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.
Car Thief In Suit Tricks Darlington Neighbourhood Watch
TO Darlington, where a man in a suit is stealing a white Audi A4. He has broken into the property. He’s got the keys. It’s cold so he stops to boil a kettle of water to defrost the windscreen and locks.
He chats to neighbours as he waits. One neighbour is part of the Neighbourhood Watch scheme. They are the eyes and ears.
Spotter: Northern Echo
Posted: 11th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Camel King Falls On Crowd In Church Nativity Play
THE camel at the First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach Christmas concert has fallen off the stage and into the cheap seats.
The camel, Lula Belle, has not been injured. But this video does illustrate the perils of using live animals during Christmas shows, and why Bucks Fizz have for the past five years found worked as horse, cows, camels and, most recently in a avant-garde performance of Mother Goose at the Bournemouth Pavilion, a cockatoo…
spotter: CNN
Posted: 11th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bank Robber Walks Into Gaol For Free Drinks
THANKS to Southampton-based bank robber Christopher Allnut you need no longer wonder what to say to the cashier when on a job. Allnut, 42, walked into a branch of Barclays Bank Winchester and addresses Wendy Grocott:
“Good morning, I’m here to rob you today. “Give me £5,000 and I will f*** off. Do not keep me waiting or I will shoot.”
It worked. He got the cash. Well, just £1,600. He then made his daring getaway. He strode 40 yards to the Old Gaol House pub and having tossed some cash into the air declared: “The drinks are on me.”
He is soon captured with £600 cash. In court, Allnut is sent to a mental hospital with Judge Keith Cutler’s words ringing in his ears:
“[The money went into] the grateful arms of those sitting in the pub.”
Arms? We’ll have what he’s on…
Posted: 10th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Finds Mouse In Bag Of Healthy Living Chips: Photo
THERE’S a dead mouse in Poplar resident Becky Cook’s bag of Healthy Living Frozen Chips, the treat she bought in a branch of Co-op. Cheap protein is the food marvel of the post-war years, but the bag made no mention of chips with a meaty mouse.
Becky was disgusted. She wrote to the company’s head office. In due course she received an apology and £50 in vouchers. She can now spend the money in the shop that, apparently, sold her a dead mouse in a bag of chips.
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Posted: 10th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Sharm el-Sheikh Shark Attack: Egypt Blames The Jews
THE shark attack that killed a German tourist and hurt three Russians and a Ukrainian in Sharm el-Sheikh was the work of those pesky Israeli Jews. South Sinai Governor Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha knows who to blame:
“What is being said about the Mossad throwing the deadly shark in the sea to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question, but it needs time to confirm”.
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Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Woman On Toilet Bites Off Husband’s Tongue
WHEN Karen Lueders, 57, of Sheboygan, WI , kissed her husband Willard Lueders, 79,she bit off his tongue. He says she was on the toilet. He lent over to kiss her. She grabbed his genitals and bit off his tongue.
Which is why Anorak has long campaigned for husbands and wives to have separate bathrooms. He gets a sink and a jumbo roll of cling film. She gets the bathroom, a bath, a cabinet of sweet goods and privacy.
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Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Boy With Seven Limbs Is Better Now: Photos
DEEPAK Kumar Paswaan has a twin attached to his chest. The twin is not alive independently. But some body parts are emerging from Deepak’s chest. It’s hard not to stare. It’s harder not to want to help. And that’s that people did. They helped. Money was raised, and surgery afforded. In June, at Fortis Hospital, Bangalore, India, the operation was performed. It was a success. Now Deepak is to be subject of a TV show. We continue to stare, but we can feel better about ourselves for doing so now that the boy is better…
Photos via: JournalismWithoutBorders (no copyright attributed)
Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
West Sussex Petrol Bomber Runs Into A Lamppost: Video
AMIR Ali, of Crouch End, London, tried to petrol bomb the Imperial pub in Broadfield, West Sussex. His accomplice, still being sought, tossed the device. It bounced off the window and struck Ali. In the course of his escape ran into a lamppost.
At Hove Crown Court he denies being behind the attack. He is, nonetheless, jailed for eight years…
Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Czech Police Install Tarty Cardboard Cops To Reduce Crime
THAT policewoman in the short skirt stood by a road in the Czech Republic is not a prostitute looking for punters.
It’s a cardboard cut-out interned to reduced accident, and save money on a set of traffic lights.
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Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Birmingham Cafe Owner Poisons 47 Police Officers
MURIEL Morris poisoned 47 West Midlands police officers. She did this not with rhetoric and bile, rather by way of her chicken and tuna sandwiches served at her Meal Machine cafe, in Nechells, Birmingham. The 70-year-old made the coppers’ sarnies ahead of their work at an English Defence League demonstration in Birmingham.
At Birmingham Magistrates Court, Morris pleads guilty to four charges of breaching food hygiene regulations.
She is ward a four-month suspended sentence, tagged and put on an overnight curfew.
The coppers wer infected by the staphylococcus aureus nasty. Seom cops fainted and needed oxygen. One lshed eight pudns. In bulk. One officer says: “I thought my life was coming to an end.”
As ever, the official reaction of the police is amusing in it pursuit of the English language. A West Midlands Police spokesman said:
“Following a successful operation in Birmingham city centre, a number of officers were taken ill as a result of food poisoning with several requiring hospital treatment for dehydration. None were admitted overnight. Contingency planning measures were implemented to ensure normal police business as the protest came to an end and officers were recovering.”
More pepper spray, officer..?
Says Anorak reader Mic:
‘Mentally scarred’? WTF?
These modern coppers are a soft bunch. First we hear that 1 in 10 of the buggers are off sick at any given time, and now they’re left ‘mentally scarred’ by some auld biddy with a tin of dodgy tuna. I once had a meat pie from behind the bar at Rochdale nick that would have put the fear of Gordon Ramsey up any of this modern lot. It didn’t do me any psychological damage.
Well, not much…..
June adds:
They were mentally scarred? what about the toilets?
We will pass on your good wishes to the men and woman of the Runny Brown Line…
Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mugshots: The Funniest Ones And Bad Hair
MUGSHOT time, readers. Having seen those ironic T-shirts, and those tattooed faces, it’s time to show you the mug shots that are just plain funny and odd. Criminals do it with humour, readers. Some others do it with very bad hair. So, come on, perps, go the extra yard to brighten a copper’s day… Which one do you like best?
Tattoos On Faces – The Mughsots
Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
ASBO Prevents Man From Playing Dead In Blackburn
MUGSHOT of the day belongs to Derek Francis Sergeant, 51, of Shadsworth House, Dunoon Drive, Blackburn, Lancashire. Mr Sergeant has taken to laying in the road pretending to have suffered a heart attack.
He failed to arrive at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court, where those that did bother to turn up heard that between March and September 2010 he made 35 calls to the North West Ambulance Service.
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Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Wife Forces Husband To Live In Kennel With Dog
ROMANIAN husband Vlad Popescu, 48, has beeneliving in a kennel. His wife, exasperated by his boozing, told him to leave the family home and move in with the dog.
Says he:
“Idon’t even get allowed inside to use the toilet. I made the kennel a bit bigger and put padding on the walls to keep out the cold but it’s below freezing every night – she is trying to kill me off.”
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Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Scientists Dress As Panda Bears To Give Cubs A Taste Of Reality: Photos
BOFFINS at the Wolong panda reserve in Sichuan province, China, are dressing as panda bears to prepare captive-bred cubs for life in the wild.
It’s a great plan that gets the programme onto the world news agenda, shows us that researchers are available for panto and furries dates, and teaches the little pandas that real-life panda parents walk on two legs, eat with chopsticks, and only shit in the woods if no-one is looking…
Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Unicorn Cow Presents A World Of Monsters
IN China, Jia Kebing owns a unicorn cow. The cow has a horn on its head. The horn is 8 inches proud. Says Jia:
“My farm is famous in this region for this cow and people come in here just to see it.”
Anorak is all for new animals. We live in an age when new creatures are hard to come by. The Victorians had news of rhino and tigers, creatures of fantasy made real by having them killed, stuffed and brought home to prove the fact. Darwin spoke of magical birds. Georgians had news of kangaroos. We have a Montauk (an otter with alopecia) and microorganisms.
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Posted: 6th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Who Flushed The Kitten Down the Toilet In Pimlico, London? Over To You 4chan
WHO flushed the four-week old kitten down the toilet in Pimlico, London? The kitten was rescued by chance from a drain by electrical engineer Bradley Jackson, who was working in a block of flats.
The kitten was taking to the Blue Cross home. There it was named… Flush. This way whenever it hears its name called it will recall those happy days in the drain.
They really are wags at Blue Cross, entitling their story:
Kitten escapes ‘mew-bend’ cat-astrophe with help from The Blue Cross
Laugh it up, Flush.
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Posted: 3rd, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Panda Bear Poos £30,000 Venus De Milo Statue
A PANDA bear has excreted a 24-inch high replica of the Venus de Milo. For panda bears these are hard times. Polar bears are getting all the bear action.
Whereas once the news was full of news of Moo-Wee trying to impregnate Wee Ha, all we get now is polar bears sat on tiny lumps of ice to illustrate the perils of global warming, and how hot-bodied polies are melting the icecaps .
So. Good news for pandas. But also the story pans out to be that the poos were not pre-formed as epic works of art but gathered and made that way by Zhu Cheng, a Chinese sculptor.
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Posted: 3rd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Kentucky To Build Noah’s Ark: Al Gore’S Home Might Yet Float
THEY are building a huge Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky. Mike Zovath, of the Answers in Genesis ministry, the organisation that gave Kentucky the Creation Museum, says the Ark will be a massive success.
Ark 2: Don’t Forget the Dinosaurs will cost $150 million. But will it float when the ice caps melt? Better, perhaps, to move into Al Gore’s Peoples’ Ark and see out the flood with decent heating and an en-suite bathroom…
Posted: 3rd, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Inside The Weird And Worrying Japanese Brothel: Photos
THIS Japanese brothel has rooms to satisfy every sexual fantasy that swirls about the head of Japan’s salary mean as they ride the train (room 4, sir), while reading hentai comics depicting scenes of pornographic violence against women. For the chikan the rooms may be no more than a salve to his desire for public gropings of unsuspecting females, given that their prostitutes mostly know what’s coming. The photos are odd and intriguing. Most rooms seem to have shackles, and the first class airplane cabin is more mile low than mile high…
Posted: 3rd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Mugshot Of The Day: Art Taylor Cocaine Face
MUGSHOT of the day belongs to Art Taylor, an 18-year-old nicked in Framingham, Mass, for not signalling. Art, allegedly, had drugs in his car – a bag of cocaine – which he swallowed.
Says police Spokesperson Ron Brandolini:
“He made a quick movement to the center console, and there was small baggie with a white powder in it. He immediately made a movement to put it in his mouth.”
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Posted: 2nd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Giuly The Obese Cat Plays Almost Dead: In Photos
FAT Cat Giuly has reached the level of the internet sensation that only a fat cat can attain. Her owner Chiara Bagnoli, of Florence, Italy, has published an album of fat cat Guily’s poses. If you look closely you can see that fat cat has not been damaged by being morbidly obese but can flick her tongue “quite fast, actually” as she laps up her mid-morning snack of twice-fried duck and liquidised kebab and chips and has eyelids that can open and shut and open again as rapidly as a ginger tom half her weight…
Posted: 2nd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Baby Sets Pregnant Woman On Fire During Birth
THE pregnant women sat on the gurney waiting for her caesarean at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel, has been set on fire.
It is 2008, and the Health Ministry inquiry committee recounts the tale.
The medics had Hospital staff had prepared the woman with sterilising solutions. She is then washed with an alcoholic solution. Best to be sure.
The surgeon picks up his electric diathermic needle. A spark fires. And the poll of liquid gathered below the woman’s buttock is alight.
A baby is delivered in the manner Evel Knievel would be proud to call his own.
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Posted: 2nd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Frisky Horse Tried to Eat Woman’s Christmas Hat In Dorset
EILEEN Samme, of Cerne Abbas, Dorset, regrets buying a hat that looks like a Christmas pudding and modelling it in a field to “get into the spirit of Christmas”.
As she walked her jack russell Mickey, a horse saw the hat with the smart felt holly leaf on the top. Mrs Samme would like others to be made aware of the horse’s “frisky” behaviour.
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Posted: 2nd, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man Marries His Dog: Honeymoons in Park
JOSEPH Guiso is now married to Honey, a Labrador, aged five. Joseph and Honey married in Toowoomba before 30 family and friends.
The proposal went like this: they had seen a wedding:
Mr Guiso: “I said that could be us. She didn’t say anything so I took that as a yes.”
So, to the wedding. They had written their own vows:
Mr Guiso: “You’re my best friend and you make every part of my day better.”
Honey: “We attack at dawn”
Later…
Mr Guiso: “It’s not sexual. It’s just pure love.”
The couple will now honeymoon in one of Toowoomba’s parks.
Posted: 2nd, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
NASA Heralds The Arrival Of Santa: Because Science Matters
NASA is to hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to “discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.”
Santa’s coming home. He’s coming home. He’s coming…
Spotter: Percy
Posted: 1st, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
