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.
Pregnant Man Ruben Noe Coronado Suffers Miscarraige
IN Spain, 25-year-old Ruben Noe Coronado, the pregnant man, has had a miscarriage.
Born Estefania, Ruben still posses female sex organs and became pregnant through artificial insemination.
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Posted: 12th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Police Shoot 72-Year-Old Grandma For Screaming
IN Texas, a traffic officer pulls over a speeding motorist. She refuses to be handcuffed. So the copper shoots her.
The Mirror’s John Clemens says:
Though she was unarmed and hardly violent, the grandmother got the kind of treatment British cops reserve for axe-wielding maniacs – 50,000 volts from a taser.
Travis County cops have defended the officer saying he warned her five times… you can decide for yourself if you think his safety was threatened by the septugenerian lady….
We’d like to say that the Texas police might be heavy handed, but they offer an equal opportunities brutality system, making no allowances for age nor sex.
Video:
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Posted: 12th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Least Popular Man In New Zealand Closes Town’s Last Pub
IN Kumara, New Zealand, (pop. 405) the local Liquor Licensing Authority has rescinded the licence of Empire Hotel publican Peter Jenkinson.
There is now nowhere to buy an alcoholic beverage in Kumara.
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Posted: 11th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Fined £50 For Dropping £10 Note
IN Scotland, “STUNNED” Stewart Smith says he became stunned when having dropped a £10 note in the street he was fined £50 for littering.
Stewart, 36, claimed he unwittingly spilled the cash and a price tag after buying a £3 T-shirt from a charity shop. Two nearby bobbies immediately told him to pick his cash up off the pavement — but he was amazed when they then hit him with a fixed penalty for LITTERING.
Might the £40 surcharge be by way of a finder’s fee?
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Posted: 11th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Indian Students Banned From Wearing Jeans
IN Uttar Pradesh, India, colleges have banned female students from wearing jeans and other Western clothes.
Why? Meeta Jamal, principal of the Dayanand girls’ college in Kanpur city tells AFP
“Girls who choose to wear jeans will be expelled from the college. This is the only way to stop crime against women.”
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Posted: 11th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Woman Throws Away $1m Hidden In Mattress
TO Tel Aviv, where Anat is scouring Israeli rubbish dumps for an old mattress, thrown out with $1m (£700,000) hidden inside.
Anat tossed the mattress away when she bought her mum a new one as a surprise.
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Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Finds Dead Mouse In Slice Of Malt Loaf
IN Northen Ireland, a man is telling North Antrim Magistrates Court how he opened a loaf of bread and found a whole mouse inside.
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Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man In Bikini Harasses Women
TO Ohio, where “more than 10 people have reported during the past week being harassed by a man in a woman’s bathing suit, including some children”.
We have no pictures and cannot judge if the outfit if for women or a mankini, that last word in beach fashion.
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Posted: 9th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Randy Rhino Mates With Austrian Robin
IN “Horny rhino Jango falls in love with a car dumped in enclosure as sculpture exhibit”, a rhinoceros called Jango is seen mounting a car.
Anorak is dismayed. In our time working for the tabloids, “horny” would have never been accepted. The headline would have trilled:
“Randy Rhino Rides Robin (Reliant).”
But the Daily Mirror lost its way some while back, and horny rhino exists as amatter of public record.
As for the story:
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Posted: 9th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man And Woman Having Sex In Public Looking For Cyst
IN Denver, a 39-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man are issued with summonses on suspicion of public indecency.
When an officer arrived, he found the woman lying on her back with her pants around her knees and the man on top of the woman, pulling up his pants.
The officer asked what they were doing, to which the pair had no response. When the officer told them people had called saying they were having sex, the man said he was “checking her cyst for her.”
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Posted: 7th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Most Bizarre Emergency Calls Ever
WHY do people call 999? Well, I can’t find Homebase… What date is it..? There’s a hedgehog with its head in a pot noodle can… I’m a big psychic and… Ask a policeman in Avon and Somerset police…
Posted: 7th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dog Dresser Convcited For Sex With His Dogs
IN Washington state Troy Whitson is up before The Beak, at Lewis County Superior Court, answering a charge of having sex with his two dogs.
he is ent down for 30 days and restricted from owning animals for two years.
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Posted: 5th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Intepretor Introduces Sex For The Deaf, A Video
SEX for the deaf, with sign language – a video…
NSFW
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Posted: 5th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Husband Hired Man To Rape Wife On Craigslist
THE classified ad service Craigslist is a rich source of news for those hacks on the web beat. And now we learn that a man is being held by US police after allegedly using Craigslist to arrange for his wife to be raped at knifepoint.
The 25-year-old, from Kannapolis, North Carolina, is accused of advertising for a man to enter his house at night and rape his wife. And then hiring the man.
The wife was raped.
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Posted: 5th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
How Not To Be An Alcoholic
HOW not to be an alcoholic – take up writing…
Posted: 4th, June 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Man Swallowed Alive By Melting Road
IT’S road-meltingly hot in Angleside Avenue, Burnage. And 19-year-old Graham Merrington has stepped into the molten mess.
His shin, ankle and foot are eaten.
Firefighters arrive. They cut away the road surface.
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Posted: 4th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Aryan Day In Riga
IN Riga, Lativa, they had a Blonde Day.
The local politicos called it a “success”? Could it ever fail?
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Posted: 3rd, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man Loses Hand In Tug-Of-War
TO Shenzen, China, where a tug-of-war rubber sees a tugger see his hand pulled off.
Shi, a deputy general manager at a night club, was celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival with colleagues on a beach at 4.30am, according to the Southern Metropolitan Daily.
Shi, 1.8 meters tall and 34-years-old, was the anchorman in his five-man team and had coiled the rope around his hand several times for stability, letting the rest of the rope fall to the ground.
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Posted: 3rd, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Improv Everywhere: Surprise Wedding Reception
IMPROV Everywhere “picked a random couple getting married at the City Clerk’s Office in Manhattan and threw them a surprise wedding reception”.
You’d think it would every bit as horrible as it sounds. Gatecrashing, do-gooding, imrpov actoring, meddling, know-all tossers hijack wedding to make YouTube video, get publishing deal and secure fame.
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Posted: 2nd, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Russian Navy Fires On Russian Village
HURRY up Putin and give your boys something to shoot at – they’re getting twitchy:
The Russian navy has admitted that one of its anti-submarine ships fired at a village by mistake.
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Posted: 2nd, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Boy Arrested For Beating Up Mortuary Corpse
IN Albuquerque, police have arrested Dominic Goodmoney, 17, for allegedly breaking into a mortuary and beating up a female corpse.
At Reflections Funeral & Life Celebrations, Goodmoney was found covered in blood, digging into his own cuts and banging his head against a building, police reported.
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Posted: 2nd, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Teen Attacked By Skateboard
A TEEN is seen being attacked by a skateboard – luckily it hits him in the had, which is soft…
Posted: 1st, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Policeman Fights Paramedics With Patient In Ambulance
IN America, they give the idiots – the really dangerous idiots – a gun and a brown shirt. Yeah just like the Nazis.
Oklahoma’s Tulsa World newspaper reports on a fight between a brown-shirted highway patrol officer, who has pulled over an ambulance that was racing a patient to hospital, and the paramedic.
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Posted: 31st, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Giant Hairy Cow-Eating Pig Shot In Australia
THIS is a picture of a 220kg giant feral pig shot on a Pilbara cattle station after it was spotted eating a cow.
This is a picture of a fake giant pig that has been causing pig enthusiasts to have a cow.
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Posted: 31st, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Terminal Cancer Patient Wins Bet That He Lives
JON Matthews, from Milton Keynes – and still from Milton Keynes – was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a terminal cancer.
He had months to live. In 2006.
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Posted: 30th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
