Silly/Odd News Stories from around the World

[Tsuyoshi]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Prison escapee caught after knocking on wrong door
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...06-16-17-40-24

One word: OWNED

[justinstrife]

San Francisco does the strangest things. SO glad I live down here in San Diego...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...#ixzz1PXVPKTFy

Spoiler for for the article:

San Francisco Considers Ban on Goldfish as Pets to Prevent Their 'Inhumane Suffering'

By Todd Starnes

Published June 16, 2011
The San Francisco Animal Control and Welfare Commission wants to take away your goldfish, proposing a bill that would also include a renewed ban on pets like puppies, kittens and hamsters.

The proposed ban is meant to discourage “impulse buys” of pets that sometimes end up at shelters, said commission member Philip Gerrie.

He said goldfish, guppies and other tropical fish were added to the proposed ban because of what he called the “inhumane suffering of fish” and the way the fish are harvested.

“It causes animal suffering,” Gerrie told Fox News Radio. “Whole reefs and ecosystems are being exploited for whatever might be marketable or sellable.”

The Board of Supervisors considered a similar ban last year that would have included dogs, cats, hamsters, mice, rats and guinea pigs – but not fish. That proposed ban was tabled last August. The supervisor said they were going to reconsider it in January of this year – but did not.

The proposed fish ban has local pet store owners up in arms.

“The city is taking more and more control,” said Ocean Aquarium owner Justin Hau in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. “They are very stupid.”

Gerrie said that’s the response he expected from pet store owners. “They have a very strong interest to say it’s stupid,” he told Fox News Radio. “That’s the basic thing with human beings. We exploit everything in the world until it’s exhausted.”

Gerrie accused the “human” species of exploiting the environment – and the fish.

“Humans are overfishing for food,” he said. “There’s a huge market for aquarium fish. That creates a demand.”

As for people who would argue that it’s just a goldfish? “That’s how we are in this society,” Gerrie said. “Some people say, ‘It’s just a human’ – when it comes to some that kill. It’s a matter of degree. Where do you stop?”

The recommendation from the commission could be a tough sell among the Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Sean Elsbernd told the San Francisco Chronicle he had doubts the new proposal would pass – calling it “another Animal Welfare idea that will end up in the dustbin of history and go absolutely nowhere.”

[MrTerrorist]

Lady Gaga has set her sights on cracking India's lucrative music market, but can the eccentric singer wow one of the world's largest audiences?

Can she?

[mysterious]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Idaho couple's dream home was infested with snakes
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...06-15-16-14-34

mean while in Ohio, python in garbage.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011...ml?_r=1&ref=us

[Urzu 7]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Lady Gaga has set her sights on cracking India's lucrative music market, but can the eccentric singer wow one of the world's largest audiences?

Can she?

Probably not. They are very conservative there. I remember there was outrage when Richard Gere gave a series of kisses up and down the arm of an female Indian celeb and this was broadcast on live TV. Some Indian authorities even wanted Richard Gere jailed for a few months.

I mean, does Lady Gaga have a chance in India? Probably not. She wore penis shoes on American Idol, afterall. This article even has a pic of it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_861555.html

[MrTerrorist]

Jerusalem rabbis 'condemn dog to death by stoning'

What?

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Jerusalem rabbis 'condemn dog to death by stoning'

What?

here is something PETA would be of use.

[Ithekro]

We always had problems with the ultra-Orthodox Jews at the center. They were so bad even to other Jews that the non-Jews on staff started calling them "Hamas".

[ganbaru]

South Korean troops shoot at civilian airliner by mistake
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...75H0GH20110618

A Marine Corps spokesman said two soldiers guarding an island on the waters off the South's western city of Incheon fired their K-2 rifles for about 10 minutes at around 4 a.m. on Friday.

The plane was later identified as an Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 flying from China making its descent into Incheon, Seoul's main airport.

A defense ministry source said the plane, carrying 119 passengers and crew, was undamaged as it was about 500 to 600 meters out of the range of the hand-held K-2 rifles

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

South Korean troops shoot at civilian airliner by mistake
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...75H0GH20110618

Must have mistaken the airplane for a banshee, and was trying to take it down before it cloaks.

Top 10 Bustiest Seiyuu

Creepy seiyuu fans affirm that status by supplying a most instructive ranking of the seiyuu they have identified as being the most well endowed, not with vocal talents but with large breasts…

The ranking:

1. Hitomi Harada

2. Kana Asumi

3. Yukana

4. Ayana Taketatsu

5. Rie Tanaka

6. Romi Park

7. Shizuka Ito

8. Kikuko Inoue

9. Mamiko Noto

10. Ryoko Shintani

Hitomi Harada, best known for voicing Dream C Club’s Rui and Baka+Test’s Mizuki (coincendentally busty themselves), is rather modest compared to the admittedly exhibitionistic standards of seiyuu, and so vanishingly few images of her exist, let alone any gravure ones.

Kinda ironic that Ayanyan is always voicing flat-chested loli characters (Azunyan, Eclair, Mio, Kirino, Miharu, etc). Can't believe she has the bounce.....

Please excuse me while I sit in the corner and cry.

[Bonta Kun]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Top 10 Bustiest Seiyuu

lol I have to just faceplam at such a thing but also totally applaud it as well

[Soliloquy]

Originally Posted by Tiberium Wolf

Top 10 Evil Animals

WTF in 3 points.
Why pandas and dingoes are in the list!?
Why humans are 2nd and not 1st!?

I'm surprised they didn't include the cane toad. I mean they are quite harmless to human but quite effective at destroying ecosystem.

[ganbaru]

Library of Congress to get rare map of flat world
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...06-18-15-27-40

FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- An Oregon man has given the Library of Congress a rare and unusual gift: a 120-year-old map supporting the theory that the Earth is flat.

[MeoTwister5]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Must have mistaken the airplane for a banshee, and was trying to take it down before it cloaks.

Top 10 Bustiest Seiyuu



Kinda ironic that Ayanyan is always voicing flat-chested loli characters (Azunyan, Eclair, Mio, Kirino, Miharu, etc). Can't believe she has the bounce.....

Please excuse me while I sit in the corner and cry.

Requesting photographic evidence for a complete scientific investigation.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

Requesting photographic evidence for a complete scientific investigation.

Spoiler for Slightly NSFW:

[MrTerrorist]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Must have mistaken the airplane for a banshee, and was trying to take it down before it cloaks.

Top 10 Bustiest Seiyuu



Kinda ironic that Ayanyan is always voicing flat-chested loli characters (Azunyan, Eclair, Mio, Kirino, Miharu, etc). Can't believe she has the bounce.....

Please excuse me while I sit in the corner and cry.

Emperor Charles has something to say about that.

[ganbaru]

Cobourg man and son set Guinness World Record after pulling 72-tonne trucks
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2066767/

[ganbaru]

Double post:
Man Turns to Crime for Prison Health Care
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/201...ealth-care/?hp

According to Diane Turbyfill, a Gazette journalist who also interviewed Mr. Verone, there was one flaw in his cunning plan. “Because he only demanded $1, he was charged with larceny from a person,” not bank robbery, Ms. Turbyfill wrote. “Still a felony, the count doesn’t carry as much jail time as bank robbery.”

[MrTerrorist]

Jerusalem court denies dog condemned to stoning

The dog lives!

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Jerusalem court denies dog condemned to stoning

The dog lives!

I'm still trying to figure out where "reincarnation" comes into the Jewish faith... even the wild ass fringe versions. I think we can just tag them as "dangerous village idiots"?