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.
Man Shoplifts Power Tool Down Trousers
THE still is taken from CCTV film of a man stealing power tools.
He is secreting his booty down his trousers.
The £800 electric drill is chased down by a pack of drill bits.
A source in Xiamen, South East China tells us: “The drill weighed 10kg and the box of bits was as big as a volleyball.
The man got away.
The shop’s staff say they were distracted, possibly by the woman shoving a 42inch plasma screen up her bra…
Posted: 5th, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
An automatic Shotgun
AN automatic shotgun:
It’s a gun that could end up rewriting the rules of urban warfare. I’d like to introduce you to the shotgun for the 21st century, the AA 12. The Auto Assault 12 is a fully automatic, gas operated, low recoil, 12 gauge shotgun designed specifically for the military. One blast from the shotgun is terrifying enough, but the AA12 delivers an incredible rate of nearly 300 rounds a minute.
Posted: 4th, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
How To Cheat At Exams
HOW students cheat at exams:
And this one, where he changes his name to protect himself:
Posted: 3rd, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Like Biscuits On The Beach: Hob Nobs In Lancashire
FIRST the motorbikes. Then the wood. Now:
Thousands of packets of chocolate biscuits have washed up on the Lancashire shore from a stricken ferry.
The McVitie’s biscuits were being carried on lorries aboard the Riverdance, which ran aground off north shore near Blackpool on Thursday night.
Can you salvage chocolate biscuits, pre-dunked ones?
British holidaymakers would seem to have it made. Can you get free BMW bokes on the Spanish Costas? Does a trip to the Australian seaside provide free planks?
The UK takes the Anorak Holiday Cup, a trophy fashioned from discarded penguin biscuit wrappers and sponsored by the Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate and Confectionery Alliance.
Posted: 2nd, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Safer Police Cars That Drive Themselves
PC David Mayes is drving in a 40mph zone.
He is drcing at 68mph.
On the way past a second time, he is drving at 73mph.
Luckily, he is in a police car. This means his speeding car is deemed to be serving the public good and not a danger to one and all.
As if to prove how safe his car is, PC Mayes removes his hands from the wheel and gives the speed camera a thumbs up.
But not everyone understands, and he has now been banned from driving for for six months and fined £400 after admitting two charges of careless driving.
Posted: 2nd, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The World’s First Nudist Flight
ALL hail the world’s first flight for nudists.
Not since fans of Newcastle United football club were last in Europe will an aircraft have featured so much naked flesh.
The flight is from Erfurt, eastern Germany, to Usedom on the Baltic coast. Travel agency Makotel GmbH is selling the flights for a trial day trip on July 5.
Although security at airports is tight, passengers will be discouraged from disrobing until they are on the plane. Onboard they will prepare for take off and then take off, literally.
Hot drinks will not be served. Passengers will required to sit on towels. Care will be taken when fastening seatbelts…
Posted: 2nd, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
The Surfing Cat Of Peru
DOMINGO Pianezzi, of Lima, Peru, has a cat..
Wanna see how much Nicolasa the cat loves surfing.?
Then click here…
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Posted: 2nd, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Illegal Sex Toys Sold In Adult Store
“ADULT Store Caught Selling Illegal Sex Toys.”
Can you have an illegal sex toy? A slow news day in Jackson, Mississippi:
After hearing rumors that the “Adult Video and Books” boutique on McDowell Road, which had previously been busted for selling sex toys, was at it again, the intrepid Kandiss Crone from the 3 On Your Side “news” team decided to go undercover. Based on the secret audio recording, it sounds like she was confronted with a helpful sales person who sold her a vibrator (she chose “the purple one”). She then went back to confront an unimpressed but entirely pleasant store owner who tried to explain to Ms. Crone all the different places on your body you can use a vibrator (the one’s not prohibited by law in Mississippi).
Having bought a vibrator that matched her jumper, the intrepid reporter nailed her scoop:
Kandiss Crone: “Hi, Charles, I’m Kandiss Crone from WLBT. I understand this business was raided for selling sex toys illegally. I just purchased this sex toy, and it is still illegal to sell them in the state of Mississippi. Even though you were raided last year and you’re still selling them, what is your response to that?”
Charles Hobby (store owner): “Where did you buy it at?”
Kandiss: “I bought it here. I just walked in about five minutes ago and I bought this. Don’t you know it’s illegal to sell these?
Hobby: “That’s not one of the required items listed as being prohibited.”
But in fact, it is. Section 97 of Mississippi State Law prohibits the sale of such 3-dimensional devices like the one we were sold.
Hobby: “That’s not a sex toy”
Kandiss: “What would you call this then? It’s a personal vibrator.”
Hobby: “It can be put on your arm, your neck, your leg if it’s hurting or anything. It’s just a vibrator.”
Local new buzzzzzzzz….
Posted: 2nd, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
New Species Of Animal Found
EXCITING times in the world of zoology and fine dining as a new species of mammal has been discovered in the mountains of Tanzania.
The creature has been dubbed Rhynochocyon udzungwensis, and is a type of giant elephant shrew, or sengi.
The size of a cat, the creature has a grey face, a long, flexible snout, a bulky, amber body, a jet-black rump and it stands on spindly legs.
And now the polar bears are no longer dying out, it might be the face of global warming? The hunt is on for a mate for the little fella..?
Posted: 1st, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Best Home Cinemas
HOME cinemas – some of the best:
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Posted: 1st, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
FCC Complaints: Oprah Winfrey, Video And Disgusted
THE site Governmentattic.org uses the US Freedom of Information Act to collect government documents.
The aim of this web site is to make available materials unavailable elsewhere. There is no topic-oriented theme to our content.
The most entertaining documents that they have posted are the complaints received by Federal Communications Commission for TV shows. Does America have a peer to ‘outraged of Cheltenham’? Anorak’s favourites:
THE SIMPSONS
In this episode, the students of Springfield Elementary School have revolted against the teachers and administrators, taking ‘control’ of the school. The students eventually catch Principal Skinner in the gym. As they begin to overtake and subdue Principal Skinner, one of the students empties out a large brown-colored drawstring bag that is filled with various sports balls (soccerballs/basketballs/voleyballs etc). Mr Skinner is then placed inside the empty sack and the drawstring was pulled snug around his neck, leaving only his neck and head outside of the bag. My concern, and the basis for this complaint, is in the manner of how the image of Principal Skinner was depicted after he had been placed into this bag and the drawstring pulled. The image of the large drawstring bag very clearly, and undeniably, resembled a non-circumcised penis (flaccid state). Mr Skinner’s height was the reason for the length of the brown sack, depicted the ’shaft’ and where the sack tapered from Mr Skinner’s shoulders up to his neck where the drawstring had been pulled into a ‘pucker’ depicted the foreskin.;
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES:
Thanks so much for providing the ability to report incidents. I’ve known about this for quite a long time and haven’t been able to find a way to report it.; During an episode of “Desperate Housewives” they showed a scene where the red headed star is getting into bed with her husband to be intimate (I believe the husband ended up having a stroke or heart attack if that helps you trace down the episode). The scene shows him moving down her body to kiss her
stomach … when the camera moves down it VERY plainly shows the woman’s pubic hair. ; I recorded the show on VHS tape and thought I saw something … when I went back and looked at it, I was correct in what I saw.
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Posted: 1st, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Carnival Of Holocaust
IT’S carnival time in Rio. And a judge has issued an order banning a Rio samba group from parading during carnival with a float depicting naked bodies of Holocaust victims.
Judge Juliana Kalichszteim issued the injunction in response to a lawsuit by the Jewish Federation of Rio de Janeiro, which asked for the float be removed from this city’s famed carnival parade next week, said Lara Voges, a spokeswoman for the judge.
The judge said the float could be used in the parade, but that organizers of the Viradouro samba group must remove mannequins meant to represent dead bodies from the Holocaust.
The Jewish Federation praised the judge’s decision.
“It’s inadmissible that they could have a parade float depicting dead Jews and a live Hitler on top of them,” said federation spokesman Jose Roitberg.
Reports in the media have said that Viradouro had planned to feature at least one dancer dressed as Adolf Hitler in the parade, using the theme: “It Gives you Goose Bumps.”
File under ‘Only ‘aving a laugh, mate; can’t you take a joke?’
Posted: 1st, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Nurse Gives Dead Body Parts To Patients
NURSE Lee Cruceta has admitted to cutting body parts from 244 corpses and enabling their use in patients.
“Several funeral directors have pleaded guilty in New York, and the accused ringleader Michael Mastromarino, 44, is being held in the case. Three funeral directors in Philadelphia have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial… Mastromarino, a former oral surgeon, paid funeral directors $1,000 per corpse, then sold the parts to tissue banks, Sagel said.
“The body parts fetched up to $10,000 apiece, though tissue banks resold them to hospitals for many times that amount, he said. Mastromarino is believed to have taken in $6 million to $12 million since 2001.”
Recycling – the possibilities are endless…
Posted: 1st, February 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Woman Turns Herself In For Drink Driving
PAT Dykstra, of Wisconsin, called the emergency services to tell them she may be too drunk to drive.
Says she: “I don’t really think I was thinking that much at the time.”
Dykstra had been drinking in a bar and gone home. Police arrived her at her home. She was breathalyzed and found to be over the state’s legal driving limit.
Says County Sheriff Todd Nehls: “Dykstra did the right thing. I think a judge will look at her and say, ‘You know what? You stepped up to the plate. You did the right thing. I think it’s commendable.”
The right thing? She had already made it home. Can the police prove she had driven while over the limit? Was her car parked in her front room?
Posted: 31st, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Burnley’s Panopticon Singing Ringing Tree
PANOPTICON n. Structure, space or device providing a comprehensive or panoramic view.
Panopticons is a unique and ambitious arts and regeneration project at the heart
of the East Lancashire Regional Park initiative, led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership. The project was set up to erect a series of 21st-century landmarks,
or Panopticons, across East Lancashire as symbols of the renaissance of the area. Four of these iconic structures are now in place.
Panopticons is funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency, the Lancashire Economic Partnership, the Northern Way, Arts Council England North West and Lancashire County Council.
Posted: 30th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Poker Branding With Fire
TYPE in the word “poker” into a search engine and get the usual responses.
Politicians with “poker faces”. Nations playing “poker” with waepaons.
And a man getting branded with a red hot poker – for a bit of a laugh.
Politics can wait. So too can war.
And we journey to a pub in St Austell, Conbrwall, wher the drinkers are making their own entertainment.
A man has pulled own his trousers.
Drink. A fire.
A pal pulls the red hot poker from a fireplace and ’brands’ his backside.
The smell of burning flesh and hair.
A spokesman for the Westcountry Ambulance Service says: ”You can clearly see a nasty burn which could cause serious damage. When the anaesthetic qualities of the alcohol has worn off, he may well be in for a painful trip to hospital.”
Posted: 30th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Things That Go Bumps In The Night
MINDFUL that grave space is running short, we read the Mirror’s story that a funeral car has become stuck on a speed bump.
The car carrying the family of one Tom Alty (RIP) is wedged on a traffic calming measure in Preston.
“It is unbelievable,” says Mr Alton’s son, David. “A family on the way to a funeral should not have to do this. Putting speed bumps in that road is outrageous.”
How will the funeral cortege get to the cemetery on time?
Unless, of course, it is already arrived at the “Life Long Learning Chapel Of Rest”.
Help someone reduce their speed after you die… Donate Your Body To The Highways Agency…
Posted: 30th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
South African Suspect Pierces Feet
MTHANDANI Nqetho was trying to run from the guards in South Africa.
He jumped a fence.
He landed.
He pierced his feet.
He freed one foot. But waited 12 hours to have the other freed by rescue services…
Posted: 29th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Angela Bismarchi’s Nylon Face
ANGELA Bismarchi will celebrate 100 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil by having nylon wires implanted in her eyes to give them an oriental slant.
Britons who celebrate the Irish presence in the UK by getting pie-eyed and the Caribbean influx by vomiting in a West London street will appreciate Angela’s efforts.
If Angela were an alumna of a British school she would just press an index finger to the corner of each eye and pull once for Chinese, harder for Japanese and down for “dirty knees”.
But Angela is more enlightened and plans a more lasting tribute.
This will be the 42nd time Bismarchi has had plastic surgery and she is closing in on the world record of 47 procedures held by American Cindy Jackson. Bismarchi is married to a plastic surgeon – he has operated on her 10 times. Her previous husband was also a plastic surgeon.
One wonders is the men in Angela’s life take their work home with them, she and her husband’s relationship being not unlike Dr Frankenstein and his muse or Worzel Gummidge and the Crow Man.
And if the nylon can be attached to a system of pulleys and cogs and so allow surgery enthusiasts to form a range of human-like expressions..?
Posted: 28th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Shark’s Tail
TO a boat 100 miles off Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia.
The fishermen have caught a mako shark. The beast, 10ft long, is on the deck. A fisherman passes by.
The Sun says the shark “buried its teeth in the deckhand when he accidentally trod on its tail”. Another fisherman sees the danger and slashes off the shark’s head.
Can it be that the way to antagonise a shark is not put stick a hook in its mouth and drag it from the sea or garrott it in a fishing net but to stand on its tail?
You have been warned…
Posted: 28th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Advertises On Craigslist For Hitman And Freelancer
OVER the newswires comes news of a woman who advertised on the Craigslist site for an assassin to kill the wife of a man with whom she’d had an affair.
The ad by Ann Marie Linscott, 49, was posted in November as a generic request for somebody to perform a “freelance” job, court document said. Her true intention was only communicated to those who e-mailed her seeking additional information about the job, the Craigslist CEO said.
Linscott offered $5,000 for the hit, had the name and work address of the woman she wanted dead and she described successful candidates as “silent assassins,” according to agents and court documents.
Shocking stuff. Freelancing is often a thankless task and we wonder how many journalists applied for the job?
The freelance life is full of spare minutes, sometimes hours, on occassion days, in which the writer can imagine alternative lives, like being a bank worker, Jeremy Kyle’s warm-up man or a hired gun.
And getting dressed…
Posted: 28th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Baby Girl To Have Leg Removed
NICE lives and five legs, cats have just too much of a good thing.
Baby Girl the cat is to have one of her paws removed.
Chrystin Rice, who works at the Washington Area Humane Society, says: “The veterinarians who have seen her are just amazed that she has five legs. It’s probably from in-breeding.”
A spokesperson for Chinese cat farms says Baby Girl is the “cat’s pyjamas. And very possibly your nightwear too, with an extra sleeve for overnight guests and kissing cousins…”
Posted: 27th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
A Story To Cheer: Jason McElway
THE Anorak was once approached to be involved with a project in which only good news would feature. It had zero chance of success. Who wants to hear good news?
But sometimes you see something else:
Sometimes…
Posted: 27th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Life In Russia Under Nazis During WW2
NAZIS in Russia in World War II. The Germans took pictures. The pictures were banned in Soviet Russia.
Later, after the collapse of USSR some amount of evidence started arriving from abroad to Russia, showing that it was not so bad under the short German rule for the Russian people, some really enjoyed some freedoms they didn’t have under the Soviet rule.
While others got murdered in their millions…
What do you see? More after the jump
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Posted: 26th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
News Reporter Talks Sh*t, And Eats It
LOCAL news report on the Canadian brown finch overpopulation in town now. Infestation!
Who you calling an infestation?!
Posted: 25th, January 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
