Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)

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A place to post about any news you've discovered that you find unusual in any manner. good , bad, just odd. Post The Headline and some details about the news story.

I'll start:

"Like a 5 yr old"

.....First class passenger handcuffed for asking for a drink.

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"Plane makes emergency landing when pilot spots a venomous cobra"...........:

A South African pilot had to make an emergency landing when he found himself in a situation straight out of the movies -- a venomous snake was under his seat.

Pilot Rudolf Erasmus was flying a private plane carrying four passengers from Bloemfontein to Pretoria flight when he found himself in a situation reminiscent of the film Snakes on a Plane.

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A man in Pennsylvania stole a school bus to transport a dead deer home to fertilize his garden,
then sort of wreaked the bus, and then ran away stripping off his clothes as he fled the cops on foot.

YES, REALLY!


I am horrible at gardening. can you even use a dead deer to fertilize a garden?

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More WTF news for today.....


"Arizona Dairy Queen Searching For Missing Giant Red Spoon " :


Franchise owner Raman Kalra hopes the thief returns the spoon, which he notes is "too big to eat anything."

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More WTF news for today.....


"Arizona Dairy Queen Searching For Missing Giant Red Spoon " :


Franchise owner Raman Kalra hopes the thief returns the spoon, which he notes is "too big to eat anything."

It was, and by a Pokemon hunter! Which to me adds to the weirdness factor.

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More WTF news for today.....


"Arizona Dairy Queen Searching For Missing Giant Red Spoon " :


Franchise owner Raman Kalra hopes the thief returns the spoon, which he notes is "too big to eat anything."

It was, and by a Pokemon hunter! Which to me adds to the weirdness factor.

Haha, I guess he wanted to feed them!

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"Fed up by LA pothole, Arnold Schwarzenegger fills it himself"-

Fed up by an enormous pothole in his Los Angeles neighborhood, Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up a shovel and filled it himself.

"It's not a pothole"...haha

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How is this for funny?

South Korea had been banning Japanese sex dolls for
“harm(ing) the country’s beautiful traditions and public moral".
Supposedly they have stopped that now.

fyi... I have had Members from 30'ish countries and research stations, but not one from South Korea.

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Not actual news....but I found this list of odd names of group's of animals interesting...and yes, some WEIRD! Haha

The Strangest Names For Groups of Animals:

Alligators – a congregation
Apes – a shrewdness
Bats – a colony or cauldron
Bears – a sleuth
Cats – a clowder
Crows – a murder
Donkeys – a pace
Ferrets – a business
Fox – a skulk or leash
Gerbils – a horde
Giraffes – a tower
Hippopotamuses – a bloat
Hyenas – a cackle
Leopards – a leap
Martens – a richness
Owls – a parliament
Porcupines – a prickle
Raccoons – a nursery or gaze
Rats – a mischief
Rhinos – a crash
Skunks – a surfeit
Squirrels – a dray
Toads – a knot
Turtles – a bale
Whales – a pod

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Humpback whale found dead in amazon rainforest (story from 2019, but news to me!)

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Humpback whale found dead in amazon rainforest (story from 2019, but news to me!)

Yikes! News to me too!

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"A man from Dildo, N.L. has captured the attention of iceberg lovers after photographing an oddly-shaped hunk — now popularly known as the "dickie berg" on social media — off the coast of Newfoundland."

There are photographs, but I don't have permission to post them!

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Weird, WTF, & EEEWWWWW!

Dutch court orders man who fathered 550 kids to stop donating sperm

That is some serious ego there!

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Weird, WTF, & EEEWWWWW!

Dutch court orders man who fathered 550 kids to stop donating sperm

That is some serious ego there!

I saw this! He had already reached the donation cap at his local donation centers so he started travelling to others in the region. The fear is that him putting that much of his DNA out there will result in inbreeding and population instability due to lack of gene diversity.

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Weird, WTF, & EEEWWWWW!

Dutch court orders man who fathered 550 kids to stop donating sperm

That is some serious ego there!

I saw this! He had already reached the donation cap at his local donation centers so he started travelling to others in the region. The fear is that him putting that much of his DNA out there will result in inbreeding and population instability due to lack of gene diversity.

Guess that old saying about " adding some chlorine to the gene pool" applies here. Haha Wow, and Yikes!

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The guy who ate a $120,000 banana in an art museum says he was just hungry....


The art in question, "Comedian", is a (frequently replaced) duct-taped banana that is meant to evoke everything from Charlie Chaplin's slapstick comedy to the fruit's status as an emblem of global trade.

It spoke to Noh Huyn-soo in simpler terms, reminding him that he had skipped breakfast that morning.

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"Hotel Manager arrested for waking up a guest by sucking on his toes."

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"Hotel Manager arrested for waking up a guest by sucking on his toes."

lol seriously though....who does that? lol

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"Hotel Manager arrested for waking up a guest by sucking on his toes."

lol seriously though....who does that? lol

Totally a job for a professional. What a cheapskate!

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An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute

Caryn Marjorie, 23, a social media influencer with nearly 2 million followers on Snapchat, never has time to talk to all her fans. She posts photos and videos of herself throughout the day, and her 98 percent male fan base responds with an endless stream of messages and requests.

She spends about five hours a day in a Telegram group she created that super fans pay to join, but she can only respond to so many comments at a time.

So, this week she launched CarynAI, an AI chatbot leveraging GPT-4 API technology developed by OpenAI that replicates her voice, mannerisms and personality. For $1 a minute, fans can chat with CarynAI in an “immersive AI experience” that feels almost like speaking to Marjorie herself. The launch of CarynAI was first reported by Fortune.

Given the product’s growth rate, once she’s able to onboard all the fans who’ve expressed interest, she estimates she’s on track to earn about $5 million a month. The product made more than $100,000 the first week, she said. and there’s a waiting list of thousands to gain access.