{"id":189,"date":"2013-08-15T23:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/19designstudio.com\/preview\/BestofSWLA\/?p=189"},"modified":"2013-10-03T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T21:58:22","slug":"weird-news-%e2%80%a2-august-15th-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestofswla.com\/2013\/08\/15\/weird-news-%e2%80%a2-august-15th-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wash Your Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carole Longhorn, 66, struck a metal object in her garden in Norfolk, England. Though it looked like a projectile bomb, she decided to take it inside and wash it off in the sink before she called police. They later detonated the World War II-era munition in a controlled explosion. Her husband commented, \u201cYou can imagine what I said to her.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Brew Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pro-nationalism English Defense League activists seemed to be itching for a street brawl to break up a scheduled anti-nationalist demonstration in downtown Birmingham, England, on July 18. The city mobilized more than 1,000 police. Then officials arrived at a solution. Police shepherded hundreds of rowdy EDL operatives into the popular Bar Risa pub at 11 am, confining them for three hours, until the anti-EDL rally had dissipated. Many EDLers decided to enjoy their confinement with a brew. Police reported only sporadic street scuffling. Bar Risa, perturbed by police pressure to host people they consider fascists, donated all of its profits to the Midlands Air Ambulance service.<\/p>\n

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Cultural Diversity<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 For \u201cbeach season\u201d in Qingdao, China, middle-aged ladies return to the shore of the Yellow Sea sporting their bathing suits but wearing cloth hoods with tiny holes for the eyes, nose and mouth. For many in China, dark skin still signals laborers and fair skin the indoor \u201cleisure class,\u201d according to a report on the business website Quartz.<\/p>\n

\u2014 In Shenzhen, China, one of the country\u2019s richest cities, there are advertisements by \u201cwet nurses\u201d who supply adults with breast milk, either directly from the source or after pumping. The milk is bought by the infirm or rich people who are too concerned with nourishment. Milk suppliers can earn at least four times the average personal income; healthy, attractive women earning more than that, according to a July Agence France-Presse dispatch. Comments on China\u2019s social media ranged from \u201cIt\u2019s just a business\u201d to \u201cPeople become perverts when they are too rich and tire of other forms of entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 In Zimbabwe, bribery is common and makes the news only when criminals go above and beyond. The anti-poverty organization Transparency International reported in July that one hospital in Harare had recently been imposing a $5 charge on mothers each time they screamed during childbirth. Also, it\u2019s long been rumored that hospitals in Zimbabwe (and other especially oppressive countries) detain mothers and their children at the hospital if they cannot pay the fees. Transparency International eventually lifted the per-scream charge.<\/p>\n

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Latest Religious Messages<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Satan was thrust into the recent Texas legislature debate with pro-choicers shouting, \u201cHail, Satan!\u201d at the right-to-life faction. However, whom Satan had endorsed was not clear. A British organization called UK Church of Satan appeared to criticize the pro-choicers (according to Twitter comments), while the New York-based Church of Satan (founded in 1966 by Anton LaVey) insists on a woman\u2019s right to choose, said the church\u2019s high priest Peter Gilmore. He acknowledged that shouting \u201cHail, Satan\u201d to anti-abortion activists was \u201cludicrous and meaningless.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Megachurch bishop Ira V. Hilliard told his Sugarland, Texas, congregation (New Light Christian Center) that one of his two private aircraft \u2014 a helicopter valued at about $1 million \u2014 needs new blades. Rather than pay for them himself, he asked parishioners to \u201cfind it in their hearts\u201d to send him $52 \u201cfavor seeds\u201d for the blades. His ministry also owns a $2 million Hawker jet and a $3 million hangar. To sweeten the deal, he promised that a donor\u2019s gift would be met by a \u201cbreakthrough favor\u201d from God in the form of a car repair or the gift giver\u2019s \u201cdream car\u201d either 52 days or 52 weeks later.<\/p>\n

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Questionable Judgments<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sharon Jobson thought her grieving for her son was over two years after he had been killed when he drove into a CN Rail train at a crossing that needed safety features. John Jobson, 22, was speeding and failed to stop, perhaps because of a partially obscured warning sign and a nonstandard train horn. The government subsequently ordered upgrades, and Sharon Jobson decided not to sue. However, CN Rail had no such reluctance. In July, it filed for $500,000 against John Jobson\u2019s estate to cover damage to its tracks and the subsequent customer slowdown. At press time, Sharon was re-evaluating litigation.<\/p>\n

\u2014 In May, a 24-year-old man accidentally shot a teenage boy in the leg with a high-caliber gun at a home in Santa Fe, Texas. The shooting took place in front of the teenager\u2019s mother, whose first reaction was to look up \u201cgunshot\u201d on WebMD. She decided not to take her son to Mainland Medical Center until seven hours later. Deborah Tagle was charged, along with the shooter, for injury to a child.<\/p>\n

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News That Sounds Like a Joke<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 In May, before Edward Snowden began releasing his previously classified document cache, the American Civil Liberties Union released reports of its attempts to learn some of the same information from the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act. Two of the documents, that amounted to 69 pages, were completely \u201credacted\u201d \u2014 that is, solid black boxes covering the entirety of every page except for the page numbers and document title.<\/p>\n

\u2014 A June performance-art street demonstration in Glastonbury, England, got out of hand when a spectator took offense at one of the characters, who was dressed as a giant penis. The performer was promoting a show by the troupe Nomadic Academy of Fools. The bystander grabbed the penis costume. The performer\u2019s colleague, Joanne Tremarco, who was dressed as a giant vagina, went to his defense, trying to calm the bystander until police arrived.<\/p>\n

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The Redneck Chronicles<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Police in York, Pa., arrested Karen Harrelson, 48, and Gregory Stambaugh, 57, because they couldn\u2019t figure out which one started a knife fight. The fight was about which contestant (Candice or Kree) deserved to win this year\u2019s American Idol. The two had stabbed each other with the same knife.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dewayne Eddy, 54, was charged in Yuba County, Calif., with beating his adult daughter with folding lawn chairs and a can of beans after he discovered that a bolt was missing in the chicken coop in his yard.<\/p>\n

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A News Of The Weird Classic \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In April, 2009, the district attorney in Vilas County, Wis., announced that he was seeking volunteers to take a forensic test to help strengthen his case against Douglas Plude, 42, who was scheduled to stand trial for the second time in the death of his wife. The volunteers had to be female, stand about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weigh 140 pounds. They had to stick their heads into a toilet bowl and flush. Plude was charged with drowning his wife in a commode. His version (which the prosecutor tried to show was improbable) was that his wife committed suicide by flushing herself.<\/p>\n

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The Weirdo-American Community<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ronald Rock, 31, was arrested in Malone, N.Y., after surveillance video convinced police he was the man at a Sears store who told a female stranger he loved her shoes and wanted to buy a pair for his mother. He asked if she would take one off shoe to show him. Rock then stuffed the shoe down his pants. Malone is within 25 miles of the small town of Massena, which was the site of the man caught on video stuffing a Hannaford\u2019s pepperoni down his pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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