Bizarre News - October 1, 2014

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

While there are many grand and wonderful things about the New World; breath-taking vistas and bountiful resources, the one thing you will not find here are caches of ancient Roman coins buried in the ground.

Not like in Great Britain.

An amateur treasure hunter found the biggest ever haul of 4th century Roman coins in East Devon, England. Over 20,000.

Laurence Egerton, a semiretired builder, took up metal detecting seven years ago. But last November he turned up two unusual coins the size of a thumbnail close to the previously excavated site of a Roman villa.

His continued to dig after his metal detector indicated there was more iron in the ground. That's when Mr. Egerton found his treasure.

"The next shovel was full of coins - they just spilt out over the field," he said.

"Between finding the hoard and the archaeologists excavating the site, I slept in my car alongside it for three nights to guard it," Egerton told English newspaper, The Telegraph.

Although the coins represented only a few months' wages for a Roman soldier in 260 A.D., historians say they are now worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Not a bad payday for an afternoon walk out in the country.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- N.Z. woman says home, car covered in human feces --*
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (UPI) - A New Zealand woman said she awoke recently to discover her home and car had been covered in what she believes to be human feces from an airplane. Karen Bass of Auckland said she awoke Sunday to discover there were splotches of brown matter all over her house and her silver car, which she believes to be human waste dropped from an airplane. Bass said her home is directly in the flight path for planes coming into Auckland International Airport. "The first thing when I walked out of my door this morning and I saw it, I thought an airplane [expletive] on us. You open the door and it smells like [expletive]," she told the New Zealand Herald. "I'm absolutely disgusted at the moment. The amount of crap everywhere is horrendous," she said. Bass said she is going to have a sample of feces independently tested to verify it came from humans. "There's no way it's a bird or animal poo, it's horrible. I'm sure it's human, what else could it be with huge clumps like that?" she said. An Airways New Zealand spokeswoman suggested Bass complain directly to the offending airline, but the homeowner said she would not know which airline to address as she did not see the plane.


*-- British chef serves 8,000-calorie 'Hibernator' breakfast --*
CONGLETON, England (UPI) - A British cafe is testing the limits of good taste in the the morning with "The Hibernator," a breakfast dish packing a whopping 8,000 calories. Mark Winder, owner of the Bear Grills cafe in Congleton, England, said that only 20 customers have so far attempted to take on "The Hibernator," which weighs 7 pounds and amounts to nearly four times the daily recommended caloric intake for an adult man. Winder said no one has yet succeeded in finishing the dish, which he requires diners to sign waivers before attacking. "It's called 'The Hibernator' because if anyone completes it, they'll have to sleep for a year," Winder said. The breakfast includes four fried eggs, four strips of bacon, eight sausages, four hash browns, a four-egg cheese omelet, four waffles, four pieces of toast, four pieces of fried bread, four pieces of black pudding, two ladles of beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, French fries and a 2,000-calorie milkshake to wash it all down.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
If that Crazy Bitch with 3 tits wanted to be unattractive to Men all she had to do was TALK. Nothing makes a woman more unattractive than talking when her mouth should be used for other things. -Andrew
[And feminism marches on.]

The story about the Asian guy trying to smuggle the turtles into Canada reminded me of a theological discussion I heard about. Some people were discussing about how nobody knows for sure what race Adam and Eve were. One guy said he did not know either but he did know that they were not Asian. When asked how he knew this, he stated because if they had been Asian, they would've eaten the serpent. -Dave
[And racial equality marches on.]

Lewis; The drunk who bathed in holy water, etc, is a prime example of what happens when you mix alcohol with terminal stupidity. But then, again, where would we get such bizzare entertainment. -Wes
[If they didn't want people to bathe why do they put a wash basin in front of the church? If it works for cripples in Lourdes why not drunks in Ontario. The story doesn't say if the man miraculously sobered up.]

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