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Weird, offbeat and bizarre news from around the world. Funny, strange & odd news stories that make you wince, laugh and fear for humanity.
Joseph Eric Williams Is Face Tattoo Of The Day: The ‘I’m Me’ iPhone Thief
FACE Tattoo of The Day belongs to Joseph Eric Williams, 19, who has the words “I’m Me” tattooed on his head. Williams, of Florida, is wanted for iPhone thefts. Add him to the gallery…
The Greatest Tattooed Mugshots Ever
Funny Mugshot T-Shirts: A Gallery
Spotter: Karen
Posted: 20th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Hides Stolen Grey Goose Between Her Legs
GET a load of this woman stealing bottle of booze by pushing them up her skirts at PF Liquors on Hallandale Beach Boulevard, Florida.
We make no disparaging comments on the woman’s anatomy, only to say that in every cloud there is a silver lining – or, as is the case, a bottle of Grey Goose vodka…
Posted: 20th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Worst Worst Lip Tattoos – Poop Sex Special
LIP Tattoos say something about you that one a few will ever get to know – until you get old and your lips droops and expose the words “POOP SEX”.
The Greatest Tattooed Mugshots Ever
The 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: 20th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Girl Flushes Kitten Down Toilet: Alannah Merleto You Legend
MARY Bale legend of the Day is Alannah Merleto who flushed her kitten down the toilet. Whereas Bale, 45, and horrific, worthy of death threats and a criminal record for tossing live cat into a bin, Alannah, 3, is “little” and “mischievous”.
The Daily Telegraph (Aus) says the girl’s act of barbarity caused eight firemen to try and save the abused kitten. They succeeded.
“Kitty cat is back,” she said, squeezing the kitten with love as she thanked the fireman.
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Posted: 20th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Monkeys Run Japanese Trains: RMT Gorillas Concerned
ROLL over, Fat Controller, monkeys Nehime are the new station masters at Hojo-cho station in Hyoto, Japan.
The monkeys, aged seven months and three months, are easily identifiable in their smart blue uniforms and matching hats.
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Posted: 20th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Wallaby On Ecstasy Dies On An Irish Dance Floor: What Really Happened?
WHAT happened to the wallaby that was allegedly plied with ecstasy and drink before it took to the dance floor at the Clarion Hotel in Liffey Valley, Ireland, when the DJ spun Skippy the Bush Kangaroo?
It was a 30th birthday party and about 150 guests were there. The wallaby had, reportedly, been hired for the occasion. Rumours are that the wallaby died.
“There is no evidence at this stage of a body, or evidence to suggest it is dead,” says a garda source.
Hotel manager Garret Marrinan has handed CCTV footage of the incident to the police. He says a duty manager became suspicious:
“He actually had to climb up on to the stage to look in, and when he looked in he noticed a box and out of it came what he described as something like a large dog. By the time he got down through the crowd, the animal and the box were gone. We had no idea where it came in or how it got out of the hotel. The whole thing was all a bit upsetting to be honest with you.”
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Posted: 19th, October 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Monumental Parenting Fails: A Gallery Of Of The Stupid
PARENTAL fails are all around us. One day all children will blame their parents for something, or everything. The fail is sometimes glaring. The couple who taped their child to a wall are arrested and charged. But not all parents fall foul of the law. Some just get away with it. Here’s a gallery of monumental parenting fails. You need to see them all – they get better and better…
Posted: 18th, October 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (9)
Molly The Sharpie Blinded By Inbreeding Sees Again
FORGET Mary Bale’s Legends’ List, featuring such beasts as Knee Hill Park Man and Bosnian girl – if you really want to get angry at animal haters target the lunatic minds that created the Shar Pei, dogs like Molly who is so inbred that a massive fold of skin hangs over her eyes.
Molly, a pedigree Shar Pei suffered from entropion.
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Posted: 17th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Woman Knifes Classmate Several Times In Anger-Management Class
A WOMAN named Faribah Maradiaga has stabbed another student in an anger management class in Seattle. The 19-year-old has been charged with second-degree assault for the fracas in Bellevue College.
The story goes that the two women exchanged words and Maradiaga “blew up out of control”. She stabbed the other woman’s arm and shoulder several times.
Consider it anger well managed…
Posted: 16th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Shoplifter Dressed As Sesame Street’s Bert For Punishment
ANDREW Perry, owner of the Halloween Express costume store in Charlottesville, offered the teenage shoplifter a chance to escape the police by dressing as Sesame Street character Bert.
The youth spent six hours wearing the suit and carrying the sign: “I got caught shoplifting at Halloween Express.
Halloween Costumes to ponder:
Posted: 16th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Blackburn Man Charged With Possessing Octopus Porn
OCTOPUS porn update:
“A 42-YEAR-OLD man from Blackburn has been charged with possessing octopus porn.”
Is that you Paul the Octopus, working in the flesh game in a futile bid to keep the flame alive after those heady days of the World Cup?
Reader Karen points us to:
Wayne Topping faces 24 allegations, including 12 counts of indecent assault on a girl under 16, and two counts of gross indecency on a girl under 16.
Topping, originally from the Johnston Street area, is also charged with 10 offences relating to images of animal pornography, from the lowest level one to the highest level five of seriousness.
It’s not squid sex enthusiast Andrew Dymond, 46.
Is octopus and squid porn a gateway porn or a code?
Man Accused Of Owning Image Of Human Shagging A Squid
Posted: 16th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Texas Wants To Be Twinned With Chile: Bring On The Tunnel
TEXAS wants to be Chile. Hell, everywhere wants to be Chile, place of miners, miracles and mistresses. Atascosa County, south of San Antonio, in Texas is so desperate to be Chile that it’s adopted the flag of the South American state as its own. It’s featured on election literature sent out in ballot packages.
The flags of Texas and Chile are no dissimilar. The flags both have a single star on a blue background and a read and white stripe.
They both have a big white stripe on top and a big red one on the bottom. They each have a single star in the middle of a blue field.
Will anyone mistake Texas for Chile? And is the tunnel between the two regions big enough for a ten gallons hat?
Posted: 14th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Surfs Wave Of Raw Sewerage In 27 Pipe: Chilean Miners Impressed
DANIEL Collins, 20, usptaged the Chilean miners in their uphill bobsleigh by riding a wave of raw sewage in a 27 inches wide pipe in Missouri.
The sewerage, described as whatever you brush or flush, might have killed Collins, who had climbed down a manhole. He fell when his safety harness broke.
Says Antonio Smith, the firefighter who rescued Collins:
“It was really nasty. Once you pop the cover, the methane gas just comes up to you, kind of stings you a little bit.”
Around a mile and half later, Collins was found. Says Smith:
“We asked him if he could get up, and he kind of stumbled to the ladder. By then his knees were buckling, so we knew he was kind of weak.”
He got hypothermia. The Chilean miners got a heroes welcome…
Posted: 14th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Football Fans Gets Team Shirt Tattoo On Whole Body (Photos)
TO Colombia, where 25-year-old Felipe Alvarez has the shirt of Atletico Nacional tattooed onto his torso. He sports the Number 2 top, as worn by Andres Escobar, the player murdered after the World Cup in 1994 – he scored an own goal in Columbia’s 2-1 defeat to the USA. The tattoo is great. But next year he’ll need a new shirt tattoo or risk looking dated…
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Posted: 14th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
CD Pirates Busted For Using Own Photos On Covers
DENNIS Davis, 40 and his wife Kerry Ann Graham, 34, would have gotten away with selling pirate CDs on their Kempton Park stall had they not illustrated the covers with one of their faces.
The pair from South Norwood are at Staines’ Magistrates’ Court. They are found guilty of breaching trade and copyright laws.
Had only they used that photos of Gary Glitter instead, things might have gone better…
Posted: 13th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
These Phuket Vegetarian Festival Photos Are A Pierce Of Heaven
THE Phuket Vegetarian Festival is not the place for meat munchers to sneers at vegetarians, to mock them as limp-wristed, effete, milk-fed softies. Vegetarians like to look tough. Hitler was a vegetarian, of course. So too was Socrates. And Anthea Turner is thought to have dabbled.
To the Chinese shrine of Sapam, then, where a man in piercing his face with a rubber snake. Another has guns shoved into holes in his head where holes should not be. Body piercing will banish evil spirits and bring luck and fortune to one and all. The local dentist, for instance, is delighted, so too the local surgeon, nurse, circus ringmaster, anyone worried about talking and smoking at the same time…
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Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Pretend Cop Arrested Teens In Manchester But Failed To Beat Them Up
ANTHONY Sacks, 20, pretended to be a policeman in order to arrest teenagers and drive them home in his squad car (with blue light on roof).
This is good policing, no? You stop the yoof hanging about the streets and pack them off back to mum with a flea in their ear.
Well, no. Sacks has been arrested and sectioned under the Mental Health Act at Manchester crown court.
We learnt that Sacks apprehended a 14-year-old boy on Hyde Road, Gorton, and took him home after finding tobacco in his pockets. The lad was handcuffed.
Sacks then did ‘interrogate’ the boy’s mum for over an hour about him smoking and being out late.
A 16-year-old was later handcuffed and told:
“Get out of the area or I will ring armed response.”
Yep. This sounds like good old fashioned policing, and cheap, too.
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Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Most Dangerous Job In The World: The Volcano Surfer (Video)
THE Most Dangerous Job In The World 2: The volcano surfer.
Our team in Vanuatu abseiled 500 vertical metres into the Marum Volcano on Ambrym Island to the very edge of a huge lake of violently boiling lava – live via sat phone 20 Sept 2010
Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kent Police Fail To Spot Dead Man Had Been Murdered By Knife Sticking From His Back
KENT police did not notice that Antoine Denis, 66, had been murdered. They did not see the knife sticking out of his back. That is not their department.
Mr Denis’s body was found in the bedroom of his flat in Chatham, Kent, in January 2010. The police’s brains’ trust concluded that the lifeless body was dead. They called the undertakers – and they noticed the 4.7in) knife stuck in the dead man’s back.
The local coroner Roger Sykes tells the inquest in Maidstone, Kent:
“My understanding is that in the process of the undertaker’s preparation it was discovered there was some blood and indeed a knife and at that stage investigating officers attended.”
Det Con Linda Robb explains the police’s position:
“That is true. I think because of the flat being in darkness and him lying on his back there was no outward sign of anything untoward.”
Which is why the police have torches…
Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Young And Old: A Wonderful Gallery Of Our Changing Lives
WANT to see what you looked like when young placed against what you like now? Would it be depressing? Melancholic? Fun? These adults adopted the same poses they’d delivered to camera when young. The results say something about all of us. You can’t look at them and fail to think of your own life…
Posted: 12th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Quality Street: Tin Comes With Free Bullets
IN Clifton it’s so tough that the Quality Street comes with a free shotgun cartridge.
Kay Davis, 53, of Clifton, took her free ammunition when she bought a tin of the chocolate treats from Asda in West Bridgford.
Says she, with no little drama:
“I had to go outside and take a deep breath so I would be able to decide what to do.”
Well, unwrap it and give it a whirl. There is a Quality Street for everyone, and though you might not like the taste of cardboard and gun metal someone else might. Hats off to Nestlé for taking the risk and reaching out to the youth market.
Davis didn’t eat it but instead showed it to a company rep:
“He couldn’t believe it. He was absolutely gob-smacked something like this could have happened. We don’t know where along the line it was put in. I did notice though, the end bit of the seal was blue, and apparently, at Quality Street, it’s normally white.”
Are we to suppose that Asda is flogging hooky tins of Quality Street, some packed by gangsters? If so, look out for the Crack Creams and know that the golden penny is actually the dislodged head of an Argos sovereign ring used in a Clapham mugging in 2007.
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Posted: 11th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Oakland Police You Legends: Cops Kill Pet Labrador As Suspected Burglar
FACEBOOK Legends of The Day are Oakland police in the US who when responding to an alarm at Mary Kate Hallock’s home spotted her pet dog and shot it three times with a 40-caliber Glock handgun.
The police are not without a sense of civic duty. They left a note:
“Oakland police responded to your residence to investigate a burglar alarm. While circling the rear perimeter, lab advanced on officers in a threatening manner before being shot and killed.”
Lab was an 11-year old dog called Gloria. Police say the dog growled at them.
Says police spokesman Jeff Thomason:
“We never want to go into a situation where we hurt a family pet, but in the course of doing our job, sometimes we have to make split-second decisions.”
Yeah. They claim to have thought about it…
Posted: 10th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Leicester Boy Turns 10 10:10 On 10-10-2010
HAPPY birthday, George Lippitt, from Thurcaston, Leicester, who makes his 10th birthday at 10:10 on this day, the 10/10/2010.
But it might not all be fun for Master Lippitt, as reports tell us:
George, who is a keen golfer, will celebrate with a birthday cake in the shape of a golf course 10th-hole.
Anyone else ever had a cake that looks like a hole?
Posted: 10th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
There’s A Nazi U-Boat On The Leeds-Liverpool Canal (In Photos)
ON the Leeds-Liverpool canal in Botonay Bar, near Chorley, Lancashire, a man has turned his narrowboat a German U-Boat, number U-8047.
Das Boot has a turret and a periscope, video monitors, sonar, a torpedo bay and is painted in ‘stealth’ matt grey.
Says the owner:
“Some people will spend £250,000 on a boat or a yacht and just sit in a marina all weekend having a gin and tonic on deck…
“I bought a lot of the equipment from Bob’s Bits, who supply hi-tech, futuristic set props.
“They have produced equipment used on Doctor Who, the Star Wars films, Tomb Raider and the last two Bond films. Some of the panels in here were used on episodes of Torchwood.”
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Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
