Funny/Strange News Stories

[Small_Fryz]

Yeehaw!! Aussie Style

Haha..

 

[DK]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/london/10591601.stm

It's back to the future with royal horse manure.

Well that's a load of crap. [/slightly offensive pun]

 

[Mark T]

THEY shouldn't have too much trouble paying the fine — the billionaire owners of these supercars have just bought Harrods.
The Qatari royal family had a rude introduction to London parking laws when a ticket inspector clamped their exclusive motors — worth more than £1.5MILLION — as they sat outside their own shop.

The £1.2million Koenigsegg CCXR and £350,000 Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloce were illegally parked outside the posh Knightsbridge department store, bought by the family three months ago, last week

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3073998/Clamping-their-style.html

 

[livemusic]

Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/worlds-biggest-writing/

At least it was a good message.

 

[Mark T]

Weatherman Apologises For 'Giving The Finger'

Tomasz Schafermaker made the gesture at presenters Simon McCoy and Fiona Armstrong on the BBC News channel.

They said his forecast would be "100% accurate and provide all the detail you could possibly want".

The flustered weather presenter then realised he had been caught on camera and tried to cover up what he was doing by scratching his chin.

Watch the video, the funny part is how he tries to cover it up.

 

[Touring Mars]

I forecast a move to Channel 5...

 

[Omnis]

Lol! That was the best chin scratch I've ever seen.

 

[boiltheocean]

Lol! That was the best chin scratch I've ever seen.

So True!

 

[Famine]

People dying isn't funny, unless they Darwin themselves.

With this in mind fail!oneoneone

(potted summary - drunk man tries to jump harbour wall in Rover; doesn't succeed)

 

[daan]

 

[Neal]

I'm not sure the eye witness can be trusted after telling the inquest "The car was accelerating violently"

 

[Tornado]

I love how, for clarification purposes, they show some stock photo from Starsky and Hutch.

 

[Touring Mars]

Dr. A Suicide Bomber...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11104691

 

[Northstar]

The following is rather shocking so you will need to be seated and take a very deep breath.

Race cars are noisy.

I never would have guess that.

 

[nick09]

That one left me with a cramp in my belly. I couldn't help it but laugh.

 

[lildomplaya]

Sorry if its a repost, but I got nothing on the search bar.

 

[Famine]

British man's cv includes MI5, MI6, the Royal Marines and the 1988 British Olympic bobsleigh team, no-one checks, is hired to the highest security clearance job in New Zealand...

 

[Solid Lifters]

Vehicular mistaken identity has pot growers loading marijuana into Fish and Game warden's truck
September 7, 2010 | 12:30 pm

 

[Stevisiov]

British man's cv includes MI5, MI6, the Royal Marines and the 1988 British Olympic bobsleigh team, no-one checks, is hired to the highest security clearance job in New Zealand...

 

[TB]

Fracking may taint water

The process, also known as fracking, blasts millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals, some of them carcinogens, deep

Yes, I am feeling rather juvenile. Thank you for asking!

 

[Famine]

Bit of background for this one.

There was recently a situation in the UK with a complete nutter called Raoul Moat. He shot a couple of people, then went to ground in a north-eastern village called Rothbury. It took the cops a few days to find him, then he committed suicide by shotgun after being tasered.

A subsequent image challenge on B3ta (NSFW - think of it as a mature, non-anonymous 4chan, without the porn) featured this as an entry:

The Daily Star picked it up instantly and ran with the story that Rockstar was planning GTA: Rothbury. The Star even went to the trouble of interviewing the girlfriend of the one man Moat managed to kill about the "sick" game - without bothering to check it didn't exist:

FURY erupted last night over plans for a Raoul Moat book, movie and game… before the man he killed has even been laid to rest.

A book on the crazed killer is due out in weeks and film companies are lining up bids for the rights.

And last night gaming websites showed the cover of Grand Theft Auto Rothbury – a version of the XBox hit Grand Theft Auto.

Sadly for "reporter" Jerry Lawton, the internet noticed. The Star pulled the article from their site - but too late, and had to apologise two days later:

On 21 July we published an article claiming that the video games company Rockstar Games were planning to release a version of their popular Grand Theft Auto video games series titled Grand Theft Auto Rothbury.

We also published what we claimed would be the cover of this game, solicited comments from a family member impacted by the recent tragedy and criticised Rockstar Games for their alleged plans.

We made no attempt to check the accuracy of the story before publication and did not contact Rockstar Games prior to publishing the story. We also did not question why a best-selling and critically acclaimed fictional games series would choose to base one of their most popular games on this horrifying real crime event.

It is now accepted that there were never any plans by Rockstar Games to publish such a game and that the story was false. We apologise for publishing the story using a mock-up of the game cover, our own comments on the matter and soliciting critical comments from a grieving family member.

We unreservedly apologise to Rockstar Games and we have undertaken not to repeat the claims again. We have also agreed to pay them a substantial amount in damages which they are donating to charity.

Rockstar took them to court anyway.

Massive journalism fail.

 

[Touring Mars]

Ah nuts. I pre-ordered it.

 

[FoolKiller]

It didn't stop there. The author responded to the outrage on his Facebook page.


http://www.mcvuk.com/news/40124/Journalist-defends-GTA-Raoul-Moat-story

Furthermore, speaking on his Facebook page Lawton chose to make a further dig at gamers.

"Baffled by the fury of adult gamers," writes Lawton. "These are grown (?!?) men who sit around all day playing computer games with one another who've today chosen to enter the real world just long enough to complain about my story slamming a Raoul Moat version of Grand Theft Auto!

You would think I'd denied the Holocaust!!! Think I'll challenge them to a virtual reality duel....stab....I win!!!"

 

[MatskiMonk]

The MOST offensive thing about this (to me at least) is that the Star referred to it as an Xbox hit!

The rest is just someone (several people) who is not very good at their job(s), being given a national stage on which to practice foot-in-mouth techniques.

 

[boiltheocean]

That's gold. Pure gold.​

 

[nick09]

Here's the original article, really sad, but is now a huge dent in the newspaper's pride.

 

[Joel]

Wow.... That's all I have to say.

 

[livemusic]

More sad than funny:

Video: 10:10 British global warming video sparks outrage and results in apology

http://www.examiner.com/sf-in-san-f...mnig-video-sparks-outrage-and-results-apology

The video is a bit graphic so I'll just post the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qff2xJgDuOY

 

[Stevisiov]

Here's the original article, really sad, but is now a huge dent in the newspaper's pride.

You say that as if the daily star ever had had some to begin with.

More sad than funny:

Video: 10:10 British global warming video sparks outrage and results in apology

http://www.examiner.com/sf-in-san-f...mnig-video-sparks-outrage-and-results-apology

The video is a bit graphic so I'll just post the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qff2xJgDuOY

I love eco-mentalists.

 

[Sam48]

More sad than funny:

Video: 10:10 British global warming video sparks outrage and results in apology

http://www.examiner.com/sf-in-san-f...mnig-video-sparks-outrage-and-results-apology

The video is a bit graphic so I'll just post the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qff2xJgDuOY

I guess the old adds that depicted people planting trees just didn't scare us enough. Now I'm just disgusted, and somewhat mad over a non-existant issue.