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.
Weird X-Rays: How Did A Light Bulb Get In Your Anus?
ODD X Rays 2 – A collection of the most bizarre, weird, perverted and mentally scarring X-Rays of all time. Look out for the 6-inch pair of surgical scissors sewn into Australian Pat Skinner, the woman who sat on a pin, the huge nail a builder fired into his face – he never knew it as there until he visited the dentist – and the light bulb stuffed up the anus of man in Pakistan…
Posted: 19th, July 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Hundreds Buried Alive in Ireland: Pictures
TO Clougherhead, Co Louth, Ireland, where over 342 people have been found buried up to the necks in the sand. It’s a new world record, seeing off the Guinness World Record set previously in France with 342 people. The French would have had more but the 343rd agonist bottled it and confessed. Meanwhile, in southern Algeria, a man smirks and looks out over his shoe farm…
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Posted: 18th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Massive Party Breaks Out On A40 Road Rave
THE BBC asks: “Have you been to the party on the A40?”
We did once eat an entire pack of cocktail sausages waiting to get off the flyover by Shepherd’s Bush. And we did have the radio on. And there were sirens heard. So. Maybe it was a party. But, then, no-one shagged a goat and shat in the freezer. (Yeah, Edmonds – you may blush.)
While readers respond, we look to Germany, where a 60km stretch of the A40 Autobahn has been given over to pedestrians and cyclists. Local knobs have supplied 20,000 tables for “the longest banquet in the world” in the middle of the motorway between the cities of Dortmund and Duisburg.
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Posted: 18th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Atheist Hair Dryer Blows Away Baptism Water: Video
EDWIN Kagin will “de-baptize” you with a hair dryer wih the label “Reason and Truth” written on the side. No ordinary hair dryer will do. Tongs? No. Irons? No. You need a hair dryer with the correct words written on the side.
Kagin says baptism is “child abuse“. He says the blast of hot air was a way for adults to undo what their parents had done.
But what if you have no electricty? Will a towel do? No, not any towel. You need The Anorak Comfi-Towel. Guaranteed to clean off God or your money back!
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Posted: 18th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Dead Fat Man Gets Lipo To Fit In Coffin
SO fat is Cristian Capatanescu, 54, that he can’t get into his coffin. One remedy would be to get a bigger coffin and invite the country’s Olympic weightlifters to carry him.
But in Romania the move is to drain some of Capatanescu’s fat with liposuction.
When milked, half of him can be slipped into a regular-sized coffin and the other half cremated, perhaps at branch of Bucarest Fried Chicken.
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Posted: 16th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Killed In Bid To Win Custody Of Child
SO desperate is 20-year-old Dwayne Lamont Moten to gain custody of his son Dwayne Junior, 3, that he solicits a friend to shoot him and frame the mother’s lover.
Jacob Wheeler gets a gun. He takes aim. He will injure Moten. He fires. Moten dies.
Wheeler is charged with murder.
Fathers 4 Justice are not believed to be taking up the case…
Posted: 16th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Awkward Family Photos – With Pets
PRESENTING a selection of awkward family photographs with pets. And those are pets, aren’t they? They never talk about great aunty Julia or little Bianca at the Windsors’ house. But the pets are lavished with a special love…
Santa Clause (Awkward Santa Photos)
Posted: 16th, July 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Dignity And Respect: A Gay Comic For The US Military
IN light of the Pentagon’s questionnaire – ‘Have You Ever Had A Shower With A Queer?’, we bring you Dignity and Respect, a 2001 comic book guide to dealing with homosexuals in the military. Not all homosexuals can make it to general of fuhrer. You need to salve the disappointment. And watch out for false gayness. Pay attention and do read it all…
“Dignity and Respect” opens with the saga of Private First Class Howard. He has the misfortune of being observed in a homosexual act by two of his fellow soldiers. That triggers a tiptoe through a thicket of regulations and bureacrat-speak. Like: “What is a ‘reliable person?’” Eventually, Howard is given the boot.
Not available in Iran.
Posted: 15th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesse Thornhill Is Tattoo Face Mugshot Of The Day (With Horns): Pictures
JESSE Thornhill is our tattooed face mugshot of the Day – with horns!
The 28-year-old is accused ot trying to rundown his landlord. His weapon of choice a ’96 Ford Windstar van.
At Tulsa County jail, Thornhill is booked on a complaint of assault with a deadly weapon.
Funny Mugshot T-Shirts: A Gallery
The 28-year-old is accused ot trying to rundown his landlord. His weapon of choice a ’96 Ford Windstar van.
Thornhill has more than that. Police can be so unobservant…
The Greatest Face Modifications Ever
Anthony Brandon Gonzales Is Tattoo Face Mugshot Of The Day
Posted: 15th, July 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Joseph Sepp Bellend Blatter Is Our Nominative Determinism Of The Day
JOSEPH Sepp Bellend Blatter is our Nominative Determinism of The Day.
The website of the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa says Sepp Blatter, FIFA president, is a Bellend.
And we are not here to argue with power.
Mr Bellend is the top man at FIFA.
Note: Joseph ‘Sepp’ Blatter was born in the shadow of the Matterhorn.
Posted: 14th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Police Cover Mooning Store Window Mannequin With Brown Paper
IN the window of Hannah’s Treasures, at 504 Court Street, Beatrice, Nebraska, the mannequin’s knickers have fallen down around her ankles.
A complaint is made. The police react. They try to contact store owner, Kevin Kramer. They want the mannequin made decent. But he cannot be reached.
So. The officers of the law paper over the window with brown paper. Some call it “flesh coloured”.
Says Kramer:
“I had a phone call Wednesday from a lady who used to work for me saying there’s paper on the windows covering up the mannequin. (The police) have to find something to do, so they go pick on the guy with the naked mannequin.”
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Posted: 14th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
The Death Of Paul The Octopus: In Pictures
PAUL the Octopus is dead. The Legs of God World Cup Predictor is no more. Anorak has obtained details of his sudden demise. We now present the death of Paul the Octopus in pictures. As the muscle says: “I was the brains of the operation. I told Paul the scores. What he knows about football might get him a job as a pundit on ITV or running the England team, but he’ll never win nuffink…”
Posted: 14th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man Dies From Picking His Chest Acne And Other Chinese Prison Deaths
CHINA’S Zhejiang Daily has compiled a list of weird deaths in Chinese jails. The list is put to the Detention Centre Management Bureau of the Public Security Ministry.
Hence we commend to your attention the death of Li Qiaoming at the Puning County jail in Yunnan. It was his fate to suffer fatal injuries earned by bumping into a wall while playing blind man’s buff with fellow inmates.
Fun times to be had in China’s jails, indeed.
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Posted: 14th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Wife Attacks Husband With Cat And Candle
POLICE Report of The Day features the cat, the wife, the dog and the candle. It might have been news:
In South Carolina’s Maryville, the husband is sleeping on the couch. It is 2:45am. The wife walks into the lounge and strikes hit him on the head with a candle. She then throws a cat on him.
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Posted: 13th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Robber Drops Gun In Victim’s Lap – Drop Mobile In Panic
RAYMOND Lewis Shepard, 25, of Daytona Beach, Florida, is our Criminal Mastermind of The Day.
Shepard, along with an accomplice, tried to rob Carol J. Costello, 69, with a gun.
Carol J. Costello is leaving the Walmart store on Beville Road, Daytona, in a car when a black Chevrolet Impala pulls forces her to stop. Shepard brandishes a handgun wrapped in a towel. He tries to smash Costello’s driver’s window.
He fails. He jumps up and punches a hole in the windscreen. The hole is big enough for Shepard’s handgun to fall through, which it does. The gun falls onto Costello’s lap. She grabs the gun and aims it at the suspect.
He gets back in his vehicle and races off – at which point he drops his mobile phone on which there are pictures of the mentally negligible villain.
Police make an arrest.
Posted: 13th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Taliban Trains Army Of Monkeys To Fire Kalashnikovs At US Soldiers
FORGET the nuclear pigeons and the exploding breasts, and know that the Taliban have trained a millions monkeys to wage bloddy war on the West.
The Taliban have trained monkeys to use the Kalashnikov rifle, Bren light machine gun and trench mortars. And lest they kill just anyone, the Taliban have taught the monkeys how to identify and attack soldiers wearing U.S. military uniforms.
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Posted: 11th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Mooning Amtrak: Decorated Butts In Pictures
WITH the Amtrak Mooners in the southern Californian city of Laguna Niguel – they show their bums to the passing trains.
“Mooning Amtrak” began in 1979, when a drinker at the Mugs Away Saloon bet someone a drink they would not dash outside and moon a passing train.
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Posted: 11th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Wife Watches Cheating Dead Husband For 14 Days Suspecting He Was Faking It
IN Vaslui, Romania, the wife sat by husband’s dead body for two week. She did not bevlieve he was dead. The 72-year-old woman suspected he was playing dead to escape her clutches and set up home with his mistress.
Says police spokewoman Mihaela Straub:
“There are no signs of foul play and he had a well established heart condition.“
File under: matters of the heart.
Posted: 10th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Six People Drown In Vat Of Tomato Ketchup
INTERESTING times at the Akansha Food Products unit in Lucknow, India, where a sixth worker has drowned after falling into a giant vat of tomato ketchup.
The Indian Express say the sixth victim is a female worker who slipped and fell into the 6m deep tank. Five ketchup workers dive in to save her. They are overcome by fumes.
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Posted: 10th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Paul The Octopus Predicts Holland And Spain To Win World Cup Final: Edited Highlights
PAUL the Octopus – Pulpo Paul, aka The Tapas Tarot – says Holland will win the World Cup:
Paul the German octopus that has been spot on with all of his previous predictions in the World Cup has picked the Netherlands to win the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Paul is not a German Octopus. Agent Paul was bon in Weymouth, England.
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Posted: 10th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Her Smile Put Off Punter, But She Took Cash Anyhow
NOT everyone in the USA has American teeth, who massive gnashers that make you think of cricket and Steven Spielberg’s wet, salty dreams.
In Gainesville, police are listening to Dan Alford say how he wanted to hire Jennifer B. Elder for sex but called off negotiations when he saw her teeth.
Alford says he was out driving along when he spotted Elder. He honked his horn. A chat ensued. They talked of “a spaghetti dinner and the possibility of having sex”.
Then “when Elder smiled and (Alford) saw the extent of her dental issues (as perceived by him)“. The date was cancelled.
At which point elder grabbed a checkbook containing $78 from his shirt pocket (no, impaled on her tooth) and ran off. Elder says Alford had tucked the cash into her bra.
Teeth, of course, can be overrated in sex liaisons. Old Mr Anorak, says teeth are best left in jar by the bedside table. And do you need teeth for spaghetti?
Posted: 9th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Gets Knuckles Caught In McDonald’s Toilet
THE woman in the toilet at the Barnstable branch of McDonald’s toilet wants to prevent her false nails from snapping. She’s using her knuckles to depress the flusher.
Her knuckles are now trapped,. He hand is beginning to swell up.
Firefighters are called. They used cutting equipment to release the woman.
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Posted: 9th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Gunman Holds Mum Hostage For Not Ironing His Trousers
ROBERT Edward Tyrrell Jr., 29, faces aggravated assault and false imprisonment charges for holding his mum hostage at gun point after she refused to iron his trousers.
Says Sgt. Marc Griffith, of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office:
“He wanted her to do some ironing, and when she said ‘no,’ they got into an argument. He told her ‘ironing is woman’s work.'”
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Posted: 9th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Stolen World Cup Penguin Back In Dublin Zoo
KELLI, the stole penguin , is back home. No, she’s not in the ice of Antarctica. Kelli, a 10 year-old penguin, has been returned to Dublin Zoo having earlier been found on the street in Dublin.
It was first believed she was heading to make a bet on Holland to win the World Cup, following a tip from a mystic anchovy called Gail.
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Posted: 9th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Father In The Dock For Slapping Boy Who Tried To Glue Granny To The Toilet
TERENCE Llewellyn, 46, Kai, 7, and a granny, 86, are the subject of the Headline of the Day:
Father in the dock for slapping boy who tried to glue granny to the toilet
Mr Llewellyn lost his temper as a result of the youngsters prank. He struck young Kai. He left bruise that a witness reported to the police. (You can legally hit your children so long as you don’t leave a mark, which is why torturers make good parents.)
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Posted: 8th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
