China’s Dough Figurine Master He Xiaozheng’s Latest Work

MINI dough figurines are all the rage in China. These dough balls were made by 70-year-old dough figurine master He Xiaozheng. The dough figurines feature in half of a walnut shell and are being compared with a one-yuan coin in Ji’nan, Shandong Province of China. Why anyone would want to make a tiny dough statute of Victoria Beckham is not immediately obvious. Maybe it’s ironic…

[Show as slideshow]

1 2 ... 6 ►

Anorak

Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Teacher Sues School For Slipping On A Used Condom

KAREN Hollander has sued the US Department of Education for injuries sustained in slipping on a condom left outside a Manhattan high school.

Hollander says “slippery foreign substances” outside the High School of Art & Design caused her to fall.

Anorak

Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

Christmas Turkey Assaults Woman

YOU know Christmas is coming when you read of the Dorchester man arrested for assault and battery with a frozen turkey.

Mark Woodward is alleged to have bashed his lover with the frozen bird. It is said he did this to prevent her from speaking to her mother on the phone for too long.

The Boston Police Department report says the frozen bird was thrown and hit the lover on her hip.

Anorak

Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)

Swedish Sisters Sue Funeral Company For Dropping Father Into Grave Too Fast

HOW do you want to be buried: fast or slow? In Sweden, two sisters say they father’s coffin was dropped into the earth too fast. The sisters claim dad was almost dropped by two drunk undertakers.

We join the scene. The undertakers carry dad aloft. They approach the grave with a reel. They lose their grip. The coffin falls. It lands on the ground on its side.

Says the sisters’ lawyer:

“Both daughters were in shock and ran away in tears from the cemetery. They didn’t dare to look in the grave as they were convinced the coffin had opened and their dead father had fallen out.”

Anorak

Posted: 22nd, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Oxford Man Parks By Downing Street And Has Car Blown Up

MEET Oxford shop owner Michael Raphel, who parked his car in a London street and returned to find it had been blown up by the police.

Mr Raphel parked his red Honda Civic Type R on Horse Guard Avenue – close to Downing Street – having dropping two passengers at Embankment, by the River Thames. A Remembrance Sunday Parade was due to start.

He had parked on double yellow lines.

Anorak

Posted: 21st, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

Turner Prize Artists Enter Naked Barbies In A Knickerless Cage

Naked Barbies in Knickerless Cage? It’s art…

THE Wedmore’s Turnip Prize, is a spoof version of the Turner Prize, with awards being given for the worst art. The award seem unnecessarily, dive that the Turner Prize seems specifically constructed to look an award for bad art.

Every year, Old Mr Anorak enters his Vomit In Sock, a biting satire on the: fashion trade (1982) – a full two years before the show was opened to other artists – the French (1997), camping (1999) and Binge Britain (2003), to name but four reasons.

Anorak

Posted: 21st, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Dancer Paid To Have Epileptic Fit On Stage, Jedward Dance On

ANSWERING the question “How do you follow autistic Jedward, the X Factor Duracell Gonks?”, the Arts Council pushes an epileptic dancer into the stage and pays her £14k to stop taking her medication and fit on stage.

Laydeesandgentalmeen, we give you Rita Marcalo. Rolling-Eyed Rita will dance for 24-hours. She will not sleep. She will appear under strobe lighting. This is not exploitation, viewers – this is “conceptual and physical interfaces between dance, movement and epilepsy”.

This sit not paying the sufferer loadsa money to perform for our titillation and amusement. This is art, you ignorant heathen.

Anorak

Posted: 20th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Peru Arrests Men For Liquidising Fat People For Beauty Industry

IN Peru, four men are arrested on suspicion of harvesting the fat from the obese and selling it as fuel for European cosmetics.

This is victimless crime, right New Labour? The fat get put out of their misery; the thin don’t have to see the fat; the beautiful people who actually care about their looks get to look more beautiful – so long as they don’t eat the stuff – and the fat finally get to touch thin flesh.

Anorak

Posted: 20th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment

Man Uses Katie Price’s Old Jordans As Muscle Implants, Video

IT turns out that Katie Price’s old breast implants are not used as filler for car bumpers not are they formed into a defence shield along the US-Canada border. Breast implants are repackaged as muscle implants.

The 10 Men Most Likely To Marry Katie Price

One man invested in some. One problem might be if they inherit character traits of the previous owner. If so, look out for him squiring Peter Andre, singing in Eurovision and jumping so hard that they rearrange his features…

For Cheryl, June and all the Anorak ladies:

The Katie Price Burning: A Life In Pictures

Anorak

Posted: 20th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)

Father Murders Son For Molesting 3-Year-Old Girl

TO Highland Park, Michigan where Jamar Pinkney Sr, 37, learns that his son Jamar Pinkney Jr, 15, has had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl, makes the teen strip at gunpoint, marches him off and shoots him dead.

Jamar Pinkney Sr is charged with first-degree murder.

Anorak

Posted: 19th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)

Jesus Saves: Virgin Mary Opens Bank

AT the Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes near Emmitsburg, Mount St. Mary’s University, a woman is leaving her precious coin collection for safe keeping.

This is replica of the original shrine. It’s in Baltimore.

The haul of $40,000-worth of rare U.S. coins will be safe under the virgin Mary’s watchful gaze.

A gardener finds the two plastic freezer bags filled with gold and silver while raking leaves. He jumps for joy and says that it is God’s will that he is now rich. Oh, happy, happy day.

Anorak

Posted: 19th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

US Police Trained To Use Tasers On Children, And Do

IN Today’s edition of Super Nanny uncut, Ozark police Taser a 10-year-old girl who has been talking back to her parents.

Says a relieved dad Anthony Medlock:

“I would like to say Ozark police Tased this little girl right here. Ten years old and [they] shot electricity through her body, and I want to know how the heck in God’s green earth can they get away with this.”

Ozark police Officer Dustin Bradshaw should have sat her down on the naughty step first? Then call the police? Says dad, concerned about police brutality:

“If you can’t pick the kid up and take her to your car, handcuff her, then I don’t think you need to be an officer.”

Anorak

Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)

Kite Surfers Jump Worthing Pier

KITE Surfers have found a new use for Britain’s seaside piers – jumping over them.

Kite surfers Jake Scrace, 25, and Lewis Crathern, 24, have jumped over Worthing pier.
Harnessing the 40mph gusts, the pair set sail from Goring to the west of Worthing. They then jumped the pier. Says Mr Scrace:

“It was probably the most terrifying thing I’ve ever built up to. We were practising down the road and we were pretty confident we were going to do it but as soon as we got nearer the pier it was quite hard.”

He calls it “terrifying”. Mr Crathern says it was “epic“. Adding: “It was everything I’ve lived for – amazing.

Anorak

Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Russian Pole Dancer Brings Down Wedding Tent On Bride’s Face

TO a wedding in Russia, where a pole dancing guest tugs too hard on the tent props and brings the whole thing crashing down on the guest, and the bride’s face.

This is like how Old Mr Anorak met Lady Anorak IV, only back then the pole was covered in jelly and Latviana was marrying a donkey called Danny. Cue the wedding video:

Anorak

Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

Man Arrested For Disguising Potatoes As Chocolates

TO Miami International Airport, where a man is trying to smuggle potatoes into the country disguised as chocolates.

Stopped by the US border goons, our potato enthusiast was ordered to pay a $300 penalty for trying to smuggle fresh sweet potatoes from Bolivia into the Land of the Free.

Anorak

Posted: 17th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Aliens Caught On Camera As 68 Score Wingsuit Skydiving Record

ALL over the internets pictures of “68 specially-qualified wingsuit skydivers” setting the “official US record for Wingsuit Formation Skydiving”.

It was in aide of Raise the Sky, an LA charity that wants to keep children in school.

But look again at the picture. There are not 68 parachutes. There are 70. Who are the other two skydivers? And why is one of them so tiny?

1. The 68 – this picture taken from the official website.

Anorak

Posted: 17th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (9)

Australians Eat Possum Pizza In Back-To-Front Shorts

PHILIP Andrew Gilmore, 35, “terrorised shopkeepers dressed only in inside-out, back-to-front football shorts.”

The terror was compounded by Gilmore wearing the shorts on her backside, not on his heard or ankles.

Anorak

Posted: 17th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Man Needs Constant Sex To Stay Alive

TO Taiwan, where a 55-year-old Taiwanese man needs to have sex all the time or else he will die.

But now Hsu Shian-ming has been arrested on Saturday. It is alleged the he did post a picture of a male model online and invite callers to phone him.

During the calls, Hsu would tells the women of his poor father who required constant sex to stay alive. The women then met his father – who looked remarkably like the real Hsu – at hotels in Taipei.

Anorak

Posted: 16th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Nominative Determinism: Mr Fry Represents The Obese

MORE nominative determinism now as Mr Fry speaks form his position of – ready? -Honorary Chairman of the National Obesity Forum.

Mr Tam Fry reacts to a draft report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), in which “experts” suggest that the daily intake of calories be increased by 16 per cent.

Anorak

Posted: 16th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Michelle Thompson Orgasms 300 Times Every Day, Video

MICHELLE Thompson is a “single mum” who achieves “orgasm 300 times per day” as a result of her Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome in Nelson, Lancashire.

The news comes too late for Guinness World Record Day, which is sad. But Michelle Thompson is relieved because having “worn out” boyfriends she has met a bonobo monkey.

No, she met Andrew Carr, an “industrial cleaner”, and she and she “make love” 10 times a day“. Says she:

“Andrew has changed my life. I’m no longer looking for a cure for my orgasms – I’ve found it.

“Now I have a huge grin on my face all the time, and it’s not just because of the orgasms.”

Anorak

Posted: 16th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (12)

Russian Kebab Shop Sells Human Meat

IN Russia, a kebab shop in Perm is selling human flesh on a stick.

Not nice. But on positive note, at least diners know it is meat they are eating. What’s more, it was fresh-ish.

The human kebab – 25 years aged – was bought off three homeless men, who are thought to have killed their prey – a human – sampled part of the body and found it good enough to take to market.

Says one Russian officer:

“After carrying out the attack, the corpse was dismembered. Part of it was eaten and part was also sold to a kebab and pie kiosk.”

As you approach the kebab van in the small hours of this morning, spare a thought for the Russians. And, perhaps, envy them…

Anorak

Posted: 14th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)

School Principal Bans the Word Meep And Sets Police On Lawyer Who Meeped Her

THEODORA Michaels writes about a Principal Murray of Danvers High School who banned all students from using the word ‘Meep‘. Micahels sent an email meep to Murray. Murray called in the police.

Oprah Winfrey who claims to own portions of the English langauge is not implicted.

Michaels writes:

An open letter to Principal Murray of Danvers High School (MA):

Meep.

Anorak

Posted: 14th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)

Former Soldier Faces Fives Years Jail For Gun He Found And Handed To Police

TO Guildford Crown Court, where Paul Clarke, 27 is being found guilty of possessing a firearm, having found it in his garden and taken it to the police station.

Says Mr Clarke says:

“I didn’t think for one moment I would be arrested. I thought it was my duty to hand it in and get it off the streets.”

In his original statement, Mr Clark said of his dealings with Reigate police station:

“I took it indoors and inside found a shorn-off shotgun and two cartridges. I didn’t know what to do, so the next morning I rang the Chief Superintendent, Adrian Harper, and asked if I could pop in and see him. At the police station, I took the gun out of the bag and placed it on the table so it was pointing towards the wall.”

At which point Mr Paul Clarke was arrested, charged with the possession of a firearm and marched off to the cells by an officer Garnett.

In court, Mr Clarke’s brief, a Mr Lionel Blackman, puts it to Mr Garnett:

“Are you aware of any notice issued by Surrey Police, or any publicity given to, telling citizens that if they find a firearm the only thing they should do is not touch it, report it by telephone, and not take it into a police station?”

Mr Garnett: “No, I don’t believe so.”

Up pops prosecuting brief, Brian Stalk, to tell the jury that possession of a firearm is a “strict liability” charge. Mr Clarke is guilty. End of. No debate. Send the man down. Ruin his life. Go on.

Mr Lionel Blackman then tells one and all:

“This is a very small case with a very big principle.

It is a matter of principle. This is how lawyers earn their fees as people traipse in to the well appointed chambers to say that it’s the principal that matters. Says Mr Blackman, who is a decent sort:

“You could be walking to a railway station on the way to work and find a firearm in a bin in the park. Is it unreasonable to take it to the police station?”

Well, it would seem so, yes. Better to commit a crime with the gun and take your chances. Mr Clarke faces a minimum of five year’s imprisonment for handing in the weapon.

Paul Clarke will be sentenced on December 11. And the law is always right.

Judge Christopher Critchlow sums up:

“This is an unusual case, but in law there is no dispute that Mr Clarke has no defence to this charge. The intention of anybody possessing a firearm is irrelevant.”

To put the tin lid on this, Mr Clarke is a former soldier.

Anorak

Posted: 13th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)

The Mona Lisa Had Eyebrows And A Moustache

THE Mona Lisa. She had enigmatic eyebrows. Two of them. She did not have a monobrow as many has supposed. But she did have a moustache.

An art expert called Pascal Cotte looked at the painting through a 240 megapixel camera. He says Leonardo da Vinci created his masterpiece in layers, the final varnish producing the effect of a three-dimensional face.

And then on tops of the glaze, da Vinci painted spots, moles, sideburns, a pair of wire-framed glasses and eyebrows. She also had the word “LEO” inside her bottom lip.

Anorak

Posted: 12th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Weston Bans Fat Mums From Giving Birth In Town

FAT mums-to-be are barred from having babies at Weston General Hospital. The hospital will only safely admit women with a body mass index (BMI) of 34 and under.

As you’re lying there screaming “GET IT OUT” a dietician will approach and test you for fatness. If you pass you can have the baby. If not, you will have to a) ingest it; b) leave, perhaps for St Michael’s Hospital in Bristol, 20 miles away. Run. It’ll do you good.

A BMI of 34 is equivalent to a 15-stone 5ft 6ins tall woman. A spokesman says: ”

Our foremost concern is for the safety of mothers who deliver here and their babies.”

Anorak

Posted: 12th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)