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

[Merlin the Elder]

Bet the tours get glowing reviews. Should be a hot ticket.

[NoBill Lurker]

http://www.onecoolthingaday.com/today/2010/12/14/art-by-typewriter.html

[Lady Rebecca]

Wow! That must take so much patience!

[arbcoind]

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/12/14/vo.florida.school.shooting.WJHG

Man opens fire at school board meeting.  Crazy!

Gina

[DonaCatalina]

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/12/14/vo.florida.school.shooting.WJHG

Man opens fire at school board meeting.  Crazy!

Gina

That's just sad. Too, too much of that these days.

[Lady Rebecca]

This might be a little too John's Inn, but I found this pretty funny.

[arbcoind]

The comments are pretty funny too!

Gina

[Rowan MacD]

The comments are pretty funny too!
Gina

That's what I thought.  My favorite is the one that said 'this is funny until it gets  cross-posted....'

LMAO.  Thanks Lady R, 
 

[DonaCatalina]

Embalmed head of King Henri IV found.

[Rowan MacD]

Embalmed head of King Henri IV found.

I read that last night.....waaaaay cool.

[Rowan MacD]

Girl, 4, Faces Negligence Charges, Judge Gives Suit the OK

Although most 4-year-olds probably can't even say the word "negligence," apparently, they are old enough to be sued for it.

That's right, 4-year-olds.

In April 2009, 4-year-old pals, Juliet Breitman and Jacob Kohn, were racing their bicycles on a sidewalk in Manhattan, The New York Times reports. Failing to channel their newly-developed fine motor skills, they crashed into an 87-year-old woman. The injured woman needed hip surgery and died three months after the surgery.

Her estate proceeded to sue the clearly experienced cyclists and their mothers for negligence. Juliet's lawyer, James P. Tyrie, argued that "courts have held that an infant under the age of 4 is conclusively presumed to be incapable of negligence."

Judge Paul Wooten decided that these rulings do not apply to Juliet Breitman because, after all, she was a whopping 4-and-three-quarters at the time of the accident. He has ruled that she is old enough to be held liable and is allowing the suit against her to move forward.

Tyrie said that his young client should not be held responsible because her mother was supervising the race. Again, Judge Wooten didn't buy the excuse. His reasoning, according to The Times, is that "any 'reasonably prudent child,' who presumably has been told to look both ways before crossing a street, should know that dashing out without looking is dangerous, with or without a parent there." Because, of course, kids only need to be told things once.

Sure, Judge Wooten.

However, Wooten added, if the parent were to encourage dangerous behavior, the child would not be liable. But because Juliet's mother did not seem to have any "active role" in the accident, she is off the hook, and her 4-year-old is to blame. And because there was no evidence of Juliet's "lack of maturity," the trial goes on.

If Juliet is found guilty, we wonder if she will have to declare a criminal record on her kindergarten application.




~My bet is Mom is trying to avoid liability here and the kid is being tossed under the train for this....

[Lady Kett]

Not exactly news, but....got it from a link of a link on Rowen MacD's post in the Gift Ideas thread

World's Strangets Laws

My favorites are:
In Hastings, Nebraska, USA, the law says that hotel owners have to provide a clean white cotton nightshirt for each guest. Also no couples are allowed to have sex in the hotel unless they are wearing these nightshirts.

In Birmingham, England, it is illegal for a man and a woman to have sex on church steps after sundown. [apparently it's ok during the day]

[Rowan MacD]

Not exactly news, but....got it from a link of a link on Rowen MacD's post in the Gift Ideas thread

World's Strangets Laws
In Birmingham, England, it is illegal for a man and a woman to have sex on church steps after sundown. [apparently it's ok during the day]

This is a problem there?

[Rowan MacD]

From the local news-good for a chuckle...

Burglar Breaks Into Iowa Radio Shack-Makes Off With Broken Stereo System


DES MOINES, Iowa -- The smash-and-grab thief who tossed a cinder block through a window at a Des Moines electronics store is in for a shock:

The stereo system he or she grabbed doesn't work.

According to The Des Moines Register, an alarm went off a little after 12 a.m. Thursday at the Radio Shack store. A broken cinder block was found later on the sidewalk outside.

A store worker called to the scene did a quick check of the inventory and said only a display model of a stereo system appeared to be missing.

And it doesn't work.

[groomporter]

Reindeer regularly eat magic mushrooms
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/851202-reindeer-regularly-eat-magic-mushrooms-in-the-wild-research-finds

Drunk Kills Shark, Saves Egyptian Beach Resort
http://www.newser.com/story/107820/drunk-kills-shark-saves-egyptian-beach-resort.html