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Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I get a little suspicious of the accuracy of a story from a TV station in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose source is a story from a New Zealand newspaper, about something that happened to a Canadian tourist in the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean. Truly a globe spanning story.

EDIT: Going to the New Zealand Herald, their story just seems to be a copy of the story in the Daily Telegraph of London, England, written by one of their U.S. correspondents. That is at least a British territory, so it sort of works. Information seems largely the same as in the Turks and Caicos Weekly, so maybe the story is accurate.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the exact route Ethan Hunt takes in Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Don’t know how he didn’t make it to Cincinnati in the first film

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So I heard from Joe's best friend's brother-in-law that Bill lost $600 in a one handed chainsaw competition...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you Simone.