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.
John Hopkins Student Hacks Burglar To Death
AT Johns Hopkins University, Blatimore, a student living off campus with three other students, armed himself with a samurai sword and killed a burglar who broke into the garage.
In the small hours of the morning, university security heard screams from a house and found the suspected burglar dead, with a severed hand and lacerations to his upper body.
Makes a change from the usual horror stories of students being victims.
Posted: 15th, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Man Wearing Oxygen Mask Holds Up La Jolla Bank
IN La Jolla, California, a well-dressed elderly man carrying an oxygen tank has robbed a branch of the San Diego National Bank Saturday.
The robber is described as a tall man in his 70s with white hair, a gray moustache and glasses. He was wearing a white beret, argyle sweater and brown sports jacket.
The villain was carrying an oxygen tank was in a black bag and connected to the man’s nose with plastic tubing.
Lady GaGa is cursing herself for not thinking of the look first…
Posted: 14th, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Police Haunt Owl Man, Photofit Of the Decade
POLICE in Victoria, Canada, are looking for this man who broke into a man’s home and stabbed him.
Jessica Ziakin, 26, was awakened at about 4 a.m. PT by the sound of an intruder and confronted a man, who then stabbed her in the leg, severing an artery, Victoria police said Friday.
The woman’s husband of less than a month heard her screams and grabbed the man, but let him go when he saw his wife bleeding heavily. The suspect got away but left his shoes behind, police said.
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Posted: 13th, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Jailed For Masturbating In Farmer’s Muck Spreader
DAVID Roy Truscott, 40, of Pengegon Parc, Camborne, is before Magistrates in Truro to receive a 16-week prison sentence after pleading guilty to the harassment of Clive Roth and his family at Woodbury Farm, Tolgus Mount, by way of masturbating in their muck spreader.
Between December 23, 2005 and August 22, 2009, Mr Truscott stripped down to shiny red shorts and rubber gloves and pleasured himself in the muck.
The farmer’s suspicions were raised when he discovered a water trough filled with manure and tissues scattered around. He then noticed the mould of buttocks (pair of) and two hand prints where manure had been piled up.
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Posted: 11th, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
The Worst Beatles Cover Ever, Not By Yoko Ono
READY for the Worst Beatles Cover Ever (Not By Yoko Ono)?
A musical interlude:
Posted: 11th, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Speeding Monkey Presents The Weirdest Speed Camera Pictures
THE Arizona Department of Public Safety is looking for satisfaction from 37 unpaid photo enforcement tickets issued to Dave Vontesmar.
But Vontesmar says the driver of the car was not him. the figure in the monkey mask is someone else.
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Posted: 9th, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Manchester Police Can’t Identify CCTV Thief
IN Greater Manchester – the imperial powerhouse of the North – a thief is stealing a CCTV camera.
That’s him with the missing front teeth, climbing a ladder to steal a £1,000 CCTV camera from the Trafford Retail Park.
He’s Britain’s “daftest thief”. What a wally. The police must take about a minute catching him. Well, no. The idiot has confounded minds at the thickish blue line. The raid took place about a year ago, and whether from embarrassment or desperation, the cops have only now released his likeness.
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Posted: 9th, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Children Smoke Bong On Russian TV Show
RUSSIAN TV is just great, isn’t it? it is. On Russian TV, children can teach watching children how to smoke a bong.
Anti-freeze is last year’s hit, grandpa. It’s time for the yoof to take ova…
Posted: 8th, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Hunt Three Chunky Hookers Who Rated A 2
“THEY found a woman whose picture they found appealing and called,” says Det. Sgt. Doug Hansen of four “incredibly” intoxicated men who decided to pepper their night by pooling their money to hire a prostitute via Craiglist.
Seattle’s Mountlake Terrace police are hunting for not one but three prostitutes who answered the call and, allegedly, stole $440 from the four clients.
It might easy to find at least one of the women who was hired after the men spotted her picture. But the clients found that when she arrived she bore no resemblance to the vision in the advert. None of the three did.
The men described the women as “larger and thicker” than the woman in the advert. “The men said they were not as advertised,” said Hansen.
Still, the women had turned up and the men handed over the cash. At which point one of the women asked to use the toilet. Having entered the home she set about stealing a Blackberry and some jewellery, Hansen said.
She then made off in a maroon Ford hatchback, running one man over as she left. In case you should feel the urge, here is what to look out for:
The suspects are about 5-feet-8, white and “chunky,” in their late 20s, possibly from Tacoma. One had curly, wavy brown hair and called everyone “baby,” the men told police. The second had lip piercings and stringy brown hair. The third had short, sandy blond hair, according to police.
While trying to describe the suspects to police, the men decided to rate the women on a scale of 1 to 10. Three said the women all rated a “2.” But the man described by police as the most intoxicated disagreed and claimed they rated a “4.”
Was he seeing double? The search continues…
Posted: 4th, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Woman Scared For Life By Naked Neighbour’s Hairy Sausage
DENISE Woodage tells Reading Crown Court that she has been put off sausages for life by the sight of her “oddball” her neighbour Paul Darlow masturbating in his back garden in Churchwood Walk, Calcot.
What kind of sausages is unsaid, but Anorak guesses it’s those ones you get from caravan’s parked in motorway laybys, the ones with the meatballs still attached.
What is more, Woodage says she all too frequently saw “pale and hairy” Darlow going about his household chores wearing only a pair of boots.
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Posted: 3rd, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Your London Cabbie Is A Paranoid Schizophrenic Who Strangled His Wife
IN London a paranoid schizophrenic, who strangled his wife nine years ago is now training to be a black cab driver.
The trainee cabbie is 38. He strangled his wife in 2000.
He admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibilty.
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Posted: 2nd, September 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Merthyr Rugby Team Runs Over Fan With Lawn Mower
THE female rugby fan who suffered head injuries after being crushed by a metal lawn roller as she slept in a tent, has been released from Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth.
Police arrested 21 men from the Merthyr area after the mowing at Aberaeron Rugby Club in Ceredigion, where a sevens festival was taking place.
As a result Merthyr Youth Team had been thrown out of the competition.
You can hear them singing in the carpark:
“21 men went to mow…”
Any Mowermen of Merthyr want to tell us what happened?
Posted: 30th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
World War 2 Alien Urinates On German Sunbeds
IN Germany, Heinz Langer says an alien urinated on his sun lounger while being chased by German fighter planes.
Cue the music: Mad dogs and Englishman…
Heinz Langer, of Hagenburg on the Steinhuder Sea in Lower Saxony, says his sun lounger had been covered in black, yellow and violet flecks that had fallen from the sky.
Says police spokesman Axel Bergman:
“He noticed military aircraft in the area at the time and a short while later this liquid landed in his garden. He believed there was a connection but the military have assured us the liquid was not from their planes…
“There were military planes in the area at the time and we believe there was a connection with the appearance of this so far unidentified acidic substance.
“However we have been in touch with the German air force and been able to rule out any connection with the military.”
Unless, the Germans are planning a new offensive in the sunbed wars, to strafe German holidaymakers with tanning lotion.
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Posted: 30th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Four Britons Killed Cows
FOUR people in Britain have been murdered by cows in the past two months.
June 21: Vet Liz Crowsley crushed against a wall and trampled underfoot. Dogs present.
July 15: Barry Pilgrim, “trampled to death by a cow as his wife looked on.”
July 18: Anita Hinchey attacked and trampled to death by cow.
Harold Lee, “a 75-year-old farmer from Burtle in the West Country. He was killed by his own herd, which may have been made nervous by the siren of a passing ambulance.”
Or , as the Sun reported – “startled by a fire engine’s siren”:
A COW had to be shot dead yesterday after going on the rampage in a school – as a farmer became the fourth person trampled to death this summer.
The beast charged a cop and a woman with a baby after fleeing an abattoir-bound trailer.
Kids looked on in horror as armed officers fired 12 shots at the animal – before slitting its throat.
Dogs. Wife. Ambulance (fire engine). All triggers than cause a cow to attack and kill.
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Posted: 25th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Rapist Stole Virgin Mary To Fund Victim’s Abortion
AURELIO Vallerillo-Sanchez, 39 of Omaha, Nebraska pleads “no contest” too the charge that he stole a painting of the Virgin Mary to pay for an abortion.
It gets worse, when we learn that Vallerillo-Sanchez stole the Virgin Immaculata painting from the St. Cecilla Cathedral in Omaha to sell fund the abortion for the 14 year old girl he’d raped.
The picture, worth around $100,000, was sold for $3,000.
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Posted: 23rd, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pink Saves Susan Boyle’s Breast From Exploding
WHEN Kimberley Koy went to see Pink perform in Sydney, her two breasts were of equal size. When she awake the next day, one breast was double the size of the other.
To a clinic. And Koy tells the medics that she had recently been stabbed in the chest by a runaway cow’s horn, attached to a runaway cow.
Koy’s C-cup silicone gel breast implants soon accompanied her on flight to see Pink. Says she:
“When I told the doctor I’d flown she said, ‘That makes perfect sense because air pressure forced out the silicone’. I could have gone years without knowing. When I woke up the day after the plane trip it was double the size of my right one … I thought I had breast cancer.”
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Posted: 21st, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Dr Eric Dane’s MRI Sex Organ Sex Tape Video
TURN way from the Eric Dane non-sex sex tape and experience a sex tape repackaged as an MRI scan by Dr. Pek Van Andel, who won an Ig Nobel Prize making the first MRI images of a couple’s sex organs while those organs were in use.
The doctor is in:
Anyone else see Rupert The Bear being tapped on the nose by a hanging ugly fruit?
Doctor?
Eric Dane, Noxzema Wife And Miss Teen USA’s Uncensored Sex Tape Video
Posted: 18th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Motola The Elephant Gets An Extra False Leg
MOTOLA, a 48-year-old Thai elephant who stepped on a landmine 10 years ago, has been fitted for his false foot at an elephant hospital in Thailand.
Old Mr Anorak is a selfless bounty hunter and has generously handed over his summer umbrella stand for the good of elephant kind, and sheer novelty value. Now, when Motola sneezes, a First James Smith shooting stick fires from his nostrils.
Said an official with an advocacy group:
“I do hope she will accept the new leg. It would be wonderful to see Motola and Baby Mosha walking together side-by-side.”
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Posted: 16th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Skins And Eats His Pet Pitbull
IN New Zealand, Paea Taufa cooked his pet dog in a backyard pit. He cannot be prosecuted, because it was killed “humanely”.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says inspectors arrived at the South Auckland home to find the pitbull terrier-cross skinned, gutted, and partially charred.
The puzzled owner, Paea Taufa, says dog is a delicacy in Tonga and he had knocked it unconscious with a blow to the head before slitting its throat.
The SPCA says cultural differences aside, it is unacceptable.
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Posted: 16th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Fresh Chicken At McDonalds
THIS is what the end of the world looks like – chickens queue to place their order at a McDonald’s drive thru…
Posted: 15th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Breaks Into Neighbour’s Home And Trims Pubic Hair
IN broke into a neighbour’s house and set about trimming his own pubic hair.
He then left the trimmings behind.
Gonzalez later confessed to the woman whose house it was. Flattered she blushed and the pair set about caring their matching hairy angels into a Ying and a Yang, respectively.
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Posted: 14th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Lake Minnewanka Squirrel
ON the Anorak Forums, Yampster notes: “Bill Bryson says that all North American place names are taken from the first white man to arrive or the last Indian to leave. I wonder what this one was up to when they found him.”
And so the story of the squirrel who ianved a family portrait in Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Canada.
Yeah, Banff. Fnar.
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Posted: 14th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pictures Of Ralph The Penguin In A Wetsuit
RALPH the Humboldt penguin has been fitted with a wetsuit. The press release from Marwell Zoo, where Ralph calls him says the suit is “specially designed”.
Big news in the world of fashion, there. Wetsuits for bald birds are not off the peg but handmade, bespoke and tailored.
Any humans who want to look like penguins, however, can get their outfits from any number of shops and rental outlets.
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Posted: 14th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Nuns Chase Down Armed Burglar
TO INDEPENDENCE, MO. where two nuns from the Sisters of Saint Francis are chasing an armed burglar. Sister Connie and Sister Catrina are Fannie’s Angels:
“We looked out a window and saw someone in the bean field. I thought it was someone hunting. He was dragging something with him.”
A huge wooden cross?
“He kept coming across the field…I saw he had a gun in his hands, what I thought was a rifle, and he dropped it in the field. Sister Catrina started chasing him on foot.”
Sister Catrina sees the man. Is that a gun in his hand? Sister Catrina always gets her man, when given a following wind and the chance.
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Posted: 13th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Virgin Mary’s Image Appears In Used Condom
WANT to see the image of the Virgin Mary in a condom – a used condom?
Anorak has been presented with such an image, which may be godless or may be as nature intended? It all depends on your denomination, and it being ecumenical matter.
The image – NSFW:
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Posted: 12th, August 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)