The 100 Weirdest News Stories We Dugg in 2008: 80 - 71

80. Topless Woman Lured Perverts in Sting Operation (1989 Diggs)
Forty-two-year-old Robin Garrison probably thought it was his lucky day when he encountered a flirtatious topless woman in a Cleveland park. Eventually she asked to see his penis, as flirtatious topless women sometimes do. Seconds after unzipping, a van filled with undercover police officers pulled up, and Garrison was arrested for public indecency. Needless to say, Garrison is claiming entrapment.

79. Woman Sues American Airlines over Masturbating Passenger (1995 Diggs)
A woman has filed a $200,000 lawsuit alleging an American Airlines crew allowed another passenger to go all "There's Something About Mary" up in her hair. She had fallen asleep and awoke to find the stranger finishing off on her tempting tresses. While this is clearly a horrible thing to have happen, many question why she is suing the airline, and not the pervert. Arcva knows the answer: "I'm sure he'll just get off in the end."


78. Woman Wakes Up with New Exotic Accent (1996 Diggs)
CindyLou Romberg woke up one morning with brand new exotic accent, which sounds like a mix of Russian, German and Swedish. What made this particularly odd is that Romberg had never once left her hometown of Port Angeles, Wash. Doctors attribute the vocal change to a delayed reaction from a severe brain injury Romberg had suffered years earlier. It's called Foreign Accent Syndrome, and, while it's rare and baffling, neuroscientists believe it's legit. YadoJones has his own name for the medical mystery: "I think it's called Madonna syndrome."


77. End of School Term, Let's Have an Orgy! (2024 Diggs)
A British newspaper reported that an end-of-the-school-term party in the town of Cumbria literally turned into an orgy, with almost 200 students "having unprotected sex in a village square." We tend to be a bit skeptical of these stories -- especially when they come from the sensationalist British tabloid press -- but is there a more awesome combination of words than "having unprotected sex in a village square"?

76. Facebook Water Fight Turns Violent (2050 Diggs)
A teenage girl participating in a water fight promoted on Facebook was slammed to the ground by a burly young man she had angered by squirting red juice on his white T-shirt. Bringing juice to a water fight is certainly a huge faux pas, but it still doesn't come close the abomination that is girl-punching. So what happens next? "I can see it now, '1,000,000 strong for getting this guy banned from Facebook,'" predicted alF56x.

75. Size-16 Beauty Queen (2054 Diggs)
Striking a bloated blow for "real women" everywhere, Chloe Marshall -- both 16 and a size 16 -- won the Miss Surrey beauty pageant, qualifying her to compete for Miss England. There was a good deal of spirited debate amongst Diggers concerning whether Marshall's extra padding made her a good role model or a bad role model, but the judges at Miss England approved -- Marshall was selected runner-up at the national contest.

74. Man Robs Little Girl's Lemonade Stand (2057 Diggs)
One of the few things more embarrassing than being caught robbing a lemonade stand is being caught robbing a lemonade stand because the 12-year-old proprietor of said lemonade stand was able to run your sorry ass down. But that is exactly what happened to 18-year-old Steven Tryon. Unfortunately for Steven, shame can't be used to buy more crack.

73. Dogs Risks Life to Save Kittens from Fire (2058 Diggs)
Fire breaks out in home. Dog stays inside the burning building guarding a cardboard box full of kittens. Kittens, rescued. Dog succumbs to smoke inhalation but is revived. Inter-species chivalry makes everyone say "AWWWW." But cynical Digg commentator Paulisnotdead can't help but see the other side -- the dark side. "Traitor," he writes.

72. 19-Year-Old Gets World's Longest Super Name (2061 Diggs)
A 19-year-old British man has officially changed his name to "Captain Fantastic Faster than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk and the Flash Combined." For accuracy's sake, we insist he tack an "Able to Repel Real Woman With a Single Ridiculous Name" onto the back of that monstrosity.

71. Cannabis Blunder at Tokyo Airport (2077 Diggs)
In an attempt to test airport security, customs officers at Tokyo's Narita airport stuck 142 grams (1/3 of a pound) of marijuana in the luggage of a random passenger. The test failed miserably when drug-sniffing dogs were unable to detect the large cache. The marijuana has yet to be returned. "In other news, tourism to Japan is up 420%," quipped Elliotys.


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