News that makes you say WTF?!?!

Gotcha, ok, that makes [slightly] more sense.

I imagine non-underwater invertebrates are fair game since they included amphibians because those are not all underwater animals. And don’t some crustaceans come out of the water some? Crabs?

Some controversial art.

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Piglet

I’m not going to bother to read the story.

The headline is enough.

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This made me laugh: Cowboys Lasso Cow on Busy Highway…

(I think it was a service road though…)

Based on the video, that is quite the exaggerated description of what happened

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Sounds like another rodeo to me.

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Not exactly WTF status, but here it is:

Yahoo Finance Live anchors discuss a study conducted by Zillow which showed that more than half of Gen Z and millennial Americans cried while buying a home.

Buying a home has become so challenging that half of Americans have reported crying at least once while going through the process, according to a new survey published by real-estate marketplace company Zillow.

The report found that 65% of Gen Z buyers and 61% of Millennials reported crying while trying to buy a home. Meanwhile, Latinx buyers were far more likely to cry than black and white homebuyers.

“Buying a home is not like buying any other asset; it’s deeply personal and it’s emotional,” Zillow home trends expert Amanda Pendleton said in a statement. “When you make an offer on a home, you have likely envisioned your life there. If you lose out on that home to a stronger offer, it can feel like losing a future you have already started planning.”

The trends reflect an increasingly competitive market that continues to price out millions of homebuyers in the US, particularly millennials and Gen Z buyers more reliant on finance to fund a home against a rising tide of all-cash and investment purchases, regarded as more attractive to buyers.

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It’s a “WTF” for me. :man_shrugging:

Man jailed 17 days for something he didn’t do. Sounds like a nightmare

American Airlines should be forced to stop operations for every day he was in jail.

I f:beep:ing hate American Airlines. They’re a bunch of sh:beep:heads.

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I’m actually bothered less by the American Airlines involvement - although they bear fault - and more by the failure of anyone else to disclose to him exactly what was going on. The idea that at the end of the 17 days he (1) never learned why he was in there, and (2) was guilty of missing a court date elsewhere that he either didn’t know about and/or couldn’t possibly attend brings into question exactly how broken the system is.

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Synopsis: Woman had unprotected sex with man in said man’s car. She caught HPV from the experience. Man has auto and umbrella coverage with GEICO. GEICO uses a proprietary policy form that grants coverage for liability arising from bodily injury sustained by a person due to use of a covered auto (no limitation to car accidents).

This particular suit apparently came out of GEICO objecting to the two parties having reached a settlement through mediation without GEICO being as involved as it would have liked.

I swear I have this story somewhere on this site… I guess it finally settled

ok, to be fair, it was elsewhere

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I was pretty sure I remembered reading another story about someone dying after falling into a vat of chocolate. I think it was on the old AO probably in the News that makes you say WTF?!?! thread.

And yes, it happened in New Jersey back in 2009.

I’ve lately taken to telling people that when I die, I want people to say I died doing what I loved doing, regardless of the actual circumstance, for the humor or otherwise. So, having sex, playing poker, refereeing, driving too fast on a curvy road, getting too drunk, sleeping, etc.
This one would also be apt.

Holy :poop:!! It’s weird watching his eyes move in two different directions. Poor kid!!