This Month In WTF

All flavors of crazy shit happened this year, but do to the sheer overwhelming numbers of bizarre articles unequaled by any other year, here is a roundup of just some of the weirdest shit to happen this month:

Children watched in horror as a Santa Claus collapsed and died as he handed out presents at a Christmas party.

Did the Vatican steal Jesus' foreskin so people would shut up about the savior's penis?

A UK hacker may be facing Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist suspect after hacking 97 US military and NASA computers between 2001 and 2002 searching for evidence of UFOs, antigravity technology and government suppression of 'Free Energy', all of which he claims to have gained evidence of through his activities.

Mom says a ferret ate her baby's toes.

Another baffling tale of stupidity in Wisconsin: A vintage photo of a man sitting on a dead horse in the middle of the street raises questions.

Sheboygan, WI circa 1890:

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Workers at Turkish Airlines celebrated a job well done by sacrificing a camel at the Istanbul airport.

Shark spies are steered by "squid juice." Includes video of a shark in training.

The mysterious "princess of Jerusalem" has been identified.

A pack of Russian squirrels killed a stray dog which was barking at them in a a viscious one-minute assault before scampering off carrying flesh in their mouths.

Also: Study aims to unlock secret squirrels and Squirrels to be given contraceptives

- Nigerian fish festival bans fish

- Magic mushrooms used to cure obsessive-compulsive disorder

- The 10 most bizarre people on Earth featuring Ngoc: three decades without sleep, Bhagat: had his twin brother on his stomach, Yokoi: spent 28 years hidden after WWII, Mehran: lives at the Airport since 1988, Mitsuo: a japanese Jesus Christ, Bihari: most officially dead person, Icke: our salvation from Reptilian Humanoids, Bawden: the self-elected Pope Michael I, from Kansas, Nakamatsu: photographed and analyzed every meal for 34 years, and Lotito: mister eat-it-all.

- Lovers have rings made from their bones

- Dog loses tongue in shredder

- Offerings to a stone snake provide the earliest evidence of religion

- 'Church of the Ark' found on West Bank, believed to be the world's first church

- Horse that launched animal-mutilation UFO lore lands on eBay

- The military's new weapon - a microwave crowd disperser

- Santa's sleigh wrecked in a freak accident

- Police in New Zealand spray roads to release spirits of the dead

- Paraguay man crucified in public

Last Dumbass Of The Year

The Last Dumbass Of The Year award goes to...a carjacker who got lost and called 911 on himself.

A Preview Of Smut's To Come

- Female reindeer are making bad choices during the mating season

- A skydiver whose parachute failed survives a 15,000 foot fall because of a bush.

- The 2006 Idiot Of The Year Awards

- The most poetic headline of the day: Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds

- A head-butt from a horse restores man's sight

- Now everyone's paranoid.

- Hack your mind: Build your own brain stimulator

- A Canadian man is the world's only living person without a pulse.

- Google and NASA will take you to a new planet

- UK barber makes a chair from recycled human hair

- The world's tallest man saved two dolphins by using his long arms arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards.

- Another hermaphroditic deer shot in Michigan, North Dakota. But it's politically correct to call it "transgendered."

- Boston air traffic controller says 9/11 was an inside job. He also says other air traffic controllers have been ignored or silenced.

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Seven-Legged Hermaphroditic Deer

Another glorious moment in Wisconsin news:

Hermaphroditic deer with seven legs ‘tasty’
Wisconsin hunter bags odd beast with pickup in driveway, eats it

FOND DU LAC, Wis. - Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. "It was definitely a freak of nature," Lisko said. "I guess it's a real rarity.”

He said he slowed down as the buck and two does ran across the driveway Nov. 22, but the buck ran under the truck and got hit.

When he looked at the animal, he noticed three- to four-inch appendages growing from the rear legs. Later, he found a smaller appendage growing from one of the front legs.

"It's a pretty weird deer," he said, describing the extra legs as resembling "crab pinchers."

"It kind of gives you the creeps when you look at it," he said, but he thought he saw the appendages moving, as if they were functional, before the deer was hit.

Warden Doug Bilgo of the state Department of Natural Resources came to Lisko's property near Mud Lake in the town of Osceola to tag the deer.

"I have never seen anything like that in all the years that I've been working as a game warden and being a hunter myself," Bilgo said. "It wasn't anything grotesque or ugly or anything. It was just unusual that it would have those little appendages growing out like that."

Bilgo took photos and sent information on the animal to DNR wildlife managers.

John Hoffman of Eden Meat Market skinned the deer for Lisko, who wasn't going to waste the venison from the animal.

"And by the way, I did eat it," Lisko said. "It was tasty."

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Speaking of hunting, Texas is trying to pass a bill that would allow the blind to hunt. You can bet whoever thought that up doesn't hunt.

Also, a boy who could feel no pain leads scientists to pain-killing discoveries. Interestingly, the boy died aged 14 jumping from a house. I guess that tells you why we experience pain...

Lastly, Egyptian Conservationists Fight To Protect Dwindling Mummy Population from The Onion.

The Swedish Christmas Goat

From the shit you can't make up department:

Swedes Guard Christmas Goat From Vandals

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- For 40 years it has been torched, vandalized, had its legs cut off and even been run over by a car. But officials in the Swedish city of Gavle are guaranteeing that this year's giant straw Christmas goat - the victim of Sweden's most violent yule tradition - will survive unscathed.

Article here.

Mental Shed Christmas Classics

The Mental Shed Christmas Classics have a new home on myspace:

myspace.com/mentalxmas

Snowman Survival (2003)


The 4th Wiseman (2004)