Funny/Strange News Stories

[Brett]

Overweight truck falls through deck of Babb’s Covered Bridge, leaves gaping hole

The Babb’s Covered Bridge in Maine will be closed for months after an overweight truck fell through the deck, leaving a gaping hole behind.

www.wabi.tv

Seeing the posted weight was 3 tons, this made me want to look at other Ford trucks. Based on what little research I did, the Ford Lightning is over the load posted weight. The Raptor may also be just barely above that too.

 

[UKMikey]

Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body

Biohybrid machine ushers new era of robotics, scientists say

www.independent.co.uk

 

[CrookedPanda]

This warmed me right up.
I knew about cats and dogs doing similar things but a horse, wow!
Thank you Doctor Peyo.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...forting-cancer-patients-in-calais-in-pictures

"At the hospital Peyo tells his trainer which room he wants to enter next by stopping or raising his leg. Peyo is 15 and seems able to detect when humans have cancers and tumours. He stayed nearly two hours here, watching over a dying woman. ‘I accompany him but I let him do what he wants, he’s the one who decides,’ says Bouchakour. ‘What really pushed scientists to take an interest in him and open the health establishment doors to us, was this [seeming] ability to greatly reduce [the patients’ dosage of] all hard drugs and thus allow a more peaceful departure,’ he says"

 

[daan]

Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body

Biohybrid machine ushers new era of robotics, scientists say

www.independent.co.uk

I, for one, welcome our mushroom overlords.

 

[UKMikey]

I, for one, welcome our mushroom overlords.

If you support mycocracy then you must be a real fun guy.

 

[GBO Possum]

I, for one, welcome our mushroom overlords.

Trump's mushroom overlord told him to bang a porn star.

 

[Blitz24]

I, for one, welcome our mushroom overlords.

This may not please the destroying angels.

 

[TexRex]

Candles filled with urine spill on 9-year-old at Indiana Dollar Tree

A mother said her daughter was exposed to a potential health hazard while smelling a candle at a local store.This all happened last Thursday at the Dollar Tree

www.cbsaustin.com

 

[UKMikey]

Candles filled with urine spill on 9-year-old at Indiana Dollar Tree

A mother said her daughter was exposed to a potential health hazard while smelling a candle at a local store.This all happened last Thursday at the Dollar Tree

www.cbsaustin.com

That store has more than a widdle problem.

 

[sirjim73]

That store has more than a widdle problem.

Yeah, they're just taking the piss.

 

[Darla Starch]

We're wee-ly going there?