These 11 News Stories Are Too Weird to Believe

8. Your (Gay) Friendly Neighborhood Hackers Are Back

Once ISIS started using Twitter to broadcast their grisly videos and bolster recruitment efforts, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.

Essentially, hacker group Anonymous did what any of your friends would do if you forgot to sign out of your account: they messed with their profiles. Only instead of doing something immature, like changing the ‘religious views’ section to ‘having sex with baked goods’, they replaced messages of hate with messages of LGBTQ acceptance and love.

Score one for the good guys.

Here’s the full article.

 

9. Is a Taco a Sandwich?

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The verdict is in. And apparently, it is not, and will never be, a sandwich. Okay.

The bigger question is, who the hell financed this farce?

You can read far more than you’ll ever want to know about the voters’ rationales here.

 

10. Dashcam captures idiotic driver accidentally setting car on fire at petrol station

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…Seriously? What exactly did she think would happen??

The best part, clearly, is watching her try to blow it out when the hose catches fire.

Watch the video here.

Written by Mary McCaw

Mary is a freelance writer and editor. She's based in San Francisco, but lately, home is wherever her suitcase is. If you really are what you eat, she is at least 50% pizza.