Weird World: 12 Bizarre Events Almost Nobody Picked Up On
![Weird World: 12 Bizarre Events Almost Nobody Picked Up On](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/5/6/782956_320x180.jpg)
TV news drops the ball. Often. And hard.
While they are clogging the airwaves with stories about political squabbles, changes in weather patterns, car accidents on the freeway, local police assaulting a random person, or a woman who is just mad at a public school accepting a gay kid, there are other stories out there. Stories that are bizarre and more interesting than what you typically see on local news or even 24-hour news networks. Stories that will hold your attention more than a bunch of random anchors still at a coffee table discussing current events while sharing the coldest hot takes since that Burger King breakfast sandwich that you left in your car for two hours.
That's where we come in. We at Cracked compiled a bunch of actually interesting and bizarre stories from around the world to start your day off right. Sure, you won't know what the traffic is like, but you'll at least know this stuff:
![WEIRD WORLD A wildlife manager surveying turtle nests on the coast found a fortune in cocaine. While she was checking out turtle nests, she noticed that packages full of cocaine had washed up nearby- over $1.2 million of it, it turned out. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/6/8/782968.jpg)
Source: The Register
![WEIRD WORLD A guy in Baltimore who'd had a heart attack stole an ambulance to get to the hospitals CITY BALTIMORE 18 FIRE DEPARTMENT 0 When the Fire Department Medical Unit responded to a call, he jumped into the ambulance and drove off and he really had a medical crisis, apparently. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/6/7/782967.jpg)
Source: NBC
![WEIRD WORLD A Toronto house selling for half a million CAD smells SO bad, you can't view it. Viewing may BE difficult, due to pungent odor, according to the listing -- apparently, due to a single cat. Plus, it's been taped off due to safety concerns, too. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/6/6/782966.jpg)
Source: CTVNews
![WEIRD WORLD In Londonderry, NH, a restaurant customer tipped $16,000 on his $37.93 order. STUMBLE INN BAR AND GRILL STUMBLE INN They thought it was a mistake, but no the customer confirmed it was for real, and said I want you to have it, you guys work hard. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/6/5/782965.jpg)
Source: AP News
![WEIRD WORLD The guy who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is running for governor of Idaho. know febre Ammon Bundy led the 41-day occupation of the refuge in 2016, and now he's tired of our freedoms being taken from us and running for governor. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/6/4/782964.jpg)
Source: The Hill
![WEIRD WORLD The Supreme Court decided, 8-1, that a PA teen was allowed to swear off school grounds. She swore on Snapchat in 2017 after she didn't get picked for the varsity squad, and the school punished her. SCOTUS sided with her. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/6/2/782962.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![WEIRD WORLD A diamond field in South Africa turned out to be full of nothing but quartz. Thousands of people rushed to it to try and find diamonds after they were reported on June 12, but they only found nearly valueless quartz crystals. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/6/1/782961.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![WEIRD WORLD A guy accused of double murder acted as his own lawyer (it didn't end well). He also shouted at juries and prosecutors, and actually confessed to killing his girlfriend at the time. Unsurprisingly, he was found guilty. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/6/3/782963.jpg)
Source: NBC
![WEIRD WORLD Sacramento authorities told people they should offset the taste of bad water with lemon. Because rivers and streams in California are drying up, there's more geosmin in the water but officials say that's harmless and the taste should just be masked with lemon. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/6/0/782960.jpg)
Source: Fox5Vegas
![WEIRD WORLD A politician fought rumors that he misspent campaign money, by using campaign money. Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo (R) is under investigation into misusing campaign funds, and he's paying for his lawyers with campaign funds. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/5/9/782959.jpg)
Source: Mississippi Clarion-Ledger
![WEIRD WORLD Someone pulled off a huge pistachio heist in California, stealing 000 pounds. Police arrested a man they suspect was involved in hauling off the pistachios (which cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/5/8/782958.jpg)
Source: CNN
![WEIRD WORLD A Chase customer briefly had a bank balance of negative 50 billion dollars. (illustration) When Maddie McGivern came home from the bar one night and checked her phone, she was $49,999,999,697.98 in debt. Luckily, the bank sorted it out. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/5/7/782957.jpg)
Source: Newsweek