The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Which one? 25 Reasons Why My Loss Was Entirely Out of My Control or Failing to Adapt: Hillary in Her Own Words?

You're forgetting Please Please Please Vote For Me! Don't Vote For That Other Guy! I'll Be Your Friend.

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Originally Posted by Mord

I was not angry since I came to France!!

Superb adaptation. Branagh rules.

[Zhanteimi]

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Can you believe I only saw it day before yesterday when it was screened on BBC 2? I avidly devoured their quadrology of The Hollow Crown - Henry IV Parts One and Two and Richard III. Pure class. Outstanding.

[Zhanteimi]

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[Chiomara]

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After the mudslides: Sierra Leone's body collectors | Humanitarian crises | Al Jazeera

Freetown, Sierra Leone - A group of young men wearing protective suits and face masks pace the riverbanks looking for body parts.

One of them removes his mask and starts to chant, "if you smell something bad then tell us, if you smell something bad then tell us…."

Somebody upstream calls and the team rushes forwards, rolling out a body bag as they do so.

A man is standing on the riverbank pointing to a ball of branches, mud and plastic. He gestures that there is a bad smell.

The body collectors wade through the water and start searching under the rubble. After five minutes one of them pulls out a foot; mangled, white and rotting. They drop it into the body bag.

This group of volunteer body collectors, all of whom are young men from neighbouring communities, has been working for seven days to gather the remains of those killed by a deadly mudslide in Sierra Leone on Monday, August 14.

So far, 499 bodies have been unearthed. More than 600 people remain missing. Those who know the affected communities estimate that the real number of victims could be well over 1,000."

[Frownland]

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/ar...alists-clothes

The headless torso of Swedish reporter Kim Wall, whose death after taking a trip on a homemade submarine remains a mystery, was found naked and police are now searching for her clothes, Danish police said Thursday.

The 30-year-old Wall was last seen alive Aug. 10 aboard the submarine of Danish aerospace and submarine enthusiast Peter Madsen. The cause of the journalist's death is not yet known, police said. Police have arrested Madsen on suspicion of manslaughter.

Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen said Thursday that police expect to raise the preliminary charges against Madsen to murder and indecent handling of corpse when he appears at a hearing Sept. 5 on whether his pre-trial detention should be extended.

Divers and members of the Danish Emergency Management Agency were combing the coast off Amager island in Copenhagen, where Wall is believed to have died, looking for an orange turtleneck blouse, a black-and-white skirt and white sneakers, Copenhagen police spokesman Steen Hansen.

A cyclist discovered her torso Monday. Copenhagen police say the body's head, arms and legs had "deliberately been cut off." DNA tests have confirmed the torso was Wall's and dried blood found inside the submarine, which somehow sank during the trip, also matched her DNA.

According to her family, Wall was working on a story about Madsen, 46, who dreamed of launching a manned space mission.

Madsen initially told police he had let Wall off the submarine on an island. He later told police he buried Wall at sea after an accident aboard his submarine, UC3 Nautilus.

I feel like this is a scrapped version of a Lynch film.

[The Batlord]

I like how divers say they're looking for her clothes but are too nice to say they're also looking for her severed head.

[OccultHawk]

Never trust a man with a homemade submarine.

[Chula Vista]

Truth is always stranger than fiction.

There's not an author who's ever walked the earth that could have dreamed up the current Trump scenario.