Strangest news item
By GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11834)
January 14, 2013 5:59am CST
I rarely look at the news, finding it depressing. Today's quick dip into the BBC website though brought up this absolute gem
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10333211
Apparantly a student in Germany approached a Hell's Angels meeting place wearing nothing but shorts and carrying a puppy. He proceeded to moon the Hell's Angels, threw the puppy at them, then made his escape on a bulldozer! How obscure can you get?! But it get's better. He drove so slowly on the bulldozer that he collected a 5km tailback, then he abandoned the bulldozer and continued his escape by hitchhiking
I imagine he wasn't too hard to pick up.
Seen anything ridiculous on the news recently?
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8 responses
@Dominique25 (9464)
• United States
14 Jan 13
Wow that is different. I feel the same way as you do I don't care to much for the news since most of it is very depressing. I think it would be a lot easier to listen to the news if it had more positive and upbeat things in it. But the depressing stuff sells and so that is what they stick with.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
17 Jan 13
Well there's certainly a lesson in there for me, it seems the student stopped taking his depression medication. Well I hope I don't have the kind of episode this young student had if I forget to take my antidepressants! He certainly did it in style didn't he, something to tell the grandchildren in years to come. Hey kids guess what I did when I was 26, you'll never guess!
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@BarBaraPrz (47308)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Jan 13
He didn't happen to be one of your former guests, did he?
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@gopalisat (75)
• India
15 Jan 13
This news is really bizarre.
How more strange you can get.
Must be a psycho
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
14 Jan 13
We have all seen amusing and bizarre stories in the news at times, but I must admit that this is a rather exceptional one. he obviously had no intention of making a serious attempt to elude capture, so the only logical explanation would be a desire to make the news. There have always been people who will go to absurd lengths to claim their proverbial 15 minutes of fame, this being a prime example. By the combination of lack of clothing, pointless gesture of throwing a puppy at Hell's Angels and his outrageous mode of travel he was no doubt trying to insure the maximum level of publicity without actually committing a serious crime.
I have not yet claimed my 15 minutes of fame, but I cannot compete with that level of nonsense so I shall resign myself to remaining unknown.
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@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
28 Jan 13
Not that ridiculous. I hope that the puppy was OK. I think the person needs to be charged with cruelty to animals for something like that. I don't think the puppy asked to be thrown.