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.
Alien Monkey Only Eats Peaches In China (Photo)
TO Gezhai village, Henan Province, China, to see the alien monkey. Local woman Mao Xiping sees his “alien face”. She call the police to arrest it.
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Posted: 23rd, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
London Council Erects ‘Keep Off The Grass’ Sign On Tiny Patch Of Grass
GRASS is precious in Raynes Park, London. So precious is grass – so prized – that the local council has erected a sign commanding locals to “KEEP OF THE GRASS” – and stuck it on small patch of the stuff.
Says local man Resident Tom Beardmore:
“I would strongly debate why Merton Council felt the sign in Elm Walk was an appropriate use of resources.”
A council spokesman replies:
“Signs, similar to those erected in Elm Walk, are installed to remind motorists it is illegal to park on the footway and are designed to deter indiscriminate parking, which can damage the grass verge and be detrimental to the street scene.”
So. You interrupt the patch of precious grass with a metal pole and sign to keep the grass pure and maintain the harmony of the street scene.
It’s what Gaia would have wanted…
Posted: 22nd, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Did Chinese Watermelon Make Shun Shun The Dog Grow Four Ears?
CAN any of you guess where a dog with four ears has been found? No. Not North Korea – although trade in four-eared dogs between the land that time forgot and China shold be brisk.
Shun Shun is the four-eared dog found in China, a place blessed with the unusual.
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Posted: 21st, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Boy Shoots Chupacabra In Texas: Photos
CARTER Pope, 13, has shot and killed a chupacabra at his home in La Salle, Texas. Says Pope:
“Something slowly came across and started shaking, slowly moving across. It was grey, no hair at all. I thought that’s a chupacabra.”
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Posted: 21st, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Incredible Photos Of A Leopard Attacking An Indian Village
WE’VE got some amazing images of a leopard attacking a forest guard as another runs for cover at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India.
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Posted: 20th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Beauticians Apply For Job As Stoke Nails Technican
THE advert for LocalTraders.com calls for a “nail technician” in Stoke:
“Good rates of pay and flexible working hours on offer. Previous nail experience preferable but not essential.”
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Posted: 20th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Child Porn Suspect Shot At Harry Potter Screening
ERIC Gothberg is the child pornography suspect the police shot at a midnight screening of the final Harry Potter movie in Plainville, Connecticut.
Is that creepy? Yep. Is it as creepy as the adults who read the books about the boy wizard? Maybe.
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Posted: 18th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Boryeong Mud Festival In Photos
MUD Wrestling has yet to be confirmed as Olympic sport – but we remain hopeful that the IOC will see the light. As such, it remains an Alternative Olympic Sport. Peter Stringfellow is a shoo-in to coach the British team, which will have some stiff competition from the South Korean contingent. They’ve been getting their faces ready at the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea. The 14th annual mud festival features mud wrestling, mud sliding and a mud king contest. It’s like the Glastonbury Festival, only drier…
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Posted: 18th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Aiming To Shoot Puppy Kills Husband
YOU heard about the man testing bullets on his wife. You heard about the man who shot his wife when aiming at a pig.
Time, then , to meet Betty Walker who took aim at a pit bull puppy named Cocaine that was threatening her children and ended up shooting and killing her husband.
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Posted: 18th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Leeds Flugtag In Photos
TO the Flugtag event in Roundhay Park, Leeds. We saw 34 teams of avid aviators climb into airplane-type crafts and launch themselves off a 6m platform above Roundhay Park lake, to see how far their wacky devices can fly. It’s pretty much how budget airlines got started – albeit with more mod cons and charm…
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Posted: 17th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Jesus Appears On Walmart Receipt (Photo)
TO Anderson County, South Carolina, where Jesus is endorsing WalMart.
Just get a lod of Jacob Simmons and his fiancee, Gentry Lee Sutherland, receipt. The couple had returned home from a church service when they spotted the divine receipt on the floor of Sutherland’s apartment.
“I was leaving the kitchen and I just looked on the floor, and it was like it was looking at me.
“Then the more you look at it, the more it looked like Jesus, and it was just shocking, breathtaking. We had a message on knowing God, abiding in him. (The preacher asked) ‘If you know God, would you recognize him if you saw him?. We just feel like it’s a blessing that God showed it to us and opened our eyes. And we just feel like we should share the blessing God gave to us to everybody else.”
If you look closley at the bill you can make out purchases for friut loops and The Charles Manson Story…
Posted: 17th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Proposes With Tattoo: A Photo Love Story
WHEN a stranger approvches with a tatto of your name – Monique – and the message “Will You Marry Me” inked onto this thigh, you know that you need to say yes…
Posted: 15th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Aged Stockport Naturist Tightens Nuts In Court
KEVIN Lavelle, 80, is before the Beak. He has been gardening while naked. He has also been naked in the acts of cleaning his house guttering naked and changing a car wheel.
His neighbours complain that Lavelle has been in the front garden of his Stockport bungalow dressed in a blue hat and nothing more.
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Posted: 15th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Rescued Welsh Gannet Pecks Out Man’s Eye: Dublin’s John Byrne Saves Rabbit
WHEN Michael Buckland, spotted an injured gannet on a beach in Gower, south Wales, he acted. He picked up the bird and went to deliver it to safety. But thigns went badly. The bird pecked Mr Buckland’s eyeball out of its socket.
Michael Buckland, 38, from Cardiff, weas taken to Swansea’s Singleton Hospital.
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Posted: 14th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
White Austrian Atheist Wears Pasta Strainer As Offical Religious Headgear
NIKO Alm is the Austrian atheist using his time to campaign for the right to wear a pasta strainer as “religious headgear”.
Only people of a faith can wear headgear on driving licences in Austria. So, Mr Alm declared himself a pastafarian, a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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Posted: 14th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Dwarf Banging Head On Liverpool Brothel Window Attracts Police
TO Liverpool, where a suspected dwarf is suspected of banging his head on the window of a suspected brothel. As the Liverpool’s Post’s headline terms it:
Suspected Liverpool brothel boarded up after residents complain about “dwarf” banging his head on window for entrance
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