Bizarre News

[Omega_Destroyer]

Now that's mature.

[asandir]

funny though

[ThunderTitan]

Now that's mature.

He'd fit right in with this forum...

[Caradoc]

Yeap. So if you intend on pleading insanity, you best be insane.

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody’s crazy.” --Charles Manson

[asandir]

Elderly man sticks himself to roof
Police say a 91-year-old man sparked a rescue operation when he slipped mending his roof and got stuck in tar.

Police in the eastern city of Magdeburg in Germany say passers-by were so shocked to see the elderly handyman working on the roof, they first thought he was planning to commit suicide.

"In fact, he was just re-coating the roofing with bitumen but then he slipped," a police spokesman said.

"When we got there, he was like a beetle on its back, with his arms and legs sprawled out and completely glued to the roof.

"Due to his age, he couldn't free himself from his unfortunate situation."

Local firemen carefully detached the man using ropes and ladders.

Police say he was unharmed but had sticky clothes.

[winterfate]

Well, that's one way to stick around (sorry, couldn't help myself ).

[asandir]

that was poor!

Sweaty police don scented uniforms
Police in India's western state of Gujarat will wear new uniforms impregnated with the fragrance of flowers and citrus to help improve their image.

A designer at the country's National Institute of Design, Somesh Singh, drew up the uniforms on request of the state government.

"Most policemen look hassled, drenched in sweat after coming from any scene of crime," he said.

"They are surely not the best person one would like to meet but if they smell good and fresh, one might as well approach them."

The uniforms, to be introduced in the next few months to the state's 300,000 police, use cotton with a fragrant finish, reflective prints and fibre-optic technology to make sure the uniform not only smells good but glows at night so officials can be located easily.

The uniforms will retain the scent even after washing as the fragrance is embedded in the cotton during processing.

[winterfate]

That is just disturbing...can't get the images out of my head!

[asandir]

I really liked the glow-in-the-dark bit, when they finish their beat they can immediately hitup their nearest rave party!

[asandir]

you crazy europeans will like this one:

Darwin swim club pushes for heated public pools
A Darwin swimming club has called for one of the city's three public pools to be heated during the cooler months of the dry season, when the average daily maximum plummets to 30 degrees.

During Darwin's dry season the average temperature range is between 20 and 30 degrees.

Swimming coach Carol Bolton from Swimming NT says young swimmers cannot cope with the cold temperatures.

"They go blue, their lips go blue. You know school swimming programs, they're not held in the dry," Ms Bolton said.

The council says pool attendance rates typically fall to less than half the wet season levels, as soon as the weather and the water start to cool.

The council says it is unlikely any pools will be heated in time for this year's start of the dry season in May and is instead likely to close the Casuarina and Parap pools for one month each.

[ThunderTitan]

Wait, what?! What's wrong with blue lips? It builds character.

[ThunderTitan]

WTF is wrong with ppl?!

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1 ... 80,00.html

Knut Should Be Killed, Say Some Animal Activists

Berlin's polar bear cub Knut is more famous than ever. Even star photographer Annie Leibovitz has been to take his picture. But not everyone loves the little bear. Animal rights activists want him put to sleep because he has been raised on a bottle.

Everyone loves Knut. The three-month-old polar bear born in one of Berlin's zoos has become a star in the German capital and has won hearts the world over. Indeed, the exact date of his first public appearance -- likely to be made later this week -- is the subject of almost as much anticipation as the details of Britney Spears Alcoholics Anonymous love affair. It's impossible not to love the little guy, right?

Well, not quite. Animal rights activists, as SPIEGEL reported Monday, aren't so enthralled with the polar bear baby. They are concerned that Knut, who is being raised by human hand after his mother rejected him, is in danger of losing touch with the bear necessities. Some would like to see him dead.

"Raising him by hand is not appropriate to the species but rather a blatant violation of animal welfare laws," animal rights activist Frank Albrecht told the mass circulation newspaper Bild, whose front page headline Monday read "Will Sweet Knut Be Killed by Injection?"

Berlin Zoo is allowing Knut to be raised in such a way that the bear will have a behavioral disorder for the rest of his life, Albrecht believes. "In actual fact, the zoo needs to kill the bear cub," he adds.

He's not alone. Wolfram Graf-Rudolf, director of the Aachen Zoo, told the newspaper, "I don't consider it appropriate for the species that the little polar bear is being raised on a bottle." The animal will be fixated on his keeper and not be a "real" polar bear, he says. However he feels it is now too late to put Knut out of his supposed misery. "The mistake has been made. One should have had the courage to put him to sleep much earlier."

Some are concerned that Knut has had too much human contact in his young life.

The idea isn't as outlandish as it may at first seem. Although giving Knut a death sentence would likely bring his many fans out on to the streets, baby zoo animals have been killed for the same reason in the past. Two-day-old baby sloth Hugo was put down by lethal injection in Leipzig Zoo at the end of last year, sparking emotional protests.

How about actually giving him a chance in the bloody wild before you just decide he's hopeless and blow his brains out? Idiots.

[asandir]

isn't not their fault TT, they're meat-deprived

DVD pirates put bounty on sniffer dogs
Malaysian officials say movie pirates have put a bounty on the heads of two police sniffer dogs who helped to bring down a fake DVD ring.

The dogs, Lucky and Flo, have been trained to sit down when they smell plastic and led police to fake DVDs worth $3.7 million in a raid on Tuesday.

The Trade Ministry says bosses of the affected crime syndicate have offered an unspecified reward for anyone willing to kill the two female Labradors.

Authorities say they are taking the threat seriously and have stepped up security around the dogs to ensure their safety.

[winterfate]

Um....darn...it's not the dog's fault...

In any case, the police could just train more dogs to do the same thing...

[asandir]

that takes some time ....

German burglar pays dearly for credit card trick
A hapless German thief snapped his credit card in two while prying open a lock, inadvertently leaving behind his name and account details for police.

"He tried to copy what he'd seen them do on television, but the flat owner woke up and the criminal ran away," a police spokesman said.

"The victim called up and read us the details off the card.

"When we got round to the burglar's house, the other half of his credit card was sitting on his kitchen table."

The 29-year-old burglar was trying to open the door to his neighbour's flat in Moenchengladbach in western Germany, police said

dork

[winterfate]

A stupid dork...which is even worse .

[asandir]

indeed!

Whale skeleton uncovered in Tuscan vineyard
The skeleton of a 5 million-year-old whale has been found in the Tuscan vineyard that produces the world-famous Brunello di Montalcino wine.

A spokeswoman for wine promotion agency Winenews said they found the first piece of the skeleton in January.

"A group of palaeontologists were digging in January in the Castello Banfi vineyards and found a whale's vertebra," Daniella Vidotto said.

"They continued their search and found the animal's entire skeleton, about 10 metres long."

Explaining that the region was under water 5 million years ago, Ms Vidotto said it was a magnet for palaeontologists.

"A dolphin skeleton was found a few years ago in our area, in Pienza, as well as lots of sea shells," she said.

The region in the province of Siena is known for its wine and Brunello di Montalcino was named the best wine in the world last year by the prestigious US magazine Wine Spectator.

that answers the oliy taste question ....

[ThunderTitan]

Didn't know where to put this, so here it is:

Superman's summer house found in Mexico!

Apparently abandoned after some super-powered conflict occurred there, we bring you exclusive photos of Kal-El's Mexican hideaway:

[Kalah]

Salt crystals? Niiiice.

P.S. Could you resize them pics a little please?

[ThunderTitan]

Well they are direct links... gimme some time.

Edit: And done.