Leicester’s Manjit Singh Pulls London Bus With His Hair

AS part of the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day, Anorak joined millions in doing nothing. Each year the world’s population swells, and a new apathy record is set.

Others, though, seeks other records. Manjit Singh, from Leicester, celebrates after breaking the Guinness World Record for the furthest distance to pull a double-decker bus with his hair, by pulling a bus for 21.2 metres, in Battersea Park, south London. Bus drivers do your worst.

Strike if you will. We have Manjit.

Anorak

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

China’s Official Brandy Tester Grows Nose For The Job

LIU Ge is an official brandy taster in Beijing. Liu Ge has been the official brandy tester for 52 years. And this is what his nose looks like.

Imagine the size of the brandy balloon needed to accommodate Mr Ge’s nose and the drink, with its liquid paraffin, muddy water and anti-freeze notes.

Mr Ge drinks two litres of brandy a day from a huge goldfish bowl. He is not so much a taster as he is self-pickler. Says he:

“Drinking alcohol has been just like drinking water to me. I had to drink sometimes two litres a day just to test the quality.”

Anorak

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

Man Finds Jesus In Indian Restaurant Naan Bread

THE image of Jesus has been found in a naan bread at Southampton’s Poppadom Express Indian restaurant.

Darren Farrant, a 19-year-old criminology student, all ready to tuck into his lamb rogan josh when he saw the face of Jesus staring back at him form his naan bread.

Anorak

Posted: 12th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)

8-Year-Old Christopher Bizilj Kills Himself With Uzi At Gun Show, Family Blame Teenaged Supervisor

CHRISTOPHER  Bizilj, age 8, shoots himself at a gun show. His family blames the teen for giving him the Uzi

READY for an only in America story? Well, ok, not only in America. Also in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and more remote parts of Lily Allen:

The family of an 8-year-old boy who fatally shot himself at a gun show in western Massachusetts say the Uzi submachine gun jammed twice before he lost control of the weapon and fired into his head.

If only those Uzi sub-machine guns came with health and safety warnings:

Read the rest of this entry »

Anorak

Posted: 11th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

Tripta Kaushal Is The World’s Worst Driver, Video

THAT video of the BMW X5 mounting two other parked cars in the car park of a branch of Extreme Fitness and then being driven off features the skills of  Tripta Kaushal, 62.

Kaushal has now been charged with failing to remain at the scene of an accident.

But this is what SUV’s are for. You create your own parking space. Here’s the video guide to making your way in an SUV. As the scientist said in Back To The Future: “Roads… Where we’re going, you don’t need roads“:

Anorak

Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)

Policeman Steals Call of Duty: World At War And Kill Zone 2 To Better Understand The Kids

SO good are PlayStation 3 games Call of Duty: World at War and Kill Zone 2 that a policeman will ruin his career to get his hands on them.

At Frome Magistrates, PC Peter Cokell expalisn how he came to be possession of the games, as removed from a branch of MHV.

Cokell, whose jobs it was to prowl The Mall, Cribbs Causeway, for six years, is seen on CCTV placing the games in his helmet and then under his Kevlar body armour. He then leaves the store. In court he offers the explanation – breath in and read.

Anorak

Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Portmouth Woman Has Morbid Fear Of Vegetables

VICKI Larrieux has been diagnosed with a morbid fear of vegetables. (Morbid is a popular word in the dieticians’ community, and if people can be morbidly obese they can surely be morbidly slim and so on.)

As the Telegraph says, Larrieux, a 22-year-old student from Portsmouth, eats only “meat, potatoes, cereals and an occasional apple but refuses even a single slice of carrot on her dinner plate”.

All this is positioned beneath the headline:

“Woman diagnosed with fear of vegetables”

Anorak

Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)

Suspected Swansea Burglar Sends Police Updated Mugshot

MATTHEW Maynard called the Swansea Evening Post to complain about the mugshot they were using of him.

Wanted by the police in connection with burglary, Matthew Maynard, 23, then submitted a picture of himself standing by a police van.

Anorak

Posted: 6th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

New Mexico’s Elizabeth Lambert Tries Out For Leeds United

IN the USA, football is women’s game, and anyone who says otherwise will be taken outside by New Mexico’s Elizabeth Lambert and have their ponytail pulled really hard.

Robbie Savage, you have been warned? Oh, where was Elizabeth Lambert when David Seaman’s mid-life crisis so desperately needed her?

Anorak

Posted: 6th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)

Surrey Artist Poos And Wipes Arse On Bible

IN the Vancouver suburb of Surrey, a 33-year-old man is in need of urgent relief.

He is at a party. He is drunk. It is Halloween. So he poos on the seat of a car and wipes himself clean on a handy Bible.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Anorak

Posted: 6th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)

Man Forgets To Wind Down Car Window Before Drive-By Shooting

IT is alleged that Andrew J. Burwitz, 20, of Appleton, Wis., did fail to wind down his car window before attempting a drive-by shooting at the home of his ex-girlfriend’s family.

His first show broke the glass. Two further bullet struck the house. Three entered the living room.

Anorak

Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Missing Shannon Turns Up Fives Days Later Beneath Baby Sitter’s Bed

IN Florida, 7-month-old Shannon Dedrick has been missing for five days. She turns up under baby sitter Susan Elizabeth Baker’s bed.

Police are looking to charge Baker, her husband James Arthur Baker and Chrystina Lynn Mercer, the child’s mother, with whatever they can.

On Saturday the child is reported missing.

On Monday, County Sheriff Bobby Haddock (nominative determinism, folks) told us:

“We have searched every dumpster in the city limits of Chipley, we have turned over every garbage can.”

Anorak

Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Ringo Starr Appears In A Water Drop, Jesus Unimpressed

RESEARCHERS at Duke University, North Carolina, have spotted Ringo Starr’s face into water droplets hitting a leaf.

James Dacey, a reporter for Physics World, writes:

“Bizarrely, everybody’s favourite mop-topped Liverpudlian seems to reveal himself in the high-speed photo images of water-droplets being ejected from the leaf surface.”

Anorak

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

Police Log: Mum Tells Police Of Daughter’s Oral Sex Skills

IN Findlay, Ohio, the Police Department responds to a call from a mother complaining that her daughter gives better oral sex than her:

A woman called the police early Saturday morning during an argument with her husband after he claimed that the woman’s daughter performed oral sex on him, and the daughter was better at it.

Anorak

Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)

Hoity The Dead Cat is Peta’s Dumb Animal Of The Month

ANORAK is, like Peta, looking for an intern. No cats. And no dead cats, especially, as the Washington Post reports:

Lydia Netzer lives next door to the PETA intern house down in Norfolk. Netzer used to have an indoor-outdoor cat. PETA has concerns about outdoor cats.

There is more than one kind of cat?

“It seemed like every time a new intern moved in, they would come over and say they needed to talk to me about the dangers of cats living outside. I would have this parade of pierced, tattooed vegans at my door. In a way it’s like, ‘Oh, they’re so cute. They’re all 20 years old and super-faithful true believers.’ “

Anorak

Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Judge Rules Transexual Burglar Has Rotten Life And Must Remain Free

THEA Cox has been caught stealing make-up and women’s clothes. Thea is arrested and now up before The Beak.

Cox, 54, has been handed a12-week prison sentence for possessing an offensive weapon as she burgled student flats at Exeter University. She is ordered to wear a tag, which means police can keep tabs on her as she revisits the scene of past crimes to have another go.

Anorak

Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (26)

Gay Men And Lesbians Ordered To Leave Jamaican Town On ‘Gay Eradication Day’

THE Jamaica Star has a message for homosexuals: “GAYS MUST LEAVE TODAY”.

Today has been proclaimed ‘Gay Eradication Day’ by residents of the McGregor Gully community in East Kingston. Residents say that they will be taking action as a two-week notice given to all gays and lesbians to flee the community has now expired.

It can be hard to identify who is and who is not gay. The Gully locals’ plan might be to see who flees then: a) send out a posse; b) lock the town’s gates; or c) see if there’s enough demand for an organic coffee shop.

A local explains:

“Yu nuh si seh dem waa mash up di place an gi wi bad name, me haffi protect my yute dem from dem type a influence deh,” one resident said while pointing out that they will not sit back and watch while their community falls into disrepute.

Anorak

Posted: 2nd, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

Aberdeen Fan Dressed As Sheep Set On Fire

ABOARD a train with fans of Aberdeen FC a man dressed a sheep is on fire.

The 24-year-old on his way back to Aberdeen from his side’s match against Hibs in Edinburgh, runs through the train. Fans throw beer on him to put him out.

The Edinburgh to Aberdeen service is stopped at Kirkcaldy, and the man is treated.

One man is arrested.

Anorak

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

Sick Patient Locked In Ambulance And Left In Manchester

THE NHS works. The NHS works so well that a patient was attended to by Sharston ambulance station, Wythenshawe, was locked in an ambulance for five hours. The driver had forgotten he was there and gone home.

The NHS does work because the 65-year-old was collected by an ambulance from Manchester Royal Infirmary. A spokesman tells us:

“We are very sorry this incident took place. This has never happened before and it will never happen again.

“We have met with the patient and family to discuss the matter and will continue to liaise with them throughout this process.”

Anorak

Posted: 31st, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment

City Bans Over 12s, Tall Children And Sex Offenders From Halloween

IN Belleville, St Louis, paedos and yobbos are spreading the Halloween fear.

The rules state that anyone the age of an eighth grader – that’s 12 years old – and younger may trick or treat from 5:00 to 8:30 on Halloween night. If you are older you are forbidden unless you are special needs.

The rules also state that anyone older than 12 year must not wear a mask or anything that covers or disguises the face.

Mayor Mark Eckert tells us how they do it the land of the free:

“We felt that the situation of adding that about concealing your identity is a tool for the police officers. They don’t need to have people running around that feel like they have the right to have different masks on throughout the community, into restaurants, or different places. That makes it very difficult to do their jobs.”

So no wearing a stripy jumper and wearing a black mask; no dressing up as Gary Glitter; a paedo priest nor that. It only makes the police’s job harder.

Anorak

Posted: 31st, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

The Most Disgusting, Offensive And Tasteless Halloween Costumes

IT’S Halloween-ish. And in honour of the imported season of ill will to all men – Americans don’t have Bonfire night and with it the chance to toss a Catholic on a pyre – we bring you the most disguting, offensive and tasteless Halloween costumes ever:

Red Sox’s number 9 Ted Williams

Anorak

Posted: 31st, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (8)

Boy Loses Arm In Washing Machine, Goes to Bed Without It

“SORRY mami, I’ve gone and lost my arm. I didn’t mean to,” says the little lad whose arm became detached from the rest of him.

The incident occurred in the city of Ulm, southern Germany, and like you we are amazed at the Teutonic capacity for the English language. But the Sun is nothing if it is not factual.

Police spokesman Wolfgang Juergens tells us:

“It is nothing short of a miracle that he didn’t bleed to death in the night.”

Anorak

Posted: 30th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)

Holy Communion Wafer Transforms Into Jesus Christ’s Cloned Heart

IN Sokolka, in Catholic Poland, a shard of communion wafer has mutated into human heart tissue. At mass, the wafer tumbles into water. And it emerges as heart tissue.

The evidence is whisked off to be examined.

A Professor Maria Sobaniec-Lotowaska, of the medical university in Bialystok, says it is heart tissue.

Anorak

Posted: 30th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)

Somali Man Aged 112 Marries 17-Year-Old Virgin

THE internet is alive with news that 112-year-old Ahmed Muhamed Dore has married Safia Abdulleh, age 17, in the Galguduud region of Somalia. Says Dore:

“Today God helped me realise my dream… I didn’t force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love, and then we agreed to marry.”

It’s a cracking story, and one backed up by no proof of wither parties ages, nor of their wedding. There exists no Jeremy Kyle equivalent in Somalia for us to watch the happy couple on the telly. No DNA test can prove the man’s age.

Anorak

Posted: 29th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (12)

Alien Crawls Onto South Pacific Beach

ON Temuka beach, Rose Fraser has potted an alien. Says she:

“I first saw it from a distance and I thought: ‘That’s a big white rock on the shore line … that wasn’t there four days ago’.”

A new island?

“I must admit, I thought: ‘Heck, this is an alien’. It looks like it’s got big ribs coming out of it, but it looks like they could be tentacles, so I don’t know.”

So she did as anyone would do when faced with a magical discovery, a visitation from another planet. She lobbed a rock at it. She prodded it with a stick. It did not move.

Anorak

Posted: 29th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)