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.
A Car Video: A Car That Likes Skipping
YOU there! You may like your little motorcar that gets you to work everyday, fond of the cute way only you can work the clutch and have to punch the stereo before it works… but hear this – your car is rubbish.
In fact, all of your cars are rubbish compared to the one owned by some lunatic in – where else? – America.
As you may well be aware, folks in The States like hydraulics and bump their vehicles around while listening to ear-melting reggaeton or whatever.
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Posted: 10th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Great Cork Piddle Riddle: 237 Coca Cola Bottles Full Of Urine Found In Field
SOMEONE is drinking a lot of Coca Cola in Gyntown, Ireland. But who? And why have they used 237 empty 500ml bottles as urine recepticles? And why have the bottles been dumped in a ditch? It’s such a big deal that the Cork Independent is offering a €50 reward for anyone with “hard evidence” about the felon’s identity.
It is the Glanmire piddle riddle.And it has reached the very highest levels. Labour councillor, Noel Costello, wonders:
“If someone had been caught short, they would have gone in a ditch. This is very strange.”
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Posted: 10th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Marni Kotak Says Her Live Gallery Birth Is Art
IS the art world nuts? Artist Marni Kotak will give birth at Bushwick’s Microscope Gallery before an audience. Her work is part of a greater piece examining childbirth.
Other parts are said to include My Placenta And Me, Umbilical In Tope, Useless Husband and Screams Of Pain With Flashing Lights.
Says the artist of The Birth of Baby X:
“I hope that people will see that human life itself is the most profound work of art, and that therefore giving birth, the greatest expression of life, is the highest form of art.”
Posted: 10th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Louis Tussaud’s House of Wax, Great Yarmouth
HAVING looked at what makes this country GREAT, Anorak ventured to Great Yarmouth and to Louis Tussaud’s House of Wax.
Entry is £3.
There is much fun to be had.
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Posted: 9th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)
Man Caught Defecating On School Steps Five Times Left Notes
TO Florida, where Kenneth Martin Sarsony has been arrested for pooing on the front steps of portable classroom 469 at Ft. King Middle School, Florida.
Says Ocala PD spokesman Chas Maier:
“You can see in the video he appears to be a very clean-cut, normal-looking guy. But you never know what’s going on in his head. We don’t know if he suffers from mental illness or something like that.”
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Posted: 9th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Teenaged Woman Stole To Feed Her Porn Addiction
MUG Shot Of The Day features the face of Amanda Rose Owens, 18, of Bethel Minestotta. She is charged with stealing cash and items of value from her neighbour Darin Pake’s home. She stole to feed her addidction to porn.
After repeated break ins over a very short space of time – three times in a week – Pake set up am CCTV unit. Says Darin:
“I came home from work, checked the tapes and saw somebody coming off the deck, though I couldn’t see who it was. Then I went to the inside camera and they came in and wandered around and wow, I couldn’t believe who it was.”
When challenged by police, Owens explained that she needed cash to feed her addiction to pornography.
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Posted: 8th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Chupacabra Killed In Mississippi: Photos
A STRANGE creature has been sighted in Simpson County, Mississippi. The creature’s back legs are longer than its front legs. It has long teeth,. It has no hair. And when Truitt Bernard saw what might have been the first or alt of its kind, he knew what to do: shoot it dead.
Says Barnard:
“It’s an ugly looking beast. I know it’s not a coyote. I’ve killed some mangy coyotes too, and I just haven’t seen something quite like it.”
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Posted: 7th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
The Last Meals Of Death Row Prisoners: A Gallery
THE last meal was once a treat offered to US prisoners facing certain death by execution. What would you eat? Would you be able to? And is it a form of religious-based torture that the condemned man gets one last supper for the sinner?
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Posted: 6th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Drunk Burnley Man Run Over By Own Van
ANDREW Haimes, 47, was almost four times the limit when he was struck by his Mercedes Vito.
At Burnley Magistrates’ Court, Haimes claims he was standing at the rear of the vehicle when the van’s handbrake failed causing the car to roll backwards into him.
The prosecution counters that Haimes told paramedics he had been drinking in a pub and had driven the van to where it was.
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Posted: 6th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
100 Year Old Clare Ormiston Spanks The Care Home Stripper
FOR her 100th birthday present, Birmingham lass Clare Ormiston got a stripper. It’s what she wanted. Well, her first choice was a “seat on the moon”, but building rockets takes time.
The Birmingham Mail tells us how it came about:
Matron Barbara Hancock organised the bash as part of a programme she runs at the home to make sure residents get the birthday wish they want, but also one that will reinvigorate the recipient.
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Posted: 5th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Fake Breasts Save Stabbed Woman’s Life
TO Moscow, where a woman has survived being stabbed in the chest by her husband. She was saved from certain death by her fake boobs.
And – yep – the breasts were implanted at the invitation of said husband. And it was good investment, saving him from a potential murder charge.
Indeed, so massive and firm were the breasts that the blade “did not even reach the thorax”.
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Posted: 4th, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Thailand Vegetarian Festival In Photos 2011: Face Kebabs To Go
THE Thailand Vegetarian Festival in photos 2011: Devotees of the Jui Tui Chinese Shrine have been turning their faces into novelty kebabs at the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, southern Thailand Monday. The festival, held annually at the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, celebrates vegetarianism with the believe that the sacred rituals bestow good fortune upon those who religiously observe this rite.
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A devotee of the Jui Tui Chinese Shrine, whose cheeks are pierced through with the handles of umbrellas, walks in a procession during the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, southern Thailand Monday, Oct. 3, 2011. The festival, held annually at the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, celebrates vegetarianism with the believe that the sacred rituals bestow good fortune upon those who religiously observe this rite. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Posted: 3rd, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Holidaying Norwegian Policewomen Hunt Down And Capture Spanish Flasher
TO Spain, where Norwegian holidaymakers Brit Randulff Karlsen, Cecilie Lorentzen, Helen Solheim, Line Janson and Marianne Hagenes have apprehended a Spanish flasher. The man was wearing only socks and trainers in Torrevieja when the policewomen spotted him.
Says Brit: ”I have never chased and arrested a naked man before. At least not in my spare time. We had been out and eaten, when we saw a man standing and showing off a couple of streets below us. But we thought he was drunk, and let us not be affected by it.”
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Posted: 3rd, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Plane Crashes Into Ferris Wheel: Photos Of Envy
TO Old Bar, Australia, where an ultra-light Cheetah S200 plane carrying two men has crashed into a Ferris wheel. A nine-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were trapped in a carriage at the top of the wheel. Children and thrill-seekers on the ground looked on with unbridled envy.
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Two men and their ultra-light plane hang from a Ferris wheel while two children sit in a carriage near the top of the ride at a country festival at Old Bar, Australia, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. The four people were trapped in the tangled wreckage for hours after the plane crashed into the ride. (AP Photo/Carl Muxlow) AUSTRALIA OUT
Posted: 3rd, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Six Swedish Drag Queens Sought For Lincoln Pub Fight
ARE you one of the six men dressed as Swedish women * who fought at the Jailhouse Rock pub in Silver Street, Lincoln? In the course of the fight, one of the drag queens had a chair smashed over her his head.“There was some nasty violence. Clearly we don’t want that sort of thing going on. It may have had something to do with the way they were dressed. One of them was hit over the head with a chair. It looked like a scene from a Carry On movie with these busty blondes fighting these blokes. But this was a serious fight and we need to make sure no one gets away with this level of violence.”
Odd way to condemn violence, by comparing it to a much-loved British comedy staple.
* Proof that they were not Swedish women has yet to be confirmed.
Lest we forget:
Posted: 2nd, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Alex Karpenko’s Shaving Spade Enters The Bathroom Arms Race
MEET Alex Karpenko. The 35-year-old English teacher from Nizhny Novgrod, Russia shaves with a sharpened metal spade.
Says he:
“Razors are an expensive, unnecessary luxury. He told me that during the war he used to shave using anything. I was so impressed I decided to do the same. I must say though, when my wife first saw me standing in the bathroom with an axe to my throat she was pretty horrified. So I decided to hang up the axe and use a sharpened shovel instead – I think it’s probably a bit safer.”
Posted: 2nd, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Thieves Stab Hedgehog To Burgle Animal Rescue Centre
IN Melnik, Czech Republic, crooks have stabbed a hedgehog. The villains then called the Melnik Animal Rights Association refuge and reported seeing said stabbed hedgehog. The animal rescue workers raced to help the creature. Meanwhile, the felons raced to the now vacated animal rescue workers’ offices and looted the place of £10,000 and computers.
They left a note behind. It sad:
“Hope the hedgehog is OK.”
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Posted: 1st, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Hughes Brothers Lift The Criccieth Feat Stone
TO Criccieth, Gwynedd town, where brothers Reuben and Dafydd Hughes, are passing the hottest day of the year lifting a massive stone weighting between 25-28 stones.
Says Reuben, who works with stone walls and fencing:
“I was a bit nervous when I first saw it, but I thought that as I worked with stones almost every day I had a good chance. We both managed to do it, though Dafydd was first.”
Why do it? Well, why not. Stir some civic and national pride into stone lifting and you have a sport.
Before the brothers lifted it, the last man who attempted to raise the stone off the ground was Roger Davis, aka Fianna Clansman, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. He’s putting stone lifting on the map by touring the country lifting the co-called Feat Stones, of which the Criccieth monolith is one. Having failed in his mission, he declared it would take “a world class strength athlete” to lift the stone.
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Posted: 1st, October 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
That Stupid Whale Tries To Make Friends With An Engine
EVER since that episode of The Simpsons aired, where dolphins started walking around and killing everyone, humans have had a very real fear of our sea-dwelling chums rising up and handing our arses to us in a lobster pot.
Or is that just us?
Either way, we needn’t worry because everything in the sea is so ridiculously dim, that we can have a great time polluting their habitat and harpooning them through the face without fear of repercussion.
Unless you count plankton. We don’t trust plankton one bit.
So what gave us the notion that the creatures of the sea are more stupid than a boxset of The Only Way Is Essex? Well, take whales. Whales seem pretty smart don’t they? They sing and have sonar. However, they also try to make friends with out-board engines on boats, to the point where they’ve actually bothered to learn how to do an impression of one.
Watch this video and sleep easier tonight, knowing that, while whales may resent us humans, they’ll be too busy trying to stir up a rebellion with inanimate objects.
The dicks.
Posted: 30th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Tattooed Mug Shot Of The Day: Albert Tejeda Is No Master Of Disguise
TATTOOED Mug Shot of The Day features the face of Arizona’s 31-year-old Albert Tejeda.
When police saw a car being driven erratically in Casa Grande they pulled the vehicle over. Police get out of their own car and approach on foot. Tejeda races off.
Only the police had seen Tejeda’s face.
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Posted: 30th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Vauxhall Frontera Fails In Second Bid To Reach Snowdon Summit
THERE’S a Vauxhall Frontera close to the summit of Mount Snowdon. It’s parked near the summit visitors centre.
It’s the same car that was on the mountain earlier in the year. Back then, Craig Williams admitted that he had driven it:
“There’s no plan of action as we speak, there wasn’t to begin with. Out of a list of 50 things to do before you die, this was one of them. If you think that was on top of the list, the other 49 are now not going to be done.”
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Posted: 29th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Lancashire Sex Club Complains About Banging From Next Door
“MUSIC UPSET SWINGERS CLUB.”
So says the Lancashire Evening Post of rumblings in Chorley:
A recording studio boss says he will not be forced out despite noise complaints from the owners of a swingers’ club.
(Butt plugs or ear plugs?)
The story is evocative:
Lee Morrison has launched a music recording studio called 1st Bass Music Solutions in the same building as The No3 Club at the mill on Friday Street. Theatre company Say Two Theatre Productions had previously been based in the mill – but moved out after parents of the children attending rehearsals complained that members of the adult club were mistakenly walking into their room.
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Posted: 29th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Heidi The Cross-Eyed German Possum Is Dead: The Gifs
HEIDI the cross-eyed possum is dead. She was three-and-a-half.
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Posted: 29th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Karla Flores Has A Live Grenade Cut Out Of Her Face (Photos)
TO Mexico, where Karla Flores, 32, hears a bang. She feels something hit her face. He passes out.
She wakes to find herself in Culiacán General Hospital. Says she:
‘The doctor asked me what happened. I told him that I thought a stone hit me. ‘Then they started to look and discovered that it was some kind of projectile, but they didn’t know what it was.'”
It was a live grenade. The thing has entered her face and stayed there. The jaw bones had applied enough pressure to prevent the thing from detonating.
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Posted: 29th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Child Born With Two Faces In Pakistan: Photos
AT the Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, medics are working to save a child born with two sets of eyes and lips, and two noses. She weighed 3.2 kg at birth.
The condition is known as craniofacial duplication.
The child is from Azad Jammu and Kashmir. His parents Shahida Perveen and Khalil Ahmed have two other perfectly healthy children.
Paediatric Ward Senior Registrar Dr Qaisar Aziz says:
“As feeding through the mouth is not possible [at present], he is being fed through a naso-gastric tube. The two faces are angled to each other.”
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Posted: 29th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
