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

[arbcoind]

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/offbeat/2010/11/18/moos.griping.over.groping.cnn

I saw this last night on CNN and can't stop laughing...

Gina

[Rowan MacD]

  I gotta watch that with sound.  I have it turned off here at work...

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Sarah Palin's says that she is confident she can beat President Obama in 2012. She needs more than those "Mama Grizzlies" to vote for her.

[groomporter]

She'd be smarter to stay where she is. She makes much more money as a speaker/fund raiser. She's also more useful rallying the faithful with half truths and propaganda, and in her current role she doesn't have to debate anyone head-to-head, or be interviewed by what she calls "gotcha" journalists

[Merlin the Elder]

Can't actually say it's weird, but it sure makes me feel my age.... Billy Joel just had his hips replaced...

In amazing news, they found 3 14-15 year-old kids that have been adrift in the south Pacific for 50 days ALIVE!  Awesome! They had long pronounced them dead and held a memorial.

[Rowan MacD]

Scared Senseless
 The primary-school principal in England who last year famously banned parents from taking photos during school events on the off-chance that kids' pictures would somehow wind up in online pornography has struck again. For a class yearbook for 4-year-olds, so petrified of pornography was she that parents received customized books with only their own kids' photos unaltered. The rest of the photos in the yearbook have black bars over the kids' eyes. (Bonus: Elsewhere in The Country Afraid of Everything, a contractor that runs public swimming pools has prohibited the use of water floats recreationally because one kid somehow choked on one.)
~Daily Mail /// Daily Telegraph

  The really scary part is; I can see this happening here before too long.....

[Alphonse]

 More spooky then weird... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/7298562_harvard_university_doctor_turns_back_time_on_aging_will_an_antiaging_pill_be_available_soon;_ylt=AmTPg8Wk3oIyv1F_oqxNbJgPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTUwcGRrbG1sBGFzc2V0A2FjLzIwMTAxMTI5LzcyOTg1NjJfaGFydmFyZF91bml2ZXJzaXR5X2RvY3Rvcl90dXJuc19iYWNrX3RpbWVfb25fYWdpbmdfd2lsbF9hbl9hbnRpYWdpbmdfcGlsbF9iZV9hdmFpbGFibGVfc29vbgRwb3MDMjMEc2VjA3luX3N1YmNhdF9saXN0BHNsawNoYXJ2YXJkdW5pdmU-

[Rowan MacD]

  Yeah, that is spooky.  If the drug does what it's supposed to (suppress the genetic trigger for natural senescence) not only will people not age, they will get younger.
   Nasty side effect #1: any cancer cells or tumors will go crazy.
   People will have to give serious thought to population control if no one dies of old age.

[William_MacKean]

When the Tea 'ban all earmarks' Party asked for over 600 earmark projects totalling more than $1bil, I go 'Huh?'

Hypocrites.

[DonaCatalina]

Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin to be auctioned.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101201/od_nm/us_coffin_auction

[Mairte]

I saw this within the last year...two women stole four calves, stuck two in the trunk and two in the back seat of a Honda Civic....then took them to the sales barn. But forgot to remove the ear tags!!!!!!!!!!!!      Not the brightest crayons in the box...

[groomporter]

"The bomb squad couldn't be sure if the robot was safe or not, and so remotely detonated it at about 5:30 p.m. to "render it safe"."

It was an 8-inch tall figurine and they blew it up?!?!
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16752786

[Merlin the Elder]

I think it's really sad that it's come down to this. People have been conditioned to be afraid of their own shadow. I felt safer in the days without all the "protection."

[Lady Kett]

Giggle....
300 pound chimp

[DonaCatalina]

too much Christmas?