Weird News

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A friend of mine moved to Texas from Pennsylvania in the middle of high school, and due to the differences between the two states' curriculum layout, she ended up having to retake several subjects.

She was utterly flabbergasted at how differently the Civil War was presented in the north vs. the south. And ours was a pretty liberal high school in the middle of a liberal city--certainly no one tried to justify slavery to us the way the Washington Post writer describes experiencing several decades earlier. Nonetheless, from what she told us it was still taught vastly differently in our part of the country.

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A white kids from South Africa moved to my school in the UK when he was about 15. He was astounded to learn we all thought apartheid was evil and that there were sanctions against SA because of it. He thought without white governance, the blacks would all be savages and apartheid was better for both races. Other than that, he was a nice kid

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Wasn't it here that someone was saying, they went to China and wanted to visit Tiananmen Square, and their Chinese hosts were first confused as to why this traveller would even know the name of such an insignificant plaza, and then were really blown away to learn that in the Western world it was considered the site of a major historical tragedy.

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Read in the weekly wipe obits about a lady that lived her entire adult life in ___, MS.
Working for _____. Then 30 years for _______. Folks, that's what is called a productive life.

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The !@#$%^ Ducks again http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...l#incart_river

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Giant Rubber Duck Bursts

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from Nov 12, 2013

Prolly just a bunch o' weirdos...

ALBANY, NY—According to the results of a comprehensive, year-long study published Tuesday, researchers have confirmed that there are some people who live in Pennsylvania. “A careful examination of the evidence we collected has led us to conclude that certain people—some male, some female—make their home in the state of Pennsylvania,” said the report’s lead author, Ryan Armstrong, noting that such individuals may be adults or children, and may reside in northern Pennsylvania, southern Pennsylvania, eastern Pennsylvania, or western Pennsylvania. “When directly asked where they live, many people we spoke with told us Pennsylvania. However, there were others who, when asked the same question, named completely different places, such as Ohio, New Hampshire, or Buffalo. This would seem to indicate that while some people do indeed live in Pennsylvania, not everyone lives in Pennsylvania.” Researchers added that if actor Tom Hanks were to purchase a home in Pennsylvania and move into that home, then Tom Hanks would be someone who lives in Pennsylvania, but this is currently not the case.

~The Onion

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Meanwhile, in Kentucky:

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Just how cold is it in Kentucky? Apparently cold enough for an escaped prisoner to decide to turn himself in.

Authorities said the inmate escaped from a minimum security facility in Lexington on Sunday. As temperatures dropped into the low single digits Monday, officials say the man walked into a motel and asked the clerk to call police.

Robert Vick, 42, of Hartford told the clerk he wanted to turn himself in and escape the arctic air, Lexington police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts said.

Vick was checked out by paramedics and returned to Blackburn Correctional Complex, Roberts said.

"This was definitely of his own volition," she said. "It's cold out there, too cold to run around. I can understand why the suspect would turn himself in."

Vick would have been dressed in prison-issued khaki pants, a shirt and a jacket when he escaped, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Lamb said. Wind chill readings were 20 below zero Monday in Lexington.

The Lexington Fire Department treated Vick for hypothermia Monday evening, Roberts said. A call to the department was not immediately returned Tuesday morning.

Vick was serving a six-year sentence for burglary and criminal possession of a forged instrument at the time of the escape from Blackburn Correctional Center.

There was no answer at the Sunset Motel and Restaurant, where Roberts said Vick surrendered, on Tuesday morning.

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from YahooNews

Consider: On the morning of Jan. 4, Jennifer McCarthy, 48, a Santa Fe, N.M., artist and former wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy, was arrested on felony assault charges after her boyfriend claimed she threatened him and pulled a Smith & Wesson handgun out of her vagina, according to a Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department document published by The Smoking Gun.

The boyfriend, whose name was redacted in the arrest report, told a sheriff’s deputy the couple had argued and that McCarthy had left the residence, then returned and went into her bedroom. Shortly thereafter, the boyfriend told the officer, she emerged from the bedroom “wearing lingerie and a silver handgun in her vagina.” The boyfriend told the cops that McCarthy then “started to have inner course [sic] with the gun and stated, ‘Who is crazy, you or me?’"

It was at that point, the boyfriend told the deputy, that “Jennifer pulled the gun out and pointed the gun at his head.” The boyfriend told the officer that he grabbed the gun and threw it in the toilet, and when McCarthy tried to retrieve it, he “put it in the trash can outside.”

Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Zook, the investigating officer, reported that he did find a gun in a trash can.

McCarthy’s version, according to Deputy Zook’s report, differed considerably from the boyfriend’s. “She stated they started to yell at each other and he told her not to touch him again,” Deputy Zook reported. “Jennifer advised she touched his shoulder with her index finger to aggravate him… Jennifer stated she was not in fear of [the boyfriend] straggling [sic] her or hurting her by putting his hand on her neck. Jennifer advised [the boyfriend] put his hand on her neck to keep her away from him. Jennifer informed me she did have a gun at the time and is unsure where it’s located. She advised the gun has been missing for a while.”

McCarthy, who divorced Cormac McCarthy in 2006 after eight years of marriage, was “booked on Aggravated Assault on a Household member,” according to Zook’s report. She is the mother of the boy said to be the model for the child in McCarthy’s novel The Road.

The original dispute that led to the arrest? According to the arresting officer, the couple was arguing over … space aliens.

Well, see, now it makes sense...

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Re: The Corvette Sinkhole

I'm watching the Corvette Museum webcam, I think they're about to lift out the black ZR-1 Spyder rfn. It looks pretty damn smushed.


ETA: The above link is for Skydome Camera 1. Skydome camera 3 may be where the car will be set down, and thus your best view of the carnage.<--See what I did there?

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Thanks. I tuned in just in time.

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It's out, and gone. Pics to come.

I wasn't lying:

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Fire Station closed due to beard growth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...tland-25884196

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Lost Mexican fisherman shows up in the Marshall Islands after 14 months adrift, with really long hair and a long beard. And US taxpayers give him a haircut. You'll never believe what he looks like afterwards.

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***Pic and vid at the link is prolly NSFW*** (it's a man's ass)

ATTN PENNSYLJERSEY:

These are your people.

“Oh, he was most definitely making himself feel happy.”