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Fortean Headlines

Not really a headline but fortean enough I think (couldn't find better place):
https://twitter.com/OpenTechLabChan/status/1017068661884977152

3/ In the end they installed a microwave link shown in the picture. Now, in the UK a metal pole set into concrete requires planning permission. Wheras a wooden pole can be installed without.

4/ Recently we have been experiencing a heat wave, which has caused the pole to warp, which moved the antenna causing the link to fail. Their solution is to reallign the antenna... which will fix everything... until the rain comes and the poles goes back to its original shape.
 
AlchoPwn said:
Actually this takes on a new dimension of unusual. Most people are unaware of the fact that tasers (stun guns) were designed specifically with the intention of stopping people who had overdosed on PCP, where firearms had repeatedly failed, with often lethal consequences to both the overdose victim and police. Shrugging off a taser is extremely unusual unless none of the shots actually connected properly, but the notion of multiple shots, suggests that they hit and did very little. Now, was Brett Luengo wearing a carbon fibre suit? That will stop a taser. I also suggest that perhaps a person whose brain was experiencing a powerful episode of epilepsy might be unaffected by further electrical stimulation, though such people are normally on the ground already. I wonder what the poor guy's autopsy said?
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As an addendum to this, apparently there is a new drug that matches this profile. It is called Flakka.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone
 
As we say in Scotland, Aye right :)

Fisherman who exposed himself in Northern Ireland Tesco blames language mix-up during sausage theft interview
A THIEVING fisherman drunkenly exposed himself in front of supermarket staff because of a language mix-up, a court has been told.


Irmantas Brazaitis, of Talbot Street, Newry, dropped his trousers and removed his underwear after Tesco workers detained him for stealing sausage meat.

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https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/...-during-sausage-theft-interview-37140818.html
 
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kamalktk said:
Japan has a ninja shortage.

http://www.businessinsider.com/iga-japan-is-facing-a-ninja-shortage-2018-7

The question would be how would they know?
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Followup :

The report said Iga was trying to capitalise on its history as home to ninjas by building a new museum focused on the warriors, but was struggling to hire staff, including ninja performers.

In its reporting, NPR said ninja performers in Japan can earn anywhere between US$23,000-US$85,000 (S$31,000-S$115,000) a year.

But a number of copycat reports by other media or viral sites went with less nuanced headlines such as: "This town in Japan will pay you an US$85,000 salary to train as a ninja".

By Wednesday, at least 115 aspiring assassins had contacted the city and its local tourism association, puzzled Iga officials said.

Would-be warriors from at least 14 countries had been in touch, they added.

http://www.asiaone.com/asia/wannabe-ninjas-plague-japan-town-after-viral-mix
 
Yithian said:
Once comment said that Mr Bozward (what a wonderfully Dickensian name!) might well be a nice chap but he looks like the ghost of a monkey.
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Holy sh*t! He does too.
Looking at those two, I'm guessing that lifestyle may play some part in their illnesses. He doesn't look like a man who gets much sleep.
 
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So what if she has lost a leg and has diabetes and whatnot, that does not entitle them to a freeby, cheeky gits, and if he loves her surely he would be hugging her,not crouched at the side of her like she is some weird monument he has discovered out walking one day.
 
No, it's not what you think.

Edinburgh Zoo has denied it employs a penguin erector
by Press Association
August 21 2018, 9.58am
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Edinburgh Zoo has debunked the myth that it employs a ‘penguin erector’ (Victoria Jones/PA)
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Edinburgh Zoo has dispelled rumours that it has a “penguin erector”.


The rumour that someone was employed by the Scottish zoo to pick up birds that fall over while looking at planes took hold thanks to a tweet that went viral over the weekend.



SKH@shalaylaa
https://twitter.com/shalaylaa/status/1031183037462208513

Boy in the pub was telling me his job is a penguin erector so every time a plane flys over Edinburgh zoo the penguins can’t take their eyes off it and end up falling over n he just goes round picking them back up, 38 penguins 2000 flights a day




But while the tweet captured the imagination of fellow Twitter users, the zoo shattered everyone’s illusions by confirming the myth isn’t in fact true.


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https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/u...-zoo-has-denied-it-employs-a-penguin-erector/
 
Yithian said:
The whole story is a bit nuts, but the headline sums it up.

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Full Tale:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ulance-one-legged-wife-holiday-Blackpool.html

Once comment said that Mr Bozward (what a wonderfully Dickensian name!) might well be a nice chap but he looks like the ghost of a monkey.
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They got married in 1980, yet they've been married for 41 years?

Maybe if their maths was a little better they'd be able to work out that, if they can't afford to buy an ambulance, they can't afford to fit it out as a camper van either.
 
Only one million? Sounds like a soft Brexit.
 
Spock's Fictional Home Planet Discovered :vulc:

Explanation:

Gene Roddenberry once declared that if Spock's fictional home planet Vulcan did exist, it would probably orbit the star called 40 Eridani A. Astronomers have now found this star does have a planet.
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Unusual tree grows from missing man's body

A man missing from the Cypriot violence in the 70s had eaten a fig shortly before his death, the unusual circumstances of which resulted in a tree growing in an odd spot that 40 years later prompted investigation and a the grisly find.
 
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