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.
Teen Takes ‘MDMA And Cocaine, Nicks Ambulance And Masturbates’ In Police Station
MEET Colorado State University student Stefan Sortland, the 18-year-old who allegedly spent Halloween in the approved manner.
Police claim Sortland took MDMA and MDMA, stole an ambulance and after arrest (which featured a tasering)masturbated in the police station.
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Posted: 11th, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Shocks At The Shelby Leisure Centre Naming Contest
AND the winner of the new gym in Selby, North Yorkshire – he wins a year’s free membership – is… Steve Wadsworth, who chose the name ‘Selby Leisure Centre’ for the facility which is set to open in Spring 2015.
Take a bow, Steve:
“I was really surprised and excited to win the membership prize. I’m looking forward to seeing the centre open and being able to use the swimming pool and checking out this fantastic facility for the residents of the Selby area.”
Says Paul Hirst, general manager of the centre:
“Well done to Steve on winning the competition. It’s great that the residents of Selby have had the chance to play a part in the development of this modern facility, which is set to bring huge benefits back to the community in terms of encouraging people to be active and healthy.”
Selby District Council says that the Selby Leisure Centre exercises your arms as well as your mind…
Posted: 10th, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Donald Duck Pedestrian Decoy Scares Drivers Into A Police Fine
WHEN confronted with a 7ft-tall duck in the road do you:
a) slow down
b) speed up
c) shoot
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Posted: 10th, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Proof: Monster Energy Drinks ARE The Work of Satan
MONSTER Energy drinks are the work of SATAN!
Posted: 9th, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Wearing ‘I ♥ crystal meth’ T-shirt Arrested For Possesing Crystal Meth
TO Kentucky, where Deborah Asher is modelling an “I ‘heart’ crystal meth” t-shirt for her mug shot – she was arrested for possession of crystal meth.
She is, is she not, refreshingly honest.
Asher, 37, ana man were charged with felony narcotics possession and trafficking.
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Posted: 8th, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Medics Film And Mock Man In Hospital With Girlfriend’s Strap-On Stuck Inside His Bottom
IS Nothing Safe? In Greece a man has become impaled on his girlfriend’s strap-on phallus.
The caring medics retrieved the large rubber knob, but not before they filmed the operation and laughed loud and heartily at the poor sod.
If this was a woman, whose boyfriend had turned her into a kebab, would it be as funny?
Posted: 6th, November 2014 | In: NSFW, Strange But True | Comment
Woman Stole Blind Man’s Car – But Not His Gun
AMERICA is a great place. In the land of the free a blind man can hold a gun licence.
A blind man can hold a driving licence. And own a car.
Police in Vernon, Connecticut, have arrested 33-year-old Laura Michaud for stealing a car from a blind man.
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Posted: 4th, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
How To Squeeze A Spot Without Damaging Your Skin
EVER wondered how to best pop a spot? No. You don’t just shave them off as former Anorak writer used to.
The corect technique is now demonstrated by Dr Mehmet Oz, on the Oprah Winfrey show.
You should not pinch the zit. You should fetch a pin, clean it with booze and skewer the thing.
“Never squeeze a pimple because you will macerate it. You’re destroying all the healthy tissue with the pressure you are putting on there by squeezing. Place the needle parallel to the skin – rather like you would skewer something – and pierce the skin from one side to another. Then rip up!”
Acne sufferers swear by it:
“Thank you, Doctor! Everyone used to stare at my zits but now they’re too scared to look.”
And if you want to know about black heads, brace yourself…
Posted: 3rd, November 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Arrested For Having Sex With A Pitbull Dog
JENNA Louise Driscoll, 25, was under suspicion of selling drugs when officers searched her phone. On it, they allegedly found three videos of her having sex with a dog.
RSPCA Queensland says:
‘This isn’t something you’d normally expect, it’s quite unusual. Under the Animal Care Protection Act bestiality isn’t included. To take action and remove the dog we would have to prove actions there were cruel or that it was tormented. We’d try to do everything we can to help the dog if that is the case.”
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Posted: 31st, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Fetch The Generator: A Huge Spot On The Sun Is Acting Weird
The bright light in the lower right region of the sun shows an X-class solar flare on Oct. 26, 2014, as captured by NASA’s SDO. This was the third X-class flare in 48 hour. Image by NASA/SDO
AS I write, it’s 23 degrees Centigrade in London. On Halloween.
PBS has news:
By the time the giant spot on the sun rotated into view on October 18, it was already 80,000 miles wide, big enough to fit all of Jupiter, big enough to lay 10 Earths, side by side, across. It is the largest spot the sun has harbored in 24 years.
But while most erupting sunspots lob chunks of plasma outward in events called coronal mass ejections, this one’s keeping its plasma close to the surface.
To rewind, a sunspot is a darker, cooler area on the sun’s visible surface that stores intense magnetic energy. (Note: Cooler, in this case, means roughly 7,500 degrees Fahrenheit, down from about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.)
The sun is not a solid body. It’s a ball of hot, hot ionized gas called plasma that’s threaded with magnetic field, created by charged particles moving around. The sun spins faster at its equator, and the result is that some of that magnetic field drags, getting twisted and knotted up in the process. As this happens, these knots of magnetic field gain energy, pressure and buoyancy, and some of them float to the surface, and penetrate it, popping out…
Releasing this pent-up energy typically takes two forms: a solar flare or a coronal mass ejection, and this is key to what makes the behavior here unusual. A coronal mass ejection is made up of balls of gas ejected from the sun’s outer atmosphere, consisting of charged particles and magnetic field. The fastest CME’s travel up to 93 million miles a day, or millions of miles per hour. A solar flare is a burst of x-rays and energy, typically smaller and shorter-lasting than a CME, and rather than being launched out into space, it is caused by material accelerated back into the sun…
When a solar flare erupts, it lights up the side of the Earth that’s facing the flare, and heats up the Earth’s upper atmosphere, or ionosphere, which can temporarily change its properties. Solar flares pose less danger than CME’s, but they can affect short-wave radio communication used by pilots and ships, since the radio waves are bounced off the upper atmosphere.
Sunspots, first seen through a telescope by Galileo, are classified by how complex they are. Similar to a mole, a clean, round sunspot is of less interest to sun watchers.
“Imagine the doctor says you’ve got a nice little round mole,” Young said. “But when it starts to break up into pieces and change color and get jagged and complicated, that’s when you start to become concerned.”
Posted: 31st, October 2014 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Man Banned From Lying On The Ground In Buckinghamshire
“DAVIES came to police attention initially by making time wasting calls to the emergency services,” says PC Chris Allman outside Wycombe Magistrates’ Court, where Andrew Davies, 51, of Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, has been haded an ASBO for feigning injuries.
“On most occasions he would be intoxicated. When dealt with by a police and council joint team he gave away his telephone to stop the temptation. However he then took to pretending to fall in the street near his home as a way of attracting attention to himself. He would lay there feigning an injury until an ambulance attended.
“On a number of occasions he was taken to Stoke Mandeville Hospital where he was more thoroughly checked over but he was always discharged as having no injuries. He has been offered support from numerous agencies and given many opportunities to change his behaviour. Davies’ continual lack of engagement has ultimately resulted in this town wide ASBO.”
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Posted: 31st, October 2014 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Is Nothing Safe? 3ft Long Lungfish Removed From Man’s Anus
IS Nothing Safe? A 3-feet long lungfish has become stuck up a man’s anus.
The Metro reports:
Graphic footage has emerged of the procedure which shows medical professionals pulling the Lungfish from a Brazilian man’s backside. The eel-like fish had venture so far up that it had become lodged in the patient’s bowels. People can be heard laughing and gasping in amazement as the operation nears an end.A number of people have phone cameras out at the ready to capture the moment the creature is pulled free.
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Posted: 30th, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Robs Chemist By Squirting Breast Milk At Victim
GET Richard Desmond on the phone: a German woman has invented a new late-night TV sport.
The woman arrived at a chemist in Darmstadt, Hesse. She asked to buy a breast pump. She handed over a €200-note to pay for her €20 purchase. When the till opened, she whipped out a breast and squirted milk at the pharmacist.
She continued to spray milk before fleeing with her cash, €100 from the cash register and no pump. The store worker only realised he’d been robbed when much later he totted up the day’s takings.
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Posted: 30th, October 2014 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Fang Falls Into A Vat Of Raw Human Poo And Presents The Funniest Joke In The World
TO China for a prelude for the funniest joke in the world. Chi Fang was in a bar when his wife called. She wanted him home fast. So. Fang took a shortcut home over a bridge. He’d drunk a lot and felt ill. He stopped on the bridge to vomit.
He leaned over the railing. And fell head-first into what the bridge was passing over: a septic tank full of human faeces.
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Posted: 27th, October 2014 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Police Hunt Eyeless Portland Truck Driver
MUG SHOT of the day comes via Police in Oregon.
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Posted: 24th, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Finds Large Rat’s Head In His Chilli And Hard Beans
IT’S protein a-go-go at the Golden Corral in Florida, where Billy Wilson has found a large chunk of extra meat in his chilli dinner.
He tells the media:
“It’s usually pretty great. I go maybe once a week. The first bite I took out of it was a crunch, and at the time I was like, maybe you know, sometimes you get a hard bean inside of the chilli.”
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Posted: 22nd, October 2014 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Woman Rescued From Chimney Of Man She Briefly Dated
TO Thousand Oaks, California, where Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, 30, is stuck in the chimney of a man she briefly dated.
She’s screaming. It’s 3am. At 6am the Ventury County Fire Department arrives. They chip away at the bricks. But it’s not enough. so. They pour liquid dish soap over the woman. She slips free at 8:13am.
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Posted: 21st, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
You Will Never Believe what Happens To This Motorcyclist (Video)
WE’VE had this on loop all day:
Posted: 20th, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dogging Paddle: Kent Rotary Club President In Swimmers Not Swingers Charity Swim
“SHE burst out laughing as soon as she saw it and said ‘Dad, that’s what they call a gimp suit!’ So recalls David Cavel, 71, president of Whitstable Rotary Club, who thought he was buying a merman costume.
He adds: “I didn’t know what it was but when she told me I thought it accounted for the odd emails I’ve been sent since I bought it.”
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Posted: 20th, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Girlfriend Stabs Lover Who Threatened To Stab Himself
TO Huntsville, Alabama, where Michelle McCrae is listening to her lover tell her how he’s going to cut himself. He’s got a pocketknife.
He doesn’t.
So. McCrae grabs his knife and stabs him in the chest.
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Posted: 20th, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Naked Father And Daughter In The Woods Were Testing Her ‘Resistance To Cold’
“IT was one of the most bizarre and disturbing things I have ever seen,” cyclist Josef Hanzlik, 30, told reporters in Slovakia. “I understand he is a postman, maybe he wanted to pretend being a dog for a change but either way he was completely naked and on all fours crawling towards the girl in a bush. I could see she was shivering and they were completely oblivious to me.”
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Posted: 16th, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Is Nothing Safe? Teen Ejaculated Inside Stuffed Walmart Horse
IS Nothing Safe?
To a Walmart in Brooksville, Florida, where police report on Sean Johnson, 19, who ejaculated inside a stuffed animal before returning it to the shelves.
Johnson “selected a brown, tan, and red stuffed horse from the clearance shelf in the garden department.” He then went to the comforter aisle in the housewares section, “proceeded to pull out his genitals,” and“proceeded to hump the stuffed horse utilizing short fast movements.” The lewd act was captured by surveillance cameras.
After Johnson “achieved an orgasm and ejaculated on the stuffed horse’s chest area,” he placed the “soiled stuffed horse on top of a bed in a bag (comforter set) contaminating that property also.”
Is nothing safe?
Posted: 15th, October 2014 | In: NSFW, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Arrested For Aggressive Cleaning
TO Southington, Connecticut, where a man has been arrested for aggressive cleaning:
Officers responded to the Double Tree Hotel at 6:27pm and learned that the man, identified as John Thornton, had grabbed a mop from an employee as she was mopping the floor. Thornton allegedly “began to mop the floor but became more aggressive and mopped over the employee’s shoes several times,” police said. The employee, a 27-year-old woman, asked Thornton to stop, but he backed her into a corner. Thornton was arrested on a charge of second-degree breach of peace.
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Posted: 15th, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Is Nothing Safe? Blackburn Man Has Sex With A Teddy Bear To The Iggy Pop Beat
IS Nothing Safe? A 38-year-old Blackburn man was arrested for burglarising an allotment after police matched his DNA to semen found inside a teddy bear.
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Posted: 14th, October 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
