Weird World: 12 Bonkers Events Around The World We Didn’t Hear About

Some people think the world is a beautiful place full of national parks and space stations. Other people think the world is a miserable place full war, famine, Josh Trank movies. Truth is, they're both right. Everything is varying degrees of good and bad. National parks get dirty and war…well, one of them had Nazi-killing, we guess. We're not here to talk about those things. We were to talk about about the, wildest crazyhead stuff that somehow flew under the radar of our newsdesk. And being a comedy website, nothing missed our newsdesk.

Sometimes, we wonder the world might be, at the very least, a calmer place if these types of things were front page-news. We others are important, but come on. Mix it up a litte. You know a guy in Utah actually asked the governor to change his last name because, apparently, it sounded rude? Here’s the full story, plus 11 others:

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WEIRD WORLD A random person demanded that the Utah governor changed his last name. The letter from the very concerned citizen demanded that Gov. Spencer Cox change his last name - -because it sounds obscene. CRACKED.COM — Source: Fox13Now

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WEIRD WORLD A guy landed a helicopter at a parking lot just SO he could get ice cream cake. G-SSCL It happened in Saskatchewan, Canada and the guy had a license to fly a helicopter, but definitely not one to make a landing at a parking lot. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Star

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WEIRD WORLD Somehow, a college ring was found 10 years after it got lost, outside a high school. (illustration) A high school student saw it on the ground took it home, and cleaned it up - and, it turned out, his mom knew someone who knew who had lost it. CRACKED.COM — Source: UPI

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WEIRD WORLD A roving bull temporarily shut down traffic on California's 15 Freeway. As an official tweet described the situation, All lanes blocked due to a loose cow. Unknown duration of when the animal will stop eating grass. CRACKED.COM — Source: UPI

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in South Korea found $130,000 cash in a used fridge he bought online. (illustration) The money was taped to the bottom of the kimchi fridge, and he found it when he started cleaning the fridge not long after getting it. CRACKED.COM — Source: UPI

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WEIRD WORLD A pelican escaped from an Irish ZOO and went 100 miles away - for the 0 2nd time. The great white pelican got spotted in Wexford - the exact place he went to when he escaped the Fota Wildlife Park in Cork in 2018. CRACKED.COM — Source: UPI

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WEIRD WORLD A Dutch family in an amphibious car outran the police on a German river. (illustration) The cops started chasing them in a borrowed electric boat, but the battery died and the cops got stranded and had to wait to get rescued. CRACKED.COM — Source: WJLA

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WEIRD WORLD The guy who wrote I Am Legend had to tell people he made the whole thing up. WILL SMITH WHERE WERE THE LAST PERSON OR EARTH? LEGUND COMING SOON A NYT article cited an anonymous person saying the movie made them afraid of getting a jab, so he tweeted that he just made it all up. CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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WEIRD WORLD A guy failed to rob a bank because his handwriting was terrible. (illustration) Alan Slattery, from the UK, went into a bank in March 2021 and tired to rob it, but the teller couldn't read his note SO he left the bank empty-handed. CRACKED.COM — Source: Eastbourne Herald

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WEIRD WORLD A 70-year-old Serbian hermit got vaccinated and said everyone should do it. (illustration) Panta Petrovic, who has been living in a cave in Serbia for 20 years, said the virus does not pick. It will come here to my cave, too. CRACKED.COM — Source: Straits Times

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WEIRD WORLD Anti-vax protesters tried to storm BBC HQ, but got the wrong building. BBG They marched on Television Centre in West London to protest the BBC for promoting vaccines, but didn't realize the BBC moved out of it years ago. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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WEIRD WORLD A UK woman was left shaken by a shop worker scanning groceries. (illustration) He was piling the food high, and she couldn't keep up - he could see my struggle and when a tin finally fell, I began crying and shaking, she said. CRACKED.COM — Source: Gazette Live

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