Weird News

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/992343.html

NEW YORK - An entrepreneur has decided to have fun with the U.S. presidential campaign by marketing condoms featuring images of the candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

Benjamin Sherman, who created the company Practice Safe Policy, says the Obama condom carries the slogan "Use With Good Judgment."

The McCain version says "Old But Not Expired" - a reference to the candidate's relatively old age of 71.
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According to the Web site, McCain condoms are battle-tested, strong and durable, for those occasions when "you just need to switch your position"!

While the company can't guarantee the condoms are 100 percent effective, it says it's certain that without wearing one, there's likely to be an Obama-Mama in your future.

[ZenGum]

What, hasn't everyone always wanted to do this?

OSAKA, Nov. 24 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A man was arrested Monday in the act of spreading hundreds of worms inside a train running across Osaka Prefecture, local police said.

Manabu Mizuta, a 35-year-old company employee who is suspected of deliberately obstructing railway operations by his act, was quoted as saying, "It was fun to watch other passengers freak out when they looked at the creepy worms wiggling their way (inside the train)."

At the time of his arrest, Mizuta had about 3,600 worms contained in small, photographic film cases in his bag, the police said.

The incident took place as the train was traveling on the Keihan line through the city of Neyagawa around 10:05 a.m.

The suspect, a resident of Hyogo Prefecture, is believed to have scattered about 200 mealworms, the larva of the darkling beetle, a feeder insect for birds. The railway car was cleaned immediately but the train was delayed by about three minutes, according to the police.

Since earlier this month larvae have frequently been found inside Keihan trains, so railroad police officers have been put on alert.

And as for "cleaned in three minutes", I believe that. I have seen the "vomit squad" do a subway car - four men to wipe excess vomit off the seat, mop the floor, remove the seat cushions and install new ones, and spray air freshener ... in less than 60 seconds (I'd say closer to 30). In Japan, the trains run on time.

[ZenGum]

Not really weird but very very dumb.

AN Adelaide driver faces police charges after a video of him doing a burnout in a company ute was posted on the YouTube website.
After receiving a tip-off, police tracked down the motorist because the name and phone number of an auto parts company was emblazoned on the driver's door and clearly shown in the clip.

Traffic Enforcement Section officers visited the business on Friday, and after interviewing a middle-aged man, charged him with "misuse of a motor vehicle due to a sustained tail spin".

The utility was also immediately seized and impounded under the State Government's tough hoon driver laws.

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Not really weird but very very dumb.

Do you reckon that bloke still has a job? lol