Saturday, January 21, 2012

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

This story might sound familiar to long time Bizarre News readers, but it is not a repeat. In almost the exact same circumstances as a story I wrote about several years ago, an Illinois man managed to shoot himself in the head with a nail gun, lodging a three-and-a-half inch nail in his brain.

Dante Autullo was working in his garage when his nail gun recoiled, bringing it up against his head. Autullo saw a small wound, but thought it came from contact with the nail gun.

Wiping away the blood he continued to work, but when he woke up the next day he felt nauseated with a nasty headache. His fiancee took him to the hospital where he underwent surgery.

When he woke up 36 hours later Autullo had no idea what had happened. He had to be shown the X-ray of the nail in his brain before he would believe it.

Doctors removed the nail and replaced the piece of skull with a plate of titanium. Incredibly he seems to show no debilitating side effects.

And as a bonus his friends now get to call him ol' Titanium Head.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Fla. employees paid to get drunk --*
SARASOTA, Fla. - The Florida Department of Law Enforcement revealed it paid 15 employees to get drunk to test the accuracy of the Intoxilyzer 8000 breath test. The FDLE revealed to a panel of judges in Sarasota County in December that it spent $330 on alcohol, mixers and Doritos for 15 employees to drink on company time and blow into the Intoxilyzer 8000s to test their accuracy, the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald Tribune reported Thursday. However, the judges expressed skepticism about the accuracy of the study because the blood work from the employees was not ready in time for the December hearing. The judges are considering the future of the use of the machines in Sarasota and Manatee counties. The $8,000 study was performed after investigators found many flawed machines had stayed in service in the state and breath test results from about 100 cases in the two counties were thrown out as a result of the probe. The judges are expected to issue a ruling in the coming days.

*-- Man released from prison without pants --*
VANERSBORG, Sweden - A Swedish man who completed a two-month prison sentence walked out of prison without pants or shoes after he was denied money to buy new clothes. The man, referred to only as Percy in media reports, told officials at the Brinkeberg prison in Vanersborg he had outgrown the pants he was wearing when he was arrested for unlawful driving, The Local reported Thursday. The prison service said in denying Percy money for new clothes that he had $118 among the personal items he reclaimed upon his release and was therefore able to purchase his own pants and shoes. Percy said he was unable to send for extra clothes in time for his release because he only learned a few days before he was to be released that his request for the prison to buy him clothes had been rejected. He said the prison offers pants and shoes for sale to released prisoners, but purchasing the items would have left him without enough money for food. The former prisoner said he was able to find a ride to Trollhattan while wearing only his shirt, underwear and socks. He said he was able to find pants and shoes for a more reasonable price than those offered by the prison.

*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Lewis, Nuclear fusion was figured out decades ago. It just makes a really, really big bang. -James

According to futurologists, "We will have the ability to communicate through thought transmission." Just freakin' great. It's not bad enough that we get virtual tons of spam in our emails. We'll be getting it crammed directly into our brains. I hope I'm dead before they figure out how to do this. -Jody
[On the other hand...you can download porn straight to your brain.]

What can we do to help speed up California seceding from the USA? The sooner they go, the better...and let them take Obama with them.

Lewis; About the future, the one I disagree with is being able to control the weather. The Earth is a geologically active system governed by our atmosphere, gravity and a huge spinning iron core that cause plate tectonics which shape the surface of this planet which, ultimately, governs the movement of air masses thus the weather and where rain falls. It's folly to think we can control this system. About as much we can do is make a little rain by seeding clouds. -Wes
[You should do a little reading on chemtrails. You might change your mind.]

*-- END OF READER COMMENTS --*
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