If it’s not worth talking about, then it must be the Not News of the Week.

Our first weird story of the week might not even be true. The Sun newspaper in Britain reported that a British teenager sent an insulting email to US President Barack Obama and was told by police that he was barred from ever entering the country. The teen claimed that he was drunk at the time he wrote the email and called Obama a “p***k.” (I’m not entirely sure what the apparent insult was.) Local police went to the man’s residence to pass along a message from the FBI that he’s no longer welcome in the USA. However, the blog Gizmodo says that Homeland Security doesn’t tell people that they’ve barred entry from the country. They just make notes on the person’s file and they’re turned away at customs. So what’s the weirder part of the story: That the kid was banned from the USA or that it looks like a newspaper ran a fake story? Continue reading →

It’s that time of the week again. It’s the weirdest and wackiest news from around the world. It’s the Not News of the Week.

Canadians can seem to find anything to complain about during the G20 summit in Toronto last month. For example, a protester was arrested for assaulting a police officer during one of the “peaceful” protests. Said protester defied repeated warnings from police that continuing to blow bubbles at them could get her arrested. Well, wouldn’t you know it, a bubble hit an officer and into cuffs the protester went. That’s $1 billion of Canadian taxpayers’ money well spent. Continue reading →

It’s time for all the news that’s not fit for print. It’s the Not News of the Week.

It’s the frivolous lawsuit of the week: An Indianapolis man is suing a convenience store chain for $11.5 Million of lottery winnings that he never won. The 70-year-old man picked the winning numbers of a draw in February 2008 but never got a ticket because the store’s clerk refused to sell him a ticket with only a few minutes before the cutoff. The man did have some proof that he picked the right numbers. He left his play sheet with the clerk and confirmed the numbers the next day. So the lesson is that we should all fill out a stack of play sheets with every possible combination of numbers and then sue for the winnings of the ticket we didn’t actually buy. Continue reading →