For some readers, News of the Weird is a light diversion from the serious reporting of the week. For others, though, it's a weekly chronicle of the alarming decline of civilization. Or a therapeutic personal benchmark (for reassurance that the problem is other people, not you). Or, for the few who actually wind up in News of the Weird, a monument to lives interestingly lived. tags news weird light decline civilization therapeuticI hope it's not a dupe, I searched and could not find it picked by keroberos32 2 months ago |
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There's only a few women (and men?) in the world that could take this kind of abuse. picked by indierockcafe 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
Didn't see this posted on Plime. It's sad, I think, and yeah weird too. picked by indierockcafe 1 year ago 10 comments edit related share weird |
Here's todays run of weird stories from The Sun news paper. 1 comments edit related share plime.comAll the stories are one page so read away! picked by davethefish 10 months ago |
This site posts weird news of the week for those who want a glimpse into the strange lives of others or for those who just need a break from the disheartening 'real' news out there. picked by ybne1else 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
From story: 1 comments edit related share plime.com"He chose a 42-inch katana, a Japanese samurai sword, and went inside to confront Lee Alexander, a 25-year-old ranch hand from Polk County who was convicted in 2000 of a lewd and lascivious act on a person under 16. Less than 15 minutes later, Alexander was dead." picked by indierockcafe 1 year ago |
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Chuck Shepard has seen it all, he runs the "News of the Weird" and some stories have been submitted so many times that they are just not considered weird anymore... 0 comments edit related share plime.com1. an old, widely-advertised phone-sex number is reassigned to a church 35. dog steps on gun, shooting the master 46. unlabeled urn with loved one's ashes mistakenly stolen or sold at yard sale picked by tragluk 7 months ago |
A 36-year-old German mother-of-five drove her son to a jewelry store he wanted to rob because she was afraid he may come to some harm, Bild newspaper reported Wednesday. 1 comments edit related share plime.comWhile her 17-year-old son and his two accomplices stabbed and robbed a jeweler in the eastern city of Dresden, the mother waited in the car... picked by jokestarter 1 year ago |
A 22-year old Rhode Island woman tried to conduct a drive-through robbery of a bank while riding in the back of a hired limousine... picked by jokestarter 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Well! I scored 50% Which is about right I think. picked by ozplasmic 2 years ago 17 comments edit related share weird |
There's weird, then there's weird. I feel for her. But this is weird. picked by Milkshake 2 years ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
Searching for weirdness online is like searching for hay in a haystack. It’s everywhere. Rest assured, none of the boring or dodgy stuff has made it into Yahoo!’s trawl of the Weird Wide Web. These sites are in turn funny, interesting, curious and mind bogglingly strange. They represent the weird hobby of thousands, or the mad obsession of just a single web-head. They cover things th... read full post picked by robfouryqr 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
Aren't you glad it wasn't delivered to your house? Well, officials say there are more than two dozen other packages out there with human body parts. picked by indierockcafe 1 year ago 6 comments edit related share weird |
Water, good ol' H2O, seems like a pretty simple substance to you and me. But in reality, water - the foundation of life and most common of liquid - is really weird and scientists actually don't completely understand how water works. picked by Bornbad 4 days ago 10 comments edit related share science |
Very interesting, very different social news site for strange, funny, scandalous and generally non-boring news. picked by norequest 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share weird |
As you dig further into the depths of the industry of watchmaking, you may find a lot of weird stuff, which occurs whether due to the lack or overflow of imagination. picked by maxriter 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
Japan's vibrant, fast-moving culture delivers daily doses of the weird, wild and wonderful! Take, for example, theme cafes. First popularized by nerdy "otaku" geeks and then embraced by the public at large, the theme cafe phenomenon shows no sign of running out of steam. Just the opposite - it seems new theme cafes pop up every week, each one seeking to be just a little weirder than what... read full post picked by deepcleanfun 11 months ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
News At Seven automatically gathers news with relevant images, videos and opinions from blogs and combines them into a virtual newscast. picked by TheStep 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Scott Moore is in charge of news at Yahoo! Broadcast television still reaches more people in a single hour; 6 million viewers at a time will tune in to the CBS Evening News. But over the course of a month, the online portals are providing news to more people. picked by hisidea 11 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
No one likes to give bad news. What if there was a better way to give out bad news? What if there was a robot that could tell people things they didn't want to hear? picked by bernardblack 1 month ago 1 comments edit related share entertainment |
XMM-Newton has detected periodic X-ray emission, or the pulsed heartbeat of a weird new type of star. Collecting the X-rays from the so-called rotating radio transient has confirmed the nature of the underlying celestial object and given astronomers a new insight into these exotic objects. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |