Insanity in the news

The world becomes more bizarre by the day.

A man was arrested in Denver, US, and held on two counts of harassment for telling two women they were “extremely beautiful”.

NPR reports that the most popular guitar tutor on YouTube was accused of copyright infringement for showing his pupils how to play a Rolling Stones song on the guitar. Why not kill off a future source of income, RIAA? Makes perfect sense to them somehow, I suppose.

Finally, on a related note (har har), James Hetfield of Metallica was apparently detained at Luton Airport, allegedly because of his “Taliban-like beard”.

Insanity.

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8 Responses to “Insanity in the news

  • 1
    lijunlaopo JAPAN Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4
    July 10th, 2007 16:49

    There must be something they are not telling us about the guy that was arrested for telling the women they were beautiful, surely!

    I find the oddest comments in the news often to be the eyewitness reports.

    Shocking to hear what people come up with sometimes!

    Recently a gunman shot three people in the streets in Melbourne, killing one of them. I read two different witness reports describing the gunman as a gentleman… ‘Then the gentleman turned the gun on his girlfriend…’

    Maybe I have misunderstood the meaning of the word??

  • 2
    Soroush CANADA Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4
    July 10th, 2007 22:55

    OMG Imagine how James Hetfield felt in that moment, giving his passport proudly to the officer, feeling confident that everybody should know him at least by name and worse than that, how the security officer felt when she/he realized. LOL

  • 3
    Blog Drive-Bys for 2007-07-11 - Untwisted Vortex UNITED STATES WordPress 2.2.1
    July 11th, 2007 13:00

    […] wrote about insanity in the news at The Far Corner. The insane part is that every item on his list is completely true. How far does society have to […]

  • 4
    mccormicky(sion) UNITED STATES Windows 2000 Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4
    July 12th, 2007 12:11

    I have to agree with lijunlaopo. It can’t just be what he said.If that were true I could get dudes arrested for the far worse things they say to me every day.
    So he must have been being menacing in some way.I would never call the cops because some guy said I was cute.
    Will we ever know the truth? The mystery!

  • 5
    Baxter Tocher UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4
    July 12th, 2007 21:04

    mccormicky, I’d love to know if there’s more to that story. I agree it’s strange as it stands, but a lot of weird things go down these days…

  • 6
    Barbara UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4
    July 16th, 2007 20:18

    I have to agree, items in the news is becoming pretty weird.

    But then again, some people also do strange stuff. Just last week I turned on the news, heard about the baby that was put in the microwave, and three other odd stories, I have chosen to forget. What’s this world coming to?

    Your right, Baxter, it’s bizarre!

  • 7
    Palm Coast UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5
    July 27th, 2007 03:04

    Haha, these are great. I think the harassment one was the best.

  • 8
    Mapquest UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11
    January 14th, 2008 07:11

    The first one is sooooooo American LOL. I bet it is not possible nowhere else on the World map…



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