Looking for some bizarre, but true stories? Go to www.newsoftheweird.com to read articles and interviews that make you second-guess reality. The author, Chuck Shepherd, says these stories are even weirder than made up one. He now has a list of things that arent even weird even more because they happen so often. Here are the top ten no longer weird stories:

1. an old, widely-advertised phone-sex number is reassigned to a church/charity

2. suspicious package thought to be a bomb, turns out to be something stupid

3. robber leaves his ID [wallet or appointment card for probation officer or etc.] at the scene

4. peace/brotherhood conference erupts into violence

5. robber on getaway accidentally hails unmarked police car

6. political candidate dies but still wins the election

7. family thinks he's dead, but he's not and attends his own funeral

8. hunters shoot each other

9. funeral home owner neglects/mixes up bodies

10. "victimized" drug buyer complains to police that someone sold him weak or bogus drugs.

 

There are more than 60 other categories that are so stupid, but common, that they dont constitute being described as weird. That said, what is weird these days? Chuck says Researchers recently revealed that they had observed monkeys (1) planning future combat and (2) perhaps teaching their young to floss. A researcher from Sweden's Lund University, writing in the journal Current Biology, described a daily ritual of a 30-year-old chimpanzee that loathes his human visitors at a zoo north of Stockholm and thus begins every morning by roaming his enclosure to collect stones and place them strategically in handy piles for subsequently hurling at irksome visitors. [Washington Post, 3-10-09]

 

Or how about this one In Lonnell Worthy's lawsuit against Bank of America, filed in November in California, Worthy values his now-ruined iPod playlist at $1 trillion. [Worthy v. Bank of America, CGC-08-482136 (11-20-08)] Or this one in December, Idaho State University sent certified-mail letters to its adjunct faculty to disclose (as required by law) that some of them would soon be laid off. However, only the first-class mail fee was billed to the university, leaving each professor to pay on receipt the certified-mail surcharge in order to find out what the university would send them that was so important. (The Idaho State Journal reported that it was the Postal Service's error.) [The Olympian, 12-25-08]

 

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