Bizarre News Thread

[KISS Fan]

Originally Posted by Count Whackula

How far would you go for free porn? lol!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0...porn_inspector

Ha. That's funny. I wonder if doing this worked for him before.

[KISS Fan]

Michigan Joker arrested

[Jesus Was A Robot]

Originally Posted by KISS Fan

Michigan Joker arrested

That's hilarious.

[Mr. Monster]

Originally Posted by KISS Fan

Michigan Joker arrested

See now that's the kind of crime where I don't think he even should have been charged, let alone given a $700 fine and community service. It was a prank, let it go!

[bigmac64]

Originally Posted by KISS Fan

Michigan Joker arrested

Wow. I could see the community service, but that's a pretty stiff fine. As it's not called restitution, I suspect the money is going to the court, not to the theater for damages.

The judge must not be a Dark Knight fan.

[Nallix]

Cut & pasted from another forum.

Originally Posted by DelStrange

Full Story Here

[John W. Bowen]

Originally Posted by Dark Mark

Victoria's secret: huge royal knickers sell for record price

Queen Victoria's enormous knickers sell for £4,500

"These pants, considering their provenance and pedigree, are very exciting... we know that they are hers."

They were apparently bought by a Canadian

Would the nutjob in question have paid extra if they were soiled?

[jaysaw]

Originally Posted by John W. Bowen

Would the nutjob in question have paid extra if they were soiled?

I dunno. Go ask gore-met.

[Nallix]

Originally Posted by John W. Bowen

Would the nutjob in question have paid extra if they were soiled?

Only in Japan.

[sorshavampyr]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer made women in the UK stop attending church

And here I thought people had free wills of their own. Joss Whedon is a sneaky son of a bitch.

[Nallix]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080906/...WfdaGF 7tiBIF

DALLAS - A robber rolled into a Dallas convenience store came armed with a bat and a knife. He left with a lot of condoms and an energy drink.

Dallas police Cpl. Kevin Janse said Friday that a man in a wheelchair entered a Dallas 7-Eleven Wednesday afternoon, rolled straight toward the cash register and beat it with a baseball bat until it opened.

But he didn't grab any cash. Instead, police say he stole 10 boxes of condoms and an energy drink before making his getaway Wednesday afternoon.

Janse says the suspect may have been homeless and was likely intoxicated at the time of the robbery.

[Dark Mark]

Millionaire spooked from mansion

A millionaire businessman from Nottinghamshire (UK) has said ghosts forced him to flee his 52-room mansion.

[spookykat]

Originally Posted by Dark Mark

Millionaire spooked from mansion

A millionaire businessman from Nottinghamshire (UK) has said ghosts forced him to flee his 52-room mansion.

HMMMM. What a great way to get out of paying the mortgage..It worked for Amityville, thus born the Amityville Horror

[Dark Mark]

Originally Posted by sorshavampyr

Buffy the Vampire Slayer made women in the UK stop attending church

And here I thought people had free wills of their own. Joss Whedon is a sneaky son of a bitch.

Taking the power away from women was one of the levers followers of Christianity used to get Pagans to give up their faith in the first place. The pity is that Wicca is a new religion rather than a true continuation of ancient beliefs.

[spookykat]

Originally Posted by Dark Mark

Taking the power away from women was one of the levers followers of Christianity used to get Pagans to give up their faith in the first place. The pity is that Wicca is a new religion rather than a true continuation of ancient beliefs.

It just shows you how stupid ppl can really be.
It was a tv show.

The same goes for to Druids. No one really understood what they were worshipping.

[Rage of Heroes]

Originally Posted by sorshavampyr

Buffy the Vampire Slayer made women in the UK stop attending church

And here I thought people had free wills of their own. Joss Whedon is a sneaky son of a bitch.

I have found that the more strict the denomination of a religion, in Islam and Christianity, the worse it is for women. They wind up having less rights and less of a voice. I doubt that it was really Buffy that caused it.

[sorshavampyr]

Wow.

This sets a great example for your kids, no?

[AtlanticVamp]

Originally Posted by sorshavampyr

Wow.

This sets a great example for your kids, no?

Depends on the situation, though. I would totally defend one of my kids if someone was hurting one of them. I think it's safe to say that some kids think it's cute or funny to fuck with people. But sometimes someone will fight back.

[sorshavampyr]

Originally Posted by AtlanticVamp

Depends on the situation, though. I would totally defend one of my kids if someone was hurting one of them. I think it's safe to say that some kids think it's cute or funny to fuck with people. But sometimes someone will fight back.

15 year old girls bully. This has happens all the time.

End of story.

The mother should have acted like an adult and dealt with the situation rationally. Not fly off the handle and stab the girl.

A 34 year old woman stabbing a 15 year old girl is uncalled for.

[The Gore-met]

Originally Posted by sorshavampyr

A 34 year old woman stabbing a 15 year old girl is uncalled for.

Yeah, the mother should not have reacted at all! Maybe then the daughter would have committed suicide and you could deride the mother for not doing anything! Oh, the endless possibilities for bullshit computer chair judgement! But hey, you've sussed out the whole story from a 137-word news brief, so who am I to comment?

[sorshavampyr]

Originally Posted by The Gore-met

Yeah, the mother should not have reacted at all! Maybe then the daughter would have committed suicide and you could deride the mother for not doing anything! Oh, the endless possibilities for bullshit computer chair judgement! But hey, you've sussed out the whole story from a 137-word news brief, so who am I to comment?

Actually. I don't agree with bullying on any level.

I never stated that I did.

I just think the woman went about it the wrong way. She could have dealt with the situation without stabbing anyone. There are other ways of dealing with bullying than stabbing someone.

I was bullied in school as was my brother. But I learned to fight my own battles and I feel better for it. I had the support of my family and they were there when I needed them.

I don't think violence is a solution to violence.

[The Gore-met]

Originally Posted by sorshavampyr

I just think the woman went about it the wrong way. She could have dealt with the situation without stabbing anyone. There are other ways of dealing with bullying than stabbing someone.

Please relate the details that are you aware of that aren't in that news brief.

What was the extent of the bullying?

Did the daughter and the bully attend the same school?

If so, was the school made aware of the bullying? What steps did the school take to stop it?

Were the parents of the bully contacted? What was their reaction?

Were the police notified? What did they do?

When the mother confronted the bully, who was carrying the knife? Who instigated the violence?

Since you're so ready to sit in judgment of people 1,000's of miles away, please inform of us of your special knowledge.

[sorshavampyr]

The woman's 13-year-old daughter had apparently slept with the boyfriend of a 15-year-old girl, unaware that he was dating the older girl, according to one of the 13-year-old's friends who witnessed the stabbing on Wednesday night.

This is a quote about the story from the National Post, dated Saturday September, 20th.

A mother has been charged with stabbing one of her daughter's friends in an apparent retaliation after a group of teenagers forced the 13-year-old girl to get down on her knees and apologize for a sexual betrayal as they captured it on video.

This was the reason behind the mother's actions.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/can...html?id=808867

That is the article.

I made a comment on a news story I came accross, Gore-met. This was not a personal attack on anyone. Just a editorial comment on my part.

I didn't mean to come off as rude, and am sorry if I did. I was just making my opinion known.

[Mr. Monster]

Originally Posted by The Gore-met

What was the extent of the bullying?

Irrelevant to whether the stabbing was justified.

Originally Posted by The Gore-met

Did the daughter and the bully attend the same school?

Irrelevant to whether the stabbing was justified.

Originally Posted by The Gore-met

If so, was the school made aware of the bullying? What steps did the school take to stop it?

Irrelevant to whether the stabbing was justified.

Originally Posted by The Gore-met

Were the parents of the bully contacted? What was their reaction?

Irrelevant to whether the stabbing was justified.

Originally Posted by The Gore-met

Were the police notified? What did they do?

Irrelevant to whether the stabbing was justified.

Originally Posted by The Gore-met

When the mother confronted the bully, who was carrying the knife? Who instigated the violence?

This is the only thing that's possibly relevant. IF the bully had a knife and IF she attempted to stab the mother with it, and IF the mother had no choice but to stab back to defend herself, then and only then was the stabbing justified.

I'm surprised at you GM. I'm fully aware of your stance that people who don't have kids have no say in the actions of kids in their community/right to speak on parenting issues/should just generally be held hostage by the masses who've decided to have kids, whether they decide to raise them properly or not, but c'mon! You're actually gonna sit here and suggest that a parent stabbing a kid might have been justified over the issue of bullying? Do you also believe it's justifiable for a bullied kid to take a gun to school and shoot up a bunch of bullies?

Stabbing is wrong 99.9999999999% of the time. Violence is also not the answer 99.99999999999% of the time.

[The Gore-met]

Originally Posted by sorshavampyr

I made a comment on a news story I came accross, Gore-met. This was not a personal attack on anyone. Just a editorial comment on my part.

Editorialising, or using the Internet to look down your nose at someone?

This isn't a 'bizarre' news story, it's an unfortunate incident for everyone involved that you have once again seized upon to bash parents. It's part of a pattern, and as a parent, it offends me. Should you decide to have children one day, I hope no puts the same microscope on what you're doing and turns to the Internet to make faceless, mean-spirited comments about it. Humans are impetuous; people get caught up in the heat of the moment and and make mistakes. I don't think they deserve to be tut-tutted on totally unrelated Internet message boards by holier-than-thous.

I will say it again - stop polluting this message board with these types of stories, and until you have children of your own and are willing to put your parenting skills to the same scrutiny, shut the hell up.

[The Gore-met]

Originally Posted by Mr. Monster

I'm surprised at you GM.

There are extenuating circumstances to every story, are there not? There are certainly two sides. Life is not cut and dried. Passing judgment on a situation like this from a 137-word news brief on the Internet is a fool's pastime. Judge not lest ye be judged. End of story.

[spookykat]

Originally Posted by The Gore-met

There are extenuating circumstances to every story, are there not? There are certainly two sides. Life is not cut and dried. Passing judgment on a situation like this from a 137-word news brief on the Internet is a fool's pastime. Judge not lest ye be judged. End of story.

actually there are 3 sides..the moms and the bully and the truth.
Once there is a sensational news story, it takes a while to get the real facts, so you never know what is really going on. There can be so many reasons of why. I wasn't there, so I don't know what really happened.
Thats what news likes to do, without real facts, put a story out...

[sorshavampyr]

Originally Posted by The Gore-met

Editorialising, or using the Internet to look down your nose at someone?

This isn't a 'bizarre' news story, it's an unfortunate incident for everyone involved that you have once again seized upon to bash parents. It's part of a pattern, and as a parent, it offends me. Should you decide to have children one day, I hope no puts the same microscope on what you're doing and turns to the Internet to make faceless, mean-spirited comments about it. Humans are impetuous; people get caught up in the heat of the moment and and make mistakes. I don't think they deserve to be tut-tutted on totally unrelated Internet message boards by holier-than-thous.

I will say it again - stop polluting this message board with these types of stories, and until you have children of your own and are willing to put your parenting skills to the same scrutiny, shut the hell up.

I never said I was holier than thou. I commented that violence was not the way to handle a situation. Please stop jumping down my throat about this.

There are good parents out there and there are bad parents out there. Much like anyone on the planet. There are good people and bad people. Any race, any gender or any orientation.

You're right. I don't have the right to comment on parenting skills. I am not a parent and I don't know what's it's like to deal with children.

I am just saying that as a human being, stabbing someone is not the way to resolve a conflict. Most of the time it makes it 100% worse.

The bizarre part of this story was the use of stabbing to resolve a conflict.

[unfortunatelyme]

Parents just don't understand. hehe

[sorshavampyr]

So hey!

How about that local sports team? Ain't they colourful?

[fredgarvin]

Man that Gore-Met is quite a bore, no?

[Velvet Kiss]

I will say it again - stop polluting this message board with these types of stories, and until you have children of your own and are willing to put your parenting skills to the same scrutiny, shut the hell up.

I didn't feel like quoting everything you said, GM, because I'm personally sick of hearing the same old broken record from you.

I'm not a parent. But I damn well believe that ADULTS, let alone PARENTS should be held to higher standards than teenagers. The stabbing was not justified (outside of MM's points about the possible context in which it would be justified.) Violent acts should absolutely not be condoned - by kids, adults, parents, non-parents. There is no way in which this behaviour should be acceptable. What scares me is that you're passionate position could be construed as being in support of this mother's actions. Would you stab a child who harmed your daughter?

As a parent it is absolutely understandable that you want to protect your kin, and would want to react with rage and vengeance toward anyone who would harm your child. The key element to being an adult and a parent is that you have the ability to reason, use your judgement, and restrain yourself to set an example for appropriate conduct.

This woman had no such judgement. She acted on instinct the way a lioness would. We've evolved past that point, we should be held to a higher standard than the animal kingdom. Revenge is not appropriate. Acting out of anger is not appropriate.

As for the non-parents of this board voicing opinions about children and parenting skills? I yearn for the day when we outnumber the parents in society and suddenly have the right to voice our opinions while dismissively shushing those who share different views. You want holier than thou? Look in the mirror.

Just because I don't have children doesn't mean I don't have the right to an opinion on topics that affect me and my life. One of those topics may include misbehaved children in public. One of them may be on the impropriety of parents in dealing with their children. It's my right to voice it. If you don't like it, you don't have to listen, or read. You have no more right to tell me to shut up (or Sarah, or MM, or any other non-parent here) than I do to tell you to shove it because you don't have the experiences or knowledge or perspective that I have. I've raised 2 teenage nephews and dealt with the issue of bullying first hand, in a high school setting. How old are your children? When I was dealing with this 8 years ago, how many kids did you have in high school? How many were beat up or taunted or tormented by peers? As far as I know (and I could be wrong) - None. Yet you deem yourself an authority and dismiss me because I don't have kids.

I dealt with the aftermath of the abuse these kids suffered - partly at the hands of one of their parents. Do I have a right to criticize those parenting skills? Do I have a right to argue that beating your son severely is not acceptable discipline? In your words it wouldn't be my place to criticize because I'm not a parent.

Step off your soap box and quit playing the same broken record. Focus on how you are raising your children, and continue to do a great job of it (as I have no doubt you will), but don't dare to tell me I can't opine about matters just because I'm not in your shoes.

You're not a woman, so you shouldn't have an opinion on certain matters until you are one. You aren't single, so you shouldn't voice your opinion about matters pertaining to single people. You aren't NOT a parent, so you shouldn't concern yourself with how other non-parents choose to live, or what we choose to discuss.

Do you see how absolutely ridiculous these arguments are? They're meant to be... but yet you seem to be making the same inane arguments without any consideration for other people's positions.

[PsychotronicFan]

This guy's patience level is bizarre:

Inexplicable
The incredibly patient Joseph Shepard Sr., 53, sat quietly in St. Louis-area lockups for more than two years expecting that his lawyer, Michael Kelly, was working for his release on bond, but it turns out neither Kelly nor prosecutors nor the judge was doing anything at all. In fact, Shepard seemed innocently happy when a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter told him in August that he had looked into the case himself and that Shepard would be released soon. Shepard's attitude: "If I just sit here long enough, something's going to happen." Three days later, federal judge Carol Jackson released Shepard and chastised Kelly. (Shepard's drug charges remain.) [Post-Dispatch, 8-31-08, 9-2-08]

News of the Wierd Currents

[Plasma]

See ya later Max you fucking weirdo! :

Adult film director Max Hardcore sentenced to 4 years in prison on obscenity charges (UPDATE)

[Velvet Kiss]

Police issue warning about movie promotion for "Saw V":

Hollywood is always looking for unique ways to promote upcoming films, but the latest example of forward-thinking marketing has apparently frightened many unsuspecting citizens, prompting police to issue a warning on Friday.

It started when the OPP began receiving a slew of complaints concerning prank phone calls. Upon investigating the complaints, police learned that the calls were related to the upcoming release of the horror film, "The Saw, Part 5".

In the popular series of films, the main character takes revenge on society by forcing his victims to play games that put them in a moral dilemma. If they succeed, they live, if they don't they die a violent death. Apparently an interactive website was set up promoting the Oct 24 release. Online visitors can enter their name and another person's name, and the site creates a "scary" message that can then be dialed to any home phone number.

The OPP want citizens to be aware that the following message is merely a promotion.

"Hello, (your name). Do you want to play a game? You think it's over but the games have just begun. I'm here with your friend, (your friend's name). My work will continue in a way you never saw coming. You won't believe how it ends. Let the game begin."

From Citynews

ETA: Link here. It cuts it off if it goes to voice mail.

[Mr. Monster]

Originally Posted by Velvet Kiss

Police issue warning about movie promotion for "Saw V":



From Citynews

ETA: Link here. It cuts it off if it goes to voice mail.

Lame. Stupid thing can't say my name, and then it doesn't even sound like jigsaw.

[sorshavampyr]

Originally Posted by Velvet Kiss

Police issue warning about movie promotion for "Saw V":



From Citynews

ETA: Link here. It cuts it off if it goes to voice mail.

I just got pranked by this a few minutes ago. I laughed. Another girl I know got it from the same person and had a hissy fit.

Apparently my sense of humour is weird.

[unas11]

student arrested for terroristic threats for things found in his journal. (Said to be a zombie story)
http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=973&year=

would be interesting to hear more of this, and actually the story itself to see if it is infact a zombie story or not. at the moment, its hard to tell if it or not.
but one thing for sure, hes going to hate his grandparents for this. (for one they read his diary, and two big fuss cause of it)

[sorshavampyr]

Woman kills virtual husband after online 'divorce.

I can't believe this is news.

Also, the woman is facing criminal charges.

Geez, walk away from the computer people!

I suppose this could also be a 'Japanese people are weird' post also.

[Rage of Heroes]

Isn't "Maple Story" a cutesy game? How can you murder other characters in it?

If they didn't want that to happen they shouldn't have programmed the ability to kill another player into the game.

[Nonsense]

Interesting Korean law/tradition lives on:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7699114.stm

[sorshavampyr]

Careful with those exotic foods.

Bon Apetit!

[Dark Mark]

Man is found glued to toilet seat

The juvenile in me cannot help tittering to himself.

[Rage of Heroes]

Originally Posted by Dark Mark

Man is found glued to toilet seat

The juvenile in me cannot help tittering to himself.

Apparently it never occurred to the rescuers to just use some nail polish remover.

[Nallix]

Originally Posted by Rage of Heroes

Apparently it never occurred to the rescuers to just use some nail polish remover.

Sadly, most polish removers are now acetone free. It's a shame, too. Acetone is a fantastic solvent for cyanacrylic glue.

[blindndead]

Cloning From the Frozen Dead
Scientists Reportedly Clone Mice From Frozen Bodies, Expand Cloning Possibilities
By LAUREN COX
ABC News Medical Unit
Nov. 4, 2008 —


Scientists in Japan say they have successfully cloned a mouse from a body that had been frozen for 16 years, theoretically opening the door to a range of possibilities from preserving endangered animals, to resurrecting extinct animals to cloning Ted Williams.

The authors of the study made no bones about what they believe the implications of their work could be.

"It has been suggested that the 'resurrection' of frozen extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth, is impracticable, as no live cells are available, and the genomic material that remains is inevitably degraded," wrote the authors in the Monday edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

But the researchers say they got around the dead tissue issue by adapting new fertilization techniques for damaged sperm into a cloning technique for damaged frozen tissue. The authors of the study concluded these "techniques could be used to 'resurrect' animals or maintain valuable genomic stocks from tissues frozen for prolonged periods without any cryopreservation."

Other cloning scientists say cloning a wooly mammoth may not be so easy, but that cloning frozen dead tissue without the work of cryopreservation could have useful applications.


Sperm-Inspired Work
The term "cryonics" often summons images of baseball legend Ted Williams, who was controversially frozen at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., by his children in hopes of reviving him with future scientific advances.

Yet, much more cryonic work is done to clone prized livestock than to preserve loved ones. Cloning typically requires intact cells, so breeders turn to cryonics to preserve their prized animals.

To circumvent cryonic cloning, which must use high-tech equipment and protective chemicals, the researchers looked to past experiments with dried sperm.

"It's not surprising that it worked," said Randall Prather, a professor of animal sciences at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

"It has been shown that you can take sperm and desiccate [dry] them and leave them out on the table, then rehydrate them and inject those into eggs and get a viable embryo," said Prather, who works with cloning pigs.

If sperm dries up and dies, the sperm cell's membrane cannot fuse with an egg to fertilize it. But researchers have shown they can still fertilize an egg by extracting the sperm's DNA and surgically inserting it into the egg, Prather said.


Cloning Animals
When cloning an animal, researchers often mimic fertilization, but instead of using a sperm and an egg, scientists fuse a live adult animal cell with an egg that has had its DNA surgically removed.

"But they weren't able to find live cells from these frozen mice," said Kenneth White, head of the Animal, Diary and Veterinary Sciences Department at Utah State University in Logan.

So, the researchers in Japan borrowed the techniques used to fertilize eggs with damaged sperm to clone healthy eggs with DNA from damaged and frozen mice cells.

"And voila, they were able to generate embryos from that," White said.

White said he was impressed with the capabilities of cloning from frozen tissue.

"Remember that those [mice] were frozen for 16 years, those cells still don't look too bad," he said.

"There are tissue samples of animals out there that may have direct application for this new technology," said Dirk Vanderwall, associate professor in the Department of Animal Veterinary Science at the University of Idaho in Moscow.

He suggested, the "frozen zoo" of tissue samples of endangered animals at the San Diego Zoo in California.

But White and other scientists caution that it would be much more difficult to clone extinct animals.


Jurassic Park, or Ice Age Park, Relived?
"If you're just running around and found some frozen extinct animal, you're still going to have to have a suitable womb, and a suitable egg," White said.

For example, White said scientists do not know whether an elephant could provide a suitable replacement womb, or a suitable replacement egg for a woolly mammoth.

"I'm certainly not going to say it can't be done, but there are incredible hurdles," Prather said.

Current cloning techniques with live animal cells only work 1 percent of the time, he said, so to clone an extinct animal like a woolly mammoth, researchers might need hundreds of donor elephant eggs and surrogate parents.

Prather predicts even more challenges.

"We know what a gestation period is for an elephant; we don't know what it is for a woolly mammoth. We know what to feed an elephant; we don't know what to feed a woolly mammoth," he said.


Copyright © 2008 ABC News Internet Ventures

[Dark Mark]

Actor slashes throat in knife prop drama

An actor has almost died after slashing his throat on stage with a real knife instead of a blunt prop knife.

Shudder.

[PsychotronicFan]

Hitler Birthday cake denied

Naked Man Tazed

[Rage of Heroes]

Originally Posted by PsychotronicFan

Hitler Birthday cake denied

I've heard about this. They talked about this on The Adam Carolla show a couple of days ago and basically Adam talked about people who name their kids this kind of thing are looking for a reaction. The father says that he's not a racist, but apparently has decorated his house with swastikas. Hmm...

Anyway, Wal-Mart apparently came through with a cake for little Adolf where ShopRite wouldn't.

And this story came out just in time for the release of the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie. An unfortunate coincidence. Don't they keep playing the same sound bite of Cruise saying, "We have to kill Hitler," and talking about Hitler being the arch-enemy of the entire world over and over again on the commercials? That poor kid has to see those commercials all the time-and just in time for Christmas!

[spookykat]

Originally Posted by Rage of Heroes

I've heard about this. They talked about this on The Adam Carolla show a couple of days ago and basically Adam talked about people who name their kids this kind of thing are looking for a reaction. The father says that he's not a racist, but apparently has decorated his house with swastikas. Hmm...

Anyway, Wal-Mart apparently came through with a cake for little Adolf where ShopRite wouldn't.

And this story came out just in time for the release of the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie. An unfortunate coincidence. Don't they keep playing the same sound bite of Cruise saying, "We have to kill Hitler," and talking about Hitler being the arch-enemy of the entire world over and over again on the commercials? That poor kid has to see those commercials all the time-and just in time for Christmas!

I don't see any future problems with this kid here. Wearing a swastika and naming your kid Adolf..just for kicks? What I do see is a kid who is going to get his ass kicked every day and in therapy for the rest of his life. Thanks mom and dad for making me the person I am today!
More stupid parents breeding.