The Top 2. 0 Weird News Stories of 2. Almost every Friday, you can catch The Weird Week in Review here at mental_floss. I have to admit that not every weird news story makes it into the weekly column here, because I tend to skip those that are overly prurient or tragic, and stories that are not available in English. There are probably a few good stories that were skipped because they were covered elsewhere at mental_floss. But of the 3. 00 or so strange news items that appeared in the Friday column, here are the 2. THE EVIDENCE WAS ON FACEBOOKJohn Mogan. John Mogan and Ashley Duboe were arrested in September in connection with a bank robbery in Ashville, Ohio. The bank was robbed on August 2. Just a few days later, Mogan and Duboe began posting a series of photographs on Facebook featuring Mogan posing with wads of cash. Mogan is a convicted felon who was just released from prison after serving about five years for robbing a bank in Lancaster, a city 2. Ashville. A female accomplice was also arrested in connection with Mogan's July 2. Fairfield National Bank branch. Mogan began serving a three- year parole term immediately following his July 1. Ohio state lockup. The heavily tattooed Mogan has the phrases “Loyalty’s Thin” and “Betrayal’s Thick” on opposite cheeks. Investigators allege that prior to driving Mogan to the Ashville bank, Duboe applied makeup to his face and neck to cover numerous tattoos. Mogan and Duboe taken to the Pickaway County jail in lieu of $2. You can see a slideshow of the incriminating images at The Smoking Gun. 1. VEHICLE FLATTENED BETWEEN TWO SEMISSergi Karplyuk. And the driver is fine. Despite his Chevy Silverado being crushed to the size of a smart car, Kaleb Whitby only received a few cuts and bruises in the January I- 8. Baker City, Oregon. More than 1. 00 people were involved in the morning pileup on Interstate 8. Baker City. At least three separate collisions involving more than 2. Black ice conditions led to the multiple accidents. In Whitby’s collision, a tractor- trailer jackknifed across the highway. A weird collection of stories on life, love, loss, and finding a new normal. Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death. From the Paranormal to the Weird and Wonderful. Paranormal Activity, Paranormalorism, Parapsychology, Psychic, Ghosts and Personal Experiences. Bigfoot photographs and videos were news again in 2015, although most of the incidents were nothing more than mundane animals and people, plus hoaxes and mistakes. Tickets in North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Texas matched all six numbers to win the Powerball lottery on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. ![]() Get the latest weird news stories from all over the world. Find bizarre and offbeat news about people, nature and unexplained mysteries at ABC News. Youngstown, Ohio | breaking news, local news, sports, classifieds, jobs, real estate, cars, Warren, Austintown, Boardman, Canfield, Poland. Every year there are hundreds of people who die in really weird ways, and 2015 is no different. Whether they die accidentally by falling off a lighthouse or if a cow. Gateway to Tampa Bay area news, weather, radar, sports, traffic, and more. From WTVT-TV/DT FOX 13, the most powerful name in local news. Whitby slid into the truck. Another tractor- trailer saw the first truck and slid sideways into the first truck, crushing Whitby’s pickup. After ascertaining that Whitby was alive and not seriously injured, the second truck driver, Sergi Karplyuk, asked if he could take a picture. Karplyuk helped Whitby free himself of the crushed pickup within a half- hour. ![]() He and Karplyuk joined other bystanders to help injured people. Whitby was checked out at a hospital later and came home with two Band- aids on his finger. You can read the details, and see more pictures, at Oregon Live. 1. SNAKE SWALLOWS SALAD TONGSAdelaide University. Aaron Rouse of Adelaide, Australia was feeding his python Winston a rat held with a pair of salad tongs when the snake decided he wanted all of it—including the tongs. Rouse tried to pull the tongs out, but Winston would not let go. Before he knew it, the tongs were completely inside the snake! Rouse took Winston to the veterinary department at Adelaide University, where Dr. Oliver Funnell decided to perform surgery. He made a small incision close to the big end of the tongs and pulled them out easily. TRUCK SPILL FREES A MILLION BEESA shortage of bees makes it necessary to haul bees to agricultural areas for pollination purposes, so it had to happen sooner or later. A truck carrying bees through Coeur d'Alene, Idaho overturned on I- 9. June and spilled up to a million bees. Traffic was backed up for a couple of hours, and drivers were warned to keep their windows rolled up. To make matters worse, Coeur d'Alene was hosting an Iron Man Triathlon event at the same time. That couldn’t have been pleasant. INTRUDER SPENDS FIVE HOURS CAUGHT UPSIDE- DOWN IN WINDOWTwo freshmen at Nottingham Trent University in England spied an unusual sight as they walked through the campus early one January morning. A man had tried to enter a building through a window when his legs were caught, leaving him hanging upside- down with his rear end exposed. The students talked to him while taking photographs and video, then called emergency services. Police and firefighters responded, but they also had to take selfies before rescuing the man, who said he’d been in that position for five hours. Rescue workers eventually had to break the window to free him. UNLUCKY THIEF CAUGHT BECAUSE GETAWAY CAR WAS REPOSSESSEDA man in Zion, Illinois, was observed putting electronics into a shopping cart at Walmart and leaving without paying for them. When confronted by store employees, he fled without the merchandise. Police later arrested 2. Che Hearn as he was walking down the road. When asked why he was walking, he responded that his car had been repossessed while he was at the Wal- Mart, police said. Investigators determined that the repossession company had followed Hearn to Wal- Mart, police said. The car was towed away when he entered the store, giving Hearn the only option of fleeing the scene on foot, police said. HORSE STUCK IN BATHTUBIt’s not unusual for livestock owners to repurpose an old bathtub as a feeding trough. And so it was for a 3. Phantom in Orangeville, California. In February, Phantom was dancing in her stall when she fell and became wedged in the bathtub. She was stuck there for at least 2. The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District was called. Charles Campbell told KTLA sister station KTXL that when his wife called 9. She called her back and she said, ‘You’re husband can’t get out of the bathtub?’ And she says, ‘No, it’s my horse,'” Campbell said. Rescue workers and the family worked together to tip the bathtub on its side and pull Phantom out to freedom. ARTIST LEFT HANGING NAKEDNorwegian artist Hilde Krohn Huse videotaped a piece of performance art that caught more than what was intended. Kruse went into the woods near Aukra in Norway and recorded herself hanging naked from a rope tied to a tree. However, at the end of the performance, she could not free herself from the rope. The video ran out, and she was still hanging, alone, calling for help. A friend finally arrived, after Kruse had been hanging for three and a half hours. The resulting video is not as Kruse had planned, but it was selected to be exhibited in the Bloomberg New Contemporary exhibition. The finished product is on Vimeo. In the film ‘Hanging in the Woods’ the viewer can witness the breakdown between performance and reality as the indented performance goes wrong and the performer is stuck hanging from the tree without being able to free herself or any visible means of help or escape. The video contains nudity. CAT GIVES BIRTH TO KITTENS IN BIRD'S NESTIn May, Henry Mc. Gauley of County Louth, Ireland, found a stray cat in a tree. That’s not unusual, but the cat was curled up in a bird’s nest where she had birthed four kittens! The white cat is familiar to the neighborhood, and Mc. Gauley's wife Fiona had fed her before. The nest is about eight feet above the ground. The couple think the nest may have belonged to a pair of wood pigeons who left it a few days ago and now it has furry, not feathered, squatters. Fiona said she will be moving the happy family onto terra firma as the kittens do not have the required wings to ensure a safe landing if they fall. Henry chuckled as he said: “I always thought the cat was a bit bird- brained but I never expected her to move into a nest.”1. CAR RECOVERED FROM TREEA driver on the M6. Leicester, UK lost control of her vehicle on May 1. It is estimated that the car was going at about 1. Both the driver and passenger walked away from the accident or, in this case, climbed out of the tree. The woman who was driving was cited for “driving without due care and attention.” The car was later recovered from the tree by a crane. FOUR MASKED BANDITS CAUGHT IN THE ACTNewport Police Dept, Oregon via Facebook There was a disturbance at an art gallery in November that led to an investigation. Four intruders were apprehended. A Facebook post by the Newport, Oregon police department takes the burglary report to the next level, by describing the perpetrators as a gang of thieves with colorful nicknames, including “Squeaky Feets.” The gallery owner, Cris Torp, said that the raccoons got in through roof vents, which has happened before. But when they recently sealed the openings around the vents, no one knew that the raccoons were trapped inside! The animals had been in the gallery for hours, but did little damage to the artwork. Squeaky Feets” has found fame from the caper, and now has his own Facebook page. MEERKAT EXPERT SENTENCED OVER ASSAULT ON MONKEY HANDLERWorking at a zoo can be as much of a soap opera as any other workplace. The first sentence from the Associated Press story spells it out: A former meerkat expert at London Zoo has been ordered to pay compensation to a monkey handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama- keeper. Caroline Westlake, who worked with meerkats, was sentenced to 1. Kate Sanders. The assault happened at an employee Christmas party at the zoo last year, when the two women were arguing about a third zoo employee, llama keeper Adam Davies. The designation of “former meerkat expert” does not mean Westlake is no longer an expert, but that she was fired from the zoo over the incident. RACCOON RIDES ALLIGATORRichard Jones. Richard Jones of Palatka, Florida, captured a once- in- a- lifetime photograph in June while he was walking along the shore of the Ocklawaha River. He believes his son startled a raccoon, who fled toward the river. The raccoon jumped onto the back of an alligator and stood up long enough to have his picture taken. He immediately jumped away from the alligator as soon as the gator started moving. But the picture looks as if the raccoon planned to ride across the river on his reptilian friend. As the picture was passed around the internet, it attracted all sorts of pun headlines, such as “Florida gator starts Uber- like service.”7.
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