Strange & Stupid: Amusing News

We all know I love a good Ninja story, and this one may seriously take the cake.

A 27-year-old German medical student was attacked by three thugs that followed him off of the train. They continued their pursuit down the Kingswood alley, waiting for the right moment to steal/pillage/rape/whatever thugs do to innocent dudes.

A mistake on their part….the alley runs behind the Ninja Senshi Ryu warrior school. A student saw the potential threat and went to get his teacher and three other students. The four ninja warriors approached the thugs and their German snack. The teacher said “We looked around to see what was happening and there were three blokes on this guy just kicking him and punching him in the head.”

HHHiiiiyyAAHH! The ninja warriors charged the thugs, and they ran, as any smart man would from five fully dressed ninjas. “I think they’re probably still running if I’m not mistaken,” added the teachers.

Police charged a 16-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man with robbery in company over the assault, and are still looking for a third male, aged 15-17.

A 14 year old girl in New Zealand beat a shark with her boogie board after it bit her. She hit the shark repeatedly on the head until he swam away.
“I couldn’t believe the lack of fuss. I would’ve been hysterically screaming but no, there was no screaming. She was just standing there looking a bit shaky,” her mother was quoted as saying.

“So tell me, sir, how did you feel as you were robbing that bank?”
That sentence is becoming more and more common in Southland, New Zealand, where the police is trying something new to lessen area crime: visit criminals in their homes for a friendly chat (over tea and crumpets, I’m sure).

Strangely enough, it seems to be working. The region has seen an overall 17% drop in crime since this initiative began in July. The goal is to make criminals feel accountable for their actions.

Indicative [not official] figures show:
overall crime: down 17%
burglaries: down 28%

The goal is to stop crimes from happening at all rather than arrest criminals later. “A lot of it is problem-solving work. For example, houses we may regularly visit over the weekend may be visited again during the week to work out why we were called and what interventions can be put in place to prevent us being called the following weekend,” said one officer. Sounds like a lot of hours to me….think they’re getting overtime?

Southland police have tackled family violence during the past two Christmas seasons by visiting Invercargill’s top 10 offenders and asking them to take it easy. I’m sure that worked glowingly. “Sir, I know you like that nog, but lay off it, and while you’re at it, stop beating your wife. Here are some gingerbread men, and a Happy Christmas to you, sir.”