Bizarre News - July 29, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

When you are a naive (and horny) young man, a woman of experience can get you to do some bizarre things. Usually those things involve anal sex and dressing up like a bellhop or a cabana boy, but it is not unprecedented that such a manipulative relationship should lead to murder.

But if you are going to murder someone for your lover, you should at least make sure you are murdering the right person! A precaution the young man in today's story apparently did not take.

41-year-old Karlita Desean Phillips of South Carolina was estranged from her husband, and she found comfort in the arms of 17-year-old Tavirous Settles.

But Phillips wasn't satisfied with her illicit affair. She wanted her husband out of the way, and she wanted her lover to take care of it for her.

Unfortunately, Settles did not make a very good hit man.

Police said that instead of his lover's estranged husband, Settles killed her husband's brother, 31-year-old Jamil Phillips, by mistake; ambushing him in front of his home.

The prosecutor said that Phillips was convicted of accessory before the fact of murder and soliciting a minor to commit a felony.

She was sentenced to life in prison. The teen was sentenced to 45 years.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Mystery pooper targeting holes of Norwegian golf course --*
HAFRSFJORD, Norway - The groundskeeper of a Norwegian golf course said a mystery pooper targeting course holes must be a man "because the poos are too massive to be from a woman." Kenneth Tennfjord, groundskeeper at the Stavanger Golf Club, said he has been finding human feces and toilet paper in course holes since 2005. "He has a couple of favorite holes," Tennfjord told the Rogaland Avis newspaper. "And we know it is a man because the poos are too massive to be from a woman." "He poos only on weekdays. On weekends I have never found poo on the golf course," Tennfjord said. He said the fecal discoveries are usually accompanied by used toilet paper. Steinar Floisvik, managing director of the club, said the mystery pooper used to arrive via bicycle. "In the early morning dew we observed bicycle tracks on the course. Footsteps showed that he had done his business, and the bicycle tracks disappeared back the way they came," Floisvik said. Frode Jormeland, another groundskeeper, said the club installed high-powered spotlights to discourage the defecation, but the poop-etrator disabled them. "He climbed up a tree next to the lights and wriggled far out on a branch and dismantled the spotlights. How he managed the feat without electrocuting himself or falling is a riddle," he said. Floisvik said the pooper's motives are unknown. "Our idea is that it could be someone who, for unknown reasons, hates the game of golf. Alternatively, the person may have a fetish or suffer from mental problems," he said.


*-- Bouquet-seeking wedding guest drops baby --*
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A young wedding guest desperate to catch the bride's bouquet was caught on camera dropping a baby to dive for the flowers. The video, filmed at a wedding in New Zealand, features a young girl holding the baby among a group of women waiting to catch the bouquet. The bride throws the bouquet, and the young girl quickly drops the baby in favor of diving backward in an attempt to snatch the flowers out of the air. The young girl is unsuccessful, having lost out to a much taller wedding guest, and picks up the seemingly uninjured infant. The video's description says the baby is the young girl's sister and was not harmed in the filming. "Note: the baby was not harmed in the video," the uploader wrote.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Lewis, About the man that showed the bus company what for by head-butting the bus door and knocking himself out over a $2 fare; what got me was the police posting it to Facebook. They are still looking for the guy so its still under investigation; therefore, was it right that they post their witty comments to social media. Although, it happened in Florida and this state gives you a lot of bizarre stories, so what the hell. -Wes
[It wouldn't be the first time social media has been used to flush out idiot criminals. If he is stupid enough to head-butt a bus he is probably stupid enough to comment on his own video on the police web page.]

Dear BN Lewis, FYI, horses cannot throw up. Yes, cows can as they chew their cud, and cats and dogs, as most, maybe all mammals can throw up, but horses cannot throw up. So, if you give a horse beer - and they will drink it as it is made from grain, you will get a drunk horse - but not one that can throw up. -Lisa J

Re your comment: "What they should have done is fed the horse a bucket of beer. Because nothing is more entertaining than a vomiting horse at your wedding reception." FYI, horses are physically unable to vomit, it's why so many of them die of colic - they can't get rid of the bellyache. That kind of constant, can't-get-rid-of-it pain causes them to try and drop to the ground and roll, but that creates the further problem of intestinal torsion. -Jennifer
[I have definitely learned a lot about horses the last couple of days. Now I know never to feed them beer. Thanks!]

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