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.
Innocent Woman Arested For Telling Court To F*ck Off
A FOUR-LETTER response to jury duty sparked a surreal brush with the law for an innocent woman.
THE COURT calls Denise Morrice for jury service. The reply to the Jury Central Summoning Bureau goes as follows:
“**** off! I’ve got better things to do. OK!!”
The correct reply for those wishing to avoid the cause is hereunder given by Larry David:
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Posted: 30th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Smells Of The World: BO, Impaler And Scents From The UN
SMELL that? In Switzerland, it is the smell of civic pride:
A Swiss research group says a study it conducted found that women’s underarms typically smell like onions, while men’s smell like cheese.
So much for the Swiss, a nation of Nazis, melted cheese on sticks and assisited suicide. It’s the Swiss signature scent that tells Milanese it’s a north wind that blows.
What of the rest of the nations? What do we smell of?
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Posted: 30th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Seafood Watch: The Colorado Sushi Pocket Caper
TO Beaver Creek, Colorado, where a crime in underway.
An employee said they saw the man stuff sushi in his pockets… When a manager confronted him about the sushi, she saw he also stuffed a Sobe Life Water in his pocket. He claimed he got it at another store, but she clued him in that her store was the only one that sold them.
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Posted: 30th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The World’s Strangest Toy: Shave The Baby
YOU want to shave the baby (not a question)…
Posted: 30th, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (13)
The Segway Face Plant
DIDN’T George Bush once ride the Segway..?
Posted: 29th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Californian School Finds It’s OK To Discriminate Against Lesbians On Religious Grounds
DISCRIMINATION is against the law of the land in the US of A. Although if you are discriminating against lesbians on religious grounds, well, then that’s just fine. It’s God’s will:
School can expel lesbian students, says court:
After a Lutheran school expelled two 16-year-old girls for having “a bond of intimacy” that was “characteristic of a lesbian relationship,” the girls sued, contending the school had violated a state anti-discrimination law.
Indeed.
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Posted: 29th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
International Jacuzzi Girl – From Stud to Spud
INTERNATIONAL jacuzzi girl – from stud to spud…
Old Mr Anorak has seen the future…
Posted: 28th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Baked Bean Museum And The Shah Of Iran’s Thumbprint
IT gives Old Mr Anorak immense pleasure to declare the Baked Bean Museum open. A rasp on the buns, if you please.
Captain Beany’s museum is housed in picturesque Port Talbot. It is Port Talbot’s newest attraction; some would say, only attraction.
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Posted: 28th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
You’ll Believe A Skoda Octavia Can Fly
TO Saxony, eastern Germany, where a young Herrenvolk is piloting his Skoda Octavia at high speeds through villages.
The vehicle crashes through a railing, hurtles up an embankment in the town of Limbach-Oberfrohna.
And then… then it flies.
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Posted: 27th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Moonbat Bites Driver Of Non Hybrid Bus
YOU are worried about the planet. Who eschew car for a bus. You wait. And when the bus comes it is powered by petrol. Not a hybrid. You erupt:
“She came on the bus, and she said she waited more than an hour for a hybrid,” said MTA driver Peter Williams, 42. “I said, ‘I’m not in control of what bus is assigned to me.'”…
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Posted: 26th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nazis Take Over Road In Kansas
THE Nazis built roads. Some were dead ends. But all Nazi roads efficient, straight and, well, straight. Now the wonder of German engineering is being evoked in Kansas.
A neo-Nazi group has joined the state’s “Adopt-A-Highway” volunteer litter pickup program.
The Springfield chapter of the National Socialist Movement has taken charges of a half-mile section of Highway 160 near the Springfield city limits.
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Posted: 26th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Hospital Fetish Restaurant Opens In Latvia
IN Latvia, hospital are better than they are in Blighty. Well, they have beds, and porn.
The provision of hospital beds in Britain has plunged in the past eight years to one of the lowest levels in Europe. The number of beds per person has dropped 14 per cent since 2000 – to below the rate for Latvia, Estonia and Macedonia.
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Posted: 26th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Pole Dance Fail
POLE dance fail:
Talent will out…
Posted: 25th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
South Park’s Kenny Features In All Russian Passports
RUSSIANS are such jokers. They’ve put Kenny from South Park in all their passports.
Spotter: Jason Teel
Posted: 24th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Yaroo: Saying Yahoo Security Threat In Japan
YAHOO!
No Yaroo, the Japanese security firm.
Heally…really…
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Posted: 23rd, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Virgin Mary Not Wipe Clean With Pre-Op Joan Rivers
IN Chicago the messiah is born under a bridge.
No, not Barack Obama. He;s alreayd been born. a new Messaia.
An image of what believers see as the Virgin Mary has been defaced again, this time with demonic graffiti that has lingered for more than two weeks, police said early today.
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Posted: 23rd, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
If You Are Stolen Call The Police
If You Are Stolen Call The Police – at once…
Posted: 23rd, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Dog Wigs And Doggy Style Sarah Palin
DOGS in wigs. It can happen.
The Sarah Palin dog wig – Wiggles.
Did someone say lipstick on a pit bull?
Posted: 23rd, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Coconut-Sized Kidney Stone Removed From Hungary Man
SANDOR Sarkadi went to a hospital in Debrecen, Hungary.
A X-ray had shown iup alump in his body. The lump was a huge kidney stone.
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Posted: 22nd, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Impales Face On Tap
IS imapling the new specator sport?
Yi Zhao, 57, had slipped in the bath impaling his left eye on the tap at his home…
Posted: 22nd, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Policeman’s Eye Impaled On Stick
PC John Nash is in Rochdale. PC Nash is giving chase. PC Nash’s boots slip on mud. PC Nash slides head first into a bush.
PC Nash has been a copper six days into the job. PC Nash has six-inch branch sticking into his right eye. PC Nash continues to give chase.
PC Nash arrests the suspect. The suspect tells PC Nash he’d “better get to hospital”.
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Posted: 22nd, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Coup Du Folie: French Farting And Baseball
COUP du Folie combines the thrill of baseball with the speed and sheer daring of lighting your own farts.
Says Gaston:
“I’m going to use it at the next Car-b-cue.”
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Posted: 21st, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Indian Hospital Promises To Beat Up Patients
SAYS Dr Abhijit Chowdhury, of the SSKM hospital:
“It is not our intention that we start beating up people. But we wanted to send a cultural shock. A cultural shock therapy can do wonders in behavourial modifications when the issue of smoking comes or when the issue of spitting comes.”
Video:
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Posted: 21st, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (4)
The Top Eight Green Creatures Found In Food
DO you like your salad with a little body? Well, you’re in luck as Anorak looks at frogs making their way into mainstream food.
The Prisoner
To a chopping board in Meole Brace, near Shrewsbury, where a four-inch lizard is set to become the family pet.
Says Paula Walsh:
“My daughter had been cutting the broccoli for lunch when she screamed, ‘Mum come quick, come quick – there’s something crawling in the broccoli’. I pulled gently and out he came.”
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Posted: 21st, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (9)
UFO Cloud Spotted Over Golf Club In Wales
IS it a wind turbine? Is it an Martian? Is it a…cloud? It is a cloud.
It’s a cloud over Borth golf club, mid-Wales.
The locals are pointing.
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Posted: 19th, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (6)
