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Surreal news articles

You’d have thought that at the point they were tying the pig up and it was squealing in distress, someone might have gone, "Yeah, this isn’t actually very funny, is it?". Pigs are more intelligent than most dogs, highly sociable and are treated appallingly by people, just because “bacon tastes so good”. It seems like a rather flimsy argument for causing an intelligent animal a lot of pain and distress. I did think about trying to finish with some kind of a joke about them making Merlin look good, but really there is no humour in all of this. Just people inflicting a lot of pain on an animal.
 
I mean, there's acting strange in court in an attempt to plead insanity.... and then there is actual insanity....
 
Bacon saved after pedometer-eating pig's poo starts farm fire

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A peckish pig who swallowed a pedometer ended up sparking a fire in its pen.

Fire crews were called to a farm near Bramham, Leeds, at about 14:00 GMT on Saturday after copper from the pedometer's batteries apparently reacted with the pig's excrement and dry bedding.

The pedometers were being used on pigs to prove they were free-range. No pigs or people were hurt in the fire.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said it had gone to "save the bacon".

More here: link
 
French pensioner ejected from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing bang seat* handle

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An elderly and reluctant Frenchman was ejected from a French Air Force fighter during a retirement day jolly – and narrowly missed taking the pilot with him, an investigation report littered with unintentional howlers has revealed.

The unnamed 64-year-old was éjecté from the two-seat Rafale-B from a height of 2,500ft in March last year after grabbing his ejection seat handle to steady himself, France's BEA-E aviation investigator concluded.

Although the BEA's full report is in French [PDF], aviation news website Aerotime Hub translated and summarised its contents, revealing the full comedy of errors triggered by a group of enthusiastic colleagues hoping to give their workmate a send-off to remember.

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Our pensioner, loose in his straps, not really wanting to be there and totally unused to being flung around like a rag doll, reached out to grab something and hang on for dear life. He picked the worst possible handhold: the trigger handle for the ejection seat. After the customary loud bang and whoosh he ceased to be part of the jet's payload, with the force of the ejection tearing his unsecured helmet and mask from his face.

The Rafale-B's command ejection system is meant to fire both seats if one of the crew pulls the handle. A very confused pilot, however, was still sitting in his newly canopy-free Rafale wondering what the hell had just happened. He returned to land, conscious all the time that the seat could fire at any moment without warning. Luckily, it didn't go off.

Both the pilot, his reluctant (and probably now aviation-phobic) passenger and the aircraft all landed safely.

Read the full article here
 
I know it didn't happen in the Stoke Sentinel's main coverage area, but it's exactly the kind of thing I'd expect to happen in or around Stoke. :p
 
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