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Bizarre News - May 27, 2015
Greetings fellow Bizarros:
Now here's a brain teaser if I ever heard one. Nine brains inexplicably appeared earlier this week along a street in a village in New York. How the brains got there and where they came from remains a mystery.
Residents discovered the brains on a Street in Gouverneur and called the police. Gouverneur police collected one of the brains and brought it to a local veterinarian for an examination. The veterinarian determined the brain had been professionally removed -- likely from a dog -- and preserved in formaldehyde.
The veterinarian said that the brain was consistent with a beagle-sized brain and was in very good condition with no damage.
But a chemistry professor at Clarkson University argued the specimen was possibly from a sheep, not a dog.
No brain labeled Hans Delbruck was found, but there was an Abbey...someone.
Regardless, police told local news outlets there was little to fear. The nine brains are believed to have been part of a collection for educational or research purposes and no criminal activity, other than littering, is suspected.
Bizarrely,
Lewis
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* Illinois couple welcome their 100th grandchild *
QUINCY, Ill. (UPI) - An Illinois couple nearing their 60th wedding anniversary announced they have welcomed their 100th grandchild into the family. Leo and Ruth Zanger, Quincy residents who have been married for 59 years, said baby Jaxton Zanger, born April 8, marks their 46th great-grandchild and their overall 100th grandchild. The couple said they have 12 children, 53 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson. "We could start our own town," Leo Zanger joked to the Quincy Herald-Whig. The couple said their large family is close-knit and most of them live in the Quincy area. They said family gatherings require a rented church hall and either 50 pounds of ham or 10 whole turkeys. "We enjoy all of the family get-togethers," Leo Zanger said. The Zangers said they enjoy watching their family grow. "All the grandkids know us," Ruth Zanger said.
*-- Beekeeper in China covered with record-breaking 240 pounds of bees --*
BEIJING (UPI) - A Chinese beekeeper broke a world record - by covering himself with 240 pounds of squirming bees. Gao Bingguo, of Tai'an City, in the eastern province of Shandong, began the challenge early Monday, Sky News reported. The 55-year-old veteran beekeeper has cultivated bees for more than 30 years, and was stung multiple times before breaking the world record. Around 1.1 million bees at one point weighed down on Gao, the International Business Times reported. Weighing at 240 pounds, the bees shattered a previous record of 184 pounds - also set by a Chinese beekeeper in China's inland Shaanxi province. Gao's fellow beekeepers were dressed in military camouflage pantsuits as they prepared their colleague for the battle of his lifetime. Working together, they poured the pollinating insects onto his geared body. Queen bees came first, in order to attract more of the insects to fly and land on Gao's protected head, arms and legs. Video footage showed Gao smoking a cigarette in a nonchalant manner, as thousands of bees swarmed over him then crawled over his seated body. Luo Xing, a judge at the event said, "After we checked and searched [the] database, and witnessed it at scene, we announce, Mr. Gao Bingguo successfully breaks the record."
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You wrote; "24 hours of live sheep conception. Icelanders have to pay for that programming." Isn't that "Pay Per Ewe"?
Lewis, A fellow Oregonian's "raising a stink" in the small town of Pendleton--here's the rather aromatic news... "A resident of Pendleton, Oregon, has written a letter requesting the city council ban the smell of farts in the community, but he has a good reason to be raising a stink. Last week, the City of Pendleton updated its nuisance ordinances to cover the smell of marijuana. That means that even though recreational marijuana will be legal in Oregon starting in July, a person can be fined up to $500 if someone complains they smell marijuana. In a letter published in the East Oregonian, someone who signed his name as Peter Walters merely asked that council members take the next logical step and start regulating a far more noxious scent."
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