The last post
Since July 1999, I’ve been finding and posting quirky stories from around the web. (Sadly, the oldest link, to the Woodstock Platinum MasterCard, is no longer current, though happily you can see it courtesy of Archive.org.)
But this is the last News You Had To Have. It’s going on indefinite hiatus. Sorry, I know some people enjoy it (and I have an ever-loyal small crowd of people who regularly send in stories). But this isn’t anything you can’t read on any number of “Strange news” sections of web sites all over the place, and it’s taking me too much time to sort through it all. Time I don’t have at the moment.
So, one last time for now…
Real estate agent looking through home for sale finds owner dead, hanged in wardrobe.
William Shatner says he never watched Star Trek. (Thanks Nancy)
A woman weighing 215 kilograms dies after emergency workers try to move her from the couch she’d been sitting on for six years. I guess they should have left her there? (Thanks Dan)
Assault charge over a rough handshake.
Red roses banned in Saudi Arabia.
Thank you to all the contributors over the years. Maybe I’ll resume at some stage in the future… time will tell.
Finally, here are some other places you can get strange news stories:
- The Age Oddspot
- CNN Offbeat
- This Is True has been put out weekly since 1994
- Groxx — associated with This Is True, is a Digg-like place for weird news
February 11th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Wow - one I sent in made the final News You Had to Have post. I would feel honored if the story wasn’t so icky.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Damn! Glad you put in those links, so I don’t have to go find some “strange news” site somewhere. If there was something that could look through all the web and find these things it woldn’t be so much of a problem (you could call it a “search engine”). Will miss the news you had to have, Daniel. How dare you have a life outside work and your PTUA commitmeents! That and the Age Odd Spot were my “must read” news items of the week.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Please don’t make comments about people with weight problems, if she was that big she obviously had a mental/emotional health problems. It’s the last unprotected by law discrimination of people that is hoed into by everyone from the fortunately healthy and slim, doctors, media…everyone who’s never walked the walk. There are valid reasons such as trauma (mental), thyroid (physical), other diseases, side effects of prescriptions drugs & treaments(how many anti-depressants list weight gain as a side effect?). Sorry but I’m starting a lobby against this thing.