http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/05/30/idaho.standoff/index.html
The lead paragraphs:
How does this even come to be?
Anyone else have some good ones?
Six armed children? That’s nothing, I once saw a turtle with two heads.
A group of English majors at my school tried to levitate one of the buildings. I’ll post the article from the paper later today. It was quite surreal.
Strike that; the story’s copyrighted. Sorry to disappoint.
I’ll never forget the news story of about five years ago, where a comatose woman was brought into a LA area emergency room, after having succumb to some sort of fumes.
Then, when they drew blood, fumes from her blood caused two emergency room personnel to also pass out, comatose.
This was right around the time when X-files had introduced the alien bounty hunters… you know, the dopplegangers that bleed green bubbly blood that gives off deadly fumes?
It made life rather surreal for the next few days as the story developed. I don’t think they ever figured out what was in that woman’s blood.
You mean this lady? Yeah, some wiseass columnist wrote about that.
Hey, a guy got arrested at a hotel on Route 30 in Valpariso yesterday for having sex with a chicken. :eek: I read that and thought “How do you – no, I don’t want to know.”
Check out the local news section of today’s http://www.thetimesonline.com
Does that count?
Apparently it wasn’t his first offense - he was jailed a few years ago for getting it on with a rottweiler. The paper reported that while in jail he spent considerable time painting stripes on himself and writing “I am the king of cats” on the underside of his bunk.
Now does it count?
Proof once again that Michael Jackson is only the strangest thing to LEAVE northwest Indiana. We’ve got plenty weird left where he came from.
ahem Monkey-man ahem
Why does this remind me of the TMI thread?
Something about those spunky kids reminds me of the kid in O Brother, Where Art Thou? who shot first and asked questions later when people approached his shack.
One of my favorites was reported from India a few years ago. A dead man was seen to arise from his funeral pyre after it was lit, get up, and start walking. Onlookers seriously freaked, women fainted, etc. (He wasn’t really dead after all.) Talk about life imitating art: it was practically a replay of a fictional scene from Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days.
Two stories I remember hearing about probably 10-15 years ago. I am pretty positive I saw both of them on L.A.'s KTLA Channel 5. (I remember Hal Fishman was the announcer on the first story.) All I know is I didn’t imagine them.
One of them was a brief, mysterious story about some town (I think) in Wyoming or Idaho, or some middle-of-the-country state like that. Apparently, in the middle of the day, the temperature just changed dramatically. I can’t remember if it rose or dropped, but I think it dropped like 20 degrees, suddenly. It stayed there for 15 minutes (or so), and then returned to normal. No explanation could be found at the time of the story. I probably got a lot of the details wrong, but one thing I remember clearly: the temperature in some town changed dramatically for a few minutes, for no understandable reason. Freaky.
The other story is just odd, and I don’t know if there was ever a follow-up on it. Perhaps there was, and I just missed it. The actor John Voight (“The Champ” “Runaway Train”, etc.) called a press conference. He had been hanging out with some Native American tribes (cannot remember which ones) and apparently they had shared something secret (and important) with him. I think it was in the form of a book, or document, but I am not sure. Anyway, he was all excited, and he called a press conference to tell people that this Great Thing was coming soon. But he wouldn’t say what. The Native American leaders that Voight associated with were very annoyed with Voight, and basically acted as if Voight had spilled the beans on something. I never heard any more about it, or what “it” was all about. Has anyone else heard anything?
God, the militia kooks are having a field day with this one. They’re seeing it as an attempt by the gov’t to interfere with the family’s right to live as they wish. They’re also trying to implicate a failed gov’t land grab into the story. Never mind the child abuse/neglect (the kids have been living on pond water and lily pads for almost a year now)…
This is my all-time favorite true news story. It kind of tells you what sort of town this is (stupid).
Excerpt:
**Police Nab Breast-Temptress Thieves
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Three young Colombian women preyed on men by smearing their breasts with a powerful drug and luring the victims into taking a lick, before making off with their wallets and cars, police said on Friday.**
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010601/od/breasts_dc_1.html
Almost sounds worth it if you ask me.
Son of Bob Crane (“Hogan’s heroes”) peddles pornographic photos of father.
And apropos of this recent Staff Report - Poodle chews off lower lip of sleeping woman.
Nepal’s crown prince shoots family, self
This has already been mentioned in a (now closed) thread, but I think it belongs here.