# Share Weird News Here **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-weird-news-here/982970 "2023-04-20T12:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-weird-news-here/982970/1 "2023-04-20T12:52:23Z")
I figure we have good and bad news all the time on here, so why not the odd stuff? Like [possible aliens landing in Ukraine](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/20/confusion-reigns-over-flash-in-skies-above-kyiv)! (Ok, very unlikely). It can be anything, provided you give a heads-up for the squeamish. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-weird-news-here/982970/2 "2023-04-21T11:37:50Z")
Hmm… Almost 24 hours and no new posts. Could it be that _everything_ in the world has become so weird that _nothing_ is any more? Well, if Dopers aren’t going to step up, we can always fall back on the original source: > **[News of the Weird - Oddities](https://www.uexpress.com/oddities/news-of-the-weird)** > > The editors at Andrews McMeel Syndication continue a tradition started by pioneering weird news purveyor Chuck Shepherd, presenting the best bizarre news gathered from around the world. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-weird-news-here/982970/3 "2023-04-21T13:02:44Z")
The Russians have taken to bombing _themselves_. > **[Russian Jet Bombs Russian City](https://www.newser.com/story/334298/russian-jet-bombs-russian-city.html)** > > Authorities describe Belgorod incident as 'abnormal descent of aviation ammunition' **I assume the Ukrainians went out to lunch, & the russkie hoods kindly shot themselves, out of consideration.** **/s** ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-weird-news-here/982970/4 "2023-04-21T13:04:37Z")
If they hadn’t openly admitted it I’d have thought it was some kind of false flag operation to allow Putin to make a fresh push. “See? They have planes and are bombing us! Now who’s the bad guy?” ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-weird-news-here/982970/5 "2023-04-22T22:53:20Z")
2000 cans of Miller High Life beer have been destroyed by Belgian customs because Miller is advertised as the “champagne of beers”. EU protection laws are so strict that even a drink that isn’t champagne and wasn’t produced in the actual region of the Champagne, France, cannot use the word “champagne” in its advertising. > **[The 'Champagne of Beers' gets crushed in Belgium](https://www.npr.org/2023/04/22/1171460421/miller-beer-champagne-cans-destroyed)** > > Belgian customs destroyed a shipment of 2,352 cans of Miller High Life after the Champagne trade body called foul over the "Champagne of Beers" slogan. ETA: interestingly, someone from Germany ordered the Miller beer. That’s weird, because there’s really no lack of good beer here (in Belgium where the deed was done, too, of course), and though I can’t remember having drunken any, I’ve always had the impression that the mass produced beer from big American breweries was equivalent to donkey piss. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-weird-news-here/982970/6 "2023-04-23T01:55:40Z")
Heineken dark is much better, but American lager is okay. So, was the beer paid for? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-weird-news-here/982970/7 "2023-04-23T02:15:38Z")
Worse than the Miller cans having “Champagne” on them was the fact that they have a more egregious falsehood on the label: “Beer”. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-weird-news-here/982970/8 "2023-04-23T04:03:28Z")
[There’s now a slur exclusive for video gamers](https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/11-year-old-stabbed-outside-mill-creek-dollar-tree-over-reported-video-game-insult) and it WILL get you stabbed if you say it ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-weird-news-here/982970/9 "2023-04-24T06:56:17Z")
That actually happened to Budweiser–Busch wanted to make a brewery in Bavaria, but they turned him down, saying it wasn’t “real” beer