What a Weird Week Fri Oct 11 2024: Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend Weirdness! ~ Show Notes by Scotty

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Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff in the news. See below for a transcript of the podcast episode. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links, you can get everything at www.shownotes.page. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 41 which is an encore performance from a year ago. Happy Thanksgiving! Here are the stories...

If that chair could talk! someone started a Facebook group based around chair appreciation... https://www.facebook.com/groups/1434160430714378/ and see https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/09/Chair-Watch-Dennis-Township-New-Jersey/2661696871859/

Teenager makes news, success is built on a house of cards... https://youtu.be/zg4OkrefKDs?feature=shared and https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/10/teen-stacks-143-000-playing-cards-to-create-worlds-largest-card-structure-759373

Mushy Chestnuts linked to scandal in world championship Conkers... https://vigourtimes.com/controversy-erupts-at-world-conkers-championships-due-to-waterlogged-chestnuts/ and https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67046823 and also https://www.worldconkerchampionships.com/

I'm just gonna muscle through this one like it's a news story and nothing else... Harry Dick Road is not a road you want to go down... it made news because the town in charge of Harry Dick Road (Bonnechere Valley near Eganville, Ontario) is tired of replacing the street sign... it's gotten annoying and expensive...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/harry-dick-road-name-sign-change-bonnechere-1.6981502

Joke's over, Harry Dick Road namesake tells sign thieves. https://t.co/AMakKL5IfY
— ELLIOT IN THE MORNING (@EITMonline) October 5, 2023

a great day for salted meats and cheese! #WorldRecord ...
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/boarderie-shatters-guinness-world-records-title-for-the-largest-charcuterie-board-weighing-769-lbs-301948299.html

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Grade 4 kids shown "Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey" movie by mistake. School offers counseling.
*viewer discretion advised https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/winnie-the-pooh-horror-movie-shown-to-children-in-florida-school-18006345

*Warning: PG 13. Earmuffs for the kids! OK, here's the story ... Crocodiles doin' it has made headlines...

- This is such a wild story... they think that helicopters flying low to try to get photos of crocodiles may have accidentally set-off a crocodile lovefest...

https://www.iflscience.com/crocodile-sex-bonanza-triggered-by-low-flying-chinook-in-australia-70971

Guy who worked at museum decides to act out some kind of heist movie plot, buy Rolls Royce...
https://edition.cnn.com/style/german-munich-museum-stolen-paintings-sold/index.html

Chucky Doll placed in handcuffs, arrested for... robbery?- If you go by those terrifying movies, Chucky is evil and can't be trusted.

@nessadiosdado The man definitely deserves to still be in jail, but why did the doll get arrested in the first place? 🤔 #chucky #doll #mexico #monclova #mexico #nessadiosdado #mexicantiktok #latinotiktok #greenscreen ♬ Blade Runner 2049 - Synthwave Goose

HONORABLE MENTION...

Congratulations to Steve from Missouri who broke the Guinness World Record for longest journey by pumpkin boat! It took almost 11 hours to paddle his 1200 pound pumpkin 38 miles on the shark-infested* Missouri River. (*citation needed. River may not be shark-infested. Sounded good though.)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/10/09/man-with-pumpkin-vessel-breaks-guinness-world-record/71125133007/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter