Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Funny News Stories - 4 To Make You Laugh

By Mark Walters


In 2011 we have seen many funny and weird new stories over a large variety of topics. At the Mexico-US border, smugglers built their very own medieval catapult to launch some drugs over the border into the United States. Time Warner decided to bill one of their customers a little more than usual, 16 million dollars more. In California, birds collapsed a roof of a gas station with their dropping and elsewhere, an Amish teenager decided he would lead police on a car chase, while he was in horse and buggy.

In January, US border agents tipped off the Mexican military to a potential drug smuggling operation. This operation was found to be a little different once the military turned up, with seizure of 45 pounds of marijuana taking place, as well as a metal-framed catapult. The smugglers were attempting to re-enact castle sieges from the medieval days by launching the drugs over the border to collection agents on the other side.

The iPhone game proved it, there is a lot of Angry birds in the world, and a large majority of them appear to live in Vacaville, California. In January the local Vacaville fire department was called to a gas station that had its roof collapse. After inspection of the building for any structural weakness, the cause of the collapse was found to be the inches of bird droppings that had been left in the roofs structure, not any building fault.

Amish teenagers are not always thought of as the most reckless group of teenagers, but an Amish teenager in Cattaraugus County, N.Y. lead police on a car chase while he was drunk. Lewis D. Hostetler was spotted by police at 1am drinking beer in his buggy (with horse). He ran, the cops gave chase and he was charged with resisting arrest as well as unlawful possession of an alcoholic beverage with intent to consume. Luckily for Lewis, he was allowed to keep his buggy license and could be back on the road very soon.

Ohio residents in Beavercreek were slightly worried that the price of Time Warner cable may have increased, thanks to the news story of the bill Mr Daniel DeVirgilio received. Mr DeVirgilio's normal monthly bill of $80 was slightly more earlier this year due to an error in input by a Time Warner employee. The new bill Mr DeVirgilio was issued with was for the amount of 16.4 million dollars. Naturally, Time Warner apologised for the mix-up and residents were able to continue watching Showtime without the fear of large price increases having crept up on them.

Submission of funny news stories that happen in your area is a great way to expose the everyday mishaps that large companies or individuals get themselves involved in. Local news agencies will be very receptive to broadcasting your funny news stories and you can find out how to submit stories to them through telephone contact or through most news websites.




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