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.
China Erects Pair Of Massive Breasts Attached to Tiny Girl
IN Foshan City, Guangdong province China a new statue features a small child stood well back behind a pair of giant breasts.
Is this a Katie Price time line, a lide that takes users from the young Katie to the Jordan to now?
The girl is just 20cm tall girl and her breasts are five metres high and wide. Neither girl nor chests are thought to be real – although we have yet to hear the girl sing.
Says one mum:
“The park used to be a great place for families, but now what attracts my son the most is the huge breasts. I have tried to educate him with some scientific knowledge, but all he thinks when he sees the statue are smutty thoughts.”
Mum knows what you’re thinking. You can’t win. If you look at the little girl, you’re a paedo. If you look at the breasts, you’re a sicko. And if you look at mum, you’re just odd. What says the girls? A kindergarten teacher explains:
“The little girls were scared and cried loudly, asking me if they would grow those huge things, and boys laughed crazily.”
Says a spokesman for the park:
“It’s normal to have disagreements about art, we can understand it.”
It’s nothing more than a worthwhile totem for mass debate…
Posted: 28th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Drugs Smuggler Refuses To Go To The Toilet For 16 Days
DAMIEN Ankrah, 28, is in Swansea Crown Court, charged with placing heroin in condoms and swallowing them. This is not a new safer method to getting wasted, rather a way of smuggling the illegal substances.
The drugs remained in Ankrah’s stomach for 16 days, during which time he refused to go to the toilet. As the BBC reports:
David Lindsay, prosecuting, told the court – sitting at Swansea Guildhall – that Ankrah’s stubbornness took up an “inordinate” amount of police time and resources.
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Posted: 26th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Drunk Marijuana Smoker Arrested On Way To Help Nephew
DRUNK Marijuana Smoker Arrested On Way To Help Nephew – don’t panic. Here comes the cavalry…
Posted: 26th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Mechanics Revisit Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Ferrari Scene
FANS of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, will enjoy the story of the Reddich, Worcestershire, garage mechanics who took a customer’s Vauxhall Monaro on a 125mph joyride.
An in-car computer recorded the adventure for the owner’s perusal. He tells us:
“The Monaro was supposed to be in my local friendly garage having a radiator leak fixed. In fact, the boys in the garage were out having fun.”
Or as we like to put it, “testing its roadworthiness.”
The video of the ride is hereunder, after this short bit of nostalgia:
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Posted: 26th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Tube Worker Morbin Resigns Over Customer Attack: Video
MIND the gap in your career, Ian Morbin, the customer service assistant who has handed in his resignation over an incident at Holborn Tube station on 15 October.
Mr Morbin fund cause to, apparently, threaten/promises to “sling” a passenger “under the train”.
Mr Morbin has apologised. Transport for London calls his behaviour “unacceptable“.
In the video, Mr Morbin is heard calling a “customer” “a jumped up little git” and “little girl”.
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Posted: 26th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Swedish Prisoner Joins Thai Ladies’ Ping-Pong Team
SOMETHING to get enraged about now, as news reaches us of a prisoner doing bird in Sweden Gävle jail receiving 18,300 kronor ($2,700) for hurting his little finger in a game of table-tennis, or ping-pong.
We journey back to November 2007, and see the 46-year-old inmate strike the pinkly on his right hand on the edge of the table.
As anyone who has watched Old Mr Anorak taking the Thai Ladies ping-pong team through their paces at his winter training camp knows, that can smart. And for ten weeks out ping-pong enthusiast is forced to sport a plastic splint.
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Posted: 25th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pastor Marc Invites You A Halloween Bible Burning At The Amazing Grace Baptist Church
HALLOWEEN. They don’t just dress up scary – those cray-zee American talk scary too. On the website of Pastor Marc, you are invited to book burning:
Unlike many websites they beat around the bush, and hide what they really are, liberals, modernist, and New Evangelicals. You want have to look at this site long before you know who we are and what we believe.
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Posted: 24th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
iWatchLA.Org: I Watch Because I’m A Spiteful Pervert With Trust Issues
DO you like to watch people and then whisper about them? Well, you’re not alone. You’re never alone with iWatch.
A bevy of faces line up to tell us why they watch other people and then report them. Not one of them says they watch other people because they are spiteful, bored, angry, depressed, sexually frustrated and don’t much like humanity. Which is odd. These people need watching. They’re not normal.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Finance Director With Stealing Fetish Collects M&S Underwear
STAFFORDSHIRE’S The Sentinel newspaper brings news of a “finance director” who has been jailed for 16 months for stealing women’s clothing – “including underwear – from Marks & Spencer”.
The Devil is in the detail? Are finance directors more prone to stealing women’s knickers than, say, account managers or the head of HR? The headline screams:
Fetish man is jailed for shoplifting
Fetish? What is his fetish for: stealing; shoplifting; women’s knickers; A-line skirts; M&S?
David O’Connell, aged 48, was handed the sentence at Leicester Crown Court yesterday, after pleading guilty to two counts of theft from the popular store.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jose Luis Rodriguez’s Leaping Wolf Wins Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2009 Award
THIS picture of a leaping wolf has won Jose Luis Rodriguez the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award.
Says the artist:
“I wanted to capture a photo in which you would see a wolf in an act of hunting – or predation – but without blood. I didn’t want a cruel image.”
The wild can be a beautiful place. See our gallery of awesome icebergs here.
Posted: 22nd, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Boar Girl Grows Pelt-Like Skin Covering
AFTER Balloon Boy and the Koran Baby Reader, we learn of a six-year-old girl turning into a boar (Star), “cat-girl” (Sun).
What began as a small birthmark on her back has spread to form a pelt that now covers Li Xiaoyuan’s entire back and is starting to grow on her arms and face.
From Fengkai, southern China, Li’s dad Li Yan says:
“Doctors told us it was just a birthmark even when it started spreading but now it covers half her body. None of the other children want to play with her – they are really mean.”
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Posted: 21st, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
70 Stone Paul Mason Is The World’s Fattest Dancer
MR Paul Mason is the world’s fattest man. Mr Mason last achieved a fame of sorts in 2002 when he weighed 56 stone and needed to go to hospital for a hernia operation. Back then, a firecrew removed his bedroom window, dismantled a brick wall and fence and took him off in a forklift truck.
Paul Mason is big. He now weighs in at an impressive 70 stone.
Or as the Sun puts it on its front page:
“WORLD’S FATTEST BLOKE LIVES IN IPSWICH.”
His secret:
He eats 20,000 calories of food a day – EIGHT TIMES the official adult male average of 2,500. Paul scoffs three family-sized takeaways a night and wolfs down Sunday roasts like snacks.
He’s a giant of a man, popping whole roast chickens into his mouth.
On Google Earth, Ipswich is the small reddish-brown smudge by Mason’s ankle.
Paul Mason is a former engineer, is due to undergo surgery in the next few weeks in a bid to reduce his weight. NHS officials are trying to decide how to move him from his home in Ipswich, Suffolk, to a specialist unit for obese patients at St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex, 152 miles away.
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Posted: 21st, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (17)
Domina-Mobile Is The Mobile Dominatrix: In Pictures
TIMES are hard for German prostitutes. Tough times in the S&M game, where dungeons are in short supply.
This enterprising dominatrix has converted a Renault van into a dungeon, complete with dungeon features, like side impact protection, seat belts, a fan hater and electric windows.
No longer do German masochists need to travel for humiliation. Now they can feel truly humiliated as Domina parks outside their law office, police station or other place of work.
Right now, the Domina-mobile vehicle is just a van, but it is hoped that if money is good, Domina can offer a faster service in a one–seater convertible for racier enthusiasts.
Right, Max?
Posted: 21st, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Saudi Woman Divorces Husband For Calling Her Guantanamo
IN Saudi Arabia a woman is seeking divorce from a husband who nicknamed her ‘Guantanamo‘.
While browsing a list of contacts in her husband’s mobile phone, she happend upon her own number, filed under ‘G’ for Guantanamo.
His wife was affronted at being compared to a maximum security detention centre that allows the inhabitants no moments of privacy. She has decided to end their 17-year marriage.
But she is not an unreasonable woman, and will settle for “substantial” financial compensation, enough money to build her shattered infrastructure and compensate her for a breach on her human rights.
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Posted: 20th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Koran Writing Appears On Baby’s Leg
IN the small village of Krasno-Oktyabrskoye, in the Republic of Dagestan, new-born Ali Yakubov bears the mark of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.
Ali’s mum, Madina Yakubova, says her son was born with a hematoma on his chin. But – lo! – when the wound healed, the word ‘Allah‘ written in Arab appeared as if by magick.
And that is not all. On his legs are entire sentences in Arabic. He is the first child that you can cuddle and read:
“The inscriptions appear on Mondays and Fridays, the boy runs very high temperature and cries. The inscriptions gradually disappear after three days and then new ones appear.”
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Posted: 20th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (12)
Russian Buses Refuse To Stop
LATE and grotty trains. Taxis that go the pretty way. Pedestrians that should need a license to walk. Cyclists floating on sense of self-entitlement. And buses… Oh, how we love buses.
In this clip, our Russian bus driver friend is so keen to get there on time, he can’t be bothered to stop. Stopping is for wimps.
This is what happens when you let minicab drivers on public transport:
Posted: 20th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Meatloaf Arrested For Disorderly Conduct While Intoxicated
TO MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, where singing meat dish Meatloaf is being arrested by police.
At the time of his arrest, Meatloaf was dressed as a vampire.
It is said that while journey along the northbound I-75, Meat did grab the wheel of a taxi he was in. He is charged with disorderly conduct while intoxicated.
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Posted: 20th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Halloween Horror Averted: Witch Saved By Lifeboat
HALLOWEEN Horror: Witch Saved By Lifeboat.
Spotter: Popbitch
Posted: 20th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Somali Game Show First Prize Is AK47 And Jihad
A new game show in Somalia promises Jihad to the winner and an AK 47. Everyone else get a bullet.
IT’S Friday. It’s five to five. It’s Bomb Attack!
At which point the Hamas kids scream “Bomb Attack!”
Happily, your host Al-Mon Andrews is now dead, so too is Leslie Howizter, Michael Al-spel and (No) ‘Ed Stewart. So here’s, Stu ‘Ooh, I could crush the infield like a grape’ Francis. “Bomb Attack!”
Bomb Attack!
Kaboom!
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Posted: 19th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nominative Determinism With Rape Artist Kok Foo Lim
IN today’s look at nominative determinism – the science of taking after your name – Anorak spots Kok Foo Lim, who posed as a taxi driver with the intend of luring drunk men into his car and then sexually assaulting them.
The District Court in Perth, Australia, finds Kok Fool Lim guilty of 15 counts of sexual penetration without consent, 11 counts of indecent assault and one count of unlawful wounding.
It’s all very grim:
Many of the victims were unaware of the crimes committed against them until contacted by police and shown photos or videos of the offences.
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Posted: 19th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Only Video Of Anne Frank Emerges
THIS is the only known video of Anne Frank, the girl whose voice gave life to the millions murdered.
July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film. At the time of her wedding, the bride lived on the second floor at Merwedeplein 39. The Frank family lived at number 37, also on the second floor. The Anne Frank House can offer you this film footage thanks to the cooperation of the couple.
Posted: 18th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Somalia’s Youth Police Whip Women With Firm Breasts
BUDDING Jordan wannabes should conjure with the name Somalia, as news reaches us of Mogadishu’s breast police.
Islamist group al Shabaab – al Qaeda’s “youth” wing – is publicly whipping women for wearing bras which violate Islam by constituting a deception.
Hard men with large impressive guns are prowling the streets for women with a firm bust. The Islamicists say breasts should be firm naturally, or just flat.
Anorak finds this just revolting. Old Mr Anorak has formed a protest committee and is right now on his way to Somalia.
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Posted: 18th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Russian Scam Artists: In Pictures
IN Russia, they don’t sell the Big Issue. If they did someone would only distil it and mix it with anti-freeze to form an enlivening cocktail. The poor are forced to beg.
And with no time to relay a sympathetic back story the poor are forced to look poor, frail and preferably disfigurerd – not hideosly to deter people from looking but just enough to elicit sympathy.
Of course not everyone is genuine. Some beggars aren’t even all that poor. Anorak takes a look:
Posted: 17th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dead Man Taken For Halloween Puppet
THE figure on the Marina del Rey balcony is thought by neighbours to be part of a Halloween display.
It might be. What it is also is Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed, a 75-year-old man with a single gunshot wound to one eye. He’s been slumped over a chair on the balcony for four days.
Cameraman Austin Raishbrook says neighbours noticed the body on Monday (Zayed was retrieved on Thursday) “but didn’t bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy.
“The body was in plain view of the entire apartment complex [and] they all didn’t do anything. It’s very strange. It did look unreal, to be honest.”
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Posted: 17th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kebab Maker Accused Of Causing Grievous Boldy Harm With Chilli Sauce
“LEGALLY, the question of whether the spiciness of the kebab sauce constituted ‘normal’ or grievous bodily harm must be addressed.”
So says a German police spokesman in Bremen.
To a food kiosk at the main train station in the northern German city, where a man is ordering his kebab. He asks for a napkin. The seller declines to give him one. The kebab enthusiast wipes his hand on the kiosk.
A fight ensues.
The seller tosses chilli sauce into the man’s face. The police must now decide of the sauce was spicy enough to constitute grievous bodily harm.
Samples are taken. Forensics are called. The police canteen is mustered.
But can a chilli sauce be too hot?
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Posted: 17th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
