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.
Woman Repeatedly Ran Over Boyfriend Who Refused To Stop At McDonald’s
FILE under Low Blood Sugar this story of the Tennessee woman who wanted her boyfriend to stop at a drive-thru McDonald’s.
Crystal Greer Brooks, 33, was in 41-year-old Santiago Hernandez truck early on Thursday morning.
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Posted: 4th, November 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Monkey Upset By Barking Dog Throw Toolbox At Cat And Bit Man Who Offered It An Egg Sandwich
“I OFFERED the monkey an egg sandwich, ” says Ricky Strong from his home in Currituck County, North Carolina. “He actually came to me and walked up my arm. I walked with the monkey back to the shed where the other three primates were. I was about to leave when the cat showed up. And when it did, the one monkey threw like a toolbox at the cat. Then a dog got on a deck and started barking and all four of the monkeys jumped on me.
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Posted: 2nd, November 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cat On Mat Stares at Dragons In Boston, Lincolnshire
TO Boston, Lincolnshire, to see Graham the cat making his daily trip to the Pets at Home store.
“When we open the doors at 9am he’s always our first customer,” says deputy manager Vicky Coker.
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Posted: 1st, November 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Knobs For Jesus: The X-Rated God’s-Eye-View Of The Christian Science Society in Dixon, Illinois
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Posted: 31st, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Exeter Firemen Rescue Dog From Wine Rack
LOCAL News: In Exeter, Devon, the fire brigade has rescued a puppy form a wine rack:
The Fire Service attended a incident in the above area for a 10 week old puppy stuck in a wine rack. One Fire appliance from Bovey Tracey attended this incident.
On arrival, crews confirmed one 10 week old Labrador Puppy stuck in a wine rack and got to work to release the Puppy using small tools. The Puppy was released unharmed.
These are the full and final details.
When did a fire engine become a fire appliance?
Posted: 31st, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Help! There’s A Drunk Man Asleep On My Horse
PHOTO of the day: A 26-year-old man was found sleeping on a woman’s horse in Landsberg, Germany.
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Posted: 30th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pit Bull Bites Off Owner’s Testicles
TO a flat in Milan, Italy, where a 30-year-old Italian man has has had his testicles bitten off by one of his two pet pitbull dogs.
His girlfriend found the man, a diabetic, unconscious.
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Posted: 30th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Animals: They’re All Thieves, Especially These Ducks, Seagulls, Sealions And Dogs
EVERYONE thinks animals are so wonderful and they’re not. They’re poo machines who think of humans as elaborate tin-openers and dung shovelers. And we’re stupid enough to believe they care for us.
When folks aren’t watching, stood atop their hind legs, animals are out making mugs of us. They crap on our rugs, bury their faeces in our gardens, sleep on our beds after rolling around in their own vomit and then die prematurely, just to make us cry.
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Posted: 29th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bournemouth University Students Warned About Misusing Henry Hoovers
BOURNEMOUTH University students living in Lyme Regis House are advised against using Henry Hoovers. Any evident of “misuse” will be frowned upon. And by misuse we mean picking up rubbish, ash and dust, which as any student knows, is the first stage of madness…
Posted: 28th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Dundee Bus Driver Refused To Pick Up School Children After Bad Premonition
DUNDEE’S clairvoyant bus driver decided not to pick up children at the bus stop. He drove past. He’d had a premonition that if he picked them up bad things would happen.
But he wasn’t thanked. His employer, National Express, sacked him.
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Posted: 28th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Student Clayton Pettet Will Lose His Virginity In A Performance Art Show
CLAYTON Pettet, 19, is a second year student at London’s Central Saint Martins school of art. On January 25, 2014, Clayton says he will produce a piece of “performance art” involving him being vigorously shafted up his rectum for the first time.
It’s a big moment. The hope is that all Clayton’s friends and family (hope you can make it, nan) will turn up to support the budding artist in Art School Stole My Virginity.
Says Clayton:
“I’ve held on to my virginity for 19 years, and I’m not throwing it away lightly. Basically it’s like I am losing the stigma around virginity. Since culturally we do hold quite a lot of value to the idea of virginity I have decided to use mine and the loss of it to create a piece that I think will stimulate interesting debate and questions regarding the subject.”
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Posted: 27th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Rescues Several Cans Of Beer From Fire
TO Columbus, Georgia, where a newly installed water heater has caught fire. The building is ablaze.
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Posted: 26th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Chemistry Teacher Took Smoking Students To (Periodic) Table Dancing Strip Club
TRAVIS Lechien was a chemistry teacher Hanover Central High School, Indiana. He’d been at the school for ten years. But now he’s gone, his reputation immersed in a cloud of the flavoured tobacco it’s alleged he shared with his students from a hookah pipe.
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Posted: 24th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Army Wife Ripped Off Young Son’s Scotum And Superglued It Back On
THOSE of you against circumcision should cock an ear to the story of the women who ripped off her six-year-old son’s scrotum then superglued it back on and waited for the bleeding to stop.
The women, one Jennifer Marie Vargas, 34, whose husband works as a soldier at the Joint Base San Antonio, has been arrested. She is accused of deliberately tearing off her son’s scrotum.
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Posted: 24th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Saving Shrek The Shaggy, Matted Dog (Photos)
WHEN animal workers in Burford, southwestern Ontario, Canada, found this creature they identified it as a dog.
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Posted: 24th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ducks Slide Down A Duck Slide (Video)
DUCK’S sliding down a duck slide at Mr Su Lee’s duckling conditioning plant. The water contains herbs, spices and a soupcon of cherry jam. In week three, the watery brew is replaced by boling oil…
Posted: 24th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Great Bench Tributes: She ‘Liked To Sit Down’
PLAQUES on wooden benches are routinely miserable. They make you think of death and loss. Some, however, can make you smile:
Posted: 23rd, October 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Berlin Dogs Get High Eating Drug Users Poo
DOGS. They eat pedigree dog food and treats. They also eat poo.
But the poo lying around in Berlin’s Treptow and Kreuzburg areas is human made. Much of it is contains traces of heroin and other illegal drugs.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Mug Shot: Smiling Man Arrested In Halloween Make-Up
MUG Shot Of the Week features the face of Dennis Lalime, 64, accused of operating his Buick Regal under the influence early on Sunday morning in Maine.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sorry Homophobes But Gay Love Is Totally Natural (Educated Bees Do It)
BIRDS do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Do what? Gay sex or, to give it the correct term ‘sex’.
All those homophobes who think the whole things is wrong and immoral, turns out, are wildly wrong. They reckon it is unnatural? Well, you don’t get more natural than a bunch of insects all shtupping each other, regardless of gender. It seems that ‘beastly’ isn’t a slur at all!
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Posted: 22nd, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Row Over Muslim Woman’s Pubic Hair Costs Taxpayers £350,000
TO shave or not to shave? What says the judge who oversaw a case costing £350,000 that hinged on whether a disabled 23-year-old Muslim woman should have shaved pubic hair?
Her parents wanted it shaved before she returned home to live with them. They said it was a Muslim matter. The council, which cares for the woman, said it was unsure if the woman understood what the procedure meant. So. It went to court.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2013 | In: Money, Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Poto And Cabengo: In The 1970s Grace and Virginia Kennedy Were Bigger Than The Loch Ness Monster
POTO and Cabengo were Grace and Virginia Kennedy. In 1976, these San Diego twins were eight years old. Jean-Pierre Gorin created a study of the girls who spoke in their own secret language. Time magazine produced an extract of their dialogue:
Pinit, putahtraletungay”(Finish, potato salad hungry)
“Nis, Poto?” (This, Poto?)
“Liba Cabingoat, it”(Dear Cabengo, eat)
“la moa, Poto?” (Here more, Poto?)
“Ya” (Yeah)
But was it a secret language? Their father thought the girls’ gibbering fools, mentally negligible and not worthy of educating. He was wrong. Advised to place them in speech therapy, their teacher realised they were speaking a language only they understood.
In July 22, 1979, the LA Times Reported:
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Gorin explained his film to Bomb magazine:
A low-budget independent film, shot in San Diego in 1979, in 16mm color negative. It’s an investigation, a film “around” an event—the case of the Kennedy twins. They were front page news at the time, as it was believed they had invented a “private language,” a private mode of communication, with a syntax and a vocabulary of its own. But this kind of an answer seems to frame Poto and Cabengo as a classical documentary…
I got hold of the event through the press. It was the middle of the summer and news was sparse. The Loch Ness monster had been nowhere in sight that year, and I suspect the journalists felt the twins would be a good substitute. They built up a case which reeked of Wild Child mystique. The very day I saw the first article on the twins, Eckardt Stein from ZDF was passing through town and I sold him the idea of a film. I lied through my teeth, told him that I had seen the twins, seen the therapists who took care of them at Children’s Hospital, secured the rights to the story. I assured Stein that they spoke a “private language.” He agreed to do the film. But when I saw the twins for the first time I immediately realized that the story as the press—and by then, myself—had cast it was not there. There was no private language and never had been. All along the twins had spoken a Creolized language, some densely unintelligible American/English, a patchwork of southern lingo spoken by their father and of the deformations imposed on the English language by their German-born mother.
The story had become bigger than the girls.
I got excited by the idea of inquiring about something which had never been there in the first place, which had been so completely misconstrued. It seemed like an eminently dramatic premise: two kids who moved and sounded like hummingbirds, who for years had been privately deciphering the world for each other, who did not know why they had suddenly become the object of so much attention, and who by now were for the therapists and linguists just two rather “ordinary” kids with banal problems of auditory information processing, while the press was still “Ripleying” their case to death. At the same time their parents were desperately hoping to convert their 15 minutes of Warholian celebrity into some hard cash. It seemed pretty interesting to try to unravel all these conflicting interests at work below the surface of this event. And don’t forget to add me, the filmmaker, to the stew: me, with my own agenda, trying to get a film out of this whole situation.
What happened to the girls?
The only clue is from a show about twins that aired on TLC around 2000, which reported that Virginia and Grace were still developmentally disabled. We are told this:
Now approaching 30, the twins continue to experience speech problems and mental delays. Grace, who has achieved a higher level of functioning than her sister, works at a McDonald’s cleaning tables and mopping. Virginia works at a job-training center and performs assembly-line work.
Posted: 22nd, October 2013 | In: Film, Flashback, Strange But True | Comment
Who Donated This Big Bag Of Marijuana To a Seattle Thrift Store?
WHO donated a big bag of marijuana (2.5lbs) to a Seattle thrift store?
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Posted: 21st, October 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
