Funny/Strange News Stories

[prisonermonkeys]

"Let the record show that Parliament recognises Eddie McGuire is a boofhead":

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...r-adam-goodes-remarks-nsw-upper-house/6518824

 

[axletramp]

Student changes his name by deed poll because it was cheaper than changing his Ryanair booking!

 

[Liquid]

Flybe flight grounded by a bee

 

[axletramp]

Flybe flight grounded by a bee

That's caused a buzz in the airline world.

 

[BobK]

That must have been a hive of activity while searching for the problem.

 

[Mrs. Famine]

Bit of a sting in the tail though!

 

[JKgo]

... Puns are out in full force, I see. I won't even bother.

 

[axletramp]

I could wax lyrical for ages about this.

 

[JKgo]

I could wax lyrical for ages about this.

Please do. But better be funny, or I'm making a beeline for an exit.

 

[BobK]

It was a honey of a problem, all right.

 

[TenEightyOne]

A pitcher (not an old jug as you might expect but actually a bowler in rounders) has astonished the press by being two-handed.

What is the word again? (Took a little while to load for me, be patient )

EDIT: Better, faster Twitlink

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Police have lobsters wear tracking devices to crack down on illegal fishing:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...legal-trafficking-trial-gets-underway/6535258

 

[Carbonox]

Heh, Santorum.

 

[JKgo]

Heh, Santorum.

...That was actually pitiful. Dunno whether to feel sorry or laugh my butt off...

 

[Grayfox]

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/06/10/11/05/uk-cyclist-pays-the-price-for-impatience

 

[DK]

I'm a bit unsure whether to put this here or in the American thread, but Glenn Beck has claimed he has "at least 10,000 Christians willing to die" amongst the ominously-named "Black Robe Regiment".

 

[prisonermonkeys]

I'm a bit unsure whether to put this here or in the American thread, but Glenn Beck has claimed he has "at least 10,000 Christians willing to die" amongst the ominously-named "Black Robe Regiment".

But I'll bet Beck isn't one of them. When you think of it, 10,000 people (+/- 1) out of a population of close to 300,000,000 isn't many.

And how do you die defending an abstract concept like the right of two people to have their relationship recognised by the state?

 

[TenEightyOne]

And how do you die defending an abstract concept...

Generally by strapping explosives on and pressing the button. Could be an interesting YobTub video if they go somewhere remote for a one-off en-masse effort.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

... YobTub?

 

[DK]

I think he means YouTube.

 

[JKgo]

they go somewhere remote for a one-off en-masse effort.

...Have you seen a movie called "Traitor" starring Don Cheadle? Sounds like you're describing its "SPOILERS".

Oh and...

YobTub

...That's quite funny.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

After relentlessly pursuing a hard-line stance on people smuggling for eighteen months, our government might have gone ahead and smuggled some people following claims that they paid people smugglers to go away:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...cused-of-people-smuggling-lawyer-says/6543446

 

[JKgo]

After relentlessly pursuing a hard-line stance on people smuggling for eighteen months, our government might have gone ahead and smuggled some people following claims that they paid people smugglers to go away:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...cused-of-people-smuggling-lawyer-says/6543446

...Good to hear tax payer's hard-earned money going towards the pockets of criminals. 👍 You don't get anymore "creative" than that. Wow. Who voted these people in?

And who blew the whistle? Aren't the whistleblower(s) in danger of getting arrested?

 

[prisonermonkeys]

And who blew the whistle? Aren't the whistleblower(s) in danger of getting arrested?

The people smugglers claimed that they had been paid $5,000 by the Australian Navy to turn back to Indonesia. They made the claim to the Indonesian authorities who detained them when they arrived.

I think he means YouTube.

I know.

 

[JKgo]

The people smugglers claimed that they had been paid $5,000 by the Australian Navy to turn back to Indonesia. They made the claim to the Indonesian authorities who detained them when they arrived.


I know.

....Oh, so it's a clever ruse to entrap them!! I get it!! Wow!! Straight outta Hollywood, I see.

 

[Dotini]

After relentlessly pursuing a hard-line stance on people smuggling for eighteen months, our government might have gone ahead and smuggled some people following claims that they paid people smugglers to go away:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...cused-of-people-smuggling-lawyer-says/6543446

From your link:
Tony Abbott refused to confirm or deny the allegations and instead said the Government would stop the boats "by hook or by crook".

"We have used a whole range of measures to stop the boats, because that's what the Australian people elected us to do," he said.

My comment: Perhaps all is fair in love and war, and in any conflict, the use of money and bribery is preferable to more brutal means of resolution?

 

[prisonermonkeys]

My comment: Perhaps all is fair in love and war, and in any conflict, the use of money and bribery is preferable to more brutal means of resolution?

For one, Abbott has maintained a hardline stance that human traffickers are the scum of the earth. For his government to engage in some form of people smuggling is not only rank hypocrisy, but a criminal act by his own definition.

And secondly, we already engage in some pretty brutal and despicable "means of resolution" in our normal policy.

 

[Grayfox]

He does say "We will do what ever it takes to stop the boats"
Paying them is a means of doing something to stop them.

But doesn't he realize that now they will come in droves to be "paid" to go back.

 

[LeMansAid]

Brendon Julian attempting to present the award for the winner of the just finished cricket series played between Australia and the West Indies - the Sir Frank Worrell trophy......



It's the awkward moment of silence followed by the "soldier on" that gets me most.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Immigration!

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-15/pobjie-by-hook-or-pay-crook-they-stopped-the-boats/6545604