Incredulously Strange News Stories

TitosBuritoBarn · Post by **TitosBuritoBarn** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:27 am

Sometimes I wonder why companies don't do a little background check on acronyms they establish for their products. Case in point, a headline in today's World Herald Business Digest section reads this:

Omaha World Herald wrote:Verizon offers free PDA, phone classes

At first I was excited about the thought of brushing up on my make-out skills with Verizon employees free of charge. To my dismay, the PDA stood for "personal digital assistants" and not "public display of affection".

This reminds me of our cash registers at Target. They named our network of registers the "point of sale" network which was affectionately acronym-ed the "POS network" (which, for those of you out of "the loop", "POS" is a widely known acronym for "piece of |expletive|"). Shortly before I quit, we got new registers. I guess in order for the registers' manufacturing company to advertise the fact that the point of sale is taking place in "real time", each register is stamped with the phrase "realPOS" on their drawers; a phrase that I often found had dual meanings.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue May 19, 2009 4:15 pm

oops, sorry m'am

2 break into wrong house, apologize

ASSOCIATED PRESS wrote:Des Moines police say two men apologized to a woman after they broke into the wrong home looking for drugs. Police said the men kicked in a door to the woman's house about 1:20 a.m. Monday asking where the drugs were. At least one of the men had a gun. Police said that when the men realized they had broken into the wrong house they apologized and left.

Post by **Brad** » Tue May 19, 2009 4:17 pm

That's Hilarious!

Post by **Brad** » Thu May 21, 2009 12:19 pm

Joint or Olympic Torch?

S33 · Post by **S33** » Thu May 21, 2009 2:42 pm

I appreciate the irony. It takes a joint to make the Olympics entertaining.

joeglow · Post by **joeglow** » Fri May 22, 2009 4:55 pm

On an unrelated note, I finally found the lyrics for Yellow Ledbetter:

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Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:24 am

Bret Michaels (Poison) gets KO'd at the 2009 Tony Awards:

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Post by **Brad** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:36 am

That's Hilarious!

Midtown Gal · Post by **Midtown Gal** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:40 pm

Some friends and I were watching the Tony's last night and saw that. I'd like to give a special thanks to our DVR for giving us the ability to rewind and watch that at least 6 times. Freaking hilarious!

Post by **Brad** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:49 am

Demolition Crews Demolish Wrong House

Video:
http://www.ketv.com/video/19721220/inde ... source=CNN

Story:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19715994/detail.html

The house his father built, brick by brick, with his own hands has been mysteriously demolished.

“I said, ‘What address did you have?’ and he said, ‘They sent me some GPS coordinates.’ I said, ‘Don’t you have an address?’ (and) he said, ‘Yes, my GPS coordinates led me right to this address here and this house was described,’” said Byrd.

Byrd said he suspects the intended target was actually across the road.

S33 · Post by **S33** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:48 pm

So wrong but kind of funny.

justnick · Post by **justnick** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:19 pm

How horrible! I could see it happening though, as Google Maps and every other service has my house halfway down the block from where it really is. Stupid head should've double checked.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:05 pm

Mo. family Christmas photo turns up in Czech ad

Kelly said she has asked a professional photographers' organization to help figure out how her image wound up in Prague. Smith said next time she posts a photo on the Internet, she's going to lower the resolution or add an electronic watermark to make it hard to reproduce.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:14 pm

Same way I found my pictures in ads here. People just get online and take them.

Omababe · Post by **Omababe** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:30 am

DTO Luv wrote:Same way I found my pictures in ads here. People just get online and take them.

Some time ago I wrote an article for CameraPedia on a somewhat-uncommon 1960s vintage 35mm rangefinder camera. (http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Mamiya_35_Super_Deluxe)

I included a (semi-crummy, taken with a friend's P&S digital, cropped quite a bit) photo of the one I have.

I was kinda surprised to find not too long ago that my photo appeared on an Ebay listing for the same model camera, with my old blue bedspread as the backdrop and my initials in the corner. I'm surprised the creep didn't at least edit that out!

Oh well ...

icejammer · Post by **icejammer** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:26 pm

Sometimes, you just have to wonder....what the heck was he thinking?

Omaha man run over by his own car

An Omaha man was injured after exiting his moving vehicle on Interstate 480 Thursday. . . .

. . . The witness said Nelson was leaning out of the vehicle as it traveled down the interstate. The driver’s side door was open and Nelson was “hanging out of the doorway.”

The witness said Nelson then jumped out of the vehicle as if he were going to try and push the vehicle down the interstate; however, the witness said the vehicle was moving too fast for anyone to attempt the maneuver.

As Nelson jumped out of the car, the vehicle veered to the left and struck a concrete guardrail. Nelson was pulled under the vehicle and run over. . . .

Oh yeah, and aren't those South Dakota plates on his car?

Post by **Brad** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:31 pm

What in the world???

Post by **Brad** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:42 pm

Actually, now I am not sure which one is more weird, Icajammer's story above or this one I just read!

Driver stops cop, hands over vodka

http://www.omaha.com/article/20090821/NEWS01/708219860

John Ferak, OWH wrote:A La Vista police officer found himself making an unusual drunken driving arrest this week.

Around 9 p.m. Wednesday, a 69-year-old Omaha man flashed the lights of his white Buick Century at the cruiser of a police officer near Portal and Hupp Roads.

When the officer pulled over to the check on the man’s well being, the motorist told Sgt. Kraig Gomon that he was too drunk to drive. The man then handed Gomon an unopened liter of Vodka. Gomon and another officer, who responded to the scene, noticed the man smelled of alcohol.

During the incident, the motorist told the La Vista officers that he had begun consuming alcohol around 10 a.m. He said that he had six drinks of Vodka before deciding to contact the police officers and that his last drink was around 8:30 p.m., about 30 minutes earlier.

He told police that he contacted them because he shouldn’t have been driving and couldn’t keep on the road, according to police.

The man failed field sobriety tests and also a preliminary breath test, La Vista police said. He was booked into the Sarpy County Jail on suspicion of drunken driving. His blood-alcohol content tested at 0.103, which is above Nebraska’s legal limit of 0.08 to be considered drunk.

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:13 pm

My father-in-law works for the IDOT and said that the other day, a lady was trying to get to Omaha by using the currently-under-construction exit from I-29. Instead of taking the detour and going around, she thought that she could just turn from I-29 onto what they call "Big Bertha" (480 coming from Omaha, North to Sioux City), and went backwards. She got pulled over by a commercial vehicle enforcement officer, on the Nebraska side. She was, what they called, an "old bat." I'm surprised i haven't seen this, or that i missed it if there was a report on it.

Just another reason that they should (honestly) have elderly drivers reassessed to maintain their license.

2Adam29 · Post by **2Adam29** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:09 am

sorry, got off topic.

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:23 am

Fools from Nebraska.

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Post by **Brad** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:14 pm

A dirty deed indeed

http://www.omaha.com/article/20090831/N ... /FRONTPAGE

Kevin Cole WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:Omaha police were on the lookout for a man who literally stole a quick shower Thursday at the Hilton Garden Inn near 10th and Dodge Streets.

Kevin Cole WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:According to a police report, a housekeeper had just entered a room to clean it about 9:30 a.m. when a man who was not a hotel guest barreled through the door and locked himself in the room's bathroom. The housekeeper heard the shower turn on and went to tell the head housekeeper about the incident.

When the housekeeper and her supervisor returned, the room door was locked with the deadbolt. The pair began knocking and, within a minute, the man opened the door and took off running.

Shull saw the man, dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, running down the stairs and gave chase. The man was dripping wet, wearing shoes but carrying his socks, as he reached an alley outside the hotel.

“He smelled Neutrogena-clean, but I bet he hadn't run that far in 10 years,” Robert Shull said. “He was a stocky guy, and he was spent by the time he reached his truck.”

Shull followed the man to 11th and Dodge Streets, where he got into a “fairly new” gold Ford pickup truck with a camper top, Shull said. Shull caught up with the man as he labored to unlock the driver's door.

Kevin Cole WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:Shull joked that the man, who he estimated was 5-foot-10 and weighed 240 pounds, might have been unable to resist the Hilton Garden Inn's creature comforts.

“I think he was after a combination of our soft water, wonderful bath products and clean rooms,” he said. “It's a combination that is pretty hard to resist.”

bargainhunter · Post by **bargainhunter** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:15 am

What the......????

Post by **Brad** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:43 am

Todd and Tyler just did a news story were two guys in Omaha tried to rob a Wells Fargo Financial yesterday. They didn't realize that it was not a bank and the people in the office had to explain the difference between Wells Fargo Financial and Wells Fargo Bank.

Bosco55David · Post by **Bosco55David** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:42 pm

Brad wrote:Todd and Tyler just did a news story were two guys in Omaha tried to rob a Wells Fargo Financial yesterday. They didn't realize that it was not a bank and the people in the office had to explain the difference between Wells Fargo Financial and Wells Fargo Bank.

Watch the news clips posted online at KETV or WOWT and you won't be surprised that they could make such a mistake. :yes:

ShawJ · Post by **ShawJ** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:27 am

Trick or...deer?

Souix City, Iowa (AP) wrote:Animal control officers in Sioux City say someone dressed a dead deer in a clown suit and wig and put it on a family’s porch.

Officers suspect it was a prank, considering Halloween is approaching, but they say it’s not funny, safe nor acceptable.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20091008/N ... /FRONTPAGE

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:23 pm

Not Everyone Watched The Husker Game

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/6386 ... tion=story

The story itself isn't strange, but the title is just ridiculous considering it has NOTHING to do with the Husker game. Seriously... does everything in this town have to revolve around Nebraska football??? Sigh.

S33 · Post by **S33** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:06 pm

Adam wrote: Seriously... does everything in this town have to revolve around Nebraska football??? Sigh.

No kidding. Channel 7 is the worst. On game days they have a husker skin on their webpage. Every |expletive| thing has a big red N in front of it.

This coming from a husker fan...

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:39 pm

PERFECT example of the media going overzealous mode with the Husker stuff. I honestly don't hate the team, it's the media and the psycho (not all mind you) fans that drive me bonkers.

Post by **nebugeater** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:13 pm

OK, this is Sad, Odd and Funny all in a strange sort of way. From the fact of what these people do, to having been on Wife Swap TV show, the first name of the boy. Overall it is sad for the boy and his family though and as of this posting he is still not located so here to hoping for a Positive outcome.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,567041,00.html

DEVELOPING: A homemade balloon slowly descended in a Colorado field Thursday, but the fate of a 6-year-old boy believed to be inside was not known, authorities said.

The bizarre scene played out live on television and prompted fears that the flying saucer-shaped balloon would crash with the young child inside.

The child was identified as Falcon Heene, the son of a Colorado weather-chaser. The boy and his family first appeared on the ABC series "Wife Swap" on Oct. 3, 2008 and were voted back for the 100th episode of the show, which aired on March 13, 2009
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See more at the link

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:26 pm

Hey they found him. His body is splattered all over the Emerald City. They found him after following the Yellow Brick Road.

Post by **Brad** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:43 pm

How about that dude that locked all his "followers" in that sauna at the retreat in Arizona....

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:20 pm

Found him hiding in a box in the attic. I wonder how much the search and rescue mission is going to cost the state.

TechnicalDisaster · Post by **TechnicalDisaster** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:45 pm

Coyote wrote:Found him hiding in a box in the attic. I wonder how much the search and rescue mission is going to cost the state.

Still the reigning champ:

S33 · Post by **S33** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:00 pm

bradley414 wrote:
Coyote wrote:Found him hiding in a box in the attic. I wonder how much the search and rescue mission is going to cost the state.
Still the reigning champ:

Lol, that is so |expletive| funny. and wrong, but who gives a |expletive|.

Post by **Brad** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:36 am

I hear its now coming out that the dad put him up to it for "the show".

DTO Luv · Post by **DTO Luv** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:47 am

Brad wrote:I hear its now coming out that the dad put him up to it for "the show".

I wondered that myself as more info started coming out about that dad. I thought this was a way for him to get press on his balloon.

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:57 am

the today show had the family on, and the dad seems like a huge fake. I wanted to reach through the screen and kick him in the nuts for being a girly bag.

S33 · Post by **S33** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:29 am

DTO Luv wrote:
Brad wrote:I hear its now coming out that the dad put him up to it for "the show".
I wondered that myself as more info started coming out about that dad. I thought this was a way for him to get press on his balloon.

Exactly what I was thinking. Maybe not so much on his balloon, but his storm chasing work. Either way, why the |expletive| would you have a balloon inflated and ready to go in the fall? Storm chasing ends by July.

Post by **Brad** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:41 am

Looks like Nebraska has a similar "good parent".... Some lady dropped off her 9 year old a the Miley Crappus show at the Qwest and went over to the Casino...