Funny/Strange News Stories

[prisonermonkeys]

After giving us Max Verstappen - for which we are eternally grateful - the Netherlands has decided to become the world's most awesome country by training eagles to carry out precision strikes against drones:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...-police-train-birds-to-take-down-uavs/7132096

 

[TenEightyOne]

After giving us Max Verstappen - for which we are eternally grateful

That would be Belgium

...the Netherlands has decided to become the world's most awesome country by training eagles to carry out precision strikes against drones:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...-police-train-birds-to-take-down-uavs/7132096

This is indeed awesome. I think eventually some kind of net combination will still be the answer; eagle-proofing a drone should be quite simple cus electricity.

 

[Pupik]

Teen accused of running fake medical practice in West Palm Beach posed as gynecologist a year ago, officials say.

I love Florida.

Hi, Doctor Nick!

 

[Northstar]

Hi, Doctor Nick!

Dr. Nick was his teacher at Hollywood Upstairs Medical College.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Journalism!

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...w&hootPostID=bfb85addf6b80b197bef091e3c2c72ff

 

[TenEightyOne]

Journalism!

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...w&hootPostID=bfb85addf6b80b197bef091e3c2c72ff

Sadly it's true. They're going to continue to call them croissants, rather stupidly.

 

[Pupik]

Journalism!

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...w&hootPostID=bfb85addf6b80b197bef091e3c2c72ff

When we fight amongst ourselves about curved pastries, the Flat Earth People win.

 

[Famine]

Trans 'woman' stripped of Miss Transgender UK title for not being trans enough.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Trans 'woman' stripped of Miss Transgender UK title for not being trans enough.

She claims the competition forces entrants into a "female stereotype". At first thought... well d'uh.

When we fight amongst ourselves about curved pastries, the Flat Earth People win.

I think the point is the name... croissant.

 

[BobK]

Trans 'woman' stripped of Miss Transgender UK title for not being trans enough.

Wait... what? Does that mean you can't be a transgender cross-dresser?

 

[TenEightyOne]

Highest toilets in Britain*?

* This isn't a drugs joke about Hull station

 

[Danoff]

Trans 'woman' stripped of Miss Transgender UK title for not being trans enough.

Wait... what? Does that mean you can't be a transgender cross-dresser?

It means that when you're transgender, you must wear the clothing of the gender you identify with. If you don't wear the right clothes, you can't be transgender. It's what's on the outside the counts, not how you feel about yourself.

If you're a woman, you can't dress like a man:

and if you're a man, you can't dress like a woman:

 

[jake2013guy]

Highest toilets in Britain*?

* This isn't a drugs joke about Hull station

Taking crap to new heights.

 

[Wiegert]

And here we have the most puerile combination house type, number, street name and estate agents we'll see this month

Expect puns.

 

[Liquid]

And here we have the most puerile combination house type, number, street name and estate agents we'll see this month

Expect puns.

People everywhere will be coming for that house.

 

[Pupik]

And here we have the most puerile combination house type, number, street name and estate agents we'll see this month

When was the building erected?

(I lost it at the real estate agent name.)

 

[TenEightyOne]

When was the building erected?

It never quite was, it's a semi. True story.

 

[jake2013guy]

And here we have the most puerile combination house type, number, street name and estate agents we'll see this month

Expect puns.

You can either live there or you can live in Cocks.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7263112/Britains-rudest-place-names.html

 

[-Cheezman-]

And here we have the most puerile combination house type, number, street name and estate agents we'll see this month

Expect puns.

"But estate agents Gascoigne-Pees clearly think it's a phallus-y the unusual address will put off prospective buyers, listing it at £449,950."

Really? It's turning me on.

 

[JKgo]

You can either live there or you can live in Cocks.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7263112/Britains-rudest-place-names.html

...Holy cow, dude!!

Slap a NSFW warning otherwise some people might die laughing...

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Ground control to Major Tunde ...

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Canadian man gets jail for smuggling turtles:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-26/man-who-smuggled-38-turtles-in-pants-fined/7204314

It's not particularly funny, but then there's this sub-heading:

Not the first Canadian to put turtles in pants

 

[TenEightyOne]

The "Burping Ashes" are under way. It's hard not to feel a swell of national pride in this story.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Tony Abbott criticises China for not being Australia:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...hina-for-not-sharing-australia-values/7204258

 

[Touring Mars]

Two drug dealers who received suspended jail sentences have been sent to prison after slagging off the judge who let them go free on Facebook...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...led-after-mocking-judge-who-let-them-off.html

 

[JKgo]

Two drug dealers who received suspended jail sentences have been sent to prison after slagging off the judge who let them go free on Facebook...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...led-after-mocking-judge-who-let-them-off.html

...Nice, I get to use this meme again:

Spoiler: They done wut now?

 

[Pupik]

Canadian man gets jail for smuggling turtles:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-26/man-who-smuggled-38-turtles-in-pants-fined/7204314

It's not particularly funny, but then there's this sub-heading:

Not the first Canadian to put turtles in pants

Stop taking our turtles, damn it. We don't steal your beaver, Canada.

 

[JKgo]

...Oregon scraps goat landscaping scheme due to rising cost and "barnyard aroma", BBC.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Giant pink condom in Sydney's Hyde Park:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...s-onto-obelisk-at-hyde-park-in-sydney/7205162

 

[TenEightyOne]

Sad news about Frank Kelly, aka Fr. Jack of Craggy Island Parochial house.

Still, all has not gone quiet in the parochial houses... Catholic priest filmed snorting cocaine in his living room full of Nazi memorabilia. Bishop Brennan would be proud.