What a Weird Week April 12, 2024: Ten Weird things that happened this week

Ten Weird things that happened this week - the What a Weird Week Show. For full shownotes and podcast stuff see https://www.shownotes.page/podcast

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❿ The Grammy who made the news after receiving a speeding ticket.
(actually 2 tickets!) The only thing was she wasn't driving her van. It
was one of these deals where the camera catches you speeding and it
snaps your picture and you receive a ticket... "Hey here's the evidence.
Look at this photo. We caught you speeding." Well this Grammy in East
Cleveland Ohio, Joanne Gibson, was having her van towed to the shop at
the time of the ticket. So the tow truck was speeding.

❾ The Squat World Record... Think about how many squats you can do.
Think about maybe working really hard. How many more squats could you
do? And then, you know, multiply that by 10. Are you anywhere close to
26,000 squats? Me, neither. The world record for most squats in 24 hours
is more than 26,000 squats!

❽ From Hoops Hooper, who is the Weird News Guru at United Press
International... (Every week we like to feature a story by Ben "Hoops" 
Hooper.) This week Ben filed a story about the chicken who enjoyed the
solar eclipse while wearing tiny solar eclipse glasses. This chicken in
Arkansas. I mean, if you love your chicken and you want your chicken to
enjoy a solar eclipse, of course you're gonna fashion some sort of
safety equipment for that chicken to look at the solar eclipse. So a
person named Tad made the news. Tad the human and Gertrude. That's the
name of the chicken. Tad also was wearing eclipse glasses. It's just a
fun photo, like so many people were taking photos of themselves enjoying
the eclipse this past week, and someone snapped a picture of Tad and
Gertrude, and it started to gain momentum online, and... next thing you
know it's on... KTHV-TV!? And we learn that Gertrude laid an egg during
the eclipse. I don't know what you get when you lay an egg during an eclipse, but it
seems like some sort of superhero folklore, doesn't it? The origin story
of something great.

❼ Man getting vasectomy when earthquake hit thought the doctor was
joking around. The doctor said, "is that an earthquake?" And the patient
was like, "good one, doc. I'm already nervous enough. Quit kidding
around." But it was an earthquake, you guys. It was that earthquake that
made the news on the east coast of the United States. This is one of
those stories that gained momentum online as a funny social media post
and then the news media reached out to talk to the fellow. I got this
one from HuffPost. Justin Allen. 33 years old from Pennsylvania was
getting the procedure, you know... getting the old vasectomy and posted
about it online how an earthquake hit during the vasectomy... and that
his doctor said "I think that we're having an earthquake." And of
course, you're nervous and about to undergo a delicate procedure and...
It ain't no joke. It's suddenly quite surreal. He's looking back at it
now and laughing and... Seems fine. Two thumbs up in the photo outside
of the Urology Health Surgery Center. So... Glad you're doing well,
Justin.

❻ The garbage bag porch pirate. This one is just a fascinating video.
Somebody is taking their porch piracy to the next level?! Can we all
agree that Porch Piracy is a terrible, terrible thing that is going on
where people will just take advantage of package being delivered and
left unattended for a bit... And people will just steal those things?!
Every neighborhood in the world now where you take deliveries, there are
stories of people stealing our stuff. A fellow named Omar (Sacramento,
California) had the security camera set up. I mean, you can see that
camera. Any porch pirate is going to know, "oh, I'm under surveillance
here." But this porch pirate dressed up like a garbage bag.

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