Topic 42 of 106: Weird and Unusual News
Thu, Aug 23, 2001 (14:23) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Weird and unusual news.
14 responses total.
Topic 42 of 106 [news]: Weird and Unusual News
Response 1 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Aug 23, 2001 (14:23) * 18 lines
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/01/8/23/14257484.cfm
Police follow naked man to pot crop.
When an officer approached the man and asked why he was naked, the man
reportedly said that he felt like it so he just did it. an officer writing
the man a ticket for indecent exposure then asked the man what he did for a
living, and he allegedly said he grew marijuana.
According to the police report, the man then asked for the officer's help in
harvesting the crop. The officer said he was too lazy to help, but offered
5to go look at the man's operation, and the naked man agreed.
"The man's wife told police she had never been inside heer husband's shed,
but that was where her husband did his artwork and practiced with his yo-yo.
Topic 42 of 106 [news]: Weird and Unusual News
Response 2 of 14: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Aug 23, 2001 (16:08) * 1 lines
Hmmmm ... I think this is stuff for which I created News that Doen't Fit... Curious stuff!
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Response 3 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Aug 23, 2001 (19:07) * 1 lines
I guess we can put the *really strange* news here then and the ohther news there?
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Response 4 of 14: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Aug 23, 2001 (19:14) * 2 lines
Yup.... sounds good to me.
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Response 5 of 14: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Sep 4, 2001 (19:31) * 46 lines
Mistaken Rapture
Little Rock (AP)
A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping
through her moving car's sunroof during an incident
best described as "a mistaken rapture" by dozens of
eyewitnesses. Thirteen other people were injured after
a twenty-car pile up resulted from people trying to
avoid hitting the woman who was apparently convinced
that the rapture was occurring when she saw twelve
people floating up into the air, and then passed a man
on the side of the road who she claimed was Jesus.
"She started screaming "He's back, He's back" and
climbed right out of the sunroof and jumped off the
roof of the car," said Everet Williams, husband
of 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced
dead at the scene.
"I was slowing down but she wouldn't wait till I
stopped," Williams said. She thought the rapture was
happening and was convinced that Jesus was gonna lift
her up into the sky," he went on to say.
"This is the strangest thing I've seen since I've been
on the force," said Paul Madison, first officer on the
scene. Madison questioned the man who looked like
Jesus and discovered that he was dressed up as Jesus
and was on his way to a toga costume party when the tarp
covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose and
released twelve blow up sex dolls filled
with helium which floated up into the air.
Ernie Jenkins, 32, of Fort Smith, who's been told by
several of his friends that he looks like Jesus,
pulled over and lifted his arms into the air in
frustration, and said "Come back here!" just as the
Williams' car passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure
that it was Jesus lifting people up into the sky as
they passed byhim, according to her husband, who says
his wife loved Jesus more than anything else.
When asked for comments about the twelve sex dolls,
Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me.
I never expected anything like this to happen."
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Response 6 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jul 21, 2002 (08:12) * 99 lines
LONDON (Reuters) - Police in the northern city of Manchester appealed
for information on Tuesday after a gang of clowns mounted an armed raid
on a wine bar.
Three men in fancy dress handcuffed a manager and threatened him with
a sawn-off shotgun and a knife before escaping with what was described
as "a small amount of money."
Police were not amused. "This was a highly organized team, who had
obviously spent some time planning this robbery," Detective Inspector
Darren Shenton said in a statement.
The gang made off in a van with police in pursuit, and managed to
escape despite being involved in three accidents on the way.
Police said witnesses could not have failed to notice the robbers.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&e=3&u=/nm/20020716/od_nm/clowns_dc_1
Warning, this next one is very disturbing.
LONDON (Reuters) - A British teenager described as being obsessed with
vampires is accused of butchering a 90-year-old woman, cutting out her
heart and drinking her blood, newspapers reported on Wednesday.
Prosecutors told a court in Mold, north Wales, the 17-year-old, who
cannot be named for legal reasons, stabbed Mabel Leyshon at her home
before ripping out her heart and wrapping it in newspaper.
Mold Crown Court heard that the deaf pensioner was attacked as she sat
watching television and ferociously stabbed 22 times.
Her dead body, found last November, was then perched on an armchair
where the killer made deep gashes in her legs and drank her blood after
draining it into a saucepan, prosecutors said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=7&u=/nm/20020717/od_nm/vampire_dc_1
wrapping it in newspaper!!!!
What about the chips?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=573&e=3&cid=573&u=/nm/20020718/od_nm/execution_dc_1
Killer, Rapist to Be Thrown Off Cliff in Sack
A lighter moment, perhaps, there have been a number of blow dart attacks
in Washington:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=573&e=4&cid=573&u=/nm/20020718/od_nm/darts_dc_1
Silent Blow Dart Attacks Mystify
and, the most disturbing of all.
"His first victims tended to be terminally ill, but then he moved on
to murder patients that simply irritated him."
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Response 7 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Aug 1, 2002 (09:09) * 28 lines
3 Injuries, 2 Murders: A Van Accident Takes Ugly Turn in Chicago
Five Held in Beating Of Driver, Companion
By Robert E. Pierre
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 1, 2002; Page A03
CHICAGO, July 31 -- The van ran a stop sign, jumped a curb, and plowed
into a crowd of people sitting on a stoop, injuring three young women. But
then the accident turned deadly.
As more than 100 people watched, the 62-year-old driver and his
49-year-old passenger were pulled from the van and beaten to death, police
said. No one tried to intervene though several people dialed 911 to report
the beating and the accident.
"A gang of murderers, thugs . . . decided the best course of action was to
drag these men from the vehicle and beat them with bricks, their feet and
their hands," Police Superintendent Terry G. Hillard said today at a news
conference. "This is not street justice. Vigilante does not apply. This is
a simple, senseless, cowardly homicide."
more at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26022-2002Jul31.html
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Response 8 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Aug 1, 2002 (17:13) * 127 lines
A "designer kidnapping" service in NYC charges thousands of dollars
toviolently abuct their client, bind and gag them and hold them hostage
for hours or even days. WTF?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2163666.stm
A bizarre new service offering 'designer kidnapping' for thrill-seeking
New Yorkers is dividing opinion across the city.
Brock Enright, a 25-year-old artist, has created a business where people
pay him thousands of dollars a time to be violently abducted.
Around 30 people have used the service so far, and dozens of other
personalised 'kidnap plans' are in preparation.
One of my favourite ones is the guy who loves small places. When I abduct
him he's always under his bed
Brock Enright
Each kidnap is different, to cater for the particular tastes of the
individual.
Clients are mostly bound and gagged and taken away for a period of
incarceration that lasts for hours, or even days.
"It's about stepping outside of yourself. I wanted to see what I could
do," said Jason, a carpenter, in his mid-20s, who has gone through the
kidnap experience three times already.
"I just wanted to see if it was possible for me to be in a situation like
that."
Thrill of the unknown
Many clients are abducted in the street, day or night.
Some wake up at home to find Mr Enright's operatives - or "birds" as he
calls them - looming over them.
"One of my favourite ones is the guy who loves small places. When I abduct
him he's always under his bed, says Mr Enright.
Kidnapping organiser Brock Enright
"He wants to be taken out of his home always."
Psychotherapist Sheena Hankin believes there could be therapeutic value in
kidnapping for fun - and would even try it herself.
"We're built for it. It gives us a sense of satisfaction and
accomplishment.
"Having had enough courage to go through something, when you get off the
rollercoaster you feel really good about yourself.
"When you come out of this kidnapping - you've survived it," she said.
Kidnap "victims" agree a time-frame for their abduction, but the thrill
comes in not quite knowing when the "birds" will strike.
Booming business
Brock Enright says that the profile of his average client is changing.
More men are coming to him keen on trying to evade their kidnappers.
It can cause psychological damage, because it gives the impression to the
person who participates that they can do anything
Gerald Landsberg
The danger may lie in not knowing when the hunted will cross the line and
start fighting back.
There's nothing illegal about the business, but the New York Police
Department is not happy about it.
"It's not something we condone," said a police spokesman.
"Something like this tends to desensitise people - especially if you find
yourself in a real-life negative situation down the road."
The director of New York's Institute Against Violence, Professor Gerald
Landsberg, agrees:
Jason has experienced the ordeal three times
"It can cause psychological damage, because it gives the impression to the
person who participates that they can do anything.
"They're 'super-people' which can lead to other kinds of activities that
are probably not in their best interests, or people that they know."
'Destructive activity'
Other care organisations are also angry.
The New York social workers' association says it's a destructive activity
to be "enjoying" at a time when children continue to be regularly abducted
from the street with tragic consequences.
Surprisingly however, there have not been any cases so far of outraged New
Yorkers intervening in a kidnap scenario on Manhattan, despite the fact
that many are carried out on city streets during the day.
As the whole business began initially as a piece of video installation
art, before he realised its commercial potential, Brock Enright is well
aware of the reason.
"People don't seem to bother us because they see a video camera - maybe
two or three cameras going. Then they say - oh, it's a movie."
However Mr Enright admits to concerns that the service is beginning get
out of hand and is becoming too violent.
"Right now I am worrying. I'm thinking about it a lot."
Topic 42 of 106 [news]: Weird and Unusual News
Response 9 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct 31, 2003 (11:41) * 7 lines
This is a wild story. A burglar broke into a house, found a bunch of
pedophile photos including one of his own sister! and turned himself
and the photos in to police.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/1028rape.html
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Response 10 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Nov 9, 2003 (10:02) * 18 lines
Man, Woman Attacked By Pit Bull in Southeast
Victims Were Walking in Neighborhood
By Justin Blum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 9, 2003; Page C04
A pit bull broke out of a fenced yard in Southwest Washington yesterday,
attacked a woman walking nearby and wounded a man before the man put the
dog in a headlock and strangled it, police said.
more at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17274-2003Nov8.html
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Response 11 of 14: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Sat, Dec 13, 2003 (03:23) * 1 lines
i really hate those ******* dogs
Topic 42 of 106 [news]: Weird and Unusual News
Response 12 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Dec 15, 2003 (14:07) * 2 lines
The cops carry around pepper spray for a reason. People have gotten out
of control with their dogs.
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Response 13 of 14: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Mar 10, 2004 (07:32) * 6 lines
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/03/09/million.dollar.bill.ap/index.html
COVINGTON, Georgia (AP) -- A Georgia woman who tried to use a fake $1
million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart was arrested,
and police later found two more of the bills in her purse.
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Response 14 of 14: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Wed, Jun 9, 2004 (19:40) * 2 lines
when you think about it, this woman embodies the genuine spirit of the greenspan/bush monetary policy revolution
(they'll build statues for her someday)...
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