Mad-shopper spinster Joan Cunnane died at 77, having 3 feet of suitcases fall on top of her. Dailymail.co.uk reports, “[her possessions] took up so much space in her bungalow that she had only a 2ft-wide path to get around them, and her car and garage were packed with other goods.”
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In a similar story, a Mr. Stewart died recently of dehydration when trapped within tunnels he created inside his own home.
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A girl in North Dakota called the police on New Year’s Eve to “report herself driving under the influence.” After failing the sobriety test, the girl, underage, reported that she’d been driving around for hours.
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And other people try to fool cops by making fake 911 calls to divert their attention. What brilliant ideas people have!
A new study says you may be more racist than you think.
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A man broke into a sex shop, made love to one, left it in the street, and then stole four others.
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Rawstory.com reveals that since Bush took office, deaths from global terrorism have increased.
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In a nice 7-hour-tale where good conquers evil: a man outsmarted a couple of carjackers using a text message for bait- girls and drugs. When the thieves turned up at the location, the police were already awaiting them.
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The possessions and writings of Theodore Kaczynski, “The Unabomber” will be sold to pay restituion to the families of his victims, a San Francisco court ruled recently. Unfortunately for Ted, the courts denied his appeal that the sale of his works were a violation of his freedom of expression.
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New anti-stress tools for “relieving your economic aggression”- Alan, Ben, and Henry squeeze-toys!
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Texas death row inmate, Andrew Thomas, tells the police that he plucked out his eye and ate it.
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A 140-year old lobster, caught and showed off at City Crab Seafoods, will be returning to his natural habitat and in an area where lobster trapping is banned.
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PETA may have one that one, but they’re not having so much luck renaming fish “sea kittens”…
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Hundreds of dead pelicans are dropping from the skies from Mexico to Oregon! Click here to read about it and here for more mysterious animal mass death stories.
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The basement of a funeral home was recently discovered as having been used for a meth lab.
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A teacher in primary school China ripped a student’s cheeks after he was unable to hand in his work. Ten-year-old Zheng Chaoqun who had to have 52 stitches, is still being treated.
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Just days before marrying her four-year fiancee, a bride-to-be discovered her groom was, in fact, a pedophile.
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The 2008 Darwin Award was won by “daredevil Catholic priest,” Reverend di Carli, who used 1,000 party balloons and floated off to sea. His body was found three months later off the coast of Brazil. His intention was to give the funding for a “spiritual rest-stop for truckers near Brazil’s largest grain port.
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But the stories of crazy priests don’t stop there… an Episcopal priest in New York currently makes a name for himself by hopping around in nightclubs.
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A man from Britain was left with £100 billion pounds (or $208 billion), overdrawn by a bank error.
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A 29-year-old man has come up with an environmentally-friendly, resourceful paper shredder: a hamster. Using the model, if a hamster runs for 45 minutes straight, he/she can shred an entire sheet of A4 paper!
(Claire would like to personally voice concern for her rodential friends, as their may be risk involving ink. [read: last week’s purple squirrel article- it’s not poisoned, YET…] As with most rodents, hamsters have a tendency to chew on things, and further, she thinks this model will only work for young hamsters, and as they age, buying bedding will become necessary since they will run less and less on their wheels. Claire is very impressed by the innovation, however!)
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Santa wasn’t the only intruder this Christmas! A man hid in a family’s attic for days, unnoticed. The family stated that they thought the noises they heard were made by their three children.
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And still, some people try to break into their own homes!
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But even MORE potentially toxic hazard that merits our concern when regarding animals, is underwear. Metro.co.uk compiles a list of the top twenty weirdest things removed from pets’ bellies.
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The world’s oldest woman, Maria de Jesus, of Portugal, died at age 115, recently. It is reported that she outlived 3 of 6 of her own children.
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Now for births!
A British mixed race couple has given birth not once but twice, to pairs of fraternal twins with different skin tones. Scientists say it’s incredibly rare for it to happen once, but “one in millions” for it to occur a second time.
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And in other twin news, twins from Michigan were born on different months, days, and year.
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And finally, a baby was born during a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam. The on-board paramedic and doctor were there to assist the mother, who had no difficulties, and it has been decided that the baby is of Canadian citizenship given the plane was over Canada’s airspace when she was born.
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Besides all the twin stories, it seems like a lot of this week’s weird news is focusing in on human stupidity, so I will end with a redeeming article of a man who at 72, leapt from a 2nd story floor window and extinguished a fire.
So many great articles! FANTASTIC!
The best line, enunciated with zeal and an anti-depressant-Christmas-botox fueled smile: “Santa wasn’t the only intruder this Christmas!”
I recently saw the crown handed to the oldest man in the US, Walter Breuning of Great Falls, Montana! He offered his wit: “I’ve got a good memory–that’s the trouble, I remember too damn much!”
and
“Everyone used to go down to the library to check out books,” he said. “We all used to read or get together on the weekends to play cards, but all that changed when radio and TV came in.”
and
“Being the oldest or the youngest puts you better; both have a way of traveling and beset with many dangers and exciting possibilities.”
Keep up the great work!
Waaaahhh! Thanks for the encouragement, monsieur!
I especially like the last two things he said. I am envious still, that he can say the first but I’m pretty sure we’ve had this conversation, and there are people who find their memories to be a curse.
Inspiring- thanks! It’d be interesting to compare the axioms and wisdom of several of “the world’s oldest.”
Wisdom such as “If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no need for tinkers”
Courtesy of my mate’s nan.
I do not even understand how I ended up here, but I assumed this publish used to be great