# This Week's WTF Story Award Goes to. **URL:** \ **Category:** Fun & Games\ **Tags:** wtf-news\ **Created:** [September 20, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431 "2007-09-20T01:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![marasan](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/marasan/32/181721_2.png) [@marasan](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/marasan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/81 "2019-12-24T00:46:18Z")
> “It’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany mostly – very few made here, almost none. But they’re manufactured tremendous – if you’re into this – tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe,” the President said at the Turning Point USA conference. “You talk about the carbon footprint – fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air. It’s our air, their air, everything – right?” > > Trump has complained about windmills throughout his presidency, slamming the technology everywhere from the G7 conference in France this year to a Republican fundraising dinner speech that he used to claim windmill noise causes cancer. Scientific studies [have not identified](https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/03/politics/trumps-war-on-windmills-now-includes-wild-cancer-claim/index.html) any human health risk. [https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/23/politics/donald-trump-windmills-turning-point/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/23/politics/donald-trump-windmills-turning-point/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![yyy](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/yyy/32/12085_2.png) [@yyy](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/yyy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/82 "2019-12-24T17:05:13Z")
Uh-oh, we’re getting the same problem we had with the “Idiots” thread: politics! :doh: It’s a slippery slope, man. ---
**Author:** ![marasan](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/marasan/32/181721_2.png) [@marasan](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/marasan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/83 "2019-12-24T21:44:58Z")
> **[How KFC became a Christmas tradition in Japan](https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/kfc-christmas-tradition-japan/index.html)** > > Forget turkey. In Japan, Christmas is a time to feast on KFC. CNN Travel explores how the American fast food chain grew to be synonymous with the holiday seeason. ---
**Author:** ![RickRoll](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/rickroll/32/180921_2.png) [@RickRoll](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/RickRoll)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/84 "2019-12-26T01:43:22Z")
> **[Drunk Florida Man Tries to Use Taco as ID After His Car Catches Fire at Taco...](https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/drunk-florida-man-tries-to-use-taco-as-id-after-his-car-catches-fire-at-taco-bell-6535056)** > > Tacos are not recognized as legal forms of identification in the state of Florida \[insert bad joke about immigration laws here\]. Matthew Falkner found out the hard way after he passed out drunk in the drive-thru of a Jensen Beach Taco Bell and his... ---
**Author:** ![RickRoll](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/rickroll/32/180921_2.png) [@RickRoll](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/RickRoll)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/85 "2019-12-26T12:15:15Z")
https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/6335379/ ---
**Author:** ![yyy](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/yyy/32/12085_2.png) [@yyy](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/yyy)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/86 "2019-12-26T21:51:16Z")
Maybe the taco place was trying to out-coffee the coffee places by writing customers’ names on the tacos they order. :idunno: ---
**Author:** ![RickRoll](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/rickroll/32/180921_2.png) [@RickRoll](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/RickRoll)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/87 "2019-12-27T01:40:15Z")
Even so, unless the taco place has an authenticated single identification of each taco, it’s hardly a valid ID #️⃣ 🌮 #️⃣ ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Milker](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/dr_milker/32/181996_2.png) [@Dr\_Milker](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Dr_Milker)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/88 "2019-12-27T04:32:14Z")
Personally, I’d be happy to accept a taco in lieu of valid ID. ---
**Author:** ![RickRoll](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/rickroll/32/180921_2.png) [@RickRoll](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/RickRoll)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/89 "2019-12-27T05:10:15Z")
I don’t think you’d like these: ![20191227_130936](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/3X/5/7/574aef829209f4c16530f3e4122519f364d3fc6e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![yyy](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/yyy/32/12085_2.png) [@yyy](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/yyy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/90 "2019-12-28T19:40:01Z")
> **[Van Buren man shot to death by his own booby trap](https://www.pressherald.com/2019/11/29/van-buren-man-shot-to-death-by-his-own-boobytrap/)** > > Ronald Cyr, 65, had outfitted his home with a device designed to fire a handgun at anyone opening the front door, police say. ---
**Author:** ![yyy](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/yyy/32/12085_2.png) [@yyy](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/yyy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/91 "2019-12-28T19:50:49Z")
> **['Our parents ran a secret gay porn empire'](https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50662998)** > > Karen and Barry Mason ran a successful gay porn business but tried to hide it from their children. > “The thought that they of all people were doing anything countercultural was the opposite of who my parents really were, to me,” Rachel says. And there’s a Star Trek connection, for good measure. 🛸 ---
**Author:** ![RickRoll](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/rickroll/32/180921_2.png) [@RickRoll](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/RickRoll)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/92 "2020-09-02T01:22:00Z")
Split this topic on September 2, 2020, 1:22am UTC 329 posts were split to a new topic: [This Week’s WTF Story Award Goes to… (2020 edition)](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-week-s-wtf-story-award-goes-to-2020-edition/196088) ---
**Author:** ![RickRoll](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/rickroll/32/180921_2.png) [@RickRoll](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/RickRoll)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/418 "2020-09-02T01:24:02Z")
The fun continues here: > [@This Week’s WTF Story Award Goes to... (2020 edition)](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-week-s-wtf-story-award-goes-to-2020-edition/196088): > > Stripteasing Musk. (No more embedding of videos?) [[Stripteasing Musk launches Tesla SUV program at new China factory] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjw27G9apN4) ---
**Author:** ![RickRoll](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/rickroll/32/180921_2.png) [@RickRoll](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/RickRoll)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/this-weeks-wtf-story-award-goes-to/40431/419 "2020-09-02T01:24:19Z")
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