Bizarre News - August 12, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

There are ways to get kicks on a Saturday night, and then there is this.

Police responded to a movie theater in Newport Beach, CA around 11 p.m. after several 911 emergency calls about a disturbance.

Witnesses told investigators between two to three male suspects had arranged to open the secured emergency exit door at the front of the theater during a screening of the psychological thriller "The Gift."

One suspect entered the theater through the emergency door, holding "some type of loud, handheld machine" later determined to be a leaf-blower over his head, police said.

The suspect yelled, shook the leaf-blower, and revved its engine to create a loud and disturbing noise. The three men reportedly exited the theater through the same emergency exit door, police said.

Officials say three people suffered minor injuries as movie-goers rushed out of the theater.

Police say that whether or not it was meant as a prank, it was no joking matter given a recent series of violent episodes in movie theaters nationally.

They are just lucky some paranoid patron wasn't packing a concealed weapon which he could have unloaded in their general direction.

Then again, I have seen some theaters recently that I would like to go through with a leaf blower before sitting down. Maybe these jerk-offs were just trying to perform a public service.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Woman's bra saves her from hunter's stray bullet --*
MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN, Germany - A female cyclist's underwire bra may have saved her from life-threatening injuries after a hunter accidentally shot her. The 41-year-old tourist was riding across a field with her husband when she unknowingly rolled into a boar hunt, German newspaper Gadebusch-Rehnaer reported Friday. During a break, the woman felt a sudden sharp pain in her chest, soon realizing the underwire from her bra deflected a bullet. The couple immediately alerted the alleged shooter of the accident after he was spotted at a neighboring farm. "Those in charge of the hunt broke it up straight away" area police spokesperson Andre Falke said. The shooter is reportedly being investigated on suspicion of injury caused by negligence. This isn't the first report of the undergarment blocking a potentially deadly bullet. In Feb., a Brazilian woman's life was saved when her black underwire bra stopped a stray round from hitting her in the heart. "It was not just the bra wiring, which softened [it] a little," she told reporters, "but God who saved me."


*-- Missouri family threatened with jail for putting up purple playground --*
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. - A Missouri family said their homeowners association is threatening them with jail time after they refused to take down their purple playground equipment. Marla Stout of Lee's Summit said her family put up a playset for their young daughters about two years ago and she painted the equipment purple to comply with requirements of the Raintree Lake Neighborhood Homeowner's Association. "There's nothing in the rules about color," Stout told WDAF-TV. "What it says is it has to be harmonious with the community and with nature and there is nothing that dictates the color of the swing set." Stout said she considered the purple color to be "harmonious" because it matches the color of the trees in the fall, but the homeowner's association disagreed. Stout said she received a notice from the HOA last year saying they were being fined for not having the playground equipment and its color pre-approved, but they successfully appealed and had the fine thrown out. However, the HOA sent further letters demanding the purple playground's removal. "[The letters said] that if we didn't remove the swing set from the subdivision in a couple of weeks, we go to jail," Stout told KMBC-TV. Another letter pledged the HOA's lawsuit would cost the family "greater than any principal you are trying to prove." She said the HOA ignored a petition signed by more than a dozen neighbors saying they were not bothered by the equipment. Stout said her family has hired an attorney and will continue to fight.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
That drunk police woman probably should have been charged with DUI too. She got to the house somehow. -Mary

This woman called 911 2 report that her Chinese food wasn't to her satisfaction...I want to know what reality she's from that she thought bad Chinese that didn't land you in the hospital was an emergency or worth reporting 2 the coppers.

I'm trying to figure out how the police who stopped the guy with the sheep in the back seat could determine he had bald tires if the car was moving? Keen eyesight, apparently. -Mark
[You must not live in Murica. The police can pull you over for any reason they can reasonably make up. Much like school children...cops are only limited by their imaginations.]

What difference does it make if this guy brought his sheep along for a car ride? Suppose he had a fishbowl or hamster cage on the passenger seat, or a terrarium? But if it had been a dog, this story would be nothing more than a citation for bald tires. -Chris
[Unsafely transporting livestock, maybe?]

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