Category: WTF
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Woman loses job after ‘physically assaulting black teenager for swimming at community pool’
Woman dubbed ‘pool patrol paula’ as she becomes latest white American to become a viral sensation for phoning police about black people.
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Nobody cared to save lifeless man – but many were filming the incident
Yesterday, 24-year-old Nicolai Ris saved an elderly man who had driven his car into the harbor in the Danish town of Nykøbing Mors. He is shocked that no one who saw the incident was helping the man, but that people instead were filming the incident with mobile phones. English tourists saw what they thought was a…
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Swimmer dies after shark bites off penis
A beautiful day at the beach turned into every man’s nightmare for a Brazilian teenager. Jose Ernesto da Silva had his penis ripped off by a shark as he swam with pals over the weekend, according to reports. Shocked onlookers rushed into the water to assist the terrified young man and pulled him from the…
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Special Olympian disqualified for swimming too fast
A Special Olympics swimmer’s disqualification for swimming too fast has now led to a rule change. Joshua Coy, 20, looked defeated Sunday, moments after he got the news at the regional competition. “I was apparently disqualified for being too fast,” said Coy.
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Ian Thorpe, Giaan Rooney ferried around Commonwealth Games ‘in stolen car’
Swimming stars Ian Thorpe and Giaan Rooney were forced to walk the remainder of their journey to the Commonwealth Games aquatic centre to report on the swimming after the car they were in was seized by police. The pair were riding in the hire car when Gold Coast police pulled it over because it had…
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Man on bike jumps off Sunset Cliffs, nearly hits swimmer
A man caught the whole incident on video.
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Trump on Olympics: ‘Hard to sell tickets when you think you’re going to be nuked’
President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited him with the success of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and threw out a line about the North Korean nuclear threat. “President Moon of South Korea said without Donald Trump the Olympics would have been a total failure,” Trump said. “It’s true, true.…
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Beware New Zealand’s “Swim Reaper”
If you’re going for a swim in New Zealand’s oceans, watch out for the “Swim Reaper.”
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Amid complaints, Quebec town forbids nudity in pool locker rooms
A Montreal-area town has decided to forbid all nudity in the locker rooms of its municipal pools — a level of discretion that has one man wondering if it doesn’t go too far. Brossard advised residents in its newsletter this month it wouldn’t allow men or women to walk around naked in their respective locker…