Bizarre News - April 11, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Even Arnold Schwarzenegger knew you don't stow away on an airplane in the wheel well. Jumping from a moving jet is better than freezing to death in the unpressurized under-belly at 45,000 feet.

But maybe the movie 'Commando' isn't very popular in Indonesia, because a man there took a free ride in the landing gear of an aircraft this week, and actually survived the high-altitude flight of nearly two hours in thin air and sub-zero temperatures.

Mario Stevan Ambarita, 21, was spotted staggering around the tarmac at Jakarta airport, shortly after the Garuda Indonesia domestic flight landed from Sumatra Island to the north.

"The case was quite a surprise to us," Garuda CEO Arif Wibowo told reporters.

The stowaway scaled a 8-foot fence to reach the aircraft, where he tucked himself into the rear wheel housing.

He collapsed after the flight and was taken to hospital with a bleeding ear and other light injuries before spending the night in a police cell.

"He said he wanted to meet Jokowi," a spokesman for Soekarno-Hatta Airport Police said, referring to Indonesian President Joko Widodo by his nickname.

According to local media reports, Ambarita had spent up to a year studying aircraft taking off and landing, had learned from the Internet how to hide in the wheel well and had made an unsuccessful attempt in the past to hitch a free plane ride.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Police: Laser pointer suspect had pot in his rectum --*
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - Police in Florida said a man arrested for aiming a laser pointer at motorists was found to be concealing a bag of suspected marijuana in his rectum. Ormond Beach police said officers investigating a report of a person shining a laser pointer at a woman's face while she was driving Sunday determined Jesse Roepcke, 27, had aimed his laser at the woman and multiple other drivers while he was a passenger in a car driven by his girlfriend, Brandie Tate, 28. Police said Roepcke, who told officers he was "just having fun" with the laser pointer and didn't know shining it at motorists was illegal, had a smoking device that smelled like marijuana in his possession. The suspect was taken to the Volusia County Jail, where officers conducting a strip search said a bag of a leafy green substance fell out of his rectum. The contents of the bag smelled like marijuana, police said. Roepcke was charged with pointing a laser at a driver or pilot, possession or use of narcotic paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and smuggling contraband into a prison. He was ordered held in lieu of $4,250 bail.


*-- Australian police: Drunken man ate glass beer bottle --*
WAGAMAN, Australia (UPI) - Australian authorities said a man was hospitalized after he drunkenly ate a glass beer bottle during a family gathering. Northern Territory Police Superintendent Louise Jorgensen said police received an emergency call just after 9 p.m. Wednesday about a man at a family gathering in Wagaman who chewed and swallowed a glass beer bottle "and then went for a lie down." "His family then called police and St. John [Ambulance], and he was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital," Jorgensen said. Jorgensen said the call was one of 500 made to police between 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. Wednesday. She said drunken hijinks such as the bottle-eating man are a drain on police resources. "People are dismayed when we can't respond to their jobs immediately, but this is why -- because of all these other jobs that are coming in," she said. "We got 500 calls [Wednesday] evening, and about 450 on Tuesday," Jorgensen said. "Most of them are domestics, or anti-social and drunk behavior."


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Lewis, thank you for writing, "Those kids are in college to learn, not to think." That's my newest sarcastic catch phrase. I teach at the local public university, and I don't blame the kids; we're failing them by not expecting any better. We're the adults, the 'experts', and we're letting these kids slide because it's too much effort to do it right. Poor things leave school largely unprepared for a productive career and are forced to learn the hard stuff when the stakes are higher rather than in the relative safety of the college environment. Reluctantly stepping off the soapbox now...
[I agree, which is why I made my kids work in a coal mine during their summers off...so if they never made it through college at least they would have a marketable skill.]

In response to one of your reader's comment...the girls probably didn't think to throw the hamper out the window because they were panicking and therefore not thinking clearly. Yes, that would have been the most sensible course of action, but...considering that one of the girls threw a lit firecracker at another as a "prank" leads me to believe that very little of what these girls do is a sensible course of action. Not to mention the fact that they did not have a fire extinguisher of their own. -Chris

Lewis, Colorado was screwed up Long before it went Dopy. I Colo. it is against the Law to commit to Suicide. Not Attempt to do it. I never heard of a body going to Jail for doing so howsoever. -John D.

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