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.
Scotland Saves Wee For Lent
GOT you Wee Box for Lent? Anorak spotted bra marvel Michelle Mone in Glasgow holding a ‘Wee Box’ in support of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund’s (SCIFA) fundraising campaign to giving up a favourite treat for Lent.
Are you putting your Wee in a box, saving it for the big release in 40 days and 40 nights?
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Posted: 18th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
School Bans Freak Dancing And The Maypole
THE Brighton High School dance is forbidden. Officials at the North Carolina institution will not endure students “freaking” on the dance floor.
Freaking means sexually suggestive dancing, in the manner of the Tango, the Frot Trot, the Lambada, the Salsa, most ballets, cheerleading and the disgusting Maypole.
“If you open the door for that, what else comes after?” said Lois Lenaghan, whose grandchild attends the high school. “It’s like opening a can of worms.”
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Posted: 18th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Science Says Men Won’t Buy Small Condoms Unless They Are Large Condoms
THE Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Indiana, finds that “small” condoms should be labelled “large” in order to encourage “small” men to buy them – and large men to experience the agony of size discomfort.
Says Bill Yarber (size on application):
“The old saying is, women don’t have penis envy, men do.”
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Posted: 17th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
In Pictures: The Body of Saint Antonio Of Padova
AT the chapel of the Basilica, you can come and see the body of Saint Antonio of Padova. There’s not all that much left of him. But the bones in the glass case are a reminder of the life, what can happens to you after death, the world before Gunther von Hagens and how it could have gone for Snow White had her prince not rock up. The exposition coincides with the liturgical feast of the Translation of St Anthony (also known as the Feast of the Tongue). The devoted come to venerate – and stare…
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Posted: 16th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
The Most Bizarre X Ray Photos Ever
THAT’S an X-Ray of the spatula inside Zdenka Kopeckova. It’s been there for five months. She got it at a clinic in the south-eastern Czech town of Ivancice after gynaecological surgery in September 2009. she presents the best X-Ray photos ever:
Posted: 16th, February 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
The 10 Best St Valentine’s Day Classified Adverts Ever
ST Valentine’s Day is almost upon us. And out of respect for the festival of terrible meals in shitty eateries manned by moist-handed gingivitic waiters with piped in car sick music and flowers of a colour harvested from the ring on Katie Price’s bathtub and possessed of a smell so bland that Switzerland looks like a racy alternative. Bring on the love in Anorak’s most romantic classified adverts ever:
Posted: 12th, February 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Sapporo Snow Festival In Pictures
PICTURES from the 2010 Sapporo Snow Festival. Thanks to global warming there is so much snow that art has never had it so good. Snow is good for art. Snow is the future of art:
Posted: 12th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
White Tiger And Calf Fight: Pictures To Shock
FUN times at the Changzhou Zoo, in the east China’s Jiangsu province. In the burning bright orange corner a 15-year-old tiger named Tanghu is being invited into an enclosure with a calf, who wishes to remain nameless in the poo-brown corner. Who wins? The punters? The tiger looking for a meal. Siegfried? Roy? The calf playing for its life and a chance to move on to the next round and fight with Alex Reid? The pictures…
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A white tiger tries to attack a calf during a training session to tame the tiger in Changzhou of east China's Jiangsu province. The 15-year-old tiger named 'Tanghu' was thrown in with the calf which eventually rose up to resist with its horns. The battle ended with the retreat of the tiger guided by the keeper to its closure.
Posted: 11th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Arab Envoy To Dubai Has Marriage To Bearded Wife Annulled
JOHN Terry need not worry that the lovely Toni has let herself in fascist sand and cement idyll of Dubai. Only a bikini strap stands between Toni and full declaration. Things were quite different, however, for one Arab ambassador to Dubai who has had his marriage annulled after discovering that the women behind the veil was bearded.
What is more, she was cross-eyed.
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Posted: 11th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
The Curry Murder: Lakhvir Kaur Singh’s Spurned Recipe
LAKHVIR Kaur Singh murdered her former lover Lakhvinder Cheema and caused grievous bodily harm with intent to Ms Gurjeet Choongh by poisoning their curry with the Indian herb aconite. Mr Cheema had earlier told Singh, married at the time, that their 16-year affair was over. He would marry Choongh. Singh fed them curry. Mr Cheema ate more than Chongh. He went blind. He lost the use of his limbs. Then he died. A crime of passion? The story in pictures:
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Posted: 10th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Take 27 Minutes To Arrest Man Having Sex In Public
LIONEL Mark William Spratt is at Darwin Magistrates Court, charged with having sex in a Northern Territory garage.
Spratt’s brief, lawyer Matthew Hubber, says that his client had been on drugs all day at Litchfield National Park and was reposeful in the passenger seat of his car. It was then that his friend drove to the BP service station at Adelaide River. The driver, a woman, did leave the car, walk to Spratt’s side and climb in. She then climbed on him. He remains asleep.
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Posted: 10th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
American Students Charles Gill And Ryan Knight Arrested For Throwing Showballs: Face 5 Years Jail
IN America, the people are so free that even the cops are free to issue “felony snowball throwing charges” against Virginia college students Charles Gill and Ryan Knight for throwing snowballs at a snowplough and an undercover police car. The 21-year-olds study at James Madison University were arrested and jailed. They face between one and five years in prison, and a maximum $2,500 fine. That’s freedom.
Posted: 9th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Against Name Badges Form Facebook Protest Group With Real Names
IN Lancashire, the police are wearing name badges. Only, they don’t want to, so they’re protesting on Facebook – using their own names and photos:
POLICE in Bolton are to wear name badges on duty to improve “customer service”.
All of Greater Manchester Police’s 8,100 officers, along with 4,000 civilian staff, will be ordered to wear the tags, which will display their full name and rank.
Plain clothes detectives will not be exempt from wearing the badges but police working undercover, or officers wearing riot gear, will be allowed to take them off. The cost of issuing the badges to every officer and staff member has been put at £21,000 – This Is Lancashire, Feb, 9, 2009
Cops have launched an internet campaign against plans to force officers to wear name badges – so revealing their identities to those they lock up – but have signed up to the public protest using their names and pictures – MEN, FEb 9, 2009
Posted: 9th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The 2010 Venice Carnival In Pictures, Death And A Hanging
THE Venice Carnival 2010 featured a slaughtered bull, 12 dead pigs in the Piazza San Marco and local toff Bianca Brandolini being hung from a scaffold. This being Venice, there are also small cups of coffee so expensive bankers asks for discount and Americans wandering why this faux Venice has none of the razzamatazz and all-day buffet at the real deal in Vegas. Still, the masks are better than you see at Halloween or in the more surgical areas of Los Angeles:
Posted: 8th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Britain’s Got Talent Auditions At The Hammersmith Apollo London
THE Britain’s Got Talent Auditions at The Hammersmith Apollo London, with Ant (right) and Dec (left) eyebrow wrangler Amanda Holden, walking inflatable Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell. Earlier in the week, Anorak was in the queue to see the Big Brother 11 hopefuls perform the Hokey Cokey and be judged to see if they were talented or untalented enough to go on the show and be voted for by the great unwashed. Britain’s Got Talent is utterly different to Big Brother because it’s got Simon Cowell and a better timeslot on ITV…
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Posted: 8th, February 2010 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment
Bus Driver Stops London Bus To Chant: Pat Sharp Bombs
ON the No.24 to Hampstead Heath, the driver has pulled up to pray on his dayglo safety vest. The Mail reports:
He took off his shoes, knelt down facing Mecca, and began to chant.
We’d been wondering what Pat Sharp had been up to. Passenger Gayle Griffiths complained to Transport for London. Says she:
“I have done the journey a million times before but I was in a hurry to get home to pick my little girl up from school. We had just picked up and let off people at a bus stop and moved off again when the driver stopped the bus very suddenly.
“He got out of his cab, leaving the engine running, and walked towards the middle exit door. He laid out a fluorescent jacket on the floor and I thought that somebody must have been sick and he was covering it up. I didn’t really think much of it. But then he took off his shoes and began praying. I was gobsmacked and quite bewildered.”
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Posted: 8th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Saudi Arabia Rejects Pakistan Amabassador ‘Biggest Dick’
THE biggest dick in Saudi Arabia is not Akbar Zib, the Pakistani diplomat and nominative determinism victim.
He has had his application to be Pakistan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia denied. It’s just that your name mans “Biggest Dick” in Arabia and the local claimants to the title aren’t having that.
Zib was previously rejected for work in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
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Posted: 8th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
US Soldier Waterboards His Daugther In English Class
JOSHUA Tabor tells police that6 he waterboarded his four-year-old daughter for failing to recite the Bible. Anorak think he should have worked her up to gargling while saying her A to Z.
Start with the letters in order, then do it one breath then – and only then – do it with a drenched cloth over your face.
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Posted: 7th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Compo For Jogger Locked In Park’s Toilet On Christmas Eve
SOUTHWARK Council locked a jogger in a public toilet on Christmas Ever. He remained in the lavatory – no heating, save for hand dryer, bin liner clothes and hot water – for 17 hours. CCTV captured his movements.
The story goes that the man had been jogging in Dulwich Park. He nipped to the toilet. The attendant failed to check if there was anyone inside the building before locking the door.
The council will pay the man compensation.
Anorak is just wondering who goes jogging on Christmas Eve and then takes their lives in their hands in a public toilet? We’d say they want locking up – but that would seem unnecessary…
Posted: 6th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man Steals 5 Gallons Of Lotion In Trousers
CHAMIL Guadarrama needs lotion. Five gallons of it. Police in Springfield, Massachusetts, say 30-year-old Guadarrama was at a Bath and Body Works store.
Guadarrama was spotted placing eight-ounce glass bottles of lotion in his trousers. He reportedly tied string around his ankles to stop the bottles slipping out.
Security officers see Guadarrama. He runs. But can’t go all that fast. Soon arrested, Guadarrama can’t bend to get in the police car until more bottles are removed. His legs are described as “extremely chafed’”.
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Posted: 6th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Britney Spears Cross-Dresser In Court For Scaring Children
WHAT news of the Britney Spears cross-dresser, one Peter Trigger? Well, since you ask, Mr Trigger is in court charged with breaching the anti-social behaviour order that bars him from baring his legs in public and wearing a skirt during the school run.
Man Banned From Dressing As Britney Spears Near School Gates
In December 2008, Mr Trigger was spotted about primary schools in Northampton wearing a “Britney Spears-style schoolgirl uniform.”
Parents walking with their children to nearby Woodvale Primary School had claimed Trigger had bent over, shown his bare thighs and indicated he was wearing no underwear.
We thought Mr Trigger a brave man, a lure to paedos, pervert and Spears fans, who would approach the child and then be dealt a severe blow to their self-esteem and mind’s eye. But it seems that not all agree.
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Posted: 4th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Beijing Taxi Driver Chains Son To Post While He Works
IN Beijing, rickshaw driver Chen Chuanliu chains his two-year-old son Lao Lu to a tree while he’s working. He says this is because he can’t afford a nursery place.
Last month his four-year-old daughter Ling disappeared. Chen is taking no chances.
“My wife is ill and I can’t stop work. So I chain him to a pole when I have a fare. It seems harsh but it is better than losing him.”
Anorak has one word: tandem.
Posted: 4th, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Bury Man Sought In Animal Sperm Tossing Attacks
ARE you the animal semen thrower of old Bury town? Do you pass an evening tossing animal semen on schoolgirls?
Detectives in Greater Manchester say you are “disgusting”.
One victim was hit with a sticky liquid – later found to be animal semen – on her tights. Another girl, agreed 15, was attacked in…Ostrich Lane, Prestwich (a clue?).
Another girl had a white substance smeared on her bottom. Another girl noticed liquid dripping from her skirt.
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Posted: 3rd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Farmer Filder Forced To Demolish His Castle
ROBERT Fidler, of Salfords, Surrey, must demolish his home. Mr Fidler built a castle, with turrets. And a canon. Mr Fidler did not get planning permission.
The home was hidden behind bales of straw and tarpaulin for four years. He believed that after this time, a legal loop hole would allow him to keep his house.
Then a Government inspector said that the removal of the straw bales constituted part of the building works and the four-year immunity rule would not apply. To the High Court, then.
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Posted: 3rd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
University Worker Spanked Women For ‘Pain Management’ Study
TO Bristol Crown Court, where University of Bath Karl Woodgett, 37, is said to have filmed himself caning the women at a Bristol hotel. It is alleged that Mr Woodgett (nominative determinism, readers) admsintered the spankings in exchange for degrees.
Mr Woodgett paid Cameroonians Elsie Neh and Mbone Kemba to be spanked to help with his research into “pain management”.
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Posted: 3rd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
