) Health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa referred to women as "birth-giving machines" in a speech Saturday on welfare and health care.

Addressing prefectural assembly members of the Liberal Democratic Party in Matsue, the 71-year-old Yanagisawa touched on the nation's declining birthrate and said, "The number of women aged between 15 and 50 is fixed. Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head, although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines."

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry revised downward its population estimate in December, projecting the total population to fall around 38 million from now to 89.93 million in 2055.

Yanagisawa said at the time, "There are many young people who want to have children. In order to meet such a wish, we would like to make utmost efforts."

[asandir]

Jockeys raise $125,000 riding heifers
There was "no udder" place to be on the weekend than Australia's only cow race, in the small South Australian town of Mt Compass.

For the past 34 years locals on the Fleurieu Peninsula race dairy heifers in the Compass Cup to raise money for charity.

So far more than $125,000 has been raised.

But while it is all for a good cause, some cow jockeys claim it is not the easiest way to raise money.

"The theory is we lead the cow gently keep the rider on top as long as possible and cross the line first," one jockey said.

"They're slippery, hard to hang on to, sort of grip with your knees and hope for the best, look at the ground and hope you don't hit it," another jockey said.

[ThunderTitan]

Wow, they managed to get the cows to move... impresive.

[asandir]

Dead pets give birth to diamond ring
Englishwoman Sue Rogers will never be without her dead dogs and cat after having a diamond ring made from their ashes.

A newspaper reported Ms Rogers, from Devon in south-west England, paid 3,200 pounds ($A8,000) for the ring made from carbon extracted from the ashes of Lucky, an old English sheepdog, a golden retriever-cross called Sam and a tom cat called Patch.

"I am delighted with my ring as it means I can have my pets with me at all times," Ms Rogers told the Daily Mail newspaper.

"My animals meant the world to me and even though they are gone they are still with me. It's a beautiful ring and such a brilliant idea."

Ms Rogers, 44, had previously kept the ashes of her pets on her mantelpiece until she learnt of LifeGem UK, which makes diamonds from the remains of humans and pets.

A small amount of carbon from each set of ashes was heated at temperatures of 3,000 degrees Celsius to help make a rough diamond.

The stone was then polished and certified before being set in a gold band.

[ThunderTitan]

LINK ppl.. how hard is that?


I now know what will happen to me when i die. And i'll have my inheritors fight to the death a-la Spock vs Kirk in Amok Time for it.

[asandir]

link schmink

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20 ... 845008.htm

[Omega_Destroyer]

That's not really that new.... well, maybe it is if you aren't familiar with the funeral business. People have ashes stuffed in teddy bears, their loved ones turned into diamonds (not just for pets!), and that's just the tip of the ice burg.

[asandir]

no, but it sure is BIZARRE!

[Panda Tar]

Something really nasty and bizarre happened last week in Rio de Janeiro.

A woman and her kids were in a car when they were all ambushed. The thieves (now murderers...) hurried them off the car, but the little kid, a 6-year old boy, got stuck with the seat belt. When his mother tried carrying her son away, they pushed her aside and grabbed the boy, pushing him out of the car....or so they thought. They sped the streets in a rush for 6 km...and the boy was still attached to the sit belt outside the vehicle. The little boy died, of course, due critical wounds all over the body and only few people know how he was looking like when the car stopped. I wouldn't go looking for any photos, but you may tell what happened.

[ThunderTitan]

And that's the problem with criminals, they're careless idiots.

[Panda Tar]

Their problem is being criminals. So they become other people problem. If I'm not mistaken, one of the criminals has given himself in - I believe he has proved something he had no idea of the meaning now, and won't be able to sleep tight again until the end of his days.

BTW, I think if they are all caught, they'll be killed in their beds in prison. Brazilian jail is not known for its hospitality, and that kind of crime recalls antipathy from all other criminals.

[Omega_Destroyer]

Good riddance.

[Panda Tar]

To update the news above, all the 5 criminals (some of them are underage and in Brazil, underage criminals don't go to prison...) are arrested, and the underage ones will be kept in a special Facility for a couple of years, maximum of 3. The last one has been given in by his own father, who felt really sorry about the brutal crime and wanted to help.

Now, they're just awaiting what will happen to them.

Sad thing was reading a letter written by the dead kid's sister, imploring to the government to increase the range for age when it comes to brutal crimes like that, because she is 14 and know what she is doing, and why not a "16-years old man" wouldn't?

During the burying, she was calling back for her "baby", that's the way she used to call her little brother. The mother said the the image of the boy being dragged and screaming for her will never vanish from her memory.

Meanwhile, our really cuddly president said that increasing the range for sentences won't be the right thing to do...and said nothing about what is that right thing to do. I suppose he expects people to sit and stand still until all criminals just kill them, kill themselves and leave the country to rotten in silent chaos.

[Caradoc]

My, this thread has taken a morbid turn. Let's get back to the fun stuff with:

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/ca ... eat_it.php

[Metathron]

And pickled pork lips are not morbid?!?

[asandir]

that's just ordinary, we have some laws here that allow for minors to be tried as adults in some cases, that should be how they deal with these "people"

Backyard intruder more than retiree can bear
More used to dealing with stranded kittens, authorities in one New Jersey suburb found something more substantial stuck up a tree over the weekend - a 95 kilogram black bear.

The bear was spotted wandering around the town of Maplewood early on Sunday and apparently ran for cover some 12 metres up the tree when he realised police were chasing him, the New York Post reported.

The tree was in the backyard of retiree Bob Lynch, who was alerted by police to the unlikely squatter.

"I went out back and the bear was way up there, wedged in," Mr Lynch told the newspaper.

"He seemed very happy."

The bear, which would normally be hibernating at this time of year, spent around three hours up the tree before a local wildlife official shot him with a tranquiliser dart, bringing him down into a waiting net below.

One surprised onlooker, passing jogger John Hall, said the only bears he had seen before were the Newark Bears, a local baseball team.

[ScarlettP]

Hurrah! The boards are back up! I was starting to go into withdrawl.

[asandir]

withdrawl.

is that a southern pun?

[ScarlettP]

Yes.