Weird World: 12 Odd Yet Oddly Under-The-Radar Stories
![Weird World: 12 Odd Yet Oddly Under-The-Radar Stories](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/2/793432_320x180.jpg)
The front page of the newspaper is…wait a second, do y'all still get newspapers? The trending topic on Twitter, the top stories on Reddit, the…look, however you get your news, the top line items are frequently doom and gloomy. War, famine, plague, other Biblical-sounding curses—it's easy to get bogged down in that stuff. But then there's fun stuff. Stuff involving rabbits. Stuff involving soccer. Stuff involving carp. The world is a magical place, and weird things happen all the time that are easy to miss. Fortunately, we here at Cracked are dedicated to celebrating life's little idiosyncrasies. So sit back, take a nice sip your favorite cold or hot beverage (depending on the time of year), and let us regale you with some crazy goings-on. And hey, as a special treat? Just for you? A preview:
A gravestone missing for 150 years was found recently … and it was used to make fudge, it turns out. Here’s the full story, plus 11 others:
![WEIRD WORLD They caught a missing cat at NYC'S John F Kennedy International Airport. Lufthansa The cat escaped from a carrier before it could be loaded onto the plane, and then wandered the tarmac for the next three weeks. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/5/793445.jpg)
Source: UPI
![WEIRD WORLD New Zealand police busted guys trying to smuggle KFC into Auckland. KFC sogood The city of Auckland's lockdown prohibits takeaway food, and cops caught a car with a trunk full of KFC (and $100,000 in cash) at the city border. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/4/793444.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![WEIRD WORLD An Irish guy caught with a ton of drugs gave the dumbest defense ever. He was caught at a secluded spot with 58,000 worth of drugs, and claimed that he was scouting a field to go dazzling rabbits. The judge didn't buy it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/1/793441.jpg)
Source: Irish Times
![WEIRD WORLD The Vice President of Suriname became the oldest soccer player in history. Specifically, the oldest player in an international club soccer game, at 60- he played in a game for Inter Moengotapoe, which he also owns. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/3/793443.jpg)
Source: UPI
![WEIRD WORLD The first ever statue of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto went up, in Budapest. Nobody knows who Satoshi Nakamoto exactly was or is, so the bust is just a hooded figure. They put it next to a statue of Steve Jobs. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/2/793442.jpg)
Source: RFI
![WEIRD WORLD A group of 13 wild boars were spotted roaming the suburbs of Rome, Italy. Rome's mayoral elections are coming up, so this moved discussions of the supposed state of decay of The Eternal City to the forefront. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/4/0/793440.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![WEIRD WORLD A Michigan family used the back of a missing gravestone to make fudge. It was missing for 150 years, and turned up in the house of a woman who'd gone to a nursing home. Nobody in the family knew how they got it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/8/793438.jpg)
Source: MLive
![WEIRD WORLD A utility regulators' Zoom meeting in Louisiana was interrupted by porn. Trolls joined the meeting and started running explicit porn just before it started, so it had to pause while staffers kicked them out. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/6/793436.jpg)
Source: The Advocate
![WEIRD WORLD In Boston, students rode a party bus with a stripper pole on a field trip. illustration The bus also had neon lights, just to complete the effect. It happened as the result of a national bus driver shortage -- the school had to make do. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/9/793439.jpg)
Source: Mass Live
![WEIRD WORLD Australian authorities might try to control the carp population with herpes. Carp are overrunning the Murray-Darling Basin, but they're susceptible to a particular herpesvirus that doesn't affect other species. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/7/793437.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![WEIRD WORLD A New York woman claims her gynecologist is also her biological father. I She sued him, claiming he used his sperm to impregnate his patients (including her own mother, who got fertility treatments from him). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/5/793435.jpg)
Source: Insider
![WEIRD WORLD Taliban fighters are restless and unhappy now they'v taken over Kabul. Commander Abdulrahman Nifiz said that, when his men came to Kabul, they didn't feel comfortable. There isn't any fighting here anymore. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/3/4/793434.jpg)
Source: Insider