News of the Weird

Based on the title of this post you may be thinking you’re going to get a summary of my life over the last week… or just my dreams over the last week, I have definitely had some weird ones. But no, this post is actually today’s news of the weird. It’s been a good past few days for the “weird” (I should know) so I thought I’d share some of today’s headlines. They gave me quite a chuckle!

A Sandy SUV owner found something illegal hiding in his gas tank and he says he has no idea how it got there.
The man says he was having some problems with his 2009 Nissan Armada. The gas gauge was always stuck on half full.
Finally on Monday a mechanic pulled the entire gas tank and discovered nearly 35 pounds of marijuana in bags, worth about $35,000.
Police say the drugs may have been in the car for several months – the vehicle has had several owners and was even a rental car at one point.

**Aaaagh, that's where I left it!**

**Speaking of “You are a murderer of love”…**

Couples have been banned from kissing at a railway station in Cheshire, England. The local chamber of commerce suggested the romance-free zone because it hopes to stop commuters from missing their trains and holding up traffic. If people want to smooch they will have to do it in the designated kissing area situated nearby.

**Just one question: Who gets to enforce this rule? And how awkward is that job going to be?!**

**This could also be considered a murderer of love…**

An Indian grocer is aiming to get his ear hair as long as possible.
The grocer’s hair now stands (**really? It stands??**) at about 10 inches long and he was officially recognized by Guinness in 2003 as having the longest ear hair in the world.
The 58-year-old says the hair is a symbol of luck and prosperity and he has been growing it since he was 19 and has never cut it.
He says he maintains the hair with a specially prepared blend of herbal shampoo.
His wife has asked him to cut it but he says “she has allowed me to keep it because it is a source of pride to me”.

**Now that’s “Wuv, twu wuv”!**

A burglar who stole a DVD player in China was arrested when he went back for the remote. **Ah, the burglar must’ve been a man!**
The 25-year-old broke into a house in December. But he soon realized he had forgotten the remote control so he went back to get the remote a month later.
**The universal remote must not have worked.**
However the second time around the burglar found the apartment’s owner inside watching television and was forced to admit he had already been in the man’s apartment once before.
The thief was allowed to go free though because police decided the DVD player, worth about $150, was not valuable enough for them to press charges.

**That’s just stupidity in action right there!**

**And now, how the bad economy can impact your love life… lovers beware!**

A married Chinese tycoon who could no longer afford to support his five mistresses during the economic slowdown held a contest to decide which one to keep. All five of Mr. Fan’s mistresses had learned of each others’ existence and they lived in rent-free apartments and were given an allowance of almost $1,000.
Fan didn’t inform the women of his plans to eliminate them and arranged a private contest consisting of a “looks” round, a speech round and a drinking competition. Unfortunately one of the mistresses, in a fit of anger after being eliminated, drove Fan and the four other women off a mountain road, killing herself and injuring the others.
Fan’s wife has now reportedly left him and so have the other mistresses.

**Oh, there are SO many things I could say about this one, including the cost of a 6-woman valentine’s day and the stupidity of giving the keys to the angry woman who just lost her sugar daddy but I’ll refrain. Kind of.**