News Of The Weird

[Sandra]

I'm with you on that one Tabitha.

 

[Sandra]

Nik Wallenda wants to go across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. USA has agreed but Canada hasn't yet. Not sure they ever will agree to this act.

 

[Sandra]

A jammed lock on an airplane bathroom door caused anxious moments for the pilots aboard a flight from North Carolina to New York City.
The captain told air traffic controllers he accidentally got stuck on the LaGuardia Airport-bound Chautauqua Airlines flight from Asheville on Wednesday night.
When a passenger with an unfamiliar accent tried to alert the co-pilot in the cockpit, the co-pilot became alarmed and notified air traffic controllers, according to a recording of the radio exchange from the website LiveATC.net.
"The captain has disappeared in the back and I have someone with a thick foreign accent trying to access the cockpit right now, and I've got to deal with this situation," the co-pilot says.
A controller tells him to consider declaring an emergency.
"OK, Chautauqua, you guys ought to declare an emergency and just get on the ground," a controller says.
The captain eventually got himself free from the lavatory. He told controllers there was no threat.
"The captain -- myself -- went back to the lavatory and the door latched ... and had to fight my way out of it with my body to get the door open," the captain says. "There is no issue, no threat."
A spokesman for Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings, which runs Chautauqua, did not immediately comment on the misunderstanding.

 

[Sandra]

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This happened about 50 miles north of me. The poor coon. The humane society were able to free her.

 

[Sandra]

This happened about 3 years ago. Would schizophrenia cause a person to do something to this extent?

A psychiatrist has suggested that the man who beheaded a fellow bus passenger on a Manitoba highway and ate some of his organs should be granted more outdoor time and eventually be reintegrated into society.
Vince Li is responding to treatment, is "co-operative and polite" and has provided "absolutely no difficulty" to staff at the Selkirk Mental Health Centre, where he has been locked up since 2008, Dr. Steven Kremer told a review board Monday.
"Mr. Li recognizes that he has a mental illness ... and recognizes that he requires medication."
Li was found not criminally responsible for the gruesome killing of Tim McLean, a young carnival worker, onboard a Greyhound bus three years ago near Portage la Prairie, Man. The judge found that Li was an untreated schizophrenic who heard voices telling him to kill McLean, a man he had never met who happened to be sitting beside him.

 

[a3a2]

Three guy went to rob a bank. One of the three waited in the car with the radio on, while the others went to get the money. You guessed it. WHen they came out, the car battery was dead. They were apprehended when they attempted to get jumper cables from a nursing home.

 

[Sandra]

SPOKANE, Wash. - Three men who went streaking through a Denny's restaurant were chilled and chagrined when they spotted a thief drive off in their getaway car, their clothes inside.

Naked in the 20-degree weather, the three young men huddled behind cars in a parking lot until police arrived.

"I don't think they were hiding. I think they were just concealing themselves," police spokesman Dick Cottam said.

The three entered the restaurant before daybreak Wednesday, wearing only shoes and hats. They left their car running so they could make a quick escape.

But the streakers watched through the windows as a man who had been eating inside the restaurant drove off in their car.

No charges were brought against the streakers.

"I think it was just three kids who decided to fool around," Cottam said. He added: "We always tell people to not leave their car running."

 

[Sandra]

Alyse Baddley, 21, felt that she was being ignored by her husband, Kyle, who was obsessed with playing the popular videogame, "Modern Warfare." Kyle, an Afghanistan veteran, was so engrossed in playing this war-based video game that he didn't notice Alyse getting frustrated with him. Alyse thought of a creative way to get her husband's attention: she put him up for sale on Craigslist.
She called Kyle's mother and said, "I'm going to sell your son on Craigslist."
"She said, ‘Oh do it!'
Alyse and her mother-in-law composed a message to find Kyle a "good home". The advertisement was shortly up on Craigslist and read as follows:
"I am selling my 22 year old husband. He enjoys eating and playing video games all day. Easy to maintain, just feed and water every 3-5 hours. You must have Internet and space for gaming. Got tired of waiting so free to good home. If acceptable replacement is offered will trade."
Alyse was surprised with the feedback: "We didn't think we would get any responses at all, but we've gotten so many. Someone even offered a bag of Skittles."
The Baddleys have gotten a good laugh out of this post. One woman offered to train Kyle and give him back. Another male respondent wrote that he was already "house trained" and would like to trade himself for Kyle. Someone else asked for Kyle's photograph while another person suggested that Alyse should use the free time to go out on her own.
A few readers read too deeply into the post and wrote that they were concerned about Alyse and her husband's unhealthy relationship.
"The ad was a joke," said Alyse, "I love my husband and he loves me. I didn't think anyone would reply to this, but it's gotten so much attention, which is kind of cool."
As was originally intended by the ad, Kyle did take notice. He successfully finished the game within a few days and was amused by his wife's strategy.
"My wife stayed until midnight to get the game with me when it first came out," he said, noting that his wife wasn't initially against his purchase.

 

[Sandra]

The mystery of the 12 washed up feet.

The discovery of a human foot in a rubber-soled shoe washed up on the Canadian coast near Vancouver has deepened a four-year mystery.
DNA testing is under way but police are at a loss to explain how it got there.
The macabre find brings to a dozen the number of human feet – all in rubber soled shoes – which have been discovered since August 2007.
The first foot was later linked to a man

It has been suggested that the feet, which are both male and female, could be from victims of the Asian tsunami in 2004, or even be the work of a serial killer.
What seemed initially like a bizarre coincidence has over the years become the subject of a major investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and British Columbia's coroner's office.
Nobody, however, has been able to offer a definite explanation as to what is happening - or identify who all of the feet belong to.

The latest limb to be found was discovered floating in the water along the shore of Vancouver's False Creek, which wraps around the downtown area.
Part of leg bone was still attached, police said.
Detectives cordoned off the area and the British Columbia coroner was called in.
Vancouver police spokeswoman constable Jana McGuiness said there was no indication how the remains got there and further forensic examination will be required.
'It was quite disturbing - quite a discovery to make,’ she added

According to reports in the Canadian press, the discoveries date back to August 2007 when a man's foot was found on Jedediah Island, northeast of Nanaimo in British Colombia.

The foot was later linked to a deceased male whose name police withheld at the request of his family.
Over the next four years they have turned up with occasional regularity, always clad in a rubber soled shoe.
During one 11 month period six feet washed up, although it has been six months since the latest discovery.
Initially it was thought that all the feet had come from four men who died in a light aircraft crash off the West coast of Canada in February 2005.
However in August 2006 the theory fell apart with the discovery of a fifth right foot, meaning that something else was to blame.
Since then a number of explanations have been put forward - some suggested the limbs might be from stowaways who smuggled themselves onto a container ship as it left Vancouver

Others claimed the feet could be from victims of the Asian Tsunami in 2004, or part of a human trafficking ring.
But when it emerged that one had apparently been deliberately severed, rumours began spreading that a serial killer with a twisted calling card might be at work.
Detectives frantically combed the missing person’s database for clues but later said they believed the the feet appeared to have come off the bodies naturally, and that foul play was not suspected.
Men and women are among those whose feet have come ashore, but as yet only the one male has been positively identified - with no explanation as to how they got there.
Complicating matters were claims by oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer who has said that the feet could have drifted as far as 1,000 miles.
Pranksters have also made the investigation more difficult. In 2008 they planted a hoax ‘foot’ on Vancouver Island which renewed interest in the case.

 

[ISupportHer]

The feet are from the States. We measure in feet as opposed to the metric system.

:roflmao:

 

[Sandra]

Very funny ISH. :laugh:
I hate this metric.

 

[Sandra]

I did hear they were getting many jokes about this ISH. And they finally told people to stop it as this is a serious matter...Hence 2 left feet.