RhetoricVille

NEWS of the WEIRD - Current News

This site collects odd little stories, often amusing, such as the one about the price of Australian whale vomit (if you have to ask, you can’t afford it) and this one:

After Seattle police chased a carjacking suspect into a tree in February, bystanders gathered around and laughed, but the suspect, still defiant, yelled at them, “It’s not funny!” (However, according to a KIRO-TV reporter, some in the crowd yelled back, “Yes it is!”) [Denver Post, 12-2-05] [KIRO-TV (Seattle), 2-3-06]