Bizarre News - January 10, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Life isn't always easy in China. But even if you are working 70 hours a week for 90 cents an hour, things can always get worse. Like it did for this poor construction worker.

A builder who broke both his arms and legs after falling off a construction site survived for nearly a week by drinking his own urine.

Friends of Yang Hsieh thought he'd quit his job at the building site in Hunan province, central China, but the 28-year-old had slipped and plunged 65ft, shattering his limbs and breaking his mobile phone.

Unable to move or phone anyone he tried calling out for help but no one heard him.

Builder Fai She, 32, said: "At first we thought he was off sick. We tried calling him but the phone was constantly off and by day four we thought he must have found work somewhere else. We had no idea he was lying on the ground below us."

Yang was eventually found six days later when a passerby heard his cries for help.

He was taken to hospital where doctors say he is now making a full recovery.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*--- Indian public employee fired for 25-year absence ---*
NEW DELHI (UPI) - A senior official with India's Central Public Works Department was fired after he failed to show up for work for 25 years. Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu issued an order Thursday to terminate the employment of A.K. Verma, a former executive electrical engineer with the department. The firing came at the end of an inquiry that heard Verma went on leave in December 1990 and had not reported for duty since then. The inquiry heard Verma sought repeated extensions for his unsanctioned leave and refused orders to return to work. A previous inquiry accusing him of willful absence from duty in 1992 was delayed when the engineer failed to cooperate with the investigation. "Owing to non-cooperation of Mr. Verma with the inquiry and for other reasons, it got delayed and a fresh charge sheet was issued in 2005. The inquiry report, establishing the charges was submitted in July 2007 and the same was accepted by the then-Minister of Urban Development in August 2007. But no further action was taken in the matter," the Ministry of Urban Development said in a statement. The case was brought back to light when Naidu took office last year and ordered a review of pending disciplinary cases. It was unclear whether Verma collected paychecks from the Central Public Works Department during his absence.


*-- Prosecutor: Carjacker offered to return vehicle for $50 --*
CHICAGO (UPI) - Prosecutors said an alleged carjacker in Chicago contacted the vehicle's owner and offered to sell the 1998 Chevy Malibu back to her for $50. Assistant State's Attorney Erin Antonietti said Jereh Brown, 24, received a ride in the victim's car from a friend of the owner Dec. 26 and he forced the woman out of the driver's seat while the car was stopped. Antonietti told a Wednesday hearing Brown contacted the owner of the car, a 19-year-old woman, Monday and offered to sell the 1998 Chevy Malibu back to her for $50. The woman arranged to meet with Brown and contacted police to accompany her to the chosen location, the prosecutor said. Police found Brown hiding in a closet in a home at the location of the arranged meeting just before 10 p.m. Monday and he was arrested. Investigators found a key to the car inside the home where Brown was arrested. Brown was charged with vehicular hijacking and possession of a stolen vehicle. He was released on electronic monitoring.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Nothing natural about being shot by a two-year-old -- particularly someone else's.
[Nature is supposed to weed out the idiots, right?]

Lewis- Often the most bizarre part of your stories is the wording used by the principles: Just the last issue alone had "held on...being a prohibited possessor" [the images that brings to mind], "This is a fitting end to a crime that never should have occurred" [as opposed to ??], and "they absolutely, positively told me no." [did he finally got the message? well, sort of.] Keep 'em coming - I've been a reader since the '90s, Bill

Lewis, Did not know that pigs were cannibals? She claimed she was feeding the pigs it probably would have been cheaper to use actual donuts vice bacon and pork products, bacon is expensive nowadays. Besides, the breed of pigs she was feeding actually prefer the donuts to pork products. -Gary
[I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, 'greedy as a pig'.]

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