The WTF? - Files..

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Britain short of clowns.. (yes, you did read that right)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921346.stm

But surely parliament is full of them.. all professional :yahoo:



Hospital removes hand gel.. because people are getting drunk on it! (Oh... and dying as well)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7920576.stm

The ultimate bowel cleaner :thumbsup:




"Hi, you are speaking to God. I'm not in right now so leave a message after the beep."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090302/od_nm/us_dutch_god_odd
 
Scottish Police force has 'Jedi' officers..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8003067.stm

The force is with them.. until retirement age.



Drunk tries to make getaway on steamroller.
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/dpp/news/041509_Man_Gets_DWI_on_Steamroller

He would have got away with it, if it weren't for those pesky squashed kids.



Man bites off the tip of his own penis..

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30226391/

Police got a 'tip-off'




Bad: Man tries to illegally smuggle tortoises into the U.S.

Worse: they were in a box marked 'Live Scorpions.. which incidently are also illegal.

WTF: The guy happens to be a border patrol agent.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30227313/
 
Council half-fills potholes..
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3331826.html?menu=news.quirkies



3yr old buys £8000 digger..
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3331966.html?menu=news.quirkies

All I got when I was a kid, was some lego..:mad:






Bad: Thieves steal £3m Sculpture.

Worse: They melt it down for scrap.

WTF?: They sell what's left of it for £1500..
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3325981.html?menu=news.quirkies



Chinese suicide attempt goes well...
Passer-by gives him a helping hand.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8064867.stm
 
Crop circle mystery finally solved.. it was alie..
WAIT.. WHAT?.. WALLABIES??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8118257.stm





Ahh, a nice walk on the beach..
Pebbles, sand, driftwood, WWII tank.. WHAT??
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3374670.html?menu=news.quirkies





Bad: Thieves steal caravan

Good: Owner gets it back

WTF: She was in the caravan at the time
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3371917.html?menu=news.quirkies




Belgian bus driver sacked... because she's a pornstar
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3368018.html?menu=news.quirkies

I guess she was letting too many ride..
 
Woman finds 'stolen' Audi in neighbor's garage
BERLIN – An Audi sedan written off by an elderly German woman as stolen two years ago has resurfaced — in her neighbor's garage beneath a thick layer of dust. Police said Thursday the 82-year-old from the northern city of Hildesheim took the car in for repairs two years ago and had the mechanics drive it back to her house and park it in her garage.

She got the keys and papers from her mailbox, but when she went to get the car it was nowhere to be found. So she reported it stolen.

Fast forward to Wednesday when her neighbor went to clean up his unused garage so it could be rented. He found the car under "a centimeter-deep coating of dust."

It didn't take police long to piece together that the mechanics had parked it in the wrong garage.

Man charged with attacking roommate with coconut
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Authorities said a West Palm Beach man trying to get money from his roommate hit him with a coconut, a porcelain bowl and a wooden carving. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office reported that the 44-year-old man was charged with robbery with a weapon and false imprisonment after Saturday's attack. The roommate eventually got away and called for help.

Deputies reported finding the man riding a bicycle near the home. They say he smelled like alcohol and appeared to be drunk.

He was being held on $4,000 bail
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34 hospitalized after co-worker sprays perfume
FORT WORTH, Texas – At first, fire officials suspected that carbon monoxide or some other toxic fumes had sickened almost 150 people at a Texas bank call center. It turned out that perfume was to blame.

MedStar ambulance spokeswoman Lara Kohl says 34 people were taken to hospitals, 12 by ambulance, after reporting dizziness and shortness of breath Wednesday at a Bank of America call center in Fort Worth. An additional 110 were treated at the scene.

Fort Worth fire Lt. Kent Worley said the incident started with two people complaining about dizziness after a co-worker sprayed perfume. Others reported being sick when an announcement was made that anyone with similar symptoms should exit the building.

Investigators do not know what type of perfume was sprayed.
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Don't really know what to say about this...

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Supafly

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The craze never stops :rolleyes:

Government in Action!

Small Town Management: After haggling for a while at its June 16 meeting, the county board in Lincoln, Neb., finally voted, 2-1, to reimburse Shum Darwin for his pants, which went missing at the jail after Darwin was arrested. The city's liability was clear; the debate was about whether the pants were worth $12 or $10. [Journal Star (Lincoln), 6-16-09]

Lingo Boingo

An investigation by the U.K. TV channel More4 revealed in June that local U.K. councils spend the equivalent of $80 million a year translating their documents into dozens of languages in the cause of "fairness," even obscure languages that few residents speak, and even given evidence that, in dozens of cases, no one has ever tried to access the documents. Translations were found in Albanian, Bengali, Kurdish, Somali, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Sierra Leonean Creole, Karen (eastern Burma) and Ga (Ghana), among others. [Daily Telegraph, 6-13-09]

Urban Legends Come to Life

In the American version (which actually happened at least once, in Bucks County, Pa., in the 1980s), cynical cops use a photocopier "connected" by a crude wire to the suspect, and a sheet of "He's Lying" paper in the output tray, as a "lie detector" test. In July, the Tel Aviv, Israel, Police Department used a "memory machine" to change the mind of a murder suspect who swore he could not remember anything about the night of the crime. Hooked up to an electrocardiogram machine, the perp was "informed" that certain squiggles on the paper proved that he did indeed remember and must be hiding details. Andrei Polokhin, 47, then confessed and was charged with fatally stabbing his neighbor. [Israel National News, 7-13-09]

Source: http://www.newsoftheweird.com
 

Supafly

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The Thrills of Flying

The British charter airline Thomas Cook announced at the gate in the resort island of Mallorca in June that, regardless of seat assignments on a departing flight, passengers should sit toward the rear of the aircraft in order to balance the load (since it was already front-heavy with cargo and therefore harder on the pilot). Not surprisingly, 71 apprehensive passengers refused to board. (Also, some incoming passengers on that same aircraft, which experienced a similar balance problem, had dramatically dropped to their knees in the terminal, kissing the ground, calling the flight their worst ever.) [Daily Mail (London), 6-23-09]

The Continuing Crisis

The New Age movement might be growing too inclusive, according to a July report in the St. Paul Pioneer Press (published in a city where the concept of "New Age" is already highly nuanced). "(P)agans feel jilted," wrote the reporter. "Chiropractors want out (of consideration)," "channelers wonder if they belong," and "organic farmers don't want to be near pet psychics." Said one St. Paul merchant, "I have customers who completely believe in fairies and will laugh at you if you believe in Bigfoot." But, said one New Age magazine editor, the movement should "encompass anything on a spiritual path -- Bigfoot, Jesus, Buddha. Even worshipping a frog is sort of OK." [St. Paul Pioneer Press, 7-13-09]

Somalia's Anti-Piracy Measures

World's Toughest Job: Farah Ahmed Omar was appointed recently as chief of Somalia's navy, which ordinarily would be on the front lines against the throng of pirates operating off the country's coast. Omar's job is difficult, though, because the Somalian navy has not a single boat nor a single sailor, and Omar himself has not been to sea in 23 years. However, he told a reporter he was optimistic that the piracy could be stopped. [BBC News, 6-16-09]
 
Police: 500-pound inmate hid gun in his flab
Three separate body searches failed to locate 9mm pistol, officials say

HOUSTON - An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden in his rolls of fat.

George Vera, 25, was charged with possession of a firearm in a correctional facility after he told a guard at the Harris County Jail about the unloaded 9mm pistol.

The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday that Vera was originally arrested on charges of selling illegal copies of compact discs

The 500-pound man was searched during his arrest and again at a city jail and the county jail, but officers never found the weapon.

Vera admitted having the gun during a shower break at the county jail.
 

Supafly

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Damn, I don't even want to imagine having to strip search such a blob^^

I thought they would have metal detector in jails.
 
All hail the mighty curry... cancer killer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8328377.stm



Man tries to rob bank at gu.. I mean spoon-point
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3540714.html?menu=news.quirkies
Apparently the bank staff were shaken.. but not stirred :1orglaugh



China In 'shock' over big breasts
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3539376.html?menu=news.quirkies
Best quote: "The park used to be a great place for families, but now what attracts my son the most is the huge breasts"

yup, nothing like huge breasts to attract teenage sons :boobies::bowdown:



If Carlsberg made baths...
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3539334.html?menu=news.quirkies
I'm guessing it's filled with Heineken... because it will reach places than other beers can't.:glugglug:
 
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