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.
He Pingping RIP: World’s Shortest Man In Pictures And Vital Statistics
HE Pingping RIP. You were the world’s shortest man. Who the world’s shortest man is now we do not know. As one life ends, another record-breaking career is born. He Pingping was just 21. Not inches. Years. Pingping was 74.6cm tall. Or 74.61cm, if you’re reading the Times.
Born in 1988 in Wulanchabu, China, Mr Pingping had a form of primordial dwarfism. Says Craig Glenday, Guinness World Records editor-in-chief, predictably:
“For such a small man, he made a huge impact around the world.”
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Posted: 16th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Wife Shoots Husband Through Genitals On Main Road
AFTER the woman who shaved her pubic hair while driving in Florida, here’s the woman who shot woman who shot her husband in the genitals on Interstate 57.
The red Chevrolet was pulled over when police arrived on the scene. The story goes that in course of the journey, the couple argued. Yolanda L. Morris-Sheegog, 53, struck her husband with a phone book.
He tried to defend himself, so the story goes. She pulls out a gun and shoots him through the genitals, the bullet lodging in his right leg.
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Posted: 16th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Bizarre Road Signs In Pictures: Drunk Romanians And Other Inmates
THE World’s best road sings, brought to you by the Romanian town of Pecica and the warning sign that drinks are crossing. The same sign has been used in South Africa. Signs language is a universal language:
Posted: 16th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Court Orders Paedophile Dad To Put Door With Lock On Children’s Bedroom
TWO girls, aged 8 and 10, have been ordered to spend the weekend with their father, a man convicted of downloading child porn and creating image son his PC.
But it will be ok, because Judge Robert Benjamin has commanded that the girls have a door on their bedroom they can lock.
In the Family Court’s Hobart branch, the judge rules that the girls “need some protection from (their father), particularly at night“.
And he’s not all that bad – the risk of sexual abuse was “diminished when they are awake and alert“.
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Posted: 15th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Woman Dies Praying For Obama
ON this Sunday, some religious news, in keeping with our pledge:
Evelyn Boyd was on a mission to pray — for her husband, her church, her city, the nation and the president.
So on Feb. 7, she locked herself in a bedroom to pray and fast. She brought water and prayer requests and told her husband not to bother her.
“This is what I have to do,” she told him.
Go on:
For more than three weeks, Boyd, 55, didn’t emerge. Her family could have come to her aid if she needed help, but her husband wanted to respect her wish to be alone. He figured she’d be okay, just like the last four times she fasted.
But on the 26th day, family members forced the door open. They found her dead.
Spotter: J-Walk
Posted: 14th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Stage Psychic Show Cancelled Due To Unforeseen Circumstances
SAD news that the stage version of TV’s Most Haunted, the TV psychic show, scheduled to play at Plymouth’s Pavilion Theatre this May 22, has been cancelled.
Why was the psychic show cancelled? Well it was “due to unforeseen circumstances”.
Yvette Fielding’s Night of Fright is off.
Posted: 13th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In Pictures: Kingdom’s Thames Tunnel Opens And Then Closes For Good
THE Thames Tunnel, the brainchild of engineering geniuses Marc and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was open to the public for the just two days first time in 145 years today. Opened in 1852, the tunnel gripped the nation’s imagination: nothing had been seen like it before and it paved the way for the present day Tube system. Lying deep beneath the River Thames, it is one of the Brunels’ greatest engineering triumphs – and the only project they worked on together. The tunnel is 1,300ft long and, by the end of the first week of opening, more than half the population of London had paid to walk “the shining avenue of light to Wapping“. There is a sad twist to the tale, however. The East London tube line is being opened later this year and will be going through the tunnel. That means, at the end of the two days, the tunnel will be closed – forever.
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The Thames Tunnel, the brainchild of engineering geniuses Marc and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, will open to the public for the just two days first time in 145 years today. Opened in 1852, the tunnel gripped the nation's imagination: nothing had been seen like it before and it paved the way for the present day Tube system. Lying deep beneath the River Thames, it is one of the Brunels' greatest engineering triumphs - and the only project they worked on together. The tunnel is 1,300ft long and, by the end of the first week of opening, more than half the population of London had paid to walk "the shining avenue of light to Wapping". There is a sad twist to the tale, however. The East London tube line is being opened later this year and will be going through the tunnel. That means, at the end of the two days, the tunnel will be closed - forever.
Posted: 12th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Thief Steals Old Woman’s Bag Of Poo
POLICE in Worthing, Sussex, are hunting the bag-snatcher who stole an old woman’s bag of poo.
The poo was not her own, kept in a bag to enliven her days and keep the draft out. The poo was that of her dog.
The man on a bike approached the woman as she passed by the Post Office in High Street, Tarring. He reached out and snatched the bag of doings.
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Posted: 12th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Cecilia Juarez Wins Mexico Beauty Contest For Prisoners: In Pictures
CECILIA Juarez is Mexico’s held its annual Miss Belleza Cautiva – winner of the country’s Miss Captive Beauty pageant. Miss Juarez is the most beautiful inmate in all of Mexico. Cecilia, 22, is doing time for drug trafficking. Her ambition is to end world hunger and invents an edible condom undetectable to X-Ray machines. Miss Juarex resides at the Cereso prison in Juárez. Her vital statistics are 2 months on remand awaiting sentencing, your honour… Spotter: Guanabee
Posted: 12th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
75 Starlings Commit Suicide In Somerset
IN Croxley, Somerset, 75 starlings have fallen from the sky. Dead. The birds are on a driveway.
The RSPCA animal charity is “mystified”.
And the BBC delivers one of the greatest lines ever recorded in the media. We give you:
Animal welfare officer Alison Sparkes, who was called by police, said: “It was a remarkable sight, I’ve never seen anything like it.”
There is no evidence the birds were ill or poisoned before they hit the ground.
How do you give medical to a wild bird in flight? And can you tell a starling’s mental well-being by sight alone? Answers on a feather to the usual address…
Posted: 11th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ireland’s First Leprachaun Museum In Pictures
IRELAND opened its first Leprechaun Museum in central Dublin. The word “first” is suggestive of more museums to the little people. But little people are not to be trusted. Randy Newman taught us that. As for the crock of gold. Well, there a huge crock of something. This is the world’s foremost museum to nothing. It’s not a museum – it’s a theme park without any of the rides or the fun. There are, however, big pieces furniture – for giants to sit on… or visting Americans…
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Posted: 10th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Crack Buyer Tricks Dealer With Monopoly Money
IN Wichita, Kansas, a crack dealer is being paid in Monopoly money. The story begins in Wichita, where police have stopped a car.
Inside, a 33-year-old man’s head is bleeding. The man says he had recently invested in some crack-cocaine. He had paid the dealer in Monopoly. And now the dealer wantssome real money or his crack back.
Says Gordon Bassham with the Wichita Police Department.
“The man from whom he had bought the drugs was upset and invited him over to his house and upon arrival struck him in the head several times with a handgun and other people jumped into the fray.”
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Posted: 10th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Grows Unicorn Horn: Pictures
ZHANG Duifang is 101 years old. She lives in Lushan Country, Henan Province of China. She has a tumour on her forehead.
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Posted: 8th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
International Women’s Day Presents The World’s Wost Logos
INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day presents the worst logos of all time. Relax, men. You won’t feel a thing. Time to sock it to the men – and other women…
Posted: 8th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Swiss Ban Suicide Clinics For Pets
IN SWITZERLAND, voters have rejected lawyers for dogs, what might be called postman chasers.
Around 70% of Swiss broke up the apres-skiing, institutionalised racism and bansturbation by voting against plans for state-funded lawyers to represent animals in court. The other 30% are believed to be lawyers and chimpanzees in hats and overcoats.
The system is already in place in Zurich. Injured and abused animal head to Zurich, where they are either put down – it being what they want – or launch a class action law suit.
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Posted: 7th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Woman Shaving Privates While Driving In Rear-End Smash
MEGAN Mariah Barnes, 37, is accused of shaving her pubic hair while driving, a procedure that led to a two car accident on the Florida Keys.
Barnes was shaving – not plucking not waxing: shaving – her bikini zone while behind the wheel. For reasons of safety, her ex-husband took the wheel from the passenger seat.
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Posted: 7th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Prius Kills Baby: Son Dies As Parents Raise Virtual Solution
KIM Yoo-chul, 41 and Choi Mi-sun, 25 are accused of allowing their daughter to die while they raised a vitual baby called Anima in a computer game called…Prius. The child died from prolonged malnutrition.
“The couple seemed to have lost their will to live a normal life because they didn’t have jobs and gave birth to a premature baby,” police officer Chung Jin-Won said.
“They indulged themselves in the online game of raising a virtual character so as to escape from reality, which led to the death of their real baby.”
It’s a horrible story. But the name of the game – Prius – leaves room for an aside. Prius is the smug-mobile driven by wealthy greenies who don’t brake for humans. When we first heard that the brakes on a Prius might fail we imagined it was a cunning plot for hardcore greens to rid the world of the human virus, or cyclists, as we macho drivers call them.
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Posted: 5th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Accused Of Owning Image Of Human Shagging A Squid
AT Swansea Magistrates Court, Andrew Charles Dymond, 46, is answering the charged with possessing an “extreme pornographic” image of someone having sex with what appears to be a squid. A dead one. (Does that make it better or worse?)
And let us precise, the image is of a human…
“…performing an act of intercourse with a dead animal, namely an octopus/squid, which was grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character”.
What is it squid or octopus? Or is one marine cephalopods very much like another when it is being shagged to death?
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Posted: 5th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Sues Over Wife Who Can’t Make Sexy Fist With Her Toes
GERMAINE Bowman McDonald says that when a hairdresser’s head mannequin fell on her foot it ruined her life and her sex life.
To the Baobob crimpers in Hollis, New York, where Mrs McDonald is having a “Diana Ross-style hairpiece” fixed to her head. Then a plastic mannequin head falls and hits her left foot. Her Olympic dreams are crushed.
There is much therapy to come. And at Queens Supreme Court., her lawyer, one Kenneth Wilhelm, says:
“It just doesn’t seem to be healing.”
He ads that:
“At this point she can’t make a fist with her toes.”
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Posted: 5th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pics Of Thee Week: Selling The Chile Earthquake
ANORAK presents Pictures of The Week on Friday. This week’s pictures are presented by the Chile Earthquake – now entertaining you…
Posted: 5th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Indian Man Has 21-Day Erection
An INDIAN man who endured a 21-day erection has lost the ability to have sex.
The 55-year-old man from Kolkata is thought to have eaten Viagra which reacted to an pre-existing neurological disorder.
“It was too late by the time he sought treatment,” says Avishek Mukherjee, neurosurgeon at Wockhardt Hospitala.
On a brigher not, those Indians do love a world record…
Penises: The World’s Biggest (NSFW)
Posted: 4th, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Finds Chef’s Severed Finger In IHOP Chicken Salad
TO the International House of Pancakes in Hallandale, Florida, where chef Ronald Neilly has accidentally sliced off a fingertip. Neilly is sent to hospital.
Nadine Robinson, 42, and daughter Ashley, arrive for some eats. She wants a fried chicken green salad. She has been to church. She is also served a “freshly severed finger tip that contained both freshly cut human flesh and blood“.
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Posted: 3rd, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Porn For Bibles: Texas Group Organsies Bible Amensty
IN San Antonio, you are invited to join ‘Smut for Smut’, a campaign sponsored by the student group, Atheist Agenda and exchange your Bibles for some decent porn. It’s a Bible amnesty.
Says group member Carlos Morales (oh, nominative determinism):
“We are comparing their religious text to pornography…”
There aren’t all that many photos in the Bible. But thanks to some terrific artists there are lots of impressions of naked breasts, a memorable rendition of David’s penis and Eve clad in a fig leaf and cheeky grin.
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Posted: 3rd, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (13)
Man Killed By Electric Urine
ROY Messenger, 50, has hit an electricity pole. He is ok. His car is in a ditch. He calls his pal to help him pull the car free.
Friends and family arrive. They find Ray Messenger dead.
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Posted: 3rd, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ms Porn Is Hamlin Garden School’s Popular Teacher
NOMINATIVE determinism brings us Ms Porn, a teacher at the Hamlin Garland Elementary school in Milwaukee. Mr Smith is thought to be a popular pseudonym.
Spotter: Tabloid Prodigy
Posted: 2nd, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
