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.
Armed Police Surround Cheadle Factory: Cricketers’ Six Shooters Explode
ARMED police have surrounded the Power Star in Cheadle. There have been reports of gunfire.
Says Mohammed Ijaz, 25, from inside the building:
“We’d been watching the England match and finished work so thought we may as well play cricket. We were just messing around and could hear shouting saying ‘Come out! Come out!’.
“At first we carried on as we didn’t realise it was to do with us. But when we realised it was, we headed outside and as soon as we opened the door we could see lots of armed police. It was a bit of a shock but they were just doing their job.”
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Posted: 16th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman With 71 Heroin Balls In Vagina Arouses Suspicion
AT the Kostrzyn border crossing in Poland, 23-year-old Katarzyna Szymanska has half a kilo of heroin shaped into 71 balls. Says a customs worker:
“There was something about the way she was walking that raised our suspicions. She seemed very uncomfortable and could barely walk a step without wincing in pain.”
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Posted: 15th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Casey Heynes Is Now A Meme: Tributes To Australia’s Man Of The Year
ANORAK’S man of the Year Casey Heynes is now a meme. Heynes is the Australian teenager who reacted to being punched in the face by a Richard Gale with extreme power. You can see the video here. The tributes are below:
Posted: 15th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Japan Earthquake Was Written In The Stars
ASK not what the Japan earthquake means for those destroyed by it but what the Japan Earthquake can do for your pet cause, whether that be money, global warming or whaling. In this video, the expert looks to the stars:
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Posted: 14th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dog Spinning In Bulgaria: A Video Of Europe Today
TO the annual dog spinning ritual in the village of Brodilovo, Bulgaria.
The dogs will be spun on a rope suspended over a muddy brook to free the area of bad spirits, rabies, boredom etc.
The spinning hereunder is part of a festival to mark independence from the Ottoman empire.
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Posted: 14th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (19)
Thief Hanging From Fence In Hartlepool Calls 999 For Help
DAVID Stokle is hanging from the fence of a property in Casebourne Road, Hartlepool. He is hanging by a shoelace – one attached to his shoe. The thief – he was robbing metal – cannot free himself. He reaches into his pocket and retrieves his mobile phone. He calls the fire brigade. They tell the police.
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Posted: 13th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
New Yorker Used Onions To Torture Drugs Dealers
TO New York’s Queens borough, where Erick Mejia is accused of stuffing drug dealers’ heads into bags of onions.
It is alleged that in February 2008 Mjias and others of his crew looking to rob drugs dealers were in Raleigh, North Carolina. Brooklyn Federal Court. hears that Mejia posed a police to stop of a drug supplier. With their ‘police car’ and badges, the got a man to pull over. They then kidnapped him. They tied up the man, his wife and his child. Then came the onions.
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Posted: 13th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
China Exports Eggs Boiled In Boys Urine
TO Dongyang, Zhejiang province, eastern China, for a hen’s egg boiled in ten-year-old boys’ urine.
Says Chef Lu Ming:
“The urine is gathered from local schools and the very best comes from boys under 10 years old. They pee in buckets and we collect it fresh every day.”
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Posted: 11th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic Has 82 Tattoos Of Julia Roberts On His Body: Photos
JULIA Roberts’ number one fan is Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic. The 56-year-old native of Valparaiso city, Mexico, has a body decorated with 82 tattoos of the Erin Brockovich actress. It is her role in that film that inspired Mr Parserisas. He sure does admire lawyers. And if he ever meet Robrts in person, he may get to hear from some…
Jeremy Kyle Target Gets Skull Tattoo On Face
Jenius Is Our Misspelled Tattooed Mug Shot Of The Day
Man Has ‘MINI’ Tattooed On Penis To Win Mini Cooper Car
Mugshots: The Funniest Ones And Bad Hair
Spotter: Karen
Posted: 10th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Pastor Proves Sun Is 500 Miles Above Earth
IN the forums, we get to meet Pastor Billy-Reuben Gibson. He’s a cleric, at Landover Baptist Church – “Proud to be God’s Authority on Earth”. he thinks the sun is 500 miles above the Earth.
The sun is roughly 491.1 miles overhead. Depending on the exact shade of yellow (whether it’s closer to 570nm or 580nm), this figure could be off by as much as 5 miles. However, I don’t have a spectrometer handy, and I’m willing to live with an uncertainty of ±5 miles. It’s not like I’m planning to visit anytime soon — my shoes would melt
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The LORD is so good to me. Praise the sweet name of Jesus.
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Posted: 10th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Medic Stole Accident Victim’s Severed Foot To Train Dog
ANORAK spots Cynthia “Cindy” Economou. She’s a paramedic with the St. Lucie County Fire District. She’s attending crash scene on Interstate 95 in September 2008. That’s her making off with Karl Lambert’s severed foot.
Lambert is now suing her. She says he took the foot to help train her body recovery dog. She says:
“It was an unrecognizable mass of flesh. It wasn’t a clean cut. You couldn’t even recognize it as a foot. … If I had thought it was somehow reattachable and usable, I would have gone to my commander.”
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Posted: 10th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Armed Robber Fights Disguise And Loses: Video
TO Spartanburg County, South Carolina, where a man armed with a gun is on a mission to rob the Li’l Cricket on Valley Falls Road. It is 2am. The man makes himself ready. He pulled on his disguise. The disguise pings off. He tries again.
When the mask is finally on, he tells the shop worker to open the till. The worker can’t get it open.
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Posted: 10th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sign Of The Day: Good English Essencial
SIGN of The Day: Good English Essencial…
Posted: 10th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Census Form Sent To Dorset Ticket Machine
A CENSUS form has been sent to the car park ticket machine at Dorset’s Moors Valley Country park.
“The Occupier: Pay on Foot Shelter” faces a fine of up to £1000 and a criminal record if it fails to fill in the form.
Good. Let’s hope the money-grabbing so-and-so goes down.
Posted: 9th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Loch Lomond Tourists Welcomed To Giro Bay
VISITORS to the Loch Lomond National Park can use the new map and find Giro Bay, Cameron’s Shallows, Archibald’s Abyss and Jessie’s Shallow.
The spots are not known to locals, only to the cartographers and rangers who picked the names, often after themselves.
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Posted: 9th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Royal Shrovetide Football Match 2011 In Photos: WAGs And A Cork Ball
THE teams sing Auld Lang Syne. Lord James Percy, brother of the Duke of Northumberland, parps the bugle. Jim Boden tossed the ball filled with cork into the mob. And starts the annual Shroventide football match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, is off.
For those readers from overseas uncertain as to why British tourists play 55-a-side matches on the playas and beaches of Europe here’s a spot of background: The Royal Shorvetide Football match occurs annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne. It has been played since at least the 12th Century. The two teams that contest the match are known as the Up’Ards and the Down’Ards. The aim is to score in one of the goals three miles apart at Clifton and Sturston.
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Posted: 8th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
German Radio Station Offers Free Headstone To Best Epitaph Writer
GERMANY’S Radio Galaxy – Aschaffenburg No. 1 for pop – is offering you the chance to win 3,000 euros which must be spent on a headstone for your grave, death insurance or a funeral. All you need do is write your own epitaph. Easy!
Radio’s presenter Jens Pflueger supplied the marketing bollocks:
“We wanted to raise awareness about this difficult topic among young people.”
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Posted: 8th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nominative Determinism: Body Jam With K. Porn King
NOMINATIVE Determinism Of The Day – a “Body Jam” class with K’Porn, King, Nagao…
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Posted: 8th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mug Shot Of The Day: The Oral Sex Happy Man
MUG Shot of the day features the face of Jason Kircher, 31. The Louisville man says he was not driving under the influence. He was, yer honour, receiving oral sex from his female passenger, one Jessica Talarovich
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Posted: 8th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Animals With Two Faces: A Gallery Of Indecision
ANIMALS with two faces: do you call by them the plural version of their name or the singular? Is a cat with two heads cats? Which tortoise gets to place its head in the shell? And does a pig with two faces get a job in frontline politics..?
Here are the pictures.
Posted: 8th, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Saudi Man Lashed 80 Times For Stealing Chicken Leg
IN Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the man caught stealing a leg of chicken has been sentenced to 14 months in prison and 80 lashes.
Back in the UK, anyone eating a fried chicken leg is patronised by Jamie Oliver.
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Posted: 7th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Phineas Gage Had A Hole In His Head And Paul Gascoinge Really Did Go To Italy
PHINEAS Gage did have a hole in his dead. Dr Foster did go to Gloucester. Paul Gascoigne really is fatter than you and me and did you to Italy – que sera sera.
The latest rhyme to pass the fact test is that of Phineas Gage. As the rhyme goes:
“Phineas Gage had a hole in his head, and ev’ryone knew that he oughta be dead. Was it fate or blind luck, though it never came clear, kept keepin’ on year after year…”
The BBC reports that Phineas worked on the railways in Vermont. On 13 September 1848, the iron rod he used to pack down explosives created a spark and detonated the powders.
The iron rod shot into his face. It entered below an eye and exited through his skull at the top of his head. He lived.
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Posted: 7th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
German Train Refuses To Stop For Child Stuck On Board: Must Run On Time
THE train hurtling through Germany cannot be stopped. It has to run on time. Two-year-old Marie Luise Kracht, who is now alone on the train, must wait for the train to make a scheduled stop.
Marie’s mum, one Ulrike Kracht, 19, became separated from her child when the automatic doors on the Deutsche Bahn train closed. He had removed her bags and pram from the train and was about to go back for her daughter when the doors shot.
Says mum:
“It was the worst moment of my life. I heard Marie Luise shout ‘mama’ and she was gone!”
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Posted: 7th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Steals Bras To Support Girlfriend
KEEN to make his lover feel good when she got out of jail, Johnnie L. Brown, 29, stole two bras from Walmart.
His reason, as he stated to police:
“She has done so much for me, and I felt I had to support her.”
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Posted: 6th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mischief The Australian Talking Cat Is Kidnapped By Aliens Over Siberia
MISCHIEF the talking cat of Australia’s Northern Territories is missing, presumed catnapped by aliens.
The report by Matt Cunningham is fantastic:
It came after Siberian air traffic controllers claim that a female-sounding alien spoke to them in a cat-like language.
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Posted: 5th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
