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.
All Four Members Of The Beatles Arrested For Burglary In Merseyside
ALL four members of The Beatles have been arrested in Merseyside? Well, that’s what we thought when we read that George John Paul Ringo Hughes has been charged with six burglaries in Merseyside. We’d have John as the brains, Paul as the driver, George as look out and Ringo to tune in the radio on the getaway car.
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Posted: 9th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Northumberland Man Filmed Breaking CCTV Camera
DO you know the man who stole a boat in Blyth, Northumberland? On June 19, the man and a pal stole a dinghy to get them over the River Blyth. The dingy was undamaged and has been returned to the yard. But police say one of the men damaged a CCTV camera.
Inspector Trevor Oakley tells us:
“These two men have broken into the boatyard with the intention of stealing a boat in order to avoid the long walk round to North Blyth. Although the dinghy they stole was recovered, they have still committed an offence by breaking into the yard and by taking the boat. I’d appeal for anyone who recognises the man in the image to come forward and contact police with information.”
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Posted: 8th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Cleaner Who Pretended To Be Dentist Pulled Out Child’s Healthy Tooth With Pliers
NIKITA Shanina, 45, told the 10-year-old patient that she was a locum dentist. With the child rested back in the chair at the surgery in Tula, Russia, Shanina pulled a tooth – a healthy one. With no pain relief. With pliers.
Shanina is not a dentist. She is a cleaner who picked up the white coat and acted out a fantasy.
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Posted: 7th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Lancashire Man Andrew Castle Tried To Kill Wife With Electric Armchair
ANDREW Castle is starting a 10-year-jail term for trying to murder his wife, Margaret, with a home-made electric chair at their home in Holmefield Road, Knott End-On-Sea, Lancashire, on March 5, 2011.
Preston Crown Court heard that Castle, 61, took his divorce-seeking wife to the garage, where the device was ready. He told her to sit in the chair – a metal-framed armchair hook dupe to the mains. When she tried to get up he hit over over the head with a rubber cosh. But she fended him off with a step ladder and escaped. She called police.
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Posted: 7th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Horsebic Is Horse Riding Without The Horse: A Craze Is Born (Video)
HORSEBIC is great. It’s horse riding for those of you who can’t be bothered with the horse. The Horsebic website informs:
New innovation from Finland – trademark for physical education. Horsebic lessons are designed to support especially horse riding, but they suit to non-riders too.
Horsebic improves flexibility, balance, concentration, muscles of the middle as well as riding skills. Movements resemble aerobic-type lessons, but the language is from horse riding.
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Posted: 6th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Man Tries To Escape Prison By Hiding In Lover’s Bag
TO the Caribbean Mexican state of Quintana Roo, where prison spokesman Gerardo Campos says 19-year-old Maria del Mar Arjona was trying to free inmate Juan Ramirez Tijerina by dragging him out of jail in her wheeled suitcase.
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Posted: 6th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Devon Shopkeeper Tells Hooded Thief: ‘Either Use The knife Or Piss Off’
WE join the action as the hooded thugs enters The News Shop in Fisher Street, Paignton, Devon. Owner, Brian Hammond, 68, is there. The thugs pulls a a six-inch “butcher-style” knife. He wants the money from the till.
Mr Hammond replies:
“Use the knife or piss off.”
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Posted: 5th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Giant Knitted Bobble Hat Stolen From Leeds City Centre (Video)
HAVE you seen the giant knitted bobble hat stolen from a junction box in Leeds city centre? Are you one of the two people who made off wearing hat that was installed as part of an arts project by Situation Leeds, a public art scheme by Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre, called Junction.
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Posted: 4th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Murderer Seeks $50m Damages For Being Called An Inmate – Says It Implies He Has Sex With Men
MARIE Domond is suing the New York State Correctional Services Department for calling her brother, murderer Gerard Domond, an inmate at the Clinton Correctional Facility.
She says the word inmate “implies that our brother is locked up for the purpose of mating with other men“. She is seeking $50 million for damages for “mental anguish”. The prisoner is serving a 25-year jail term for shooting a man in the head.
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Posted: 4th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (23)
Anti-Helmet Campaigning Biker Dies of Head Injuries From Crash
RIP Philip A. Contos of Parish, N.Y.. He was protesting about the mandatory use of safety helmets when he crashed his motorbike and died.
Mr Contos was riding with American Bikers Aimed Towards Education on Route 11 near Syracuse,when he died. The police say the dead man “would have survived if he had been wearing a Department of Transportation approved helmet“.
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Posted: 3rd, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Liverpool Daughters Who Left Dead Grandma To Rot Are Jailed
HAZEL Maddock, 61, has been sentenced to 11 months jail for leaving her dead mother, Oliver Maddock, 95, unburied and rotting in the family home on Saltburn Road in Wallasey. She did it to continue to claim dear old mum’s benefits – it being what she would have wanted.
Also at Liverpool Crown Court was Hazel’s daughter, the fragrant Jasmine Maddock, 35. She received a 26-week suspended prison sentence. Woe betide her if she does it again to another of her grannies.
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Posted: 1st, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Moth Crawls Into Sleeping Boy’s Ear
TO Denver, Colorado, where a moth (age unknown) has crawled into the ear of sleeping 12-year-old Wade Schlote.“I had a moment of panicking. I was in pain. It was hurting so much I was screaming and crying.”
Posted: 1st, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Woman Gets Head Stuck In Bus Doors: Photos
TO China, where a transport expert is showing us that one must never lead with the neck upon exiting a bus.
In Module 2, we will learn that you should never bow when boarding a bus backwards…
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Posted: 29th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Bearded Isle Of White Music Fan Impersonated Policewoman To Watch Kasabian
KEEN as mustard to see Kasabian perform at the Isle of Wight festival, ticketless local man Daniel Tredinnick stole a policewoman’s uniform and gained entry.
Inside the compound, Tredinnick felt at one with the uniform and went to work. He broke up a brawl. He looked for a missing woman. He shot the breeze with senior officers. He used his skills as a trained first-aider to treat an injured music fan.
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Posted: 29th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Swansea Council Admin Official Filmed Women Using Disabled Toilet At Work
“I AM sorry to tell you this – he is disgusting.”
A damning verdict in anyone’s language.
And with these words, 27-year-old Rachel Jones informed female employees of Swansea Council that they were the stars of a new film directed by her then boyfriend, Matthew Hopkins.
The Daily Mail reports how Jones made the discovery when she found a DVD in Hopkins’ briefcase. Upon playing it, she was shocked to see a succession of women using a disabled toilet in one of the council’s office blocks.
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Posted: 28th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Attacked Police With Her Lactating Breasts
TO the Delaware County sheriff’s office, where Stephanie Robinette, 30, of Westerville, is ahrged with attacking officers with her breast milk.
The story goes that Robinette and her husband had been rowing. She had hit him and then locked herself in the car. She was drunk.
Sheriff Walter L. Davis, III adds:
“When deputies attempted to remove Robinette from the vehicle, she advised the deputies that she was a breast-feeding mother and proceeded to remove her right breast from her dress and began spraying deputies and the vehicle in her breast milk,”
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Posted: 28th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Egyptian Armed With Satellite Dish Hero Fights Lion To The Death (Video)
AL Sayed al Essawy will rescue Egypt from the doldrums by fighting a lion in a cage – and winning. His fight will show the world that “in Egypt you can see events that you can’t see anywhere else”.
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Posted: 28th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Sweden Replace Maypole By Dancing Around The Mayhole Vagina (Flat Packed)
TO Sweden, where Alexander Alvina Chamberland, co-founder of the group Midsommarfitta (translation: Midsummer Cunt) wants the traditional Maypole dance of Midsummer holiday replaced by a dace around the Mayhole, a symbolic vagina.
It is usual for Swedes to dance around a flower-bedecked pole as they sing merry tunes like “Små grodorna” (‘Little frogs’). It’s the kind of sun-dabbled scene that Agatha Christie would have punctuated with a murder and John Wyndham shrouded in feelings of mind control and torture.
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Posted: 27th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Seagull Steals Camera And Records Flight Over Cannes (Video)
THE Seagull stole a video camera and then took off over Cannes in the South of France. The camera was still recording. Stephen Seagull (oh, yes) then lands on a building. And somehow the man who owns the camera got it back. And then this man posted the video of YouTube under the headline “Seagull stole GoPro”.
The inference is that the seagull stole the camera because it was a mini GoPro (price on application).
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Posted: 27th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Burglar Steals Shower And Body Scrub In Town Of Surprise
JIMMY Phillips broke into a family house in Arizona and took a shower. Ryan McCoy, 13,tells police that Phillips used used his sister’s shampoo body scrubber. Neighbours said Phillips emerged wearing their clothes. In mitigation, Anorak offers an explanation – the town where Phillips was stealing a shower and wearing someone else’s clothes is called…Surprise.
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Posted: 27th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Swamp Soccer Cup: It’s Not Glastonbury But It Is British (Photos)
THE British: they flock to the muds of the Glastonbury Music Festival and then when the days heat up, they fill a field in Edinburgh with water and play football in the Soccer Swamp Cup. It’s all about the suffering, isn’t it? The joyous suffering. That’s what makes the country what it is…
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Posted: 26th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Coventry University Offers Parapsychology Degree – By Distance Learning
ANYONE who wants to study for an MSc degree in Parapsychology can do so at Coventry University… by distance learning…
Posted: 26th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Royal Transsexual Speedway Fan Banned From Poole Toilets Vows Never To Go Again
TRANSSEXUAL Seepdway Fan of The Day is wonderfully named Victoria Saxe-Coburg. The regal speedway fan as reduced to tears when she was barred from entering the ladies’ toilets at Dorset’s Poole stadium where the Poole Pirates were taking on the Wolverhampton Wolves.She did not use the toilets during the match. “I very much doubt I will go again,” she said.
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Posted: 26th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Margate Seagull Aims To Peck Out Crisp-Peddling Gary Lineker’s Eyes
WHO is the seagull stealing packets of Walker’s salt and vinegar crisps from Margate’s C and S News? Shop manager Paul Heath, 48, says:“The bird sticks his head around the corner and plucks the crisps off the shelf. For some unknown reason he only pinches Walker’s salt and vinegar crisps, nothing else. Punters in the pub opposite find it highly amusing watching the greedy blighter make off with my crisps. So I took them off the bottom two shelves which I thought would fox him. He went to the shelves and almost looked disgusted they weren’t there any more.
Posted: 26th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Yoda Is World’s Ugliest Dog: Photos
THE Ugliest Dog in the World is…. Yoda, the 1.8-pound Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix.
At the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Yoda wins a big cup to wear o ver her face and $1,000 to spen at rs Nip ‘n’ Tucks surgery. and that is not all! Yoda also wins a night at the Sheraton Sonoma County and pillow embroidered with the words of her owner, Terry Devine Schumacher, whose daughter found Yoda:
“I told her to put it down because I thought it was a rat.”
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Posted: 26th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
