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Bungleau 06-05-2008 04:43 PM
Weird News... June 08
 
Taking a page from Arvon's book... here's something I found *ahem* interesting...

*edit* Feel free to comment, folks... part of the fun of finding these bizarre things is seeing other people's thoughts... even Variol's ;)

From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2>Dutch man injures posterior in mooning accident</h2>Wed Jun 4, 1:11 AM ET

UTRECHT, Netherlands - Utrecht police say a 21-year-old Dutch man is recovering after a "mooning" that went horribly wrong.

A police statement says the man and two others had run down a street in Utrecht with their pants pulled down in the back "for a joke."

It says that at one point the 21-year-old "pushed his behind against the window of a restaurant" that broke and resulted in "deep wounds to his derriere."

The statement released Tuesday says police detained the three men after the incident Sunday morning. But the cafe owner decided not to press charges after the men agreed to pay for the broken window.

The injured man was treated for his injuries at a nearby hospital.
I'm sure (as usual) that alcohol was involved... but can you imagine having to explain that you broke a window with your butt cheeks? That's almost as bad as having to admit you knocked in the Stanley Cup-winning goal by sitting on it... that is, the winning goal for the other team!

Bungleau 06-05-2008 04:50 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2> Japan man discovers woman living in his closet</h2>Fri May 30, 1:35 PM ET

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man who was mystified when food kept disappearing from his kitchen, set up a hidden camera and found an unknown woman living secretly in his closet, Japanese media said Friday.

The 57-year-old unemployed man of Fukuoka in southern Japan called police Wednesday when the camera sent pictures to his mobile phone of an intruder in his home while he was out on Wednesday, the Asahi newspaper said on its Website.

Officers rushed to the house and found a 58-year-old unemployed woman hiding in an unused closet, where she had secreted a mattress and plastic drink bottles, the Asahi said. Police suspect she may have been there for several months, the paper said.

"I didn't have anywhere to live," the Nikkan Sports tabloid quoted the woman as telling police.

Local police confirmed that they had arrested a woman for trespassing, but would not comment further on the case.

(Reporting by Isabel Reynolds; Editing by David Fox)
Several months??? Okay, I may not be the most observant guy in the world, but I'm thinking that somewhere along the way, she *had* to have left a couple more clues...

Bungleau 06-05-2008 10:26 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2> Man sets blaze while trying to kill pesky bees</h2>Thu Jun 5, 6:49 PM ET

MOBILE, Ala. - Joshua Mullen just wanted to kill the bees swarming around his utility shed. When Mullen, 26, walked away from the gasoline-soaked towels he was using, he heard a "whoosh" and turned around to see the shed in flames that spread to his rented home and wound up causing some $80,000 in damage.

"There were no injuries, unless you count the bees," Mobile Fire-Rescue spokesman Steve Huffman said.

Huffman said the fire appears to have started when the pilot light of a hot-water heater in the shed ignited fumes from the gas.

Mullen, who rented the home after his Biloxi, Miss., residence was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, said he had poured gas on some towels the bees were swarming around and then walked away to pick up some trash in the yard.

He managed to get his fiancee and 1-year-old daughter safely out of the house. The blaze was hot enough that it melted some plastic blinds through a closed window on a neighbor's house.

A trained mechanic, Mullen said he has been trained on gasoline flash points and flammability but didn't expect the gas to put off enough fumes to catch fire.

"Looking at all this, there might have been a better way," Mullen said while a few surviving bees buzzed around the ashes of the shed. "It was a mistake. I wish I hadn't done it, but I did."
My thoughts...
  • Trained mechanic, eh? I want to know where he works... so I can go elsewhere.
  • Whoever did the training should refund his money
  • I do believe that an open flame (aka pilot light) will meet or exceed the flash point for gasoline any day, unless you're in the middle of a hurricane or some such.
  • Rented home, eh? Betcha he's looking for a new home soon... I'd boot him as a renter for general stupidity, if I could find a legal way to do it. Otherwise, I'd make sure it'd be cheaper for him to live anywhere else...

Bungleau 06-06-2008 05:26 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2> Man accused of leaving kids to pick wild asparagus</h2>SPENCER, Iowa - A northwest Iowa man accused of leaving two children in his car while he picked wild asparagus along a busy highway south of Spencer has been charged with child endangerment. The Clay County sheriff's office says the man was arrested Wednesday night after a passer-by spotted the children.

Authorities says the man's 5-year-old niece was outside the car crying when the passer-by stopped to help. The man's 2-year-old son was asleep in the back seat.

Chief Deputy Duane Bates said the man was in a ditch about a half mile from the car. He didn't have any wild asparagus when the deputy found him.

After searching his vehicle, Bates says deputies found marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

The man, who also was charged with drug possession, was released from the county jail after posting bond.
I just double-checked... I've been to southwest Iowa, and unless there's a lot more happening in the northwest, picking asparagus could be considered a really good time ;) However, stopping to pick it and leaving both your kids and your *ahem* paraphernalia in the car...? Methinks there's a piece missing in this story, about the substances he'd consumed beforehand...

VulcanRider 06-08-2008 08:52 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
Quote:
June 7, 2008, 7:57PM
Man dies after jumping from plane with no parachute

Associated Press

DUANESBURG, N.Y. — A 29-year-old man leaped out of a plane at 10,000 feet with a camera but no parachute Saturday. His body was found next to a house with a damaged roof, police said.

Sloan Carafello of Schenectady, who was observing on the flight, followed an instructor, student and videographer out the door, wearing no skydiving gear, officials said.

Police said they did not suspect foul play but would not elaborate.

Robert Rawlins, pilot and owner of the Duanesburg Skydiving Club, said he was flying the single-engine plane and had begun to close the door when Carafello jumped.

His body was found next to a house west of Albany.
And the global average for IQ points goes up by a fraction...

Variol (Farseer) Elmwood 06-08-2008 09:09 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
I think he should go with the glass from other stupid finding the other day!

If it stops bricks it should stop....

Bungleau 06-16-2008 07:32 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Reuters Weird News...

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<h2>Guy kidnaps ex-girlfriend to get ironing done</h2>
Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:16pm EDT

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.

The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her, they said.

Police arrived at his house after being tipped off by a friend of the woman who watched the scene at the pub.

The man, who was apparently furious at his ex-girlfriend for leaving him, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, police said.

(Writing by Deepa Babington)
Now, I don't like ironing much either, but that's *not* the best way to get out of it!

Bungleau 06-16-2008 07:40 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Gizmodo... An RFID Robotic chair...



Okay... your thoughts. Was that real, or did it just look very claymation-like? I'm not sure I'd like a chair running around after me... but the idea is pretty interesting. What else could you do with it?

Bungleau 06-19-2008 03:23 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From MSNBC Weird News...

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<h2> Enema monument unveiled in Russian resort</h2><h4>Spa director: 'An enema is almost a symbol of our region'</h4>Nurses posing near a monument to enemas at Mashuk Akva-Term Sanatorium in the town of Zheleznovodsk, Russian Caucasus Mountains region. The bronze syringe bulb weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels.

MOSCOW - A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk.

The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa's director said Thursday.

"There is no kitsch or obscenity, it is a successful work of art," Alexander Kharchenko told The Associated Press. "An enema is almost a symbol of our region."

The Caucasus Mountains region is known for dozens of spas where enemas with water from mineral springs are routinely administered to treat digestive and other complaints.

Kharchenko, 50, said the monument cost $42,000 and was installed in a square in front of his spa on Wednesday. A banner declaring: "Let's beat constipation and sloppiness with enemas" — an allusion to a line from "The Twelve Chairs," a famous Soviet film comedy — was posted on one of the spa's walls.

Sculptor Svetlana Avakina said she designed the 5-foot-high monument with "irony and humor" and modeled the angels on those in works by Italian Renaissance painter Alessandro Botticelli.

"This device is eternal, it will never change," she told the AP. "We could promote this brand, turn it into a franchise with souvenirs and awards for medical doctors."

Dozens of monuments dedicated to characters from tall tales and popular jokes have been erected in post-Soviet Russia.
Sorry... I have nothing to say on this one except... those crazy Russians! Too much time, too much vodka, too little supervision...

Bungleau 06-19-2008 04:53 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 


Okay... that kid (the target) has got to be the stupidest person I've ever seen, with the possible exception of the guy I worked with who stuck his hand into a running garbage disposal. With a little better aim, they could have removed him from the gene pool...

Bungleau 06-19-2008 10:40 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2> Thief breaks into donation box, steals fake money</h2>Thu Jun 19, 3:00 PM ET

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A thief bashed the plastic glass to get to the $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills inside the Drop-A-Note donation box in the Kentucky Theatre's lobby. But all they probably got were fistfuls of worthless paper, fake bills layered inside to hide the real cash.

"It's sad when idiots can't tell fake money from the real thing," said Steve Brown, president of Kentucky's Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ Project, whose group is using the proceeds from the box to restore a Wurlitzer organ and return it to Kentucky.

The fake bills were black and white and didn't even have serial numbers, Brown said.

The thief, who struck early June 2, made off with little or no money because the box had been emptied that weekend, Brown said.

Since the box was installed at the Kentucky Theatre seven years ago, thieves have periodically loosened the screws, lifted the cover and taken money out, Brown said, probably stealing about $400 in that time.

New, vandal-proof screws that had been installed did their job by being difficult to unscrew. But the thief got into the box this time by smashing in the glass in with a heavy hammer or mallet, Brown said.

The Drop-A-Note box, which will cost $100 to $200 to repair, will be back in the Kentucky Theatre's lobby in a week or two.
___
Information from: Lexington Herald-Leader, http://www.kentucky.com
Felix, Dron, Ivelliis... please tell me this is from some *other* part of Kentucky...

Bungleau 06-19-2008 10:44 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From The Dallas Morning News...

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<h2>Man accidentally kills himself while trying to rob a Grand Prairie home</h2>03:17 PM CDT on Wednesday, June 18, 2008

By DAN X. McGRAW / The Dallas Morning News

A 19-year-old man accidentally shot and killed himself Tuesday morning while he was attempting to rob a Grand Prairie home, authorities said.

Cameron Sands, 19, of Fort Worth kicked in the door of the house and then shot himself in the stomach as he pulled a gun out of his pants to shoot the homeowner, Grand Prairie police said. The homeowner was not injured.

After Mr. Sands shot himself, he dropped the gun and ran out of the home. Police found his body around 5:30 a.m. in the driveway of the home in the 2800 block Garden Grove Road, said Lt. John Brimmer, a Grand Prairie police spokesman.

“This is the first that I’ve heard of a robbery suspect killing himself as he is drawing a gun out of his waist band,” Lt. Brimmer said. “The criminal evidence points to that. It certainly isn’t common.”

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner has ruled the death an accident.
Hmmm... I think the ME had to call it an accident because he can't really say "death from stupidity", can he? I mean, and keep his job for next year...

Oh, almost forgot.... definite Darwin nominee. At least, assuming he hasn't left his genes in the gene pool yet...

Bungleau 06-20-2008 11:47 AM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 


Toilet paper wedding dresses... who woulda thunk it?

Note the clip ends halfway through...

Bungleau 06-20-2008 10:33 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2> New York man accused of hiding in woman's couch</h2>Fri Jun 20, 7:00 PM ET
NEWBURGH, N.Y. - Police say a New York man cut a hole in a woman's couch and hid in the carved-out space until she came home. Newburgh police said the woman sat on the couch Wednesday evening and felt a bump in the cushions move.

She jumped up and David Joe Limones emerged from his hiding place, knocking a cell phone out of her hand.

The woman was on the phone with a friend when she entered her apartment because she had filed an earlier complaint against Limones and was worried he might be there. Police said she had asked the friend to stay on the line and call police if something went wrong.

When officers arrived, they found Limones and the 22-year-old woman arguing on the apartment's balcony.

Limones, 27, faces burglary and other charges. He is being held on $20,000 bail.

County officials, including those at the public defenders office and the sheriff's department, were unable to provide the name of Limones' lawyer.
Okay... I know love (and the end of love) makes you do stupid things, but cutting a hole in the couch you could hide in? Unless you're Vern Troyer, that's not remotely plausible.
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Harkoliar 06-22-2008 06:31 AM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bungleau (Post 1207584)
From The Dallas Morning News...



Hmmm... I think the ME had to call it an accident because he can't really say "death from stupidity", can he? I mean, and keep his job for next year...

Oh, almost forgot.... definite Darwin nominee. At least, assuming he hasn't left his genes in the gene pool yet...
now that is wierd .. and stupid /shakes head

VulcanRider 06-23-2008 07:46 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
Female Hiker Stranded in Alps, Removes Bra, Rescued in Minutes

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BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern Germany said Monday.

Berchtesgaden police officer Lorenz Rasp said that he helped lift 24-year-old Jessica Bruinsma of Colorado to safety by helicopter on Thursday after she attracted the attention of lumberjacks by attaching her sports bra to a cable used to move timber down the mountain.

"She's a very smart girl, and she acted very resourcefully," said Rasp. "She kept her shirt and jacket for warmth, but thought the sports bra could work as a signal."

An Alpine rescue team, including five helicopters and 80 emergency workers, had been searching for Bruinsma since she went missing June 16 after losing her way in bad weather while hiking with a friend near the Austrian border.

She fell 16.4 feet to a rocky overhang, where she spent the next 70 hours on the narrow ledge, sustained by water that she found by breaking into a supply box on the ledge.

She badly bruised a leg and dislocated a shoulder in the fall, and the cliff was too isolated for her to climb free, Rasp said.

Rasp said the cable was only within reach because the timber transport system was out of service. When a repairman restored the line on Thursday, the cable car started moving up the mountain and Bruinsma's bra reached the worker at the base. He knew of the missing hiker and immediately called police.

Rasp said his team followed the cable line up the cliff side in a helicopter and found Bruinsma standing on the ledge, waving with her good arm. After circling once, they lowered a winch to Bruinsma and lifted her aboard.

"She did so well because she is in very good shape," Rasp said. "She has been training for a marathon -- her goal is to finish in 3 hours and 10 minutes."

Bruinsma told Rasp that she has scrapped plans to stay in Berchtesgaden to learn German and plans to return home to Colorado Springs with her parents. He said she still plans to run the marathon, if she recovers in time to keep training.

Bungleau 06-26-2008 11:02 AM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2> Kid golfers, strippers share golf course</h2>BROOMFIELD, Colo. - A close encounter between flirtatious strippers and children playing in a golf tournament was the result of "mistiming," golf course officials said Tuesday as they apologized to parents.

The scantily clad women spilled out of a limousine as the youngsters were finishing their game as part of the Gold Crown Junior Golf Association tournament Monday. Tournament officials said they were not warned the strippers would be arriving before the end of the game for children, who ranged in age from 7 to 12.

The women were part of Shotgun Willie's Charity Golf Tournament to benefit breast cancer. The strippers were to serve as caddies to patron's of the strip club. A club manager said there were 144 golfers and 70 caddies.

A woman told KUSA-TV the event drew curious questions from her children, who asked her why the men joining the strippers had water guns and why the women wore only their underwear. KUSA said the woman declined to be identified.

Eagle Trace Golf Course manager Evelyn Koch says the women were forbidden from going topless and that they were just flirting with the men.

"I cannot tell you the girls didn't flash out there but it wasn't a free-for-all," Koch said. She said the Shotgun Willie's crowd and the young golfers had to share the same clubhouse while the children had lunch because their tournament started later than expected.

Still, she said the Broomfield golf course was sorry children were present when the strippers arrived.

Golf course instructor Dustin Moser said some of the strippers "got a little out of control" but that it happened after the children had left.
I guess with Tiger Woods out for the season, the PGA was trying to find *something* to interest kids in golf... pity, really... since I went to an all-boys high school, this kind of thing happening just *once* would have been enough to keep the golf team fully stocked for years...

Bungleau 06-26-2008 11:03 AM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2> Computer error prices gas at $1.40 at Ohio station</h2>CINCINNATI - A computer error caused a Cincinnati area service station to sell gas for $1.40 instead of $4.10, leading to a major traffic jam. Vehicles clogged the area around a Marathon station in suburban Sycamore Township while the bargain was available for roughly three hours on Tuesday, until Hamilton County sheriff's deputies persuaded the station to shut down.

Tiffany Smith waited in line for two hours to take advantage of the deal. She says these days, her family has to decide between buying food or buying gas, and the fuel price glitch would allow her to do both.

The store clerk told WKRC-TV he didn't know how to fix the problem and was having trouble reaching his store manager.
'Round here, if this were to happen the gas station owner would be complaining about the dishonesty of his customers, rather than the problems with his computers. Still... I wish I hadn't missed it.

Bungleau 06-26-2008 11:07 AM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2>Crocodile welcomed into Australian pub by drinkers</h2>Thu Jun 26, 7:33 AM ET
DARWIN, Australia - Drinkers at an Outback watering hole may have wondered if perhaps they'd had one too many when they were greeted by a crocodile at the pub's door.

But being good hosts, they did the only polite thing and invited him inside.

The saltwater croc was just 2 feet long and more a curiosity than a threat to drinkers at the Noonamah Tavern on Sunday. The aggressive hunters can grow to more than 16 feet and have been known to attack people.

Barmaid Sarah Sparre said Thursday that three patrons spotted the creature outside the pub, grabbed it and brought it inside.

"You could say we were a bit surprised," Sparre said. "He was pretty complacent, easygoing. But we weren't going to test him out."

The three men taped up its mouth, held it up for a round of photos, then put it in a box near the bar.

Sparre said the croc may have escaped from a farm for the animals that was several miles away. Wildlife officials took the crocodile to the farm.

Noonamah boasts little more than a gas station and a bar on the main north-south highway through Australia, about 25 miles from the Northern Territory capital of Darwin.

Saltwater crocodiles, once hunted to near extinction by skinners, have flourished in Australia's tropical north since they became a protected species in the 1970s.
Further proof that no one really parties harder than an Aussie... they don't care if you'd rather eat them or rip them limb from limb, just so long as the next shout is on you...

Bungleau 06-26-2008 10:30 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2> Michigan man accused of fork, chicken attacks</h2>JACKSON, Mich. - A man was accused of stabbing his mother with a fork and assaulting a second woman with 10 pounds of frozen chicken.

Frederick Duane McKaney, 40, of Ypsilanti, was arraigned Wednesday in 12th District Court in Jackson. He faces two felony assault charges as well as one count of assault and battery and one count of resisting an officer.

Prosecutors said McKaney stabbed his mother in the back of the neck with a fork Monday night.

About an hour later, he hit a woman in the head with a plastic bag of frozen chicken. They had exchanged rude words while he rode his bicycle. She needed five surgical staples to close her wound.

McKaney has no attorney on record with the court.

A pre-exam conference is scheduled for July 2.
Hmmm... seems like there ought to be a "You might be a redneck" punchline coming up, but sadly, that part of Michigan is not one I'd associate with redneck-type behavior.

Aside from that, just the thought of stabbing your mother with a fork and beating someone else up with a chicken just hits a morbidly humorous side for me...

thecarrotdude 06-27-2008 12:52 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
what more can you expect from ypsilantians

Bungleau 06-27-2008 04:15 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2>Manure thief falls into dung, flees naked</h2>BERLIN (Reuters) A woman trying to make "manure bombs" using stockings, slipped into a slurry tank and fled the scene naked, German police said Friday.

Two women entered a farm in the northern village of Eberholzen Wednesday evening and started to fill the stockings with manure.

"One of them slipped into the manure tank, right into the cow muck," said a spokesman for local police. "The other one helped her out. We found their clothes in a field. One seems to have run off completely naked, the other in her underwear."

Police said it was unclear what the women had intended to do with the "manure bombs," but added the incident could be linked to victory celebrations surrounding the Euro 2008 semi-finals on Wednesday evening, when Germany beat Turkey 3-2.

"The women can get their clothes back from the local police station -- unwashed," the spokesman added.

(Reporting by Kerstin Gehmlich; Editing by Matthew Jones)
I think I'd just write those clothes off, frankly... and do you think someone said "oh, $h!+" when it happened?

Unglaublich Verwustung 06-27-2008 06:11 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
In a pickle or just in trouble over a pickle? They sound more like my mother's, hers can choke a man at twenty paces...

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Spluttering burglar's gherkin nightmare
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Pickles: dangerous things A burglar in Poland who stole a dozen jars of home-made pickles was caught after choking on his ill-gotten gherkins.

Piotr Gorski was found spluttering and blue in the face just two streets away from the crime scene.

Police had to hit him on the back to dislodge the vegetable before arresting him.

Gorski, from Gliwice, said: 'I just couldn't resist having a quick snack.'

Yorick 06-29-2008 06:49 AM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bungleau (Post 1207548)


Okay... that kid (the target) has got to be the stupidest person I've ever seen, with the possible exception of the guy I worked with who stuck his hand into a running garbage disposal. With a little better aim, they could have removed him from the gene pool...
Stupid beyond words....

Bungleau 06-30-2008 02:00 PM
Re: Weird News... June 08
 
From Yahoo Weird News...

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<h2> British student gets credit for expletive on exam</h2>LONDON - A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly.

The Times newspaper on Monday quoted examiner Peter Buckroyd as saying he gave the student — who wrote an expletive starting with f, followed by the word "off" — two points out of a possible 27 for the English paper.

"It would be wicked to give it zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for, like conveying some meaning and some spelling," Buckroyd was quoted as saying.

"It's better than someone that doesn't write anything at all."

Buckroyd said the student would have received a higher mark if the phrase had been punctuated.

Buckroyd is a senior examiner for the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, one of several bodies that grade British high school exams.

He said the expletive was used in 2006 by a student in response to the question: "Describe the room you are sitting in."

The alliance confirmed the newspaper's story was accurate, but said Buckroyd's decision to award the student marks was not official policy.

"The example cited was unique in the experience of the senior examiner concerned and was used in a pre-training session to emphasize the importance of adhering to the mark scheme: i.e. if a candidate makes any sort of response to a question then it must be at least given consideration to be awarded a mark," the company said in a statement.

It said obscenities on exam papers "should either be disregarded, or action will be taken against the candidate, depending on the seriousness of the case."
Hmmm... well, the examiner certainly has a sense of humor (or is that humour? ;) ).... perhaps the student can count on that as he practices for his career saying, "Would you like chips with that?"


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