Bizarre News - April 29, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

While the nation's eyes are on Baltimore as it is dealing with widespread rioting, looting and destruction, one man in Oklahoma is determined to get his city in the news his own way.

Traffic came to a stop as police in Tulsa chased and tased a naked man running along the highway. Police arrested and charged James Jackson with indecent exposure, obstructing justice and burglary.

Drivers slowed and pulled over when they saw Jackson, 24, walking naked down the LL Tisdale Parkway. At least a couple of passengers recorded the incident with their cell phones. One video shows Jackson slamming his fist on a car as it passes by. He appears to try and open the driver side door of a truck that stopped to avoid hitting him.

Jackson continued to walk down the highway and starts to sing before a police officer arrives and attempts to take him into custody. Jackson ignored numerous commands to stop and get on the ground by Tulsa police officers. That's when an officer unsuccessfully used his Taser to subdue Jackson.

In a video Jackson is seen removing the wires from his body and running away again.

A second officer shows up and also uses his Taser. The two officers eventually get him on the ground and carry him away.

Jackson might have been having a mental episode or was under the influence of drugs, according to police.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Lost in the woods, sisters survived on Girl Scout cookies --*
LUCE COUNTY, Mich. (UPI) - Two sisters lost in the woods for nearly two weeks survived on Girl Scout cookies, cheese puffs and snow before being rescued Friday. Rescue workers found Lee Wright, 56, and Leslie Roy, 52, after their SUV got stuck April 11 in the deep snow in a tree-canopied area in Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula. They were weak but in otherwise fine condition, authorities said. "It is unbelievably remarkable," said Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Jeff Marker, who assisted in the rescue. "They had multiple layers of clothes on and they were rationing their food." Roy, from Nebraska, and Wright, from Oklahoma, left the town of Ishpeming after visiting their relatives and planned to make a three-hour drive to Mackinaw City but never arrived. Their vehicle got stuck near Crisp Point, in an area they couldn't get cellphone service. While stranded, they relied on eight boxes of Girl Scout cookies and a bag of cheese puffs for food and melted snow for water. Friday, state police in a helicopter spotted the women. Police hiked 25 minutes before reaching them. "When we pulled up, they grabbed their purses and Lee Wright clutched onto her Bible and both women were very happy," Marker said. "It was hugs all around."


*-- Italy opens Museo Della Merda -- the museum of poop --*
MILAN, Italy (UPI) - The latest museum to dump knowledge on Italy is the Museo Della Merda, a facility dedicated to the study of human and animal feces. The Museo Della Merda, which roughly translates to "Museum of Poop," although the intended wording is somewhat more profane, describes itself as an "agency for change" that "houses documents and information on excrement in culture, technology and history." The poo-seum aims to show "what a useful and living substance crap really is." Headquartered in the Piacenza province hamlet of Castelbosco, it held a launch event Monday at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology in Milan. The exhibit tracks the history of excrement and seeks to educate visitors on the ways poo is put to good use around the world. "Few phenomena are so rich in material and conceptual complexity as the cultural history of [excrement]," the museum said. The museum was founded by Gianantonio Locatelli, a Castelbosco farmer who wanted to put the 220,000 pounds of excrement created by his animals each day to good use. Museum tours can be arranged for Saturdays and Sundays between May and August.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Lewis, I somehow get the picture in my mind that since this was not the woman's first offense that maybe she knew the person that was robbing the store and kept that extra sum of money in the register at those times because she was getting a percentage of the take. Just a thought! -Gary

After reading your newsletter, I am more convinced than ever there is little intelligent life on Earth. I am returning to my home planet. -Queetzal
[Go if you want to. You certainly don't have to worry about being deported.]

Lewis, If Austin chose the snake over his girlfriend, it doesn't say much for her. ...Joe L.

Hey Lewis, Manure Trade show slogan contest--think it might take some manuring for to win? -Grins
"Entries are piling up for a slogan contest being held this year by the North American Manure Expo. The trade show showcases the latest technology in manure handling, treatment and application. An official event slogan has already been settled on: "2015 Manure Expo: Manure than you can Handle!" It will appear on the front of a T-shirt."
[What a crappy slogan. Whatever happened to keeping things simple and snappy; like "Shit Happens"?]

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