October 11, 2024

What a Weird Week Fri Oct 11 2024: Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend Weirdness!

16 minutes

Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about

the weird stuff in the news. See below for a transcript of the podcast

episode. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links,

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These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 41 which is an encore

performance from a year ago. Happy Thanksgiving! Here are the stories... If that chair could talk! someone started a Facebook group based around chair appreciation... https://www.facebook.com/groups/1434160430714378/ and see https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/09/Chair-Watch-Dennis-Township-New-Jersey/2661696871859/

Teenager makes news, success is built on a house of cards... https://youtu.be/zg4OkrefKDs?feature=shared and https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/10/teen-stacks-143-000-playing-cards-to-create-worlds-largest-card-structure-759373

Mushy Chestnuts linked to scandal in world championship Conkers... https://vigourtimes.com/controversy-erupts-at-world-conkers-championships-due-to-waterlogged-chestnuts/ and https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67046823 and also https://www.worldconkerchampionships.com/

I'm

just gonna muscle through this one like it's a news story and nothing

else... Harry Dick Road is not a road you want to go down... it made

news because the town in charge of Harry Dick Road (Bonnechere Valley

near Eganville, Ontario) is tired of replacing the street sign... it's

gotten annoying and expensive...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/harry-dick-road-name-sign-change-bonnechere-1.6981502

a great day for salted meats and cheese! #WorldRecord ...
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/boarderie-shatters-guinness-world-records-title-for-the-largest-charcuterie-board-weighing-769-lbs-301948299.html

Grade 4 kids shown "Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey" movie by mistake. School offers counseling.
*viewer discretion advised https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/winnie-the-pooh-horror-movie-shown-to-children-in-florida-school-18006345

*Warning: PG 13. Earmuffs for the kids! OK, here's the story ... Crocodiles doin' it has made headlines... -

This is such a wild story... they think that helicopters flying low to

try to get photos of crocodiles may have accidentally set-off a

crocodile lovefest...https://www.iflscience.com/crocodile-sex-bonanza-triggered-by-low-flying-chinook-in-australia-70971

Guy who worked at museum decides to act out some kind of heist movie plot, buy Rolls Royce...
https://edition.cnn.com/style/german-munich-museum-stolen-paintings-sold/index.html
Chucky

Doll placed in handcuffs, arrested for... robbery?- If you go by those

terrifying movies, Chucky is evil and can't be trusted. https://bnn.network/breaking-news/crime/chucky-doll-handcuffed-and-arrested-in-mexico-after-series-of-robberies-a-bizarre-tale-of-crime/

HONORABLE MENTION... Congratulations

to Steve from Missouri who broke the Guinness World Record for longest

journey by pumpkin boat! It took almost 11 hours to paddle his 1200

pound pumpkin 38 miles on the shark-infested* Missouri River. (*citation

needed. River may not be shark-infested. Sounded good though.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/09/man-with-pumpkin-vessel-breaks-guinness-world-record/71125133007/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Big Pumpkin Makes News Ahead of Halloween... how big is the biggest pumpkin in the world?
- 2749 pounds! see https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/anoka-mans-world-record-pumpkin/89-b829f565-3933-4942-b7ae-04016a456822 and also https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/10/Guinness-World-Records-largest-pumpkin-Half-Moon-Bay/8671696948687/

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By Scotty Horsman

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