Wezil's Next Weird News Thread

[Wezil]

The pelican one is rather dull. Pictures or a video would have been helpful.

Can I interest you in the one about Burger King?

[SlowwHand]

Sure, why not?

[Wezil]

Didn't I hear the thread limit was a thing of the past?

Perhaps I should do them all and take a measure of the weird-worthiness...

[SlowwHand]

Do it. Do it. DO IT!

[Winston]

a) The one about the hypnotist.

b) The one about the pelican.

c) The one about the ATM.

Can't we have one involving all three?

[Thoth]

Which option involves the most gratuitous naked boobs?

[Dis]

why is there no weird news in this thread? here's some

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Granny-87-Kills-Venomous-Rattler-With-Bare-Hands-52963742.html

An 87-year-old Tampa woman had had it with the motherloving snakes on her motherloving porch.

So when a seven-inch pygmy rattlesnake slithered up to Esther Orring's door and bit her on the hand, she got even, strangling the venomous little serpent with her bare hands.

"She's a tough lady," Orring's daughter, Maria Pellicone, told WFLA. "She's a very strong person, so she will be a survivor."

Orring has been hospitalized since the Monday incident, after she was administered several vials of antivenin.

But the well-gripped granny is expected to make a full recovery, and Pellicone says she'll have the dead snake framed for her.

[Dis]

This one is even better. Grown man gets woman to change his diaper. This guy is my hero.

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Woman-Duped-by-Dirty-Diaper-Faker-52875327.html

A Melbourne, Florida woman thought she was helping out a severely disabled man by feeding him and changing his diapers for three months, but it turns out she may have just been catering to a weird guy's baby fetish.

Janet Schulte was hired through Craigslist to care for a man's adult brother with a diminished mental capacity in exchange for $600 dollars per week.

Schulte bottle-fed the man and changed his adult diapers for several weeks, but always gave an excuse when she asked to meet his brother who had hired her.

But when payments started coming in late, Schulte and her husband became suspicious, and after looking into the matter, figured out the disabled man and his brother were the same person.

The worst part for Schulte is that even though the man lied, he didn't technically commit a crime, so he can't be charged.

It wasn't the first time the man sought out special care. He was convicted of felony fraud in 2006 for getting emergency room care under assumed names, according to floridatoday.com.

[C0ckney]

[Japher]

I cried

[Winston]

Ouch.

That one has the potential to haunt a person until the day they die.

[Krill]

oh holy **** that is awesome.

[Wezil]

Thoth - The hypnotist comes closest.

Dis - Well done (now back away).

[Wezil]

As hoped, the passage of time has brought fresh material.

The second raters that failed to inspire...

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean hypnotist has been fined for stealing a kiss on a blind date with a woman he thought he had successfully put in a trance, news reports said Thursday.

The 32-year-old man suggested hypnotizing his 27-year-old date during their first meeting arranged by a matchmaking agency in August last year, according to the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper and Yonhap news agency.

The woman was eventually persuaded, and the hypnotist chanted: "Black hole! You will plunge deeper into a trance. You will feel thrilled all over your body and if my hand touches your body, you will feel intense pleasure."

When the man, identified only by his surname, Park, thought his technique had worked, he went to kiss her.

But the woman was fully alert, though her eyes were closed, and she pushed him away. Later, she filed accusations that he had sexually harassed her, the reports said.

The Seoul Central District Court fined Park 3 million won ($2,453), they said.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Can you hear me now?

A pelican at the Tautphaus Park Zoo took something other than food in his bill when a cell phone that had been dropped in a pool at the exhibit made its way down the hatch.

The flock in the exhibit were playing with the phone Monday until one of the birds swallowed it. For three hours, zookeepers couldn’t figure out which bird did it until the culprit coughed up the goods.

“Luckily, the bird regurgitated it so it wouldn’t harm him,” zoo superintendent Bill Gersonde said. “We just need folks to be really cautious when they’re in the zoo and remember that they’re guests in the animals’ homes and they need to keep their personal belongings as close to them as possible.”

Officials haven’t figured out who owns the phone.

LA GRANDE, Oregon - A mouse found inside an automatic teller machine - along with a nest it had built with chewed-up $20 bills - gave an Oregon gas station employee the surprise of her life.

The mouse, discovered Thursday, had thoroughly torn up two bills and damaged another 14 to line his nest. Employee Millie Taylor says she screamed and slammed the machine's door shut.

The bank replaced all the money that wasn't extensively damaged, and the ATM has continued to work just fine. The mouse also got a reprieve: He was evicted from his nest but set free outside the station.

Other workers at the Gem Stop Chevron in La Grande in eastern Oregon say they're mystified about how the mouse got inside the machine.