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.
Osama bin Laden And Hermann Göring Barred By Ryanair
ULRIKA Örtegren-Kärjenmäki is waiting to board a plane, a Ryanair flight from Stanstead Airport.
She was still waiting right to the point she spent £380 on a new supersize ticket.
She may encounter similar problems until she can find and marry a Mr Right, a Mr Ng or a Mr Anorak. It is also reported that the “dots” on the letters invalidated it in security checks.
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Posted: 23rd, September 2008 | In: Money, Strange But True | Comments (4)
More MILF Fighters At Large
MORE MILF news:
Groups of rogue MILF fighters are wandering around the south, looking for food, and fighting back when they encounter police or troops. These MILF are trying to portray themselves as defenders of Islam, but are being caught in lies.
As reader Jack McJiggins writes: “Their image problem could be solved by having a blow-up Sarah Palin doll as their leader.”
In the last ten days, the army has seized several MILF camps, putting over a thousand of their inhabitants on the run.
Mooooooose….
The Philippines’s Leading MILF Speaks
Sarah Palin, Your Milf Candidate
American Airline Wants MILFs
Posted: 23rd, September 2008 | In: Politicians, Strange But True | Comments (6)
Illegal For Men To Process and Distribute Sperm
YOU know what you’re doing. Cut it out. It’s illegal:
Since July 2007 it has been a criminal offence to “procure, test, process or distribute” any gametes (sperm and eggs) intended for human application without a licence from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
Can the Guardian be right? Is it illegal to process and distribute sperm? Do men need a licence..?
Posted: 23rd, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Strange But True | Comments (16)
When HBOS Employees Kill
FROM INDIA comes a message for the Lloyds TSB -HBOS merger burghers:
“The [Gradiano] Chief Executive Officer …was on Monday beaten to death by a group of dismissed employees inside office premises after a meeting called to resolve dispute between them and the management failed“. Source
Posted: 23rd, September 2008 | In: Money, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Drivers Warned About Danger Of Caring Kids
LOOK out for those pesky caring kids. Why can’t they just steal your car or throw stones at it, like they’re supposed to…
Spotter: Rupert
Posted: 23rd, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
South African Couple Killed Having Sex On Train Track
TO South Africa, where a couple are having sex on a railway track in Mpumalanga Province.
The earth is moving. Faster. Moving. Thunder.
Darling…
“Yes…”
“It’s…a…train…”
“The tunnel of love”
“No, a train…a real tr…”
Too late.
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Posted: 22nd, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (10)
The Philippines’s Leading MILF Speaks
THE Philippines’s Mohagher Iqbal, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chief negotiator, speaks during a news conference…
Oh, the sticky fingers of adolescent tittering…
Posted: 22nd, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Lone Ranger Theme Drives Californian’s Tonto
TO Avenue K in the Californian desert of Lancaster.
You drive, and as you drive you wheels pass over grooves cut into the road surface that play the Lone Ranger theme.
Yes, it’s the famous Rossini overture. Now, that’s driving music to drive you Tonto. Says Donna Martin in the Daily Breeze newspaper:
“I think it’s terrible because it keeps me awake at night. You can kind of tell it’s music, but it’s not any tune or notes. It’s a scratchy sound, a high-pitch drone.”
Everyone’s a critic.
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Posted: 22nd, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Laughing At Road Markings In Russia
IN Russia when police suspect you of drink drving and ask you to walk along the line, you’re likely to escape without a fine…
Posted: 21st, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (10)
Phone Sex Enthusiasts For Obama
YOU can be anything and get a “… for Obama” pin. Now, you can be an onanist and a pervert:
A misprint in a telephone book has led to some callers dialing a phone sex service while trying to reach a New Jersey political organization
A listing for the Sussex County Democratic Committee in Embarq’s white pages sent people to a sultry female voice inviting them to pay for sex chat.
Embarq spokesman Glenn Lewis told The New Jersey Herald of Newton that a transposition error caused the last three digits of the Democrats’ phone number to be misprinted.
But, if you vote Obama, you might get a free call…
Posted: 20th, September 2008 | In: Politicians, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Police Log: Man Impales Rectum On Fence
POLICE LOG: Crime in the news…
SIYANDA Pasiwe says he was drinking somewhere in East London, South Africa.
And being drunk he did what anyone would do and decided to climb over the fence of a museum and sleep it off. As he says:
“I woke up and decided to continue walking home, but when I saw a tree I thought I would be able to jump to the other side.”
He climbs. He falls. A 30cm pike pierces his rectum.
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Posted: 20th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Stephen Hawking’s Corpus Clock
THIS is Stepehn Hawking’s clock. IT features a giant grasshopper and has 60 slits cut into its face which light up to show the time.
Its creator John Taylor said he “wanted to make timekeeping interesting”.
The clock hangs at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University…
Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Swiss Restaurant Serves Up Breast Milk In Its Sauces
TO the kitchen of the Storchen restaurant, high in the Winterthur resort in darkest Switzerland.
“Try the meat stew,” says mein brave with a fat-lipped, lascivious grin. “Various soups and sauces are yummy tummy,” he adds.
All contain at least 75 per cent of mother’s milk. The calf’s mother? “No,” says he. “My mother’s.”
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Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (15)
Sex Change Youth Kim Petras Sings For Record Label
THIS is Kim Petras, the German boy who at the age of 12 became the world’s youngest person to start hormone treatments for a sex change operation.
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Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comments (13)
Beware Invisible Cows
INVISIBLE cows, most likely from continental Europe, have invaded… Is global warming to blame?
Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (7)
Special Agent With The United States Illuminati Is Captured
POLICE LOG: Crime in the news…
RICHARD Anthony Smith is trapped in an air duct about 45 feet below the roof of the Knoxville Museum of Art.
Police and a fire crew attend.
Says Smith:
“Mission failed.” Smith confesses to being a “special agent with the United States Illuminati, badge number 0931.”
His mission?
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Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (15)
All Change: Cross Dresser Accused Of Flashing Train Drivers
POLICE LOG: Crime in the news…
MARTYN Alan Lamb stands accused of wearing women’s underwear and showing off “parts of his body” to people travelling on rail services near his home during a six-month period last year.
The father-of-three is said to have worn a blonde wig and removed his work clothes – he works as a (ahem) self-employed pest controller – to reveal ladies’ lingerie (suspender belt, stockings and basque) to train drivers.
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Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (12)
Italian Virgin For Sale And Danielle Lloyd’s On Offer
SHOWGIRL, mo-del and Big Brother star emeritus Raffella Fico, 20, tells Italian magazine Chi:
“I can’t wait to see who’s going to pull out the money to have me. I don’t know what it’s like to have sex.”
Miss Fico is selling her virginity.
Now over to the UK, where Danille Lloyd is on the Star’s cover page: “DANI LLOYD – She’s naked & wants you.”
Since Danielle swore off footballers, she’s been looking for a new gig. And it might be you. Inside the paper and Danielle is offering Star readers the chance to win a date with here.
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Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Celebrities, Money, Strange But True | Comments (9)
The Chinese Chicken-Foot Duck Scared Of Water
FU Haiwen has a duck. Or is it a chicken? Dicken and owner live in Huangjin village, Xicheng town.
“It never went with the other ducks to swim in the river,” says Haiwen.
Haiwen’s duck has chicken feet.
If this Dicken can be persuaded to eat some vine leaves and sleep on a bed of glutionous rice, it might be a walking Dim Sum platter…
Posted: 17th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (6)
Allah Is A Bruce Willis Fan
ALLAH made me watch Bruce WIllis. No, not Mel Gibson, whose films Allah directs. You had me at Taser:
A 40-year-old man walking his dog in the nude Friday night in northwest Tallahassee was Tasered by police when he became belligerent and refused to follow an officer’s commands…. When asked what he was doing, the man told the officer, “Allah told me to watch a Bruce Willis movie and walk the dog,” McCranie said.
Posted: 17th, September 2008 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comments (7)
Tony Blair’s Weather Machine Creates An Upside Down Rainbow
THE Sky is smiling. The sky is smirking. It’s an upside down rainbow over Cambridge…
EXCEPTIONAL atmospheric conditions created a rare and stunning display in the skies above Cambridge.
At 4.45pm on Sunday, a circumzenithal arc – which looks like a bright, upsidedown rainbow – was visible above the city.
A miracle. A sign. On omen. Or just Tony Blair’s weather machine laughing at Gordon Brown?
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Posted: 17th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Pumpkin Thrown Through Window: Banjo Hurt
POLICE LOG: Crime in the news…
Police arrested a Jessamine Vavul after neighbors alleged she threw a pumpkin through their window in Indiana.
Police arrived at an apartment building in the 2700 block of Grape Road about 5:30 a.m. to find a broken front window and a pumpkin.
A man inside the apartment told police a neighbor threw the pumpkin after she became upset when he wouldn’t let her in.
Besides the window, police said the pumpkin also damaged two guitars and a banjo inside the apartment.
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Posted: 16th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
With Bullwinkle Dead, Palin’s Army Goes Squirrel Hunting
IT’S Sarah Palin. Run, Rocky, Run!
State game wardens say they nabbed five Sacramento men with squirrels tucked in unusual places.
They say the men each had six squirrels — two over the daily limit of four. One man had two dead squirrels tucked in a shoe.
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Posted: 16th, September 2008 | In: Politicians, Strange But True | Comments (2)
When Australian Streakers Attack
WHEN Australian streakers attac (NSFW):
United vs Hummocks Watchman Eagles match at Virginia Oval. A streaker. A jump. A bang on the head…
Posted: 16th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
German Boy Floods Dusseldorf In Beer
TO Germany, where a German teenager is due before the Beak, accused of flooding a Düsseldorf arena with beer.
The boy, now aged 15-year-old, allegedly broke into the LTU Arena with a friend and opened three taps in the VIP seating area in October 2006, when he was just 13-years-old.
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Posted: 16th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
