weird news roundup

[mountain_laurel]

• pigeon hoarding is the new black.

  Enright acknowledged operating to remove a large tumor from the bird, saying he watched his own veterinarian perform such a procedure. The attorney said he gave the bird a shot of vodka, administered Anbesol as an anesthetic and used an Exacto knife to cut into it.

  
  
• in other weird news, a new jersey man duct-taped his roommate to his bed, stole his car, and was finally apprehended 200 miles away, apparently having decided that instead of going to Toronto, he'd just park and pick up a sixpack.
  
• darwinism in action: the latest teen fad is to lie down in the road and play chicken with cars.
  
• Roberto Benigni did a striptease on the primetime news to promote his new film.
  
• this is a great moment for followers of the FSM: archaeologists have found the world's oldest noodles.
  
• one to beam up: James Doohan's remains will be shot into space.
  
• a psychologist at Harvard debunks alien abduction. i'd like to read that book, for sure.
  

Comments

[kodi]

The Disney company, which owned the high-school football-themed movie, "The Program," cut scenes of players testing their toughness by lying on the highway after young people around the country were killed or injured imitating what they saw on the big screen.

I cannot understand this. If someone is stupid enough to lie down in the road and play chicken with an SUV, that's just good clean fun. But the lack of creativity it takes to rely on Disney to tell you how to kill yourself just astounds me.

Darwinism in action

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

The Finnish round of the world rally championship is noted for undulations in the road, which lead to cars spending serious amounts of time airborne. It used to be the case that, at a couple of the larger jumps, photographers would lie in the middle of the road, trusting the cars to jump over them, in order to obtain truly spectacular pictures. Of course, it only takes one guy trundling along with a puncture (or some other problem) to spoil the photographer's morning...

[waider.livejournal.com]

Funny, I'd heard that chicken-with-cars thing some time ago - years rather than weeks or months. I expect Roman teenagers used lie out in front of chariots, back in the day. Well, between orgies, anyway.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

The chicken-with-cars thing was a thing for bored kids to do back in the '70s when I lived in the White Trash Neighborhood From Hell. Who knew those bastards were so cutting edge?

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

When it's the cutting edge of human stupidity, is that still something to aspire to?

[matrushkaka.livejournal.com]

Get these people out of my gene pool, dammnit!

I think we need to branch off; Homo sapiens and Homo stupidus.