STRANGE NEWS-September 8th-14th, 2012

Little bit of humor, little bit of strange….

Motorist plummets into a sinkhole on a Canadian highway.
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Boiling water without bubbles
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Game makers arrested over alleged spying in Greece
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Ryanair plane disinfected after insect bite complaints
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A family member cleans a mummy before giving it new clothes in a ritual in the Toraja district of Indonesia’s South Sulawesi Province, August 23, 2012. The ritual, called Ma’nene, involves changing the clothes every three years of mummified ancestors to honor love for the deceased. Locals believe dead family members are still with them, even if they died hundreds of years ago, a family spokesman said.

Gisela Marulanda 23, who claims to be possessed by spirits, participates in an exorcism by Hermes Cifuenetes in La Cumbre, Valle. Cifuentes claims to have performed over 35,000 exorcisms in the past 25 years.

A man walks pass a 6.8-metre-tall (22-feet-tall) and 7.7-metre-wide (25-feet-wide) sofa chair at a shopping mall in Shanghai, September 3, 2012. The sofa has been approved as the biggest sofa chair in the world by the World Record Association, based in Hong Kong

A participant in the “Concurso de Feos” (Ugly Competition), organized by the Txosna Moskotarrak, performs during the Aste Nagusia (Great Week) fiestas in Bilbao August 23, 2012. The fiesta is organized by both Txosnas, independent groups of friends responsible for bars and concerts, and Bilbao City Hall, and has run in its present form since 1978. The nine day festivities feature live music, sports, circuses, bullfights, fireworks, large doses of drinking and late nights.

Indie-Lou performs during the Burning Man 2012 “Fertility 2.0″ arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada August 29, 2012. More than 60,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the sold out festival, which is celebrating its 26th year, to spend a week in the remote desert cut off from much of the outside world to experience art, music and the unique community that develops.

A boat full of passengers struggle to move through water hyacinth in a dead part of river Buriganga in Dhaka August 30, 2012.

Bikini-clad women (L) sit as they operate a 3.6 metre-high custom-made female robot as customers take photos, at the newly opened “Robot Restaurant” in Kabukicho, one of Tokyo’s best-known red light districts, August 16, 2012. It’s show time at the “Robot Restaurant” a new and high-tech take on the city’s decades-old cabaret scene that puts a friendly, if unusual, face on the robot technology in which Japan is a world leader.

Participants operate a homemade flying machine during the Red Bull Flugtag (Flight Day) event in Brasilia August 26, 2012.

The carbon dioxide SNOW on Mars: NASA believes Red Planet is only place in solar system with freak weather phenomenon
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Woman Finds Ex-Boyfriend Living In Her Attic Over 12 Years After They Broke Up
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Exorcism boom in Poland sees magazine launch
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The migrant who fell to earth in 2,000ft horror jet plunge
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Arizona’s First Governor Hunt’s Tomb
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Richard Cimino Jr., Naked And Bloody, Gnaws On Woman’s Head, Cops Say
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Fascinatingly, a real-life Dr. Dippel Frankenstein engaged in alchemical experiments to create an animate bioform called a “homonculus” utilizing both animal and human cadavers at Castle Frankenstein in southwestern Germany in the late 1600s and early 1700s

Man Pays $137 Traffic Ticket With 137 Origami Pigs In Donut Boxes
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Free Sex After Ninth Car Wash? Police Bust Alleged Prostitution Ring In Malaysia
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Which end is UP? New Genitalia-Headed Fish Is Evolutionary Mystery
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Washing Mouth Out With Soap WORKS!
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Bacon Related Crime!
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10 Door Truck! Redneck Style!!

Snake in your Bonnet
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No Sense of Humor
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream sues porn company.

Conan O’Brian Auditions Potential Would-be-wives
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Marine takes “Big Dog” Robot for Walk-VIDEO
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Rotten Egg Smell in California
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