Funny/Strange News Stories

...Hmm, I think she handled that potentially awkward situation rather well. But that end jingle was a bit overkill, methinks.
 
JKgo
...Hmm, I think she handled that potentially awkward situation rather well. But that end jingle was a bit overkill, methinks.
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Yeh that was a bit of a stupid joke that killed the mood a bit for me. Although then May would be quite happy with no one to disagree with her and having a dictatorship.

The Tory party members of course loved it.
 
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Was this thing a small time movie or something?

Normally you see a movie set quite easily as you will see a boom mic, cameras and the ground may be wet to give that shine.
 
TenEightyOne
Actors dressed as bank robbers for filming in Indiana, forgot to tell police, nearly get actor shot. BBC.
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...Kind of concerned to see that the officer fired a shot so soon after engaging the potential suspect. I mean, he wasn't even under fire at the time, or in a situation where he might have thought he was in one, as far as I can see.

Also, this news reminds me of a story I heard from the press junket Viggo Mortensen did for the movie Eastern Promises way back when.
He plays a Russian gangster living in London in the film. Watch it, Viggo's performance is stunning.
Anyways, the story goes, after a long day's shoot, Viggo decided to head out of the studio to get a grub. He went to a local deli, having forgotten to remove all those Russian gangster tattoos on his hands and neck.
And ever a method actor, he was still speaking in that distinct Russian-ified English accent.
As he began eating, he noticed an elderly Eastern European couple not too far from where he was, apparently terrified out of their minds.
It turns out, they recognised the tats as the ones favoured by the hitmen of the Russian mob and thought Viggo was one of them.

Yeah, the story has nothing to do with the linked video, but... oh, well.
 
Grayfox
Was this thing a small time movie or something?

Normally you see a movie set quite easily as you will see a boom mic, cameras and the ground may be wet to give that shine.
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People were being told to stay inside, maybe they were shooting from the interior. The production could have been anything but given the lack of large scale equipment I'd guess TV drama.
 
JKgo
or in a situation where he might have thought he was in one, as far as I can see.
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He did turn around while taking his mask off and pointed the "weapon" towards the officer.
That'd be enough to make me shoot.
They did have the area coned off, but that could easily be seen as construction.
Has anything come out yet about proper paper work?
If not Id say the near deadly accident was the production company fault.
 
ryzno
He did turn around while taking his mask off and pointed the "weapon" towards the officer.
That'd be enough to make me shoot.
They did have the area coned off, but that could easily be seen as construction.
Has anything come out yet about proper paper work?
If not Id say the near deadly accident was the production company fault.
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...Huh. I'm not 100% certain of the protocol, but pretty sure it wouldn't be "fire potentially fatal shot towards a person of interest before getting fired at." Plus, a perp wouldn't take his mask off before a cop to say, "oh hey, look at my face!!" during a commission of a crime, methinks...

As a matter of fact, aren't the police officers trained to only return fire when they are under it?

Dunno who's fault it was for the mix-up but that would have been inconsequential if that actor had gotten himself shot by what could be seen as a trigger happy cop. We certainly don't need another one of those at the moment, wouldn't you agree?

Whatever the case may be, the body cam isn't clear enough to fully tell the whole story. Maybe the officer heard what he thought was a gunshot and thus returned fire. Maybe he hadn't heard what the actor was shouting at him. Who knows.
 
JKgo
...It's me, back again so soon.

Warning: many puns were intentionally slaughtered in the making of this cheesy article.

Too much cheese lands a van man in a pickle with police: BBC.
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I suppose I'd better tread Caerphilly here (yawn) but after reading this and other wordplay infested stories from BBC local news I can't help wondering whether the corporation's equal opportunities policy requires them to allocate a percentage of their articles to reporters who are afflicted with Witzelsucht syndrome.
 
UKMikey
I suppose I'd better tread Caerphilly here (yawn) but after reading this and other wordplay infested stories from BBC local news I can't help wondering whether the corporation's equal opportunities policy requires them to allocate a percentage of their articles to reporters who are afflicted with Witzelsucht syndrome.
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I have absolutely zero sources to back this up but I'm sure that it's caused by a particular subset of that affliction called "And finally..." Syndrome. The stories translate better to the end of the Ten o'Clock News than to webpages.
 
Touring Mars
Viking age garments depict the word 'Allah' when viewed in a mirror. :ouch:
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I guess some observers would say their raping and pillaging nature is a good fit.

Lizard
It's the media, anything to sell papers/advert space.
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At least they have what looks like expert research and documentary proof to back up their claims. Not everything is fake news (actually, I've yet to be convinced that any news item is completely fake).
 
UKMikey
At least they have what looks like expert research and documentary proof to back up their claims. Not everything is fake news (actually, I've yet to be convinced that any news item is completely fake).
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:rolleyes:

Read it backwards and put Val on the front.
 
Touring Mars
This news story has got me puzzled and slightly annoyed...

https://www.theguardian.com/science...ven-with-allah-unveiled-by-swedish-university

Viking age garments depict the word 'Allah' when viewed in a mirror. :ouch:
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Not surprising, even some English coins had Allah/Mohammed on them before that time. References to Ali and Allah are unusual around that time but not unheard of, and we know that the Vikingrs were epic traders. I've been doing some work on Torksey finds over the last few weeks and it's astonishing how much effort the Vikingrs seemingly put into copying/faking coinage and artefacts for trade. It's entirely possible (I confirmed this idea with Prof. Richards who headed the project) that these burial clothes were actually fashion fakes. Think Chinese t-shirts with bad English for an example.
 
Lizard
Or English ones with bad Chinese :P

A Japanese guy told me my tshirt made no sense once. :lol:
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As an off-topic on-conversation aside... a very good friend knew two twins who got matching tattoos whilst in China. One got "always" and the other got "together". Many years later in a Chinese restaurant in Manchester they were asked why their combined tattoos said "serviette holder".
 
TenEightyOne
As an off-topic on-conversation aside... a very good friend knew two twins who got matching tattoos whilst in China. One got "always" and the other got "together". Many years later in a Chinese restaurant in Manchester they were asked why their combined tattoos said "serviette holder".
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I've never understood the trend for getting text tattoos in languages you don't understand.

At the very least, you better be damn sure you've had it proofread before you get it.
 

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