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.
Man Say Crack Cocaine Found In Buttocks Not His
THE crack cocaine in the man’s buttocks is not his…
“Deputies stopped the 25-year-old Wednesday in Bradenton for speeding. Officers said they smelled marijuana and searched him. That’s when they allegedly found a bag of marijuana between Roberts’ buttocks. Officers then discovered another bag in there; the report said it contained 27 pieces of rock cocaine”
Was it not crack cocaine? And how big is his crack to fit all that in?
Posted: 7th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Michael Jackson Found Living In Taiwan: Photo
MICHAEL Jackson is working as a scarecrow in Taiwan. Lee Ping-hsing says created a range of Michael Jackson scarecrows at a farm in central Taiwan’s Changhua County.
Says he:
“During harvest, my dad would go to the fields every day to chase away the birds. And I thought, since Michael is good at ‘grabbing his bird,’ I’d invite Michael to grab birds in our fields.”
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Posted: 7th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Krays Associate Smashes Windows To Prove He’s Not A Paedophile
JOHN Raymond Searl, 74, was so desperate to prove he was not a paedophile he broke two windows of Graham Knapp’s house in Hillsborough thinking that when his life of crime was read out in court there would be no mention of any sexual assaults on children.
Searl had been in jail for armed robberies in the 1950s. (He met the infamous Kray twins in Parkhurst jail in the 1960s. He claims they nicknamed him ‘The Iceman’ for being cool under pressure. See broken windows.)
Searl was upset at rumours that he’d served an 8-year-senteced for being a paedo.
Searl is arrested. At Sheffield Magistrates’ Court after he pleads guilty to criminal damage.
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Posted: 7th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Charlie The Dead Smoking Chimp Presents The World’s Most Inappropriate Smokers In Pictures
CHARLIE the smoking chimp is dead. He was 52. Charlie started smoking when kindly people at Mangaung zoo, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, tossed lit ciggies at him. Charlie is just one inappropriate smoker. Anorak now brings you some more, featuring Winston Man, Barack Obama, Ardi Rizal and…
SMOKING CHIMP
Posted: 7th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Ingram Holm Uses Superglue For Eye Drops: Video
MEET Irmgard Holm. She’s using superglue as eye drops. Holm, of Phoenix, Arizona, takes eye drops for her cataracts.
She now uses WD40:
Spotter: internet today via D-listed
Posted: 6th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cat Killed In Reclining Electric Lounge Chair – Mrs Willis:You Legend
GOODNIGHT Sheba then cat, killed in Mel Willis’s reclining lounge chair, an electric one. You were a legend, like Mary Bale, but hairier.
Willis, of Plymstock, Devon, says Sheba was sleeping under the footrest of the electric chair. Ms Willis’ mum sits down. She presses the footrest. And Sheba dies. Says she:
“I miss my sweet little girl so much I don’t want this to happen to someone else’s pet. She was too young to die.
“She had her whole life to look forward to and would have been absolutely spoilt. I still blame myself, although I know it was a freak accident. As it was dark under there, we forgot about her being curled up fast asleep.
“Mum put the footrest down and it pushed her into the mechanism, where she was killed by part of it pressing on her throat. I had to call the fire brigade to get her out.”
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Posted: 6th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Finds Frog In Bottle Of Asda Wine
ISOLDE Beesley found a frog in a bottle of wine. French wine? No, alas. The jokes will not write themselves.
Mrs Beesley, of Leicestershire, says that when she poured a glass of £3.58 Moscatel de Valencia on Boxing Day, she noticed a small frog pickled in the bottom of the bottle.
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Posted: 6th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Uses Nine Year-Old’s Urine In Drugs Test But Not In Burnley
ROSEMARY Warren-Morris, 51, is accused of presenting a 9-year-old boy’s urine as her own to pass a drugs test and score a job. But not in Burnley. This was America.
It is alleged that he offered the boy, a neighbour, one dollar to wazz in a cup.
Only one dollar did not buy his silence and he told his mum. She told the police.
But let us not judge her. she took a rosk. In Lancashire a nine-year-old’s urine might contain all manner of additives. Some Burnley lads had cannabis in the playground:
The mum said her son had told her the drugs had been sold in the school playground in an operation headed by another boy.
The drug was sold for as little as 50p.
She said: “I’ve questioned my son and he’s told me that he felt like he was being pressured to collect money and hand out drugs.
“He’s told me there was an operation where one child would take the money and another would hand out the drugs.”
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Posted: 6th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Discovers Supernova In Dublin Back Garden
DAVE Grennan and his wife Carol (and Charlie the dog) are seen below in an observatory in their back garden in Raheny, north Dublin, where the discovery of Supernova 2010IK was made on 17th September.
The international astronomy authorities have now officially confirmed it as a the supernova.
Mr Grennan was about to turn in for bed when he made Ireland’s first discovery of a “supernova” exploding star from his back garden.
Dave Grennan, 39, said he was about to finish up a night’s stargazing when he spotted the 290 million-year-old spectacle in the heavens over his home in Raheny, north Dublin.
File under: while you were watching Masterchef…
You need to see this – keep clicking the images to zoom in. It’sincredible.
Posted: 5th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Stole Neighbour’s Curtains And Hanged Them In Own Window
VILLAIN of the Day is Jason Williams, 38, who stole his neighbour’s net curtains and then hung them in his front window.
Williams’ plan would have worked had his neighbour not spotted their curtains.
At Reading Crown Court William, of Cumberland Avenue, Slough, is sentenced for stealing the curtains, two glass ashtrays and some lamb steaks from the freezer.
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Posted: 5th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
86-Year-Old Christian’s Plea Spares Cambridge Mum Who Head-Butted Her From Jail
MARY Holland, 86, was head-butted and punched by 34-year-old Danielle Wilks for asking one of Wilks’ two children to behave in a Sainsbury’s on Coldham’s Lane, Cambridge.
Wilks was unimpressed by the intervention. At Cambridge Crown Court, Wilks admits assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.
She did not go to jail because Mrs Holland asked the court to offer “Christian forgiveness”.
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Posted: 5th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Tiririca The Clown Wins Seat In Brazil’s Parliament Sewer
A BIG parp on the nose to Tiririca (Grumpy), aka Francisco Oliveira Silva, Brazil’s newest Congressman and professional clown.
Silva scooped 1.3 million votes. He is now a federal deputy for Sao Paulo, having secured his seat on the legend:
“It can’t get any worse.”
Tiririca’s 1,353,355 votes thrashed second placed Antony Garotinho, who took more than 694,000 votes.
All to the good. But what happened to the anti-clown vote. Because clown are evil, right? Clowns are campaigning in Alton Towers about The Carnival of Screams ride that promises a circus “that nightmares are made of”.
Says Fips the Clown:
“It only serves to reinforce stereotypes of clowns as evil. I can’t believe this – it has taken us years to get over Stephen King’s ‘IT’ and now this just adds to further damage the reputation of clowns worldwide.”
Tiririca does not live in a drain. But Mr Oliveira I now in the sewer…
Posted: 5th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Urinating Motorist Plunges To Death Off Viaduct
RIP Ermes Calautto, 36. The Italian gell off a viaduct to his death when he stopped to have a wee.
Last Sunday, Calautto was driving near Cavolano di Sacile in the northeast of Italy. It was around 3:00am local time.
He needed a wazz. So he stopped and got out of the car.
He jumped over the barrier – failing to noticed that he was still on the viaduct and nine metres up.
He fell and died…
Had only he had one of these:
Posted: 4th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Lover Jams Bananas Into Boyfriend’s Ears In Domestic Row
FIGHT of the Day is between Keane E. Langel, 59, and his girlfriend, Brenda M. Riley, 49.
We journey to Largo, Florida, where Langel has started “spitting bananas on Riley” and “throwing doughnuts at her”.
She doesn’t like it.
Riley is duly “armed herself with a banana“. She tears the fruit and two and “jammed them into Langel’s ears”.
The two are charged with domestic battery.
Bananas and donuts sounds like a game in sex education classes? Hoopla, anyone..?
Posted: 4th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Finds Dried Gecko In Canned Nuts: Photo
BUY a can of Planters mix fruit and nuts and get a FREE gecko. Like the fruit and nuts the gecko is dried.
Says lucky Lisa Parendo, of st Michael Minneapolis, MN, says:
“I didn’t get sick. I got grossed out and was sick because I was grossed out. I was really disgusted, especially since I was still eating out of it.”
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Posted: 3rd, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Genie Kidnaps Girl In Saudi Arabia, Muslim Scholars Help Search
TO Alkharj, Saudi Arabia, where father knows – just know – his 16-year-old daughter has been kidnapped by a genie.
Police, army and thousands are said to be looking for the girl. And then she is found in the captial. The Riyadh, Shams daily reports.
“He says this jinn speaks out through her and told them that he would take her to Riyadh…and that is what happened as they later found her in Batiha neighourhood in Riyadh…he then threatened that he would take her away and make her disappear forever…he said he would take her outside the country.”
Bloody genies. But there is a limit to their powers. As the paper says:
“…the unidentified father’s theory has been refuted by Moslem scholars on the grounds jinns can not transport humans.”
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Posted: 2nd, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Mug Shot Of The Day: Tammie Sue Benson-Whitehead
MUG SHOT Of The Day belongs to Tammie Sue Benson-Whitehead, of Iowa.
The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office received a tip and found the convicted sex offnded hiding out.
How the good citizen identified her is a moot point.
Get a lod of her shirt:
The Greatest Tattooed Mugshots Ever
Posted: 2nd, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bolton Council Offers Drivers ‘Alternative’ Route In Misspelled Sign
THE ‘Alteranative Route’ is currently on Deane Road in Bolton…
Spotter: Karen
‘Pubic’ School Sign In Indiana Is One Of South Bend’s 15 Best Things
Pope – The Best Anti-Pope Signs
Posted: 1st, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Zhu The Two-Legged Pig Does Handstands
THE pig called Zhu Jianqiang (trans: Strong-willed Pig) can walk on its two front legs. And that is fortunate because Zhu only has two legs, both of which are at the front.
Says the pig’s keeper Wang Xihai:
“My wife asked me to dump it but I refused as it’s a life. I thought I should give it a chance to survive and unexpectedly it survived healthy.
“I trained her for a while each day. After 30 days she can now walk upside down quite well.”
The pre-hung pig is a sensation:
“She proved to us that no matter what form life is it should continue to live on. I won’t sell it no matter how much the offer is.”
Live on to be eaten bit by bit – first the back legs; then the front legs; then the snout; then the ears and so on until Zhu is big enough to fit in your pocket…
Posted: 1st, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Worse School Names Ever: Presented By Massacre Pre-School
SCHOOLS’ have great names, don’t they. There’s the Porny School, in Eton, Titnipple High in Japan, Weed High School and Massacre Pre-School, to name but a few. We’ve made a collection and now present a gallery of the best named schools ever…
Puke Chips – The World’s Worst Product Names
Logos – Sexually Suggestive Ones
Posted: 30th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Middlesex Woman Pretended To Be Man For Sex
SAMANTHA Brooks, 25, of West Drayton in Middlesex, is accused of pretending to be a man to get women to have sex with her. It is alleged that she fooled one woman for… six years.
Yep, she was a man called Lee Brooks who waited six years for sex.
At Perth Sheriff Court, Brooks answers two charges of obtaining sex by fraud.
Ms Brooks makes no plea and is remanded in custody at Cornton Vale prison.
Posted: 30th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man Fearing Intruder Stumbles And Shoots Pet Cat
DARYL Brownell is sure to be a Facebook legend on account of his having killed his family cat with a bullet.
We go back to the Brownell home. It is 6:15 a.m. on Sunday September 26, 2010, on McCullough Crescent, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
Brownell hears a noise. Worried it might be an intruder he picks up his gun. As he makes his rounds he stumbles. This causes him to fire the gun. The bullet rebounds off a wall and strikes the family cat.
Well, so he says.
The report then goes on to say something about the standard of house building in that place:
The bullet continued through an exterior wall of the house before hitting a neighbouring home. Investigators said the bullet missed the man’s wife and children, residents living in a basement suite, as well as people in the neighbouring house.
Do people live in cardboard houses in Canada?
Brownell, 31, has been charged with careless use of a firearm, careless storage of a firearm, possession of a dangerous weapon and unauthorized possession of a firearm.
Let the Facebook protest begin…
Posted: 30th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Seeing Sex Everywhere – A Collection Of Images
DO you see sex in everything? Do you see sex in the least expected places and things? Do you see sex in this collection of images?
Posted: 30th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Three Year Old Caught Dealing Marijuana But Not At Birthday Party Riot
A 3-year-old boy has been caught dealing marijuana at Niblack Elementary School, Dlorida, Florida. He should have taken it over to Ohio’s Fraternal Order of Eagles Hall in Elmwood Place where three-year-old Joselyn’s birthday has become a riot featuring 75 adults, Disney Princess decorations and a cake.
According to Cincinnati’s Channel 12 news, the fight erupted when the girl’s biological father and mum’s new man exchanged words. Cue:
“Chairs flying through the air. Beer bottles coming down like rain.”
Says Elmwood Place Police Chief William Peskin:
“When (first responding) officers arrived there, it was a pretty intense fight going on inside. They actually had to wait until they got backup there in order to make entry because there were so many people throwing bottles and chairs, so they had to actually wait.”
Joselyn’s cake was intact throughout the melee.
Moral: next time forget the beer and order the weed in earlier – and get a dealer with a car that he doesn’t have to pedal…
Update: The dealer had 20 grams of weed in two small bags. He showed them to another child. The other child told a teacher (the grass). The teacher called the police.
Mum came to picked up her son, while the polce searched her home.
The police found nothing at mum’s place. She says didn’t know where he had found it.
Posted: 29th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kent Council Uses Dead Fox As Kerb: Photo
THE fox on the road in Kent is believed to have died before council workers painted a white line over its body.
The fox is not thought to be a method actor or mime artiste who saw the line and thought it a trap rendering him unable to move and causing him to die of starvation.
Roy Gladdish, 66, saw the fox:
“We couldn’t believe our eyes when we drove past. We were so gobsmacked we had to go round the roundabout and come back. I can’t believe how a human being could do something so despicable to an animal. It’s just atrocious behaviour.”
But isn’t it better that the fox serves a useful purpose as a roadside buffer than be a pariah?
Dead animals save lives – and not just the hedgehogs!
Posted: 29th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
