March’s Unusual Bizarre & Weird News

Photo Courtesy: Brett Neilson
                                                                            Photo Courtesy: Brett Neilson

By Andrew J. Hewett

IGNORANCE PERPETUATING ITSELF
A soccer game recently proves how backward a society can still be in the 21st century. In this case, a Saudi Arabia woman attending a soccer game was arrested. Why? She attended that soccer game, plain and simple. Quoting the Associated Press, “Saudi Arabia enforces a strict segregation of the sexes and has no designated areas for women at soccer stadiums.”

AN EXTREME ACT OF ARROGANCE
At least, sometimes, authority does not rule. In this case, Cho Hyun-ah, the daughter of the Korean Air’s chairman, was forced to resign as an executive there herself. This was because of arrogance, apparently caused by her demanding a flight attendant be put off “her plane” immediately for supplying macadamia nuts in a bag, instead of on a plate.

SOULS HEAVEN – ASHES GOODWILL
Do you donate household items to Goodwill? Just before Christmas 2014, an Indiana Goodwill received a couple of “items” they were not sure how to share. Inside a velvet pouch inside a larger box, they found two small, white boxes containing the cremated ashes of two deceased, uninvolved donators.