Weird: January 2008 Archives

A man in Australia is set to have his arm amputated after it was partially severed by a SUV as the man waved at girls at a car wash! The man reported as the passenger in a pick up truck is said to be 20 years old. He and a friend were driving in the western Australian state of Bunbury when he spotted two girls in a car wash and decided to wave at them. The unlucky man didn't notice the oncoming SUV which subsequently partially ripped his arm off.

A 23 year old man from Vancouver has proved the levels of weird idiocy in the world continue to grow after he managed to hang himself. The man who hasn't been named was filming a mock hanging with a friend in a local park. They thought he would be safe from injury as he was wearing a harness for the stunt but things went terribly wrong with the man ending up hanging by his neck!

According to a report from Reuters a small German IT company has fired its three non smoking workers after they requested a smoking free work environment. The manager Thomas J apparently decided that they should be sacked believing they were threatening to disturb the peace of the IT company's office in Buesum. Germany is still one of the last remaining countries in Europe where your still allowed to smoke in offices although I'm sure it has some kind of law preventing people from being fired for not smoking!

More weird news. Two Czech billiards players got themselves literally stuck in a bit of trouble when they went in search of a billiards ball. They were playing a game in the Czech city of Karlovy Vary when one of the balls was sunk but never reappeared. So as anyone would they went in search of the ball by putting there hands down the pockets, which it turns out was a rather bad (if not funny) mistake.

You just can't make this stuff up but according to a report in The People the Queen loves playing on Prince Williams Nintendo Wii. Proving that the games console isn't just for kids and even more impressive that Queen is actually slightly cool the report claims she saw William playing and thought it looked like great fun. The Queen playing bowling on the Nintendo Wii is hilariously funny if now some very weird news.

Apparently 81 year old Playboy Hugh Hefner can't keep one of his 3 live in girlfriends happy and she has to resort to using a toy to keep herself satisfied. In the interview Playmate Kendra Wilkinson told OK! Magazine "I'm 22 and still have my whole sex life ahead of me. But all girls need a vibrator!" From the sounds of it the very sexy Kendra Wilkinson is jealous of one of the other Playmates who Hugh Hefner apparently spends most of his time with Holly Madison.

Our first weird news story is from Germany where news agency Reuters have been reporting that a thief used a flower pot to steal a 150,000 Euro 997 Porsche Turbo. The owner who lives in the German city of Bonn was reversing the sports car out of his garage when he heard a scrapping noise, so he got out of his car and saw a flower pot stuck behind the rear wheel. As he bent down to remove the flowerpot the ingenious thief pushed the Porsche owner out of the way, jumped behind the wheel and drove off with the silver supercar.