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.
Pictures Of China’s Michael Jackson Solar Eclipse
PICTURES of the Solar eclipse seen in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, at 9:19 a.m. on July 22, 2009.
Says Gordon Brown: “I see green shoots.”
Say The Jacksons: “It’s a metaphor for Michael Jackson’s face.”
Say the rest: “Whoah!”
Posted: 22nd, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Baboons Attack Tourists In Liverpool
TO Knowsley Safari Park, Merseyside, where the locals are breaking into car rooftop luggage boxes with a number of families having to watch helplessly as hairy hands grabbed their clothes and vanished up the park’s trees with them.
Says one baboon:
“Hey, mister. Mind yer car for yous? C’Mon Liverpool! Me uncle used to go to school with Ringo Starr…”
Posted: 21st, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Chinese Bus Passengers Issued With Yellow Bricks
ABOARD a bus of China’s Harbin Public Transport Company, passengers are carrying a yellow brick.
The bricks bear the legend “emergency use” written on both sides. Says a spokesman:
“It’s easy for passengers to spot them, and use them to break the window if something happened.”
Like them being hit on the head by a brick.
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Posted: 21st, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
British Pirates Make Off On A Punt
EAT yer heart out Somalia, with your fancy speed boats. In Cambridgeshire, British pirates are making off with the booty on a punt.
The “Fen pirates” has now been apprehended, arrested on the River Ouse.
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Posted: 21st, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
X-Ray Of Cat That Survived Being Shot In The Brain
BOBBY the cat has survived being shot for the second time in two years. Bobby, a black and white tom cat, was in 2007 shot in the leg with an airgun. And now he has been shot in the brain.
Susan Stone, Bobby’s keeper, tells us:
“At first I thought he had been knocked down. He was in a bad way.”
Bobby was raced to A Regan and Colleagues in Bury Road, where vet Archie Cumming X-rayed the four-year-old cat and discovered a pellet lodged in his head.
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Posted: 21st, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Police Set Fire To Man With Taser
TO the desert community of Warburton, Western Australia, where Ronald Mitchell, 36, an alleged petrol-sniffer, is Tasered by police and duly bursts into flames.
Mitchell is now critical in a hospital.
Police say the got a call to a house. Upon arrival, Mitchell rushed at them sporting a cigarette lighter and a plastic bottle, which they now believe to have contained petrol.
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Posted: 21st, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bizarre Canned Foods: Sausages In Lard
CONTINUING our look at novel canned foods – food that will survive both you and a nuclear war – we being you canned sausages in Lard.
Get them – before they get you…
Note: Linda McCartney has yet to offer a meat-free alternative.
Canned Whole Chicken: The Most Bizarre Canned Foods Ever
Khan’s Powdered Morse Milk, In Cans
Posted: 20th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Burglar Leaves Victim Thank You Note
A BURGLAR at Matt Neary home in Fargo, North Dakota, left behind a note:
It reads:
“You have amazing taste in music. Don’t worry about your credit cards and driver’s licence – I know I can’t use them … after tonight, at least.”
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Posted: 20th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dentist Accused Of Dropping Tools Down Patient’s Throat
TO Florida, where Dr. Wesley Meyers, a dentist, is being sued for allegedly allowing tools to fall down the throat of 90-year-old Charles Gaal, ahem, Junior.
Dr. Wesley Meyers is accused of negligence by relatives of Mr Gaal Junior.
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Posted: 19th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Judge Sentences Cerebral Palsy Burglar To Hard Labour
TO Burnley Crown Court, where the judge notes that burglar Ross Thompson suffers from cerebral palsy unpaid yet insists he must do unpaid work as penance even though the probation service object due to health and safety.
For his part in a burglary caper, Thompson was awarded 80 hours unpaid work by Recorder Anthony Cross, QC. But the probation service was concerned for Thompson’s welfare and what with insurance and safety and health and stuff the man who burgles shops might be – get this – at risk.
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Posted: 19th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Prisoner Hides Mobile Phone And Charger In Rectum
IN the Anorak Forums, AGW notices Robert Hartshorne walking and alerting:
Robert Hartshorne knew he was going to do time for yet another driving offence…so he stuffed a mobile phone complete with charger cable right up where the sun don’t shine and attempted to smuggle them into jail.
Manchester’s Strangeways Prison was on the scent and sharp got to the bottom of it.
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Posted: 18th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
German Parents Give Children Pubic Waxing Instead Of Driving Lessons
GERMAN parents are giving their teenage children virginal and penile waxing parties.
Accoring to a study carried out by a German psychologist:
“…more and more men agree and are shaving off pubic hair while growing numbers of parents are treating their teenage children to a pubic waxing as an eighteenth birthday present.
Psychologist Elmar Braehler who led the study said: “Even teenagers as young as 14 or 15 are joining the trend to remove all pubic hair. They don’t do it because they think it is trendy – they just find pubic hair revolting to look at and think it is unhygienic.”
In Germany there are even specialist shops now offering permanent pubic hair removal costing 260 GBP per treatment. One store owner, Ossi Casmir, said: “We even get parents bringing their kids along for their first treatment. I’d say it is now as popular as the typical present of paying for their kids to have a course of driving lessons.”
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Posted: 18th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Changes Name To Princess Rainbow.Com
CLAIRE Forshaw, 24, has changed her name to Princess-Rainbow.com. Had Katie Price and Peter Andre not split this name might well have been taken. Clarie’s luck was in. Says she:
Says Princess Rainbow.com:
“I knew that if ever I got the chance I would change [my name] to a web domain, to hopefully become the first. My boyfriend has always told me it cost hundreds of pounds to do, so I just forgot about it.
“When I realised it actually cost as little as £10 my boyfriend said that Princess-Rainbow.com was ideal for me because I am mad on rainbows!”
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Posted: 17th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Order Drunk Man To Drive Then Arrest Him For Drunk Driving
TO Illinois, where Travis Peterson is drunk. He has seen the Dave Matthews Band concert south of Milwaukee, and realised that he is no condition to dive. So he sits in his car to sleep it off.
A state trooper taps on the window and with customary panache tells Peterson to move along. Peterson says he should not drive. But state troopers make the laws – who knew? The car park is closing and Petersen must drive or else.
So he drives. And that will not do. As he clears the car park the state trooper – oh, noble up-keeper of law and orders – arrests Petersen for drink driving.
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Posted: 17th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Suicidal Pigeon Shuts Peterborough
WANT to know what the emergency services do when they’re not filling in forms? To Peterborough where a pigeon has committed suicide and closed the town centre:
A road in Cambridgeshire was shut when a pigeon flew into a double-glazed glass window. The pigeon flew into and cracked a window on the top floor of the land registry office in City Road, Peterborough, on Wednesday.
A fire service spokeswoman said people inside the building called the service because they were worried the glass would fall and cause injury. Firefighters closed a section of the road and removed the glass.
Spotter: Lone Pigeon
Posted: 16th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Armless Man Arrested For Driving With No Hands
IN Jimo, Shandong province, China, Liu is being cautioned by police for driving his motorbike with no hands nor arms – literally.
The Qilu Evening Post reports that Liu, 27, lost both arms at the age of seven after an electric shock and was duly sent to join a circus to make sense of his life.
It was there that he learnt to ride a motorcycle without arms.
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Posted: 16th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Germany Removes Baron-Cohen’s Bruno From School Books
TO Germany, where educationists in Hamburg have ordered a character in children’s book called Bruno to be renamed Aydan.
The officials in Hamburg were less then pleased that Bruno shared his name with Sacha Baron Cohen’s Austrian character Bruno. Well, so goes the press release.
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Posted: 16th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Pictures Of Chinese Baby Born With Three Feet
EVOLUTION in action now as Anorak spots the birth of baby with three feet in China.
Too early for the 2012 Olympics – but then…
Posted: 15th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
British Schoolchildren Use Plane As A Classroom
YEAR 3 and year 4 pupils from Kingsland Primary School in Stoke on Trent use a plane as a classroom.
Young carbon breathers for air travel!
Gallery:
Posted: 15th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Beer Belly Saves Man From Drowning In Human Waste
SO fat is Gerhard Wilder, 46, from Bochum in Western Germany, that when he fell down an open drain his stomach prevented him falling to his death, possibly in the excreta of human life.
But such is the persecution of the fat that, as reported:
He has now pledged to stay off beer and go on a diet after embarrassing pictures of the incident were shown all over German media.
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Posted: 15th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Michael Jackson Loved A Cock A Too, With Video
MICHAEL Jackson Watch: Today’s tribute to Michael Jackson, the King of Pop/ great dad/ demented paedo etc. is provided by Snowy the cockatoo.
Make up your own puns…
Jackson was not gay, and neither was his boyfriend…
Posted: 15th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Italian Bride’s Tossed Bouquet Takes Out Airplane
TO Montioni park, Suvereto, near Livorno, where a wedding reception is being held, writes Corriere della Sera.
Isidoro Pensieri, 44, is to toss a bouquet to the crowd below as pilot Luciano Nannelli flys past.
Flowers tossed. Flowers are caught by the plane’s engine. Engine catches fire. Engine explodes.
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Posted: 14th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Khagendra Thapa Magar Is The Shortest And Lightest Person In The World
KHAGENDRA Thapa Magar – only 50 cm in height and 5 kg in weight – claims to be the shortest man in the world.
This is he dancing on the lawn in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, in ton to register his name in the Guinness Book of World Records as the shortest and the lightest person in the world.
Magar is more lightweight than Victoria Beckham, Tori Spelling, the Olsen twins and anyone who has ever featured in Big Brother.
You can sense the envy. Gallery (x10):
Posted: 14th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police Caught Stealing Bicycles In Lancashire
POLICE in Lancashire are stealing bicycles to alert bicycle owners to the dangers of theft.
As the BBC reports:
Police are confiscating bicycles which are left unattended in Lancashire to try to reduce theft.
Officers in St Annes will be putting a lock on bicycles which are not secured, or taking them to the police station to be reclaimed by their owners.
Anyone reclaiming their own property will not be able to sue the police of for wasting their time and theft with intent to patronise. They will just be grateful.
Other initiatives to watch for:
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Posted: 13th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Khan’s Powdered Morse Milk, In Cans
CANNED, powdered horse milk – an addendum to Anorak’s Canned Whole Chicken: The Most Bizarre Canned Foods Ever:
The Khan’s Choice – Jemima Khan swears buy it… in Cannes.
So too does Sarah Jessica Parker, allegedly.
Posted: 13th, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
