The ’70s really were pretty groovy.
Students at Cordon Porter HS in Indiana opened a time capsule from 1979 and found a bunch of items that would be frowned upon in the zero-tolerance 21st century — including an empty bottle of Jack Daniels and tickets to the Doobie Brothers.
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This could be the future of crime fighting — do-it-yourself arrests.
A Pennsylvania man got drunk, stole a car and drove to a State Police barracks. where he walked into the lobby and told troopers what he had done, authorities said.
For good measure, he also allegedly admitted that he had no driver’s license.
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Yule be panicked if you don’t look closely.
The Fire Department in Regina, Canada, was swamped with reports of a blaze at a football stadium after officials ran moving images of a burning yule log on a huge video screen outside the field.
From a distance, the video looked like real flames.
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Officials at a Swedish nursing home were shocked when a 105-year-old female resident was sent a letter offering her a spot in a local preschool class.
The woman got a chance to hang out with toddlers because officials sent pre-school applications to everyone in the town who had been born in ’07 — but they never bothered to check if the individuals were born in 2007 or 1907.
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Now everyone can look as handsome as Saddam Hussein.
Mustache transplants have become all the rage across the Middle East, as men desperate to look as macho as a desert dictator turn to medical means to find that hirsute look.
The “transplant” is done by taking hair from one part of the body and putting it on the upper lip.
What part does it come from? Do you really want to know?
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