If you haven’t heard by now, the recent story of a boy drifting away in a homemade hot-air balloon was a complete hoax. It has recently come to light that the purpose of the hoax was for footage for a TV show to raise money. The intended purpose of that money? To build a bunker for protection from the sun exploding in 2012.
On 10.20.09, In Odd News, By Nick James
On 10.13.09, In Odd News, By Nick James
This is not from The Onion: Swedish people have discovered a grim new way of culling nuisance wild rabbits – by burning them in their thousands to heat their homes.
The targeted rabbits are the unwanted inhabitants of capital Stockholm’s parks, which are culled to protect the shrubs and trees which they gorge on.
Many of them are domestic pets released by uncaring owners which then go on to breed.
Six thousand were killed last year, frozen and their cadavers sent to a special heating plant in Karlskoga, central Sweden.
On 10.07.09, In Odd News, By Nick James
A traveling exhibition of human cadavers wants a stolen lung back.
The left lung was taken in Peru from “Bodies: The Exhibition,” which has travelled the globe displaying cadavers preserved through a process that replaces water in biological tissues with polymers.
The organ disappeared from an area where visitors can touch preserved cadavers.
“In the whole world this has never happened,” said Susan Hoefken, manager of Lima-based Impacto, the company presenting the exhibition.
A $2,000 reward – no questions asked – was offered Tuesday for the return of the lung. It has no commercial value but will be costly to replace, Hoefken said.
On 10.05.09, In Odd News, By Nick James
Children in a school in Germany had a day to remember this week when four pupils found around 15,000 euros (22,000 dollars) and then handed it out to their friends in the playground.
The four, two boys and two girls aged between 10 and 13, found the bundle of cash stuffed in a dirty brown envelope on the way into their school in Frankfurt on Tuesday morning.
One worried child went to the teaching staff following the excited playground handout that followed, however, and the children were told to return the money.
On 09.30.09, In Odd News, By Nick James
A community of dwarfs in China is tired of being discriminated against and is doing something about it.
The people of Kunming, a mountain community in southern China, have set up their own village to escape discrimination from normal sized people. All of the 120 residents are under 4-feet, 3-inches tall, and they run their own police force and fire department.
The group also has turned itself into a tourist attraction by building mushroom houses and living and dressing like fairy tale characters.
On 09.25.09, In Odd News, By Nick James
Wild Turkeys Terrorize Jersey Neighborhood
A group of wild turkeys is wreaking havoc in a Cherry Hill, N.J. neighborhood. The large birds attacked a mother and child Thursday afternoon. NBC Philadelphia photojournalist Bruce Ryan had to step in and help scare the turkeys away.
Apparently aware that Thanksgiving is coming and they are all about to die, a number of turkeys, you heard me, turkeys, are terrorizing a New Jersey neighborhood.
At about 00:18 the two turkeys attacked the cameraman. I think I need to point out these are TURKEYS! Come on now, people, they are not exactly the most frightening animal on the planet.
On 09.18.09, In Odd News, By Nick James
Woman Trying To Smash Penny Hit By Train
They say the woman in her 20s suffered a minor head injury and was walking around when crews arrived.
Apparently never having been told it is not necessary to hold the penny while the train passes over it, this woman was lucky and suffered only minor injuries.
Woman: 0 / Trains: 1
Slow Train Foils Suicide Attempt
A California man who tried to commit suicide by lying down on the train tracks in the Central Valley was saved by low speed and a cow-catcher.
On 09.16.09, In Odd News, By Nick James
Indicating that today is a slow news day Reuters is reporting that British men are becoming increasingly interested in having their eyebrows professionally groomed, according to Debenhams department store which plans to hold men-only “guybrow” nights.
Men, it said, now make up 40 percent of the visitors to its brow bars, double the proportion of a year ago.
They are going for a treatment called “threading,” an ancient method of hair removal which originated in India in which a thin twine of cotton thread is rolled over the offending area, plucking the hair from the follicle level.
On 09.15.09, In Odd News, By Nick James
A drunk French teenager narrowly escaped death on Sunday after falling asleep on a railway track and slumbering undisturbed as a high-speed train roared over him.
The 19-year old, whose name was not released, remained fast asleep face down on a stretch of track near Saint Nolff in southern Brittany, as the Quimper to Paris train passed, leaving only a few grease stains on the back of his jacket.
This kid is one lucky SOB, had he been on the rail he would be dead or missing limbs.
Drinking Lesson: Do not pass out on railroad tracks.
