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.
Franklin Hannatt Introduces The World’s Best Pulled Faces (Photos)
IN Photos, the agonists vying to be the world’s best puller of faces arrive at the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Atlantic City. The winner is 37-year-old Franklin Hannatt from New Jersey.
He gets $300, a permanent place at Ripley’s Atlantic City Odditorium and to be a Human Muppet.
Here’s our winner.
And you must see: Body Modifications – Weird Ones
Spotter: Newslite and Anorakren
Posted: 25th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
101-Year-Old Woman Gets Tattoo
MIMI Rosenthal is at 101 years young getting a tattoo. Born in Kansas, now residing at Surfside Beach, S.C., having lived for years in Long Island, New York, Mimi is getting ink.
And, no, it doesn’t say ‘DNR’ on her pre-op chest.
When she was 99, Mimi got a tattoo of a blue butterfly on her leg.
At 100, Mrs Rosenthal got large tattoo of a flower on her other leg.
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Posted: 24th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Who Dropped Cat In Coventry Wheelie Bin Is Rugby Bank Worker
THE woman caught on camera dropping a cat into a wheelie bin in Coventry is revealed as to be a bank worker from Rugby.
She’s been tracked down by Lola the cat’s owners Daryll and Stephanie Mann…
More to follow…
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Posted: 24th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Coventry Animal Lover Places Cat Safely In Bin For Laughs
ARE you the Mr Bean fan tossing a cat into a bin in Coventry? This is sick. If we all went about tossing things in other people’s bins, what would become of the world then, eh?
Thank God that we British are a suspicious lot and routinely film old ladies petting cats. If it was not for the diligence of the Great British peeping Tom or voyeur, we would not get to see video of the old woman wantonly using another person’s wheelie bin, albeit, allegedly, to keep a cat safe from pelt thieves. (Because cats have nine lives, was this bin a recycling bin, in accordance with the law?)
Lola the cat’s owners, Stephanie and Darryl Mann, says the moggie was inside the bin for 15 hours.
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Posted: 23rd, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Grandfather Of The Year Tries to Smuggle Weed To Jailed Grandson
GRANDFATHER of the Year is Ohio local Richard Heritz, the 85-year-old trying to smuggle marijuana into the Warren Correction Institution, where his grandson Gregory Heritz is residing.
Young Gregory Heritz is serving 10 years choky for burglary. (And you grandson’s doctor, I hear..?)
If convicted, the older Mr Heritz could face up to seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
Which seems reasonable for a country that locked up Marc Emery. Let’s hope grandpa has enough cash left over for a TV shirt.
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Posted: 23rd, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
South Sudan Builds Juba’s Rhino City In PR Wars
IN southern Sudan, the blueprints are unveiled for regional cities shaped as animals and fruits.
At a cost of $10bn (£6.4bn) Juba will be designed in the shape of a rhinoceros. Wau will become a giraffe. Yambio will be shaped like a pineapple.
Juba is the capital of the region – plans are to make if the capital of the new state of South Sudan. Guess where the office of the regional president will be situated. At the back? Somewhere down between the legs? No, it’s where the rhinoceros’s eye should be.
Over in Wau, the sewage treatment plant is appropriately placed under the giraffe’s tail.
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Posted: 20th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Animal Rescue Worker Eats Saved Pig
THE animal shelter employee rescued the pig, took it to the animal shelter and ate it.
While Battersea Dogs home reviews its decision to open an outlet in Malaysia, we bring more of goings on a the Bay County Animal Control centre that caused director, Jim Crosby to leave his job.
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Posted: 20th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
German Man Died When He Saw Prostitute Was A Transsexual
A 55-year-old named Herr Reiner has died in the German city of Halle as a result of his hired prostitute revealing herself to be a transsexual.
Mr Reiner has travelled 100km to shag. He had paid for Priya. After 20 minutes of getting to know each other, Pray said they arranged to have sex. (In Ibiza it’s 12 minutes – Anorak Source Statistics 1999)
The 24-year-old prostitute says Mr Reiner, a truck driver by trade, appeared “sweaty with excitement”. Then, as she got naked he became “dizzy”.
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Posted: 20th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
California Man Arrested For Ejaculating In Woman’s Drink
MICHAEL Kevin Lallana is charged with ejaculating into a female colleague’s drinks bottle – or as the rap sheet puts it, “releasing an offensive material”.
We go back to January 2010, to the offices of the Northwestern Mutual Mortgage Company in Newport Beach, California.
Lallana, 31, is alleged to have of entered the woman’s office and masturbated into a bottle on her desk. She later drank from the bottle. She was unaware of his secretions.
In April, Allana is said to repeated his novelty drinks dispenser drink ay the company’s Orange branch.
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Posted: 19th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Huge Vulture Hangs Over Glasgow
GANDALF, the seven-year-old female Ruppell’s Griffon vulture called Gandalf, is on the loose in the skies over Glasgow. Gandalf has escaped the World of Wings in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire.
Warning: If you’re feeling a bit poorly in Govan and thinking of lying down on a park bench to recuperate after a session celebrating the TV working or finding matching socks, might be best not to.
World of Wings director David Ritchie tells the BBC:
“She was taking part in her daily display and started to soar. She got caught in the wind and just went higher and higher until she disappeared.”
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Posted: 18th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Jailed For Painting Woman’s Face With Nail Varnish And KY Jelly In Devon
IAN Mahoney daubed sleeping Nicola Parle’s face and hair with the nail varnish, Vicks vapour rub and KY Jelly. They are in Teignmouth, Devon, in March, 2010. Parle has taken two sleeping pills.
Parle wakes up. She is not amused. She calls the police. And so we arrive at Exeter Crown Court.
Mahoney, 32, of Hammersmith, has already admitted a charge of causing actual bodily harm.
Says Prosecutor James Taghdissian:
“When she woke at 6am she was unable to open her eyes and panicked. She touched her face and hair and felt grease and other things. She managed to get to the bathroom and washed her face so she could open her eyes, then she phoned a friend to come to her assistance.”
Mahoney says he only did it in a “fun way”.
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Posted: 18th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Fat Burglar Gets Caught In Bow Window
WE are now all so fat that a 36-year-old thief has become wedged in the window frame of the house he is trying to burgle in Bow, east London. He becomes stuck at around 2am. He is discovered by a resident coming downstairs.
He remains stuck for six hours while firemen work to free him. He has climbed head first into the premises.
The opening measures 12 inches by eight inches – which was big enough to facilitate burglars’ entry and exit before the advent of cheap protein and fat.
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Posted: 18th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cannabis Farmer Helps Devon Police With Tomato Plants
MORE cannabis police news now as we note that the wooden tops at Devon’s Tavistock Police Station have been letting one Gordon McAulay, 32, tend their fruit and vegetables. Mr McAulay is a convicted cannabis farmer. (Mr McAulay has not been trafficked and never knowingly been Vietnamese.)
McAulay, of Gunnislake, Cornwall, was found with 69 plants weighing 6.68kg. In cannabis terms, 69 plants is a “farm” (with tiny cows, a barn made from a converted matchbox and a small EU subsidy).
Every week, Mr McAulay has been arriving at his local police station. And there he has been helping the coppers with their ‘tomato plants’.
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Posted: 17th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Grows A Vagina And Menstruates
JALI Mateyu is the father of six in Malawi who grew a vagina. No, not in a jar. He grew one on his own body. Well, so he says. (If boffins could grow a vagina and not an ear on a mouse would mice become more popular?)
Mr Mateyu has female genitalia and can menstruate. Says he:
“Two years ago I developed strange human flesh on my anus and my wife confirmed to me that they were female genitals but they disappeared. In June this year they reappeared just between the anus and the genitals. My member shrunk and later disappeared. There were only female genitals.”
Jali does what anyone would do and heads to a herbalist. His vagina is cut. He rubs on the herbs. Says he:
“Now male genitals have resurfaced but they are too weak; I can’t perform in bed.”
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Posted: 17th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Antoine Dodson’s Rapist Hunt Cover Version
ANTOINE Dodson’s rapist song is a hit.
Antoine was upset following a sex attack on his sister.
Antoine went on the local news. His testimony set new standards in news reporting.
Take it away…
The original
Posted: 16th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Old Bank Robber Escapes On Zimmer Frame
POLICE in British Columbia, Canada, are looking for an elderly man who has robbed a Prince George Bank of Nova Scotia and made off on his Zimmer frame.
The man, who produced no weapon during the raid, escaped with small amount of cash.
A mere half an hour later the 75-year-old was apprehended walking slowly by shops in the area. He is now in jail.
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Posted: 16th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
BBC Presenter Holly Walsh’s Helicopter Crashes At Worthing Birdman Contest In Photos
CBBC presenter Holly Walsh is putting in the hard yards for her craft by jumping from the pier during the annual Worthing International Birdman festival in East Sussex. The aim of the contest is to take a running jump from the end of the pier and “fly” to West Sussex or somewhere even more exotic.
Holly Walsh is dressed, somewhat unimaginatively, as a helicopter. Along one side are the inked the words “Always With A Smile”.
She runs. She jumps. She hits the water hard enough to dislocate her shoulder and fracture her arm. She is rescued by a lifeboat crew – not people dressed as a cardboard lifeboat but an actual boat – and taken to hospital.
If the destination is Worthing Hospital, the flight will have taken Walsh just over a mile inland.
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Posted: 16th, August 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Why Jarhead The Florida Bear Got His Head Stuck In A Jar: Video
JARHEAD, the Florida-based black bear cub in Florida, has had the plastic jar he has kept on his head for 10 days removed.
Why he did, he’s not saying. But a silent protest at plans to build a mosque in place of a Huge Picnic basket at Ground Zero, New York, has not been ruled out. Also his deep love of all things Pooh Bear is a consideration.
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Posted: 15th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Erith Man’s ‘Suicide’ In Dartford Heath Sex Game
COLIN Birch is the 44-year-old, City banker, married father of two from Erith who “tricked” two prostitutes into assisting his suicide. Mr Birch hanged himself in what might be a case of extreme nominative determinism.
The Sun’s front-page headline is “SUICIDE BY HOOKERS”.
To a wood in Dartford, Kent, where Birch is stood with noose about his neck. The women, Marie Laurent and Alex Sturley, both 35, are verbally abusing him. The brasses from Katie’s Lovely Escorts agency in Bexley are working hard. (Fee: £60 each lady.)
Mr Birch is stood on a wooden step. He tells them he has harness to prevent death. They turn their backs and he jumps. He is dead.
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Posted: 14th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Balconing Presents The Most Obvious Signs In The World
OUR gallery of stupid unnecessary signs is brought to you by the balconing tourists of the Spanish costas. Balconing is the act of leaping from hotel apartments into the puddle of chlorine, piss and suncreams below. It is stupid. It’s almost as stupid as these sings…
And now for the video:
Posted: 14th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Welsh School With No Pupils Remains Open With Paid Headmaster
THERE are no children at Capel Iwan School in Carmarthenshire, near Newcastle Emlyn. In July 2010, 12 children left the school.
The children left behind a headmaster, who remains in her job on full pay. The school remains open. Before the school can be shut ‘the procedure’ must be followed. The Welsh Assembly says it must be followed, so followed it must be.
What this procedure is, we cannot divulge. But if you picture in your mind a room containing a dozen bright red balloons with felt tip faces and hair, and a woman deliberately pricking them one by one with a cane as she recites the school hymn (Eat Ye Meat), you might not be far off the mark. A caretaker, who also remains in work, will clear up the debris.
Until the procedure is complete – and talk is of it taking up to a year – the school will remain open.
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Posted: 13th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
World Testicle Cooking Championship Coming Soon
THE World Testicle Cooking Championship are coming soon – to a rural bench in Serbia. And you thought they’d already been staged in that sauna.
The blurb – and this from the cook-offs “English” section:
No one could guess that this championship would experience worldwide glory. The competition took place on October 30, 2004 and then over 600 internet sites and famous media companies announced that the first WORLD TESTICLE COOKING CHAMPIONSHIP had been held.
Since then, cooks from all over the world – Norway, Finland, Republic of Serpska, Macedonia, Australia, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, the USA, Canada, Hungary have entered the competition.
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Posted: 13th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Runaway Northern Line Train Gives Misery Line Commuters Hope
WERE you on the Northern Line as a train that raced through six stops on a thrilling 13-minute journey on London’s Tube on this Friday 13?
The other trains in its path were cleared out of the way as the jet-train from Archway to Warren Street did what passengers aboard the Misery Line dream of – it went fast?
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Posted: 13th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Jailed For Attempting To Murder Psychic Who Told Him He’d Be Jail
IN Russia’s Kemerovo region Gennady Osipovich has been sentenced for trying to murder the fortune teller who told him he was heading to prison.
Gennady Osipovich is now serving a 22 year prison sentence for stabbing two people to death who head the prediction and knifing the psychic.
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Posted: 13th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Manchester Man Smashes Scientology E-Meter During Stress Test
MATTHEW Hickey is up before Manchester Magistrates accused of attacking a Scientologist giving him a… stress test.
Mr Hickey is at Manchester’s Deansgate Scientology centre. He’s had a row with his girlfriend and been drinking. He has wandered into the building.
During the test, Hickey, 26, takes hold of one Brandon Sadler by the tie. He knocks Mr Sadler from his seat. Mr Sadler is bruised. The ‘e-meter’ machine is smashed.
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Posted: 13th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
