It’s time for all the news that’s not fit for print. It’s time for the Not News of the Week.
It may have become popular thanks to a joke on Seinfeld but it turns out that it’s true. A coroner’s inquest in Australia has confirmed that a dingo actually did eat a woman’s baby. An Aussie woman’s 9-week-old daughter went missing some 32 years ago and she was convicted of murder. The conviction was overturned and the woman maintained that a dingo ran off with her baby. Last week, a coroner ruled that the dingo explanation is the cause of the baby’s death. So Robert Downey Jr. was right in Tropic Thunder. It actually happened.
A group of scientists and experts believe they have found evidence that provide 95% assurance that Bigfoot actually exists. A group of a dozen experts convened in Russia to review evidence found in the Kemerovo region to make the determination. The evidence included hair samples, footprints and a presumed bed found during an October 2011 expedition. I’m not sure I’d call that irrefutable evidence but it beats short, grainy film.
If you die of a heart attack while having a threesome with your friend and a woman who’s not your wife, if could be your doctor’s fault. The man had the heart attack after a visit to a cardio clinic but before a schedule test. The man’s widow sued the doctor claiming that her husband’s doctor should have warned him to avoid any physical activity. As he didn’t, the widow was awarded a $3 million payout from a jury who found the doctor 60% liable for the man’s death. I’d say that the widow can’t be upset her husband was a cheating scumbag. A divorce would have netted her a hell of a lot less.
In a slightly similar story, a bus driver is suing Yale-New Haven Hospital in Brockton, Massachusetts, claiming that they ignored him while he suffered from a painful erection. The man claims that he came into the hospital in April 2009 to get treatment for priapism (a persistent and painful erection despite the absence of stimulation) but was ignored by hospital staff who watched the Red Sox play baseball on TV instead. The lawsuit, which is for $2 million, is being challenged by the hospital as baseless. And the Red Sox won the game 10-8 over the Baltimore Orioles.
If your university is on fire in the background of your graduation photo, apparently you’re expected to do something about it. These students from Dalian University in China had just evacuated the burning dorm seen in the background and took the opportunity to celebrate their graduation with a photo. The photo quickly went viral on the Chinese social networks behind the great firewall. School officials were just a bit embarrassed that the students didn’t seem to care about their school going up in flames. I can’t particularly blame the students, though. It’s kinda like a scene out of an Alice Cooper song.