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    Quote Originally Posted by bermstalker View Post
    Man accused of drunkenly strolling down a road in Maine wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a clown mask and brandishing a machete taped to his amputated arm has been arrested.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStor...social_fb_abcn

    Oh just let the one armed man have a little fun!

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    http://nypost.com/2017/07/26/teacher...stress-relief/


    His public shaming was ruled punishment enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bermstalker View Post
    Man accused of drunkenly strolling down a road in Maine wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a clown mask and brandishing a machete taped to his amputated arm has been arrested.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStor...social_fb_abcn
    I removed the image but just wanted to comment that we have some freakishly weird people living in my state. This proves it. This isn't too far from me. If I had seen it, I would have run like a mother fucker and screamed like a girl.
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    Uhm, wtf? How is his public shaming ruled as punishment enough? How are they letting him keep teaching? To say his behaviour is the "less serious end of the spectrum", so that means it's okay for him to continue to be around children? Are they really that stupid? This dude is clearly a sexual predator, one that they could actually attempt to stop before he actually offends. That is, if he hasn't already. He's very clearly trying to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by raisedbywolves View Post
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/09...-upstairs.html

    'Nightmare house' Zillow listing tells buyers: Don't ask about mysterious occupant upstairs



    zillow listing: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7...11213633_zpid/
    It's just Alf.

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    Quote Originally Posted by raisedbywolves View Post
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/09...-upstairs.html

    'Nightmare house' Zillow listing tells buyers: Don't ask about mysterious occupant upstairs



    zillow listing: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7...11213633_zpid/
    I...
    just...
    wtf?!?!?!?


    It says it was last sold in 1997, so unless these people have been living with a weird person the past twenty years that they inherited from the last owners, I don't understand. I have so many questions. How can they have not ever have seen them?! and how is it that they have some weird lease and don't pay rent?! Did someone leave their agoraphobic parent behind when they moved or something?!

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    I'll try to find it, but I'm pretty sure this is the house where the "mysterious tenant" is just an older man who lives there that they used to rent the room or, but the owner is now having some health problems or something and they don't want to kick the guy out.


    ETA: Found it, and I was close.

    Turns out, the occupant is not that mysterious at all.

    The State Newspaper revealed the occupant is Columbia, South Carolina native Randall McKissick, 70, a once world-renowned artist who has fallen on hard times. The man, whose painting still hangs in at Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, has lost his spark for painting.

    “I lost the spark. I don’t know how to get it back,” he told the newspaper.

    A childhood friend allowed him to rent a room in his upstairs home free of charge. But the owner, Michael Schumpert Sr., had a car wreck in December and his family is forced to try and sell the house. Schumpert’s son, Michael, wrote the listing.

    “We don’t really have much choice but to sell the house; my parents need to sell it,” Schumpert Jr. said. “But it’s been in the family for so long, we don’t really want to. And we want Randy to be able to stay there.”

    The house has since been taken off the market and the Zillow description has been changed. McKissick’s two daughters are looking for a new place for the artist to live.
    http://myfox8.com/2017/05/16/mysteri...ting-revealed/
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    Because they are probably not ghetto and hood like me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Words Words View Post
    I'll try to find it, but I'm pretty sure this is the house where the "mysterious tenant" is just an older man who lives there that they used to rent the room or, but the owner is now having some health problems or something and they don't want to kick the guy out.


    ETA: Found it, and I was close.



    http://myfox8.com/2017/05/16/mysteri...ting-revealed/
    Bah, a ghost would have been way better!

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    I'm sorry I ruined everything

    When I first read it I was thinking like a huge animal or something...
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    Because they are probably not ghetto and hood like me.

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    NASA is hiring someone to protect Earth from aliens.
    http://www.wltx.com/news/nation-now/...iens/461545636

    I'm sorry, but $124,406 to $187,000 annually doesn't really sound like much for someone who must have "advanced knowledge of Planetary Protection" and the laundry list of other qualifications required.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jlawrence View Post
    http://www.wltx.com/news/nation-now/...iens/461545636

    I'm sorry, but $124,406 to $187,000 annually doesn't really sound like much for someone who must have "advanced knowledge of Planetary Protection" and the laundry list of other qualifications required.
    I've read hitchickers guide to the galaxy. Perhaps I should review and apply. I imagine we could just set up a giant PA system on the edge of the atmosphere and beam vogon poetry out into space on a loop.
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    This was an almost lethal fish kissing incident. Whenever I've seen fish kissing, it involves tightly pursed lips.

    I can only assume this man decided to attempt a gaping, open-mouthed fish kiss - how the fuck else could it get into his mouth?

    http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2...t?cid=trending

    A fisherman suffered cardiac arrest after a 15cm Dover sole jumped down his throat as he tried to kiss it, according to paramedics.
    By Riley Morgan
    13 HOURS AGO UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO

    South Western Ambulance Service said medics were called after an angler received the shock of his life when he attempted kiss a 15-centimetre Dover sole fish in celebration before it jumped down his throat.

    The 28-year-old fisherman caught the prized fish off a pier in Bournemouth, southern England, and as tradition decided to kiss his prize.

    However, the Dover managed to wriggle out of his hands and jump down the his throat stopping his breathing and causing cardiac arrest.

    Friends attempted to resuscitate the 28-year-old before paramedics were able to pull the 15cm fish from the man's throat and save his life.

    "It was clear that we needed to get the fish out or this patient was not going to survive the short journey to Royal Bournemouth Hospital," ambulance paramedic Matt Harrison told the BBC.

    "I was acutely aware that I only had one attempt at getting this right as if I lost grip or a piece broke off and it slid further out of sight then there was nothing more that we could have done to retrieve the obstruction."

    Paramedic Matt Harrison said he tried to remove the fish with forceps "although the fish's barbs and gills were getting stuck on the way back up". On the sixth attempt he managed to extract it whole.

    The ambulance service said the man, who has not been identified, suffered "no lasting effects" from the mishap.

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    I didn't know fish kissing was a thing that happened.
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    Quote Originally Posted by animosity View Post
    I didn't know fish kissing was a thing that happened.
    I actually had a northern pike bite me on the lip when I went to kiss it before release. It bled.
    Gooble goble gooble goble one of us one of us. t(-_-)t

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    Quote Originally Posted by animosity View Post
    I didn't know fish kissing was a thing that happened.
    Quote Originally Posted by puke View Post
    I actually had a northern pike bite me on the lip when I went to kiss it before release. It bled.
    I've kissed plenty of frogs but I'll damn sure never kiss a fish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blighted star View Post
    This was an almost lethal fish kissing incident. Whenever I've seen fish kissing, it involves tightly pursed lips.

    I can only assume this man decided to attempt a gaping, open-mouthed fish kiss - how the fuck else could it get into his mouth?

    http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2...t?cid=trending
    Quote Originally Posted by animosity View Post
    I didn't know fish kissing was a thing that happened.
    BAHAHHAH

    I'm a fish kisser - if they're too little, you kiss them then throw them back in!
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    gangsta rap does not help the youth
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    DONT MAKE ME FUCK YOUR BITCH THAT PUSSY POPPIN

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    Quote Originally Posted by daisylane View Post
    BAHAHHAH

    I'm a fish kisser - if they're too little, you kiss them then throw them back in!
    Noooo - fuck fish kissing - what if Mr Fishy shares one of his little parasite friends with you?

    Behold the tongue-eating louse





    Humans have it easy with glandular fever

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    Quote Originally Posted by blighted star View Post
    Noooo - fuck fish kissing - what if Mr Fishy shares one of his little parasite friends with you?

    Behold the tongue-eating louse





    Humans have it easy with glandular fever
    These photos remind me of the movie "the bay". Fucking fish parasites. Ew.
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    "Say, you know who could handle this penis? MY MOTHER."

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    Quote Originally Posted by blighted star View Post
    Noooo - fuck fish kissing - what if Mr Fishy shares one of his little parasite friends with you?

    Behold the tongue-eating louse





    Humans have it easy with glandular fever
    YOU HAVE RUINED MY LIFE HAHAHHAHAHAHA FUCK

    But really, I will cease haaha
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    gangsta rap does not help the youth
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    DONT MAKE ME FUCK YOUR BITCH THAT PUSSY POPPIN

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    Quote Originally Posted by blighted star View Post
    Noooo - fuck fish kissing - what if Mr Fishy shares one of his little parasite friends with you?

    Behold the tongue-eating louse


    Humans have it easy with glandular fever

    ugh. I avoid anything that even mentions these things because just the sight of them makes me sick. I hate you right now.
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    I had trouble figuring out where to post this monstrosity but decided that "Weird & Bizarre" is 100% the most fitting description
    Attached Images Attached Images

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    Quote Originally Posted by blighted star View Post
    I had trouble figuring out where to post this monstrosity but decided that "Weird & Bizarre" is 100% the most fitting description
    It looks like a rotten tree that fell in the woods 10 years ago.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jolly Roger View Post
    Why?

    Because I don't like anal penetration sex between men, I don't.

    Just because I don't like anal sex, doesn't make me any less gay or unable to be loved.

    I can't be the only one out here, I'm just not. Don't worry about it. Mind your fucking business.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Music View Post
    It looks like a rotten tree that fell in the woods 10 years ago.
    A rotten tree that fell in the woods 10 yrs ago, but a hundred years earlier there was a tsunami that washed half of a giant clam shell into the exact position the tree would fall.

    & then 8 yrs after the tree miraculously fell into the hundred year old tsunami-dumped clam, a pumpkin infestation started growing at exactly the same spot & also attacked the clam.

    Later, someone discovered it in the woods & was so struck by it's beauty that they decided their only option was to tear open an early 20th century mattress & spread chunks of nasty straw innards over it as an adornment.




    & then a Trump mistook it for credible art.

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    30 years ago: A powerful video prankster could become Max Jailroom

    On Sunday, Nov. 22, 1987, viewers watching "Doctor Who" on WTTW-TV experienced one of the oddest things ever to cross Chicago televisions: a 90-second hijacking of the airwaves, featuring a person dressed as Max Headroom. This is the Tribune's original report about the prankster, who has never been identified.

    An off-color skit starring a bare-bottomed imitator of television character Max Headroom showed up on Chicago-area TV screens Sunday night, evidently the work of a sophisticated video pirate with an unsophisticated sense of humor.

    Officials of the Federal Communications Commission were not amused as they searched Monday for clues to the identity of the pirate, who somehow managed to override the signals of two television stations in two hours.

    The bizarre 1 1/2-minute skit, which ended with "Max" pulling down his pants and getting paddled with a fly swatter, interrupted a WTTW (Channel 11) broadcast of the British science fiction series "Dr. Who" at 11:10 p.m.

    Two hours earlier, the "Max" character made an unauthorized 28-second appearance in the middle of a newscast on WGN (Channel 9), but was zapped by an alert engineer before the imposter could do anything offensive.

    Television engineers speculated that the stations had been victimized by a practical joker with an expensive transmitter. They said it would take extremely high-powered equipment to squeeze out the microwave signals that carry the programs from the stations' Northwest Side studios to downtown skyscrapers, where they are retransmitted to television sets throughout the Chicago area.

    "You need a significant amount of power to do that," said Robert Strutzel, WGN's director of engineering, who was reluctant to discuss the prank in detail for fear of providing a "how to" guide for others. "The interfering signal has to be quite strong."

    "This guy had to have quite a rig," said Larry Inman, chief engineer of an Urbana station, WILL-TV. "Transmitters with Bears game on WGN's newscast. A character wearing a Max Headroom mask gyrated for almost half a minute but did not make audible sounds.

    Strutzel said an engineer quickly changed the frequency of the signal that was transmitting the news show to the Hancock building, thus breaking the lock established by the video pirate. Sports reporter Dan Rohn apologized for the interference and continued the sports report.

    Two hours later, a "Dr. Who" episode called "Horror of Fang Rock" on Channel 11 was interrupted by wobbling black and white lines.

    Then the character in the "Max Headroom" mask appeared and swayed back and forth while saying a number of barely audible words.

    Among the words that could be heard were "Chuck Swirsky" (the name of a WGN sportscaster), "TV studio," "great newspaper" and "but it's dirty." "Max" picked up a can of Pepsi-Cola (the real Max Headroom advertises Coca-Cola) and threw it away, then picked up another can and threw it away.

    He then put on what looked like a glove.

    "Max" bent over, exposed his bare buttocks and was paddled several times by a fly swatter that appeared to be wielded by a woman standing off camera.

    "By the time our people began looking into what was going on, it was over," said Anders Yocum, vice president for corporate communications at Channel 11. "Initially, we checked our internal video sources before thinking about something from the outside.

    "We've spent most of today figuring out what we can do to prevent this sort of thing in the future, and we believe we will be able to avoid it," he said.

    Channel 9 officials said they, too, were studying ways to improve security over their broadcast signal.

    The legitimate Max Headroom, a wisecracking, stuttering, computer-generated character, originated on British television in 1985.

    His own American prime-time television show, carried on ABC, was canceled earlier this year.

    The original story line for the Max character involved a futuristic world dominated by television, where video piracy-such as what occurred Sunday night-was punishable by death.

    Video piracy in the U.S. carries a criminal penalty of up to $10,000 in fines and up to one year in prison, an FCC official said.

    "We consider this a serious matter," said Maureen Peratino, the FCC's deputy director for public affairs.

    She said she was unaware of any previous thefts of a TV station's signal. The most celebrated case of video piracy occurred in April, 1986, when a pirate calling himself "Captain Midnight" intercepted the satellite transmission of Home Box Office, a cable television programmer, and broadcast a message criticizing the company for scrambling its signal to prevent non-subscribers from receiving it on privately owned satellite dishes.

    Captain Midnight later was identified as John R. MacDougall, a satellite dish salesman from Ocala, Fla. He was fined $5,000 and sentenced to a year's probation.

    In October, 1985, an electronic bandit overpowered the signal of the popular Wally Phillips show on WGN-AM radio and made sexually explicit comments.
    Gooble goble gooble goble one of us one of us. t(-_-)t

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    Quote Originally Posted by puke View Post
    30 years ago: A powerful video prankster could become Max Jailroom

    On Sunday, Nov. 22, 1987, viewers watching "Doctor Who" on WTTW-TV experienced one of the oddest things ever to cross Chicago televisions: a 90-second hijacking of the airwaves, featuring a person dressed as Max Headroom. This is the Tribune's original report about the prankster, who has never been identified.

    An off-color skit starring a bare-bottomed imitator of television character Max Headroom showed up on Chicago-area TV screens Sunday night, evidently the work of a sophisticated video pirate with an unsophisticated sense of humor.

    Officials of the Federal Communications Commission were not amused as they searched Monday for clues to the identity of the pirate, who somehow managed to override the signals of two television stations in two hours.

    The bizarre 1 1/2-minute skit, which ended with "Max" pulling down his pants and getting paddled with a fly swatter, interrupted a WTTW (Channel 11) broadcast of the British science fiction series "Dr. Who" at 11:10 p.m.

    Two hours earlier, the "Max" character made an unauthorized 28-second appearance in the middle of a newscast on WGN (Channel 9), but was zapped by an alert engineer before the imposter could do anything offensive.

    Television engineers speculated that the stations had been victimized by a practical joker with an expensive transmitter. They said it would take extremely high-powered equipment to squeeze out the microwave signals that carry the programs from the stations' Northwest Side studios to downtown skyscrapers, where they are retransmitted to television sets throughout the Chicago area.

    "You need a significant amount of power to do that," said Robert Strutzel, WGN's director of engineering, who was reluctant to discuss the prank in detail for fear of providing a "how to" guide for others. "The interfering signal has to be quite strong."

    "This guy had to have quite a rig," said Larry Inman, chief engineer of an Urbana station, WILL-TV. "Transmitters with Bears game on WGN's newscast. A character wearing a Max Headroom mask gyrated for almost half a minute but did not make audible sounds.

    Strutzel said an engineer quickly changed the frequency of the signal that was transmitting the news show to the Hancock building, thus breaking the lock established by the video pirate. Sports reporter Dan Rohn apologized for the interference and continued the sports report.

    Two hours later, a "Dr. Who" episode called "Horror of Fang Rock" on Channel 11 was interrupted by wobbling black and white lines.

    Then the character in the "Max Headroom" mask appeared and swayed back and forth while saying a number of barely audible words.

    Among the words that could be heard were "Chuck Swirsky" (the name of a WGN sportscaster), "TV studio," "great newspaper" and "but it's dirty." "Max" picked up a can of Pepsi-Cola (the real Max Headroom advertises Coca-Cola) and threw it away, then picked up another can and threw it away.

    He then put on what looked like a glove.

    "Max" bent over, exposed his bare buttocks and was paddled several times by a fly swatter that appeared to be wielded by a woman standing off camera.

    "By the time our people began looking into what was going on, it was over," said Anders Yocum, vice president for corporate communications at Channel 11. "Initially, we checked our internal video sources before thinking about something from the outside.

    "We've spent most of today figuring out what we can do to prevent this sort of thing in the future, and we believe we will be able to avoid it," he said.

    Channel 9 officials said they, too, were studying ways to improve security over their broadcast signal.

    The legitimate Max Headroom, a wisecracking, stuttering, computer-generated character, originated on British television in 1985.

    His own American prime-time television show, carried on ABC, was canceled earlier this year.

    The original story line for the Max character involved a futuristic world dominated by television, where video piracy-such as what occurred Sunday night-was punishable by death.

    Video piracy in the U.S. carries a criminal penalty of up to $10,000 in fines and up to one year in prison, an FCC official said.

    "We consider this a serious matter," said Maureen Peratino, the FCC's deputy director for public affairs.

    She said she was unaware of any previous thefts of a TV station's signal. The most celebrated case of video piracy occurred in April, 1986, when a pirate calling himself "Captain Midnight" intercepted the satellite transmission of Home Box Office, a cable television programmer, and broadcast a message criticizing the company for scrambling its signal to prevent non-subscribers from receiving it on privately owned satellite dishes.

    Captain Midnight later was identified as John R. MacDougall, a satellite dish salesman from Ocala, Fla. He was fined $5,000 and sentenced to a year's probation.

    In October, 1985, an electronic bandit overpowered the signal of the popular Wally Phillips show on WGN-AM radio and made sexually explicit comments.



    Tiny hands, seems to hate liberals. I think that narrows it down to one family.

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