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.
Anyone Seen A Helium Filled Is Land Last Seen Floating Over Cambridgeshire?
HAS anyone spotted the £9,000 helium-filled sculpture of a desert island floating in the summer breeze somewhere between Cambridgeshire and the Czech Republic?Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
German Girl Kidnapped By Bad Hairdresser Confesses All: Worst Haircuts Ever Photos
THE 10-year-old girl who cut her own hair – badly – called the police. To cover up her hairdressing horror she told her parents that a man armed with a pair of scissors had kidnapped her.
To Hanover, Germany, then, where Police spokesman Thorsten Schiewe tells media:
“Officers went to the scene, took down statements and launched a manhunt for a supposed perpetrator on the run,” he said. “We dispatched a few police cars.”
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Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Police E-FIT of The Day: Mike Hellgren Is Live From Baltimore
CAPTION of The Day takes us to Baltimore, Maryland, where police have issued the sketch of a man wanted in connection with the assault on a woman following a car crash. Mike Hellgren reports…
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Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Robbers Introduce Wife To Her Husband’s Lover Before Fleeing
CRIME of the Day takes us to Miami-Dade County, Florida. A couple are having sex in a pickup truck. Four men in ski masks arrive. The man is forced into a vehicle. Two robbers get into the truck with the woman. They tie the victims’ wrists. The villains then drive to the man’s house on Northwest 14th Street in Miami.
There they encounter the man’s mother, two children and…wife.
The man is beaten. His wife is roughed up. Cash and jewellery are stolen.
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Posted: 4th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Monkeys Create Amazing Mind-Boggling Secret Ritual At Colchester Zoo (Open For The Holidays!)
DID you know that when mandrill monkeys at Colchester Zoo do not want to be disturbed they cover their face with a hand?
The Telegraph tells us that the gesture is “unique“:
It’s a gesture thats never been seen before [by humans who bothered to record it], and experts believe its evidence of social culture among animals. They believe one of the mandrills made up the gesture and passed it on to her pals something thats common in humans but almost unheard of in animals.
The customary manner in which a monkey engages with solitude is to flick poo at a human or else wear headphones, go to their bedroom and turn the music up really loud.
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Posted: 4th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Bromley Council Declares Man’s Toilet Now Open To The Public
LOCAL News Story of The Day takes us to Bromley , where the News Shopper reports on a Petts Wood man whose toilet has been opened to the public following a decree by Bromley Council.
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Posted: 4th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Romford Road Rage Cyclist Captured On Camera (Video)
SOMEONE call the mayor of Vilnius – a cyclist needs you help. The peddler, known only as kmcyc, has posted a video on YouTube of an altercation at the Brewery shopping centre in Romford last Wednesday July 27.
The cyclist passes the roundabout on London Road, Romford. He is shouted at by the passenger in a silver Ford Fiesta. The passenger -flat cap, cartoon walk, clenched fists and low brows – gets out of the vehicle to share his wisdom with the cyclist, who is recording the matter on his helmet camera.
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Posted: 4th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Policeman Hit By Stolen Car Chases And Catches Driver On Foot (Video)
LEE Adamson, 29, is in the dock at Guilford Crown Court. He pleads guilty to dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, failing to stop, driving without insurance and resisting a police officer. He is sentenced to 23 months prison for his antics on the M25.Posted: 3rd, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Photos: Scientists Discover Crashed Spaceship Stonehenge On Seabed Between Sweden And Finland
PROOF at last that Earth has been visited by aliens. Boffins have discovered the unmistakable markings of a flying saucer (were thy all designed by George Lucas Industries) that landed on the sea floor on the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland.
Peter Lindberg and his team were looking for a champagne-laden wreck when the made their amay-zing discovery.
Says he:
“You see a lot of weird stuff in this job, but during my 18 years as a professional I have never seen anything like this. The shape is completely round.”
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Posted: 2nd, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Ten Happiest Dogs In The World – Photos To Make You Smile
IT’S the silly season. No sharks have been sighted off the coast of Bridlington…yet. So, here are the ten happiest dogs in the world. They are photos of make you smile…
Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Fire Damaged Flat Is Crieff’s Top Tourist Attraction (Photos)
THEY comes from as far as Dunblane to see the burnt out shell that was CeeGees fashion store and the flat above on Crieff High Street, Perthshire. It and the flat above were destroyed in the 7 June fire.
The place was deemd unsafe and pulled down. All that remains on view is a shelf stuffed with fire-retardant books a hi-fi, a blind, a pelmet, a mirror and – oh, the irony – an intact fireplace.
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Posted: 31st, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Cambridge Nazi Needed To Adopt Cat Who Looks Like Hitler
MEET “Kitler” – the kitten at Wood Green animal shelter in Godmanchester, Cambs., who looks a bit like Adolf Hitler wold look if the German leader had been a small, heterosexual cat.
The resemblance to the Nazi is, however, enough to deter people from adopting the little fella.
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Posted: 30th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Roger Hayhurst Is Salford’s Knight Warrior Super Hero
TO Salford, where 19-year-old gardener Roger Hayhurst is… Knight Warrior…
Posted: 29th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Woman Shoots Daughter With Cigarette Lighter
TO – oh, nominative determinism – Banning, where Rachel Avila has shot her 12-year-old daughter with a pistol she mistook for a cigarette lighter, police said.
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Posted: 29th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Gets Milk Bottle Stuck Up Anus In Failed Bid To Cure Constipation
X RAY of The Day: To Zhuai, China, where a 60-year-old man has inserted a milk bottle up his anus. Silver top, homogenised or semi-skimmed, we do not know.
He tells hospital staff that he inserted a milk bottle up his bum to cure his constipation.
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Posted: 28th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pakistani Woman Has Huge Snake Growing In Her Belly
A 50-year-old Pakistani woman named Rasheedan Bibi says there’s a huge snake growing in her tummy.
Having experienced pain in her abdomen, Bibni went for an ultrasound. The medics spotted the snake.
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Posted: 28th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Everyones’ Getting Stuck In A Hole
ARE you on trend in ago-ahead kind of way? If you are, you are most likely reading this while sat down a hole. Anorak has been struck by a spate of hole-related news stories:
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Posted: 27th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
An Albino Snakes With Two Heads (Photos)
TODAY’S Animal With Two Heads is an albino snake. We have only ever seen one albino snake – so, they might all have two heads. Two headed albino snakes might be common. It’s the one-headed albino snakes you need to look out for…
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Posted: 26th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
‘Criminals’ Wearing Great T-Shirts: A Gallery
CAN we muster some pity for the criminal nabbed while dressed in an unfortunate T-shirt? Ok – how about a smile? This is out second round-up of those among us who got dressed – and then got immortalised in a mug shot…
The Greatest Tattooed Mugshots Ever
Posted: 26th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Essex Mobility Scooter And Rider Survive 100mph Crash With Train
CAN a mobility scooter be destroyed by a speeding train?
No.
One man survived being hit by a train travelling at 100mph after his mobility scooter got stuck on a level crossing in Church Street, Kelvedon, Essex.
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Posted: 26th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Toygers: A Tiger Crossed With A Pet Cat (Photos)
JUST IN time for Christmas (and the end of the world), we present The Toyger. It’s a toy tiger that acts just like a real pet cat!
The name ‘Toyger’ comes from the the words Toy and Tiger. The Toyger was founded by Judy Sugden of EEYAAS Cattery in the USA. The Toyger is the result of a cross between a striped Domestic Short Hair and a Standard Bengal Tabby. This resulted in a striped Cat which after many years of hard work resembles a ‘mini Tiger’. The Toyger is a designer breed and currently still being developed.
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Posted: 25th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Roof Man And Desk Woman Foil Robbery: Video
ARMED Robbery of The Day takes us to Sao Paulo, Brazil. The would-be robber is foiled by the game female clerk. She seizes his gun and tosses it away. He runs off. And then… And then… And then…right at the end – when all hope is lost (and the tape is on loop) – Roof Man arrives…
Posted: 25th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
BBC Salutes ‘The Speaking Cock’
THE ‘Speaking Cock’ is 75 years young.
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Posted: 24th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Women Steal Wine Bottles Up Skirts (Video): Ann Summers On High Alert
ANN Summers and Waitrose are in a state of heightened alert following the capers of two women at a bottle shop in Pembroke Park, Florida.
Says store owner Paul Mouts:
“One of them took it out, put it on the shelf, looked back to the clerk, saw he wasn’t looking. She grabbed it, put it up her skirt. She must have had something stuck in her skirt, because it went real easy.”
Let us not jump to conclusions. Let us keep things in, er, proportion…
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Posted: 24th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Local News Reporter Gets Stuck In Storm Drain Like Jared Medeiros
JARED Medeiros is the 21-year-old stuck head-first in an 18-inch storm drain along Hale Aloha Way in Ceres, USA.
He had been drinking a little. He says he had been attacked and robbed by a gang – a mysterious gahn that had dropped his keys, mobile phone and cash in the drain. He had then attempted to retrieve them.
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Posted: 24th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
