[noyd666]

Originally Posted by WelderDan

There's a retention pond near where I work. My supervisor told me one day this guy came running up to one of the loading docks, his head all bloody. He was homeless, and was washing his face in the retention pond when an alligator grabbed him by the head. He was pretty pretty freaked out (so was my supervisor), and his head looked like, well it looked like he was grabbed by an alligator.

When I first moved here, like the first week, I was watching the news. A 10 foot alligator had parked himself in the street a few blocks away to get some sun. Of course someone called the cops, and a female officer showed up. She had the brilliant idea of grabbing it by the tail to try to get it out of the street. It promptly slapped her with its tail breaking both her legs. So she's laying in the street with two broken legs next to a 10 foot alligator. Lucky for her he wasn't hungry and just wandered away.

no appetite for pig.

[Robrites]

A Bend man was impaled in the back by the antlers of an elk he had just shot on Saturday, according to Crook County Sheriff's Office.

Gary Heeter, 69, was hunting in "a very remote location" in the Maury Mountains where he killed an elk. Around noon. as he was dragging the carcass of the animal behind his four-wheeler up a steep hill, the vehicle flipped and he flew back and landed on his dead prey.

Members of the hunting party applied first aid to Heeter to stanch the flow of blood.

"When the deputy arrived at the crash scene," said the sheriff's office, "he found Heeter was conscious and communicative, but appeared to be going into shock."

Heeter was flown to St. Charles Hospital in Bend by a Life Flight helicopter, but not before it had difficulty finding a suitable landing location "due to the rough terrain, which consisted of intermittent forest cover and rocky clearings."

According to KATU, the Crook County Sheriff's Office reports that Heeter is in stable condition.

[Robrites]

Oct. 30

• Numerous political campaign signs were dumped in front of City Hall. The signs were collected and are being held in case their origin can be determined.

• Officers assisted sheriff's deputies in breaking up a fist fight between a father and adult son in a parked car. The fight stemmed from a disagreement over their prolific methamphetamine use.

• In an unrelated call, police checked on two people reportedly smoking methamphetamine in a vehicle. They were actually smoking marijuana and received citations.

Oct. 31

• A caller reported a man with a suitcase flipped him off and then ran in front of his car. The man then tried flagging down another car that drove around him. Police contacted the man, who said he was headed to Portland, then to Germany.

• A resident called police after a man showed up at the front door requesting plastic bags to wear on his feet. Police did not locate the man. Later, on a different shift on the opposite end of town, officers responded to a report of a man accusing another man of stealing his wallet. The man was not missing his wallet after all, but he was wearing two plastic bags for shoes.

Nov. 1

• A man reported his neighbor had just hit a tree with a pipe. Police contacted the neighbor who explained he was practicing his martial arts moves.

• Police responded to a residence where the caller told the 911 dispatcher that his son was drinking too much. Upon arrival, police and medical crews found a man with a broken leg. The man was transported to the hospital by ambulance.

• Police were called to check on a man yelling in his front yard. Officers contacted an intoxicated man sitting in a lawn chair in front of his residence. The man went on to express dissatisfaction with his neighbors. He was advised to go to bed.

Nov. 2

• A woman reported finding her vehicle in a different place from where she had parked it. Upon further reflection, she thought it was possible she forgot that she parked it at the location.

• A local convenience store employee contacted police after a man threatened the store clerk not to sell beer to his brother.

• A man called with concerns about his neighbor possibly driving while intoxicated and abusing his cat.

Nov. 3

• Police checked on a report of two people walking down the road with their faces covered with handkerchiefs. Officers located several trash cans knocked over and some smashed pumpkins. Officers picked up the trash cans.

• Police reviewed a report from children's services that grandma was using the "F" word around the grandchildren. No crime was determined.

• A caller reported a man with a plastic bag over his head riding a motorized cart. An officer determined it not a person or a cart, but was a wagon covered in plastic.

Nov. 4

• While driving back to Forest Grove from the jail, a Forest Grove officer spotted a stolen car driving in Cornelius and attempted to stop it. The driver allegedly switched places with the passenger and the vehicle took off at a high rate of speed before crashing. Two occupants were taken into custody. They allegedly had also just committed a theft at Walmart.

• Police responded to an assisted living center after a resident assaulted a staff member. The behavior was out of the ordinary for the resident, who had no memory of it occurring. The resident was transported by ambulance to the hospital for evaluation.

• A woman was scammed when she sent $4,000 to a subject in Kansas as a processing fee to receive "lottery winnings" she was notified about via email.

Nov. 5

• An officer on patrol noticed a man duck into the bushes after driving past him. The officer went back and found the man and arrested him after learning he had warrants for his arrest.

• A resident reported that he gave a caller his credit card number over the phone after the caller informed him his computer was broken and offered to fix over the internet. The resident was advised to immediately cancel his credit card.

• A local merchant reported a man had just passed a fake $20 bill. Officers found the man, who had a BB gun in his waistband, a concealed spring action knife and a less than convincing story about the counterfeit bill. The man was arrested and taken to jail.

https://www.oregonlive.com/forest-gro...og_grandm.html

[Meraxes]

A corpse seed?....https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cr.../#.WCO9DLNOk95

[t99]

Would it grow a corpse flower?
Corpse flower at USBG
The corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as the stinky plant, bloomed August 2-5, 2016 at the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory. It was the first bloom of this particular plant, which was six years old. It takes quite a while to create enough energy for a bloom as spectacular as this one!


https://m.usbg.gov/corpseflower

[Meraxes]

https://akonkonnected.com/guy-experim...portrait-time/

[Meraxes]

Interesting folks... https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...t&sf42121353=1

[Meraxes]

Yeah really mature, ancient people.... https://www.cracked.com/article_24401...hilarious.html lol picking dicks from a dick tree...some time on your hands?

Originally Posted by WelderDan

Eh, I live in Florida. I can't drive five blocks without experiencing Weird, Wacky or Insane. It's just part of the experience.

I'm the same here (on the other side of the world)....not a day goes by without me saying incredulously "Did you see that?" or "WTF!" or my fave "hmm, it appears the natives are restless today" usually said with a upper class English accent while wearing a monocle.

[Meraxes]

The Irish coast guard came upon this solar powered house boat, washed up on shore, supposedly designed by Canadian environmentalist Rick Small. Where's Rick?...