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Author Topic: The Top Peculiar Stories Of 2005 Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-30-2005 10:37 PM                     Don't ya just love this one..... "Woman torches house trying to kill spiders" I guess there are actually people like this out there..... . Link To Article MSNBC.com's Most Peculiar stories of 2005 You picked 'em! Find out what stories you chose as the year's wackiest MSNBC Updated: 6:35 p.m. ET Dec. 23, 2005 One of the most popular features of MSNBC.com are those wacky, strange stories from around the world that have readers saying "Gee whiz" — and e-mailing them to friends and family. We call them our Peculiar Postings, and earlier this year we decided to find out which ones readers thought were the Most Peculiar in a weekly poll. But which ones are — drum roll, please — the Most Peculiar of the Year? Well, the tally is in, and here are the Top Five Most Peculiar Stories of 2005, as voted on by our users. Full disclosure: Since this feature only started in August, the title should strictly read The Most Peculiar of the Last Five Months of 2005. So, in case you're wondering about the wackiest tales of the first seven months of the year, we have also offered a selection from January through July. We call them our Fabulous Forty. THE TOP 5 MOST PECULIAR STORIES OF 2005 The envelope, please: 1: And the winner is, with a 77 percent vote: Woman torches house trying to kill spiders 2: Coming in second, with a 70 percent score: Corpse mistaken for Halloween decoration 3: Third, with 56 percent, is this seasonal gem: Ho, ho - oh, no! Air force flyover kills reindeer 4: Fourth, at 55 percent, is a cautionary tale: Woman calls cops over unreliable hit man 5: And fifth, at a round 50 percent, another cautionary saga. Gator-gobbling python comes to messy end What did you think of 2005? For yourself? For the U.S.? For the world? Vote! THE FABULOUS FORTY Credit cards lost at sea return 39 years later Hooked fish gets revenge, lures angler to death 3 wives greet man after triple bypass surgery Teen vomits on teacher, told to clean police cars Plumber takes a leak instead of fixing one Seattle man dies after sex with horse Brazilian bandits pull off big boob job Sleepwalker rescued from top of giant crane No beer? Then lunch is off, Belgian official says Attempt at popsicle record turns into disaster on a stick Statue of hero to gays draws monumental flak Kittens use fax as toilet, spark house fire German man makes $37,000 potty stop Woman charged with smuggling fish in skirt Man in trunk was bound to enjoy it Man leaps from speeding car in pursuit of puff Drinking wrong beer costs man his job Jesus Christ in legal battle for driver’s license Bum wrap: School mistakes huge burrito for weapon, goes into lockdown Standing room only at new cemetery Doctors pull 50 maggots from elderly man’s ears Driver ‘executes’ balky automobile Gnome gone wild — partying with Paris Hilton? 911 dispatcher offers to shoot unruly kid for caller Leech worms way into hiker’s nose Uptight Englishmen blamed for erotic fest’s flop Monster swine ‘Hogzilla’ was real, experts say Satan’s face seen on turtle that survived inferno Cowabunga! Giant surfboard breaks record Iranian woman seeks divorce from smelly man Blind Scotsman accused of biting guide dog Birds recover after drunken bash 4-year-old takes mom’s car for a midnight spin Good to his word, bad to his testicles Late-night cookie gift costs teens $900 Police officer robs bank, returns to solve case Bush salute a Satan sign? Norwegians think so Tennessee case draws the ‘jury pool from hell’ U.S. military nixed gay aphrodisiac weapon Preacher’s last words in pulpit: ‘And when I go to heaven ...’  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-30-2005 11:14 PM                        What about the woman who married a dolphin?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-31-2005 03:16 AM                     Thats a good one... but leep in mind that some of us have been married to at least several projectors at once...... Mark  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-31-2005 08:54 PM                        quote: Joe Redifer What about the woman who married a dolphin? Lots of NFL football players are married.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-01-2006 07:05 AM                        The teenagers who tried to recreate a Star wars 'light sabre' battle using flourescent light tubes filled with petrol gets my nomination - story here.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 01-01-2006 09:50 AM                        quote: Mark Gulbrandsen 4: Fourth, at 55 percent, is a cautionary tale: Woman calls cops over unreliable hit man Too good to be true. But apparently it is.  |  IP: Logged Robert Burtcher Expert Film Handler Posts: 194 From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Registered: Jun 2005 posted 01-23-2006 11:20 PM                     My favorite was "Driver 'executes' balky automobile".  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 01-24-2006 01:48 AM                        Why is it illegal to shoot one's own car? I mean, provided the gun is owned legally.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-24-2006 05:55 AM                        Basil Fawlty tried something like that 30 years ago!  |  IP: Logged

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