WTF Stories of the Week

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by RStar

It's bad enough that he fooled the whole station and his partner in the patrol car, but how did he even get on the roster????

From what I heard, they added him. They figured it was a bureaucratic mix-up, that they should have been told about him. He said he was a transfer from another precinct, and apparently nobody called to check on it.

One of the reporters talking about it said it was amazing he fooled all the officers. Talking to officers, they generally know who is one of them, and who is not. Except here.

[Kevy Baby]

Newly discovered catfish species climbs rocks
Fish's pelvic fin decouples from body and moves backward and forward

A previously unknown species of climbing catfish has been discovered in remote Venezuela, and its strange traits are shaking the evolutionary tree for these fish.

The newfound catfish, Lithogenes wahari, shares traits with two different families of fish — Loricariidae (armored catfishes) and Astroblepidae (climbing catfishes). It has bony armor that protects its head and tail, and a grasping pelvic fin that helps it to climb vertical surfaces such as rocks.

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[Kevy Baby]

Octuplets stun doctors at California hospital

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California woman shocked doctors by giving birth on Monday to octuplets, believed to be only the second set of eight babies born in the United States.

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The poor woman: she went in expecting to only have seven, but ended up with eight.

[Not Afraid]

What a large litter!

[Not Afraid]

This is my idea of a nightmare.

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Octuplets stun doctors at California hospital

musta looked like closing time at chuck-e-cheese

[bewitched]

Boy, 3, filmed smoking, mother convicted

What the hell is this lady thinking?

Prosecutor Jonathan Rees told the court: "The video demonstrates the boy placing a cigarette into his mouth, lighting it with a lighter and sucking, drawing smoke clearly into the lungs and he seems to do it with some accomplishment.

"It doesn't cause him any discomfort. He is sat on a chair close to the mother, who is talking on the phone.

"It is clear that the boy, at the age of three, knows what to do with a lighter and cigarette," Rees said.

Pocock is reported to have pleaded guilty on the basis that she hadn't seen her son smoking on that occasion, or ever before, PA reported.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

What a large litter!

I suppose a good education might very well be out of the question. They'll need to take out a loan just to cover the diapers.

Oh, and any sarogates available for brest feeding?

[Drince88]

Originally Posted by RStar

Oh, and any sarogates available for brest feeding?

The term is 'wet nurse' and I heard that she WAS planning on breast feeding.

And from around here...
There was a murder of a 'popular bartender' in the Quarter on the 17th. Here's an article about two of the being remanded to adult court. (The third, a 14 year old, is jailed but there's a big difference in LA law between 14 and 15)
But the part that gets me:

Both teenagers were turned in by their mothers, who recognized them from police sketches, and both confessed to detectives their roles in the Saturday night shooting, New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Warren Riley said Tuesday.

Ok, good for the Mom's for turning them in, but now there's talk about them maybe getting the Crime Stoppers Reward (standing reward for turning in murders). Yea, you "raise" a kid who goes around in a group of 2 15 year olds and a 14 year old, with gun(s), planning to rob people in the Quarter, and you might be eligible for a reward? I think not.

(Fortunately, I did NOT hear that the Mother's were ASKING for the reward, but some people think they should be offered it)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Bart Simpson promotes Scientology

WTF was Cartwright thinking?!