Weird News for a Weird World

Monthly Archives: February 2013

Monster eel caught in New Jersey?

This is a sea lamprey.  It is not that big, it is not that uncommon, but it is a cool photograph. Of course maybe it represents Governor Christie’s voracious ego. Not quite as scary from this perspective…Continue Reading

New Zealander mauled and killed by Great White Shark while people on the beach watched…

This is just a very horrible result.   A bit more scary than playing the Jaws theme at the Academy AwardsContinue Reading

Judge James D. Humphrey*: If you mock me I will send you to jail…

Actually he got two years of prison for a felony conviction.  This case should greatly disturb you.  * Please do not jail me Judge Humphries.  I am just exercising my Constitutional first amendment rights (while I still have them).  And given the decision of the Indiana Appeals Court we have to ask, who will watchContinue Reading

Kitty trapped in a human body: “Otherkin”, “Catkin”, and also, BsFC!

Meow? Some creative plastic surgeons can really cash in on this one! You’ve heard of transgendered; you know the men trapped in women’s bodies and vice versa, now meet the transspecied: cats and other animals “trapped inside the bodies” of human beings! One such “person”(?), calls herself(?) a “catkin”, among other things and prefers theContinue Reading

Record Breaking Crime

Police in San Diego believe two burglars who stole a jukebox from a Hooters restaurant thought it was an ATM. The bandits tried to back a pick-up truck through the glass door and into the restaurant. When they couldn’t get their truck through the door, they towed the jukebox outside, lifted it into the truck, andContinue Reading

A Creator of the Daleks is Dead

Not Davros, but Ray Cusick. Mr. Cusick designed the basic form of the Daleks 50 years ago. The Daleks were the first extraterrestrial villains introduced on Doctor Who. They are one of the most iconic designs in TV science fiction. His design combined with the creatures’ synthesized voices (“Exterminate!”) has sent several generations of childrenContinue Reading

Harlem Shake making residents of Harlem BSC…

A game of cultural dance telephone gone out of control… Michelle Malkin asks when the Sequester Shake is coming.  Rush is certainly embarrassed by it.Continue Reading

Toxic mice to parachute onto Guam to battle invasive brown tree snakes…

Not BSC, but definitely unusual.  Still the snakes are a huge problem and acetaminophen is toxic to them. So let the invasion of Guam by mice paratroopers begin.  I am pretty sure the island will not tip over.Continue Reading

Monster gold fish found in Lake Tahoe…

  They are everywhere. Previous BSC post…Continue Reading

BSC in a church attic…

Instapundit has this story going back sixty years, but it definitely fits this blog.Continue Reading