Bizarre News - November 28, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not fight, I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is gunning you down.

Not even jolly ol' Saint Nick goes to Detroit without packing some heat. A festively dressed gunman, who is now in custody, told officers that he felt threatened after arguing with a pair of men at a Detroit gas station early in the morning. So he shot them.

"An individual who was dressed as Santa and two other individuals got into some kind of confrontation," said Detroit Police Officer Adam Madera. "Two of the individuals went to their vehicle; they believe that Santa felt maybe that they were going to get a weapon. He then shot these individuals."

Then Santa took off on foot.

Madera said that two off-duty officers in the area engaged in a short foot chase with the suspect and directed him to an on-duty officer who made the arrest.

Detroit police officials confirmed that the two victims, both 29-year-old men, were recovering from gunshot wounds following the incident.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Canadian yoga class cancelled due to 'cultural issues' --*
OTTAWA - A free yoga class at the University of Ottawa was cancelled after a group of student leaders deemed it to be an example of cultural appropriation. Jennifer Scharf, who taught the free class for students with and without disabilities for seven years, said she was told the class would be cancelled when she met with the university's Center for Students with Disabilities in September. The center outlined their reasoning for canceling the class in an email. "While yoga is a really great idea, and accessible and great for students ... there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice," they wrote. One of the issues Scharf believes they are referring to is instructors who falsely claim expertise in the spiritual aspect of yoga, though she said her focus is strictly on the physical benefits. "I'm not claiming it's anything more than a physical practice within that class," she told CBC News. "There's been so much positivity and so many people positively helped by this, and that's part of the reason why I'm fighting so hard to keep it." Scharf looked to find a compromise by renaming the course from "yoga" to "mindful stretching" but issues regarding how the phrase would translate to French ultimately led to the program being suspended. She has also said she is open to teaching the class in a "more accessible" form, but has yet found a place or organization on campus to host it.


*-- Bride destroys dress at 5k color run after groom calls off wedding --*
TAMPA, Fla. - A Tampa woman came up with a colorful way to destroy her wedding dress after her fiance called off the ceremony. Just days before the wedding was to take place, Kilee Manulak got a text from her boyfriend of two years saying he no longer wanted to marry her. After a few days of mourning, Manulak decided to have some fun with the situation by publicly destroying her wedding dress at Tampa's Color Fun Fest. Manulak was joined by her bridesmaids at the event, a 5K run were the participants are sprayed with neon paint. The women covered their dresses in paint and Manulak even took to the main stage. "It was actually very liberating," she told WFLA Tampa. "I don't want a pity party. I just want to have fun with it." Jessica Rios of All Brides 2 Be, the shop where Manulak bought the dress, attended the event at Manulak's request. They are not sure if the color will ever come out of the dress, but Rios said that Manulak's happiness is the most important thing. "In the end it is her dress now and my wish is to see her happy...which I did," Rios told UPI. "To see the smile on her face and all of her bridesmaids and family there too supporting her was priceless." Manulak hopes to sell the dress if the color can be washed out and is ultimately thankful to her former fiancé for the experience. "I definitely want to tell him thank you for sparing me heartaches down the road, and thank you for letting me go so I can find true happiness," she said.


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[With God as my witness - I thought turkeys could fly.]

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