Strange But True Category
Weird, offbeat and bizarre news from around the world. Funny, strange & odd news stories that make you wince, laugh and fear for humanity.
The Funniest News Headlines Of 2010: Boobs, Buts And Steve Jobs’ RIM
THE Funniest News Headlines of 2010: Boobs, Butts, a penis snail, Barack Obama shaves a small boy, the SUMO pub fight, Steve Jobs’ RIM and lots more…
Posted: 31st, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Husband Spots Murdered Wife On Antiques Road Show: The Strange Case Of Lynette Dawson
IS that Lynette Dawson on the Antiques Roadshow, that mainstay of the BBC TV schedules in which people have their goods appraised and valued by experts? She went missing in Sydney in 1982. Her ex-husband Chris Dawson, father to their two children, says it is her on the show broadcast from Padstow, Cornwall in 2006. Thanks to the wonders of repeats, the show was just broadcast in Australia. (First we give them cricket, now they get our antique antiques shows).
He sent an email to his children:
“The show was filmed in Padstow, Cornwall, in England, and the likeness to your mum is uncanny. It has given us a strong sense of hope that at last her whereabouts may be known.”
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Posted: 31st, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Dead Son Donated Sperm To Aunt’s Lesbian: Meet The Kids
CHARLIE Lowdon died aged 20 in Northumberland. At aged 15, he had been donating sperm to his aunt Sarah Ashman and her partner Claire Ashman.
Two children were born. The children Charlie’s parents knew as nephew and niece are actually also their grandchildren.
Anyhow, the grandparents are proud and never realised that when Charlie asked his son Cartlon, “Who’s the daddy? I’m the daddy,” he meant it.
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Posted: 31st, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Finds Jesus And ET In Her Right Breast: Photo
JESUS has been appearing inside a woman’s right breast in Elwood, Indiana. The breast is Karen Sigler’s And when she saw the X-ray of her cancerous tissue she saw Jesus. Spookily, she says that before her surgery a man approached her and uttered:
“Jesus said you’re going to be healed.”
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Posted: 30th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Follow Snow Tracks To Wheelchair Thieves
POLICE in Sweden managed to locate the three thieves who robbed from a block of flats in Helsingborg by following the tracks their wheelchairs left in the snow.
Says local police chief:
“People had seen them at the spot, but they had managed to escape. However, since two of them were in wheelchairs, they did not get very far.”
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Posted: 29th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Wife Kidnapped Herself To Test Husband’s Love
TO Spain, where police are questioning a woman about a kidnap – her own.
She faked her kidnap to see if her husband would pay the ransom of 20,000 euros. He received a photograph on his mobile phone of his beloved that showed her feet and hands bound. He was warned not to contact the police. So. He contacted the police.
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Posted: 29th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who Is Mark Akintola? Wife Wants To Know Jailed Husband’s Real Name
WHO is Mark Akintola. The man who has called himself Mark Akintola – the man who’s been married for 20 years and has a daughter now aged 17 – is not Mark Akintola.
We know that Mark Akintola, a British citizen, has been living in the United States since 1979. This is not him. This is a man stood in the dock at Southwark Crown Court being jailed for two years for a fraud that came to light when he went to renew his passport.
As he is taken down from the dock, his wife screams:
“Your daughter’s got a right to know who you are! ‘You are damn out of order.”
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Posted: 28th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Merry, Happy And Delicious Kwanzaa: More Cake Less Marijuanakaa
MERRY KWANZAA! It’s seven crazy nights of a celebration that fits in between Christmas and New Year.
It’s got the lights of Diwali.
It’s got the longevity of Chanukah.
It’s got cake! Get a load of the cake! Who wants some..?
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Posted: 28th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Second Australian Car Crash Averted In Melbourne As Drunk Driver Waves At Police
TO Melbourne, scene of enjoyable car crash Australian cricket, where a drink-driver is parping his horn and waving at police. He’s five times over the limit.
Says Sergeant Wilson:
“This was nothing unusual except police attention was drawn to the vehicle as the driver was tooting his horn and waving at police as he drove past…
“When asked why he was driving like that, the man told police he was unaware he was driving a car.”
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Posted: 28th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who Is Hamburg’s Christmas Day Kitten Killer: 4Chan, Reddit Will Find Out
MARY Bale and Bosnian puppy tosser have nothing on this teenager thought to be from Hamburg, Germany – (the IP address of the YouTube video loader has been linked there) – who stuck two live kittens in a plastic bag and used a vacuum cleaner to remove the air.
He filmed it and posted the video online. For added impact, you can hear the strains of John Lennon’s Merry Christmas (War Is Over) playing on.
Peta is on to him. But this one calls for 4Chan…
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Posted: 26th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (9)
Jesus Is Reborn On A Pistachio Nut
JESUS has been appearing on the hard part of Michelle Phipps’ pistachio nut. Jesus is the hardest working shell in Ohio. Of course, you might nor see Jesus.
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Posted: 25th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Christmas Day Swim Photos: Dublin, London And Coney Beach
THE Christmas Day swim at the Forty Foot in Sandycove, Dublin, is not for the faint hearted. The Porthcawl Charity swim at Coney Beach is bracing. The members of the Serpentine Swimming Club have seven extra layers of skin and hair made of Kevlar, so they say.
Porthcawl Charity swim
Posted: 25th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who Threw The Bag Of Puppies Into The Bay? 4Chan, We Need You
WHO threw the bag containing six puppies into Welcome Bay, Tauranga, New Zealand? Can 4chan find out?
The puppies – all a American pit bull Staffordshire-cross – drowned.
But the dog’s mother tried to save her brood.
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Posted: 24th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Awkward Santa Claus Moments: Picture Gallery
WHAT about those scary shopping mall Santas, those men who smile as the screaming child dandles on their knee? (Who in their right mind volunteers to be a Santa Claus?) The children love Santa, so they say. Santa creeps into your room at night, kids. Don’t try to stay awake. You can’t. He waits. He knows. The Mall Santa is coming. And we have pictures of those Awkward Santa Claus Moment:
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The Potty Fisher: The Toy That Keeps Your Eye In
INTRODUCING the Potty Fisher. Is this not the must-have game of the season?
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Posted: 23rd, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Hairball In Her Stomach Weighed 10 Pounds: Photo
THIS is a hairball being removed from woman’s stomach. She is 18. A mental condition called trichophagia causes her to chew and swallow her hair.
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Posted: 23rd, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Snow: A Gallery Of Fantastic Sculptures And Designs
SNOW. Like George Bush, France and an intense itch, you miss it when it’s gone. Anorak has been out on the snow-covered internets looking for interesting snow sculptures and designs. Now feast your eyes upon the wonder of the snow killers, hitchers, sleepers and lovers…
Posted: 22nd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
The Lunar Eclipse In Photos: Sweden Invades And A Pagan Orgy Begins
DID you see the lunar eclipse? We’ve got some photos of the moon starting to move into the Earth’s shadow. This is the first time the eclipse has occurred on the Winter Solstice since 1638. Back then, the Swedes had invaded America and created a settlement in Delaware called New Sweden, (The ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ arrived in the Americas on this day 1630), and Galileo Galilei was under house arrest. This year we’ll just stick with the Pagan orgy…
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Posted: 21st, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Swedish Man Charged With Sexual Molestation For Licking Woman’s Arm: Julian Assange Might Wonder
JULIAN Assange, listen up. Sweden’s sex scene is a complex place. Hudiksvalls Tidning newspaper reports of a woman in eastern Sweden. She is asleep. Next to her lies her boyfriend. When she wakes she finds a second man lying next to her. He is licking her arm. The stranger tongue is “pressed against the inside of her elbow”.
The woman prods her lover. She and he lover ask the man who he is. They want him to leave. He demands to know who they are. Police attend. And now – get this, Mr Assange – the man is charged with sexual molestation.
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Posted: 21st, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Shoot Golden Retriever Because It Barked At Them
TO Georgia, where the bastion of law and order has been send by Clayton County to investigator a report of suspicious person. He hears a dog bark. It’s Boomer, a golden retriever owner by 19-year-old Jonathan King and the King family. Boomer is running in the general direction of the officer. Local police chief Lt. Tina Daniel tells us that “the officer commanded the dog to stop, but it did not, so he shot and killed it”.
And had Boomer got beyond the electronic fence about his home he might well have attacked the officer, or licked him.
Say Mr King:
“I really feel like my friend was murdered in my front yard.”
Of course, Boomer and the Kings had a lucky escape. Had that noble cop been a burglar, armed lunatic or dog rapist, it might have gone badly…
Posted: 21st, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Bob The Builder Arrested For Dogging In Surrey
BOB The Builder is at South West Surrey Magistrates’ Court. It is alleged that he was wearing a yellow hard hat, and not much more, in the lay-by adjacent to the Hog’s Back Café in Puttenham.
Bob, aka Garry High (and what is that but name made for raised eyebrows and sideways eyes?) has alarmed another person at the spot frequented by doggers.
Says prosecuting solicitor Darren Matravers:
“The male was dressed, or undressed, quite eccentrically, wearing a yellow builder’s hard hat and a high-visibility jacket that just covered the top of his thighs. Below, he wore a black leather harness designed to expose his penis. He was also wearing boots.”
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Posted: 21st, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Awkward Christ Cards: A Wonderful Gallery Of The Terrible
CHRISTMAS cards are a big deal. They say some much about you. Firstly, they say that you are the kind of person who sends cards. If you send a charity card, the missive says that you care, and want others to know it. But what about those cards that carry photos of you and your family? What do they say? We’ve compiled a gallery of awkward, terrible and wonderful Christmas cards. You cannot help but enjoy them…
You will love: Santa Clause (Awkward Santa Photos)
Posted: 21st, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Christian Fundamentalists Repent Amarillo Murder Santa for Jesus: Video
HAVING failed to burn a Koran, Christian fundamentalist group Repent Amarillo (pals of Terry Jones) have taken to this new stunt: murdering Santa Claus with large guns. Had they decided to shoot the Koran they would surely have succeeded in their mission. But that is so much theory. This is fact.
Santa is dead.
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Posted: 20th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Some Bad News For Nicole Kidman, Sharon Osbourne And Jocelyn Wildenstein
DID you know that the width and force of your smile is a guide to your future happiness? The Duchenne smile – a smiles that moves the mouth, cheeks and eyes (it gives you crows feet) – is the one to go for. As we say, this cold be bad news for Nicole Kidman, Sharon Osbourne And Jocelyn Wildenstein:
In the longitudinal study of Mills College graduates, Keltner and colleague LeeAnne Harker coded the smiles of 114 women who had their university yearbook photo taken sometime during 1958 and 1960. All but three of the young women smiled. However, 50 had Duchenne smiles and 61 had non-Duchenne, courtesy smiles.
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Posted: 19th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who Stole The School’s Honesty Sculpture?
WHO stole the Honesty sculpture? John Ilg’s artwork featured 316 rolled-up dollar bills stuffed into a wire mesh to spell out the word “Honesty“.
The bills are rolled in such a way that the legend “In God We Trust” is visible. Additions or replacements aren’t rolled that way. Who would dare steal the work form its place at Normandale Community College, MN?
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Posted: 19th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
