You just can't make this stuff up! The crazy news of the day thread.

BunsenBurner · June 19

A squirrel kept high on meth?! The guy was obviously high on something himself.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/authorities-alabama-man-fed-meth-to-caged-attack-squirrel/

Feel free to post your finds of crazy news gems here!

Nrdsb4 · June 20

Oooh, this sounds like a great idea for a thread. Don't have anything to offer yet, but I like this.

gouf78 · June 20

I don’t have a link but just heard story on radio that police arrested a man for burglary. He yelled “don’t shoot! There’s a kid in here!” He had brought his 4 year old daughter with him to rob a business.

BunsenBurner · June 20

Take your child to work day?

skieurope · June 20

I don’t have a link but just heard story on radio that police arrested a man for burglary. He yelled “don’t shoot! There’s a kid in here!” He had brought his 4 year old daughter with him to rob a business.

Here's the link:
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/man-brings-4-year-old-girl-with-him-to-commit-burglaries-deputies-say

Another story: It took 2 dozen NYC police officers a couple of hours to realize that the "baby" that EMS pronounced dead in a park was actually a doll.
https://people.com/human-interest/nyc-dead-baby-doll-crime-scene/
https://nypost.com/2019/06/18/dead-baby-found-in-queens-park-appears-to-be-hoax/

BunsenBurner · June 20

An artificially intelligent burglar?

https://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/2019/04/this-is-my-first-roomba-burglar-cedar-hills-suspect-turns-out-to-be-robotic-vacuum.html

There is a police body cam video in the link.

thumper1 · June 20

I don’t have a link to mine...but there was a person the police were after near here. He posted a picture of himself on social media and said that if he got a certain number of “likes” he would turn himself in. Well...he got a lot more likes than he asked for but still didn’t turn himself in. That was a couple of weeks ago.

He was finally found and arrested...yesterday.

downtoearth · June 20

Cell phone use, and the posture of looking down to use one, is causing bone spurs on the back of the head that look like horns.

Creekland · June 20

This is the saddest, "Are you serious???" story I've heard in a long time:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48696123

An Alaskan teenager allegedly killed her best friend after an online stranger posing as a tycoon offered her money to carry out the murder.

We parents sometimes worry about our kids - who they will become or some of their faults, etc. I can't imagine being the parent of the kids who killed because they were so dumb to believe the offer, so cruel to kill even if the offer had been true, or the parents of the dude who got his jollies making the offer(s) on the net. For the vast, vast majority of us, our kids are fine.

Nrdsb4 · June 20

^^^^The "tycoon" is 21 years old. She really believed he would actually pay her and her cohorts $9 million.

SMH...

CheddarcheeseMN · June 20

In one of the articles about the horns on the back of the head, someone encourages reaching a hand around to the lower rear of the skull because those who have the hornlike feature likely can feel it.

So far so good for me!

HeartofDixie · June 20

Athens(in the squirrel on meth article) is only about 90 miles from me. I have unfortunately met a few people that I could see doing something like that.

AboutTheSame · June 20

Just go to/google for "news of the weird" each week. That always reassures me that there are many strange people in the world.

If you are of the legal bent, I highly recommend: http://loweringthebar.net/

gouf78 · June 20

Newspaper has a news bite from each state. Sometimes I shudder.

BunsenBurner · June 21

More squirrel news (with a photo):

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/german-firefighters-rescue-squirrel-stuck-in-manhole-cover/

Lol

VaBluebird · June 21

Sadder rather than weird but how about the poor starving polar bear who walked hundreds of miles to wind up in a city in Russia looking for food? : ( S/he has been taken to a wildlife rescue center. I hope s/he survives.

BunsenBurner · June 21

This is for the owner of the dog who ate her shirt (in the rant and rave thread):

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/veterinarian-bulldog-swallows-19-baby-pacifiers/

Glad no surgery was needed! Those pacifiers cost at least a couple of bucks each! Pretty sure the owner was irritated that the kids kept loosing them...

Onward · June 21

Not at all funny but unbelievable. This poor man was accused of stealing an I.V. with intent to sell it on Ebay (accused by security guard). He was walking outside the hospital grounds and the I.V. was attached to his arm. https://www.rrstar.com/news/20190617/man-arrested-while-attached-to-iv-machine-says-he-was-racially-profiled