Bizarre News - November 18, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Suicide is always a tragedy, but most people content themselves with jumping off a bridge or running their car in the garage (or dumping gasoline on their heads and setting themselves on fire if they're a Buddhist monk). This unhappy Texas teen took things to a bizarre extreme when he let what he loved help him shuffle off this mortal coil...namely a poisonous snake.

The 18-year-old was found unresponsive in his car in a parking lot in Austin, with puncture wounds to his arm.

The teenager, who loved animals, worked in a pet shop, which his family bought for him two years ago. Most kids' parents buy them a puppy. This kid's parents bought him an entire pet shop.

While it might not have made him happy, it did give him access to a LOT of dangerous animals. Emergency personnel reported that his vehicle was filled with tarantulas and snakes that were in their cages, but the cage of the cobra was open and the highly poisonous snake was missing.

Shortly before his death, he wrote, "I'm sorry," on Facebook.

The body of the teenager showed no signs of a struggle with the reptile. The report concluded that he committed suicide by allowing his highly venomous cobra bite him repeatedly.

The cobra that disappeared after the incident and was found two days later in the grass a short distance from the car.

But the real mystery is who did they finally get to search a car filled with tarantulas and poisonous snakes?

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Florida woman calls 911, orders wings and cigarettes --*
CLERMONT, Fla. - A Florida woman was arrested after calling a local police station and asking for wings and cigarettes. Forty-five-year-old Liann Gae Watson is accused of calling police and asking them to bring her wings and cigarettes, claiming that she was too drunk to drive and get them herself. When officers arrived, she repeatedly asked them for cigarettes while claiming that the call was a joke, The Orlando Sentinel reports. Police report that she switched back and forth between hysterical laughter and sobbing while being interviewed and was ultimately handcuffed and placed in the patrol car. When she arrived at the Lake County Jail, she reportedly began shouting profanities, banging her head against a partition and kicking her legs up toward the ceiling. After being warned four times, police restrained her arms and legs to prevent her form harming herself and others.


*-- Order mistake leads to brawl at Milwaukee McDonalds --*
MILWAUKEE - Citations were handed out at a McDonald's in Milwaukee after a misunderstanding in the drive-thru spilled over into a brawl inside the restaurant. A couple, attempting to order a 20-piece McNugget meal from the drive-thru, entered the restaurant to complain after they were unable to hear the McDonald's employee through the speaker. Upon entering the restaurant, the couple began shouting obscenities at various employees. The situation escalated as the 35-year-old female guest slapped a 62-year-old McDonald's employee in the face, knocking her glasses off, after the employee asked the couple to settle down. At this point, the employee came from behind the counter and proceeded to grab the customers hair. The customer's husband, 41, retaliated by grabbing the employees arms and repeatedly punching her in the head. Witnesses called 911 as the couple attempted to exit the scene. All three participants in the brawl were cited with disorderly conduct and face a $450 fine. The employee told police that she grabbed the woman's hair because she was extremely "pissed off", she was able to return to work at the restaurant following the incident.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Hi Lewis, Wondering which middle school would teach you about Hercules, Hera and serpents? -Kevin
[I'm not sure, but I think I was introduced to mythology in middle school. Nothing fascinates 11 and 12-year-olds like incest, rape, murder and more rape.]

So Canadian universities are in even worse shape than American ones. The real issue should be that the music is garbage.

I understand in Japan you can get most anything from vending machines, but I don't think even they have ones for cars. I don't really see this catching on. Of course, they said the same thing about cellular phones. -Chris

It's all good--in AZ we teach em to shoot at 4 so she was perfectly fine!

Good for the Canadian college going non-PC. It is about time that someone stood up against the tyranny of the few. In many cases like this, it only takes one or two people to object for the majority to collapse like a "house of cards" on an issue. For example, one person has an allergy to peanuts, so everyone else has to be denied them. Instead, the one with the allergy should leave the area. I dislike having to accommodate your problems to my detriment. -Don


Lewis, By shooting the vest first, and then himself, the officer made it look like both shots were from another person, and the second one was 'lucky." By staging the suicide to look like a murder, the officer was attempting to avoid hanging his survivors out to dry financially. Insurance policies typically do not pay after a suicide, but they do for a murder. -Horace

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