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[MoscowHawk]

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/...s-marijuana-field-instead-of-lawn/459631.html

Another one from Russia

City Mistakenly Plants Marijuana Field Instead of Lawn

After the city spread soil containing "grass" seeds around the Brateyevo metro station, a field of marijuana plants sprouted up instead of a lawn.
But don't go rushing over there with your bong.
Federal agents have already uprooted more than 230 of the illicit weeds, RIA-Novosti reported Thursday, citing the Federal Drug Control Service.
The Brateyevo metro station is under construction in the city's south end. Workers had filled the area with the soil as part of the development project.
The soil is currently being replaced. An investigation is under way to determine its supplier as well as why it was filled with the seeds of a psychotropic plant that can also be turned into practical items such as rope, lip balm and clothing.

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[MoscowHawk]

Might as well post another while I'm here:

The ups and downs of being recently deceased in the Urals



An unlikely resurrection happened in the Urals when a man appeared on his doorstep a few days after his own funeral.
“Oh, the zombie’s back,” Alexei Semyonov’s stepson quipped as the man returned home from jail where he spent 15 days without his family's knowledge.
While he was away, his wife and mother-in-law blew all their family’s savings on their last farewells to what turned out to be a stranger that they had earlier identified as their missing relative.

Court appeal
In order to return to the living officially – the man needs some help from his family once again as his local registry office can’t accept documents from a dead person. His relatives are the only people able to get an official recognition of his resurrection by applying to court.
“How could they be mistaken like that,” Semyonov told Komsomolskaya Pravda. “Does he look anything like me? I’m surely more handsome, not like that one.”
Semyonov was taken to jail from his home on April 20, as he didn’t show up for community service that he was sentenced to for stealing a mobile phone.

Pleas ignored
According to his account, his pleas to call his family were ignored, KP reported, and police officers apparently just forgot to inform his closest relatives about his imprisonment.
Police, however, said the man demonstrated no wish to contact anyone by phone or write a note to anyone since he was detained.
“When he arrived in the pre-trial detention center, he mentioned only his brother in his profile, whose address he didn’t know,” Alexander Levchenko, spokesman for the analytical department for the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Sverdlovsk region told KP. No information about any other relatives was provided, he added.

False identification
Police in Kamesk Uralsk, where Semyonov resided with his family, received no reports about his disappearance, Levchenko said. His wife, Alyona, however, said that she went to police on the day after her husband went missing.
“In the police station they tried to clam me down, told me that it was too early to report his disappearance because a three-day period hadn’t passed yet,” she said.
And after four days, she was invited to a local morgue for an identification procedure. “They warned me that the unlucky person’s body had received 85-percent burns,” she added.
“The burnt man had a scar on his head, same as my son-in-law,” Galina Ustyantseva, Semyonov’s mother in-law, said.

Being dead has its upside
Despite some inconvenience, the deceased has already found some benefits to his current status.
“If road police stop me, I show them my death certificate. And what can they do about a dead person?” Semyonov said. And from now on, his family has to pay less for monthly utility bills, which are calculated based on the number of people living in a property.
His young children were also not affected by his sudden death and later resurrection – as they were told that their father was seconded to work elsewhere.
The 13-year old stepson was the only one aware of his supposed death, but seems to have taken it in his stride.
Semyonov’s employer seems to be one of few people who didn’t benefit from the situation – as rehiring him is now impossible.
“In a shop where I used to work as a laborer, I was told I can only work unofficially – because I’m dead now!” Semyonov said

http://themoscownews.com/russia/20120522/189755910.html

 

[Gough]

 

[Chops_a_must]

Wuuuuuuut???

 

[Chops_a_must]

Wuuuuuuut???

Tis real:

http://boingboing.net/2008/03/12/unusual-home-invasio.html

 

[I bleed Blue]

For me the strangest part was "before he left, the intruder fed his dog some mushrooms and the dog died"




I think this is a case of the bloke having a flog in his basement had too many mushrooms to eat himself.