The truly memorable WTF moments in 2011

1. The ultimate was when we read of this extraordinary golfing achievement after the death of the super-golfer. “In 1994, Pyongyang media reported that Kim Jong-il shot an amazing 11 holes-in-one to achieve an unprecedented 38-under-par game on a regulation 18-hole golf course — on his first try at golf. Reports say each of his 17 bodyguards verified the record-breaking feat,” reports The Herald Sun. 2. Hey, did I really say that? Yes, you did, you did, you delivered someone else’s speech! “In a public gaffe, India’s External Affairs Minister SM Krishna inadvertently read out the speech of his Portuguese counterpart at a UN Security Council meeting, but quickly corrected it after India’s chief diplomat at the UN pointed it out to him,” says IBNlive. 3. No, this didn’t happen in the Dark Ages, this happened in India. Actually, this happens in India. You know that alcohol is bad. How bad? Well, you can get beaten black and blue for having a drink! Not very Gandhian, but, hey, who said Hazare was Gandhi? “We will give three warnings because after all they are our people. But after the warnings, we drag that person to the temple and make him promise that he will never drink again in his life. Even after all this if they continued, we used to tie him in a pole near the temple and beat him,” Anna said in an interview to NDTV. 4. Still in the Dark Ages. There are some who do not realise that you just cannot bullshit your way out of something once it’s been captured on live television. Like this sarpanch tried to do after he was caught on camera slapping a teacher. Take a look, here and decide for yourself! [caption id=“attachment_169005” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Police officers investigate wrecked luxury cars at the site of a traffic accident on the Chugoku Expressway in Shimonoseki, Japan. Reuters”]  [/caption] 5. We keep reading about car accidents. A Maruti here, a Honda there, a Sumo, a Scorpio, whatever. What does it take for an accident to destroy $4 million dollars worth of cars? A few hundred? “Speeding has been blamed Monday as the likely cause of what is believed to be Japan’s most expensive ever road accident after up to $4-million-worth of supercars ended up in a crumpled heap on a highway. Eight Ferraris and a Lamborghini — plus a Toyota Prius — were among the vehicles involved in the crash, which witnesses said happened when a speeding car slid across a wet road surface.” Details and photographs here. And the video, here. 6. Is it Hamilton? Is it Vettel? Is it Button? Is it Alonso? It’s none of them, it’s Rin Tin Tin. It could happen only in India – a dog interrupts the F1 practice session as it runs down the track. And what can the poor rack marshals do but run after the canine? 7. How much is your mobile bill? Rs 1,000? Oh, mine’s a little more — it’s Rs 1,00,00,000. Yup, that’s right, a Rs. 1 crore bill. “Celina Aarons, who lives in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area, has five brothers and sisters, two of whom are mute and deaf. So she helps them out with basic tasks, including putting them on her phone plan. Her brother Shamir recently took a trip to Canada. But as he was visiting, he didn’t turn his data roaming off. He texted more than 2,000 times. He downloaded videos. A lot of them. A few weeks later, Celina got her bill. The amount? $201,005.44. Just a bit higher than her normal bill of $175.” More details here. Continues on the next page 8. And this man could be the President of the USA? Well, let’s hope that he can remember the countries that the USA is war with? Or the names of his children? Or the name of his vice president? Or that India is a country. Ladies and gentlemen, here’s Rick Perry of the dodgy memory. 9. Two presidents are having a private chat, talking about the prime minister of a third country. That’s all very well, but what happens if the private chat is not private? Well, it’s a bit embarrassing. “The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, described the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, as a “liar” in a private exchange with Barack Obama at last week’s G20 summit in Cannes that was inadvertently broadcast to journalists.“I cannot stand him. He’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama. The US president responded by saying: “You’re fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day.” More in The Guardian. 10. And, finally we come to the best of the lot. Missed watching the Royal Wedding on TV? We’ve saved it. Here you go.