News Stories - Strange and Funny

[loulizlee]

Me, too.  And after reading that article, I think I would quit if I did drink. 

[jnedele]

This was a great idea!  Thank you

[loulizlee]

You're welcome.

[jcribb16]

Woman who kept dead friend in house for 18 months: 'I didn't do it to be evil'

Police in Jackson, Mich., are investigating why a 72-year-old woman kept the body of a friend in her house for more than a year and a half after he died, reportedly cleaning him and watching TV with him.

Police found the mummified body of Charles Zigler, 67, on Friday, covered with blankets in a living room recliner, in the home of his long-time friend Linda Chase, according to local media reports.
"He just went to sleep," Chase told WILX-TV.

Officers went to Chase’s house after a family member became concerned for his welfare and called police, Lt. Chris Simpson told mlive.com.

It's unclear why the family member, who was not identified, waited so long to call. Simpson did not immediately return a telephone call to msnbc.com on Wednesday for comment.

An autopsy determined Zigler died of natural causes -- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- around Christmas 2010, according to the medical examiner.

Chase admitted to police that she cashed Zigler's Social Security checks and kept his body, mlive.com reported.

Police are investigating and will submit a report to the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office for review and possible charges, including fraud, Simpson said, according to mlive.com.

The prosecutor’s office said Wednesday the police were still reviewing the case.

Chase acknowledged to reporters she should have called authorities when Zigler died, but said she wasn’t ready to let go
and didn’t want to be alone.

“That’s morbid what I did. It really is. It’s horrible,” she told WLNS-TV.

She called Zigler “my best friend” and said she could tell him “anything.”

“I knew I should have called the ambulance. I know that. I know that in my heart. I didn’t do it to be evil,” she told WLNS.

For more than a year after he died, Chase cleaned him, talked to him and watched NASCAR races on TV with him,
mlive.com reported.

Walter “Wally” Zigler said his father had been ill for years. He had emphysema and used an oxygen tank to breathe, the son told mlive.com.

Walter Zigler learned of his father’s death on Tuesday. 

“That wasn’t right to leave him lay like that,” he told mlive.com.

Walter Zigler, who lives in Jackson, said his father had worked for years in a Jackson shop and received Social Security and pension checks and veteran benefits.

He said he tried more than once to visit his father but Chase “wouldn’t let me see him,” mlive.com reported.

COMMENTARY:   WHAT THE...??

That's just the oddest thing I've heard  -  I know we see it happen in movies, but in real life?  Good grief.  I wonder why his father wouldn't have wanted to see his son... 

[lher0277]

i like this

[mjdoug03]

Love this idea and section

[trucktina]

http://pjmedia.com/blog/consumer-product-safety-commission-banning-toy-magnets/

[loulizlee]

"SEATTLE -- Mysterious crop circles have appeared in an eastern Washington wheat field – not far from the nation's largest hydropower producer – but area farmers preparing for the summer's harvest find the distraction more amusing than alarming.
"You can't do anything other than laugh about it," said Cindy Geib, who owns the field along with her husband, Greg. "You just kind of roll with the theory it's aliens and you're special because aliens chose your spot."
Friends called the Geibs on July 24 when the pattern of flattened wheat was spotted off Highway 174, about five miles north of the town of Wilbur. The field is about 10 miles south of the Grand Coulee dam, which the Bureau of Reclamation says is the largest hydropower producer in the United States.
The circles resemble a four-leaf clover and remind Cindy Geib of Mickey Mouse ears. The design knocked down about an acre of their wheat. Some of it could be salvaged by combines when the harvest starts in a week or two, she said, but some will be lost.
"Of course, we don't have alien insurance," she said."

COMMENTARY:  Maybe this would be a good idea to start a new type of business - alien insurance.

[duroz]

Well there never seems to be a lack of weird news stories. does there? 

*(I posted the link to the video after the story if anybody wants to look at it;....I never watched it myself)

Frantic Man Calls 911 While Being Dragged By Pickup Truck
'I can't hold on much longer. He's killing me,' victim tells dispatcher

A 45-year-old man in upstate New York placed a frantic 911 call Sunday as he hung from the back of a moving pickup truck.

While clinging to life, Robert Kowalik told a dispatcher, "He just hit me. I'm hanging on his truck, hurry, hurry, oh please hurry. ... He ran over my leg. He ran over my leg. I can't hold on much longer. He's killing me."

The terrifying journey lasted for at least four miles through Troy, N.Y and Brunswick, N.Y., according to a police report of the incident, which began at about 5:30 p.m. It ended in a Walmart parking lot. There, Kowalik freed himself and the pickup driver sped away.

Kowalik survived and was transported to Albany Medical Center. His injuries are not life-threatening, according to multiple reports.

Police later arrested Seth Scudds, 45, of Hoosick Falls and charged him with second-degree assault, second-degree reckless endangerment and reckless driving.

It remains unclear what role, if any, Kowalik played in the beginning of the incident. Scudds and Kowalik are acquaintances, and were involved in a dispute in a parking lot prior to the start of the drive that produced a separate call to police.

During the 911 call from Kowalik that came amid the incident, he could be heard yelling, "I want my pills back," to someone in the vehicle, according to ABC News.

It was also unclear whether Kowalik was being dragged or hanging on during portions of the incident.

http://autos.aol.com/article/frantic-man-calls-911-while-allegedly-being-dragged-by-pickup-tr/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058?test=latestnews

COMMENTARY: HOW does it ever occur to someone that a good plan would be to DRAG SOMEONE BEHIND A TRUCK?? 

[duroz]

There's ANGRY - - - - and then there's ANGRY.......

Vermont farmer angry over pot arrest is accused of crushing cop cars with tractor

MONTPELIER, Vt. –  Working in a stout former bank building with windows closed and air conditioners humming, Orleans County sheriff's deputies didn't know what was happening in their parking lot until a neighbor called 911.

A man on a big farm tractor, angry about his recent arrest for resisting arrest and marijuana possession, was rolling across their vehicles -- five marked cruisers, one unmarked car and a transport van.

By the time they ran outside, the tractor was down the driveway and out onto the road.

With their vehicles crushed, "We had nothing to pursue him with," said Chief Deputy Philip Brooks.

Thursday afternoon's incident ended when city police in Newport, the county seat of the northern Vermont county, caught up with Roger Pion, 34, a short distance away.

No one was injured. At least two deputies had gone inside a few moments before after washing their vehicles, officials said.

"Nobody was hurt. That's the thing everybody's got to cherish," said Sheriff Kirk Martin.

Brooks said late Thursday afternoon it was uncertain what new charges Pion would face. He said Pion was being held by the Vermont State Police at their barracks in nearby Derby. A dispatcher there referred questions to the sheriff's department.

Sheriffs said they did not know if Pion had a lawyer. A phone number for him could not be located.

Martin estimated damage to the vehicles at more than $300,000. Not only were their roofs and hoods caved in, "the radios are ruined, the radar detectors, the cages in the cars ... We're going to have to get the jaws of life up here to pry the trunks open and see about the rifles and shotguns," Martin said.

Brooks said the vehicles destroyed constituted more than half the fleet of sheriff's cruisers in the rural county on the Canadian border. Others were out on patrol at the time of the incident.

COMMENTARY (?):
OKAY!!    What a GREAT PLAN!! This should REALLY improve things for you when you go to court on the original arrest charges, buddy!

[loulizlee]

I agree, Duroz; there never seems to be any shortage of weird/strange news.  Even the regular news is mostly weird and strange.
Here is another one:

TEXAS WOMAN ACCUSED OF BEATING BOYFRIEND WITH STRIPPER POLE

While a stripper pole and oil might sound like the makings of a fun night, last Sunday evening did not go as planned for one Texas couple.
Sarah Howell of Killeen, Tex., has been charged with assault with bodily injury after allegedly attacking her boyfriend with a stripper pole, slapping him and pouring hot cooking oil on him. Police visited her home after receiving a call about a violent domestic disturbance, KDH News reports.
The arrest affidavit states that when police arrived at the house they found a badly scratched-up man covered in sweat and discovered Howell crying in her bedroom. Howell proceeded to tell them that her boyfriend had assaulted her.
But Howell's boyfriend's cellphone said otherwise, according to the Washington Examiner. The man had taken a video that allegedly captured Howell slapping him and pouring cooking oil on him in a rage. He says the video stops at this point because he needed to run away as his girlfriend chased him with a pink steel stripper pole.
Howell was also arrested in 2010 for assaulting her boyfriend with a gardening tool, and she has been arrested several other times since then, the Killeen Police Department told The Huffington Post. It is unclear whether the boyfriend involved in the 2010 case is the same man Howell is currently dating.
Howell was arraigned Wednesday on $5,000 bail.  (Huffington Post)

COMMENTARY:  I certainly hope this was not the same boyfriend.  I would think the earlier ones would have learned a lesson.

[duroz]

I agree, Duroz; there never seems to be any shortage of weird/strange news.  Even the regular news is mostly weird and strange.
Here is another one:

TEXAS WOMAN ACCUSED OF BEATING BOYFRIEND WITH STRIPPER POLE

COMMENTARY:  I certainly hope this was not the same boyfriend.  I would think the earlier ones would have learned a lesson.

Well, I can only ASSUME the current and/or new boyfriend(s) MUST not EVER read the news, or they would likely have heard of the woman BEFORE stepping into her spider's web....

[loulizlee]

REALTY SIGN TELLS ALL

"Elle Zober of Beaverton, Ore., wants prospective buyers to know there is nothing wrong with her house.
 Her husband, or now ex-husband, however? That's another story.
 "Husband left us for a 22 year old … House for sale by scorned, slightly bitter, newly single owner," reads the sign in front of the three-bedroom, one-bathroom home where the couple lived with their two young children.  "We loved this house. You will, too," the sign says, adding, "Adulterers need not apply."

COMMENTARY:  The only question I have is - how will they know which applicants are adulterers?  They no longer put scarlet letter A's on the foreheads of adulterers as the Puritans did.

[falcon9]

"Slightly bitter" is somewhat more than a 'slight' understatement.  Obviously, the house for sale causes wives living there to contribute to their husbands leaving them for other women and what new home-buyer wants that?

REALTY SIGN TELLS ALL

"Elle Zober of Beaverton, Ore., wants prospective buyers to know there is nothing wrong with her house.
 Her husband, or now ex-husband, however? That's another story.
 "Husband left us for a 22 year old … House for sale by scorned, slightly bitter, newly single owner," reads the sign in front of the three-bedroom, one-bathroom home where the couple lived with their two young children.  "We loved this house. You will, too," the sign says, adding, "Adulterers need not apply."

COMMENTARY:  The only question I have is - how will they know which applicants are adulterers?  They no longer put scarlet letter A's on the foreheads of adulterers as the Puritans did.

[bigfoot951]

The chick-fil-a situation is a strange and funny news story.  The gay community has supposedly responded the way they have because they want same sex marriage to be legal.  In the process the only thing they have done is to move the american people further away from accepting same sex marriage.  Strange and funny.