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August 21st, 2007 at 6:05 pm

Vengeful Gravestones

It seems like a dangerous activity if you’re in the business of vandalizing church cemeteries.

In April a man vandalizing a cemetery by knocking over gravestones in Lilburn, GA was injured when one of the gravestones fell on him. His leg was crushed under the weight of the heavy stone and he lay on the ground wailing for two hours until someone came and rescued him.

You have to wonder if any passerby thought the cemetery was haunted that night.

Then, on May 6th, Michael Schreiber, 22, was in the midst of vandalizing a Calumet Park cemetery in Merrillville, Ind., when his legs were broken by a half ton gravestone that fell on him. He couldn’t call out for help as he was unconscious.

He’d already knocked over 14 gravestones when the half ton one fell on him.

It was about time one fought back.





March 18th, 2007 at 3:30 am

Activists attack crew of ship that saved their lives

In February two anti-whaling activists created a plan to attack a Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica with a bottle of acid and a smoke bomb. One activist was from Australia and the other was from Los Angeles.

Unfortunately the pair got lost in the fog while in their small dinghy and ended up being rescued with the help of several boats. One of the boats was the Japanese Whaler that they had planned to attack.

Once the activists were safe they thanked the Japanese crew, but one said, “I guess we’re back on schedule, and we’ll be pursuing you again.”

A short time later, the activists approached the whaler and tossed the acid onto the deck. Two crew members were injured in the attack.

I’m against whaling but injuring people that just possibly saved your life is just cruel.





February 4th, 2007 at 1:11 am

Hitchin’ a ride

An intoxicated 23 year old man tried to climb over a freight train that was stopped at a downtown crossing in Fargo N.D. Unfortunately for him the train started moving before he’d finished climbing over it.

The man called 911 from his cell phone when the train reached the Casselton area west of Fargo because he was cold and wanted to get off the train. The police dispatcher called the BNSF railway who then alerted the trains conductor.

“A few miles west of Casselton they were able to stop the train and (the man) got off,” Cass County Deputy Sheriff Shawn Getz said.

The man didn’t require medical attention, and the railroad didn’t press charges. However, the man was taken to a detox center.





November 16th, 2006 at 10:08 pm

People you don’t want working for you

» by Tricia in: Humor

Here’s a few accident prone people that you wouldn’t want working on your property:

- Inspecting the Dukovany nuclear power plant in Moravia in September, an unnamed American official with the International Atomic Energy Agency wandered away from the group and fell into a water tank. I hope that water wasn’t tainted!

- In September, firefighters in Spokane, Wash., rescued a worker whose head had become stuck in a water meter enclosure for about four hours. How does one get their head stuck in a water meter enclosure?

- In October, when Turkey’s prime minister Tayyip Erdogan fainted from low blood sugar, his security team rushed him to a hospital but mistakenly locked him and the keys inside his fortified car; after they pounded on it for a while, a nearby construction worker with a sledgehammer saved the day. That could have been a life and death situation for the Prime Minister. I think he needs a new security team- don’t you?