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.
Das Kapital: The Musical
CHINA’S Wen Hui Bao hears of plans for Das Kapital, a musical rendering of Karl Marx’s text.
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Posted: 14th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Sex Shop Robber Had Sex With Rubber Dolls
ADAM Troy Rosberg broke into a sex shop in Cairns, twice, and stole three rubber dolls, along with bottles of lubricant, magazines and other items.
He ripped holes in the dolls with his teeth and sex with them.
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Posted: 13th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Three Deer Raid Off Licence
THREE dear are enacting daring raid on an off licence.
One goes for the Lottery tickets; a second tries to barge down the office doors, while a third looks to deal with witnesses.
So you know them?
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Posted: 13th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cat Sends SOS Mesages
IT’S a cat. It’s saying something. It’s saying…
…”This is what the web is for… we attack at dusk”…
Posted: 13th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
David Prager’s Home Being Broken Into On Twitter And Ustream
DAVID Prager’s home is being broken into.
So he calls the police.
No.
He Twitters. S
Tired of looking at celebs, we are now all vouers on our own lives:
# ok, maybe I should lock my door – I swear a random dude just walked into my bathroom and I can’t believe I haven’t freaked out
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Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
AustralianTeenage Boy Flies With 2 Guns, 14 Knives, 300 Bullets In Luggage
THE 14-year-old boy has flown into Cairns from Western Australia. The boy and his 11-year-old brother are in transit, waiting to board a flight to Weipa, where their father lives.
In his bags he has:
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Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Pet Shop Mistakes Dead Man For Tropical Fish
Can a dead man be a tropical fish?
SAYS Mark Arabia, owner of Pets Plus:
“At first when I looked at it, I said, ‘Fish never come this way’.”
Expecting a delivery of a $1,000 fish supply, Arabia is met by a coffin containing the remains of a 65-year-old man from San Diego, California, who had died from Alzheimer’s.
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Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bizarre Children’s Names: Marijuana Pepsi Meet Krisis Mundial And Circumcision
PROUD parents in Monterrey, Mexico, have named their new baby daughter Krisis Mundial. That means “world crisis” in Spanish, or “krisis”. Do we grow into our names, as Dickens suggested?
Names can say so much, just ask Marijuana Pepsi Jackson, of Wisconsin.
Marijuana and Pepsi are her legal first and middle names.
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Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Detention And Gag For America’s Metric Martyr
THE Metric Martyr is dead. RIP.
In America a the Metric Martyr is in detention.
A mile is a mile is a mile.
(Click image to enlarge.)
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Posted: 9th, March 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Call God and Hear What He Thinks Of Obama
CALL God’s Hotline, a work by Dutch artist Johan van der Dong, and leave a message for His Mightiness.
God’s voicemail, reached from the town of Gronigen, says:
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Posted: 7th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bomb Fires Scores Of Ballbearings Up Man’s Anus
WEN Hsueh says he was sitting drinking tea at the Longtang tea shoppe in south east China. A man tosses a bomb. It explodes underneath Hsueh sending tens of ball bearings shooting up his rectum.
The chair, also made in China, is once more harmed – Boy Killed By Anal Penetrating Chair.
Anorak recalls the case of the Mireal Gradinaru, who arrived at the clinic in Arad, western Romania, with a can of hairspray stuffed up her rectum.
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Posted: 7th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Medal Winning Female Chinese Athlete Xiao Finds Out She’s A Man
XIAO Nan, of Chengdu, China, was big success as a female Chinese athlete on the student circuit. Says she:
“Being a champion was never a happy thing to me. Standing on the podium made me feel guilty, and I always thought the real champion should have been the one standing next to me.”
Because, like many men, Xioa is a good loser.
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Posted: 6th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Time Machine Lamp Post
THE time machine has been invented:
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Posted: 6th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Plaster Cast Of Cocaine And The Ten Most Bizarre Smugglers In The World
AT Barcelona Airport, a Chilean man with a broken leg is arrested after his “cast” is found to be made of cocaine.
The 66-year-old also ahs in his possession six cans of beer and two hollowed-out stools that also contained cocaine.
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Posted: 6th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Four Wedding Guests Killed By Dance
IN Manila, Philippines, four people have been killed by dance.
The four, at a wedding do, were killed while attempting acrobatic stunts on the dance floor.
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Posted: 6th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Gatecrashes Funeral And Hits Deceased With Magic Wand
AT the Church of God in Gray Court, South Carolina, Nicole Marie-Loretta Leonard has joined the funeral procession.
She enacts a funeral danced in front of the service, waves a wand over the coffin, opens it and hits the deceased man on the head with a wand. By way of finale she throws the flowers from the casket at the bereaved family.
She drives off in a burgundy Toyota with North Carolina plates.
America… has talent.
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Posted: 6th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Matthew Hastings Sentenced To 120 Years, Prince Buster Impressed
TO Clark County Superior Court, where Judge John P. Wulle is jailing Matthew R. Hastings for 120 years.
Matthews is jailed for four counts of attempted murder and two of second-degree assault. He is 30 years old.
His defence lawyer had sought a more lenient 90 years.
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Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Julian Beever’s Pavement Gallery
ENGLISH artist Julian Beever and his pavement art:
Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Sex Party Descends Into Riot When Men Ignore Naked Women
TO The White Cockatoo (a cock or two?) resort at Mossman, near Port Douglas, Queensland. March has been desingated a month of hedosim “in a bid to boost sagging tourism figures”.
John Harrison and his fragrant wife Lyn arrived there for a week’s stay and much room servicing. The Herlad Sun tells of a “mini riot”.
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Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Accused Of Biting Off Lover’s Tongue In French Kiss
UP before the Beak at Newcastle Crown Court, Mark Coghill says his girlfriend, one Tracy Davies, asked him for a French kiss and then bit off his tongue.
They had met via a lonely heart ad and been dating for a few months.
Coghill claims Davies did “turned into the likes of Mike Tyson“. She did bite off half his tongue. She did spit it out on the floor.
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Posted: 5th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Nigger King: Shop Fail
IN Taiwan you can shop at Nigger King:
Posted: 4th, March 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Paul Smith Is The Twitchiker, Crossing World With Twitter
PAUL Berger, Anorak’s man in NY, writes on Paul Smith, a British freelance journalist who will see how far he can get away from Newcastle by using the power of Twitter.
Paul Smith, the “Twitchhiker,” will only accept lifts, lodging and food from fellow Twitterers in his bid to get from Newcastle to New Zealand in 30 days. (What’s Twitter?) With more than 4,000 Twitterers following him already I’d say he has a pretty good chance of making it. He also has a wry, self-deprecating manner (as evidenced in the video interview with Web User, above) which should make his on-the-road reports even more entertaining. The following are his self-imposed rules:
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Posted: 4th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Finds Ten Human Teeth In New Human Leather Wallet
TO a branch of Walmart in Falmouth, USA, where a shopper is looking over a new wallet. He tells shop workers he has found 10 human teeth inside.
Ingrid Newkirk, is that you?
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Posted: 4th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)
Militant Joggers Implicated In Tijuana Triple Murder
AND the Anorak Great Media (AGM) award for the Most Bizarre Story Of The Year goes to… the Associated Press for spotting the oddity of Joggers in Tijuana:
Joggers found the decapitated bodies of three men Tuesday near a bullfighting ring in this northern border city, an official said.
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Posted: 4th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pink Dolphin Eats Fish With Human Faces
AFTER the pink dolphin, the fish with a human face, in Chongju, South Korea.
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Posted: 4th, March 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
