News of the Weird - this just in!

[lindosfan1]

Parrot steals reporters earphone on air.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-lat ... a-63523009

[pharvey]

And you think you're having a bad day.....

"A woman in Switzerland was seriously injured after she got out of her car with the engine still on only for it to run her over three times, police said on Friday.

The 45-year-old had stepped out of her car in a residential area in St Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, probably in order to get something out of the boot, regional police said, according to the Swiss news agency ATS.

But then the car, which was on a slight slope, began rolling backwards.

The woman had attempted in vain to stop the vehicle, before falling to the ground and was run over a first time.

The car had then rammed into another vehicle and rebounded back in the opposite direction, running over the woman a second time, police said.

But the car then hit a sidewalk, sending it back towards the woman and running her over a third time, before finally hitting a wooden barrier and coming to a halt."

Taken From: - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... by-own-car

[lindosfan1]

Barnsley sheep have pink hair

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-s ... e-63528000

[Nereus]

Dont **** with me:

Experts stumped by bizarre behaviour of octopus caught on camera

https://au.news.yahoo.com/scientist-stu ... 54379.html

Underwater cameras have captured octopuses throwing silt, shells and algae towards each other on the NSW south coast.

While scientists have speculated at what’s behind the strange behaviour, they’re far from settling on a definitive answer. Until now only primates, elephants, birds and mongooses have been known to fling objects at each other.

Sydney University’s Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith said the discovery “raises questions about octopus intelligence”. “(It’s) the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien,” he added.

The octopuses were seen to throw objects at each other and even fish. They achieved this by accumulating items in their tentacles and then propelling them forward using water jets expelled from their bag-like bodies.


Underwater cameras have captured octopuses throwing silt, shells and algae towards each other on the NSW south coast.

While scientists have speculated at what’s behind the strange behaviour, they’re far from settling on a definitive answer. Until now only primates, elephants, birds and mongooses have been known to fling objects at each other.

Sydney University’s Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith said the discovery “raises questions about octopus intelligence”. “(It’s) the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien,” he added.

Two images showing a before and after of an octopus throwing silt.
Octopuses have been filmed throwing objects at each other. Source: PLOS ONE / Sydney University
The octopuses were seen to throw objects at each other and even fish. They achieved this by accumulating items in their tentacles and then propelling them forward using water jets expelled from their bag-like bodies.

Here’s what else we know about octopus throwing:

Octopuses with a uniform colour threw more often and with more vigour

Throws appeared more aggressive when populations were more dense

Most throws did not actually hit other octopuses

A minority of cases are believed to be targeted

A female threw silt repeatedly at a male who tried to mate with her

Is the octopus behaviour aggressive?

Scientists set up GoPro cameras in 2015 and 2016 at a marine park at Jervis Bay for 20 hours, documenting the behaviour of 10 octopuses. They found females were more likely to throw objects than males.

In one video, a large octopus can be seen gently extending its tentacle towards another. In a sudden act of retaliation, the smaller one flings an arm full of silt, then retreats under the dust cloud.

Researchers are yet to determine whether the behaviour is aggressive, and are yet to document any victims “return fire”.

“I’d speculate that a lot of the targeted throws are more like an attempt to establish some ‘personal space’, but this is a speculation, it’s very hard to know what their goals might be,” Professor Godfrey-Smith said.

Octopuses were also observed using their throwing skills to clean their dens. The findings have been published in the journal PLOS ONE.

[lindosfan1]

This is weird in so many ways, why publish in a newspaper (sort of it the daily fail) about a woman marrying a rag doll having its baby, then sleeping in separate beds.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... eated.html

[pharvey]

This is weird in so many ways, why publish in a newspaper (sort of it the daily fail) about a woman marrying a rag doll having its baby, then sleeping in separate beds.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... eated.html

So, so many in desperate need of attention these days, media or otherwise. The incredible part is that they actually get it and (in the most part) financially rewarded! What the feck world do we live in? And these twunts are to take over!!

With some luck, I shan't be around to see it.....

[dtaai-maai]

Oh come on guys, spare a thought for poor old Marcelo. He must be coming apart at the seams...

[Dannie Boy]

A good trivia question?

I’ve never heard of this before - an island that changes nationality every 6 months!!

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0dff8mf ... six-months

[pharvey]

Venezuela man, 79, turns up in emergency department with a beer bottle stuck up his butt — and tells doctors 'thieves put it there'

"A Venezuelan man needed emergency surgery after a beer bottle became stuck in his backside.

The 79-year-old, who has not been named, claimed the bottle was shoved up his anus by thieves who tried to rob him, according to local media.

He said three men broke into his home in Palo Negro, in central Venezuela, and became angry when they could not find any valuables.

The patient went to La Ovallera Hospital in severe pain and X-ray images taken shortly after admission show the object lodged in his rear, neck-first.

It is not clear if a police investigation will be launched."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... ottom.html

[PeteC]

Feed him a can of beans, then just stand back!

[handdrummer]

It's a good thing it was neck first.

[Nereus]

Cockatoo caught on video dropping pot plants from Melbourne apartment, council warns residents

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-30/ ... /101710478

Footage of a cockatoo dropping pot plants from an apartment balcony in Melbourne has one expert labelling it "bizarre and fascinating" behaviour.

The video, believed to be filmed on Monday morning, shows a sulphur-crested cockatoo dropping pot plants on Flinders Lane.

It was posted by social media meme page Brown Cardigan and has since received more than 1.5 million plays on TikTok and Instagram combined.

While the video has shocked and amused the internet, cafe manager Lucie Amulet said the video did not surprise her.

She has worked at Croque Monsieur and Roule Galette on Flinders Lane since 2016, and said the birds normally got up to mischief at this time of year.

"It happens every year. They mostly drop plants but also socks as well," she said.

video at the link.......................................................

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They are also expert at opening rubbish bins! (video)

[pharvey]

So how long will these little guys survive any city in the UK?! Good God, utter stupidity - enough of the twunts on two wheels taking over our pavements, now we get the eight wheeled Amazon kind!!

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[Dannie Boy]

So how long will these little guys survive any city in the UK?! Good God, utter stupidity - enough of the twunts on two wheels taking over our pavements, now we get the eight wheeled Amazon kind!!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H5SVi0TUtLY[/youtube]
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How many beers have you had tonight - they only have 6 wheels!!

But all joking aside, what will they come up with next - I can see most of these getting nicked by the bad boys!!

[pharvey]

How many beers have you had tonight - they only have 6 wheels!!

Hey, I'm Welsh - we exaggerate!!

And yes.... Pretty sure they or their contents will be nicked fairly sharpish!! It's the world we live in unfortunately