Oddities spotted in the news

[robkelk]

North Bay road open after swimming moose prompted closure

"No update has been given on the status of the moose."

[Bob Schroeck]

Well, obviously no moose is good moose.

[robkelk]

Delayed flight turns into Newfoundland kitchen party at Pearson International Airport

Imagine what would have happened if the delay was longer than 30 minutes...

(This, BTW, is why I like Newfoundlanders so much.)

[Star Ranger4]

Hmm.  Methinks that they'd all be quite 'merry' by boarding time, and or have invaded a terminal kitchen to make it a proper kitchen party!
*Rimshot.mp3*

[Star Ranger4]

Middletown Delaware peace officers issuing a turkey of a citation...

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news...868479001/

[robkelk]

Canadian Semiaquatic Rodent Posterior Doughnuts.

Because "BeaverTails" is trademarked.

[robkelk]

Swear!ng is G*od f*r You

[robkelk]

A couple of idiots...

Two men called 911 Sunday to report their vehicles were being taken away — by police.

[DHBirr]

Part of a column in today's Washington Post:

A medic who was born in the back of an ambulance delivered a baby in the back of his own ambulance on his birthday. Daniel Helsel assisted the pregnant woman exactly 42 years after his mother gave birth on the side of the Beltway.

(reported by Lynh Bui)

Traditionnnnn! 

[Star Ranger4]

Will Wheaton being Will Wheaton!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wil-wheaton-w...57979.html

[Norgarth]

an interesting article from Popular Mechanics about a space rock found in Egypt

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/...ar-system/

[robkelk]

New Brunswick now has highway offramp signs directing people to microbreweries.

Remember, don't drink and drive...

[Bob Schroeck]

... y'know, we gotta do something about the confusion between that part of Canada and the city down the street from me.

[hazard]

This seems remarkably poorly thought out.

[robkelk]

... y'know, we gotta do something about the confusion between that part of Canada and the city down the street from me.

While you're renaming parts of the USA, please do something about Ontario County, California sharing a postal abbreviation with Ontario (ON, CA).

This seems remarkably poorly thought out.

Yeah, I've already added it as an example to the All The Tropes page "Do Not Do This Cool Thing". Mind you, Ontario has had offramp signs for wineries for years, and they don't seem to have affected the drunk-driving statistics. (Of course, wine isn't consumed the same way that beer is.)

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Riding the coattails of the teenaged idiots eating Tide PODs ("Actual Tide laundry detergent pods are poisonous and should not be consumed"), a Brooklyn pizzeria comes up with PIEd Pods - colorful pepperoni calzone.

[robkelk]

What does a snow plow have to do with gender equality?

Apparently, the same as what a snow plow has to do with reducing a city's carbon footprint.

[robkelk]

Sharks' Hertl, Braun regret insulting Winnipeg in interview

I'm surprised we didn't have a story like this earlier. After all, it's the Sharks and the Jets.

[robkelk]

Fleeing bank robbery suspects caught at Tim Hortons drive-thru

Which lead to a half-dozen police cars all in one donut-shop parking lot.


(And this one just went out on the hourly national news.)

[robkelk]

WWII Air Force veteran gets a supply drop of a cake from his old unit on his 100th birthday.

Yes, an actual supply drop – the cake was parachuted in. The site has video.

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Beer Choir!

[Dartz]

"We wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire"

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/...-1.3382703

[robkelk]

Aging rum the old-fashioned way - putting it on a tall ship and sailing it around the world

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Coffee in South Korea - "A stroll down Coffee Street in Coffee City"

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Anybody here own shares in Shopify? They got the contract to sell marijuana online in Ontario when that becomes legal later this year.

[robkelk]

If you want to graduate from Dongguk University (in Seoul), you have to date at least three of your classmates.

[robkelk]

Small-town local history museum swamped by international calls about a new exhibit about a local boy

To be fair, the small town is Stratford, Ontario, and the local boy is Justin Bieber. The exhibit opens Sunday.

[robkelk]

The best save of the game was off the ice

"If there's any dangerous situation, we'll be there," the officers said in a joint statement in Korean.

[robkelk]

Nova Scotia eatery's enormous 6-pound donair eluding extreme eaters

Yes, a Halifax-style donair is tasty, but who can eat one that's the equivalent of two-dozen hamburgers?

No one has finished Alexandra's Pizza's massive donair after 17 attempts in the last five months

Apparently, nobody.