News Weird: October 2014

New York Post: Woman Sets Roommate On Fire After He Throws Out Her Leftovers

Florida resident, Melissa Dawn Sellers, was really looking forward to enjoying her leftover spaghetti and meatballs when she discovered her roommate, Carlos Ortiz Jr, had carelessly thrown them out. Understandably, Sellers became enraged and wanting justice to be served, was forced to take the only reasonable course of action before her: dousing Ortiz Jr with nail polish remover and setting him on fire.



NY Daily News: President of Belarus declares country's sausage is free of toilet paper

The President/Dictator of Belarus pridefully told Russian reporters that Belarusian sausage was superior. "Belarusian (food) is of substantially higher in quality. There is no toilet paper in the salami and never was."


Online romance flames out after woman gets stuck inside chimney

Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, a 30 year old Californian woman, was rescued by firefighters after she became stuck in the chimney of a home owned by a man she had met online. Firefighters had to take the chimney apart to a point they could reach the woman, then used dish soap to lube her up and pull her free.

According to the homeowner, who did not want to be identified, the two went on about six dates before he decided to call it off. Interestingly, it seems this isn't the first stalker like encounter he has had with Nunez-Figueroa. "She seemed totally cool until the first flag was her actually being on my roof two weeks ago," said the unnamed homeowner.

Though I don't know if this is Nunez-Figueroa's first attempt at stalking, but she might want get a new hobby as she doesn't seem very good at it.


The New Tribune: Anti-violence activists charged in vicious attack

In Washington, Pennsylvania two members of the "Stop the Violence" organization allegedly beat a former roommate to the point that he vomited blood and was left unconscious on the street.

Nikole Ardeno and Emanuel Velez believed the victim, Joshua Magraff, had stolen property from their home and retaliated by punching and kicking him until he had seizures. Ironically, the two were arrested a short time later with Ardeno still wearing the same "Stop the Violence" T-shirt she had on the night before at the "Stop the Violence" march she helped coordinate.

Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day

I don't know exactly what...this is....about. But it belongs on this blog. The song part is kind of catchy.


Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day! from Christian Larrave on Vimeo.

Tuck Me In

Super short (less than 60 seconds) creepy film. Just in time for Halloween.


Tuck me in (short film 2014) from Ignacio F. Rodó on Vimeo.

Cute Dogs Get Scary

 

PSA Weird

Who doesn't love a good PSA?. All that awareness being raised and attitudes being changed. If it wasn't for public service announcements I would probably be a drug addicted arsonist with a venereal disease, recklessly injuring myself at work, throwing my trash on the street and crapping wherever I pleased.

What is the best way to inform dignified, venerable seniors of the importance of having safe sex? Apparently it is with a short PSA of seniors simulating various sex acts. Warning, viewing this video may cause your eyes to bleed.

Captain Lou Albano telling you don't do drugs...and if you do you'll go to hell before you die!




I used to think that venereal disease was just for a select few, but now I know it's for everybody!




After watching these Canadian workplace safety PSA's I'm terrified to leave the house. Thanks Canada!




Stopping forest fires by creeping people out?




I've already done a post on Take The Poo To The Loo but it may be the oddest PSA ever and certainly deserves to be on the list.




So what would a PSA directed by David Lynch look like? Pretty much what you would expect.




You know Spider-Man, you can buy a lot of bananas with the $400 bucks the mayor was about to give you.




Obviously Don't Copy That Floppy was a huge success since no one now steals digital media.

The Baby Cage

Times have changed. Remember the days when you could stick a crying baby in a cage and hang it outside the window of tall building? No? Me neither, but apparently you once could.

Invented and patented in 1922 by Emma Read, the "Portable Baby Cage" was designed to provide fresh air and sunlight to babies and small children being raised in crowded cities.

It's hard to say how many people actually used the baby cage but it seems the invention made it all the way to London where the East Poplar borough council proposed to fix the cages to the outside of some of their buildings.  Also, the baby cages were distributed to members of London's Chelsea Baby Club.

Eye Tattooing

Apparently, over the past few years, there has been an increasing number of people tattooing the white area of their eyes.

This fairly new body modification was first attempted back in 2007 by tattoo artist LunaCobra and was performed on Shannon Larratt, Pauly Unstoppable and Josh Rahn. Here is a link to an article written by Larratt describing how it all went down.

Shannon Larratt having his eye tattooed

In this Eyeball Tattoo FAQ, Larratt claims that a great deal of research was done prior to the experiment. Interestingly, he summarizes the history of eyeball tattooing stating that the earliest reference dates back almost two thousand years when a Roman doctor attempted to color white patches over the iris. In the 19th century doctors made many attempts to use tattooing methods to cosmetically correct eye deformities. Larratt goes on to say that in the early 1900's, eyeball tattooing was advertised in newspapers by tattoo artist to change the color of the iris but points out that it is unknown if anyone actually went through with the procedure and that no references to these services exist beyond 1920.

Though I doubt it will become a big thing in the near future, eyeball tattooing has started to gain some popularity. Here are a few examples for your viewing pleasure.

Rodrigo Fernando Dos Santos

Update 01/10/18
Seems like a lot more people have done this since I first made this post.

Vice has written a story about it which you can read here.

Also, here's a story from Newsweek about a woman that is now partially blind after having her eye tattooed.

And here's a video of a guy having his eye tattooed