WTF Stories of the Week

[lashbear]

apparently, McDonalds has pulled rank in their sponsorship demands, and will not let other Olympic food outlets sell chips/fries unless its served with a piece of fish.

I can see a loophole, whereby fish cocktails (like fish nuggets) are sold as a 1-pack with a full serve of chips. That's what I'D do, if I owned a food concession.

[Ghoulish Delight]

They've changed their mind on that.

[Strangler Lewis]

And then . . . there's copper

I'm imaging the dialogue between the thief and his lookout who fled.

L: Copper!

T: That's why we're here.

L: Copper!

T: Working on it.

L: No! Copper! Coming!

T: It will be if you shut up.

And so on.

I just made my morning.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Sand "tunnel" collapses on boy

But really, it's the last few paragraphs that push this story into the realm of WTF

[Alex]

Haven't they learned from movies that you don't make police or firefighters actually work on they're last day before retirement?

My first reading was even more WTF because I misread it as being the father of the kid in the sand who got hit by the firetruck.

[Moonliner]

So I was looking at a sample 911 Operator test today (Why? That's a story in it's own right I'll get around to one of these days....)

It had a lot of questions like, "What color is marijuana" and "Cocaine makes a user: hyperactive,lazy, hungry" etc... And then in the middle of all these other questions, was this gem:

24. What is the worth of the most valuable thing you have stolen?
(A) $2000 or more
(B) $1000 to $2000
(C) $100 to $1000
(D) $25 to $100
(E) $0 to $25

Heh, I have to think this is not a test where a simple X% of questions correct is passing.

[Ghoulish Delight]

So have to assume George Zimmerman was heavily coached by his attorneys before that interview.

Do you think he ran the "god's will" line by them? Because that is just...wrong.

[Betty]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

So have to assume George Zimmerman was heavily coached by his attorneys before that interview.

Do you think he ran the "god's will" line by them? Because that is just...wrong.

His apology was bull**** "I'm sorry you had to bury your son" - similar to "I'm sorry you were offended by what I said" instead of "I'm sorry for what I said".

[Kevy Baby]

It seems as good as any place to put this (though I have been considering starting a "Stupid Human Tricks" thread).

Big error in Olympic tattoo

It's not every day that you get to run around carrying the Olympic torch in a foreign country. That's why when Atlanta resident Jerri Peterson, 54, was selected to participate in the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay for her years of charity fundraising, she decided to commemorate the event with some permanent ink.

Unfortunately for Peterson, the tattoo artist she went to didn't run his artwork through spell-check before busting out the ink gun.

The whole story

[Alex]

Bad on the artist, but still bad on her for not noticing in the transfer proof.