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.
Quadriplegic Speared In AC/DC Mosh Pit
SAD news from the mosh pit at AC/DC’s concert at the Queensland Sport and Athletic Centre, where a quadriplegic man has been injured. In the excitement, his friend caught the joystick of his motorised wheelchair. The man sent at speed thorugh the “caution tape” into the mosh pit.
It gets worse. The quadriplegic used a metal pin to move objects. This imbedded in his eye.
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Posted: 2nd, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
English Mentors Will Turn Your Rich Russian Brats Into Sarah Ferguson Clones
CHANNEL 4 TV show The Russians Are Coming introduces me to a charming outfit called English Mentors. Imagine you’re a mega-rich Russian breeder with a brat to civilise – how could you fast-track it into an English public school such as Eton or Stowe for all the global advantages that money can buy? Simples. You hand it over to English Mentors, writes Madame Arcati:
For a fee so substantial it warrants no mention, EM will billet your kid on an English country house and put it through short “modules” in etiquette, clay shooting, polo, English language, deportment, visits to the Palace of Westminster and BBC studios and other delights that spell Brideshead Culture. EM is purposed to create smart little foreign Englishers who can fit into public school castes.
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Posted: 1st, March 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Jewel Robbers Leave Behind Son At Crime Scene
IN Philadelphia, a couple – let’s call them Dick & Jane – have robbed the Platinum and Ice jewellers of £100,000 of goods and left behind their son, a four year old boy.
The couple enter the shop. They browse. A worked removes some gems for them to study. And then with his back turned they grab the booty and run.
The store owner gives chase. A suspect draw a knife and slashes him across the cheek. They get away. But the boy remain at the shop.
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Posted: 1st, March 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
X Ray Of Kalim Ali’s Rectum Impaled On A Meter-Long Metal Rod
MEET Kalim Ali, aka Rod, who has been impaled on a 1.5cm thick, 1metre-long metal pole that has passed through 10 organs. Rectum, small intestine and lungs are pierced. No major blood vessels are ruptured.
Posted: 27th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Jesus Found In Plastic Bucket Of Pizza Sauce
MARY Louise Salerno has seen Jesus Christ in a bargain bucket of pizza sauce at Brownie’s Famous Pizzeria. She knew what to do: take a video.
Says she, of the happening at her family’s West Scranton, PA, pizzeria:
“To us, it was something special. God smiled on us that day.”
Cheese!
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Posted: 27th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ryanair Scratchcard Winner Eats 10000 Euros
ABOARD a Ryanair plane from Poland to East Midlands airport, a man has won a scartchcard game. His prize: 10,000 euros. He then eats his winning ticket.
As anyone who has endured a Ryanair flight knows, the journey is peppered with offers to buy all manner of wonders – but not porn stars. Every so often the captain and his plane-mates pick up tinny instruments and with a blast of Speedy Gonzalez-style intro tell the seated that they can win big money.
Ryanair Offers Liverpool Flyers Emergency Landings And Chute Rides
Having been softened up by the bun-fight for seats, a hideous wait and frisking at the airport and the vague smell of sick, here is the chance to win money and thus afford to travel in something better than abattoir class.
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Posted: 26th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Virginia’s White Tail Chapel Of Prayer And Lap Dancing
WORSHIPPERS at Virginia’s White Tail Chapel evoke the Garden of Eden before the fall as they stand before god naked as they days they were born – although what with gravity, hair and enlarged pores, not as pretty.
And yes it is called white tail and the worshippers are mostly white. Anyone mistaking the names for a lap dancing club should enter within and exit without. The no touching rule holds.
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Posted: 26th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Tran Van Hay RIP: Man With World’s Longest Hair Dies
RIP Tran Van Hay, the man with the longest hair in the world – 6.8 metres of matted bush. But Hay’s hair as not measured in an official capacity.
The record books attest that Xie Qiuping of China has the longest barnet. In 2004, his mane stretched to at 5.6 metres. In 2006, Hay’s hair was 6.8 meters. But, as we say, unofficially.
Hay dies aged 79. His hair will harvested and used an alternative bearskin for Her Majesty the Queen’s guard. It being what Hay would have wanted…
Posted: 26th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Police Arrest Man For Wearing Clown Mask
IN the self-styled land of the free, Matthew David Lopez has been arrested and charged with wearing a clown mask in public.
Lopez is dressed in a bright red-and-orange wig.
He is being followed by an unmarked police car. Lopez walks behind an office building, along a path described in police reports as “slightly wooded”.
Is a thought crime being enacted? Can the copper be certain Lopez is wearing mask and not a friend of Katie Price’s?
A police car arrives and Lopez runs. (Put the flower down, sir. Sir, the flower!)
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Posted: 26th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Pictures Of The Week: The Weird And Worrying
PICTURES on Friday. Anorak’s new weekly feature showcasing the weird, wonderful, stupid and downright odd pictures from the previous seven days and the archives. Pics Of The Week.*
* If you see an image that infringes your copywrite please tell us and we will remove it as soon as possible.
Posted: 26th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dildo Wins Prestigious Canadian Tourist Award
IN the town of Dildo, Newfoundland, things have “gone high-tech” at the George House Heritage Bed and Breakfast.
The B&B has won the fifth annual Tourism Atlantic Technology Award for “bringing its five-room operation into the 21st century”.
Dildo’s leading hotel managed to score publicity by plugging itself on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Google. There is even an online booking facility on a fancy website. And not forgetting a Dildo blog.
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Posted: 25th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
China Mourns End Of Ashley And Cheryl Cole Show
TWO dogs – Ashley and Cherly Cole – give a stunt street performance in Huaibei, Anhui province of China. Hold on a moment. That’s not Cheryl!
Cheryl Cole Arrives Home To Find Ashley Cole Gone: Pictures
Posted: 23rd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Presenter Wanted For 30 Raves In 30 Weeks
SITUATION Pretty Vacant: A TV company is looking for a presenter to win the “best job” (worst job) in the world and travel the globe attending 30 Raves in 30 Weeks.
You also get £30k, plus travel, expenses, toilet paper and living costs.
Apply here.
Posted: 23rd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cameras Turn Lancashire’s Public Toilets Into Sex Dens
IN Pendle, the burghers are putting dummy camera in public toilets to deter perverts and attract, well, a different sort of pervert. Exhibitionists and flashers, the facility is open for purpose. Voyeurs can apply to man the cams:
DUMMY cameras could be deployed in public toilets in Pendle to prevent them being used as sex dens, councillors have been told.
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Posted: 22nd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Gun Safety Instructor Shoots Student In Church
AT a gun safety class in Orlando, Fla., Instructor Michael Phillips demonstrates the dangers of guns by showing students Robert Frauman Jr in the foot.
At Summit Church, three persons are getting instruction in the weapons of love. It being what Jesus would have wanted.
Posted: 22nd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Roof Collapses At Sweden’s Largest Rabbit Meet, Greet And Dance
HORROR at Sweden’s largest rabbit show (source: Fur and Feather magazine) as the roof over the Nyköping exhibition at the Rosvalla tennis hall collapses.
In a room about 100 kilometres south of Stockholm, 1,648 rabbits are ready. It is night. The doors are locked. Close by, the rabbit fanciers are at a dance event organized by the local rabbit owners’ association. Then the roof caves in.
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Posted: 20th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Winning Photo Of Ant Carrying 100 Times Own Bodyweight
THE image of an Asian weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina), taken by Dr Thomas Endlein, of Cambridge Univesity, wins the inaugural Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) science photo competition.
The ant is holding a 500 milligram weight in its jaws. The ant is carrying 100 times its own body weight. Endlein is investigating the sticky properties of ants’ feet. Says he:
Ants can change the size and shape of the pads on their feet depending on the load they are carrying. If they have to carry heavy loads they increase the contact area, and when they need to run they decrease it. The pads on ants’ feet are self-cleaning and can stick to almost any type of surface. No man-made glue or adhesive system can match this. Understanding how animals can control their adhesive systems should help us come up with clever adhesives in the future.
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Posted: 20th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Offers Woman Sex For New Driveway, Husband Disappointed With Rejection
NORTH Carolina’s Billie Bobbie Harrison is arrested for allegedly offering to relay a woman’s driveway in exchange for sex. He is charged with one count of indecent exposure.
Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office puts it to the court that Harrison and an associate drove up to the home of a 55-year old Chesnee woman.
A conversation ensued in which the woman says Harrison exposed himself and said he’d asphalt her drive for sex. She declines.
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Posted: 20th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus’s Face Appears On Frying Pan
TOBY Elles sees Jesus in his frying pan. Anorak sees a young Jimmy Hill. Whatever. Both know the dangers of fried food.
Toby is 22. On Shrove Tuesday, he and a flatmate in his Salford home leave a pan on the hob. Pancakes. Danger.
Toby smeall dangers. He dashes to the kitchen and tosses the pan into the sink. One day on and Jesus is scorched into the metal.
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Posted: 20th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Sanusi Ibrahim Craps Once Every Seven Weeks And Has Sex With Hidden Wonders
SANUSI Ibrahim, age 46, foes to the toilet once in every seven weeks. No, he does soil himself. He just has no need to go. As Nigeria’s Sun newspaper tells us:
Tall, lanky, active and friendly Sanusi Ibrahim, 46, is telling anybody who cares to listen with pride that he does not excrete as they do. That he is at home with any kind of consumable food he chooses to ingest at anytime of the day. Sanusi says he could demolish double the ratio his contemporaries devour:
“I don’t tolerate hunger for one moment. That’s why I ensure that there’s always something edible by my side even when I am not at home.”
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Posted: 19th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Policeman Arrests Teenage Brother For Stealing Three Cans Of Beer From Family Fridge
A POLICEMAN is never off duty. Mindful of that we journey to North Somerset Courthouse, where a 15-year-old youth is on the dock, accused by his policeman brother of stealing three cans of beer from the family fridge. Value: £4.
He is arrested for theft and placed in a cell for the night.
Mr Charles Hart, defending, opines that the brothers had experienced a “relationship breakdown.”
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Posted: 19th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man With Six Feet Steals 1200 Shoes
IN South Korea, six-footed Park has stolen 1200 pairs of shoes. Having taken them from funerals – local custom dictates shoes should be removed – Park was nabbed by police. The shoes are put out in rows ready to be claimed.
The Times Joanna Sugden tells a very odd version of events:
They came from all around the South Korean capital as victims of an unusual crime. Each had lost an expensive and cherished pair of shoes while attending a funeral.
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Posted: 19th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
The Battle For Tickle Cock Bridge
TICKLE Cock Bridge is Tickle Cock Bridge was ever Castleford, West Yorkshire’s, Tickle Cock Bride and must remain Tickle Cock Bridge.
It is not Tittle Cott bridge, as the plaque bearing that dread name says it is. Castleford Area Voice for the Elderly say it is Tickle Cock Bridge. It is a name they grew up with. The new plaque carries the legend “Tickle Cock”.
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Posted: 19th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Pics Of The Week: Proud Mum
PICTURES on Friday. Anorak’s new weekly feature showcasing the weird, wonderful, stupid and downright odd pictures from the previous seven days and the archives. Pics Of The Week. * If you see an image that infringes your copywrite please tell us and we will remove it as soon as possible.
Posted: 19th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bafta Mask: The Making Of The Mask In Pictures
EVER wonder how a Bafta mask is made? Carpet burns, fluids and craft, darling? Actually, no. It’s metal, flames and lots of banging with a chisel and a novelty jelly mould based on Mitzi Cunliffe’s orginal. Anorak got access to the casting of Orange BAFTA award masks at New Pro Foundries in West Drayton, Middlesex. Fascinating stuff.
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Posted: 18th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
