Funny/Strange News Stories

Not just that, but if the cash is legitimate and the guy asked for it back, you'd be legally obliged to give it back ot him. So if you spent it in a flash of madness, you'd then owe that person that money. And youd'd be legally obligated to do so.

If on the other hand, you hand it into the police, and the cash isn't found to be dirty, you can then apply to keep the money after 22 days (I tihnk) of it being unclaimed.
 
Children using OLPC laptop to view porn

The XO-1 laptop, also known as the $100 laptop or Children's laptop was originally intended for children, in underdeveloped countries, to provide them with access to the wealth of knowledge that only the Internet can provide. But instead of surfing and learning, Nigerian children have been caught viewing pornographic images, according to the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Reuters quoted NAN as saying, "Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials."

Pornography was found on several of the children's laptops during NAN's investigation into the matter.

Developers of the Laptop, U.S. based non-profit organization, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), responded to the hype, chalking it up to human nature.

"I've seen whole computer rooms turn into porno galleries as boobie-gazing men replace women and children as the primary customers of a center. Yes, its sad, but its also human nature," wrote Wayan Vota, on the OLPC news blog.

Vota went on to say that he's not surprised to see teenagers were "getting a eyeful of hot coffee," and criticized reporters for wanting a "headline grabbing story," suggesting that they may also be against the OLPC project on a personal level.

OLPC Nigeria has, however, addressed this problem by deciding to fit all future XO computers with pornography filters. However, Vota notes that the filters are not full-proof, naming Americans as being lazy and claiming we have already found multiple ways around them.

So it would seem that the voice for the OLPC project has taken great offense toward the OLPC porn scandal, despite the fact that no one is pointing the finger. If anything, OLPC has pointed the finger at itself, while attacking those who reported this problem.

But the truth is, OLPC is not to blame. They've been doing good since the start of the project, and they shouldn't have to make explanations for how the children are behaving on these laptops.

Even the Media is not to blame. They recognized a problem, reported it, and a solution is now being implemented.
 
I like this one:

A man robbed a liquor store along with his pet dog. He attacked the cashier demanding all the cash in the register. The cashier, and a customer in the store at the time of the robbery, fought back. The thief, battered and abused, left without any cash; and without his dog.

Police arrived and made nice with the dog. They then told the dog to... "Go home!" So, the dog went home. And the policed followed. They arrested the owner inside who was nursing some bruises and scrapes.

Go doggie.
 
Solid Lifters
I like this one:

A man robbed a liquor store along with his pet dog. He attacked the cashier demanding all the cash in the register. The cashier, and a customer in the store at the time of the robbery, fought back. The thief, battered and abused, left without any cash; and without his dog.

Police arrived and made nice with the dog. They then told the dog to... "Go home!" So, the dog went home. And the policed followed. They arrested the owner inside who was nursing some bruises and scrapes.

Go doggie.
Click to expand...
Have you ever seen 'Drugstore Cowboy'?
 
Yes, Matt Dillon (Bob) runs a group of druggies who go around robbing drug stores and hospitals. One of the group asks Bob if she can have a dog, and Bob rules it out completely because dogs would bring a hex on the group. Bob's girlfriend (Kelly Lynch) then recounts the tale of their dog who got lost during a bungled heist, but was captured by the police. The police then used the dog to lead them straight to Bob's house - they were arrested and jailed, and the dog was put down. While Bob's lady is telling the story, however, Bob is trying to ignore her (since it's clearly still too much for him to talk about himself) and he flicks through the TV channels vacantly, only to find commercials for dog food or dog products on every channel :)

P.S. It's a great film, I highly recommend it 👍 (William Burroughs makes a great cameo appearance as a junkie priest who really knows his stuff when it comes to hard narcotics - typecasting at it's very best)
 
Touring Mars
Yes, Matt Dillon (Bob) runs a group of druggies who go around robbing drug stores and hospitals. One of the group asks Bob if she can have a dog, and Bob rules it out completely because dogs would bring a hex on the group. Bob's girlfriend (Kelly Lynch) then recounts the tale of their dog who got lost during a bungled heist, but was captured by the police. The police then used the dog to lead them straight to Bob's house - they were arrested and jailed, and the dog was put down. While Bob's lady is telling the story, however, Bob is trying to ignore her (since it's clearly still too much for him to talk about himself) and he flicks through the TV channels vacantly, only to find commercials for dog food or dog products on every channel :)

P.S. It's a great film, I highly recommend it 👍 (William Burroughs makes a great cameo appearance as a junkie priest who really knows his stuff when it comes to hard narcotics - typecasting at it's very best)
Click to expand...

Sounds good.

It looks like this 'dog armed robbery' scheme has happened before. Many remember another 'dog armed robbery' that went like this...

A man pulls up to a liquor store in his pick-up truck. He opens the door, and leaves it open for a fast getaway. Inside the cab is his dog. While he goes inside to rob the joint, the dog jumps out sniffs around the parking lot. The guys robs the place and heads for his truck and notices his dog got out. He tries to get the dog back in the pickup, but cannot do it in time and takes off. Nobody in the store knew about the dog until the police show up and and review the security tape. They notice the dog got out and was left behind. They found the dog behind the store and read the dog tag. Busted.
 
Solid Lifters
A man pulls up to a liquor store in his pick-up truck. He opens the door, and leaves it open for a fast getaway. Inside the cab is his dog. While he goes inside to rob the joint, the dog jumps out sniffs around the parking lot. The guys robs the place and heads for his truck and notices his dog got out. He tries to get the dog back in the pickup, but cannot do it in time and takes off. Nobody in the store knew about the dog until the police show up and and review the security tape. They notice the dog got out and was left behind. They found the dog behind the store and read the dog tag. Busted.
Click to expand...
Ruff justice...?
 
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22416798-2,00.html

Czech crash victim wakes up speaking English

By staff writers

September 14, 2007 10:25am
Article from: NEWS.com.au

Font size: + -

Send this article: Print Email

A CZECH speedway driver knocked unconscious in a crash stunned ambulance drivers when he woke up speaking perfect English.

18-year-old Matej Kus was out cold for 45 minutes after the crash, but when he woke up he conversed fluidly in English with paramedics, even speaking in an English accent.

The teenager had just begun to study the language and his skills were described by friends and team-mates as “basic at best”.

Peter Waite, the promoter for Kus's team, the Berwick Bandits, told the Daily Mail: "I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

"It was in a really clear English accent, no dialect or anything. Whatever happened in the crash must have rearranged things in his head.

"Before his crash Matej's use of the English language was broken, to put it mildly.

"He was only just making a start on improving it and struggled to be understood, but was keen to learn.

"Yet here we were at the ambulance door listening to Matej talking to the medical staff in perfect English.

"Matej didn't have a clue who or where he was when he came round. He didn't even know he was Czech.

"It was unbelievable to hear him talk in unbroken English."

Unfortunately, the speedway driver's new found skills didn’t last and he remembers nothing of the accident or the following two days. He is now keen pursue studies in English.

He told the Daily Mail, through an interpreter: "It's unbelievable that I was speaking English like that, especially without an accent.

"Hopefully I can pick English up over the winter for the start of next season so I'll be able to speak it without someone having to hit me over the head first.

"There must be plenty of the English language in my subconscious so hopefully I'll be able to pick it up quickly next time."
Click to expand...
 
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/nebraska-senato.html

Nebraska Senator Sues God to Stop Terror Threats

Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers (D - Omaha) filed suit against God Friday, asking a court to order the Almighty and his followers to stop making terrorist threats.

The suit, filed in a Nebraska district court, contends that God, along with his followers of all persuasions, "has made and continues to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons." Those threats are credible given God's history, Chambers' complaint says.

Chambers, in a fit of alliteration, also accuses God of causing "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, and the like."

Likewise the suit accuses God of having his chroniclers "disseminate in written form, said admissions, throughout the Earth in order to inspire fear, dread, anxiety, terror and uncertainty, in order to coerce obedience to Defendant's will."

Chambers, who has represented Omaha, Nebraska since 1970, asked the Douglas County district court for summary judgment or to set a quick hearing date "if the Court deems such a hearing not to be a futile act."

The senator also wants the court to issue a permanent injunction prohibiting God from issuing plagues and terrorist threats. It's unclear how this could work since God is usually understood to be all powerful.

Chambers does admit that God is omnipresent and omniscient, however. Since God is everywhere, the Nebraska court has jurisdiction, Chambers argues, and since God is all-knowing, Chambers need not serve him with a notice of the lawsuit.

The lawsuit indicates that Chambers attempted to make God appear in order to serve him by saying "Come out, come out, wherever you are," but the Almighty declined, like many defendants, to make it easy for a plaintiff to serve him with court papers.

Chambers filed the suit to make a point that the state constitution allows lawsuits to be filed for any reason, according to WOWT.

Attempts to reach Chambers for comment were unsuccessful.

God did not immediately respond to a non-denominational prayer for comment by this reporter.

The suit is Chambers v. God.
Click to expand...
 
:lol:
The Worst Robber In Scotland

Nov 8 2007 By Dave Finlay

He Couldn't Even Nick A Plastic Bag...

SCOTLAND'S most useless armed robber was so hopeless at hold-ups that he couldn't even scare a shop assistant into giving him a carrier bag.

David Allan, 24, went into a convenience store with an air pistol in his trousers and demanded cash. But the woman behind the counter repeatedly refused to open the till.

Flustered Allan banged his gun off the counter in a vain bid to scare victim Deborah Gilmour, then said: "If you're not going to give me any money, get me 20 fags."

Deborah still wasn't interested, so the pathetic crook pleaded: "I'm going to get four years anyway. At least give me a carrier bag."

But Deborah blanked him again and he slunk out of the shop in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, carrying only a bottle of wine and two cans of lager he had managed to grab from the shelves.

Allan had slightly better luck later the same day when he held up a Shell garage in Hamilton.

When he demanded money, the assistant told him, "Away you go, don't be stupid." But she did give him £40 from the till after he showed her the gun under his tracksuit top.

Allan carried out the two raids on April 10 this year.

A month later, he tried to rob Somerfield supermarket in Strathaven, Lanarkshire, even though he was a regular customer and knew the manager.

Allan spoke to the manager and said he'd see him in the pub later. He then left, but returned to the shop 20 minutes later and told a woman employee to give him money from the till.

The woman refused and Allan called her a "******* bitch" before leaving empty-handed.

Two days later, Allan saw the shop worker in a chemist's in the town and told her: "I'm sorry about the other night."

His victim shopped him to police and he was arrested.

At the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, Allan, of no fixed address, admitted two robberies, one attempted robbery and gun offences.

Lord Wheatley jailed him for five years and told him: "This was a series of senseless and stupid attempts at robberies.

"They caused considerable distress to the people at the other end of the gun."

Tony Graham, defending, said his client could not explain his actions. He added that while the offences were extremely serious, there was an "utterly inept" side to them.
Click to expand...
 
:lol:

I just feel sorry for the dude in the gorilla suit who got sent to the stag party instead of the stripper!
 
Bank intern busted by Facebook

kevincolvin.jpg
 

Similar threads

Joey D
And Now For Some Good News
Replies
5
Views
1K
sirjim73
sirjim73
rlx
The top 50 fastest road cars in GT7 as of April 2024
Replies
10
Views
16K
rlx
rlx
Famine
UEFA Euro 2024 Finals
7 8 9
Replies
241
Views
16K
MagpieRacer
MagpieRacer
rlx
How to record telemetry data of AI-driven cars
Replies
5
Views
2K
hyperspeed980
hyperspeed980
Cytoria
  • Poll
POLL : The GT Sport Livery Editor Competition 65 (Karting) - CLOSED
Replies
28
Views
2K
Sian
Sian

Latest Posts

Back