Woman Sues Boyfriend For Not Taking Her To The Airport, And More Of The Week's Weirdest World News – Digg
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Welcome to another entry in our column, The Week’s Weirdest World News. The world, you might have noticed, is a very strange place — so every seven days, we’ll be rounding up the most bizarre things that have happened across the globe, purely for your enjoyment.
From a bizarre Bigfoot-related killing to a woman taking legal action against her boyfriend, these stories are sure to inspire wonder — or, at the very least, befuddlement — at the weird ol’ world around us.
An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his fishing partner, whom he believed had “summoned Bigfoot” to eat him.
Larry Doil Sanders, 55, will serve a sentence of life without parole after being found guilty of the murder of Jimmy Knighten in July 2022.
Police said Sanders and Knighten were noodling — a type of fishing which involves being submerged in the water, putting your bare hand in a fish’s mouth and pulling it out of the water — when “a confrontation ensued” and Sanders ended up killing his friend.
Sanders told detectives that he believed Knighten had called on Bigfoot to kill him, and that Knighten kept telling Sanders to go after a fish in the water so that he could be drowned and fed to the creature.
“Yes, there was a monster in the woods that night, but it wasn’t Bigfoot, it was Larry Sanders,” District Attorney Erik Johnson told KXII.
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A man in Japan has broken a Guinness World Record after growing a clover with 63 leaves.
Yoshiharu Watanabe has been cross-pollinating clovers since 2012 in the hopes of beating the previous world record, a 56-leaf clover grown by fellow Japanese resident Shigeo Obara in 2009.
“Sometimes the number of leaves can go down, or sometimes you end up with the normal three-leaf clover,” the 45-year-old told Guinness World Records. “We know that genetics are involved in a higher number of leaves, yet we don’t exactly know how it works.”
“People say that a four-leaved clover brings you happiness, so it would be great if this 63-leaved clover would bring surprise and pleasure to people.”
Republican lawmaker Mary Morrisey has issued a public apology after being caught pouring water into Democratic Representative Jim Carroll’s bag multiple times over a span of 5 months. pic.twitter.com/CYQobkn0uQ
A Republican state representative for Vermont has apologized after being caught repeatedly pouring water into a colleague’s bag over the course of several months.
Democratic legislator Jim Carroll had suspected that Mary Morrissey was the behind the liquid being dumped into his bag since January, telling the Guardian that the fellow lawmaker had been “nasty” to him for months.
Carroll decided to secretly record footage to find out who was behind the bizarre behavior, and two videos captured Morrissey pouring liquid into his bag. Morrissey’s face cannot be seen in the footage, but colleagues identified her by her hair.
Speaking publicly on the state floor on Monday, Morrissey said she was “truly ashamed” for her actions.
“I have given my sincere apology to Jim directly and publicly and will be working towards resolution and restoration through our legislative process,” she said.
Carroll told the Guardian: “At the end of the meeting, I looked at her and said, ‘you know, this has really f—ked me up.’ There were weeks when I didn’t know who was doing this or why.”
A woman in New Zealand has taken her boyfriend to a disputes tribunal for breaching a “verbal contract” after he failed to take her to the airport.
According to an order from the tribunal, the woman said she was meant to be traveling to a concert with friends, and her boyfriend — who she had been with for more than six years — had agreed to take her to the airport and look after her dogs while she was away.
After the boyfriend failed to show up, the woman missed the flight and subsequently the concert — and ended up having to front the costs of new travel arrangements for the following day and boarding her dogs at a kennel.
The woman also argued that she should be reimbursed for ferry tickets she had bought for a separate holiday with the boyfriend.
Tribunal referee Krysia Cowie, however, decided that the boyfriend’s failure to keep his promise did not constitute a breach of contract.
“It forms part of the everyday family and domestic relationship agreements that are not enforceable in the disputes tribunal,” she said.
Still hungry for weird news? Check out last week’s roundup.
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It's interesting to read the tribunal report. There is no evidence provided that the boyfriend ever agreed to take her to the airport and board her dogs during the trip. Just her statement of that. I have a feeling that this relationship was already over when this incident occurred.
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