Funny/Strange News Stories

[TexRex]

Where there's a gill, there's a way.

 

[TB]

 

[TexRex]

 

[TB]

 

[TexRex]

 

[UKMikey]

Where there's a gill, there's a way.

This school of thinking has my de-fin-ite en-dorsal.

 

[Touring Mars]

Blond Bangladeshi buffalo nicknamed ‘Donald Trump’ saved from Eid sacrifice

Rare albino buffalo spared due to security concerns over unusual level of public interest in 700kg animal

www.theguardian.com

 

[UKMikey]

Blond Bangladeshi buffalo nicknamed ‘Donald Trump’ saved from Eid sacrifice

Rare albino buffalo spared due to security concerns over unusual level of public interest in 700kg animal

www.theguardian.com

Man, and I thought that woman farmer who looked like him was weird enough...

 

[VBR]

I don't know if this is funny or strange (some might say so), but it's certainly heartwarming. Christina's corner! 😭

 

[TB]

Nearly 2 million bees let loose after semi crash on interstate, driver stung hundreds of times

Authorities in North Dakota say a semitruck carrying hundreds of beehives was involved in a crash on Thursday.

www.kfyrtv.com

 

[UKMikey]

Nearly 2 million bees let loose after semi crash on interstate, driver stung hundreds of times

Authorities in North Dakota say a semitruck carrying hundreds of beehives was involved in a crash on Thursday.

www.kfyrtv.com

That poor driver.

The ND authorities better call Jason Statham quick to round them up.

 

[TexRex]

Nearly 2 million bees let loose after semi crash on interstate, driver stung hundreds of times

Authorities in North Dakota say a semitruck carrying hundreds of beehives was involved in a crash on Thursday.

www.kfyrtv.com

 

[sirjim73]

Nearly 2 million bees let loose after semi crash on interstate, driver stung hundreds of times

Authorities in North Dakota say a semitruck carrying hundreds of beehives was involved in a crash on Thursday.

www.kfyrtv.com

It's easy to get stung on the interstate/motorway.... just buy anything in the foodstop

That poor driver.

The ND authorities better call Jason Statham quick to round them up.

Jason is certainly the bees knees!

 

[daan]

 

[666666]

Forget Jason get Brian Cranston

 

[TB]

For those that didn't @UKMikey's Statham reference:

 

[TexRex]

Did someone steal his bees and he had to get them back using his feet and fists?

 

[TB]

Did someone steal his bees and he had to get them back using his feet and fists?

You make that sound abnormal.

 

[Darla Starch]

It's unbeelievable, to be fair.

 

[UKMikey]

Jason is certainly the bees knees!

Oh, beehive.

It's unbeelievable, to be fair.

Yaasss, queen.

 

[Famine]

For those that didn't @UKMikey's Statham reference:

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I watched a really weird Statham film the other day.

He was playing a retired clandestine asset of some kind who was now working an ordinary job, helping out his coworkers with their lives, when someone he knows in his new civilian life gets kidnapped by some kind of prostitution racket.

Anyway he goes to save them and accidentally finds himself up against the Russian mob and some corrupt cops, through whom he carves a bloody path (destroying their money, which he doesn't care about) with some exciting action sequences.

Eventually he gets to a charismatic lieutenant who holds a bunch of his civvy friends hostage to draw him out, only he kills a bunch of the bad guys and then the lieutenant with improvised weapons, before taking out the main bad guy behind the prostitution ring and then everything returns to normal with the original kidnap victim safe and sound and making positive changes to their life.

Only... Statham was black.

 

[sirjim73]

I watched a really weird Statham film the other day.

He was playing a retired clandestine asset of some kind who was now working an ordinary job, helping out his coworkers with their lives, when someone he knows in his new civilian life gets kidnapped by some kind of prostitution racket.

Anyway he goes to save them and accidentally finds himself up against the Russian mob and some corrupt cops, through whom he carves a bloody path (destroying their money, which he doesn't care about) with some exciting action sequences.

Eventually he gets to a charismatic lieutenant who holds a bunch of his civvy friends hostage to draw him out, only he kills a bunch of the bad guys and then the lieutenant with improvised weapons, before taking out the main bad guy behind the prostitution ring and then everything returns to normal with the original kidnap victim safe and sound and making positive changes to their life.

Only... Statham was black.

I knew the name of the film before you got to the end of the first paragraph.
However, in my world this film doesn't exist (and neither does the reboot).

 

[UKMikey]

I watched a really weird Statham film the other day.

He was playing a retired clandestine asset of some kind who was now working an ordinary job, helping out his coworkers with their lives, when someone he knows in his new civilian life gets kidnapped by some kind of prostitution racket.

Anyway he goes to save them and accidentally finds himself up against the Russian mob and some corrupt cops, through whom he carves a bloody path (destroying their money, which he doesn't care about) with some exciting action sequences.

Eventually he gets to a charismatic lieutenant who holds a bunch of his civvy friends hostage to draw him out, only he kills a bunch of the bad guys and then the lieutenant with improvised weapons, before taking out the main bad guy behind the prostitution ring and then everything returns to normal with the original kidnap victim safe and sound and making positive changes to their life.

Only... Statham was black.

The other difference was that you could understand what Denzel was saying without SDH subtitles. Statham is the Kenny McCormick of action movies.

At least when Luc Besson and Liam Neeson reprised the plot it had a smidge more style. Unfortunately they redid the movie another couple of times themselves.

 

[Famine]

I knew the name of the film before you got to the end of the first paragraph.

I was actually describing A Working Man

Which also has David Harbour in it, just in a different role.

In fact Harbour says the line "he was asking for permission" in AWM, whereas in The Equalizer it's Melissa Leo.

 

[TexRex]

 

[Touring Mars]

I wonder if they play Chris Rea's "Road To Hell" on the bus radio for the entire journey.

 

[UKMikey]

I wonder if they play Chris Rea's "Road To Hell" on the bus radio for the entire journey.

That really would be an infernal punishment. The passengers would have a non-technological breakdown. Especially if they followed up with "Show Me There's A Heaven".

 

[TexRex]

I wonder if they play Chris Rea's "Road To Hell" on the bus radio for the entire journey.

While it's better than a certain AC/DC song, a 13-hour loop is a bit much.

 

[TexRex]

This has to be a joke, right?

Auto glass repair businesses suffer as Oakland break-ins decline

A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses.

www.ktvu.com

Right?

For those not familiar with Frédéric Bastiat:

Spoiler

 

[sirjim73]

This has to be a joke, right?

Auto glass repair businesses suffer as Oakland break-ins decline

A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses.

www.ktvu.com

Right?

For those not familiar with Frédéric Bastiat:

Spoiler

What a pane!