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.
Is Nothing Safe? Angus Man Admits ‘Sex’ With Train’s Drinks And Snacks Trolley
IS Nothing Safe? Andrew Davidson, 25, shouted “I want to kiss you” and attempted to have sex with a drinks and snacks trolley onboard the train travelling from Aberdeen to Glasgow.
Posted: 8th, January 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Four Live Cows Found Inside Car
Posted: 8th, January 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Chicago Zoo Moves Polar Bears Indoors To Escape The Cold
The Chicago skyline is seen behind a large chunk of ice near North Avenue Beach as cold temperatures remain with wind chills nearing minus 30 Fahrenheit on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, in Chicago. Dangerously cold polar air snapped decades-old records as it spread Tuesday from the Midwest to southern and eastern parts of the U.S. and eastern Canada, making it hazardous to venture outside and keeping many schools and businesses closed. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)
HOW cold is it? At Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, public relations director Sharon Dewar etlls us that its so cold that the polar bears have been taken inside:
“In Chicago we’re accustomed to weather extremes, with very cold winters and very hot summers, so the animals that are part of our zoo are chosen for their hardiness for winter or summer. But this is obviously an excessive extreme. So even animals that are pretty hardy, and would be able to stay outside for normal winters — like the Mongolian camels and polar bear — even those animals we’re keeping indoors.”
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Posted: 7th, January 2014 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Idiot Watch: Smoking Men Huffing Lighter Fluid And Heating Frozen Pipes With Kerosene Go Kaboom
Posted: 7th, January 2014 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Olive Oil Rescues Nude Man From Washing Machine
“HE was very well wedged in there and we were concerned for his health and wellbeing,” says Sergeant Michelle De Araugo of the man wedged inside a washing machine at his home in Victoria, Australia . “It was just a game gone wrong. I would be fair to say the gentleman was very embarrassed.”
First Constable Ingram Luke adds: “It was lucky the man was naked. I guess if he’s going to get into a washing machine it’s best if he has no clothes on to be about to get him out like that. I guess the clothes can provide a bit of resistance to try to get him out. My advice would be for people not to climb into appliances.”
The man was freed by being rubbed down in olive oil. A decade or more ago, it would have been Vegemite…
Spotter: The Australian
Posted: 6th, January 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Big Foot Is Neither Jew Nor Muslim: Texas Monster Lured To Death By Pork Ribs
BIG Foot is…dead. He’s curled up his big toes and croaked. Big Foot was shot dead, some say murdered, by Rick Dyer. It turns out that Big Foot was partial to WalMart pork ribs – all the non-kosher monsters love ’em. Dyer tells us: “Every test that you can possibly imagine was performed on this body — from DNA tests to 3D optical scans to body scans. It is the real deal. It’s Bigfoot and Bigfoot’s here, and I shot it and now I’m proving it to the world.”
In 2008, Dyer nabbed Bigfoot in a caper that took in a rubber suit.
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Posted: 6th, January 2014 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Baker Sends Customer ‘Eat Sh*t’ Wedding Cake
“I HAVE no regrets at all about what I did. I feel she got what she deserved,” says Emma McDonald, of New Zealand’s Oh Cakes. “I don’t make cakes as a business. It is just a hobby and I’m taking it all with good humour.”
McDonald had created a cake for the engagement party of 24-year-old Micaela Harris. The bride-to-be’s relative had won a $50 voucher. McDonald said the winner owed her $20 from a previous deal and reduced the free token to a value of $30.
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Posted: 6th, January 2014 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Balliol Balls: Three Englishmen Saved from Boiling Pot By Cannibal Chief, Who Was Friend at Oxford University
EPIC headlines harks back to December 16, 1922:
Three Englishmen Saved from Boiling Pot By Cannibal Chief, Who Was Friend at Oxford
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Posted: 5th, January 2014 | In: Flashback, Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Life Imitates The Day Today: Man Blows Up Pet Dog
TO Stevenson, Washington, to see Christopher Wayne Dillingham, 45, jailed for blowing up Cabella, the family’s dog he thought possessed by the devil. Dillingham claimed his ex-girlfriend, who had given him Cabella, had “put the devil” in the pet.
Posted: 5th, January 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Christmas Row Watch: Husband Abused Wife With Turkey Neck
assaulted his wife with a turkey neck.
Posted: 3rd, January 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Waiter: There’s A Fox In My Chinese Ass
NEWS is that your packet of Wal-Mart donkey meat contains other meats. The Five Spice donkey meat sold in Wal-Mart’s China stores has been found by the Shandong Food and Drug Administration to contain fox.
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Posted: 2nd, January 2014 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Michigan Woman Shocked To Find Snake Living In Couch She Found On Street
“WE smelled it and everything – it looked okay.We peeled off the cushions, cleaned it up, never saw anything,” says Holly wright of the sofa she found in the street in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Posted: 2nd, January 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Drop The Dead Possum: Things Dropped on New Year’s Eve
Posted: 2nd, January 2014 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
How To Tell Good People From Bad People According To The International Order of The Golden Rule
THE International Order of The Golden Rule is a funeral homes organisation based in Austin, Texas. On their website filed under “history”, they tell us:
To a group of funeral directors in 1928, the “Golden Rule” – a fundamental principle that is universally admired and upheld – became the cornerstone upon which to built a professional association.
The founders embarked on a mission to seek out a dependable, ethical funeral directors in every community by means of a carefully tested screening process. They wanted to establish a quality-minded identity in the minds of families everywhere. The Golden Rule credo – “Service measured not by gold, but by the Golden Rule” – speaks to that identity.
And:
Each Golden Rule® Funeral Home must show a commitment to provide to their client families: “Service measured not by gold but by the Golden Rule.”
So. What is the Golden Rule? We never do get to nail it down. Under “STandards of Ethical Conduct”, we get not one rule but 10 rules. We also see their name printed on this booklet called “How To Tell Good People From Bad People”.
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Posted: 1st, January 2014 | In: Books, Flashback, Strange But True | Comment
Why Is This 6-Second Movie Scary As Hell?
WHAT makes this six-second movie so utterly horrific?
Posted: 1st, January 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Derby Mystery: Why Has So Much Cutlery Been Flushed Down The Toilet?
IT’S been a big week for cutlery. First, we saw Etibar Elchyev, 41, seize the world record for having metal objects stuck by magnetic force to his body. His record stands at 53 spoons. Now we learn of goings on in Derby.
Severn Trent Water has broadcast this picture of hundreds of spoons, knives and forks found in the local sewers around Chaddesden.
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Posted: 31st, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Snoopy Island Rises Off The Coast Of Japan
THINGS that look like Cartoon characters: Japan’s Nishinoshima island looks a lot like Snoopy. The volcanic island has risen from the Pacific Ocean.
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Posted: 31st, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Human Magnet Etibar Elchyev Attracts 53 Spoons To His Body
ETIBAR Elchyev, 41, now holds the world record for having metal objects stuck by magnetic force to his body. His record stands at 53 spoons. Says Elchyev:”When the time comes I am going (to move) an airplane, then an empty train carriage, something like this, I won’t reveal all my cards at once.”
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Posted: 30th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Muggers Refuse To Steal New York Man’s Old Mobile
Photo: ROSE COUTTS SMITH AT A PHOTOCALL TO LAUNCH CELLNET CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEM BRITISH TELECOM MOBILE PHONE SERVICE IN LONDON. Date: 31/01/1985
Posted: 30th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Hanging Dolls Of Mexico’s Dead Girl Island
DOLLS die in Xochimilco, Mexico.
They’re in the trees and on the ground, bunched together on wooden fence posts and hanging from clotheslines like laundry left to dry. Their dead eyes stare at you from half empty sockets, their dirty hair hangs like cobwebs. Their skin is scabbed and peeling away, and their plump limbs are scattered everywhere—arms and legs strewn about haphazardly, decapitated heads impaled on stakes.
This is not a nightmare. It’s La Isla de las Muñecas, a real place located in a southern borough of Mexico City, on a man-made island, which for decades has been home to hundreds of dilapidated dolls.
The island was once the property of Don Julián Santana, a local farmer. Legend has it that in 1950, he saw a little girl drown in the canal and her spirit began haunting the place.
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Posted: 30th, December 2013 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Amazon Is Banning Sales Of Virginia Wade’s Monster Smut e-Books
MY Little Pony filth has nothing on this kind of cryptozoological smut. E’ve shown you dinoraur erotica before. Now Business Insider says Amazon is looking to ban “monster p*rn” e-books. Anyone read Cum for Bigfoot? Some of you have because author and mum-of-two Virginia Wade* says that 12,000-word tome earns her $30,000 a month.
For those of you versed in Wade’s works:
An idea to write a campy, teen horror-fest, with a Sasquatch protagonist, led to the creation of Cum For Bigfoot, which is essentially a series of stories spanning several years in the lives of a tribe of Bigfoots and their human lovers. The silliness, the romance, and the sex struck a chord with readers, who enjoyed the adventures of Porsche, Shelly, and Leslie, while the kidnapped teens came to love their hairy abductors. The series is now on its fourteenth installment, with more to follow.
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How can Porsche leave all of this behind and return to civilization? When she’s in the arms of her Sasquatch, warm and snuggly in his matted fur, the only thoughts going through her mind are of utter bliss. But challenges abound for the star-crossed lovers, including Leonard’s head injury, a devastating wildfire, and a sexy forest ranger named Mike. Will these obstacles shatter the growing love between an ape and its mate or will true love triumph?
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Posted: 29th, December 2013 | In: Books, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Princeton Student Kiki Lin Screws Her Eponymous Cat Into A Jar
THE Mary Bale Fan Club welcomes Taiwanese-born Princeton student Kiki Lin who stuffed her cat – also called Kiki Lin – into a jar before closing the lid. This was not a magic trick. This was not an existential experiment, nor one in the eye for Erwin Schrödinger. This was punishment for the cat’s alleged naughtiness.
Lin then took photos of her cat in the jar and posted them on the web.
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Posted: 28th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Christmas Row Watch: Stabbed By A Squirrel And Other Seasonal Family Fights
HOW was your Christmas? Did the family come over for turkey and all the trimmings? Did you play Monopoly?Incredibly, not all families get along at Christmas:
North Charleston police arrested Helen Ann Williams, 44, early on Christmas morning. Her victim says he’d walked to a store earlier in the night to buy beer, but the store was closed.
Williams grew angry that the man returned without the beer. She grabbed a ceramic squirrel and hit the man over the head… Williams then stabbed him in the shoulder and chest with the item.
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Posted: 28th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
