Best BBC News Story ever.

[JAK]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 441461.stm

What's your favourite/most ridiculous BBC news story?

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I got my BBC

[Okocim]

I don't know but I just got a crazy moment of deja vu - five seconds before seeing this thread I was on a totally unrelated website which said precisely the same thing ("Best BBC News Story Ever") about the same link. That was weird.

[JAK]

Quoting Okocim from 23:02, 12th Mar 2007
I don't know but I just got a crazy moment of deja vu - five seconds before seeing this thread I was on a totally unrelated website which said precisely the same thing ("Best BBC News Story Ever") about the same link. That was weird.

Entirely possible we both frequent the same blog and I was too tired to think of anything more inventive than what was written there and posted this here on the basis no one else would read it, and it is a brilliant story.

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I got my BBC

[Okocim]

Aha, was it 'if destroyed' by any chance? That would be an odd coincidence. My boyfriend writes it. And yes, I giggled too when I read the story!

[JAK]

It was indeed. What an odd coincidence.

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I got my BBC

[Humphrey]

Thanks, I totally missed this one!. Excellent.

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http://www.livejournal.com/users/humphrey_clarke/

[Paranoid]

Can't find it covered in BBC, but there was a brilliant one on the Tube's Metro this morning (sorry graduate working in London here!).

Some girls stood in bikini's outside the London Film School yesterday waiting to protest at the arrival of Al Gore...apparently they are upset that his film "An Inconvenient Truth" did not address the issue of meat farming (?!?).


I'm guessing they weren't the brightest kids in the class when it came to understanding the synopsis of a film.

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..I've got this pain down all the diodes on my left side...

[mhuzzell]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 153382.stm

The best part is at the end:

Stray cats and dogs will vanish from the streets, he says, and anti-aircraft guns, small planes and rockets will be used to disperse rain clouds, ensuring there will be blue skies over Beijing for the duration.

[Gubbins]

Quoting mhuzzell from 09:55, 13th Mar 2007
anti-aircraft guns, small planes and rockets will be used to disperse rain clouds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6441503.stm

I didn't think they needed them (sorry it's not that ridiculous a link).

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...but then again, that is only my opinion.

[Rufus]

Poor guy [the diplomat]. We all have our vices.

[Tlomiew]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tay ... 461799.stm

Not much needs to be said really

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In this world there is a pie
A pie where topics go to die
And when they die they leave this place
The twisted world of the human race

[blondie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6225301.stm

[Bonnie]

Quoting Tlomiew from 16:38, 17th Mar 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tay ... 461799.stm

Not much needs to be said really

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In this world there is a pie
A pie where topics go to die
And when they die they leave this place
The twisted world of the human race

I love that the police can't find him when his scooter only goes 3mph. He can't have gone that far. That is, unless the witness gave a false description of the man, having been so distracted by his...driving abilities.

[Bonnie]

Quoting blondie from 09:32, 18th Mar 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6225301.stm

The tourists ate chocolate bars while they waited. I love that.

[KayBee]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/6132140.stm

Think it might have been posted on here before but it merits being reposted!