Bizarre News - June 24, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

They say Australians are tough. Even so, it seems a little extreme to go wandering around the streets punching babies in the face. But then, if you have to grow up in Australia you might as well get acclimated to it early.

Maybe that was the motivation of a homeless man who unloaded a knuckle sandwich on a little girl's face outside a cafe in Sydney.

Police reported the 16-month-old was in her baby stroller with her parents outside the cafe around 11:30 a.m. The homeless man approached the baby stroller and punched her in the face, apparently without reason or provocation.

The man ran from the scene and the baby's father ran after him while telling passersby to contact the police.

Officers who arrived at the scene, caught the homeless man hiding inside a nearby building. The 28-year-old Nicholas Troy Bolas was arrested and charged with assault causing actual bodily harm.

The baby suffered a small laceration to the face and was treated at the scene by paramedics.

Nobody asked how the assailant's hand felt after punching the iron-like jaw of that baby.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Colombian police bust woman with cocaine-filled breast implants --*
BOGOTA (UPI) - Authorities in Colombia said a woman was arrested at an airport in the capital when her breast implants were found to contain 3.3 pounds of liquid cocaine. Authorities said Paola Deyanira Sabillon, 22, drew the attention of security staff at El Dorado International Airport when she appeared nervous in line and X-rays determined she had recently undergone surgery on her breasts. Sabillon, who is from Honduras and was preparing to fly to Spain, told investigators she received breast implants filled with an unknown substance she had been hired to transport. The implants were removed at a Bogota hospital and Sabillon was treated for an infection stemming from the original surgery, which is believed to have taken place at a clinic in Pereira, Colombia. The substance inside the implants was determined to be cocaine, authorities said. Sabillon was hospitalized for five days before being released into police custody.


*-- Skinny jeans send Australian woman to hospital with nerve damage --*
ADELAIDE, Australia (UPI) - An Australian doctor has warned against the dangers of so-called "skinny jeans," citing a patient who collapsed after a day of strenuous activity while wearing tight pants. Neurologist Thomas Kimber, of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp., on Tuesday that a 35-year-old woman from Adelaide was recently hospitalized after wearing skinny jeans. Kimber said the woman was helping a relative move and spent the day squatting to help them clean. "She noticed that her legs were becoming increasingly uncomfortable as the day went on [but] didn't really think much of it," Kimber said. The woman didn't notice anything was wrong until she fell on the sidewalk and couldn't get up again. "By this time it was dark and quite late at night and she was unable to stand up again, and really was there for some time before she could crawl to the side of the road, hail a cab and bring herself to the Royal Adelaide Hospital," Kimber said. The woman's legs were so swollen that hospital staff had to cut her jeans off of her body. She suffered severe muscle swelling and nerve compression and had to be treated with intravenous fluids. According to a Kimber's report of the incident, which was published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, the patient suffered compartment syndrome -- when increased pressure to body parts, particularly the leg or forearm, leads to muscle or nerve damage. "We believe it was the combination of the squatting and tight jeans that caused the problem," Kimber said in the report. The woman was unable to walk for several days but eventually made a full recovery. "The take home message I would like to leave people is if they are going to doing a lot of squatting ... wear something looser, with more elasticity perhaps," he added.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
How can chopping up a dead cow be considered 'cruelty to animals'? The school had a zero tolerance for cruelty to animals, which I understand and can support. But that should apply to live animals. Seems here that the school has a dead brain in its administration. -Mark
[What about desecration of a corpse? Or in this case, desecration of a pot roast?]

Lewis, I loved the news about the Utah University that set up a walk and run lane as well as a texting lane. But I fear only the walkers will notice; one group is going to fast and the other isn't moving at all! Thanks for all the laughs, Patti
[The problem will sort itself out once the people who are texting and driving start running over the people who are texting and walking.]

Back in the day, I had a job loading storage/groceries onto oil tankers for their ride across the pond. Carrying frozen cow legs up the gang plank was saved for the rookies (me being one). Putting a cow leg in the ceiling and the head in the basketball rim... he had help... he's just not snitching on his friends.
[Maybe it was a miniature cow.]

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