Here is the news....

[Markymark]

Here's a new thread we didn't do 'anywhere' else

Maybe it will take off, maybe not, but post up here any funny, bad, awful news you find from around the globe


Here's a boaty one to start!
Ouch!

Blundering skipper wedges £500,000 pleasure cruiser under Chertsey Bridge on Thames after misjudging how river had swollen | Mail Online

[Scuttler]

I did it in he other place. It was news clip of the day...but it didn't really take off

[Markymark]

How about this one then?

Anger at U.S. bounty hunters as they submit plans to raise gold coins worth hundreds of millions from the wreck of HMS Victory | Mail Online

[Spirit of Guernsey]

LINKEY

[Markymark]

Maybe look in his jim'll fix it chair?

Jimmy Savile: Lawyers say they are hunting for paedophile's hidden £20million fortune | Mail Online

[Sami]

BBC News - Gamers hired by father to 'kill' son in online games

Some real lateral thinking

[gpj]

Nuts or what?

BBC News - Hertfordshire fire crews rescue grey squirrel in Watford

[BTS]

You couldn't make this up..

BBC News - Puppy thrown at German biker gang

[Soggy]

Here is the news....

You couldn't make this up..

BBC News - Puppy thrown at German biker gang

Apart from the puppy moment the rest of it made me laugh, escaped on a bulldozer after mooning a hells angels gang. That's style.

[String]

You couldn't make this up..

BBC News - Puppy thrown at German biker gang

Damn it. I just came here to post that one!

After making his getaway on the bulldozer, he had driven so slowly that a 5km tailback built up behind him on the motorway.

[Georgina]

Egyptian bank grants loans to young farmers to marry more than one wife

By Al Arabiya

In an attempt to fight “spinsterhood,” the Egyptian Bank for Development and Agricultural Credit decided to grant loans to new farmers to encourage polygamy.

The Bank’s chairman, Mohsen Batran, announced in a press conference held with the Minister of Agriculture on Tuesday, that the bank will be granting loans to young farmers, to help them with the cost of marriage, according to “al-Ahram” newspaper.

His initiative includes encouraging polygamy, provided that they will just wed two wives. The bank’s chairman said that the loan’s interest on the first marriage is three percent while for the second marriage is six percent.

Men seeking a third wife will have to pay a loan’s interest of more than 15 percent.

According to Al-Ahram newspaper, there are nine million unmarried women in Egypt.

Batran, meanwhile, criticized those who are skeptical about the bank’s support to the farmers, adding that the bank had helped 37 thousand farmers with their debts.

[Chris Thomas]

Sets sat nav for a 39 mile journey. Does 900 miles through 4 countries, stops for fuel, sleeps in a lay by and realizes her sat nav might be wrong when she reaches Zagreb...

http:// http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262149/Belgian-woman-67-picking-friend-railway-station-ends-Zagreb-900-miles-away-satnav-disaster.html

[Markymark]

BBC News - 'Horsemeat beef burgers' investigated in UK and Ireland


What will happen? The supermarkets will distance themselves from it, and allow the production plants to take all the blame, when all the time, they bang on about traceability and integrity, they are the worst of the lot!
As long as the till rings, they are happy, stuff everyone else

[MarkP]

I don't have a link, but on the Today programme at about 0642, Sarah Montague was reported that a dog which "blogged" on matters of fashion, it belonged to a writer on a fashion magazine, had been killed in a revolving door accident. John Humphrys was clearly trying not to snigger.

How long before the Daily Mail tries to turn this into a crusade?

[Tas]

Sad news... going to make my planned grocery shop at Sainsbury's tonight interesting as that's next to it. Hope there aren't any fatalities other than the pilot (not that I hope he died but that nobody else did).

Helicopter crashes into crane on St George Tower