Weird but True

[Cooper]

The NY Post runs a column called "Weird but True". A few of yesterday's stories might put a smile on your face.

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A bald eagle crashed through a window of a home in Alaska, dropped a salmon in the living room and flew back out.

 

"There were feathers about eight feet into the room...(and) this huge fish carcass right where my dog usually sleeps," said homeowner Jean Stack of Ketchikan.

 

.........

 

A 17 year old Kansas schoolboy was busted for battery after he vomited on his teacher.

 

Prosecutors say the arrest at Olathe Northwest HS sends a message that such behavior won't be tolerated.

 

But the barfing student's dad insists his son got sick unintentionally due to the stress of final exams.

 

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It won't be death that parts them, so Dixie Fisher is trying to sell the steel casket her soon-to-be ex-husband planned to use when he dies.

 

A classified ad in Ohio's Columbus Dispatch newspaper reads: "Marriage died before husband did."

 

She says that at $980, the casket is a good deal because "there wasn't anybody in it, and it looked like it had never been used."

 

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Finally:

 

A smuggler who tied rare snakes to his legs was busted as he landed at the Prague airport in the Czech Republic from Africa after customs officials spotted the wriggling in his pants.

 

But that was just the beginning. When they opened the 23 year-old suspect's luggage, an army of live scorpions and beetles came crawling out. :-)

[Chairmans Pig]

>The NY Post runs a column called "Weird but True". A few of

>yesterday's stories might put a smile on your face.

>.........

>

>A 17 year old Kansas schoolboy was busted for battery after he

>vomited on his teacher.

>

>Prosecutors say the arrest at Olathe Northwest HS sends a

>message that such behavior won't be tolerated.

>

>But the barfing student's dad insists his son got sick

>unintentionally due to the stress of final exams.

>

>........

 

This brings a flashback upon me! When I was in the second grade I have a vivid memory of taking a maths exam. (I can see clearly the green paper designed to assist with penmanship in that they had wide spaces between the alternating solid and dashed lines). Anyway....

 

I had completed the maths exam and went up to the teacher's desk. Behind the desk was a substitute...Mrs Shapiro. As I handed Mrs. Shapiro the paper, the unmistakable feeling of nausea welled up through my stomach.

 

It all happened too fast...my mouth flew open, my eyes squinted shut and the forceful expulsion of partially digested sloppy joe came spewing from my head...SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT all over my exam paper that was now in the hand of Mrs. Shapiro.

 

When the deluge subsided I had tears my eyes, and Mrs. Shapiro? A look of bewilderment on her face and vomit on her lap.

 

Ahh, the good ol' days.

 

CP

[JT Brooklyn]

Coop.."Death Due Us Part" and "The Smuggler" The Best. Thanks for a more Happy Post..I think we all have to work on "Lightning UP" This Place REAL Fast..LOL :+

[+ deej]

"News of the Weird" is a syndicated column you'll often find in smaller "grocery store rags" and pubs like The Onion. Very similar stuff, and it's great.

 

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/

[ValleyDwellerNorth]

Hello Deej,

 

>http://www.newsoftheweird.com/

 

Great site indeed. And, of course, if you like news with a wonderful commentary and hilarious pics there is the classic of http://www.ehowa.com/ aka Ernie's House of Whoopass.

 

VDN