The week in weird

Ouch - one man’s excruciating tattoo removal method

A man has used a cheese-grater to remove a tattoo, a week after having it inked. The 21-year-old, from Mendoza, Argentina, said: “It hurt and bled a lot. I had to bandage it a lot and apply disinfectant. A week later I went to the hospital and I had a tetanus vaccination.” As the Daily Mail says, “Not a grate idea.”

Woman gored by bison in date de ja vu

A man took a woman he was dating to Utah State Park where he was gored by a bison earlier this year, only to see her attacked by a bison too. “I thought my situation was just a freak accident,” Kyler Bourgeous told The Washington Post. “But apparently, they're a lot more aggressive than I ever thought.” The woman bled from her left thigh and broke her right ankle.

Fish robots use farts to leap out of sea 

A flying fish robot uses farts to propel itself out of the water. The robot, developed by a team at Imperial College London, might be used to monitor reefs or ice floes. “As a locomotion principle, this aquatic jump-gliding is also used by flying fish,” said one of the team. “That’s partially where the inspiration comes from”

Man sues Apple after ‘his phone turned him gay’

A man in Russia has issued a lawsuit against Apple, claiming that his phone turned him gay. The man, named only as D. Razumilov, was upset when he was given 69 GayCoins of cryptocurrency instead of Bitcoin he had requested. He says money was accompanied with the message: “Don’t judge without trying.” He says: “I thought, indeed, how can I judge something without trying it? And decided to try same-sex relationships.” He says he is now “mired in intimacy with a member of my own sex and can’t get out”.

Aliens are ‘using asteroids to spy on us’ 

Aliens could be using asteroids to monitor us, according to a researcher at at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. James Benford says that advanced extra-terrestrial species might be spying on us using tiny probes on asteroids. “These near-Earth objects provide an ideal way to watch our world from a secure natural object,” he said.


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