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.
Walmart Sells Nintendo 3DS With Free Dirty Photos – Hurry Whilst Stocks Last!
“HE went to play his games, not knowing anything was on it,” says Tom Mayhew of his eight-year-old son and his ‘new’ Nintendo 3DS, the one he’d been given for Christmas. “After a while, [the kids] took pictures of themselves and when the picture was taken it went to a file. When that file was opened, there were already pictures on it.”
Not any pictures – but a dozen pornographic pictures.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 27th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Security Guard Killed By Arrested Snake He Placed About His Shoulders
TIP of the day: when arresting a python do not wear it as a scarf.
Ambar Arianto Mulyo was the 59-year-old security guard who spotted a python slithering close to a hotel in Bali’s Sanur zone. He placed the dangerous snake about his shoulders. And – yep – it strangled him. And then it escaped.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 27th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In 2013 British Parents Named Their Children Ream, Lohan, Puppy And Tea
DID the parents of three children named Ream pick the moniker in honour of The Only Way Is Essex’s Joey Essex, who uses the word to men “good” or “well good”?
One reason we like Essex is that his name fits his job. He lives and works in Essex. He is called Essex. It’s hard to think that Joey Dorset would have faired to well. And Joey Kent would have been viewed as an interloper.
The Sun says Essex has inspired: “A Ream come true for fans of Towie – Babies named after Joey’s catchphrase.”
Dippy TV star Joey, 23, usually spells it “Reem” and together with “Creepysick” uses it to describe something as “amazing”.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 27th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Is Nothing Safe: Man Humps Shop Window
IS nothing safe? To Seattle where it is alleged that King County that Lydell Coleman approached the Sub Shop at Westwood Village Shopping Center, dropped his pants and humped the “presumably cold” window.
The court papers say: “Colman arrived at the shop at 9:30pm and started tugging on the locked door.”
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 27th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus X: Why Xmas Is A Venerable Abbreviation For Christmas
CHRISTMAS or Xmas?
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 24th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Northampton Drunk Impaled On Pub Fence Failed To Spot Open Gate
“THE bouncers came to his aid after he was calling out for some attention,” says Rob Eastham, manger of The Fiddlers pub in Northampton of the man impaled on the pub’s metal fence.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 24th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Otto The Pig Says ‘Christmas’
OTTO the Pig says ‘Christmas’… (How he hates Ludwig the turkey)…
Don’t panic. Otto. The family aren’t coming:
Posted: 21st, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Epsom Shopper Shows Off Her Waitrose Glow-In-The-Dark Prawns
“I HAD completely forgotten about Halloween. We heard a group of children in the road and we turned the lights off,” says Tina Thompson, 69, a former Mayor of Wandworth living in Stoneleigh, Surrey.
“Just to make sure I had not gone completely mad I took this saucer next door to show my neighbour. They were still glowing the next morning when I went down to Waitrose. I took them down in a box and said ‘if you go into a dark room you will see they are glowing’.”
Waitrose says the glow could be the result of Pseudomonas fluorescens, a harmless bacteria. She wondered if the glow was from radiation leaked into the sea by the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 20th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Thieves Steal Stuffed Cat, Humans Ashes And Scales Of Sentimental Value
“I FEEL sorry for them (the thieves),” says Jennifer. Thieves have broken into her Sunshine, Australia, home and stolen a velvet box containing the ashes of her dead husband and other items, such as a stuffed cat, a watch and an engagement ring.
“They obviously have no life. They even took my bathroom scales, for god’s sake. They steal your memories.”
Posted: 20th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Santa Claus Crucified In Texas
Posted: 20th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Blackburn Burglar Tried To Sell Stolen Goods To Victim
IDIOT of the day is Daniel Ciamara, 24, of Blackburn, who offered his haul of a Blu-ray player and Blu-ray discs to Park Computers – where David Harrison works.
Harrison recognised the player and the discs as his own.
To court , then, where Philppa White, prosecuting, says: “As he went through the discs Mr Harrison’s suspicions grew.Mr Harrison went home and discovered his back door had been kicked in and his house had been burgled. The police were informed and when the defendant came to collect his money they were waiting.”
Ciamara pleaded guilty to burglary of a house. He was committed on bail to Preston Crown Court to be sentenced.
Posted: 19th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ever See A Rhinochimera Fantasia Fish?
THIS is a video of a Rhinochimera.
The name Rhinochimera breaks apart with meaning: rhinos = nose and chimaera = marine monster, but this fish has many names. (Our favorite: straightnose rabbitfish.) This one is swimming in Hydrographer Canyon, deep in the Atlantic Ocean, and was filmed on a Okeanos Explorer Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition dive.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Checking Facebook Page Falls Off Pier And Almost Dies
A TAIWANESE tourist was walking along checking her Facebook page when she fell off Melbourne’s St Kilda pier.
Victoria state police reported the news with the headline: “Status Update: OMG One Step Too Far.”
Senior Constable Dean Kelly of the Water Police Squad says: “She wasn’t splashing around too much, she wasn’t in a panic. She admitted, ‘I can’t swim but I seem to be floating OK. She seemed to be floating on her back.
She had a backpack on – we’re not sure if that was providing her with a bit of buoyancy or something – and we were able to pull her aboard the boat. She had a mobile phone in one of her hands and when we pulled her aboard the first thing she did was apologise, say sorry, and then she explained that she’d been on her phone checking her Facebook page when she left the jetty unexpectedly and ended up in the water.”
Lest we forget:
Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Penzance: How The Market Jew Got His Illuminated Christmas Knickers
WHAT do you see when you view the Christmas lights in Penzance, Cornwall.
Some see Christmas puddings.
Others see leopard print underwear dangling from a washing line.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Real Life Overly Attached Girlfriend Poisoned Boyfriend Who Dumped Her
TO Joshua Brewster’s home in Pekin, Illinois. He’s told his one-time true love Amanda Pollard, 28, to pack her things and leave.
She did.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Santa’s ‘Cheap Tricks’ Help Transvestite Hold Up Jeweller
“HIS make-up was very well done, with blackened eyebrows and very long eyelashes,” said the jeweller working in the Smycka store in Farsta, southern Stockholm. He’d been handcuffed and threatend with a pistol by a thief. “I figured that he must have had help from a woman because the make up was so well done.”
Posted: 17th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Santa Wars: Santa Claus Fights Santa Claus At New York Santacon
SANTACON participants wait outside a lower eastside bar filled to capacity on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 in New York.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kent School Kids Evacuated From Swimming Pool Amid Disabled Man Panic
PANIC at Aylesford, Kent’s Larkfield Leisure Centre. Teachers from Kings Hill Primary, near West Malling, fear there is a pervert in the changing rooms. By pervert we mean ‘man’.
An eagle-eyed staffer has spotted a foot sticking out from under a cubicle. The eight and nine-year-olds are making ready for their swimming lessons. The kids were evacuated. Were they dressed? Were they in their swimmers? Look away now, men, lest you be labelled a nonce.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Panther (Not Leopard) Spotted In Epping Forest
TO Epping Forest, where the big cat is on the loose. A panther has been spotted in a tree near Fairmead Road by stunned forest keeper Phil Murfin on Monday.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 14th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Banned From Every Supermarket In Britain
EUGENIO Freitas, 49, has been banned from every supermarket in Britain unless supervised by an adult. Even Asda. The Sun says he earned this award by “performing a solo sex act” in the meat aisle of Sainsbury’s, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
Mr Freitas was taken to court. He was found guilty of outraging public decency. He was handed a six month suspended prison sentence.
Prosecutor Marcus Harry told the court: “At first a member of staff gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumed he was adjusting himself. But she was then called to the CCTV area after a shopper complained to a security officer. The staff member and security officer viewed CCTV of the defendant. He was seen for about 10 minutes with his hands down his trousers and in his pocket with his hands moving around.”
What an odd thing to be aroused by a Sainsbury’s, an anaemic, soulless, white-lit world of packaged goods. Unless it’s an elaborate plot to get of doing the shopping? If it is, we have news for Mr Freitas: his wife wants to go to the dress shops. As you were…
Posted: 12th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Bitter Coffee: French Cafe Charges Less For Being Polite
NICE’S Petite Syrah café is offering customers the chance to get a discount on their coffee. Asking for a “a coffee” will set you back €7. But “a coffee please” is €4.25. “Hello, a coffee please” is a bargain €1.40.
Of course, this being France, anyone speaking in an English accent will be ignored. But why does the Petite Syrah stop there? Why not extend the offers to all manner of manners?
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 12th, December 2013 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
At Last! Lie Detectors In Santa’s Grotto
FOR years, lying little swine have got away with lying to Santa, saying they’ve been good all year when in fact, their school reports say something very different.
At long last, children in shopping centres in the UK are being asked to take a lie detector test before being granted an audience with His Holiness, Father Christmas.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 11th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Woman Glued To Seat Freed By WD40
WE join the action at the Banks County Home Depot in north Georgia. Illyanna De La Keur has sat on a chair. she can’t get up. the chair has been smeared in glue. Strong glue.
“I’m a grown woman who can’t even sit up,” says Ms De La Keur said “I was stuck probably over an hour. I’m still so sore that I can’t leave my couch.”
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 11th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Waitress Invites Sword-Wielding Tacon Thief To Meet Her Boss
IN Bexar County, San Antonio, Adam Benjamin Kramer has wandered into the Alondras De Jalisco restaurant. He orders six tacos.
The waitress asks him for money. He refusea to pay. He, as the police reports states, pulls a large sword from a black sheath on his waist.
And what does the waitress do? She invites him to talk to the owner.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 11th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
