Wacky & Weird News Thread

[God]

not so much the story itself, but this headline is funny...

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/pers...s-texas-giant-ride-killed-dies-216239501.html

 

[MrRodry]

Subway Employee Puts His Penis On Sandwich Bread; Another Freezes His Urine At Work (PHOTOS)

This photo was posted and then deleted from Instagram with a caption, "My name is @ianjett and I will be your sandwich artist today."​

A Subway "sandwich artist" admitted today to putting his penis on the store's sandwich bread and posting the photo on Instagram.

The bombshell comes after HuffPost Weird News received several photos posted by two men in Columbus, Ohio, who work for the restaurant chain. Their Twitter and Instagram pages are festooned with photos of their exploits (see below). In several photos, Subway's signature bread is shaped into penises.

One of the men, Cameron Boggs, admitted on Instagram that "today at work I froze my pee" in a water bottle.

Boggs posted -- and later deleted -- the most incriminating photo, which depicts a man rubbing his genitalia on foot-long bread. It was posted on Instagram by username "weedpriest" with a caption that reads, "My name is @ianjett and I will be your sandwich artist today."

In an exclusive interview with HuffPost Weird News, Ian Jett copped to defiling the footlong, but denied doing the dirty deed at work.

"I would never do that at work -- it was at home," he said. "This isn't something I'd ever do at Subway. It was totally a joke."

Boggs' other photo shows a water bottle full of a yellow substance that he describes as urine. Though you can't tell from the photo whether the frozen urine is inside a Subway restaurant, Boggs says it was.

Store employees confirmed that Boggs and Jett currently work at the Subway location at Tuttle Crossing Boulevard in Columbus. The chain's corporate office didn't return calls for comment by press time.

UPDATE: Boggs and Jett were fired on Monday, and a representative from Subway public relations released this statement:

This isolated incident is not representative of SUBWAY Sandwich Artists™. These actions are not tolerated and the franchisee took immediate action to terminate the two employees involved.

The anonymous tipster who sent in the photos was horrified by the pair's handiwork.

"I saw the frozen piss picture and thought, 'What is this guy doing?'" the tipster said. "Then came the penis picture. They're stupid enough for doing this in the first place, but then to post it to the world? It was a dumb move.

"I didn't send these to be vindictive," he added, "But something needs to be done. It's disgusting."

He said he turned in the photos after reading about another case of tainted food on HuffPost Weird News last week. Giusepp Scire, owner of Jersey Joe's Pizzeria in San Diego, denied on Thursday that he masturbated in the eatery's kitchen, an act that was reportedly caught on security footage by users on 4Chan.

A picture posted last week clearly shows a man with white hair, handling his pepperoni in what appears to be a pizza kitchen, but Scire said he was the victim of disgruntled ex-employees' pranks.

In June, a Taco Bell employee became instantly infamous and was fired after he posted a picture of himself licking a stack of taco shells -- at work -- online. Taco Bell apologized and noted that the employee didn't intend to harm anyone by appearing to salivate all over the shells.

from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/2 ... 35174.html

 

[Bocefish]

ERECTION UPDATE: Pressure mounts on Weiner to pull out...

Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner admitted today he had another extended, raunchy online sexual relationship with a young woman — just months after resigning in disgrace from Congress in a sexting scandal.

But he won't be dropping out of the race. And his wife, Huma Abedin, is standing by him.

In a hasty scheduled joint press conference Abedin, Weiner said he will forge ahead with the campaign despite the latest sex scandal.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/duri ... nc8F9AOfmN

 

[MrRodry]

Sandy Baby Boom: New Jersey Hospital Expects 500 Births In July (Compared To 371 Last Year)

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - When Superstorm Sandy doused the lights along coastal New Jersey nine months ago, it laid the groundwork for a summertime baby boom that has hospitals jumping.

"It was a crazy time," said Dr. Steven Morgan, who practices obstetrics and gynecology at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune. "A lot of people were home, a lot of people didn't have TV, and obviously a lot of reproduction was happening."

Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch is on track to deliver about 500 babies this month, up from 371 delivered at the same time last year, said Dr. Robert Graebe, who heads the hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department.

Jersey Shore University Medical Center expects about 200 births this month, up from 160 in July 2012.

Both hospitals said they were bringing in extra staff to cope with the baby boom.

Sandy slammed into the area on October 29, causing more than 200 deaths and $50 billion in damage along the East Coast.

Many Jersey communities were without power for long periods of time.

"There is something about that heightened arousal, that sense of emergency and danger that does seem to cause people to form this physical connection, to kind of compensate in some way," said Dr. Christine Tintorer, a psychiatrist at Monmouth Medical.

"It almost sounds like psychobabble kind of stuff, but I think it does tap into this kind of primitive instinct, like to preserve the species."

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/2 ... 41859.html

 

[Just Me]

Sandy Baby Boom: New Jersey Hospital Expects 500 Births In July (Compared To 371 Last Year)

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - When Superstorm Sandy doused the lights along coastal New Jersey nine months ago, it laid the groundwork for a summertime baby boom that has hospitals jumping.

"It was a crazy time," said Dr. Steven Morgan, who practices obstetrics and gynecology at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune. "A lot of people were home, a lot of people didn't have TV, and obviously a lot of reproduction was happening."

Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch is on track to deliver about 500 babies this month, up from 371 delivered at the same time last year, said Dr. Robert Graebe, who heads the hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department.

Jersey Shore University Medical Center expects about 200 births this month, up from 160 in July 2012.

Both hospitals said they were bringing in extra staff to cope with the baby boom.

Sandy slammed into the area on October 29, causing more than 200 deaths and $50 billion in damage along the East Coast.

Many Jersey communities were without power for long periods of time.

"There is something about that heightened arousal, that sense of emergency and danger that does seem to cause people to form this physical connection, to kind of compensate in some way," said Dr. Christine Tintorer, a psychiatrist at Monmouth Medical.

"It almost sounds like psychobabble kind of stuff, but I think it does tap into this kind of primitive instinct, like to preserve the species."

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/2 ... 41859.html

I find this sad and hilarious. Sad because this seems to happen quite often after things that take away our access to other forms for entertainment. After major blackouts there is always news stories about a baby boom afterwards. Are we so sad as society that when there is nothing better to do sex is the default? Personally I would rather have sex than watch TV, peruse the internet, play computer games, watch a movie, read a book etc etc :lol:

 

[Bocefish]

Hey mom, can I build a nuclear reactor in the garage?

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp/52207962#52207962

 

[MrRodry]

Female jogger caught on camera pooping in New Mexico man's yard

News of a horse pooping on the floor of a McDonald's is one thing, but the news of a jogger pooping in a man's yard is something else. The Frisky reported on July 21, 2013, that a grown woman was jogging down the street before stopping in a New Mexico man's yard and pooping. She was even caught on camera doing it too.

The man, who has not been identified, said that he wants to identify the woman that he has caught on camera pooping in his yard multiple times. She appears to do it when she is going about on her morning jog.

"Drops her pants, lets go, puts her shorts back up, without any wipe, nothing else,” the homeowner said. “This is malicious fecal distribution. She’s come back multiple times.”

The man has said that he cannot identify her and has no idea who she is. he also has no earthly clue why she has decided to use the side of his home as her own personal toilet. The man said that she has done her business in his yard at least four times.

"If it happens again, I'm going to run out there with a hose and hose her down and say, 'Bad human!'"

Police have told the man that if the woman is caught, she could end up being charged with a misdemeanor. Her actions account for public nuisance and disorderly conduct charges.

from http://www.examiner.com/article/female- ... man-s-yard



:naughty:

 

[Rose]

Female jogger caught on camera pooping in New Mexico man's yard

News of a horse pooping on the floor of a McDonald's is one thing, but the news of a jogger pooping in a man's yard is something else. The Frisky reported on July 21, 2013, that a grown woman was jogging down the street before stopping in a New Mexico man's yard and pooping. She was even caught on camera doing it too.

The man, who has not been identified, said that he wants to identify the woman that he has caught on camera pooping in his yard multiple times. She appears to do it when she is going about on her morning jog.

"Drops her pants, lets go, puts her shorts back up, without any wipe, nothing else,” the homeowner said. “This is malicious fecal distribution. She’s come back multiple times.”

The man has said that he cannot identify her and has no idea who she is. he also has no earthly clue why she has decided to use the side of his home as her own personal toilet. The man said that she has done her business in his yard at least four times.

"If it happens again, I'm going to run out there with a hose and hose her down and say, 'Bad human!'"

Police have told the man that if the woman is caught, she could end up being charged with a misdemeanor. Her actions account for public nuisance and disorderly conduct charges.

from http://www.examiner.com/article/female- ... man-s-yard



:naughty:

That's hilarious and disgusting! :lol:

 

[GlassToys]

Hikers are rescued, then drive to their deaths in Atlantic Ocean off Maine

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...off-maine?lite

The women — identified as Amy Stiner of Machias, Maine, who was five months pregnant, and Melissa Moyer of Sunbury, Pa. — were found dead in the back of the van about 175 feet from shore in Pond Cove near Roque Bluffs State Park on Tuesday night, the Washington County Sheriff's Department said.

Their dog was also dead, the sheriff's department said.

According to the sheriff's report, the women got lost while hiking in the park about 9 p.m. ET in heavy wind and rain. A member of a local search rescue service found the women and their dog, and state wildlife wardens drove them back to their van.

About an hour later, the Warden Service got a call that the women had driven their car into the water about a mile from where they had last been seen, the sheriff's report said.

The Portland Press-Herald reported that the call came from the women themselves, who managed to report that the van was filling with water before their cellphone went dead.

Search teams found the van underwater about 175 feet off a boat ramp at Pond Cove.

"The end of the road becomes the boat landing, and they just weren't familiar with it," Sheriff Donnie Smith told the Press-Herald. "It was foggy and rainy, and they literally drove off the boat landing right into the water."

Smith told the newspaper that the van likely was found so far from shore because it floated for a while before sinking. The women were in the back seat because the front of the van would have sunk first and the women would have retreated to the back, he said.

 

[Sevrin]

Female jogger caught on camera pooping in New Mexico man's yard

News of a horse pooping on the floor of a McDonald's is one thing, but the news of a jogger pooping in a man's yard is something else. The Frisky reported on July 21, 2013, that a grown woman was jogging down the street before stopping in a New Mexico man's yard and pooping. She was even caught on camera doing it too.

The man, who has not been identified, said that he wants to identify the woman that he has caught on camera pooping in his yard multiple times. She appears to do it when she is going about on her morning jog.

"Drops her pants, lets go, puts her shorts back up, without any wipe, nothing else,” the homeowner said. “This is malicious fecal distribution. She’s come back multiple times.”

The man has said that he cannot identify her and has no idea who she is. he also has no earthly clue why she has decided to use the side of his home as her own personal toilet. The man said that she has done her business in his yard at least four times.

"If it happens again, I'm going to run out there with a hose and hose her down and say, 'Bad human!'"

Police have told the man that if the woman is caught, she could end up being charged with a misdemeanor. Her actions account for public nuisance and disorderly conduct charges.

from http://www.examiner.com/article/female- ... man-s-yard



:naughty:

That's hilarious and disgusting! :lol:

She's doing that for free?

 

[Sevrin]

We need more people like John McCain in politics.

McCain hopes $1 coin leads to bigger tips for strippers

"Then I hope that they could obtain larger denominations," McCain reportedly told The Hill.

According to The Hill, the 76 year-old McCain started answering questions from another reporter before a smile spread across his face and he shouted down the hallway to The Hill, "Fives, tens, one hundreds!"

 

[Bocefish]

MAN TRIES TO ROB GUN STORE WITH BASEBALL BAT

On Thursday afternoon, a man walked into Discount Gun Sales in Beaverton, Oregon. He was carrying a baseball bat and a knife. He proceeded to smash a display case with the bat, and grab a handgun. The manager promptly grabbed his own gun, told the suspect to drop the weapon, the bat, and the knife, and then held the suspect at gunpoint until the police came and arrested the 22-year-old.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... seball-bat

 

[Bocefish]

Who trusts a skinny chef?

Apparently, people are paranoid he will be using up too much of their socialized medicine money. Maybe they should kick out all the ugly politicians too.

New Zealand kicks obese chef out of the country because at nearly 290 pounds he is too heavy.

An obese chef has been told he is too fat to live in New Zealand, even though he has lost 66lb since moving there six years ago.

Albert Buitenhuis, who weighs 20 stone six pounds, was told that it may place demands on the New Zealand health services.

He and his wife Marthie are now facing deportation from their Christchurch home and are living with his sister in Auckland as they fight the decision.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2aHfKmIV2

I can envision Obamacare issuing a fat tax soon, right after Bloomberg tries it in New York first.

 

[MrRodry]

Clueless Virginia Tech student asks Nirvana to record homecoming video – 19 years after Kurt Cobain's death

At least one Nirvana fan still hasn't gotten the memo about Kurt Cobain's 1994 death.

Record label Sub Pop posted a request from a Virginia Tech student asking for the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" singers to record a video message for Tech's homecoming week to help support their candidacy in homecoming court.

The painfully out-of-date letter offers to "include any links to downloads, Facebook pages, Twitter pages, and/or Artist Management Agencies" for the group, and adds that Nirvana would appear among artists that include Big N Rich, Ying Yang Twins, the Cataracs, Slightly Stoopid and "three famous NFL Players."

The letter sent by the Virginia Tech student to Sub Pop.​

It's also unclear if the co-ed who wrote the request knew that all the members of Nirvana were male. "As Virginia Tech loves Nirvana, we'd love to have her in our video," the hapless homecoming court would-be wrote.

The student requested that the band deliver the following message: "What's up Virginia Tech? This is Nirvana! Just wanted to wish you guys a Happy Homecoming Week and good luck at the game this Saturday. LETS GO HOKIES!"

The employees at Sub Pop, baffled by the long-outdated inquiry, obliged the student by delivering the message.

​

Mark Arm, who played in the Nirvana contemporary band Mudhoney, stands in for Kurt Cobain in the video. The only tweak the group made was chanting for sandwiches instead of Tech's mascot: They signed off, "Let's go hoagies!"

from http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... -1.1409636

 

[GlassToys]

http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/civ ... by/2130278

Allen Daniel Hicks Sr., 51, was found stopped in his car on the side of Interstate 275 by a sheriff's deputy and a Florida Highway Patrol trooper the morning of May 11, 2012. Passers-by had called 911 after they saw Hicks' Chevy Cavalier swerving west into a guardrail, records of the incident show.

Speaking incoherently and unable to move his left arm, Hicks was arrested on a charge of obstructing a law enforcement officer when he did not respond to commands to exit his car. Just after noon, he was booked into the Orient Road Jail.

Hicks did not receive a medical screening, but was put in a cell where he lay facedown on the floor or tried to crawl using the one working side of his body. On the night of May 12, soaked in his own urine, his brain choked of blood, he was at last taken to Tampa General Hospital and diagnosed with an ischemic stroke. He slipped into a coma and died within three months.

 

[GlassToys]

http://poinsettcounty.kait8.com/news/ne ... s-testicle

Dog eats paralyzed man's testicle

A Trumann man awoke Monday morning to find his dog eating one of his testicles. The man, who has not been identified, is paralyzed and told police he has “no feeling from the waist down.”

Around 7:45 a.m. Monday he was awakened by a “burning pain” in his mid-section, according to the initial police report. The 39-year-old man told police he sleeps in the nude and noticed the dog was between his legs.

He also noticed the “small, white, fluffy dog” had blood on its muzzle and front feet.

When the man looked further, according to the report, he noticed that “the dog had eaten one of his testicles.”

The victim said the dog was a stray he had taken in about three weeks earlier. The man was unsure if the dog had been vaccinated.

Police took the dog to a local veterinarian where it was euthanized. Its head was sent to the Arkansas Department of Health to be tested for rabies.

The victim was taken to St. Bernards Regional Medical Center where he was treated for his injuries.

 

[MrRodry]

Barcelona crowd thrilled by Michal Navratil's Superman dive​

Czech diver Michal Navratil performs his signature 'Superman dive' for the crowd at the World Championships in Barcelona.

Navratil finished fourth in the championships, behind Colombia's Orlando Duque, GB's Gary Hunt and Mexico's Jonathan Paredes.

from http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/diving/23526168

 

[Poker_Babe]

Man with 132 lb. scrotum gets TLC show
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/31/man-scrotum-show/

 

[GlassToys]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d80_1375363940

http://www.wisn.com/news/armed-agents-r ... z2apAyJJkZ

Government agents swarmed an animal shelter and killed a baby deer named Giggles as Wisconsin law forbids keeping wildlife without the right permit.

WISN 12 News reported on a military-style operation in July where nine officers from the Department of Natural Resources and four deputy sheriffs stormed the barn at the Society of St. Francis on the Illinois border.

Angry Cindy Schulze, the shelter's president, is planning legal action and questioned whether the raid was a good use of government resources.
She accused authorities of going 'way over the top for a little, tiny, baby deer.'




'It was like a SWAT team,' shelter employee Ray Schulze said. When he asked the officers why they had killed the fawn they told him it was down to policy. 'That's one hell of a policy,' the man replied.

The agents, heavily armed and with a search warrant, euthanized the baby deer which was scheduled to move to a proper wildlife facility the following day.

Giggles stayed at the facility for two weeks, during which time the DNR received two anonymous phone calls reporting that the fawn was staying there against regulations.

According to WISN 12, the authorities arrived with detailed information about where they could observe the baby deer at the farm, including aerial photos.

The agents then corralled the staff and went in search of the animal, returning minutes later with the apparently lifeless fawn. The DNR maintain that they tranquilized the deer and killed it off-site.

Jennifer Niemeyer, a DNR spokeswoman, told WISN 12 that she was empathetic to a difficult situation but that the department euthanized wild animals due to their potential for disease and danger to humans.

She plans legal proceedings against the department for killing the animal without any warning, a phone call or court hearing.

When WISN asked Niemeyer why the agents hadn't rang ahead before the raid, the spokeswoman compared the action to a drug operation.

'If a sheriff's department is going in to do a search warrant on a drug bust, they don't call them and ask them to voluntarily surrender their marijuana or whatever drug that they have before they show up,' she said.

 

[Bocefish]

Baboon Burglars...

In the street battle for supremacy between man and baboon, it can only be said that both sides are using guerrilla tactics.

For the baboons it means swarming SAS style up the sheer sides of blocks of flats, prising open windows and plundering anything that is inside. Usually they just want food, but sometimes a flapping set of net curtains or a child’s cuddly toy bear can provide some added entertainment.

For the humans, the weapons of choice – given that their enemy is a protected species – tend to be paintball guns and pepper sprays. They have the momentary effect of driving the baboons away, but hunger and sheer nerve always bring them back.

Scroll down for video

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2axkP2MNU

 

[MrRodry]

Clip Clop Gun: Air force teaching squadron adopts My Little Pony patch as its badge​

The U.S. Air Force is considered one of the most feared military bodies in the world.

But one pilot training unit has adopted an unusually child-like symbol – My Little Pony.

Pilots at Oklahoma's Vance Air Force Base have worn a pony inspired patch since April.

Every class at the flying school chooses a patch, normally using symbols representing courage, such as cougars, scorpions or even skulls.

But, unusually, Class 14-05 decided to go for something a little more pink, reported The Daily Dot.

First Lieutenant Tom Barger told News on 6: ‘During a slideshow presentation, while previewing the different patch options, the student presenter threw the “My Little Pilot” patch design into the mix as an ironic joke.

‘That patch made it all the way through the approval process and is even more ironic since the class never really wanted it in the first place.’

The patch is inspired by My Little Pony cartoon Friendship is Magic.

It says in pink stylised writing: ‘My Little Pilot, Flying is magic’.

It is thought to be a reference the growing ‘Brony’ community online, a group of grown men who enjoy watching the children’s cartoon.

Patches at Vance are unofficial and are worn only during pilot training.

He added to Escapist magazine: ‘[The class] thought it was so off-the-wall that it was hilarious. They have embraced the irony and humour of the patch and in so doing have fostered closer ties with each other.’

from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... badge.html

 

[GlassToys]

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56684 ... y.html.csp

Man beats up father after catching him having sex with his wife in his sons bedroom :naughty:



Utah sheriff's deputy arrested for beating his father after 'catching him having sex with his wife in son's bedroom'

Betrayed husband Timothy John 'TJ' Brewer has been charged after beating his father and hitting his wife in a booze-fueled rage after allegedly catching them having sex in his son's bedroom last month.

Caught in a bizarre family love triangle, 33-year-old Brewer allegedly found his wife Logan Rae Brewer 'on top of his dad', respected Moab fire chief Wesley 'Corky' Brewer, after they had dinner at TJ's Utah home on July 11.

Furious at their love tryst, TJ 'backhanded' his wife and pointed a gun at her, before 'pistol whipping' his father, who later stabbed himself.

According to police documents published by TPM, the trouble started when Logan went upstairs after dinner - at which they had all been drinking - to put one of her children to bed.

Realizing he was alone in the house, TJ, a former Moab sheriff's deputy, went upstairs to check where his wife was, before finding the pair in bed and attacking them.

Logan raced to her parents’ house after the altercation, while Corky returned to his own home to 'find a firearm.'
However when his distress



However when his distressed wife, Cindy Brewer, wouldn't let him have the gun, Corky allegedly 'grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed himself two times, puncturing a lung and slicing his liver'.

Corky was rushed to Moab Regional Hospital and was too injured to talk to police.



TJ and Corky were among several law enforcement officers in the extended Brewer family, which includes multiple police officers and local sheriff’s deputies.

TPM reports TJ went to the hospital to 'kill' his father, and was initially confronted by his uncle, Curt Brewer, who is also a sheriff’s deputy, in the parking lot.

When police arrived, intoxicated TJ was not wearing a shirt or shoes and 'stated several times that he wanted to kill his dad, that he wanted his gun to ‘finish the job'.'

Police wrote in their report: 'TJ made numerous remarks to each officer and deputy that arrived, about all of us being stupid, dumb asses, and at one point stated we needed to call someone with a brain to come and talk with him.'


According to the Salt Lake Tribune, officers accompanied TJ home so he could check on his children, breaking down on the way saying he had lost everything.

TJ was arrested and charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, two counts of domestic violence in front a child, assault on a police officer, intoxication, and disorderly conduct by Grand County officers.

However, because of the Brewers' law enforcement ties in Grand County, the investigation was passed onto the Utah County Sheriff’s Office who reduced the charges to two class A misdemeanors - assault and assault against a peace officer.

The Utah Attorney General is also prosecuting the case rather than the local district attorney.

TPM reports TJ was released from the San Juan County Jail on bail on July 15.
He is forbidden from drinking alcohol, contacting his father and wife and he must be supervised when he visits his children.

TJ also resigned from the Grand County Sheriff’s Department and is next due in court August 6.

Corky also resigned from the fire department where he had been chief since 1989.

Deseret News reports TJ'S wife will refuse to testify against her husband if called to do so, filing notice she intends to assert spousal privilege .

 

[MrRodry]

Dola Indidis, Kenyan Lawyer, Seeks To Overturn Jesus' Conviction 2,000 Years Later

Dola Indidis has one goal: get justice for Jesus, even if it comes 2,000 years later.

To that end, the Kenyan lawyer named quite the roster of defendants -- including Pontius Pilate, King Herod, the former Emperor of Rome, and the states of Israel and Italy -- in the lawsuit he recently filed with the International Court of Justice, media outlets report.

“I filed the case because it’s my duty to uphold the dignity of Jesus and I have gone to the ICJ to seek justice for the man from Nazareth,” Indidis told Standard Media, a Kenyan news website. “His selective and malicious prosecution violated his human rights through judicial misconduct, abuse of office bias and prejudice.”

Including modern-day states in the suit, Indidis explained to another news outlet, is the result of those countries having previous ties to the Roman Empire.

"The government for whom they acted still is answerable for their act," Indidis told Kenya's Citizen TV. "Pontius Pilate was acting under the government of Rome, which was headed by Caesar."

Indidis went on to tell the news station that he would be relying on the Bible for evidence and that he thinks he has a good case.

While revisiting a 2,000-year-old case will be a challenge, to say the least, the Religious News Service notes that Indidis is pointing to the trial of Joan of Arc as evidence that there is precedent for his request. (Joan of Arc was burned at the stake but the verdict in her case was reversed years after her death by a papal commission.)

Still, Columbia law professor Anthea Roberts explained to Time magazine's blog Swampland that Indidis does not have much of a chance at even having his case being considered by the ICJ.

"When it comes to contentious cases, the International Court of Justice only has jurisdiction to hear claims that are brought by one state against another state," she told the outlet. "As this claim is not brought by a state, the ICJ would lack jurisdiction over it."

Indeed, when the website Legal Cheek reached out to the ICJ, they denied that they they would be hearing the case, with a spokesperson reportedly telling the news outlet, "It is not even theoretically possible for us to consider this case."

Watch the report from Kenya's Citizen TV below:

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/0 ... 13610.html

 

[Bocefish]

Birdbrained woman wants chickens to wear diapers...

Posted: Aug 07, 2013 12:20 PM CDT


A Colorado woman has launched a very interesting business.

She is selling chicken diapers in the wake of a health scare.

A salmonella warning has been issued for chicken farmers keeping the animals as pets. The centers for disease control says salmonella outbreaks have been linked to backyard flocks thus promoting the woman to launch the chicken diaper business.

Mary has two let chickens, Henny and Penny. She says, "I've never had a problem and I don't think most people would."

The CDC is investigating two large, multi - state outbreaks of salmonella.

 

[MrRodry]

Shark found on New York subway

A dead shark has been discovered on the subway in New York City, transport officials have confirmed.​

The unlikely passenger, about 1.2m (4ft) long, was found under a row of seats on a Queens-bound train.

The conductor asked passengers to leave the carriage and the train continued to the end of the line, where a supervisor disposed of the shark.

Pigeons and even an opossum have made their way on to the trains before, but never a shark, transit officials said.

However, where it came from remains a mystery.

Isvett Verde, of Brooklyn, New York, who took a photo of the shark, said she noticed that the empty carriage of the N train "smelled extremely fishy" when she boarded at 8th Street.

"It's hard to be surprised as there are always crazy things happening in this city, but even that was a bit much," she told the BBC.

Other pictures of the exotic discovery have also gone viral, including one of the shark with a cigarette in its mouth next to a fare card and a can of energy drink.

from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23610105

 

[MrRodry]

$700k windfall: Russian man outwits bank with hand-written credit contract​

A Russian man who decided to write his own small print in a credit card contract has had his changes upheld in court. He's now suing the country's leading online bank for more than 24 million rubles ($727,000) in compensation.

Disappointed by the terms of the unsolicited offer for a credit card from Tinkoff Credit Systems in 2008, a 42-year-old Dmitry Agarkov from the city of Voronezh decided to hand write his own credits terms.

The trick was that Agarkov simply scanned the bank’s document and ‘amended’ the small print with his own terms.

He opted for a 0 percent interest rate and no fees, adding that the customer "is not obliged to pay any fees and charges imposed by bank tariffs." The bank, however, didn’t read ‘the amendments’, as it signed and certified the document, as well as sent the man a credit card. Under the agreement, the bank OK'd to provide unlimited credit, according to Agarkov’s lawyer Dmitry Mikhalevich talking to Kommersant daily.

"The opened credit line was unlimited. He could afford to buy an island somewhere in Malaysia, and the bank would have to pay for it by law," Mikhalevich added.

Agarkov also changed the URL of the site where the terms and conditions were published and hedged against the bank’s breaking of the agreement. For each unilateral change in the terms provided in the agreement, the bank would be asked to pay the customer (Agarkov) 3 million rubles ($91,000), or a cancelation fee of 6 million rubles ($182,000).

However, after two years of active use, the bank decided to terminate Agarkov's credit card because of overdue payments. In 2012, the bank sued Agarkov for 45,000 rubles ($1,363) - an amount that included the remaining balance, fees, and late payment charges, which violated the actual agreement. The court decided that the agreement Agarkov crafted was valid, and required him to settle only his balance of 19,000 rubles ($575).

The bankers had to admit the mistake, says Agarkov’s representative Dmitry Mikhalevich.

"They signed the documents without looking. They said what usually their borrowers say in court: 'We have not read it,'” says Mikhalevich.

Despite the victory, Agarkov decided to sue Tinkoff Credit Systems for fines of 24 million rubles ($727,000) for not honoring the terms of the agreement, and the decision to terminate the contract without paying 6 million rubles ($182,000) fee.

"Our lawyers think, he is going to get not 24 million, but really four years in prison for fraud. Now it's a matter of principle for @ tcsbank,” founder of the bank Oleg Tinkov tweeted.

“We don’t have small print, everything is clear and transparent. Try to open a card - then we'll talk. Stealing is a sin - in my opinion, of course. Not all in Russia think so,” Tinkov tweeted.

The next hearing will be held in September.

from http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-ba ... court-221/

 

[schlmoe]

Students looking for test answers on teacher's laptop find something better! :lol:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... swers.html

 

[Sevrin]

8 Detained in Flying Spaghetti Monster Ritual

A "pasta procession" by the Russian followers of the not-so-serious Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was dispersed in Moscow on Saturday by riot police and Orthodox activists, the prankster movement said.

The Moscow police press service told RIA Novosti that eight "Pastafarians" were detained for "attempting to hold an unsanctioned rally."

Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/arti ... z2cM4baBKb
The Moscow Times

 

[GlassToys]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 74501.html



Doctors in Canberra have removed a 10-centimetre fork from the penis of a 70-year-old man who inserted it into his uretha in an attempt to achieve sexual gratification.

The case is considered so unusual it was written-up by three doctors in the International Journal of Surgery Case Report last month.

According to the report the man presented at Canberra Hospital emergency department with a bleeding sexual organ.

The Canberra Times says he told doctors he had inserted the piece of cutlery into his urethra almost 12 hours earlier in an attempt to achieve sexual gratification, but the fork - perhaps unsurprisingly - became stuck.

Doctors were able to feel the fork from outside and remarkable x-ray images showed the utensil wedged into the man's penis.

Medics finally removed the item using forceps and "copious lubrication" while the patient was under a general anaesthetic.

The case appears in the International Journal of Surgery Case Report published last month and is entitled "An Unusual Urethral Foreign Body".

In the document medics remark that it was rare to see objects lodged in the lower urinary tract.

Doctors explained that they wrote up the case "given the great management challenge faced by the oddity and infrequency with which a fork is encountered in the penile urethra".

“It is apparent that the human mind is uninhibited let alone creative," they wrote.

“Autoerotic stimulation with the aid of self-inserted urethral foreign bodies has been existent since time immemorial and have presented an unusual but known presentation to urologists."

According to the Canberra Times the report lists other objects found in parts of other bodies including wire, Allen keys, toothbrushes, light bulbs, thermometers, plants, vegetables, leeches, snakes and glue.

The newspaper also notes that the report says many patients try to remove items that become stuck because of embarrassment.

Their own attempts to extract the objects often result in further injuries the paper notes.

 

[schlmoe]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/shocking-xray-doctors-remove-fork-from-penis-of-70yearold-australian-man-8774501.html



Doctors in Canberra have removed a 10-centimetre fork from the penis of a 70-year-old man who inserted it into his uretha in an attempt to achieve sexual gratification.

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I find this interesting/ironic that this particular story was posted by the user "GlassToys" :lol: