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.
Romeril Loses Patrick White Award
HATS off to John Romeril who wins the most ironic competition in art:
Romeril, 63, was announced yesterday as the latest winner of the Patrick White Award for writers judged not to have received adequate recognition for their work.
Only.. But…
Posted: 10th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Looking Up Girls’ Skirts In Japan
JAPAN…
Posted: 10th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Health And Safety Bans Floats From Swimming Pool
HEALTH & Safety headline of the day: “Prudhoe pool bans floats for health & safety.”
A SWIMMING pool has stopped issuing water wings and floats – for health and safety reasons.
The flotation aids are designed to keep children safe from drowning, but staff at Waterworld in Prudhoe have been told not to hand them out.
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Posted: 7th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Tom And Jerry Jew Are Toast
OBAMA is in. Iran is listening to the black man. And we have the cure. Prof. Hasan Bolkhari and class, pay attention:
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Posted: 7th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Teen Learns To Live With Stu-t-t-t-ering.
GOOD news. Teen learns to live with stu-t-t-t-ering. When you’re ready…
Posted: 7th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Wanted For Witness Intimidation
WHICH of them is the wanted man, then?
Spotter: TJay
Posted: 7th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
When Foxes Attack: Jogger And Vermin In Fight To The Death
A JOGGER is enlivening her experience by wearing a fox, hanging from her arm by its teeth.
Blood sports enthusiasts are invited to take their pick: jogger or fox. Win-win. The woman tried to choke the animal, but no luck. The fox tries to bite her in two. But, again, no luck.
To add to the tableau, the creature is rabid. Not, the jogger, but the fox. The foam around the jogger’s slack maw is the product of stomach acids and yoghurt-based drinks.
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Posted: 6th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Chickens Killed By Inflatable Jamie Oliver Balloon
“AS soon as the gas is released to raise the balloon they go absolutely crazy.
“It is absolute chaos, when they go into anything and that causes the egg to explode inside them.
“The fragments of the egg and its contents then infect them and then they die from it – it’s a horrible way to go.”
No doubting that. Being killed by your unfertilised unborn is just about the one crime that had never featured on Anorak’s pages.
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Posted: 6th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Viagra Beneficiary Wanted
Viagra. Check…
Posted: 6th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (11)
Stripper Stiffens At Loud Bangs
IT’S Ladies Night:
“I don’t mind taking my clothes off for a room full of screaming women – just so long as no one suddenly shouts too loud” – Stripper Andy Latham suffers from a rare condition that means a loud noise makes his whole body… stiffen
Tonight Andy, who perfoms with the Crippendales, will be dressed as Gordon Brown…
Posted: 5th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Priest Goes For Head As Nuns Aim Below The Belt
“I CAME down to try to calm things down but the priest hit me with a chair and I ended up on the floor.
“Then the two sisters started kicking me, insulting me with unrepeatable words.”
To Italy where the manager of an eatery in the village of Rutino near Salerno, in southern Italy, is responding to news of trouble.
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Posted: 4th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
The Jogging Shrimp
IT’S A shrimp. And it’s jogging. It is the jogging shrimp:
Once more with feeling:
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Posted: 3rd, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Wanko Clothes For The Discerning Wanko
FOR football supporters everywhere, the Wanko clothes chain…
Wanko, Wankas, wanka, wankamus…
Posted: 3rd, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (10)
Stuck On the Loo: Man Glued To Public Toilet Seat
OVER the newswires, news from a toilet cubicle in Brierley Hill, near Dudley:
The stainless steel lavatory was removed from the cubicle in Brierley Hill, near Dudley, with the man still attached, after the best efforts of emergency services failed to free him, said West Midlands Ambulance Service.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Naked Woman In Some Misdirected Leisure Activity
TO Micheldever station, Hampshire.
A man in camouflage clothing is standing by a woman who is tied to a tree. The woman is naked.
It is 3pm.
Was it you?
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Posted: 3rd, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (11)
Jesus Tastes Like Water
IN Swaziland, “There is a mad rush for a wonder liquid called Jesus Water.”
In other Swazi news, The Observer delivers the headline of the day:
Majahenkhaba bursts into praise.
Maybe Attorney General Majahenkhaba Dlamini has been at the Jesus sauce?
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Posted: 3rd, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Surviving Gary Glitter’s Halloween Party
MEANWHILE, in the park…
Posted: 2nd, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Sky Is Falling In
THE Sky is falling in…
Posted: 1st, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Hungary For More: Teacher Strips For Pupils
TO Zalaegerszeg, western Hungary, for the class High School Musical. Take it away Miss…
Says head teacher Sandor Rozman:
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Posted: 1st, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Jesus In The John
JESUS. He is everywhere… Today Jesus is watching you in the toilet…
Posted: 1st, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (6)
The Secret Of Happiness Is
THE Secret of happiness Is…
… pulling the shoelace out from under your foot
– Spotter Nikki Smudeck
Posted: 1st, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Killed By Porn: When Porn Attacks
KILLED BY PORN.
As reported:
“A devastated mum who discovered her son’s body at their family home heard he died from a heart attack while watching a porn film.”
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Posted: 1st, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Welsh Jobs For Welsh Speakers: Road Sign Errors
IN Wales they only pretend to speak Welsh. See the sign on the left? Know what it says in Welsh?
“I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.”
It’s plain that the English section is wrong and they just don’t want to give foreigners the work…
Spotter: Tom Woodruff
Posted: 31st, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Medium Barred From Contacting The Dead
MEDIUM Amanda Molloy …was in the dark over complaints that she was too good at contacting the other side… so good she has been barred.
Amanda, whose clients include Cheryl Cole and murdered Jamie Bulger’s mum Denise, claims she has been put down by the Newcastle’s Heaton and Byker Spiritualist Church, where she has been going since she was 14, says The Evening Chronicle.
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Posted: 31st, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Potato Wedgies: Vicar Gets Spud Stuck In Rectum
PLEASE turn in your Sun prayer books to page 29 and read aloud:
A VICAR turned up in agony at a hospital — with a potato stuck in his bottom.
Amen. And how so?
The clergyman told stunned casualty nurses he fell backwards on to his kitchen table while hanging curtains.
Tis majestic visions of wonder. Some questions to ponder of this fateful day:
Posted: 31st, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (19)
