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.
Have A Wunder Boner New Year
FROM the Thai Ladies’ ping-pong team winter traning camp, Old Mr Anorak wishes you a Wunder Boner New Year…
Posted: 31st, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Fork Crime Epidemic Hits Florida
ARLEN Arguijo is involved in an argument with his live-in girlfriend.
In Florida, on the corner of Lake Wood Road and Kirk Road Saturday afternoon, Mr Arguijo pulls a fork out of his pocket and tries to stab his lover several times.
Anorak wonders if it is possible to stab someone with fork just the once, and if fork crime is an escalation of knife crime?
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Posted: 30th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Bank Robber Leaves Name At Scene Of Crime
IN Chicago, police have arrested Thomas Infante, who allegedly robbed a bank using a note written on the back of his own pay cheque. Yeah, the cheque with his name on.
Said the note:
“Be Quick…Give your cash or I’ll shoot.”
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Posted: 30th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Get A Mammogram And Smear Test In One Go
GET a mammogram and a smear test in one. She did:
Posted: 29th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Thailand’s Scorpion Queen Rejects Jodie Marsh
KANCHANA Kaetkaew is The Scorpion Queen of Thailand.
Kanchana now holds the Guinness World Record for holding a poisonous scorpion in her mouth for over two minutes.
Once again this is a record that begs to be beaten. But we in the UK laugh at such danger.
Here’ a shot of Jodie Marsh on a night out celbrating her body’s 30th birthday (average age of assorted parts). Would any Thai, regal or otherise, put their mouth on her? Not for all the ping-pong balls in Bangkok?
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Posted: 29th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
No Standing In the Disabled Section, By Order
FOOTBALL club bans fans from standing in the disabled section: pictures:
Posted: 29th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Trained Goldfish Lives 21 Hours On Carpet
HERE’S a world record goldfish must be excited about being broken:
Ginger the goldfish was found by owner Barbara Woodward lying face up on the ground behind a chest of drawers.
She assumed he was dead and left the pet, delaying the toilet pan burial rites afforded all goldfish, for it is written.
When she returned 21 hours later he was alive.
“It’s a miracle,” says Barbara, who accepted the fish as a gift from her husband. And so it is, just last week, Ginger survied 13 hours without water. His training is paying off.
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Posted: 29th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
The Door Knows All, Obey The Door
IF the door does not open, do not enter – got it?
Ed Balls is rereading it and will write a full report by March…
Posted: 27th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Torches Home Becuse Santa Fails To Deliver Gift
ALABAMA’s local Lawrence Edward Lee is wating for his Chrtimas gift in his mobile home. There is a small chimney, that – maybe – Santa has not seen:
A south Alabama man faces charges in a bizarre case. Police in Theodore say he torched his own mobile home. The fire on Thursday destroyed 45-year-old Lawrence Edward Lee’s home. Lee is charged with reckless endangerment and public intoxication. Police say Lee set the fire because he was apparently upset that he did not get a Christmas present.
Unless the puppy got stuck in the chimney..?
Posted: 27th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Christmas Presents To Kill For: Scales For The Wife
WANT to get your loved on something special.
Then step inside, sir or modom, and pick up the scales that say “Yes, you are a fat bloater” in the voice of Jeremy Kyle…
Posted: 26th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Santa Sleighs Three In Shooting
SANTA Claus not onyl carries a false passport, contraband and creeps into your kiddies’ bedrooms of a night, he’s got a gun:
A man dressed as Santa Claus opened fire at a Christmas Eve party in a home that subsequently caught fire, leaving at least three people dead, police said. The suspect later killed himself, police said.
Police found the body of Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, at the home of his brother early today in Sylmar. Police would not say how he died.
Police say he was having marital problems. Mrs Santa has not been seen – ever…
Posted: 25th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Happy Christmas And A Frugal New Year
SANTA Claus has gone to town – and now prudence has caught up with him…
Old Mr Anorak says, “Give til it hurts.”
Merry Christmas
Posted: 25th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
How To Escape A Floating Ship
WANT to know how to esape a floating ship, or find the bar? Swim:
Posted: 24th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Vanity Plates The DMV, DVLA And Over Ds Allowed
IF America’s DMV knew the internet, would it have allowed these car vanity plates through?
Spotter
Posted: 24th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Take Jesus Christ Away, Henrietta And Merna
HENRIETTA And Merna celebrate Jesus – one more time with feeling…
They’re still singing… singing… singing….
Posted: 24th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
It’s Not Legal To Piss On Nottingham
NOTTINGHAM City Council says ignore the signs.
The sings the burghers want you to ignore feature a toilet sign and include the words: “Public Urination Permitted After 7.30pm.”
Not genuine, apparently:
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Posted: 24th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Skids Into Skid Marks And Drowns
IN Indiana a man has drowned in a manure lagoon.
Authorities say a Bluffton man apparently drowned when a skid loader he was operating fell into a manure lagoon in Wells County.
An Indiana conservation officer says 23-year-old Nicholas Cruz had been cleaning out a cattle lot at Sunny Park Dairy and dumping manure into the lagoon Friday morning when he apparently lost control of the skid loader.
File under beyond parody…
Posted: 23rd, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Court Rejects Eight-Year-Old’s Divorce Plea
IN Saudi Arabia, a court has rejected a plea to divorce an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man who is 58, saying the case should wait until the girl reaches puberty.
See: Paedophilia In Saudi Arabia: Eight Year Old Sues For Divorce
The girl’s lawyer opines:
“She doesn’t know yet that she has been married.”
But the bride wore a doilly on her head and the kids from the nursey school all made fairy cakes and sang songs and it was really really really good and… and…
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Posted: 23rd, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Christmas In Hollis For Santa’s Light Show
CHRISTMAS IN Hollis with Troy Lykken and Keith Gettelman’s Holiday Lights show in south Minneapolis.
Santa for global warming:
Posted: 22nd, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Show Does David Lynch’s Blue Velvet
IT’S Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Show Does David Lynch’s Blue Velvet – it’s on the TeeVee.
Sing together…
Spotter: Ed. Barrett
Posted: 22nd, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bagpipe Player Arrested For Playing ‘Distressing’ Music
GAWD bless the police, as Old Mr Anorak is wont to say ever since he heard that bagpipe-playing Shaun Cartwright has been detained for a breach of the peace.
There is a reason why the military plays bagpipes – to instil in the men a desire for bloody battle and to make them realise that there is nothing less to fear.
As reporters, Mr Cartwright’s bagpipes have been seized. But he was later released and told it was not in the public interest to press charges.
As the Scots Daily Record puts it:
Exclusive: Busker arrested and has bagpipes confiscated by English police for ‘causing distress’
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Posted: 22nd, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Sticky Tape X Rays For Electric Farmers
BAD Science: Sticky tape electricity for X Rays
Scientists have known for years that peeling up a strip of sticky tape can set off some subatomic fireworks. But in the current issue of the journal Nature, UCLA researchers prove that the X-rays released are both powerful and plentiful.
Really:
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Posted: 22nd, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Santa Claus Mugshots
SANTA CLaus, that illegal alien who molests your mum and breaks into your home with his un-quarantined beasts is busted and processed.
Those Santa mugshots…
Posted: 21st, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Mugshot Of The Month: Eyebrows Down
MUGSHOW of the month winner is RACHEL NICOLE ATWOOD, arrested for:
POSSESSION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION and POSSES OF PARAPHERNALIA AND OR USE
And where did she hide the blimps of hash..?
Posted: 20th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Argentina Cats Use Baby Boy As Hot Water Bottle
TO Argentina where the Sun reports on “a boy aged one has been found living rough on the streets — being kept alive by CATS.”
Stunned police officers found eight mangy moggies protecting the tiny lad. They snuggled up to keep him warm during freezing nights — which would otherwise have killed him, medics believe.
Believe. Aren’t cat’s just terrific. But how can the Sun really know?
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Posted: 20th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
