The weird news thread

Here is another story you don't see every day:

3-legged bear named Tripod takes 3 cans of White Claw from Florida family's back yard

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/three-l...ily-back-yard/

The Sons Of The Pioneers sang about Tumbling Tumbleweeds in 1934 – but I doubt they could have imagined this:

Video shows house buried by 'towering walls of tumbleweeds'
The tumbleweeds were blown by 95 mph winds in Montana on Tuesday.

https://www.newsweek.com/video-house...eweeds-1835916

Beer belly wrestling will be one of the events. I get queasy trying to picture it.

The Florida Man Games will include an 'evading arrest’ obstacle course and 'mud duel'

https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a...stacle-course/

There is an obvious joke here – but I will leave it for somebody else to make.

26-year-old man arrested for stripping nude on Disneyland’s 'it’s a small world' ride

https://people.com/man-arrested-for-...d-ride-8406844

"Up your nose with a rubber hose" is an insult popularized on the 1975-79 sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. "Up your nose with a pair of chopsticks" is a new one.

Man shocked to discover source of headaches for 5 months is pair of chopsticks inside his skull
The man recalled getting in a fight while he was out drinking months earlier.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/ma...side-his-skull

The owner of the car wash is Matias Jara. I wonder if he calls himself Jara the Hutt.

Star Wars-themed car wash where workers dress as Chewbacca and Darth Vader sued by LucasFilm

https://www.aol.com/news/star-wash-s...144719529.html

This story reminds me of an old joke: What is a seven-course meal in Ireland? A six-pack and a potato.

Irishman defends drinking 81 pints of Guinness in one weekend as he hits back at critics

https://www.irishstar.com/news/irela...eland-31856242

I imagine this moron is much too dumb to help his son with homework.

Dad arrested after police say he called '18 or 19 times' in under an hour to complain about his son's homework

https://www.today.com/parents/dads/o...ork-rcna144137

"Aaaaayyyyy, woah, mistakes happen, all right? No biggie."

Henry Winkler evacuated from hotel room after mistaking fire alarm for a radio: 'An amazing adventure'

https://ew.com/henry-winkler-evacuat...-radio-8662720

I've heard of headwaters. In this case, the word can be taken literally.

Human head floats ashore in South Florida

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ida-rcna179887

The U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, released in 1950 by the A.C. Gilbert Company, included radioactive uranium, a cloud chamber, a spinthariscope and an electroscope. Kids could create – and watch – nuclear reactions and chemical reactions. Wow! What fun! "Daddy, how did I get these blisters on my hand? And why is the cat glowing yellow?"

The world's most dangerous toy just sold at auction for $13,000

https://theriver973.iheart.com/conte...ion-for-13000/

I am opposed to the killing of bears – especially when the bear is in a tree and has no chance to get away. Hunters sometimes will kill a bear and have it made into a bearskin rug. Turnabout is fair play. Bears should start killing hunters and making "man-skin" rugs out of them.

Hunter dies after bear shot out of tree lands on him

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2666185.html

Another bizarre story from Florida. This pizza delivery woman stabbed a customer with a pocket knife. She was angry because she wasn't given enough dough for a tip. (Ouch!)

Florida pizza delivery woman stabbed a pregnant customer 14 times over bad tip, authorities say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...oli-rcna185471

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Oklahoma toddler dials 911 about 'emergency need for donuts'

https://www.newsweek.com/oklahoma-to...ficers-2038270

I fear that if this product is successful, we will eventually see Big Mac-flavored toothpaste, Bonus Jack-flavored toothpaste, Gordita Supreme-flavored toothpaste and Del Combo Burrito-flavored toothpaste.

KFC launches fried chicken-flavored toothpaste

https://hypebeast.com/2025/4/kfc-x-h...oothpaste-info

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been chosen as the new Pope. He will be Pope Leo XIV. Topps, the company that puts out baseball cards, football cards and basketball cards, just released a Pope Leo XIV trading card. It will be available only until May 11. I wonder how his batting average compares to that of Aaron Judge, Jacob Wilson and Paul Goldschmidt.

Pope Leo XIV 2025 Topps NOW card

https://www.topps.com/products/pope-...2%AE-card-pope

Abolfazl Mokhtari's first name means "father of virtue" in Persian. I wonder if he considers sticking objects to his body to be a virtue. I call it dumb and pointless.

Man balances 96 spoons on his body to break his own world record

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/05...3351747843033/

This story is for anyone who has been wondering whatever happened to Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies:

Gun-toting woman, 64, sat in lawn chair on busy Texas highway during hours-long police standoff

https://nypost.com/2025/06/27/us-new...lice-standoff/

Liusandedian, based in China, sells Etkin-branded car seat covers on Amazon – and gave the address of a San Jose woman as their return address. Hundreds of seat covers have been returned – but by giving a false address, Liusandedian avoids having to issue refunds because, hey, no seat covers have been returned to them!

Hundreds of huge Amazon packages arrive at California woman’s doorstep for over a year after Chinese seller lists her home as return address

https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-new...eturn-address/

This story reminds me of the 1990 episode of The Simpsons where Bart caught a three-eyed fish in the river near the Springfield Nuclear Plant.

Radioactive wasp nest found at South Carolina site where U.S. once made nuclear bombs

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/radioac...ar-bombs-site/