Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'

They missed out on all of the high-speed chase fun...

The chickens weren't doing the coke. I think.

Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.

NPR concerts next

Even for an HOA this is shitty

Bad borscht?

Someone refused an offer.

Bong State Park remains unchanged

I don't like stories that end in cliffhangers. Will he or won't he be home for Christmas???

I wanna fistbump the 'offenders'

Ouch.

The bribe economy is flourishing

It couldn't be rubies?

“There is almost no danger to the public.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/93717

Thousands of mystery balls that washed up on Sydney beaches last month were gunk globules made of products such as motor oil, hair, food waste, animal matter and wastewater bacteria – but their source is yet to be traced.

The tootsie pop question remains unanswered

That seems a little excessive.

Imagine trying to off load 40K in one dollar bluey coins 🤣

Not gouda, totally unbrielievable.

Immediately runs for political office...

Big oof

Marketing majors stay fed and housed for another year.

Way to go, Wisconsin.

Archive link:

That's one way to find out if you're being investigated....

A man in Japan who has four wives and two girlfriends – and aims to father 54 children – wants to become the “God of Marriage”.

Please do not skip over the word "up", as I did. Or do it, I'm not your boss.

A man from the UK named James Howells is suing his local council to try to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 BTC, currently valued around $647 million. And that’s precisely how much he’s suing them for—since he’s blaming them for his not having it.

Curiously, Michado nowhere to be seen.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20833232

I served in South Korea. Soju is not a weaker vodka; I can assure you of that.

That sucks.

Kids, this is why you don't feed the wildlife.

A mysterious person known as the ‘Piss Bandit’ has been causing a stir in Pasadena, California, for the past six years.

Oops

Ripped parts of the post:

That'll wake you up....

Non-paywall link: [ https://archive.is/1XjBq ]

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An 81-year-old Montana man faces sentencing in federal court Monday in Great Falls for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota.

“It’s a beautiful thing that for the first time in history you can see a saint dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a sweatshirt. That’s a great message,” Father Carlos Acácio Gonçalves Ferreira, the shrine’s rector, said at the time. A Franciscan monk based at the tomb, noted that “many young people” were visiting.

Meanwhile IVF is north of $25k...

Impromptu running of the bulls

A man who was abducted as a six-year-old while playing in a California park in 1951 has been found more than seven decades later thanks to the help of an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.

NSFL warning

Should’ve used Go.

The squirrels jumped on the Great Western Railway (GWR) 8.54am train from Reading to Gatwick on Monday, forcing passengers to flee to other carriages.

Not just a short drive, either.

Gross.

Andi Norton, 32, who also goes by the name Ben Havoc, said in an Instagram post earlier this month that he blew his nose and, “low and behold,” a Lego dot piece came out.

“The bag could have been there a day or two or maybe just hours, but those salty morsels of processed corn made soft by thick humidity triggered the growth of mold on the cavern floor and on nearby cave formations.