The "Bird is the Word!" Odd News Awards Theme

Imagine you are sitting at home quietly watching TV and POW! a live Turkey crashes through your window and starts wrecking the place.  How are you going to react?! "Crazy," you say? "That will never happen in a million years," you say? Don't be so smug - it could happen. It did happen to a man in Illinois. Don't believe me? Just take a look at this Odd News Award winner:

When Wild Turkeys Attack: An Illinois Home Forcibly Entered by Wild Turkey!
from UPI via Snopes.com
"NEW BADEN, Ill., March 18 (UPI) -- An Illinois man said he was bewildered when a wild turkey crashed through the front window of his home and covered the living room in broken glass." Read More

Birds are doing strange things all over the place. According to this next article several chickens turned up on the prestigious Carnegie-Mellon University campus in Pittsburgh, PA painted hot pink, with silver checks, all sorts of strange ways.

Spray-Painted Chickens Found Wander Carnegie-Mellon Campus
from UPI via Snopes.com
"PITTSBURGH, March 18 (UPI) -- Campus police at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh are investigating the mystery of the spray-painted chickens." Read More

At last report, an elderly man with a white goatee, mustache and calling himself "the colonel" was seen on campus with a cleaver in his hand and a glint in his eye hollering "Y'all got chicken troubles?!"  No matter how the police end up dealing with this guy it will pale in comparison to how the police have been dealing with this law abiding elderly Brooklyn couple.


Elderly Couple Visited by the Police 50 Times in the past 8 years
from : Yahoo!News/Reuters and the NY Daily News
"NEW YORK – An elderly Brooklyn couple say they're tired of hearing the phrase, "Police! Open up!" World War II veteran Walter Martin and his 82-year-old wife, Rose, said police have come looking for criminals at their house about 50 times in the past eight years. It's not clear why." Read More

The quote above is from Yahoo!News/Reuters but the links lead to a New York Daily News article. The NY Daily News article is a better article.  The NY Daily News article tracked down the former owner of the house and I think that guy may be the subject of some future Odd News Award.  Almost forgot - "Bird is the Word Theme" - OK, ummmm - two old birds constantly mistaken for future jail birds. Now that's some creative thinking! 

And finally, a way to hide my shame over writing something so goofy and trying to tout it as "creative" -

Invisibility Cloak Created by German Scientist
"LONDON (Reuters) – German scientists have created a three-dimensional "invisibility cloak" that can hide objects by bending light waves." Read More

That last one has nothing to do with the "Bird is the Word" theme but, we just couldn't leave the creation of a working invisibility cloak hanging there without an Odd News Award. Here's the Family Guy with a recovery to the theme -

Darwin Award-like Odd News Awards

Odd News Awards tries to stay away from Odd News in which people do stupid stuff that takes them out of the gene pool. That is the clear niche of the Darwin Awards. Still we cannot ignore clear Odd News Awards candidates just because someone dies in the process of doing something odd. So here they are - two fatal Odd News Awards and one Odd News Awardee that believes that he may never die.

Couple Dies While Having Sex in Car
from msnbc.com
"A man and a woman retreated to their Volkswagen to have sex. Most likely the lovers turned on the engine to get warm, . . . ." Read More

Guys the next time your lady tells you that she is cold, think twice before turning on the Car.  Are you in a tiny enclosed garage?  If so, tell her that you will warm her up.

Plane Kills jogger in SC beach emergency landing
by Russ Bynum
"HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday." Read More

I always thought that there was something oddly dangerous about jogging on a beach.  Can you imagine this guys situation - he is huffing and puffing thinking "well at least all this exercise is going to give me a few more good years" and BAM, an airplane hits him and that's the end.  And now we all have a second reason to look up when we are jogging on the beach.

Florida Vampire to Run for President
"TAMPA, Fla. - Not satisfied with living in Florida, Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey wants to move to Washington, D.C., to become the nation's first vampire president.
Sharkey, 45, spent Friday on a Greyhound bus with his new fiancee, Audrianna Foster, a 19-year-old girl from Ohio he met online. She too believes she is a vampire, or vampyre." Read More

After you just finished doing your taxes, you could have sworn that vampires were already in high places in government and it is little solace that short of a stake through the heart this guy at least believes that he will never die. Ok that even sounded really odd when I explained it just then.