Weird News

[Dean]

Welcome to the Weird News Thread

Here i will post any obscure, weird news i come across over the net.

Without Polls.

[Dean]

Say what? Man with ear ache gets vasectomy

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian man who went to a clinic to have an aching ear checked ended up having a vasectomy after mistakenly believing that the doctor had called his name.



A manager at the Doctor Jose Carlos de Espirito Santo clinic in the town of Montes Claros in southeastern Minas Gerais State told Reuters on Wednesday Valdemar Lopes de Moraes, 39, entered the vasectomy room when Aldemar Aparecido Rodrigues' name was called.


"He was called by the full name and yet thought it was him. But the strangest thing is that he asked no questions when the doctor started preparations in the area which had so little to do with his ear," Vanessa Guimaraes said.


"He later explained that he thought it was an ear inflammation that got down to his testicles," she added.


De Moraes, a farmer who has two children, did not want to reverse the operation, performed last week, and showed up for an ear exam on Wednesday at the same clinic.


"A local newspaper said he is going to sue us, but he did not tell us about any claims," Guimaraes said.

[Dean]

Magician Blaine to Be Suspended Over River Thames
— LONDON (Reuters) - American magician David Blaine, dubbed "the modern day Houdini," is to be suspended in a glass box over the River Thames in London for more than six weeks without food.

The flamboyant, 30-year-old New Yorker, famed for spectacular stunts atop poles and frozen in ice, is to be hauled into solitary confinement on Sept. 5 in what he called "the most extreme exercise in isolation and physical deprivation ever attempted."

Against the backdrop of London's Tower Bridge, he will spend 44 days suspended by a crane in his clear plexiglass box "with no food, no communication and no distractions of any kind."

He will have one tube to give him water and another for urinating.

"We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe," Blaine said as details were released of his endurance test that will be carried live on British television.

This is the first time that Blaine, who rose to fame with his "street magic" displays in New York, has ever attempted a major stunt outside the United States.

He has endured being entombed in a block of ice for 61 hours, has been buried for a week and spent 35 hours standing on the top of an 80-foot pillar in midtown Manhattan.

[Weirds]

Thanks for doing weird stuff.

[Dean]

Fox News Threatened to Sue The Simpsons
Over a Parody Segment

October 24, 2003
During an interview broadcast today on NPR's Fresh Air, Simpsons creator Matt Groening revealed that the Fox News Network had threatened to sue The Simpsons over a parody of the right-leaning news channel. The highly sensitive news organization, which is headed by Roger Ailes, made headlines this summer with an ill-starred lawsuit against humorist Al Franken's book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. The Fox suit was thrown out in court and only succeeded in making Franken's book a bestseller. According to Groening, the Simpsons team refused to cut out the segment, which Groening told Fresh Air he "really liked," figuring that Rupert Murdoch wouldn't allow the Fox News cable network to sue the Fox Broadcast Network, which carries The Simpsons. The Fox News Network did back down on its threat, although it has told The Simpsons creators that in the future, cartoon series will not be allowed to include a "news crawl" along the bottom of the screen, which might "confuse the viewers."

[Toefur]

I hope they sue some sense into the pitiful embarassment this once great show has become.

[Dean]

BMX stunt goes wrong
27oct03

A SYDNEY man suffered serious burns after setting himself alight before attempting to jump a BMX bike off a toilet block into a pile of mattresses, police said.

Police believe the incident was part of a bizarre stunt that went horribly wrong.
A police spokeswoman said that at 7.40pm (AEDT) last night a passing patrol car spotted the man setting himself alight while standing atop a toilet block in Coral Sea Park in Yorktown Parade, Maroubra.

He then mounted a BMX bike, which he jumped off the toilet block, aiming for the pile of mattresses.

The spokeswoman said he missed his target, suffering a broken nose and wrist, in addition to serious burns.

He remained alight until officers from the passing patrol car doused him with a garbage bin full of water.

Police also seized a gerry can, a lighter and a BMX bike.

The 39-year-old Maroubra man is now receiving treatment at the Prince of Wales Hospital, where he is expected to undergo surgery today.

A number of witnesses have been interviewed by police.

[GregT]

What a toilet block ? :confused2