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.
Credit Crunch Forces DJ To Sell Gold Teeth
CREDIT CRUNCH watch: filling in the blanks with DJ Talent…
DJ Anthony Ghosh, aka DJ Talent, is selling his teeth.
“Records aren’t really shifting these days,” says the 30-year-old the electro house DJ. “It’s been like this for a couple of months now and it’s not getting any better.”
Adding:
“It’s more downloads everyone’s interested in, so the music industry is taking a drop.”
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Posted: 12th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Shaggy The Reindeer’s Toupee
THAT’S Shaggy the reindeer modellign his new toupee. Says owner and hair maker Trevor Hill;
“People don’t even notice that it’s on there – the mark of a good toupee. No-one knows when he is out and about during the shows”
Elton the renideer is all ears:
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Posted: 12th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Naming Dubai’s Burj Dubai Lake
BY now you’ll be wondering how the fountain in Dubai’s Burj Dubai Lake got its name? Wonder no more at the wonder:
WHEN we commissioned this fountain for Burj Dubai Lake, we knew it would be one of the worlds finest water features, integrating water, music and light into a grand spectacle. Powerful water nozzles shoot sprays to the height of a fifty-storey building, while over 6,600 lights and 50 colour projectors create a visual spectrum of over 1,000 different water expressions.
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Posted: 12th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Max Planck Strip Club For Cerebral Studies
SAYS the cover of the Max Planck Research institute booklet:
“SEXY and hot, young housewives. Flirty and enchanting, available today” – translation of Chinese script mistakenly used on cover of academic journal”
A Taiwanese reader on the University of Pennsylvania’s Language Log blog provided a more formal translation:
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Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Dim The Lights In Australia’s Pastel Prisons
IN Australia, the men are not so tough, even the toughs:
POLICE have been told to show more respect to their prisoners: dim the lights at night, don’t slam cell doors and serve tea, coffee or milk at least three times a day.
New “soft cell” human rights guidelines from Victoria’s Office of Police Integrity say cell blocks should be calm and relaxing, with light-shaded wall colours.
And when you’ve got ’em relaxed, do you kick the suspects in?
Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Actor Hoevels Cuts Own Throat On Stage
DANIEL Hoevels is on stage. He picks up a blunt stage weapon and makes to slice his throat.
He collapses with blood foaming from his neck. The audience stands to applaud Friedrich Schiller’s play Mary Stuart.
Bravo. How very realistic. Bravo! More!!!
But there will be no encore. Not yet.
Hoevels, 30, does not take a bow, less his head fall off and the Austrian crowd at Vienna’s Burgtheater clap all the harder.
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Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Top Ten Items Left Behind On British Trains
WHAT did you lose on a CrossCountry train in 2008, other than your mind and a will to live?
Others left some more imaginative items:
A cat called Holly. (Back with owner)
£30,000 of used banknotes in a green holdall. (Unclaimed)
Says Andy Cooper, managing director at CrossCountry:
“People leave all sorts of items on trains and this year we have found some very unusual ones, including baby buggies, shoes, designer handbags, cricket bats and even a wedding dress.
“We always advise passengers to check their seats and the areas around them when leaving a train, especially at busy times, to ensure that they have all their belongings with them.”
And also advise them to pay up or else; not to grumble, or else; and to do as they are told, or else.
The Top Ten items left behind on CrossCountry trains in 2008:
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Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Unattended Thieves In Camden Town
TO Camden Town and the Chalk Farm library. The sign warns:
DO not leave your belongings. Unattended thieves operate in this area.
Look out.
Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Learning To Kill Grandpa With A Russian Text Book
RUSSIAN textbooks to teaching for by the English are very good. Some are very good better than others.
Some Russian textbooks for English studies are way to straightforward. This one was pointed to help memorizing some rules like don’t use “will” after “if”, or when to say “sorry” and when “excuse me” and some others – you can easily guess which pictures is for which rule.
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Posted: 10th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
High School Student Speaks In Tongues
“IT was disturbing to a lot of students,” says Rob Sparks, a Pelahatchie high school, Mississippi, sophomore.
“It made some students cry and leave school. Some have not returned yet.”
Students called the local 16 WAPT newsroom convinced that an evil spirit had taken over classmate Lashundra Clanton. She was speaking in tongues and weeping.
“Some believe, some don’t,” says Clanton. “They say it was the devil, but the devil only tells lies. Everything I said was the truth.”
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Posted: 10th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Odd Spots: Mounting Squirrels And Winning With Cardboard
Cardboard for winners – Instructables
Mounting A Squirrel – Rick’s palce
Food you can mortgage – Neatorama
Merry DMas – Drawn
Stuck on Google – Lifehacker
Oh dear – Toplessrobot
Posted: 9th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
China: Man Ruptures Lover’s Ear With Kiss
“THE inner ear is connected to the mouth through a tube, whose chief function is to equalize the pressure between the two,” says Li, a doctor at Zhuhai Second People’s Hospital quoted by the China Daily.
“The kiss reduced pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum out and caused the breakdown of the ear.”
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Posted: 9th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Vince Marinello Should Have Typed His List
IN the US a handwriting expert has matched Vince Marinello’s handwriting to a checklist. He is accused of killing his wife.
An expert witness delivered more damaging evidence against New Orleans broadcaster Vince Marinello Saturday.
Forensic expert Robert Foley told jurors that handwriting on an apparent checklist found in Marinello’s trailer matched other samples of the 71-year-old murder suspect’s handwriting.
Police say Marinello made a list of things to do related to his wife’s murder. They say the checklist included items like “throw gun in river.”
As J-Walk notes:
“That’s why you should always do your lists in Excel.”
Posted: 9th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
70-Year-Old Rajo Dev Gives Birth In India
RAJO Devi married 50 years ago. On Novemebr 28, she gave birth to a baby girl.
Says Dr Anurag Bishnoi, a doctor at the Hisar fertility centre in Haryana state::
“Rajo Devi and (her husband) Bala Ram approached the centre for treatment and the embryo transfer was done on April 19. Both the mother and child are in good health.”
And sucking down their food…
Posted: 9th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Oliver Postgate, Creator of Bagpuss, Clangers, Nogging The Nog And Ivor RIP
OLIVER Postgate creator or Ivor the Engine, Noggin The Nog and Bagpuss had died.
Oliver Postage
Heaven can wait
Ivor too
Will miss you
Spotter: June
Posted: 9th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Taiwan’s Hello Kitty Hospital: Top Ten Cartoon-Themed Hospitals
THE 30-bed Hau Sheng Hospital in Yuanlin, central Taiwan, lays claim to being the world’s first Hello Kitty themed medical establishment.
This is akin to standing up in a crowed bar and screaming out: “I was the man who discovered Anthea Turner.” It is a horror best kept to oneself.
And it gets Anorak wondering what other themed hospitals we could bring to the market.
Barbie – Cosmetic Surgery; one size fits all
Popeye – Ocular clinic
The Muppets – Depilation and vagina reconstruction
Sponge Bob – Take home the little fella when the surgeon sews one into your wound
Porky Pig – Tha-Tha-That’s all folks stammer centre and hospice
Pooh Bear – Rectal and bowel experts to over-fed stars
Ronald McDonald – for all your emetic needs
Dora The Explora – Say “Colposcopy”
Charlie Brown school for depression
Speedy Gonzalez centre for drugs dependencies and steroid abuse
Coming soon:
Goofy – Dentistry
Jughead – ear reconstruction
Loony Tunes – Mental wellbeing refuge
Posted: 8th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Naked Bart Simpson Is Paedophilia And Child Porn
BUT is it porn, you know that London 2012 Olympic logo of Lisa Simpson giving London a b*** j**?
To Australia, where Justice Michael Adams dismisses the appeal made by Alan John McEwan over his conviction for possessing child pornography and using his computer to access child pornography.
In February, McEwan appeared before the Beak who said that if the images had contained real children he would have been jailed. McEwan was fined $3000 and placed on a ‘good behaviour bond’.
McEwan felt wronged. His images depict figures that “plainly and deliberately” depart from the human form, says he.
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Posted: 8th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (14)
The Baby Swinging Video And Other Thought Crimes
SWINING a baby:
Meanwhile, the man who posted the fake baby-swinging video last month says he was arrested, claiming that Australian authorities “raided his home and office, and seized his computers” before “charging him with accessing, downloading and uploading child abuse material with the intent to distribute.”
He says he downloaded it. Is watching this video a thought crime?
Posted: 8th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Convicted Insane Killer Gets Livence To Drive Australian Taxi
TO Australia’s Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal where a criminally insane man is in the dock.
The man killed his wife, but escaped a murder conviction on the grounds of insanity. Approved! He is now able to drive a taxi.
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Posted: 8th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
True Colours Of The Solar Corona, By Miloslav Druckmüller
A TOTAL eclipse. What do you see? Well, best not to look, you may go blind. But what is the color of the solar corona?
The majority of people perceive the corona during eclipse as white or slightly greenish-white. However bluish-white, yellowish-white or reddish-white are often reported too. The problem is in the color perception by human vision which is dependent on the definition (calibration) of white color. The less the color differs from white i.e. the less is the color saturated the more critical is the precision of white color calibration. If we use the natural definition that photospheric light is white, we may distinguish very small but still well detectable differences of solar corona coloring. Suppressing the white color component i.e. increasing of color saturation enables detailed study of the color variation throughout the inner corona.
Humans don’t see all the colours. Imagine if you could?
Posted: 7th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Banned From Dressing As Britney Spears Near School Gates
BERETS off to Britney Spears look-alike Peter Trigger, 59, of Farnden Close in Thorplands, Northamptonshire, who has been dressing as a schoolgirl and hanging around near a primary school.
For over a year, Trigger has been outside the gates acing as honey trap to seduce any real perverts and paedos in the area. It is life-long learning in a cloak of childcare.
But some people misunderstand. Police are called. The Beak is summoned and Mr Trigger pushed before him.
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Posted: 7th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Teaching Jesus Autopsy At The YMCA (Video)
HEY, kids, it’s an autopsy on Jesus:
A bite-sized revisionist…
Posted: 6th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Eight-Toed Baby Born In China
TO China where a baby boy with eight toes on each foot has been discharged from a hospital in Leizhou, southeast Guangdong province.
The baby has five fingers on each hand but doesn’t have thumbs.
The medical experts say:
“Doctor said this might have something to do with genetics or environment pollution.”
Or, er, not…
Howe many toes on a possum?
Posted: 6th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Flesh Food In Japan And Instruction Manual For People With Type B Blood
FLESH food on sale in Japan.
In Japan, blood is all the rage:
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Posted: 6th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Accused Of Theft Steal’s Her Lawyer’s Phone
IN CINCINNATI Jessica Cohen is accused a of stealing a cell phone from a public defender’s office employee “just after requesting a lawyer to defend her on a previous theft charge”.
Hamilton County sheriff’s officials in Cincinnati tracked down 20-year-old Jessica Cohen from personal information she left at the public defender’s office the day the phone was stolen.
You have one phone call:
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Posted: 5th, December 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
