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Two of World’s Oldest People Die on Same Day

By: nickev | March 9th, 2010 | Category: Weird

AOL Weird News – Sunday was a sad day for supercentenarians: Two of the 10 oldest people in the world died within a 24-hour span.

“March 7, 2010, will go down in history as the first time two top-10 supercentenarians died on the same day,” said Robert Young, of the Gerontology Research Group. “This is a very elite group, the very top of the population pyramid.”

Mary Josephine Ray, certified by the research group as the oldest person living in the U.S. and the second oldest in the world, died early Sunday at a nursing home in Westmoreland, N.H. She was 114 years and 294 days old.

Hours later, Daisey Bailey, the oldest living black person in the world and the fifth-oldest person in the world, died at 10:03 p.m. in Detroit, Young said. Born March 30, 1896, in Tennessee, she was 113 years and 342 days old, Young said. The gerontology group certified her age using two Censuses, but her family believes she was born on the same day one year earlier, he added.

Courtesy of AOL Weird News

Perspect the fact that both of these awesome people were born in the 1890’s. Then put into perspective everything that they have seen in their life. There is not a century in the history of the world that saw as much happen as the 1900’s. The Car. The Computer. The Television. Everything happened in the 1900’s. When Daisey was 30 years old, in 1926, do you think she ever imagined a black president? I love this country and these two ladies saw it all.

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A Lil’ iPhone Russian Roulette

By: nickev | November 10th, 2009 | Category: Videos - Weird

iPhones are no joke!

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Blockbuster Clerk Stabs Himself To Avoid Working

By: Carl H | November 5th, 2009 | Category: Weird

Give it up for Big Aaron Seibers. While he may be a complete and total moran, at least he had the nuts to do what 99.9% of us feel like doing every each day.

(UK) – The prospect of working the nightshift at a 24-hour video rental shop proved too much for one employee – so he stabbed himself in the leg.

Aaron Seibers, 29, told colleagues at the Blockbuster outlet in the Denver town of Edgewater that three skinheads or Hispanic males dressed in black had tried to rob him and knifed him in the lower left leg.

Police launched a manhunt with search dogs for the attackers, but became suspicious after viewing CCTV footage from cameras outside a shop near where Siebers said he was stabbed.

Siebers, who had a deep wound to his leg, was taken to St Anthony’s Hospital in Denver after reporting the incident.

One camera captured him as he got off a bus near the Blockbuster store where he was not limping. Other footage showed no attack like the one he described near a Target store.

After he was released from hospital, detectives confronted him and he confessed that he came up with the ruse because he did not want to go to work.

Lakewood police spokesman Steve Davis said: ‘If you are going to concoct a story about being stabbed, don’t do it near a Target store.’

Siebers has been charged with false reporting and obstructing police.

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Louisville’s Scariest Landmark: Waverly Hills Sanatorium

By: Stella | October 30th, 2009 | Category: Weird

Louisville is home to the Waverly Hill Sanatorium, which is a building in the Pleasure Ridge Park area of the city that used to be a hospital for tuberculosis patients in the early 20th century. TB is a lethal bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs, and it reached epidemic proportions before cures were discovered.

Without medicine to cure the potentially contagious disease, TB-stricken patients were sent to sanitoriums such as Waverly in hopes of being cured, but often to just live out their time until the disease got the best of them. Waverly was considered one of the top TB hospitals in America, and could accommodate at least 400 patients.

Luckily, antibiotics to help alleviate TB were discovered in the 1950s, and the disease became less prevalent, lowering the demand for places like Waverly.

Due to the large number of deaths that occurred at the current Waverly building between its opening in 1926 to its closure in 1961, many claim the premises is haunted. There have been claims and reports of ghostly apparitions now that it is a tourist attraction, and the building is open as a haunted house during the month of October, with paranormal and historical tours are also available to schedule.

Several lame TV shows investigating paranormal activities, such as SciFi’s GhostHunters and VH1’s Celebrity Paranormal Project, have visited Waverly in hopes of searching out the supernatural, and boosting their lowly ratings.

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Somali Man, 112, Marries 17-Year-Old

By: Carl H | October 30th, 2009 | Category: Weird

Yesterday was a big day for big Ahmed Muhamed Dore. The man pulled off one of the greatest pimp moves this earth has ever seen as, at the age of A HUNDRED AND TWELVE(!), got some 17-year-old chick to say ‘I Do’ and become his wife. Dore’s oldest son is EIGHTY(!), AND THE MAN IS STILL GUNNIN’ TO HAVE MORE KIDS!!!!!!!!! Imagine being 20 years old and going to your brother’s 100th b-day party…. That’s what the next Dore has to look forward to.

(Oct 29) A Somali man who claims to be 112 years old has married for the sixth time, and he hopes to have children with his 17-year-old bride.

Hundreds of people attended the wedding this week in the town of Guriceel in central Somalia, according to reports Thursday by the BBC as well as in The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian newspapers.

“Today God helped me realize my dream,” groom Ahmed Muhamed Dore said, according to The Guardian.

The bride, Safia Abdulleh, did not comment, but her family said she was “happy with her new husband” — even though he is nearly a century her senior.

BBC reporter Mohammed Olad Hassan, who is based in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, said Dore told him he was born in 1897 and he has a traditional birth certificate, written on a goat skin by his father.

Dore has 13 children by his five previous wives. His oldest son is 80. Three of his wives have died, but the remaining two consented to the new wedding, as did the bride’s parents and the groom’s children.

Altogether, Dore has 114 children and grandchildren.

But he said he hopes to have more children with his new wife, who is young enough to be his great-great-granddaughter.

“It is a blessing to have someone you love to take care of you,” he said, according to the BBC.

In 1941, Dore joined the British colonial forces as a solider, where he served for 10 years, the BBC said. After Somalia gained independence in 1960, he became a police officer.

Although it’s not unusual for Somali girls to marry older men, the reports cited historians in the Horn of Africa nation as saying this wedding was the first marriage with such a great age disparity in more than a century.

Dore said he and his bride are from the same village, and he waited for her to grow up.

“I didn’t force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love, and then we agreed to marry,” he said.

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Old Peeps Fight Two Crazy Girls

By: nickev | October 29th, 2009 | Category: Videos - Weird

Old man and his old lady get into a little scuffle with two younger chicks. This thing goes on for a little over five minutes and is pretty good stuff. You have people tripping over lines, old man kicking younger chicks and around the four-minute mark a Space Trooper shows up to clean things up.

I want to know how one of the bystanders doesn’t walk in and just kick old man’s ass for hitting and kicking a chick.

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Club Bounce is for the “Phatties”

By: nickev | October 27th, 2009 | Category: Weird

Club Bounce is a nightclub in Long Beach, California, that specifically caters towards people of excessive weight. So if you’re pushing 300-plus and you like hitting on broads weighing in at 250-plus, than Club Bounce is for you.

These people are showing up at the club and showing off their fat, or “phat” as they call it. They are even calling it the new “Phat” movement.

Here is how it all got started and some quotes from people who are loving them some Club Bounce.

Lisa Marie Garbo, a vivacious, 40-year-old blonde partial to flamboyant outfits of tight-fitting pants and low-cut tops, said she opened the club for herself and others who were tired of being “the only fat girl at the local nightclub.”

The club, with a capacity of 400, attracts relatively equal numbers of men and women, although Garbo says about three-quarters of the women tend to be heavy, while only about a quarter of the men are.

“Self-conscious? No! Not at all,” laughs Monique Lopez, a curvaceous woman of 23 as she arrives in a tight, black dress and heels. “I was like, ‘I’m going to Club Bounce tonight. I’m going to wear my shortest skirt.’”

“When you’re not what they consider ideal, you know, and you’re out there trying to get your dance on at those other places, you get the looks, the stares. But not here. Everything’s accepted here,” says Vanessa Gray of Long Beach, an attractive 30-something woman who acknowledges jovially that after giving birth to three children, “I’ve got a little more meat on my bones.”

“It’s nice to have a place to go where you can do a little flirting and maybe bring your thin sister or somebody from work who isn’t fat, and they’ll be in your world for awhile,” says McAfe, a pioneer of the fat advocacy movement. “That’s an amazing experience for a lot of people who aren’t fat, to spend a day or night in a world of fat people.”

Courtesy of AOL Weird News

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Lil’ Buddy Monster Trucks Cars in Empty Lot

By: nickev | October 27th, 2009 | Category: Videos - Weird

Lil’ Buddy’s got his BMW SUV and he’s looking for a place to park in a lot with a plethora of empty spots. So he pulls up, floors it, and just absolutely monster trucks two cars at once.

And then he’s like, “Alright bud, see ya later!”

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