Funny/Strange News Stories

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

An Air Canada passenger says he was left furious after being served in business class by a flight attendant who didn't speak French

Jean-Pierre Beaudoin told TVA Nouvelles he was informed that an English-speaking flight attendant would serve him or he could take another flight.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Pupik]

An Air Canada passenger says he was left furious after being served in business class by a flight attendant who didn't speak French

Jean-Pierre Beaudoin told TVA Nouvelles he was informed that an English-speaking flight attendant would serve him or he could take another flight.

www.businessinsider.com

It's actually a law in Canada, I believe. He's not entirely in the wrong.

But of course it's going to Fort Lauderdale. South Florida is one of the few paradises on earth that everyone just wants to hoard misery like it's a rare collectible.

 

[UKMikey]

Zut alors! Quel faux pas, non?

 

[sirjim73]

Mange tout Rodney...

 

[Touring Mars]

Gandalf meets Gandalf

This is one birthday Ben Coyles won't be quick to forget.

The 22-year-old musician was on a fancy dress birthday night out in Bristol, when he bumped into Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian McKellen on Corn Street in Bristol.

Sir Ian had been performing alongside comedian John Bishop in pantomime Mother Goose. After 145 shows, the show wrapped up its UK-wide tour at the Bristol Hippodrome.

 

[UKMikey]

Happy 420 day.

Worms crave junk food after consuming cannabis, study suggests

Worms soaked in cannabinoid found to have stronger preference than usual for higher-calorie foods

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Sprite]

While not funny as such, a very strange set of incidents, especially to make BBC news.

Sussex Police hunt tomato-throwing attacker

Seven people have been hit by tomatoes, apples and other projectiles apparently thrown from a vehicle.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[DK]

Dennis the Menace is up to his old tricks.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

A bad case of the runs

Boston Marathon runner caught pooping in stranger’s yard in doorbell video

A Boston Marathon runner was caught on camera Monday in a seemingly dire situation, dropping their shorts on someone’s front lawn in order to relieve themselves during the 26.2 mile-long race…

nypost.com

And then I learned runner's trot is a thing.

 

[UKMikey]

Tell me you've never heard of Paula Radcliffe without telling me you've never heard of Paula Radcliffe.

 

[Northstar]

https://apnews.com/article/drug-sti...rside-county-55d32f17fb401e58de3757e528554a6a

I would love to be a fly on the wall when the cops have to explain this to their superior.

 

[Dennisch]

Teach kids a valuable lesson, something the parents apparently forgot to do and get fired.

 

[Northstar]

Yeah if that's all it takes to get under that dude's skin he doesn't belong anywhere near children as based on that clip at least it doesn't seem like they are being particularly rambunctious.

 

[Dennisch]

He shows them at slow speed what happens if they're not in their seats to prevent it to happen at higher speeds.

Seeing how they need to find out the harder way, and it works, I say, good job driver.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

What a load of ****

Semi-trailer filled with 30K pounds of manure spills onto I-55 in Cook County rollover crash

When troopers arrived, they discovered a dump trailer that was loaded with 30,000 pounds of manure. According to preliminary information, the trailer rolled over, causing the manure to spill on the road.

www.fox32chicago.com

 

[Darla Starch]

"The Taliban have unveiled their first supercar" is certainly one of the rarest sentences I've ever seen

 

[TB]

What a load of ****

Semi-trailer filled with 30K pounds of manure spills onto I-55 in Cook County rollover crash

When troopers arrived, they discovered a dump trailer that was loaded with 30,000 pounds of manure. According to preliminary information, the trailer rolled over, causing the manure to spill on the road.

www.fox32chicago.com

 

[JKgo]

"The Taliban have unveiled their first supercar" is certainly one of the rarest sentences I've ever seen

Sounds exactly like a vanity project to me.

 

[Pupik]

"The Taliban have unveiled their first supercar" is certainly one of the rarest sentences I've ever seen

Reaching for a joke from twenty years ago:
I was expecting a convertible top that can never lawfully be put down in public.

 

[Barra333]

My favorite part is that it is powered by the might of an engine first used in a 2004 Corolla.

 

[TB]

My favorite part is that it is powered by the might of an engine first used in a 2004 Corolla.

It can win a race if you know how to drive it.

 

[Darla Starch]

Watch it'll beat the Devel Sixteen to market

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Father of hundreds gets sperm donation ban from Dutch court

A Dutch court on Friday ordered a man who judges said had fathered between 500 and 600 children around the world to stop donating sperm.

www.reuters.com

 

[JKgo]

As usual, I check the overnight news after waking up, and IOL decides now's a good time to bait me with this headline:

"Dutch Police arrest Boris Johnson after car crash"

Dutch police arrest 'Boris Johnson' after car crash

Police officers arrested a man in connection with a drunk driving incident in city of Groningen at the weekend, only to find out that his driver's licence named him as the former British prime minister.

www.iol.co.za

 

[UKMikey]

Banana drama: ‘hungry’ South Korean student eats $120,000 artwork | Maurizio Cattelan | The Guardian

Footage shows Noh Huyn-soo unpeeling and eating piece of fruit in work by Maurizio Cattelan before reattaching peel to wall

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Dennisch]

A penis from Dildo?

 

[TexRex]

500 pounds of cooked pasta was dumped along N.J. stream. It’s now a local political issue.

It is unclear if police are investigating the bizarre discovery.

www.nj.com

 

[UKMikey]

If they want to solve this mystery, the investigators'll have to use their noodles.

 

[TB]

Another species forcibly removed from its native habitat.

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

Its just fallen from the trees, that's all.