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.
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Posted: 20th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Man Pays Utility Bill With Drawing Of A Spider
CAN you pay a bill with something other than money? Herunder is the is exhange via email between Adelaide local David Thorne and a utility company.
The company is chasing an overdue bill:
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Posted: 20th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Now That’s A Cigar
DON’T you love it when the picture editor gets it right… Now that’s a cigar…
Posted: 20th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Baseball For Jesus And Jews In Hell
ANORAK’S look at religion making news.
FROM the Rapture Ready site:
Just last night after baseball practice, my 11yr old son and I were driving home when someone almost pulled out in front of us. It could have been a bad accident. After I blew my horn and mumbled to myself about how ignorant some people could be, my 11yr old said “Oh well….we would have just gotten to Heaven a little sooner. You know how much I like baseball, Dad, but I am ready to go now.”
Strike one…
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Posted: 19th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (12)
In Canada Everyone Can Hear You Scream
IN Canda everyone can hear your scream. Canadian students are being told what to talk about:
“Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., has hired six students whose jobs as “dialogue facilitators” will involve intervening in conversations among students in dining halls and common rooms to encourage discussion of such social justice issues as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability and social class…
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Posted: 19th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Hitler’s Other Ball Found In No Man’s Land
ADOLF Hitler: one or two? Discuss. Show workings.
The Sun leads with the news that Hitler had…one testicle. Fact. His other testicle is in the Albert Hall. Fact.
The Sun says it has the “amazing evidence” and readers may marvel at how Hitler produced a sex tape years before the internet arrived.
Flying robot bombs, rockets and cutting-edge ways in mass murder. He truly was a technological pioneer.
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Posted: 19th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Hit On Head By Metal Ball Gets Pain In Legs
A KNOCK on the head. Leg pains. Walking on your hands…
Spotter: Jerry Kane
Posted: 19th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
World Toilets For National Ammo Day
IT’S National Ammo Day in America.
It is a nationwide BUYcott of ammunition. You buy ammunition. 100 Rounds a person.
The goals of Ammo Day:
The goal of National Ammo Day is to empty the ammunition from the shelves of your local gun store, sporting goods, or hardware store and put that ammunition in the hands of law-abiding citizens. Make your support of the Second Amendment known–by voting with your dollars!
It’s World Toilet Day In the UK:
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Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Travel Bag With Free Knife
IT’S a travel bag. And – look out! – it’s got a knife…
Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
A Cockatoo With Every Happy Meal
McDONALD’S is giving out a free endangered animal with every Happy Meal.
Hold on a moment, smiling animal killer, that whale is not for eating. Sure the gherkin fits neatly over it’s blow hole, and the fighting wallaby’s pouch serves as a decent pot for your curry sauce, but these animals are stuffed toys.
So, don’t worry kids. Keep eating that ground up cow and that mashed up and shaped chicken. Those animals are not endangered, nor are calves and baby chicks in the least bit cute.
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Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
In Case Of Accident Re-attach Victim’s Head To Body
IN case of accident, divide the victim into parts and treat them in a more efficient manner…
Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Australia’s Sex Party Wants You
SUCH is the lack of people in Austrlia, they’re holding a Sex Party. Did they all vote for Obama?
Sex is a wonderful thing. It’s the reason we were born and (mostly) its NOT the reason we die. Sex, as gender, defines who we are and often what roles we undertake in society. It’s responsible for a heck of a lot of pleasure and fulfillment in life.
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Posted: 17th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Police Suspect Vending Machine Thief With Knapsack Of Quarters
THE police suspect you of stealing from vending machines. You are fined. You pay the bail money…in small coins…
Keen-eyed police questioned the man about the theft of the knapsack…
Posted: 17th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Original Christmas Cross For A Whiter Jesus
ARE you looking for “an effective way to express your Christian faith this Christmas season to honor our Lord Jesus?”
You are. Happy say!
“Now you can…. with the ‘Original Christmas Cross’ yard decoration”, brogught to you by the American Family Association
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Posted: 17th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Python Swallows Alligator And Bursts
HEARD the one about the 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python?
They are out walking along the Florida swamps. The python tries to swallow the alligator whole.
Success.
And then – pop – the python bursts.
Should have got a better gastric band…
Posted: 16th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Transformer Pet: Turning A Dog Into A Cat
BORED of your pet? Here’s how to turn your dog into a cat, and vice versa…
Posted: 15th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Hand Scanners Of Satan
A HEAD scanner at work:
The story:
Posted: 15th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Butchered Peasants For Sale
BUTCHERED peasants for sale. Make great conversation pieces, burgers and draft excluders…
Spotter: Tom Mayhew
Posted: 14th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Why Early Christians Ate Dinosaurs
ChristianAnswers.net explains why dinosaurs died out, and Christians did not:
When did animals begin to kill and eat other animals?
Animal Hunter After the Flood, God gave people official permission to kill animals for food and eat them. Man could now eat everything, green plants and animals (Genesis 9:2,3). This means that people from Noah’s family could have eaten dinosaurs, if they tasted good.
Posted: 13th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Pregnant Dad Thomas Beatie, Pregnant Again
THOMAS Beatie, the pregnant man who gave birth to a daughter earlier this year, is with child once more.
Beattie introduced the world to Susan, on June 29, or James 29, as it is known is some communities. The birth was natural.
Posted: 13th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (10)
Birthday Sadness
FOR those of you reading this without a telephone, internet nor carrier pigeon…
Posted: 13th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Wanted: 18 Years Old Waitress With 20 Years Experience
ARE waitresses made or are they born?
Posted: 13th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Woman Killed By Husband’s Coffin
MARCIANA Silva Barcelos is on her way to bury her partner, one Josi Silveira Coimbra.
Josi, aged 76, died after suffering to heart attack at a dance.
The cemetery in Alvorada in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, is ready for its newest reisident.
The hearse is on route. An Alfa Romeo car is also on the road. It collides with the hearse.
The coffin slips its moorings. The coffin slams into the head of the grieving widow. And she is dead.
Posted: 13th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Car Of Flames In Flames
A DEFINITION of irony…
Posted: 13th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
When Dogs Go Wrong
WHEN dogs go wrong:
Posted: 13th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
