News of the Weird

[Hamato Yoshi]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-says-...175656566.html

stung-by-scorpion-lawsuit

[IndigoErth]

What the heck. That sucks for him if that happened, but definitely sounds like an opportunistic lawsuit, imo. Sure, it's on the hotel that a scorpion had gotten in... but for what reason would you "suffer PTSD and emotional trauma" from just getting stung by something? At worst, maybe you're particularly afraid of scorpions now. He wasn't exactly rushed to the hospital with an allergic reaction and a brush with death, come on.

Scorpion-caused ED and ruined sex life is such an easy claim because no one is going to sit in their bedroom and ask for proof...

[triplexxx]

https://nypost.com/2024/10/30/world-...re-worlds-gdp/

Kinda reminds of:

https://youtu.be/BRAkobf-tVI?feature=shared

That's like saying, "I want a dajillion, quijillion, fintillion dollars."

[oldmanwinters]

The story about the 60-something former real-estate guy who flipped out on an airplane flight, and had to be restrained by other passengers with duct tape continues to get even weirder:

The crazed plane passenger who was duct-taped and zip-tied on a flight to New Jersey first flipped over a discussion about religion with his seatmate, a controversial Messianic rabbi who’s a best-selling author dubbed a “Doomsday prophet.”

Author Jonathan Cahn said that now-fired Arizona realtor Arthur Layne Lundeen, 67, allegedly started hurling racist and homophobic slurs after first screaming at him that “Jesus is bulls–t.” . . .

“I have never seen someone change in a split second from light to dark as I saw then, as if something had taken him over,” Cahn said. “He went from the friendliest guy in the world to this dark person.”

Cahn leads the Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, New Jersey, part of the Messianic Jewish movement that believes Jesus is the messiah, making it generally considered a branch of Christianity.

He is also known for his controversial books, especially his debut 2011 novel, “The Harbinger,” which draws parallels between the 9/11 attacks and the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel, linking the events as a divine warning. . . .

Cahn claimed it was the cover of his newest novel, “The Altar of Pergamon,” that “triggered” Lundeen after they had been chatting amiably on last Thursday’s Newark-bound American Airlines flight.

Cahn said he referenced “the reality of the real power of god on Earth and in our lives,” leaving Lundeen irate and “cursing Jesus” and “blaspheming Jesus and God.”

He claimed Lundeen then started saying, “It’s all bulls–t. Jesus is bulls–t.”

As Lundeen continued his tirade, Cahn said he grew physically hostile, hitting his laptop and trying to take it away from the author as the plane was in the process of making its emergency landing. . . .

“The plane is in shock, the pilot is radioing the ground, for an emergency landing. We’re fighting over my computer,” Cahn said, noting that his laptop screen was damaged in the scuffle.

Passengers soon intervened and secured Lundeen to his seat with duct tape and plastic zip ties. Cahn said one flyer who helped subdue the madman told him, “You were being tested. God was testing you.”

The flight had to make an emergency landing in Baltimore after Lundeen flipped out and allegedly started hurling racist and homophobic slurs at a black flight attendant and attacking other passengers.

Cahn did not say if anything specific about his latest book “triggered” his seatmate, beyond it starting a conversation about religion.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/08/us-new...rked-meltdown/

Also, kudos to the gunshop owner and the former police officer for making the best use of their tape stockpile:
https://nypost.com/2026/09/07/us-new...ine-passenger/