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.
Bye Bye Burger Boy: Barnsley Council Sets A Fat Lad On Fire
THEY were going to burn the Barnsley Burger Boy as part of a council “health festival”. The fat lad would burn for days and show us that fat peoples will not be tolerated and that they can be an alternative use of fuel.
This was not a real fat boy. Not this time. The 40ft effigy burnt in the heart of Barnsley this July in a ceremony called Bye Bye Burger Boy would be made of tobacco, or something. The figure would be an obsese lad dressed in tight clothes “sitting in an overflowing ashtray facing a table weighed down with burgers and cakes”. Yep, it could be you.
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Posted: 15th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man’s Indecent Exposure and Worse In Sears Lingerie Section
IT turns out that Primark is not the only lure for perverts as news reaches of a of a man in the Sears Lingerie section in the Hickory Hill branch. The accused says he would have to be crazy to have done it. He calls it a “misunderstanding“.
Gregorio Aguilar is accused of grabbing some wowen’s undies and then dropping his own gunties to pleasure himself.
The man, if guilty, is crazy.
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Posted: 15th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
UCLA Crotch Groper Calizto Marcellana Nitro Is Police Sketch Of The Week
CALIZTO Marcellana Nitro is Anorak’s Police Sketch of The Week. Mr Nitro is 63. He was arrested for grabbing girl’s crotches on the UCLA campus. Mr Nitro was “The Crotch Grabber”.
He is accused of perpetuating at least seven grabs. We’ve seen the police drawing of the man, and noted that he looks good for 63.
Then we see the actual man, and things fall into place…
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Posted: 14th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man With Not Stable Home Admits Buggering A Donkey
JOSEPH Squires, 66, is in the dock at Leicester Crown Court charged with buggering a donkey “between February 2 and February 5, 1999”. Despise the man and the crime, but you’ve got the admire the lad’s stamina.
It is also alleged that Mr Squires – yep, more nominative determinism at work – did bugger a horse between March 15 and 18, 2004.
Says his brief Amar Mehta – and he really did say this:
“The defendant does not have a stable address…”
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Posted: 13th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
On The Lamb: Fugitives ‘Dress Up As Sheep’
TO Argentina, where the sheep are on the run. Inside the sheep are Maximiliano Pereyra, 25, and Ariel Diaz, 28, robbers on the run from jail. The sheep can really shift, running through fields at night. Lamb boy was just the beginning.
The sheep are on the lamb (sic).
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Posted: 13th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
ASBO Man Must Stop Watching Election Coverage And Question Time
HERE’S one for the watchers at Biased BBC – Stroud’s Martin Solomon, 64, tells Gloucester Crown Court that he’ll avoid watching the General Election coverage, in particular the BBC’s Question Time panel show.
Mr Solomon has taken to getting drunk and shouting and swearing at the telly. He’s been given an ASBO.
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Posted: 12th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
In Pictures: X-Ray Of Live Ammo In Afghan Soldier’s Head
THIS is a picture of a two-inch long live round of ammunition lodged in the head of living Afghan soldier. The US Air Force image stems from work by Radiologist Lt Col Anthony Terreri. He explained the patient and discovered that the shrapnel was in fact a 14.5mm unexploded round. Says he:
“I saw that it was not solid metal on the inside. I then looked at the scout image and could see there was an air gap on one end and what looked almost like the tip of a tube of lipstick at the end and decided this didn’t look quite right.”
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Posted: 12th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
In Malta With The Pope And Paedo Bear
THE Pope. A Peados. And Malta. The ebar is paedo bear, an internet feature – details of whihc follow. But it’s a fake, right? Anyhow, make the link:
Spotters: Times of Malta, D-listed, TDW
The cartoon character “Pedobear” is a renamed version of the 2chan ASCII art character “kuma”. In his American incarnation, he is an anthropomorphic bear child predator that is often used within the community to mock contributors showing a sexual interest in under-age girls.[42] Pedobear is one of the most popular memes on non-English imageboards, and is gaining recognition across Europe. Although the meme is apparently unknown in Poland,[43] it has been used as a symbol of pedophilia by Maltese graffiti vandals.[44]”
Posted: 11th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
KKK Says Westboro Baptist Church Too Extreme
NEWS is that the KKK thinks the Westboro Church too extreme. The Church that picketed Heath Ledger’s funeral, spotted Lady GaGa in Beelzxebub’s merkin, that sang God Hates the World, that’s banned in the UK, that loves the Jews, that rejoiced over Natasha Richardson’s death is too nasty for the KKK.
As it says on the Klu Klux Klan website, the Westboro Baptist Church is too extreme and we “absolutely repudiate their activities”.
“The Ku Klux Klan LLC has not or EVER will have ANY connection with the Westboro Baptist Church. We absolutely repudiate their activities.”
Posted: 9th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Habitual Panties Thief Captured At Rugby Club
WOMEN’S panties – knickers, to you – are going missing from washing lines in Dunedin, New Zealand. Nick Reeves spends a night in the bushes of his mum’s garden. (Fnar.) he’ll nab the knicker knapper when he spots them. Says he:
“It was like Murphy’s law – when I wasn’t at the house, more pairs would go missing.”
Anyhow, after a long vigil Reeves spots the man and gives chase. And where is the felon finally captured? That’s right – at the rugby club, the Green Island Rugby Football Club, to be exact.
Knickers go missing. Round up the usual suspects…
Posted: 9th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Dies When Hijab Scarf Gets Tangled In Go Cart
IN Post Stephens, Australia, a young woman died after her hijab scarf became entwined in the working of a go kart she was driving.
Mariam died at Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital
Detective Inspector Peter Fox of Port Stephens says:
“[It appears] the scarf was pulled across her throat … from one side of the body to the other side.”
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Posted: 9th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Army Uses Yorkshire Mosques For Target Practice
THE Army has been building mosques in firing ranges in Bellerby, Yorkshire. Those are the mosques, those things that, as our reader Bat E Bird says, “look like cardboard boxes with green humps”.
The Swiss should be alerted and a ban put on the building of green lumps immediately lest the place be ruined by would-be suicide and, er, racist nutters.
Of course, this is a new way ahead – a change on the old policy of looking for mosques and building a shooting rage around them…
Posted: 8th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Burnley Police Seek Green Man
TO Burnley, where police are looking for green man linked to car crime. The green man was spotted by a car that has recently been broken into. A “well meaning local resident” had sprayed the vehicle with green vegetable dye.
Sergeant Carole Langhorne from Lancashire Police says:
“A neighbour heard a noise and went out to the car. He spotted two men, both in dark clothing, and sprayed one of them with a green coloured vegetable dye.”
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Posted: 8th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Photofit Of The Day: The Camden Town ET
PHOTOFIT of the day: Metropolitan Police undated handout photo of an efit released by police hunting an armed robber who terrorised four victims in just four days – by showing them his face.
All four robberies took place in Camden, north London, between Sunday March 14 and Thursday March 18.
If you’ve seen this man you won’t be able to forget him…
Posted: 8th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Russian Cannibals Served With Potatoes Teenager To Lodger
IN St Petersburg, Russia, Maxim Golovatskikh and his friend, a florist called Yury Mozhnov, are accused of killing 16-year-old Karina Barduchian, in a bath and serving her body as meat to lodger Ekaterina Zinovyeva.
Karina has been dating Golovatskikh at the time of her death in January 2009. Ekaterina Zinovyeva tells the court:
“Maxim and Karina went to the bathroom together and I went to bed. I was sleepy but heard splashes of water and some noise there but was not worried. Sometime later I woke up and decided to check what was going on. I went to the bathroom but Yury stopped me on the way and told me to go back to bed. They had joked earlier that they could kill Karina but, of course, I couldn’t believe for a second that they were serious.”
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Posted: 8th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Tolpuddle Guides Strike For Improved Pay, Australia Expects
AT the Tolpuddle Centre in Dorchester, Dorset, nine guides are on strike. All hail the new Tolpuddle martyrs, paid a “paltry” £26 to take tourists around the old crown court, venue for the beginnings of the trade union movement in the UK.
In March 1834, six agricultural workers from the village of Tolpuddle, were shipped off to Australia for sevens years for swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. They became known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
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Posted: 7th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Tries To Down Qantas Plane With His Mind Bomb
ABOARD the Qantas flight from Singapore to Sydney. A passenger says he can crash the plan with the power of his mind. Yep, he’s got a mind bomb.
It is a serious threat and the man is restrained by flight stewards. His arms and legs are cuffed. But his mind remains free. So they bombard it with images of Harry Potter and Blind Side and reassuring announcements from the captain about how high you are above the hard ground or bottomless seas.
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Posted: 7th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mark McGowan 10,000 Prostrates Before David Cameron
MARK McGowan plans to prostrate himself 10,000 times in front of a “large photographic image of Conservative leader David Cameron on (election day) May 6th, 2010, opposite number 10 Downing Street.” (Miodrag Gidra Stojanovic is watching.)
He explains:
“The prostrations can be seen as a sign of reverence to a noble man, David Cameron, the man who can lead this country out of the problems we are in. It should take me about two-and-a-half days to complete, I will start at 10am on Thursday 6th May and finish on Saturday 8th May, by which time this country will see a new leader. Gordon Brown, the Labour party and champagne socialism is over.”
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Posted: 7th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Arizona Prisoners Pedal To Watch Porn And Oprah
TO Tent City Jail in Phoenix, Arizona, where the prisoners must pedal to generate electricity for the telly to work. The thin ones are watching porn. The fat lags are not watching Oprah Winfrey. The sadists are powering the electric chair.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio loves “Pedal Vision”. The inmates, housed in army surplus tents, need to pedal for one hour to generate 12 volts of power and watch one hour of telly. Says Arpaio:
“I started with the females because they seemed more receptive to the idea. The only exercise the females get right now is speed-walking around the tents yard and few are doing that. This gives them a reason to get moving and a way to burn up to 500 calories an hour. They won’t be charged a monthly gym fee but they will have to sign a contract.”
The contract states that you will pay a license fee or go to jail…
Posted: 7th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
In Pictures: The Filipinos Crucifixion And Immaculate Conception (Gory Be)
EASTER is the time to forget about the Pope, sexual abuse and paedophiles and think instead of chocolate, Romans, Mel Gibson and having your hands hammered with nails to get the full Easter experience. Anyone who wants to make like Jesus should get to the Philippines, where pretending you’re Jesus is all the rage. It’s a bit like the school play, only the players draw lots. ‘Judas’ gets the cash. ‘Jesus’ gets to bleed. ‘Eric Idle’ gets to sing. And mums and dads get proud…
Story continues after gallery:
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Posted: 5th, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
God The Blogger Posts Image Of Jesus On Woman’s Bathroom Wall
IN Belen, New Mexico, Danell Griego see the Virgin Mary marble above her bathtub. Forget the gold flecks, this is better: Says she:
“It startled me. It really did it startled me. It’s a gift from God.”
As gifts go a five-inch tall figure of the Virgin Mary looking down at baby Jesus wrapped in a blanket in her arms in your marble is pretty good. But it’s not exaclyt an iPad, is it?
“I kind of got a little bit scared and went running for my husband and kids and I was like, ‘Do you see this?'”
Story continues after gallery of Jesus:
jesus-thumb
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Posted: 3rd, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (10)
‘Keer Kleep’ In Royston Hertfordshire
TO Garden Walk, Royston, Hertfordshire, where the advice on the road is “KEER CLEAP”.
It’s sage advice.
“Keer Cleap” is the lcoal vernacular for “There be dragons”. This is Hertfordshire, people.
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Posted: 2nd, April 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In Pictures: Drunks Behaving Like Michelle McGee
IN light of research linking drinking to unpleasant side effects, or pleasant ones, Anorak delivers a collection of photos showing what can happen when you’re drunk. Michelle McGee (NSFW), the Bayeux Bombshelter linked to Sandra Bullock’s husband Jesse James, might prefer to end up like these poor so-and-sos when sober. But for others, a bit of Dutch courage is the order of the day. Enjoy your drink. Your friends will…
Posted: 2nd, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Man Escapes Police By Hiding In Prison
RICKY Flowers, 20, is running from the cops in Garfield Heights, Ohio. He’s in a car. He’s doing 90mph. Police gain. Ricky Flowers loses the car and runs.
His three friends also run. They are caught. Ricky Flowers is fast. He scales a fence. Safe at last. Ricky Flowers is now in the prison yard of The Northeast Pre-Release Center for Women.
Flowers says he ran from police because he was driving on a suspended license. He’s due in court on other charges, not including being an idiot…
Posted: 31st, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Poos In Lover’s Car To Hide Smell Of Smoking
AUSTIN Horries Purifoy, 18, was in the back seat of a Honda Civic, in Las Cruces, pulling up his underwear when the car’s owner found him.
“This is your car?” Purifoy asked.
“I thought this was Desiree’s car.”
Desiree is Purifoy’s lover. He says he was in the car having a smoke away from her because she frowns on his filthy habit. So as not to upset his girlfriend, Purifoy has smashed the car’s window to get in, nicked some cash and shat on the backseat.
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Posted: 30th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
