2008 Woodie Awards
Through the Looking glass
A collection of weird and off-beat news from around the world...
Mike Pingree ; KRT
Issue date: 3/8/06 Section: News
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YES, WE HAD A WONDERFUL STAY, THANK YOU
After checking into the Black Horse Inn in Taunton, England, an enormously overweight couple spent the afternoon in the bar, then went up to their room where they got into the shower and proceeded to make love loudly and enthusiastically.
The vigorous activity by the couple, whose combined weight was estimated at about 500 pounds, apparently dislodged a pipe, causing water to come gushing down into the bar they had just exited.
They checked out the next morning, and, shortly after they left, the waterlogged ceiling collapsed.
ARE YOU BEING HONEST WITH US ... "ROBERT"?
Police in Columbus, Ind., pulled a man over for driving erratically, and, when they asked him his name, knew immediately that he was lying. He said his name was Robert, but his real name, Cecil, was tattooed on his neck.
ARE WE NOT HONORABLE MEN?!
After a long-simmering feud, two men in Aspen, Colo., agreed to meet in a parking lot and fight it out "one-on-one." But, in a flagrant violation of the agreement, one of them brought two other guys with him. Strictly speaking, the other man wasn't playing by the rules either. He brought along a bucket of paint thinner, which he threw at his three adversaries, then tried to set them on fire.
GIVE ME THAT OLD TIME ROCK AND ROLL ... AIEEEE!
A teenager attending college in Singapore was playing "air guitar" while jumping up and down on the bed in his third-floor dorm room, when he accidentally bounced right out
an open window. The coroner ruled it "death by misadventure."
ON NEGLECTING ONE'S MANLY DUTIES ...
After a few hours of trying to coax her husband into having sex with her, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina, became frustrated and stabbed him in the back. He survived. She told police that she "had the right to punish him," because he "failed to fulfill his obligations."
UH, I WAS JUST PASSING THROUGH, OFFICER
A 16-year-old boy, vandalizing a cemetery in Roodhouse, Ill., became trapped at the scene of the crime, when a 600-pound gravestone he tipped over landed on his leg. He was arrested.
GREAT, NOT MUCH TRAFFIC TODAY
A woman in League City, Fla., did not realize it was Saturday, and dropped her 6-year-old daughter off at her elementary school. A passer-by spotted the girl a few hours later. The mother was charged with endangering a child.
END OF DISCUSSION!
During an argument over a mahjong game in Lorong Baru, Malaysia, one man shoved a spoon up another man's nose.
HELLO? I THINK WE'VE BEEN CUT OFF
A woman lost her arm when she flipped her vehicle on a highway in Lexington, Ky. Police got a quick clue as to the cause of the accident when they found her cell phone still clutched in the hand of the severed limb.
After checking into the Black Horse Inn in Taunton, England, an enormously overweight couple spent the afternoon in the bar, then went up to their room where they got into the shower and proceeded to make love loudly and enthusiastically.
The vigorous activity by the couple, whose combined weight was estimated at about 500 pounds, apparently dislodged a pipe, causing water to come gushing down into the bar they had just exited.
They checked out the next morning, and, shortly after they left, the waterlogged ceiling collapsed.
ARE YOU BEING HONEST WITH US ... "ROBERT"?
Police in Columbus, Ind., pulled a man over for driving erratically, and, when they asked him his name, knew immediately that he was lying. He said his name was Robert, but his real name, Cecil, was tattooed on his neck.
ARE WE NOT HONORABLE MEN?!
After a long-simmering feud, two men in Aspen, Colo., agreed to meet in a parking lot and fight it out "one-on-one." But, in a flagrant violation of the agreement, one of them brought two other guys with him. Strictly speaking, the other man wasn't playing by the rules either. He brought along a bucket of paint thinner, which he threw at his three adversaries, then tried to set them on fire.
GIVE ME THAT OLD TIME ROCK AND ROLL ... AIEEEE!
A teenager attending college in Singapore was playing "air guitar" while jumping up and down on the bed in his third-floor dorm room, when he accidentally bounced right out
an open window. The coroner ruled it "death by misadventure."
ON NEGLECTING ONE'S MANLY DUTIES ...
After a few hours of trying to coax her husband into having sex with her, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina, became frustrated and stabbed him in the back. He survived. She told police that she "had the right to punish him," because he "failed to fulfill his obligations."
UH, I WAS JUST PASSING THROUGH, OFFICER
A 16-year-old boy, vandalizing a cemetery in Roodhouse, Ill., became trapped at the scene of the crime, when a 600-pound gravestone he tipped over landed on his leg. He was arrested.
GREAT, NOT MUCH TRAFFIC TODAY
A woman in League City, Fla., did not realize it was Saturday, and dropped her 6-year-old daughter off at her elementary school. A passer-by spotted the girl a few hours later. The mother was charged with endangering a child.
END OF DISCUSSION!
During an argument over a mahjong game in Lorong Baru, Malaysia, one man shoved a spoon up another man's nose.
HELLO? I THINK WE'VE BEEN CUT OFF
A woman lost her arm when she flipped her vehicle on a highway in Lexington, Ky. Police got a quick clue as to the cause of the accident when they found her cell phone still clutched in the hand of the severed limb.