A day late, a dollar short, but it’s still all the news that’s not fit for print. It’s the weird, the wacky, and the wonderful Not News of the Week. The theme of this week’s Not News is nature’s revenge.

Thirty-six years ago, a fisherman from Somerset was caught out by a fast moving incoming tide. He tried moving his car back from the edge of the water but his clutch started slipping so he abandoned ship and left his car to be buried at sea. Well, that story has one glaring inaccuracy. His car wasn’t buried at sea. Instead, the fisherman’s Vauxhall Victor 101 was buried under mud at that same beach it was lost at over three decades ago. The car and several parts have been discovered buried just below the surface of the sand thanks to rough weather that has shift a fair amount of sand. The fisherman hasn’t said if he plans on having the car retrieved but the last car that was salvaged from partial burial at the beach cost £3,000 to save.

Running a marathon is hard enough as it is but there are ways to make it harder. About 20 runners in a marathon through the northern Austrian city of Linz were attacked by a swarm of angry wasps near the finish line. The attack was so bad that one runner jumped into a nearby pond but still come out with about 15 stings. In all, 20 runners and spectators were stung.

If crazed attack wasps weren’t bad enough, researchers in New Zealand have confirmed the existence of a man-eating bird. Maori legend calls the bird “Te Hokioi” and describes it as a “huge black-and-white predator with a red crest and yellow-green tinged wingtips.” Scientists now believe that the tales refer to Haast’s Eagle which has been extinct for some 500 years. Haast’s eagle had a three metre wingspan, weighed 18 kg and has talons as big as tiger claws. That makes it around twice the size of the largest living eagle. Researchers have said that the Te Hokioi was designed as a pure killing machine.

This may not be nature’s direct revenge but you can say that it played a part in starting this. There’s a feud brewing between the Tower Bridge and the London Bridge on Twitter. Tower Bridge frequently tweets about which ships it’s raising and lowering for. London Bridge mocks Tower Bridge mercilessly for its boring tweets and is frequently engaged in banter with other Tweeters. While these two bridges are involved in a decidedly one-way feud, there are two other bridges that are battling back-and-forth. The Severn Bridge and Clifton Suspension Bridge are battling it out online over tolls.

Again, not nature’s revenge but maybe something to be cited in the ongoing argument between nature and nurture. Students at MIT have rickrolled the whole campus. For those that don’t know, Rickrolling is an internet joke that has grown legs in real life. It originally started with the stealthy redirection of people from their intended YouTube video to the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up. MIT pranksters have come up with their own higher education spin on rickrolling. After seeing that the scaffolding around MIT’s Great Dome looked like unfilled sheet music, pranksters put up eight music notes that just happen to be the start to Never Gonna Give You Up. It’s too bad that this prank was both literally and figuratively over everyone’s head.