Funny/Strange News Stories

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Rapper charged with coronavirus benefit fraud after boasting in song about benefit fraud

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ud-after-boasting-song-about-benefit-n1243844

huh

 

[PeterJB]

Jeffrey Toobin's been suspended from the New Yorker after going incognito at the end of a Zoom call and forgetting to turn the camera off...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54611557

 

[Chrunch Houston]

Jeffrey Toobin's been suspended from the New Yorker after going incognito at the end of a Zoom call and forgetting to turn the camera off...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54611557

Is that what they're calling it these days?

 

[UKMikey]

Is that what they're calling it these days?

 

[TenEightyOne]

Lockdown drive-in movie causes problems for the organisers because the toilets are in another country. BBC.

 

[TenEightyOne]

After a difficult-but-improving relationship with the Borat film Kazakhstan has adopted "Very Nice!" as it's tourism tagline. BBC.

 

[gnomefromnome]

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2...-overcame-her-fears-voted-for-the-first-time/

JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - Danielle Cadiente was feeling anxious. She had never voted before and felt like she was too uninformed to cast a ballot.

...Alaskans
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2020/10/27/alaska-zoo-holding-its-own-presidential-election/

The favored candidate so far is Izzy, a massive brown bear running in his first election. He’s trailed by petting zoo hen, Squishy.

 

[Dotini]

A fisherman in Thailand was stunned when he caught a fish with an eerie “human face”. Local fisherman Prasert Shukul reportedly caught the strange fish while catching blue crabs in the Andaman Sea.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Plastic whale sculpture catches airborne train. BBC.

 

[polysmut]

Plastic whale sculpture catches airborne train. BBC.

That link is the main news page.

 

[Outspacer]

That link is the main news page.

Good catch!

 

[Joey D]

What a time to be alive:

VR Furries Are Now Running Around The Four Seasons Total Landscaping

 

[Rossell2]

What. The. Eff?

 

[TB]

You had me at VR furries.

 

[EngieDiesel]

What a time to be alive:

VR Furries Are Now Running Around The Four Seasons Total Landscaping

That's VRChat for ya. Within hours, any real world event can be re-created... and promptly overrun by people pretending to be cartoon animals.

 

[Spacegoat]

You had me at VR furries.

 

[UKMikey]

Police arrest Georgia woman pretending to be FBI agent to get free Chik-Fil-A

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...orgia-woman-pretending-to-be-fbi-agent-to-get

Rockmart, Ga., police said Kimberly Ragsdale of Dallas visited a single location multiple times during the past week in a white minivan, saying she would take employees who did not comply into custody, The Associated Press reported.

Ragsdale allegedly continued to maintain she was a federal agent after the police arrived, to the point of “talk[ing] into her shirt like she was talking into a radio telling someone that we were arresting her and to send someone to Rockmart PD,” according to the police report.

 

[gnomefromnome]

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2...time-to-make-pizza-while-robbing-calif-store/

Police say they have arrested the unidentified man accused of breaking into Big Slice Pizza in Fullerton, California, last Sunday morning. Surveillance video shared by police showed the suspect measure out dough for a pizza, while wearing gloves for food safety.

 

[TenEightyOne]

French radio news site accidentally kills Queen and Robert Redford, amongst others.

 

[EngieDiesel]

French radio news site accidentally kills Queen and Robert Redford, amongst others.

This has happened quite a bit before. Back when Usenet newsgroups were still a thing in the '90s, pre-written obituaries would get accidentally posted fairly often by AFP. Then you'd get a day or two of panic, followed by someone finally pointing out that said obituary was pulled of placeholders and read something like "Bob Hope has died of XXXXXXXXXXXX at the age of XX, according to XXXXXXXXXXXXXX".

 

[TenEightyOne]

Entries for this year's prestigious Turnip Prize include "Lock Down" and "Fur Load".

 

[UKMikey]

Entries for this year's prestigious Turnip Prize include "Lock Down" and "Fur Load".

Last year's winner (the pair of knickers) had a witty title.

 

[TenEightyOne]

2020, but it's a Christmas tree. BBC.

 

[UKMikey]

https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/21/man-...ckens-and-dog-in-greater-manchester-13632216/

 

[daan]

 

[UKMikey]

The man'll do anything for publicity...

(InB4 "how did the flea manage to find it" jokes.)

Here's a link to the story for those like me who wanted to read it btw.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertai...iending-squirrels/EV22YB4QDG4ZKNOCK636HOTKRI/

 

[Sprite]

https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/21/man-...ckens-and-dog-in-greater-manchester-13632216/

Couldn't he just go to Nando’s like everyone else?

 

[Scaff]

Quite frankly I'm amazed that @Dotini hasn't posted this one

https://ksltv.com/449486/dps-crew-discovers-mysterious-monolith-from-air-in-remote-utah-wilderness/

 

[Dotini]

Quite frankly I'm amazed that @Dotini hasn't posted this one

https://ksltv.com/449486/dps-crew-discovers-mysterious-monolith-from-air-in-remote-utah-wilderness/

Thanks for alerting me to this. It looks like an art project to me. Note pareidolic effects in adjacent rock formations.

I've spent weeks wandering the desert southwest looking for native petroglyphs, many of which are quite bizarre. Never seen anything like this outside of an art museum.

 

[Dotini]

Here's the Al-Naslaa rock.