hi guys
over the last few days ive been reading some strange but true stories from diffrent newspapers from around the world and i thought i would post some to lighten the mood beats the normal bad-sad and depressing news we allways hear about have a read and post if you have come across any strange or weird funny news stories
When police caught driver David Clarke flying down a road at 180 kilometers per hour this month, he looked likely to lose his license.
But a country judge reduced the charge and let the 31-year-old information technology worker stay on the road after concluding the speed did not look as bad when converted into miles, or 112 mph. “I am not excusing his driving. He should not have been traveling at that speed,” District Court Judge Denis McLoughlin said in his verdict, delivered in County Donegal, northwest Ireland. McLoughlin suggested it was relatively safe to have shattered the legal road limit at the time, citing good weather, light traffic and the road’s unusual straightness. McLoughlin was quoted as saying the speed seemed “very excessive,” but did not look “as bad” when converted into miles. He lowered the charge from to driving carelessly, and fined him euro1,000 ; if convicted of the tougher charge of driving dangerously, Clarke would have lost his license. The episode underscored Ireland’s slow mental conversion to metric. Ireland switched its speed limits from miles to kilometers in January 2005, but most cars still display speeds principally in miles.
A 34-year-old woman has been charged with using the Internet to try to get revenge on an old boyfriend by breaking up his marriage.
Pilar Stofega has been charged with second-degree harassment and breach of peace and released on $2,500 bond. Waterford police say she created phony profiles of the former boyfriend’s current wife on some adult Web sites that included the wife’s home and work phone numbers and high school yearbook picture. Stofega said she did to it “to be vindictive, knowing that the profiles would create marital problems between” the victim and her husband, according to court documents. The plot came to life when strange men started calling a Waterford woman’s house over the summer, saying they had seen her profile on an adult Web site. The man Stofega had dated eight years ago used his own computer to investigate and discovered someone had created a profile for his wife on several Internet sites, according to court records. Police say the husband did more online investigating and was able to find out that the person behind the phony profiles of his wife was the woman he dated in 1999.
A competitive eater who has already triumphed at a famous hot dog eating contest swallowed 103 small hamburgers in 8 minutes to take home $10,000.
Joey Chestnut, 23, of San Jose, Calif., surpassed the previous record of 97 Krystal burgers -- 2 1/2 inches square -- held by Japan’s Takeru Kobayashi, set at last year’s Krystal Square Off. “We never thought we’d see someone anywhere near, let alone past, the century mark when we started the Krystal Square Off in 2004,” said Brad Wahl, vice president of marketing for The Krystal Co. Chestnut beat 12 other contestants. Kobayashi, who won all previous Krystal Hamburger Eating Championships, didn’t compete this year because of lingering jaw pain from having a wisdom tooth extracted in June. The 29-year-old Kobayashi received chiropractic treatment before losing his hot-dog-eating belt in the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July tussle in New York.
India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, has bought his wife a luxury jet with entertainment cabins, a sky bar and fancy showers for her birthday,
Ambani, who owns the country’s biggest private company, Reliance Industries Ltd, gifted the $60 million Air |
