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10 Weird Movie Titles
This is the short list of weird movie titles. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964) Horror | Music | Musical Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does … Continue reading →
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Personal Names
The following is a list of people who have received media attention because of their weird name, or are otherwise widely recognized as having names that are unusual. This list includes both names given at birth, and people who have … Continue reading →
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Ethnic Slurs
The following is a list of weird ethnic slurs (ethnophaulisms) that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnicity or to refer to them in a derogatory (critical or disrespectful), pejorative (disapproving or … Continue reading →
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Political Parties
This is a list of political parties that have been created for various frivolous purposes: parody, joke, hoax, etc. Australia Deadly Serious Party (defunct) Imperial British Conservative Party (see also: Cecil G. Murgatroyd) Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Party (defunct) Party! … Continue reading →
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Awards
These are not, always, actual awards; but merely ironic, weird and funny awards. The Bald Archy. The Bald Archy is an Australian art prize, a parody of the Archibald Prize, an important portraiture award. It usually includes cartoons or humorous … Continue reading →
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Traffic Tickets
This is the list of the most unusual, superlative and odd traffic tickets. Did you recently get one? Share with us, please. The fastest speeding ticket in the world allegedly occurred in May 2003 in Texas. It was supposedly 242 mph … Continue reading →
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eBay Listings
Many weird items have been listed for sale on auction website eBay. Some sold while other auctions were stopped by eBay because the listing breached their policies. Please feel free to add any weird eBay listing that you stumble upon. … Continue reading →
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Pilots in 16-death crash jailed for praying instead of flying |
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Thursday, 26 March 2009 |
 The pilot and co-pilot of Tuninter Flight 1153, which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in 2005, killing sixteen people, have each received ten-year jail sentences for the ditching of the flight. They were found to have prayed instead of trying to direct the plane to safety when the engines failed. Tuninter Flight 1153, from Bari, Italy, to Djerba, Tunisia, crashed into Italian waters on August 6, 2005.
The flight ran into trouble because the ATR 72 twin-engined turboprop had mistakenly been fitted with the fuel gauge for an ATR 42, which has a lower fuel capacity. The incorrect reading on the gauge was relied upon, and led to the aircraft suffering fuel starvation and eventually running out of fuel. The right engine failed at 23,000 feet, and the left at 7,000 feet.
Captain Shafik Al Gharbi and co-pilot Ali Kebaier Lassoued were described as having panicked and started praying out loud, rather than following emergency procedures to bring the plane safely to a runway. After gliding for sixteen minutes, the pilots decided to attempt a crash-landing in the Mediterranean, and the aircraft crashed into the sea about 23 nautical miles to the Northwest of Palermo.
The court in Palermo also sentenced five other employees of Tuninter to sentences of between eight and nine years' imprisonment. None of the accused were in court to hear the verdict, and none will serve time in jail before the appeals process is completed. Information from: Wikinews, http://www.wikinews.org Image: Roberto Benetti |
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