Weird News

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Very much yay.

[Enigma!]

Sweet.

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...Words fail me.

It Couldn't Happen Here?

Chicago police have arrested a 14-year-old boy for impersonating an officer. The boy allegedly strolled into a precinct headquarters, reported for duty, signed out a radio and ticket book and went on patrol with another officer for about five hours. Only after the patrol was over did a supervisor gets suspicious and demand some ID.

-- From "It Couldn't happen Here?", a column by Charles Oliver in the 'Daily Citizen'.

14-Year Old Fake Cop Drove Patrol Car

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police said Tuesday that the 14-year-old who posed as an officer drove a patrol car and aided in an arrest, and that seven officers face disiplinary reviews for the "lax" behavior that allowed the teen's escapade to happen.
"They weren't paying attention," Superintendent Jody Weis said at a news conference announcing the completion of the investigation. "They were lax. I'm very upset. This whole incident is very disturbing."
The teenager, an aspiring police officer, allegedly wore a uniform and entered a South ide police station through an unlocked back door around one-thirty p.m. on Jan 24. He was issued a radio and rode with a patrol officer for more than five hours, at times using the terminal in the squad car and responding to five assignments, Weis said.
Authorities previously said the teen did not drive a squad car, but Weis said Tuesday that the boy - who is too young to drive in Illinois - spent two hours behind the wheel. The boy also helped in the arrest of a suspect who allegedly violated a protection order.
"He brought the arm into the middle of his back so handcuffs could be placed on him," Weis said.
The boy returned to the station at 7:37 p.m., when a supervisor discover the teen was not weaing a complete uniform and had no weapon, Weis said. The teen was arrested at 7:40 p.m.
"This is absolutely unacceptable," Weis said, "We were very fortunate that a lot of tragic things didn't happen."
The boy has pleaded not guilty in juvenile court to impersonating an officer. He is no longer in custody but must wear an electronic monitoring device.
The department's Internal Affairs Division has recommended disipline for each of the seven unidentified officers who remain on the job.

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But they don't ask the important question: "Did he do a good job while out on patrol?"...

[J. T./Jessica]

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Tactical...

Nuclear...

PENGUIN!

A beer named 'Tactical Nuclear Penguin'... God, I want to try it just based on the name alone...

[J. T./Jessica]

Somebody got the brilliant idea to strap a mini-motor to a front fork and market it. Appearantly you wear a pair of skates or blades, hold on to the device and it pulls you along at forty klicks/per (25mph).

They call it the 'FlyRad'.

Why not just buy one of those things Disney banned, the 'Segway' or whatever?

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Or one of these, The Shredder. Think scooter with tank treads. Suddenly, I'm interested...

[J. T./Jessica]

Audi's new R18 racer for the 2011 Le Mans...

I shite you not, the thing looks like the Batmobile.

I half-expected to see 'Wayne Enterprises' sponsor stickers on it. Hell, it's been put forth that legal action wouldn't be surprising because of the similarities; spoiler instead of fins is really the only big difference.

[J. T./Jessica]

As a follow up to the last news post...

"The Tumbler? Oh, you wouldn't be interested in that..."

thethrottle.com/2010/12/26/patrick-this-is-a-crazy-concept-car-7-photos/

And based on the next to last pic, I'm not the only one who thinks there's a resemblance.

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Biscayne, Australia...

A golf course now finds itself host to an unlikely group of guests. After a period of flooding connected the course's lakes to the ocean, it seems that a group of six bull sharks have now taken up residence in the water hazard.

Yeah, you won't be going after your water balls on that course.

More later.

[J. T./Jessica]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silene_stenophylla

Plant and not animal, but still... say it with me, now...

Did we not learn anything from 'Jurassic Park'?

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[J. T./Jessica]

Meant to post this yesterday...

You've heard the old excuse "The check's in the mail", right?

Well, back in 1998, a woman had a falling out with a friend over a two hundred dollar money order that the friend was supposed to mail to her that she never recieved. Now, seventeen years later, the woman has recieved in the mail, complete with a 1998 postmark on the envelope, the money order that her friend had sent.