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Wedged Wally Was The Saddest Dog In The World

BEFORE Leao, the saddest dog in the world was a 4-year-old Shar-Pei mixed breed who got wedged between two walls in Cathedral City.

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Posted: 17th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


Man Who Won’t Dial 911 Shoots At Fire Engulfing His Home

TO KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, where Stephen Forthman is shooting at a fire engulfing his house.

On his shirt he advertises the fact: “I don’t dial 911.”

Frothman believes that anything can be made better by shooting it.

When we arrived at the scene, the house was completely engulfed in flames,” said firefighter Daniel Cummings. “Outside, the homeowner was shouting and firing a semiautomatic pistol into the fire.”

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Posted: 17th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


Australia Floods: Inflatable Sex Doll Race Couple Rescued On Yarra River

TO Australia, where a couple have been rescued when their sex doll craft got into difficulties on the Yarra River. Local police issued advice on the hot question: mast or rudder?

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READ: One Man’s Holiday With A Sex Doll (Photos)

Posted: 17th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Escaped Vietnamese Pot Belly Pigs At Loose In Southampton

AT least two pot-bellied pigs are “on the loose” in Southampton. So says the BBC of the Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs, escapees from a farm.

A spokesman for Hampshire police explains:

“It appears there has been a breakdown in the relationship between the couple at the farm and somehow the pigs got loose.”

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Posted: 16th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Hair Transplant Surgeon Carves ‘WANKER’ Onto Man’s Head

DARREN Hope was shocked to find the word “wanker” etched into his head. The word has been on his head for 19 years, so the story goes.

He never noticed because the word was covered in that of hair plugs. (Gordon Ramsay, pay attention.)

The thinking is that when he underwent his first procedure aged 21, the surgeon plucked the hairs from the back of Mr Hope’s head (used to cover the bald spot on the crown) pinto the shape “WANKER”.

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Posted: 15th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Police Force Maker To Remove Snowman’s Balls

IN Union County, South Carolina, the snowman has pink genitals.

Police are called.

And the would-be Pepeto removes the frozen balls.

In other news:

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Posted: 15th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Creationist Teacher Burns Cross Into Student’s Arm

JOHN Freshwater has been sacked as a teacher in Ohio for teaching Creationism and burning crosses into students’ arms with a Tesla coil.

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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Fox Shoots Man: 2011 Is The Year Of The Fox

201o looked like being the Year of The Fox. But after the Koupparis horror, the story ebbed away. But now the fox is back. The year was young when the giant fox that ate a pet cat was killed. And now news reaches us of fox that has shot a man.

To Belarus, where the fox and the man are doing furious battle. The pair scuffle. They both reach for the gun. The fox wins. Bang!

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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Welsh Council Hires Fake Drunks To Test Bar Staff: Police And Hacks Rejected

TO check that pubs in the area were serving booze responsibly, as per the Conwy and Denbighshire Community Safety Partnership, the North Wales council invested £4,000 in fake drunks. And who did they hire to play the part of the “professional witnesses”? Coppers? Councillors? Journalists? No. They hired actors.

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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)


Inappropriate Cemetery Sex By Reigate Grammar School: A Case Study

ANDREW Donaldson and Karen Waters, of East Oxford of Divinity Road, stand in Guildford Crown Court accused of having sex between the headstones in a graveyard in view of pupils at Reigate Grammar School, who were taking photos from their premises. Donaldson and Waters both deny two charges of outraging public decency.

The testimonies in court are worth repeating:

The school’s “public relations manager” Hannah Graydon:

“I was about 10 metres away when I saw a couple lying down. They weren’t wearing any clothes but there were a couple of gravestones in the way. I could clearly see the male but not the lady, as he was lying on top of her.”

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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


Californian Shoots Escaped Zebra To Turn Into A Rug

THREE Zebras, remnants of William Randolph Hearst’s zoo, have been shot by Californians looking for a new rug.

The beasts usually graze not far from Highway 1 near San Simeon. But this month the three zebras escaped their enclosure. Two arrived at David Fiscalini’s cattle ranch. He shot them. A neighbouring rancher shot the other one.

Fiscalini said the zebras had “spooked his horses“.  He then contacted a taxidermist to get one of the zebras skinned and its hide tanned.

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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Woman Wears Stolen Fur Coat In Knickers For Three Days

STEPHANIE Moreland kept the stolen mink coat in her knickers for three days.

Moreland was pinched by the fuzz on New Year’s Eve by Bloomington Police. The Alaskan Fur Company said one of their $6,500 coats was missing.

A store worker confronts Moreland, who legs it. But she heads off in a car and the shop worker notes the registration plate and hands it to police.

Moreland is arrested. He will spend the weekend in jail. Three days later, the detective asks Moreland where the coat is. She admits theft but says the coat has been sold.  The cop threatens her with a tip to Hennepin County Jail downtown. She responds by lifting up her dress and retrieving the coat from her knickers.

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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)


London Ice Scuplting Festival: In Photos

THE London Ice Scuplting Festival arrived a few weeks too late for locals to bring in their own works, but the experts have produced some great stuff. Gin-gin…

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Ice sculptor Krisztian Pogany puts the finishing touches to an ice Boris Bike, at the launch of the London Ice Sculpting festival, at Canary Wharf in east London.

Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Heidi The Cross-Eyed Possum: The Gifs

HEIDI the Cross-Eyed Possum is wowing the crowd in Germany. Leipzip is going wild for Heidi. And now you can see what all the excitement is about. Here are the gifs of Heidi in action. They are all wonderful.

“I’m Dame Edna Everage, and I endorse this story.”

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Posted: 13th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment


Elton John Jailed

ELTON John has been jailed. As the Bexley Shopper tells us:

WE think it’s going to be a long, long time before one prolific armed robber walks free following a string of hits on transit vans.

Elton John, aged 51, of Brockley Road, Brockley, has been left singing the blues after he was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court yesterday (Jan 12).

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Posted: 13th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Seattle Superhero Phoenix Jones Heads To Iraq

PHOENIX Jones, Seattle’s superhero, has had his super nose super broken by a perp.

Jones gets the villain in a headlocks. The man – mindful of Barack Obama’s advice – pulls a gun. The mann kicked Jones in the face.

Says he:

“I endanger my life with a reason and purpose.”

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Posted: 13th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Luka Magnotta Is The YouTube Kitten Killer? The Eric Clinton Newman Story

LUKA Magnotta, 25, is, allegedly, the man filmed pushing two kittens into a plastic bag and then suffocating them by sucking out the air with a vacuum cleaner. (Did the kittens die?) In the background, you can hear the strains of John Lennon’s Merry Christmas (War Is Over).

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Posted: 13th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (25)


Gays Kill Dozens Of Romanian Birds With Alcohol

DID the gays get the Romanian birds drunk before killing them? And we mean birds in the literal sense?

When tens of dead starlings were found dead on the streets of Constanta in eastern Romania, we suspected the gays. The locals suspected the bird flu.

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Posted: 12th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)


Romania Classifies Five Pigs As A ‘Luxury Item’ In Benefits Clampdown

IN Romania, the Government equates five pigs to one fridge. Five pigs are also worth the same as one TV, a bicycle, a desktop PC, a camera, vacuum cleaner and three cows.

Anyone owners one of the aforesaid items is forbidden from claiming benefits. They are “luxury items”.

It all depends on how you use your pigs.

(The meeting for The Pigs for Equality With Cows Movement will convene at the usual place.)

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Posted: 12th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Swiss Town Vows To Kill Pet Dogs Unless Owners Pay Tax

TO  Reconvilier, Switzerland (home to 2,245 humans and 280 dogs). Troble looms. The locals are not all paying the $50 dog tax. Local official, one Pierre-Alain Nemitz, says that unless taxes are paid teh dogs will be taken from this place and killed.

Says Nemitz:

“This isn’t about a mass execution of dogs. It’s meant to put pressure on people who don’t cooperate.”

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Posted: 12th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Mother Sonal Waghela Faints At Sight Of ‘Alien’ Baby

THE mother, Sonal Waghela, fainted when she saw her baby – that looks, to some, like an alien.

At Dr Hiren Thumer’s clinic in Gondal, Gujarat, India,  Sonal Waghela passed out cold the first time she saw her child, whose head alone weighs 2.15 kg (women may well wince). His condition is a result of water collecting inside his brain.

The child is not being breastfed; he is being spoonfed mother’s milk.

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Posted: 12th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Sheffield Voyeur Wore Gaffer Tap Moustache

NEIL Smith, aged 57, of Victoria Road, Old Town, Barnsley, stands in the dock at Sheffield Crown Court accused of spying on a mother and her son getting changed at Sheffield’s Hillsborough Leisure Centre.

Smith manipulated the lens of his camera “to get a better view“. On his phone were films of five other women getting changed.

Smith says that he is not entirely to blame. He says the Kanagra pills he’d been taking (a kind of Viagra) meant histhinking was blurred“. It is is nto known if this thinking was blurred at the Doncaster Dome in 2004, when he committed a similar act.

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Posted: 12th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Darco Sangermano Sneezes And Bullet Fired Into His Head Shoots Out His Nose

DARCO Sangermano, 28, sneezed and the stray bullet that had been fired into his head shot out.

The bullet, fired by a person unknown, was released during a New Year’s Eve celebration in Naples.

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Posted: 11th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Female Riot Cops Takes Piss In Dresden College Of Art

TO Dreseden College of Art, Germany, where a uniformed female riot cop is swatting on the floor and taking a leak. It’s not real. The police officer is statue. This is piss art.

It’s the work of artist Narcel Walldorf. And if you didn’t like it before, you might do so when the police tell you how much they hate it.

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Posted: 11th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Gays Kill Thousands Of Birds In Us: Iranian Birds Go Free

THOUSANDS of birds are dead in Arkansas. And the usual suspects are being rounded up. No, not the Jewish vultures. The gays, stupid. Gay vultures? No, the gay soldiers… Cindy Jacobs – an expert – has news:

“Let’s talk about this Arkansas pattern and say, could it be a pattern? We’re going to watch and see. But the blackbirds fell to the ground in Beebe, Arkansas. Well the Governor of Arkansas’ name is Beebe. And also, there was something put out of Arkansas called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by a former Governor, this was proposed, Bill Clinton. As so, could there be a connection between this passage [Hosea 4] and now that we’ve had the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, where people now legally in the United States have broken restraints with the Scripture because the Scripture says in Romans 1 that homosexuality is not allowed.

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Posted: 11th, January 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment