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Better than Jello?



weird, very weird
Roam Around
12:31:50 PM
8/26/04

OH NO!!!!

There's a head in my tomato soup! Call the Health Department!
Wounded Knee
12:55:40 PM
8/26/04

That always looks like fun. Wish I could of joined in!! It is much better then lime green jellow anyday.
Free25
1:00:25 PM
8/26/04

Smear me up real good
Squish it up so it's liquid
Tomato ketchup!




With apologies to the Ketchup Board
Geobeet
1:08:01 PM
8/26/04

That stuff has gotta sting when it gets in your eyes.
Free25
1:09:05 PM
8/26/04

I was thinking the same thing. Might sting other areas, too. Ouch.
techntrek
1:17:20 PM
8/26/04

dangit, i shoulda put that in the "caption this picture" thread.
Roam Around
1:19:52 PM
8/26/04

Or how 'bout this
A tour boat was passing under a bridge here in Chicago. It's not paved just a web of metal. As it passes under the bridge the coach crossing the bridge emptied its 100 gallon sewage tank.

Welcome to Chicago! SPLAT!

Some rather unhappy people.
ChicagoMark
2:14:32 PM
8/26/04

100 gallons = at least 800 pounds, depending on how much solid matter was in there.

can you imagine how much vomit that caused!
Roam Around
2:20:20 PM
8/26/04

that looks like fun
ScorchFire
2:38:05 PM
8/26/04

I love New York
Corpse Wheeled to Check-Cashing Store Leads to 2 Arrests



By BRUCE LAMBERT and CHRISTINE HAUSER
Published: January 9, 2008
Even for the once-notorious Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, it may have been a first: Two men were arrested on Tuesday after pushing a corpse, seated in an office chair, along the sidewalk to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man’s Social Security check, the police said.

When Virgilio Cintron, 66, died at his apartment at 436 West 52nd Street recently, his roommate and a friend saw an opportunity to cash his $355 check, the police said.

They did not go about it the easy way, the police said, choosing a ruse that resembled the plot of “Weekend at Bernie’s,” a film about two young men who prop up their dead employer to pretend that he is alive.

“Hell’s Kitchen has a rich history,” said Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, “but this is one for the books.”

There was no sign of foul play in Mr. Cintron’s death, he added.

The roommate, James P. O’Hare, and his friend, David J. Dalaia, both 65 and unemployed, placed Mr. Cintron’s body in the chair and wheeled it around the corner, south along Ninth Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, the police said. The men parked the chair with the corpse in front of Pay-O-Matic at 763 Ninth Avenue, a check-cashing business that Mr. Cintron had patronized.

They went inside to present the check, but a clerk said Mr. Cintron would have to cash it himself, and asked where he was, the police said.

“He is outside,” Mr. O’Hare said, indicating the body in the chair, according to Mr. Browne.

The two men started to bring the chair inside, but it was too late.

Their sidewalk procession had already attracted the stares of passers-by who were startled by the sight of the body flopping from side to side as the two men tried to prop it up, the police said. The late Mr. Cintron was dressed in a faded black T-shirt and blue-and-white sneakers. His pants were pulled up part of the way, and his midsection was covered by a jacket, the police said. While the two men were inside the check-cashing office, a small crowd had gathered around the chair. A detective, Travis Rapp, eating a late lunch at a nearby Empanada Mama saw the crowd and notified the Midtown North station house.

Police officers and an ambulance arrived as the two men were trying to maneuver the corpse and chair into the check-cashing office.

The two men were taken into custody and questioned. The police said they were considering charging them with check-cashing fraud.

Mr. Cintron’s body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner’s office said its preliminary assessment was that he had died of natural causes within the past 24 hours.
mapleleaf
3:34:56 AM
1/09/08

Hell for all the citizens knew it was Algore come to visit.
XL400236
5:48:32 AM
1/09/08

umm ok XL but what are you talking about?
mapleleaf
5:59:41 AM
1/09/08

Maple, XL lives in a strange world that even Rod Serling would have difficulty pinning down.
Treebeard
6:21:22 AM
1/09/08

Great story, BTW!
Treebeard
6:22:01 AM
1/09/08

Silly Cousins to the South
I love you guys down there.
Gremlin
9:38:05 AM
1/09/08

hahahaha follow up to the two guys trying to cash dead friends check...


http://www.nypost.com/seven/01112008/news/regionalnews/body_parts_for_morons_309875.htm
mapleleaf
5:47:23 AM
1/11/08

As if the first movie wasn't bad enough...
treebait
5:59:51 AM
1/11/08

Either ___ or get off the pot?!?

Did that bathroom have a lock in Ness?
salebored
11:57:00 AM
3/13/08

this is strangely familiar.......
Tilt
1:07:58 PM
3/13/08

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