Weird News Files

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.

A bunch of Brooklyn bees have been coming home looking flushed.

New York City beekeeper Cerise (seh-REEZ’) Mayo was puzzled when her bees started showing up with mysterious red coloring. Their honey also turned as red as cough syrup. She tells The New York Times a friend joked that the bees were imbibing the runoff at Dell’s Maraschino Cherries Company, in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Mayo — whose first name means “cherry” in French — raises bees in that neighborhood and across the water on Governor’s Island.

Tests confirmed the bees were riddled with Red Dye No. 40 — the same food coloring found in the cherry juice. Bee expert Andrew Cote tells the newspaper that bees had been creating a big nuisance at the factory.

The solution? Put up screens or provide a closer source of sweet nectar.

The Chia Obama, a Chia pet-style Obama sculpture on which people can cultivate a head of green hair, has been recalled from Walgreens’ and RiteAid stores throughout the US.
The Chia Obama is a tiny bust of the 44th president that you water until a mini green ’fro covers his head. Some say the product is downright racist, while others say at the very least it’s in very bad taste. Still, others say people are getting just a little too touchy when it comes to feelings about the nation’s first African-American president.

The complaints were enough to prompt some Walgreens and RiteAid stores to pull it off the shelves. Store officials say the product “is not appropriate for the company’s corporate image.”

TAIWAN – Chen Wei-yih has posed for a set of photos in a flowing white dress, enlisted a wedding planner and rented a banquet hall for a marriage celebration with 30 friends. But there is no groom. Chen will marry herself.

Uninspired by the men she’s met but facing social pressure to get married, the 30-year-old Taipei office worker will hold the reception next month in honor of just one person.

“Age thirty is a prime period for me. My work and experience are in good shape, but I haven’t found a partner, so what can I do?” Chen said. ”It’s not that I’m anti-marriage. I just hope that I can express a different idea within the bounds of a tradition.”

Her $5,675 wedding comes after online publicity that has netted 1,800 largely sympathetic comments.

“I think there will be more and more girls like this,” said “divagirl,” who did not elaborate.

Taiwanese women are marrying later and less often as their economic status advances, fuelling government concerns about a drop in the birth rate and its impact on productivity.

Only 40 percent of women surveyed earlier this year by the education ministry said they imagined married people could live better than singles, local media said.

“I was just hoping that more people would love themselves,” said Chen, who will go on a solo honeymoon to Australia.

Chen said her mother had insisted on a groom at first but later jumped aboard the solo marriage plan.

“If I had a steady boyfriend, I wouldn’t do this,” Chen said. “it would be offensive to him, anyway.”

Source: Reuters link

A California woman who befriended a homeless woman and let her sleep in her car told police she didn’t know where to turn when the woman unexpectedly died — so she drove the body around for months along with a box of baking soda to hide the smell, authorities said Thursday.

Officers with the Costa Mesa police found the unidentified body Monday after getting a call about a car partially blocking a driveway, Sgt. Ed Everett told The Associated Press. When officers arrived, they noticed a stench and saw a leg poking out from a blanket and some clothes, he said.

The partially mummified remains consisted of mostly skin and bones and weighed about 30 pounds, he said.

An autopsy showed no signs of foul play but police are still investigating the role of the car’s driver.

The woman driving the car told police she met a homeless woman in a park in nearby Fountain Valley and told her she could sleep in her car, Everett said. But when the woman died in her car 10 months ago, she was afraid to go to the police, he said.

The woman who drives the car, a 57-year-old who herself had fallen on hard times and was living with friends, told officers she had last seen the woman alive in December. It wasn’t clear when she discovered the body in the car, he said.

“She felt she would be accused of something and with everything going on in her life, she didn’t want to deal with that,” Everett said.

Police also found a box of baking soda in the car, which the driver had used to try to cover up the smell, Everett said.

The dead woman is believed to be in her 50s or 60s, with a first name of Signe.
source: SFGate  link

BELLEVILLE, CANADA —The charges against the colonel took 36 minutes to be read out to a silent courtroom.

David Russell Williams stood facing the clerk listing his crimes, his head bowed as if the weight of his deeds were crushing him.

To the first count of murdering Marie-France Comeau, a flight attendant who worked at his air force base, he pleaded in a clear voice: “Guilty, your honour.” To the second count of killing Jessica Elizabeth Lloyd, his guilty plea was barely audible.

Crown attorneys then took turns revealing the full extent of Williams’ depravity, evidence that left family members of victims covering their eyes and gasping — “He’s sick,” one said. In an overflow courtroom, some members of the public got up and left. “Oh, my god,” said one woman. “Disgusting,” said one man.

By day, Russell Williams was the commander of Canada’s biggest air force base, CFB Trenton. By night, he broke into homes, taking pictures of himself modeling the bras and panties of little girls.

He escalated quickly, from fetish break-ins, to sex assaults with no penetration to rape and murder. He logged his crimes, kept track of police reports of his crimes and left notes and messages for his victims. “Merci,” he thanked a 12-year-old in a typed message on her computer.

“Merci beaucoup,” he captioned a souvenir photo he took of his penis strapped to a sex toy he stole from a 24-year-old Ottawa victim in June 2008.

We learned that Williams made a video of his brutal beating and asphyxiation of Comeau after breaking into her home Nov. 24, 2009. He also made sex tapes of Lloyd after kidnapping her the night of Jan. 28, taking her to his cottage in Tweed, raping and torturing her for at least a day before dumping her corpse in a field.

Lloyd’s mother, Roxanne, sat in the front row, cradling a framed portrait of her daughter.

We learned that Williams, 47, had pedophile tendencies, stealing underwear of girls as young as 9 years old during the 82 fetish home invasions and attempted break-ins between Sept. 2007 and November 2009. He broke into 48 different homes in the Belleville-Tweed area and Ottawa. One, he hit nine separate times. And he was good at it.

Williams took “thousands” of pictures of his crimes, Crown attorney Robert Morrison said, all of which he kept on his computer. The court saw numerous pictures of Williams dressed in the panties and bras he stole, often lying on the beds of his victims.

Source: Toronto Star  link

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Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco has his own cereal line, but it turns out the Pro Bowler is promoting more than just a breakfast snack.

The phone number printed on Ochocinco’s cereal boxes directs callers to a phone sex line that offers “the sluttiest girls your nasty imagination can dream.” The voice who answers the call promises that “me and my ultra-hot girlfriends will do whatever it takes to pleasure you,” and the woman does not spare detail when mentioning multiple sexual positions.

Ochocinco says the erotic number is all a big mistake.

The Bengal’s cereal promotes Feed the Children, which has the number 888-HELP-FTC. The cereal box, however, displays a slightly different toll-free area code: 800-HELP-FTC.

Due to the error, callers looking to help hungry kids are instead directed to a “nasty girl who will do anything you want.”

Source: HuffingtonPost link

A trip to the strip club turned into a trip to the bank for a Florida man who won a $650,000 settlement after an exotic dancer kicked him in the face.

Michael Ireland received the out-of-court settlement after claiming he suffered permanent double vision when a dancer named “Suki” kicked him in the eye at the Cheetah Club near West Palm Beach in 2008.

Ireland’s attorney said their client suffered a punctured eye socket and broken facial bones when the stripper kicked him in the face with a spiked high heel during a lap dance.

Cheetah Club boss Rod Kimbrough said that the dancer in question is a “very nice, young small girl” who only kicked Ireland because she had been smacked first.

“A patron violently slapped the young woman on her buttocks and she was walking around the top of the bar and I guess out of a natural response she turned around and kicked him,” Kimbrough said.

Ireland’s attorney Lake Lytal says the settlement is well deserved.

source: AOLnews   link

Morgan Spurlock did this in Super Size Me, for about a year. But Karen Hanrahan has kept a McDonald’s hamburger since 1996.

Yup, she’s had this burger for 12 years!

And it still looks ready to eat. That’s frightening!

McDonald’s (and other factory fast food joints) use a lot of preservatives to keep their food fresh-looking (note: ‘fresh-looking,’ not ‘fresh’) during it’s production, transportation, and storage. This keeps their food looking good a lot longer than is natural. (See the end of this post for the current ingredients in a McDonald’s Hamburger bun.)

Under regular circumstances, if you grilled a burger and put it on a bun and put it in a container for a month, you’d have to scrape the mold off just to see it.

As Karen says, “Ladies, Gentleman, and children alike – this is a chemical food. There is absolutely no nutrition here.”

Karen is a wellness consultant and uses the 12 year old burger as a prop in her talks. See all the photos and read Karen’s description on her blog, “Best of Mother Earth ~ Creating Healthier Lives”.

NOTE: Regarding the hamburger wrapper in the photo that is clearly a more current wrapper with the “I’m lovin’ it” slogan, Karen explains this in her post: “The paper and bag in the backround is circa 2008 – to add decor to the photo. My friend Robyn’s idea.”

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McDonald’s Hamburger Bun ingredients (as of 2008):

Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, soybean oil, canola oil, contains 2% or less of each of the following: salt, wheat gluten, calcium sulfate, soy flour, ammonium sulfate, calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, ammonium chloride, baking soda, sorbic acid, deactivated dry yeast, dough conditioners (may contain one or more the following: distilled monoglycerides, DATEM, sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium peroxide, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, mono- and diglycerides, enzymes, guar gum), calcium propionate & sodium propionate (preservatives), soy lecithin.

Note: Calcium and Sodium Propionate are ‘mold inhibitors,’ hence the fresh looking 12 year old bun!

Fashionistas need not fear the rising tide – shoe designers have come to their rescue.

San Antonio, Texas – Jarrette Schule was cutting down trees on his rural property Tuesday in Comal County when he noticed a green metallic tube on the muddy ground.

“I had never seen it before,” said Schule, a 34-year-old Web developer. “I looked at it, and it kind of looked like a missile launcher.”

Schule took a closer look. It was a long, forest-green metal tube. A decal on it read: “Guided Missile and Launcher, Surface Attack.”

The discovery was the start of a surreal journey for Schule. Somehow, an unarmed anti-tank weapon wound up on his land at Beck Road and Kirk Lane in the Hill Country, miles away from a military installation.

The launcher was deep in the wooded property far from the road, in an area he was familiar with.

“I don’t know if it fell out of something or if somebody just dumped it,” Schule said. “There’s some crazy whitetail hunters around here. Maybe they’re going overboard?”

Schule’s property in Comal County is vacant, and he didn’t want to leave a missile launcher unattended. So he loaded it in his truck and took it to his house.

Schule spent Tuesday afternoon calling the FBI, Homeland Security, the Sheriff’s Department — every agency he could think of. He was stuck in a bureaucratic limbo.

“Everyone was handing it off to everybody else,” Schule said.

He was surprised at the amount of work it took to get the military to pick up its lost missile launcher.

Schule initially was nervous when he found the weapon. But as the hours passed, he did what most guys would do — marvel at the mind-blowing awesomeness of finding a missile launcher. He posted photos on Facebook and called his buddies, saying: “Guess what I found?”

Schule’s information was passed along to an Army criminal investigator, who visited Schule on Wednesday morning — about 19 hours after he started making phone calls.

The special agent walked into the house and saw the launcher sitting on the dining room table.

“She said this is the first time she ever encountered anything like this,” Schule said. “I got the impression it was kind of a big deal. Doesn’t happen every day, I guess.”

The decal on the launcher has a 13-digit “National Stock Number,” which is used to identify military equipment. The stock number is a match for launchers that fire Dragon surface-to-surface missiles, according to a database maintained by the U.S. Defense Logistics Information Service.

The launcher was built in December 1996. The Dragons, first manufactured in the 1960s, last were used in combat in 1991’s Operation Desert Storm. They were replaced by the Javelin missile system and finally discontinued in 2006.

Military officials were unable to say Wednesday who last had the launcher and when it was lost. The launcher has a serial number that can be used to track the chain of custody. That will be part of the military’s investigation, said Phil Reidinger, spokesman for Fort Sam.

At Schule’s house, he and the Army investigator had to wait for about three more hours for an ordnance disposal team from Lackland AFB to confiscate the weapon.

The team arrived at about 1 p.m. Wednesday and retrieved the device, ending a crazy experience for Schule.

“I thought just driving down the road, someone would just know that I had a missile launcher in my truck,” Schule said, laughing. “You think that way about the government.

But really, you have to make an effort for them to come get their missile launcher.”
 

Source: San Antonio News  Link

The British Ministry of Defence is investigating the death of a young Afghan girl who died after being hit by a box of leaflets dropped by the RAF.

The information leaflets were dropped in boxes from an RAF Hercules aircraft in Helmand province on 23 June.

The box failed to break apart in mid-air and landed on top of the girl who died later in hospital.

The MoD said it deeply regretted the “tragic incident”, and a full investigation was under way.

A spokesman said the public information leaflets were dropped by the C130 Hercules in a rural area. The boxes are supposed to open in mid-air, scattering the leaflets over a wide area.

The unopened box seriously injured the girl who was treated at a local hospital in Kandahar.

“Despite the best efforts of staff, she died as a result of her injuries,” the spokesman said.

Leaflet drops have been used extensively in Afghanistan by US and British forces in the battle to win the “hearts and minds” of the local population.

The MoD would not comment on what type of leaflet was involved, but past leaflets have included information about the election campaign, mine awareness campaigns, and warnings of impending military action in an area

In May, C130 aircraft based in Afghanistan with 904 Expeditionary Air Wing dropped 200,000 leaflets in support of the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force.

Source: BBC News link

ARLINGTON — She said the devil made her do it.

An Arlington woman, 62, told detectives evil was at work when she allegedly forged more than $73,000 worth of checks to herself from the church where she was an administrative assistant.

The woman “guessed that Satan had a big part in the theft,” Snohomish County deputy prosecuting attorney Kathy Jo Blake wrote in charging papers filed Wednesday in Snohomish County Superior Court.

The woman worked for the Arlington Free Methodist Church from early 2000 until Feb. 2008 when she was fired, the court papers said.

On June 6, the woman left a teary message for an Arlington police detective admitting she had stolen money from her former employer. During an investigation, police learned that from Jan. 2005 until the end of Feb. 2008, the woman wrote 80 checks worth $73,575.18, the papers said. She allegedly forged the pastor’s signature.

The finance chairman of the church had noticed irregularities with the checks and alerted the pastor. Church elders had been reviewing the matter when police contacted the pastor.

The woman told detectives she used the money to cover household expenses. She said she couldn’t stand the thought of losing her home, the documents said.

Detectives said the woman seemed relieved the theft was disclosed and she appeared remorseful. She told police she was ready to face the consequences for her actions, the documents said.

The woman tried to enroll in a court program to pay restitution and avoid charges. But the amount she owed far exceeded what she would be capable of paying back in the short amount of time allowed, Blake wrote.

On Wednesday, the woman was charged with first-degree theft, a felony.

Source: Yahoo News link filed under Weird US News

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Artists in Pittsburgh got wind that the Google Street View Car was visiting their locality and decided to throw a street party with balloons, confetti and a marching band. You can navigate the street view here at 488 Sampsonia Way for as long as Google leaves it live.

A Newscaster from ABC7 in Los Angeles strikes an uncanny resemblance to the police rapist sketch he is reporting on.

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As the economy goes South, Roxanne Usleman’s Psychic business is booming.

“It’s more types of people I have never seen before,” says Usleman. “Men in the business world, high-powered jobs, stock market, Wall Street.”

Since last fall, she says she began to see a new type of client — a “logical, [A-type] of personality.” Many of them are “just completely lost,” says Usleman.

Relationship advice, typically the bread and butter of the psychic business, has been supplanted by something new.

“Should I merge with this company? Should I bring in a partner to my company,” are the kind of questions Usleman gets from her clients.

For a typical reading, she grips a client’s photograph or set of keys and consults “the angels.”

Business is good, she says. Usleman sees five or six clients a day and charges up to $135 a pop for sessions that usually last more than an hour.

Businessman Bruce Levy was skeptical at first but one of his clients pushed him to get a reading.

“What I expected was something like Ouija boards and someone looking at my palm and seeing my lifeline,” says Levy.

Instead, he found a psychic who he says helped him find the answers.

“She helps me make better decisions,” Levy says. “She is able to make me see things that I wouldn’t otherwise see. I just think that she has this intuition that gets through to my subconscious in a way that I can’t.”

There are no national statistics on the business of psychics. But Usleman’s experience is backed up by anecdotal evidence from other psychics around the country. Liveperson.com matches psychics with customers on its Web site and says the uncertain economy has been good for business. Some psychics charge up to $20 a minute for advice.

Many people simply feel like they have to do something, according to Professor Gita Johar at Columbia Business School in New York.

“The biggest reason people are going to see psychics is probably that they want to feel in control,” says Johar, who studies consumer behavior.

“And when they see that their financials aren’t looking so good and they really can’t turn to their financial adviser — they haven’t been getting really good advice and so they have to turn to someone else.”

Source: CNN link Filed under Weird US News