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 Who Twittered He’d Blow Up Doncaster Airport Arrested For Thought Crime
PAUL Chambers has been arrested at Doncaster airport on terrorism charges for “joking” on Twitter that he would blow the place “sky high” if his flight was delayed.
Man Cleared Of Girls Aloud Thought Crime
On January 6, Mr Chambers makes his aside. He plans to travel to Ireland on January 15. and is worried that snow will alter his plans. He gets on Twitter:
“Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!”
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Posted: 18th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Burglar Steals Police Taser And Handcuffs: Electrocutes And Arrests Himself
THAT’S Shane Thomas Williams-Allen of Orlando, Florida, arrested on burglary charges. That’s Williams-Allen electrocuting his foot with the police Taser he’s stolen and putting the tin lid on his awesomeness by handcuffing himself with stolen cuffs.
Williams-Allen has removed the Taser and cuffs from an unmarked Ocoee police car, says the Sheriff’s Office said. He also stole an expandable baton, a Glock handgun magazine, a digital camera and a digital recorder.
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Posted: 18th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
After Haiti, Now Casper The Commuting Cat Dies
IN Plymouth, tragedy has struck, literally. Casper the commuting cat is dead. Casper the commuting cat has been hit by a – oh, irony of ironies – a car.
Says the Plymouth Herald:
A MUCH loved Barne Barton cat who gained international acclaim has sadly died after being hit by a car.
As Anorak writer AGW puts it:
Pathos, tragedy, grief and above all – local.
I can see the News Editor: “That Haiti stuff’s a long way from Plymouth Dockyard.”
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Posted: 18th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Chinese Girl Turns Into Turtle
TIAN Yunting is inflicted with swollen blood or lymph vessels – she suffers from angiomas. Tian, you may be unsurprised to learn, hails from China. She has also been nicknamed “turtle girl”.
Says Tian, who could bleed heavily were she to sit badly at the doctor’s or be pricked:
“Even when I got there I couldn’t sit down because the hard chairs might burst me.”
It’s pretty hideous. But we wonder if such ailments are exclusive to China – or if the Chinese are more keen than most to share them with us?
Posted: 17th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Guinness Tankers Relieve Water Shortage In Dublin
NO water in Dublin. Send for the Guinness. AGW writes:
THE Big Freeze and thaw which has gripped then released western Europe in the last three weeks has crippled Dublin’s water supply. The Irish capital has had city-wide bursts and there is an acute water shortage.
The largest water-user in Ireland, Guinness has stepped in and its tankers are delivering water to estates in the city.
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Posted: 17th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Sultan Kosen (World’s Tallest Man) Meets He Pingping (World’s Shortest Man): In Pictures
SULTAN Kosen of Turkey, 27, met He Pingping (he’s not bigger than a ball) of China, 21, at a cinema in Turkey. Kosen is the tallest man walking the planet with a height of 246.5 cm (8 feet 1 inch). He is officially the world’s shortest man with a height of 73 cm (2 feet 5 inch). He, ever a good sport, said he wasn’t bothered about the film and things improved when he sat on his jacket…
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Posted: 16th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Aged 88 Arrested In Murder Inquiry
ALWAYS news when the elderly behave badly – in this instance a 88-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an old woman’s body was discovered at a house on Sandown, Isle of Wight.
When you grow old do you do as expected and become more cautious – more fearful of god and judgement? Or do you just think, sod it – why not?
Posted: 16th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Derby’s Shoe Zone Flasher Sought
REPORTS coming in of a man who has exposed himself in a shop in Derbyshire.
The incident occurred in a branch of Shoe Zone on Oxford Street in Ripley.
He is described as aged around 60, white, about 5ft 8in tall (1.72m) and was wearing a black hat and coat and light jogging bottoms.
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Posted: 16th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man Finds Dog Being Sexually Assaulted By Neighbour
GARY Riley is acxued of sexually assaulting his neighbour Levi Fderish’s dog.
Yavapai County Sheriff’s deputies arrest Riley in Chino Valley.
Fderish lost his dog. He went looking. He found the dog, allegedly, in the company of Riley. After a short scuffle, Fderish freed his dog and called the police.
Who arrived with dogs…
Posted: 16th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Turkish Scientist Mates Sheep With Man: Pictures
AFTER Goat Kid, meet Lamb Boy, a calf with human face born in a village not far from the city of Izmir, Turkey.
Says vet Erhan Elibol:
“I’ve seen mutations with cows and sheep before. I’ve seen a one-eyed calf, a two-headed calf, a five-legged calf. But when I saw this youngster I could not believe my eyes. His mother could not deliver him so I had to help the animal.”
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Posted: 15th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Video: Police Use Riot Shields On Boars Hill
WITH the police to Boars Hill – oh, the irony – Oxford. That’s them using their riot shields and makeshift sledges.
A Mr Rick Latham spots the officers. He films them. Mr Latham is not beaten to a slush, labelled a paedo nor does he have his camera confiscated under the terms of anti-terrorism legislation. The cops don’t see him.
Mr Latham says the officers employed a “sense of humour”.
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Posted: 15th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Child Beer On Sale In India
“CHILD Beer” for sale in India. Beer made for children. Or beer made from children? Pity the priest who have to make do with wine…
Posted: 15th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Whose Noisy Sex Earned Her An Asbo Smothered By Pillow
WHAT news of Caroline Cartwright, the woman handed an Asbo for being too loud during sex?
“We were at it like rabbits and were devastated when doctors said Steve couldn’t father children, but we refused to become one of those couples that stop having sex just because they can’t have kids.”
Complaints followed.
“I agreed to move my headboard so it’s didn’t bang against her wall.”
Police came, answering a shout on suspected domestic violence:
“I explained that I was just enjoying sex with my husband and not being attacked …”
But she is not insensitive:
“We had sex in the mornings so I couldn’t keep them [neighbours] up at night, closed our windows and covered my mouth with a pillow to stifle my screams.”
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Posted: 14th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
On The New James Bond Film Set In Poole, Dorset: Pictures
MEET Angie and Simon Mullane at their house in Poole, Dorset. The couple spent four months and about £3,000 transforming their home into a James Bond film set, complete with German soldiers and 007 crashing into their bathroom in a hang glider for their New Year’s Eve party. No sign of a circular chainsaw aimed at Mr Mullane’s testicles – but the neighbours were out.
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Angie and Simon Mullane's front garden of their house in Poole, Dorset. The couple spent four months and about £3,000 transforming their home into a James Bond film set complete with German soldiers and 007 crashing into their bathroom in a hang glider for their New Year's Eve party. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday January 13, 2010. See PA story SOCIAL Bond. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
A Video Of Someone Having Glasses Tattooed On His Face
HERE’S a video of someone having glasses tattooed on his face. Yeah, he sleeps with his eyes open:
Tattooist Inks 56 Stars On Girl’s Sleeping Face
The Most Disgusting Tattoos (NSFW)
Spotter: Cynical-C; via Dangerous Minds
Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Take Care When Using Guns At A Drugged Out Sex Orgy
BRUCE Lavallee-Davidson, an organic farmer from Skowhegan, is in a Portland, Oregon court, telling one and all about a deadly orgy at his home dungeon. Three men – James Pombriant, Fred Wilson and the accused – had been puffing weed, snorting gas, drinking and shagging for around 12 hours.
A .44-caliber Rossi revolver is introduced. Lavallee-Davidson nips to the loo.
When Lavallee-Davidson returned, Wilson asked him to put the gun to his head and pull the trigger to intensify his pleasure, the defense contends. On the first try, there was a click when Lavallee-Davidson pulled the trigger. Wilson asked him to do it again, and there was a flash, the defense says.
A shot.
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Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Herr Koch Discovers Online Hooker Is Spotty Male Boy
GERMAN born – oh, nominative determinism – Stefan Koch bid £1,400 to shag a model only to find out that the siren was really spotty, 17-year-old Dieter Muhr.
A bonus? Says Koch:
“I saw the auction on the internet and put in a bid straight away.”
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Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Drives Home With Dead Body Wedged In Windscreen
IN JAPAN, Michiko Sato, a catering school student, is accused of running over an 80-year-old pedestrian (she died) and not reporting the crime. One clue to her possible guilt is that the woman remained wedged in the windscreen as Sato motored home.
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Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Jesus And Mary Spotted In An Orange: Picture
PAUL Kulniszewski of Lockport, NY, has found Jesus hanging from a Crucifix in his orange. Also, he notices the image of the Virgin Mother just below.
“I quickly called my wife and said, come see this… tell me it’s not my eyes. I mean, am I seeing what I’m seeing?
“Apparitions are neither accepted or denied by the Catholic Church. They are based on what the recipient of the apparition believes and to me, I believe that it is Jesus Christ and Mary in the orange.”
The orange has been preserved in resin.
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Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Rips Off Friend’s Testicles In Foreplay
AT Dusseldorf district court, Hans O. is said to have torn off his friend Alexander J.’s testicles. It is said that Mr J. failed to respond to O’s fondling.
The court is taken back to events on an afternoon in September 2009. We are in the centre of Neuss, a town near Dusseldorf. The men are drinking beer. Night falls. Mr O. becomes aroused.
He unbuttoned the trousers of his friend who was sleeping on the couch, and messed around with his genitals. When the fondling failed to provoke any physical response from Alexander, Hans became furious…
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Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
In Pictures: The Ningen Human-Like Creatures Of Antartica
ANYONE seen the ‘Ningen’ (Japanese for humans) sea creatures in the Antarctic? The Ningen are white, around 20 to 30 meters long, or tall. Sightings say the Ningen have arms and legs. You can see their eyes and mouth. So they say…
Posted: 12th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Jesus Spotted In Naan Bread
JESUS is in a naan. There he is in plumber David Howlett naan, as served at India Dining in Esher, Surrey.
Says David:
I spotted Jesus looking back at me. It was one eerie experience given how close we were to Christmas.
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Posted: 12th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Holds Up Petrol Station With Plastic Bag
IN Labrador, on Australia’s Gold Coast, a robber is holding up a BP service station. He is wearing a disguise of a plastic bag. The plastic bag is transparent.
His hand is masked by a large carving knife.
The Sandwich Bag Bandit demands money. The shop drone sticks the cash register’s money tray from the register on the counter. The robber dives in.
He then escapes.
So did the cashier get a good look at his face? Maybe not.
He is described as about 170cm tall in his mid-20s and wearing three-quarter length denim shorts, a white t-shirt and a sky blue baseball cap.
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Posted: 12th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
South African Crime Baron ‘Fat’ Murphy Is Hermaphrodite Called Hilary
FADWAAN Murphy is Fat Murphy Murphy, an alleged drugs dealer. He is also a hermaphrodite named Hilary. The truth came out a few weeks back when Murphy was being searched during a raid at his home in Kuils River, on south Africa’s Western Cape. He was patted down. And his strap-on penis fell off…
If anyone is needed to play Fadwaan in a Tv biopic, Jonah’s your man – Jonah Falcon (Very NSFW)
At Blue Downs Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town, Murphy, face charges of possession of stolen property and corruption (it’s claimed her offered police 100 Rand not to search him). He applies for bail under the name Hilary. Says he:
“I had a vagina that could not be penetrated. But I also had male organs, testes. But I always knew I was really a man and that was what I wanted to be.”
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Posted: 11th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Washington DC Bans Anyone From Carrying More Than One Condom
IN Washington DC, anyone carrying more than one condom on their person in any area police have declared a “prostitution free zone” is considered to be a prostitute.
That’s right, kids, if you’re packing a spare in case one breaks, you are a hooker. Best idea might be to wear a condom at all times.
As reported :Washington DC has an HIV/AIDS infection rate of 3%, the highest in the United States.”
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Posted: 9th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
