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Post by cleglaw on Jul 13, 2007 2:01:50 GMT
This is the thread for all of this weird stuff. I'll start it off with a couple. www.dianahsieh.com/blog/2007/05/stupid-criminal-of-day.htmlChristopher Emmorey tried to rob a bank by "demanding that the teller give him $5,000 and telling her he had a gun in his pocket." The fiscally responsible teller told Emmorey she could only give him $200, and told Emmorey there would be a $5 transaction fee because Emmorey was not a client at the bank. ...Emmorey waited patiently as the teller filled out the appropriate paper work before running out of the bank with $195. By that time, other bank tellers were alerted to the ongoing robbery. Emmorey wasn't wearing a disguise and his videotaped image was recognized by police officers who responded to the call. ------------------------------------------- news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6699847.stmA Dutch TV station says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys. Political parties have called for The Big Donor Show to be scrapped, but broadcaster BNN says it will highlight the country's shortage of organ donors. "It's a crazy idea," said Joop Atsma, of the ruling Christian Democrat Party. "It can't be possible that, in the Netherlands, people vote about who's getting a kidney," he told the BBC. The programme, from Big Brother creators Endemol, is due to be screened on Friday night. 'Totally unacceptable' Specialists in kidney transplants have condemned the programme The 37-year-old donor, identified only as Lisa, will make her choice based on the contestants' history, profile and conversation with their family and friends. Viewers will also be able to send in their advice by text message during the 80-minute show. |
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Post by Galadriel on Jul 13, 2007 11:23:37 GMT
I have a déjà-vu  ;D Good topic Cleg!
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Post by cleglaw on Jul 13, 2007 14:42:00 GMT
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Post by cleglaw on Jul 15, 2007 11:10:41 GMT
PARIS (AFP) - Social workers in Paris were astonished to find more than 68,400 euros (94,250 dollars) on a homeless woman when they moved her off the street last week, police said. The woman, named only as Denise, 66, had lived on the streets of Paris's chic 15th arrondisement for 10 years but authorities moved her pitch on July 6 because she was dangerously close to a wall found to contain asbestos. Nicknamed "the princess" by locals, she was reluctant to leave her pitch, close to Montparnasse railway station. Police and social workers soon discovered why, discovering the cash hoard in a variety of rubbish bags and old suitcases she kept around her. Police are mystified over how she amassed the fortune, which took a week to count, and Denise has not told them. Denise has since been moved to a half-way house in the Paris suburbs, while authorities mull how best to look after her money. uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070714/tod-france-homeless-offbeat-7f81b96.html |
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Post by cleglaw on Jul 19, 2007 0:49:32 GMT
10 Most Bizarre People on Earth
Published on 12/6/2006
Ngoc: three decades without sleep
Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. "I don't know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I'm still healthy and can farm normally like others," Ngoc said. Proving his health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day. His wife said,
"My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down." She said when Ngoc went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function. Ngoc currently lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children live at their house in Que Trung. Ngoc often does extra farm work or guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish.
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Post by cleglaw on Jul 19, 2007 5:23:50 GMT
Bhagat: had his twin brother on his stomach Sanju Bhagat's stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe. iving in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat said he'd felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmetic worry. Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened. "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair." At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat's twin brother from his stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene. click |
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Post by cleglaw on Jul 19, 2007 5:24:31 GMT
Yokoi: spent 28 years hidden after WWII
Shoichi Yokoi was a soldier, conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941 and sent to Guam shortly thereafter. In 1944, as American forces reconquered the island, Yokoi went into hiding.
On January 24, 1972, Yokoi was discovered in a remote section of Guam by two of the island's inhabitants. For 28 years he had been hiding in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended. "It is with much embarrassment that I have returned alive," he said upon his return to Japan, carrying his rusted rifle at his side.
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Post by Galadriel on Jul 19, 2007 9:44:11 GMT
The most odd person I found was Mister Eat-it-all, monsieur Mang-tout from France. I've seen this person on tv, and I can tell you, he's real 
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Post by cleglaw on Jul 20, 2007 17:58:47 GMT
Berlin (Germany) - A German man became so frustrated at his computer that he threw it out of his window, and the police reaction was essentially "we understand". A classic comedic antic was brought to life when the 51-year-old man said he became "annoyed" with his computer. He hurled it out his window in the middle of the night on Saturday, waking up his next door neighbors. The neighbors called the police to report the man for disturbing the peace. Upon arrival, they heard what happened and did not serve him with any charges. A spokesperson for the German police summed it up by saying, "Who hasn't felt like doing that?" The angered PC user did have to clean up about a half block's worth of shattered computer parts, but no police report was filed. www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32940/118/ |
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Post by cleglaw on Jul 22, 2007 4:11:45 GMT
linkBORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - Police in southwestern France are searching for a big cat, possibly a young tiger, that has been spotted prowling in a village near the city of Bordeaux, the village's mayor said Thursday. Officials from the National Hunting Office have also laid traps for the animal after a woman and her daughter saw it repeatedly in their garden. "At first they didn't believe it, but the third time the animal was 10 meters (yards) away from them," Pierre Soubabere, mayor of Saint-Louis-de-Montferrand, told Reuters. Another resident has seen the cat roaming the countryside, and its tracks suggest it is a young tiger, though it could be a jaguar or a leopard. Soubabere said no such animal had been reported missing in the area, not even by circuses that spend part of the year in a neighboring town.
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Post by Galadriel on Jul 22, 2007 12:09:09 GMT
You can't read the story on the link Cleg 
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Post by Alrik on Jul 22, 2007 12:15:58 GMT
------------------------------------------- news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6699847.stmA Dutch TV station says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys. Update (better late than never) : This TV show proved to be a fake. The woman was actually an actress, and the three people knew that, and agreed to the sholw "show". |
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Post by Alrik on Jul 22, 2007 12:17:19 GMT
Bhagat: had his twin brother on his stomach I once heard about a similar case in a part of once was the USSR. |
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Post by cleglaw on Jul 22, 2007 15:13:07 GMT
You can't read the story on the link Cleg Hmm. Reuters changed it. However, the link was provided just for reference. I copied and pasted the whole story. Here is another: |
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Post by Alrik on Jul 22, 2007 21:16:15 GMT
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;D Good topic Cleg!
