Funny/Strange News Stories

05XR8 · Oct 18, 2024

Erebus staffer charged with assault and false report

Repco Supercars Championship - Sydney SuperNight at Sydney Motorsport Park Police had been told the 20-year-old man was assaulted by

speedcafe.com

sirjim73 · Wednesday at 9:25 AM

I think this qualifies as strange/unusual:

Wojtek: The bear who was a private in the Polish army

The bear was enlisted into the Polish army and served alongside soldiers during World War Two.

www.bbc.co.uk

Scaff · Wednesday at 10:14 AM

sirjim73
I think this qualifies as strange/unusual:

Wojtek: The bear who was a private in the Polish army

The bear was enlisted into the Polish army and served alongside soldiers during World War Two.

www.bbc.co.uk

I will see your bear and raise it with a Penguin.

The Penguin has rank as well.

Nils Olav - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Meythia · Wednesday at 10:23 AM

Scaff
I will see your bear and raise it with a Penguin.

It seems there are more of them, though no penguin on this specific list:

13 Heroic Military Animals You Had No Idea Existed

Everyone knows their pet would stand beside them in their time of need, but what if they went above and beyond? History is full of decorated war animals who risked life and limb by sticking by the sides of the soldiers who needed them most. These animal war heroes have all been distinguished for...

www.ranker.com

TIL: GI Joe was a bird 😵

PaMu1337 · Wednesday at 3:00 PM

Russia fines Google $2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

US tech giant receives $2.5 decillion penalty after taking action against Russian propaganda

www.independent.co.uk

Famine · Wednesday at 3:03 PM

PaMu1337
Russia fines Google $2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

US tech giant receives $2.5 decillion penalty after taking action against Russian propaganda

www.independent.co.uk

UKMikey · Wednesday at 5:29 PM

Let us know when it reaches a googol.

EngieDiesel · Wednesday at 5:55 PM

PaMu1337
Russia fines Google $2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

US tech giant receives $2.5 decillion penalty after taking action against Russian propaganda

www.independent.co.uk

Eh, no biggie. Just take out a small loan from Zimbabwe and it'll be sorted easy:

Joey D · Wednesday at 6:03 PM

Maybe they meant rubles since that probably works out to be six bucks with how worthless the Russkis' money is.

Touring Mars · Wednesday at 6:44 PM

Joey D
Maybe they meant rubles since that probably works out to be six bucks with how worthless the Russkis' money is.

They should have made it a Googol, which would have worked out at around $400.

Darla Starch · Wednesday at 6:47 PM

Joey D
Maybe they meant rubles since that probably works out to be six bucks with how worthless the Russkis' money is.

Pay it in Robux :sly:

Liquid · Thursday at 2:21 PM

EngieDiesel
Eh, no biggie. Just take out a small loan from Zimbabwe and it'll be sorted easy:

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Proud owner of one of these. In fact, I have Z$100,011,500,000,507.

Touring Mars · Thursday at 3:08 PM

EngieDiesel
Eh, no biggie. Just take out a small loan from Zimbabwe and it'll be sorted easy:

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Not quite as easy as you might think.

Even with bills of "100 trillion" denomination, you'd still need a stack of bills so high it would reach 1/16th of the way to Proxima Centauri, or about 1.5 trillion miles.

GBO Possum · Thursday at 3:36 PM

Touring Mars
Not quite as easy as you might think.

Even with bills of "100 trillion" denomination, you'd still need a stack of bills so high it would reach 1/16th of the way to Proxima Centauri, or about 1.5 trillion miles.

Would the guy who stopped at Mars actually know this stuff?

UKMikey · Friday at 9:12 AM

Surfer bitten by shark again at same beach 11 years apart

He was 16 in 2013 when a blacktip reef shark bit his hand

www.independent.co.uk

Sprite · Friday at 9:16 AM

Guess the shark came back to fin-ish the business.

Blitz24 · Friday at 12:45 PM

Sprite
Guess the shark came back to fin-ish the business.

They'll have a nice reunion in 2035.

HenrySwanson · Sunday at 6:21 AM

eran0004 · Sunday at 10:29 AM

Touring Mars
Not quite as easy as you might think.

Even with bills of "100 trillion" denomination, you'd still need a stack of bills so high it would reach 1/16th of the way to Proxima Centauri, or about 1.5 trillion miles.

If they pay it in nickels, the combined mass of the coins would be around 10 000 times bigger than the mass of our solar system. Would be fun to drop that sack of coins on Putin’s foot and see it collapse into a supermassive black hole.

If the sack is dropped from one meter above Putin’s foot, the energy on impact (note that Putin’s foot would smash into the sack of coins rather the other way around) would be equivalent to the yield of 3x10^20 “Little Boy” atomic bombs.

UKMikey · 2024-11-04T01:06:50+0000

More on the funny side than the strange side and perhaps not exactly news, but this automotive/videogame related story has just been confirmed. Sorry if it's been posted elsewhere:

EngieDiesel · 2024-11-04T10:32:37+0000

UKMikey
More on the funny side than the strange side and perhaps not exactly news, but this automotive/videogame related story has just been confirmed. Sorry if it's been posted elsewhere:

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Yeah, Ferrari has done this before and is known to have cracked down pretty hard on tuners and replica makers in the past, not to mention imposing some pretty wild requirements for purchasing certain cars. If I remember correctly, anyone who wanted an Enzo had to write an essay of a certain length explaining their history of Ferrari ownership.

UKMikey · 2024-11-04T12:37:04+0000

EngieDiesel
Yeah, Ferrari has done this before and is known to have cracked down pretty hard on tuners and replica makers in the past, not to mention imposing some pretty wild requirements for purchasing certain cars. If I remember correctly, anyone who wanted an Enzo had to write an essay of a certain length explaining their history of Ferrari ownership.

Wow. Anyone who likes to go vroom vroom really fast in virtual cars must be glad that the S.p.A. don't apply similarly stringent limits on their cars' representation in videogames.

Blitz24 · 2024-11-04T13:35:04+0000

UKMikey
Wow. Anyone who likes to go vroom vroom really fast in virtual cars must be glad that the S.p.A. don't apply similarly stringent limits on their cars' representation in videogames.

Great, I'm now banned from buying a Ferrari because I modified one in GT5.

eran0004 · 2024-11-04T15:54:51+0000

UKMikey
More on the funny side than the strange side and perhaps not exactly news, but this automotive/videogame related story has just been confirmed. Sorry if it's been posted elsewhere:

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The logic of McLeanBen is a little flawed though when he claims it’s like renting. Ferrari didn’t stop him from modifying his car, they just refused to sell him another one.

EngieDiesel · 2024-11-04T16:33:28+0000

UKMikey
Wow. Anyone who likes to go vroom vroom really fast in virtual cars must be glad that the S.p.A. don't apply similarly stringent limits on their cars' representation in videogames.

Though not entirely surprising. It's been said that when they first started selling road cars, Enzo would personally interview each prospective buyer to make sure they were buying the car to use it as a sports car, and not as an investment. So I guess it does make sense that the car bearing his full name would have some similar conditions attached to it.

Meanwhile, in the "didn't have that on my bingo card" category... someone has stolen Britain's largest inflatable planetarium.

Britain's largest inflatable planetarium stolen

Have you seen this dome? It's full of stars

www.theregister.com

Famine · 2024-11-04T16:38:03+0000

EngieDiesel
Britain's largest inflatable planetarium.

Surely Britain's onliest inflatable planetarium.

EngieDiesel · 2024-11-05T10:23:20+0000

Famine
Surely Britain's onliest inflatable planetarium.

Well if it's the only one, then by default it's also the largest one. So the headline is still accurate, yeah?

Joey D · 2024-11-05T15:33:04+0000

The UK has to have more than one. We have two in the backwoods of Northern Michigan. One just came to my son's school and it looks pretty cool.

UKMikey · 2024-11-05T15:39:48+0000

Joey D
The UK has to have more than one. We have two in the backwoods of Northern Michigan. One just came to my son's school and it looks pretty cool.

https://mobile-planetarium.co.uk/our-star-dome/inflatable-planetarium/