WTF Stories of the Week - Page 308

Ghoulish Delight · 04-22-2011, 01:04 PM

Hmm, that photo and the text on the page doesn't match up with what the wiki article says. The photo page claims they can be 6M (~20ft) in diameter, which the photo appears to support, but wiki (and other sources) talk in terms of ~8ft as the largest. That's a pretty significant disagreement and I strongly suspect that particular photo is either doctored or forced perspective.

Of course, an 8ft jellyfish is still damned big.

Alex · 04-22-2011, 01:06 PM

According to Wikipedia the largest such jellyfish have a bell diameter of about 8 feet. The link with the photo says 6 meters.

Some quick searching seems to support the Wikipedia number but that thing's much larger than that.

Pretty sure that's Photoshopped.

Ghoulish Delight · 04-22-2011, 01:09 PM

Alex, it's a good thing you have such terrible taste in candy so people can tell us apart.

Alex · 04-22-2011, 01:17 PM

Well, that and your Special Olympics medals.

And a Google Images search for Lions Maine Jellyfish results in many cool photos, though none that are this big relative to the people in them (other than many instances of this picture).

SzczerbiakManiac · 04-22-2011, 05:41 PM

Yeah, I noticed that size discrepancy too, but it's still a big-ass jelly and felt it was WTF worthy.

Chernabog · 04-29-2011, 12:54 PM

Haha I guess he didn't want Kate to be the only one with a little royal in her teeth this weekend.

Kevy Baby · 04-29-2011, 11:50 PM

Not so WTF as just downright amusing

Leaking US house dials for help

Quote:

MARBLEHEAD, Massachusetts (AP) — After months of enduring a leaking pipe that buckled its floors and sagged its ceilings, an empty house somehow called police for help.

The Salem News reports the call to the emergency hotline went out to police from a house in Marblehead on Wednesday after water short-circuited the phone system, apparently sparking the emergency call.

Officers were sent to the address after the call was recorded as a hang up and a return call got static.

Inside, they found the wreckage, including potentially toxic mold, from a pipe that apparently burst during the winter.

Town officials say the interior may have to be gutted.
Police couldn't immediately locate owner James Cowen. His cousin, William Cowen, said he's not worried. He says James was left financially secure by his father and often travels.

alphabassettgrrl · 04-30-2011, 12:02 AM

Awesome.

Snowflake · 05-02-2011, 04:06 PM

Early Playboy Playmate Yvette Vickers Found Dead

She's been dead for over a year? Mail piling up in her mailbox and the postal worker does not notice? Her neighbors just now notice? The scary part is the space heater was still running. Who paid PG&E??? This is very sad.

cirquelover · 05-03-2011, 09:14 AM

It took the neighbor a year to realize mail was piling up, really!?! That is crazy.

When I was two weeks late paying my power bill recently, after 10 years never late, they were threatening to shut me off!

04-22-2011, 01:04 PM	#1
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Hmm, that photo and the text on the page doesn't match up with what the wiki article says. The photo page claims they can be 6M (~20ft) in diameter, which the photo appears to support, but wiki (and other sources) talk in terms of ~8ft as the largest. That's a pretty significant disagreement and I strongly suspect that particular photo is either doctored or forced perspective. Of course, an 8ft jellyfish is still damned big. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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04-22-2011, 01:06 PM	#2
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	According to Wikipedia the largest such jellyfish have a bell diameter of about 8 feet. The link with the photo says 6 meters. Some quick searching seems to support the Wikipedia number but that thing's much larger than that. Pretty sure that's Photoshopped.
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04-22-2011, 01:09 PM	#3
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Alex, it's a good thing you have such terrible taste in candy so people can tell us apart. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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04-22-2011, 01:17 PM	#4
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Well, that and your Special Olympics medals. And a Google Images search for Lions Maine Jellyfish results in many cool photos, though none that are this big relative to the people in them (other than many instances of this picture).
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04-22-2011, 05:41 PM	#5
SzczerbiakManiac "ZER-bee-ak" Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,409	Yeah, I noticed that size discrepancy too, but it's still a big-ass jelly and felt it was WTF worthy. __________________
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04-29-2011, 12:54 PM	#6
Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	Haha I guess he didn't want Kate to be the only one with a little royal in her teeth this weekend. __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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04-30-2011, 12:02 AM	#8
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05-02-2011, 04:06 PM	#9
Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	Early Playboy Playmate Yvette Vickers Found Dead She's been dead for over a year? Mail piling up in her mailbox and the postal worker does not notice? Her neighbors just now notice? The scary part is the space heater was still running. Who paid PG&E??? This is very sad. __________________ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
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05-03-2011, 09:14 AM	#10
cirquelover Cruising around in my automobile... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Oregon Posts: 2,617	It took the neighbor a year to realize mail was piling up, really!?! That is crazy. When I was two weeks late paying my power bill recently, after 10 years never late, they were threatening to shut me off!
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