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.
World Toilet Day: The International Pooing Contest Is On
TODAY is World Toilet Day and those wonderful people at Domestos, the high percentile germ destroyers, know that it helps to know just what happens when you send the kids off for a day at the seaside. Track your trout here.
According to this mine has gone a distance of 10 feet and is resting under next door’s outside lavvy where its progress is impeded by a two day old monster laid by Alex the Paintballer and 6 pages torn off a copy of last month’s Auto Express. Marvellous software.
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Posted: 19th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Naked Sleepwalker Wins 10m Euros Damages
DONAL Kinsella, 67, of Dunleer, County Louth, did not make inappropriate advances to a work colleague on a trip to Mozambique in 2007 with his company Kenmare Resources.
The company said Kinsella had behaved badly when he had appeared naked at the door of a female colleague on three occasions. They issued a press release which defamed Mr Kinsella as is explained why he has been asked to resign from an audit committee. The press release spoke of an “incident”.
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Posted: 19th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Banned From Tattooing Pony With Rolling Stones Logo
IN Muenster, Germany, the local court has banned a man from tattooing his pet pony with the Rolling Stones’ tongue and lips motif?
The owner had already shaved a patch of hair on the pony’s rump to get at the skin. He wants to make his pony “more unique and beautiful“.
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Posted: 18th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman In Burqa Claims To Be A Victim Of Mistaken Identity: Beyond Parody
CARNITA Matthews is a Muslim woman who tells Campbelltown Local Court, Australia, that she is a victim of mistaken identity. That’s her:
COVERED from head to toe in a burqa, with just a slit through which to see.
As he says, you could not make this up. (But we could try.)
As for the background, we go back to June 2010. It is alleged that Matthews was driving. She was pulled over by the police. The officer asked her to lift her burqa so that he could verify that her face matched the image on her licence.
The police issued her with an infringement notice for not showing her P-plates. She called him a racist. She said the copper only booked her because she was wearing burqa. Ssys she on a video of the incident:
“I’ve got my P-plates on my car … there was nothing wrong with how they were displayed. You look at me and see me wearing this and you couldn’t handle it. All cops are racist.”
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Posted: 18th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Mum Calls Police On ‘Suicide Bomber’ Daughter On Moscow Jet: No Wedding For You
THE bomb scare at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport has delayed a Morocco-bound flight. A female caller has alerted the authorities to a bomb. Worse. A female suicide bomber is on board the jet.
Only the caller is a 56-year-old woman from Yaroslavl. The woman on the plane is her daughter. There is no bomb. There is only a woman heading to Morrocoo where she will marry against her mother’s wishes.
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Posted: 18th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Suicidal Birds Try To Bring Down US Navy Plane: Photos
THE birds – the Al Qaeda birds! – are trying to take down a U.S. Navy plane at the Fort Smith Regional Airport in Arkansas. The E-6B is engulfed in a ball of suicide birds. Did you know that in the pat two decades, birds have caused the death of 200 people on board aircraft? The war with the birds is subtle, but deadly…
Spotter: Arbroath (no copyright on photos)
Posted: 18th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Girl Has Arm Attached To Her Leg: Photo
WHEN MING Li had her arm severed in a tractor accident in rural China, medics kept the limb alive by sewing it to her leg. (No medical cock up but a procedure done on purpose.)
The arm got better and was relocated to its original spot at the end of her shoulder.
The arm is said to regained a healthier colour and she can move her wrist.
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Posted: 18th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man Has 2,200 Disney Tattoos Removed: Tinkerbell might Wince (Photos)
GEORGE Reiger, 56, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is erasing the 2,200 Disney tattoos that festoon his skin like a child’s duvet cover. He is also selling his 5,000-piece Disney collection. He;s doing it for love. Reiger met Kathleen at a Disney convention in California. Says he:
“She makes me feel like a kid.”
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Posted: 17th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Target The Afghanistan Hero Dog Dies In Mysterious Circumstances
RIP Target the dog, you endured and survived Afghanistan but found the Pinal County’s Animal Control division a tougher nut to crack. They killed you.
Target was brought to Arizona from Afghanistan by Sgt. Terry Young. Target has saved Terry life, scaring a suicide bomber as he tried to blow himself and others to smithereens at Dand Patan, a US Army base. The bomber blinked and blew himself up in a doorway rather than the soldier’s mess. No soldier was killed, although five were injured.
Target has escaped from the garden. She ended up in Camp X-Dog in Casa Grande. She was euthanized. Says Young:
“I just can’t believe that something like this would happen to such a good dog.”
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Posted: 17th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
One Man’s Holiday With A Sex Doll (Photos)
DOLL Forum is the online meeting place for adult doll owners –full-size female dolls with prominent sexual characteristics. Forum member Mechwizard recounts his holidays with Zara, a tall brunette with long hair and well-appointed orifices.
Our first holiday away, just Zara, myself, the van and the open road. We’re off to to visit some friends of Zara and I, spend some alone time and see some sights up and down the east coast. I’ll add photos every week or so of what we got up to and who we met.
The tour is in Australia. Zara’s pals are waiting:
Packing the van for the trip invovled more issues than I had first thought. Packing for Zara meant packing for two and she needed more room for her gear than I did. Additionally there was her stand. Luckily I had found the time to build the new light-weight one prior to leaving. Her old photo stand was far too big to consider taking along and would not have fitted in the back of the van in any case.
Says member Plastik 23, commenting on a picture of a white van with its rear doors open:
very nice! do i spy a bed in the back? (thumbs up)
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Posted: 16th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Woman Slices Her Name Off Lover’s Neck
CHERYL Cole should hear of Nebraska’s Tressa Amerson, 19, who, during a row, attempted to slice off the tattoo bearing her name that decorates lover Ronald Miner’s neck.
Cherly Cole, national sweetheart and X Factor windy-puff, has the tattoo “Mrs Cole” on the back of her neck.
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Posted: 15th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kansas Police Open Fire On Backfiring Van
IN Kansas City, two local cops are shooting live ammo at a backfiring van. The van driver was not armed. And neither was his van. The man was uninjured…
Posted: 15th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Gay German Teenage Vultures Separated For Breeding
VULTURES! Gay Vultures!! Gay German vultures!!! Gay German teenage vultures!!!! Make it stop. Well, it has.
Dirk Wewers, curator at the Allwetter Zoo in Muenster has sent one of the vultures to breed with a female in the Czech Republic. They will create an whole Army of Gay German Teenage Vultures! Says he:
“They weren’t happy as a gay couple anyway – the other vultures picked on them and stole their nest materials.”
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Posted: 15th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Attacked Police With ‘Rigid Female Pleasure Device’
THE terminology of the US courtroom is often a source of amusement. In Phoenix, Arizona, Carolee Bildsten is charged with threatening a police office with a “rigid female pleasure device.”
The story has added elements of ‘fnar’. She did not pay her bill at Joe’s Crab Shack. She lives in Gurnee.
Mind the teeth…
Posted: 12th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Tied To Barn Has Chains Embedded In Skin
TO China, where Zhang Chuanqiu’s shackles have been embedded into his skin. Zhang, 27, is the subject of horrific story. He’s been chained to a cow shed in Hunan, southern China since 2005. A row with local officials over a loan to build his house results in Zhang being kept prisoner.
Says he:
“The only person who did not give up on me was my mother who waited for her time and rescued me…
“They cause me a lot of pain. They are always inflamed and ooze pus all the time. But we have no money so I have to rely on charity or the good heart of a hospital or doctor to save my hands.”
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Posted: 12th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Zlata Is Rubber Girl: Photos To Make You Wince
ZLATA is the best thing to come out of Russia and into Germany since… Well, ever. Zlata is Rubber Girl, the bendy 24-year-old who can fioled herself into 20 inches squared box. She is 5ft 9!
Forget trying it at home – Zlata is flexible because “a rare condition that makes all her tendons extremely pliable”.
Zlata is often in more fleshy photos – and what follows is NSFW.
Spotter and photos via: AnimalNewYork (no copyright attributed; if they are yours please get in touch and we will remove them)
Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Strange Creature Found On Australian Beach: Photo
A STRANGE creature has washed up on Diggers Beach, near Coffs Harbour, Australia. We at Anorak love a new discovery. There was Lamb Man. And Goat Kid.And the alien.
This fur-covered creature is around two foot long. It has pink feet. Four of them. It has pink nose. It was fond by Peter Atkinson:
“It was found on the high water mark and we contacted National Parks, but it appears the animal was washed back out to sea on the next tide.”
Or swam back into the deep…
Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Tattoos: 1980s TV Stars
HERE’S a great gallery of tattoos featuring the likenesses of TV stars from the 1980s. Can you identify them all? One day someone will get tattoos of the current cop of telly stars: Cheryl Cole, Simon Cowell, a Jeremy Kyle tattoo on your arse. If you see someone with a modern TV tat, let us know…
Scarifying Tattoos – A Gallery Of The RevoltingThe Best And Worst Fan Tattoos Ever
Tattoos – Weird And Stupid Ones
Tattoos – Retro Ones
Tattoos – On Your Arse
Tattoos – Super Heroes
Tattoos On Faces – The Mughsots
Tattoos: The Misspelled Ones
Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Iran Grammar Police Arrest Youth For Bad Language And Sentence Structure
IN Iran the grammar police are in action. They have arrested young rappers having fun. Pedants have a militia. CNN reports.
Tehran Police Chief Hussain Sajedinia says:
“These groups use the most trashy, juvenile and street-like words and phrases that have no place in proper grammar…More importantly, they have no regard for the law, principles, proper behavior and language.”
Forward with pedants!
spotter: HurryUpHarry
Posted: 10th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Bushcricket Has Biggest Testicles In World
THE Platycleis affinis bushcricket has testicles that make up 14% of its body weight. This species of insect is now – officially – with the biggest testicles in relation to its body weight in the natural world. A porn career awaits.
Karim Vahed of the University of Derby writs up his research in Biology Letters. Apparently, it’s all to do with the mating – the larger the testicles, the more sperm can be stored to mate with the most females, which are “promiscuous”.
The male does not shoot a lot of sperm, but what he hopes is just enough each time to create life.
What you want to know is how this affects you? Well, if you were to compete with a bushcricket, your balls would need to weigh five kilograms… each.
Posted: 10th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Russian Artist Murdered By Online Vote
OLEG Mavromatti is offering fans the chance to vote on whether he should live or die. In 2000, the artist was charged with inciting religious hatred for being crucified in a show called Do not Believe Your Eyes. He fled Russia for Bulgaria. But now he says it’s time to give his enemies chance to kill him. Says he of his “normal sociological study”.
“As soon as an artist makes a radical move, he is immediately told that he deserves a punishment, with some even speaking of a death penalty. So I decided to give those people a chance to punish the ‘guilty’ artist, whom they dislike so much. Let’s see how ready they are to go ahead with the execution. I have no doubts that they would do it and I want to show that the humanity is not as humane as it thinks of itself.”
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Posted: 10th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Tessa The Cat Eats With A Fork (And Chopsticks): Video
TESSA the cat eats with a fork. She’s so sophisticated. Tessa uses chopsticks, dontchaknow.
Gosh, Wot a gel! Granted she eats rabbit innards in a mackerel gonad jelly, but these are early days in the Finishing School for Cats…
Posted: 9th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jersey Woman Charged Extra For Weighing Boobs On Fruit Scales: Video
THE Jersey woman overcharged for inadvertently adding the weight of her breasts to her bags of fruit and vegetables has been refunded the £5 surcharge. (It could have been more.)
Jim Hopley, chief executive of Channel Islands Co-operative, sys it was not the woman’s breasts that were too pert but the shop assistant’s seat that was too low.
Says he:
“At the end of the day I decided that I’m the most politically correct individual in the business, some of my girls in the office might laugh at that, but it is true so I decided to handle the matter myself.”
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Posted: 9th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Burglar Found With Mouse Up Rectum
NOAH Smith, 31, has broken into a home in South Carolina. He has a mouse up his rectum.
Police find Noah Smith face down in the victim’s bedroom. He is naked. Police make contact. Smith slaps one of them. He is tasered. He jumps on the bed. Police wrestle with him. He is handcuffed.
Smith kicks out with his legs. Smith is pepper sprayed. He struggled. Police smack him about the person with a baton.
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Posted: 9th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man Arrested For Collecting Urine In Burger King
ALAN Patton Jr., of Dublin, Dalware, is accused of using devices to collect urine in public toilets. He is charged with the unlawful collection of a bodily substance.
Patton Jr aroused suspicion when in the men’s toilet at a Burger King eatery.
In June 2008, Patton was arrested at Sports Ohio, for trying to harvest a boy’s urine in a public toilet.
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Posted: 8th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
