The most weird or stupid news story you heard today.

[IlovemyAKA]

Originally Posted by court4short

I searched the thread for "leprechaun" and it didn't yield any results, so I'm assuming that this hasn't been mentioned yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8

Unfortunately, this is NOT a joke. This was aired on a local news channel. But it's quite hilarious.

Seriously? It does look like a joke. lol

[DaemonSeid]

PARIS (Reuters) – A Russian woman frustrated at failing to obtain French nationality hurled a ceramic cup at the Mona Lisa but did not damage Leonardo da Vinci's famed portrait, a spokesman for the Louvre Museum said on Tuesday.

The attack happened on August 2 and the unnamed assailant was immediately arrested.

"The woman threw an empty cup at the Mona Lisa, but there was no damage as the cup smashed when it hit the screen protecting the painting," said Louvre spokesman David Madec.

"She was visibly upset," he added, saying she had subsequently undergone psychiatric testing.

The Mona Lisa, which is protected by a bullet-proof screen, is one of the most prized works in the Louvre and was seen by some 8.5 million visitors last year.

The woman had hidden the ceramic cup in a bag and later told police she had been upset because she had not been granted French nationality. She has since been released, but faces legal action from the Louvre.


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[AOII_LB93]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

PARIS (Reuters) – A Russian woman frustrated at failing to obtain French nationality hurled a ceramic cup at the Mona Lisa but did not damage Leonardo da Vinci's famed portrait, a spokesman for the Louvre Museum said on Tuesday.

The attack happened on August 2 and the unnamed assailant was immediately arrested.

"The woman threw an empty cup at the Mona Lisa, but there was no damage as the cup smashed when it hit the screen protecting the painting," said Louvre spokesman David Madec.

"She was visibly upset," he added, saying she had subsequently undergone psychiatric testing.

The Mona Lisa, which is protected by a bullet-proof screen, is one of the most prized works in the Louvre and was seen by some 8.5 million visitors last year.

The woman had hidden the ceramic cup in a bag and later told police she had been upset because she had not been granted French nationality. She has since been released, but faces legal action from the Louvre.


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I was going to say, you'd have to be pretty damn skilled to get at the painting itself, it's behind retarded amounts of BP glass and you can't even get all that close to the glass.

Random thought process though....I didn't get French citizenship so I'm going to throw a mug at the Mona Lisa? Why not throw a mug at the Eiffel Tower or Arc de Triomphe?

[knight_shadow]

ASUNCION, Paraguay - A baby boy born 16 weeks prematurely was declared dead by doctors at a hospital in Paraguay only to wake up in time for his funeral wake hours later.

Dr. Ernesto Weber, head of pediatric care at the state-run hospital in the capital of Asuncion, said the baby weighed just 500 grams when he was born.

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[RaggedyAnn]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

ASUNCION, Paraguay - A baby boy born 16 weeks prematurely was declared dead by doctors at a hospital in Paraguay only to wake up in time for his funeral wake hours later.

Dr. Ernesto Weber, head of pediatric care at the state-run hospital in the capital of Asuncion, said the baby weighed just 500 grams when he was born.

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Now that is nothing short of amazing.

[KSigkid]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4392828

I didn't think this deserved a thread of its own but...wow.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4392828

I didn't think this deserved a thread of its own but...wow.

I read that, and I was so confused about her using insurance for an abortion. I've never heard of any insurance company covering an elective one (a medical one is usually covered and coded differently). $3,000 dollars sounds like a lot too, I mean if she went to a private hospital and was put under, sure, but Planned Parenthood doesn't charge that much.

[AOII_LB93]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

ASUNCION, Paraguay - A baby boy born 16 weeks prematurely was declared dead by doctors at a hospital in Paraguay only to wake up in time for his funeral wake hours later.

Dr. Ernesto Weber, head of pediatric care at the state-run hospital in the capital of Asuncion, said the baby weighed just 500 grams when he was born.

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Holy crap!

[DaemonSeid]

Is South African runner a man or woman??

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

I read that, and I was so confused about her using insurance for an abortion. I've never heard of any insurance company covering an elective one (a medical one is usually covered and coded differently). $3,000 dollars sounds like a lot too, I mean if she went to a private hospital and was put under, sure, but Planned Parenthood doesn't charge that much.

I was confused about that as well. I guess if Pitino was paying for it she might have wanted to go to a more state-of-the-art facility. It's just a strange story all around.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

I read that, and I was so confused about her using insurance for an abortion. I've never heard of any insurance company covering an elective one (a medical one is usually covered and coded differently). $3,000 dollars sounds like a lot too, I mean if she went to a private hospital and was put under, sure, but Planned Parenthood doesn't charge that much.

Even if we ignore the fact that the abortion portion of the story may well have been pure fiction, the $3k amount would make for a tidy payoff above and beyond the few hundo the abortion would cost . . . and the "health insurance" portion gives plausible deniability for a devout Catholic in the public eye.

[knight_shadow]

NEW YORK – Jessica Biel is the most dangerous celebrity on the Web.

Security technology company McAfee Inc. on Tuesday reported that searches for the 27-year-old actress are more likely to lead to online threats such as spyware and viruses than searches for any other celebrity.

McAfee said fans searching for the actress have a one-in-five chance of ending up at a Web site designed to damage one's computer. Its the third annual report on the subject from McAfee, which last year found that Brad Pitt was the "most dangerous" celeb online.

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[DaemonSeid]

Space...it has an odor

[DaemonSeid]

Mom finds, seduces and rapes long lost son

Michigan police say a 35-year-old mother used the Internet to track down the son she gave up for adoption a decade ago, seducing and raping the teenage boy when she found him after an online search.

Aimee Louise Sword of Waterford Township, near Detroit, was arraigned this week on three charges of criminal sexual conduct for the alleged rape of her biological son, whom she put up for adoption more than 10 years ago, MyFOXDetroit reported.

Prosecutors say the boy is still a minor, but won't disclose whether he knew the woman was his mother — a situation that has horrified mental health experts who are calling the case "an abomination."

"I don't think I've heard of another case like this in my career," said Dr. Gerald Shiener, chief of Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry at Sinai Grace Hospital in Detroit.

"Our first reaction to hearing about something like this is that this is every man's nightmare. It's an abomination," he told MyFOXDetroit.

"I'm at a loss for words because it's something that we consider to be so out of the normal, so prohibited in every culture that it unnerves every man just to think about it."

[knight_shadow]

^^^ That's disgusting.