Weird News Files

Gary Hesterberg was in a national park in San Francisco with his two lap dogs. A park ranger saw him with his dogs and told him that the dogs must be leashed. She asked for his name and told him to not to leave. When he started walking away, she shot him in the back with her “electric-shock weapon.”

Rancho Corral de Tierra has long been an off-leash walking spot for local dog owners. In December, the area became part of the national park system, which requires that all dogs be on a leash, Levitt said.

The ranger was trying to educate residents of the rule, Park Service spokesman Howard Levitt said.

Witnesses said the use of a stun gun and the arrest seemed excessive for someone walking two small dogs off leash.

“It was really scary,” said Michelle Babcock, who said she had seen the incident as she and her husband were walking their two border collies. “I just felt so bad for him.”

Babcock said Hesterberg had repeatedly asked the ranger why he was being detained. She didn’t answer him, Babcock said.

“He just tried to walk away. She never gave him a reason,” Babcock said.

The ranger shot Hesterberg in the back with her shock weapon as he walked off, Babcock said.

“We were like in disbelief,” she said. “It didn’t make any sense.”

Rancho Corral de Tierra has long been an off-leash walking spot for local dog owners. In December, the area became part of the national park system, which requires that all dogs be on a leash, Levitt said.

The ranger was trying to educate residents of the rule, Levitt said.

The park service is investigating the incident, he said.

Source:  SFGate

They’re calling it the face of testicular pain.

Doctors Naji Touma and Gregory Roberts at Queen’s University Hospital in Kingston, Ont., have spotted what looks like the face of a screaming man in an ultrasound of a testicular tumor. The bizarre image jumped out at them while scrolling through scans of a 45-year-old patient suffering from extreme testicular pain. The picture then went viral after it was published in the journal of Urology and it’s been compared to sightings of the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwiches or pizza slices.

In the journal, the doctors say they debated amongst themselves “whether the image could have been a sign from a deity” — possibly the Egyptian god of virility — but quickly dismissed it as a coincidence. In the end, the patient decided to undergo surgery and have the testicle removed. The tumor turned out to be benign.

A Colorado woman has ballooned to 490 pounds because eating junk food gives her an ­orgasm.

Gabi Jones, 25, who has a rare ­condition called persistent genital arousal ­disorder, gorges on high-calorie treats like ice cream and cakes until she has a climax.

The 48DDD blonde experienced her first food orgasm in her late teens at an ice cream parlor called Wickedy Splits.

She said: “I loved the velvety texture of ice cream on my tongue. Then one day as I was tucking in I felt a tingle starting down below.”

“The pressure kept building until ­suddenly it swept through my body. I felt light-headed and flushed.”

“I was stunned, but in no doubt of what had happened.”

“My friends thought I was making it up. But from then on, every time I tucked into rich, creamy desserts the trembling and tingling began.”

“I went out and bought an ice-cream maker and soon I had knee-trembling ­orgasms whenever I wanted.”

Gabi, from Denver, Colorado,  tipped the scales at 275 pounds in her ­early 20s, then ballooned by 210 pounds over the last five years.

But instead of feeling bad about herself, she decided to profit from her affliction by ­setting up the website gaininggabi.com, on which punters pay US$20 a month to watch her scoff herself to orgasm.

Gabi, who loves hiking and swimming, added: “It really annoys me when people say: ‘You’re so unhealthy and fat.’

“I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I’ve never done drugs. I am fat, fit and healthy.

“I won’t stop what I do until the world recognizes that fat is fabulous.”

Source: Daily Star, UK

When protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square came under violent attack from paid Mubarak supporters, they used homemade ingenuity to protect themselves and hold their ground. These amazing photos published by Germany’s Der Spiegel did not include any credits for individual photographers, a measure, perhaps, to protect their identities.

Source: Der Spiegel, Germany

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev holds a Kalashnikov during a visit to a factory in Izhevsk.

The Molot factory in Vyatskiye Polyany distributed buckwheat, rice, sugar, pasta, and sunflower oil to some 100 workers earlier this week.

The food was provided to the factory by local businessmen. Today another group of some 100 workers received foodstuffs instead of money for their salaries.

The Molot factory has experienced economic problems since the government reduced its orders from the company last year. Many companies around the world now make guns similar to the original Kalashnikov weapons, hurting sales for the main Russian Kalashnikov makers.

The largest Kalashnikov factory, in Izhmash, was closed down for much of 2009.

Source:  RFE/RL’s Russian Service

An estimated 500 more dead birds were discovered littering a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Point Coupee Parish in Louisiana today. State biologists are trying to determine what killed the red-winged blackbirds and starlings, according to an AP report.

The discovery on Monday discovery came just three days after thousands of blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas, about 300 miles away. Authorities there say lab examinations indicate that those birds suffered internal injuries that formed deadly blood clots.

At this time there is no clear link between the incidents. The cause of death is undetermined. Testing in the Arkansas case could continue for a month, according to Arkansas officials.