Bizarre News - July 1, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

As a dumb kid (and dumb young adult), whenever July rolled around I always lamented the fact that my state, Illinois, outlawed the sale and possession of fireworks. As an older and wiser adult I was always on the fence about the justification for these kinds of laws, but then I come across a story like this and I start to think that maybe people really can't be trusted to themselves.

In some kind of YouTube stunt gone wrong, 47-year-old Scott Jeffers of Walled Lake, died last week when he held a firecracker to his face and it exploded.

Police in Michigan say his family watched while Jeffers attempted the prank. Paramedics who arrived at the scene found him unresponsive and suffering from serious head trauma.

Jeffers was pronounced dead at the scene and alcohol was a factor.

According to the police investigation, Jeffers tried to perform a stunt for YouTube, and he thought that the firecracker was unlit.

Police said that the firecracker was bought in the state legally. Family members told investigators that Jeffers was preparing to host a party.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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* Police remove trapped 500-pound pig from basement of deceased 'hoarder' *
DETROIT (UPI) - Authorities in Detroit struggled to remove a pig estimated to weigh between 400 and 500 pounds from the basement of a recently deceased man, according to reports. Police arrived at the home Friday morning after receiving an anonymous tip that a pig inside the dwelling was being fed human remains. Officers discovered a pig was trapped in the basement of the house, which was accessible only by ladder. "No pun intended but it looks like a pigsty," Assistant Police Chief Steve Dolunt told WXYZ. "There's two feet of feces down there." Animal rescue workers built a ramp for the animal and, with some difficulty, were eventually able to get the pig out of the basement. Police say cadaver dogs were unable to find evidence of human remains. Neighbors say the homeowner was Gary Roquemore, who owned multiple houses on the block and was found dead in a nearby residence earlier in the week. Police did not identify Roquemore but said the pig's owner died of natural causes on Tuesday. "There is a stench emanating from all three homes," Dolunt said. "It looks like at this time, preliminarily, this is a hoarder, so we can't tell what we have in all three homes." The pig was originally slated to go to a farm in Canton, Michigan but was deemed to large. Animal rescue group Devoted Barn reportedly adopted the animal.


* CNN mistakes sex toy sign for Islamic State flag *
LONDON (UPI) - On Saturday, CNN ran an entire segment on the possible sighting of an Islamic State flag at a pride parade in London. "Just in: ISIS flag spotted at gay pride parade," read a banner stretching across the bottom of the news channel's TV feed as cameras repeatedly panned and zoomed in on what turned out to be a flag featuring crude drawings of sex toys. The flag was apparently spotted by CNN International reporter Lucy Pawle, who joined the segment via phone to talk about her startling discovery. "This man dressed in black and white was waving what appears to be a very bad mimicry, but a clear attempt to mimic, the ISIS flag," Pawle said. "The black and white flag with the distinctive lettering." Though Pawle seemed to grasp the inauthenticity of the flag, she failed to realize the humor in it and even reported it to nearby police. "If you look at the flag closely, it's clearly not Arabic. In fact, it looks like it could be gobbledygook." CNN's mistake quickly went viral, earning derision from a variety of online news sources. CNN has since removed the video from their website. Mediaite, however, posted a clip of the incident for posterity's sake.


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No, I doubt very seriously if that was the 1st Time Hayden "Choked the Chicken"! Many teenage boys "Choke the Chicken" quite often! LOL
[I'm glad SOMEbody picked up on my subtle innuendo.]

His girlfriend left him as soon as he took him down to his mother's basement where he lives to show her his complete collection of Star Wars memorabilia worth thousands of dollars. When he started taking to her in the voice of Jar Jar Binks, she was outta there. That's when he broke and started referring to his mother's chickens as Imperial Storm Troopers.
[The kind of borderline sociopaths who kill helpless animals for little or no reason usually don't go in for Star Wars. You're thinking more of a passive/aggressive, maybe somewhat latently homosexual social pariah.]

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