ATCHISON, Kan. -- After most of the world's population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas mine.

That's the vision of a California man who is creating what he calls the world's largest private underground survivor shelter, using a complex of limestone caves dug more than 100 years ago beneath gently rolling hills overlooking the Missouri River.

"I do believe I am on a mission and doing a spiritual thing," said Robert Vicino, who has purchased a large portion of the former U.S. Army storage facility on the southeast edge of Atchison, about 50 miles northwest of Kansas City, Mo. "We will certainly be part of the genesis."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/robert-vicino-kansas-caves-survive-apocalypse_n_3471172.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

There are dumb thieves and there is Jamie Neil.

This 41-year-old Brit was convicted this week of robbing a gas station in Cornwall, U.K. last September -- while wearing a see-through plastic bag.

Neil and his accomplice, Gareth Tilley, 20, were drunk and high on stolen medication when they decided to rob the gas station. In their haste, they each grabbed the nearest thing they could use as a disguise; a scarf for Tilley and a plastic bag for Neil, the Daily Mail reported.

Tilley wasn't exactly a top-notch criminal either.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/jamie-neil-robber-wears-plastic-bag_n_3467899.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

In a week that saw United Airlines (UAL) place dead last in a customer service ranking of the major airlines, a picture surfaced that gives some idea of how the airline earned that dubious distinction.

"Apparently, they ran out in one lav half-way home and couldn't bother to transfer a roll from another," writes the poster. As you can see, a member of the flight crew seems to have hacked together a holder out of duct tape and filled it with cocktail napkins -- which, appropriately enough, bear the slogan "Fly by the tips of your fingers."

And this was no short flight, either: He notes that this took place on a San Francisco-to-London trip. While having to use napkins as toilet paper isn't the end of the world, it's still hard to imagine an airline like JetBlue (JBLU) running out of toilet paper and having to resort to such college-dorm-style innovation.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/united-americas-worst-airline-no-toilet-paper/

This has to be the most ridiculous way to eat candy that I have ever seen in my life!

Yes, let’s teach kids to put together a toilet and then eat from it……

Foaming toilet candy none-the-less!

You’re welcome for the appetite suppressant!

We have covered a few strange Japanese food items over the years, but this has to be the strangest.

I love Japanese people and their food in general, but this is something I just don’t culturally understand, I guess.

http://www.diet-blog.com/13/toilet-candy-only-in-japan.php

A professor is leaving his job at Northwestern University because he's tired of finding beer cans and used condoms in his yard.

Dr. Mark Waymack, who was an adjunct associate professor in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern, said he's also moving away from his home near the Evanston, Ill., campus because the students are too rowdy, CBS Chicago reports.

“The used condoms tend to show up in the back yard, actually,” Waymack told CBS Chicago, adding complaints about "the vomit, the beer cans in the hedges. I think they horse around late at night."

Waymack is pointing the blame at the Northwestern administration.

He wrote a letter of resignation to Morton Schapiro, the university's president, which was read at an Evanston City Council meeting on June 11 by Ald. Judy Fiske. Waymack remained anonymous when the letter was read at the meeting, but has since disclosed his name, according to the Daily Northwestern.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/northwestern-professor-quits-mark-waymack_n_3451616.html?utm_hp_ref=college

A 41-year-old Waukesha man was charged last week with allegedly arguing (loudly) on behalf of one of America’s lesser known freedoms: the right of a man to love a goat.

Shaun Keith Orris was charged on June 13 in Waukesha County Circuit Court with carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct, allegedly asking strangers outside a bar: “Do you think it’s right to [expletive] a goat.”

Its an issue that perhaps demands attention after half-a-dozen beers and a couple shots, which allegedly prompted Shaun Keith Orris’ prurient outburst.

According to the criminal complaint, Waukesha City Police were dispatched at 2:45 a.m. June 13 to Waukesha’s Montecito Ristorante Lounge, 257 West Broadway, after receiving a call from Orris complaining he was “battered and bloodied” for asking strangers his strange question.

The owner of Montecito told police that Orris had been drinking heavily and began asking other patrons whether they believed it was their constitutional right to have sex with a goat, according to the complaint.

http://www.waukeshanow.com/news/211573801.html

POLK COUNTY --

A Polk County man has been arrested and charged with impersonating a police officer.

On Thursday, a PCSO deputy was contacted by a witness who told the PCSO deputy she had been traveling west on Maine Avenue in Lakeland when a male subject, later identified as Luis Vega, 38, had driven up behind in her at a high rate of speed in a vehicle with blue flashing lights.

The witness told the deputy she believed the vehicle to be that of an undercover law enforcement officer and moved to the side of the road.

The witness described the vehicle as being a silver two-door Pontiac Grand Prix.

The witness said when Vega passed her, the driver did not appear to be a law enforcement officer. A short distance from where the witness first observed Vega, she encountered the vehicle once again and pulled in behind it and took a photo of the vehicle and tag.

At approximately the same time, Vega exited his vehicle and approached the witness, who then told Vega it was unlawful to impersonate a police officer.

http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2013/6/14/man_charged_with_imp.html

Spring Hill, Florida -- A man on Wednesday called 911 so many times a deputy went to the home to investigate, only to find the man was making the calls to prove a point to a friend.

A deputy responded to a home on Trout Circle after nine 911 hang-up calls had been made from the residence.

Upon arrival, the deputy says 20-year-old Nicholas Soehngen was found on his cell phone.

The deputy asked Soehngen if he called 911, and he stated that he did call from his cell phone, but only to prove to his friend that 911 does not come up on Caller ID.

The deputy, seemingly unimpressed, arrested Soehngen for making false 911 phone calls and transported him to the Hernando County Jail.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/article/320150/8/Man-arrested-for-calling-911-to-prove-a-point

DELTONA, Fla. — Authorities say two Florida brothers got into a tussle over missing macaroni and cheese that ended with one stabbing the other in the stomach.

Volusia County Sheriff's deputies say 47-year-old Edward Zipperer spilled a beer belonging to his 49-year-old brother Randy Zipperer while looking for the missing mac and cheese. That set off an argument inside the Deltona home that led to the older brother stabbing the younger one.

According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal ( http://bit.ly/11EKZ4Z), Randy Zipperer told deputies he didn't mean to hurt his brother, adding he just "poked him a little with the knife."

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2013/06/14/4568213/fla-man-stabs-brother-over-missing.html#storylink=cpy

A LABOUR politician has defended his beliefs in extra-terrestrial life - after claiming to have fathered a child with an alien.

Married father-of-three Simon Parkes, who represents Stakesby on Whitby Town Council, said his wife had rowed with him after revealing he had a child called Zarka with an alien he refers to as the Cat Queen.

The 53-year-old driving instructor said he has sexual relations with the alien about four times a year.

“What will happen is that we will hold hands and I will say ‘I’m ready’ and then the technology I don’t understand will take us up to a craft orbiting the earth," he explained.

“My wife found out about it and was very unhappy, clearly. That caused a few problems, but it is not on a human level, so I don’t see it as wrong.

Councillor Parkes, who also claims his "real mother" is a 9ft green alien with eight fingers, said people only claim he is mad because they have not shared his experiences and that the encounters don't affect his work on behalf of Whitby residents.

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10488568.Whitby_councillor_claims_to_have_fathered_alien_child/