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.
Man Features Two Loves Of Life On Grave: Booze And…
WHEN Petra Dumitru died in Iasi, Romania, he wanted his twin loves to appear on his grave: booze and his wife, not necessarily in that order.
Says his brother-in-law Stefan Toma:
“He told us he wanted people to be reminded of the two great loves in his life. Good wine and his wife. We thought that a picture would do that best although I admit his wife doesnt look that happy about him drinking on the picture.”
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Posted: 4th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Arrested With Walmart Rotisserie Chicken Down Pants
TO Rome, Georgia, USA, where 27-year-old Joseph Lee Stringer has been arrested for shoplifting – he stuffed a rotisserie chicken, chicken wings, a mouth guard and two toothbrushes down the front of his pants at a Walmart store.
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Posted: 4th, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sperm Whale Washes Up In Kent: Photos
A HUGE Sperm Whale has died after being washed up at Pegwell Bay between Ramsgate and Sandwich, in Kent. In the olden days they would have cut it up for meat, fuel and clothing. Now they cut it up for scientific research. That’s progress…
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Posted: 3rd, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Fitted With Artificial Anus After 55 Year Wait
WU, a farmer from Jiayu county of Hubei Province of China, has no anus. He has not had an anus for 55 years. He was born with congenital anal atresia.
For years he has excreted via a 0.5-centimeter diameter stomas, a surgical hole, close to his urethra.
He would have to pull poo out with his hands.
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Posted: 3rd, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Rotherham Magistrate Had Frog And Gerbil Porn On His Laptop
MICHAEL Hall, 46, a school governor at three schools – St Thomas CofE Primary in Kilnhurst, Swinton Fitzwilliam Primary School and Swinton Community School in Mexborough – a member of the Rotherham Council’s Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Panel, and a magistrate since 2007, downloaded a photo of woman having sex with a frog and a gerbil.
He had other photos on the laptop. Of the 230 photos and 150 videos on his machine, police found images of woman having sex with horses, a donkey, dogs, a gerbil, a frog and a live snake.
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Posted: 2nd, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (15)
10 Tonne Bridge Stolen In Yorkshire
POLICE in North Yorkshire are looking for a 10.5 tonne footbridge that was stolen from the back of a trailer in February.
The bridge is made of steel. It is 3ft 6in (1.06m) wide.
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Posted: 2nd, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Horse Semen Is A Zizzy Drink In New Zealand
ANYONE who fancies a drink of stallion semen, and who doesn’t fancy another trip to a fetish farm in rural Germany, can head to New Zealand’s Hokitika Wildfoods festival for a mouthful of racehorse owner Lindsay Kerslake’s oats.
Says she:
“Horses are pure testosterone, you know. They have hardly any cholesterol, so the idea is you knock it back and feel like a stallion yourself. You’ll have as much zizz as a stallion for a week afterwards.”
Anorak guesses (and despite the rumours, it is only a guess) that it will take longer than a week to remove the taste of horse zizz. (Jeremy Paxman fanciers can write in and tell us.)
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Posted: 2nd, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Paperboy Cuts ‘Hellish’ Headline Out Of Newspapers He Delivers
THE paperboy censored the headline on the Woodstock Sentinel-Review. He objected to the word “hellish” in the headline “hellish reality” and ripped it off. He did this on 48 copies.
The story was that Jason Poole, 22, who was in Christchurch, New Zealand, when the 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck.
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Posted: 2nd, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
What Ant Circles Mean For Mankind
ANT circles. Ever seen one? Robert Krulwich tells us why ants do it and what it means for mankind. Be afraid:
These ants are completely blind so they get about by sniffing trails left by the ants in front of them. They, in turn, leave chemical trails of their own. The system works smoothly when everybody’s going in a straight line in one direction… But when the lead ants start to loop, bad things can happen (and remember we humans loop too, we can’t hold a straight course over long distances without external points of reference). If the ant-in-front loops and intersects with its old trail, the whole crowd then turns in on itself and everybody gets caught in the endless circle.
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Posted: 28th, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Teacher Arrested For Seeking Sex With Dogs On Craigslist
PATRICK Stephen Trejo, a music teacher at Raul Castro Middle School, has been accused of using a website in which dog owners advertise their pets for sex.
The school sent a letter home to parents. Says one parent:
“It’s just not something I’ve ever thought about discussing with my kids before.”
Trejo is said to have written on Craigslist:
“Hit me up if you have a pup to play with,” and made the call for anyone who was interested in ‘K-9 play’.”
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Posted: 27th, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Fox Found Living Atop London’s Shard Skyscraper For Winged Humans
ROMEO the fox has been found squatting on the top floor of The Shard, the shell of what will be the tallest building in the UK. Says Ted Burden, the centre’s founder:
“We explained to him that if foxes were meant to be 72 storeys off the ground, they would have evolved wings.”
Which is why the building that features flats, a spa, restaurants and offices is being marketed exclusively to winged humans, like Bono and Tony Blair.
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Posted: 25th, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Chewing On Bullet Shoots Himself In Face
THE man who lives on 2400 block of South 128th East Avenue, Tulsa, has a hole in his face. He manages to tell police attending reports of a shooting that a live shell had bounced off of his garage floor and hit him in the face. The bullet is lodged in his sinus cavity.
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Posted: 25th, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Why You Should Never Overtake An Elephant: Photos
NEVER overtake an elephant in a small hatchback…
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Posted: 25th, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Bogdan The Magnetic Boy Attracts China, Spoons, Paedos And Colonel Gaddafi
BOGDAN is the seven year old Serbian who has attracted the media , as he has attracted metal objects to his naked self. Bogdan is Magnet Boy.
And it’s not just metal that sticks to Bogdan. China also sticks. A terrific career as a display rack in a home furnishings store or as a naked waiter awaits the youth.
But can he be calibrated to attract other objects: paedophile, lost golf balls, the Taliban, or Colonel Gaddafi…
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Posted: 24th, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Seek Mummy Who Robbed Petrol Station With Hatchet
WANTED Man of The day is the figure being sought by Pennsylvania state police for robbing a petrol station while armed with a hatchet.
The local Egyptians are being rounded up…
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Posted: 24th, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Hides Stolen Chainsaw Down Trousers
IN Chickasha, Okla., a man has been caught trying to steal a chainsaw from a store by stuffing it in the front of his trousers.
That is all…
Posted: 24th, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Egyptian Dad Names Baby Girl Facebook Jamal Ibrahim
EGYPTIAN dad Jamal Ibrahim has called his newborn daughter Facebook. The Al-Ahram newspaper introduces her as Facebook Jamal Ibrahim.
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Posted: 23rd, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Woman Pictured With Gagged Child Taped To Chair Says It’s An Impostor
CAIRA Ferguson, of Pennsylvania, is stood next to a child who has been was duct-taped to a chair. More tape has been placed over the child’s mouth.
Caira Ferguson, 21, goes to the police. She says the person who leaked the photo has stolen her identity. But what then of the photo? And the fact that Ferguson has a young daughter? And at her home she has a purple chair – a lot like the one in the photo. Police even noted:
“The chair was found to still had remnants of duct tape affixed to the arms and legs.”
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Posted: 23rd, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Fugitive Con Man Found Working As TV Star
ROMANIAN police have spent ten years hunting a con man called Viorel Plescan. They have now found him. Where was he? On the telly, cunningly disguised as a TV show anchorman.
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Posted: 22nd, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Uses Loyalty Card To Repair Child’s Swollen Genitals
ROSS McBride, 23, from Clydebank, used his loyalty card to cut a child’s genitals to “reduce swelling” after he “accidentally” kicked the boy with a football at a residence in Glasgow back ion February 2008.
The toddler needed 11 stitches. He has made a decent recovery.
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Posted: 22nd, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Elevates To Avoid Escalators
MAN elevates to avoid escalators…
Posted: 22nd, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Noisy Popcorn Eater Shot Dead At Black Swan Screening
A MAN was shot during a screening of Black Swan at a Latvian cinema. The story goes that he was killed for eating his popcorn.
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Posted: 22nd, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Hapless Robber Loses $40 In Failed Gun Store Hold Up
DUMB Criminal Of the Day is the wanted man who held up a A Kansas City gun shop. We join the action as the hapless robber asks to buy a box of bullets. He has $40 in his hand to pay for them. He asks for more. Shop owner Mr Lee turns to ring up the new bill. When he turns back to the customer, he sees that the shopper is aiming a gun at him. He also sees that the gun is not loaded.
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Posted: 21st, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Skins Golden Retriever On Shanghai Street: Video
THE Shanghai butcher is skinning a Golden Retriever in the street. The dog is hung on a pole. It’s fur is peeled off. Is the dog alive or dead?
ChinaSmack reports that Ms Zhang, who filmed the thing, said the scene made “her entire body tremble and prevented her from sleeping well“.
But, nonetheless, she managed to film it. Is it a fake? One the web, voices wrtie in to say that skinnign teh dog is “no different to poultry and livestock being slaughtered for food”.
True enough. And is that the point of this video – to show the hypocrisy of our attitudes to eating meat?
The only wonder is that Peta never thought of this first…
Posted: 20th, February 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (23)
Newcastle Student Who Put Testicles In Teacher’s Tea Expelled
THE scholar who placed his testicles in a teacher’s mug and photographed the hairy teabags has been expelled from Benfield School, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Three others hasve been suspended after the photo was taken and put up on Facebook.
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Posted: 20th, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
