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.
Man Wins Free Train Tickets With Corporate Tattoo
RANT Burton, an Australian, got inked with a tattoo of the Eurail corporate logo to win a his parents to a train journey across Europe.
Rant is unemployed. He lost his job as a security job at Christmas. But he wanted to treat his dear old mum and dad to a 40th wedding anniversary. It was also his mum Cheryl’s 60th birthday.
What to do? Well, why not drum up publicity for Netherlands-based Eurail logo by swapping your skin for two tickets. Says Rant:
“They were all for it.”
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Posted: 2nd, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Barack Obama Is Cheesy And Cheryl Cole Spreads, Literally: Pictures
YOU know you’ve arrived when Prudence Staite turns you into a life-size edible sculpture, like those of Dita von Teese, Cheryl Cole and Barack Obama. The effigies are made from LowLow cheese. Food can be satirical. Tony Blair should be made from wafers and blood; David Cameron from half-eaten, organic Ferrero Rocher; Katie Price from orange Chewits and so on. Here’s the Obama cheese…
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Posted: 1st, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Men Choose BAAPS For Boob Jobs: Fact
DID you know that more men are having boob jobs than ever before? The BBC, no less, tells us that breast reduction for men is the “fastest growing part of the cosmetic surgery industry for the second year running”.
Last year a whopping 581 men had their breasts trimmed, a rise from 323 in the previous year. That’s an 80% increase. And then this:
Pressure created by men’s magazines was partly to blame, one surgeon said.
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Posted: 1st, February 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Virginia Bans Anne Frank’s Diary And Other Gay Porn
ANNE Frank’s Diary has been banned in Culpeper, Virginia. Why? Well, it’s the gay porn you see. And anyone readinf the secret diary af a “young girl” should be on a sex offender’s register. It’s just plain wrong. It’s too pornographic. The Bible stays – it’s porn being ecumenical. It’s bansturbation:
Culpeper County public school officials have decided to stop assigning a version of Anne Frank’s diary, one of the most enduring symbols of the atrocities of the Nazi regime, after a parent complained that the book includes sexually explicit material and homosexual themes.
“The Diary of a Young Girl: the Definitive Edition,” which was published on the 50th anniversary of Frank’s death in a concentration camp, will not be used in the future, said James Allen, director of instruction for the 7,600-student system. The school system did not follow its own policy for handling complaints about instructional materials, Allen said.
Posted: 30th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dentist Leaves Drill Inside Woman’s Face
INSIDE Donna Delgado’s Delgado’s right maxillary sinus is an inch-long piece of steel drill bit.
Ms Delgado is no circus act. She is patient of oral surgeon Mr Ralph Eichstaedt. For the past year, it is said, that Ms Delgado suffered headaches and felt dizzy.
For about the same time, it is alleged that Mr Eichstaedt was looking for a drill bit.
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Posted: 30th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
German Actors Replace Water With Vodka For Play About Drinking: Hilarity Ensues
TO the performance of Moscow To the End of the Line, a satirical 1970 novel by the late Russian author Venedikt Erofeev, at Frankfurt’s upmarket Schauspielhaus theatre.
For the show, in the interests of authenticity, four actors – “as an experiment” – substitute the on-stage water to real vodka. The play features a “crazy depiction of one of the most famous alcoholic benders in world literature“.
Torben Kessler, Michael Abendroth, Marc Oliver Schulze and Oliver Kraushaar are slaves to their art. They drink and drink and drink.
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Posted: 29th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In Pictures: The Viking Jarl Squad Do The Up Helly Aa
TO the Up Helly Aa with the replica Viking Warriors of The Jarl Squad. In Lerwick, on the Shetland Isles, they remember their Viking roots. It’s Europe’s biggest annual fire festival takes in marches and singing and ends, as ever, with the torching of a replica Viking galley. The modern Viking wears flame-retardant headgear and offsets the fire with carbon credits…
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Posted: 27th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Man Blows Up Wife With Explosives In Domestic Row
IN Thailand, a row between a man, Phen Buntham, and his wife, Saijai Buntham, ended when the man, a quarry worker, detonated a batch C-4 plastic explosive.
The couples home was destroyed, as were they.
Mr Phen’s job at the quarry involved him taking care of explosives. Mr Phen took some of the explosives home.
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Posted: 27th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Save The Blobfish For Later, Say Scientists
SAVE the Blobfish! Writes TB:
THE blobfish inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of the Australian mainland and Tasmania. Scientists warn that over-fishing by trawlers is threatening to make it extinct. The bloated bottom dweller, which can grow up to 12 inches, lives at depths of up to 800m, and is rarely seen by humans – TB
How do you know when it’s extinct if it is rarely seen by humans? Can more scientists with vested interests be hired to argue the debate?
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Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Virgin Mary Spotted Hiding In Bag Of Crisps
JANE Symington found the Virgin Mary in a bag of Lay’s potato chips.
The flavour is not given, although Jeez and Minion is the favouite.
No-one has found a likeness of Muhammed nor of Joseph, Jesus’s step-dad.
But we look in hope…
Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Tiger Woods Presents The Best Golf Shot Ever
TIGER Woods teaches the world of golf that it needs to move with the times to keep its players and fans interested. Where are the walk-on girls, the novelty holes, the theme music to introduce each shot and the ultimate test of hitting a moving ball. This lad knows – the futue is bright:
Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Lancashire Council Hunts The Cigarette Butt Dropper
BIG local news in the Lancashire Evening Post – NW Daily Newspaper Website of the Year” – that Lancaster Council “is on the hunt” for a man who “allegedly dropped a cigarette butt in the city’s Market Street.”
You might mock and think this an utter waste of time and taxpayer’s money. But it starts with butt, moves onto a good inch of still burning ciggie, then before you know the rapscallion is lobbing entire packets of lit ciggies over kindergarten walls.
Enforcement officers say he ran away before they could be issue him with a £75 fine.
He’s a smoker. He won’t have run far.
* If you know who he is, call the council on 01524 582439.
Or don’t.
Posted: 25th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Great Tits Produce Better Sperm: National Geographic Now A Tabloid
THE internet is all about traffic, right. Big brands and blogs competing on a level playing field stained by porn, sex, more porn and pictures of cats. National Geographic wants its readers to know:
Flashier Great Tits Produce Stronger Sperm, Bird Study Shows
The story:
Male great tits with brighter breasts have stronger sperm, according to the first study to find a link between flashiness and sperm strength.
More bird spotting – Page 3 Girls Retrospective.
Posted: 25th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jennfier Aniston And Brad Pitt Swan Off
AT a Gloucestershire wildfowl sanctuary, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are small fry. Two swans – Bewick swans Sarindi Pitt and Saruni Aniston– are divorcing.
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The Bewick’s left the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre at Slimbridge for Arctic Russia together. They have returned with new partners. Male swan Sarindi arrived home without Saruni but with Sarind Jolie. It is only the second divorce in 40 years recorded at the centre.
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Staff who observe swans shagging and comment on their love lives have described the new couplings as “bizarre”.
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Posted: 25th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
British Crocodiles Recognise Names And Hold Conversations
FURTHER proof that British crocodiles are a superior breed of mini-cab driver’s shoe in the Telegraph, wherein we learn that two “British crocodiles have been taught to recognise when a keeper calls their names”.
And, no, the keeper isn’t always holding a huge dead chicken by the throat as he yells “Simon” and “Cheryl.”Sometimes he just calls them over for a chat. French crocodiles remain petulant and thick.
To The Blue Planet Aquarium at Ellesmere Port, Merseyside, to meet Paleo and Suchus, where aquarium manager Tom Cornwall is happy to talk up his captives:
“They are very intelligent and started responding to their names in just a few days.”
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Posted: 23rd, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Lynn Middlebrooks Geter ‘Made’ Son Kill Pet Hamster Over Bad Grades
MEET mum of the year contender Lynn Middlebrooks Geter, who as a punishment for her son getting bad grades forced the 12-year-old to kill his pet hamster with a hammer.
The boy tells his teacher. The teacher tells the police. Geter, 38, is charged with animal cruelty, child cruelty and battery.
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Posted: 23rd, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Lisa Hayden-Johnson Jailed For Pretending Her Son Was Ill Enough To Meet Tony Blair
LISA Hayden-Johnson has been jailed today for 39 months. Her crime was in pretending her son was severely ill to gain publicity and financial rewards. She went to Downing Street to meet with Tony Blair, a prize for winners of the Woman’s Own Children of Courage Award and their respective families. (Tony failed to heal him.) Hayden-Johnson suffers from Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy, allegedly. She forced her son to endure nine operations, breathe from an oxygen cylinder, told doctors that he had to be fed by tube and put glucose in his urine to make them believe he had diabetes. She claimed he had cerebral palsy, an allergy to sunlight, cystic fibrosis and a diseased spleen.
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Posted: 22nd, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Noisy Sex Asbo Caroline Cartwright Sentenced
CAROLINE Cartwright Update: Noisy sex practitioner Caroline Cartwright was today handed a suspended sentence at Newcastle Crown Court for breaching an Asbo banning her from having loud sex with her husband, at their home in Concord, Washington, Tyne and Wear. Judge Beatrice Bolton sentenced her to eight weeks in prison suspended for 12 months. “In addition it’s quite clear from the small extract I heard that you made no attempt to silence yourself.” Although her husband did cover her mouth with a pillow…
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Posted: 22nd, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Fat Woman Guilty Of Killing Lover By Sitting On Him
MIA Landingham (300lbs) is accused of killing hr lover and father of ther three children, one Mikal Middleton-Bey (120lbs) by sitting on him in the course of a row.
The Cleveland woman is before the judge. She pleased guilty to involuntary manslaughter. She is sentenced to three years probation and 100 horus community service.
Says she:
“I just want to say that I am sincerely sorry about this situation. I wish I could take it back.”
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Posted: 22nd, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
How David Blaine Held His Breath For 17 Minutes: A Video
HOW David Blaine held his breath for 17 minutes: a video. All utter nonsense, of coure. But fun to listen to watching him try to convince us that it’s not a trick:
Posted: 21st, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Charged With Having Sex With Tree In Park
MR WILLIAM Shaw, 21, is hereby ordered under pain of law not to enter Central Park in Airdrie, Scotland, in reaction to claims that he attempted sex with a plant therein.
If you want to shag a tree, do it in the privacy of your own fir.
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It is alleged that Mr Shaw did dropped his trousers and knickers and attempted coitus with a tree. Mr Shaw pleads his innocence.
Says a neighbour:
“I have seen him about and he seems a quiet lad.”
Posted: 21st, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Mother Shaves Off Drunken Boyfriend’s Pubic Hair
IN Winnipeg a man awakes to discover that his girlfriend had shaven off his pubic hair. Police attend.
In Winnipeg, a 19-year-odl calls police to tell them her 32-year-old lover is “out of control”. He has been drinking for two days.
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The man is under a court order to have no contact with his girlfriend while intoxicated.
Says Crown attorney Jennifer Mann.
“He told police that he had fallen asleep and awoke to find (his girlfriend) had shaved his pubic hair and they got into an argument. Police noted (the man) was rather obnoxious when they were dealing with him.”
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Posted: 21st, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Tanker Spills Gritty Shit Over A46 In Evesham
THE A46 near Twyford Garage, Evesham was closed when a white Scania tanker carrying around 44 tonnes of liquid waste, crashed and shed its load.
A police spokeswoman telsl us:
“Motorists are advised to avoid the area, keeping windows firmly up due to the smell from the sewage.”
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Posted: 20th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Video: Horny Goat Breaks Into Strip Club
A HORNED goat has entered the Lynx Gentlemen’s Club in Coachella and ogled the strippers. (Insert pun here.)
Club owner Hank Piecura arrives to discover broken glass and blood outside the door. He enters. Nothing is missing. Poles… Body paint… Easy-Wipe banquettes… All there. He checks the CCTV tapes:
He sees the horny goat. Video:
Posted: 20th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Haiti: Crusie Ship Independence Of The Seas Delivers Tourists And Coits
HAITI is great tourist spot. Not only for jobbing hacks looking for news. The 4,370-berth Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines’ ship Independence of the Seas has docked for loads fun as seafarers “cut loose” on a private beach behind a 12-foot-high fence.
The ship did deliver 40 palettes of relief supplies, believed to be made up of coits, pamphlets advertising bridge night and bottles of sun cream. The 3,100-passenger ship Navigator of the Seas is next in. Life goes on – for some…
Posted: 18th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
