You can't make this stuff up: Crazy stories ripped from the headlines

[Jim McDonald]

''...we have been looking in hospitals to see if anybody has been struck by a vehicle that we can speak to''

Ambitious, eh!

 

[scott43]

''...we have been looking in hospitals to see if anybody has been struck by a vehicle that we can speak to''

Ambitious, eh!

Next gen Tesla..."would you like to play a game??"

 

[Turoa Kiwi]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

 

[chilehed]

POLICE SAY DRIVER LOADED PEDESTRIAN INTO CAR AND SPED OFF AFTER STRIKING THEM WITH VEHICLE​

Driver hits police, then shoves a pedestrian into the cop car, and now the cops want to speak to an assaultive automobile??

Kiwis are crazy.

 

[Turoa Kiwi]

Driver hits police, then shoves a pedestrian into the cop car, and now the cops want to speak to an assaultive automobile??

Kiwis are crazy.

Yes we are!!
But as per the article..........
"Toronto police say a driver loaded a pedestrian into their car and sped off after striking them with their vehicle on Tuesday morning in North York.
"Police said that the vehicle has an Ontario licence plate with the partial number CDMA or CBMA as well as “notable” damage to the front."

So therefore Canadians are crazy too!!

 

[Bad Bob]

Don't know where else to put this one, so here you go.

The story of Harvey Wallbanger:
There was one buffalo in history that performed on race tracks during the 1980s in America, Canada, and Mexico.
Harvey's story dates back to 1980, when his mother was shot dead by a poacher. Collin Thorstenson, who at that time worked in the road crew on the Milwaukee Railway, took care of the orphan. He had to feed the bull calf from a bottle, and his car served as a cradle for Harvey until he graduated to the barn.
The buffalo became so famous in the area he was soon asked to race against a Quarter Horse at the Energy Downs race track, and he won. And so began his bright racing career.
Weighing just under 2,000 pounds, Harvey performed very well at 110 yards. His starts were faster than most horses. Because of his size, snorting and unique smell, most competing horses were afraid to get near him, so he had an advantage running alone there on the rail. Harvey was eager for victory.
Unfortunately, America lost Harvey too soon. He died from hay poisoning in Tucson, Arizona, in 1991.
Collin Thorstenson received $ 475,000 in damages.
During his career, Harvey Wallbanger won 79 races from 93 starts.

 

[neonorchid]

and cued @ 6m41s:

 

[Tricia]

and cued @ 6m41s:

Those diamond blades are no joke.

 

[Tricia]

Wisconsin is the home of the leading producer of Hoof Shoes.

Until today I had no idea there was a need for hoof shoes.

Hoof shoes: One-of-a-kind and Wisconsin-made

RACINE, Wis. (CBS 58) --- "I am most known for making hoof shoes."Blair Ondrla-Arends makes them with her team at Chaos Costumes in a warehouse in Racine and ships them all over the world. "Recently I just f

www.cbs58.com

 

[James]

3 Men Rescued from Pacific Island After Writing ‘Help’ With Palm Leaves

 

[dbostedo]

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3 Men Rescued from Pacific Island After Writing ‘Help’ With Palm Leaves

Crazily, that has happened before on the same island:

"This week’s rescue was not the first from Pikelot involving huge letters spelled in the sand. In 2020, three other men whose boat ran out of fuel wrote “SOS” in the sand, allowing them to be spotted by American rescuers."

And earlier on another island:

"A similar rescue also took place in Micronesian waters in 2016 when three men whose boat was overturned swam two miles to reach a tiny island, on which they wrote “HELP” in the sand. The Coast Guard rescued them."

 

[James]

Crazily, that has happened before on the same island:

Maybe they should just install an emergency radio and change the batteries every 4 years.

 

[dbostedo]

Maybe they should just install an emergency radio and change the batteries every 4 years.

Or just look there first, anytime someone goes missing.

 

[teejaywhy]

This is a 2-year-old story so hopefully it hasn't been posted already...

"A lost hiker ignored rescuers' phone calls, thinking they were spam..."
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049...-elbert-colorado-ignored-rescuers-phone-calls

 

[James]

^ That shouldn’t a problem in most of Vermont since there’s no service.

 

[John Webb]

Plane quickly lands today after a dog poops in the first class section.
Stench was unbearable. cleanup fouled the first class toilet so bad it was out of order when the flight continued !

United Airlines Flight Forced To Land After Dog Poops In First Class Aisle

A traveler who claimed to be on the plane said the excrement was in “a very liquid form.”

www.huffpost.com

 

[teejaywhy]

I don't get the bring your dog with you everywhere thing that's happening these days.

 

[Bad Bob]

 

[Tony S]

From today's New York Times.
Ignoring the political aspects of this story for the purposes of this thread, if you were a writer making up characters' names you couldn't get away with an imagination this crude.

A former ally of Mr. Trump, David Pecker, the ex-publisher of The National Enquirer, later testified to buying and burying unflattering stories about Mr. Trump during his 2016 run for president, an arrangement he called “highly, highly confidential.”

 

[Paul Lutes]

"Prosecutor cuts off Pecker!!"