.Things are getting weird here!
Woman Who Ate ‘Unusually Large’ Amount of Wasabi Developed Broken-Heart Syndrome
A woman got more than a burning mouthful when she mistook a serving of wasabi for avocado — the spicy food appeared to cause her to develop “broken-heart syndrome,” according to a new report of the case.
future sex robots could be hacked to murder you
I think that’s the premise of Override
Also, from 2016:
Single Japanese man, 51, almost masturbates himself to death after suffering a stroke moments after he ejaculated
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9810615/Japanese-man-masturbates-death.html
Parents must pay $30,441 for getting rid of son’s porn cache
https://apnews.com/article/indiana-michigan-muncie-grand-haven-d52201655d54b71aa0d544245c1ecc97
Officials have been left red faced after a junior staff member was unwittingly let loose on approving and rejecting planning notices, with one applicant, a charity boss, told their scheme was turned down because: “Your proposal is whack”.
The blunder came about when the Mid Kent Planning Support team, which handles the online submissions on behalf of Swale council, was trying to resolve software issues.
In doing so, five ‘dummy’ decisions, used to test the website was working, were accidentally published.
Among them was the sarcastic refusal to a desperate bid by Happy Pants animal sanctuary to stay on its site in Bobbing, near Sittingbourne.
The charity received the response “your proposal is whack” and “no mate, proper whack”. Making good the mistaken planning decisions is now set to cost £8,000.
Terry Rowse butchers’ change of use to a takeaway in Chaucer Road, Sittingbourne, was also turned down, with the official comments reading simply “no”, and “just don’t”, while the partial demolition of The Wheatsheaf pub in East Street, Sittingbourne, was granted, with the response “incy, wincy, spider”.
Meanwhile, an application for the change of use for a barn to provide storage for seeds and crop protection products, precision farm services and office space in Bredgar Road, Tunstall, was granted, as was the fifth application, for the demolition of the Old House At Home pub in Sheerness High Street, to make way for flats. The latter’s comment was “why am I doing this, am I the chosen one?”
Swale council is now seeking to quash the planning decisions issued in error.
It said that, on August 19, officers for the Mid Kent Planning Support team were trying to find a solution for issues with the software behind the public access site but, during the exercise, ‘dummy’ decision notices on five randomly selected Swale applications were published on the live system.
After being alerted to the mistake, the decision notices were swiftly removed from the site, but legal advice has subsequently confirmed they are legally binding and must be overturned before the correct decisions are made.
Speaking about the error, Amey James, founder of The Happy Pants Ranch, said: “Obviously the comments are quite laughable, but if I had gone on there this morning before I saw the email from Swale council about the error I think I would have had a heart attack – I would have been properly panicking; the future of the ranch depends on this decision.”
She added: “I kept thinking this was going to go to the planning committee in September, but now because of this, it’s probably going to be delayed even further.
You’ve got to love a news story that starts like this:
British Rail logo designer appalled by green makeover ‘mess’
The designer of the familiar British Rail logo has warned against government plans to revamp the symbol and dismissed an attempt to give it a green makeover as a “load of old bollocks”.
I’m increasingly convinced that we’re living in an episode of The Day Today.
Holy shit, this is tragic but weird. This does not seem like a prop gun
Alec Baldwin fatally shoots woman with prop gun on movie set – BBC News
Prop guns, and the blanks they fire, can be quite deadly. Sadly, this is not without precendent:
On October 12, 1984, the cast and crew of Cover Up were filming the seventh episode of the series, “Golden Opportunity”, on Stage 17 of the 20th Century Fox lot. One of the scenes filmed that day called for Hexum’s character to load bullets into a .44 Magnum handgun, so he was provided with a functional gun and blanks. When the scene did not play as the director wanted it to in the master shot, there was a delay in filming. Hexum became restless and impatient during the delay and began playing around to lighten the mood. He had unloaded all but one (blank) round, spun it, and—simulating Russian roulette—he put the revolver to his right temple and pulled the trigger,[6] apparently unaware of the danger.
Blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gunpowder into the cartridge, and this wadding is propelled from the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause injury if the weapon is fired within a few feet of the body, particularly a vulnerable spot, such as the temple or the eye. At a close enough range, the effect of the powder gases is a small explosion, so although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull, there was enough blunt force trauma to shatter a quarter-sized piece of his skull and propel the pieces into his brain, causing massive hemorrhaging.[1][7]
Hexum was rushed to Beverly Hills Medical Center, where he underwent five hours of surgery to repair his wounds.[7] On October 18, aged 26, six days after the accident, Hexum was declared brain-dead.
With his mother’s permission, his body was flown to San Francisco on life support, where his heart was transplanted into a 36-year-old Las Vegas man at California Pacific Medical Center.[8] Hexum’s kidneys and corneas were also donated: One cornea went to a 66-year-old man, the other to a young girl. One of the kidney recipients was a critically ill five-year-old boy, and the other was a 43-year-old grandmother of three who had waited eight years for a kidney. Skin that was donated was used to treat a 3½-year-old boy with third-degree burns.[9]
Hexum’s body was then flown back to Los Angeles. He was cremated at Grandview Crematory in Glendale, California, and a private funeral was held. His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean, near Malibu, California, by his mother. He left an estate estimated to be worth $255,000.[10] The death was ruled accidental.[11] His mother later received an out-of-court settlement from 20th Century Fox Television and Glen A. Larson Productions, the production team behind Cover Up.[1]
The episode on which Hexum had been working was broadcast on November 3, 1984, two weeks after his death. Cover Up continued production without Hexum’s character. Three weeks later, in the episode “Writer’s Block”, aired on November 24, Antony Hamilton was introduced as agent Jack Striker, posing as a new member of the modeling team.[12] Hexum’s character Mac is noticeably absent, said to be on another mission. At the end of the episode, Henry Towler (Richard Anderson) breaks the news that Mac has been killed on the other assignment and would not be coming back.[13] As the tears flow, the camera pans back, and a memoriam written by Glen Larson appears onscreen:
When a star dies, its light continues to shine
across the universe for millenniums (sic).
John Eric (sic) Hexum died in October of this year … but the lives he touched will continue to be brightened by his light
… forever … and ever.
On March 31, 1993, Lee was filming a scene in The Crow where his character is shot and killed by thugs.[97] In the scene, Lee’s character walks into his apartment and discovers his fiancée being beaten and raped, and a thug played by actor Michael Massee is to fire a Smith & Wesson Model 629 .44 Magnum revolver at Lee’s character as he walks into the room.[98]
In the film shoot preceding the fatal scene, the prop gun, which is a real revolver, was loaded with improperly-made dummy rounds, cartridges from which the special-effects crew had removed the powder charges so in close-ups the revolver would show normal-looking ammunitions. However, the crew neglected to remove the primers from the cartridges. At some point before the fatal event, one of the rounds had been fired; although there was no powder charges, the energy from the ignited primer was enough to separate the bullet from the casing and push it part-way into the gun barrel, where it got stuck (a condition known as a squib load). For the fatal scene, which called for the revolver to be fired at Lee from a distance of 3.6–4.5 meters (12–15 ft), the dummy cartridges were replaced with blank rounds, which contained a powder charge and the primer, but no solid bullet, allowing the gun to be fired with sound and flash effects without the risk of an actual projectile. However, the gun was not properly checked and cleared before the blank round was fired, and the dummy bullet previously lodged in the barrel was then propelled forward by the blank and shot out the muzzle with almost the same force as if the round were live, striking Lee in the abdomen.[99][100]
After Massee pulled the trigger, Lee was supposed to fall forward instead of backward. When the director said “cut”, Lee did not stand up and the crew thought he was either still acting or kidding around. Jeff Imada, who immediately checked Lee, noticed something wrong when he came close and noted Lee was unconscious and breathing heavily. Medic Clyde Baisey went over and shook Lee to see if he was dazed by hitting his head during the fall, but did not think Lee had been shot since there was no bleeding. Baisey took Lee’s pulse, which was regular, but within two to three minutes it slowed down dramatically, and stopped.[101]
Lee was rushed to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina. Attempts to save him were unsuccessful and after six hours of emergency surgery, Lee was pronounced dead at 1:03 pm on March 31, 1993. He was 28 years old. The shooting was ruled an accident due to negligence.[102] Lee’s death led to the re-emergence of conspiracy theories surrounding his father’s similarly early death.[103] Lee was buried next to his father at the Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, Washington. A private funeral attended by 50 took place in Seattle on April 3. The following day, 200 of Lee’s family and business associates attended a memorial service at actress Polly Bergen’s house in Los Angeles. Among the attendees were Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, David Hasselhoff, Steven Seagal, David Carradine, and Melissa Etheridge.[104][105]
In an interview just prior to his death, Lee quoted a passage from Paul Bowles’ book The Sheltering Sky[106] which he had chosen for his wedding invitations; it is now inscribed on his tombstone:
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless…[107]
Both died very young.
Tractor chase: Botched theft leads to high-speed pursuit with front-end loader in Australia
A potato named Doug may be the largest ever unearthed
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/potato-named-doug-may-be-the-largest-ever-unearthed/
A potato named Doug may be the largest ever unearthed
Doug looks eerily like a certain former US President, doesn’t he? Very similar personalities too, although Doug is definitely more likeable.
A potato named Doug may be the largest ever unearthed
Doug looks eerily like a certain former US President, doesn’t he? Very similar personalities too, although Doug is definitely more likeable.
I would vote for Doug!
All you can eat ban:
Yesterday there was a terror alert in the Dutch town of Goes over a mail parcel that turned out to contain a durian. The stench was so bad and nobody knew what could be in the parcel so they cleared the area out of fear it was some kind of chemical agent.
Couple has sex in cop car, records video for OnlyFans, cops say
FloridaMan strikes again.
A very clearly homosexual Dutch singer moved with his partner to Dubai. Where officially homosexual relations can be severely punished. I guess
theseALL countries have separate rules for rich and famous people.
Fixed that for you.
A very clearly homosexual Dutch singer moved with his partner to Dubai. Where officially homosexual relations can be severely punished. I guess these countries have separate rules for rich and famous people.
Doesn’t surprise me. Dubai has been desperate to poach celebrities; there’s been a wave of German “influencers” moving there so they don’t have to pay taxes.
For the life of me I would never want to live in Dubai, it looks soulless.
A TikToker Made $200,000 Farting In Jars. Here’s How She Did It
Jeez I wish I could make a living with my farts, I’d be a fucking trillionaire
A TikToker Made $200,000 Farting In Jars. Here’s How She Did It
Jeez I wish I could make a living with my farts, I’d be a fucking trillionaire
You’ve just got to wait for jar technology to catch up.
A very clearly homosexual Dutch singer moved with his partner to Dubai. Where officially homosexual relations can be severely punished. I guess these countries have separate rules for rich and famous people.
To a degree but there is a lot of nuance in this area.
There are lists of countries that put ‘homosexuality’ as illegal but in truth what is actually illegal is sodomy (either homo or heterosexual), it’s all old testament text that is followed by the 3 Abrahamic religions. This is very hard to prove unless one party is aggrieved and lodges a complaint. If it is consensual and behind closed doors it’s pretty impossible to prosecute.
I live in one of those countries and I could also give you a list of gay bars in the big cities. Almost nobody is prosecuted under those laws and I know many people who live happily as obvious if not truly ‘out’ gay couples.
I know it is easy to read what I said as condoning or excusing, it really isn’t. Those laws are all wrong but I also know that if I were gay here I’d know where to get a hookup, I could act as the gayest stereotype you can imagine and the chances of any legal action against me would be one in a million.
Fucking Brussels.
No that’s “Bruges”. Easy to confuse them, I’m sure 
In Stephen King’s “The Drawing of the Three”, there is a guy being mentioned who is a killer, but not, you know, in a gang or a paid assassin or anything, but just a dude who pushes people in front of trains. Because he loves to kill, but only the fact of the act itself and not in the usual serial murderer kind of way. That idea stuck with me in its creepiness.
That reminds me of an old pulp story by one the writers you’d see in the credits of a Twilight Zone episode or something. It was about a guy who decided that he would kill a random person and then picked this innocuous looking businessman he saw walking down the street. He started following the guy, waiting for his opportunity to shoot him and walk away.
However, it turned out that this mark was actually a wanted fugitive like a Dillinger or young Al Capone type of character hiding out in the city, and he was already on the lookout for rival gangsters and federal agents.
I have no idea how my quote of Arjan has been attributed to JR. I’m not even sure it’s possible to do it.
Fucking Bruges.
Fucking Brussels.
No that’s “Bruges”. Easy to confuse them, I’m sure
Brussels is far, far worse than Bruges. Truly it’s probably the most unpleasant city I’ve ever been in. The suburbs are something out of a nightmare.
Brussels does have some pretty places in the centre like the Grand Place:
I’ve always wanted to visit Bruges but it’s a nightmare getting there from where I live despite not being very far away. I would have to travel by train, then another train, a ferry, and then a bus. It’s a 5 hour trip.
Whut? 
The spice must not be flowing for members of an NFT (non-fungible token) group that spent $3m on a rare book detailing film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic science fiction novel Dune.
The book was offered in a Christie’s Paris sale on 22 November with an estimate of €25,000-€35,000 and bought for more than 100 times its low estimate (€2.6m, or $3m, including fees) by an anonymous group identified as Spice DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation), whose members mistakenly believed that the purchase granted them the copyright to the book, which they intended to splice and sell as NFTs before burning the physical copy.
The group stated that its goal is to “issue a collection of NFTs that are technically innovative and culturally disruptive, a first-of-its-kind”, and that burning the book would be an “incredible marketing stunt which could be recorded on video”, with the video itself sold as an NFT.
Spice DAO also claimed that it would digitise and make the book public, that it would produce an original animated series based on the book for a streaming service, and that it would “support derivative projects”.
However, the Internet was quick to point out that the book is already available to view online for free, and that the purchase does not grant Spice DAO the rights to produce works based on its contents. An NFT series, for example, would likely be met with a lawsuit from the actual copyright holders, currently the Herbert Limited Partnership.
Whut?
It’s the funniest shit that has happened in the past week.
The group stated that its goal is to “issue a collection of NFTs that are technically innovative and culturally disruptive, a first-of-its-kind”, and that burning the book would be an “incredible marketing stunt which could be recorded on video”, with the video itself sold as an NFT.
DAO sound like a bunch of wankers. Banksy did it first, and did it better.
Can we round up everyone assossiated with NFTs and put them out of their misery already? mmmkay thanks!
Woman takes selfie on top of car as it sinks in ice
Clueless Canadian…
(Please note that this is Eastern Canada)
If you don’t want to click the link, she went on the frozen ice wanting to do some ‘donuts’, but broke through.
Instead of ditching the car and getting to safety she hops on top and takes a selfie.
Now the pic of her doing that has gone viral.
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I sure hope the claims adjustor from her auto insurance company sees that photo.
This is sick. There should be no place on this Earth for animal abusers.
A friend of mine went to college in the 60’s. He was in the English department, but since the anti-war and civil rights movement was hot back then, he got to know students from all different parts of the college (Wesleyan University in Connecticut) and he spoke to some science students that were killing dozens of rats every week for their experiments.
When he asked them what they were learning from this mass rodent murder experiment, they told him nothing, really. They were faking their results to give their professors what they wanted.
So my friend asked, “if you’re faking the results, then why don’t you just fake killing the rats?”
This is a good one:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/21/black-bear-tahoe-hank-the-tank
Mike Tyson is selling ear-shaped cannabis-infused edibles called ‘Mike Bites’
I can’t see how this belongs anywhere other than “Weird News”. Russian TV has announced that a covert Ukranian neo-Nazi assassination attempt has been thwarted. Here is the “captured” evidence that proves the perps are neo-Nazis:
It’s like something from a Mel Brooks movie. Russian state security have clearly lost the plot.
RUSSIAN SECURITY CHIEF: “For this to look convincing, we must assemble things a spy might have. Like multiple sims!”
UNDERLING: (buys three copies of The Sims)
CHIEF: “And suitable clothing that a secret Nazi spy might wear!”
UNDERLING: (buys a t-shirt with a big Swastika on it)
Someone Stole Seth Green’s Bored Ape And Star Of His New NFT Show (buzzfeednews.com)
Call to tighten New Zealand law that allows public pooing if no one watching
“Poo like no-one is watching” sounds like one of those inspirational phrases that middle-aged people have written on a bit of driftwood on their kitchen wall.
Mystery surrounds aristocrat’s vampire hunting kit
Hideo Kojima Misidentified As Shinzo Abe’s Assassin
Was his last name Murray?
When a pink glow lit up the evening sky above an Australian town on Wednesday, local woman Tammy Szumowski wondered if the apocalypse had arrived.
“I was just being a cool, calm mum, telling the kids: ‘There’s nothing to worry about,'” she told the BBC.
“But in my head I’m like, what the hell is that?”
“Mum’s on the phone and Dad’s in the background going: ‘I better hurry up and eat my tea because the world’s ending’.”
“And Mum’s like: ‘What’s the point of eating your tea if the world’s ending.'”
Another local, Nikea Champion, first thought it was a really bright red Moon – before realising the light was originating from the ground.
“All these end of the world scenarios were going through my head,” she told the BBC.
“I was having a big Stranger Things moment – I’m like, Vecna? Is that you?” she said, referencing a villain from the TV series.
Both women – to their amusement – were wildly off base.
It turned out to be light emanating from a cannabis farm just outside the town of Mildura, in northern Victoria.
Reddish-tinged lights are used to help the crop grow. Usually, blackout blinds come down at dusk.
On Wednesday they didn’t work, a spokesman for manufacturer Cann Group revealed.
And because it was an cloudy night, the lights created a “sunset on steroids” that could be spotted almost an hour from the facility.
Snake bites 2-year-old girl, who bites it back until it dies
Officer who wrote Met’s drug strategy smoked cannabis daily, panel told
Commander Julian Bennett refused to take a drug test in 2020 after his lodger contacted police alleging drug use
What a grass.
Commander Julian Bennett refused to take a drug test in 2020 after his lodger contacted police alleging drug use What a grass.
I’m sure some of his colleagues were in on it. It must’ve been a joint operation.
Commander Julian Bennett refused to take a drug test in 2020 after his lodger contacted police alleging drug use What a grass.
I’m sure some of his colleagues were in on it. It must’ve been a joint operation.
Either way, it must be a drag that they’re weeding him out like this. Sounds like he’s made a real hash of it.
Either way, it must be a drag that they’re weeding him out like this. Sounds like he’s made a real hash of it.
Best he pipe down about it really.
…marijuana
Commander Julian Bennett refused to take a drug test in 2020 after his lodger contacted police alleging drug use What a grass.
I’m sure some of his colleagues were in on it. It must’ve been a joint operation.
Either way, it must be a drag that they’re weeding him out like this. Sounds like he’s made a real hash of it.
It sounds like they may need to consult a higher authority.
These puns are terrible!!
Sorry to be so blunt…
He must have had some sort of chronic condition.
Then they should reefer him to a doctor.
A doobie-ous claim.
I think it’s safe to say we have puff puff passed the point of no return on these puns by now.
A doobie-ous claim.
I stoned corrected.
Everyone needs to inhale, hold it, then exhale.
Everyone needs to inhale, hold it, then exhale.
Can’t we all just get abong?
Putting this in “weird news” risks belittling how awful this this. But, geez…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63499057
KFC has apologised after sending a promotional message to customers in Germany, urging them to commemorate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken.
The Nazi-led series of attacks in the country in 1938 left more than 90 people dead, and destroyed Jewish-owned businesses and places of worship.
It is widely seen as the beginning of the Holocaust.
The message, heavily criticised for its insensitivity, was later blamed on “an error in our system”.
The fast food chain sent an app alert on Wednesday, saying: “It’s memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!”
What next? Commemorating the Black Wall Street massacre?
Well, that’s… unfortunate.
As a little by-the-by: this is why the Day of German Unity, a national holiday, is on October 3rd. November 9th would’ve been the more vivid date, because it’s when the Berlin wall fell in 1989 and that was the day everybody was either glued to their TV watching images of East Germans streaming into Berlin or out on the streets welcoming them (well, the people of West Berlin). Buuuuuut for obvious reasons, the 9th of November couldn’t become a day of joyful celebration.
TV doctor Tijion Esho exchanged Botox for sex with patient
I bet this raised a few eyebrows.
This has made national news over here recently: There is, it turns out, a tradition on the small island of Borkum that consists of a big celebration in which three men (who are decided by having a big fight or something) roam the streets at night in cow costumes and who hunt and then spank women (pretty violently) cow horns while being cheered on by the crowds.
Here’s the TV report with auto-translated subtitles. Around the 10-minute-mark you can see the video of the whole thing, and it’s exceedingly weird, like something from a folk horror movie.
