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.
Man Kills Hunting Partner For Eating Dog Killed By Monkey
THE Phnom Penh Post has news of the man who at his friend’s dog after it was killed by a monkey has been shot dead by the dog’s owner. In Vietnam:
A 25-YEAR-OLD man who ate his hunting partner’s dog after it was killed in a monkey attack was shot dead by the canine’s owner with a crossbow last Tuesday. Police said the suspect and the victim were friends who were hunting together in Kratie’s Snuol district. It is understood the suspect shot his friend because he would not help save his dog from being killed in a monkey attack. The victim then took the dead dog home to eat. When the suspect saw this, he fired his crossbow at his friend killing him instantly. Police say the suspect confessed to the crime following his arrest.
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Posted: 6th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Craig Williams Drives A Vauxhall Frontera Up Mount Snowdon (You Might Try The Land Rover)
CRAIG Williams attempted to drive to the top of Snowdon, the highest mountain in England and Wales . He failed, stopping 400 yards short of the summit. Says the driver of a Vauxhall Frontera:
“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: 5th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (10)
Brother And Sister Caught Having Sex In Motherwell Station
RICHARD Finlayson, 21, and his sister Kirsty, 18, of Lesmahagow, were caught having sex in the lift at Motherwell Station. Twice.
Their intercourse was captured on CCTV cameras. After the second bout of incest Richard hands Kirsty a £20 note.
All the while an 11-year-old boy who was with the siblings waits for them on the platform.
At Hamilton Sheriff Court, Kirsty says Richard gave her the cash “as a brother, not for payment“.
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Posted: 5th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (17)
Mug Shot Of The Day: Michael Miller’s Face Nuts And Bolts
MUG Shot of The Day features the face of Michael Miller, a 39-year-old Colorado man was arrested last week for failing to appear in court.
He’s charged with crime relating to vehicles.
Police have yet to find the missing nuts and bolts but if you see them do tell…
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Posted: 4th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Car Thieves Help Pregnant Women Change Tyre Before Stealing Her Car
CHARLOTTE Baker is 28. She is nine months pregnant. That’s her on the Northants country road between Byfield and Boddington. A tyre on her Porsche 911 has burst. She calls her boyfriend. As she does so two men in a white man approach. They offer to help. They change the tyre. Then one of the men pushes Baker out of the way and steals the car.Posted: 4th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Molested Vending Machine
MICHAEL Aguiar, 20, of Palmetto, Florida, has been arrested. It is said that he “maliciously molested, opened, broke, injured, damaged and inserted his body parts” into a vending machine at the Budick Coin Laundry.Posted: 4th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Alien Monster Pig Born In Guatemala: Photos Of The Visitation
HAVE your seen the alien pig of Santa Cruz El Chol, Guatemala? Locals says the pig is the result of a visitation from outer space. On the night of the creatures bitth , they say strange lights were floating in the sky. Indeed, readers. Zorkop has flown billions of miles in his flying saucer to mate with a pig. Desperate times on planet GJKOSTRINGFELLOW call for desperate measures.
Says farmer Laureano Escobar Arias:
“I was shocked – it was a really terrifying experience. It looked like some kind of alien creature.”
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Posted: 3rd, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Arrested For Eating Live Python With His Bare Teeth
DAVID Senk is out Mug Shot of The Day. He’s been arrested in Sacramento on animal cruelty charges. He’s accsused of biting a live python and ripping off chunks of its flesh.
Why did he do it? We’d wager that he was hungry.
Why was he arrested? Well, because a live snake has better PR than a live fish…
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Posted: 3rd, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Exeter Thief Leaves Trail Of Minstrels To His Lair
MARK Rye, 29, was “off his face” when he broke into the Co-Op in Exeter. He stole booze and sweets.At Exeter Crown Court, Rye admits burglary and drugs offences. He is sent down for three years and nine months.
Posted: 2nd, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Northamptonshire Man Kills Wife In Row Over Mashed Potato
FOLLOWING a row over mashed potato, Colin Adlard, 61, beat his wife, 59, to death with a lump hammer.
It was 5.30am on January 7, 2011, in a bungalow in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire. It is the morning after the mashed potato debacle. Adlard strikes his wife. He then calls the police.
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Posted: 2nd, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
How Was Your National Gut Week?
LAST week was National Gut Week – how was it for you?
And what week are we in now?
Posted: 1st, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
West Sussex Woman Finds Orange Alien Hiding In Carrot Patch: Photos
LOCAL news Story of the Day takes us to Brighton, where the The Argus features “green-fingered” Yvonne Darnell holding an “alien baby: – the one she found disguised as a carrot in her garden
Says Darnell, of far out Burgess Hill:
“I couldn’t believe it. It’s so funny. I saw it and thought, ‘It looks like an alien baby’. I showed my friends and clients at work and they said I should call The Argus. I’ve called it Kevin.”
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Posted: 1st, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
127 Hours Sequel: Trapped John Hutt Cuts Off All His Toes
THE sequel to 127 Hours is in the pipeline. It stars semi-retired logger John Hutt, 61. While working alone in the remote San Miguel County the morning of Aug. 19, his foot became caught in six tons of machinery.
He picked up his penknife (3 inches – Trapper Old Timer pocketknife) and cut off all his toes.
He then drove to a parking lot near the Ridgway Dam and awaited the ambulance that would take him to the Montrose Memorial Hospital.
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Posted: 1st, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Arrested For Sex With Pink Inflatable Swimming Pool Raft
TO Cincinnati, where Edwin Charles Tobergta, 32, has been arrested for “sexual activity” with a pink inflatable swimming pool raft in an alley.Posted: 1st, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
New Mexico Policeman Filmed Having Sex On Car: Chihuahua Looks On
KOB Eyewitness News 4, of New Mexico, has broadcast footage of a State Police officer having sex with a woman on the hood of a car. It is daylight. A chihuahua looks on. (Insert dogging joke here.)
The copper was captured by security camera at the Santa Fe Canyon Ranch. He is fully dressed. Who is he?
To date the police have refused to speak to the media.
Anorak also wonders if the chihuahua is standard police issue…?
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Posted: 31st, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Funny Signs Spotted On Your Foreign Holiday
ANORAK has compiled a gallery of signs from your foreign holidays…
Posted: 31st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Woman Buys iPad: Gets Piece Of Wood Painted Black With An Apple Logo
ASHELY McDowell, 22, bought an iPad that turned out to be a “piece of wood painted black with an Apple logo”. The South Carolina woman purchased the iPlank off two black males selling the gadgets for $300 apiece in a McDonald’s parking lot. One of the men had a gold tooth.
(We know what you’re-thinking – you too would buy the goods in a portaloo on the third day of Glastonbury so long as it spared you the agonies of a trip to those headshrinkers in the Apple store.)
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Posted: 30th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
X-Ray Photo Of Man Impaled On Shears While Gardening
X-RAY of the day features the head of Leroy Luetscher, a man of 86 years who while gardening in Arizona became impaled on a pair of pruning shears, or secateurs, as the best people call them.
He dropped them. They landed points up. He bent down to pick them up. He tumbled over. And…the handles went into his eye. The blades went through his eye socket and into his neck.
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Posted: 30th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
False Leg Makers Rejoice As GS4 Staff Tag Villain’s Prosthetic Limb
IN what is being seen as a triumph for the false limb industry, two G4S staff placed an electronic tag on a felon’s false leg believing it was real.
Admittedly, Christopher Lowcock, 29, did swaddle his prosthetic limb in a bandage is readiness for the G4S workers’ arrival at his home in Rochdale. But that has more to do with his guile, criminal mind (is he a product of nominative determinism – or wishes to be?) and a lack of confidence in his false leg. His other leg is made of flesh and bone.
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Posted: 30th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Crash Survivor Killed By Drunk Driver On Pilgrimage To Virgin Of Miracles
SYMPATHIES are with the Spanish man killed by a drunk driver north of Ordes. The victim and his two aunts- also killed in he accident – were on a pilgrimage to thank the “Virgin of Miracles” for his survival in a road crash.
Says a spokesman for the Ordes mayor:
“He survived a road accident last year and they were going to thank the ‘Virgin of Miracles’ of Caion. He did not even manage to walk one kilometre and was still in Ordes.”
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Posted: 30th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Photo Of Massive Frog Captured And Eaten In Malaysia
SEE that photo of a huge frog? A Chinese man says he found the massive frog in Gemencheh, Malaysia. The frog had been captured by an Orang Asli indigenous tribesman hunting by a river.
Where is the giant frog now? Answer: inside the tribesman and his tribe. They ate it. Well, so goes the giant frog story.
You see, the Chinese frog enthusiast offered to buy the beast for 500 Malaysian Ribbit, sorry, Ringgit (£100) but the simple Orang Asli warrior wanted RM1,000. So. While the Chinaman and his pal went to fetch more cash, the shrewd tribal warrior ate the frog.
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Posted: 29th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Natural History Museum Replaces Exhibits With Fakes: Rhino Horn Thieves And Visitors Duped
THE thieves who made to steal rhino horns from the Natural History Museum at Tring, in Hertfordshire. will be disappointed. They are fakes. Aware of the price of rhino horns and of a spate of similar crimes across Europe, the museum’s staff had replaced the real horns with resin fakes.
Says Paul Kitching, manager of the Natural History Museum at Tring:
“The rhinoceros horns that have been stolen were replicas made out of resin, so they have no commercial value. We’re now working with the police and urge anyone with any pertinent information to get in touch.”
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Posted: 28th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Video: Toddlers Steal From Liverpool Newsagents As Mum Directs Caper
THERE are small, youthful thieves in Liverpool.
Sammi Mohammed runs a newagents in the city. He has produced CCTV video of a very young boy and girl stealing from him. The video shows them nicking a big can of Red Bull.
Their mother is outside waiting. Mohammed says she is encouraging them.
Says he:
“I just fear for the future for those kids if they grow up thinking that is OK, that is a normal thing to do.”
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Posted: 28th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Yoandri Hernandez Garrido Has 24 Perfect Fingers And Toes (Photos)
YOANDRI Hernandez Garrido, 37, is” Twenty-Four”. Hernandez lives in Cuba. He says his six fingers on each hand and six fingers on each foot (the condition is called polydactyly) enables him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees to cut coconuts – while ten-pin bowling and massaging his pals in the archery team…
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In this photo taken Wednesday Aug. 24, 2011, Yoandri Hernandez Garrido, 37, known as "Twenty-Four" shows his 12 fingers in Baracoa, Guantanamo province, Cuba. Hernandez is proud of his extra digits and calls them a blessing, saying they set him apart and enable him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees to cut coconuts and posing for photographs in this eastern Cuban city popular with tourists. Known as polydactyly, Hernandez's condition is relatively common, but it's rare for the extra digits to be so perfect. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
Posted: 27th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Sheffield Headline Challenge: Mrs Beever’s Untreated Crack
HEADLINE Challenge time now, readers. The Sheffield Star reports on a Mrs Vera Beever who “was left waiting six months for a cracked window to be repaired“.
Mrs Beever said she reported the crack, caused by a rotten frame, at the start of February.
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Posted: 26th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
