Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Everybody is familiar with the iconic image of the lone protester standing in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square. Well, that's China. In Russia they do things a little differently (maybe because it is harder to get large amounts of vodka in China).

Moscow's Red Square was the scene of a bizarre protest this weekend when "artist" Pyotr Pavlensky stripped naked and nailed his testicles to the cobblestones in front of St. Basil's Cathedral.

Pyotr is no stranger to making a testicle...er...spectacle of himself. In 2012 he sewed his mouth shut to support jailed musicians from Russian punk group Pussy Riot and then he wrapped his naked body in barbed wire the same year outside a St. Petersburg government building to protest what he referred to as Russia's repressive regime.

This most recent stunt was aimed at protesting apathy and political indifference among the Russian public, so he said.

However a Russian judge said that the police documents didn't show that Pyotr Pavlensky had broken the law when he performed his protest. In Russia, what a man nails his testicles to is his business.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Police: Drunk woman confused cheeseburger for sandal --*
LOGANVILLE, Ga. - Police in Georgia allege a woman caught having drunken sex with a man in a parked vehicle "attempted to put a cheeseburger on her foot as if it were a sandal." The Loganville Police Department said an officer allegedly spotted Rachel Gossett, 25, and Frank Lucas, 27, having sex in the front seat of a Dodge truck parked outside the Waffle House eatery in Loganville about 1 a.m. Sunday and interrupted the amorous couple, The Smoking Gun reported Monday. Gossett, who had been straddling Lucas without any pants on, "jumped into the passenger seat and just sat there" while Lucas pulled up his pants, the officer wrote in the arrest report. "I had to tell the female numerous times to get dressed before she finally did," officer Joshua Brickle said. "When the female finally got dressed she attempted to put a cheeseburger on her foot as if it were a sandal." Gossett and Lucas were both arrested on charges of loitering and public drunkenness.


*-- Woman, 75, convicted of assault for dog poo fling --*
TRUMPINGTON, England - A 75-year-old British woman was convicted of assault for emptying a bag of dog droppings on a cyclist she accused of riding too close to her. Prosecutors said Susan Currall, 75, of Trumpington, England, swung the bag of her dog's feces at cyclist Michael Ramage Sept. 12 because she was angry at how often cyclists passed too close to her while she was walking, Cambridge News reported Monday. Currall, who said she did not expect the bag to split and spill its contents onto Ramage, was ordered to pay Ramage $40 to cover his dry-cleaning costs as well as $160 to the court for costs. She was given a one-year conditional discharge.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
I read the same story yesterday. I think the man should get an award for NOT taking him to McDonalds. I like the way he stood his ground. I don't see anything wrong with McDonalds once in a while, but this kid was addicted. Yeah parenthood!
[The problem is that he probably took his son for McDonald's whenever he wanted and, all of a sudden he changed his habit of catering to his son's impulse demands. You can't become a responsible parent over-night just because you're getting a divorce.]

In my opinion a parent who gave in to feeding that vile arsenic laden pink sludge to his child is a far worse parent than one who tried to encourage a more healthful choice, and refused to reward a child for bratty behavior. But in a world where kids get trophies for participating,it's unlawful to use discipline and sending a child to prison is more popular than parenting what can we expect?

I completely disagree with "Stop, Question and Frisk" from a civil rights perspective. But you would have to be a complete moron to believe it doesn't work. It was the single policy that took NY from worse than Detroit to the safest large city in the US. Gangs have a hard time intimidating anyone if the second they hit the streets the police politely intimidate them and deprive them of weapons. -John
[I agree. It is a lot easier to control the citizens when the authorities don't have to follow the law. But that doesn't make it the best solution. Oh, and New York is not the safest city in the U.S. by a long stretch.]

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