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Archive for the ‘Bizarre incidents’ Category
HAMMOND — When Besty Pittman walked into the Tangipahoa Parish Animal Shelter on Tuesday morning, she was struck by the silence. The day before, on her day off, all of its scores of cats and dogs had been euthanized because of what parish officials described as an unknown, highly contagious, airborne virus. “It was devastating,” Pittman said Wednesday evening. “There were no animals anywhere.” After a sleepless night and many tears, Pittman, an euthanasia technician, said she turned in her resignation Wednesday over what she described as the senseless putting down of all 170 animals at the shelter.
Mystery deepens as fifth human foot washes up. Seems there has been an abundance of severed feet, all unclaimed. A fifth human foot in a year has washed ashore off the coast of British Columbia, and this time it’s a left one. Police said two people out for a walk spotted the left foot floating in water off Westham Island on Monday morning. Delta Police Constable Sharlene Brooks said officials are working with the B.C. Coroner’s office to see if this foot is linked to any other partial remains recovered in the province. Westham Island is at the mouth of the Fraser River, about 15 miles south of Vancouver. “A passerby noticed a shoe floating in the water, pulled it in and notified police,” Brooks said. “We’re treating it as a criminal investigation.” While the similarities to the other found feet is strong, she said there’s no indication this foot is related to the other cases. “We’re certainly not discounting the possibility that this may be linked to the other recovered feet, but it’s just too premature and very speculative for us to even entertain that right now,” she said. The last foot was found May 22 on Kirkland Island in the Fraser River, about one mile away from Monday’s discovery. The first in the series was found nearly a year ago on Jedidiah Island in the Strait of Georgia. Within days, another right foot was found inside a man’s Reebok sneaker on nearby Gabriola Island. The third was found in the same area, on the east side of Valdez Island in early February. The origin on any of the remains is still unknown. They also said something along the lines that they are not CSI and it may take some time to find the owners. you can read the rest here
From the Sydney Morning Herald we get this bizarre incident. Well, at least it seems like a bizarre attack to me, I guess its not that bizarre in Cambodia where boys are taught to never piss off the little fish. This one puffer looks livid
A Cambodian teenager was recovering in hospital after a puffer fish attacked him in the groin, local media reported on Tuesday. The Khmer-language Koh Santepheap daily ran a picture of the unnamed 13-year-old in a hospital bed with heavy strapping around his testicles, saying he was lucky to be alive. The paper quoted the boy’s father, Sok Ly, as saying the fish had become enraged when it was accidentally trapped in the boy’s net and, when it was freed, had attacked the boy’s scrotum. Cambodian legend has it that the bite of the fish is even more dangerous than its poisonous spines, especially for boys, and Cambodian boys are traditionally advised not to swim in waters where the fish is common. The victim, from Prek Pneuv commune outside Phnom Penh, was expected to recover from yesterday’s attack, the paper said, but the extent of the damage had yet to be determined.
POLICE broke into a flat to check who lived there 42 years after its owner was reported missing - and found the mummified remains of the woman sitting in front of her TV. Croatian police say Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cuppa and sat down to watch her black-and-white television before she died. Officers believe that would have been in 1966, when she was last seen by neighbours. They said one day she seemed to have just disappeared and they thought she had moved to the capital Zagreb. But they found her remains in the tiny 13sq m flat after breaking in with bailiffs. A police spokesman said: “So far we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in.”
OK this is pretty cool, we know these guys are really evasive
It sounds like something out of a bad monster movie: a team of scientists busily examines the thawing carcass of a 900-pound colossal squid. They’ve kept it frozen for more than a year inside a walk-in freezer ever since a commercial fishing crew hauled it up from the chilly depths of the Antarctic last January, half dead and clinging to a giant toothfish, and it now sits floating in a massive temperature-controlled tank filled with an icy saline solution just above freezing. The scientists, some in white coats and waders, others in scuba gear, have only four hours to study the 30-foot-long specimen before its rubbery, pink tissue begins to decompose and they have to inject it and fill the tank with formaldehyde. Until then, they rush to perform a battery of tests, studying the suckers and hooks on in its tentacles, measuring its sharp, birdlike beak, examining the contents of its stomach, collecting tissue samples for DNA analysis, trying to determine its sex, its age. All the while, the creature’s eyes, which are the size of dinner plates and thought to be the largest in the animal kingdom, stare lifelessly ahead. Surrounding the chaos, is a cable-TV camera crew, recording the details of this rare autopsy for a documentary. This will be the scene Wednesday at a facility outside Wellington, New Zealand, where for the last year, marine scientists and staff of the Museum of New Zealand have been trying to figure out just how to defrost and examine the largest known specimen of colossal squid without damaging it. If everything goes accordingly, the squid will end up on display at the museum later this year, encased in a big Plexiglas tank and—ideally—fully intact. “It sounds simple, just defrost a big lump of dead squid, right? But so much can go wrong,” says Steve O’Shea, director of the Earth and Oceanic Sciences Research Institute at the Auckland University of Technology, and one of the world’s foremost squid experts. He and his colleagues have spent the better part of the last year pondering the challenge of defrosting the half-ton specimen, which remains tangled in sea netting and stuffed into a large plastic bin, smushed like an accordion. The problem with defrosting something so large is that at room temperature, by the time its insides have thawed, the outer flesh will have already begun to rot. At one point, they considered using an industrial-size microwave, but figured it was too risky. “I know it can be done,” says O’Shea. “But it wouldn’t have looked good if we boiled the thing.”
The crime, penis snatching, the punishment, lynching!And beware of anyone with a gold ring, thats a sure sign of a crazed snatcher. This is some twisted shit for sure, Seems centuries later people are still getting arrested for witchcraft. And yes, the suspects were also extorting money in that old Chicago gangland method called “protection”. Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur. Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo’s sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Not flowers in the attic, more like weeds in the basement… family found locked in basement after 24 years of imprisonment in windowless concrete room by her father, whom is also the father of her own children… thats some sick shit. How twisted does one need to be to commit that horrific crime against his own family. Police said the woman, identified as 42-year-old Elisabeth F, told them her father Josef had lured her into the basement of the block where they lived in the town of Amstetten in 1984, and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her. Three of her children were locked up since birth in the basement of the drab, grey building along with their mother and had never seen sunlight or received any education, police said.
Seems that Japan takes its beef ban a bit way to seriously these days, even when the beef is preserved in formaldehyde for many years and encased in plastic as art. Yep, this is that fine art piece that anyone would want as part of the collection called pickled cow, this is larger than one of his earlier pieces that was a pickled fish and seems to be up in a bar somewhere in the UK. Yep, pickled cow may now be in a real pickle and need to be re-pickled to boot.
Damien Hirst’s controversial artwork of a cow preserved in formaldehyde has caused a headache for staff at a Tokyo museum
Baby in rural India town outside of Delhi born with two faces having a very rare birth defect that duplicates the face. Village sees the deformed baby as a goddess and a blessing. All I can say is WOW, it’s hard to believe this baby war born with two well formed faces. Talk about an odd looking kid. If you look at some of the deformed babies on this site, there are a few and some parasitic twins, but nothing quite as extreme as this. This is some sick shit and I feel for the child and the family.
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — An Australian politician on Wednesday proposed designating a special day for residents to hunt and kill what he called one of the world’s most disgusting creatures: the poisonous cane toad.
“Obviously we’re not idiots. We understand a lot people will be highly reluctant to fill their fridges and freezers with dying cane toads, but at the moment that is the only humane way that we can recommend,” said Michael Beatty, the society’s spokesman. |
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170 animals were destroyed at the Tangipahoa Parish animal shelter without much planning, warning nor explanation. The shelter blames a mysterious virus but some in the town believe there may have been other motives.
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