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.
Xiao Qian Has Six Identical Fingers On One Hand: Pictures
FOUR-year-old Xiao Qian, of Wuhan, eastern China’s Hubei province, has five fingers on her left hand and six finger son her right hand.
At Pu’ai Hospital, Doctor Xin Danmo operates on Qian, removing her left-most finger and attempts to fashion the end finger into a thumb.
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Posted: 9th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Christmas Tree Disposal: The Rocket (A Video Guide)
CHRSITMAS is dead. The tree needs to be either stuffed back in the cupboard or gottten rid of. Look not to the dead of night and a skip – look to the skies. See that star? It’s attached to 32 rocket engines. You’ll believe a Christmas tree can fly:
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Posted: 8th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Casey Johnson’s Tweet Death: Tila Tequila’s Sexy Widow’s Weeds, Pictures
CASEY Johnson is dead and Tila Tequila (born Tila Nguyen) becomes a star. Anorak’s Man in LA tells us:
Tila Tequila’s been tweeting about her grief over the loss of her “wifey” Casey Johnson for days now.
And earlier today, she complained about the paparazzi staking out her house.
Then three hours later, she complained on Twitter that those annoying celebrity photographers had just left.
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Posted: 8th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment
In Pictures: Arran Fernandez Is Cambridge Unversity’s Youngest Undergraduate At 14
IT’S home-educated Arran Fernandez, 14, of London, brandishing the offer he has received to join Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, in October. Arran is now set to become the university’s youngest undergraduate since William Pitt the Younger in 1773. Yeah, that Arran Fernandez, who posed with his teddy bear Pudsey after he became the youngest person to pass a GCSE in 2001. Yah, that Arran Fernandez who became the youngest person to have scored the highest possible grade in the higher tier GCSE maths in 2003. Yeah. That Arran who in 1996, became the youngest sperm to solve the Times crossword…
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Posted: 7th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Prisoners Tattoo Whites Of Eyes Red And Navy Blue: Video
PAUL Inman, an inmate serving 73 years on conspiracy to commit murder charges, arson and assault has tattooed the whites of his eyes a dark blue to compliment the natural light blue. Says he:
“I bet you there’s no one in the world who has the same colour of eyes as I do.”
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Posted: 7th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The 10 Men Most Likely To Marry Katie Price
“WHAT’S Katie Price been up to?” you ask. How’s pop acorn Peter Andre? How are the kidzzz? Well, news is that Katie will “REVEAL ALL” in the I’m A Celebrity… Jungle.
What’s that? No, Katie isn’t still in the Australian Bush studio, left behind years after the fray like a Japanese soldier unable to commit Hari Kari because his chest keeps bouncing off his sword. Katie is back. Peter, however is not. He’s gone, lost in Ikea’s lighting section.
So what horror is waiting for our Katie in the ITV jungle? Having squired 1980s popster Peter Andre, is there another one-hit wonder of yesteryear waiting for her? Let’s take a look at the Top Ten next Mr Katie Prices:
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Posted: 6th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Money, Strange But True | Comment
Airport Police Give Dublin ‘Terrorist’ Free Explosives
THE War on Terror is not all about journanalists trying to smuggle explosives and cans of perfume onboard aircraft. Sometimes the police stick explosive onboard to to check how crap they are at finding them. The Japanese give their tourists free drugs – the Slovaks hand out explosives. And lose them…
Explosives are loaded onto a Danube Wings flight to Dublin from Poprad-Tatry Airport:
Slovak officials decided to test security at two airports in Slovakia on Saturday by concealing plastic explosives in eight suitcases and waiting to see what happened next.
Here’s what happened next: airport security intercepted seven of the suitcases but failed to detect 96 grams of the plastic explosive RDX loaded into one bag, which belonged to a Slovak electrician who lives in Ireland and had no idea his luggage had been tampered with. The man boarded his flight to Dublin, retrieved his bag and went home to his apartment.
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Posted: 6th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
New Species Of Crab Found In Taiwan: Pictures
ACCORDING to Sky News, in Taiwan, a new species of crab that “looks like a strawberry has been discovered”.
Marine biologist Professor Ho Ping-ho (the most up-beat name in marine biology today) found two of the creatures while investigating goings on at Kenting National Park.
You can see from our picture that it really does look just like a strawberry. Pass the cream…
Posted: 5th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
New York Teaches Smokers How To Inject Heroin
NEW York City is teaching its non-smoking citizens how to relax by shooting up heroin. In New York, you can’t smoke but you read one of 70,000 fliers (cost: $32,000) telling you that before injecting smack you need to “Warm your body (jump up and down) to show your veins,” and “Find the vein before you try to inject.”
The Health Department handout goes on:
“If you don’t ‘register,’ pull out and try again.”
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Posted: 4th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sweden Engulfed In Vaginal Coroner Aura
HAPPY Vagina Coroner to you. Or as you say in Sweden, slidkrans. Vaginal Coroner replaces the world ‘hymen’ (mödomshinna), as in “What time is hymen – I’m famished?”
The Swedish Language Council‘s (Språkrådet) has added the term slidkrans (vaginal corona) to the list of official Swedish words.
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Posted: 31st, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Clitheroe Jesus Miracle
WOULD the people who “stole” the Baby Jesus, Mary, the two-foot tall plaster cast figures of a shepherd, angel, sheep and donkey from Clitheroe’s nativity display please return them.
Last year Jess was “stolen” twice. Three years ago Jesus made it to Warrington.
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Posted: 30th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pigs Run Amuck On M11 In Essex
THERE’S a herd of pigs going along the M11 motorway in Essex. Police are attending (they’re the ones in black shoes).
A truck has crashed between Harlow and the Stansted Airport junction at Bishop’s Stortford. The pigs escaped.
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Posted: 30th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Haywood Jablome Saves World From Global Warming
NOMINATIVE determinism is not needed when the hack is too lazy or jaded to get the interviewees real name or make one up. In this Fargo newspaper, readers see Haywood Jablome shovelling snow…
Posted: 28th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Escaped Burglar Craig Lynch (Craig ‘Lazie’ Lynch) Updates Facebook From Scotland Yard: Pictures
CONVICTED burglar Craig Lynch – aka Craig ‘Lazie’ Lynch – is on the run from Hollesley Bay open prison, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. He left the prison in September. Lynch, of Edgware, London, is passing the days not getting caught by updating his Facebook page.
Craig Lynch, 28, is keeping his Facebook friends up to speed on all the news about his life on the run. If he can pad out his day and write well enough there’s a book in it. For now his bon mots encompass his views on life:
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Posted: 28th, December 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (8)
The World’s Worst Drivers Of The Year: Videos
AS you wait for the ice and the icy snow, here are some images of what life is like beyond your bedroom curtains. We present the world’s most exciting ice drivers:
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Posted: 28th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Maldon Mud Race: In Photos And Santa Hats
ANORAK was at the annual mud race in Maldon, Essex, looking on as over 200 runners and mud fetishists attempted to cross the mouth of the River Blackwater dressed in novelty Santa hats. It’s kinky. It’s Essex at low tide. Before racing the full 500 yards, you need to get a tetanus jab and tape your shoes to your feet. It’s a bit like being in Brixton Prison on slopping out day (so we are, er, told). The pictures:
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Posted: 27th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab And How A Firework Can Destroy An Aircraft: Video
THE Taliban have released a training video that features children using rockets to bring down a plane. In light of the news that Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab did, allegedly, attempt to kill hundreds of people by setting fire to himself with a “firework”, this video is all the more shocking. Fireworks are a gateway explosive device. It’s not only fundamental Christians we should throw on the pyre. Cue the video:
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Posted: 27th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
A Video: Visions Of The Cosmos: From The Milky Ocean To An Evolving Universe
LOOK to the skies and what do you see? The Hayden Planetarium gives you The Known Universe – a video. The Rubin Art Museum exhibit Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, creates a visionary spectacular.
A the edge of space is the event horizon past which not even light can pass. Look to the skies and what do you see:
Posted: 24th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
They Might be Jesus Christ: Born On Christmas Day
ANORAK loves a good list, to see how people otherwise unrelated can find themselves pressed up against each other. Better if the people joined by a random fact or vote hate each other or stand for wildly different things. Mindful of this, we bring you the list of famous people who were born on Christmas Day. We call it: They Might Be Jesus:
Sir Isaac Newton (1642) – don’t bite the apple from the tree just wait for it to drop on its own accord.
Ehrengard von der Schulenburg (1667) King George I’s mistress; closer to god are thee
Clara Barton (1821) – founder of American Red Cross
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876) – founder of Islamic republic of Pakistan
Charles Pathé (1863) – French pioneer of film and record industries, which inadvertently led to the massive porn movement and GMTV
Conrad Hilton (1887) – hotelier and grandfather to Paris Hilton
Humphrey Bogart (1899) – smoker
Cab (Cabell) Calloway (1907) –
Quentin Crisp (1908) English author, the Englishman in New York and a celebrity homosexual. One for the evangelical Christians to ponder.
Noele Gordon (1919) English actress famous for running the Crossroads den of vice
Rod Serling (1924) Wrote Planet of the Apes – enemy of Creationists
Stuart Hall (1929) – Jovial and florid football pundit
Little Richard (1932) – Born again Christian preacher
Jairzinho (1944) – Brazilian footballer who could walk on water
Kenny Everett (1944) – Gay BBC DJ and entertainer
Sissy Spacek (1949) – Possessed by demons in Carrie and killed everyone in a fiery hall of hell. Hardcore Christian should like the metaphors in her work.
Karl Rove (1950) – former American presidential advisor and all round god botherer
Posted: 24th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus Christ Goes Bananas: Picture
JESUS Christ is a banana. Lisa Swinton has seen the face of Jesus on her banana. Says she:
“I was like ‘Oh my God! It’s Jesus on a banana!’ I got it out of the fruit bowl and was about to peel it and eat it when I saw his face.”
If fruit has a face will vegans eat it? Discuss. Miss Swinton had no qualms. She ate the banana.
“I put some photos up on Facebook – one of my friends said it looked like a monkey.”
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Posted: 23rd, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Winter Solstice And Bar Mitzvah At Stonehenge: In Picture
FOR decades the purpose of Stonehenge has been debated. Was it a starter home for a Welsh holiday makers that never got finished? Is it a club venue for hippies? Does it mark the site of the world’s first shopping mall with valet parking? Is it just big pile of stones used to break up the monotony of Wiltshire? Most recently Stonehenge has been used by Arthur Pendragan, formally known as Jhon Rothwell, to conduct druidic ceremonies to celebrate the Winter Solstice. Next week, Barry Ronson is having his Bar Mitzvah there, followed the next weekend by a dinner dance for the Little Wallop Young Rotarians…
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Posted: 22nd, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Kangaroo Has Goose For Christmas Lunch: Video
WHEN kangaroo meets goose there can be only one winner. No, we talk not of Christmas lunch but of a fight. Peter Andre and Alex Reid – watch and learn:
Posted: 22nd, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Dressed As Goat Killed On Hunting Trip By Hunters
CHRISTOS Constantinou, 49, is dead. Mr Constantinou was killed on a hunting trip. He was mistaken for game and shot.
For purposes not immediately clear, the victim was dressed in dark goat skins. It is said the goatskin is used to confuse the prey.
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Posted: 21st, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Meet The Cow With Three Nostrils
THE celebrity calf in Urs Herrmann’s Cheiry farm Switzerland, has three nostrils. No names for the beast yet, but we suggest Kerry, Lindsay or Wino. If a celebrity could be cloned, it would have three nostrils and… Well, they can be cloned. They are. The blueprint resides at Messers Nip ‘n’ Tuck’s teeth, nose and bloat surgery.
Swiss bio farmer Urs Herrmann, 44, says: “People are always coming to visit her – bringing nice things for her to eat and making a fuss of her. She is in the stable with all the other young calves and is totally healthy and fine. But she has a better life than the others since she gets spoiled more than the others who get a lot less attention.” And he will keep her alive: “It would be no big problem since we own around 100 animals already. One more or less will not make a big difference.”
The celebrity cow is a true celebrity cow…
Posted: 19th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Jesus Christ Kills Father: Pictures
CHRISTMAS is all about controversy and fighting. There’s Joe McElderry and RATM competing for attention. This is the true nativity spirit. Get a load of Santa, lying dead in a California garden. He creeps into your bedroom at night, kids. He had it coming.
Standing over Santa is Jesus the vigilante. He’s got a gun. And he’s got lunch – a dead Rudolph is strewn over the back of a pickup truck.
Awkward Santa Claus Moments: Picture Gallery
Ron Lake, who has the evidence on video, tells us:
“Christmas isn’t about Santa; it’s about Jesus. It’s an expression of my repressed creativity.”
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Posted: 19th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
