Obscure News Thread

[dustsped]

Mans calls 911 after Burger King runs out of lemonade

Saturday, February 07, 2009
BOYNTON BEACH — A man was charged with misusing 911 today for a midnight complaint that a Boynton Beach Burger King had run out of lemonade, police say.
Jean Fortune, 66, dialed 911 and told dispatchers he was "unhappy with his order" at the Burger King at 1521 W. Boynton Beach Blvd., according to an arrest report.

When a Boynton Beach police officer arrived, the cashier told him she had informed Fortune at the drive-thru that the store no longer served lemonade. He became angry when he picked up his order at the window and threatened to call police.
The cashier told him to "Go ahead."
The officer noted in his report that Fortune could not explain why he resorted to calling 911 for a "civil dilemma."
He was issued a notice to appear in court.


And 2nd story:

Man shoots television after DTV tantrum

A Missouri man is charged with unlawful use of a firearm, after peppering his T-V with bullets.
Police responded to a home in Joplin Wednesday after reports of shots being fired inside.
The 70 year old homeowner was angry that he had lost his cable, and was unable to get his new DTV converter to work properly.
After a brief standoff, the man was taken into custody. His wife told officers the suspect had been drinking.

 

[flipx]

Already knew there would be these tribes still around in some parts of the rain forests. Makes me angry to think of the workers killing these innocent, helpless tribes solely for land, and money.

Apocalypto is a very good film about these kinds of tribes.

 

[Peter Parka]

Mans calls 911 after Burger King runs out of lemonade

Saturday, February 07, 2009
BOYNTON BEACH — A man was charged with misusing 911 today for a midnight complaint that a Boynton Beach Burger King had run out of lemonade, police say.
Jean Fortune, 66, dialed 911 and told dispatchers he was "unhappy with his order" at the Burger King at 1521 W. Boynton Beach Blvd., according to an arrest report.

When a Boynton Beach police officer arrived, the cashier told him she had informed Fortune at the drive-thru that the store no longer served lemonade. He became angry when he picked up his order at the window and threatened to call police.
The cashier told him to "Go ahead."
The officer noted in his report that Fortune could not explain why he resorted to calling 911 for a "civil dilemma."
He was issued a notice to appear in court.


And 2nd story:

Man shoots television after DTV tantrum

A Missouri man is charged with unlawful use of a firearm, after peppering his T-V with bullets.
Police responded to a home in Joplin Wednesday after reports of shots being fired inside.
The 70 year old homeowner was angry that he had lost his cable, and was unable to get his new DTV converter to work properly.
After a brief standoff, the man was taken into custody. His wife told officers the suspect had been drinking.

Wasn't there just recently that bird who went apeshit and called 911 three times because BK didn't have the right burger she ordered or something? No wonder its only students and illegal imigrants who want to work there!:willy_nilly:

 

[dustsped]

Wasn't there just recently that bird who went apeshit and called 911 three times because BK didn't have the right burger she ordered or something? No wonder its only students and illegal imigrants who want to work there!:willy_nilly:

Yeah, I think that was a story recently, Peter. I had to sorta google it to remind me, but I think you're right.

:24: Makes sense of people who'd even want to work there LOL

 

[KpAtch3s]

Wow, that's really cool. I had no idea there were still uncontacted tribes in the world. It's also not surprising they would be aggressive towards the plane. I think we should try to contact them, but by foot and not by plane.

 

[nic0le]

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/10/18/Power-Ranger-robs-store/UPI-43441287436384/

'Power Ranger' robs store

SACRISTON, England, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- British police said they are seeking a man who robbed a store while wearing a mask resembling those worn on the "Power Rangers" TV series.

 

[TommyTooter]

[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]one of the islands i frequent in this vast information ocean, is rotten.com. it will be my pleasure, if you wish it, to bring you [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Today in Rotten History[/FONT]​

apparently, today was a busy day in rotten history as you will notice a few not-so-obscure news stories happened this day​

[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 24 1326 The gay lover of King Edward II, Hugh le Despenser the Younger, is hanged after his penis and testicles are burned in front of him -- "because he was a heretic and a sodomite, even, it was said, with the King." [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 24 1740 William Duell, murderer, hanged at Tyburn in London. He is not killed immediately, though this is not noticed by the executioner. Deull later awakes on the dissection table. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 24 1963 Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald. What really happened? [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 24 1971

D.B. Cooper hijacks a Northwest Orient 727 and parachutes into the freezing rain over Washington state from the rear stairway of the plane with $200,000 in cash. Rotting currency from the ransom is eventually located, but his rotting body isn't. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 24 1983 Jimmy "the Beard" Ferrozzo is crushed to death after hours in San Francisco's Condor Club. Ferrozzo, the club's assistant manager, was fucking one of the strippers on top of a baby grand piano when one of the pair inadvertently flipped the switch to the motorized winch that lowered the instrument from the ceiling. Only when his legs are trapped between the piano and the ceiling that Ferrozzo manages to shut off the hoist, but he dies of a heart attack. The exotic dancer remains trapped underneath his body until firefighters arrive to free her, several hours later. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 24 1991 Freddie Mercury dead from AIDS. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 24 2003 After his BMW struck a Toyota Camry, country singer Glen Campbell is arrested with an impressive blood alcohol level of .20 on charges of "extreme" drunk driving, hit and run, and assaulting a police officer, in Phoenix AZ. He is freed on $2000 bond. While in custody, Campbell hummed his hit Rhinestone Cowboy repeatedly. [/FONT]

 

[dkwrtw]

I thought Rotten stopped updating it's site?

 

[TommyTooter]

I thought Rotten stopped updating it's site?

there might have been some suspension last year i'm not aware of, but it's been changing most every day since last june that i know of.

since i've got your attention on a thread this question won't hurt, how does one say your user name aloud?

one other thing. this is my stock in trade. how much can this thread take without people bitching about me post whoring or something?

 

[dkwrtw]

there might have been some suspension last year i'm not aware of, but it's been changing most every day since last june that i know of.

since i've got your attention on a thread this question won't hurt, how does one say your user name aloud?

one other thing. this is my stock in trade. how much can this thread take without people bitching about me post whoring or something?

My name is pronounced like "Deekurt" the W at the end is silent. And as you probably noticed this isn't exactly the busiest thread, post as many Stories as you want in here, nobody will mind.

 

[TommyTooter]

sounds like a plan. i have a whole mess of other sources for weird news that i read all the time. yahoo has links to at least a half dozen off their odd news section.

happy day, dude

 

[dkwrtw]

I'm a weird news fanatic too, Rotten is an excellent source

 

[TommyTooter]

i thought so too. that's why i brought it here.

it's overwhelming how much bizarre shit there is going on everyday we can learn about online. couple that with the cool shit, important shit, and the usual shit and that we can share and discuss this shit with pen pals in real time from all over the world.

i don't know about you, but i think that's some outfuckenstandingly hot shit and the best entertainment i know.

in many ways i feel like this whole system has been built around responses of people like me and my classmates, the sputnik kids, who were raised and trained on the technology as it was released.

 

[TommyTooter]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Today in Rotten History[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 25 1867
Patent granted to Alfred Nobel for dynamite.
Nov 25 1957
Mexican painter Diego Rivera dies of heart failure. Earlier as a student, Rivera claimed to have purchased cadavers and experimented with Cannibalism. Human dining preferences included breasts and brains. Also in his autobiography he wrote that he had cancer of the penis, doctors recommending amputation. Both stories are considered somewhat suspect.
Nov 25 1970
Japanese playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima commits seppuku (self disembowelment) after an aborted coup attempt in Japan. He had authored over 100 works and was deemed by Life magazine the "Japanese Hemmingway"; certainly he is one of the best writers Japan has ever produced. But Mishima believed that "true manhood" required you to face your own death willingly.
Nov 25 1987

Secretarial bimbo Fawn Hall, Oliver North's assistant, removes documents from sealed National Security Council offices inside the White House by hiding them inside her skirt. Go girl!
Nov 25 1997 The Weekly World News reports that the Japanese have a fetishistic attraction to US Attorney General Janet Reno, whom many Americans believe is actually a man. If these reports are true, at the very least we should impose trade sanctions. [/FONT]

 

[TommyTooter]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Today in Rotten History[/FONT][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 26 1865 [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Lewis Carroll sends the manuscript for the psychedelic novel "Alice in Wonderland" to his 12 year old special friend Alice Liddell. (Incidentally Carroll, born Charles Dodgson, had a thing for very young girls, frequently photographing them nude.) [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 26 1973 [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, stabbed to death in prison by a fellow inmate in Massachusetts. DeSalvo had killed 13 women. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 26 1975 [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Manson family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme found guilty of attempting to assassinate President Ford. It is unclear why anyone would want to assassinate such an uninteresting president. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 26 1976 [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Sex Pistols single Anarchy in the UK released. The song later appeared on Never Mind the Bollocks. Sadly, it has yet to be equalled. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Nov 26 2008 Mumbai is rocked by a series of terror attacks, coordinated by Pakistani militants who were high on cocaine and LSD. 173 people die in the attacks. [/FONT]

 

[Pumpkin]

Witches forced to pay income tax....

http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/4507965/Curses-Witches-forced-to-pay-income-tax

 

[Kakapo Dundee]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/7185531/Boy-4-bids-on-29-990-train

[h=1]Boy, 4, bids on $29,990 train[/h]
For a moment, Metlink, the public transport arm of Greater Wellington Regional Council, thought all its dreams had come true when it received an opening bid of $29,990 for an old train.
But it turned out the Trade Me bid was from an enthusiastic 4-year-old whose mother was alarmed at the prospect of owning a retired full-sized two-carriage unit.