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.
Idiotic Man Drives With Bright Angus The Parrot On His Windscreen Wiper
ANGUS the parrot’s owner, Justin Lawther, perches his feathered friend on his car’s windscreen wipers and heads out on the highway.
The Australian RSPCA is “dumbfounded” by Lawther’s actions, deemed to be stupid.
RSPCA Manager of Inspectorate Services Greg Boland says:
“He has placed this parrot in a position whereby it is likely to be caused unnecessary pain or suffering, which is an offence under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and can carry severe penalties. The community and the RSPCA will not tolerate idiotic acts that place animals in danger…”
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Posted: 30th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Adolf Hitler Reincarnated In Swansea House: Photo
STORY of the Year takes us to Swansea, where a house looks like Hitler. (Albert Speer ever live in the area?)
Here’s a genuine reader comment on the Mail’s website:
My house has a nice double glazed front soor and a mock tudor fronting, and looks a lot like reggie yeates. You don’t see me wasting my time sending pictures in the mail though do you?
– Jason D, London, 29/3/2011 12:05
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Posted: 29th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Will Palmer Is Lawyer Of The Years: ‘My Client Is An Idiot’
TO Bristol Magistrates’ Court, where James McInerney, 18, is in the dock on account of his behaviour at Quigley’s takeaway in Bristol. The lawyers are speaking:
Jeremy Oliver, prosecuting:
“David Davies, Danielle Upton and Richard Martin had been out in Park Street and decided to go and get some food. The defendant appeared wearing just fishnet stockings and a T-shirt and carrying a handbag. When he was challenged about the way he was exposing himself he started shouting and being threatening. He said he would ‘stab them up’ and told Mr Davies to put ‘your dog on a leash’ – referring to Miss Upton.
Will Palmer, defending:
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Posted: 29th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Eden Wood Is Every Other Parent’s Dream: Photos And Video Of Hell
EDEN Wood is the US beauty pageant princess here to will make every other parent proud. To those on the pageant circuit Eden is symbol thing of awe and beauty. To every other parent, Eden is a sign of what can go wrong. You know how the poem goes:
My child is beautiful, confident and talented
Her child is precocious
Their child is a spoilt brat
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Posted: 29th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Behold The Wish Statue: Insert Your Wish In A Poignant Place
THE plan is that you write your wish down, roll it up and stick it into the statue. It is a thing of beauty…
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Posted: 28th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sheffield Man Has Haunted Knees
STORY of The Day comes to us via the pages of the The Sheffield Star, wherein we learn that Ben Martin from Denaby, Doncaster, has knees that look like Casper the ghost (right knee) and Chinese sleuth Fu Manchu.
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Posted: 28th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Still Paying Bills Three Years After His Death
THE dead man found slumped in his flat in Tumba, southern Stockholm, was still paying his bills and taxes. He had been dead in his flat for three years.
No-one noticed because he had paid his bills by direct debit.
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Posted: 28th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Goose Finds Squirrel In Toilet
TO Malawi, where Duncan Goose has found a squirrel down the toilet.
Like you, we at first thought Mr Goose a rodent fetishist, or a warning to examine beneath the thickl sauvce of your meat curry. But reading on we learn that the squirrel was not evacuated form Mr Goose, rather… Well, how it got there is a mystery.
As Mr Goose says:
“It was a real shock as my immediate reaction was that it was a rat and, particularly in developing countries, they carry lots of disease. I was concerned it was going to jump out and bite me, so I put the lid back down and left it for a minute as I wasn’t sure what to do.”
A: Leave it to drown.
B: Find another toilet.
C: Save it.
D: Make joke about hiding your nuts.
Mr Goose chose option E: help.
“In the end I put a hand towel down the toilet, allowed it to climb up, put it in a laundry basket, took it outside and released it back into the wild and it didn’t seem too much the worse for wear so hopefully it’s recovered from the experience and will go on to have a happy life devoid of toilet bowl experiences.”
It’s what we each of us pray for as we sit on the throne…
Posted: 28th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Can Spiders Wipe Out Mosquitoes In Pakistan?
TO escape the flood waters in Pakistan, millions of spiders have taken refuge in trees. And news is that because of the spiders, there are now fewer mosquitoes. The remedy for malaria is simple: more spiders – ones a big as rabbits…
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Posted: 28th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
World Breast Size Map – By Country (No Vaginas)
WHEN we brought you the World Penis Size Map (by country), many asked if a world breast size map would be forthcoming. Well, here is it.
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Posted: 28th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Suspected Halifax Burglar Falls Down Well During Get Away
THE man trapped down the trapped 30ft down an old well next to St Thomas’ Church in Claremount Road, Boothtown, Halifax, is, allegedly, the same man who burglarised a home up the road in Bell Street.
That’s him calling the fire brigade on his mobile phone.
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Posted: 27th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Bride And Groom Spend Wedding Night In Jail
NEWLYWEDS David and Louise-Anne Turnbull, of Hythe, Hampshire, held their wedding reception at a pub in Holbury. Christopher Cerqua is asked to leave. A party, including the happy couple, then moves to a local nightclub.
There, they receive a call from the babysitter looking after three of their five children. What she says is unclear, but the couple race home. They encounter Mr Cerqua.
Things happen, and the couple spend their wedding night in the cells.
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Posted: 27th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Awkward Pregnancy Photos: The Kids Will Be Alright (Probably)
IN Awkward Pregnancy Photos, Anorak delivers a gallery of pictures that showcase the miracle of pregnancy – and the greater miracle of how anyone thought these pictures were a good idea. All humanity is out there, readers, and some of it is breeding…
Posted: 25th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Inappropriate Photo Of The Day: The Tobacco School
THE Inappropriate thing of the day is the Tobacco School in Delhi.
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Posted: 24th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Surgeons Remove Man’s Healthy Testicles In Gall Stones Op
OUR thoughts are with Andreas Hoffman who discover that medics in his native Germany had not only removed his gall stones but also snipped off his healthy testicles.
Mr Hoffman wants £100,000 in compensation.
Says he:
“The doctors got rid of some lumps. Only they were two that I had grown rather fond of and wanted to retain.”
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Posted: 23rd, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Woman Finds Brownish Frog In Can Of Green Beans
PRISCILLA Owens found a frog in her can of Wylwood Blue Lake Cut Green Beans. The frog was dead.
Says she:
“I can deal with maybe a grasshopper, because I know that they probably jump around in the green bean field. But a whole frog? That’s a whole other ball game.”
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Posted: 23rd, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Helen Staudinger, 92, Shoots Younger Man Who Denied Her A Kiss
WILL Helen Staudinger, 92, prove that old ladies can not get away with shoplifting, smelling of rose flour dipped in a specimen bottle AND shooting a neighbour for refusing to kiss them? That’s the allegation fired at Dame Helen by her neighbour, one 53-year-old Dwight Bettner.
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Posted: 22nd, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Men Find Mobile Phone: Owner Murders Them Both
HERE’s why you should never answer a call to a lost mobile phone. In Houston, two men are dead. The story goes that they found a mobile phone. It rang. They answered. The call was from the phone’s owner. A meeting was arranged at a block of flats.
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Posted: 22nd, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kent Students Filming Death Scene Find Dead Body
WHILE shooting a death scene for their project, film undergraduates from Canterbury Christ Church University found a real dead body at Botany Bay in Broadstairs.
Says student Dave Larke, 48:
“It was a bit freaky to say the least. Our actress looked up and saw a bloke pulling something out of the sea, then she suddenly realised it was a dead body. We went over to see if the guy was all right with it because we could see he was having trouble with his phone. And just to make sure that we weren’t wrong in what we had seen. I was probably a foot away from it at the closest point, which wasn’t nice at all.”
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Posted: 21st, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Riding The Severn Bore: Photos
THE Severn Bore * is a large tidal wave that moves up the estuary of the River Severn. The Atlantic waters enters the Bristol Channel and continue into the Severn Estuary. The Severn tidal range is the 2nd highest in the world – as high as 14.5metres. (The Severn bore is bettered only by the Bay of Fundy in Canada.) As the sea moves up against the flow of water, surfers try to ride the 2m-high wave.
* Not to be confused with Bill Oddie on an episode of nature watch does Gloucestershire.
Posted: 20th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Impaled On Toilet Roll Holder
IN today’s episode of Unfamiliar Ways to Die, we journey to Dallas, where a woman has become impaled on her toilet roll holder.
Dallas Fire Rescue responds to a call. The crew enter the building. They hear a soft call for help. Dallas Fire Rescue Public Information Officer Jason Evans surveys the bathroom. He sees:
“A 69-year-old female, sitting on the toilet, with a toilet paper holder impaled in her neck… She has a history of bad knees and it’s very difficult for her to walk. And she apparently fell and the toilet paper holder just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
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Posted: 20th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
The Super Moon In Incredible High Resolution Photos: The Lunar Rock Looms Large
DID you see the moon? The super moon – did you see it? Anorak was on the south coast. The moon was huge and bright. The light hit the sea, casting a triangle of brilliance. Sometimes you just have to stop and stare as the moon was at its closest point to the Earth for almost two decades. Those who climbed St. Michael’s Tower on Glastonbury Tor saw the wonder. So too those who live in Manchester, where the moon glowed in technicolour. Click the photos to make them huge.
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Posted: 19th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Breed Of Bright Orange Monkey Apes Katie Price And WAGs
EVOLUTION is wonderful, isn’t it. From monkey to man, and as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proves, back again. Now news reaches us that monkeys have evolved into celebrities. At Taronga Zoo, Sydney, a Francois langur monkey family has been born bright orange.
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Posted: 19th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Newcastle Woman Bites Off Lover’s Testicles
MARIA Topp, 43, is accused of biting of her lover’s testicles. Mr Martin Douglas, 45, underwent emergency surgery to have his gonads reattached.
Police in Newcastle says Mr Douglas called 999 but the operator had trouble deciphering what he was saying.
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Posted: 18th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Dallas Robber Holds Up Bank With ‘Bom’ In Burger Bag
THE court calls one Nathan Wayne Pugh, charged with attempting to rob a Dallas bank with a “BOM”.
On July 26, 2010, Pugh enters the Wells-Fargo bank. He is carrying a fast food bag. He hands the cashier a note:
“Look if you don’t want to die then you should do as this note says. This is not a bag of food. This is a bom, so just put money in an envelope and do not make any move till after I have left for ten mintis.”
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Posted: 17th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
