The "Strange but true" News Stories thread

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Well this is a thread for all these very strange news stories that sound as if they aren't true but they are.

To start off: "US authorities say a Florida woman phoned 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets.

According to a police report, 27-year-old Fort Pierce resident Latreasa L. Goodman told authorities she paid for a 10-piece last week but was later informed the restaurant had run out.

She said employees refused to give her a refund, saying all sales were final. A cashier told police she offered Goodman a larger portion of different food for the same price, but Goodman became irate.

Police say Goodman was cited on a misuse of 911 charge.

"This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one," Goodman told police. "This is an emergency."

Dispatchers for 911 told police Goodman called the emergency number three times and on each occasion was told an officer was en route.

A McDonald's spokeswoman said the company did not immediately have a comment on the incident".

Clearly some people don't know what proper emergencies are.

[Guest]

Exactly.

An emergency is when we've run out of alcohol.

[Guest]

Exactly.

An emergency is when we've run out of alcohol.

Or Pizza......Or Chocolate.......

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'Ninja' kangaroo terrorises family in bed
March 10, 2009
Sydney Morning Herald

Not a bird, nor a plane, but a kangaroo has crashed through the bedroom window of a Canberra family's home before terrorising its unsuspecting occupants.

The family, from the suburb of Garran in Canberra's south, were awoken in the early hours of Sunday morning when their pet dog began barking from the garden.

Moments later, a kangaroo burst through a three-metre high window of the house's master bedroom and onto the bed where Beat Ettlin, his partner Verity Beman and their nine-year-old daughter, Beatrix, lay.

"My initial thought when I was half awake was [that] it's a lunatic ninja coming through the window," Mr Ettlin told The Associated Press.

"It seems about as likely as a kangaroo breaking in."

While the family took refuge under the blankets, the injured animal proceeded to jump on top of them, gouging holes in the furniture and smearing blood all over the walls.

The next thing Mr Ettlin heard was his 10-year-old son Leighton screaming from his bed: "There's a 'roo in my room!"

"I thought, this can be really dangerous for the whole family now," the 42-year-old said.

A chef, originally from the Swiss city of Stans, Mr Ettlin followed the thrashing and bleeding two-metre tall marsupial and wrestled it into a headlock before dragging it down the hallway and out the front door.

Left wearing just his shredded underpants and with scratch marks on his leg and buttocks, Mr Ettlin described himself as "lucky".

"I had just my Bonds undies on. I felt vulnerable," he said.

As quickly as it had come, the kangaroo vanished into a nearby reserve and the family reported the intrusion to police and wildlife authorities.

Ms Beman praised her husband's courage and said she didn't know many men who would go head-to-head with a kangaroo.

"I think he's a hero, a hero in Bonds undies," she said.

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POLICE hunted a female serial killer for years after finding the same DNA at 39 separate crime scenes - only to find the source was actually the factory worker who made the cotton buds used to collect samples.

Germany's Bild newspaper reports hundreds of detectives were on the case after the woman's DNA was found at crime scenes, including seven murders.

At one stage they even offered a $A580,000 reward for information.

After tracking their phantom murderer for two years, officers ran out of ideas last April and launched an internal inquiry.

And yesterday Bernd Meiners, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Saarbrucken, Germany, said: "There are considerable doubts about the existence of the phantom killer. The DNA has instead been linked to investigation materials."

[Guest]

POLICE hunted a female serial killer for years after finding the same DNA at 39 separate crime scenes - only to find the source was actually the factory worker who made the cotton buds used to collect samples.

Germany's Bild newspaper reports hundreds of detectives were on the case after the woman's DNA was found at crime scenes, including seven murders.

At one stage they even offered a $A580,000 reward for information.

After tracking their phantom murderer for two years, officers ran out of ideas last April and launched an internal inquiry.

And yesterday Bernd Meiners, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Saarbrucken, Germany, said: "There are considerable doubts about the existence of the phantom killer. The DNA has instead been linked to investigation materials."

I wasn't even there........

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Now this is definatly police being over-reactive:

"Authorities in Ohio say a US man has been charged with drink driving after crashing his motorised bar stool.

Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.

Kile Wygle, 28, went to hospital with minor injuries. Police say he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he told an officer at the hospital that he had consumed 15 beers.

Wygle told police his motorised bar stool can go up to 38mph.

Wygle has pleaded not guilty and has requested a jury trial"

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A FOOTBALL player in the UK has been cautioned by a referee for breaking wind during a soccer clash.
It was a Sunday pub league game in Manchester where a member of the Chorton Villa side cut ass during a penalty shot that warranted the ire of the referee. The player, unnamed in the report, was assessed a yellow card, and I assume that’s only because referees don’t carry a brown card.

The official deemed the act “ungentlemanly conduct” and booked the player responsible. However Chorlton Villa, who conceded a goal on the second take, went on to win the match 6-4 against local rivals International Manchester FC at Turn Moss in Stretford, Manchester, last Sunday.

Ian Treadwell, manager of Chorlton Villa for the past eight years, said his team had learnt lessons from the game in which three players were dismissed and two were booked.

“They were as shocked as we were as to why. We are waiting for the Football Association to contact us after they have received the report.”

[Guest]

I'm doing a referees course at the moment and it doesn't say anything about that. It amazes me how oversarcastic people can be.

...The player, unnamed in the report, was assessed a yellow card, and I assume that’s only because referees don’t carry a brown card.

Maybe they should have a brown card if that is the rule.