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.
Belgium Plans To Turn Dead Bodies Into Bottled Water
IN Belgium, undertakers are looking for fitting way to make the passing of a life. Having circled life’s plughole in Belgium their entire lifetime, the Flemish Association of Undertakers, suggest dissolving local bodies in caustic solutions and flushing them down the toilet.
It’s what they would have wanted. Says a spokesman fro the FAOU:
“The idea is for the deceased to be placed in a container with water and salts and then pressurised and after a little time, about two hours, mineral ash and liquid is left over.”
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Posted: 8th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Woman Pretends To Be Teenage Boy To Seduce Older Teenage Girl
IN Ohio, Patricia Dye, 31, is accused of pretending to be 14-year-old boy Matt Abrams to seduce a 16-year-old girl.
The ruse worked as Abrams managed to get the teenage girl to date him and spend three day with him at a hotel.
Patricia Dye, 4ft 11 inches tall, is charged with corruption of a minor and unlawful sex with a minor.
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Posted: 8th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Paul The Psychic World Cup Octopus Sued By Danny The Muscle: Photos
ALL power to the Paul psychic octopus who has picked the correct World cup match result six times.
British-born Paul is a hit at the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen. Paul uses a nation’s flag to pick a mussel from a box.
Last night he chose Spain. The muscle opened its valve just once.
It’s pretty clear that the muscle is the brains of the outfit.
Says Danny, who is suing for top-level billing and his own show:
“Never trust an Octopus.”
Video:
Posted: 8th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Wife Swap Cheat Kelly Jones Sentenced To 12 Weeks
HUSBAND and wife Steven and Kelly Jones left Bristol Magistrates Court through a fire exit after receiving a 12 week suspended sentence for benefit fraud after the pair were caught out after appearing on the TV show Wife Swap. Kelly tried to hide her face from the cameras. Too late. Chanel 4 already filmed it and retains the copyright. In brief, she claimed benefit for living alone with her child. She then invited cameras into her home to film her and her husband. Unbelievably, someone spotted her fraud and shopped her. More here:
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Posted: 7th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Law Student Attacks Shopkeeper Who Sold him Too Small Condoms
JUDE Ukachukwu, 21, tells St Albans Crown Court that his penis was too big for the condoms shopkeeper Sasisedaran Sellathurai sold him. Two of them split as the law student was shagging his lover. And he wanted restitution.
Ukachukwu heads to Sella Supermarket in Parkhouse Court, Hatfield, on August 8 last year. He wants this money back. But he has no receipt. He has no packaging. And he has used the goods.
Penises: The World’s Biggest (NSFW)
Ukachukwu is advised to contact the manufacturers or Trading Standards. Jude feels that he is not being “taken seriously”. To emphasise his point he picks up a pack of fizzy soft drinks of equivalent value to the condoms and makes to leave the shop.
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Posted: 7th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Man Shot In Stomach By His Dinner
IN Atlanta, Georgia, a man has been shot by the loaded gun at the bottom of his friend’s gas stove.
Things went wrong when Antoine Boutte’s friend Christopher Henderson came over for tea. Henderson turned on the stove to cook, heating up the .40 calibre Smith & Wesson Boutte kept her for safe keeping.
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Posted: 7th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Chinese Boy Kang Kang Born With A Mask For A Face: Pictures
KANG KANG has a face that looks like he’s wearing a mask. Kang Kang lives in China’s Guangdong province.
Kang Kang;s mother, Yi Xilian, says the 14-month-old boy has a congenital facial cleft.
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Posted: 7th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Japan Police Arrest The Girls’ Bicycle Saddle Thief
IN Tochigi, Japan, a man has been arrested for stealing 78 seats from girls’ bicycles. Police found the seats at his home. The man said he had stolen the seats because he enjoyed watching the saddle…
Posted: 6th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Council Censors Beaver Of Minnesota For Looking Like Female Genitals
TO BEMIDJI, Minn. to see the beaver statue. It’s a real beaver. But some people think they can see a woodland creature. Others see the female genitalia.
Beaver Beaver is the work of Deborah Davis of Blackduck, one of nine fibreglass beaver sculptures painted by area artists. Davis’s beaver portrays a praying woman’s hands.
Other just saw a vagina. And the piece was removed. Says Davis:
“My intent was to paint Mother Nature, Mother Earth. I didn’t understand that some people saw genitalia. … I understand people see different things in art, and they need to be free to do that. … My intent was to paint a praying woman.”
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Posted: 6th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Princess Diana’s Jam: A Sticky End In A Jam Jar In Pictures
FOR £5 you can buy a jar of jam made from Princess Diana’s hair – a sticky end in a jam car for the celebrity royal.
Old Mr Anorak, our patron, still has the bar of soap (with bonus hair and wooden splinter) the Queen Mother Gave him when she was courting. He plans to distil it and make a restorative cocktail.
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Posted: 5th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Rapists Cleared After Ear-Based Virginity Test Proves Innocence: Pictures
TO Vietnam, where three rapists are having their convictions quashed on account of them being ear virgins. (Listen up, Miley Cyrus.).
The Greatest Tattooed Mugshots Ever
An acupuncturist says that the men convicted in 2002 of raping an 18-year-old woman in Hanoi are innocent because a small capillary beneath the convicts’ ears unbroken. This means the men are virgins.
Yep, and they’ve been in jail for years.
The men have been released. More aural sex news below:
The World’s Weirdest And Stupidest Tattoos.
Posted: 3rd, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Murderer Wears Nappy And Mosquito Net In Court Plea To Be Killed
MURDERER Neil Simpson is wearing a nappy on his face as he appears before the judge and jury in an Elyria, Ohio.
Swaddles about his nappy is mosquito netting.
Simpson, who murdered pizza shop owner Dave Kowalczyk in June, 2000, says he’d rather be executed then spend the rest of his life in jail:
“I have two ways that I prefer to be murdered, one is to be crucified in front of the courthouse for all to see it, for all the convicts throughout the world, and the other way would be to be stoned to death by the victim’s family, to be make them feel better.”
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Posted: 3rd, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Is Lutz Buergi The World’s Worst Car Parker?
INTRODUCING Lutz Buergi, the Swiss challenger to Tripta Kaushal’s title of the World’s Worse Car Parker.
It is 7am and Lutz Buergi, 42, is park at about 7 in the morning at a train station in Bern, Switzerland. The car park is empty. He pilots his white Mitsubishi Galant with no little skill into the only obstacle in view.
Someone tell him that in Switzerland, suicide is legal…
Posted: 2nd, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Police Car Humper Lespaul Stuckey Is The Tattoo Face Mugshot Of The Day
LESPAUL Stuckey is our Tattoo Face Mugshot Of The Day. Mr Stuckley, 27, is accused of causing an “annoyance by making unreasonable noise or an offensively obscene utterance, gesture or display”.
In short: when pulled over by the police in Ohio he began humping the police car.
He’s not the first.
Mugshots – The Ironic T-Shirts
The World’s Weirdest And Stupidest Tattoos
The gallery so far:
Posted: 2nd, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man With Broken Arm, Limp And Bandaged Face And Head Holds Up Pharmacy
IN Texas, a man with terrible wounds has held up a late-night pharmacy. With his head swaddled in bandages, one arm in a cast and sling, the rest of him propped up on a crutch, the man approaches the cashier.
Condoms, sir?
Not this time.
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Posted: 1st, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
New York’s Catwoman Shoe Shop Robber In Pictures
DO you know the cat mask robber – the woman who wore a cat mask as she stole $66 from a Manhattan show shop?
One day on, a catwoman stole $500 from a beauty shop.
Add her to this fine list: A Gallery Of Police Artist Pictures
Tattoos On Faces – The Mughsots
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LA Police Cover Up Murder Suspect Eduardo Ibarra Perez’s Man Boobs, For Decency
Mugshots – The Ironic T-Shirts
Anthony Brandon Gonzales Is Tattoo Face Mugshot Of The Day
Spotter: Anorakaren
Posted: 1st, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Best Nominative Determinism Pictures Ever, Presented By Mr Phani Tikkala
NOMINATIVE Determinism is the process by which you are what you are named. From the Alumni Class of 1993 at the Electra Independent School District, Electra, Texas – Ginger Minge is in residence – to Dr Atchoo’s surgery and Proper Wang’s office we bring you a gallery of the best nominative determined people ever, presented by Mr Phani Tikkala:
Posted: 30th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Donald Duck Arrested For Drugs
TO MASSILLON, Ohio, where Donald Duck was arrested on drug charges.
We knew it. But the drugs are not crystal meth but marijuana. Donald Duck needs the chill the hell out.
Police officers Dibble, Fudd and Rosemary, the telephone operator say Duck, 51, repeatedly struck the car in front of him while at a drive-through pizza line on Lincoln Way East in Massillon.
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Posted: 30th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In Pictures: Lizzie Valesquez Is The Woman Who Can’t Put On Weight
ALL eyes on Lizzie Lizzie Velasquez – the woman unable to gain weight. Miss Valesquez is not only the envy of every WAG, Victoria Beckham and Amy Winehouse wannabe, she is ill.
At 21 years old, Valesquez weighs about 60 lbs and has zero percent body fat. She is 5ft 2 inches tall.
She needs to eat every 15 minutes to stay live.
Medics think she has Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome. But they don’t know.
And in case you think we are just gawping – which we are – Miss Valesquez has a book out in September…
Posted: 29th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Dewsbury Bus Stop Error Makes It A ‘BUS SOTP’
THE Bus Stop in Dewsbury town centre is now a “BUS SOTP”.
Kirklees Council says it was contractors who misspelled the sign on Wellington Road”.
All signs for a “SUB POST” are thought to even rarer…
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Posted: 29th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Somali Pirates Hijack Austrian Wines And Other Poisons
SOMALI Pirates have been busy. Today the’ve hijacked a ship carrying poisonous chemicals.
The Golden Blessing carrying a cargo of glycol ethylene, which is used in antifreeze – and some fine Austrian wines…
Posted: 28th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Fined For Sex With Dead Relative
ROOPRAM Bacchus stands before the judge in Guyana and is fined $US200 for digging up the body of his 75-year-old relative and having sex with it.
Guyana’s football team is not at the World cup. And we fear similar crimes will now befall English stiffs.
Matthew Upson has been warned…
Posted: 28th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
The World’s Ugliest Dog In Princess Abby: Pictures
THE WORLD’S ugliest Dog is Princess Abby. Does he look like her owner Kathleen Francis? And Princess Abby is not all that ugly. Sure, she won the 2010 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, but she’s not bad looking. A few licks of beer and what male dog could resist?
Abby’s backs legs are back legs longer than her front, which is more deformed than ugly.
Princess Abby also just one eye. But she can dance on her back legs. The legs distract from the face. Anyhow, is Princess Abby uglier than these dogs? Well, no…
Posted: 28th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Plymouth Woman Attacks Man With Lawnmower
VERY British Crime No. 3215: the woman jailed for throwing lawn mower at her neighbour.
Gloria Christie, aged 42, of Keyham, Plymouth, Devon, has been convicted of affray and having an offensive weapon when Robert Webb pops next door to complain that Christie’s music is keeping his baby awake.
Christie declines to reduce the volume. Webb reaches into her home and unplugs Christie’s stereo.
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Posted: 27th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mugger Knocks Old Woman Down – Then Helps Her Up Again: Video
ARE you the mugger who knocked the 85-year-old victim down on East 121st Street in Harlem, New York, at 11:15 a.m. last Saturday, and then helped her back to her feet?
The woman managed to keep hold of her bag and purse.
The man maintained a sense of dignity – well, sort of…
Posted: 27th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
