Archive for the “Weird” Category

We have word that a certain local businessman has become a switch-hitter, if you know what we mean. Think pepperoni.

More as the story develops.

From the News Sentinel:

Store reports masturbation

A store manager reported to Fort Wayne Police that a man was caught masturbating Tuesday morning at Pier One Imports, 1700 block of Apple Glen Blvd.

The man was banned by the store manager, and police warned he would possibly be arrested if he returned.

Now that is really odd.

Interesting story from USA Today.

Stopping driver’s license fraud is no laughing matter: Four states are ordering people to wipe the grins off their faces in their license photos.

“Neutral facial expressions” are required at departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) in Arkansas, Indiana, Nevada and Virginia. That means you can’t smile, or smile very much. Other states may follow.

The serious poses are urged by DMVs that have installed high-tech software that compares a new license photo with others that have already been shot. When a new photo seems to match an existing one, the software sends alarms that someone may be trying to assume another driver’s identity.

But there’s a wrinkle in the technology: a person’s grin. Face-recognition software can fail to match two photos of the same person if facial expressions differ in each photo, says Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor Takeo Kanade.

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Arkansas, Indiana and Nevada allow slight smiles. “You just can’t grin really large,” Arkansas driver services chief Tonie Shields says. More [here].

Okay, you can smile just a little. Actually a friend of mine was telling me that during a recent visit to the BMV he was told not to smile, but they did not tell him the reason.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say it took a suspected Toronto drug mule three weeks to excrete 76 tampon-sized packets of cocaine into a bedpan.

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Hatim Gulamhusein, 48, was arrested April 7 at Toronto’s international airport after arriving on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, RCMP Cpl. Cathy McCrory told the National Post.

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Once in custody, Gulamhusein required six trips to a hospital for X-rays and CT scans, and refused to allow doctors to surgically remove the large packets, McCrory said. He did consent to taking laxatives, which she said resulted in a “24-hour bedpan vigil,” the report said.

“The doctors said that if one of these became compromised inside him, there was nothing they could do for him,” McCrory said. “We didn’t need any more evidence — he was pooping dope, so we were good to go — but we were very concerned for his health.”

He passed nearly two pounds of cocaine with a street value of about $100,000, the RCMP said.

I bet the guy could win a hot dog eating contest.

What a freakin’ loon.

HOUSTON — A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it.

Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant’s death.

While in the Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Thomas plucked out his right eye before his trial later in 2004. A judge subsequently ruled he was competent to stand trial.

A death-row officer at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice found Thomas in his cell with blood on his face and took him to the infirmary.

“”Thomas said he pulled out his eye and subsequently ingested it,” agency spokesman Jason Clark said Friday.

Thomas was treated at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler after the Dec. 9 incident. Then he was transferred and remains at the Jester Unit, a prison psychiatric facility near Richmond southwest of Houston.

“He will finally be able to receive the mental health care that we had wanted and begged for from day 1,” Bobbie Peterson-Cate, Thomas’ trial attorney, told the Sherman Herald Democrat. “He is insane and mentally ill. It is exactly the same reason he pulled out the last one.” More [here].

No, I think this one was the last one. What a sick bastard.

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Not sure what this guy was up to bolting down the driveway. None of the neighbors reported anything suspicious.

Sheesh..

Barbara Walters Exclusive: Pregnant Man Expecting Second Child

Thomas Beatie, the controversial “pregnant man” who gave birth to a daughter earlier this year, reveals to Barbara Walters in an exclusive interview that he is pregnant again with his second child.

It’s not a man. It’s a woman who takes hormones (so she has a beard) who had her breasts removed.

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Oregon Town Elects Nation’s First Openly Transgender Mayor

Stu Rasmussen won the mayoral election in Silverton, Ore., on Tuesday, becoming the nation’s first openly transgender mayor.

Barack Obama wasn’t the only candidate who made history Tuesday.

 

On the same day the United States elected its first black president, the tiny town of Silverton, Ore., elected the country’s first openly transgender mayor.

Stu Rasmussen served two terms as Silverton’s mayor in the 1990s, but he was still living in the closet — and dressing in men’s clothing. He came out a few years ago, proudly donning a skirt and high heels. More here.

His Her It’s campaign web site is here.

I bet Tracy is jealous

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H/T – Raced White Male

The story and more pictures are here.

The house pictured here sits on a hill directly across from the Tippy Dance Hall on beautiful Tippecanoe Lake. If you look closely, you should be able to see the Halloween decorations! I took this picture this morning and the decorations have been up for almost a week now. If you look at the front windows and the front side window you can see this house is complete with black Halloween lights!

This is a picture of the view they have of Tippecanoe Lake. The houses to the right that are not pictured are all valued at $500,000 or more! This just kind of illustrates the diversity you can find living at the lake.

But folks, this story gets even better. Tonight, Sunday, coming home from dinner I drove by with my kids and they have all of their Halloween lights on and are having a huge party complete with a bonfire! Sure, there are parties going on all around the lake tonight, last night I witnessed a wedding on the lake, but I am pretty sure this is the only Halloween party going on!

Posted by Lucy.