Bizzare News Stories

[OceanAnnie]

Just when you think you've read something that can't be topped, a new stranger story takes it's place. I am constantly amazed.

How about you?

 

[PUZZLDY5]

Just when you think you've read something that can't be topped, a new stranger story takes it's place. I am constantly amazed.

How about you?

Can you give more information please. This is kind of a broad subject.

 

[OceanAnnie]

Did you read about the EMT (and co-worker) that refused to care for a dying pregnant woman because he was on his (and her) coffee break? The woman and her child died. Then in an unrelated incident the same EMT was shot in the face after a night club outing and he died.

There are so many strange stories. Sad.

 

[Heidict]

Did you read about the EMT (and co-worker) that refused to care for a dying pregnant woman because he was on his (and her) coffee break? The woman and her child died. Then in an unrelated incident the same EMT was shot in the face after a night club outing and he died.

There are so many strange stories. Sad.

I remember seeing something about that yesterday. I thought they said that it was not related, as far as they knew. Are they saying something different now or are you just commenting on the absurdity of it? Maybe karma?

See weird things in the news all the time. Just when you think you have seen it all, some idiot comes along and proves you wrong.

 

[LisaNJ25]

Here is one for you

http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/...-cops-Budd-Lake-woman-hurled-eggs-at-neighbor

 

[java]

on the "unrelated" part it could be just a club fight gone bad - but they are questioning the dead woman's brother. I don't think it's going to turn out to be quite as strange as it appears now.
just sad.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Here is one for you

http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/...-cops-Budd-Lake-woman-hurled-eggs-at-neighbor

LOL, I have a rather eccentric Aunt in Budd Lake and genuinely expected to see her name in the story. This Aunt beat the tar out of some woman in NYC's Bloomies for hitting her son(my cousin), my Aunt was 9 months pregnant with her DD at the time.

The real world is way more entertaining than fiction.

 

[Arielle22]

My BIL is a police officer. He responded to a call that a couple was having sex in a parking lot in broad daylight. Not in a car but on the ground. It was on a major street as well. Passing motorists called police.

The best part was it was a half block away from the police station. It turns out the couple was homeless and high. When BIL arrived the couple was in the middle of things and had to be told to stop.

You have to be pretty far gone to think no one would complain about you having sex like this.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I remember seeing something about that yesterday. I thought they said that it was not related, as far as they knew. Are they saying something different now or are you just commenting on the absurdity of it? Maybe karma?

See weird things in the news all the time. Just when you think you have seen it all, some idiot comes along and proves you wrong.

Not that I know of. I was just commenting on how strange it is as a whole. I haven't heard of a case quite like it.

I think java is probably right. It seems likely there is more to the case. A shooting to the face seems "personal". The act and the time frame made me pause. But it's just conjecture on my part.

ETA- Thanks to those that shared more bizarre stories. Some of them make me wonder if they are real. I have to re-check my source to make sure I'm not on some tabloid site!

 

[Disney Doll]

Did you read about the EMT (and co-worker) that refused to care for a dying pregnant woman because he was on his (and her) coffee break? The woman and her child died. Then in an unrelated incident the same EMT was shot in the face after a night club outing and he died.

There are so many strange stories. Sad.

That's called karma.

 

[Catananche]

Amongst today's top stories on the BBC news website included:
"Parasailing donkey sparks probe"
"Petition to stop schools lessons in The Simpsons"
"Man's groin tasered by accident"
"Are chocolate prices rising for Christmas?"

Maybe it's a slow news day.....

 

[OceanAnnie]

Amongst today's top stories on the BBC news website included:
"Parasailing donkey sparks probe"
"Petition to stop schools lessons in The Simpsons"
"Man's groin tasered by accident"
"Are chocolate prices rising for Christmas?"

Maybe it's a slow news day.....

We have the same sort of "news". It seems like the boundaries between mainstream media and tabloids have blurred. I have to seek out what I consider mainstream news.

I did read IIRC on the BBC something about dormant accounts being "claimed". How is that going over? I'm very curious about it.

 

[Catananche]

I did read IIRC on the BBC something about dormant accounts being "claimed". How is that going over? I'm very curious about it.

I don't remember anything about that in the news recently, although it comes up now and again on consumer programmes.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I was mistaken. It was bloomburg's site. It was another bizarre article to me. I'm just curious about public reaction.

Cameron Raids Dormant U.K. Accounts as Minister Attacks Banks

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to use “hundreds of millions of pounds” from dormant bank accounts to fund community projects, while Business Secretary Vince Cable said lenders “ripped off” customers.

Cameron said he will press ahead with a proposal set out in the coalition government’s program to establish a “Big Society Bank” to finance moves by charitable groups and not-for-profit companies to take over jobs currently done by the government.

“These unclaimed assets, alongside the private-sector investment that we will leverage, will mean that the Big Society Bank will over time make available hundreds of millions of pounds of new finance to some of the most dynamic social organizations in our country,” Cameron said in a speech in Liverpool, northwest England, today.

Cameron said the idea ties in with his plans for a general overhaul of the public services, as the government tries to narrow a record budget deficit. The new Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that 490,000 public-sector jobs will be lost by April 2015.

“We’ve got to get rid of the centralized bureaucracy that wastes money and undermines morale,” Cameron said. “In its place, we’ve got to give professionals much more freedom and open up public services to new providers like charities, social enterprises and private companies so we get more innovation, diversity and responsiveness to public need.”

Existing Legislation

A law passed in 2008 under Gordon Brown’s Labour government allows the government to use money from dormant bank and building-society accounts “for social or environmental purposes.” An account is dormant if the holder has made no transactions over a period of 15 years.

The British Bankers’ Association, a lobby group, estimates that about 400 million pounds ($610 million) is unclaimed in bank accounts. The government will set up a fund to be administered by Co-operative Financial Services that will hand over money to Cameron’s Big Society Bank by the end of this year, the Treasury said. The Co-op expects as much as 100 million pounds to be disbursed.

A senior Labour lawmaker, Tessa Jowell, said in an e-mailed statement that Cameron’s proposals are “simply a brass-necked rebranding of programs already put in place.”

The coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats elected in May is maintaining pressure on the financial-services industry following the bailout of Royal Bank of Scotland Plc and Lloyds Banking Group by Labour.

Banking Probes

Parliament’s Treasury Committee announced a probe into banking to run alongside a government panel looking at the future of the industry. Cable has attacked the level of interest charged by banks, saying lenders in Britain face less competition now and can keep costs higher.

“One of the negative side effects of this crisis is that our banking system that was already very concentrated, is now even more concentrated so there’s less competition, less choice and a bigger temptation for banks to earn margins at the expense of their customers,” Cable told BBC television’s Panorama program, which will be broadcast this evening.

“When we talk about restructuring the banks, what’s going to come out of this is a more competitive system where the customers are not ripped off,” Cable said.

He went on to attack the culture of bonuses. “Unacceptable bonuses are continuing and that is something we want to try to stop,” he said. “That reflects the lack of moral compass.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-...nts-while-minister-attacks-rip-off-banks.html

 

[brasswillow]

AZ Central has a page dedicated to "Off Beat" news. Some bizarre/funny others bizarre/sad.

*1,000 runaway plastic ducks need to be rounded up
*Laptop accidentally sold for $5 at thrift store
*Authorities in Belarus disperse pillow fight

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/

 

[jlmarr]

http://www.latimes.com/features/odd-news/ktla-glendora-teen-cell-phone-porsche,0,4347733.story

Well... not directly.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Did you read about the EMT (and co-worker) that refused to care for a dying pregnant woman because he was on his (and her) coffee break? The woman and her child died. Then in an unrelated incident the same EMT was shot in the face after a night club outing and he died.

If I was that woman's husband or father of that baby, I'd make sure that ******* got his.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

http://www.hutchnews.com/OddNews/2-men-burned-in-Wash--state-methanol-explosion

You can find the oddest news on Fark.

 

[jlmarr]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/crime/detail?entry_id=68288