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Weird, offbeat and bizarre news from around the world. Funny, strange & odd news stories that make you wince, laugh and fear for humanity.

Video Of Man Pushing Suicide Jumper From Bridge

suicide-chinaHOLDING up traffic so you can threaten to kill yourself is a “selfish activity”.

Says 66-year-old Lai Jiansheng:

“I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interest.”

Point made.

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Posted: 24th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Bullets Fly At Pregnant Bachelorette Party

bacholorette-partyTO Kentucky, where bullets are flying at a bachelorette party.

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Posted: 23rd, May 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)


Video Of Woman Crushing Watermelons With Her Breasts

A VIDEO of a woman crushing watermelons with her beasts.

Hey if it doesn’t work our for Katie Price without Peter Andre, she may need to keep her options open…

Also available in cans

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Posted: 21st, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Two Lovers Both Change Sex To Marry

sex-change-coupleIN China, two lovers want to change sex and then marry:

A pair of young lovers in Yichang, Hubei province, plan to get several operations to change their gender and then marry each other.

The woman wants to become a man while the man wants to become a woman. The two, both 23, fell in love a year ago.

When’s the big day?

The hospital said surgeries for the pair to change genders would be completed in two years.

May be quicker to swap brains?

China’s Sex Theme Park Demolished: Pictures

Sex Change Youth Kim Petras Sings For Record Label

Posted: 21st, May 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)


Man Has Five Kidneys

kidney-man1INDIAN man Jaswant, of Khaira Dona village, has five kidneys. After two failed kidney transplants failed, Jaswant, 33, went for another try.

Says doctors:

“He is fourth such patient in the country to successfully undergo three renal transplants.”

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Posted: 21st, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


Gun Safety Experts Shoots Himself In Head: Video

gun-to-headTHAT’S Samuel Benally Jr. demonstating gun safety at an apartment on West Tacoma Street, Phoenix, Arizona.

The instructor says people should keep their guns unloaded because someone could point it at their heads. So says Sierra Vista police Sgt. Brett Mitchell.

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Posted: 21st, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)


Rolls Royce Ram Raids Supermarket

ram-raider-rollerRECESSION. What recession?

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and drink-driving after a Rolls Royce crashed through the window of a Tesco store in Hampshire.

Old Mr Anorak says, “Ramraiders have never had it so good” – allegedly…

To the branch of Tesco, River Way, Andover. Says customer Patrick Ford:

“I had my back to it initially then heard crashing and breaking of glass and what sounded like metal grinding.

I turned and saw the Rolls Royce driving into the tills.

“The car reversed and came again but got stuck on something.

“Then the whole shelf started cascading down.

“Staff and security guards got the driver out but no-one seemed badly injured.”

Meanwhile in the back seat a man remains asleep on his way to pick up his cheque at the  Commons…

Posted: 20th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Organ Donors Promised Free Sex With Hot Blonde

organ-donor-sexCAN adverts fopr organ donors get any better – or worse –  than this one in Belgium?

Legend:

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Posted: 20th, May 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment


New York Men Have Sex With A WingWoman In Tow

wing-womanINSECURE , plain, dull, sad and stupid mean can now hire a WingWoman to act as an enticer to help you seduce other women.

The wingwoman will laugh at your jokes and then remain mute as you move in.

This is pretty much how prostitution works – the trustworthy house mother befriending a shagable, unsuspecting target with an eye to making money off her bones by marketing her to a creepy man.

On Cragslist appears the follpwing advert:

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Posted: 20th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


Video Of Woman With Twins By Two Different Fathers

SAYS Mia Washington mother of twins by two different men:

“Out of all people in America and of all people in the world, it had to happen to me. I’m very shocked.”

Posted: 20th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Boy’s Face Is Home To 43 Snails

snail-faceFIN Keleher, an 11-year-old boy form Utah, has broken the record for keeping more than 37 snails stuck to his face for a 10-second period.

To Keleher’s Sandy, Utah, home to witness the scamp break the record.

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Posted: 20th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Kilt Wearing Teen Sent Home From School For Cross-Dressing

gay-kiltTIME to hear from Weber School District spokesman Nate Taggart, who says Craig Jessop has been asked to extend an apology to 14-year-old student Gavin McFarland of Hooper after the school official’s comments Wednesday, specifically that the laddie’s (one ‘d’) kilt constituted cross dressing.

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Posted: 18th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)


Mother Charged With Shagging Three Teens Did It To Distract Them From Her Daughter

fergie-beaIN Anderson, California, Deborah Towe, a 30-year-old Northern California woman is pleading not guilty to charges that she had sex with three teenage boys.

Deborah Towe argues aginst 11 felony counts, including unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, oral copulation of a person under the age of 16, committing lewd acts upon a child and arranging a meeting with a minor for a lewd purpose.

The boys were 15 and 16 years old at the time of the alleged sexing.

To go with the denial, Tower is said to have told police “she was protecting her daughter by diverting the boys’ attention to herself”.

Lesson: You can’t stop a man from looking over your shoulder…

Spotter

Posted: 18th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)


Whack A Cat: The Family Game To Abuse Cats

WHACK A cat. This video contains footage of a single cat being killed, repeatedly…

Posted: 18th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)


Teacher Corrects Graffiti

honest-graffitiHONEST Graffiti – in today’s feature a teacher named Beth Biskobing responds to the message “Where da bitches at?”, writ large on a police call box..

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Posted: 16th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)


Katie Price Pregnant With Twins

katie-price-twinsHE’ S on a London bus and a woman gets on and she’s pushing a pram and people get up to offer her a seat and she accepts the seat and you look in the buggy and it’s carrying two plastic-faced babies that look like dolls and you take a picture and wonder if Katie Price has had twins and Katie Price is in hiding and her twins are melting – melting – in the heat of the bus and…

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Posted: 15th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Honesty In Graffiti

honesty-in-graffitiHONESTY in graffiti…

Spotter: TDW

Posted: 15th, May 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)


Czechs Build Secret Tunnel To Adriatic

COMMUNIST authorities in the former Czechoslovakia planned to build a tunnel under Austria and Slovenia to the Adriatic Sea, it has emerged.

More in the Forums

Posted: 14th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Acid Trip Fish Caught Of English Coast: Spaniards Breathe Cocaine

drugs-fishIN Spain, scientists have detected cocaine in the air of Madrid and Barcelona. Free dugs! How’s that for a tourist drive?

The CSIC institute found cocaine in concentrations of 29 to 850 picogrammes per cubic metre of air. Know that a picogramme is one trillionth of a gramme.

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Posted: 14th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


NHS Hospital Opens On Mediterranean Beach

med-beachBALMY times at the NHS’s new £36m NHS hospital in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. The place is empty not because we’re all dead or all well but because the floors are too hot to walk on, meaning corridors are “as hot as a Mediterranean beach”.

Chuck in some puking, self-soiled patients off their faces on drugs and kebabs and it’s St Falirki’s.

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Posted: 11th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


Sodomising Pygmies For Supernatural Powers

pygmyIN the Democratic Republic Of Congo, Government troops have been, allegedly, sodomising pygmies in reponse to the beliegf that buggering a pygmie invests in the giver supernatural powers.

While we wonder what life would be like in America had Spiderman been created not by a spider’s bite but by an anal assault by from a yellow cab driver, The Human Rights League of the Great Lakes (LDGL) explains:

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Posted: 10th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)


Google Maps London Undergound

google-tubeTHE Overground Underground Northern Line – the jounrey home as seen by Google… (Yes, Google is watching you even in the Misery Line worm hole.)

Morden to Edgeware (via Charing Cross) – run to change platforms at Camden Town and – oh for ***’s sake! Mill Hill East!

Video Here:

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Posted: 9th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Man Gives Birth To Twin Brother

men-pregnantGAVIN Hyatt, 30, has given birth to his twin.

We join the action as Gavin walks into his doctor’s surgery bleeding from his belly button.

GP Dr Joe Santos:

It was like something from Alien. I didn’t believe Gavin when he said something was coming out of his belly button until I saw him.”

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Posted: 9th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)


Heidelberg Zoo’s Whistling Orangutan Releases CD

ujian-susan-boyleIN Germany, Heidelberg Zoo’s Whistling Orangutan has releases a CD of his music.

Ich Bin Ujian” (“I Am Ujian”), features Ujian, a 14-year-old orangutan, giving full throat to a jaunty pop-rock number with reggae elements.

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Posted: 9th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Robot Miss Saya Teachers Class At Japan Primary School

japan-teacherIN Japan, the substitute teacher is Miss Saya.

Saya was created as a receptionist robot in 2004 by professor Hiroshi Kobayashi of the Tokyo University of Science.

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Posted: 8th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)