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.
Gentlemen Toilet For Tranavestites And Scotsmen
LADIES. Gentlemen. Scotsmen. Your toilet awaits…
Spotter: Lisa Tarb
Posted: 16th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Italian Mafia Seek To Head Off Bread Threat From Lancashire
PSST! Wanna buy some bread?
After yesterday’s news of the Lancashire mafia, today we learn that the Italian mafia have noted the threat, moving to nip in the bud the threat posed by Morris’s Quality Bakers, (Baker Street, Coppull, Chorley).
The Guardian reports that “city officials and investigators suspect Camorra clans are behind many of the 1,400 unlicensed backstreet bakeries in and around the city which supply hundreds of street vendors who sell loaves out of car boots – and they may be spreading into selling other basic food products.”
Yeah, car boots. Shoppers would do well to check the rolls for signs of blood and bits of missing person’s teeth and hair.
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Posted: 15th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Strange But True | Comments (5)
British College Bans Easter And Christmas
CHRISTMAS is… banned. Easter… The bunny is dead. Sarah Palin got it.
BOSSES at Yorkshire Coast College have removed the words Christmas and Easter from their calendar so as not to cause offence to ethnic minorities or religious groups.
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Posted: 15th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True, Tabloids | Comments (17)
The Worst Job In The World: I Saw An Elephant Fly
I SAW an elephant fly. Is this the worst job in the world?
Spotter: Val
Posted: 15th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (6)
The Handy Russia Sex Tourist Translator
“THEY say that this kind of printed guide to Russia is being handled to every passenger of some flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg that come from USA” – so they say.
Sex tourists take note…
Posted: 14th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Oragsms Guranteed At Turkey’s New Aquapark
TOUGH times in the travel game.
Package tour operators going bust.
But in Turkey, there is fun to be had at the Bodrum Aquapark.
Fun for all the family.
Something for the kids. Something for the mums and dads, grandmas, grandpas….
Posted: 14th, September 2008 | In: Money, Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Teaching Tabloid Journalism And Other Superstitions In Ghana
IN Africa the journalists are preoccupied with politics and superstition:
Mr. Saeed Yakubu, News Editor of Luv FM, a Kumasi-based radio station, noted that many radio stations employed untrained journalists and radio presenters…
He urged the students to be circumspect in their writing, when they come out, to avoid any legal suits.
Saeed made reference to a research conducted by the Media Commission, which revealed that radio stations in Kumasi devoted 70% of their airtime to politics and superstition, and advised the students to desist from such practices, by devoting equal attention to all the sectors that would help move Ghana forward.
Politics. Superstition. Which will be first British tabloid to publish in Africa..?
Posted: 14th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Road Hog: Pig Loving German Vegetarian Crashes Into Pig Truck
WHEN pigs attack vegetarians. When vegetarians attack pigs. Consider the evidence. To Germany:
The
sight of a truckload of pigs headed for the sausage factory proved too much to bear for a German vegetarian woman who lost control of her vehicle as a result. Unfortunately, she crashed into another truck carrying pigs.
A road hog…
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Posted: 14th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Celebrating Turkey In Armenia
IT’S lke that German food market in the precinct in Bournemouth:
“Armenia’s Culture Minister, Hasmik Bogosyan, wants to collaborate with its Turkish counterpart…Bogosyan said her biggest dream was to organize a festival celebrating Turkey in Armenia”. Source
Look out for Ethiopia’s Italy Day, Israel’s Austria Evening and a get together for Tibetans for China…
Posted: 14th, September 2008 | In: Politicians, Strange But True | Comment
Anorak Pets: Super Bichon Frise Saves Man
IS the Bichon Frise the dog of herioc deed, a Superdog trapped inside an ambulatory puffball skirt?
To New York, where Lexi is taking a Linda Deutsch for walk. But Super Bichon will not get on the elevator. Has it heard the sad news of its cousin in Brighton? For shame!
But hark, the New York Daily News says Lexi is making towards Apartment 4-L. Deutsch follows, obediently. She hears faint cries for help coming from inside the apartment.
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Posted: 13th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Spare Rib: German Butchers Say Eat More Women
SAYS the sign on the side of the butcher’s van: “Meat Products, Fresh Service”. The legend is illustrated by the image of a naked woman.
Germany’s national advertising council says the adverts by G&M Fleischwaren Frischdienst are degrading and anti-woman.
“Such an advert blatantly violates the council’s codes on discrimination and degradation in advertising,” says the council. “
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Posted: 13th, September 2008 | In: Online-PR, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Mother Steals Daughter’s ID To Be School Cheerleader
WENDY Brown is a cheerleader at Ashwaubenon High School, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
She’s one of the girls, shooting the breeze about which of the hot new act New Kids On The Block she fancies, chillin’ with Vanilla ice and watching Baywatch.
Wendy Brown is 15. She was born 33 years ago. To Wendy Brown it’s always 1990.
Wendy Brown wanted to be a cheerleader, so she enrolled at a school and passed her self off as her 15-year-old daughter.
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Posted: 13th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (11)
Plague Of Frogs Hits Florida
IT’S raining frogs in Floraida. Pray for frogs.
Standing water everywhere and hot weather create the perfect situation to incubate eggs. Central Florida is being invaded, not by mosquitoes, but by frogs.
The tiny frogs are too daunting — until you multiple them by about 1 million.
“Last night there was 11 big ones on my house, jumping and hitting me in the head and stuff like that,” Cindy Trumpolt said.
“I told them we should get on our knees and pray, because I think it is a plague. I do,” one resident said.
Pray. For locusts…
Posted: 13th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Catholic Priest Sells Cocaine From Church
THE Reverend Christopher Layden, of St. John’s Catholic Newman Center on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, is listening.
You enter the confession box.
Confessor: “Forgive me father, for I have sinned, it is ten days since my last hit of cocaine.”
Father Layden: “It’s thirty bucks a snort and be quick.”
Someone is listening. Someone tells the cops.
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Posted: 12th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (13)
Private Eye’s Spoon Lady Found
ME and my spoons.
WHAT is believed to be the largest collection of spoons in the world is owned by Doctor Ella Kyes Dearborn, of Portland, Oregon.
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Posted: 12th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
British Invested Baseball And Decided Not To Play It
THE Times reports that the British invested baseball and then decided not to play it:
Historians in Surrey have documentary proof that the game was being played in the UK before America. A diary entry which talks about a game played in Guildford, Surrey in 1755 has been verified as authentic by the Surrey History Centre.
The Surrey History Centre, where highlights include The Philip Bradley Fairground Collection and Dennis Specialist Vehicles.
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Posted: 12th, September 2008 | In: Back pages, Broadsheets, Strange But True | Comments (10)
The World’s Best Anti-Ageing Cream
TAKE a look at this picture for Dermitage anti-ageing cream.
Before the woman was line free and youthful.
After, she has a face like a camer’s scrotum in a sandstorm.
Tip: Better to use the foreskin than the scrotum, as Oprah Winfrey assures us.
Posted: 12th, September 2008 | In: Online-PR, Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (12)
Police Log: Virgin Tramp Murders Linda McCartney
POLICE LOG: Crime in the news…
Virgin Tramps’s Linda McCarntey Buffet
Mark Armstrong, 34, crept on to a London-bound Virgin Express while it was stopped at Preston’s railway station overnight, and helped himself to the freshly restocked buffet.
Desperate times…
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Posted: 12th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Health And Safety Inspector Falls From Ladder
HEADLINE of the Day, in the Tabloid Telegraph: “Health and safety inspector falls off ladder.”
A health and safety inspector had to be rescued by firefighters after he fell from a ladder while he was carrying out a risk assessment.
Before we fail this under “Beyond Parody”, let’s investigate further.
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Posted: 12th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Sabina Guzzanti Faces Jail For Sending Pope To Poofter Hell
SABINA Guzzanti faces five years in jail.
Guzzanti’s alleged crimes are covered by the terms of the “Lateran Treaty, a 1929 agreement between Italy and the Vatican that says an insult to the Pope shall carry the same penalty as an insult to the Italian president”.
You know, the swarthy midget with the bandana hair and voice like hot moist hands on a nun’s thigh. No, not the Hitler Youth German, the other one.
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Posted: 11th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
How A Toilet Can Be A Crap Museum For Your Installations
HANK Robar, of Potsdam, has removed two broken toilets from the property he owns on Market Street. And that is good.
Now seven remain.
Says Mr Robar: “It’s different. It’s art. People look at it.”
Old Mr Anorak agrees. Art becomes art when people look at it. For such reasons he keeps Anorak’s Vomit In Sock installation hanging from a peg by his backdoor. And the Back Of His Hand has been designated as a gift to the nation.
But Robar is making a point about laws and Dunkin Donuts.
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Posted: 11th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Fireman Gives Mouth-To-Mouth To Roasted Cat
WHAT does a roasted cat taste like? A fireman brings one to life:
Sweating and breathing heavily from fighting the fire, Mr. Machado was still making faces and picking fur from his mouth when he told a reporter there wasn’t much hesitation involved. He had rescued the cat from a burning, second-floor apartment on Summer Street “and it really needed air and it couldn’t wait,” he said.
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Posted: 11th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
How To Beat A Japanese Attacker With The Power Of Dance
IN this class, Anroak students are invited to get in touch with their inner English-speaking Japanese mugger and/or sex attacker. You can learn a lot from your attacker.
You can learn English. In China, it’s just a fad. But in Japan it’s a dance, a song and a video…
Meanwhile, this is how they beat the attacker in the United States…
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Posted: 10th, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Anorak Pets: Scooby Bears Witness To Murder And Goats Freed From Jail
ANORAK PETS: a look at pets and naimals in the news…
Scooby Witness In Murder Trial
A dog named Scooby has created legal history by appearing as a witness in a murder case. The animal’s 59-year-old owner had been found hanging from the ceiling of her Paris flat. Police believe it was suicide but her family say that it was murder.
The dog dunnit!
The dog was in the flat at the time of the death. During a preliminary hearing in the city, the pet was led into the witness box by a vet. A suspect in the case was presented to the dog, to see how it reacted.
Old Mr Anorak believes Lassie would have been more up for this caper…
It is said to have ‘barked furiously’. The aim was to decide if there was sufficient evidence to launch a full murder inquiry.
I Am Not A Number, I Am A Free Goat
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Posted: 10th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Police Log: Shooting From The Hipsters For A Man’s Jeans
POLICE LOG: Crime in the news…
ANORAK readers will be familiar with one Phillip Northmore, who stole a man’s jeans to gain access to Plymouth night venue.
Mindful of that, journey toJacksonville, where 24-year-old Cedrick Davis has been shot for his trousers.
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Posted: 10th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
