Freaky News Friday

 

What is popular in the "world of weird" this week?

 

 

Real Life Batman

 

No seriously, there is a real life Batman! According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a man dressed at Batman brought a suspect into a police station in West Yorkshire.

 

West Yorkshire Police said Monday that they do not know the identity of the man who appeared in "a full Batman outfit" and turned in a 27-year-old suspect to police in Bradford, England. We do however, Bruce Wayne. They called him “Bradford Batman”, but you may refer to him as “Bradford Bruce”

 

Bruce Wayne became attached to Wollaton hall in Nottingham after he vacationed here earlier this year shortly before the “Bane Incident”. He liked Yorkshire puddings so much that he decided to stay and defend T’Northerners from thieves and fraudsters, like the one in question.

 

 

 

The suspect is in custody awaiting court hearing. Yorkshirers can sleep safe tonight knowing the “Bat-Signal” is brightly lit above Meadowhall.

 

 

 

 

Fireman Ham

 

In Somerset a pig named Dominic is officially employed as a fireman. Well he isn’t really an employee but he has been helping fire-fighters learn how to heard animals “in case they have to do it for real”, when… when.. when.. I can’t think of a case when firemen are going to need to herd animals.  “Quick a herd of cows are running towards an exploding nuclear plant, get the pig!”.

 

‘Saving his bacon’ has a whole new perspective when it comes to this pig. He was put forward for the mammoth task after the rescue home discovered he contains the soul of the late Houdini and is quite the escape artist.

 

 

 

"You cannot deny,
Dom is the hero, next sty.
Driving down the busy farms,
Greeting people with his arms.
Someone could be in a jam,
So, hurry hurry Fireman Ham.
So move aside, make way.
Fireman Ham!
'Cos he's a heavy fast Bastard.
Fireman Ham!"

 

 

 

Buildings in Disguise

 

Personally I loved this topic due to my background, but I’m hoping you can all see the “resemblance”

 

The Angry Bird Church

 

Luckily for us the church is in no way as addictive as the game, which means we can continue to have lie-ins on a Sunday and avoid mingling with “dead-people”. The church have put in a claim against the architect after small ‘non-religious’ children have flocked to the building in order to throw small round green pigs at it.

 

 

 

 

Of-fish

 

This time the resemblance was intentional as this is the office of the National Fisheries Development Board of India. In my opinion the architect should have opted for a design more ‘conceptual’. Developer “It needs to resemble a fish”, Architect “I will just make a building that is in the shape of a fish”… pure laziness.

 

 

 

 

Robot Bank

 

This is the actual bank of Asia, designed to reflect the ‘computerisation of banking’. I’m thinking the same lazy architect must have also designed this. Unsurprisingly it is known as “The Robot Building”. I give this 10/10 for intelligent thinking. Looks like something a child would make out of Lego.

 

 

 

 

Hitler House

 

You have all more than likely seen this before. But it is still one of my personal favourites. If I owned it I would have definitely painted his “moustache” black to help with the visualisation by now.

 

 

 

 

Wendolene

 

This house APPARENTLY looks like ‘Wallace and Gromit’s , Wendolene’. I loved W&G as a child but I had no clue who Wendolene was. If you’re like me you will have to Google it. Only then does this become hysterical. I could have placed an image here for you, but I’m lazy and needed an excuse to use the term ‘Google it’. Wendolene Ramsbottom is the wool shop owner who wins Wallace’s heart in A Close Shave. And this house is in a place with a ridiculously difficult to pronounce name “Combeinteignhead”, say it with me now!

 

 

 

 

 

Harlem Sack

 

Other people than me must be getting tired of this Harlem Shake shit by now… please? Don’t tell me I am still on my own on the island of ‘anti-harlem’. Well this bought joy to my miserable ‘I-just-woke-up’-face today.

 

A group of gold miners in Australia have been sacked after performing the Harlem Shake dance craze currently sweeping the internet. The miners are reported to have lost their six-figure salaries after the owner of the Agnew gold mine deemed the dance stunt to be a ‘safety issue’. A better headline "Mine Collapses after miners perform Harlem Shake"

 

Shake your way to a life of unemployment and repossession!

 

 

 

I almost didn’t include this topic as I didn’t want to warn people about the possibility of losing their job from performing the Harlem Shake at work. The more people sacked for continuing this ridiculous craze, the better.

 

A Facebook page calling for the miner’s reinstatement had been set up with users telling the sacked employees to talk to their union. “Dear union bosses, we think it is extremely unfair that we have been sacked for spending the time we are paid to work otherwise engaged, shaking our asses”.

 

 

 

That's it for this week, check back next friday for more weird yet wonderful!