From absurd laws to oddities, through freaks and geeks, weird festival, habits and many other strange things.... Here is a nice gallery about the strangest news available on the web.
"Around the world almost three hundred dead are waiting to come back to life in refrigerated boxes. From the early pioneers billionaires of the sixties to the citizens of more modest economic means who refuse at all costs the idea of death, they all have the hope that science will one day - or a thousand years among 50 - to undo the effects of death, considering only a "disease" reversible.
The "hibernated" (from cryonics, that is, the technique of hibernation corpses) paid from 12,000 to 200,000 dollars to have "the chance to avoid death," using one of the three existing institutions (Alcor and the Cryonics Institute Kriorus ) specialize in worldwide...."
"A Florida woman called 911 three times after she paid for a 10-piece Chicken McNuggets at a McDonald's but the fast-food restaurant ran out of them and refused to give her a refund.
Latreasa L. Goodman, 27, made the calls after she tried to get her money back from a Fort Pierce McDonald's and the cashier told her all sales were final. Police released the 911 tapes.
"This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one," police quoted her as saying. "This is an emergency."
The cashier suggested she choose something else off the menu of equal value to the McNuggets, and offered the restaurant's cheeseburger called the McDouble.
"She's trying to force me to eat something off the menu and I don't want it," Goodman told 911."
"Waving at the high school bus and our now eighteen year old son."
"Our son, Rain, is now 18 and serving as an LDS missionary in Liberia, West Africa. We continue this blog with stories and photos from his effort there, and our life without him here."
He spent the whole year, wearing different costumes and waving to his son's school bus.
"A family in Portland, Oregon (no this is not a Portlandia sketch) have called 911 on their family pet — a 10+ kilo black and white Himalayan cat named Lux — in what can only be described as "kind of a particular emergency." The man calling explains to the operator that Lux had attacked his 7-month-old baby (who is fine, and only suffered "puncture wounds") which led him to kick the cat "in the butt," which just made the fat cat lose it and go feral on his owners, trapping them in a bedroom and attacking them any time they tried to leave. Cue 911 call.
After a very distinctive exchange with the operator ("He's try to attack us. He's very very very very hostile,") police were eventually sent to the premises. Officers said the cat attempted to "flee custody" once they arrived. They used a dog snare on Lux (without injury) who was then placed in a crate. The Portland Police Bureau said, "The cat remained behind bars in the custody of the family and officers cleared the scene and continued to fight crime elsewhere in the city." Glad to hear those streets of Portland are keeping free of enraged cats. MAYBE NEXT TIME YOU WON'T KICK YOUR CAT."
"John Gardener died weeks after his 40th birthday from a heart attack caused by a septic infection, which he contracted from his extreme nail biting habit. He bit his nails until it killed him. A 40-year-old British man had such a chronic nail biting habit that it led to a fatal infection, an inquest into his death found. John Gardener, from Lancashire, contracted septicemia because the skin around his fingernails was constantly open to the point of bleeding, doctors said, according to a report in the Mirror. The blood infection affected his heart, triggering a heart attack days after his 40th birthday. He died in the hospital after doctors worked for two weeks to save him."
Read more on:www.nydailynews.com
"A monster asteroid measuring 98ft across will streak between the Earth and moon at astonishing speeds of 32,076 mph tonight. The Apollo class asteroid – around the same size as two double-decker buses – flew within 218,000 miles of us. Named 2014 DX110, it will be closest to our planet at about 9:07pm and will be visible to stargazers."
