WTF News and Commentary - April
 

Here's a starter:

Astronaut to run Boston Marathin in space

Yeah, that's a little easier considering the zero gravity thing... Is a cosmonaut gonna pass you gatorade to splash over your head?


And another doozy from 'Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird'
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According to a Beijing Youth Daily report distributed by Reuters news service in February, an unidentified Chinese businessman posted an online job offer for a "substitute" mistress. That is, in order to save his marriage, he had agreed to allow his wife to beat up his mistress and thus needed a stand-in to absorb the whipping, to spare the real mistress. He offered the equivalent of about $400 per 10 minutes of pain.

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Brilliant, those Chinese....

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This story has given me great ideas for my daughter's next dozen birthdays...

Hey Johnny, you want a bike for Christmas? How about a new baseball glove?
No thanks pop, another Hoover please.

WTF

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This story has given me great ideas for my daughter's next dozen birthdays...

Hey Johnny, you want a bike for Christmas? How about a new baseball glove?
No thanks pop, another Hoover please.

WTF

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LOL! That is just weird! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Kyle has been in Hollywood taping a game-show pilot where he had to compete against other contestants blindfolded and correctly identify vacuum models, the newspaper said Saturday.

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Clearly a new game show destined for success... Not! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Just found this one too.

This guy is going to be surprisingly rich and famous for doing something so rediculously simple. Good for him! I wonder how far he'll really go????

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This is from Foxnews(for some reason its not linking)


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Indian Couple Commits Suicide Over the Death of Their Dog

Monday, April 02, 2007


Unable to come to terms with the death of their pet dog, a childless couple in southern India hanged themselves.

The bodies of 67-year-old retired soldier C.N. Madanraj and his wife, Tarabai, 63, were found Sunday in their home in a suburb of Hyderabad.

Police said the childless couple had held a burial ceremony for their dog of 13 years, called Puppy, and hosted a feast for friends before hanging themselves in their bedroom.

"The couple described the grief over their pet dog in the suicide note they left on March 29," said police inspector V. Anantaiah.


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In the good news/bad news department:

No one killed yet this year, but shootings double!
Today's youth really need to spend more time at the range....
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homicides were down by 500 percent;

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How can they determine a percent if one of the factors is ZERO???? News people are dumb.

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Police said the childless couple had held a burial ceremony for their dog of 13 years, called Puppy, and hosted a feast for friends before hanging themselves in their bedroom.



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Wow. Mrs. Utah, you take the prize for reporting the weirdest stories!

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Keith Richards: `I snorted my father'

Keith Richards snorts his father's cremains

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LOL!

I would venture to guess there are a lot of worse names than this.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/...baby_metallica