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.
Mr Blow Up Is Here to Entertain The Kids
MR Blow Up is no Islamic nutter – he is suburban legend who likes to wear inflated clothes and puffed-up gimp masks. So too does his good lady wife, Mrs Blow Up.
Mr and Mrs Hargreaves are available for panto and children’s parties:
Posted: 19th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Picture of The Day: Camels In Carstairs
PICTURE of the day: A nativity parade makes it’s way up a road near the village of Carstairs in Scotland.
The village of Carstairs in Scotland was transformed into Bethlehem for a nativity parade. The event included three wise men on camel back and a donkey.
Posted: 18th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Coffin Sold For $56,000: JFK Is Missing
ANYONE who wants to be like Lee Harvey Oswald can now do so as the coffin that housed him for 20 years goes up for auction. Oswald infamously killed J F Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Or did he? There was a rumour that JFK was actually shot by Grassy Knoll or someone else.
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Posted: 18th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Jesus And Mary Appear In A Toledo Candy Bar
JESUS is with his mum, the Virgin Mary, in a West Toledo confectionary bar.
James Burrows, 63, won the golden ticket. He bears witness:
“I looked at it and it just struck me. This time of year. for this to come up — it was just kind of unusual, really: a great experience.”
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Posted: 18th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
ArseBandits Dating Site For Anal Sex Fans Is Not A Joke
ADDING to our growing list of specialist dating sites is Arse Bandits.com, the country’s leading and only dating website for fans of sodomy.
Controversially, gay men are excluded. This site is for straights with a “genuine passion” for what the Sunday Sport calls bum fun. .
The talks is of 3,000 members with 1,000 applications in 12 hours of launching. But the bios read like spoofs. Take “arse obsessed” Anthony Wirrel, a 35-year-old mechanic from Manchester, and “Anal Angie”, a mum-of-four. Add to that the fact that the member profile photos are visible, and thus risible.
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Posted: 18th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Christmas Hair Do Gets Man Ejected From Court
BOBBY Todd’s Christmas hair do – with “Ho Ho Ho” shavings – is not endorsed by Southaven Traffic Court, Mississippi. He is asked to leave. Says Todd:
“I don’t like looking like nobody else.”
He adds:
“The bailiff said you can’t come in here with your hair like that. I was like ‘What are you saying?’ He said ‘I told you that last time. My captain didn’t like how your hair was.’ I said ‘How is a black man supposed to wear his hair?’ He asked me to leave.”
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Posted: 18th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Brunei Prince Loses Court Case: Keeps Sex Statues
AFTER the sex statues and the testimonies, Faith Zaman Derbyshire and Thomas Derbyshire have beaten Brunei’s Prince Jefri Bolkiah in a New York court. He alleged theft. They said no way. We ogled the life-sized sex statues. And now Mrs Derbyshire tells the press:
“For us, yes, this is huge vindication by real people. We’re not the sort of people like Jefri.”
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Posted: 17th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The 20 Best Christmas Album Covers Ever
IT’S Christmas time. And in readiness for the office do, Anorak has been compiling the party play list. Leafing through Old Mr Anorak’s album collection, we bring unto you the Top 20 Album Covers Ever:
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Posted: 17th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (15)
Bristol Arsonist Uses Non Flammable Molotov Cocktails On Dolphin
ANDREW Price, 53, was upset at being bounced from the Dolphin pub in Uphill, Bristol for alleged graffiti vandalism in the toilets. He calls the manager Phillip Blake a communist and plans to avenge his expulsion with two Molotov cocktails.
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Posted: 16th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Jumps Off Bixby Bridge To Escape Laconic Police
ON Bixby Creek Bridge on the PCH near Bigsur, CA, a dude who looks like Timmy Mallett on steroid and god knows what else is evading the long arm of the law by jumping from a bridge. The video has a few great moments: there’s the summersault; the cameraman not getting pinched by a copper who tries to stop the jump with all the vigour of Bill Murray holding a lift door open for the producer of Ghostbusters 3; the landing; and the music. What’s your favourite part..?
Posted: 16th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bellagio Casino Thief Wins
THE armed thief has stolen £1.5milion in gaming chips from the Bellagio casino, Las Vegas. The news media is awash with news that he is a fool the BBC says “his luck ran out”.
Well, not quite. He still has lots of chips. And so long as he doesn’t make like a big winner, our punter who robbed the casino blind can play a patient game he can wash his ill gotten gains.
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Posted: 15th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Seek Oswaldtwistle Villains Who Use Hot Tubs Before Stealing
DO you know the Oswaldtwistle burglars – The Bubble Bandits – who soak in their victims’ hot tubs before breaking into the residences to steal?
The gang is believed to be behind three such capers. Or is it a movement, a collective who target only gardens with hot-tubs? The Lancashire Telegraph reports:
This week the hot tub pranksters had the nerve [to] take their outdoor bath as Ashley and Cherie Deakin slept upstairs at around 1.30am.
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Posted: 15th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Meet The Turtle With Two Heads: The Real Mutant Ninjas
THE real Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Junior) are living in a nature reserve in Izmir, Turkey.
No need to rush to catch a glimpse – the spur-thighed tortoise can live up to 75 years old. It is also not going anywhere very fast.
Have you seen any other cartoon characters in what passes for real life..?
Posted: 15th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Scary Santas Coming To Your Bedroom, Kids: Photos
READY for some more Scary Santas? Christmas is coming and with it comes the chance to tell your little loved ones that in the dead of night a strange man will come into their bedrooms. “What does he look like?” they will ask. Well, you say, he has a white beard and a red coat. “Anything else, mum?” Well, there’s the leer and the hollow eyes…
Santa Clause (Awkward Santa Photos)
Posted: 15th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Bus Driver Resigns After He Murders Snowman At University Of Illinois: Video
A BUS driver has murdered a man on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana. A snowman.
A video was taken of the driver deliberately hitting the snowman stood in the road. The video – ‘Insane Bus Driver Brutally Murders Snowman’ – was posted on YouTube.
Says Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District spokeswoman Jan Kijowski:
“Whenever an incident occurs, we try to use it as a teaching opportunity to remind the operators what are the safe and good choices that can be made.”
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Posted: 14th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Birmingham Crematoria To Stack Bodies For Burning
NO one mention Auschwitz at the Solihull crematoria. The burghers are mulling over the idea of saving money by “stacking” bodies before cremating. Given the average of the dead, doesn’t the winter fuel allowance cover such things..?
Spotter: Yampster
Posted: 14th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Regents Park Pentagram Marks Hell’s Portal
WE know where hell is: The Regents Park pentagram in London makes the pergola portal:
Posted: 14th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Bank Robbers Hide Tracking Device In Getaway Car
BRITTNEY Sykes and Emma Westhusing robbed a branch of Oregon credit union. The bank clerk handed them $1370 in 48 bills, secreting within them a tracker device.
Back at Sykes’ place in Portland they spot the device. Westhusing says Sykes thought the contraption was a dye bomb, “so she threw it against the wall…then stomped on it, and then looked up what it was on the Internet.”
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Posted: 14th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sunderland Dad Fakes Burglary To Get Free Gifts For Daughter
WHEN Sunderland dad Tim Wood told the world that thieves had stolen the £500-worth of Christmas presents he had bought for his two-year-old daughter Abbey, he expected sympathy. No, scratch that. He expected free gifts. Lots of them.
He also very probably expected a new telly and microwave, because he said the thieves had stolen them too.
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Posted: 14th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Castrates Teenage Daughter’s Middle-Aged Lover
IN Bielefeld, Germany, Helmut Seifert, 47, has castrated his 17-year-old daughter’s 57-year-old lover, one Phillip Genscher. Ageism just got nasty.
Helmut – and more nominative determinism, eh, readers – used a bread knife to remove the lover’s testicles. (Now known as sweetbread knife.) He later tells the police:
“I received a phone call anonymously that my daughter was involved with a guy 40 years older than her. You said you couldn’t stop him – so I did. I saw it as my duty as a father.”
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Posted: 14th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Preston Taxi Drivers Taken To North End Stadium For Re-Conditioning Horror
PRESTON’S taxi drivers are being told the Central Lancashire PCT and the city council that they told take part in free fitness schemes. They will not have their motors replaced by sedan chairs They will be encouraged to stop smoking and be attacked by the hideous sounding “Fit and Quit Squad“, who will round up the drivers at Preston North End’s stadium.
We’ve been here before. Anorak goes back to 2006:
“THEY have a more gentle look than jeans, which can look a bit aggressive,” says Jeremy Hackett of corduroy trousers.
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Posted: 13th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Clerk Beats Off Robbers With Feather Duster (Video SFW)
WANT to see a shop clerk beating off two robber with a feather duster? One of the villains has a machete.
As Karen says: “That means Ken Dodd is always armed and dangerous.”
Have you ever heard of a car jacking or kebab-shop knifing in the Knotty Ash hood? No. P Diddy, if you’re tuning in, it’s not too late to go back…
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Posted: 13th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Bans Pork Eating Muslims From Electrical Shop
THERE are no Muslims eating pork at the Electronic Repair Company in Alabama.
The store’s owner, Chuck Biddinger, has erected a sign that carries the legend:
“BBQ PORK RESTURANT [sic] IS SAFEST NO MUSLIMS INSIDE”
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Posted: 12th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Tattoos ‘DOG’ On Face Of Victim Who Slept With His Ex: Photo
JASON Allen Tattersall tattooed the word “DOG” on the forehead of Steven Jiminez and beat him with baseball bat because he was “a bit upset”. Tattersall was miffed that while he was prison an ex-girlfriend had slept with the other man.
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Posted: 12th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Who Chopped Down The Glastonbury Holy Thorn Tree?
THE Glastonbury Holy Thorn Tree that sits on Wearyall Hill in Somerset – a tree linked to St Joseph of Arimathea with a history going back 2000 years – has been attacked. It has been hacked down. All the remains is a stump.
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Posted: 11th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
