Stories that are just downright weird / silly / strange / amazing

I know of a metric martyr who will relate to this one.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/foodnews/baking-bad-paul-hollywood-accused-of-breaking-the-law-by-selling-sausage-rolls-%E2%80%9Cby-the-inch%E2%80%9D/ar-AAvMnTZ?li=AAnZ9Ug&ocid=mailsignout

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/family-relationships/woman-expresses-shock-as-in-laws-send-bill-of-%C2%A3156-for-broken-wine-glass/ar-AAwOKCE?li=AAnZ9Ug&ocid=mailsignout

I expect that some of us will have tales to tell of run-ins with in-laws.

Be afraid, be very very afraid!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/news/woman-explains-why-she-sent-her-date-65000-text-messages/vi-AAx8FEp?ocid=mailsignout

What can happen when children are left unattended....

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/paris-spider-man-dad-of-boy-4-saved-after-dangling-from-balcony-was-out-playing-pokemon-go-during-dramatic-rescue/ar-AAxWz8T?li=AAnZ9Ug&ocid=mailsignout

Freedom wrote:What can happen when children are left unattended....

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/paris-spider-man-dad-of-boy-4-saved-after-dangling-from-balcony-was-out-playing-pokemon-go-during-dramatic-rescue/ar-AAxWz8T?li=AAnZ9Ug&ocid=mailsignout

Call me cynical but, the guy on the balcony could have pulled the kid in at anytime,

Yes, I've just watched the clip and was wondering why on Earth he didn't.

Honesty is the best policy, they say!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/womans-obituary-takes-a-dark-turn-world-is-a-better-place-without-her/ar-AAyhpwi?li=BBoPRmx&ocid=mailsignout

A bizarre story. Wouldn't it take the word of more than one social worker for a child to be taken into care?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/social-worker-criticised-as-child-is-taken-away-from-mother-because-she-refused-to-give-him-ice-cream/ar-AAyB3tY?li=BBoPRmx&ocid=mailsignout

A frankly outrageous decision in my opinion to award compensation for what was an honest mistake.

http://www.thejournal.ie/transgender-man-compensation-workplace-relations-commission-4149362-Jul2018/

I hope the barber's shop will appeal. The picture of the offended tranny indicates that he had no problem finding another barbers who would give him the 'short back and sides' she/he wanted in the barber he took the action against.  A 5000 award to help his offended feelings is daft.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6006167/Terrified-mother-warns-parents-creep-tries-buy-one-year-old-son.html

An unlikely sounding yarn - maybe though a joke in very poor taste.

I'm not sure if this one is on the right topic though there are some weird aspects to it. Remember the American twins who were sold to a British couple in 2000 and then taken away from them? There was a dreadful hate campaign conducted by the media against the British couple.

Here is an update on them.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/twins-sold-online-as-babies-by-ruthless-mum-to-brit-couple-in-international-scandal-now-18-and-starting-university/ar-BBMzZyM?li=BBoPWjQ

Can a child as young as 9 really know what being gay means?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45323933

Guinea Pig wrote:Can a child as young as 9 really know what being gay means?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45323933

Gone are the innocent says of Lyrics like "Just laughing and gay like a clown" The Great Pretender by The Platters.

I have seen programmes where children - mostly boys - are convinced from as soon as they can talk that they were born in the wrong gender.

That seems more likely to have been the case with this poor lad than that he was gay.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/chilling-mystery-of-woman-who-claims-she-killed-her-rapist-but-police-can-find-no-proof/ar-BBOasxb?li=AAnZ9Ug&ocid=mailsignout

It sounds a bit unlikely to me that anyone could forget that they'd murdered someone else.

Freedom wrote:https://news.sky.com/story/man-69-who-identifies-as-20-years-younger-begins-legal-battle-to-change-age-11547764?fbclid=IwAR0cuwALO5I4VeB6mCrn0CE5kxzlJapZeH02MMGUjsb27Ec6QVXmAA5tIdA

I did see this story but I swiped left without further investigation as it didn't grab my superficial interest.

It tends to be women who knock years off their age but they don't try to do it this way!

The Gatwick drone story has been in the news for a few days - was it a hoax after all?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-defend-gatwick-drone-investigation-as-they-refuse-to-rule-out-theory-that-it-never-existed/ar-BBRloMw?li=BBoPRmx&ocid=mailsignout

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/couple-released-without-charge-over-gatwick-drone-could-win-libel-payout/ar-BBRpVkg

I'm not surprised. The papers concerned have learned nothing from the Christopher Jefferies case.

https://news.sky.com/story/you-are-loved-meghan-pens-supportive-messages-for-street-sex-workers-11625035

It sounds like a spoof!