Planet Weirdo Reports V [Archive]

Dee

01-07-2009, 03:26 PM

Police seek blow-up doll sex bandit

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man broke into three adult shops, had sex with blow up dolls named "Jungle Jane" and then dumped his plastic conquests in a nearby alley, local media reported Wednesday.

"It's totally bizarre. It's a real concern that someone like that is out on the street," said one of the owners of the adult sex shops in Cairns in northern Queensland state.

"He has been taking the dolls out the back and blowing them up and using the dolls and leaving them in the alley," the owner, who gave the name of Vogue, told the Cairns Post newspaper.

Police told the Cairns Post that scientific officers had taken DNA samples, fingerprints and pictures of the crime scene.

Police seek blow-up doll sex bandit (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090107/odds/odd_us_burglar_sex_odd)

You Jungle Jane, me Tarzan. :o

Bat

01-07-2009, 04:12 PM

I'd say it was a step above kidnapping for the purpose...let's hope it doesn't escalate into that!!:eek:

Eva

01-07-2009, 04:41 PM

Oh dear... I hope Jane isn't pregnant...

Eva

coffeegyrl

01-07-2009, 08:31 PM

Man accused of urinating on bouncer at Alaska bar

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- A 22-year-old Fairbanks man was arrested for allegedly urinating on a bouncer at a bar on Sunday morning. The bouncer at Kodiak Jack's told police that he was trying to remove another man from the bar for causing a disruption.

The bouncer said he was trying to calm down the other man when he noticed the man behind him urinating on his leg.

The man was charged with with harassment, indecent exposure and making a false report. He was apparently angry that his friend was being thrown out of the bar.

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Bat

01-08-2009, 12:59 PM

Sorta gives real meaning to, "Piss on you, buddy!"

Dee

01-08-2009, 02:01 PM

The bouncer said he was trying to calm down the other man when he noticed the man behind him urinating on his leg.

He noticed? LOL What was his first clue I wonder? Never mind, I don't wanna know.

DaveM

01-08-2009, 06:57 PM

We recently had a fellow who was nearly beaten to death by another guy who followed him out of a bar with a major chip on his shoulder because the victim, who did not know his assailant, had refused to shake hands with him.

Dee

01-09-2009, 07:16 AM

Six-year-old Virginia boy misses bus, takes family car, crashes

By The Associated Press

WICOMICO CHURCH, Va. - A six-year-old Virginia boy who missed his bus tried to drive to school in his family's sedan - and crashed.

State police say the boy suffered only minor injuries and authorities drove him to school after he was evaluated at a local hospital.

Sgt. Tom Cunningham says the boy arrived shortly after lunch. It happened around 7:40 a.m. Monday on Route 360, about 100 kilometres east of Richmond.

Police say the boy, who wasn't identified, missed the bus, took the keys to his family's 2005 Ford Taurus and drove 16 kilometres toward school while his mother was asleep.

He ran off the road several times before hitting an embankment and utility pole about two kilometres from school.

Police say he wasn't wearing a safety belt.

Six-year-old Virginia boy misses bus, takes family car, crashes (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090106/koddities/oddity_boy_driver)

Mary6906

01-09-2009, 09:41 AM

Seems like he is a little Hoops or Sister Rose in the making!!

You guys should mentor him ;)

aabram

01-09-2009, 09:49 AM

Has he been reading the second Harry Potter aGAIN???? :eek:

hoops

01-09-2009, 12:39 PM

why was the mother asleep while her 6 year old was trying to get on the bus???
peace
hoops

Dee

01-09-2009, 02:20 PM

Probably wasted would be my guess. And now, a Weirdo Report about the biggest one of them all in recent history!

Palin says she's been exploited by Couric and Fey

By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says CBS News anchor Katie Couric and comic actress Tina Fey have been "exploiting" her. :o

Palin also is questioning whether Caroline Kennedy is getting better treatment from the news media in her quest for a Senate seat than Palin herself received as Republican John McCain's running mate.

Palin reflected on her campaign for national office in an interview this week with conservative radio talk-show host and filmmaker John Ziegler.

Clips are posted on YouTube.

Palin gave Couric a rare interview at the beginning of her campaign, and Fey frequently impersonated Palin on "Saturday Night Live."

Palin says she thinks there may be a "class issue" involved in the press coverage of Kennedy and her own bid for office.

Palin says she's been exploited by Couric and Fey (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090109/world/us_palin_1)

No, Sarah, we just don't care about you. Run along now, you're boring us. ZZZZZZZ

DaveM

01-09-2009, 02:54 PM

Of course....her utter mediocrity is all the fault of "the liberal media". Bevare! Bevare!

I was a bit slow to realize it, alas, but as to the Australian sex shop bandit's loot....my avatar has a girlfriend like that.

Dee

01-10-2009, 04:20 PM

Is Tintin gay? Cartoon birthday boy dogged by rumours

LONDON (AFP) - As Belgian comic-book icon Tintin celebrates his 80th birthday, an age-old question has resurfaced: is the boy reporter gay? One British commentator says the signs are unmistakeable.

"Billions of blue blistering barnacles, isn't it staring us in the face?," wrote The Times journalist Matthew Parris under the headline "Of course Tintin's gay. Ask Snowy," ahead of Saturday's anniversary.

"What debate can there be when the evidence is so overwhelmingly one-way? A callow, androgynous blonde-quiffed youth in funny trousers and a scarf moving into the country mansion of his best friend, a middle-aged sailor?" he wrote. :o

Tintin, the creation of Belgian Georges Remi -- whose pen name Herge comes from his initials, inverted and pronounced in French -- first appeared in 1929 along with his faithful companions Captain Haddock and trusty dog Snowy.

Translated into 60 languages, the cartoon books still sell upwards of two million copies per year.

Parris, a former British lawmaker who is openly gay, said Tintin's sexuality was obvious to anyone who reads the cartoon books closely.

His family background gives a first clue.

"Tintin never talks about his parents or family, as though trying to block out the very existence of a father or mother. As psychologists will confirm, this is common among young gay men," says Parris. :o

The fact that, while being nominally a journalist, he almost never files any stories, is also fishy -- fuelling speculation that he is a spy.

"As the remotest acquaintance with (for instance) British espionage will confirm, secret intelligence has always attracted gay men. :o I myself applied for and was offered a post in MI6."

The lack of women in his adventures is also suspicious -- only eight out of some 350 characters are identifiable as female.

While Tintin never shows any interest in girls of women, his canine sidekick is "unambiguously heterosexual," having a "tendency to be distracted by lady dogs: a tendency in which he is consistently foiled by his master." :o

"Pity this dog, wretchedly straight and trapped in a ghastly web of gay human males," says Parris.

Is Tintin gay? Cartoon birthday boy dogged by rumours (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090109/entertainment/entertainment_literature_belgium_tintin_homosexual ity_2)

hoops

01-11-2009, 08:38 PM

well i think the evidence is clear as gay... i mean day. BAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
peace
hoops

DaveM

01-11-2009, 11:20 PM

But he's not REAL! Or doesn't that matter? I do recall a major to do about a certain Tinky Winky....

hoops

01-12-2009, 10:15 PM

real or not doesn't matter in religion...oops did i say that. i was watching an interesting program on LOGO, of all stations, a GLBTQ TV station on Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and how Tammy Faye and Jim were among the first to reach out to HIV and AIDS sufferer, not as a condeming voice but as a helping hand, not judging their sexuality just offering love and support. in later years Tammy Faye had a talk show with a Gay male co host. that is not what i would have expected. and what is even more strange is that it was Pat Robertson that started horrific rumors about the Bakkers and their being selfish, ungodly, demanding sinners of the worst kind. this was just after he asked Jim to turn over the network to him for a year so that Jim and Tammy could get some much needed rest, then he took it and kept it and locked Jim and Tammy out in the cold.

DaveM

01-12-2009, 11:46 PM

Very "Christian" of him, sad to say.

hoops

01-13-2009, 10:09 PM

I'm sorry Pat Roberston. it was not pat who did this but Gerry Falwell.
I apologise Pat.
peace
hoops

Dee

01-18-2009, 11:22 AM

Man speaks nonstop for 124 hours to set speech record

Frenchman Lluis Colet broke the world record for the longest speech after rambling nonstop for 124 hours about Spanish painter Salvador Dali, Catalan culture and other topics.

Three notaries were on hand to recognise the feat which allows Colet to enter it in the Guinness Book of Records.

The previous record was held by an Indian man who delivered a 120-hour speech.

Colet began speaking at Perpignan's railway station on Monday by reciting the works of famous authors or using some of his own writing. He also spoke profusely about Dali, a painter he admires, and Catalan culture.

Large crowds turned out in support of Colet, who received a rapturous applause at the end of his speech.

"This is a big day for me and I dedicate this record to all those who defend Catalan language and culture," he said, his voice fainter after five days of nonstop talking.

Colet had set the record once before in 2004 when he spoke for 48 straight hours.

Man speaks nonstop for 124 hours to set speech record (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090117/tod-frenchman-speaks-nonstop-for-124-hou-7f81b96.html)

Mary6906

01-18-2009, 12:09 PM

DAMN.... and I thought my brother talked A LOT!! I can't imagine doing that. Sheeesh!!

coffeegyrl

01-18-2009, 12:10 PM

I agree. People who go on and on are very irritating, and they usually don't have much to say so they repeat themselves a lot.

Dee

01-18-2009, 02:57 PM

Yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yap yappity yap, SLLLAAAP! :p

DaveM

01-18-2009, 04:19 PM

There is a 12-Step Program for this now. It's called On And On Anon.

Eva

01-18-2009, 05:07 PM

There is a 12-Step Program for this now. It's called On And On Anon.
HAHAHAHAHA! Good one :D

Eva

Dee

01-19-2009, 04:46 PM

Excellent Dave, that would be the perfect name!

hoops

01-19-2009, 06:32 PM

didi anyone see the vid clips of the stupidest people on who wants to be a millionaire...no i don;t have the clips...the first woman used all of her life lines...argued with the friends she called, calling him stupid on live tv only to guess that a cow was bigger than the moon.
the second woman was asked "what is president George W. Bush's first name. after using 50/50 and asking the audience her answer was...Get this... Edmund!
now this is what this thread is all about! these people, breed, have opinions and somehow won the fastest finger portion of the show which selects the person who will be sitting in the hot seat.
peace
hoops

coffeegyrl

01-19-2009, 08:14 PM

What is a "fastest finger"? That could be interesting...

Mary6906

01-19-2009, 08:22 PM

Oh, no... I'm not even going to go there, Sally ... :)

hoops

01-19-2009, 09:20 PM

the fastest finger is a group of people who are give a remote sort of thing with a) b) c) d) on it. the group is asked a question. the answer coincides with one of the letters and the one to press the correct letter fastest is the one who is chosen to be seen on tv. hope that help. i would never win cause it takes me extra time just to 'hear' the question
peace
hoops

DaveM

01-20-2009, 01:21 AM

Hoops....even more frightening than everything you mention....these people get to vote and sit on juries. And some of them have jobs that involve operating machinery. I strongly suspect that a large number are cab drivers, and some of the others work for the Post Office and UPS.

Eva

01-20-2009, 04:30 AM

I think it's answer b)

Eva

dragonlady

01-20-2009, 08:33 AM

"B" is the most common answer on multiple choice questions.

-di

Eva

01-20-2009, 11:48 AM

"B" is the most common answer on multiple choice questions.
See? I was right once again :cool:

Eva

hoops

01-20-2009, 09:53 PM

Eva, are you not always right?
peace
hoops

Dee

01-22-2009, 08:22 AM

Eleven-month-old boy accidentally dials 9-1-1 and gets dad arrested

By The Canadian Press

WHITE ROCK, British.Columbia - A B.C. man probably wishes he had given his 11-month-old son a set of keys to play with instead of a phone, after the infant accidentally dialled 9-1-1 and brought police to dad's marijuana grow operation.

Mounties say a 9-1-1 call came in from a White Rock, B.C. residence Friday morning but whoever was on the other end of the line hung up. Officers arrived at the residence and after numerous knocks on the door went unanswered, they entered the home.

"The gentleman was quite surprised," said White Rock RCMP Const. Janelle Canning.

She said the 29-year-old male, startled by the sudden sight of police, insisted he hadn't made the call.

When it was suggested a child might have dialled, the father objected and said his son was far too young.

That's when police spotted the baby boy, phone in hand.

"We saw him playing with the cordless phone and just pressing all the buttons, so evidently he had called 9-1-1," Canning said.

With that mystery solved, officers began inspecting the residence and soon discovered a 500-plant marijuana grow operation.

The father was arrested and will appear in court in early April on charges of production of a controlled substance and mischief.

The boy was removed from the home by the Ministry of Children and Family Development, though he was later released into his mother's custody.

The mother does not live in the residence and Canning says she had no idea what was going on at the home.

Eleven-month-old boy accidentally dials 9-1-1 and gets dad arrested (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090121/national/20090121_baby_dials911)

Bat

01-22-2009, 02:11 PM

Doesn't really sound too legal...they determined the kid was playing with the phone. That doesn't sound like grounds for search and seizure to me!!

DaveM

01-22-2009, 02:31 PM

A teenager was arrested here two nights ago after he stole a snowmobile, rode it over to a local drugstore, and broke into the place hoping to steal some drugs. Police officers responding to a call about the stolen snowmobile simply followed the tracks over to the drugstore, where they found it parked.

They grabbed the kid as he emerged from the store, at which time he reportedly yelled: "I was just trying to get some Ambien!"

Perhaps the noise from all the snowmobiles has been keeping him awake? Or might he be one of those people on Ambien who do weird things while still technically asleep? The world will, in all likelihood, never know.

hoops

01-23-2009, 11:38 AM

Bat, from experience i have learned that if a 911 call is placed it is the duty of the police, if the reason for the call is not completely obvious, to make a check of the place from where the call came, just in case.
peace
hoops

dragonlady

01-23-2009, 08:11 PM

In VA, even if you accidentally call 911 and you tell them that, they have to dispatch an officer to the address you called from...you could have someone with a gun to your head telling you to say that I guess....

I did it once at home..it was embarrassing...and a bunch of people at work were accidentally dialing 911 instead of 9-1-then a long distance number...and the cops were getting rather ticked off having to come over to the building a couple times a day...

-di

Eva

01-24-2009, 02:05 AM

you could have someone with a gun to your head telling you to say that I guess....
Yes, there is that possibility. Good policy, I think.

the cops were getting rather ticked off having to come over to the building a couple times a day...
Well THAT I can imagine. They do have better things to do.

Eva

Dee

01-24-2009, 03:26 PM

In VA, even if you accidentally call 911 and you tell them that, they have to dispatch an officer to the address you called from...

That is true here in Canada too, Di. I know because it happened to me once! :eek: Most embarrassing.

Eva

01-24-2009, 05:57 PM

So do you get a fine for that?

Eva

Dee

01-25-2009, 12:17 PM

Um, nope. Just a little lecture and news that it happens on occasion. Glad I wasn't the only one. So embarrassing.

Eva

01-25-2009, 05:30 PM

I actally called 112 today. That is our version of 911.

I was in the metro. I came back from a meeting. All of a sudden I heard sounds like people were screaming at eachother. This was happening behind me but it hadn't registered yet because the metro was kind of noisy. So I turn around and see a man and a woman having a very heated argument. The man was screaming and the woman was crying. He was pulling her by her jacket several times and was acting very aggressive and she looked scared.

He acused her of having plans to kill him together with a few people. She said nothing and was just crying. Or denied that that was going on. She looked afraid and he looked like he could hit her any moment. I would not be surprised if he does hit her. I thought that maybe they were a couple. Or that she was a hooker and he was her pimp.

Anyway, I saw the woman was frightened and I also notice that everybody was watching what was going on and nobody did something. I could understand that from the older people or the woman who was there with her child. But there were so many others there. I couldn't stand to look at it because I imagined how horrible and scary a situation like that must be. So I went over there and confronted the guy. I had hoped that would inspire others too to do something but no such luck.

The guy became all agressive towards me. He was screaming at me that I shouldn't interfere. I said that I will interfere if I see that a woman gets treated bad. He told me that she was his woman and that it was none of my business. I told him that it is my business if someone is treated bad. Then I took out my phone and he told me to go ahead and call them (the police) I told him that I most certainly would. That he could count on it.

Then my stop came and I got out. I did call the police. I called 112 because I didn't have another number. I didn't know how dangerous the situation really was. He screamed at me too but didn't come close to hit me. Of course I stayed away from him too. I want to help that woman but I am not stupid. I had no way of knowing if he would actually hit her. But everything was speculation. But his agression and her fear were a fact so I called anyway. I gave a description and said in which metro they were. I hope the police found them and that they could do something.

In all this what struck me most though was that nobody did something. I still can't believe it. I was so very angry. At the agressive guy. But I was just as angry at all the pasive people who were just watching. How can they live with themselves? He could have actually beaten her up. Or one could have stabbed the other. Or whatever. Would they still stay passive? I think I would have felt very ashamed of myself if I hadn't tried to do something. Even if it was just something as simple as calling the police. Anybody can do that. I really don't understand it.

Eva

hoops

01-25-2009, 07:54 PM

Eva, good Job! I had to do that once with a neighbor. it's tough cause you're not really sure what is going on, but it is better to be safe than sorry. i've also had 911 called on my by a caseworker who thought i was suicidal, i wasn't, but i had to go to the hospital anyway. i ended up in a hospital 2 hours away in NYC at 7 am the next morning...it was 5 pm when i was picked up. I spent 2 1/2 weeks there. i guess i couldn't prove i was ok
peace
hoops

coffeegyrl

01-25-2009, 09:16 PM

Eva I'm glad you called for help. You did the right thing.

More people need to assert themselves to help those in danger.

DaveM

01-25-2009, 11:17 PM

gisli

01-26-2009, 12:38 PM

Hmmmmmm does this one qualify as a weird report

Jan 26 - A car skidded off the road and was catapulted into the air, landing on the roof of a church.

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=97596&videoChannel=1

Bat

01-26-2009, 01:32 PM

Mah Gawd!! How fast was he going?? Escape velocity for a 35 meter flight and up at least 25 feet is considerable, one would imagine...any physicists here to calculate such a speed/distance/mass/gravity problem?

Holy Cow! (well, maybe not...he didn't quite make it over the moon, but looked like he was trying.)

Eva

01-26-2009, 02:17 PM

Does your phone have a camera, Eva? It's hard to keep your wits about you when you get into a situation like that but calling the police AND getting what you can on video can be a help. When the police show up at least you have something to show them.
Good idea Dave. But I didn't really think about it. All I thought was something along the lines of: "How am I going to stop that bastard from beating that woman up while staying safe myself?" Having them on video would be good because I could hardly give a good description of them later. I hoped the other passengers would be able to give more information.

Eva

hoops

01-26-2009, 08:49 PM

bat, it all depends on wind speeds and ground speed, the degree of incline at take off, the stablility of the ground at take off, ice, dry patches, whether the car is front or rear wheel drive or 4 wheel drive, horse power, tourk . there are a lot of variables but the best part is it is one heck of a lot of fun. weeeeeeeeeeeeee.
peace
hoops

Mary6906

01-26-2009, 09:18 PM

And I'm sure that Hoops knows what she's talking about!!

Bat

01-27-2009, 10:11 PM

I can do some lovely fishtailing and 360s in the snow, but my only attempt at building a jump ended with my sled plowing through it and me knocking the wind out with my sternum slapped against the far side of a run-off channel.
I sort of turned my mechanical bent to other pursuits after that. OOOF!:p
(I know it woulda worked...it really woulda!)

Dee

01-28-2009, 01:47 PM

1 hour, 59 minutes ago

LONDON (Reuters) - "Cello scrotum," a nasty ailment allegedly suffered by musicians, does not exist and the condition was just a hoax, a senior British doctor has admitted.

Back in 1974, in a letter to the British Medical Journal, Elaine Murphy reported that cellists suffered from the painful complaint caused by their instrument repeatedly rubbing against their body.

The claim had been inspired by reports in the BMJ about the alleged condition guitar nipple, caused by irritation when the guitar was pressed against the chest.

But Murphy, now a Baroness and a former Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age at Guy's Hospital in London, has admitted her supposed medical complaint was a spoof.

"Perhaps after 34 years it's time for us to confess we invented cello scrotum," she wrote with her husband John, who had signed the original letter, which was published in the BMJ Wednesday.

"Anyone who has ever watched a cello being played would realize the physical impossibility of our claim."

Murphy, who said the couple had been "dining out" on their story ever since they made it up, said they had decided to reveal the hoax after it was referred to in a recent BMJ article on health problems associated with making music.

She also said she suspected "guitar nipple" had been a joke.

Cello scrotum -- the truth at last (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090128/odds/odd_us_scrotum)

Mary6906

01-28-2009, 01:58 PM

Thanks for a good laugh in the afternoon, Dee. :D
You sure come up with some strange stuff.

Dee

01-28-2009, 02:00 PM

What can I say? It's a strange world (to put it mildly).

DaveM

01-28-2009, 02:05 PM

Reader's Digest published an article stuffed with oddball "occupational diseases" some years ago. Among them was "guitarist's groin". Can't help but wonder now if that was more material from a similar source.

Former Professor of Psychiatry....hmmmm....

Eva

01-28-2009, 04:49 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!

Eva

hoops

01-28-2009, 07:38 PM

I can't even imagine the dangers of playing the washboard or being in a jug band.
peace
hoops

Marcia Drummergal

01-29-2009, 07:47 AM

There are TRUE dangers for women who play cymbals....not on a drumset but the kind in a band...2 that you hit together. One often needs to dampen them quickly to keep them from ringing in certain musical situations. The easiest way is to dampen them against your chest. My late, great percussion teacher, Peggy had a special "chest protector" made for her. She played in prominent symphonies and opera orchestras. It irked her NO END when a newspaper reviewer said he was "distracted" by the percussionist who was "always adjusting her bra strap."

Marcia :D

Dee

01-30-2009, 07:46 AM

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/miniroflmao.gif Not too clueless.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=L3SwaOAW3BE

gisli

01-31-2009, 02:58 AM

This is way to funny:D to not use it somewhere else:o

Dee

02-01-2009, 10:14 AM

Wyoming man accused of drunken horse riding in snowstorm

CODY, Wyo. (AP) - A man has been cited for public intoxication while riding a white horse during a snowstorm in the northern Wyoming town Cody.

(con'd (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090129/koddities/20090129_oddity_drunken_riding))

Moroccan jailed for selling hot dog... literally

CASABLANCA (AFP) - Taking things a little too literally, a Moroccan man was jailed for six years for selling customers dog meat instead of beef, a judicial source said Friday.

(con'd (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090130/oddities/morocco_crime_offbeat))

Shoe monument for man who threw footwear at Bush

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - An Iraqi town has unveiled a giant monument of a shoe in honor of the journalist who threw his footwear at former U.S. President George W. Bush.

(con'd (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090130/odds/odd_us_iraq_shoe_odd))

Comical criminals bungle escape bid

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) - A decision to split up ended badly for two fleeing New Zealand criminals handcuffed together when they ran past opposite sides of a lamp post.

(con'd (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090130/oddities/nzealand_prisoners_offbeat))

Fire station burns after cooking mishap

TOKYO (Reuters) - A blaze broke out at a fire station in Japan this week after a firefighter left a cooking stove burning as crew members left the station to respond to emergency calls.

(con'd (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090129/odds/odd_us_fire))

DaveM

02-01-2009, 02:46 PM

http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/sexist_peta_superbowl_ad_gets_rejected

This appears to have been more of a publicity stunt on the part of PETA than an actual attempt to air an ad, but the video is hilarious. And frankly, if it had been a beer ad or an 80s designer jeans bit, I have no doubt it would have been aired without anyone batting an eye apart from viewers.

Guess we'll just have to content ourselves with more bottles containing alcoholic beverages popping their caps and spewing foam. Which of course is not intended to be suggestive of anything.

Eva

02-01-2009, 03:39 PM

Speaking of which... this commercial was taken off Dutch television (yes, it was banned :rolleyes:) Complaints were sent in because this is filmed from the perspective of the vagina. (no, you can't see anything Dave and Paul. Sorry) I kind of liked the commercial and I think it's silly that there were so many complaints. The commercial is for a product to clean the private parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uO-qR8-HtY

Eva

Mary6906

02-01-2009, 09:06 PM

I actually find that ad, Eva, pretty clever... I usually find that the Europeans have much funnier/clever ads than what get's through over here. Usually the only time something really good comes out on occasion is around the Superbowl.... although I haven't paid attention to the ads this year... only saw the Budweiser Clydesdale horse ad tonight, that's it.

DaveM

02-01-2009, 09:50 PM

It's ok, Eva....I've always been more of a breast man, myself.

lucille

02-02-2009, 02:55 AM

Eva

02-02-2009, 04:53 AM

I actually find that ad, Eva, pretty clever...
Me too. I think it's a pity it got taken off tv. There are much worse commercials. And the reason for the complaints ('looking' from vagina-perspective is considered indecent) is a bit silly I think.

Eva

hoops

02-02-2009, 09:53 PM

Eva, i think the ad is very clever too. I don't think most people watching it would "get it" and the only thing that comes close to being racy is when the man is in the room and then it's his parts not hers that get edgy. dang you know with all the stuff on tv about female hygene, i think this ad is pretty tame.
peace
hoops

RedjackRyan

02-04-2009, 09:16 AM

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Colorado Springs police are looking for a man who hit two 7-Eleven convenience stores early Wednesday, armed with a Klingon sword inspired by the Star Trek science fiction series.

The first robbery was reported at 1:50 a.m., at 145 N Spruce St. The clerk told police a white male in his 20s, wearing a black jacket, blue jeans and wearing a black mask, entered the store with a sword.

The suspect demanded money and left with an undisclosed amount.

A half hour later, police received a call from a 7-Eleven at 2407 N Union Blvd, where a male matching the previous description entered the store with a sword. He also demanded money from the store clerk. The clerk did not give him any money and the suspect transported himself out of the store on foot.

Both clerks described the weapon as a Star Trek Klingon type sword, called a "Batleth."

Neither clerk was injured in the robberies.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18637190/detail.html

Dee

02-12-2009, 01:13 PM

Guess you could say The Force was with him?

DaveM

02-12-2009, 02:43 PM

Probably trying to raise money to get to the next convention.

Dee

02-16-2009, 03:44 PM

Oy. I just hope she doesn't have any children! :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbVw7entkxg

hoops

02-16-2009, 09:21 PM

wow! bet she won't miss another flight AND i hope it wasn't an important flight.
peace
hoops

coffeegyrl

02-17-2009, 12:04 AM

now that was a tantrum!

I wonder if that worked when she was a child?

Where is airport security when you need them? If it had happened in the US chances are she would have ended up in handcuffs and carted off to the airport dungeon. And there would have been a crowd.

DaveM

02-17-2009, 12:29 AM

It looks as if someone finally did what everyone who has done any travel by air would like to at some point. Airlines do not listen to reason....unfortunately, they do not listen to this sort of outburst as well.

Heck, if it worked, everyone would be doing it by now.

A few days ago I was working out the details for a planned trip that involves air travel. Found a airfare for $206, which seemed more than reasonable, and started working out other things. I went back just this evening to make a reservation, only to discover that the same seats on the same planes on the same flights (which, mind, they did not fill up at $206) are now $446.

Fine. When they want to fill one of the empty seats, I'll be around.

coffeegyrl

02-17-2009, 10:09 AM

World news
Video of hysterical air passenger a hit
17th February 2009, 14:57 WST

A video of a middle-aged passenger throwing herself to the floor in a hysterical fit when she misses her flight has been watched by nearly 500,000 people on Monday after being posted online.

The three-minute video - which appears to have been surreptitiously shot with a mobile phone by a member of the airline ground staff - became an internet sensation after being posted on the video-sharing website You Tube last week.

It shows a Chinese woman going ballistic after arriving at her departure gate at Hong Kong International Airport for a Cathay Pacific flight to San Francisco only to find the plane is about to leave and her baggage has been offloaded.

The smartly-dressed woman, travelling with a man who appears to be her husband and another passenger, at first runs screaming towards the air bridge and has to be held back by an airport security guard.

She then retreats and begins beating the desk at the departure gate and wails at dumbstruck staff before throwing herself to the ground, screaming at Cathay staff: "This in inhumane ... what am I going to do, what am I going to do?"

As she flails around the ground, a suited supervisor at the departure gate helps her husband hold on to her arms and tells her "calm down, calm down", offering to make arrangements for her to catch a later flight.

The unidentified woman, who apparently spent too long shopping in the airport before going to the departure gate, continues to howl and scream furiously at staff despite the efforts of the supervisor and her grey-haired husband to pacify her.

The video was shot on February 4 when the woman, her husband and a third person not seen in the video arrived at 5.05pm the boarding gate for the flight CX782 to San Francisco - the time of the plane's scheduled departure.

A Cathay Pacific spokeswoman explained: "All passenger doors had already been closed, and the crew was preparing the flight for departure. As the passengers had failed to show up on time, we had already offloaded their checked baggage to comply with the security requirements.

"Our airport staff helped calm the female passenger and arranged for them to take a later flight CX880 that evening to Los Angeles." The next flight took off just a few hours later, although the woman appeared not to be aware at the time of her emotional outburst that she would only face a delay of hours.

The identity of the person who shot the video of the incident remains a mystery, although it appears to have been filmed from a staff position at the departure gate.

The Cathay spokeswoman insisted there had been no internal inquiry at Cathay into the posting of the video. "We do not know who shot the video or who posted it on the web," she said.
AAP

Dee

02-17-2009, 12:44 PM

I rest my case. Tranquillizing dart guns ARE necessary to survive in this wacked-out world. I'm digging mine out again right now!

Don't ya just love people who can't take NO for an answer. :rolleyes:

coffeegyrl

02-17-2009, 11:05 PM

Don't ya just love people who can't take NO for an answer. :rolleyes:

News Flash: sorry lady, the world does not revolve around you!
I guess nobody told her until now...

DaveM

02-18-2009, 12:08 AM

I have trouble understanding the popularity of this incident. Surely it is not isolated. Given that "air rage" is in the popular dictionary, how rare can it be?

Granted, this woman showed up late for a flight that was on time and her reaction was just plain childish. But more than once over the years, after a two hour flight lasted 26 and another lasted 13 and baggage once arrived not only on the wrong flight but on the wrong AIRLINE, part of me can only say, "good for you".

Mind, Cathay Pacific is noted for its excellent service. I wonder if she could be hired to perform for American, U.S. Air, or Northwest/Delta?