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.
Max The Boxer Dog’s Nail Gun Head Presents X-Ray Horrors
MAX the boxer dog bring us X-Ray of the Day. Max has been hit in the head with a nail fired from a nail gun by his owner, Tim Horvat.
Mr Horvat is firing nails into his garden decking. And into Max, who has lunged for the gun. Says Mr Horvat:
“At first I thought I had missed him because he ran behind me. But then I saw the tip just protruding from his head and I started shaking as I realised what had happened.”
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Posted: 27th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Einstein: World’s Smallest Horse Video
HAVING introduced you to Einstein – the World’s Smallest Horse (batteries not included), we now bring you the video of the item they are already calling next Christmas’s must-have toy*.
* Einstein horse eats, poops and dies just like a real horse. (not suitable for racing jockey’s over 2stone.)
Posted: 27th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Thai Restaurant Bans Blind Man’s Gay Dog
HEARD the one about the gay dog in the Australian Thai eatery knon as Thai Spice? Blind Ian Jolly, 57, come sin. He sits down. His dog Nudge sits down. He is asked to take his “gay dog” outside.
The matter reaches court.
The eatery is ordered by the Equal Opportunity Tribunal to pay Mr Jolly $1500, undertake a court of retraining and apologise.
Restaurant owners Hong Hoa Thi To and Anh Hoang Le tell the court that a waiter heard Mr Jolly’s partner Chris Lawrence “to be saying she wanted to bring a gay dog into the restaurant”.
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Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Motorist Wants £100 To Return Wheelclamp
BRENDAN Tully, of Daubhill, wants £100 from the DVLA to return the wheel clamp he tied to his wife’s Fiat Pinto.
The car was parked on wasteland near his home and untaxed. He has not told the DVLA that it was off the road. Clampers stuck a Denver boot on the car and demanded £1000 to remove it. Mr Tully scrapped the car for £60.
Says he:
“They were claiming £100 to take the clamp off my wife’s car, so I think I’ve got every right to claim £100 from them to get their clamp back. I’m prepared to go to prison for this. That’s how much of a bug I’ve got about it.”
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Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Meet Einstein The World’s Smallest Horse
MEET Einstein, the world’s smallest horse, standing in his naked hooves at just 14 inches high.
Pepper pot too hefty to pass across the dinner table? Sylvanian Family need transporting across the bedroom floor?
Then Einstein is your horse.
Einstein, a (half) pinto stallion, weighed 6lb when he was born lat week in the US, a county that is proud to support small horses and their causes.
Says breeder Judy Smith, of Tiz A Miniature Horse Farm, in Barnstead, New Hampshire:
“I have been at this for 20 years plus but I have never seen one this tiny or even close to it.”
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Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Tattooed Mr Michelle McGee Pulled By Fuzz In Wichita
LARRY Keith, 59, has been pulled by the fuzz for wearing a thong to ride his bicycle. Keith is tattooed from head to toe. Keith is a kind of gravity-hit Michelle McGee.
Keith, or north Wichita, is riding a bicycle past City Hall and the Sedgwick County Courthouse.
In Pictures: Michelle McGee’s ‘Wet Pussy’ Tattoo
Wichita police Deputy Chief Tom Stolz say it is legal to wear a thong in public if it covers the genitals and “other body parts regulated by the city’s nudity ordinance“.
Are you body parts regulated by city ordinance? And if they are, do you need a tattoo to prove it?
Sedgwick County sheriff’s Sgt. Oscar Thomasson ssy he nicked Keith “because he unsafely affected the traffic flow by going less than 5 mph on his bicycle on busy Main Street downtown”.
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Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Not Gay Enough For Sex Shop Sues
MICHAEL Beaton, a plumber by training, is not gay enough for Suzie’s Adult Superstore in California. He works there. Or he did. But Mr Beaton was fired for being too straight.
But above all Mr Michael Beaton is American, and as is the American way, he is suing Suzie’s Adult Superstore. Says he:
“I was a security guard, cleaned up the premises, and did a little loss prevention work.”
He applied for a sales job on the shop floor.
“I did the test. I did really good on the test, and a couple of months had gone by, and then I had gone back to the manager and asked him what was the deal. I was told flat out that I wasn’t the ‘gay boy’ they were looking for; they were looking for someone who was more gay.”
If a plumber can be a sex store stockist, can’t he be a gay one, too?
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Posted: 25th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Medic Loses Cannabis Crop In Tsunami Horror
TSUNAMI! Save yourselves. Better yet – save your weed! Richard Carlson, of New Zealand, hears the warning. Water is coming. Lots of it. He needs to move his cannabis to higher ground. He loads his car with around 8kg of weed.
Police spot his car. They see the broken tail light. They pulled him over.
He screams, “tsunami!” But the cops aren’t distracted. The wall of water can wait. Nicking a man who has a medicinal drug in his car is more vital.
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Posted: 24th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Thief Misreads Pharmacy Pills Makes Off With Bladder Medicine
MEET Jacob Collins, who allegedly broke into a pharmacy and went for the Oxybutynin tablets.
These are the pills designed to relieve an overactive bladder.
No, not the painkiller Oxycontin, also in the locked area of Matlack’s Hometown Pharmacy on Harding Highway in Landisville.
He stole oxybutynin, allegedly.
Posted: 23rd, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
A Reporter Takes A Dip
HOW’S the water? How does it feel? A reporter finds out…
Posted: 23rd, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
What Happens To Unattended Children: A Gallery
KIDS, eh. Unattended children will be… Here’s a gallery of things that happen to unattended children. They all work on the assumption that the parents want them back…
Posted: 23rd, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Anal Vibrator Sparks Bomb Alert
STEVEN FERRINI’S anal vibrator is causing the California Highway Patrol to evacuate its South Lake Tahoe area office.
California Highway Patrol officer encounters Steven Ferrini, 60, in a “No Parking” zone, notes a CHP report.
Mr Ferrini is arrested on suspicion of carrying speed. The cop then finds “a suspicious wire, with an on/off switch” in the man’s front left pocket. The wire leads to his anus.
At the CHP office, “the subject began to explain his knowledge of explosives and bomb-making.” The El Dorado County Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team is called. Office abandoned.
At about 9 a.m., “the EOD team rendered the device safe and determined it was not an explosive device. The vibrator was subsequently removed and placed into property.”
Posted: 22nd, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
When Animals Attack: Pictures Of Animals Going For People
WHEN animals attack. A gallery featuring pictures from Stephen Fry’s shagging parrot, the pelican weatherman hater and many more…
Posted: 21st, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Doctor Was Quite Surprised’ To Remove Man’s Testicle By Mistake
SURGEON Sulieman Al Hourani was “quite surprised” when he accidentally severed a man’s testicle at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Greater Manchester. At a meeting of the General Medical Council, we heard that Dr Sulieman Al Hourani was hired to remove an epididymal cyst on the patient’s right testis. But he took of the whole thing.
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Posted: 20th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Criminal Banned From Every Roof In Hyndburn
ADAM Paul Corbett is the holder of an ASBO that forbids him from every rooftop in Hyndburn.
Police tell the Beaks at Blackburn Magistrates Court that whenever they call on 22-year-old Corbett, a car criminal, he climbs on the roof of his home and sits there for hours.
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Posted: 20th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Manchester Woman Gets Thumb Stuck In Bowling Ball
CHERIE Beekman has got her fingers trapped in bowling ball. At the tenpin bowling alley, at Parrs Wood, in Didsbury, Manchester local Cherie Beekman is in trouble. She wants to return the green ball but cannot. Her right thumb and the ball are one.
Beekman is taken to Wythenshawe fire station. The 33-year-old is met by a team of firefighters. They use an electric saw, a hacksaw and a chisel to cut the ball off. It takes them over two hours.
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Posted: 20th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Gianni The Sex Change Cock Saves The Catholic Church
GET a load of Gianni the egg—layer cock. Gianni the cockerel can do the lot. Before a fox raided his harem and killed all the hen, Guianni was the cock of the plot. Then he started laying eggs.
Because this is fact and not a scam, scientists at the United Nation’s Farm and Agriculture Organisation will arrive at Gianni’s Tuscan idyll to study the bird’s DNA to see what made him change.
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Posted: 20th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
China’s Mr Chang Du Offers His Huge Chin As Advertising Billboard
MR Chang Du, of Lishuguo, central China, is offering brands the chance to place their logo and ad on his is impressive chin. He will use the cash to pay for an operation to have it trimmed.
Just five years ago, the chin was a pimple on the inside of Mr Du’s mouth. Then it grew. He needs £5,000 for the op.
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Posted: 19th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Evangelist Uses Pasta Bible To Grind Black People
THE Pasta Bible recommends that anyone looking to make tagliatelle [sic] with sardines and prosciutto the should use “salt and freshly ground black people”.
A spokesman for Penguin which publishes the book says:
“We’re mortified that this has become an issue of any kind and why anyone would be offended, we don’t know.”
Because being offended it our human right. We prefer it that way. Offend us and you give our lives meaning the enliven an otherwise routine day.
“We’ve said to bookstores that if anyone is small-minded enough to complain about this … silly mistake, we will happily replace (the book) for them.”
And if anyone take the Pasta Bible literally, then they are either a pasta evangelist or the owner of one big pepper mill…
Spotter: Robert Carter
Posted: 18th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Rabbit Fun Land: Groom, Kill And Eat Your Pet Rabbit For Fun
RABBIT Fun Land is fun. In Mukim Beranang, Selangor, you can experience the full fun of rabbits. Just get a load of the advert:
Since its inception in 1990, EARCSB (previously known as East Asia Rabbit Ranch) has grown from a farm purely focusing on breeding rabbits for meat, to agro-tourism and petting today. EARCSB is always active in its search for new opportunities that can add value or synergy to its core business.
Why not try some rabbit petting, or fun tenderising as we call it:
Savor our mouth-watering Rabbit Satay which is served right from hot charcoal-fire grill! Our satay are only grilled upon order, so you can be guaranteed that your satay experience is a delightful one, each and every piece of them.
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Posted: 17th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Motel Guest Attacks Man With Swinging Snake
THE Lake Wylie Pilot reports on South Carolina’s Tony Smith, who did attack a man “deathly afraid” of reptiles with a six-foot long python. Smith is charged with assault and battery.
To the scene of the alleged crime, the Executive Inn motel in Rock Hill. Mr Jeffery Culp, 47, is on the balcony. Mr Culp says he had previously told Mr Smith that he did “not do snakes. I’m deathly afraid of them”.
Smith is racing down the hallway outside the rooms on chairs. Mr Culp ask him to keep the noise down. Later, Culp goes out for a smoke. Smith taps him on the shoulder (the balconies are close) and presents the snake.
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Posted: 16th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Tattoos: The Greateast Superhero Ink Stains
NO-ONE has a Nick Clegg tattoo as yet, but many people do have tattoos bearing the image of other superheroes. Anorak presents the world’s greatest superhero tattoos for your perusal.
The Most Disgusting Tattoos (NSFW)
Tattoos – The Tramp Stamp
Tattoos: The Misspelled Ones
Posted: 16th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Cursed Tennessee Town Votes Dead Man As New Mayor
HATS off and funeral weeds on to Carl Robin Geary Sr. who despite dying of a heart attack on March 10 has been elected mayor of Tracy City, Tennessee.
Mr. Geary beat incumbent mayor Barbara Brock 268 votes to 85.
Mrs. Brock became mayor in December 2008 after the mayor Mike Price died of a heart attack.
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Posted: 16th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Filthiest House In Britain: Video
HOW We Live brings you short video of a flat in the UK. The blurb says that over 8 years two people lived in his cesspit, a man and woman.
She never went out. He took her food and tossed her waste into empty rooms until each was full.
Both were in the care of the local Social Services. One day he went drinking. For three days. She banged on the floor.
The tenant below called the police. The fire brigade removed the woman through a window.
Then the cleaners came in…
Posted: 16th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
A Picture Gallery Of Weird Prime Ministers
NICK Clegg, Gordon Brown and David Cameron – three not-too-bad looking, neat-faced, full-haired, clean-skinned, charm-free, polish-toothed, pink-skinned, suited and booted salesmen. What we want are the real men. Where are they? On the back benches and in the streets. Anorak has been out canvassing for leaders that we can relate to and warm to. Where is the one who says “I am the authentic face of the Britain”? Here’s is a selection of candidates:
Posted: 16th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
