The Weird News Weekly Review, July 13-17

It's time for the weird news weekly review. Here are the eye rolling, chuckle worthy weird news pieces for the week of July 13-17.

Expensive Habit

This week in New Hampshire, Josh Muszynski bought a pack of cigarettes at a gas station with his debit card. Going online a few hours later, he checked his bank account and saw he had been charged $23,148,855,308,184,500. For those who need it written out, that is twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars. Wheeze, gasp, inhale.

Yes folks, that's quite an expensive pack of smokes! He evidently didn't die of heart failure because he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the long string of numbers on the screen, and the $15 overdraft fee he was charged. By the next day the error had been set right. Meanwhile the bank and Visa are pointing at each other to answer questions about the episode.

Baby Daddy Yes, No?

Evidently no one could make up their minds despite two separate DNA tests in the last nine years. Frank Hatley of Georgia had to spend more than a year of his life, since June 2008, behind bars for failing to pay child support.

Before you start nodding and saying well he should've paid, here's the twist. Those two DNA tests showed he was not the daddy of the now 21 year old young man. He did have a relationship with the mother but they split up after he was born. She claimed the boy was his son.

An attorney for the Southern Center for Human Rights, Sarah Geraghty, won his release at a hearing Wednesday. The first DNA test was done in 2000, and the second was done earlier this month. His paternity case is still unresolved, and no future hearings are scheduled.

Mr. Hatley tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Out of it all, I just feel like justice should be served for me in this case. I shouldn't have to keep being punished for a child that is not mine." I agree and I sincerely hope that he will get free from this very soon. I only hope he can do it without cramming those DNA tests down somebody's throat.

Mountain Lion Gone Wild

Yes, I know they're wild animals but this one lost it. In Montana on Sunday, Dustin Britton was camping with his wife and two toddlers in Shoshone National Forest. He had gone approximately 100 feet away from the campsite, and was cutting some firewood with his chainsaw. He happened to look up and see a mountain lion staring at him from the bushes.

He raised his chainsaw as the starving, emaciated moutain lion pounced. In a telephone interview with the Associated Press he said, "It batted me three or four times with its front paws, and as quick as I hit it with that saw, it just turned away."

The mountain lion was later tracked and killed by Wildlife officials. The good news is he only suffered a puncture wound to his forearm. Dustin did cut a good gash in its shoulder. Testing showed no sign of rabies or other diseases, and for now everyone is left scratching their head as to why this mountain lion was starving.

Strange Fetish

In the most weird news of the day, police are seeking a man who has a sexual fetish for slashing rubber balls. The 31 year old man was caught on surveillance tape allegedly breaking into a fitness clinic in May and seen slashing exercise balls. The authorities are familiar with him, because in 2005 he was convicted of breaking into a sports facility at the University of Minnesota and slashed about 70 balls. He pled guilty and then admitted he had slashed over 40 more at two different clinics. Court documents show he freely admitted to the police that he slashed the rubber balls to satisfy a sexual urge.

I don't have any, rubber or otherwise, but it still makes me wince. I suppose everyone should be grateful his sexual fetish for slashing rubber balls isn't a fetish for slashing the real ones.

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