Fortean Headlines

[ramonmercado]

Rebecca Henderson: Transplant hope for rucksack heart woman
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-46876437

 

[kamalktk]

Spanish city protests against 'too friendly' devil sculpture

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46878941

 

[GNC]

The stories behind a lot of these headlines would make for legit topics worth discussing on other threads.

 

[kamalktk]

One from the local police blotter.

Resident voices concerns about teens with Ouija board.

https://www.cleveland.com/chagrin-falls/index.ssf/2019/01/resident_voices_concerns_about.html

 

[Comfortably Numb]

Staffordshire Police e-fit 'looks like E.T.'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-46893778

 

[ramonmercado]

Passenger in Duke of Edinburgh crash ‘always wanted to meet a royal’
https://www.irishexaminer.com/break...ash-always-wanted-to-meet-a-royal-898614.html

 

[Philosoraptor]

Hyperactive Thames eels found to have ingested cocaine from the polluted capital's water supply:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/tech...d-capitals-water-supply/ar-BBSuO6s?ocid=ientp

"Concentrations of cocaine and benzoylecgonine remained high in wastewater across the week with only a minor increase over the weekend, which is not consistent with other cities," they added, which meant Londoners appear to be on it 24/7"

 

[AlchoPwn]

So, tell me, how come London is able to afford this blizzard of cocaine with brexit looming? Are you all out there snorting Columbia round the clock? What is cocaine going for in the streets of the Old Smoke anyhow? Tuppence? Feel free to PM me if you don't wish to mention prices publically. My interest is purely out of curiosity, and because I am interested in the economics of prohibitions.

 

[Philosoraptor]

Street level about £50-£80 a gram - depending on quality.

Now that the eels are hooked it's only going to increase demand.

 

[AlchoPwn]

Now that the eels are hooked it's only going to increase demand.

Is it suddenly illegal to catch, powder and snort the eels? Sounds like a work-around. I am surprised no enterprising chemist has figured out how to filter the coke out of the Thames and re-sell it.

 

[Philosoraptor]

Is it suddenly illegal to catch, powder and snort the eels?

Becoming quite the delicacy actually. Eel jelly is especially popular these days

 

[ramonmercado]

Hyperactive Thames eels found to have ingested cocaine from the polluted capital's water supply:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/tech...d-capitals-water-supply/ar-BBSuO6s?ocid=ientp

"Concentrations of cocaine and benzoylecgonine remained high in wastewater across the week with only a minor increase over the weekend, which is not consistent with other cities," they added, which meant Londoners appear to be on it 24/7"

Suddenly this pic makes sense

 

[AlchoPwn]

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Is that an Elephant's Eel?

 

[Analogue Boy]

Staffordshire Police e-fit 'looks like E.T.'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-46893778

A poor judge of caricature?
One crime victim in Norfolk criticised a police e-fit (below right), saying although a thief had an unusual appearance he "didn't look that odd".

Image caption'He was odd-looking, but not that odd' said a theft victim, who described the man on the right to Norfolk police.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35422394

 

[Xanatic*]

There is a nice clip on YouTube of a newsreader who laughs when he is given a very cartoonish drawing of a crime suspect. Then astonishment when the criminal is caught and he turns out to actually look that way.

 

[Tribble]

'Nun with duffel bag' drops 'severed goat head' on pavement outside Cheltenham pub

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/nun-duffel-bag-drops-severed-2452165

 

[Bigphoot2]

A poor judge of caricature?
One crime victim in Norfolk criticised a police e-fit (below right), saying although a thief had an unusual appearance he "didn't look that odd".

mage caption'He was odd-looking, but not that odd' said a theft victim, who described the man on the right to Norfolk police.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35422394

 

[Comfortably Numb]

Super poo donors wanted

Can't find a topic called, 'The Jobby Thread' (and please don't tell me there is one), so highlighted here instead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46944631

 

[Bigphoot2]

Super poo donors wanted

Can't find a topic called, 'The Jobby Thread' (and please don't tell me there is one), so highlighted here instead.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46944631

We do - although it's not as discreet as The Jobby Thread
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-shit-thread-excremental-discussion.25264/

 

[Comfortably Numb]

We do - although it's not as discreet as The Jobby Thread...

See... there you go - I damn well knew it. Would never have though about searching for that!

 

[Bigphoot2]

See... there you go - I damn well knew it. Would never have though about searching for that!

You're far too polite to have thought of that.

 

[Comfortably Numb]

I was actually going to say that!

Besides, if I ran a search for 'shit threads'... you see the problem?

 

[Ascalon]

Primark customer finds 'human bone' in sock

This little piggie went to market, and ...oh!
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-46998873

 

[markrkingston1]

Primark customer finds 'human bone' in sock

This little piggie went to market, and ...oh!
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-46998873

Bizarre.

I wonder if it was put there in a customer return.

A friend of mine once worked in a Blockbuster store. One day she found a very small crucible wedged inside a VHS tape, presumably by a customer. Yes, by "crucible" here I mean a ceramic container for heating objects to high temperature. No explanation was ever found as to who put it there or why they did so. (Might have been the kind of thing a child would do, perhaps).

 

[Bigphoot2]

The actual story is behind a paywall and probably not as interesting as the headline makes out

Tractor with a three-legged dog on board causes £120,000 worth of damage by smashing into a north-east house at 4am

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/f...e-by-smashing-into-a-north-east-house-at-4am/

 

[Comfortably Numb]

The actual story is behind a paywall and probably not as interesting as the headline makes out.

Au contraire mon ami!

Full article here:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/f...e-by-smashing-into-a-north-east-house-at-4am/

"Locals reported hearing a 'loud bang' while residents inside who were awoken by the impact reported seeing a 'large wheel' inside their home"...

 

[ramonmercado]

Au contraire mon ami!

Full article here:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/f...e-by-smashing-into-a-north-east-house-at-4am/

"Locals reported hearing a 'loud bang' while residents inside who were awoken by the impact reported seeing a 'large wheel' inside their home"...

They were fleeing from a feral farmer who had just eaten the dog's leg.

 

[AlienView]

Casey Hathaway: Three-year-old boy missing in freezing weather for two days 'looked after by bear'

"A three-year-old boy who survived two nights alone in freezing woodland has said he was protected by a bear while missing......"

"Black bears are abundant in North Carolina and are not typically aggressive towards humans, although it is unclear whether the one which befriended Casey was real or imaginary....."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/casey-hathaway-three-old-boy-085205399.html

Fact or kids imagination? - It is possibly true.

 

[Mythopoeika]

It's not unbelievable. Similar things have happened with other creatures.
Although... it's the first case involving a bear that I've heard of so far.

 

[Yithian]

It's not unbelievable. Similar things have happened with other creatures.
Although... it's the first case involving a bear that I've heard of so far.

More detail here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/28/bear-lost-boy-casey-hathaway-experts-fantasy

The author mosty pours cold water in the claim.