Weird News Repository

[klr]

Right at the end of each daily page of software announcements at Majorgeeks, there's a section called "Way off Base"

http://majorgeeks.com/

I guarantee you will find all manner of weird and frankly unsettling news as you work through a few days' entries.

[Calilasseia]

You mean such as this? (MajorGeeks took me to that one.)

[Calilasseia]

Or how about this?

[Calilasseia]

Oh lovely ... ... how come I never had teachers like this?

[klr]

Yup, I see you've found the mother-lode.

This is another truly bizarre one from a few days ago:

http://www.lfpress.com/2012/11/15/mom-a ... -mcdonalds

Mom alleges porn at McDonald’s

That changed Sunday when she had to shield her eight-year-old's ears from loud, explicit pornography in the next booth over.

Hopkins was enjoying cheeseburgers with her ex-husband and their son, Grant, in a Keswick, Ont., McDonald's around 6 p.m. when they heard a woman's voice say sultrily, "I want you to come over here and f--- me."

Startled, she looked over and noticed a man on his laptop chatting to a topless woman on a webcam sex site.

"My son's head popped right up and said, 'Who said that?'" she said. "I said, 'Someone with a bad potty mouth who doesn't realize there are children at McDonald's.'

"And then the talk continued. I don't know if he was touching himself under the table."

As Hopkins, 43, moved her family over to another spot across the virtually deserted fast-food joint on Woodbine Ave., she heard the woman on the computer hiss, "By the way, tell that broad to go f--- herself. Did she hear me or should I say it louder?"

The family finished their meal and while Grant was in the play area, Hopkins approached the manager and told her about the man, who appeared to be in his mid-20s, on the sex chat.

The manager spoke to the man, but he didn't leave for another 20 minutes. She doesn't know whether he shut down the website.

Hopkins said because the restaurant chain provides free wireless Internet to customers, the company should be responsible for making sure inappropriate material can't be accessed at their locations.

"They didn't even come over and apologize that my son had to see that," she said, adding a customer representative was rude to her when she called to complain the next day.

"I would like an apology. Who watches porn with children around?"

McDonald's Canada said it's impossible to tell whether the man in question was accessing the Internet through their free Wi-Fi or through another network or wireless stick.

Customers accessing the Wi-Fi must agree to their terms and conditions, which include not viewing pornography, McDonald's spokesman Stephanie Sorensen said. There are also filters switched on preventing offensive material.

"We would absolutely ask them to stop watching it," Sorensen said. "We're a family restaurant. There are a lot of sites that are banned."

Sorensen said the company on Thursday reviewed video footage of the incident, which captures Hopkins' family and the man on his computer.

"The gentleman was conducting a webcam conversation and wearing ear buds as he is hearing impaired," she said. "In approaching the gentleman, the restaurant manager on duty witnessed nothing inappropriate but did confirm it was a webcam conversation with a female.

"The manager asked him to lower his voice and avoid using any profanity (which the customer said he was using). The gentleman apologized and agreed to do so."

McDonald's added the customer service representative Hopkins dealt with on the phone apologized and advised her of the content filtering software.

"(They) were under the impression the customer was satisfied with how the situation was handled both in the restaurant and on the call," Sorensen said.

[klr]

This might nearly deserve a thread of its own:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/26 ... _incident/

Girlfriend 'tried to MURDER ME with her AMPLE BREASTS'
Battle of the Bulges: Germans in boudoir boob blitzkrieg

A German woman is up in court on a charge of "attempted manslaughter with a weapon", after allegedly trying to smother her boyfriend with her ample 38DD assets.

Lawyer Tim Schmidt, 30, claims 33-year-old Franziska Hansen forced his head into her voluminous top-hamper while they were making the beast with two backs back in May in the town of Unna.

"She was sitting on me naked and I was kissing her breasts," Schmidt told the court. "Suddenly she grabbed my head and pushed me between her breasts with all of her force. I couldn't breathe any more, I must have turned blue. I couldn't tear myself free and I thought I was going to die."

Schmidt added that he managed to escape the Ride of the Valkyrie, and fled naked to a neighbour's house, from where he called the cops.

Regarding a motive for the bazonga blitzkrieg, Hansen was apparently jealous of her other half's successful law career while she "struggled to adapt to life and failed to hold down a string of jobs".

She has denied the charge, and insists the whole thing was a sex game that went wrong and Schmidt panicked.

However, her defence has not been strengthened by a phone call she allegedly made to Schmidt, during which she explained her choice of weapons by telling him: "Treasure - I wanted your death to be as pleasurable as possible."

[Bella Fortuna]

Damn Germans...

[Coito ergo sum]

Damn Germans...

The Germans can even make sex...or a friendly greeting...sound like a scary threat....

[Animavore]

Damn Germans...

The Germans can even make sex...or a friendly greeting...sound like a scary threat....

They're like the Northern Irish in that regard.

[JimC]

The Attack of the Killer Boobs!

[klr]

Chinese paper congratulates Kim Jong Un on being named ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ by the Onion:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/kim ... 36602.html

[Blind groper]

Basic principle of human behaviour.

If you can imagine it, someone has done it.

[Jason]

I don't know, I can imagine quite a lot.

[Blind groper]

Pord

If it is physically possible, it's been done. Right down to the guy who answered an advertisement by the man who wanted to kill and eat someone. The victim volunteered, and was killed and eaten. Of course, his killer ended up in prison, but the volunteer was dead.

[Cormac]

Pord

If it is physically possible, it's been done. Right down to the guy who answered an advertisement by the man who wanted to kill and eat someone. The victim volunteered, and was killed and eaten. Of course, his killer ended up in prison, but the volunteer was dead.

It was even weirder than it sounds. The killer was a real Norman Bates kind of guy - driven completely insane by his mother.

When the two met up, they tried and at the "volunteers'" testicles together, iirc. It really was consensual murder and joint cannibalism.

Very strange...