Silly/Odd News Stories from around the World

[Sumeragi]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

Idiot, just take to a bank. the banks are require by law to take old and bad condition money exchange it for good condition money.

"51 percent of a bill present" rules still apply.

[Drkz]

http://torrentfreak.com/priests-watc...atican-130407/ Title says all.

[ganbaru]

Giant John Paul II statue readied for unveiling
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-09-13-57-16

[RRW]

Ali Razeghi, a Tehran scientist has registered "The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine" with the state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions.
The device can predict the future in a print out after taking readings from the touch of a user, he told the Fars state newsagency.
Razaeghi, 27, said the device worked by a set of complex algorithims to "predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...e-machine.html

[Anh_Minh]

Is it powered by a perpetual motion engine?

[Xellos-_^]

A woman intentionally rammed her car into a man’s car while arguing over a parking spot in the Haight, but the victim was so focused on her low-cut dress that all he could describe to officers afterward were her breasts, San Francisco police said Thursday.
The woman drove away after hitting the man’s car at Haight and Cole streets at 5 p.m. Tuesday, said Park Station Officer Al Wu. The man couldn’t tell officers what kind of car it was, let alone supply a license-plate number, but he “was able to give a detailed description of the suspect’s cleavage,” police said.
No one has been arrested.


http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2013/04...s-little-else/

[ganbaru]

Chicago woman fighting $100,000 parking fine
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-11-16-56-27

[andyjay729]

A Belarusian man died after being attacked by a...beaver.

Hey, the kids of South Park are well aware of their dangers.

[andyjay729]

It's been an interesting month for rodents; in England, a hamster seems to have risen from the dead. On Easter, no less.

[ganbaru]

Death at NRA 500 ruled a suicide
http://www.journalgazette.net/articl...55/1008/sports
The fact than the NRA have his own NASCAR races is already a bit weird (at least to me) but than someone shoot himself just after the race make it weirder.

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by RRW

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...e-machine.html

Hope he wins in the Lottory.....

[SaintessHeart]

The hemlines that rise along with Japan's stock market (1:44)

April 16 - It's not just the markets that are singing the praises of Japan's stimulus drive -- an all-new girl group has got in on the act, pinning its skirt lengths to the country's Nikkei average.

I propose that we send willx there to give a lecture on Abenomics, then reward him with these cute girls.

Though it would be interesting to see him get hacked to death later by jealous otaku and the girls' fathers.

[ganbaru]

Judge holds self in contempt for his smartphone
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-15-15-40-32

"Judges are humans," Voet said. "They're not above the rules. I broke the rule and I have to live by it."

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Sony Launches World's Fastest Personal Internet in Japan

2gbps.... that's just.. unfair. My poor DSL is feeling quite emasculated at a sync rate of about ~12mbps.

[Frailty]

Men ejected from Saudi festival, deported for 'being too handsome'

I wonder how one would feel if it were to happen to them lol

[Shyni]

I think I'd get an ego boost if that ever happened to me.

[ganbaru]

Fund set up to repay Maine hermit victims
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-18-10-44-18

Christopher Knight, known as the North Pond Hermit, may have committed as many as 1,000 burglaries over the years for food, clothing, camping and cooking gear and other supplies that allowed him to live at a camp in the woods of the rural town of Rome, police have said.

[willx]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

The hemlines that rise along with Japan's stock market (1:44)



I propose that we send willx there to give a lecture on Abenomics, then reward him with these cute girls.

Though it would be interesting to see him get hacked to death later by jealous otaku and the girls' fathers.

I'm actually flying out tomorrow for Kyoto! I've already exchanged my yens for ludicrously low exchange rates. Price inflation (if it happens) will likely lag so thanks Abe for making my trip less expensive!

[ArchmageXin]

Originally Posted by willx

I'm actually flying out tomorrow for Kyoto! I've already exchanged my yens for ludicrously low exchange rates. Price inflation (if it happens) will likely lag so thanks Abe for making my trip less expensive!

Does Abenomics even work? It seem to me to be a short term solution until the bill comes, unless Japanese government expect all the bond holders to die of old age..

[willx]

Originally Posted by ArchmageXin

Does Abenomics even work? It seem to me to be a short term solution until the bill comes, unless Japanese government expect all the bond holders to die of old age..

Without getting into the nitty gritty .. capital flight is already happening~!