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.
Olympic Athlete Is Britain’s Drunkest Woman
DAWN Marsden is “Britain’s drunkest woman” That is no small claim. And if you can top Dawn’s 28 pints a day, that title may yet be yours. We look forward to seeing the neck to neck Smack Down on Sky Sports 3.
Marsden is at Hartlepool Magistrates’ Court after admitting to stealing 10 packs of bacon. Light-fingered Dawn is handed a six-month conditional discharge. In court she is drunk, as befitting a woman holding the coveted title. Her brief tells the court:
“You may have noticed my client has a drink problem… She tells me on occasion she will drink up to 16 litres a day. She has a long-standing appetite for alcohol.”
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Posted: 16th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Wanted For Robbery At Restaurant
DO you know the identity of the man in this photo released by detectives in Marathon County? He’s wanted in connection with a robbery at Wendy’s in Rib Mountain. Fears abound that the local pizza shop is next.
Of course, it might not be an actual Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle who knocked off the eatery – ity might be a mask a mask.
Also wanted:
Posted: 16th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Stratford Man Arrested When He Returns Stolen Police Car To Police Station
A MAN who walked into Stratford police station through an unlocked door and drove off in a marked police car has been ordered to receive psychiatric treatment.
Because he made it look too easy? Because he only had provisional licence? Because he forgot to tun on the blues and twos?
A judge said ‘you couldn’t make it up’ after hearing of Timothy Clapham’s night-time escapade during which he drove the police car at up to 95mph before returning it.
Yeah. He brought it back.
At Warwick Crown Court, Clapham admits to burgling the police station in the early hours of January 28 and aggravated vehicle taking. The 42-year-old of Pittaway Avenue, Shipston, also admitted driving the car while uninsured and while holding only a provisional licence.
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Posted: 15th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Raton The Bull Kills Three: Newcastle United Allow Joey Barton To Smoke Cigars During Matches
RATON the bull has now killed three men in Spain. The Guardian reports that death is good for business. It’s bullish (geddit?!)
Because of the animal’s reputation, his owners reportedly earn €10,000 (£8,750) each time it appears at a festival.
“He’s the one that gets the highest prices,” owner Gregorio de Jesus said of Raton. “But still he works out the cheapest because wherever he goes organizers double the ticket price.”
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Posted: 15th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Norwich Burglar Used Elderly Victims As God’s Pillows
HEARD the one about the Norwich burglar who “PRAYED” on the elderly? Well, if cushions are in short supply…
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Posted: 15th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mooners Hit And Collected By Car
WORD of The Day is delivered by police spokesman Steve Jones who is talking to media on the matter of a mooner struck by a car on an Australian road:
“Five youths, aged 19 to 20 years, were in the middle of the road with their pants down around their ankles, mooning passing vehicles The first vehicle was able to take evasive action, but another vehicle travelling approximately 400m behind has collected one of the youths.”
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Posted: 14th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Kills Wife With Homemade Missile
TO Vologda, northwest Russia, where a man, said to be an aviation enthusiast, is showing his wife the homemade missile he’s created.
He is not in the couple’s lounge, rather in a field. He sets the device and stands back. The misisle is detonated. Off it goes…straight into his wife’s head.
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Posted: 14th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mugger Leaves False Teeth At Scene Of Crime
MILTON Cesar de Jesus is a cautionary tale for any British looters who don’t do their teeth.
The Brazilian purse-snatcher stole a woman bag in Severina. He ran off. But in the caper he lost his dentures.
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Posted: 14th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sir Lanka In Fear Of Grease Devil Rapists
THE Grease Devils
(aka grease yaka or the bhuthaya) are Sri Lankan man who smear their bodies in grease – naked save for underwear – and sexually assault women.
Police have arrested at least 47 of them in a purge.
These perverts believe grease makes them too slippery to catch.
But do they exist? The Indian Express produces a confusing yet somewhat arcane report:
In a latest incident a police station in the eastern region of Pottuvil has come under siege of residents since this morning, who have been demanding the release of a grease devil.
Yesterday in the central region of Haputale, two suspected grease devils were done to death by the residents.
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Posted: 14th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sweet Shop Owners Set Honey Trap To Catch Burglar
WHEN Jane and Neil Hutton realised a burglar was stealing from their Beehive Treats sweet shop in Marlow, Bucks, they set a honey trap and waited.
Says Mr Hutton:
“At every stage there were little traps, things that would tell us exactly where he was and what he was doing. First the Victorian shop bell rang as someone came in and then there was the sound of the Windowlene bottle being knocked over by the first till. Next came the rustling of someone fighting through full bin bags in the dark and then, and this was not in the plan, the sounds of the loo being used and flushed.”
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Posted: 13th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Arrested At McDonald’s Was Popping Spots On His Back
OWEN Lemire Kato, 23, of Port Charlotte, has been arrested at the McDonald’s at 2404 Santa Barbara Blvd. That’s him stood by the door bursting the spots on his back.
Diners were revolted. (Yep – even Micky D eaters have their limits.)
Police came. Kato legged it. And they finally caught him he had some drugs in his pockets.
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Posted: 13th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Fake Roman Gladiators Fight By Colosseum
TO Italy with the Guardian for the Fight Of The Week AND The Caption of The Week:
For the first time perhaps since the fall of the Roman empire, a group of centurions faces prosecution for mounting an assault on brother officers just a few paces from the Forum.
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Posted: 12th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Lover Finds Dead Cat Beneath Fat Woman’s Bottom
AMANDA Simmons, aka Mandy Mountain, of Charleston, West Virginia, weighs 55stones. She says that when her lover went to inspect her chub at close quarters he spotted a cat (avoid obvious joke – ed). The cat was dead. Mandy had sat on it.
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Posted: 12th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (16)
County Durham Youth Demands Cheese And Onion Sandwich At Gun Point
THE London Riots (surely Twitter Riots?- ed) never did reach Bishop Auckland, County Durham. Greanted there is no JD sports in the town – so protesting for a better Olympics for all can only be so productive – but they do have cheese and onion sandwiches.
Well, Garry Bell does.
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Posted: 12th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Posts Letters In Dog Poo Box For Two Years
ALF Spence, 91, of Bedale, North Yorkshire, has been posting his letters in the dog poo box in error for two years. Says he:
“A woman walking her dog came up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, and asked what I was doing. I thought she was going to cry when I told her. She held my hand and pointed out that the postbox was on the other side of the road.
“I’ve not got the best eyesight these days but even so, the postbox and the dog dirt box are almost identical. They’re both red, the same shape and stuck on a post.
“I bet I’m not the only pensioner to get confused. The bloody council should never have put them so close together.”
Alf ’s daughter Susan May, 59, tells the Sunday Sport:
“Every time I asked dad if he’d remembered one of kids’ birthdays, he’d say, ‘Yes, there’s a cheque in the post’. “When they never showed up we thought he was either losing his marbles or was just plain lying…
“What I’d like to know is why the people who empty the dog poo box have never wondered why Dad’s letters are in there. Surely they could have passed them on to Royal Mail or forwarded them on to the addressees with a letter saying where they were found?”
Or wrapped them in a plastic shopping bag and tossed them into a tree in the park…
If you liked that – you’ll love this.
Posted: 12th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Game Of Russian Roulette With Argos Catalogue Ends In Pain And Jail
TO Ayr Sheriff Court to see Paul Black, 39, of Girvan, Ayrshire, jailed for 28 months for contravening the Firearms Act. He shot John Harris, 18, with an air rifle in a game of Russian roulette with an Argos catalogue.
Each took it in turns to have the famously thick Argos catalogue strapped to their torso while the other fired at it with an airgun.
After each round, an agreed amount of pages were removed from the catalogue. As it got thinner, the chances of injury increased.
Black’s solicitor Peter Lockhart:
“The catalogue became thinner and thinner. Inevitably it was going to end in disaster and that was the eventual outcome.”
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Posted: 11th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Worker Who Swallowed Homeowner’s Diamond Ring Captured On X-Ray: Photos
WILFREDO Gonzalez-Cruz, 30, of Chicago, is said to have eaten a diamond ring belonging to the owners of a house in Cicero where he was working.
Police took Gonzalez to a local hospital. An X-ray showed the ring in his tummy.
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Posted: 11th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Ninth Annual Baba Challenge Sex Doll River Race: Photos
IT’S time again for the sex doll river race! It’s the Ninth Annual Bubble Baba Challenge — the chance to ride a rubber doll down a fast part of Russia’s Vuoksa river. Stag Dos welcome.
Whatever floats your boat…
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Posted: 10th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Manchester Riots: Who Is The Planking Hero? (Photo)
AT times like these, Britishers call upon our stoicism and sense of humour. So. Hoods off, then, to the man who chose to pop along to the Manchester jamboree and get down to planking.
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Posted: 10th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Essex Boy Juggles With Live Bombs
AS the youth riot in London, Ben Stannard, 13, tosses the World War Two bombs in the air over Margaretting, Essex, and starts to juggle.
Ben, a Hylands School pupil, tells the Essex Chronicle:
“I was waiting for my mum to pick me up and they caught my eye. I thought they were strange, but just bits of concrete, so I started to throw them up and down. Then I noticed the serial number on one of them. When my granddad died he left me a shell casing and it had similar numbers, so I grew concerned, put them down gently and told my mum when she arrived.”
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Posted: 9th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Hampshire Pub Lets Drinkers Help Themselves To Booze And Crisps
EAT your hearts out Tottenham looters – locals to The Perseverance pub in North Street, Havant, Hampshire, have ben helping themselves to drink and crisps. There is no broken glass and macho yelling, just an orderly line behind the bar and security in the form of a DJ. It was not ment to be like this. At 7:30pm, the landlord had left a young woman in charge. But she walked off.
A source tells us:
“The girl who was left in charge just walked out and took all the money from the till with her. It was basically a free-for-all. It was absolutely packed and people just helped themselves.”
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Posted: 8th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Barnsley Drunk Driver Blames Colour Blind Horse For Racing Red Light
TO Barnsley Magistrates Court, where local caravaner John Mulvenna says his horse and trap shot a red light because the Fred (the horse) is colour blind. Mr Mulvenna told officers he was “merry” but not drunk.
The Beak listens and hands Mr Mulvenna a 12-month conditional discharge with £50 costs. Says he:
“Fred’s three and he’s worth about three or four thousand pounds. I have had him since he was a foal. I bred him and he’s the best you can get but he is a bit colour blind.”
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Posted: 7th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Virgin Mary Spotted In Dried Mango: Photo And Video
WHILE snacking on a bag of dried mango, a god-fearing Arizona teenager found the Virgin Mary – literally. It turns out that the mother of Jesus is orange and shrivelled – thus keeping up with trends in celebrity skin tones.
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Posted: 7th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Gloucestershire Horse Has Biggest Moustache In The World
AND the horse with the biggest moustache is….ALFIE!
The 15-year-old shire cross of Bitton, Gloucestershire has a seven-inch long moustache. Says Stable Manager Hayley Coxteth, 20:
”He is a very headstrong horse and is very proud of his moustache. He is a real character.”
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Posted: 6th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Magical Cloud Lands On United Arab Emirates: Video Of Wonder
AN incredible magick cloud has been captured on camera over the sands of the United Arab Emirates. Unable to see the face of The Prophet Mohammed in frying pans and nan breads (he’s no Jesus), the locals seek miracles elsewhere. A loal man has captured the wonder of a cloud defying the rules of gravity and falling from the sky to settle on the ground.
As reported:
The 3.5-minute film showed the small white cloud flying low above the green ground like a massive piece of cotton before taking a downward direction and falling off to settle on a fence in the fertile Bida Faris area just outside the eastern oasis town of Al-Ain.
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Posted: 6th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
