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.
Magical Woman Produces Bags Of Marijuana From Her Vagina
WHEN police in Florida pulled over Michael Paul Williamson, 26, and his passenger, Gwendolyn Kathleen Hanisch, 21, for speeding they experienced a magic show.
Police found three biscuit tins of hash cake and two pipes in the car. But the main event was still to come as back at the station police retrieved from Ms Hanisch’s vagina a ball of aluminum foil wrapped abut some LSD and two sandwhich bags full of marijuana.
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Posted: 2nd, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Who Left Their Sperm On the Jesus College Pool Table? Oxford University Crime Watch
WHO is the Oxford University student who left a deposit of sperm on the pool table at Jesus College? After an invetigation, a letter was left apologising for leaving “two teaspoons of my unborn children”.
“The pool table is a piece of equipment that facilitates a multitude of complex, enjoyable and satisfying cue sports, among them pool, snooker and billiards. It is not, therefore, an appropriate place for me to deposit two teaspoons of my unborn children.”
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Posted: 2nd, February 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Burglar Breaks Into Locked Room: Calls Police To Let Him Out
TO the Melbourne suburb of Frankston, where the burglar has broken into a bakery through a skylight. He’s broken into a locked store room.
This is a video of his escape, during which he gawps into the lens of the security camera.
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Posted: 2nd, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Nigerian Scammers Invite Women To Buy US Soldiers Out Of Iraq: Some Fall For It
NIGERIAN scammers have a new ruse. Having brought us MSN employee Susan Boyle, the trickers now introduce us to US Sgt Mark Ray Smith, a soldier serving with the US military in Iraq.
Kate Roberts, of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, met Ray on the Friends Reunited website. Says she:
“Aside from losing the money, I feel like I’ve lost the love of my life. I know he wasn’t real but the feelings were real to me and that’s very difficult to come to terms with.”
Ms Roberts’s fall began when she clicked the ‘Find someone perfect for you’ on the site back in October 2009. She was hooked up with Ray, presented as a 43-year-old widower serving in Iraq. He had an 11-year-old daughter. She saw photos of them. After chatting, Roberts sent him £225 for a phone line.
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Posted: 1st, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Tipster Budgie Found In Glasgow Betting Shop Toilet
DO gamblers make for budgie fanciers? We ask in light of news from the William Hill betting shop on Maryhill Road, Glasgow, where a budgie has been found.
Centre Assistant Manager Anna O’Donnell adds some comedy to the scene:
“We’re not sure if someone left Will in the toilet by accident or on purpose…If someone has left him behind by mistake we’d like to reunite him with his owner.”
Budgie, eh:
Posted: 1st, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Hungarian Teacher Attila Domotor Headbutts A Pupil: Parents Approve
TO Hungary,where history teacher Attila Domotor, 42, reponds to student goading with a headbutt.
A pupil filmed the matter on their mobile phone. Domotor was suspended.
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Posted: 1st, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Donald Trump Dog Wins Pet Look-Alike Show: Photos
HAIR off to chihuahua Bandit Rubio who is the dog that looks most like Donald Trump, he of the hair tsunami.
At New York’s NoHo’s Banfield Pet Hospital, young Rubio took top spot. Says his media handler, Bronx native Anthony Rubio:
“Who doesn’t know the Donald. I put him through a lot.”
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Posted: 1st, February 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Says Parkinson’s Medication Turned Him Gay: Penguins And Elton John Blush
TO France, where a married man says Requip, a medicine he was taking for Parkinson’s says, turned him a horny, gay crossdresser. He’s suing GlaxoSmithKline.
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Posted: 31st, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Hot Dogs Tattoos: As Disgusting On The Outside As They Are On The Inside
HOT Dogs are disgusting. Anorak’s illustrator of repute 14 has words on the gag reflex in a bun. But not everyone hates the hot dog. Some of you want to paint a hot dog on your bodies in indelible ink – the immovable object on the insides matched by the immovable object on the outside. Your hot dog has you surrounded.
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Posted: 31st, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
British Thug Spared Jail So He Can Emigrate To Australia
THE good news is that James O’Neill, 28, of Cleethorpes, will not be jailed for assaulting two men – leaving both with fractured bones – because he’s off to Australia. O’Neill’s not being deported – he’s going there on his own free will.
At Grimsby Magistrates’ Court, the Beaks order O’Neill to pay £4,000 compensation and £4,500 in fines so he can still get a visa to live in Australia.
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Posted: 31st, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Australian Student Doctors Perform Unauthorised Anal And Gential Examinations On Drugged Patients
IN Australia, medical students are experimenting on anaesthetised patients. These unauthorised examinations feature the students investigating the patients’ genital, anus and breasts.
The medical journal, Medical Education says students had “no qualms” about conducting an anal examination on a female patient because what with her being unconscious.
In another incident, an anaesthetised man was subjected to rectal examinations from a “queue” of medical students.
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Posted: 30th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Unlucky Man Falls Into Women’s Backsides In Park Three Times: Police Make Arrest
DUANE Starkenburg is in a West Seattle park. He falls. With the ground looming fast before him he grabs hold of the woman stood in front and plants his face between her buttocks.
Police say this was no accident.
Unluckily, this same incident befalls Mr Starkenburg a second time. And a third.
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Posted: 30th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Man Sentenced For Sex Act With Horse In Devon
DEREK Woods, 26, did perform a “sex act” on a horse in Devon stable.
Woods had also been regularly drinking heavily, including Thunderbird, which is a mixture of Devon’s Buckfast tonic wine, Martini and fizzy pop.
In court, his defence counsel Nigel Wraith offers:
“Woods is unable or unwilling to talk about the reasons behind his offending, it is difficult for anybody to fathom out what the reasons would be.”
Is it?
“He feels complete and utter shame at the position he finds himself in and is embarrassed beyond words.”
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Posted: 29th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Two-Headed Calf Video: New Sky Sports Presenters Unveiled
HERE is the two-headed calf born in Norwood, Hatton. Rumours that the the four-eyed, two mouthed beast is to be the new pundits on Spy Sports football coverage are believed to be wide of the mark…
Posted: 29th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nominative Determinism: Randy Kuntz Catering
ANORAK’S occasional look at cases of nominative determinism in the world today. Today we encounter Randy Kuntz catering in Regina, Saskatchewan…
And he’s big in taxidermy:
Posted: 28th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Possessed Woman Gives Birth To Six Sets Of Twins
GLADYS Bulinya has six sets of twins. She lives in Kenya. The BBC’s Muliro Telew says in Kenya people think twins are curse. She then delivers this great line:
“…her husband left her, fearing she was jinxed, after the sixth pair of twins arrived last year.”
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Posted: 28th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Removes Wheel Clamp By Setting Fire To His Car
TO Exeter Crown Court, where Torquay man Scott Smithers, 27, stands in the dock.
Having failed to remove the wheel clamp from his Metro with an axe (value of car: £120), Smithers set fire to a petrol-infused newspaper on the backseat and watched his car go up in flames.
He is said to have told police:
“My brain ended up being an idiot.”
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Posted: 28th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Hundreds Of Penguin Chicks Die In Antarctica: Blame The Gays
THE penguin chicks are dead on the Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica. How did they die?
Did the gays do it? Cindy Jacobs said homosexual killed thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas? Did Ugandans looking to rid the world of gays read the Daily Mail’s news that gay penguins spread the gay lifestyle and duly commit mass slaughter?
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Posted: 28th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Floating Brains And Abscesses Are The Art Of The Human Body
HELEN Pynor’s art show brainstorm at gv art “explores the interior of the human body, evoking a sense of slippage between time, cultural memory, and the tissues of the body.”
She uses actual human tissue. You see, looking at human meat is not porn – it’s art…
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Ambam The Gorilla Walks Upright Like A Man: Photos
AMBAM the Gorilla walks around his enclosure at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent on his hind legs. He walks upright like a real man – like Richard Keys …
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Cheryl Cole Moth Wings Present The World’s Worst Tramp Stamp Tattoos
IN light of Cheryl Cole’s tramp stamp tattoo – it’s vital bedtime reading for any conquest looking to think of anything other than Ashley Cole (the “nation’s sweetheart” has a “Mrs Cole” tattoo ont eh back of her neck) – we bring a gallery of the world’s worst.
What’s your favourite?
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Poos On Shop Floor When Clerk Refuses To Let Him Use Toilet
A MAN who needed to go to the toilet while on a shopping trip responded to the store’s refusal to let him use their lavs but pooing on the floor. He then left, but not before leaving behind his dirty knickers and taking some sweets.
He is arrested. And at his trial, he complains that he feels unable to put his side of the story fully while a gallery filled with schoolchildren on a field trip looks on.
“I’m not going to participate in this damn farce,” he yells before storming out of the courtroom.
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
British Soldier Calls Lover To Propose: Dials Wrong Number (Audio)
ARE you the soldier who called his pregnant lover “Samantha” but actually left a message on the phone of Diane Potts, an alternative therapist from Tyneside?
Says the hero:
“Couldn’t call last month but you know what it is like out there. I will be back in a few months. Really, really sad one of the guys has been blown up. Speak to you next month. Love you so much, with all my heart, and I was going to ask you, will you marry me?”
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Posted: 27th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Drunk KFC Robber Pulls Balaclava Over Eyes: Hilarity Ensues
WHEN John Veitch, 22, of Cardinal’s Gate, Werrington, Peterborough, entered the branch of Kentucky Fried Chicken in London Road on 7th November he was wearing a balaclava. He intended to rob the eatery but, being drunk, he’d put on his disguise badly and could only see out of one eye.
Staff behind the counter saw Veitch and laughed. Deterred by the mockery, he left empty handed. He headed next door to the Peacock pub, where he spent the remainder of the day until his arrest.
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Posted: 26th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Kills Devil Dog That Chewed Her Bible
MIRIAM Smith is the 65-year-old woman who was so concerned that her nephew’s pit bull dog would bite children and do bad things she hanged it from a tree with an electrical cord. She then doused it in kerosene and set it alight.
And the “devil dog” had already transgressed when it chewed her Bible.
And that, readers, is why Bibles are not printed on bones.
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Posted: 26th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
