Bizarre News - January 6, 2016

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

If you're at a convention center and you see naked women running through the halls...chances are you're at a pretty good convention. But things were not going very well for the two naked women in today's story.

It seems two prostitutes were forced to run through a hotel naked as they tried to catch gunmen who robbed them while they stripped off.

The pair were at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center in Georgia, thinking they were being paid a visit by a prospective client.

The man entered the room, and after the group had discussed prices for around 10 minutes, a second suspect barged in with his weapon drawn.

Police said, "One suspect would point the gun at the victims while the other went through the victims' property." The two men took $3,000 from one woman and $640 from the other before leaving the room.

Almost 4 thousand between two prostitutes? They appeared to be having a pretty good weekend, up until this incident.

The women ran after the suspects while naked, but stopped when the men ran down the stairs. Another guest called 911 after seeing the nude women in the corridor.

When police arrived, the women admitted they were escorts.

Police say the pair were caught running through the adjacent Lenox Square Mall. However the surveillance image was too grainy to be able to identify them.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- 7-year-old girl tries to extend winter break with forged note --*
DES MOINES, Iowa - A 7-year-old girl seeking to extend winter break tried to fool her parents with a handwritten note explaining "the school company" needed an extra week off. The forged note, shared by Reddit user locke-in-a-box, is written in marker and was delivered to the parents by their 7-year-old daughter, Cara, who told them she found it in the mailbox. "The school company is taking a brake so the kids will get one more week of school off and we will need your child to sign their name here," read the note, which the girl signed "Cara G." "We almost bought it until she said 'brake' not 'break,'" the Reddit user joked. "She's seven. With proper stationary and computer skills, years from now I'm in trouble."


*-- Lawsuit: Man broke his leg while hypnotized at comedy show --*
OMAHA - An Omaha man's lawsuit against a comedy club alleges he broke his leg while under the trance of a performing hypnotist. The lawsuit alleges William Bendorf, 38, attended the Doug T Hypnosis Show at the Funny Bone Comedy Club in Omaha March 21, 2014, and was an audience participant called up on stage to be hypnotized by performer Doug Thompson. Richard Shicker, Bendorf's attorney, said Thompson believed the volunteers had been snapped out of their hypnotic states, but the plaintiff "was still under" the trance when he was told to return to his seat. "When he said 'Go back to your seats,' [Bendorf] looks out in the audience, sees an empty chair and walks toward it. He walks right off the stage," Shicker told the Omaha World-Herald. The fall broke Bendorf's leg, Shicker said. "It was very painful -- and it continues to be painful for him," Shicker said. "He was in that zone -- that sort-of unconscious state. He didn't snap out of it until he crashed to the ground." "It was definitely a rude awakening," Shicker said. The Funny Bone Comedy Club has 30 days to respond to the lawsuit. A manager at the club did not respond to the World-Herald's call for comment. Thompson's website says he takes measures to ensure the safety of participants in his shows. "I always respect each and every volunteer and never will let them spew out personal information or go past a certain point on stage," the website states.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Regarding the futurologist prediction about languages 100 years from now, they probably meant to say three major or prominent languages. I recently learned there are 3,000 different languages on the continent of Africa. I can't see all those tribes losing the ability to speak their own language and switching to English, Spanish, or Mandarin. -Jim K., Sarasota, FL

What no comments from your readers? Some times that is the best part.
[Sorry. I took a few days off after Christmas. Even I need a break from the bizarre every now and then.]

Hey Lewis! The story about the future was a fun read, but I don't see any hope of people becoming geniuses. I think that the US depicted in the film Idiocracy is more likely. For the past few decades, I've been watching people get dumber and crazier. I don't see that changing in the near future. However, I can imagine the US breaking apart like the former Soviet Union. I've been seeing that in the works for years. -Jody
[That wouldn't necessarily be such a bad thing if we could stick all of the morons in Texas and all of the assholes in California before the break up. Of course, you could argue from the evidence that that process has already begun.]

LEWIS; This "We will all be wired to computers to make our brains work faster" was already a plot on a fairly recent new version of The Outer Limits TV series on Showtime cable channel. In that episode all of the people in a city wore small devices attached to their foreheads that enabled them to mentally access any information stored in a mainframe computer.
[Isn't that called Google Glass?]

Lewis, Re: the baby in the manger in New York, here in CA, a baby taken to a Fire Station, Police Station, or a church is a "safe surrender and the mother can walk away. Safe Surrender, should be widely broadcast, and nation wide. Save the unwanted child. --Dewitt
[That is true, but somebody has to know that a baby is being given up or 'surrendered'. It can't just be dumped in a drop box...or manger, for that matter. Still, if the mother was willing to abandon her child the kid is certainly better off with whoever is willing to adopt it.]

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