Bizarre News - February 25, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Bathrooms can be dangerous places; slippery, wet tile, spiders under the toilet seat, improperly grounded outlets, but rarely do you have to worry about what happened to this Rhode Island man.

Jeffery Oppenheim said he was visiting his friend Andrew Pessin in Providence on Sunday when an explosion threw him out of the home's bathroom.

"It happened in an instant like getting hit by a cannon," he said.

Pessin was in the kitchen with his sons, ages 9, 7 and 5, at the time of the blast. "I was in the kitchen with my kids and immediately smelled the burning smell and we just picked them all up and ran out of the house."

Oppenheim said he suffered only a bruised knee from the incident.

"I'm just very grateful it was me in there and not one of the Pessin children who are little. They could have gotten killed," he said.

The cause of the explosion was unclear, but beef and bean burritos have not been ruled out.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- College dean gets box of fake IDs meant for student named Dean --*
RADNOR, Pa. (UPI) - Four Radnor Township college students who ordered fake IDs from China made a cringe-worthy blunder. Police said an 18-year-old college student named Dean ordered a box of fake IDs and had them shipped to his campus address. What the student probably didn't think about was he shared the same name with a dean at his school. The package was delivered to the administrator, who open the box and found eight realistic-looking IDs, one complete with the student's real name. "You can't make this up," Radnor Police Superintendent William Colarulo told the Philadelphia Inquirer. Police linked the fake IDs to four 18-year-old men, but would not identify the men or the college. Local schools include Villanova University, Cabrini College, Eastern University and Valley Forge Military Academy and College. Police tracked the package to Guangzhou, China, and said it is part of a larger problem with fraudulent identification. The cards are easy to get and can be used for far more than sneaking into bars. There are many people who use these to commit forgery or credit card fraud," police Lt. Chris Flanagan said. The students are not facing criminal charges but have been referred to their parents and may face school sanctions.


*-- Australian fisherman reels in German World War I grenade --*
PERTH, Australia (UPI) - Police in Western Australia said a fisherman reeled in an unusual find Tuesday -- an unexploded German grenade from World War I. Western Australia Police said a man fishing off the Applecross Jetty in Perth about 2 a.m. Tuesday reeled in an object that appeared to be an explosive device and police called in a Bomb Response Unit, which identified the object as a 1915 German Granatenwerfer grenade without a fuse. The object, which is also known as a pineapple bomb due to its resemblance to the fruit, was transported by Navy personnel to a safe area for disposal, police said. Geoff Smith of the Western Australian Arms and Armament Society told The Guardian the grenade was likely brought back to Australia as a souvenir following the war. "It has to have been brought back by someone and then dumped. It's the only way it could have got there," Smith said.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
What is this supposed to mean? (This is from your story about the woman being found in a box): "...But on the other hand, this story happened in Texas, so.."
[I have known several people from Texas, and I have even been there a couple of times, and from my experience some Texans consider themselves lucky to even wake up after a night of drinking.]

Dear Lewis; About the half naked woman, she was just having fun Texas style. I would like further information or even a photograph to see which part of her were showing. Then again maybe it may be too ugly to look at anyway.

Wait a minute - 7th grade kids - that's enough to drive anybody batsh*t. -Steve P.S. I dated a middle school teacher - just once.
[Hey, dating teachers can be fun. You do something wrong and they make you do it again, you know what I mean?]

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