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 Sick Of Shopping With Girlfriend Kills Himself at Mall
TAO Hsiao, 38, was with his girlfriend at a shopping mall in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China. Five hours into the shop he wanted to leave. An eyewitness says: “He told her she already had enough shoes, more shoes that she could wear in a lifetime and it was pointless buying any more. She started shouting at him accusing him of being a skinflint and of spoiling Christmas, it was a really heated argument.”
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Posted: 10th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Wife Bites Off Husband’s Testicles
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Posted: 9th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Asked For Directions Discovers Shot Glass Up His Anus
HOW did a shot glass come to be embedded inside Mr Liu’s bum?
He says he was walking in the city of Deyang, China. Three people in a van stopped and asked him for directions. He then lost consciousness. When he awoke he was kneeling behind the van.
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Posted: 9th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Dog Took Human Along To Burglary
THE story from Melbourne, Florida, is that the thief took a little black dog with her during a burglary last week. Brevard County police says the woman took a dog with her during the break-in:
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Posted: 9th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Buttocks Are The New Shoulders
SITTING on shoulders is soooo yesterday:
This is how they used to do it on the olden days…
Posted: 9th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kenyan Man Faces Goat In Court
HATS off to the Kenyans for forcing Katana Kitsao Gona, 28, to face the victim of his sex crime in court. He was caught assaulting the victim he’d tied up. Across the court, the goat looked at Gona. And Gona knew he had wronged it.
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Posted: 8th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Finds Jesus In Block Of Wood
Posted: 8th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Freddy Is The World’s Greatest Grape Tosser Into A Belgian’s Open Mouth
ANORAK loves a world record, the more specious the better. So, we like Joris (George) Goens, 53, the town-crier of Furnes, breaking the world record for ‘grape catching with the mouth in three minutes’. He caught 223 grapes. That he chose to make his record attempt on Belgium’s Got Talent is all the better.
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Posted: 8th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
East Sussex Breeding Sloths Are Both Males
THE sloths at Drusillas Park , Alfriston, East Sussex, have yet to breed. Sofia and male Tupee were introduced in 2011. And still nothing. What could be wrong? Well, it turns out that Sophia is male.
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Posted: 7th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Waved Exposed Chopper Like A Helicopter
TO Indianapolis , where Shawn Harvell, 34, who is said to have menaced two women by exposing his ‘chopper’ and “swinging it about in a rotary helicopter motion”. He also held a gun.
Harvell told police he and the women were discussing a”financial dispute”. They said they’d never seen him before.
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Posted: 7th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nigerian Prostitute Kills With Her ‘Poisoned Minge’
TO Nigeria, where ‘Victim Six has been Killed by Hooker’s Poisoned Minge”:
Posted: 6th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Nottingham Man Buys Photo Of XBox One For £450
WHEN Peter Clatworthy saw a photo of anXBox One console on eBay, he wanted it. He handed over £450 plug £8 packaging. The 19-year-old student, of Bilborough, Nottingham, wanted the device for his four-year-old son, McKenzie. But he got exactly what he clicked on: a picture of an XBox One.
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Posted: 6th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology, The Consumer | Comments (4)
Council Snatched Pet Dogs As Owner Sat On The Toilet
“I WAS running and thought `oh my goodness’ I really need the toilet’,”said Patricia Abel, a 28-year-old out for a job on the Darwin foreshore. “I’ve been unwell and had a funny tummy, probably because of changing water, so I was quite desperate to get to a toilet and it could not wait until I got home. I’d jogged past the last public park toilet and it was a few hundred metres back, so rather than take Pepper all the way back with me I tied her to a bollard thinking she would be fine for a few minutes. I just thought I wouldn’t be able to make it in time if I had to drag Pepper all the way back to the toilet with me. By the time I got back she was gone.’
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Posted: 6th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
A Penguin Ate My Camera
This Gentoo #Penguin just ate our @GoPro. #Antarctica pic.twitter.com/C3WiODL43O
— M/S Expedition (@g_msexpedition) December 2, 2013
Posted: 5th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Goblin Found In Prophet’s Satchel
TO Harare, Zimbabwe, where prophet Honest Mafa, 24, of Budiriro high-density suburb has been pulled over by police.
A search of Mafa’s satchel revealed an item “suspected to be a goblin. According to eyewitnesses, the creature had a human like physical appearance wearing a small red dress with artificial hair.”
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Posted: 4th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Newport Man Gets Toilet Roll Holder Stuck Up His Bum
TO Newport, South Wales, where a man has got a toilet roll holder stuck up his bottom.
He calls the fire brigade.
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Posted: 3rd, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Stabs Fellow Diner In Row Over Table Settings
IN a scene that could be from Downton Abbey After Dark, Edward William Bright of the Richland County, South Carolina Bright, and another man are debating the crockery.
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Posted: 3rd, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Animals Stuck In Patio Furniture: The Cow In The Chair
Posted: 2nd, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Arrested For Giving Away $1000
TO Minnesota, where the rain is made of currency. Serge Vorobyov has emptied $1,000 over the Mall of America in Bloomington. Vorobyov just wants to do something nice for people. And then the mall security staff arrested him.
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Posted: 2nd, December 2013 | In: Money, Strange But True | Comment
Chap Does To Banks What They Do To You
NICELY done:
Posted: 30th, November 2013 | In: Money, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Norway’s Vertical Cemetery Offers A Cracking View Of The Dead
WHEN you die , you will ascend. You will rise up in Martin McSherry’s vertical cemetery. The Royal Danish School of Architecture students has showcased his design at the Oslo conference for Nordic cemeteries. His work has been commended as “a highly original contribution”.
He says: “Existing cemeteries will slowly be removed to provide land to the city’s living souls. The vertical cemetery, with its open front, will become a significant part of the city and a daily reminder of death’s existence. In time, the city’s tallest and largest building will become a grave for all its citizens – the city’s ever-changing monument.”
There will be distinct floors for all believers and non-believers. Muslims, Jews, Christians and more will be slotted in. Who gets to see out eternity above whom is a moot point. But, then, the cemetery will grow because it’s modular. It can be like a religious game of jenga. You just have to lean to slot in together.
If Ikea did cemeteries, it would look a lot like this.
And it will grow and grow, the tower of decay casting a shadow over the city, creeping up on you. Death is not something that happens to other people. It’s creeping up on you.
Still, some things don’t change even with McSherry’s design: the dead love to be buried with a good view.
Posted: 30th, November 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
