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.
David Jonathan Winkelman Is Tattoo Face Mugshot Of The Day
FACE tattoo mugshot of the day belongs to David Jonathan Winkelman of Iowa, USA. In 2000, Winkleman was tuned into KORB radio with his stepbrother Richard Goddard when he heard the DJ says that anyone prepared to tattoo the stations name on their forehead would get a six-figure cash sum.
Greatest Tattooed Mugshots Ever
Off to the tattooist they went. And soon they sported the legends “Quad City Rocker” and “93 Rock” etched on their faces. They went to claim their cash only to be told that the offer had been a joke. No cash. Sorry. They tried to sue but failed.
No big deal. But now Winkleman has been arrested on a misdemeanour charge of operating a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent and his mugshot is on the internet. And the radio station is famous all over again…
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Posted: 29th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Cattelan Gives Milan’s Stockbrokers A Massive Finger: Photos
OUTSIDE Milan’s the Italian stock exchange building on the Piazza Affari, sits Maurizio Cattelan’s 36 ft tall middle finger. The work is called “L.O.V.E.” and is, as Cattelan explains, “mainly about imagination.” Whatever can it mean, vicar..?
Posted: 29th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The M25 Is Cursed By Dark Forces: The Junction 9, Surrey, Pray Vigil Is Open
TO Junction nine of the M25 with Gerald Coates, of the Pioneer Engage Church in Epsom Road, Leatherhead, to investigate whether the place is cursed. This is the Road To Hell.
Are persons “motivated by dark forces” recording messages of evil onto cassette tapes and then placing the reel around targets?
Coates, of Effingham, has done his research. He has found tape reels in the roundabouts that lead onto junction 9 of the M25.
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Posted: 28th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Earth’s UN Space Ambassador Replaces Doggers And Farm Hands As Alien Contact
DR DATUK Mazlan Othman has been appointed as Earth’s official point of contact for alien life. She is The Leader.
Othman is the boss at the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa – which, incidentally, is the Martian for ‘Deal or no deal’).
Othman, 59, says the United Nations “must be ready to co-ordinate humanity’s response to any first contact”.
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Posted: 28th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Dead Mouse In Oxford Man’s Loaf Of Hovis Bread: Photo
THERE’S a dead mouse in a loaf of Hovis bread Stephen Forse, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, bought in the Bicester branch of Tesco’s.
He’d already used a few slices of the loaf in his children’s sandwiches before he noticed the meaty treat.
In Oxford Crown Court, Premier Foods are fined £5,500 and ordered to pay £11,109.47 in costs. It admitted not maintaining acceptable standards at its British Bakeries site in London.
Says Mr Forse:
“[I notived] a dark-coloured object embedded in the corner of three or four slices. Initially I thought it was where the dough had not mixed properly prior to baking. As I looked closer I saw that the object had fur on it.”
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Posted: 27th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Natasha Gregory You Legend: Woman Who Dyed Cat Pink On Facebook Found
THE woman who died a cat pink is Natasha Gregory. The 22-year-old from Swindon dyed Oi! Kitty’s white hair to a light pink.
She is the Mail’s “Yobs leave animal so bright it glows in the dark”.
Animal cruelty is big news, an easy button for a tabloid to press and get a reaction from readers.
The Mail did its best to make the pink cat seem cruel and awful. Yobs had done it.
The RSPCA investigated. And Miss Gregory appeared. she had put a photo of her missing cat on Facebook. Says she:
“It’s my favourite colour, I just love it. I’ve dyed my own hair pink and I adore wearing pink clothes. Turning Oi! Kitty pink just seemed like a good idea.”
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Posted: 27th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Weird And Wonderful Pictures: Presented By The Queensland Pollice Car
WEIRD and Wonderful Photos of the Day are reported by the police are presented by the cops of Queensland, Australia, and the word “POLLICE”. You’re Monday morning 10:
Posted: 27th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bungee: Man Hanged 42 Times By Tower Bridge
JAMES Field completed 42 jumps bungee jumps in front of London’s Tower Bridge to break the World Record for the number of jumps in one hour, which was, as you know, 19. They used to just stick heads on pikes. This has so much more potential…
Posted: 26th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
When The Sideshow Bearded Lady Met Her Missing Son
RICHARD Lorenc tracked down his real mother – he’d been adopted. He discovered her to be Vivian Wheeler, a bearded woman living in Bakersfield, California.
That’s her in the sideshow.
The Story
Lorenc, a 33-year-old father of two living in Kansas wanted to find out more of his medical history. And six weeks after starting a search he met Vivian Wheeler, 62.
Lorenc learnt that his maternal mother and grandmother had hypertrichosis, commonly known as werewolf syndrome. Mrs Wheeler was born with facial hair. Also, Mrs Wheeler was mother was born a hermaphrodite. Her mother chose of her to be a daughter.
Dad put her in the sideshow. She shaved between shows:
“My dad said to shave because people wouldn’t understand why I had facial hair, saying, ‘This is what you’ll have to do to fit into society.'”
She no longer shaves. Her beard is 11 inches long.
The Search
To track her down Lorenc did some research. He knew her name and looked her up on the internet. He made contacts with the sideshow community. He got talking with George “The Giant” McArthur, who at 7 feet 3 inches is “the world’s tallest sword swallower”.
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Posted: 26th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Chris Casswell You Legend: County Durham Man Eats Pet Goldfish In Pet Shop (Video)
CHRIS Caswell, 30, paid £1.99 for a goldfish at the Petals and Pets shop in Newton Aycliffe and then with the phrase “Goldfish, down the hatch!” ate it raw and live.
A video of the eating as placed on Facebook and Mr Caswell becomes a legend.
No big deal. Fish is good for you and the Japanese and Kim Jong-Il love it raw. But the police get wind of it and Caswell was arrested at his home in Newton Aycliffe, Co Durham, on suspicion of cruelty to animals.
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Posted: 26th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mrs Wang And Mr DeCock Marry: Nominative Determinism Just Got Porny
BIRTHS Marriages and Deaths: Congratulationa to Tara Wang and Austin DeCock, of Detroit Lakes, Minn., who are engaged.
Parents Delano and Arlene Wang, and Francis and Erlene DeCock are cock-a-hoop.
They will marry on Oct. 16 and become – yes, you’re ahead of me – Mr and Mrs Wang Decock…
Posted: 25th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Kills Rabid Fox With Bare Hands – And Plastic Bag
MEET Rachel Cohen, of Eastern Pennsylvania, who killed a fox with her bare hands. No dogs. No gin fizz. No braying mares.
Cohen was walking along when a fox crept from a drain pipe and made for her ankles. A flash of leg flushes out the fox. Says she:
“I was just focused on, ‘Must, must keep the animal so they can test it for rabies,’ and, you know, obviously, you don’t keep a wild animal. It had to be dead.”
We and the Koupparis family are listening. Karen de Balbian Verste, Cohen’s pal at the scene, says:
“It felt like a life-and-death battle with the forces of good and evil.”
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Posted: 25th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Swindon Pussy Cat Dyed Pink And Tossed: Carers Add To Torture
IN Swindon, a pussy cat has been died from white to pink and thrown over a garden fence.
As the Facebook campaign get started – Pink Pussy Cat Dyer: You Legend – know that the RSPCA have called it a “sick prank”.
But maybe not as sick as calling the two-year–old cat Pink, so giving it a constant reminder of the horror.
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Posted: 24th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Wal-Mart Robber Hides In Garbage Truck – Gets Compacted 8 Times
TO ALLIANCE, Ohio where James Brienzo, wanted in connection with a robbery at Wal-Mart, has hidden in a garbage lorry. The waste is being compacted. It is being compacted eight times.
James Brienzo is 37. he calls the police on his mobile phone:
“I’m in the back of a trash truck that keeps compacting me!”
He later adds:
“I’m dying man.”
His legs are being crushed.
Can police locate the truck in time?
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Posted: 23rd, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Arrested For Wrestling Parrot
A MAN, 49, has been arrested for wrestling with a parrot in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Witness says they saw the Jackson man fighting with the parrot he’d been carrying in his rucksack. The man shook the bird so hard that some of its features fell off.
Police officers arrived to find the bird “squawking loudly”. The man’s thumb was “scratched and bloodied”.
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Posted: 23rd, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Mary Bale Inspires Middle-Aged Yobs To Bin Smokie The Cat In Hull
AFTER Mary Bale and Lola, here’s another cat story now, readers, as we meet Smokie, the five-month-old cat found at a recycling centre in Hull. Workers there heard Smokie “crying” in a bin.
Smokie’s owenr Susan Hirons says Smokie was cat-napped by two “yobs” who stuck him in a “silver pedal bin” (Mirror).
I cat-binning a new trend? Says Mr Hirons:
“There’s no way he could have got in the bin by accident. He was put in the wheelie bin and then thrown into one of the containers at the recycling centre. I just cannot imagine anyone doing something like this. I wonder if people are copying that woman who threw a cat in a wheelie bin.”
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Posted: 23rd, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Woman Washes Cat In Washing Machine: Liz Fear: You Legend
LIZ Fear (!) put her cat on a spin cycle in the washing machine. It was an accident. She did not know the cat had climbed in.
Says Mrs Fear, of Melbourne, Australia, of the washing of seven-month-old Siamese Suki:
“I lifted her limp and lifeless body out and she was really cold and colourless and I held her in my arms.”
And then you dumped her in the wheelie bin and logged onto the Facebook site Liz Fear: You Legend?
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Posted: 23rd, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
New York Opossum Plague Solved By Lions And Kiwis
ONE IDEA of what to do with the opossums running riot in New York City if to toss them – like the Kiwis do.
Possums were introduced in NYC to attack the plague of rats. But now the opossum are mighty in number and the next move is to introduce something that eats them, like the Polynesian people of Rapa Nui (Green Card permitting) or lions.
“The critters have a mouth full of 50 sharp teeth, tend to exude a foul odor, and can occasionally contract rabies… They are nocturnal, and some Brooklynites have become terrified to go into their yards at night.”
Terrific Brooklynites might not fancy grabbing an opossum, but those in Queens may be more hardened.
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Posted: 23rd, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Cambridge Parking Tickets Feature Calming Yoga Poses
IN Cambridge, Masachussettes, parking ticket features a graphic of two people in a yoga pose. The aim is that the images will induce state of calm in the victim.
Although to Anorak it looks like two people about to be decapitated by jihadis.
It’s all about interpretation.
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Posted: 23rd, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Policeman Sacked For Taking Cruiser To Stripper Car Wash
IN South Carolina a police officer has been sacked for having his work car cleaned at the “Tits n Tats” car wash. The ladies buffed and polished and the pictures found their way onto Facebook.
Why was he sacked? America is place of contradictions. If the car wash is legal – and it is – and the cop paid for he wash out of his own pocket, what harm?
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Posted: 22nd, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Hartlepool Man Placed Favourite Microwaved Hamster In Wheely Bin
ANTHONY Parker microwaved his pet Syrian hamster. It was, as he said, his “favourite” hamster and he placed it into the microwave when it was alive. He did this after a row with his lover a their Hartlepool home.
Says Anthony Park:
“I didn’t mean to kill her. She was the best hamster I ever had. She was called Suzie.”
Police found Suzie in a… green wheely bin.
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Posted: 22nd, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
‘Pubic’ School Sign In Indiana Is One Of South Bend’s 15 Best Things
IN South Bend, Indiana, you are invited to check out the “15 best things about our PUBIC schools”…
Other signs:
The president of a company called “the Blue Waters Group” said the mistake was not made by the city or the schools. He said the ad was proofed by 4 people and the typo got by all of them. The company is under contract with the City of South Bend thru the the redevelopment commission to do work that promotes the city.
Posted: 22nd, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Weirdest Dating Websites – A Picture Study Of STDs, Fetishes, Drugs And Sex
IN our guide to dating websites, we have good news for furries, Amish, Aryans, dwarf fanciers, anyone keen to meet a partner with a matching sexually transmitted disease, weed freaks, Star Trek aficionados, money, a farm, a nappy fetish, a sexy mental illness, cats and many more lovelorn singles. Enjoy the gallery. There is someone for everyone – even you:
Posted: 22nd, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Ginger’s Dog Owner Is A Facebook Legend: Video
GINGER the dog was abandoned by the driver and at least one passenger of a metallic blue Kia Rio in Weymouth, Dorset. A man emerges from the car. He walks Ginger onto a patch of grass by an industrial estate and leaves her there, having resisted any urge to toss her into a river or stuff her into a bin like Mary Bale. The man get back in the car. The car drives off. Ginger does not bark.
One day on and Ginger had been rescued. Her overgrown claws have been trimmed. And she is looking dead happy.
The moral of the story seems to be that if you want to get rid of a pet make sure you abandon it somewhere with decent CCTV and lots of people looking on. All we can says it: Ginger’s Dog Owner: You Legend…
Posted: 22nd, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Doctors Set Blackburn Patient’s Foot At Wrong Angle: Photo
TO Blackburn, Lancashire, where Michael Loftus has had his foot set at the wrong angle to his leg by medics at Royal Blackburn Hospital.
Mr Loftus, 24, of Rockcliffe Street, Blackburn, went to hospital after he fell down some steps and suffered breaks to his fibula and tibia.
One day after the accident he was in the Royal Blackburn Hospital. His foot is reset – 10 degrees to the right.
His feet now tell the time in Madrid.
Says Mr Loftus:
“They were going to send me home because they didn’t even realise there was something wrong with it at first. You can see it straight away. It’s slanted to the right hand side. It’s painful around my ankle. It’s just a shambles.”
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Posted: 21st, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
