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.
Jesus Found On Boy’s Thumb: Picture
JESUS of The Day belongs to young Austin Coleman, of Phoenix, Arizona. He found Jesus on his thumbprint.
Says he: “I got a little freaked out.”
Can you cope with the wonder:
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Posted: 22nd, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
STDs: Weird And Scary Venereal Disease Posters
VENEREAL disease kills and maims the sexually active as well as the sexually inactive. Posters have long been part of the campaign to rid the planet of sexually transmitted disease. But at no time in living memory were they more prevalent than in the Second World War. The message was simple: foreign women give you and yours STDs. But – good news, lads – foreign men don’t, and neither does that chap with the full lips in your platoon…
(Yes, I am back from France…)
Posted: 20th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Dies When NHS Doctor Fails To Spot Toilet Brush Wedged In Her Bottom
PETER Corton’s wife Cindy died in 2007 after media failed to spot a toilet brush wedged in her buttock.
In was 2005, when Sleaford, Lincolnshire’s very own Cindy Corton, 35, took a drunken fall in pal’s bathroom. She went to the doctor afterwards. An X-ray was taken. She was given the all clear. Dr Killian Mbewe could see nothing to worry about.
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Posted: 20th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (10)
Bad Science Made Good: A Handy Guide To The Truth In Pictures
IN today’s Bad Science class, we bring you good science, a look at how boffins and egg heads get away with telling us lies and scare stories. We know the truth. And to help you, the mentality negligible, the Al Goreans and the Flat Earth News Society comprehend the truth of the stuff around you, we have collected the science into image cards. Print each card and when confronted by know all, just show it to them. They will be impressed:
Posted: 19th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Woman Banned From Drinking Alcohol in England And Wales
THIS is Laura Hall arriving at Redditch Magistrates court where she answered a breach of ASBO charge. Miss Hall became the first person to be banned from drinking alcohol in a public place anywhere in England and Wales.
She was back in court after police spotted her sitting on a town centre wall with a can of lager.
Tsk! Get thee to Scotland.
Posted: 18th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Man Jumps From Speeding Car To Escape Nagging Wife
A MAN has jumped from a moving vehicle rather than listen to his wife. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office report says the 23-year-old man perfomed his own stunt after his wife refused to “shut up”.
The man sustained serious injuries.
It is not known if his wife shut up but the man is on painkillers…
Posted: 17th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
In Pictures: The Life Of Brooke Greenberg, The Girl Who Never Grew Up
MEET Brooke Greenberg, the girl who can’t grow up. Brooke is 17 years old. She is trapped in the body of a toddler, although media so not believe her brain has developed either. Says mum: “They [the specialists] just said she’ll catch up.” Says dad: “I mean she did not put on an ounce or she did not grow an inch … That’s when I knew there was a problem.” Medics have called her condition Syndrome X. This is her life in pictures:
Posted: 17th, May 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
The Annual Ferret Legging Contest Upsets The National Ferret School
THE National Ferret School will not be competing in the ferret down the trousers contest at Whittington, Staffordshire.
Organiser, and doyen of ferret leggings, Mr Frank Bartlett, 67, says the contest is a test of endurance.
The RSPCA winders if the contest breaches the Animal Welfare Act. But the humans should be ok so long as they remain still.
But James McKay, director of the Derbyshire-based National Ferret School, tells BBC WM:
“Ferret legging involves putting ferrets down the trousers of the male participants in the competition, and this is extremely stressful to the ferrets.”
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Posted: 17th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Boy Has Stick Removed From Eye Two Years After It Got There
RAHUL Devi has a 3-inch splinter stick in his eye. It’s been in his eye for two years. He got it there when he fell onto a stick. The stick pierced his brain. The Daily Mail calls him Rahul.
CNN-IBN says his name is Varun. Dr PS Chandra, Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, at the All India Institue of Medical Sciences, says:
“Splinter was lodged in a very dangerous location through left eye into temporal lobe. It was very near the main artery that supplies blood to brain. It is a miracle how he managed for two years without any problem.”
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Posted: 16th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Chinese Astronaut Eats Anti-Terror Dog
CHINESE astronaut Yang Liwei is plugging his new book The Nine Levels between Heaven and Earth by revealing how he chowed down on dog while in space. The 44-year-old military veteran of the Shenzhou Five mission, writes:
“Many of my friends are curious about what we eat [in space] and think that the astronauts must have some expensive delicacies, like shark’s fin or abalone. Actually we ate quite normal food, there is no need to keep it a secret.”
Sharks in Space sounds good but Abalone In Space is the kind of cinematic hit we’ve been waiting for. Anyhow, the normal food is dog meat, specifically Huajiang dog.
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Posted: 15th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Wootton Bassett Woman’s Breast Impaled On Doorknob
IN Wootton Bassett, scene of much drama, a 24-year-old’s breast has become impaled on a door handle. The breast is not false and therefore detachable but natural and a part of her.
Says the spokesman at Great Western Ambulance Service:
“An emergency care practitioner administered morphine which allowed fire crews to detach the handle from the door.
“You have to be so careful with traumas like this as you have no idea how deep the object is inside the woman or what internal damage might have been caused.”
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Posted: 15th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Jessica Watson Beaten As Three Britons Sail Bouncy Castle Across Lake Garda
EAT yer heart out, Jessica Watson, teenaged round-the world sailor, and prepare to run up the white flag to solicitor Jack Watkins, 25, and engineers Chris Hayes, 24, and Dave Sibley, who have lived the dream of paddling across Lake Garda in a bouncy castle.
On the five-mile trip, the Londoners took on ripples, currents and not end of fine grappa as they took their tailor-made red and yellow castle across the Big One.
Surprisingly, they are the first ‘sailors’ to cross the lake on such a vessel. Says Hayes, with understandable pride and typical British understatement:
“Great Britain has such a great tradition as a seafaring nation and we really feel we have played no role at all in adding to this. That said, it was possibly the most fun we have ever had and we really never believed this most frivolous of dreams would ever be realised”
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Posted: 15th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
271 Sheep Missing In Ramsbottom
POLICE are looking for 271 sheep stolen from a field in Ramsbottom, Bury. The sheep owner can rest assured the finest police minds are on it. As the BBC reports:
Thieves herded the sheep through a pen and into the back of what must have been a large vehicle, police said.
More clues to follow…
spotter: Bat E Bird
Posted: 14th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Randy Kangaroo Wants To Shag Australian Women’s Bikes
A KANGAROO is harassing women at Tennant Creek, a small town in the Honeymoon Ranges of northern Australia.
Tiger Woods The Kangaroo Hits Balls On Golf Course: Video
The Northern Territory News quotes on witness who encountered a roo on bike track:
“I turned around and saw this big kangaroo behind me, so I hastened my steps.
“It seemed a bit odd, but I continued walking and didn’t think much about it. Then on the return walk he was there waiting for me.”
Where’s a squid when you need one?
“He started circling me. There was no doubt about what he wanted, the randy old thing – it was a huge kangaroo and quite intimidating.”
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Posted: 14th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Arrested Over Human-Squid Sex Picture Allowed To Keep Pet Squids
MORE news on alleged squid sex enthusiast Andrew Dymond, 46. He was pinched by the fuzz for allegedly having loadsa porn on his PC.
Man Accused Of Owning Image Of Human Shagging A Squid
Having been charged with possessing “an extreme pornographic image which portrayed in an explicit and realistic way a person performing an act of intercourse with a dead animal, namely a squid, which was grossly offensive, disgusting or of obscene character“, Dymond is in court.
Prosecutors, it turns out, are not that expert in sexy creature of sea and believe the squid might be a more suggestive octopus, a well known under-water pri**-teaser.
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Posted: 13th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)
Man Accidentally Kills Wife With His Suicide Bullet
GENE Whitmore, of Wichita, has killed himself. And in the act of killing himself, the 70-year-old also killed his wife, accidentally.
In Mr Whitmore’s hand is a medium-calibre handgun. A bullet has passed through Mr Whitmore’s head. Having exited his head it hit 66-year-old Betty Whitmore in the head, killing her as she slept.
The two dead bodies are found a few feet apart.
Posted: 13th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Judge Bans Man From Playing Golf
PAUL Maskell, of Clacton, has been banned from playing golf for three months. Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC, says 21-year old Maskell is guilty of knocking a man unconscious during an incident, in Chelmsford, on February 22.
Maskell earns a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, an order to pay £2,000 compensation and costs, a weekend curfew from 9pm to 2am and an “activity requirement” banning him from going to any golf courses or golf clubs for the next three months.
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Posted: 13th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Pretends To Be Woman To Marry Three Men For Their Money
A CHINESE man called – get this – Wang Mou (oh, nominative determinism) pretend to be woman in order to marry men for their money.
Proper Wang Introduces Nominative Determinism
Wang Mou is18. He has slim hips, bed-ready hair and soft skin. The Dahe Daily says he married three men in 2010, and each time legged it with the money. Says he:
“A lot of people mistake me for a woman on first sight.”
But he never married on first sight. He married after many sightings.
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Posted: 12th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Hampshire Man Tidying Garden Fails To Spot His Home On Fire
JOHN Stopher was working on his garden when the fire took hold of his house in Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire. As he tied the greenery, he failed to notice that his £525,000 four-bedroom detached house was on fire.
Says he:
“I didn’t hear the fire as I had the strimmer on or smell it because the wind was in the wrong direction.
“When my neighbour shouted over the fence, ‘Your house is on fire’, I looked and saw flames out of the window. I poked open a door and smoke singed my hair. I made a rapid exit. We lost nearly everything.”
But the strimmer is ok.
Posted: 12th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In Pictures: The Virgin Mary Visits The Knock Shrine In County Mayo
DID you see the vision from the Virgin Mary at Knock Shrine in County Mayo? ‘Visionary’ Joe Coleman from Dublin prayed at the spot where he witnessed a vision from the Virgin Mary. Did you see the apparition at 2pm in Knock, which is directly linked to the second coming of Christ on Earth? Were you one of the 300? Coleman was refused permission to pray in the grotto before joining crowds in the grounds outside. Did you see the crosses in the skies above the shrine?
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Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Woman Finds Masturbating Jelly Baby In Bag Of Sweets
GET a load of that jelly baby – the two-inch sweet is in the shape of a naked man holding his pix ‘n’ mix.
The cultural artefact was discovered by Lyz Parker. She brought the little chap home from the Staine’s branch of Tesco’s in a bag of Candy King.
Says she:
“When I opened the bag I screamed so loudly the whole office came running over. I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
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Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (11)
Armed Russian Cop Scratches Nose And Shoots Himself In The Face
IN Moscow, an armed cop is scratching his nose. In his hand he holds a gun. The gun fires. The man is dead. Itch is scratched.
Well, that’s just one theory, and it’s the story Pravda is sticking with.
The Russians don’t like their police to top themselves nor be offed in mysterious circumstance. So, the story goes that the body found behind a locked door at the city’s court security facility was the result of a tragic accident.
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Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Celebs Who Look Like Cartoon Characters: A Gallery
HERE’S a gallery of cartoon characters that look like other people – some famous, like Rihanna and Madonna; others just like people who see in the street and think they look familiar.
Posted: 11th, May 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Massachusetts Church Invites Pets To Join The Rapture
TO the Calvary Episcopal Church’s ‘Perfect Paws Pet Ministry’, in Danvers, Massachusetts. It’s Church for pets. The services have not yet begun and we urge the Church to reconsider. When the rapture comes, the pets will be left behind. Making them pray is cruel and unusual punishment. It is also presumptuous to suppose the Messiah is a human and has not already enlightened the creatures…
You need to see this:
After The Rapture Pet Care: Taking Care Of Your Furry Friends After Jesus
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Posted: 10th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
VE Day: Incredible Pictures Of St Petersburg Now And Then
WHEN 76 British soldiers from 2 Company 1st Battalion Welsh Guards marched in Red Square in Moscow for the first time to mark the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, we remembered. And then we were sent these images of Saint Petersburg in 1941-44. Black and white can look poignant. But it can make the images look dated. Add some colour and those faces and places from another world become part of this one…
Posted: 10th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
