The WTF News Files

[jollyjacktar]

Sort of like an amnesty box outside the range...

I've heard the term "Milkman's Son" but never "Fireman's"... interesting thought.  Must be all the pole dancing they do.  >

 

[George Wallace]

Food for thought:

It is true:

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html

 

[cupper]

Someone has been channeling his inner Sarah Palin again.  [

 

[Pusser]

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/insight/police-called-after-student-tries-to-pay-for-lunch-with-seldom-used-us-2-bill-184943790.html

You would think that somebody in the crowd would know that the US actually does issue a $2 bill...

 

[cupper]

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/insight/police-called-after-student-tries-to-pay-for-lunch-with-seldom-used-us-2-bill-184943790.html

You would think that somebody in the crowd would know that the US actually does issue a $2 bill...

They are rare. I've seen only two in the 14+ years I've lived here. One was in a museum display.

Not quite as rare are the $1 coins. They sometimes show up when you get change back from a vending machine. 

 

[George Wallace]

They are rare. I've seen only two in the 14+ years I've lived here. One was in a museum display.

Not quite as rare are the $1 coins. They sometimes show up when you get change back from a vending machine.

I have a couple of the $2 bills, and love getting the $1 coins back in change as they are the same size as Quarters.  [

 

[Pusser]

They are rare. I've seen only two in the 14+ years I've lived here. One was in a museum display.

Not quite as rare are the $1 coins. They sometimes show up when you get change back from a vending machine.

I know they're rare.  They're actually considered bad luck in many places, except those with $2 betting at the racetrack.  Nevertheless, I would think within a group of people, including teachers and police officers, that at least ONE of them would know about American $2 bills.  Fifty cent pieces are rare in Canada, but I don't imagine the police would be called if a kid tried to use one.

 

[mariomike]

Mercy Killing? Euthanasia?
http://army.ca/forums/threads/91849.50.html
3 pages.
Is locked, so posting it here, ( please move if it belongs there ).

Suffering from PTSD resulting from sexual abuse? Dutch doctors will euthanize you.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dutch-doctors-kill-sex-abuse-victim-because-of-incurable-mental-suffering
The Dutch decriminalization has been expanded since 2002 to include the mentally ill and those suffering from dementia. Children as young as 12 years old can request euthanasia with the support of their parents, and the Dutch Pediatric Association is publicly advocating the elimination of any minimum age to request it. More than 5,000 people are killed by their physicians or commit suicide with their help every year, according to official statistics.

"Paging Dr. Kevorkian..."

 

[jollyjacktar]

Stoned Welsh Sheep

 

[cupper]

Someone never learned queue etiquette.  :facepalm:

Although I'm not surprised.

Cars crash in attempt to squeeze through NH toll lane at same time
No injuries were reported

http://www.wmtw.com/news/cars-crash-in-attempt-to-squeeze-through-nh-toll-lane-at-same-time/39844188

BEDFORD, N.H. —Two cars crashed into one another Tuesday after trying to squeeze through the same lane at a New Hampshire toll plaza.

Police said the crash happened on the Everett Turnkpike at the Bedford toll plaza.

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation said the accident should serve as a reminder that only one vehicle can pass through a toll lane.

No one was injured as a result of the incident.

The crash is under investigation.

 

[jollyjacktar]

A Kangaroo and a Pig are apparently in a relationship down under. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3634548/Kangaroo-photographed-having-sex-pig-Northern-Territory.html

 

[Loachman]

No mention of the voyeuristic duck...

 

[GAP]

No mention of the voyeuristic duck...

Maybe it's waiting until it gets bigger...... ;D

 

[Colin Parkinson]

The goose is secretly making videos and uploading them and monetizing them on Pornhub.

 

[Rifleman62]

Sent by a 1950's RCN Vet & USAF Vietnam Vet I know. Don't know if this is true but:
                                       
LITTLE KNOWN TIDBIT OF NAVAL HISTORY.

The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel, carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She carried no evaporators (I.e. Fresh water distillers).

However, let it be noted that according to her ship's log, "On July 27, 1798, the U.S.S.Constitution sailed from Boston with a full complement of 475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7,400 cannon shot, 11,600 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum."

Her mission: "To destroy and harass English shipping."

Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 pounds of flour and 68,300 gallons of rum.
Then she headed for the Azores , arriving there 12 November. She provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and 64,300 gallons of Portuguese wine.

On 18 November, she set sail for England .. In the ensuing days she defeated five British men-of-war and captured and scuttled 12 English merchant ships, salvaging only the rum aboard each.

By 26 January, her powder and shot were exhausted. Nevertheless, although unarmed she made a night raid up the Firth of Clyde in Scotland . Her landing party captured a whisky distillery and transferred 40,000 gallons of single malt Scotch aboard by dawn. Then she headed home.

The U.S.S. Constitution arrived in Boston on 20 February 1799, with no cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum, no wine, no whisky, and 38,600 gallons of water.

GO NAVY!

 

[mariomike]

Don't know if this is true but:
                                     

More on the story,
http://hamptonroadsnavalmuseum.blogspot.ca/2010/12/deleting-urban-legend-on-uss.html

 

[The Bread Guy]

Yeah, that sure showed THEM ...

A decorated Army Reserve officer left bacon at a mosque and brandished a handgun while threatening to kill Muslims and bury them there, North Carolina authorities said Friday.

Russell Thomas Langford, 36, made death threats against members of the mosque about 20 miles southwest of Fayetteville, authorities said.

"He told people at the mosque that he would kill them and bury them behind the mosque," said Capt. John Kivett of the Sheriff's Office. "He brandished a weapon while he was on the property."

Langford, who lives in Fayetteville, was charged with ethnic intimidation, assault with a deadly weapon, going armed to the terror of the public, communicating threats, stalking and disorderly conduct, the sheriff's office said ...

 

[jollyjacktar]

More on the story,
http://hamptonroadsnavalmuseum.blogspot.ca/2010/12/deleting-urban-legend-on-uss.html

Good catch, I've seen what Rifleman62 posted before elsewhere.  While not correct, it does however appeal to the spirit of the sailor within me (pardon the pun).

 

[Lumber]

I want to rant but I just can't find the words... I know this stuff happens in that part of the world, but it's still so mind boggling when I read about it.

Dutch woman jailed in Qatar after reporting rape convicted of 'illicit sex'
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/middleeast/qatar-dutch-woman-rape-report-jail/index.html

If there is a better thread for this, please feel free to move it.

 

[mariomike]

Saw this somewhere, "Now there is male, female and nonbinary. Need a new box for the patient care report."

JUNE 13, 2016

Oregon Court Allows a Person to Choose Neither Sex
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/oregon-nonbinary-transgender-sex-gender.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
"...is a retired United States Army sergeant born with male anatomy who had successfully battled the military to be given discharge papers that reflected the female sex."