Weird news - Kid died in hot car, father charged

It is an accident, something that no parent would want to happen. At the same time, it would seem as a lot of common sense that a car will quickly get hot when left in the open, and anybody left in the car would quickly become uncomfortable in the vehicle and given enough time, suffocate in the heat. This is more problematic when a child is left in the car and because of their inability to help themselves, suffer the heat and some of them even die. In such cases, even if the parent would most likely have forgot the child in the car, the child died and this is a crime (link to article):

A Mississippi man has been charged with second-degree murder after he left his 8-month-old daughter in an overheated car while he went to work. Joshua Lewis Blunt left the child in the vehicle outside the restaurant where he works for “some period of time,” Grenada Deputy Police Chief George Douglas told the Clarion-Ledger.

Weird news - Alligator on the road

One of the animals that most people are scared of are large reptiles such as snakes and alligators. However, there are plenty of places where people do come into contact with such reptiles, especially when they live in a place where there are a large number of such predators. For people living in the Amazon rain forest, there is the potential to come into contact with wild animals; for people living in the Sunderbans, there is the ever present danger of coming into contact with a tiger. In the US, Florida is the place where people have the highest possibility of coming into contact with reptiles - for example, there are so many cases where house pools have found alligators in them which have then had to be removed. In this case, on the road, there is this large alligator and you would be scared seeing this pretty large alligator (especially if you were walking or cycling on the road) (link to article):

An unusually large alligator was found wandering on a road in Florida, USA, during the ongoing gator mating season. The Florida Highway Patrol said troopers received a surprise on Sunday morning when they spotted the massive reptile taking a stroll along a highway, next to a chain link fence. The alligator was spotted at the appropriately named Alligator Alley of Interstate 75 in Collier County. While writing about the incident on social media, officials quipped that the gator at least obeyed traffic rules. "Way to at least stay in the grass shoulder and out of the travel lanes," Florida Highway Patrol joked on Twitter while sharing a picture of the alligator looking up the fence.

Weird news - Getting back your parked car after 20 years

Nowadays I see a number of people, who when they have parked their car, take a photo of the location, or take some notes because with everything that people have on their minds right now, they can forget where they put their vehicles, the parking lot and spend time trying to find out their vehicles. This can reach extreme levels, I once spent 30 minutes trying to find my vehicle. However, this extreme case referenced in the article is more extreme, with the person forgetting where he left his vehicle and reported it stolen. And then found it, wait, 20 years later. The car had to be junked, but it was still weird (link to article):

Ever forgotten where you parked your car? It has happened to the best of us. For one man in Germany, however, it was a reunion two decades in the making with a car he 'lost' back in 1997. According to the Metro, authorities in Frankfurt found the car in a garage in a building which is set for demolition. The owner of the car had parked it there in 1997 and forgotten all about it. It was reported stolen and never recovered, until recently, when authorities found it rotting in the garage.

Weird news - Man wants nuggets, not available, so orders 200 hash browns

Sometimes an item can catch your fancy. So you have people who love to eat at Taco Bell, others gloat over the regularity with which they eat at McDonald's. When people do not get their regular fix, it can be frustrating for them, and you sometimes have odd events such as people calling 911 to complain about a food item not being available. In other cases people have become real angry when they realize their favorite food item is over or not in stock. In this case, a man wanted to have chicken nuggets so showed up at the McDonald's, only to be told that the breakfast menu was available and it did not have nuggets. What did he do that made it weird ? (link to article):

A man in Sydney craving to have some chicken nuggets showed up at a McDonald's in the early hours of Saturday. But he was left disappointed when staff told him there were no nuggets on the breakfast menu. Frustrated with the absence of chicken nuggets, the man allegedly opted for hash browns - 200 of them. The alleged incident took place at a drive-through McDonald's in North Sydney. When the man's early morning request for chicken nuggets was turned down, he did four laps of the drive-through outlet. On the second round, he stopped to place the order for 200 hash browns, reportedly worth $230.

Weird news - Apologizing for being 20 seconds early

There are so many stories on the internet where services (flights / trains) get delayed for various reasons and the service provider sometimes apologizes, sometimes not and sometimes the passengers are left fuming without any information at all. So it seems weird when a service provider apologizes when the train leaves 20 seconds early - we are not talking about hours, not talking about minutes, but talking about seconds (contrast this with the case of fog when trains can sometimes be hours late in other countries such as India) (link to article):

A Japanese railway operator has issued a deep apology for the "tremendous nuisance" caused by a train departing 20 seconds early, surprising even a nation renowned for both punctuality and politeness. The Tsukuba Express train linking Tokyo and the capital's northern suburbs pulled out of Minami Nagareyama Station at 9:44:20 instead of 9:44:40. A spokesman told AFP the apology was issued because strict safety procedures were not followed. "What matters is not the 20 seconds... The point is that our formal procedure should be this: A sound rings 15 seconds before the departure, followed by an announcement asking for caution due to the closing doors, and then the doors shut," he said.

Weird news - Flight affected as woman finds out husband cheating on her

When you find out that your spouse is cheating on you, things can get very rocky. In the extreme cases, the husband or wife have killed their spouses directly or got somebody else to kill them in their anger. In other cases, a divorce happens in many cases, since this is seen as an extreme betrayal and the parting can be very bitter. However, the immediate reaction when the person gets to know this can be exhibited in terms of extreme anger, and the anger will take an outlet at whoever is there, the current situation in which the person finds themselves can also be affected such as this flight having to offload the couple because of the high level of anger shown by the wife, which was compounded by the fact that she has also consumed alcohol (link to article):

Hell hath no fury like a woman cheated, especially if she happens to be tipsy and 37,000 feet above ground when discovering shocking news about the man she loves. Qatar Airways’ Doha-Bali nonstop flight on Sunday (November 5) had to be diverted to Chennai because an inebriated Iranian woman created a ruckus after she found out that her husband was cheating on her when she unlocked her sleeping husband’s phone by doing his finger scan and saw some content on it, say sources. The husband was the obvious target of her anger. Co-passengers and crew members who tried to pacify her also became the target of her ire. The uproar compelled the pilots to land the plane mid-way in Chennai. Qatar Airways’ Doha-Bali nonstop flight is almost 10 hours long while Chennai is midway.

Weird news - Happiest day, but then crown jewels shot off

In many parts of the world, marriages are celebrated with firing in the air, or rather, firing of revolver, pistols, etc. And we are not talking about rival mob hits, but actual shootings by friends and relatives of the groom (in most cases, this is done from the groom's side). Now, when you fire bullets, they will go somewhere, and they end up hurting many bystanders. There have been numerous cases where bullets fired during celebratory firing have hit other guests and even killed some people (tragic when people have come to the place to celebrate the marriage). However, this case is weird where the bullet actually hit the groom in the genitals, doing damage to a vital organ, and that too at the time of marriage (link to article):

An Egyptian groom will have to live a life remembering he was shot in his genitals. An over-excited friend shot the groom in his genitals at the bachelor party. Groom Omar al-Alsaied, 28, was taken to a hospital. Talking about the genital-killer friend's excitement, the dude was firing celebratory shots but zeal made him forget to aim the gun upwards. Omar, who is still a bachelor, suffered serious wounds to his testicles, thigh and hand.