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.
The Greatest Face Modifications Ever
ANORAK presents a collection of modified faces. Can humanity do better than God, intelligent design or the professionals who work out of Messers Nip ‘n’ Tuck’s Hollywood studios? Face number 10 is patriotic. Number 3 might yet undo the Taliban’s work. And Number 9 is walking snooker table…
See: The Greatest Tattooed Mugshots Ever
Posted: 12th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Balinese Teen Marries The ‘Flirtatious’ Cow He Raped
NGURAH Alit, 18, of Bali, indoensia, is charged with having sexual intercourse with a “flirtatious” cow.
Alit, of Yeh Embang, Jembrana, was caught shagging the cow by Gusti Ngurah Dinar, who describes Alit as “standing naked and holding the cow’s ass”.
Alit was stood on a mud terrace between two rice paddy fields. When confronted, Alit said he thought the cow was a young and beautiful girl. Says he:
“She was calling to me, making flattering comments, then I had sex with her.”
Not so says the court. She was the innocent party. Noooooooo means no. It’s rape. And Alit is scheduled to get two years bird. He will also pay a fine. And he has been made to marry the cow.
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Posted: 12th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
In Pictures: ‘Two Face’ – The Kitten With Two Faces
HERE’S the kitten with two faces. In West Virginia, the kitten has four eyes, two noses and two mouths. the kitten asnswer to the name Two Face.
The kitten has Diprosopus, and creatues suffering from it do not live long.
imals with the condition rarely survive for very long, but the kitten’s owners are hoping the animal beats the odds.
Says animal services worker Stephanie Gomez:
“There was a lady who called and said she had a two-headed cat, and I really didn’t believe her. I told her give him some milk, and two bottles, cause there are two heads.”
Here’s a gallery of other interesting-faced cats:
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Posted: 12th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
94-Year-Old Pleasures Himself With Vacuum Cleaner In Stranger’s Garage
TO a garage in Phoenix, Arizona, where 94-year-old Dale Warren Graham has a running vacuum cleaner attached to the front of his pants. It is not his garage. The garage owner does not know Mr Graham.
The case gets darker when we learn that Graham had contact with young children and had inappropriately touched two of them.
Neither of the children is believed to be called Henry…
Posted: 11th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Beats Woman With Large Dildo Then Tapes Dog To Palm Tree
SHAUN Burke, 40, was wearing a leather gimp mask as he beat Narelle Carey over the head with a large dildo.
Mr Burke than took Carey’s Lhasa Apsa dog – alas little Apso – to a park. He used tape to attached Apsa to a palm tree. The dog died.
At Brisbane District Court, Judge David Searles hears Burke, a diesel fitter by trade, pleaded guilty to burglary involving assault causing bodily harm, and stealing and killing a dog.
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Posted: 11th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Madrid’s Human Rights Gays Ban Israeli Gays From March
MADRID gays ban Israeli gays because their Army acts like an Army at war. Madrid gays for equality ban the Israelis gay – you know the gays from the one country in the Middle East where you can be only gay and not be in fear of your life. Not that there are any gays in Iran.
Mavi Marmara: Truth And The Muslim Brotherhood’s Gift To Israel
A delegation of gay residents of Tel Aviv has been banned from joining a gay pride march in Madrid because authorities in the Israeli city have not condemned the recent attack on the Gaza flotilla.
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Posted: 10th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man About To Propose Watches Girlfriend Killed By Lightning
RICHARD Butler and his girlfriend, Bethany Lott, are stood in the mountains of North Carolina. On Max Patch Bald, near Asheville. Mr Butler is ready to propose…marriage. The couple from Knoxville, Tennessee, will be one.
Then lightning bears down. She is killed. He suffers third degree burns. Says Butler to the Ashville Citizen Times:
“I was spun 180 degrees and thrown several feet back. My legs turned to Jello. My shoes were smoking and the bottom of my feet felt like they were on fire.”
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Posted: 9th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Grandma Saves Dogs From Fire – Leaves Grandson In Bed
GRANDMA Mary Hand’s home is on fire. Her home in Woodway Park, Coventry, is lit up. The 45-year-old leaps into action. She gathers her four greyhounds and dashes from the house – leaving her 11-year-old grandson Curtis upstairs in bed.
Firemen race to the scene. They enter the house and find Curtis. He is saved! Says Mandy:
“I can’t get over the fact I left my grandson in bed. He’s visiting from Portsmouth and I was panicking so much trying to get everyone out that I forgot he was in here. I never even checked on him….
“I don’t knew what it was but I just woke up quickly. The room was full of grey smoke and I just panicked. I was in a daze. I ran downstairs where the smoke was thicker and saw the fire in the kitchen. Everything was dusty and the smoke was stinging. It was horrible. It’s devastating to see the damage, absolutely devastating.”
Then:
“It was only when we were outside and someone said ‘is there anyone else in there?’ that I remembered him, but on-one could get back in. I stood outside shouting up at the bedroom window and that was when the fire engines arrived.”
Says a fireman:
“It was too hot to bring him down the stairs so we took him out of the window and down a ladder. They are all very lucky to be alive.”
The dogs are recovering well…
Posted: 9th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Top Summer Trend – Female Morris Dancers – Very Cool Vid
LOOKING for a little something to liven up your barbie, summer fayre or pagan sun worshipping festival? Then take a look at this lot. They are called the Belles of London City and are Morris dancers minus the unkempt beards, ale-drenched breath and knobbly knees. I saw them last night and they are amazing. Check the video out.
Posted: 8th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Ian And Jean Smith Are The Oldest Swingers In the UK
ANORAK picks up a warm towel and small bar of slippery soap and pops over to see Ian and Jean Smith in Buckhurst Hill, London – the ‘King and Queen of the Swingers’. Ian and Jan Smith have been two parts and assorted bits of over 300 “wild” sex parties since the 1970s.
They love “no strings” sex. They have eight grandchildren and four children. Says Ian:
“I admit we’re a little older than most ’swingers’, but we’re not over the hill quite yet. We love going out, meeting new people and, of course, getting to know those people intimately if the situation or opportunity arises.
“That’s why our relationship is so strong. We trust one other implicitly, but understand each other’s need for extra-marital encounters.”
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Posted: 8th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Honeymoon Bride Changes Name To ‘I Hate Thomas Cook’
AUSTIN Kettle has changed her name to ‘I Hate Thomas Cook’. Miss Kettle wanted to change the details on her honeymoon booking. But there was a charge. Disgusted and outraged, Kettle changed her name to I Hate Thomas Cook. That would learn them.
Austin Kettle, 26, is now called ‘Mrs Lorraine Darla I Hate Thomas Cook And Its Associates Big Shot Company Treading on the Little Guy Leeks’.
Aka Mrs Leeks.
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Posted: 8th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Man Cuts Off Own Testicles And Flushes Them Down Toilet
THE 31-year-old man has castrated himself and flushed his testicles down the toilet.
He did this because the nuts contained “monsters”. When you’re sperm start talking to you it’s time to worry. When they start making sense, it’s time to go your separate ways.
California’s Arcata Police Department says the man had taken LSD. But Lexi needed no drugs to awaken his mind.
Lexi the cat his missing. Lexi is at the Woosehill Vets in Woosehill, near Wokingham, Berks, waiting to be castrated. Lexi runs.
The animal’s owner, Maria Brown, only discovered that her cat had gone missing when she went to collect it from the surgery and was given a pet rabbit instead.
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Posted: 8th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man With World’s Most Talented Anus Amazes Prison Guards
EAT your heart out – and chase it with more chips in batter – Coco (NSFW). A bottle of hair spray and some cement? Pah! The best arse in the world belongs to this man:
“Authorities in Wenatchee, Washington, were surprised to find that the man had managed to sneak a cigarette lighter, cigarette papers, a bag of tobacco the size of a golf-ball, a bottle of tattoo ink, eight tattoo needles, a small baggie of what was thought to be marijuana, and an inch-long smoking pipe into jail by hiding them up himself. “
Posted: 8th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ugly Cats: A Gallery Of The World’s Ugliest Cats
PITY the suicidal ugly cat judged worthless in a hard world obsessed with looks. He tries to end it call but can’t. It takes nine goes. He becomes apathetic. But if he jumps off a high building or drops an anvil on his head or stands next to one of them his looks may well improve. There is hope for Ugly Cat. For now, there are pictures in our gallery of the un-photogenic felines. (Listen out for cat number 11)…
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In Pictures: The Dog Slum Of Brazil
TO the dog slum, or favela, of Caxias do Sul, Brazil, about 1,600 abandoned canines are chained to around 1,000 little dog houses. A farm? An art installation. A fat camp?
No, this is the dog slum run by So Ama, or Just Love, a dog charity.
Says Natasha Oselame, who runs the organisation’s PR:
“We started out with the naivety of wanting to change the world, and the project just kept getting bigger, so unfortunately this is all we have to offer them.”
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Posted: 6th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Car Driver Flies Over Dallas Airport Toll Booth
HERE’S a video of 22-year-old Yasmine Villasana, hitting a protective barrier at the north end of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport at a high rate of speed and taking off. This is the way you leave an airport.
After the 6 a.m. booth jump, Villasana told police that her car had been struck in the rear by another vehicle. This pushed her forward. Her car then burst into flames. She survived with minor injuries.
The car is now the pride of easyJet’s fleet, allegedly…
Posted: 4th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mugshot T-Shirt Of The Day Worn At The Memorial Day Angels And Demons Fight
MUGSHOT T-Shirt of The Day is worn by Timothy Neal, who along with his 18-year-old sons, Timothy Wade Neal and Daniel Allan Neal, was arrested at a Memorial Day weekend bonfire for fighting.
The police report:
“The victim had been talking about religion and demons when the other three became upset and started whipping up on him.”
Neal’s T-shirt joins out gallery of the ironic:
The Greatest Tattooed Mugshots Ever
Posted: 4th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Wisest Graffiti Ever: A Gallery
GRAFFITI can be great. It can be patronising, uplifting and knowing. It can make you think. Anorak has pulled together a gallery of the greatest graffiti of wise words…
How all pictures are safe for work.
In Pictures: Kabul’s Talibanksy Bomb Their Banksy Visions
Banksy Walks On Water For Global Warming: In Photos
Rebecca Harrison’s Pilgrimage To Bethlehem’s West Banksy
Posted: 4th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
The Most Famous Newspaper In The World: From Dallas To Depserate Housewives (Pictures)
THE Most Famous Newspaper In The World is the one that appears on the telly most often. It’s not the New York Times or the Walford Gazette, it’s the paper that has been seen on the telly for years. This paper – the one with the story of the “Girl Third Brightest In Her Class” – has mopped up blood on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, kept the cops informed in No Country for Old Men (2007), helped out JR on Dallas (1991), appeared on Married With Children (1997), and featured on: Six Feet Under (2003), Malcolm in The Middle, Everybody Hates Chris, Scrubs and Desperate Housewives (2007-2010). The news doesn’t change…
Posted: 4th, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Man Banned From All Funerals For Stealing The Buffets
DANNY Langstraat, a director of Harbour City Funeral Home in Wellington, has banned a man from attending funerals. The interloper was arriving at up to four funerals a week and taking away doggy bags of food.
Says Mr Langstraat to the Dominion-Post newspaper:
“He was showing up to funeral after funeral and, without a doubt, he didn’t know the deceased. We saw him three or four times a week. Certainly, he had a backpack with some Tupperware containers so, when people weren’t looking, he was stocking up.”
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Posted: 3rd, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Greatest Mugshot T-Shirts Ever
HARD luck on wearing that T-shirt when you were arrested by the police. The one that says you are probably lying is too bad. The T-shirt that claims the owner has an enthusiasm for “midget porn” is unfortunate. And the one about being a great dad, worn by the perp up on a child abuse charge, is nasty. Enjoy the irony:
The Greatest Tattooed Mugshots Ever
Posted: 2nd, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Dead Flies In Dead: A Gallery
SUMMER is here and you are wondering what to do with the dead flies? Magnus Muhr is the Gunther von Hagens of the insect world and is helping flies achieve a legacy beyond a stain on your dishcloth…
Posted: 2nd, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
The Guatemala Sinkhole: Amazing Pictures
IN Guatemala City, a sinkhole has swallowed up a patch of ground. The BBC reports none dead nor injured. Guatemala officials report 120 dead and at least 53 missing. What’s in your basement?
Posted: 2nd, June 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (8)
Rich Man Sinks Helicopter Looking For Stolen Yacht
HEARD the one about the boat owner who had his £150,00 gin-palace nicked (allegedly) overnight by a holidaymaker at a nearby camp-site and then crashed his $345,000 helicopter in a Scottish loch when looking for it? He had to swim for his life as the chopper sank?
It’s hard to tell whether to hope the boat/helicopter owner was banker and deserved everything he got for such an ostentatious display of wealth, triumph at youth’s ability to constantly create a chain of events which end in catastrophe or be shamed by the depths of criminality the demon booze (allegedly) can create.
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Posted: 2nd, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
LA Police Cover Up Murder Suspect Eduardo Ibarra Perez’s Man Boobs, For Decency
THIS is Eduardo Ibarra Perez. But not his moobs. He’s wanted by Los Angeles Police Department on suspicion of murder.
But the 29-year-old (born in, er, 1965) has had his moobs – fleshy, sagging ones – concealed behind a flesh-coloured bar.
The police department’s website says Perez shot his victim – his wife – in the head.
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Posted: 31st, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
