Bizarre News - January 31, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

I am sure we have all heard the disgusting story of the Wisconsin middle school students who are facing criminal charges after authorities say they recorded themselves having a "sex party" at one of their homes over winter break.

And if you haven't heard that story, maybe it's a good thing that I spend a little too much time looking this sort of stuff up.

But now that we are all on the same page, I am sure we can agree that this kind of behavior is the result of a saturization of sexualization in everything from video games to mass media to social media and that it can have a powerful impact on young, impressionable minds.

How powerful an impact?

Well, let's see if we can take a stab at what the future might hold. First you have 13 and 14-year-old taking videos of themselves playing doctor with their cell phones. The next thing you know you have students filming amateur porn at college.

A 19-year-old former Oregon State University student was cited for public indecency after a 17-minute porn video of her in the Valley Library reportedly appeared online.

Students said they heard about the video on social media platforms, where else, that included Facebook, Twitter, and the Yik Yak phone app.

"I was surprised someone was in our library doing that," one student told the local TV station. "I feel like it's always packed. I don't know how anyone could get away with it."

University spokesman Steve Clark said security is a high priority. At the same time, the Valley Library has 340,000 square feet and is used by 30,000 people a week.

Apparently it is difficult to keep porn from happening with traffic like that.

All I know is that we didn't have any amateur porn on campus when I was at university. Of course, I never got invited to those kinds of parties anyway.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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* UPS driver threw packages, urinated on house *
HOUSTON (UPI) - UPS officials said they have fired a seasonal driver recorded by Houston security cameras throwing packages over a fence and urinating on the home. Ben Lucas said he checked his surveillance cameras after arriving home Jan. 8 to find his packages -- .22 caliber ammunition, chemicals and a machine for cleaning gun parts -- were on the inside of his locked fence and appeared to have been damaged. Lucas said the video, which he later posted to YouTube, showed the UPS driver throw the packages over the locked fence before unzipping the fly of his pants and urinating on his home. "So basically I paid someone to come to my house and pee on it," Lucas told KPRC-TV. Lucas said he posted the video to UPS' Facebook page when officials seemed unwilling to watch it or give him an apology. He said the move led to a phone call from a UPS supervisor. "She was apologetic and wants to send me a 'we're sorry' gift," he told KHOU-TV. "That's what I kind of wanted. I just wanted someone to say, 'yeah he shouldn't have done that we'll try to make sure that doesn't happen again,'" Lucas said. UPS issued a statement saying the driver, a seasonal employee, was fired. "UPS was dismayed by actions that violated decency and delivery care. The local management team did take action to terminate the individual who was a seasonal delivery helper. However, they were wrong if they did not clarify this resolution with Mr. Lucas at the time. UPS sincerely apologizes to our customer. No behavior like this is acceptable."


*-- Comcast offers apology for changing customer's name to profanity --*
A couple from Spokane, Washington discovered that after a dispute with Comcast their billing account had been renamed with profanity. After Ricardo and Lisa Brown argued over their bill with a customer service representative from Comcast things went from bad to worse. On their next monthly bill Ricardo Brown's name had been changed to "A**hole Brown." When the Brown's attempted to have the profanity removed and Ricardo's name restored they were met with opposition. The Brown's then contacted a consumer advocacy writer, Christopher Elliott, and the incident was reported. "You know employees talk about customers behind their back and say things like this," Elliott told CBS News. "But I've never seen anyone put something like this in writing. This falls into the category of 'What were they thinking?'" Elliot then contacted Steve Kipp, Comcast's vice president of communications in Washington, who said, "We have spoken with our customer and apologized for this completely unacceptable and inappropriate name change," he said. "We have zero tolerance for this type of disrespectful behavior and are conducting a thorough investigation to determine what happened. We are working with our customer to make this right and will take appropriate steps to prevent this from happening again." "I'm a bit stunned by this" said Elliott. "Comcast is a big company. They can't control all their employees. But you'd think this is part of the basic training they give to their employees -- don't call your customers a-holes."


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
The story of a man being beaten, robbed and having his face shoved through a shopping cart had no humor whatsoever. Extremely rude and distasteful.
[I agree. Criminals should only commit funny crimes. It would make the news so much more entertaining, wouldn't it?]

Good grief Lewis, I expect better from you. Why the apostrophe in: "The circus's have not used a dummy for the human cannon ball act. A little Google research will show how dangerous this act really is." -Dave
[Still not getting a hang of the whole "reader" comment thing, eh?]

Lewis, Here in CT a church had to spend $50,000 a few years ago to put a telephone in an elevator. This is CT state law for passenger elevators no matter how little they have to elevate of if said elevator is open or closed. Great idea you say. Try this on for size the elevator in question had to elevate a whopping 6" for a wheel chair to the altar. Later, Scooter
[Now this one I don't believe, because there are different classifications of elevators. A little lift for a wheelchair is not going to be subject to the same regulations and compliance as a commercial elevator.]

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