Thread: Strange News

Originally Posted by kingwilly

It's not that bad, females of the species have a fake penis..

What does "trying to mate" actually mean?

Playing romantic music, soft lighting, a hyena porno and a couple of bottles of cheap wine?

Originally Posted by Necron99

It's not that bad, females of the species have a fake penis..

Cue one of Blue's homophobic rants as soon as he opens this thread.

Good thread title
Strange / Queer news indeed

I'm sure the hyenas saw the funny side to it all.
Probably laughed their asses off.

What's with this, not enough hyenas? Didn't know they were in short supply.

Plenty of the two legged kind running around.

asshole

A US Airways passenger thought it would be funny to claim that he was just in Africa and had Ebola, on Wednesday.

So, this happened.

Once we landed in Punta Cana we were told by the flight attendants that there was a situation and that a passenger may have been in Africa and had Ebola. She was certain it was a hoax but they did not take any chances and had a full hazmat crew board the plane and take the passenger off. It was later confirmed that the passenger was never in Africa and after 2hrs we were finally able to get off the plane.Jukin Media Verified (Original)

Spiders Force Family From of Upscale Missouri Home - ABC News

A family was driven from their suburban St. Louis home by thousands of venomous spiders that fell from the ceiling and oozed from the walls.

Brian and Susan Trost bought the $450,000 home overlooking two golf holes at Whitmoor Country Club in Weldon Spring in October 2007 and soon afterward started seeing brown recluse spiders everywhere, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported . Once when showering, Susan Trost dodged a spider as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain.

She told St. Louis television station KMOV-TV in 2012 the spiders "started bleeding out of the walls," and at least two pest control companies were unable to eradicate the infestation.

The couple filed a claim in 2008 with their insurance company, State Farm, and a lawsuit against the home's previous owners for not disclosing the brown recluse problem.

At a civil trial in St. Charles County in October 2011, University of Kansas biology professor Jamel Sandidge — considered one of the nation's leading brown recluse researchers — estimated there were between 4,500 and 6,000 spiders in the home. Making matters worse, he said, those calculations were made in the winter when the spiders are least active.

The jury awarded the couple slightly more than $472,000, but the former owners declared bankruptcy, the insurance company still didn't pay anything and the couple moved out two years ago.

The home, now owned by the Federal National Mortgage Association, was covered with nine tarps this week and workers filled it with a gas that permeated the walls to kill the spiders and their eggs.

"There'll be nothing alive in there after this," said Tim McCarthy, president of the company hired to fix the problem once and for all.

‘Selfie’ Video Will Destroy Your Faith In Humans As Girl Tries Too Hard For Perfect Pic

A “selfie” video has broken loose of YouTube and made the front page of Reddit after an unidentified cellphone videographer captured a young woman trying way too hard to capture the perfect picture.

The video — see below — runs about 75 seconds, and the entire time, the girl tries hard to capture an image of herself in a selfie for the ages.

Over the course of that runtime, the videographer delivers a rather scathing narration.

At the start of the selfie video, you see the girl posing in a number of stances while trying to hold her phone just right. After about 20 seconds, the shooter chimes in.

“Seriously, this chick has been doing this for so long, I was able to grab my phone, take a couple of pictures, and now this video of ridiculousness.”

At this point, the selfie taker moves the phone below her waist.

“Oh my God, are you f***ing kidding me? She’s going to take one from down there of her a**.”

It gets pretty rough from there. Clearly, the videographer is not a fan of the selfie. But don’t take our word for it. See for yourself. Warning: NSFW.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Spiders Force Family From of Upscale Missouri Home - ABC News

A family was driven from their suburban St. Louis home by thousands of venomous spiders that fell from the ceiling and oozed from the walls.

Brian and Susan Trost bought the $450,000 home overlooking two golf holes at Whitmoor Country Club in Weldon Spring in October 2007 and soon afterward started seeing brown recluse spiders everywhere, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported . Once when showering, Susan Trost dodged a spider as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain.

She told St. Louis television station KMOV-TV in 2012 the spiders "started bleeding out of the walls," and at least two pest control companies were unable to eradicate the infestation.

The couple filed a claim in 2008 with their insurance company, State Farm, and a lawsuit against the home's previous owners for not disclosing the brown recluse problem.

At a civil trial in St. Charles County in October 2011, University of Kansas biology professor Jamel Sandidge — considered one of the nation's leading brown recluse researchers — estimated there were between 4,500 and 6,000 spiders in the home. Making matters worse, he said, those calculations were made in the winter when the spiders are least active.

The jury awarded the couple slightly more than $472,000, but the former owners declared bankruptcy, the insurance company still didn't pay anything and the couple moved out two years ago.

The home, now owned by the Federal National Mortgage Association, was covered with nine tarps this week and workers filled it with a gas that permeated the walls to kill the spiders and their eggs.

"There'll be nothing alive in there after this," said Tim McCarthy, president of the company hired to fix the problem once and for all.

Holy fok, I would have screamed like a little biatch if that happened to me. Gave my back a tingle just reading!

Half-Female, Half-Male Cardinal is a Lonely Bird

The cardinal pictured above is a rare split-sex gynandromorph: It has bright red male plumage on its left side, and its other half is covered with comparatively drab, brownish-gray female plumage. Natural gynandromorph butterflies, lobsters, and chickens, for example, exist but researchers have rarely observed them extensively in the wild. So, a duo led by Brian Peer of Western Illinois University observed the bilateral gynandromorph northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) around bird feeders for more than 40 days between December of 2008 and March of 2010 in northwestern Illinois. In that time, the bird never paired with another cardinal, and the team never heard it vocalizing. The bird was also never subjected to “unusual agnostic behaviors” from other cardinals. The findings were published in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology this month.

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The General Department of Geology and Minerals and the Japan Caving Association on December 26 held a press conference to announce the finding of a volcanic cavern system in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong.

Nguyen Van Thuan, Head of the General Department of Geology and Minerals, said Vietnamese and Japanese scientists have spent eight years investigating the caves. The volcanic cavern system, located in Buon Choah commune, Krong No district, could be the longest volcanic grotto in Southeast Asia, he added.

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Google Just Unveiled The First Fully Functional Driverless Car

Just before Christmas, Google announced the “first real build” of their self-driving vehicle, a button-nosed smart car that looks like it could’ve been a friendly police officer in Disney’s Cars’ movies. Driverless cars could save thousands of lives a year in the U.S. alone and also provide significant economic and environmental advantages. But the road to these benefits is full of technological and regulatory curves.

In announcing the update, Google said the vehicle it previously revealed in May was an “early mockup.” This version brings together all the elements of the car in what is the first fully functional form of the vehicle. While Google hopes to have the new cars on the streets of California next year, the California DMV recently acknowledged it will miss a year-end deadline to adopt rules for this new form of transportation due to safety concerns.

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Turkey's Oldest Stone Tool Pinpoints Human Migration to Europe

Turkey is considered the gateway from Asia to Europe for our distant ancestors, and based on a newly discovered stone tool -- the oldest on record for the area -- researchers think humans dispersed out of Asia around 1.2 million years ago. That’s much earlier than previously thought, according to new work published in Quaternary Science Reviews.

Stone aged artifacts and fossils have previously been unearthed in western Turkey (in a region known as Anatolia) in limestone sediments at Kocabaş in the Denizli basin. But their chronology haven’t been constrained that well. The newly discovered tool was found about 100 kilometers north of those previous finds and (importantly) in an ancient river meander that cut through lavas that could be precisely aged.

"This discovery is critical for establishing the timing and route of early human dispersal into Europe," says Danielle Schreve from Royal Holloway University of London in a news release. "Our research suggests that the flake is the earliest securely-dated artifact from Turkey ever recorded and was dropped on the floodplain by an early hominin well over a million years ago." Schreve, together with an international team led by Darrel Maddy of Newcastle University, discovered the five-centimeter-long, hard-hammer quartzite flake while working with artifacts from the Early Pleistocene Gediz River sequence.

An aerial view of the 46th Barcolana Regatta in the Gulf of Trieste near northern Italy - shot in early morning light with a wide viewpoint as the sun reflects off the surface of the water at a low angle

Over 1,800 participants gather in one of largest sailing races in the world - the event began in 1969 and takes place on the second Sunday in October

Originally Posted by wasabi

My dogs have teeth and jaws that are a lot smaller than that and they can crunch through fairly large bones with ease. I cringe at the thought of the damage this hyena could with that set of chompers.

County woman charged in revenge porn case

WAYNESBORO – An Augusta County woman was charged with posting a nude picture of another woman on Facebook, police said.

The Waynesboro Police Department said this is its first revenge porn charge after the law came into effect July 1 after being enacted by the Virginia General Assembly earlier this year, a release said.

Rachel Lynn Craig, 28, who resides outside of Waynesboro, was charged with the Class 1 misdemeanor and was released from the police department Saturday.

The new law makes it illegal for people to post nude images of others without permission to the Internet or making it accessible to others.

Waynesboro Police Sgt. Brian Edwards said the 22-year-old Waynesboro victim reported to police that Craig, who is the ex-girlfriend of the her boyfriend, took a nude image that the victim sent to her boyfriend and posted it on Facebook.

The victim told police she found out about the post after others saw it and told her about it, Edwards said.

Craig admitted to police that she took the photo from her ex-boyfriend's phone and posted it.

Watch the world’s first real hoverboard in action

The Hoverboard creates its lift through its four ‘hover engines’ which emit magnetic fields that push against each other so long as there is a non-ferromagnetic conductor as the surface underneath.

Hendo say that the hoverboard is still in its early stages, and results so far look impressive, but there is – as always – a catch.

Firstly, the board will cost buyers at least $10,000 (£6,000) and secondly, it only works on a metal surface – so don’t expect to be floating down the street any time soon.

However, because of the type of surface the hoverboard requires, Hendo are also designing a skate park specifically for their boards and are offering donors the chance to have their name inscribed on the a piece of the surface.

Dwarf stripper gets bride pregnant on her hen night

A Spanish woman has been forced to confess to cheating on her husband-to-be on her hen night with a dwarf stripper after she gave birth to a baby with dwarfism.
Her husband believed the baby was his and that it had been conceived during the honeymoon but his wife confessed to the infidelity after he repeatedly questioned doctors as to how the baby could have been born with dwarfism.

Dwarf stripper gets bride pregnant on her hen night - Telegraph

That has dwarfed all other reports.

Talking parrot missing for 4 years found, now speaks Spanish

When Nigel vanished four years ago, he spoke with a cultivated British accent.

Little is known about where the African grey parrot went, what he did — or who he was with — in those missing years. But when he was reunited with his owner, Darren Chick, in Torrance last week, the British accent was gone and the bird was chattering in Spanish, often mentioning the name “Larry.”

Bizarre ‘alien’ sea creature caught off Singapore



A fisherman in Singapore reeled in a mystery creature straight out of a science fiction movie.
When Ong Han Boon spotted his line going up and down at his favorite fishing spot on the island of Sentosa, the 54-year-old had a feeling he was about to snag himself something special for lunch, Central European News reports.
But when the sea dweller broke the surface, the fisherman was confused by the strange animal.
“When I pulled it out of the water, I was completely flummoxed by what I was looking at,” he told a local radio station. “I’ve had quite a few odd things come out of the ocean, but I have never seen anything like this before in my life. It had all these arms waving around.”
Twisting and curling its alien-like body, the creature looks like some sort of mutant starfish. Boon captured its bizarre and freakish movements in remarkable video, which he posted online in hopes that someone could identify the animal.
“I’ve asked all my friends and none of them know and all my Internet searches have not turned up anything that looks like this,” he said.
Even though our oceans cover a whopping 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, more than 95 percent of the underwater universe has yet to be explored, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“So, if no one can’t identify it, then I guess I’m right,” Boon said. “It’s either an alien or I’ve discovered a new species of mutant sea creature, which would not surprise me with all the pollution they put in the water nowadays.”

Bizarre ?alien? sea creature caught off Singapore | New York Post

Big news,……

ORANGEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A 6-foot-4-inch cow owned by a woman from Orangeville has been named the world’s tallest cow.

Patty Hanson and Blosom the cow smiled for their official Guinness World Records photo shoot Monday. Hanson received an email in mid-August saying Blosom had been granted the honor.

The owner says she sought the record after veterinarians and the cow’s foot trimmer constantly noted the 2,000-pound animal’s large size. At the end of May, family and friends began documenting Blosom’s mass through photos and videos. Her official measurements were taken by a vet from Orangeville Animal Health Service.

Hanson says the record-breaking cow is the pride of her Orangeville farm. Hanson got Blosom when she was a calf and eventually decided to keep her as a pet.

Blosom turned 13 in July.

And one because Halloween is approaching

World's Heaviest Pumpkin Tips the Scales at 2,096 Pounds

MAINZ, Germany — A Swiss gardener has grown the world’s heaviest pumpkin — and it weighs almost as much as a small car. Beni Meier, 30, had to use a special vehicle to transport the fruit, which tipped the scales at 2,096.6 lbs. An official from the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth association was at the weighing, which broke a world record previously held by California couple Tim and Susan Mathison.

"We were told that lots of watering and daily care was necessary,” said Maika Ziehl, a spokeswoman for the farm where the competition was held. The pumpkin will remain on display in Klaistow, Germany, until it is "slaughtered" on November 2. "We will probably make a good soup out of the pumpkin," added Ziehl, who said that its seeds would be in high demand and probably auctioned off.

Ah the same system as used by the Daleks and they couldn't go up stairs!