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.
Shane Oldroyd Jailed For Stealing A Bus And Causing Mayhem: Video
SHANE Oldroyd, 27, of Ossett, is not to be admired. Shane needed to get home. Shane had no money. Shane stole a single-decker Arriva bus from Wakefield bus station.
Shane is up before the Beak at Leeds Crown Court. Judge Kerry Macgill says he is guilty of “wicked, dangerous and reckless” driving.
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Posted: 18th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Richard Heene’s Trivial Pursuit Piece Seen Over Moscow: Video
IN the skies over Moscow, Richard Heene’s Trivial Pursuit cheese is hovering. Local media says it’s a space ship. It’s always a space ship in the media. No space ship has ever been confirmed. The less certain the times the more aliens in the skies we see. The aliens have taken Richard Heene’s son, you say? Nooooooooo. We know better. We know that it’s a bit from a boardgame. Either that or it’s a plastic bag whipped up in the wind…by lizard people! Video:
Posted: 18th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus Picks Up Tiger Woods’ Endorsement Deals
IN the spirit of Christmas and Anorak’s new range of Jeeseus Pizzas (now with extra cheese), we hear of Charles McDonald, of Florissant, Mo., who placed his Brillo pad by his kitchen sink and when he picked it up there was the face of that bearded loon who shots at pigeons in the precinct. No, it was Jesus. What are the odds on Jesus endorsing Brillo pads? With Tiger Woods out of favour, this could be the chance Jesus has been waiting for…
Posted: 18th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Anshan In China Is Home To The World’s Politest Sign
TO Anshan, China. Anshan possesses a third of the worlds supply of talcum, a quarter of the world’s reserves of magnesite and the most verbose sings writers in the world. Qianshan Mountain Park is a wonderful place full of towering peaks, home to Buddhist and Taoist temples. It also boasts the world’s politest sign:
Posted: 18th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
In Pictures: Pollution Turns Dogs Bright Green In Russia
THEY say that in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg the dogs are bright green and glow in the dark. Says villager Alexei Bukharovsky: “I go past those dogs every day. They are usually reddish … but then I saw, running along the white snow, an almost completely emerald dog. At first I thought someone had been playing a joke.” But then someone said they might have been contaminated by the local water or the local food and with it being Russia everyone believed him. And the green dogs became fact. In pictures:
Posted: 17th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
How To Behave When Stopped By The Police: A Guide
WHEN stopped by the police do not remain calm. Scream and rant and rave and create a huge scene. Compliancy will get you nowhere other than regretful that you never ranted and raved and caused a huge scene. You must go nuts. This woman show you how to do it:
Posted: 17th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Brazilian Boy Turned Into Human Voodoo Doll: X Ray
THE X Ray is of the insides of a Brazilian toddler with as many as 40 sewing needles inside him. Roberto Carlos Magalhaes tells police he inserted the needles under instruction from his mistress who told him to kill the child.
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Posted: 17th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Disabled Driver Given Ticket For Showing Traffic Warden Disabled Badge
NEWS from Wolverhampton’s Express & Star, wherein disabled 71-year-old Alfred Turley is being asked to produce his blue badge at a parking office in West Bromwich in order to have a ticket voided
While he in the office showing his badge, a traffic warden gives his car a ticket for – you’re way ahead of us – not displaying a blue badge in a blue badge zone.
“I couldn’t believe it. They asked me to fetch my badge and when I returned I had a ticket. I didn’t make a fuss to the warden because I just thought they’d cancel it on the spot when I went back inside to tell them what had happened.
“But they said there was nothing they could do and I had to pay it.”
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Posted: 16th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus Shroud Found In Jersusalem’s Field of Blood
WHAT are the odds that researcher from the Hebrew University and institutions various should in the run up to Christmas find pieces of a burial shroud from the time of Jesus in a tomb in Jerusalem?
A body of a man from the time of Jesus is found in the Field of Blood cemetery. Who could it be? Well, the BBC’s report includes the news that it’s where Judas Iscariot is said to have committed suicide. This man, however, died of leprosy.
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Posted: 16th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Olympian Elizabeth Poblete Gives Birth During Weightlifting Session
ANY golfers aiming to be the female Tiger Woods take note: Chilean Olympic weightlifter Elizabeth Poblete, 22, gave birth during a training session. No, it wasn’t to prove how tough she was. Poblete didn’t know she was pregnant.
Ms Poblete gave birth three months early. The baby is in intensive care at a hospital in Sao Paulo. Baby Thrust weighs 2.54lbs and about 14 inches long.
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Posted: 16th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Washington Woman Breaks Law For Noisy Sex, In Pictures
AT Newcastle Crown Court Caroline Cartwright, 48, pleads guilty to three counts of breaching the Asbo banning her from making loud noises – described as sounding like “murder” and “unnatural“.
Earlier, the court had heard from Cartwright’s neighbour Rachel O’Connor, who says was often late for work on account of being kept awake by Caroline and Steve Cartwright’s sex. As she says:
“The noise sounds like they are both in considerable pain. I cannot describe the noise. I have never ever heard anything like it.”
The Asbo banned the couple from “shouting, screaming or vocalisation at such a level as to be a statutory nuisance“.
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Posted: 15th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In Pictures: Barry Rigby Crowned 2009 World Pie Eating Champion
HURRAH for Barry Rigby winner of the World Pie Eating Champion at Harry’s Bar in Wigan. Mr Rigby was crowned at the 2009 champion after taking just 47 seconds to finish the regulation pie – diameter of 12cm and a depth of 3.5cm, a pie wall angle from base to top of between zero and 15 degrees; minimum content cube dimensions of the meat and potato mix are 1cm, and they must have 66% meat content not including pastry. There was controversy in the build up. Competition boss Tony Callaghan said: “Gravy has traditionally been the performance-enhancing drug of choice amongst pie eaters at this level, but since we banned it, contenders have been trying to find other ways of generating lubricative advantage — we’re hearing rumours that cough mixture is the new Bisto.”
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Barry Rigby poses for photographers after becoming the World Pie Eating Champion at Harry's Bar in Wigan. Mr Rigby was crowned at the 2009 champion after taking just 47 seconds to finish the pie. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday December 15, 2009. Photo credit should read: Dave Thompson/PA Wire
Posted: 15th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
The Rwandan Grand Prix, Featuring Matt Harding
IT’S the Rawanda Grand Prix. Filmed with students during a video production course at the Orphans of Rwanda school in Kigali, Rwanda, the race features Matt Harding of Where the Hell is Matt?. It’s heartening and fun. Which is why it won’t be on the TV news:
Posted: 14th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Russian Bank Robber Hypnotises Bank Teller
IN Volzhky, Russia, Galina Korzhova is arrested on suspicion of hypnotising a bank clerk into giving her more 30,000 euros, 20,000 US dollars and the rest of the $81,000 in rubles.
She is suspected of having robbed up to 30 additional banks.
The bank teller, who works at Sberbank bank, met Korzhova. She told him she could remove curses and heel the sick. Later he met her again on Communist Street. He gave her the cash.
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Posted: 14th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
London Undergound Announcer Tells Passengers To Commit Suicide
A LONDON Underground worker is advising passengers, sorry, customers to shoot themselves. No need to head to Stockwell Tube and hope that the police shoot you. Or wait to be pushed under a train. Just do it yourself. Minimise the risk of failure. Says the voice from above at Farringdon Tube station:
“You’ve got two options – apart from shooting yourself, and who could blame you?”
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Posted: 12th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Reports Theft Of Drug Collection
IN Holland, a man has complained to the police that his collection of ecstasy pills has been stolen.
Smilies. Tony’s. Blairios. Spices. Widdys. Top Guns. Telletubbies. Brookings. The lot. Gone.
Says the police of the 2,400-pill-strong collection:
“That’s really the main reason he came to the police. He knows he’s not going to get his collection back.”
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Posted: 11th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In Pictures: Chinese Man With Remote Control Up Anus Changes Channel To Watch Tiger Woods
HUANG Chen keeps his TV remote control up his bottom. (Anyone seen that gld club that dear Elin used to save Tiger Woods?) Chen is at Hunan Hangtian Hospital in Changsha.
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Posted: 10th, December 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3)
The Typography Of The London Underground
THE London Undergound typogrpahy is a joy to star and stare and stare at. Here’s a piece about how the typeface for the London Underground came to be:
“We continue to make subtle changes” Ashworth admits, “but we’re very wary about doing too much and are always happy to roll back changes if they end up not feeling ‘right.’
“The most recent major change was to the numbers 1 and 4 earlier this year. Not a lot of people noticed until a poster appeared advertising engineering work on the 14th of February — then I got A LOT of emails.”
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Posted: 10th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Video Of Woman Living Secretly In Man’s NYC Appartment
HERE’S a video of a woman who lives secretly in a man’s New York City appartment emerging from a cavity over the kitchen and nicking his food when he’s out. People as vermin or a flexi-time approach to homes?
She’d been living in his flat for weeks, a Miss Haversham with agility. He set up a camera to see what was going on. The video:
Posted: 10th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Barack Obama Spotted Over Norway As A Blue Halo Of Light
A BLUE light is seen over Norway. And instantly it is loaded with meaning:
A mysterious spiral of light has appeared in northern Norway one day before President Obama arrives to give his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo.
Says a boffin:
“I agree with everyone in the science community that this light was the weirdest thing.”
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Posted: 9th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus Bleeds In A Banana
IN New Zealand a banana is displaying sings of stigmata – it is the Jesus banana. Jesus is found in almost anything. And here is the divine force in Caleb Cleland’s fruit.
To Timaru, where Caleb’s banana is bleeding red. His mum, one Anita Bisset, says:
“It was really bright red, it looks like dye and it is really hard to get off your fingers.”
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Posted: 9th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Poole Kills Christmas Tree, Kills Gaia For Christmas
THE big fake cone tree erected in Poole, Dorset is dead. The Mega Tree did it all – looked green, behaved in a tall fashion, played music and dispensed seven flavour of alcopops. But it’s now dead. The Mega Tree of Poole was too ahead of its time. In its place the burghers of Poole have erected a dead tree, with leaves that shed on the floor and make the place look untidy. So what now is the country’s worst tree? Send in your photos:
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Posted: 8th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Accused Of Creating Extreme Pornography With Tiger: Tiger Woods Innocent
DOES the Tiger Woods story encourage thoughts of sex with tiger, or Tigger? At Wrexham Magistrates Court, Andrew Robert Holland, 47, is accused of possessing a pornographic image of a person having sex with a Tiger, sorry, tiger.
The image is said to be “grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character”.
That is not all. Mr Holland is also accused of possessing an extreme pornographic image that could result in serious injury to a person’s genitals. And at once we are back to Tiger Woods’ crazy gold course: Hole 7 – Burning Bright.
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Posted: 8th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
The Amazing Life Of Roger Day, Britain’s Greatest Living Soldier
THAT’S Roger Day on the Bedworth Armistice Day Parade with a chest full of medals and on his head an SAS beret.
The Warwickshire Armistice Day parade is lucky to have a man like Day, of Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. On his chest are 14 medals, taking in the Korean war in the 1950s, the Falklands Conflict in the 1980s, the liberation of Kuwait in the 1990s. Mr Day has served man and boy in the Army.
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Posted: 7th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Physiotherapist Tells Patient To Fire A Gun At A Sundial
STEPHEN Sterling, a physiotherapist in Sunderland, has told a patient recovering from a serious head injury to fire an air pistol at a sundial.
Mr Sterling is given a 12-month caution.
Lawyers representing Mr Sterling say that the “unorthodox treatments” were designed to fit the patient’s former lifestyle as an “adrenaline junkie”.
Melinka Berridge, solicitor for the Health Professions Council, says:
“GB [the patient] had suffered massive head injuries as a result of a road accident. Providing a loaded pistol to a man with these difficulties is an inherently dangerous act.”
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Posted: 5th, December 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
