Weird News

[ZenGum]

N Korea seeks $65 trillion in compensation

Cash-strapped North Korea has demanded the United States pay almost $US65 trillion in compensation for six decades of hostility.

The official North Korean news agency, KCNA, says the cost of the damage done by the US since the peninsula was divided in 1945 is estimated at $US64.96 trillion.

The compensation call comes on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the start of the 1950-1953 Korean War.

KCNA said the figure includes $US26.1 trillion arising from US "atrocities" which left more than 5 million North Koreans dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing.

The agency also claims 60 years of US sanctions have caused a loss of $US13.7 trillion by 2005, while property losses were estimated at $US16.7 trillion.

The agency said North Koreans have "the justifiable right" to receive the compensation for their blood.

It said the committee's calculation did not include the damage North Korea had suffered from sanctions after its first nuclear test in 2006.

- AFP

Those wacky NorKors crack me up.

You guys better pay up, I hear they have a really good lawyer.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

You guys better pay up, I hear they have a really good lawyer.

Kim Jong-ilberg

[xoxoxoBruce]

Man Kills Toddler For Crying During World Cup Match, cops say
McALLEN, Texas -- Police have arrested a man accused of fatally beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter when she wouldn't stop crying as he watched a World Cup game. McAllen police say 27-year-old Hector Castro was charged Monday with murder. He was being held on $1 million bail.

Firefighters and emergency medical personnel had been called to the house Saturday in reference to the girl's apparent choking on a screw, McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said. But after a cursory examination of the girl, whose name was not released by police, it was clear the screw had nothing to do with her death, police said.
"There are no words for this," said Rodriguez. "It makes you want to think about doing lots of things to this guy, but he will face the criminal justice system just like everybody else."
Castro, an undocumented immigrant, gave investigators a confession that implicated himself in the girl's death, Rodriguez said. Police Chief Victor Rodriguez says Castro told investigators that the toddler wouldn't stop crying while he was trying to watch the U.S.-Ghana matchup on Saturday.

I'm thankful Texas still has the death penalty.

[classicman]

"Castro, an undocumented immigrant"

Sorry Bruce, but he ain't gonna fry ... even thought he's an asshat that deserves much worse than death.

[SamIam]

I thought that undocumented aliens had to obey the law the same as everyone else and faced the same penalties if they don't. What? Has Texas made an exception for them?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by SamIam

I thought that undocumented aliens had to obey the law the same as everyone else and faced the same penalties if they don't. What? Has Texas made an exception for them?

Not only are they "undocumented", they are also illegal and are breaking US law by being here "undocumented".

[SamIam]

If you do some checking you will discover that illegal aliens are clearly subject to US jurisdiction while on our soil. They are punished for the crimes they commit here in the US exactly the way a US citizen would be. The only difference is that once an illegal has served his jail term, he gets deported.

Merc, I never said illegal aliens weren't breaking the law by being here undocumented. Of course they are.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by SamIam

If you do some checking you will discover that illegal aliens are clearly subject to US jurisdiction while on our soil. They are punished for the crimes they commit here in the US exactly the way a US citizen would be. The only difference is that once an illegal has served his jail term, he gets deported.

Merc, I never said illegal aliens weren't breaking the law by being here undocumented. Of course they are.

Pardon my slip from civility....

I detest the PC term "undocumented" when in fact they are criminals by being here illegally.

Don't confuse that with my full understanding that they have and continue to make a significant contribution to our society. IMHO the issue is much bigger than the simple assessment of contributions members of our social strata make to the whole.

Again, I apologize for draging the threads of another issue to this discussion, since that is now taboo.

[classicman]

I dunno, I think they may get deported.

[TheMercenary]

K

[morethanpretty]

The 91-year-old widow lived by herself in a tumbledown house on a desolate country road. But she wasn't alone, not really, not as long as she could visit her husband and twin sister.
Pennsylvania cops discover an elderly woman living with mummified human remains.

No matter they were already dead. Jean Stevens simply had their embalmed corpses dug up and stored them at her house — in the case of her late husband, for more than a decade — tending to the remains as best she could until police were finally tipped off last month.

Yeah, this is just a little weird...

LINK

[Griff]

In defense of my neighbor, I'd put her weirdness on par with pumping bodies full of formaldehyde and planting them in large groups. People are funny about death, I'm just not sure societies approved coping mechanisms are any better than one persons odd decision.

[classicman]

How long did it take you to call the authorities Griff?
I mean really - how many times were you at her parties saying
"I'll just get Dad and I another drink?" Ya lush!

[HungLikeJesus]

I don't think Griff would say "Dad and I" in that way.

[Griff]

A pic of Dad and I.