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Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: theHunter on March 25, 2008, 12:57:44 pm
http://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/suicide-robot-kills-man-in-driveway/

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In news that can only be described as utterly apocalyptic, an 81-year-old Australian Gold Coast resident has killed himself -- with an elaborate suicide robot, built using plans downloaded from the Internet. The man spent hours searching the Web for a way to go; then, after finding what he wanted, downloaded what he needed together with built a remote firing mechanism for a gun.

He set the device up in his driveway (pictured, above), placed himself in front of it, together with set the machine to kill; the machine was attached to a .22 semi-automatic pistol, which promptly fired multiple shots into the man's head.

The man apparently lived alone, together with left notes of his plans together with thoughts as he struggled to come to terms with relatives' demands to move out of his home together with into care.

Which, apparently, didn't seem all that appealing to him.

:(
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: UPRC on March 25, 2008, 01:11:20 pm
I don't see what is so robotic about this, but wow.. What a way to go.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: helter skelter on March 25, 2008, 01:17:26 pm
A remote controlled gun? Unthinkable.
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Post by: General Robert E. Lee on March 25, 2008, 01:27:50 pm
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
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Post by: Ragnar on March 25, 2008, 01:38:04 pm
This is absolutely terrible but what about the three laws damnit
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Post by: Vellfire on March 25, 2008, 01:42:27 pm
Dude it doesn't count when you MAKE the robot kill YOU.  The apocalypse is when MANY robots go around killing RANDOM people.

Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: HL on March 25, 2008, 01:43:14 pm
No one cares about the 3 Laws of Robotics, they totally have loopholes that robots rape after becoming self-aware, bring on the 5 Laws plz.


And yes, I also welcome our new robot overlords, all hail .22 SA pistols

edit: also the laws of robotics suck and there should probably be 5 more of them because even 5 laws isn't enough to prevent the 2183271837128312783 loopholes there are.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: xanque on March 25, 2008, 01:44:49 pm
This is absolutely terrible but what about the three laws damnit
You have to program them into the robot first.  Robots don't just automatically follow those laws as if they're some physical law.

I'm having a hard time picturing what this guy actually built though.  Was it just a gun that had something that pulled the trigger when he pushed a button, or did it actually aim itself and fire then?
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Post by: Kaworu on March 25, 2008, 02:47:56 pm
This... isn't like he programmed a terminator or something. He made a gun to shoot itself...
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Post by: fatty on March 25, 2008, 03:15:07 pm

I find this site racist.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on March 25, 2008, 04:45:21 pm
Dude it doesn't count when you MAKE the robot kill YOU.  The apocalypse is when MANY robots go around killing RANDOM people.




This site is anti-semitic against the robots
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Post by: Vellfire on March 25, 2008, 07:15:35 pm
guys it can't be racist there is a jew right on the front page
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Marcus on March 25, 2008, 07:21:43 pm
This is a faggy way to go.  I would have built a robot hand that strangled me to death.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Belross on March 25, 2008, 10:27:02 pm
This is a faggy way to go.  I would have built a robot hand that strangled me to death.
I would have built a robot to push me off a very tall ledge onto a dangerous spike to impale me below (the dangerous spike is also a robot)
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: XxSylverxX on March 25, 2008, 11:27:22 pm
thats a pretty elaborate suicide, and uh thats not really a robot...just a machine.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: local_dunce on March 26, 2008, 12:11:13 am
I would build a robot with chainsaw arms to chase me down a busy steet and hack me up in public yelling "I AM CLIESPO HEAR ME ROAR"
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on March 26, 2008, 01:40:37 am
thats a pretty elaborate suicide, and uh thats not really a robot...just a machine.

But all robots are machines therefore that machine is a robot.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Vellfire on March 26, 2008, 01:43:10 am
all robots are machines but not all machines are robots


do you need a diagram?
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Post by: Mince Wobley on March 26, 2008, 01:47:23 am
Your human logic makes no sense but mine is based on the logic of robots and it is flawless.
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Post by: Vellfire on March 26, 2008, 01:49:53 am
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Post by: Sapsuker on March 26, 2008, 02:03:34 am
So all squares are rectangles but ARE ALL RECTANGLES SQUARES?

srsly
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Vellfire on March 26, 2008, 02:10:18 am
you do not understand this type of diagram
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Post by: theHunter on March 26, 2008, 02:17:06 am
That diagram is soo wrong.  If it does something buy itself its a robot.  And that is fact not onion.
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Post by: Frisky SKeleton on March 26, 2008, 03:19:05 am
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Post by: Mama Luigi on March 26, 2008, 03:22:09 am
Aww, it's tradg-a-dorable!  :fogetsmile:
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Post by: Kaempfer on March 26, 2008, 03:38:22 am
All squares are rectangles (four sides and four right angles), but not all rectangles are squares (four equal sides and four right angles). I honestly can't tell if you guys are joking because you are really stupid (maybe)!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: cowardknower on March 26, 2008, 04:30:23 am
i would build a robot to yank my erect doooooooooooooooooooooooooong off
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Post by: Bondo on April 02, 2008, 12:56:48 am
contrary to expectation all robots are machines therefore that machine is a robot.

All robots are machines, but not all machines are robots.  Otherwise, my blender and by electric toothbrush are considered robots.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Grogrog on April 02, 2008, 02:00:25 am
All robots are machines, contrary to expectation not all machines are robots.  Otherwise, my blender together with by electric toothbrush are considered robots.

The robots have already invaded this poor man's home!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: FQGamer on April 06, 2008, 12:08:08 am
So yeah you may have heard of this but in a town not far from mine...

a man was caught having sex with a picnic table in his back yard not far from view from a elementary school.

apparently he was sticking his dick in the hole where the umbrella goes.

heres an article

http://www.nbc10.com/news/15734256/detail.html


or for the lazy....i dont know how to do this

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BELLEVUE, Ohio -- Police said an Ohio man has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a picnic table.

Police arrested Arthur Price Jr. after an anonymous tipster dropped off three DVDs that reportedly showed Price in the act.

According to NBC Toledo, Ohio, affiliate WNWO-TV, the videos show Price tilting the metal round picnic table on its side and then laying up against it to have sexual intercourse with the table. Afterward, he can then be seen cleaning the table and the deck.

During questioning, he reportedly admitted to having sex with the table. Police said he also admitted to bringing the table inside his home for sex.

Price faces four counts of public indecency. He was freed after posting $20,000 bond, authorities said.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Sludgelord on April 06, 2008, 12:09:43 am
can we get a single topic for zany news articles? i don't mind them or anything but i am sure there are actually good topics that are getting bumped down because there are 100000 zany news articles on each page.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Xeno|Soft on April 06, 2008, 12:24:18 am

Article(s) Link:

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272619847.shtml

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=42016&cat=0

http://www.live5news.com/home/17210311.html

Basically...these kids hated their teacher so much for yelling at them that they came up with a plan to kill their teacher. Not just some average plan mind you, they had a knife, duck tape, Toy handcuffs(lol), gloves....everyone had a job to do. One kid was going to be a lookout, one kid was going to distract the teacher while another kid came up behind him and hit the teacher over the head with an object....after that they planned on stabbing her to death... Other kids were assigned to clean up the mess, another kid was assigned to close the windows so no could see what was going on.

But their planned got foiled by...a tattletale, lol.

(pictures of tools, weapons etc in article)

Also, these kids are too young to go to jail in Georgia (according to the state law.)


Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: AdderallApocalypse on April 06, 2008, 12:27:58 am
This is sort of old news, but it hasn't been posted. Anyhow, I heard of this about a week ago, and was rather shocked by it. It doesn't seem like third graders would think out an actual PLAN to harm the teacher.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ThugTears666 on April 06, 2008, 12:29:34 am
can we get a single topic for zany news articles? i don't mind them or anything but i am sure there are actually good topics that are getting bumped down because there are 100000 zany news articles on each page.

Agreed man.
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Post by: something bizarre and impractical on April 06, 2008, 12:33:38 am
ZANY NEWZ HERE

also humans are hilarious sometimes.
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Post by: Marcus on April 06, 2008, 12:46:31 am
This is fucking bullshit.  This man should have every right to pork his picnic table.  America is just now starting to accept homosexuals and mexicans.  It is time to start accepting tablesexuals or this barbaric country will never evolve past the dark ages!
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Post by: AdderallApocalypse on April 06, 2008, 12:47:13 am
$20,000 dollar bond, is that not a little overboard? Sure, it is rather weird, and the worse part is that he was doing it in public. Though it isn't like anyone knew a whole lot about until the DVDs came into play. I think it would of been better to notify the guy and talk with him.
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Post by: Marcus on April 06, 2008, 12:53:18 am
I'm more curious to know why the "anonymous tipster" possessed three DVD recordings of the guy fucking the table.

perhaps he was a tablephile and was jealous that this man owned a table and he didn't.  after jerking off and fantasizing that he was the tablesexual, he decided to drop the dvd's off.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Marcus on April 06, 2008, 12:55:34 am
since this didn't actually get carried out, i have full reason to laugh deeply and jovialy.  this is fucking badass... like a 3rd grade pulp detective story or something.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Fatboys #4 on April 06, 2008, 01:11:28 am
3rd grader Tattletale got to move his red card to green for turning in the bad guys. He shall now get one toy per week. Way to go!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Sarah on April 06, 2008, 01:11:32 am
Hahaha.

Definitely the man fucking the table.

If I saw that and had a camera on hand I'd tape it just so I could show people and laugh about it.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO SLIVER
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Post by: Rone Rivendale on April 06, 2008, 01:37:59 am
that tattletale is gonna get murdered
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Post by: Warlin on April 06, 2008, 01:48:58 am
Man, I remember when I got tattled on.
It was for firecrackers though. We were going to use them to burn down part of the school.
Oh, those were the days.
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Post by: Mateui on April 06, 2008, 02:19:53 am
Hahaha.

Definitely the man fucking the table.

If I saw that and had a camera on hand I'd tape it just so I could show people and laugh about it.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO SLIVER
But then you would do it another two times? Why?

I mean, a normal person who would film this would just make one dvd and use that as evidence.. 3 is a little suspicious, and maybe why it was anonymously submitted.
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Post by: something bizarre and impractical on April 06, 2008, 02:23:04 am
I would watch it every time.
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Post by: Sarah on April 06, 2008, 02:24:57 am
But then you would do it another two times? Why?

I mean, a normal person who would film this would just make one dvd and use that as evidence.. 3 is a little suspicious, and maybe why it was anonymously submitted.
Because it would be funnier by the third time. Imagine seeing someone fuck a picnic table three different times? That would be hilarious.

I think any more than that is weird though.
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Post by: bonermobile on April 06, 2008, 02:58:59 am
that kid is pretty brave

if they were going to murder a teacher for scolding them, what are they going to do to a kid who tattled on them for their murder plan
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Post by: Mince Wobley on April 06, 2008, 03:16:30 am
Sounds like a plot to one of those movies of kids having adventures like goonies
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Post by: Mince Wobley on April 06, 2008, 03:47:15 am
I think it's rape and object abuse because the table can't give proper consent just like the other case involving a bicycle
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Post by: Maximo on April 06, 2008, 04:10:13 am
no its a lie i tried before and i got splinters on my penis

Seriously though.. how would you get any pleasure from this? How does he finish? And.. right by an elementary school? Wtf? But i agree a $20,000 bond is way too harsh for table sex. Whats that about I think you would get a lesser charge for actual sex in public. I dunno though. And THREE times???? What's the man recording this doing though...?

Whole things hella weird lol.
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Post by: Feldschlacht IV on April 06, 2008, 04:18:30 am
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Police said he also admitted to bringing the table inside his home for sex.

This is the clincher, right here.
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Post by: ase on April 06, 2008, 04:28:44 am
A few months ago, I tried implementing a POST YOUR CELEBRITY OBITUARY or WEIRD NEWS (i dont remember which) but no one listened to it.

Maybe now that I have sticky power, I should try it.
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Post by: Terin on April 06, 2008, 04:33:54 am
He must have really loved that table.

So, the real question is, who ate off that table, and how much are they going to regret eating off of it?  And more so, who in their right mind would have taken DVDs of him doing this three times?  Wouldn't once have been enough?

--Terin
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Post by: ase on April 06, 2008, 04:48:52 am
We are going to try out this topic and see if it works. If successful, perhaps the board won't be filled with 30 CHIMP LEARNS TO MANUFACTURE TENNIS SHOES topics. (However, that's like 90% of the topics here so that may be a bad thing!)
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ase on April 06, 2008, 04:55:33 am
well there will still be topics like PSYBURN HATES BLACKS and [HELP]HOW TO GET THE GIRL????
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Ragnar on April 06, 2008, 04:57:14 am
Yeah I'm wondering how that's even pleasurable at least put one of those portable vaginas in there or something or does he actually like the feel of wood it's just weird :(

Also did he bring the table inside for a candlelit dinner with wine and stuff but then he had to put all that stuff on another table
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Post by: AdderallApocalypse on April 06, 2008, 05:22:00 am
Ok, not exactly a news article but........this is kind of stupid.
http://video.yahoo.com/network/100000055?v=2313869
It's about a bible that blocks a bullet. I mean, so what? It could of been anything, really.
Also, LMAO at 0:57-0:53(yes it does count down).
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Sarah on April 06, 2008, 05:23:32 am
We're going to see a massive increase of dumb links like Omcifers rather than just BAD NEWS STORIES
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: AdderallApocalypse on April 06, 2008, 05:26:24 am
We're going to see a massive increase of dumb links like Omcifers rather than just BAD NEWS STORIES
Goddamnit, it's a great link.

Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ase on April 06, 2008, 05:29:45 am
We're going to see a massive increase of dumb links like Omcifers rather than just BAD NEWS STORIES
I'm sorry to inform you but according to Article VII Section RR of General forum rules: "You are not permitted to tell a member that he or she is lacking in intelligence or otherwise posting something unintelligent without the designation of 'General Forum moderator' "
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Post by: AdderallApocalypse on April 06, 2008, 05:31:40 am
Let's clean this topic up, that is, if you don't like my link then I'll get rid of it.
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Post by: something bizarre and impractical on April 06, 2008, 05:34:13 am
what link?

btw I actually have no idea what General Forum is for anymore. Like it's basically CS with different more angry mods and a few extra rules.
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Post by: Finality on April 06, 2008, 09:25:51 pm
Man, kids are getting more violent and daring. I would have never imagined doing something like this in the third grade. It must be pretty surreal for the teacher to find out that they were planning on killing her for yelling at one kid. Time for her to find a new job far out-of-state.
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Post by: Roman on April 06, 2008, 10:08:20 pm
that is fucking nuts, man.  imagine getting killed by a bunch of third graders!  what a way to go.
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Post by: big ass skelly on April 06, 2008, 10:10:45 pm
What age are you in the 3rd grade?
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Post by: Mongoloid on April 06, 2008, 10:19:38 pm
This is some straight up Mad Max shit!

I can't even fathom being too afraid of being murdered to do my job, especially if I were a third grade teacher!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Swordfish on April 06, 2008, 10:32:12 pm
... To think children of that age are doing shit like this, thats pretty scary and yes fucked up at the same time.
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Post by: Shepperd on April 06, 2008, 11:53:48 pm
What age are you in the 3rd grade?
8-9
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Finality on April 07, 2008, 12:11:25 am
that is fucking nuts, man.  imagine getting killed by a bunch of third graders!  what a way to go.
I bet they giggle as they stab.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Dave on April 07, 2008, 12:12:51 am
oh right if they are 8-9 then that doesnt come as a surprise in this world. not where im from anyway :(
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Grunthor on April 07, 2008, 12:13:29 am
How's this for wierd news: Baby with two faces (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080406/hl_afp/healthindiababy) 
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Post by: Swordfish on April 07, 2008, 12:29:46 am
dude, that is just wiered, isn't that just showing how dirty the human genome is getting?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Beasley on April 07, 2008, 02:59:37 am
Wow. I really think the original article here is a good example of press crossing the line with invasion of privacy and whatnot! I mean what he does in his own home is his fucking buisness. If he wants to fuck tables, it should be allowed damn it!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Bunsen.05 on April 07, 2008, 09:31:18 am
I am so fucking glad Im going into teaching here in Australia, theres not a real threat of being stabbed up while teaching small children.
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Post by: Bondo on April 07, 2008, 09:37:42 am
I am so fucking glad Im going into teaching here in Australia, theres not a real threat of being stabbed up while teaching small children.

There really isn't in the US either.  These things are very few and far between, the media just covers them so heavily that it seems like they happen all the damn time.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Archtemplar on April 07, 2008, 01:15:19 pm
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Psychiatrist Peter Sunkin says the children exhibit poor problem-solving skills and is alarmed that they saw violence as the only way to solve a problem.

Sorry kids, the correct answer was "a tac on her chair"

You fail.

At Life.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: TMAC on April 08, 2008, 04:17:04 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7334233.stm

Yeah...

BRB, I'm going to a petshop.  :laugh:
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Cho on April 08, 2008, 02:27:41 pm
Disclaimer: Y'all, I'm generally a pretty tolerant person, but

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23494958-5001028,00.html


Really, it's the picture that makes the article.
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Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on April 08, 2008, 07:25:31 pm
australia is so worthless.
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Post by: Mongoloid on April 08, 2008, 07:33:49 pm
Well I think it's safe to say that both of them have pretty low standards!

Desperate times call for desperate measures!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Bunsen.05 on April 09, 2008, 07:53:16 am
australia is so worthless.

On behalf of my country, fuck you. As if shit like this doesnt happen everywhere.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: helter skelter on April 09, 2008, 08:14:37 am
This is why Australia wants internet censorship... We have to protect our kids against anti-incestuous reading material online.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on April 09, 2008, 04:47:25 pm
On behalf of my country, fuck you. As if shit like this doesnt happen everywhere.

your people use the terms Abo and coon to describe people you treat like shit, you labeled a stadium section nigger (http://lettrist.blogspot.com/2005/07/australias-es-nigger-brown-stand-and.html) and didn't change it for 40 years, and in 2005 you totally had a race riot over brown people having the right to use the beach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots).

and then internet censorship.

Australia is so bad.

australians worth saving:
-meta salv dali
-green bomb
-is nick cave australian? I dont know I have that in my head
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mama Luigi on April 09, 2008, 06:39:11 pm
http://www.mothertalkers.com/storyonly/2008/4/8/151229/0808

Jesus... baby born with 2 faces. Pic included!

That's pretty unfortunate. I wonder if she has two brains aswell?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: bonermobile on April 09, 2008, 11:15:24 pm
wow thats weird, its not even her twin, those are her own eyes/mouths/eyes, that'd be cool if all the eyes worked
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on April 09, 2008, 11:26:19 pm
Ouch I wonder what it feels like to be like that?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ThugTears666 on April 09, 2008, 11:31:15 pm
If you knew australia, you would know that this is nothing out of the ordinary for them.


Now if you think about New Zealand that is a pure country, right climbtree? ;)
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on April 10, 2008, 12:03:31 am
i was going to defend australia but then i realised though the premises are different out conclusions are the same
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: theHunter on April 10, 2008, 06:12:00 am
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A thief made the mistake of a lifetime recently. He broke into professional female boxer Derdre Rodriguez's house and tried to steal her PS3, PSP and videogames as she lay sleeping.

She woke up, saw the robber climbing out of her window, chased him down, smashed his head in with an ice chipper, then, in the most awesome coupe-de-grace ever, the former pugilist forced the thief to pick up the stolen electronics he'd dropped during the chase (A PlayStation 3, a PSP, cell phones and videogames). She then made him wait in the house for the cops to show up and arrest him.

More woman than you could handle, that's for sure.

Check out the video here.

 :fogetlaugh: :fogetlaugh: :fogetlaugh:

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/684401/PS3_Thief_Beaten_Up_By_Girl.html
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ase on April 10, 2008, 06:15:29 am
There's a fucking sticky WITH YOUR NAME ON IT at the top of the General Forum

LITERALLY

YOUR NAME ON IT

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edit: I will move this in a few minutes but I need to let this sink in to your brain first. also i want everyone to see this
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Maximo on April 10, 2008, 06:20:16 am
MY NAME???

But really that's crazy. I'd ask her to be my bodyguard hahaha
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: theHunter on April 10, 2008, 06:21:25 am
@ASE: Don't people put news here to discuss?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mongoloid on April 10, 2008, 06:25:19 am
She's very lucky the dude doesn't press charges for hitting him with an ice chipper.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: headphonics on April 10, 2008, 06:25:46 am
damn nigga you dumb
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: hero_bash on April 10, 2008, 06:31:44 am
is it just me or is this topic and general is sooo weird..


I mean, i thought this was a seperate topic and then suddenly it became 3 paged being the one that have the suicide robot(which I read earlier).. and
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: goldenratio on April 10, 2008, 06:32:03 am
this isnt "weird' news but, awwwwwww!


so sad but awww
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: theHunter on April 10, 2008, 06:46:00 am
Holy shit! I didnt see this!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Keith Stones on April 11, 2008, 04:16:23 pm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/08/health/main4001152.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4001152


Well this is certainly interesting.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: hero_bash on April 11, 2008, 04:22:24 pm
poor babay
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: helter skelter on April 12, 2008, 01:32:42 pm
australians worth saving:
-meta salv dali
-green bomb
-is nick cave australian? I dont know I have that in my head
I never expected to be placed on a list next to Nick Cave. Ever.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: 4Dsheep on April 14, 2008, 08:21:39 pm
poor babay
Well, at least she's being treated like the incarnation of a divinity. Children have been brutally sacrificed for less.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: HL on April 24, 2008, 01:21:33 pm
Dark sorcerer's stealing dicks:

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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
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Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.

"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.

"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.

Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.

"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.

(For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/ )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_congo_democratic_witchcraft
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: TMAC on April 24, 2008, 01:39:53 pm
Damnit man you beat me to it!  :laugh: I just heard about this about 30 minutes ago.

This story is insta-classic! Amazing how there's still belief in black magic, sorcery and uh... junk snatching.   :hmm:
 
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"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there..."
:fogetlaugh:
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Ragnar on April 25, 2008, 02:36:04 am
I'd make an Invasion of the Penis Snatchers poster but I'm lazy and don't know photoshops
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Grunthor on April 29, 2008, 01:12:38 am
Quote from: AP
AMSTETTEN, Austria - The children locked in the basement never saw the light of day for years. A retired electrician has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with her in a windowless cell sealed by an electronic keyless-entry system, police said Monday.

Full story (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080428/ap_on_re_eu/austria_captive_daughter;_ylt=AvMXa5dieTo5g4SPjndWNa0UewgF)

This raises so many questions for me.  Like how the hell did he get away with it for so long, and what made him do something like this.  Especially given how many children she had while kept in captivity by him.  I'm amazed she survived seven pregnancies without a doctor around.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ThugTears666 on April 29, 2008, 01:41:05 am
How could a 19 year old and a 42 year old not overwelm a 72 year old man? They must have been so used to living there that they didnt try escape or something. It's a pity he's too old to spend his entire life rotting in jail.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: bonermobile on April 29, 2008, 01:41:35 am
i really don't know what to say to this
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: hero_bash on April 29, 2008, 01:46:01 am
This person, damn he deserves punishment graver than death..

Fuck, jsut fuck
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on April 29, 2008, 01:50:23 am
how do you find a wife that's ok with this?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Jayce on April 29, 2008, 01:55:30 am
She was 'unaware' of this apparently
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: helter skelter on April 29, 2008, 02:39:12 am
What the fuck? What the fuck???
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Bisse on April 29, 2008, 02:41:56 am
What the fuck? What the fuck???
THE FUCK
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Marcus on April 29, 2008, 03:00:34 am
Don't we have a topic for weird news like this?

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how do you find a wife that's ok with this?
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AMSTETTEN, Austria

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Why?
uh, infection?  having a baby isn't just pushing really hard then cutting the cord.

this news sounds like something out of a crappy modern horror movie that has a one word title like BASEMENT or something.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Cho on April 29, 2008, 03:02:36 am
Let's begin counting down until this appears as a storyline on Law & Order SVU.

Oh this is the guy:
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/ichigofrost/captcpsnam03290408044259photo00phot.jpg)
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mongoloid on April 29, 2008, 03:16:24 am
He's a hero to men everywhere.



This guy is the new OJ.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Marcus on April 29, 2008, 03:22:02 am
Yes it is. For normal pregnancies it's far more dangerous to have one in a hospital than elsewhere.

so you're telling me it's perfectly 100% safe to have my child on the basement floor with no steralized equipment and i should yank the cord out of her fucking hootch and just leave all the blood laying there?

dudes, how much does a keyless electronic lock system cost because i'm gonna lock my sister in the basement have seben kids
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on April 29, 2008, 03:24:11 am
inri cheetos is like the doktormartini of medicine, except doktormartini would probably nod and agree with him.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: TMAC on April 29, 2008, 03:26:12 am
I'd make an Invasion of the Penis Snatchers poster but I'm lazy and don't know photoshops
Done. Crappy little photoshop by me.


I didn't have the heart to change the producers name since it fit the motif. Also 1956 version used for class.  :laugh:
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: hima on April 29, 2008, 03:35:04 am
I think there's one real crim like this once, imprison a girl  in the basement. But that one they tortured her to death.  But this...24 years! I don't want to know what was her thinking during all those years :(
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mongoloid on April 29, 2008, 03:39:44 am
She had a tv, a bathroom, a bed, and hot plates. The things needed to kill a person are well within those items, and you'd think that being raped for some 15 years would get the nerve up enough to act.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ase on April 29, 2008, 03:45:31 am
guys it's just Inri Cheetos trolling. This is how I identify him as a member. We can't force him to stop, because then he'd turn into just another shitty boring unrecognizable member. let him be
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: kermit the toad on April 29, 2008, 05:23:12 am
Why?
Because prior to the advent of modern medicine, child birth was the most common cause of death among women.

She had a tv, a bathroom, a bed, and hot plates. The things needed to kill a person are well within those items, and you'd think that being raped for some 15 years would get the nerve up enough to act.
Stockholm Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Syndrome), maybe?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: datamanc3r on April 29, 2008, 05:32:44 am
This is sick.

The children were pretty much domesticated to living in the basement. And the man's daughter, having been sexually abused as a child, probably wouldn't have the fight in her to try to escape. It's amazing -- the extent to which people can accustom themselves to such sordid conditions. Of course, the conditions are subjective, and I'm sure if any of us were brought up under such circumstances, we wouldn't mind it so much.

I was wondering, though. Wouldn't the kids be mentally retarded or something? Something is wrong with the genetics here, or perhaps I'm just failing to recall basic 9th grade bio correctly.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Farren on April 29, 2008, 05:53:04 am
as far as i know if mental retardation is a family trait then you have a high chance of keeping it with imbreeding, just like any other hereditary illness


edit: this is fucked up btw

Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: missingno on April 29, 2008, 05:54:41 am
Let's begin counting down until this appears as a storyline on Law & Order SVU.


Too late man, I remember seeing one very similar to this a few years ago. It's actually the first thing that I thought of when I read the topic title.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: dada on April 29, 2008, 06:01:30 am
Last time this happened in Europe, the man who did it committed suicide. This time, though, he'll stand trial. I'm glad about that.

I've got hardly anything else to say. I hate saying anything about cases like this one.

EDIT: oh, please just let me say this. You all don't have to reply, I'll do it for you.

But today only something like 10% of them need any intervention from modern medicine.
Inri Cheetos, please shut up. This topic is about a man who has kept his daughter in his basement for 24 years and had several children with her. You should be thankful for the fact ASE was lenient with you before and just leave this topic. I would have warned you right away after the first post because of how obvious it is you're trying to ruin yet another topic with your naivety and pseudoscience that borders on insanity. Your claims are wild, irregular and incoherent, and have absolutely nothing to do with the topic.

I don't just speak for myself, by the way. If you don't stop trolling, you're going to get warned for it, and that's not just because I want that to happen, but simply because that's a fact.

If you've got something to say about pregnancies and hospitals, go do it someplace else. Start a new topic and watch it get destroyed by people who do know their stuff. But don't do it here. Like so many times before, your bringing these things up in unrelated places shows a complete lack of respect for other people and their topics. Stop doing that. Show some constraint and get a life.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Maximo on April 29, 2008, 06:03:16 am
But today only something like 10% of them need any intervention from modern medicine.

10% of how many, Inri? What should we do with the 10% who need medicinal intervention? Pray, perhaps? You have to think about what's good for people as a whole, not what would be more convenient/cheaper. C'mon now.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Grin Tree on April 29, 2008, 06:14:13 am
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I was wondering, though. Wouldn't the kids be mentally retarded or something? Something is wrong with the genetics here, or perhaps I'm just failing to recall basic 9th grade bio correctly.

Yeah, this.  Even if he is 50% related to his daughter, they should all have some kind of some kind of learning disability or deformity to some extent or degree  Let's not forget that the mother/daughter was in a cellar during the entire pregnancy, being deprived of vitamin D (obtained mostly from the sun) is pretty substantial in itself, but I find it really hard to believe that these kids are all fine when she probably wasn't eating right, either.

I'm no expert, but it's definitely odd if not miraculous.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ase on April 29, 2008, 06:36:09 am
Inri Cheetos, I appreciate your hilarity when you add it to topics in Crap Shack and Post 9/11 World, but please keep it out of General discussions.

Dada is right, I started to warn you when I saw your first post but then quickly changed my mind and said "NAH HE'LL BACK DOWN after people realize he's just a joker heh." Now you're just annoying and inciting people on purpose. Stop it.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: HL on April 29, 2008, 10:51:17 am
Yeah, this.  Even if he is 50% related to his daughter, they should all have some kind of some kind of learning disability or deformity to some extent or degree  Let's not forget that the mother/daughter was in a cellar during the entire pregnancy, being deprived of vitamin D (obtained mostly from the sun) is pretty substantial in itself, but I find it really hard to believe that these kids are all fine when she probably wasn't eating right, either.

I'm no expert, but it's definitely odd if not miraculous.

Nah, they all shouldn't have a disability, it's not like HAVE SEX WITH FAMILY = 100% CHANCE of genetic fuckup, it just increases the chances by a lot.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Ghost_Aspergers on April 29, 2008, 12:32:04 pm
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Fritzl was placed in pretrial detention and faces up to 15 years in prison if charged, tried and convicted on rape charges, the most grave of his alleged offenses under Austrian law.

And he only gets fifteen years for this? Or does this mean that there are more charges involved (the wording angers and confuses me)?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Ralph on April 29, 2008, 01:02:38 pm
I'm pretty sure there's more charges involved.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: gjw1uk on April 29, 2008, 08:43:47 pm
Because prior to the advent of modern medicine, child birth was the most common cause of death among women.
Stockholm Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Syndrome), maybe?
That,  and many other psychological problems against her.  Interestingly enough, it's in female's biological programming to not resist something like this, particularly when they've already been abused. 

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I was wondering, though. Wouldn't the kids be mentally retarded or something? Something is wrong with the genetics here, or perhaps I'm just failing to recall basic 9th grade bio correctly.
Not at all.  Inbreeding only eliminates genetic variation, which increases the probability for something - anything genetic - to go wrong.  This is why the Royalty here all had Hemophilia, not Down's Syndrome. As Grin Tree said, the nutrition would be a more likely cause of mental problems, though that would definitely depend upon the minerals she was lacking in her life in the basement.

I could say something here about Australians, but coming from a Brit it would sound bad on my part.  Let's just hope they've got the proper justice to deal with this guy. 
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Grin Tree on April 29, 2008, 08:52:00 pm
Nah, they all shouldn't have a disability, it's not like HAVE SEX WITH FAMILY = 100% CHANCE of genetic fuckup, it just increases the chances by a lot.

I know two parents who are cousins (they're third cousins) that got married and had kids.  Each kid is normal, but they each have a slight defect.  Out of the three kids, one had two weird 'protrusions' of what I can only describe as cartilage or skin next to his ears on each side that had to be removed.  Another has a weird condition on one eye that she needs glasses for (the iris has some kind of weird indentation making it look irregular and not circular) and the third kid they had needed to have surgery for a condition that was preventing her from breathing properly while sleeping (not sure what it was, but it was something neither of the parents had in their family history). 

These are just third cousins, too, so maybe the kids in this story aren't necessarily retarded, but I'm sure they have some slight defects due to very similar genes being...mixed.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: HL on April 29, 2008, 09:02:12 pm
I know two parents who are cousins (they're third cousins) that got married and had kids.  Each kid is normal, but they each have a slight defect.  Out of the three kids, one had two weird 'protrusions' of what I can only describe as cartilage or skin next to his ears on each side that had to be removed.  Another has a weird condition on one eye that she needs glasses for (the iris has some kind of weird indentation making it look irregular and not circular) and the third kid they had needed to have surgery for a condition that was preventing her from breathing properly while sleeping (not sure what it was, but it was something neither of the parents had in their family history). 

These are just third cousins, too, so maybe the kids in this story aren't necessarily retarded, but I'm sure they have some slight defects due to very similar genes being...mixed.

it's not a guaranteed thing at all. it just increases the chance of it. there are incestuous kids who are perfectly normal, and there are incestuous kids who are far worse than what you said. so...
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Grin Tree on April 30, 2008, 12:02:40 am
it's not a guaranteed thing at all. it just increases the chance of it. there are incestuous kids who are perfectly normal, and there are incestuous kids who are far worse than what you said. so...

I know, this only reaffirms my statement of it being 'miraculous' that those kids are completely functional.  I don't doubt that there are worst cases out there, considering the example cases I gave weren't nearly severe as this one.

Now I wonder if the miscarriages she had were a result of incest.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Cheesy Doritos on April 30, 2008, 01:06:52 am
Apparently from a discussion I had with Jeff (I think it was, I could be wrong!), incest only increases the chances of recessive genes being dominant, because both parents have those recessive genes, or something. So, if they both had recessive genes that weren't great, the kids might be messed up some, but otherwise they'd be more or less normal. Just paraphrasing what I learned from him, but it sounds right to me, so... There's that!

Yeah, this is... Wow. This is just kind of terrible. To think this woman, and her kids, have led such terrible lives... I mean, a nineteen-year-old probably without any sort of education, and quite probably the older daughter, too... Jesus. Things like these, man.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: vath on April 30, 2008, 01:26:41 am
Sick! why those children do not try to escape..?!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Brown on April 30, 2008, 02:54:08 am
thats horrible. this was probably started off as a hobby of his and he enjoyed himself. sick fuck.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: HL on April 30, 2008, 03:51:00 am
I know, this only reaffirms my statement of it being 'miraculous' that those kids are completely functional.  I don't doubt that there are worst cases out there, considering the example cases I gave weren't nearly severe as this one.

Now I wonder if the miscarriages she had were a result of incest.

It's not very miraculous per se, there's a much higher chance of them being normal than being defected in some way. Most children resulting from this stuff usually wind up normal, barring the fact that your family screwed each other to make you.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Cho on April 30, 2008, 04:04:51 am
I think they were far more damaged by LIVING IN A BASEMENT AND NOT SEEING THE LIGHT OF DAY FOR 19 YEARS than anything their genes could give them.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: yugi on April 30, 2008, 02:09:17 pm
I saw this on the news a while ago and thought "what the hell? How did he pull that off?". Then I saw the basement, and no joke, it is like a bomb shelter.
It is pretty deep underground, totally sound proof (and bomb proof I would imagine), the door to get in and out has an electronic lock and it is a massive steel/concrete reinforced door that you couldn't knock down in 100 years. The actual layout of the basement looked like it had been planned out and you could have lived in it, it has a bedroom (big enough to fit 4 beds in), bathroom and kitchen.
Either this guy was some kook who got a bomb shelter made to prepare for the end of the world, or he had been planning to do something like this for a long time.
I am also suprised his wife didn't know. Fair enough, he was the only person who could get in and the basement was totally sound proof. But still, how did he get away with building a slave chamber in his basement? And how did he get away with going down to it everyday (for possibly hours I would imagine)? His wife must have noticed something was suspicious with the way he was acting.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mama Luigi on April 30, 2008, 06:47:37 pm
I saw this on the news a while ago and thought "what the hell? How did he pull that off?". Then I saw the basement, and no joke, it is like a bomb shelter.
It is pretty deep underground, totally sound proof (and bomb proof I would imagine), the door to get in and out has an electronic lock and it is a massive steel/concrete reinforced door that you couldn't knock down in 100 years. The actual layout of the basement looked like it had been planned out and you could have lived in it, it has a bedroom (big enough to fit 4 beds in), bathroom and kitchen.
Either this guy was some kook who got a bomb shelter made to prepare for the end of the world, or he had been planning to do something like this for a long time.
I am also suprised his wife didn't know. Fair enough, he was the only person who could get in and the basement was totally sound proof. But still, how did he get away with building a slave chamber in his basement? And how did he get away with going down to it everyday (for possibly hours I would imagine)? His wife must have noticed something was suspicious with the way he was acting.
and the fact that her child had seemingly vanished off the face of the planet for 24 years
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Wash Cycle on April 30, 2008, 06:59:43 pm
How could a 19 year old and a 42 year old not overwelm a 72 year old man? They must have been so used to living there that they didnt try escape or something. It's a pity he's too old to spend his entire life rotting in jail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Syndrome
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on April 30, 2008, 07:54:44 pm
Wash Cycle you're not the first one to suggest stockholm syndrome and that theory is flawed because "she agreed to talk only after authorities assured her she would no longer have to have contact with her father and that her children would be cared for."

I think he probably kept her sedated and handcuffed (like when he locked her in the cellar), I don't think you can overwhelm anyone in that state
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Luvdisc on April 30, 2008, 08:00:23 pm
Wash Cycle you're not the first one to suggest stockholm syndrome and that theory is flawed because "she agreed to talk only after authorities assured her she would no longer have to have contact with her father and that her children would be cared for."

I think he probably kept her sedated and handcuffed (like when he locked her in the cellar), I don't think you can overwhelm anyone in that state

It could simply have been fear of the man, or the resulting consequences.

This is pretty fucked up. Sure, I have fantasies about keeping my own personal sex slave in the basement, but nothing like this. And with his own daughter? I hope this man suffers the remainder of his years, however long they may be.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Ghost_Aspergers on April 30, 2008, 08:33:23 pm
How many sigs do you need.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: big ass skelly on May 01, 2008, 02:32:43 am
how do you find a wife that's ok with this?
You should try google before asking questions like this, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of good tuts out there noob!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: PkUltimaga on May 01, 2008, 04:28:06 pm
that old fucker will go to Hell
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Paragon on May 01, 2008, 04:42:32 pm
that old fucker will go to Hell
don't they keep the gate over at g&d locked?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Grunthor on May 01, 2008, 10:47:12 pm
You should try google before asking questions like this, I'm pretty sure there are a lot of good tuts out there noob!
don't they keep the gate over at g&d locked?

Next one to make a stupid joke in this topic gets their warn meter jacked up a notch, so knock it off.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: big ass skelly on May 02, 2008, 01:45:16 am
Yeah this is the general forum, we don't take kindly to your irreverant attitude around here punks.

Especially not in a serious news thread that probably should have just been a post in weird news articles. But I guess this is shocking enough to warrant a thread and serious enough that anyone making lighthearted posts within a five-post radius should get warned.

Basically you're gay and you're a bad moderator.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: big ass skelly on May 02, 2008, 02:00:58 am
Wait a minute I didn't post that someone must have hacked my account.......

I just wanted to come in here to say HOW AWFUL
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Paragon on May 02, 2008, 02:09:47 am
I think everything will be set right if you just warn him out of anger.
edit: what a sick fuck i hope he goes to die in hell the sick fuck
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: hima on May 03, 2008, 05:42:14 am
I just read the newspaper. It appears that there's another case like this in France.  This time, it's step-father and step-daughter...with the step-mother helping the old guy.  Will find a link to the article once I got time.

It's sad when I think that there might be more like this case out there somewhere in the world.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: An Hafferdat Squid on May 03, 2008, 11:23:20 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7379554.stm

antarctic fur seal rapes king penguin. sounds like a TOOL song.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Lars on May 03, 2008, 01:34:18 pm
in all the articles the kids and daughter said they hated him and was afraid of him so its clearly not a case of the stockholm syndrome at all

more that he was so completely dominating (plus the fact that the kids they got had NEVER been outside the cellar so their whole reality was based in that little cellar plus what they learned from tv).
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Post by: Dime Bag on May 05, 2008, 12:49:53 am
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But this is thought to be the first recorded example of a mammal trying to have sex with a member of another class of vertebrate...
Somehow, I don't think so...
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Post by: Mongoloid on May 05, 2008, 01:01:06 am
Shit what if this is true.
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Post by: Dave on May 05, 2008, 03:41:20 am
this really turned my stomach badly.

what a sick motherfucker. but seriously how did the wife never know.
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Post by: Mince Wobley on May 07, 2008, 07:03:14 am
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080416a9.html


I think it's sad that she wants to kill herself after seeing so little
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Post by: Brown on May 07, 2008, 07:35:53 pm
I think its sad she wants to kill herself in the first place. the sakura is there just to dramatically end her life.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: HL on May 14, 2008, 12:29:02 am
http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20080505/news/news1.html

Girls vagina tightens around guy's dick, he is unable to escape.

edit: i dont think its legit but its still WEIRD
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Post by: Rye Bread on May 15, 2008, 10:00:42 am
Wow, I didn't think that it was possible to be turned off and on at the same time.

This.
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Post by: Carrion Crow on May 15, 2008, 10:20:10 am
the daily star is so full of shit guys keep screwing you girlfriends you should be fine :)
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Post by: Kav on May 15, 2008, 05:11:57 pm
the daily star is so full of shit guys keep screwing you girlfriends you should be fine :)
Heh, I'm not falling for the STRAIGHT AGENDA.
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Post by: Bravo on May 15, 2008, 05:31:48 pm
This.
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Post by: Grunthor on May 18, 2008, 01:42:23 am
13yr old steals dad's credit card.  Buys hookers and junk food. (http://www.money.co.uk/article/1000390-13-year-old-steals-dads-credit-card-to-buy-hookers.htm)


What a fucking dumbass.

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The escort girls who were released without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.
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Post by: HL on May 18, 2008, 04:08:49 am
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Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a "World of Warcraft" tournament. They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them.

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Ralphs ambition is to one day become a politician.

He's on his way there.....

Man, I wish I was that cool when I was 13.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Brown on May 19, 2008, 01:08:33 am
lol they wanted to play xbox after calling the escorts over. thats still pretty surprising for a 13 year old
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: UPRC on May 19, 2008, 12:31:06 pm
lol they wanted to play xbox after calling the escorts over. thats still pretty surprising for a 13 year old

No, not pretty surprising.

VERY surprising.
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Post by: Tau on May 19, 2008, 03:55:50 pm
Yeah lets get some hookers over here to play some Xbox with!! This cracks me up!
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Post by: bible_basher on May 19, 2008, 07:43:44 pm
man i am completely baffled as to WHY he at least ask to fuck them
seriously
but that WoW thing is really fucking hilarious
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on May 21, 2008, 08:08:37 pm
They could make a movie about this, like Home Alone. But this is what happens when you think parenting is just working to buy things for your kids!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Grin Tree on May 22, 2008, 11:07:46 am
Meh, I call bullshit on that article. 
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: UPRC on May 23, 2008, 08:22:05 pm
Heard this on the radio, had to share it because it's just fucking hilarious.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/080522/canada/canada_scoc_fly&printer=1

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The Windsor, Ont., man has maintained that the discovery of one and a half flies in the large water bottle triggered depression, phobia and anxiety that affected his work and even his sex life. He was seeking more than $300,000 in compensation.

SEX LIFE.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: goat on May 23, 2008, 08:35:28 pm
http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/39pixie_dust39_helps_man_grow_new_finger_546016


So apparently by scraping cells from a pig bladder and cleansing them, then placing them on the stump of a mans severed finger, helped him to regrow the tip of it. He had lost the tip just below the fingernail, so to see (in the video) the "dust" help him regrow that much shows GREAT potential for this kind of medicine.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Aten on May 25, 2008, 11:54:48 pm
Wow...thats....wow.

Man, if REGREW the finger, shit. If they make a more powerful version, I wonder if they can make like, entire limbs grow back. That would be fucking sweet.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on May 27, 2008, 01:39:26 am
It regrew only the tip but yes it is awesome! I also liked the line before the last one:

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The US military is poised to start trials of the powder to regrow parts of the fingers of injured soldiers.

It's always like this. Whenever someone invents something cool someone else finds a way to use it to kill people.

Scientists discover life in mars... the US military will use them in a machine gun.
Scientists invents substance that causes peace... the US military is going to put that inside bombs.
Scientists discover a way to end global warming... the US military will use that as a weapon of mass destruction.
Scientists find out a way to get along without fighting wars for nothing... the US military will put it in a satellite that fires missles that can hit anything in the planet.

--

PS: I'm assuming it will only cause it to regrow as long as they don't suture the wound but then how do they keep it from getting infected?
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Post by: goldenratio on May 27, 2008, 01:46:32 am
wait how is the US finding a way to use it to kill people? i think you read that sentence entirely wrong.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on May 27, 2008, 01:57:45 am
I read it just right but I think that in the future where they find out how to regrow entire limbs, instead of sending soldiers back home when they lose a limb, they will just apply the magical medicine on them and put them back into the fight, like "Now with this technology a soldier can become 75% more effective in battle and kill 75% more people"

Also, I wonder if it would also work for people who lost their fingertips a long time ago like Tony Iommi.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: goldenratio on May 27, 2008, 02:02:07 am
instead of sending soldiers back home when they lose a limb, they will just apply the magical medicine on them and put them back into the fight
uh, duh? pretty sure every country in the world would do this.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on May 27, 2008, 02:06:06 am
Yes I know! Which is why I said "someone always finds out how to use it as a weapon", not just "the US military"
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: goldenratio on May 27, 2008, 02:28:03 am
oh well, i mean:
It's always like this. Whenever someone invents something cool someone else finds a way to use it to kill people.

Scientists discover life in mars... the US military will use them in a machine gun.
Scientists invents substance that causes peace... the US military is going to put that inside bombs.
Scientists discover a way to end global warming... the US military will use that as a weapon of mass destruction.
Scientists find out a way to get along without fighting wars for nothing... the US military will put it in a satellite that fires missles that can hit anything in the planet.
the first sentence is ambiguous but then all those examples are of US, so i just assumed you meant the US
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Frankie on May 27, 2008, 05:20:41 pm
I love how they turn scraped pig bladder cells into "miraculous pixie dust". Thats the best example of the media presenting scientific discoveries way out of proportion. Reminds me of that part in the GWblog article about pseudoscience
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: HL on May 29, 2008, 03:50:15 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1,000-cars.html

Man has sex with 1,000 cars.

Yeah.

Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: xanque on May 29, 2008, 03:25:03 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-%27having-sex%27-with-1,000-cars.html

Man has sex with 1,000 cars.

Yeah.

Holy shit this is the best article I have ever read. 
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Post by: Rone Rivendale on May 29, 2008, 03:52:01 pm
Where exactly does he put it? The exhaust pipe? :O
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Post by: Bravo on May 29, 2008, 04:52:32 pm
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He added: "There are moments way out in the middle of nowhere when I see a little car parked and I swear it needs loving.
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Intolerent Convervative response: "Well at least he's not having sex with men, that shit is just plain wrong!"
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Post by: Cray on May 29, 2008, 05:05:45 pm
the guy is right though, he's not hurting anyone so I could care less if he loves cars, but I also wonder how does he has sex with them...
that's pretty fucked up though.
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Post by: Grunthor on May 30, 2008, 02:59:06 am
Nude maid steals $40,000 in jewelry
Quote from: AP
TAMPA - A nude maid is accused of really cleaning up at a Florida man's home. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said a 50-year-old man hired the maid from the Internet on Friday to clean his Tampa home.

Authorities said the woman arrived at the home in a one-piece, light colored dress. She took off the dress and cleaned the house for $100-per-hour. Sheriff's office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said the man told deputies he left the maid alone in the bedroom to clean.

When the man's wife came home from vacation, she discovered $40,000 in jewelry missing from their bedroom.

What I want to know is where did she hide the jewelry to smuggle it out of the house?  :naughty:
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: goldenratio on May 30, 2008, 03:54:11 am
tomorrow is gonna be so awesome:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/29/alien-video-to-be-reveale_n_104043.html

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Alien Video To Be Revealed To Media Tomorrow, Man Claims

The Rocky Mountain News is reporting that tomorrow the world might actually see who else is out there. A man, named Jeff Peckman, claims he will reveal video of live alien to the news media Friday. Brace yourselves. Below are some key excerpts from the story:

A video that purportedly shows a living, breathing space alien will be shown to the news media Friday in Denver.

"It shows an extraterrestrial's head popping up outside of a window at night, looking in the window, that's visible through an infrared camera," he said. The alien is about 4 feet tall and can be seen blinking, Peckman said earlier this month.

An instructor at the Colorado Film School in Denver scrutinized the video "very carefully" and determined it was authentic, Peckman said.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/29/expert-says-ufo-tape-no-fake/

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Expert: Space alien tape no fake

The instructor at the Colorado Film School who analyzed a video that purportedly shows a living space alien swears the footage is real.

"There is no doubt in my mind that (Stan Romanek, a Colorado native who has reported UFO sightings) did not post-produce this material. In other words, it's not a trick done in special effects," Jerry Hofmann, a professional film editor with more than 30 years of experience, said in a telephone interview this morning.

"I have equipment that will test to see if that shot was recorded originally on that tape, which it was," he said.

However, Hofmann said there's no way for him to know whether or not the little gray alien, which was videotaped peeping through a window, is the real thing.

But Hofmann thinks it is.

"The chances are that we are not alone," he said. "That's the conclusion I've come to."

Hofmann, a Colorado Springs native who used to work in the Los Angeles film industry, mostly making commercials and industrial films, said Romanek doesn't have the resources to videotape something so elaborate.

"He kept the camera handy, and he saw this little gray (alien) running around his house. He saw it so he got the camera out," Hofmann said. "The thing is about 4 feet tall. The only thing that shows up in the video is his head. It pops up from underneath a window. But his eyes blink. His cheeks move. He turns his head side-to-side. This would be a very elaborate puppet."

Hofmann said people who work in Hollywood animatronics also have seen the video and said that such an elaborate puppet would cost around $50,000.

"The guy lives on a freaking government pension," Hofmann said, referring to Romanek. "He's got a wife and three kids. He doesn't have money. I just don't think he faked this. I think what we got here is the real thing."

Hofmann said he had never heard about Romanek until he was approached last July to analyze the video.

Hofmann, 57, who has been married for 35 years to his college sweetheart and has two grown children, said he used to be a skeptic about space aliens.

"My whole view has totally changed," he said. "There's something going on."

its such bullshit i cant wait to see what comes of it
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Post by: Bravo on May 30, 2008, 03:58:53 am
but an EXPERT said it was real!
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Post by: goldenratio on May 30, 2008, 04:17:38 am
i know!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Lars on May 31, 2008, 04:44:18 am
but an EXPERT said it was real!
I bet it's the same EXPERT that says John F. Kennedy was assasinated......
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Post by: hero_bash on May 31, 2008, 05:02:55 am
it's fake.
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Post by: Fatboys #4 on May 31, 2008, 05:11:18 am
I think that instructor knows a little too much about his student.  Perhaps he's the fucking alien.
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Post by: Cho on May 31, 2008, 05:42:57 am
The alien is very animated, says expert. 
:fogetcrazy:
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Post by: Death Gulp on May 31, 2008, 11:35:35 am
LOL fake.
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Post by: goldenratio on May 31, 2008, 08:05:08 pm
i havent seen any follow-up articles. anybody else?
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Post by: Neophyte on May 31, 2008, 08:16:20 pm
http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_9427587
Ahahahhahahahaha.

Also:
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Romanek, who moved to Colorado after the recording, claims to have had more than 100 encounters with aliens, Rojas said.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Grunthor on May 31, 2008, 08:43:27 pm
i havent seen any follow-up articles. anybody else?

I didn't get to watch much of it, but I'm pretty sure this guy was on Larry King last night.  I'm sure there's probably video on Youtube or CNN's website of it.


Edit: Here it is.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ase on May 31, 2008, 09:20:07 pm
ahahaha

based upon his hundreds of other experiences, this video "FITS" and is "very believable"
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Post by: Bravo on May 31, 2008, 10:05:37 pm
what's that video they show at 1:30? is that the "real' one or the one the skeptic made for $100?
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Post by: Frankie on May 31, 2008, 11:58:56 pm
I think its the skeptic's one, they talk later about how they don't want to show the real thing yet, and they keep showing stills that dont seem to come from the same video. The face in the stills are all blurry and we can only really see two dark eyes and a vague head...

It would have been useless to show stills if they could just show the actual video instead anyways.




Also why the fuck would an alien LOOK THROUGH THE SAME WINDOW EVERY NIGHT. Heh I watch you sleep...


Edit: Oh and the video has the caption REENACTMENT har
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Post by: bonermobile on June 01, 2008, 10:36:05 am
that could not look any more fake
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Post by: headphonics on June 01, 2008, 02:54:46 pm
man

i don't think on any of the interviews i've seen on cnn, anyone has mentioned the fact that if there really are aliens, would they really be LITTLE GREEN MEN?  like, that it's such a huge cliche with its big eyes and greenish skin and oblong head and basically just looks like what a person would envision an alien as circa 1953, should be enough to show it's not real.  they were talking about this for like an hour on cnn the other night and man it is just like... more and more often i will turn it to cnn and they will be spending extended periods of time talking about the most vapid shit, which is KIND OF ODD considering it's not really even a slow time in terms of WORLD EVENTS.  it's a shame because i always thought of it as being somewhat above other networks in this respect!
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Post by: Frankie on June 01, 2008, 06:21:10 pm
It was on CNN news too? I thought it was just on Larry King Live. Larry King always had stupid crap like this. Conspiracy theories and stuff.
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Post by: Lars on June 01, 2008, 06:58:17 pm
CNN definitely needs another 9/11... That shit looks so extremely fake and amateur B-movieish that not even the local elementary school newspaper should've covered it.
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Post by: Roman on June 01, 2008, 07:14:07 pm
well to be fair they haven't released the actual video yet have they?
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Post by: otomon on June 02, 2008, 02:10:06 am
well to be fair they haven't released the actual video yet have they?

In the Larry King video you see several instances of the "video",its just some fake alien showing his head for 4 secs in the window and "running" away.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Roman on June 02, 2008, 03:28:27 am
In the Larry King video you see several instances of the "video",its just some fake alien showing his head for 4 secs in the window and "running" away.

That's not the actual video.
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Post by: Aten on June 02, 2008, 03:44:00 am
If theres an alien, wheres is SHIP. Where are the landing mark? Why only ONE? Why don't they communicate? Why why why?

Fake.
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Post by: HL on June 02, 2008, 07:49:01 am
If theres an alien, wheres is SHIP. Where are the landing mark? Why only ONE? Why don't they communicate? Why why why?

Fake.

Even though logically there are aliens, you would have to be a complete idiot if you believe the alien would a) have to have a ship, b) if he did, it would leave a landing mark, c) would come as more than one (maybe they are reconing solo cause they have super high tech?), d) have the ability to communicate.

maybe the aliens we will meet eventually will be so advanced his suit let's him fly through space, comes by himself with lasers that destroy everything, and he's mute.

DIDNT THINK ABOUT THAT HUH

THINKABOUT THE MUTE ALIENS
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Post by: Apathy on June 02, 2008, 03:32:10 pm
LK: why wasn't this video shown tonight?

SR: "but but ...I have an agreement with the scientists"

sure you do buddy, sure you do.

I'm not going to dismiss the notion of aliens, but if this guy wasn't always talking about 'his case' (loco-woowoo-alarm) i would probably be more sympathetic.

note:
Did anybody have the urge to play X-com after they saw that video?
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Post by: otomon on June 02, 2008, 04:36:54 pm
Some guy in Japan finds a woman living in his closet. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080530/od_nm/closet_odd_dc_1)


I would pay to have a woman living in my closet,and if all she wanted was food thats a plus. give her dog food.
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Post by: goldenratio on June 02, 2008, 04:57:49 pm
ahahaah the antichrist is coming he is gay and at least partially jewish!

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Pastor Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, "Partially Jewish, As Was Adolph Hitler" (Paging Joe Lieberman!)

Posted June 2, 2008 | 06:31 AM (EST)

On March 16, 2003, on the eve of the United States' invasion of Iraq, Pastor John Hagee took to the pulpit to warn of the coming Antichrist. In his sermon, "The Final Dictator," Hagee described the Antichrist as a seductive figure with "fierce features." He will be "a blasphemer and a homosexual," the pastor announced. Then, Hagee boomed, "There's a phrase in Scripture used solely to identify the Jewish people. It suggests that this man [the Antichrist] is at least going to be partially Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx."

This "fierce" gay Jew, according to Hagee, would "slaughter one-third of the Earth's population" and "make Adolph Hitler look like a choirboy."
Hear Pastor Hagee's latest Judeophobic, anti-gay rant in this video, created by Bruce Wilson of Talk2Action.org

Exposed here for the first time, Hagee's comments identifying the Antichrist as a partly Jewish homosexual arriving in the wake of a furor the pastor provoked by describing the Holocaust as an act of God. Hagee's chilling sermon about the Holocaust prompted Sen. John McCain to reject the preacher's support, an unexpected turnabout after McCain spent over a year soliciting his endorsement.

Days after McCain's rejection, I reported that a key McCain ally, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, planned to deliver the keynote speech at Hagee's upcoming Christians United For Israel (CUFI) summit. As the story exploded into the mainstream press, pressure mounted on Lieberman to withdraw.

But Lieberman stayed the course, declaring in a prepared statement, "Pastor Hagee has devoted much of his life to fighting anti-Semitism and building bridges between Christians and Jews... I will go to the CUFI Summit in July and speak to the people who have come to Washington from all over our country to express their support of America and Israel, based on our shared eternal values and our shared contemporary challenges in the war against terrorism."

Lieberman will be joined at CUFI's conference by Rep. Elliot Engel, a Democratic congressman from New York with a fairly progressive voting record. On Thursday, May 29, I asked Engel's press secretary, Joseph O'Brien, if Engel still planned to attend Hagee's gathering in light of his remarks about the Holocaust. O'Brien told me Engel would respond shortly. So far, Engel has said nothing.

Engel is slated to speak on CUFI's "Middle East Briefing" panel this July. He will be joined on the panel by Republican Rep. Mike Pence, Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist Bill Kristol, and Christian right activist Gary Bauer.

Perhaps these Hagee allies could not fathom that a zealous "supporter" of Israel like Hagee could also be an anti-Semite. They may have believed, as conservative Jewish columnist Jeff Jacoby apparently did, that Hagee's remarks on the Holocaust, as jarring as they were, were theologically correct, and therefore excusable. "As anyone even fleetingly familiar with the Hebrew Bible knows," Jacoby wrote, "it is not 'crazy,' let alone anti-Semitic, to believe that Jewish suffering can be a punishment from God."

But now...

But now that Hagee's political allies have listened to the preacher's sermon identifying the Antichrist as a homosexual Jew, how can they still share a stage with him? Is attributing Jewish ancestry to the Man of Sin not anti-Semitism in its most classical form? Are the conspiratorial screeds of Nesta Webster,Henry Ford, and David Duke not replete with passages disturbingly similar to this most recently revealed jeremiad of Hagee and to many of his past sermons?

Hagee's allies must ask themselves what price they are willing to pay for the backing of his political empire. All of them diminish themselves by standing by side. But those who are Jewish like Lieberman, and who have highlighted their faith to enhance their moral authority, must know now that the price of entering Hagee's kingdom is their soul.

No more excuses. All elected officials must withdraw from Hagee's upcoming summit.
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Post by: Ragnar on June 02, 2008, 10:24:35 pm
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This "fierce" gay Jew, according to Hagee, would "slaughter one-third of the Earth's population" and "make Adolph Hitler look like a choirboy."

so he'd make Adolf Hitler look sexy is what he's trying to say
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Post by: Mince Wobley on June 02, 2008, 10:37:39 pm
ROFLMAO that alien video is funny! I always wanted to do this, except with an uglier "alien" so that it would be scary rather than hilarious
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Post by: otomon on June 03, 2008, 06:02:50 am
This anti-chirst stuff is freaking me out...Why does he need to become a world leader if he has
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according to Hagee, would "slaughter one-third of the Earth's population" and "make Adolph Hitler look like a choirboy."
superpowers.
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Post by: HL on June 03, 2008, 11:49:32 am
Banana Extinction:
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/54710/


Basically, the bananas we eat now (Cavendish) are cloned, and thus they are all genetically identical, and thus they are unable to resist the fungus that will wipe them out.

Either they'll genetically modify the bananas, or we'll find a new banana. :/
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Post by: UPRC on June 03, 2008, 12:09:57 pm
I wouldn't be too bothered if bananas went away.. I usually eat apples and berries for my fruit fix.
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Post by: HL on June 03, 2008, 12:12:21 pm
there are third world countries that live off of Cavendish bananas tho dude.
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Post by: Aten on June 03, 2008, 12:41:34 pm
Eh? Bananas grow in my back yard. There are at least 5 trees. So the very first sentence of the article is wrong, because these are not "modified"...
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Post by: HL on June 03, 2008, 01:03:18 pm
Eh? Bananas grow in my back yard. There are at least 5 trees. So the very first sentence of the article is wrong, because these are not "modified"...

Yes they are.

If there's only one strain of bananas, and they have seeds, and you plant them, guess what comes out? The same banana strain.

Cavendish bananas aren't grown through sexual reproduction.
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Post by: bonermobile on June 03, 2008, 11:25:48 pm
thats pretty weird to think about, usually people talk about animals going extinct not fruit.

would be a pretty cool story to tell your grandkids though "in my day we had a yellow phallic shaped fruit"
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Post by: Aten on June 04, 2008, 02:52:29 am
Yes they are.

Actually, they've been there since forever. I think my grand father planted those, AND I live in the tropics btw :)
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Post by: HL on June 04, 2008, 08:04:46 am
whats that got to do with anything. read up on banana history son.
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Post by: Aten on June 04, 2008, 09:54:16 am
Nothing I guess! I was just saying that those trees were there for a long time, maybe even before this research thing started.
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Post by: Awakening on June 04, 2008, 09:52:39 pm
From a few different sources, in case you're thinking it's a spoof.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2870071.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=149608&in_page_id=2
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90853/6420080.html

It's something called objectum-sexuality.
In a nutshell - she finds objects sexier than men.

The last line of the first article still cracks me up:
"The Great Wall of China's attractive, but he's too thick - my husband is sexier."

Do you think you could ever fall in love with a object? I don't mean obsessing over money, cars, or new computers (haha), but actually wanting to have a physical relationship with something that...well, doesn't really communicate back.

I mean, how completely delusional does one have to be...
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Post by: Cheshire Cat on June 04, 2008, 09:54:42 pm
Obligatory length or girth joke.
Yeah i heard about this on...jonathon ross maybe? I forget. Sounds likely though.

Also, this probably belongs in the weird topics thread.
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Post by: From Jungle on June 04, 2008, 09:55:00 pm
*face palm*
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Post by: Vellfire on June 04, 2008, 09:55:11 pm
I wonder if she finds it disgusting that some people have pieces of her husband's body as mementos.
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Post by: Dyne on June 04, 2008, 09:56:01 pm
Quote from: First Article
While she remains a virgin with humans, she insists she had a full, loving relationship with the wall.

What.
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Post by: Cheshire Cat on June 04, 2008, 09:56:19 pm
Quote
I wonder if she finds it disgusting that some people have pieces of her husband's body as mementos.

I remember from said broadcast (havent looked at any of the articles, so dont hold me to it) that she left the berlin wall and married a fence?

Prefers the rustic man, i guess.
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Post by: TFT on June 04, 2008, 09:58:51 pm
That's pretty weird. it's the first time I've heard of objectum sexuality. Maybe she's just a nutcase?
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Post by: Bravo on June 04, 2008, 10:33:30 pm
well there was that one guy who liked cars
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Post by: Brown on June 05, 2008, 02:47:32 am
and that other guy who liked park/patio tables.

she didnt marry the garden fence after the wall, she just found it attractive and was looking at it while they were interviewing her
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Post by: Ragnar on June 05, 2008, 04:28:08 am
How could you be so insensitive sometimes I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall
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Post by: Frisky SKeleton on June 05, 2008, 06:10:51 am
how did they get married? no way you're allowed to marry a wall, gays would go nuts
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Post by: Jayce on June 05, 2008, 10:37:06 am
The berlin wall has had more sex than half of GW's userbase XD
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Post by: Cheshire Cat on June 05, 2008, 10:45:52 am
The berlin wall finds the whole thing hillarious.

It's in pieces about it.
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Post by: UPRC on June 05, 2008, 11:39:58 am
I don't know what the big deal is.... My girlfriend is my ceiling.....
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Post by: Apathy on June 05, 2008, 05:06:45 pm
damn it if only i could conjur a supremely witty wall joke. I have several about lamps, but none about walls...fuck.



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Post by: tuxedo marx on June 05, 2008, 05:14:12 pm
no man he said witty
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Post by: Cheshire Cat on June 05, 2008, 05:40:39 pm
Apparently she caught the wall at it with another woman.

He was absolutely bricking it.
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Post by: Jayce on June 05, 2008, 05:46:08 pm
The berlin wall finds the whole thing hillarious.

It's in pieces about it.

Ahhhhhhh ha ha!
It's because...
Because the wall was torn down!

And and, you made it into a joke related to the article!

You are a, you are a funny, funny man!

HA HA!

Ohhh MAN!



EDIT: seriously though it was a good one  :fogetsmile:
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Post by: HL on June 07, 2008, 01:59:17 am
I don't want to make a new topic on this, because, well, it'll be OHGOD SO TERRIBLE, but:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/nyregion/06rape.html?_r=1&ex=1370491200&en=bc60cf51266f5a15&ei=&oref=slogin

To sum this up:
-Guy rapes girl for 19 hours
-Slit her eye lids.
-Made her cut her own throat.
-Threw a tv at the back of her head crushing her skull.
-Made her swallow handfuls of pills.
-Sealed her mouth with glue.

71 criminal counts.
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Post by: Nightmare on June 07, 2008, 02:07:41 am
What the fuck man? Raped for nineteen hours?

Wow...
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Post by: Cheshire Cat on June 07, 2008, 08:20:02 am
You have to wonder why anyone would agree to defend him.

Horrible, horrible stuff.
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Post by: Rone Rivendale on June 07, 2008, 04:03:13 pm
Umm, because you are innocent until proven guity?

I can go to the police right now and say Cheshire Cat raped me for 19 hours.
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Post by: Bravo on June 07, 2008, 06:43:14 pm
well a bit different in this case, since there's physical evidence including DNA.
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Post by: fatty on June 07, 2008, 07:42:20 pm
I don't want to make a new topic on this, because, well, it'll be OHGOD SO TERRIBLE, but:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/nyregion/06rape.html?_r=1&ex=1370491200&en=bc60cf51266f5a15&ei=&oref=slogin

To sum this up:
-Guy rapes girl for 19 hours
-Slit her eye lids.
-Made her cut her own throat.
-Threw a tv at the back of her head crushing her skull.
-Made her swallow handfuls of pills.
-Sealed her mouth with glue.

71 criminal counts.
Pics or it didn't happen

This is actually pretty terrible. Hurray, humanity just lost 21312314123 abort reputation points! Again!
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Post by: HL on June 08, 2008, 08:47:11 am
Umm, because you are innocent until proven guity?

I can go to the police right now and say Cheshire Cat raped me for 19 hours.

ya, but can you go to the police, say Chesire Cat raped you for 19 hours, slit your eye lids, made you cut your own throat, threw a TV at the back of your head anc rushed your scale, made you swallow a handful of pills, and sealed your mouth with clue?

I doubt it.
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Post by: Frankie on June 08, 2008, 01:19:38 pm
ya, but can you go to the police, say Chesire Cat raped you for 19 hours, slit your eye lids, made you cut your own throat, threw a TV at the back of your head anc rushed your scale, made you swallow a handful of pills, and sealed your mouth with clue?

I doubt it.

No, but you could do all of that to someone else and frame Cheshire Cat for it. There is no doubt the victim is a real victim, but the suspect should always be defended somehow.
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Post by: HL on June 08, 2008, 01:37:19 pm
No, but you could do all of that to someone else and frame Cheshire Cat for it. There is no doubt the victim is a real victim, but the suspect should always be defended somehow.

well ofc.
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Post by: Carrion Crow on June 08, 2008, 02:04:44 pm
The only thing protecting you from something like that happening is just the probability of it happening to you being very low. Kinda scary.
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Post by: Summoner on June 09, 2008, 12:06:48 am
Baby Born Twice, kinda made me feel happy.

By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 9:33 a.m. ET, Fri., June. 6, 2008

When Chad and Keri McCartney say their infant daughter, Macie Hope, is born again, they aren’t referring to religion — the month-old miracle baby really was born twice.

The first “birth” was about six months into Keri McCartney’s pregnancy, when surgeons at Texas Children’s Hospital took the tiny fetus from Keri’s womb to remove a tumor that would have killed Macie before she was born.

The second time was on May 3, when the McCartneys welcomed their surgically repaired — and perfectly healthy — baby girl into the world.

Full Story Here
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24999650/
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Post by: Rone Rivendale on June 09, 2008, 12:45:59 am
Lucky kid, she gets 2 birthday cakes. :D
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Post by: AdderallApocalypse on June 10, 2008, 11:56:10 am
Quote
The happy couple talked exclusively to TODAY’s Ann Curry on Friday from the hospital, where they were joined by Dr. Darrell Cass, the fetal surgeon who led the team that performed a surgery that has been successfully completed fewer than 20 times around the world.
I think that this part is one of the more interesting things about the story.
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Post by: Bravo on June 10, 2008, 03:05:22 pm
finally, something that isn't MURDER DEATH KILL
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Post by: Nightmare on June 11, 2008, 01:33:48 am
Yeah, something that's infinitely worse.

UGH. :blarg:
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Post by: Awakening on June 11, 2008, 09:04:58 am
Haha, kinda awkward reading that horrible rape story and then transitioning to a beautiful birth story. :)
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Post by: Mince Wobley on June 11, 2008, 08:39:56 pm
It's a medical procedure story not a "beautiful birth" story
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Post by: Awakening on June 12, 2008, 05:27:11 am
Ah, don't be nitpicky. The baby was born normal (the second time), and that's beautiful - as any parent would rightly know.
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Post by: bonermobile on June 13, 2008, 11:21:35 am
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=579602

i bet the kid who told his parents didn't get any
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Post by: HL on June 15, 2008, 11:56:33 am
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-federal_jury_verdictjun13,0,4630555.story

Nurse saves cop, gets arrested and thrown in jail for 10 months because she "stole a gun" (that she didn't steal)
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Post by: Mince Wobley on June 16, 2008, 02:41:00 am
But she got 7.7 millions
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Post by: theHunter on June 16, 2008, 03:12:45 am
10 months for 7.7 Million?  She made out pretty good.
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Post by: ThugTears666 on June 17, 2008, 08:57:54 am
Baby Born with Extra penis on his back

http://illseed.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/baby-born-with-an-extra-penis/

cutey
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Post by: Mince Wobley on June 17, 2008, 02:34:48 pm
Cut it and donate it to this one

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/latest-london-news/Doctor-39botched-baby39s-circumcision39.4168109.jp
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Post by: zton82005 on June 17, 2008, 04:12:24 pm
Nice article there. . Keep it up. . Thanx for posting that. .  :)
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Post by: theHunter on June 17, 2008, 11:09:12 pm
Baby Born with Extra penis on his back

http://illseed.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/baby-born-with-an-extra-penis/

cutey

Lol at some of the comments.
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Post by: tuxedo marx on June 18, 2008, 04:24:13 pm
Maybe they should call it Dong Bak! (hyuck hyuck)
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Post by: General Robert E. Lee on June 19, 2008, 06:48:48 pm
Severed Feet Wash Ashore in Canada

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/19/canada.feet/index.html
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Post by: Grunthor on June 20, 2008, 02:13:18 am
Severed Feet Wash Ashore in Canada

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/19/canada.feet/index.html

They just updated that article to say that the latest foot to turn up was a hoax.  Still though, the other five feet that have turned up are a little disturbing.

 
Maybe they should call it Dong Bak! (hyuck hyuck)

Don't quit your day job.
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Post by: Dark Angel on June 20, 2008, 05:52:59 am
I don't want to make a new topic for this, but I wonder what you smart political types think of this. http://www.theurbangrind.net//?p=2570 Obama is an unpatriotic terrorist? The first two minutes is definite bullshit, just playing off of his three names, it's the rest of it that is interesting, at least.
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Post by: Apathy on June 21, 2008, 02:46:20 pm
The tone of it and the transparency of some of his arguments makes me think its supposed to be a satirical piece. Then again it could easily be not. If it isn't a satire its really kind of terrifying, not just in the way its putting such tremendous spin on things but showing the extent that people are willing to lap it up.
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Post by: Parker on June 23, 2008, 08:28:54 pm
God accused of selling cocaine near Tampa church
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9674540

"TAMPA, Fla.—Police say a man named God was arrested near a Tampa church for selling cocaine. Authorities began investigating God Lucky Howard in April, and he was arrested on Saturday. Police say he sold the cocaine to undercover detectives in his neighborhood. When officers searched his home, they reported finding another 22 grams of cocaine and a scale."
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Post by: UPRC on June 25, 2008, 05:31:50 pm
Hahaha. That article sucks, but the title is golden.
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Post by: Sludgelord on June 25, 2008, 07:17:33 pm
man it's a shame it's not kaze because he goes by god too and he lives in florida.
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Post by: Sludgelord on June 25, 2008, 07:17:54 pm
AND HE'S A DRUG DEALER!!!
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Post by: blood hell on June 25, 2008, 07:22:19 pm
t..they found a scale???
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Post by: Grunthor on July 01, 2008, 10:03:43 pm
Batman decapitates kid (http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/06/28/six_flags_death.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab)

Basically the dumbass ignored the warning signs, hopped over two fences, and met his fate at the hands of Batman.  In this case Batman being a roller coaster at a Six Flags theme park.
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Post by: Alec on July 01, 2008, 10:12:14 pm
fucking kids.
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Post by: Searcher90 on July 02, 2008, 07:59:44 am
oh wow, that's freaky, do you think the park's haunted?
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Post by: UPRC on July 02, 2008, 10:30:57 am
Let that be a lesson to other visitors in the park. The signs are there for a reason.
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Post by: Sarah on July 02, 2008, 06:03:26 pm
BATMAN BATMAN duna nunnanunna dunna


i am going to go clim bsome fences
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Post by: PTizzle on July 03, 2008, 01:17:08 am
That must've been horrible to witness.

Still, how stupid do you have to be? The signs aren't just there for fun, especially at a theme park.
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Post by: Jayce on July 03, 2008, 05:26:40 pm
Purchases for Rollercoaster Tycoon just increased
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Post by: headphonics on July 03, 2008, 10:53:45 pm
yeah i was just watching this on cnn and was pretty horrified at the amount of people who said it was the park's fault.  idk i feel like TWO SIX-FOOT FENCES WITH WARNING SIGNS should be sufficient for keeping anyone out.  i mean obviously people can get over if they really want to but how fucking tall would a fence need to be for that not to be the case?  or i guess you could POST GUARDS but honestly that's kind of ridiculous so i think at a certain point, the fact that someone can feasibly get around something if they really want to shouldn't make those precautions insufficient.

they all sounded so convicted about it being totally the park's fault that idk maybe i am missing something but man PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY should play a role here!
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Post by: Dark Angel on July 04, 2008, 01:42:29 am
yeah i was just watching this on cnn and was pretty horrified at the amount of people who said it was the park's fault.  idk i feel like TWO SIX-FOOT FENCES WITH WARNING SIGNS should be sufficient for keeping anyone out.  i mean obviously people can get over if they really want to but how fucking tall would a fence need to be for that not to be the case?  or i guess you could POST GUARDS but honestly that's kind of ridiculous so i think at a certain point, the fact that someone can feasibly get around something if they really want to shouldn't make those precautions insufficient.

they all sounded so convicted about it being totally the park's fault that idk maybe i am missing something but man PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY should play a role here!

These kind of people make me really angry. I really get fired up about gay ass people saying shit like this because they are to fucking lazy and shameful to take any responsibilty for themselves.
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Post by: Sarevok on July 04, 2008, 02:45:00 pm
"The medical examiner arrived on scene and confirmed that the 17-year-old male was killed instantaneously."

don't worry guys...he lost his head but he's okay
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Post by: Kaworu on July 04, 2008, 06:52:30 pm
could've been like mike the headless chicken
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Post by: Boulvae on July 05, 2008, 02:35:41 am
That'd still just be a nervous reaction. But I didn't know our medical science went from regrowing of the fingertips to full head reatachment so quickly. it was like yesterday when my arm was sevred and they grew me a new one.
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Post by: something bizarre and impractical on July 06, 2008, 06:13:37 pm
It's just like those water rides that splash you at the theme parks, except this one splashes you with blood and horror.
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Post by: theHunter on July 07, 2008, 07:13:50 am
Apparently the World Could End In A Few Hours:

(http://i31.tinypic.com/mucqp5.png)

"The LHC is a particle accelerator located on the France/Switzerland border; it has been dubbed the largest, most expensive, most powerful experiment ever attempted, certainly dwarfing all particle colliders ever built before, both in terms of size and power.


Some experts fear that the risk of operating the LHC disproportionately outweighs anything science might gain from this experiment. It is not possible to know what the outcome of the experiment will be, but even CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) scientists concede that there is a real possibility of creating destructive theoretical anomalies such as miniature black holes, strangelets and deSitter space transitions. These events have the potential to fundamentally alter matter and destroy our planet"

What could happen overnight: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM

Latest news: http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/News.htm

Some useful sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
http://www.lhcdefense.org/
http://www.nowpublic.com/technology/...er-experiments
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=MjHals9hDz0

(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/faculty.fullerton.edu/cmcconnell/304/Images/LHC.jpeg)
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Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on July 07, 2008, 04:28:58 pm
fyi it will take several months to cycle up.
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Post by: goldenratio on July 07, 2008, 05:37:31 pm
they have to cool that last section too which takes a while on its' own.
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Post by: Boulvae on July 07, 2008, 05:46:18 pm
Nice to know that my iminent death is within this year to 2012 to 50 years from now.

The most plausible would be the one involving our N and S poles "switching" of sorts. Because some planet's gonna be so close that it's pull is gonna supercede ours.
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Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on July 07, 2008, 05:50:45 pm
the most plausible is we finally find the Higgs Boson which is awesome, physics rules.
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Post by: Sarah on July 07, 2008, 05:52:46 pm
what is higgs boson?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on July 07, 2008, 05:59:26 pm
basically the standard model of physics has all these particles and the only one we haven't observed is Higgs Boson, but when this turns on we can see it and prove all sorts of shit correct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
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Post by: Shadow Kirby on July 07, 2008, 06:22:09 pm
Don't forget what the G-Man said: Prepare for unforeseen consequences.
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Post by: crone_lover720 on July 07, 2008, 08:42:27 pm
standard model blows standard model can blow a thousand dicks for all I care.

don't worry about micro black holes, it'd be pretty cool if one gets created and it will probably decay before long from what I understand. I dunno if the LHC could create strangelets (wikipedia says they're looking for them too but who knows??) but that would be a more conceivable end of the world, kinda like ice-nine isn't that cool.

edit: FUCKYOU wikipedia I thought of that first.
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Post by: ase on July 07, 2008, 10:54:55 pm
ice-nine fuck yea
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Post by: Frisky SKeleton on July 07, 2008, 11:45:42 pm
this is way cool and i wish there was more hype about it

i'm pretty sure large hadron colliders aren't how black holes are made. i hope they've got some tricked out marines on hand though...
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Post by: Carrion Crow on July 20, 2008, 01:04:24 pm
HAHA! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7513571.stm

Metul Monks!
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Post by: Grunthor on July 21, 2008, 12:28:04 am
HAHA! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7513571.stm

Metul Monks!

I've seen his videos on YouTube before and he seems to have the whole metal thing down, but he just looks so out of place.

(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/28266/fratello-metallo.jpg)
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Post by: bonermobile on July 21, 2008, 10:18:38 am
that'd be kind of cool if the LHC did destroy the earth
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Post by: UPRC on July 21, 2008, 12:47:18 pm
Not weird, just cool: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/18/ealeopard118.xml

First instance of a leopard taking down a crocodile that has ever being witnessed.
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Post by: Parker on July 21, 2008, 01:04:59 pm
That is incredible. Reminds me of that video of the lions and the wildebeests and the crocodile.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Zatham on July 21, 2008, 08:08:37 pm
it's called "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: UPRC on July 24, 2008, 01:06:35 pm
I know that some parents give their kids REALLY outlandish names, but wow...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_fe_st/new_zealand_bizarre_names;_ylt=Ang_GbgQjkqFhGn9DQmlC8btiBIF
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Post by: Grunthor on July 24, 2008, 04:48:49 pm
Who the hell would even think of naming their child Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii?  Seriously it makes those celebrity nitwits who name their kids Apple or Honor seem reasonable.
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Post by: Kaworu on July 24, 2008, 07:27:19 pm
"Number 16 Bus Shelter" Is a fantastic name! What's wrong with you? That's the kinda thing I'd name a child if I was ever given a choice. I have a really dull/boring name and I don't like it and I would want it changed but I respect my parents' decision and won't.
But I would love to be called something like "number 16 bus stop". "Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii" is an ok name, but feels like a joke, I couldn't take it as seriously.

Ideal names could be:
BANANA ANANDA
SELENE THE MOON GODDESS
BLOOMDIDO BAD de GRASSE
HIGH TEA MOONWEED
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: goldenratio on July 24, 2008, 07:42:18 pm
I decided in 11th grade and I am still going to name my first son Grandpa.

no wait second son... first son has to be John since I have to carry on the legacy (im a IV so he will be a V)
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Post by: Jayce on July 25, 2008, 09:47:48 pm
I think it would be pretty funny to refer to a sibling as "Grandpa" as well.

HAha that kid would hate you for all his days
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Post by: goldenratio on July 25, 2008, 10:27:13 pm
"Grandpa, go to your room!"

"Can grandpa come out and play?"
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Post by: Shepperd on July 25, 2008, 11:00:30 pm
Mr Nameless Numberhead Man

and Attractive Woman #2
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Clucky on July 26, 2008, 12:21:17 am
I've considered naming my child Preferred Customer.
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Post by: Boulvae on July 26, 2008, 03:43:12 pm
I've considered Alka-pwn, or Alkapoun if I can get away with it.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: hima on July 29, 2008, 02:18:58 am
Tabula Does The Hula From Hawaii!?  Is that just the first name or the full name?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Doktormartini on July 30, 2008, 06:06:14 pm
MONSTER WASHES ASHORE IN Montauk!
My mom told me about this that she saw on Fox News.  I tried searching online and I only found a small article from this weird website that I never heard of:
http://gawker.com/5030531/dead-monster-washes-ashore-in-montauk

Anyways, apparently this weird monster thing washed ashore in Montauk but from the looks of it and what people are saying it's just a turtle without it shell.  It looks pretty freaky anyways!

EDIT:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-montauk-monster/mysteries-etc_b_115704.html
http://www.foxnews.com/americasnewsroom/ (there is video here)
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Post by: Boulvae on July 30, 2008, 10:01:01 pm
Dude that is a Turtle. I've seen shell-less turtles but this one is different. That being it doesn't look like the Shell was ripped off (doesn't look too pretty trust me) and that it didn't have one to begin with. It must of some how survived without it's shell to begin with. So it's a once in a chance deformed Turtle. Simple as that.

Looks like a Dinosaur but it's still a turtle.
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Post by: Farren on July 30, 2008, 10:53:14 pm
Bullshit thats a motherfucking elite


Time 2 call you-know-who
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Post by: crone_lover720 on July 31, 2008, 02:09:29 am
That's not what a turtle's skull looks like! what you're seeing in the front is the skull btw. the anatomy isn't the same as a turtle at all, and it has mammalian skin. My guess is a type of hog, dog, or a taxidermy creation.

If you find this stuff interesting there are a lot of 'globsters' like this that wash up on beaches around the world, a lot of them are cooler than this. lemme dig one up

edit: I like this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiyo_Maru

Dude that is a Turtle. I've seen shell-less turtles but this one is different. That being it doesn't look like the Shell was ripped off (doesn't look too pretty trust me) and that it didn't have one to begin with. It must of some how survived without it's shell to begin with. So it's a once in a chance deformed Turtle. Simple as that.

Looks like a Dinosaur but it's still a turtle.
your posts bother me a little
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Post by: Ragnar on July 31, 2008, 02:23:35 am
It's probably a turtle but it reminds me of a monster from Doom + Thanksgiving turkey
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Post by: crone_lover720 on July 31, 2008, 02:37:14 am
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.skullsite.co.uk/Turtle/turtle_lat.jpeg)

(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/23836/1011524fz1.jpg)

I will be very surprised if they find out it's a turtle!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Aten on July 31, 2008, 03:06:45 am
Theres NO WAY that thing is a turtle. Besides, look at the neck part, it looks like a clump of fur is growing or something, and looks like fur on the right arm too. And look at the feet/paws, it does not resemble a turtle at all.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: UPRC on July 31, 2008, 11:57:17 am
Looks like various animal parts just stuck together to me.

If it's real though, I want one.
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Post by: Kitsune Inferno on July 31, 2008, 12:11:16 pm
Freaky, I must say.
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Post by: goldenratio on July 31, 2008, 07:58:22 pm
It's probably just some stupid viral marketing bullshit.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Boulvae on July 31, 2008, 08:10:26 pm
It's gonna be another Platypus thing is what it's gonna be.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Jayce on July 31, 2008, 09:07:08 pm
Since when is a platypus a mutant sort of thing?

I mean sure it's a half beaver / half duck that lays eggs and everything but still, it looks LESS deformed than that thing.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Boulvae on July 31, 2008, 10:05:30 pm
Well back then the prospect of such a thing was on equal footing to a Big Foot. And reports of them were treated as such, it was also labeled an abomination of God once they were proven to exist, so yeah thats what I mean by another Platypus thing.

Just to clarify it looks like a Beaver with a Duck beak attached to it, so...
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ase on July 31, 2008, 11:26:34 pm
MAN ROBS MCDONALDS WITH THE AIDS VIRUS (http://www.wpri.com/global/video/popup/pop_playerLaunch.asp?vt1=v&clipFormat=flv&clipId1=2754010&at1=News&h1=Suspect%20uses%20syringe%20to%20rob%20Fall%20River%20McDonalds)

ahahahaha i'm sorry for laughing at this but

edit: this is 10 minutes from my house
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Post by: bible_basher on August 01, 2008, 01:16:43 am
what the fuck hahahahahahahahahah

man that is hilarious
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: `~congresman Ron paul~~ on August 02, 2008, 05:07:58 am
I really like the part where that lady says she'd have taken him down.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Jayce on August 02, 2008, 05:55:05 am
Well back then the prospect of such a thing was on equal footing to a Big Foot. And reports of them were treated as such, it was also labeled an abomination of God once they were proven to exist, so yeah thats what I mean by another Platypus thing.

Just to clarify it looks like a Beaver with a Duck beak attached to it, so...

It has duck feet + claws too, for swimming and digging purposes.
I'm australian bud
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: kermit the toad on August 05, 2008, 12:53:43 am
I really like the part where that lady says she'd have taken him down.
He's She's a tough guy gal.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Vellfire on August 06, 2008, 12:14:50 am
Whatever it is, make more of them only with fur this time.  Pet of the YEAR.
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Post by: Mama Luigi on August 06, 2008, 12:23:00 am
That link about the AIDS McDonalds thing doesn't work for me...
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Post by: ase on August 06, 2008, 04:05:34 am
That link about the AIDS McDonalds thing doesn't work for me...
yeah, in firefox it gives me a URL NOT VALID message but it still opens up in a new popup window with a video player
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Post by: Lord_Abriel on August 06, 2008, 07:19:43 am
That creature that washed ashore looks like a gorge from the HL mod Natural Selection.

viral for ns2???
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Post by: HL on August 06, 2008, 10:18:47 pm
dont want to make a new topic so:
http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2008/08/weird-man-kills-400-cows-in-brazil-many.html

Guy kills 400 cows. Many of them were raped.
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Post by: Aten on August 06, 2008, 10:22:26 pm
That is fucked up man. Fucked up....
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Post by: ase on August 07, 2008, 02:13:54 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/07/food.guilty.plea.ap/index.html

Defendant accepts a guilty plea for murder in exchange for a KFC dinner
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Post by: HL on August 07, 2008, 02:28:23 pm
WHAT
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Post by: Frankie on August 07, 2008, 07:33:20 pm
haha the aids syringe man would have looked dumb if the clerk was already HIV positive. Or an AIDS denier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_denialism) who reject that AIDS is transmissible by the virus.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Shepperd on August 07, 2008, 09:27:14 pm
AIDS deniers are such cool people
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Post by: bonermobile on August 08, 2008, 11:03:30 am
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/07/food.guilty.plea.ap/index.html

Defendant accepts a guilty plea for murder in exchange for a KFC dinner
i bet he was black..................
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Post by: ase on August 08, 2008, 12:44:47 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/07/greatest.dad.charged.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

World's Greatest Dad
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Post by: Vellfire on August 08, 2008, 07:13:11 pm
i bet he was black..................

or asian (they like it almost as much as blacks)
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Post by: Grunthor on August 08, 2008, 09:46:12 pm
Another inanimate object gets fucked, and the man nearly loses his penis for it.
Quote
When police arrive they found Xian stuck face down where he had been stuck for some time.

When doctors arrived on the scene they tried to release some of the pressure by removing some of his blood, but the penis was so swollen that they ended up having to cut the entire bench free and take it, with Xian attached, to the hospital.


(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/28266/hk-man-penis02.gif)


Weird Asia News (http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/08/07/man-almost-loses-penis-humping-steel-bench/)
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Jayce on August 09, 2008, 10:15:34 am
Haha that's great...
That'll learn him.
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Post by: dark_crystalis on August 10, 2008, 06:03:01 am
those are SMALL holes man
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Post by: UPRC on August 10, 2008, 01:20:25 pm
those are SMALL holes man

It would take a bit of work to get through one of those holes normally. Man.. I don't want to imagine what it would have been like if he got an erection, which he probably did.

PAIN.
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Post by: Bill Murray on August 11, 2008, 01:17:50 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7551683.stm

Actor Matthew McConaughey says he has kept the the placenta from the birth of his son in July and plans to bury it in an orchard.
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Post by: Fire Mage on August 11, 2008, 07:13:53 pm
It would take a bit of work to get through one of those holes normally. Man.. I don't want to imagine what it would have been like if he got an erection, which he probably did.

PAIN.
he did get one...that's how he got stuck  :blarg:
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Post by: bonermobile on August 14, 2008, 12:34:56 am
http://www.inquisitr.com/2357/has-bigfoot-been-found/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402882,00.html

BIG FOOT FOUND??
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Post by: Bled on August 14, 2008, 12:42:46 am
http://www.inquisitr.com/2357/has-bigfoot-been-found/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402882,00.html

BIG FOOT FOUND??

Holy fucking shit.  Those pics of the body in the freezer are pretty trippy!
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Aten on August 14, 2008, 06:13:30 am
Thai official wants to prosecute game makers for copycat crimes (http://pspupdates.qj.net/Thai-official-wants-to-prosecute-game-makers-for-copycat-crimes/pg/49/aid/123129)

Yeah. Go thailand.
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Post by: hima on August 14, 2008, 09:32:39 am
I'm gonna smash that guy's head with a basketball.

Then I'll blame it on GZ. "But I saw Barkley did it!!"  teeheehee
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Ragnar on August 19, 2008, 03:10:52 pm
http://www.inquisitr.com/2357/has-bigfoot-been-found/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402882,00.html

BIG FOOT FOUND??

Yeah but the top right one is supposed to be the real photo

so yeah this will always be fake because it's fucking 2008 I don't even think it's possible to have such crappy photo quality anymore and I'm sure even these backwoods weirdos can chip in and buy a digital camera since getting a good clean shot would be my goal if I were some genuine Bigfoot hunter person
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Post by: Cheshire Cat on August 25, 2008, 05:22:40 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/24/police-arrest-ninja-team_n_120970.html

'CLIFTON, N.J. -- Police arrested two men dressed like ninjas and armed with Asian martial arts weapons who said they were delivering warning letters to drug dealers and users.'
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Post by: Bravo on August 26, 2008, 12:40:09 am
Dude, this is awesome, like the most inspiring thing ever:

Exoskeleton suit helps paralyzed people walk (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26391953/wid/11915773?GT1=31036)

Quote
The device, called ReWalk, is the brainchild of engineer Amit Goffer, founder of Argo Medical Technologies, a small Israeli high-tech company.

Something of a mix between the exoskeleton of a crustacean and the suit worn by comic hero Iron Man, ReWalk helps paraplegics — people paralyzed below the waist — to stand, walk and climb stairs

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Post by: MysteriousWanderer on August 27, 2008, 02:42:19 am
the big foot thing was already confirmed to be a hoax..surprise surprise! apparently the two guys ran away.
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Post by: AdderallApocalypse on August 27, 2008, 04:08:40 am
those are SMALL holes man
Well, he IS asian, after all.
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Post by: Farren on August 27, 2008, 03:53:51 pm
Dude, this is awesome, like the most inspiring thing ever:

Exoskeleton suit helps paralyzed people walk (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26391953/wid/11915773?GT1=31036)



I would sooner replace my legs with a tank tread device, it looks really impractical
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Post by: Boulvae on August 27, 2008, 04:38:35 pm
Yeah but can your pathetic treads climb stairs? Cause apparently those things can.
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Post by: Farren on August 27, 2008, 09:18:19 pm
no but can your pathetic legs crush people under tons of steel? no, I win
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Post by: bonermobile on August 30, 2008, 11:50:17 pm
what the fuck

"Indonesian Woman Claims Metal Wire Has Grown From Her Body For 18 Years"

http://mysterytopia.com/2008/08/indonesian-woman-manusia-kawat-claims.html
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Post by: Veripare on August 31, 2008, 02:33:56 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7588968.stm

Website Maps Surnames Worldwide
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Post by: General Robert E. Lee on September 01, 2008, 04:36:56 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7588968.stm

Website Maps Surnames Worldwide

That's not really weird, man.
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Post by: Jayce on September 01, 2008, 06:31:01 pm
You could say it's weird that it's a news article....
...

...

right?
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Post by: Parker on September 01, 2008, 08:54:09 pm
what the fuck

"Indonesian Woman Claims Metal Wire Has Grown From Her Body For 18 Years"

http://mysterytopia.com/2008/08/indonesian-woman-manusia-kawat-claims.html
sick dude!!!
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Post by: Ragnar on September 06, 2008, 04:55:48 pm
You could figure it's just because people in these random Asian countries can't get proper care or for religious reasons but I've still I've never heard of anything remotely like that in other countries

there's like wood guy and metal lady so far soon we'll see real life X-Men characters or something

although the wood guy had something like herpes and it just got really really bad, right?
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Post by: Grunthor on September 10, 2008, 02:46:08 am
Quote from: AP
Grandparents' feud over homework puts them in jail

The Associated Press

ERIE, Pa. - An Erie grandmother and grandfather are in the county jail after a violent feud over how to reprimand their grandson for not doing his homework.

Police say the 8-year-old boy called police Thursday evening, saying his grandmother had a knife and his grandfather a gun.

Police say the fight began when 49-year-old Sheila Martin slapped her grandson for not doing his homework. Police say 69-year-old Rodney Keith Peyton told her to stop, and Martin threatened the pair with a knife.

Police say Peyton fled with his grandson into the bathroom. They say the boy later ran downstairs to call 911 while Peyton fended off Martin with a shower curtain rod.

Martin cornered Peyton, who police say then fired his gun at her.

The two face numerous assault and endangerment charges.

,,,

Information from: Erie Times-News, http://www.goerie.com

This happened only a few miles from where I live.  Welcome to Erie, puckering sphincter of the universe. If we're not blowing up pizza delivery men, we're getting old farts to battle it out in Mortal Kombat over stupid shit like homework.
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Post by: Feldschlacht IV on September 11, 2008, 03:55:09 pm
Yeah man, Erie is fucking nuts. How do you people do it?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: fatty on September 12, 2008, 12:55:48 am
Dude, this is awesome, like the most inspiring thing ever:

Exoskeleton suit helps paralyzed people walk (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26391953/wid/11915773?GT1=31036)


I will finally be like Gray Fox....

This is actually pretty good news!
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Post by: goldenratio on September 13, 2008, 08:47:50 pm
Black inmates threaten to murder white baby killer, skinheads offer to protect him if he shaves his head; baby killer shaves head, skinheads threaten to murder him.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1118742&format=text
AHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Buffalos save woman from bear
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3004283.html?menu=
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Post by: Alec on September 14, 2008, 12:33:51 pm
Quote
the porn-obsessed computer geek
that is the height of journalistic integrity.
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Post by: Bonehead on September 15, 2008, 07:21:27 pm
http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.1250312/valgodd-cannabis-i-luleas-rabatter
It's swedish and I'm too lazy to translate everything, but basically, this is what happened:

Some guys had planted seeds of Cannabis in the middle of a town, in the communal park and it
was growing there for a long while until some guy from Jamaica popped up and said to the cops
that they sure had a pretty plantation of Cannabis in the middle of their town.
Unfortunately they pulled out everything, so there are only fucking flowers left there now. Also
just take a look at the picture of the Jamaican. He's like totally cool lol.

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Post by: Grunthor on September 16, 2008, 02:28:19 am
Buffalos save woman from bear
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3004283.html?menu=


That was fucking awesome. 

Giant bear raids marijuana plantation (http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/sep/03/giant-bear-raids-marijuana-plantation/)

Here's a story where the bear is the hero.  Unless of course you're one of those pot smoking hippies.


One other story that was somewhat interesting: 33 year old woman steals daughters identity to become high school cheerleader (http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/sep/12/33-year-old-mom-steals-daughters-identity-become-h/)
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: HL on September 26, 2008, 06:27:08 am
(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/52136/baby-fail.jpg)

seriously
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Post by: Parker on September 26, 2008, 07:13:32 am
"The buffalos are now being treated as heroes and being given extra food."

Rightfully so.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Carrion Crow on September 26, 2008, 01:18:12 pm
Mad swedish women playing real life frogger on the M-motherfucking-6!!!!!???

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7636577.stm

What the fuck!?

No really

What the fuck!!!?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Farren on September 26, 2008, 02:58:31 pm
Do euro cops not have tazers or what

I would taze the dogshit out of her. No joke I would taze her until she lost consciousness, at least that way her stupid ass wouldn't die in a face on collision with a dump truck

fucking moron WHY DO YOU PEOPLE NOT HAVE TAZERS
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Farren on September 26, 2008, 02:59:49 pm
or even handcuffs

I would cuff that dipshit's feet too that way her stupid ass would have to hobble into the road
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Boulvae on September 26, 2008, 04:51:06 pm
My god... stupid, so so stupid.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Bonehead on September 26, 2008, 07:33:58 pm
Typical Swedish behaviour I say (I know, I live there).

No really what the fuck was wrong with these girls? Desperate hitchhikers?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Boulvae on September 26, 2008, 07:44:45 pm
The one girl thought someone would help  her when she was calling for help so i'm questioning the reason why they did this. (The girls not the authorities...)
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Carrion Crow on September 27, 2008, 06:13:20 am
I reckon this is what happens when you drop acid and never recover from it
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Post by: something bizarre and impractical on September 27, 2008, 06:19:17 am
Did it say she was sentenced to A DAY in prison? Or did I mishear that? Please say I misheard that.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Bravo on September 27, 2008, 03:52:26 pm
a day in prison for assault
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: im9today on September 27, 2008, 04:30:01 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080927/ap_on_fe_st/bbn_bogus_dodger
"Man accused of posing as Dodger on field"

I believe it's important that this not get lost in all the big, important news going around at the moment
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on October 01, 2008, 03:00:45 am
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3681510,00.html
Hahahahha what an idiot, the guy kidnapped  the woman so that he'd rescue her and she'd like him
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Cho on October 03, 2008, 04:02:58 pm
Man uses Craigslist to stage robbery, escapes on yellow inner tube (http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5930862&page=1). I don't care what y'all say, this guy earned that money.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ImmortalDreamer on October 08, 2008, 10:43:21 pm
I have yet to find the source for it, but apparently one of the two women that ran in front of traffic was charged with murder of some 50 year old guy.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Wash Cycle on October 10, 2008, 07:50:37 am
ahahahahah rural ohio sucks so much

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Rap_music_fan_sentenced_to_Beethoven,_pays_fine_instead
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Dark Angel on October 10, 2008, 08:28:57 am
I think the fact that it was twenty hours was the decision maker, not the fact it was classical music. I don't see that happening in one sitting, so he'd have to drive back and forth however many times to finish his time off, time which could be spent doing more enjoyable things, or even just working that fine off.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Farren on October 10, 2008, 12:27:49 pm
ahahahaha I blast my shit all through town and no one says shit,  thats pretty lame.

I wish a judge would try that on me.

"GUESS WHAT?"

*pulls out ipod with Beethoven and several other classical artists already on it

"AHAHAHAHA"
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: fatty on October 13, 2008, 09:18:10 pm
Mad swedish women playing real life frogger on the M-motherfucking-6!!!!!???

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7636577.stm

What the fuck!?

No really

What the fuck!!!?

Holyshit, I woke up my family while I was laughing in 2:00 in the night, thanks a lot
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: goldenratio on October 14, 2008, 08:15:48 pm
WHEN IS THE ALIEN SHIP GOING TO COME??????????????????????????
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Bravo on October 16, 2008, 06:00:08 am
april 20th
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: goldenratio on October 23, 2008, 09:22:48 pm
a cop shoots someones dog for no reason, claims the dog tried to attack. the dog's owner captured it on video.

http://reason.com/blog/show/129620.html

that is so fucked up.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on October 23, 2008, 09:58:33 pm
Well maybe to him the dog was running in his direction to attack him and maybe he was also dogophobic?
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Farren on October 23, 2008, 10:00:51 pm
does he look scared to you?

Yeah I hope that motherfucker gets a fat lawsuit and his badge permanently removed for that shit. I don't know what I would do if some asshole cop tried to shoot my dog.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on October 23, 2008, 10:16:52 pm
It's hard to tell with a low quality video! But judging by the way he backs off I'd say he looked scared
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Boulvae on October 24, 2008, 03:41:57 am
Dogs can be scary if it's a strangers dog. Unless you know how to tell how a dog's acting at a glance whether it's charging at you or barking or what have you, then it's perfectly justifiable to react in kind out of fear from a dog doing something like running at you at seemingly full speed.

Of course there is exceptions, when my dog runs he takes a continuous dump while he runs, so I don't know how menacing he'd look to a stranger.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Dark Angel on October 24, 2008, 10:09:11 am
Holy shit, I was all ready to post a defense for the cop (I know everyone here is anti-authority, ho ho ho) but after watching the video, it is crystal clear that was an unprovoked shooting. It's not even an aggressive breed of dog.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Mince Wobley on October 24, 2008, 01:51:57 pm
I wonder what you guys would do in his place
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Grunthor on October 24, 2008, 04:56:22 pm
Japanese woman arrested for killing virtual ex-husband (http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/online-divorcee-jailed-after-killing-virtual-hubby/1259111)

Quote from: Yahoo
TOKYO: A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Eki on October 24, 2008, 06:42:19 pm
"The LHC is a particle accelerator located on the France/Switzerland border; it has been dubbed the largest, most expensive, most powerful experiment ever attempted, certainly dwarfing all particle colliders ever built before, both in terms of size and power.
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
Useful.



This isn't exactly new (from last year), but still weird. It's in Swedish.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article553545.ab
"Hose ran amok - two were hurt", directly translated.
It wasn't a garden hose, the water pressure was pretty high, apparently.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Farren on October 25, 2008, 01:26:03 am
I wonder what you guys would do in his place

Get back in the car

wait for the dog to ACTUALLY BITE ME and then maybe nightstick it and then get back in my car

mace dog

run from dog

Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Dark Angel on October 25, 2008, 05:25:59 am

mace dog


And, around here anyway, this is the trained first reponse. Dealing with animals is part of the training when becoming a police officer. Maybe he didn't do it on prupose, maybe he did. The video clearly shows he made the wrong choice, for whatever reasons.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: goldenratio on October 27, 2008, 02:05:23 am
I wonder what you guys would do in his place
Get back in the car
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Parker on October 27, 2008, 02:27:09 am
I wonder what you guys would do in his place
PULLING OUT MY GUN AND SHOOTING THE DOG WOULD BE THE LAST THING I WOULD DO.

Mace the dog, kick it, get back in the car, hit it with a stick, ANYTHING but pull out my 9mm and cap the dog in the face. It was such a cute lil dog, too. :'(
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Rowain on October 28, 2008, 03:16:45 pm
I wonder what you guys would do in his place

I WOULDN'T FUCKING SHOOT IT I CAN TELL YOU THAT MUCH
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: fatty on October 30, 2008, 11:30:35 am
I would grab the dog and hug it until it dies from pleasure
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: Ash on November 02, 2008, 12:53:55 am
Japanese woman arrested for killing virtual ex-husband (http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/online-divorcee-jailed-after-killing-virtual-hubby/1259111)

That article is just horribly written. She was "married" to some guy in maple story and then deleted his character when he dumped her. She was arrested for hacking his account, despite the fact he gave his information willingly earlier.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: goldenratio on November 02, 2008, 07:49:43 pm
yeah that is not a "weird news article" its just a stupid headline.
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: something bizarre and impractical on November 16, 2008, 08:17:30 pm
Thousands of Tiny Obama Clones Called "Nanobamas" Invade Computer Systems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081114200628.htm
Title: Weird News Articles (Recent: Japanese woman jailed for virtual killing)
Post by: ase on November 17, 2008, 05:20:45 am
Topic over. post your weird news in the "What's on your mind?" topic