Weird News

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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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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.”

[xoxoxoBruce]

Obviously he got stuck on the ice and is melting it with pee. Nothing to see here, move along.

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Well, that's just using common sense right there.

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Sinkhole Inside Corvette Museum Swallows Eight (8) Corvettes



Authorities allowed museum officials to remove the world's only 1983 Corvette from the Dome.

List of Known Casualties:

1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors
2009 ZR1 “Blue Devil” on loan from General Motors
1962 Black Corvette
1984 PPG Pace Car
1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette
1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette
2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette
2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette



No one was injured.

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The Skydome camera is down at the moment, but keep checking here, you may get to see the hole on the Nat'l Corvette Museum's security camera network.

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I think the "Streaming enthusiast" camera is adjacent to the sinkhole, because I keep seeing people walking by and gaping at the open doorway that's partially blocked off with those velvet rope poles. And maintenance guys went in there with a ladder.

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All their outdoor cameras used to be PTZ cams. You could control the pan/tilt/zoom functions. I just now noticed they have removed that function. Looks like they've also replaced some of their outdoor cameras. Pretty good vid quality on the 'Front Circle', and 'Motorsports Park North & South' cams. The Motorsports Park is under construction across I-65.

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Holey museum floor, Batman!
That's a real waste. At least the lions got a meal when Marius said hej hej. These beasts went to auto-heaven with no benefit to anyone.

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Corvette Museum Skydome camera is back up. Not a hole lot to see.<---

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From the better late than never category:

Vet Shocked to Learn of Medal of Honor: 'I fell to my knees'

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...y-knees-n36171

More than four decades later, as a way to try to correct potential acts of bias spanning three wars, President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Honor on the Florida man and 23 other veterans. They come after a decade-long congressionally mandated review of minorities who may have been passed over for the U.S. military's highest honor because of long-held prejudices.