Silly/Odd News Stories from around the World

[Paranoid Android]

Man charged for sexually assaulting (groping, to be precise) at least seven different women by pretending to be asleep in Toronto's public subway transit. (how does pretending to be asleep help you violate strangers??????)

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12...ing-incidents/

I think he watched something on the internet (from maybe Japan) and got ideas.

[Mr. DJ]

sleep groping is a serious medical condition

[MrTerrorist]

Wonder Woman and She-Hulk give themselves breast exams in Mozambique

Now that's fanservice for a noble cause.

[Paranoid Android]

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

sleep groping is a serious medical condition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexsomnia?

I wonder if he ever tried using that as an excuse? Or did he get caught red handed.

[Endless Soul]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Wonder Woman and She-Hulk give themselves breast exams in Mozambique

Now that's fanservice for a noble cause.

I like some of the questions they're bringing up.

She-Hulk has just burst through a wall — presumably to stop some crooks — only to promptly begin her monthly exam. Is this psychological warfare? Who can really say?

Endless "Now THAT'S interesting" Soul

[Mr. DJ]

tbh, since this is the internet and all...I'm surprised there's no "I don't find this difficult to masturbate to" comment

and now your news about Norway's...butter shortage o_O

http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/201...ristmas-treats

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

tbh, since this is the internet and all...I'm surprised there's no "I don't find this difficult to masturbate to" comment

and now your news about Norway's...butter shortage o_O

http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/201...ristmas-treats

It isn't just affecting the Norwegians.......

Last Friday, customs officers stopped a Russian at the Norwegian-Swedish border and seized 90 kilos (198 pounds) of butter stashed in his car.

Due to shortage of their own, the butter is smuggling the Russian across the border.

[Ithekro]

I was assuming She-Hulk was going out via a hole she made instead of going in. A post-battle check.

But considering her greenness is radiation induced...checking might be a regular thing for her. And she's got a bit of area to check.

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Wonder Woman and She-Hulk give themselves breast exams in Mozambique

Now that's fanservice for a noble cause.

I wonder if one of that article's comments' concern about being patronizing isn't even more so?

I mean, why not super-heroines? Is it any different from using lizards to sell car insurance? Or, heck, actresses? Sure, they're real people, but the reason we pay attention to them are largely fictional.

As for using American superheroines... Maybe they don't have their own. Why assume they do? France, a rich western country with a rich comic industry, doesn't. Not with any kind of notoriety, at least. (We've got magical characters with supernatural powers. But not, you know, superheroes.)

[Endless Soul]

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

tbh, since this is the internet and all...I'm surprised there's no "I don't find this difficult to masturbate to" comment

and now your news about Norway's...butter shortage o_O

http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/201...ristmas-treats

Ah yes, I heard about this on The Colbert Report.

[sneaker]

Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

I wonder if that article's concern about being patronizing isn't even more so?

I mean, why not super-heroines? Is it any different from using lizards to sell car insurance? Or, heck, actresses? Sure, they're real people, but the reason we pay attention to them are largely fictional.

As for using American superheroines... Maybe they don't have their own. Why assume they do? France, a rich western country with a rich comic industry, doesn't. Not with any kind of notoriety, at least. (We've got magical characters with supernatural powers. But not, you know, superheroes.)

I think you've mistaken a reader's comment for being a part of the article.

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by sneaker

I think you've mistaken a reader's comment for being a part of the article.

I think you're right. Sorry.

[Paranoid Android]

Originally Posted by Endless Soul

Ah yes, I heard about this on The Colbert Report.

The best 'news' source in America of course =DDD

[SaintessHeart]

Farmville maker's IPO could bear real-life fruit

[ganbaru]

Fugitive chaperoned daughter's field trip
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...12-14-21-24-39

Donald Vasser was featured on "Washington's Most Wanted," a local law enforcement show in the style of "America's Most Wanted." It described the 39-year-old man as a "high-violent offender" with more than 20 arrests under his belt.

[Xellos-_^]

A researcher at Washington’s prestigious National Zoo was convicted of intentionally leaving out food for feral cats laced with rat poison.
Nico Dauphine, 38, was found guilty of repeatedly placing rat poison in a food dish one of her neighbours left out this past March.
She had once penned an academic paper about the effects of feral cats on other wildlife, including migratory birds, and was upset, prosecutors say, because feral cats feed on these birds.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ory-birds.html

someones gone cuckoo

[risingstar3110]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

China’s deserted fake Disneyland
http://blogs.reuters.com/photographe...ke-disneyland/

I'm more concern about that thick mist of supported-to-be outskirt/rural area than the waste of construction resources, to say the truth

[ganbaru]

Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...12-15-18-50-02

[MrTerrorist]

Oh boy.

[Xellos-_^]

It may not spell the immediate demise of the louche British stag weekend in Amsterdam, but the Dutch capital has decided to crack down on the brothels and cannabis shops of its infamous red light district.

A ten-year scheme, known as Project 1012 for the city postcode containing the red light district, kicked off in 2008 with the aim of making substantial cuts to the number of window brothels and drugs shops. But it's only now that the city is beginning to see some tangible results.

200 of a total of 480 window brothels are slated to go. The city has managed to close down half of these; a zoning and compulsory purchase plan will be drawn up to tackle the next 100. Of the 76 cannabis shops in the area (usually known as "coffeeshops"), 26 will close their doors.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/tr...-district.html

the Dutch can't do this, i haven't been there yet.