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.
Kebab Shop Fighting Kit And Table
TO the kebab shop.
A man is dead. A knife?
In the Telegraph:
The customer had taken just two bites of his shish kebab before collapsing in a heap on the floor of the Super Chef in Brighton, East Sussex, and was dead within minutes.
A knife left inside the kebab?
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Posted: 25th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Dragons Start Three-Quarters Of Fires In Wales
THERE are dragons in Wales.
The dragons breathe fire on chip shops, carpet shops, DIY shops, caravan parks and more…
The Local Government Data Unit says firefighters attended 24,631 blazes across Wales in the 2007-08 period and 73% had been started on purpose.
The rest were started by the English.
Dragons come in many shapes. Some are small girls. Some are fiery red heads. Some are Welsh men with chips the sizes of boulders on their shoulders…
Posted: 25th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Plead Fail: How Do You Plead?
Posted: 25th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Yellow Lines for Bubble Cars
YOU see the yellow lines.
The yellow lines appeared in Hyde Terrace in the Clarendon area of Leeds last weekend. The car has been removed, leaving the yellow lines bulging out from the kerb.
Says a local amateur painter:
“I’m not a traffic expert but I would have stopped the yellow lines at one end of the car and started them again at the other end and then joined them together once the car had been removed.”
Or painted them over the car in the manner of a yellowy Ford GT…
Posted: 25th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (3)
But It Is Art: Earth Art
OLD MR Anorak art collection: Earth Art:
The flat, woven areas of the piece are meant to reference agricultural plains which supply food. The “fields” are interwoven with tufted, bushy areas of the piece, which represent forests and jungles, and other wild environments that are disappearing.
Can we embroider that on a cushion?
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Posted: 24th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Paedos On Ice: The Biggest Christmas Show In Town
PAEDOS on Ice. Where? In a temporary floodlit area next to Bath Sports and Leisure Centre.
Right it is that Sygma Events Ltd has decided not to go ahead with the ice rink this Christmas.
Staff and parents from St John’s Catholic Primary School can spot a paedo at one hundred paces. They have heard of Paedos on Ice. But not in this town. Not never.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Onward Virgin Nympho Christians
CHRISTIAN nymphos:
Each one of us who posts on this blog is a Christ follower. We all believe that God came down from heaven and was born of the virgin Mary…his name was Jesus
Verily, we say “virgin” Mary was married at the time to her frustrated husband Joseph…
We are women with excessive sexual desire for our husbands!
So nothing like virgin Mary, then..?
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Posted: 23rd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (15)
Hockey Stick: It’s Raining Dildos In Sweden
HEADLINE of the day: “Swedish hockey fans delay match with dildo downpour.”
To the home of Stockholm-based AIK ice hockey team, where dildos, profane banners, and a giant inflatable penis are very mich in vogue.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Woman Brandishes Soiled Sanitary Towel At Police
POLICE Log: Anorak’s Look At Crime In The News…
A 27-year-old woman accused of shoplifting cologne and trying to touch an officer with a “well-used and bloody female sanitary napkin” Tuesday is facing charges, according to an arrest affidavit released Wednesday.
Put your hands where I can see them…
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Posted: 23rd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Sickie Fail
SICKIE FAIL:
NIRESH REGMI
Real Time Manager, Workforce Operations
Ground Floor, 30 Ross Street, Glebe, NSW, 2037
T: +61 2 9009 1329 Extn:61329
F: + 61 2 9009 1734
W: www.aapt.com.au <http://www.aapt.com.au/>
E: nire********@aapt.com.au <mailto:******@aapt.com.au>
– Marc Moninski
Posted: 23rd, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Shadow Porn
CAN you see what they can see?
Spotter: Peter Jenks
Posted: 23rd, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (6)
Call Me An Australian Paedophile And We’ll Split The Winnings
THE District Court Judge in Australia hears that when the man’s daughter answered the door, the grandmother told her:
“You know your dad’s a paedophile – a complete stranger came up to me in the street and told me.”
The man, the grandfather of child in a custody and access dispute, launches defamation proceedings.
Judge Gibson awards him $30,000 in compensation.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Scared Music At The Cripplegate
TO Cripplegate, Let us pray (with eyes open lest we be afeared)…
Evensong Wednesday 17 September at 6pm
To celebrate the 400th Anniversary of John Milton’s Birth
Milton sermon delivered by the Most Reverend and Right Honourable the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
Scared Music of John Milton Senior sung by the choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Milton reading by Sir Derek Jacobi
(Professional engagements permitting)
Reception afterwards at
Barber-Surgeons’ Hall Monkwell Square
– Chenier
Posted: 22nd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Atheist Bus Quote Of The Day
THE message on the side of the bus says – Don’t worry there is NO GOD it’s all for nothing…
“People don’t like being preached at” – Steven Green of Christian Voice condemning atheist posters on London buses.
Let us pray…
Posted: 22nd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
The Naughty Book: Priest’s Porn Crashes Church’s Computer Network
THAT time again to visit Strängnäs, Sweden, and repent for all our sins. Let us pray:
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
The Church of Sweden responds, via Archbishop Anders Wejryd:
“Priests are people too, but I have no understanding at all for someone sitting and surfing for porn on the parish computers.”
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Posted: 22nd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Irony Explained: Free The Bears
FREE the bears, with irony…
Posted: 22nd, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Good Spirits: Man Survives Week In Bar
GOOD spirits – a week in the bar…
Posted: 22nd, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Mr Gay UK Sentenced For Noshing Lover
ANTHONY Morley is famous for two things: he is the first winner of Mr Gay UK; he is convicted of stabbing his lover, one Damian Oldfield, to death before cutting flesh off his thigh and cooking and eating it.
The current Mr Gay UK has a tough act to follow. The current holder of the Mr Gay UK title is Dino Gamecho, representing Pulse Bar in Cardiff. The event is sponsored by “prowler TV”.
Back in court, Judge James Stewart QC offers:
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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Old Woman Arrested For Keeping Child’s Ball
THERE’S no-one quite link grandma for nicking your ball:
An 88-year-old Ohio grandmother was arrested last week when she refused to return a neighborhood boy’s football that had landed in her front yard.
Did she eat it?
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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Atheist Bus Campaign Says Enjoy Life
THE Atheist Bus Campaign campaign is relaunched. Can a bus be an atheist? Yes. We live in liberal times. Perhaps is a bus can be a jihadi it will be immune from attack? Unless it wears a suicide fan belt, in which case the whole depot is f****.
The Atheist Bus Campaign launches today, Tuesday October 21 2008. With your support, we hope to raise £5,500 to run 30 buses across the capital for four weeks with the slogan: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
Atheists don’t worry?
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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (35)
The Woman Who Smells Like A Fish
“AFTER experiencing ridicule, distress, shame, anxiety and low self esteem during her school years, she first consulted a doctor about the problem at the age of 17, then again two years later, followed by a further four doctors over the next 20 years,” says Prof Burnett of the school of medicine and pharmacology at the University of Western Australia.
The woman’s problem? She smells of fish.
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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)
Pooh Horse
POOH horse…
Gracie the horse, of Pullman, west Virginia, was cut free from the tree….
Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (12)
Product Placement At The Crime Scene
PRODUCT placement in crime reports. Why did it take so long?
Mr Smiggins was stabbed by a Sabatier fish slice. As he bled to death on his Man In Iran carpet, his Comfi-Slax gave him an assured feeling of warmth…
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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
10 Ways Yo Kill Your Pet And Get Away With It
WANT to know how to kill your pet? A survey by a pet insurance company says:
PlayStations and iPods have emerged as greater threats to the nation’s pets than traditional dangers found in the home such as tumble driers, washing machines and electric cables.
Which might mean that if you own an iPod, PlayStation or some other electronic device, your premiums might be higher. What are the odds on an insurance company discovering that, eh?
The Guardian notes:
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Posted: 20th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Plane Crashes On Impact
PLANE crashes on impact with ground…
Posted: 20th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (11)
