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

[Auryn]

I don't even have kids and this is getting me all riled up
its a slipper slope

http://www.nccivitas.org/2012/state-inspectors-searching-childrens-lunch-boxes-this-isnt-china-is-it/

[Archer]

I don't even have kids and this is getting me all riled up
its a slipper slope

http://www.nccivitas.org/2012/state-inspectors-searching-childrens-lunch-boxes-this-isnt-china-is-it/

Ugggh.  Someone already said it better than I can . . . . . .

       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFSNpjbVN4

[Rowan MacD]

  Sad that 37 years later, nothing has changed.   Makes us all look like ostriches; sticking our heads in the ground and hoping the nastiness will just go away.

[Archer]

 Sad that 37 years later, nothing has changed.   Makes us all look like ostriches; sticking our heads in the ground and hoping the nastiness will just go away.

Very true Rowen.  So, the question on the nation's media lips becomes, what would William Shatner do (skip add for lyrics) ?   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR6aKR6Rvws  

Heck, we're all living in a merry car . . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y4vIzEkd6s

[Archer]

In the news:  Archaeology Anomolies of Ancient America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNxS3Lwlho

Caucasians in pre-Columbian America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCBa6Ve6FU

These raise some doubts about the accuracy of ancient history we are taught.

The deeper we dig . . .  the more "huh" factor . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6xctSVcOAk

[Merlin the Elder]

A news source reports that a banker in California left a 1% tip at a restaurant with a message written on the ticket that says, "Get a real job."

Having worked in the hospitality industry, I have to state that being a waiter, waitress, dishwasher, cashier, bartender, hostess, cook, chef—whatever—IS a real job. Otherwise, you would not have been served that delicious hot meal and refreshing cocktail on a clean plate.

If you don't appreciate your meal for some reason, there are ways of making it known, and sometimes a crappy tip is the proper response. There's no denying that. But to say that it's not a "real job" is an insult of major proportions. If I were that person, I would never dare set my foot in that restaurant again. Once you really anger someone in food service, you can never, ever really be sure that a "special" ingredient hasn't been added to your meal. Yes, it would get the perpetrator fired, possibly jailed, if it were discovered, but you would have already consumed something you probably wish you hadn't.

[Archer]

An appetizing thought . . . not.  Being a shart just can't be helped by some.  Some just insist on being a shart as their purpose in existing.

Now for some swamp gas and weather balloons found in central Mexico ?  . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5preiVeBF3k

... and news from closer to home . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5l3Qh2vl-0

Just say "huh"....  

[Archer]

Ye tax dollars at work . . . or play . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uV1SbEuzFU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmuteEWkwiA

[Rowan MacD]

  Gah.  How the heck does this caca occur in this day and age?
Maybe this is just the retired Air Force ground crew in me getting really pissed...But nobody should just be able to just drive through a fence to get onto a busy airport runway. I would think by now all the major airports would have those concrete barriers along every fence accessible by non-flight line traffic.
 Don't know why terrorists haven't exploited that by now...but you can bet they will.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46591129/ns/local_news-philadelphia_pa/t/rogue-jeep-drives-philly-runway/

[Rowan MacD]

Thieves steal preserved heart of St Laurence O'Toole


By Don Lavery

Sunday March 04 2012

THE 12th-Century preserved heart of of the patron saint of Dublin, St Laurence O'Toole, was stolen from Christ Church Cathedral yesterday.

Shocked staff at the cathedral discovered the theft yesterday and said they were "absolutely devastated".

Gardai are now hunting for the missing relic.

"It has been a major site of pilgrimage and a major tourist attraction," said Nuala Kavanagh, director of operations at the cathedral.

The heart -- which has been in the cathedral for 800 years -- was kept in a wooden container sealed within a small iron-barred case.

It is understood three security guards were on duty and CCTV footage was being examined by gardai last night.

Gardai said they believed the theft from Saint Laud's Chapel in Christ Church Cathedral happened sometime between Friday evening and 12.30pm yesterday.

The small iron-barred case was forced open by the thieves who left it behind and escaped with the saint's heart.

No alarms were activated and there was no sign of a break-in at the cathedral when it was opened at 9.30am yesterday.

Staff said they had never seen the heart, which is kept in the wooden heart-shaped container, which is itself sealed within the iron case.

The one-time archbishop St Laurence O'Toole, born Lorcan Ua Tuathail in Castledermot, County Kildare, in 1128 and who became known as Laurence O'Toole, died in November 1180 in Normandy, France.

Staff said O'Toole was known as an ascetic. He wore a hairshirt, never ate meat and fasted every Friday on bread and water.

When he entertained, his guests lacked for nothing while he coloured his water to look like wine so as not to spoil the feast. Each Lent he went to Glendalough where he lived in St Kevin's Cell, a sort of cave over the Upper Lake, for 40 days.

Due to the number of miracles that occurred at his tomb, he was canonised in 1225 by Pope Honorius III.

In 1442, his skull was brought back to Britain by Rowland Standish (a relative of Captain Myles Standish, the British military adviser to the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony arriving off the Mayflower) who fought at Agincourt. His bones were interred at the Parish Church of Chorley, now called the Church of St Laurence.

However, the bones disappeared in the Reformation under Henry VIII's rule.

His heart has been preserved in Christ Church Cathedral since the 13th Century and has been a major pilgrimage site since the medieval period.

The Dean of Christ Church Cathedral and the diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, the Most Reverend Dermot Dunne, said: "I am devastated that one of the treasured artefacts of the cathedral is stolen.

"It has no economic value but it is a priceless treasure that links our present foundation with its founding father, St Laurence O'Toole."

Staff at the cathedral appealed to the thieves to return the relic.

Gardai said they wished to speak to anyone who may have visited Saint Laud's Chapel in Christ Church Cathedral between Friday evening and 12.30pm yesterday and may have seen anything suspicious to contact them at Kevin Street garda station at 01- 6669400.

- Don Lavery

[Merlin the Elder]

Ladies, just my opinion... breast augmentation is a waste. It's as ridiculous as a bald guy with a comb-over.  Case in point: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/my-giant-boobs-saved-my-life-woman-679293

[Rowan MacD]

Ladies, just my opinion... breast augmentation is a waste. It's as ridiculous as a bald guy with a comb-over.  Case in point: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/my-giant-boobs-saved-my-life-woman-679293

LMAO-The Duckface was icing on the cake.

[Bonny Pearl]

Ladies, just my opinion... breast augmentation is a waste. It's as ridiculous as a bald guy with a comb-over.  Case in point: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/my-giant-boobs-saved-my-life-woman-679293

LMAO-The Duckface was icing on the cake.

(facepalm)  This woman is from our area.   

[Merlin the Elder]

heheh...yeah, I noticed that, Bonny Pearl! What kind of nuts are you growing down there?

I think I was totally distracted by her other "assets," Rowen. I didn't even notice the face.

[Rowan MacD]

Ladies, just my opinion... breast augmentation is a waste. It's as ridiculous as a bald guy with a comb-over.  Case in point: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/my-giant-boobs-saved-my-life-woman-679293

LMAO-The Duckface was icing on the cake.

(facepalm)  This woman is from our area.   

My sympathies...Let's hope she doesn't decide to dress up and start hanging out at TRF....