San Francisco’s Foreskin Man Super Queero Wants To Outlaw Jews And Circumcision

TO San Francisco, where Foreskin Man aims to win hearts, minds and future penises of America by campaigning for foreskins. And do not doubt that this is a big issue. This November San Francisco locals will be able to vote on a proposal to ban circumcision for the under 18s.

Muslims and Jews would, in effect, be outlawed.

Lloyd Schofield is a leading light in the pro-foreskin movement, namely the San Francisco Male Genital Mutilation bill. Says the “intactivists”:

“Parents are really guardians, and guardians have to do what’s in the best interest of the child. It’s his body. It’s his choice.”

Anorak

Posted: 5th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)

Hypnotist Knocks Himself Out On Dorset Stage: Or Does He?

TO Dorset, where at Portland’s Royal Manor Theatre, David Days is performing his hypnosis show. Days is going to be huge. Huge… Huuuuge. Look into my eyes…

Dubbed by Star magazine as the next Paul McKenna, David Days is set to become T.V.’s next great hypnotist.  Having already hypnotized boy band Blue live on I.T.V.’s Ministry of Mayhem, David is currently putting forward proposals for a brand new, never-seen-before, T.V. series.

David famously turned Blue from a four-stong group of plumbers into believing they were chickens and the new Beatles.

Anorak

Posted: 5th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Killer Uses The ‘Red Bull’ Defence: Energy Drink Made Him Do It

STEPHEN Coffeen says the Red Bull amde him do it. Coffeen says he killed his dad in Florida. But it was never murder. Oh, no. The Red Bull made him do it. The Red Bull is wrong…

Anorak

Posted: 3rd, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Chinese Boy Sells Kidney For iPad: Reserves Soul For Simon Cowell

RONAN Parke has not sold his kidney to pay for Simon Cowell’s iPad? But elsewhere on the internet we learn that a Chinese teenager has flogged his organ for a gadget.

A 17-year-old called Little Zheng (yeah, really – his parents called him an Little, as in Syd Little) says he flogged his kidney over the web and used the money to buy an iPad 2. He saw the advert calling for Cash 4 Kidneys and duly scooped $3,392 (£2,077) for one of his. That was enough money for him to buy an iPad 2 and a laptop (the brand of the laptop is not given, but we think it was an  – ouch! – iBall).

Anorak

Posted: 3rd, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

London Man Urinated In ‘Self-Defence’ At Waterloo Station To Rid Himself Of Mafia Poison

MICHAEL Jones, 50, says he was “urinating in self-defence” at Waterloo train station, London.

On May 3, City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court learns that, allegedly, Jones was urinating in public.

His brief tells the court:

“He urinated in self-defence because the water supply was poisoned by the Mafia. He had to get rid of the poison from his body.”

Anorak

Posted: 3rd, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

Florida Marijuana Police Arrest Woman For Sage

POLICE at the Broward County sheriff’s office, Florida, have arrested a woman named Robin Brown for possessing a stick of sage. Only the British understand sage. US police officers believe it to be marijuana.

Having seized the herb, police sent it off for “lab tests”. Three months later, Brown was arrested. Says she:

“They arrested me in front of my customers, my boss, my co-workers.”

Anorak

Posted: 2nd, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)

Doncaster Woman Steals Safe Between Her Legs

TO Doncaster, where police are hunting four men and two women who are believed to have escaped with a safe from an off licence on Bentley Road.

The shop’s CCTV records a woman walking into the residential area to the rear of the shop. (Her associates have distracted the owner.) She is wearing trousers. When she emerges, she is dressed in a skirt and struggling to walk.

Anorak

Posted: 1st, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

Arizona Beavis Is Our Mug Shot Of The Day

MUG Shot of The Day features the mug of 26-year-old Randon Reid.

Beavis was pinched in Deer Valley, Arizona, for firing on a private plane at Deer Valley Airport.

Why?

Dunno.

Maybe the imp sat on the end of his nose told him to…

Anorak

Posted: 31st, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

E-Fit Of The Day: The Halifax Pixel Flasher

EFIT of The Day: The Halifax Flasher and his pixel:

POLICE have released this efit of a man they wish to question in connection with an indecent exposure in Greetland. A man allegedly followed two girls out of Greetland Goldfields Park at about 5.30pm on Saturday May 7 and exposed himself. He is described as white, aged 36, 5ft 7ins, big shoulders but slim, short spiked blonde hair and discoloured teeth.

Anorak

Posted: 28th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

World Custard Pie Championships In Photos: Flour Power In Kent

TO Coxheath, near Maidstone, Kent, for the world custard pie championship. Any world title is worth winning – the Americans with their World Series of basesball taught us that. Anorak laments the fact that the IOC has not deemed chucking a pie, and the equally tricky skill of taking a pie in the face, an Olympic Sport. The one let down is that the custard pies are, in truth, mere mushes of flour and water. It’s a low-fat pie-chucking contest. but let us not be too hard on them. These people are athletes, dammit. And the more custard you eat, the bigger the target. Think on…

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Anorak

Posted: 28th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

For Sale In Nofolk: Evil Bob – The Worst Dog In The World

EVIL Bob is for sale. Evil Bob is a dog owned by Tem Sosa from Downham Market, Norfolk. Evil Bob is a  border collie who featrues in this advert:

Evil Bob would love to find the perfect home as I have put up with him for nearly ten years and can’t take much more. He is probably the worst dog you will ever meet. He started life as a failed mountain rescue dog – probably peed on the climber and stole their Kendal mint cake. He has caused nothing but trouble here as he doesn’t fit in well with a large group of dogs. He looks older than his years, has wonky teeth, bad breath and a bad attitude. He is terrified of cats, snaps at horses’ heels and nips pigs.
“He should not be left unsupervised indoors as he steals food off the side, licks the cooker and pees at terrier height so as not to get the blame.”

Anorak

Posted: 28th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)

Man Digs Up Dead Mum And Takes Her Home

WHEN Vasile Mogoiu’s mum died in the Romanian village of Corbi in 1976, she was buried. Seven years later, young Vasili, dug her up and took her home.

Says he:

“Mother died at the age of 80 years and two months in 1976, I buried her, and after seven years I dug her out and I brought her home to be closer to me. My mother raised me alone, I was a child out of wedlock, and I loved her a lot.  And my brother, Joe, I brought him home from seven years to death because the baby must stay near his mother.”

Anorak

Posted: 28th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

The Greatest Roller Coaster Pictures Ever

ANORAK presents a gallery of the greatest, weirdest, stupidest roller coaster ride pictures ever. What Jimmy Savile did with cubs (picture 10), we have done with a cast of hundreds. You know how it is – you wait for hours in the sun and then at the moment of release pull a face Justin Bieber would be proud to call his own.

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Anorak

Posted: 26th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (5)

Drunk Blames Raspberries For Pushing Him Over Drink Drive Limit

MR Thomas Cook, 69, a former Royal Marine who has palyed for Hibs, maintains that he has been teetotal for five decades and had not been drinking when he was pulled over at the wheel of a taxi. He is, m’lud, the victim of the litre and a half tub of raspberries he had eaten shortly before getting behind the wheel.

When Mr Cook was breathalysed, his reading was comparable to his having drunk ten pints of beer.

Anorak

Posted: 26th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

New Zealand Trucker Impaled On Pressurised Air Hose Blows Up

STEVEN McCormack is a sort-of real life Michelin Man. McCormak is the Kiwi trucker who had fell on an air hose cauaing the brass nozzle to break and inject pressurised air at 100lb/sq in into his buttocks.

The accident occured While he was a truck stop at Opotiki on the North Island. Says McCormack, 48, from his hospital bed in Whakatane, speaking to the Whakatane Beacon:

“I felt the air rush into my body and I felt like it was going to explode from my foot. I was blowing up like a football… it felt like I had the bends, like in diving. I had no choice but just to lay there, blowing up like a balloon.”

Anorak

Posted: 25th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Mooner Stabbed With Garden Fork In Luton

MOONING. Anorak is broadly for it. It is all about timing. Take the story of the Nathan Mwanje, a 26-year-old now serving five years jail for stabbing Jay Jay Hind with a garden fork.

Suring a row on on Russell Rise, Luton, on 15 July, 2010, Hind dropped his trousers. Mwanje reacted. He had a fork to hand. And the fork went into Hind, who required 28 staples in his wounds.

Anorak

Posted: 25th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)

Murdering Rabbits With Kindness And Guns

RABBITS:

A Wanaka bar has taken to helping deal with Central Otago’s rabbit plague by offering half-price beer to patrons who bring in dead rabbits. Bullock Bar manager Margo Johnston said the bar would offer half-price jugs to anyone who brought in four rabbits. “Hopefully it will eradicate a few rabbits from Central Otago farmland,” she said.

Anorak

Posted: 25th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

World Ends October 21, 2011: 200 Million Chinese Can’t Be Wrong

AS Anorak told you, the world will end on October 21, 2011. The web is full of news that Harold Camping was wrong. He was not. He said the rapture would occur on May 21, 2011, and five months later the rest of us would die. On May 21, 200 million people vanished from the Earth. Camping was right!

We have photos to prove this.

Anorak

Posted: 24th, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3)

Couple Kicked Out Of Cannock’s No Knickers Swingers Pub

KEVIN Scott and his wife Kat run the Crystal Fountain pub in Cannock, Staffordshire. Well, they did. It turns out that the couple run the venue as a swingers’ club. The Scotts, billed as “committed doggers” are dammant that “full sex” does not occur on the premises. Like most other pubs, Anorak imagines it occurs in the car park.

Says he:

“It’s just a social event, you won’t see any shagging or anything like that, although you never know, you will probably see someone getting a b*** j** or some other kind of play. We have all sorts coming from straights to gays to bi-sexuals to transvestites to transsexuals. You name it and they will be there. But it’s not seedy, it is not like the 1970s or something.”

Anorak

Posted: 24th, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Trucker Flashes Police On Motorway

WITH news of lorry drivers chucking porn mags from their cabs in Kent fresh in the mind, we hear of truck driver Peter Manson, who exposed himself to two women motorists while driving his new yellow flatbed truck on the M1 motorway at 50 to 60mph. The women turned out to work for Notts Police. Says one:

“As I looked over he was grinning and gestured toward his lap. I turned straight and looked ahead and I said to my colleague ‘I can’t believe what he’s doing now’. She said ‘Are you joking?’…I was getting worried because he seemed to be concentrating on us rather than driving.”

Anorak

Posted: 23rd, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Harold Camping And 200 Million Are Missing: Judgement Day Guru Presumed Raptured

THE world did not end on May 21, 2011. Family Radio’s Harold Camping guaranteed the rapture. He guaranteed Doomsday. He also spotted it coming on September 6, 1994. He spent a fortune telling us that on May 21, 2011, around 200 million believers will be saved. The rest of you will be killed on October 21, 2011.

Anorak

Posted: 23rd, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)

White Tiger Spotted In Hampshire: Police Chopper Scrambled

DID you see the fabled white tiger of Hampshire? One local did. They spied the big cat through the zoom lens of their camera in a field near Hedge End, Southampton. The police were called. And when the police arrived they too saw the tiger.

A police support helicopter is summoned. Tiger experts from Marwell Zoo are placed on alert. There is talk of closing the M27 motorway. A game of cricket at the Rose Bowl between South Wiltshire and Hampshire Academy is stopped.

Anorak

Posted: 22nd, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (6)

The Rapture Flowchart: For Those Of You Left Behind To Die On October 21, 2011

ON May 21, 2011, the world ended and the rapture began. Harold Camping is gone. Tony Blair: gone. Sesame Street’s Big Bird: gone. Big Cook (not Little Cook): gone. Others will be noticed by their absence soon enough. But you have not gone. You are rooted on earth awaiting certain death on October 21, 2011.

Anorak

Posted: 21st, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Mr Stoner Arrested For Growing Marijuana: More Nominative Determinism

GLENN H. Stoner is our nominative determinism hero of the day. Mr Stoner, 56, was arrested in Clearwater, Florida, for the cultivation of marijuana and operating a drug house.

Stoner’s defence was that he smokes all the weed he grows himself.

Anorak

Posted: 21st, May 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment

10 Things You Won’t Miss When The World Ends On May 21 2011

IT is May 21, 2011. Today is Judgement Day, the day Christians get to experience the rapture and ascend to the big spirit in the sky. This leaves you free to spend the next six months while the world boils and churns towards the great nothingness look after their pets, living rent free in their houses, bombing Switzerland and finally learning to play the banjo.

We’ve already seen the reasons why the end of the world is now. But you may care to spare thought for what you will not see in what remains of 2011, 2012 and beyond:

* The London Olympic Games – lots of old athletes shoving a BBC microphone into the faces of hot runners and asking then how they feel

Anorak

Posted: 21st, May 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3)