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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news

Posted by mycketforvirrad
Tags: ask.discussion, recurring.weekly, offbeat fridays, offbeat

Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like chrome, users and wicked. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was researching.

But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched offbeat stories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!

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  2. mycketforvirrad
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    Staff 'banana-proof' areas for Swedish minister's phobia BBC News – Alex Boyd – 14th November 2024

    Staff 'banana-proof' areas for Swedish minister's phobia

    A Swedish minister's phobia of bananas has reportedly led to government officials asking for rooms to be free of the fruit.

    Local media outlet Expressen has quoted from leaked emails it has seen, in which staff working for minister Paulina Brandberg ask for any bananas to be removed before official visits.

    BBC News – Alex Boyd – 14th November 2024

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  3. Raspcoffee
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    In the south of the Netherlands, a garden gnome was found by the police to basically be made out of drugs: https://nos.nl/artikel/2545487-politie-vindt-tuinkabouter-gemaakt-van-twee-kilo-mdma...

    In the south of the Netherlands, a garden gnome was found by the police to basically be made out of drugs: https://nos.nl/artikel/2545487-politie-vindt-tuinkabouter-gemaakt-van-twee-kilo-mdma

    Quick Google Translate:

    The police in West Brabant have found a garden gnome made entirely of MDMA, the active substance in ecstasy. The two-kilogram gnome was found among a batch of other narcotics, Omroep Brabant reports.

    "In itself a strange place to keep your garden gnome, which is why we decided to test for narcotics," the police say.

    The Dongemond police (Oosterhout, Geertruidenberg, Drimmelen and Altena) do not say where and when the gnome was discovered, but call the drug gnome a "special" find.

    It is not known whether suspects have been arrested. The police also do not say how large the batch of drugs was that was discovered and how they came across it.

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