Bizarre News - October 10, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

I was going to do a story about a nearly 800 pound man who was in the hospital to lose enough weight so that he could undergo a gastric bypass surgery. But in 80 days at the hospital he only lost 20 pounds. Doctors were baffled until they discovered the man had been ordering pizzas to be delivered to him IN the hospital.

But then I saw another story about one old coot who was having trouble figuring out some of this new fangled 'puter technology.

Police in California, were called to a camera store after 80-years-old Frank Prendergast of San Jose brought them a secure digital (SD) memory card and asked for help in recovering some photographs he had saved on there.

Employees contacted the police after they were able to unlock the memory card and discovered - surprise, surprise - a cache of child porn!

Officers confirmed that the digital photographs were in fact child pornography. When Prendergast returned to retrieve the SD card, he was arrested.

He allegedly admitted to possessing more pornographic photos at home.

During the search of the elderly man's home, police seized several computers along with hundreds of VHS tapes. Apparently he had saved all of his daguerreotypes to that SD card.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Woman does donuts at intersection, flips car, IDs herself as 'faith, hope and love' --*
GASTONIA, N.C. - North Carolina police said a woman drove donuts in an intersection, struck four vehicles, flipped her car and gave her name as "faith, hope and love." Gastonia Police said witnesses reported the woman was driving donuts -- tight circles -- with her car about 4:25 p.m. Thursday in a busy intersection and the motorist temporarily stopped her vehicle when police arrived. An officer asked the woman her name, and she replied, "Faith, hope and love," Gastonia Police Capt. Rodney Aldridge told the Gaston Gazette. The woman backed into the officer's car and struck it two more times before continuing to do donuts in the intersection. Police said the woman struck two civilian cars and a second police cruiser before she drove down a 12-foot embankment, knocked over a fire hydrant and flipped her car onto its roof. Witness Rhonda Helms said police had to pepper spray the woman to take her into custody. She said the woman appeared to be singing, "Jesus loves the little children of the world," as she got out of her car. Police said the woman, whose name was not released, was taken to a hospital for evaluation.


*-- Tourists flee as Chinese mountain's glass walkway cracks --*
JIAOZUO, China - Tourists on China's recently-opened glass walkway on a cliff face 3,540 feet above the ground ran for their lives when a visitor's mug cracked the glass. The walkway on Yuntai Mountain in Henan Province, which opened to the public in September, is closed for repairs after a tourist dropped a stainless steel mug Monday and the cup's impact cracked one of three layers of glass on a section of walkway, Yuntai Mountain Scenic Spot officials confirmed. Witnesses said on social networking site Weibo the damage was more severe than indicated by officials, who said one layer of glass was merely cracked. Witnesses said a plate of glass had instead shattered in a "floral" pattern, but remained intact. The broken glass sent tourists screaming and running for their lives to get off the walkway, but officials said the tourists were never in any danger during the incident. They said the two remaining layers of glass would have been sufficient to support the weight of the visitors.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
While the reader who commented on e cigarettes might be correct that the steam coming off coffee, tea, soup, etc. is also vapor, what he doesn't mention is the one thing e cigs have that those food items don't -- the douche bag factor. Well, except for maybe something like a venti Iced Skinny Hazelnut Macchiato, Sugar-Free Syrup, Extra Shot, Light Ice, No Whip. That's pretty douchey too. -Greg

Imagine what Christina Balazi in Florida (why is it always Florida?) would have done if her husband had said the name of a man during their love-making! -Mark
[I read once that of the women who look at online porn, a significant percentage of the porn they look at is man-on-man porn. So...who knows?]

LEWIS; So Mr. Santa Claus of North Pole, Alaska a candidate for city council, tells voters "PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME REQUESTS FOR PRESENTS." Similarly when riding in a cab in Chicago do not ask the cab driver with the beard and turban to grant you 3 wishes. --R.S.
[Unless those wishes are along the lines of, "Please go 6 blocks out of the way to get to my destination." They'll grant those kinds of wishes whether you ask them to or not.]

If my husband called me by another woman's name during sex (hasn't happened yet and I hope it never does), he'd probably be sleeping on the couch for a month. Of course, if he was used to calling out this other woman's name during sex, that might be grounds for divorce. Stabbing might be a bit extreme, but I can kind of see why she'd be upset. -Chris
[Over react much? What if he was just role-playing?]

The guy who got stabbed by his wife for yelling out another woman's name is lucky I guess. At least she didn't pull off a Lorena Bobbit by cutting off his manhood! -Ralph

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