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Since 1996 I’ve been writing for a radio network. They search the world for wacky news and I add 2 or 3 jokes to each story and it’s off to morning DJs in places like Sri Lanka and Iceland. Of course most of the stations are in the United States and a place I keep hearing about called Canada. As a result I am currently a wacky news expert. I can tell you the relative worth of a wacky news story, what category it’s in, and how often it happens. For example, somewhere a bank robber leaves an incriminating piece of ID about every 6 weeks. I will not bore you with that stuff.
Once in a great while, however, we enter a category called wacky news gold. This standard came into being after Sharon Stone arranged for her husband - make that ex-husband - to visit inside the cage of a komodo dragon in a LA zoo. The story had everything: An A-list actress and an A-list lizard. When her husband removed his white sneakers, ostensibly so the lizard would not mistake them for mice, the giant beast bit down hard on the man’s foot. Voila! Wacky news gold.
Recently a couple of women and kids were having a picnic near a lake on a campus in Florida. An alligator charged out of the lake, grabbed the picnic basket and returned to the water. Here was another example. And you thought ants at a picnic were bad.
One of the things I hope to do here is to keep my eye out for these gems, the ones that rise above the bank robbers who write the notes on their own deposit slips. Days might pass between worthy examples, but by visiting this site you will access the best wacky news on this planet, complete with a joke and an expert to explain the story's place in wacky news history.