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.
Peta Fishes For Sea Kittens
PETA wants fish called sea kittens:
Radical international animal rights group PETA has launched its most bizarre campaign yet, demanding fish be renamed “sea kittens”.
PETA – People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals – believes calling fish sea kittens will make sea food less appealing.
Can a kitten swim? Let’s get some Christmas leftovers in a bag, chuck it in the canal and see…
Posted: 9th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Crossword Building Of Lvov
IN the city of Lvov, Ukraine, a block of flats hosts a 100-foot (30 meters) crossword puzzle.
At night, lights are turned on and the empty puzzle is completed.
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Posted: 9th, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Shopaholic Crushed To Death By Shopping
RIP Joan Cunnane, 77, crushed as she was beneath 3ft of wrapped goods, amassed over 16 years of dedicated shopping.
Bags piled high in Ms Cunnane’s bungalow. A 2ft-wide path between the edifices.
In the Rover Metro she left behind, candles, umbrellas, a teddy, shears and a foot pump.
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Posted: 9th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
The Top Ten New Crisp Flavours
PASS the Cajun squirrel-flavoured crisps.
Other crisp flavours that may soon be hitting he shelves are:
Chilli and chocolate.
Crispy duck
Onion bhaji
Fish and chips
Builder’s breakfast
Crisp firm Walkers wants crisp enthusiasts to suggest a 21st century rival to our old favourites.
Anorak has conducted its own poll and brings you the Top Ten British Crisp Flavours:
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Posted: 9th, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (7)
2009 trend alert – gadgets with guns
In these recessionary times what better way to forget your fiscal troubles than by blowing away a few dumb animals. Except of course to own a gun in the UK at least, you need to be in the same Freemasons Lodge as your local chief police fella.
Besides shooting ducks isn’t as much fun for the ducks as it is for you. No matter though for Wowee, those people who specialise in odd but very brainy robots, have just unveiled the Duckhunter. It is basically a cheapo version of a flying robot designed to look like a duck. The difference is that it comes with its own shooter enabling you to blast it from the skies to your heart’s content.
Given that each time Wowee invents something half a million Far Eastern companies rip it off within weeks I am predicting a big 2009 for gadgets with guns.
Video courtesy of TechDigest
Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Fallen Woman’s Rectum Impaled On Hairspray Can
MIRELA Gradinaru, 37, arrived at the clinic in Arad, western Romania, with a can of hairspray stuffed up her rectum.
Mirandolina Prisca, a doctor at the clinic, tells us:
“We had X-rays done to localise the object and then we carried out the operation. The patient was fine after it. She was very embarrassed. She was clearly in a lot of pain, however it got there.”
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Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Polk City Man Uses Shop Sign To Fight City Hall
“THIS isn’t what I want to be,” says Anthony Herman, owner of Mighty Good Used Cars, as well as an adjoining lube shop and a car wash.
“I don’t want to be the crazy person with the crazy sign out front. … What else am I supposed to do?”
As the Des Moines Register reports, Mr Herman is in dispute with Polk City. He is making his views known by way of the sign outside his car shop that claims Polk City Mayor Gary Heuertz as “a lieing little Nazi turd.”
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Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Spate Of Old People Trapped In Bath Tubs
OLD people do not all bathe in those walk-in baths that fill up around you and so recall the spirit of the Titanic.
An 86-year-old woman who fell in the bathtub of her home in a Milwaukee suburb says she was trapped there for four days.
An 82-year-old man who slipped and fell in the bathtub of his Salt Lake City home says he was trapped there for five days.
Old Mr Anorak (age unknown but looks much younger, it says here) has bene in his Thailand retreat, where, as ever, he has been taking the local ping-pong side through the rigours of winter traning.
Sweaty stuff…
Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Burkina Faso Pharmacy Wall Chart
THE Burkina Faso Pharmacy for all your awkward ailments and toothbrushes.
Just point and go…
Posted: 7th, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Pumpkins For Helmets In Nigeria And XMas Trees For Teeth
IT is now law in Nigeria to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. And the helmet of choice is made from pumpkin [calabash].
Right now hundreds of Nigerians are doing impressions of the Headless Horsemen, each with hollowed out pumpkin atop their heads.
Kano Federal Road Safety Commission commander Yusuf Garba is not happy:
“We are impounding their bikes and want to take them to court so they can explain why they think wearing a calabash is good enough for their safety.”
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Posted: 7th, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Babysitter Shot By 4-Year-Old Charge
NATHAN Beavers and “several other teenagers” are babysitting “several young children” in a mobile home in Jackson. Ohio.
A shot rings out.
Witnesses told police the 4-year-old retrieved the shotgun from a bedroom closet and shot Beavers. Police said the child was angry because Beavers accidentally stepped on his foot.
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Posted: 6th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Farting, With Paris Hilton And Barack Obama
FARTING is sure to catch on. And to be prepared, here are Anorak’s Top Facts About Farting:
1. Barack Obama was schooled in Indonesia, where farting is considered an art form on a par with finger painting.
2. In times of recession, sales of baked beans and vegetables and raisins soar. Scientists at the North American Institute Of Global Warming calculate that the Arctic began to break up in the 1970s, when, ironically, power cuts and the three day week were at their height.
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Posted: 6th, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Baby Catches Bullet In Her Nappy
TO a church in Memphis, Tennessee, where a mother finds a bullet in her baby’s nappy:
Call it a New Year’s miracle or just good luck. A baby girl is doing fine after a stray bullet landed in her diaper on New Year’s.
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Posted: 5th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
This Way For Free Baldness
FREE baldness this way…
Posted: 5th, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Horse Sneaks Into Cinema Without Paying
TO the Cineworld complex Boldon, Tyne and Wear, where a horse is sneaking in without paying.
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Posted: 5th, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Jason Vipper Is The Mugshot Of The Year
HERE’S Jason Vibber after his arrest on suspicion of burglary.
Posted: 4th, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Colton High School: Comited Too Educashun
TO COLTON High School – Comited to High Standards…
Posted: 3rd, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Reborns: Women Who Buy Real Fake Baby Dolls
REBORN dolls are in the USA.
Good Morning America introduces us to women who treat their Reborn baby dolls like real infants. “Women living with fake baby dolls treat them like real children“.
Excuse me, would you like to buy a baby?
And:
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Posted: 3rd, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Faeces On A Plane: Man Attacks Cabin Crew With Shit
ANY more of this and they’ll hanving out laxitives and emetics five hours before boarding and checking your before and after weight:
Man Covered In Feces Attacks Flight Attendant
Passengers said the man left the plane’s bathroom covered in his own waste on the Dec. 26 flight.
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Posted: 3rd, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Thousands Of Weapons Of Shoe Destruction Spotted In Florida
MORE WEAPONS of sole destruction spotted in Florida. Will the State that gave George Bush be his undoing? We’re all shoe tossers now, or mini cab drivers:
According to Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Pat Santangelo, thousands of pairs of used shoes mysteriously appeared at 7:42 a.m. on the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway between the Bird Road and Miller Drive exits.
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Posted: 2nd, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Waiting For You To Be Ready For The Rapture
THE Rapture is a-comin’. When? It’s a-comin’ soon. Evangelists know it. Do you know it? Yes. Are you ready to be rapt? Yes. Frank Gonzalez bring the good news in instalments.
If you’re not ready for the Rapture, he can wait for you…
IN 2007, Frank Gonzalez brought us 2007rapture.com:
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Posted: 2nd, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck: Lest We Forget
LADY Anne Cavendish-Bentinck has died. Highlights of her obituary follow hereunder:
Her grandfather, the 6th Duke, a younger half-brother of the Countess of Strathmore (mother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), had not been in direct line for the dukedom. He succeeded his eccentric second cousin, who had a horror of being seen and so supervised the digging of a network of underground passages and rooms at Welbeck – these included a tunnel 1¼ miles long, and wide enough for two carriages to pass.
He hid in a few interlocking rooms in the west wing, with a trap door giving him access to his network of tunnels, which was at times worked on by more than 1,500 men.
Next:
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Posted: 2nd, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Police Sentence Last Man In Britain To Discover Internet
DAVID Jell, of Queens Road, Hawkhurst, Kent, has been banned from carrying on his person felt tip- pens.
Mr Jell is also banned from writing abusive comments, people’s nicknames or contact details in a public place, and from “acting anti-socially by causing harassment, alarm or distress to others”.
One may wonder how you can be banned from causing distress to another when the odds on getting along with everyone are so remote? If this rule can be enforced, Anorak hereby petitions the rule makers to apply it to Mr Noel Edmonds, Mrs Cherie Blair, the BBC’s Breakfast ‘Team’ and anyone who has ever appeared on Strictly Come Dancing.
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Posted: 2nd, January 2009 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Jesus Found Alive In Pita Bread
JESUS. In a pita bread. No, not with a kebab in one hand and some garlic sauce. He died on the spit for our sins:
Hungry, one morning last week, I decided to heat up some pita bread. I broke it into little bits and left it in the oven for about two and a half minutes.
After the pieces began to blacken I took them out. Oddly enough one piece even looked like the “face” of Jesus. I was tempted to eat it but for some reason I didn’t.
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Posted: 2nd, January 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Do Not Drink The Jesus Water
JESUS says don’t drink the water – I’ve washed my feet in it:
Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Stick to wine…
Posted: 2nd, January 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
