What Was The Funniest News Story You Ever Heard?
the one i can think of was a news story about a misunderstanding. a couple had gone to thailand (from UK) but they werent enjoying it so decided to fly to Tenerife instead, however, (i cant imagine how) they booked a flight via a thai travel agent, and there was a bit of a language barrier, and they bought tickets to TEL AVIV instead. cant imagine how (they may have thought that is how the thai said/spelt tenerife?) anyway, they end up flying to Tel Aviv in Israel and had a hell of a job explaining why they were there to officials.. anyway, thats the silly news story i remember, whats yours?
post link if you cant be bothered to describe it (if yahoo lets you post links!)
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Read a story about a guy who broke out of jail the day he was set to be released. I think he got senteced to another year.
umm recently i heard this funny case where a man had died and his 2 friends wheeled him to the check cashing place and tryed to cash his check by like taking his hand and signing the paper while he was sitting in his wheelchair dead…. Yahoo wont let me give you the link but if you search dead man social security youll find it.
Enjoy!!
there was this old dude in a wheel chair and a big rig drove into the back of the wheel chair and the wheel chair got hooked on to the grill of the big rig!! and drove on the freeway with the guy in it and all… but he said he didnt mind, was fine, and wasnt going to sue or anything.. i thought that was pretty funny.
it was a headline in a local paper that said “MAN FOUND DEAD IN CEMETERY” I can only imagine the policeman saying “sarge , there’s hundreds of them, its like a mass grave”.
that tops the “POLICE SHOOT MAN WITH KNIFE” headline.
Dogs “rescue” girl abandoned by mother
i found this to be hilarious. i saw the link on vegan.com:http://www.theonion.com/content/news/son…
I don’t know if it’s FUNNY but it is idiotic. It was on Leno headlines Monday night. Man shot himself in the head….witnesses said last they saw he was scratching the back of his head w/ the gun BARREL. Sheesh.
I once read in the New York Times that there were two prostitutes arrested for fighting because one robbed the other. The victim said that the perp took her “deluxe model vibrating strap on dildo.”
The recent one where the priest got carried off by the baloons, then they found the baloons…but no priest
George Bush winning presidency.
I never heard of funny news story.
hillary clinton wants to bomb iran, but i think that was the pms talking
Seen in a free newpspaper Birmingham ….ANOREXIA GIRL VANISHES ….
London bus found on moon,,,The Sunday Sport,,,
www.fark.com
It is where I go for all my silly news!
This one appeared in my local rag in Scotland some years back. An 18 year old man was arrested after stealing a tractor from a farm and leading police on a chase along single track laneways at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour!
Certainly not the funniest, but it stuck in my head. The idiot was a mate of mine.
Private Eye magazine used to have an hilarious column called “Funny Old World” which had loads of utterly bizarre news clippings sent in from readers all over the globe, for example one where a drunken Siberian lumberjack cut off his own head while competing in a chain saw juggling contest with mates!
ROBBERS CALL VERY WRONG NUMBER
VANCOUVER | British Columbia
Reuters
The redial button proved an inconvenient cell-phone feature for three Canadian robbery suspects, providing police with a recording of the crime and an argument over how the loot should be split.
The three men were midway through a hold-up when a cell phone being carried by one of them was jostled and automatically redialed the last number called, police in Burnaby, British Columbia, said.
That number was hooked up to an answering machine whose owner gave a tape of the call to the police, said a constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
On the tape, which was aired on Vancouver-area radio stations, the three could be heard telling the victim “you’re being jacked” and later counting more than $100 in cash and arguing about how to divide it.
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IT HAS A FAMILIAR RING
SINGAPORE
Reuters
An unlucky Singapore thief picked up six years at hard labor after the unique ring of the mobile phone he stole led police straight to him.
Pretending to be a police detective, the man frisked two teenagers in a park, told them to turn their backs and made off with the S$250 ($140) phone, court documents show.
If he had chosen another target in the mobile-mad city state, he might have got off the hook.
His number was up a short while later when the victim heard the characteristic tune he had programmed into the phone. An unsuspecting buyer, who paid $70 in a coffee shop for what he thought was the man’s mobile, pointed police to the thief.
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ACCUSED PEEPING TOM GOES HIGH TECH
SAN FRANCISCO
Reuters
Fusing age-old lust with the kind of technology that made Silicon Valley famous, a Californian rigged up a tiny camera on his shoe to look up women’s dresses–until he was nabbed by police.
“It’s kind of like a modern version of the guy with a mirror on his shoe,” a Palo Alto detective said. “It was a pinhole camera–it is something that we use for surveillance purposes.”
Police said the man was nabbed at a classic car show when someone noticed that he had little interest in cars and a particular focus on skirted women attending the event.
A camera lens the size of a pinhead was discovered placed on his shoe laces. Police said the man had then linked the lens to a video camera, via a wire threaded up the leg of his pants.
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THIS COULD BE REAL OR COULD BE A MYTH, BUT IT’S STILL TOO FUNNY:
Intent on suicide, Frenchman Jacques Lefevre drove a stake into the ground on the top of a cliff overlooking the sea, then tied one end of a rope around the stake and the other around his neck. Being nothing if thorough, Lefevre then drank a bottle of poison, set his clothes on fire, lowered himself over the cliff, and tried to shoot himself in the head. Unfortunately he missed, the bullet cut the rope in two, dropping the hapless gentleman into the sea, where the salt water put out his flaming clothes and caused him to spew up the poison. A passing fisherman picked Lefevre up and delivered him to a nearby hospital, where at last the weary Frenchman got his wish – and died from the effects of exposure.
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THIS ONE IS DEFINITELY FALSE, BUT IT’D BE FUNNY IF IT WERE TRUE:
‘I No Longer Have a Reason to Live,’ Says Despondent Potter Fan
A rabid Harry Potter fan took his life yesterday after inadvertently learning a plot spoiler from the soon-to-be-released J.K. Rowling opus, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
Jude Ralston, 32, of Hudson, Ohio left a suicide note indicating that since overhearing the plot spoiler at a shopping mall earlier in the day, “I no longer have a reason to live.”
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