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

[Merlin the Elder]

...there went my breakfast...

[Rowan MacD]

 'Will edible dirt make you clean your plate?'

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019612,00.html

I thought, Worms and Dirt, or Kitty Litter... some of my favorite Halloween snacks.
  This is something else.  I don't think this would taste very good.  Like eating powdered baby food or something.

[Rowan MacD]

Justice Elena Kagan's first vote is against an execution

"The newest member of the Supreme Court is in the minority in backing a stay of execution over questions about the safety of a drug to be used in a lethal injection. Shortly after the stay was overturned Tuesday, Arizona executed Jeffrey Landrigan."

WTH?   Safety of a drug used for killing someone!?  My poor head...our tax money at work...

Full story here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sc-dc-1028-court-execution-20101027,0,5707237.story

Obviously, saner minds prevailed in the end

[Rowan MacD]

 Cool stuff like this never happens in my town*sigh*

Que the Monty Python music..

Moose chased by police, cows


Oct. 19, 2010 at 4:31 PM

SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Authorities in Washington state said a moose spotted running through Spokane was chased by police, news crews and a herd of cows.

The moose was first spotted heading east on 37th Street about 10 a.m. Saturday and police caught up to it near Ferris High School nearly an hour later, KREM-TV, Spokane, reported Tuesday.

The animal was briefly cornered near the Southside Soccer Complex where hundreds of children were playing around 11:30 a.m. but it jumped into a pasture near the complex and found itself being chased by a herd of cows.

The moose escaped into a satellite communications yard, where it charged and nearly struck a KREM news camera.

The animal made its escape by barreling through the soccer complex, a neighborhood and the Manito Golf Course. Authorities said they lost track of the moose in the Manito Place neighborhood.

[Rowan MacD]

  OK. This made me spray my screen with coffee, LMAO, and cry.....OMG.

http://guyism.com/humor/toys-that-will-permanently-screw-up-your-kid.html

[arbcoind]

Ha!  I want the "pole dance"!!!

Gina

[Rowan MacD]

Ha!  I want the "pole dance"!!!

Gina

That and the 'You can shave the doll'  Are wrong on so many levels.
  The Dora Aqua friend is just.....WTH?
 

[Lady Kett]

LOL Rowen! The shave the doll one is completely creepy.

[arbcoind]

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/fayette/s_708568.html

ha!

Gina

[Rowan MacD]

  LOL Gina!

[Merlin the Elder]

LOL! At hospitals around here, anything you smoke will get you arrested....

[arbcoind]

Pot head dad missed the birth of his child.  I hope the kid never finds out!

Gina

[dbaldock]

Recently, one of the guys I knew in High School posted that on the evening News in Little Rock, Arkansas, there was a report of a man who had escaped Police custody and was thought to be in a stolen Dump Truck, headed for his mamma's house in Missouri.      

[Merlin the Elder]

Hmmm... That's home turf, David. I must have missed that one, but we get a lot of strange things happening and the more sane things like that just don't attract much attention around here. 

[groomporter]

Pet spider kills owner
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article152044.ece

U.S. Dept.of Agriculture bombing Guam with dead mice
Dead mice packed with acetaminophen, strapped to pieces of cardboard and dropped from helicopters may help control one of the big headaches for the Pacific island of Guam – the brown tree snake.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/07/tylenol-loaded-mice-dropped-from-air-to-control-snakes/