What weird news stories make you either laugh out loud, or just say "huh?'

[Luciana]

  Witches of Romania curse government over new tax law....

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/916967--witches-of-romania-curse-government-over-new-tax-law


 

I laughed and laughed and then called my mom to asked her if is true.

[Merlin the Elder]

I wonder how high you can get off of this?!?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/20/florida.snort.ashes/index.html?hpt=T2

[BubbleWright]

RE: the texting woman who fell into the fountain... she is now going to sue the Mall for having an unprotected fountain, Mall Security for not coming to her aid and Youtube for posting the video, holding her up to ridicule. Of course, if she had not gone on Good Morning America, no one would have known who she was. Good thing she wasn't texting at the Grand Canyon... she would be suing the United States as land owner and God as the creator of the canyon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0umR74nFZuM&feature=watch_response

[Merlin the Elder]

If that lawsuit is allowed to go forward, the judge should be taken out and thrown into the fountain himself. You are so right, though, BW. From the video, she was completely unrecognizable. She should have kept her big mouth shut and stayed off of TV!

[DonaCatalina]

RE: the texting woman who fell into the fountain... Good thing she wasn't texting at the Grand Canyon... she would be suing the United States as land owner and God as the creator of the canyon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0umR74nFZuM&feature=watch_response

Where is the like button? LOL

[Sir Ironhead]

But if she had been texting at the Grabd Canyon the gene pool would be a lot cleaner now.

[Merlin the Elder]

But if she had been texting at the Grabd Canyon the gene pool would be a lot cleaner now.

We could just add a lot of bleach to the fountain...

[Lady Kett]

Not precisely a news story, although on a newsy website...and not to make fun of the cause it is supporting (hey, I know Lance Armstrong's Mom...ok she's not inviting me to the country club any time soon but I do know her!)...but this commerical made me LOL.

Kudos to the agency who created this one.

Family Jewels

[William_MacKean]

That another family values conservative got implicated with a hooker.  That makes 1 baby out of wedlock, drug use, and a hubby with a hooker.  All in 1 family.

Sheesh, momma grizzly.  Time to get yer arse home to care for your cubs!!!

[Merlin the Elder]

...

Family Jewels

...Brilliant...simply brilliant.

[Neophyte]

Naked 'King of the World' Gets Taser Treatment in Florida Keys
Wednesday January 19, 2011
"I'm king of the world... king of the ARRGGHHHHH!!!!"
I don't know if that's how this one unfolded... but that's how I picture it anyway.

Police in Florida's Big Coppitt Key near Key West say a Pennsylvania man ran naked through the streets shouting about his apparent global royalty.

Someone apparently forgot to tell the local law enforcement about the ascension of 43-year-old Richard Gervasi to the world throne.

When deputies arrived, he allegedly charged after one... so cops called to the scene shot a taser at him.

But his majesty would not go down easy... in fact, after being tased, he pulled the taser prongs out of his skin and got up,
So they tased him again... and again.

Not surprisingly, police believe generous portions of alcohol and a helping of LSD played a role.

[brier patch charlie]

For some reason I keep hearing in the back of my mind " excuse me, while I whip this out"  shoot him again Jonny!

[arbcoind]

http://www.wtae.com/westmoreland/26608166/detail.html

Walmart excites this man.

Gina

[Merlin the Elder]

http://www.wtae.com/westmoreland/26608166/detail.html

Walmart excites this man.

Gina

Funny...it has the opposite effect on me. I stay away from Wally World.

[Rowan MacD]

Smugglers with "medieval catapult" nabbed at border


PHOENIX (Reuters) – In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said..

The Mexican military seized 45 pounds of marijuana, a sports utility vehicle and a metal-framed catapult just south of the Arizona border near the small town of Naco last Friday, following a tip-off from the U.S. Border Patrol.

Surveillance video taken by National Guard troops deployed to support the Border Patrol caught a group of men apparently attempting to pull down a metal beam and load or test the catapult, which was powered by powerful elastic and mounted on a trailer close to the metal border fence.

"It looks like a medieval catapult that was used back in the day," Tucson sector Border Patrol spokesman David Jimarez told Reuters.

Arizona straddles a furiously trafficked corridor for human and drug smugglers from Mexico.

The U.S. Border Patrol seize hundreds of tons of marijuana and other drugs each year, smuggled over or under the line using a variety of means, including trucks, clandestine tunnels, horseback and even micro-light aircraft -- although the catapult was new, Jimarez said.

"I have not seen anything like that in my time before as a Border Patrol agent ... although we are trained to handle any kind of a threat that comes over that border," he added.