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Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Sat Apr 08, 2023 2:12 pmby HaydeeRodriguezSC1
A place to post about any news you've discovered that you find unusual in any manner. good , bad, just odd. Post The Headline and some details about the news story.
I'll start:
"Like a 5 yr old"
.....First class passenger handcuffed for asking for a drink. 
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Sat Apr 08, 2023 11:24 pmby HaydeeRodriguezSC1
"Plane makes emergency landing when pilot spots a venomous cobra"...........:
A South African pilot had to make an emergency landing when he found himself in a situation straight out of the movies -- a venomous snake was under his seat.
Pilot Rudolf Erasmus was flying a private plane carrying four passengers from Bloemfontein to Pretoria flight when he found himself in a situation reminiscent of the film Snakes on a Plane.
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Sun Apr 09, 2023 5:09 amby Betty_BnV CHARM
A man in Pennsylvania stole a school bus to transport a dead deer home to fertilize his garden,
then sort of wreaked the bus, and then ran away stripping off his clothes as he fled the cops on foot.
YES, REALLY!
I am horrible at gardening. can you even use a dead deer to fertilize a garden?
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:55 amby HaydeeRodriguezSC1
More WTF news for today.....
"Arizona Dairy Queen Searching For Missing Giant Red Spoon " :
Franchise owner Raman Kalra hopes the thief returns the spoon, which he notes is "too big to eat anything."
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Mon Apr 10, 2023 11:51 amby Betty_BnV CHARM
HaydeeRodriguezSC1 wrote:More WTF news for today.....
"Arizona Dairy Queen Searching For Missing Giant Red Spoon " :
Franchise owner Raman Kalra hopes the thief returns the spoon, which he notes is "too big to eat anything."
It was, and by a Pokemon hunter! Which to me adds to the weirdness factor.
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Mon Apr 10, 2023 12:41 pmby HaydeeRodriguezSC1
Betty_BnV CHARM wrote:HaydeeRodriguezSC1 wrote:More WTF news for today.....
"Arizona Dairy Queen Searching For Missing Giant Red Spoon " :
Franchise owner Raman Kalra hopes the thief returns the spoon, which he notes is "too big to eat anything."
It was, and by a Pokemon hunter! Which to me adds to the weirdness factor.
Haha, I guess he wanted to feed them!
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Wed Apr 12, 2023 12:12 amby HaydeeRodriguezSC1
"Fed up by LA pothole, Arnold Schwarzenegger fills it himself"-
Fed up by an enormous pothole in his Los Angeles neighborhood, Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up a shovel and filled it himself.
"It's not a pothole"...haha
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Wed Apr 12, 2023 7:17 pmby Betty_BnV CHARM
How is this for funny?
South Korea had been banning Japanese sex dolls for
“harm(ing) the country’s beautiful traditions and public moral".
Supposedly they have stopped that now.
fyi... I have had Members from 30'ish countries and research stations, but not one from South Korea.
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Wed Apr 19, 2023 12:02 amby HaydeeRodriguezSC1
Not actual news....but I found this list of odd names of group's of animals interesting...and yes, some WEIRD! Haha
The Strangest Names For Groups of Animals:
Alligators – a congregation
Apes – a shrewdness
Bats – a colony or cauldron
Bears – a sleuth
Cats – a clowder
Crows – a murder
Donkeys – a pace
Ferrets – a business
Fox – a skulk or leash
Gerbils – a horde
Giraffes – a tower
Hippopotamuses – a bloat
Hyenas – a cackle
Leopards – a leap
Martens – a richness
Owls – a parliament
Porcupines – a prickle
Raccoons – a nursery or gaze
Rats – a mischief
Rhinos – a crash
Skunks – a surfeit
Squirrels – a dray
Toads – a knot
Turtles – a bale
Whales – a pod
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Thu Apr 20, 2023 9:27 amby Italian Lace SC4
Humpback whale found dead in amazon rainforest (story from 2019, but news to me!)
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Mon Apr 24, 2023 3:15 amby HaydeeRodriguezSC1
Italian Lace SC4 wrote:Humpback whale found dead in amazon rainforest (story from 2019, but news to me!)
Yikes! News to me too!
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Fri Apr 28, 2023 7:08 pmby Betty_BnV CHARM
"A man from Dildo, N.L. has captured the attention of iceberg lovers after photographing an oddly-shaped hunk — now popularly known as the "dickie berg" on social media — off the coast of Newfoundland."
There are photographs, but I don't have permission to post them!
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Sat Apr 29, 2023 9:44 amby Betty_BnV CHARM
Weird, WTF, & EEEWWWWW!
Dutch court orders man who fathered 550 kids to stop donating sperm
That is some serious ego there!
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Sun Apr 30, 2023 8:37 amby Italian Lace SC4
Betty_BnV CHARM wrote:Weird, WTF, & EEEWWWWW!
Dutch court orders man who fathered 550 kids to stop donating sperm
That is some serious ego there!
I saw this! He had already reached the donation cap at his local donation centers so he started travelling to others in the region. The fear is that him putting that much of his DNA out there will result in inbreeding and population instability due to lack of gene diversity.
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Mon May 01, 2023 3:20 amby HaydeeRodriguezSC1
Italian Lace SC4 wrote:Betty_BnV CHARM wrote:Weird, WTF, & EEEWWWWW!
Dutch court orders man who fathered 550 kids to stop donating sperm
That is some serious ego there!
I saw this! He had already reached the donation cap at his local donation centers so he started travelling to others in the region. The fear is that him putting that much of his DNA out there will result in inbreeding and population instability due to lack of gene diversity.
Guess that old saying about " adding some chlorine to the gene pool" applies here. Haha Wow, and Yikes!
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Wed May 10, 2023 11:49 amby easyD
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Thu May 11, 2023 10:47 amby Betty_BnV CHARM
Totally a job for a professional. What a cheapskate!
Re: Weird or WTF news (No Outside Links)
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Mon May 15, 2023 12:20 pmby SultrySerenaSC2
An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute
Caryn Marjorie, 23, a social media influencer with nearly 2 million followers on Snapchat, never has time to talk to all her fans. She posts photos and videos of herself throughout the day, and her 98 percent male fan base responds with an endless stream of messages and requests.
She spends about five hours a day in a Telegram group she created that super fans pay to join, but she can only respond to so many comments at a time.
So, this week she launched CarynAI, an AI chatbot leveraging GPT-4 API technology developed by OpenAI that replicates her voice, mannerisms and personality. For $1 a minute, fans can chat with CarynAI in an “immersive AI experience” that feels almost like speaking to Marjorie herself. The launch of CarynAI was first reported by Fortune.
Given the product’s growth rate, once she’s able to onboard all the fans who’ve expressed interest, she estimates she’s on track to earn about $5 million a month. The product made more than $100,000 the first week, she said. and there’s a waiting list of thousands to gain access.
