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.
The Most Bizarre Father’s Day Gifts Ever, With Incest, Nudity And Police
ANORAK presents the Most Bizarre Father’s Day Gifts Ever, featuring incest, police visits and nudity…
The nude dinner:
Posted: 21st, June 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Marcus T. Bailey Arrested Mid Haircut
THIS is Marcus T. Bailey, who popped out the hairdressers in Evansville, Indiana, to sell some crack and got pinched by the police.
A new trend is born…
Mugshots:
Husband Of Woman Charged With Child Murder Complains About Police Mugshot
Man Holds Up Bookmakers With Cigarettes
Jason Vipper Is The Mugshot Of The Year
Mugshot Of The Month: Eyebrows Down
A Gallery Of Police Artist Pictures
Paris Hilton Duets With Cliff Richard
Matthew Gibeault: The Best Mugshot Ever
Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Carrots Can Cause Cancer Of The Ears
CARROTS are big news. But they can give you ear cancer. Fact. Are you going my way – on the carrot highway?
Carrots Cancer
Study: Carrots Help Fight Cancer Better When They’re Uncut – British researchers found that cut carrots lose more vital anti-cancer ingredients when they’re cooking than whole carrots do.
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Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Muggers Caught On Google Street View
GOOGLE Street View is not just for porn. In Holland, police have arrested twin brothers on suspicion of robbery after their alleged victim spotted an image of them following him on Street View.
The teenager says that last September he was pulled from his bicycle and mugged. Then surfing the web he saw the faces that looked familiar.
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Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Russian Woman Accused Of Raping Ten Men
IN Russia, the Black Widow, aka Valeria K., which sounds like a haemorrhoid preparation, is standing trial for drugging and raping 10 men.
Valeria K., 32, is accused of drugging them with clonidine and sexually abusing 10 men from the city of Tambov.
To facilitate the crime, Valeria K. would tighten a rope around their genitals to keep their penises erect. The emn would then awake with clonidine poisoning and penis trauma.
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Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
On Miss Nude Belgium’s Tour Bus
AFTER the porn star flight attendant Edita Bente, we bring you Audrey, Miss Nude Belgium by night and a tour bus driver by day (or night, if her shift runs over).
Audrey was preparing for work after passing her exams but was undone by people in authority spotting revealing pictures of her on a website.
They, sorry, she has some explaining to do. Do not judge the judges. Right now hundreds of parents are trawling the web for disgusting pictures of their child’s teacher, Brown Owl or dinner lady in a state of undress and possibly ever arousal. Sickness musty be exposed. There can be no rest.
Audrey is called in. She must choose: modelling or bus driving?
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Posted: 19th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Cuts Nintendo Controller Into Arm
THE Low Countries are not all about obese detectives, bespectacled footballers and girsl with faces made from stars. They also spawn the man who according to Gamecloud.nl, cut himself a Nintendo controller in one of his arms.
Why? Or Wii, as we are wont to say?
Posted: 18th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Thomas Prusik-Parkin ‘Posed’ As His Dead Mother to Claim Benefits
IN New York, Thomas Prusik-Parkin is arrested for impersonating his dead mother, Irene Prusik in order to claim her $115,000 in social security benefits and rent subsidies.
Mrs Irene Priski died in 2003. If Mr Thomas Prusik-Parkin was impersonating her, we marvel at how it took anyone six years to notice. For one thing, the smell must have been terrible. For another, with limbs falling off, how did he sign for anything?
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Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Who Restored Her Virginity 6 Times Nearly Dies
IN Russia, a local woman who had her virginity restored sixth times is in intensive care.
The woman, a Natalia K., became married at 24. Her husband was not the girl’s first sexual partner, and to make it up to him she had a hymenoplasty operation.
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Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)
Tatooist Pays For Half Kimberley Vlaeminck’s Laser Removal
GREAT news in the life of Kimberley Vlaeminck is that the owner of the Ye Olde Tattoo Parlour of Rest says he will fund the cost for the removal of half of the tattoos etched onto the young girl’s cosmic face.
That’s him in the picture. He once fell asleep for a week and later set up Narcoleptics For Tattooing, a think tank.
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Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (18)
Cat Shot 50 Times Lives: X Ray
CATS can live forever. This is part of their charm, of course. Children don’t have to bury cats in show boxes. Cats never die. Cats watch and wait for you to die. Then they walk off, treading on your face as they leave.
Cats don’t care about you at all.
This cat, Rosie, has been show 50 times with a gun. She lives.
The Most Bizarre X-Ray Pictures
Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Video Of Kimberley Vlaeminck’s 56 Face Tattoos
MORE ON KIMBERLEY Vlaeminck, the 18-year-old with a face for stars. This is her video:
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Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mexico Finds Cocaine In Sharks
POLICE love little more than showing off their haul of drugs. And from Mexico, come pictures and news of Navy officers discovering loadsa cocaine in 20 shark carcasses.
It is not a tip off that alerted the forces of drugs prevention to the mule sharks – no, really – but X-ray machines and sniffer dogs. You know, things taxes pay for and the Government can fight the war on drugs with.
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Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Tattooist Inks 56 Stars On Girl’s Sleeping Face
KIMBERLEY Vlaeminck, age 18, from Kortrijk is at the tattoo parlour in Belgium. She wants three stars on her face. Says she:
“I had asked fior three sparklers, but that crazy person put 56 on my face! See me sitting here now: I am ugly. Even mutilated!”
Problems began when the tattooist spoke only in French. Kimberley speaks Dutch and a little English.
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Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (6)
2009 Moustache World Championships: Pictures
THE 2009 Beard and Moustache World Championships appeals to Barack Obama, who has grown a power moustache.
Do read A Short History Of Barack Obama’s Moustache – after you’ve enjoyed these fine examples. Which one should Obama choose?
Posted: 16th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Robber Demands Precious Metals At Black Diamond Ski Store
AT the Black Diamond store, Salt Lake County, a man is brandishing an ice pick and demanding precious metals and money.
The clerk wonders. The Black Diamond company manufactures climbing and skiing equipment. Where the f*** is he going to get precious metals from at such short notice?
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Posted: 16th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Arrested On Suspicion of Being Naked On Lake Tahoe
MAN arested on suspicion of being naked near a school.
Well, so says the Associated Press:
ZEPHYR COVE, Nev.–A 53-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being naked near a high school on Lake Tahoe’s east shore.
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Posted: 15th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Tries To Kill Wife’s Lover With Rifle, Knife And Brick
IN Austria, a teacher has been arrested “with a high powered hunting rifle, knife and large brick which he planned to use to teach a love rival a lesson about the dangers of sleeping with another man’s wife.”
The brick?
When secondary school teacher Leonardo Mazzanti found steamy messages on wife Francesca’s phone he pretended to be her and arranged a meeting with her lover at a deserted car park in Saluggia, northern Italy.
But David Sal grew suspicious when he got a second message telling him to wear a red tie and called police.
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Posted: 15th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Suicide Case Donates Broken Heart To Hospital
TO a ledge in Italy, where Orlando Baresi has decide to end his life.
But wait. Before he shuffles off the balcony at his Milan flat, he writes note:
“I have the heart of a 20-year-old, please use it to save someone else.”
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Posted: 15th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
LA Drugs Activist Arrested For Trying To Sell Drugs
KENDALL Craig Farris, leading light of the Over the Wall Foundation in Marina del Rey, California, an anti-drug program has been is arrested in El Segundo after an undercover Redondo Beach officer was sold fake methamphetamine and ecstasy tablets.
The LA Times’s Jeff Gottlieb looks at the group’s website:
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Posted: 14th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
CCTV Stops Couple Having Sex
IN Northampton, a CCTV operative is commanding a couple to stop having sex.
The couple should not stop having sex permanently – the Minister of Procreation will decide on that. No, they should stop having sex by the CCTV camera. The CCTV operatives do not like it much.
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Posted: 14th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Wong Way Renamed Wong Street
IN Riverside, California, Wong Way has been renamed Wong Street.
The road is named after George Wong, the last resident of Riverside’s former Chinatown.
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Posted: 13th, June 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Breaks Into Homes By Chewing Through Metal Bars
IN the Nanjimen region of China, police in Chongqing are questioning a man named Xiong in connection numerous break-ins through caged windows.
A police spokesman tells the Chongqing Business Daily:
“Through our investigations, we found the grids had been cut but with deep tooth prints.”
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Posted: 13th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Banned From Selling Girls’ Saliva As Cure On eBay
ZHOU, a Chinese man, is now banned from selling the saliva of teenage girls as a tonic on China’s Taobao.com, that country’s version of eBay.
Hunan Online tells of complaints made against the produce.
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Posted: 12th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Killed On Russian Talent Show
SUSAN Boyle look away now. A man has been killed on Russia’s got Talent. After this, too:
America’s Got Talent Contestant Knocked Out
Posted: 12th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (14)
