Hitler on TV?

A California man has filed a MUFON report, describing some rather bizarre events which occurred on October 5, 2009.

The individual, who remains anonymous, said he was at home in the evening watching television station KOCE, a local station in Huntington Beach, California. Suddenly the image on the screen switched from standard programming to an image of Hitler, with his arm up, giving a speech.

A bit shocked, the man reports he changed to another station, and then turned it back. The picture of Hitler was still there, and was now accompanied by a clicking sound. According to the man, there were still news headlines moving at the bottom of the screen.

The man claims the Hitler image remained on the screen, without moving, for approximately a half hour, and he took a picture of it. He said the he has contacted station KOCE and was still waiting for a response

The man called the incident “pretty trippy,” saying that a picture of Hitler was one of the first images to be broadcast into space when that technology became available. He thinks this event may have been a communication attempt.

More via Our Strange World.

Later that same evening he claims to have seen a UFO.

Multi-storey graveyards

in Japan, a crowded mountainous country with a fast-ageing society, there is a shortage of final resting places, especially in the big cities.

Burial plots in Tokyo can cost more than $100,000 (£63,318), so some are turning to a cheaper hi-tech solution – multi-storey graveyards.

via BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan’s new hi-tech ‘graveyards’.

Attn. German train mooner: You’re doing it wrong.

A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.

The 22-year-old journalism student shoved his backside against the window of a low-slung double-decker train when staff forced him off in Lauenbrueck for travelling without a ticket, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Bremen said.

“It’s a miracle he wasn’t badly hurt,” the spokesman said on Monday. “This sort of thing can end up killing you.”

via Train drags German mooner half naked along tracks – Yahoo! News UK.

Along came a spider but don’t worry. It’s vegetarian.

American scientists have discovers a spider that feeds almost exclusively on plant food. The findings are significant because of the known approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all were thought to be strict predators.

More via Scientists Discover Rare Vegetarian Spider | AHN

Fore! Plunk!

There’s something lurking in the depths of Loch Ness, Scotland and it has nothing to do with monsters.

On a recent expedition to try and find evidence of the Loch Ness monster, U.S. research teams came across something quite unexpected — not a prehistoric creature of the deep but thousands of plastic covered golf balls.

Mike O’Brien of SeaTrepid explains: “At first we thought they were mushrooms, there were so many. But when we lowered the camera, we were surprised to see that they were in fact golf balls.”

The smattering of balls were found roughly 300 yards from the beach and 100 yards from the shore where it is thought locals and visitors have been using the loch to practice their driving skills for quite some time.

via The lost golf balls of Loch Ness – CNN.com.

Cat is a licensed hypnotherapist: “You are very sleeepy…you will give me fiiish”

The regulation of hypnotherapists in the UK is so lax that even a cat can become accredited, the BBC has found.

Chris Jackson, presenter of Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria, registered pet George with three industry bodies.

Each one accepted a certificate from the non-existent Society of Certified Advanced Mind Therapists as proof of George’s credentials.

via BBC NEWS

Crime tip: It’s not good form to ask cops for getaway directions

A pair of alleged burglars in Saxony found themselves headed straight for the police station on Saturday night after stopping to ask a police patrol for directions.

via  The Local.

Pumpkin boat

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Zonkeys? Zebkeys?

A zoo in Gaza has got around animal import restrictions by dyeing stripes on donkeys to make ‘zebras’.

The owner of the Marah Land zoo in Gaza City said he had used masking tape and black hair dye, applied with a paint-brush, to disguise the white females.

via Ananova – Zoo paints stripes on donkeys to make ‘zebras’.

World’s end in 2012? Not according to this Mayan Elder

A Mayan elder says he is sick of people asking him whether the world will end on December 21, 2012.  Apolinario Chile Pixtun says the date will not bring the end of the world – despite claims the Mayan calendar shows that time will “run out”.

“I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff,” he told the Daily Telegraph.

Mr Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.

More via Ananova – Mayan elder says world won’t end in 2012.

UFO cow snatchers

A couple traveling along the river in the area north of Rosario claimed having seen an animal being abducted by a flying saucer. “Later, the both vanished,” they said.

The likelihood that cows could fly was always relegated to the province of the impossible. But to Sergio and Laura, this changed last Monday afternoon, when they traveled along the coast near Puerto Gaboto, and believed that they saw a cow in the sky, abducted by a UFO.

More and video at Cow Abducted by Flying Saucer in Argentina?.

Be on the lookout for a pudgy naked dancer

Dallas police are looking for a man who they say repeatedly sneaks into backyards, dances around naked and then runs away…

Police say he usually climbs a fence or goes through a gate and either dances naked or jumps in a swimming pool naked. Police say he also has danced naked on top of a backyard air conditioning unit.

Police say they’re looking for a pudgy man who is about 6 feet tall and covers his face while dancing.

More via 10connects.com | Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater.

Top Big dog

In this Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 photo, Boomer, a 180-pound Landseer Newfoundland dog, drinks water from the kitchen sink at Caryn Weber’s home south of Casselton, N.D. The dog measures seven feet from nose to tail. stands 36 inches tall at the shoulders… and weighs 180 pounds.

via The Associated Press: ND woman’s 7-foot-long dog could be record holder.

Hello, 911? There’s a body on the roof.

A maintenance crew discovered what looked like a mutilated body with a severed head on top of an Anchorage office building. But any urgency responding police officers had Wednesday calmed once they discovered the remains were the partial carcass of an ungulate, likely a moose.

via The Associated Press: ‘Body’ on top of building likely a moose carcass.

Getting the moose up there is not as spectacular a feat as it at first sounds. It was a one story building.

Thought for the day…Thanks, Aimee

Thoughts on a Station Platform

It ought to be plain

How little you gain

By getting excited and vexed.

You’ll always be late for the previous train,

And always in time for the next.

Author Unknown

Ghost voice in the video? You decide.

“A shocked mum was left stunned after she heard the voice of an eerie “ghost” while watching a family home video. Sarah Mackessy was filming her kids during a day out at The Enchanted Forest nature reserve in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

The excited mum had taken video of her eight-week-old son Mack while her partner and two other children were playing nearby. But when the family watched back the video later that evening they were shocked to hear a terrifying voice groan “I’m alive” as the tiny tot stares at the screen…”

There’s more with video at Scary ‘ghost’ in tot home video | The Sun |News.

International webcam gotcha!

Burglars who broke into a man’s flat in the US city of Oklahoma were caught via webcam by his wife in the Philippines.

Police say the suspects were arrested after Maribel Chouinard spotted them and called her husband, an Air Force master sergeant at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City.

The couple use the webcam to communicate face-to-face when they are apart, reports the Daily Telegraph.

via Ananova – Burglars caught on webcam.

Hey, guys! What’s for lunch?

A group of wildlife enthusiasts were looking forward to their lunch during an expedition to the Arctic island of Svalbard.

But they soon discovered a hungry polar bear was also rather keen to try their cauliflower soup.

The giant predator poked his head through the open porthole into the kitchen of the ship, which had weighed anchor so the passengers could enjoy the fabulous icy landscape.

via The polar bear who invited himself around for dinner | Mail Online.

Question: How do you arrest a crocodile? Answer: Very carefully.

Police in Australia ‘arrested’ a crocodile and locked it up in a cell after it was discovered loitering in a town. Locals called out the police after the 7ft saltwater crocodile turned up at Arrkuluk Camp in the Northern Territory.

Officers said they found it loitering near a fence “trying to look innocent”, reports the Northern Territory News.

Sergeant Adam Russell said: “I wanted to jump on it Steve Irwin style but the rangers wouldn’t let me.” Instead, the crocodile was bound and bundled into the back of a pickup truck, and taken to the police cells.

More via Ananova – Police arrest crocodile.

And just think what they’ll save on toilet paper

A Japanese airline is asking passengers to visit the lavatory before boarding in an attempt to reduce carbon emissions. All Nippon Airways (ANA) says empty bladders mean lighter passengers, which means lighter aircraft and lower fuel use.

The airline will position staff near the boarding gates in terminals to ask passengers waiting for their flight to relieve themselves before boarding the aircraft.

It hopes that the weight saved will lead to a five-tonne reduction in carbon emissions over the course of a month, reports the Daily Telegraph.

via Ananova – Airline asks passengers to ‘go’ before flying.