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.
Boy Saved From Certain Death By Air Conditioning Unit (Photos)
TO China, for conclusive proof that air conditioning saves lives…
Posted: 17th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dentist Tried To Convert Patients In The Chair To Christianity
PAUL Gardner of Geelong, Melbourne, Australia, is the Christian dentist and surgery missionary. While treating a patient, Gardner noted her dragon tattoos and concluded that people with such ink were not open to the word of God. With her reclined in the dentist’s chair, Gardner began spouting fundamental Christian views and attempting to convert her.
Six months before the latest incident, Dr Gardner was fined $10,000 after he told a schizophrenic patient that she was possessed by the devil and could be cured through his church’s spiritual healing.
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Posted: 16th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Doncaster Man Loses Finger Removing Wart With Stolen Shotgun
SEAN Murphy, 38, of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, tried to remove a wart on his middle finger with a 12-bore Beretta shotgun. He succeeded. He also lost most of the finger.
Such was Mr Murphy’s state of mind that he fired the gun at Markham Grange Nurseries, a garden centre in Brodsworth, where he worked as a security guard. The gun he used was stolen. Police are called. For using an illegal firearm, Murphy has secured himself a 16-week suspended prison sentence, 100 hours of unpaid community work and pay costs of £100.
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Posted: 16th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Harry The Sick Parrot Watches Two Girls One Cup
HARRY the African Grey parrot is sick. He is as sick as a parrot. His housemate in Belfast, David, took him to the vet. It turns out that Harry’s sickness is love sickness. A Dan Flynn explains to the BBC:
“Birds regurgitate as a sign of affection. It is quite well documented. Regurgitation and vomiting is a normal procedure for a bird. The father will regurgitate for its young when they are little chicks.”
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Posted: 15th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Rapist Dies During Sex With Victim
ISABEL Chavelo Gutierrez, 53, died while raping his 77-year-old victim in Refugio County, Texas.
Gutierrez had cycled two miles to the woman’s home in Tivoli. He is carrying a knife. The registered as a sex offender gained access to the woman’s home, where he raped her. During the attack he complained of feeling ill. He told her he needed to rest. He then rolled over and died.
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Posted: 15th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Junrey Balawing Is Guinness’s Little Man By The Big Coca Cola Bottle
JUNREY Balawing mask his 18th birthday and coincidentally the Philippines’ Independence Day by being declared the world’s smallest man. He measures 23.5 inches high (59.93 centimetres). But how do you show the folks at home and the nationalist that your man is so very small? Well, Guinness stand him next to lots of…Coca Cola bottles. And don’t you become a man – a real man – at 39, or when Jeremy Kyle says so..?
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Junrey Balawing, center, blows a candle as he celebrates his 18th birthday after being declared 'the world's shortest living man' by the Guinness World Records adjudicator Craig Glenday in ceremony at Sindangan Municipal Hall, Sindangan township, Zamboanga Del Norte province in Southern Philippines, Sunday June 12, 2011 which is coincidentally the Philippines' Independence Day. Balawing was officially declared 'the world's shortest living man' with a measurement of 23.5 inches (59.93 centimeters) dislodging Nepal's Khagendra Thapa Magar with a measurement of 26.4 inches. Behind is Balawing's sister Giselle.(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Posted: 14th, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
The Walton Family Sextuplets: In Photos
GRAHAM and Janet Walton had six children in one go. Hannah, Jenny, Kate, Sarah, Ruth, and Lucy are sextuplets who were born in Merseyside on 18 November 1983. They were the world’s first female surviving sextuplets. They grew up in Wallasey, Wirral. The lightest baby weighed 2lb 1oz; the heaviest weighed 3lb 8oz. Mum’s weight is not known. Says dad:
“We got a few bags of nappies and a few dresses from well-wishers initially but we had to cope on our own. We moved to a bigger house and we made money from our media appearances – we had to really as I had 12 months off work … in the first year of their life… Overall, it was hardest physically when they were toddlers and all over the place. When they were teenagers and growing up it was more of a mental strain and worrying abut them all the time… I love the noise and the buzz of a big family. We would be totally lost without them.”
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Posted: 14th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
New York Police Stop Dutch Cyclist For Wearing ‘Disturbing’ Outfit
IN New York, Dutch tourist Jasmijn Rijcken, 31, is riding her bicycle. The police pull her over. Says she:“He said it’s very disturbing, and it’s distracting the cars and it’s dangerous. I thought he was joking around but he got angry and asked me for ID. I didn’t even think for one second that my outfit could be harmful or disturbing.”
Posted: 14th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Jesus Found On Restaurant Wall: Mohamed Opts For Take Away With Keith Chegwin
CAN you see Jesus on the wall of Alex Tadros and Scott Diehl’s Tadros’ Martins Creek Inn restaurant in Lower Mount Bethel Township, PA?
Diehl has just painted the walls using a sponge technique. He looks at his work of wonders. Tadros approaches and tells us:
“One of [my friends] said, ‘You have something on the wall. The other one says, ‘It looks like Jesus.'”
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Posted: 13th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Ill Brighton Bingo Fan’s Last Word Was ‘House’: Her Number’s Up
TO the Gala Bingo in Freshfield Road, Brighton. The bingo caller is calling the numbers. A woman in the crowd falls ill. It might be a heart-attack.
Aaron Casey, 22, was there:
“A customer shouted help but we thought she shouted house. Half the bingo hall was saying stop calling. There was a weak pulse and at one point one of the customers said she was dead. I will never go to Gala Bingo again. I am ashamed at how they treat their customers.”
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Posted: 13th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kentucky Man Who Made Friend Eat His Own Beard In Lawnmower Row Faces Jail
WHAT news of Harvey Westmoreland, the man forced to eat his own beard at the point of knives and guns? Back in November 2010, Troy Holt and James Hill man Harvey Westmoreland got into a row with his pals Troy Holt and James Hill over the sale of a lawnmower. As Harvey told:
The matter reached court. Holt and Hill were given five years probation for assault, terroristic threatening and unlawful imprisonment. They were told to pay the victim $570 restitution. They were placed on probation.
But Holt didn’t pay. Now he faces jail.
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Posted: 12th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Photos Of Junrey Balawaing The World’s Smallest Man: He’s Smaller Than A Half-Pint Of Guinness
JUNREY Balawing is the world’s shortest man. The man, who lives in Sindangan on Mindanao island in the southern Philippines, stands at a small 59.93cm (23.6 inches) tall.
He is 18. Well, so the birth certificate says. His dad says he stopped growing when aged two. We do not know why? Maybe he really wanted to be a record breaker?
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Posted: 12th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mug Shot Of The Day: The Bearded Woman Of Florida
MUG Shot of The Day features the face of 61-year-old Gwendolyn Shack, of Lakeland, Florida.
She is wanted for dealing in stolen property and trespassing.
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Posted: 11th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Carrying Marten Hits Washington Man On Nose
TODAY’S Quote Of The Year comes to us via police in Hoquiam, Washington. A 33-year-old man is holding an omnivorous mammal by the tail. He has broken into a residence of a 41-year-old male.
According to police, the 41-year-old male victim asked the alleged assailant “Why are you carrying a weasel?“. The man replied, “It’s not a weasel, it’s a marten“, before allegedly punching him on the nose.
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Posted: 10th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Inflatable Terrorist Who Took Blow Up Doll To School Faces 8 Years Jail
TYELL Morton, 18, has been rusticated at Rushville High School for taking a blow-up doll to school. The doll was located in the girls’ bathroom. It had not been inflated. It was in a box.
What with his being the Land of the Free – and what price this was domestically made blow-up doll? – Morton was arrested on a preliminary charge of felony criminal mischief.
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Posted: 10th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Gets 3,200 Piercings In One Sitting: Photos Of Chronic Pins And Needles
AT the Inktoxicated Tattoos in Las Vegas Staysha Randal took the world record for having her body pierced 3,200 times in a single session. [Insert joke about getting pins and needles in her legs, back, arms… here]…
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Posted: 10th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Who Impaled Vagina On Picket Fence While Peeing Sues Ex Lover
TO Australia, where Michelle Egglestone of South Ballarat, is seeking damages for a fall sustained when she was fell on a picket fence while peeing from a veranda.
Ballerat was impaled on the picket fence.
She says that the veranda, attached the Smythes Creek home of Leslie Furnesss, her former lover, was “constructed without any or with inadequate ballustrading and this caused her to fall a small distance to the star picket fence below“.
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Posted: 10th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
One Legged Man Leaves Trail Of Footprint At Scene Of Crime
DAVID Phillips is the one-legged burglar caught after leaving tell-tale trail of solitary footprints from the crime scene. Phillips has one full leg and one leg that does not extend below the knee. He uses crutches to walk with.
In Perth Sheriff Court, Phillips is found guilty of stealing computers and jewellery in a series of raids.
A police source says:
“It was not the hardest series of crimes to solve as he cuts a pretty distinctive figure with one leg. By the time he left a trail in the mud, even Inspector Clouseau might have managed to collar him.”
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Posted: 10th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
What Did You Do When The World Ended?
WHEN the world ended on May 21, 2011, what did you do? What would Jeremiah Wilson do?
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Posted: 9th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
World’s Most Pierced Woman Marries In Edinburgh: Photos
ELAINE Davidson is the woman with 6,925 piercings marrying Douglas Watson in Edinburgh to Douglas Watson. Mr Watson has no piercings.
Says he:
“People see the piercings but I see the amazing personality underneath.”
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Posted: 9th, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Human Boy For Sale In Vending Machine: Video
FOR a few coins, you can take home three-year-old Tyler Bussier. Angelina Jolie and Madonna may prefer officialdom when shopping for kids, but in Australia they do things simply.
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Posted: 9th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Wayne Rooney’s New Hair Related To Shrek The Sheep
FOLLOWING news of Wayne Rooney’s hair transplant, we bring news of the death of Shrek, the famous New Zealand sheep with the massive coat.
Rooney’s nickname is, as you know, Shrek.
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Posted: 8th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dad Pulls Gun At Party When Children Don’t Get Ice-Cream And Cake
JOSEPH Hayes is Our Dad Of The Year. When his children were given neither cake NOR ice cream at a South Memphis party, he pulled out a gun.
Police are called. You might expect the cops to by sympathetic to people being deprived of sugary product. But they arrest Hayes. The police reports says Hayes became upset and began yelling at the victim because “Y’all didn’t save my kids no damn ice cream and cake.”
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Posted: 8th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ghost Tries To Kill Woman Having Sex In Cemetrey
WHEN visiting a relative’s grave at the Ahavath Israel cemetery in Hamilton, N.J, the 39-year-old woman and her male consort had sex.
At some point a tombstone fell on her leg. She did not die. But the assumption must be that a randy ghost saw an opportunity and went for it.
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Posted: 6th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Bride Punches Kilt-Wearing Groom Who Left Poo Stain On Her Wedding Dress
THE Daily Sport is back:
A FUMING bride DECKED her kilt-wearing hubby when he sat on her knee at the reception and left a SKIDMARK on her wedding dress!
Like all true Scotsmen, Angus McClure, 26, didn’t wear pants under his kilt when he married sweetheart Sarah Grant in Greenock, Renfrewshire.
But his traditionalism led to uproar when he perched his poorly-wiped backside on 24-year-old Sarah’s pristine frock, leaving an unsightly smear.
After Sarah swiped at Angus, the well-refreshed McClure and Grant clans led the reception into bloody mayhem.
A police source said: “I’ve been a police officer in Greenock for nearly 20 years and so I’ve seen a lot of wedding parties turn nasty but this was something else.”
In total, seven people were arrested in the grounds of wedding venue, Greenock Reformed Temperance Hall, and face public order offences.
It’s believed that Angus and Sarah were reconciled when they sobered up, and have no memory whatsoever of the melee.
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Posted: 5th, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
