Saturday, November 23, 2013

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Who knows what kind of potential lies locked away in the human brain waiting, perhaps, for some jolt to 'knock' it loose? Remember how Bruce Banner was turned into the Incredible Hulk by gamma rays? Well, this Colorado teenager experienced something similar, except instead of a freak exposure to gamma radiation he cracked his skull open while playing lacrosse, and instead of turning into a giant, green rage monster, he developed innate musical talent.

Lachlan Connors was in the sixth grade when he hit his head on the ground and sustained a concussion. Although he began to display "concerning behaviors," he was allowed to return to sports. Soon after, another concussion sent him to the hospital for weeks and Connors began suffering from epileptic seizures and mini-hallucinations.

It was while recovering from this second injury that he realized he could suddenly play music with little effort. According to his mother Connors had displayed no musical talent before the accident.

But now a junior in high school, Connors plays 13 instruments, including bagpipes, piano, guitar, mandolin, and karimba (whatever that is).

Connors cannot read music and plays all of the instruments by ear. And while some do question whether or not a brain injury helped uncover his talent, Connors believes it did. "I honestly think something got rewired," he said.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Man who wore crack shirt to court gets 3 years for drug charges --*
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Florida man who wore a sweatshirt bearing a recipe for crack cocaine to court pleaded no contest to narcotics trafficking charges. Christopher Patterson, 27, who previously served time for felony cocaine possession, entered no contest pleas Tuesday in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom to distribution and conspiracy charges related to the sale of the painkiller Oxycodone to an undercover investigator, The Smoking Gun reported Thursday. Patterson, who sentenced to three years in prison, was photographed in a courtroom last year wearing a hooded sweatshirt bearing a cartoon-like recipe for crack cocaine and a caption reading, "Stack Paper Say Nothing." The sweatshirt had a zipper pull in the shape of a handgun. The picture was taken by a lawyer who noticed the sweatshirt's images in the courtroom.


*-- Teen says beaver stole his hunting rifle --*
MADAWASKA, Maine - A Maine teenager said a beaver stole his rifle and dragged it underwater when he took a break from hunting to use the restroom. Nathan Baron, a student at Madawaska High School, said he was hunting Monday near his home when he decided to pop into the house for a bathroom break, the Bangor (Maine) Daily News reported Thursday. "I walked out of the woods and got on my four-wheeler and I went home," he said. Baron said he returned a short time later and noticed his Remington .30-06 rifle, which he had left leaning against a tree, was missing. He said he quickly searched the area. "There was a stream that was running about 100 feet away from me. I look, and there's a beaver hauling that gun into the water," he said. Baron said it was too late to rescue his rifle. "There was nothing I could do," he said. "The gun was in the water and the beaver went under. That was it." Baron admitted the story may seem unlikely. "My close friends don't believe me, but all the other kids in school believe me," he said. The teenager said he is hoping to obtain proof of the incident by getting the gun back. "I'm trying to get my gun back," he said. "If there are beaver marks on it, I'm going to hang it on the wall of my garage [so others can come and see it]."


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Just out of curiosity, I tried Googling Elaina Desaine and all I got was "Did you mean Elaine Design" and results for that. So no pics of her to look up on the Internet.
[You'll have to trust me, she was not porn star material. Amateur maybe...]

Lewis, I feel certain that you have probably seen this story by now. I wanted to send it to you just by some odd chance that you had not. This, I would classify as bizarre. -Dave

"In order to keep Amsterdam clean, the city now hires chronic alcoholics. For five cans of beer, tobacco and about $13 in cash per day they have to sweep the city's streets. The new project aims at tackling anti-social behavior by keeping addicts busy."
[I like it. I have frequently (more like occasionally because it is not a popular idea) suggested that labor battalions would go a long way toward ameliorating the plight of the homeless, indigent and idle, criminal youth. This beer thing sounds like a similar idea.]

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