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.
Standing Room Only At Angel Pantoja Medina’s Wake
ANGEL Pantoja Medina is dead.
That’s him leaning on the wall for his three-day wake.
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Posted: 19th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (25)
Breaking News: Big Foot Is Real And Fire Retardant
“WITHIN the next hour of thaw, a break appeared up near the feet area. … I observed the foot which looked unnatural, reached in and confirmed it was a rubber foot.”
No only did Ricky Dyer and Mathew Whitton, “who is a former police officer”, so therefore more of less trustworthy (you decide), find a Big Foot, but they discovered that the legendary beast has rubber feet.
Who knew?
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Posted: 19th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
RIP To Shreds: The Best Obituary Ever
DOLARES Aguilar has passed away. This, her obituary, appeares in the Times-Herald Napa/Sonoma paper:
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Posted: 18th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
The Person’s Republic Of Forvik
STUART Hill, 65, moved onto Forvik by the Shetlands– 2½ acres of rock and grass – last June.
He has been living in the Shetlands since 2001 after capsizing a yacht 50 miles northwest of Forvik during an attempt to sail around Britain, an incident that led to him being dubbed “Captain Calamity”.
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Posted: 18th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Strange But True | Comments (3)
The Styrofoam Home
IN Japan you cna buy a home made from syrofoam:
Posted: 17th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Nepal Seeks Duck-Voiced Deity
NEWS from Nepal, where the country is looking for a female with a voice “as soft and clear as a duck’s”, “the body of a Banyan tree” and “the chest of a lion”.
Nepal is looking for Jordan to be its new live-in living goddess.
But what-oh? The caveat is that this creature has to be aged between 2 and 4 years old. But Anorak has calculated the birth ages of Jordan’s various body parts and noted that, on average, Jordan is 19 months old. She fits!
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Posted: 16th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
The Pitfalls Of Indoor Lawn Mowing
LAWN mowing, smoking and other indoor hazards
The full story:
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Posted: 16th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (21)
Slightly Used Rubber Fist For Sale
FOR sale – one rubber fist. Shop soiled…
Spotter: Tom Mayhew
Posted: 14th, August 2008 | In: Money, Strange But True | Comments (14)
Big Foot Found In Time For Slow News Day
MATTHEW Whitton, a policeman from Georgia “on medical leave”, and Rick Dyer, an ex-prison warden, have found the body of Bigfoot.
They retrieved the body of the legendary beast from a remote location in northern Georgia.
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Posted: 14th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (10)
Woman Sells Husband’s Mistress’s Knickers On eBay
WOMAN sells husband mistress’s knickers on eBay:
A SCORNED Queensland woman is literally airing her husband’s dirty laundry on a global scale by auctioning his mistress’s knickers on eBay.
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Posted: 14th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Daily Mail Headline Of The Decade: French Mayor Killed By Boule
THE Daily Wail. Each days the Dail Mail searches, scouring medical reports and research notes for news, and finally its quests bears dividends:
Lourdes tourism chief killed during a ‘tense’ game of petanque after being hit on the head by metal boule
You want more?
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Posted: 13th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True, Tabloids | Comments (10)
Paul McCarthy’s Art Is Complex Shit On The Runs
ANORAK’S Vomit In Sock is an early contender for the Turner Prize. But there is competition:
20 hectares of playground for the garden show: the farmland to the rear of the three steel hills and the entire tract of greenery from the Wyssloch Valley down to Lake Egelsee will be sprouting weird and wonderful objects to form an animated kind of front garden.
Paul McCarthy will be subverting the otherwise harmonious landscape sculpture of the Zentrum Paul Klee with his installation Complex Shit – a giant pile of dog faeces.
Oh, complex shit. Not complete shit. Silly us.
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Posted: 12th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Strange But True | Comments (9)
Madeleine McCann: When Portugal Attacks
IT had to happen. After months of rubbishing the Portuguese, the Star reports that an armada of “bungling”, perverted “sardine munchers” are “preparing for an attack on British shores”.
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Posted: 12th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True, Tabloids | Comments (54)
The Extra-Wide Contact Lens
THE extra-wide contact lens:
Anyone who’s seen Japanese comics, cartoon videos or anime art is instantly struck by the common look of the girls – big eyes that, by making the rest of the face look small, add the cuteness and sex appeal prized by many Japanese men. Since no amount of cosmetic surgery will make actual human eyes larger, some girls are trying another way to up their cute quotient: extra-wide contact lenses!
Posted: 11th, August 2008 | In: Money, Strange But True | Comments (6)
Germans Ban Kinder Eggs For Paedos
NEWS reaches Anorak that German lawmakers want to ban Kinder surprise eggs.
“Children cannot tell the difference between a toy and food,” the Welt newspaper cites Miriam Gruss from the commission as saying.
This is a sure sign on how stupid German children now are, especially the fat ones like Augustus Gloop. The time is ripe for an invasion. But there is more:
Says a spokeswoman for Ferrero, who make the device: “There is absolutely no evidence that there is an increased danger from the combination of food and toys.”
Oh no. Anorak hears that anti-paedo campaigners have long believed the combination of pocket-sized chocolate and toy a clear and present danger.
These egg-shaped lures should be banned before it is too late. We must act now!
Posted: 10th, August 2008 | In: Politicians, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Robbie Contrane Wanted For Burglary In New Zealand
ROBBIE Coltrane is wanted for burglary offences in New Zealand:
“Robbie Coltrane is not the burglar but imagine him aged 16 with lank greasy hair and you have the picture” – Sergeant Phil Dean in Christchurch, New Zealand, explain the use of an image of Robbie Coltrane in a wanted poster.
It’s illegal to print pictures of young offenders in New Zealand.
Anorak Detectives Inc.forbids us from publishing or circulating pictures of juvenile offenders bu advises that “Noel Edmonds” is wanted for crimes against humanity, “Anthea Turner” is wanted for crimes against decency and Tony Blair is wanted for exposing himself on the top deck of the No.73 bus to Hackney Wick…
Posted: 10th, August 2008 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comments (5)
The Great British Ginsters Snail Race
IN the food Olympics what food-style product would Team GB enter?
Anorak considers the alternatives and answering the criteria of higher, faster, stronger, Anorak advocates the Ginsters slice.
But fast food has a slow after taste as Simon Enticknap, from Basingstoke, Hampshire, bites into his mid-morning livener and encounters a snail.
Mr Enticknbap takes up the tale:
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Posted: 10th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Strange But True | Comments (7)
Man Freed From Sex With Metal Park Bench
AS a headline it makes us stop and stand to attention:
“Man Almost Loses Penis Humping Steel Bench.”
To Hong Kong, and a call to police that man is in difficulties.
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Posted: 9th, August 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (22)
The Mouse Mouse
A DEAD mouse as a computer mouse…
Posted: 8th, August 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Police Log: Beer Kills And Toddler On The Roof
POLICE Log – Anorak’s look at crime in the news…
REGINA Williams stands in Bond Court. She is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Willie Anderson. It is alleged that she did stab him to death because he was drinking her beer.
If she’d have doen it in the UK, she might have gotten off…
Imagine you’re in a parking lot and suddenly see a car drive by with a 3-year old child sitting on top it. That’s exactly what happened in Marathon in the Florida Keys and now a grandmother faces a felony child abuse charge.
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Posted: 8th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (9)
111-Year-Old Is First-Time Father
Viagra-fuelled over-45s having risky sex with people they meet through the internet are being blamed for a surge in sexually transmitted diseases among the middle-aged.
111-year-old to be first-time father
The high-profile sex romp early this year of Henry, a century-old tuatara from Invercargill, has resulted in his lover Mildred laying 12 eggs…He had never shown an interest in mating until he was caught getting intimate with the much younger Mildred, aged between 70 and 80.
Museum staff put Henry’s newfound desire down to a cancer growth being removed from his bottom.
Growing old disgracefully…
Posted: 7th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (20)
Wing Walkers Marry On Aircraft Wings
DARREN McWalters stands on the wing of a biplane. Katie Hodgson is on another plane by his side. The Rev George Bringham, presiing, is on another plane. They are man and wife:
Posted: 6th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (16)
Play Dead: Man Dies In Dog Chain Bondage Session
JEAN Margaret Meiers, 58, strands in Brisbane’s Supreme Court. She pleads not guilty to the manslaughter of one Geoffrey Braunack, 47, on November 1, 2004.
It is said that she did tape the mouth of her partner, secured him by way of rope, tape and a dog chain to a concrete post on their home’s patio.
It is said that Ms Meiers did then leave Mr Braunack and take a shower. When she returned he was not moving.
Top rouse the man, Ms Meiers is said to have secured bulldog clips on Mr Braunack’s nipples and slapped his face.
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Posted: 5th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Glasgow Killer Sentenced To A Pub Ban
EDWARD Flaherty, 74, has been convicted of strangling to death 69-year-old Ina Flaherty with a necktie after she declined to give him money to go to the pub.
Says the Beak, one Lord Matthews, in the Glasgow High Court:
“I have read and considered a number of reports from experts. It is plain to me that if I were to impose that sort of sentence you would be released in a very short time because prison would not be able to cope with your condition.
“Sentencing you would just be a token gesture. I am anxious to impose a sentence that restricts your liberty.
“You still go to the pub where you went with your wife. That must annoy her relatives.
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Posted: 4th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (13)
The Rat Ladies Of The Palisades
TABLIOD Baby writes from Los Angeles of the Rat Ladies of the Palisades:
In our town at the end of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, the talk is of the cover story of the LA Weekly that arrived in newspaper boxes and storefronts on Thursday. “Rathouse of The Palisades” tells of two elderly identical twin sisters who live in a small house near the downtown area who’ve been feeding rats for decades:
Asks TB: “So who’s going to show up first to rip off the story? 20/20? Dateline? Our bet is on Inside Edition, in which case no one will notice.”
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Posted: 4th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (13)
