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.
Hampshire Police Issue E-fit Of A Lettuce Wanted For Burglary
ARE you the David Cameron look alike with lettuce for hair as pictured in an e-fit issued by police in Stockbridge, Hampshire?
Are you the vegetable-brained sod who stole £60 from an elderly woman in Stockbridge? He had- get this – offered to do gardening work for her.
A police spokesperson says that “while the hair on this image may not be of the best quality, it takes nothing from the overall clarity of the facial features“.
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Posted: 21st, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
A Day In The Life Of Maho Beach: Plane Spotters’ Paradise
PLANE spotters and aviation anoraks love Maho Beach, a sandy paradise in St. Maarten in the Dutch Caribbean. The beach is handy for Princess Juliana International Airport. In this collection of still you can experience the thrill of a day at the beach watching the planes go by…
You need to see all the photos – they just get better and better…
Posted: 21st, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Shipley Dancing Man Is Yorkshire’s Michael Jackson: Video
THE Shipley Dancing Dude is a hit in Shipley, Wet Yorkshire. Little is know about the dancing man. Many believe he is Michael Jackson relocated in Yorkshire who, though deep undercover, cannot resist the music within. Other say it’s Ben Collins.
You can catch Jackson at a roundabout in Victoria Street, Shipley, on the pavement at Fox’s Corner and outside the town’s Asda store.
If he grabs his crotch, swoon…
Posted: 21st, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
World Gurning Champion Rushed To Hospital After Pulling Face At Egremont Crab Fair: Photos
DRAMA at the world gurning championships at the Egremont Crab Fair, West Cumbria, where female champion 62-year-old Anne Woods’ has collapsed.
Say 12-time male champion and gurning legend Tommy Mattinson (pictured):
“I came outside to get some fresh air and Anne was lying on the floor… Being on stage is physically exerting and it also gets very very hot inside the competition room. Anne is getting on a bit now, and this won’t have helped.”
We wish Mrs Woods well. She may wish to revisit the look on her face moments before her collapse for future events.
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Posted: 21st, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Ex Paratrooper Dies In Blender
PAUL Palmer died when he climbed into an industrial blender at the Building Chemical Research (BCR) plant in Bury, Greater Manchester. As he worked inside, the blender was switched on by another employee.
Mr Palmer was killed by the mixing blade.
It should have been impossible to turn the machine on with a man inside, but two safety switches failed.
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Posted: 20th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Denny Wins Carbuncle Award Prize As Scotland’s Most Dismal Place: Photos
DENNY, Stirlingshire, is Scotland’s most dismal place. It’s more dismal than Susan Boyle’s cat basket.
We went to see resident Brian McCabe take hold of the Carbuncle Award – the Plook on the Plinth award – accepted with a degree of pride. And it might not have been Denny’s had John O’Groats accepted the awards, its by right. Sadly it declined. That remote outpost of Britain is touchy about such things. (Also mentioned in the prize list are East Kilbride, Inverness and Lochgelly in Fife.)
Brian McCabe, a spokesman for the Denny group that hopes the award will kickstart a regeneration programme, says:
“The town centre looks like Beirut on a bad day. It’s a blot on the landscape. It’s a lovely town but as soon as prospective house-buyers drive down the main street, the deal is off.”
What’s the most hideous place in the UK you’ve visited?
Note: Now the Romanians and Swiss have stopped reading, we can reveal that Britain is a land of cobbled lanes and village greens. Denny is a film set in Pinewood Studios used for horror films, scenes of post-war Russia and Slough, and an anti-immigration drive…
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Posted: 20th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (11)
How To Cure Homosexuals And Other Books: A Gallery
YOU are not gay. You only think you are. Here is a collection of books to help you straighten out. The covers are informative: Healing the Masculine Soul has a cover depicting two men about to link hands over a big crevasse; Reparative Therapy of Mail Homosexuality features a man rubbing some wood; and is that a gun illustrating Shaping Your Child’ Sexual Needs or just dad’s big stick?
Posted: 20th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Stockton Man Accused Of Grooming Ponies For Sex
FARM worker David Walter Chamberlin, of Stockton, is in Teesside Magistrates’ Court accused of breaching his Sexual Offences Prevention Order six times by enjoying “unsupervised contact” with a horse.
He is thought to have been grooming it for sexual purposes.
He is forbidden from going within five metres of horse, having been previously convicted of performing a sex act on a horse in a Billingham field.
In the earlier case, the court had heard the testimony of one George Thompson. He had seen Chamberlin lead a horse towards some bushes. Mr Thompson witnessed Chamberlain’s unzipped flies and chased him off with a stick.
For that offence Chamberlin was ordered to pay £50 costs and made subject of the Sexual Offences Prevention Order.
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Posted: 20th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Coventry Man With Craving For Cigarette Butts Heads Straight For Road
MEET Jay Easthope, 25, from Whitefriars, Coventry, who eats cigarette butts.
Mr Easthtrope has pica an eating disorder manifest in a craving for cigarette dog ends.
Jay’s father, Gordon, 66, wan people to stop dropping them near his home. He explains:
“It can be incredibly dangerous for me and Jay. If he spots a cigarette butt in the road in the morning he’ll remember where it is in the evening.
”Even if it’s dark he’ll find it and he’s like a rocket. He won’t look left and right, he’ll just head straight for the road.
“He’s 14-and-a-half stone and when he wants something he’s virtually impossible to stop.”
Are cigarette butts fattening?
Posted: 19th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Hannibal The Swan – You Legend: Facebook Tributes To Pembroke’s Killer Swan
HANNIBAL The Swan – star of Hannibal The Swan – You Legend Facebook page – has murdered 15 other swans in the grounds of Pembroke Castle, West Wales.
But the big fear is that will happen if children see the swan beating another birds to death with his beak, wings and feet. So, he will be “tested”.
Says Maria Evans, who works with creatures at Pembroke Castle’s pond:
“I’ve never come across such an aggressive bird. He is an absolutely horrible swan and people really don’t like him.”
People who hate swans just aren’t normal. They should be named and shamed. Any idea why Hannibal – and there’s a name – should do it? Is he a victim of nominative determinism?
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Posted: 19th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Weird And Wonderful Photos Of The Day: Rock And Roll
Posted: 19th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Richard Munslow Was The Shropshire Sin Eater
RICHARD Munslow, the country’s last recorded “sin eater”, is buried in Ratlinghope, Shropshire. He died in 1906. Locals have coughed up £1,000 to restore his grave. There will be a service today.
Munslow would stand by a dead body of someone who had not recanted their sins and drink wine and eat bread. In doing so he would adopt the sins of the dead. As he swallowed a free meal, the mourners swallowed the line.
“I give easement and rest now to thee, dear man. Come not down the lanes or in our meadows. And for thy peace I pawn my own soul. Amen.”
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Posted: 19th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
In Photos: Quadruple Amputee Philippe Croizon Swims The English Channel In 13 Hours
PHILIPPE Croizon has only gone and swam the English Channel. This is remarkable because M. Criozon has no legs and only very short arms, minus the hands.
While the Daily Express begins an expose on fears that amputee Romanians plan to swim to Britain en masse and claim every kind of income benefit, we salute M. Croizon. The 42-year-old swam from Folkestone to Cap Gris Nez the in 13.5 hours.
M. Croizon lost four limps (most of his arms, for you pedants) when he suffered a severe electric shock while removing a television aerial from a roof in 1996.
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Posted: 18th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Dr Alinson Branded Patient’s Uterus In ‘Friendly Gesture’
DR. Red Alinsod, 50, removed Ingrid Paulicivic, 47, uterus and then branded it with a cauterising tool. The uterus carried the legend “Ingrid”,
The operation was performed in June 2009 at Alinsod’s Orange County office.
Before the court case, can we just pause and wonder about the use of branded organs? “Ingrid” the uterus has not be housed in another body, but “Danny” the dead skateboarder’s kidney might be, so too “Steve’s” eyeballs and “Grace’s” lungs. And then what of celebrity organs? What price – but let’s not wish death on them – Anthea Turner’s hair; Noel Edmond’s buttocks; Tony Blair’s heart..?
In the lawsuit, Paulicivic alleges that the branding was done for “no medically necessary purpose or reason” and that she somehow suffered burns on her legs while the uterus was being marked, according to her complaint.
In an interview, Paulicivic’s lawyer, Devan Mullins, called the branding “inexcusably bizarre behavior”, adding that the 50-year-old Alinsod was “fooling around and having fun.”
Alinsod says he wrote Paulicivic’s name on the uterus because he “did not want to get it confused with others.” It is not standard procedure. Alinsod calls the branding a “gesture of friendship”.
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Posted: 18th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Dustmen Block Car With Wheelie Bins: Video
IN this video you will see the binmen / dustmen etc. serving Stephenson Street, Horwich, Bolton, placing wheelie bins about a car that has blocked their shortcut.
Says a council spokesman:
“Despite the fact this took place at least four years ago, we take any incident of this sort of behaviour very seriously, and, had the staff still been in our employment, we would have launched a formal investigation.”
It’s the cats we feel sorry for…
Posted: 18th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Gets Spare Rib Stuck In His Anus: Video And Photos
TO Taiwan, where a man has piece of spare rib stuck in his anu. hjwo did it get ther./ Well, you see, he,er, ate it and then ti got wedged iont ehwe ay OPUT…
Potato Wedgies: Vicar Gets Spud Stuck In Rectum
Fallen Woman’s Rectum Impaled On Hairspray Can
Eel Swims Up Fishmonger’s Anus: Pictures
Woman Dies When NHS Doctor Fails To Spot Toilet Brush Wedged In Her Bottom
Video – and then some pictures:
Pictures:
Tree Grows In Man’s Lung
Man With World’s Most Talented Anus Amazes Prison Guards
Weird X-Rays: How Did A Light Bulb Get In Your Anus?
In Pictures: Chinese Man With Remote Control Up Anus Changes Channel To Watch Tiger Woods
Posted: 18th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Video Of Two Year Old Miss Gamble Smoking A Joint – Potty Training In Ohio
AFTER the bong smoking baby, the toddler chain smoker Ardi Rizal we now bring Jessica Gamble’s two-year-old daughter smoking a spliff with her mum. Potty training just got worse.
“Don’t blow on it” says mum, as he brings her daughter up proper.
Gamble has been arrested and charged, with among other things, “corrupting a child with drugs”.
She might also be charged with being so stupid she let someone take film of her daughter getting goofed at her home near Cincinnati, in Ohio and then forwarding the footage to someone who told the police, allegedly. She faces 11 years jail.
Says Joe Deters, Hamilton County Prosecutor:
“It’s beyond disgusting.I would get very upset if I found out my 16-year-old daughter was drinking a beer. It is unbelievable to watch on video a mother teaching her two-year-old child how to smoke a joint.”
Mr Deters’ daughter offers no comment…
Posted: 17th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sweden Names Mountains In Tribute To Nazis And Killing Jews
CLIMBERS in Sweden’s Jarfalla mountain range have been abiding by the local custom that says the first person to reach the top gets to name the peak and makes the route available to others. You can now climb up to reach Kristllnacht and Himmler, taking care to go through the passes marked Crematorium, Swastika, Little Hitler and, most bracingly, Zyklon B.
Not everyone enjoys the fun of the Third Reich.
Climber Cordelia Hess tells Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter:
“I thought it ather unpleasant to climb through the Crematorium or say that ‘now I am going to do Crystal Night. The use of such names on the climbing routes is to trivialize the Holocaust and undermine respect for the Holocaust.”
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Posted: 16th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In Photos: Limbless Philippe Croizon Swims The Channel
PHILIPPE Croizon has no limbs. None. No hands. No toes. No fingers. He is to swim the Channel swim. He is 42. M. Croizan lost his limbs in an accident with electricity at his home in Saint-Remy-sur-Creuse, France.
We looked on as M. Croizon was helped into the sea by team member Valerie Carbonnel during a training session in Folkestone, Kent, before his attempt later this week. If he does it, M. Criozon will become the first limbless person to swim the Channel from Folkestone to France, a distance of 21 miles. Says he:
“I want to show people who suffer that this is doable, that you always have to fight.”
To even try it seems nuts, or brave…
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Posted: 16th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Eating Pig’s Feet In Bed Stabs Friend
TO Rock Hill, South Carolina, where, as police reports, a “woman who was eating pig’s feet in bed accidentally cut her friend in the arm”.
At 10.30pm on Sunday 12 August, 2010, a 52-year-old Rock Hill was eating trotters in her bed when she “accidentally cut a friend in the forearm with a knife”.
The friend, a female ged 50, was , like the trotter muncher, inebriated.
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Posted: 16th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Mugshot Of The Day: Man Who Fire Gun To Make Son Run Faster
MUGSHOT of The Day is Robert Lynn Barker, of Leesburg, Florida, who used a BB gun to get his son to works harder at his American football game. Barker also likes to wear a hat.
The boy, Barker’s stop-son, had left a match early after feeling unwell. Barker (more nominative determinism, readers) took the lad home, where he comforted the boy by placing cones about 20 yards apart in the front yard of their home and “making him run sprints in his football gear using the BB gun to signal the beginning of the drill”. It was 91 degrees.
Barker, a former football player, said the sprints would help alleviate the athlete’s pain, which he said was likely caused by a lack of conditioning
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Posted: 15th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Northampton Man Had Pictures Of Bestiality And Gorilla Porn
JOHN Ridley, 32, of Kings Heath, Northampton, is in Northampton Magistrates’ Court accused of possessing images of a person having sex with a gorilla.
Among 79,000 indecent images found on Mr Ridley’s personal computer were shots of paedophilia and “extreme bestiality” featuring a gorilla – an “extreme pornographic image which portrayed in an explicit and realistic way a person performing an act of intercourse with a live gorilla.”
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Posted: 15th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Wayne Rooney’s Sex Life: After Jennifer Thompson And Helen Wood Meet Samii Darnley
WAYNE Rooney sex fans, meet Samii Darnley. She’s the 20-year-old, dyed-blonde glamour model on the front page of the Sun. Samii is billed as a friend of Jennifer Thompson, the middle-class gel who claims she broke Rooney’s prostitute drought along with one Helen Wood.
Samii is said to have encountered Rooney at a bash full of Manchester United players last Christmas.
The action returns to Rio Ferdinand’s Manchester restaurant Rosso, where Thompson says she serviced Rooney in the lower levels. Wives and girlfriends were, reportedly, uninvited to the do.
Samii, from Preston, is not talking. But a “pal” is:
“She is a stunning girl and he obviously wanted her. He leaned in and whispered in her ear. He was so close she could feel his stubble on her cheek. He was trying it on and making it clear in no uncertain terms he was interested in her.”
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Posted: 15th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Video: Worm That Lived In Woman’s Eye for Six Years
TO St Thomas’s Hospital, London, where a woman complains of a thing in her eye. It’s a worm. It’s an Ocular Loiasis. It’s been living in her eye for six years. The 21-year-old had been in Nigeria six years prior to her hospital trip. And so had the worm.
On examination, a live worm, 2 cm in length, was seen in the “superior subconjunctival space of the left eye”.
The worm – a male Loa loa worm – was removed. This is the worm’s eye view, so to speak.
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Posted: 14th, September 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Weird And Wonderful Photos Of The Day: Bleeding Kids
ANORAK’S quite regular look at weird and wonderful photos:
Note: No copyright attributed. If they are your photos, please get in touch and we will deal with it.
Posted: 13th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
