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.
Nicholas White Spends 41 Hours Trapped In A Lift: Video
IN 2009 – exactly ten years ago today – Nicholas White was trapped in a New York City lift for 41 hours. Alone. A camera in the lift at the McGraw-Hill building filmed him.
Here’s a look at what he did:
Posted: 16th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
After Balloon Boy A Video Of A Baby Being Hit By A Train
WHILE the Balloon Boy rap is adapted for the Flying Heenes TV show intro, we receive this video of a train pulling into the station as a six-month-old baby falls on the track in Melbourne, Australia.
The child suffered only a bump on the head. Had only the buggy been equipped with airbags Train Baby could have got her own show… Video:
Posted: 16th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Schwarzhalsziegen Sheep-Goat Stolen In VW Hatchback
A SHEEP-goat, the Schwarzhalsziegen has been stolen from high on a hill in Germany.
There are only a few hundred Schwarzhalsziegen in the world. A police spokesman in Dillenburg, Germany, is appealing for witnesses:
“It’s very likely they weren’t professional rustlers because they used a Volkswagen hatchback to transport them.”
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Posted: 16th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Swiss Hitler Gnomes Of Zurich Invade Germany
EVER wonder what a gnome of Zurich looks like? In Straubing, in Lower Bavaria, Ottmar Hoerl, has taken 1,000 gnomes on a package holiday.
Interestingly, they are all black. And they appear to have failed to move with the times, attempting to blend in my raising their right arms raised in a Heil Hitler salute. Ottmar Hoerl says they are trying “to get people to think, to react”.
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Posted: 15th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Woman Denies Oral Sex In Humpty Doo Sex Case
THE Humpty Doo Sex Case trundles on as Allyson White responds to the accusation that she was performing a “sex act” on a man when he crashed in Darwin’s rural area. Ms White says it is “absolutely wrong“. And she has proof:
“I was not sucking his d*** – and it’s pretty obvious that wasn’t the case … you only have to look at the mark on my chest.
“Clearly I had my seatbelt on, so it’s impossible that I’d be leaning over sucking his d*** unless he is hung like a donkey or I’ve got a f****** rubber neck.
“If it was true I’d just cop it sweet and think ‘how embarrassing, I got caught sucking someone’s d***’ – but it is not true and that’s what is p****** me off.
“It didn’t happen like that at all – he was just going too fast.”
Police had earlier reported that the 33-year-old driver was distracted by the woman passenger and went off the road, smashing his single cab Hilux ute into a concrete drain on Pioneer Rd in… Humpty Doo.
Ms White continues:
“I don’t understand where that story has come from. It may have looked bad when police first arrived as my girls were hanging out all over the place. I also had a $5 note wedged between my boobs so they probably just assumed I was a sex worker or something and he’d already paid me. But $5 is a bit cheap for a head job.”
With complementary airbags…
Posted: 13th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Health Fears Prevent Nurses Lighting Paralysed Man’s Cigarette
BRENDAN Nutting, is paralysed from the neck down. He likes to smoke. For more than two years, staff when the Tasmanian Health and Community Service helped him light a cigarette, which is held in a robotic arm attached to his wheelchair. But then their job was taken over by Tasman Council’s Hobart District Nurses.
Their policy is that staff must not light Mr Nutting’s cigarettes, in line with occupational health and safety regulations.
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Posted: 12th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
In Pictures: Reka Urban Wins Miss Plastic Surgery Title
HURRAH for Reka Urban, aka Rika Urban, in the form of her life as she wins the inaugural Miss Plastic Hungary, beating off stiff and some would say immobile competition from Edina Kulcsar, Alexandra Horvath, a mute woman who tuned out to be a mannequin (later banned for nudity) and Squadron Leader Archibald Hartle, DSO, AC/DC retired.
Reka’s surgeon, Dr. Mária Czeglédi, also wins a prize. And Jocleyn Wildenstein is rumoured to be delighted and ready.
The rules are simple: each contestant must be 18 years old – taking an average of the sum of her parts – have undergone at least one bout of plastic surgery. And, no, Botox and collagen injections do not count as surgery. You need to have endured a knife.
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Posted: 11th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Shoots Lover On Night Before Wedding
Friday night in the Florida home of John Tabbut, who is to be married on the Saturday. He hears a sound. He goes for the gun…
“RIGHT now everything points to a tragic accident,” says Police Chief Kevin Brunelle.
John Tabutt, 62, tells investigators of how he responded to hearing sounds in his home by grabbing his gun and showing the “intruder” in his hallway.
Only, it wasn’t a burglar. It was Mr Tabutt’s live-in fiancee, 62-year-old Nancy Dinsmore. They were to be married the next day.
He calls the emergency services. He says:
“I thought I had an intruder in the house. Honest to God, she looks dead. Hang in there, Honey. Hang in there.”
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Posted: 10th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Steals Fiancee’s Money To Marry Mail Order Bride
MEET Raymond Edward Jackson, 41. He’s engaged to a woman who wishes to remain anonymous.
In late 2008, Jackson turned to his lover in Ellsworth, Wisconsin, and told her that he needed to go on a trip. As soon as he retuned, they would marry.
Before jetting off, Jackson took with him some tokens of their love to sustain him through the pain of separation – her credit cards, laptop, suitcase and engagement ring.
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Posted: 10th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Finds Jesus In Kitchen Curtains, In Pictures
Barbara Brame, of South Carolina, was in awe and wonderment as Jesus entered her life, and her kitchen…
“SOMETHING told me to look in the kitchen and I sat and I looked in the kitchen. I looked at the window, and that’s when I see this image focused on my curtain.”
So says Barbara Brame.
“That was not on there before, I know my curtain, I know my kitchen.”
And she knows Jesus, and what Jesus looks like. She might even know why Jesus chose to show himself in her kitchen drapes, but it may well be an ecumenical matter.
“At first it shocked me and then afterward I realized, God is in my home. I asked different pastors and stuff and they said, yes God is in your home.”
He moves in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. But might god be getting a bit rusty. Having made the world and heavens in six days He now can barely muster up a spooky face in a pair of kitchen curtains. Times are hard for us all.
“Maybe he’s trying to tell me something. Maybe he’s trying to tell me to go out there and save souls.”
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Posted: 10th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Sweden’s Women Only Chako Paul City Sets Gender Police On Men
CHINESE news agency Xinhua reports on “Chako Paul City”, a northern Swedish city of 25,000 lesbians.
Chako Paul City was founded in 1820 by a “wealthy widow“. The citadel is guarded by two blonde sentries who prevent men from entering on pain of being beaten (only) half to death by the gender police.
Women are permitted entry. And “are only allowed to re-enter Chako Paul City if they agree to bathe and undertake several other measures designed to ensure that their out-of-town trysts don’t negatively affect the mental state of other women in the town“.
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Posted: 9th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Swedish Fun Theorists Turn Stairs Into Keep-Fit Piano
FUN Theory sounds like science’s trendy vicar. And while putting the fun in keep-fit makes any right-minded person reach for a Mars bar, the piano stairs ay Odenplan Station, Stockholm, are, well, fun.
“Can we get more people to choose the stairs by making it fun to do?”
Well, yes. But you can make everyone use the stairs by breaking the escalator.
We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.
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Posted: 9th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nasa Invites British To Test New Bomb On Moon
Forty years on from the first moon landing, British scientists find a way to bomb it…
NEIL Armstrong described the moon’s surface as “fine and powdery”. Buzz Aldrin, the man who came second, said the moon exhibited signs of “magnificent desolation”.
Forty years on, Nasa is still working out what to do with the moon, it’s big discovery; and has only now decided to bomb it.
When Anorak first heard the news that Nasa scientists will be “bombing” the Moon with two spacecraft, we supposed the moon had been earmarked as a zone in which to test weapons destined for the desolate sands of Iraq and Afghanistan.
But Nasa says the bombing run is an attempt to locate ice-water in the Cabeus south polar region, identified by a team from the University of Durham team as a site with high concentrations of hydrogen.
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Posted: 9th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Woman In Phillipines Spots Crime In Oklahoma
IN Oklahoma, Midwest City police Chief Brandon Clabes thanks Maribel Chouinard for capturing three thieves robbing a man’s flat.
At the time, Mrs Chouinard was in the Philippines – which for any Oakies looking in, is few miles over the Texan border.
She spotted the villains on her web camera and called her husband, an Air Force master sergeant at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City.
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Posted: 7th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Drag Queens Knock Out Swansea Street Yobs: Video
TO Swansea Magistrates Court, where two men are accused of starting a fight with Spiderman before and getting knocked out by two cross-dressers.
Dean Jonathan Gardner, 19, and Jason Andrew Fender, 22, were in The Kingsway in the early hours of August 30.
Mark Davies, defending the pair, says:
“Unfortunately they were extremely drunk, and you know it cannot have been a good night when you get into a fight with Spiderman and two cross-dressing men.”
The two cross-dressers are believed to have been cage fighters on a night out. (that you Alex Reid?)
One man is wearing black hot pants and a pink wig. The other is wearing a short black dress and stockings and suspenders. Having administered the coup de grace, one drag act leans over the prone yobbos to retrieve his dropped clutch bag.
Both plead guilty to using abusive words and behaviour.
Magistrates award each with a community order each for four months. They are also ordered to be given an electronic tag, and to remain under house curfew between 7pm and 7am.
Alex Reid is innocent. Video:
Image: Outside The Beltway
Posted: 7th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Irish School Asks Pupils To Bring In Own Toilet Paper
THE recession is so bad in Ireland that even the bogs have been affected – pupils at St John’s Girls National School, Cork, are requested to bring their own toilet paper to school.
Or any other paper, like share certificates and deeds to new flats.
Says Catherine O’Neill, principal at St John’s Girls National School.
“The letter was sent out just as a way of balancing books here in the school and not intended as a demand.
“I’ve done a quick tour of the classrooms this morning and I’d say at least half the pupils have brought them (toilet rolls) in.”
The other half are finding new excuse for not handing in their homework.
Spotter: Bat E Bird in the forums
Posted: 6th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Max Payne: Alabama’s Nominative Determinism Death Row
A DEPRESSING case of nominative determinism in Alabama’s death row where inmate Max Landon Payne – Max Payne – is scheduled to be put to death.
An attorney for Alabama death row inmate Max Landon Payne says he doesn’t expect to file last-minute appeals to stop Thursday’s scheduled execution.
Spotter: Al
Posted: 6th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Dancing Alien Spotted In Winchester
ARE you the alien ballerina of Winchester? Local councillor Adrian Hicks first and last spotted the magick figure five years ago and is determined to track it down.
“It was staggering – I am not usually lost for words but I was that day. She was a humanoid walking with a penguin-like gait. She had very large oval eyes and was twirling her hands in a circular motion. She was laughing and seemed to be enjoying herself. She was human enough to get away with it.”
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Posted: 6th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Headline Of The Year: Ugandan Pastor In Bum Sex Scandal
IN Uganda, newspapers have no time for puns in the case of Pastor Kiwewesi, aka Pastor Kiweweesi, versus David Arinaitwe – it’s a “bum sex scandal”:
Kansanga Miracle Centre Senior Pastor Isaac Kiwewesi, yesterday denied sodomy allegations brought against him by former employee David Arinaitwe, even as Police said they were continuing with investigations into the matter.
“I categorically state that these accusations are unfounded, baseless and absolutely untrue, and I hereby disassociate myself from them,” the pastor said in a statement read for him by a senior member of his church, Mr Mondo Mugisha.
The headline sits on the fence, as do the captions: “Shafted” and Accused”…
Posted: 5th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Shock News: Pet Bear Kills Pet Owner
KELLY Ann Walz , of Ross Township, Pennsylvania was attacked and killed when she entered her pet black bear’s cage to feed the 350-pound animal.
The bear lived in a 15-by-15-foot steel and concrete enclosure on Walz’s property in Ross Township. The homeowner had a permit to keep a Bengal tiger and an African lion…
More shock news to follow…
Posted: 5th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Gay Hating Drivers Deliberately Run Into Faggots And Dykes
CAMPAIGNERS for the Protection Of English (POE) are at war with gay campaigners in light of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s decision to remove from sale the number plates F4 GOT and D1 KES.
The agency says the plates bear resemblance to the terms faggot and dykes, on grounds of “the clear potential offence“.
Hard luck for meatball lovers and fans of damns [sic] – your hobby has been undone by the creeping Americanisation of the English language.
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Posted: 5th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (17)
Pilots Battle Crew On Air India Flight
ABOARD an Air India flight from the United Arab Emirates to Delhi, high over Pakistan, pilots and cabin crew are exchanging blows.
There has been a row in the cockpit about a claim of sexual harassment. Cabin crew allege that the pilot has been harassing a young female air hostess. The row continues into the galley. Passengers put down their in-flight mags and zoom in.
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Posted: 4th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Virgin Mary Weeps At Kerrytown Shrine
“IT was a crazy evening. It was absolutely amazing. I am still on an emotional high,” says James Boyle. “All but one person seemed to see the same thing.”
Boyle, from Ardara, was gazing upon the statue of the Virgin Mary, in a rocky outcrop near the town of Dungloe, Co Donegal, alogn with his wife Margaret and children, Martin and Mary.
Mr Boyle say he and 13 others had journey to the shrine after Ballyfermot-based faith healer Joe Coleman told them that the Virgin Mary had told she would appear at the shrine on September 29 at 8pm.
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Posted: 3rd, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Experiments With Instantaneous Photography: Blowing Up A Mule
IN this experiment with early photography a mule is attached to dynamite and detonated…
Posted: 2nd, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Has Double Monkey Arm Transplant
JEFF Kepner is the former pastry chef with the double arm transplant. His one moan is that his hands are now hairier than his body.
This is no Moonstruck – Kepner lost his hands due to a bacterial infection.
From his bed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Kepner tells the Daily Mirror:
“I’m not the kind of person to say ‘Ooh, those aren’t mine’.”
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Posted: 2nd, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
