Weird News

[Pie]

'Tis better than other things she could be selling on the corner.


. . . What?

[classicman]

that corner is probably inside a well protected and gated community - maybe.

[skysidhe]

Probably so classic

You've got the celebrities. You have cameras and the police in a high end neighborhood where I am sure dad was lurking close by.

Maybe

I am sure kids sell lemonade in worse places.

[ZenGum]

From da Beeb:

Australian police are gearing up for an annual crackdown on motor-racing fans - limiting race-goers to 24 cans of beer a day.

Spectators at the Bathurst 1000 - a three-day race meeting staged this week - will be told to stick to just the one "slab" of beer while at the racetrack.

Wine-drinkers must also show restraint, facing a four litres per day limit.

Police hope the limits will prevent the famous New South Wales race being blighted by alcohol-related violence.

Known as "The Great Race", the Bathurst 1000 is a 1,000km (621 mile) event, the highlight of the three-day meeting held annually in the town of the same name.

Boasting a long, proud history, the race - seen as the most prestigious motor event in Australia - is currently contested by teams of drivers racing powerful touring cars equipped with V8 engines.

The "one-slab" limit was first imposed in 2007, with police insisting drunken hooligans were tarnishing the reputation of the race and causing disruption in town.

Those choosing to drink lower-strength beer will be allowed to bring in 36 cans, police said.

[Flint]

Gaffe-Prone Biden Embarrasses Nation Yet Again By Sneezing During Meeting

[Shawnee123]

"You cannot sneeze like that, the world is watching!"

[ZenGum]

One sneezes when one must.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Is that the onion or Fox news.

Anyway, in Media, PA, the Delaware County Seat, one of the Councilmen demanded the city pension fund divest of all General Electric stock. He'd read that GE had sold Iraq several million dollars worth of "Power Generation Equipment" in 2008, and presumed it could be used to make roadside bombs that were killing our boys. What a moron. But it gets better... nobody on the council questioned his presumptions.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Magdalene H. had worked for the North Rhine-Westphalian building association in Dortmund for more than three decades only to be fired for taking two rolls and a Frikadelle, a German meatball specialty, after setting up a meal for her boss and his guests.

But later a colleague noticed that food was missing and her boss confronted her, the paper said. When she admitted to eating the food, she was sacked.

On Tuesday, Magdalene H. faced her employer, building association head Hermann Schulte-Hiltrop, in court to request that he give her a warning instead, saying the incident was not a classic case of theft.

“She believed her behaviour was in order,” her lawyer Wolfgang Pinkepank said. “Bread and Frikadellen that are left over after conferences are allowed to be eaten by workers. If she had been reprimanded she would not have done it again.”

But Schulte-Hiltrop, 51, told the court he would not change his decision.

“From the outside it naturally looks like a minor offence,” he said. “But we work on highly sensitive information here. And if you don’t trust someone any longer, it’s not a good feeling.”

Meanwhile lawyer Pinkepank said that at 59, his client would likely not find another position.

Official court proceedings will begin in January 2010, the judge said.

I'm sure the German courts have nothing better to do than dealing with this major criminal conspiracy.

Methinks the "colleague" that ratted her out was looking for a promotion, perhaps to the perp's job, eh? Maybe the perp's boss wants to play hide the salami with the "colleague"?

[ZenGum]

I'd guess they're just taking the opportunity to prune the corporate shrub.

[TheMercenary]

Ok, that's weird.

'Racist' biscuit removed from shelves

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/...d-from-shelves

[ZenGum]

The word Creole comes from a period when people's humanity was measured by the amount of white blood they had in their bloodstream," he was quoted as saying.

"This is the same kind of thought that underpinned horrific regimes like the Nazis."

I'm more embarrased that this hopelessly invalid argument came from someone in a university, than I am about us having racist bikkies. Goodwin's Law, you dork.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Definitions of Creole on the Web:

a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Latin America
a person descended from French ancestors in southern United States (especially Louisiana)
of or relating to a language that arises from contact between two other languages and has features of both; "Creole grammars"
of or relating to or characteristic of native-born persons of French descent in Louisiana; "Creole cooking"

[ZenGum]

We all know Merc's snake-hunting dog is indeed a Good Doggy, but can he do CPR?

A special cattle dog in Maryborough in south-east Queensland will receive the RSPCA's animal achievement award.

Two years ago, Jim Touzeau suffered a heart attack and collapsed at his Tinana glass factory.

His cattle dog Teka jumped up and down on his chest with her two front paws and barked in his face, causing Mr Touzeau to wake up.

Teka also ran outside and jumped up and down on the kerb to attract attention.

[Cicero]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I'm sure the German courts have nothing better to do than dealing with this major criminal conspiracy.

Methinks the "colleague" that ratted her out was looking for a promotion, perhaps to the perp's job, eh? Maybe the perp's boss wants to play hide the salami with the "colleague"?

Someone actually ate the food?!? Holy sh**!!! Call the cops. That lady is unbelievable. What is next? The rolls are obviously a gateway to stealing your coke out of the fridge.