The WiErD News thread

[Drtooth]

We have that Good News thread, and that's alright. But what's better than hearing about WeIrD news?



Let me get the ball rolling with this little tidbit:

Baseball Player injured in freak pillow accident[/quote]

Brandon Inge angles for a lucrative pillow endorsement
By 'Duk
We've heard about players getting hurt while sneezing, while sleepwalking through a nightmare about spiders and after kicking an iron bar stool.

But we had never heard of a pillow-lifting injury in baseball — that is, until Detroit Tigers' everyman Brandon Inge reported an overstuffed owie on Wednesday, earning a feather-paved (and probably overdue) path to the injury list.

The details, from the Free Press:


"It was the stupidest, most freakish thing," Inge said Wednesday, explaining why he had just been placed on the 15-day DL with the pulled side muscle (oblique) he suffered 3 1/2 weeks ago.

"I have a 3-year-old son who sleeps in the bed with my wife and me," Inge said. "I was trying to push the pillow down behind his head (two nights ago), and when I did ... I repopped (the strained muscle).

"You take swings in baseball, and it's not as bad as pushing a pillow down."

Upon hearing this story, manager Jim Leyland said, "That's a first."


It definitely is a first, but I think anyone who's getting up there in age — like myself and Mr. Inge — can relate to feeling a little pain in the obliques or lower back when doing random things.

Heck, while formatting this blog, I threw my back out three different times. I'm guessing a few people probably did while reading it, too. It's a dangerous world out there.

 

[Skye]

Lol, I just read about this, too. I also got caught up on the story this article mentions about the player who hurt himself while sleepwalking through that spider nightmare. Talk about strange and freak accidents! There are some really weird ways to injure ourselves out there!

 

[redBoobergurl]

Ooh fun! My husband is always finding weird news stories, I'll have to get him to come up with a few!

 

[Ilikemuppets]

How very appropriate and fitting for a Muppet forum. Well, at least off-beat news anyway.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Man, I've played operation before but whaaaa? It's a vomiting slime dog-Er, I mean a shockingly sick puppy. It's a game. Caution, may find disgusting. It's a Japaneses kids game. They call it Operation for a new generation. You have to pick the germs out of the green snot in the bogs mouth and it you touch the slime inside you tung gets shocked. Ouch!

http://gizmodo.com/5017843/shocking-sick-puppy-is-operation-for-a-new-generation

 

[Drtooth]

Another great toy from Japan I'll have to try and import someday.

Trust me. in a country where kids sit down to BOTH a robotic futuristic cat with a forth dimentional pocket for futuristic technonlogy, and a super hero who's head is a pastry (and he lets passersby eat it), that's not the weirdest thing you'd ever see.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Man flys from Organ to Idaho using chair, baloons GPS and Kool-Aid

I never knew things like this was even possible.


http://gizmodo.com/5022333/better+p...-go-where-no-brazilian-priest-has-gone-before

The original guy is still missing.
http://gizmodo.com/5022283/flying-p...atlantic-god-positioning-system-still-missing

 

[kermiegirl]

Okay, I just saw this on the news today and I think it's pretty neat and disturbing at the same time. I found the same story on the internet. Here it is:
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-07292008-1569607.html

 

[Ilikemuppets]

That is a kind of sweet story.

 

[Skye]

Oh wow! Talk about a surprise, lol. What a neat story!