This Week in Weird News: You Can Now Date Hipster Colonel Sanders in All His 11 Herbs and Spices Glory
Sep 13, 2019 • Kyzia Maramara
Sep 13, 2019 • Kyzia Maramara
Aside from the weather, a bunch of creepy things happened this week that would make your hair rise and your jaw drop. Okay maybe we’re exaggerating, but in case you’ve got some time to spare, deep dive with us into the weird, weird, happenings of this week starting with…
Halloween is just around the corner and yet ghosts are starting to act up. This Grab driver’s hair raising experience, for example, delves into the unexplainable. Now we really want to talk to those girls and ask them what sort of creepy sorcery they left in manong Grab’s car! To the cynics out there, ghosts are real!
Kudos to the owner of this franchise! We heard Jollubot is well known for selling fried chicken balls.
Raccoons are getting “drunk” on fermented fruit and stumbling around Stittsville: https://t.co/YFQSARfnq3 via @RobynMillerCBC pic.twitter.com/09LOokQwuL
— CBC Ottawa (@CBCOttawa) September 6, 2019
Looks like Rocket went on a night out and got smashed. Residents in Ottawa, Ontario reported to the police that a couple of wobbly raccoons took a nap in their front porch and backyard. It was later reported that these raccoons got ‘drunk’ off fruit fermented under the heat such as apples. Humans were advised not to approach said animal and give it hangover soup.
He just caught a strangers cell phone on a roller coaster 😳📱 pic.twitter.com/vpBKMEh64G
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) September 5, 2019
If that were me, gold bars could fly past and I’d keep my eyes shut.
This might just be the best ad for Tesla’s autopilot cars. A Massachusetts highway traveler captured the strange sight of a Tesla autopilot car with both the driver and the front seat passenger asleep. The passengers didn’t wake up from all the honking from the other cars! If anything, this video just shows a man’s utmost faith in his Tesla car. SOLD!
Shortly after Marvin Olegenio drowned at the San Juan River in Marikina, Funeraria Cruz took his body without the family’s permission and charged the body Php 360,000 for cleaning. The police, posing as payers, arrested two of the funeral parlor staff. Mayor Isko Moreno presented to the media the two workers involved in the incident and ordered Manila Health Department to investigate funeral homes and shut down those facing complaints.
How can this happen, you wonder, when you can’t even memorize your own phone number? A store cashier in Tokyo was arrested for stealing the credit card information of his customers by committing all the details to memory. His photographic memory could’ve been put to good use but he chose to be eeeeevil!
For those of you who don’t have a life, you might find this news exciting. In a dating simulation video game called I Love You, Colonel Sanders, everyone will have a chance to date the Colonel in his reimagined hipster prime. The simulation puts you in the shoes of a culinary student who tries to win the heart of fellow classmate Sanders who is ‘the most famous chicken salesman of all time.’ We don’t know about you but one thing’s for sure, a date with white-haired Colonel Sanders will be finger-lickin’ good.
In case you want this, the game comes out on Steam on September 24.
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen this week? Share it with us below!
Kyzia spends most of her time capturing the world around her through photos, paragraphs, and playlists. She is constantly on the hunt for the perfect chocolate chip cookie, and a great paperback thriller to pair with it.
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