Funny/Strange News Stories

[Touring Mars]

Woman who died at slapping therapy retreat viewed healer as ‘sent by God’, court told

Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, who stopped taking insulin for diabetes at Wiltshire workshop, had praised Hongchi Xiao

www.theguardian.com

Sad story, but I reckon this defendant deserves some of his own slapping treatment...

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Woman who died at slapping therapy retreat viewed healer as ‘sent by God’, court told

Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, who stopped taking insulin for diabetes at Wiltshire workshop, had praised Hongchi Xiao

www.theguardian.com

Sad story, but I reckon this defendant deserves some of his own slapping treatment...

"The road to recovery is arduous … but the results are totally astonishing.”

I'll say

 

[Liquid]

Unusual tool used before using the standard enforcer to get the door open.

 

[CTznOfTime]

 

[TexRex]

Tabletop game forumite achieves posting godhood, emerging from the void after 100,000 hour 11 year ban to continue the same argument from 2013

No, I am not revealing my username.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Liquid]

There might yet be hope for Groundfish, Dotini, JMoney, ITCC_Andrew, SuperCobraJet and the like.

 

[Famine]

There might yet be hope for Groundfish, Dotini, JMoney, ITCC_Andrew, SuperCobraJet and the like.

Nope. Our shortest-expiring ban is around 2wk, several expire on November 6, our longest is sometime in the 22nd Century, and those ones are all permanent.

 

[Liquid]

Nope. Our shortest-expiring ban is around 2wk, several expire on November 6, our longest is sometime in the 22nd Century, and those ones are all permanent.

It was facetious more than anything.

An automatic Impreza might have won Le Mans by 2119...

 

[ScottPuss20]

There might yet be hope for Groundfish

Oh no I remember him. He had a gigantic meltdown in the GT Sport daily race thread.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

French Pole Vaulter’s Bulge Costs Him an Olympic Medal

French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati has become an instant viral phenomenon after an incident involving his crotch.

variety.com

 

[TB]

It might have been the proverbial straw but his shins and knees had already made contact.

 

[Sprite]

French Pole Vaulter’s Bulge Costs Him an Olympic Medal

French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati has become an instant viral phenomenon after an incident involving his crotch.

variety.com

Poor guy was just trying to get a head

 

[UKMikey]

Poor guy was just trying to get a head

They gave him a stiff penalty.

 

[Blitz24]

Nope. Our shortest-expiring ban is around 2wk, several expire on November 6, our longest is sometime in the 22nd Century, and those ones are all permanent.

 

[sirjim73]

French Pole Vaulter’s Bulge Costs Him an Olympic Medal

French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati has become an instant viral phenomenon after an incident involving his crotch.

variety.com

As James May would say...

 

[Darla Starch]

They gave him a stiff penalty.

Willy get shafted or not?

 

[UKMikey]

Willy get shafted or not?

I think at this point I'm obliged to say that I dont think it'll make a vas deferens either way. He only struck the bar with a glans-ing blow.

 

[HenrySwanson]

German court gives woman harsher punishment than convicted rapist for calling him 'disgraceful pig'

The woman was found guilty of defaming the man, who was convicted for gang-raping a 15-year-old girl in Hamburg in 2020.

www.deccanherald.com

Definitely filed under strange.

EDIT:

A good breakdown here:

Did the German justice system convict a woman for insulting a person who gang raped a minor?

New York Post writes A German woman was handed down a harsher sentence than a convicted rapist after she called him a “disgraceful rapist pig.” Maja R, 20, was jailed for a weekend after she was f...

skeptics.stackexchange.com

 

[UKMikey]

So she was put under house arrest for doxxing a minor? Not like the Murdoch press to misrepresent the truth.

 

[UKMikey]

News? Maybe. Funny/strange? I think definitely:

After 127 days in Nintendo server purgatory, the last known Mario Kart 3DS survivor thinks he can't be stopped: "This could go on forever"

Interview | We spoke to the Mario Kart 7 player who's somehow still connected to the official 3DS servers

www.gamesradar.com

 

[HenrySwanson]

So she was put under house arrest for doxxing a minor? Not like the Murdoch press to misrepresent the truth.

People likely to be pissed about the sentence given to the rapist.

 

[UKMikey]

People likely to be pissed about the sentence given to the rapist.

If he wasn't an adult there may be a limit on the maximum sentence he can receive no matter how pissed they get.

 

[HenrySwanson]

If he wasn't an adult there may be a limit on the maximum sentence he can receive no matter how pissed they get.

So change that then.

Although there is this:

According to Spiegel, under juvenile criminal law in Germany the length of youth sentences is based on the educational needs of the individual defendant.

There should be no situation where a gang rapist should not spend time in a detention facility. Period.

And there's this:

Psychiatrist Nahlah Saimeh, who reportedly appeared before the court as an expert witness, said in a controversial interview with Spiegel that the gang rape may have been a way to vent “frustration” due to “migration experiences and sociocultural homelessness”.

Protesters in Cologne, 2016, after mass sexual assaults. Picture: Roberto Pfeil/AFP
Dr Saimeh said perpetrators “who live on the margins of society, completely uprooted culturally, linguistically and socially” could face a “mix of emotions of anger, sadness, powerlessness, depression, fantasies of grandeur as a compensation attempt to cope with one’s own misery, and drug use”.

“Disordered, unprepared migration experiences and sociocultural homelessness increase the risk of addiction and psychosis,” she said.

“Sex is also a means of venting frustration and anger, a means of warding off sadness and emptiness, and in a group of men with the same fate it also creates identity and strengthens the group feeling.”

She added, “The victim becomes a pure instrument for their own sexual gratification. It’s about an immediate need, opportunity, inner conviction and the right of the stronger.”

One of her responses:

What do Expert Witnesses Have to Say For Themselves?

Ten young men are said to have abused a 15-year-old in the Hamburg city park in September 2020. They have been in court for a year and a…

medium.com

It is madness.

EDIT: I should make clear: I have little objection to Saimeh expressing her opinion dispassionately. However, if this factors into a sentencing decision as to whether they should be put behind bars then or in some way excuses it then it is wrong.

 

[UKMikey]

So change that then.

How? I'm not a lawyer and I'm certainly not a German legislator so I don't know why minors' sentences are limited.

Although there is this:

It reads like a sensationalised news story that attempts to blame the psychiatrist for the seemingly lenient sentence given to the rapist, simply because she's not using angry and condemnatory language but giving her perspective from the point of view of someone who's studied psychology, which is presumably the reason she was called into court in the first place.

If they expected her to say the rapist is an animal who should be locked up for life or executed perhaps they should've summoned a tabloid journalist instead.

I feel for the victim and can understand her anger but this is why we have courts and not mob justice. I don't think if the kid is released that he won't be monitored closely and prevented from gang raping other people. I hope there's an alternative solution to simply banning black people from entry.

 

[HenrySwanson]

How? I'm not a lawyer and I'm certainly not a German legislator so I don't know why minors' sentences are limited.

So you agree that they are justified in being outraged?

It reads like a sensationalised news story that attempts to blame the psychiatrist for the seemingly lenient sentence given to the rapist, simply because she's not using angry and condemnatory language but giving her perspective from the point of view of someone who's studied psychology, which is presumably the reason she was called into court in the first place.

If they expected her to say the rapist is an animal who should be locked up for life or executed perhaps they should've summoned a tabloid journalist instead.

I feel for the victim and can understand her anger but this is why we have courts and not mob justice. I don't think if the kid is released that he won't be monitored closely and prevented from gang raping other people. I hope there's an alternative solution to simply banning black people from entry.

I edited my post to make my position clearer.

 

[UKMikey]

So you agree that they are justified in being outraged?

No, I'm saying that I'm not sure whether minors who gang rape people should be tried as adults and don't have enough legal knowledge to demand the system is reformed.

EDIT: I should make clear: I have little objection to Saimeh expressing her opinion dispassionately. However, if this factors into a sentencing decision as to whether they should be put behind bars then or in some way excuses it then it is wrong.

Expert witnesses don't judge cases or determine sentences. It's not my job whether to say whether psychiatrists should be condemned for stating their opinions. It doesn't sound to me like she was excusing anything though.

Rather, she seems to be providing an alternative reason for why it happened than "Black immigrants are feral animals who are universally predisposed to sexual violence". I think that's because nobody wants to believe this is the case other than those who are opposed to immigration.

 

[HenrySwanson]

No, I'm saying that I'm not sure whether minors who gang rape people should be tried as adults and don't have enough legal knowledge to demand the system is reformed.

How does it feel to you as a person?

I have (very) limited legal knowledge but it seems unjust.

Expert witnesses don't judge cases or determine sentences. It's not my job whether to say whether psychiatrists should be condemned for stating their opinions. It doesn't sound to me like she was excusing anything though.

Rather, she seems to be providing an alternative reason for why it happened than "Black immigrants are feral animals who are universally predisposed to sexual violence". I think that's because nobody wants to believe this is the case other than those who are opposed to immigration.

Should it factor into the sentencing? Should it be used as an excuse (again, she didn't excuse it as far as I can tell but should it be used by others)?

 

[Joey D]

I get that Lake Erie is the Not-so-Great Lake and is a swamp, but gators?

Sighting of alligator swimming off shore of Lake Erie prompts Pennsylvania search

The search is on for a small alligator in Erie, Pennsylvania, after it was caught on video last weekend swimming just off the shore of Lake Erie.

apnews.com

I'm guessing it was someone's illegal pet that they just dumped in the water, but it's really strange to see that story pop up.

 

[UKMikey]

How does it feel to you as a person?

I have (very) limited legal knowledge but it seems unjust.

I suspect there are very good reasons why minors shouldn't be tried as adults due to diminished responsibility. A quick Google search suggests that Article 37 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child prohibits life imprisonment for people under the age of eighteen.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/crc-1989/article-37

Should it factor into the sentencing?

If they didn't want her expert testimony to factor into sentencing then I don't think they would've called her.

Should it be used as an excuse (again, she didn't excuse it as far as I can tell but should it be used by others)?

Used as an excuse by who? If it's anyone other than the judge then it doesn't have an impact on the case. If it is then I think excuse is a pretty loaded word used by people who didn't feel the rapist was sufficiently punished. Either group psychology is a factor in her rape or it wasn't.

 

[HenrySwanson]

I suspect there are very good reasons why minors shouldn't be tried as adults due to diminished responsibility.

How does the fact that he didn't spend a day in detention feel to you, not whether he was tried as an adult.

If they didn't want her expert testimony to factor into sentencing then I don't think they would've called her.


Used as an excuse by who? If it's anyone other than the judge then it doesn't have an impact on the case. If it is then I think excuse is a pretty loaded word used by people who didn't feel the rapist was sufficiently punished. Either group psychology is a factor in her rape or it wasn't.

So should it affect the judge's decision on whether they deserve to be behind bars?