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.
David Boon Where Are You? Australian Driver Drank 90 Full Strength Cans Of Melbourne Bitter
TREVOR Alexander Warren, 51, of Dundee Beach in the Northern Territory, Australia, told Bathurst Local Court he’d consumed “between 80 and 90 full strength cans of Melbourne Bitter beer“ before driving. He had eaten nothing.
When police pulled over Warren’s Holden utility, they noticed the smell of alcohol coming from the car.
Posted: 21st, October 2013 | In: Sports, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Jakarta Monkey Tour: The Topeng Monyet In Video And Photos
JAKARTA Monkey Tour, Topeng Monyet, is a film by Christophe Abegg. A long tailed macaque is dressed like a human and performs with various accessories.Writes Abegg:
Although the monkey is chained, it is well treated and belongs to a human family as is shown in the movie. A debate is going at the moment to decide whether this monkey shows are a form of animal abuse and should be prohibited or it should be tolerated as a tradition? Beside monkey shows, no one should forget that about 5000 macaques are exported legally every year for the international market of laboratory animals and several other thousands are caught to become mere pet macaques, with a high mortality rate… What activities are representing the most severe animal abuses toward these monkeys? Our world is full of animal abuses, but where should we start to end them?
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Posted: 20th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
‘Gifted’ Bedfordshire Council Removes Circus Posters After Woman Complains They Make Her Too Scared To Walk
“WE take complaints on a case by case basis but this was a short-term, easily solvable problem,” says Leighton Buzzard Council’s Senior operations officer Lisa Jarvis. “The circus is on the park which is our responsibility and we are responsible to our residents, so something like that is in our gift to fix, so we fixed it.”
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Posted: 20th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Devil Cat Tells Woman To ‘Go AWAY’
WHO needs Doctor Doolittle when you have animals that can talk English? That’s what one lady was faced with in Dublin after her kitchen was invaded by a Devil Cat.
‘Caroline H’ filmed the feline hiding in her kitchen, tempted in by the smell of biscuits.
The moggy, when shooed, replied with what sounds like ‘go away’, before flashing its demon eyes at everyone and knocking everything flying in the kitchen. Caroline’s off-screen companion can be heard helpfully shouting: “He’ll jump on you, Caroline, he’ll jump on you!”.
The footage ends with the cat hanging from the window frame like a weirdo.
“No cat was harmed in the filming of this video,” she wrote on YouTube. “The cat safely left the house after I stopped filming. This cat was an invader after our cookies. Please keep all doors and windows closed to protect yourself against rogue angry cats.”
After the video went online, another resident came forward to claim the cat was hers, and that it certainly wasn’t a ‘devil cat’ as described.
“Henry isn’t lost. He does, however, have a secret life that I don’t question him about. We’re all entitled to our secrets,” Emily Coffey wrote.
Posted: 20th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Babysitter Thought It Was Morning When She Took Children To School At 6pm
IT could happen to anyone. A babysitter in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, dropped three children at school. It was 6pm.
Attending police say the child minder told them she thought it was morning. It was in whatever world she inhabits. But it was evening in Louisiana.
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Posted: 20th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Christian Pastor Wears Elk Head And Antlers For Annual Elk Hunting Sermon
TO Tveta Church in Värmland County, Sweden, where the annual “elk hunt sermon” is being led by pastor Maria Carlsson wearing a elk head and antlers. Says she:
“I’ve been thinking about it all autumn. I wanted to do something fun and a little different. I really wanted it. I’m the only active pastor in the area who is also a licenced hunter, so it seemed fitting. I saw this elk mask in a costume shop and then it hit me, ‘That’s it! That’s what I’m going to do.’ But it was sort of hard to see with the mask on my head, so I was a big concerned I might trip and fall.”
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Posted: 19th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
RIP Boogie: Marathon Running Dog’s Death Is A Warning To All Fun Runners
WHEN Boogie, the Chocolate Labrador dog, ran this month’s YMCA Half Marathon in Evansville, Indiana, the Press saluted his bravery. With no training. Boogie had just joined in the run. He even got a medal.
With no training, Boogie, 8, ran the 13.1 mile race in two hours and 15 minutes.
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Posted: 19th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Amazing Gif Of A Goblin Shark Gobbling A Big Fish
HOW the Goblin Shark got its name:
Posted: 18th, October 2013 | In: Gifs, Strange But True | Comment
Three hens found lurking in Guernsey toilets
WHAT news from Guernsey?
Police and GSPCA officers have located three hens in the men’s toilet at North Beach car park in St Peter Port.
How did they get in there? Seduced by treats?
The feathered foul were perched on the privy pecking at bread left in the lavvy.
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Posted: 18th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Killer Spider In Battle To The Death With Kent Tot (Or, Er, Not)
WE told you the best way to eradicate invasive species is to eat them:
PS: Of course, this being the Daily Star, the story is that “little Ava Shephard” did not eat the “flesh-eating arachnid in Kennington, Kent. But she might have eaten a false black widow, and that’s why it’s front-page news…
PPS: No one has ever died of a spider bite in the UK.
Other than that the story is correct.
Posted: 18th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who Stole Gumby?
Gumby was created by sculptor Ze’ev Willy Neumann. The locals loved it, as Mr Malkin says:
“People would see it and smile and take their kids to say ‘Hi’ to Gumby… It’s an American classic. He’s friendly. Everybody loves Gumby. I guess the people responsible loved him so much that they stole him.”
Posted: 17th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Iowa Debates Issuing Guns To The Blind
“IT seems a little strange, but the way the law reads we can’t deny them (a permit) just based on that one thing,” says Sgt. Jana Abens, a spokeswoman for the Polk County Sheriff’s Department, Iowa, referring to blind person’s right to own and carry a gun. “In the past year, Polk County has issued permits to at least three people who were legally blind, or were unable to read the application form due to visual impairment.”
Delaware County Sheriff John LeClere adds:
“I’m not an expert in vision. At what point do vision problems have a detrimental effect to fire a firearm? If you see nothing but a blurry mass in front of you, then I would say you probably shouldn’t be shooting something.”
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Posted: 16th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
For China’s Professional Cigarette Smokers Life Is Good
LI Hui is a cigarette tester. She tests them by smoking them. And she loves her job:
As one of hundreds of “tobacco appraisers” in China, Li Hui, a petite, pony-tailed mother, has been smoking up to 30 cigarettes a day for more than 20 years. “It’s my job, and I like it,” Li explained in a long profile in the Global Times, a Chinese state-run newspaper. “Besides, I haven’t seen anyone around me or my friends getting sick from smoking yet.”
Li’s attitude, and the fact that she works for an officially-sanctioned company, Heilongjiang Tobacco Industrial, encapsulate the paradoxes China faces in dealing with a smoking epidemic. The country has over 320 million smokers, more than the population of the United States and over one-third of the world’s total, and the government has been taking small steps to try to discourage smoking, as Quartz previously reported. But with the country’s tobacco regulator and much of the tobacco industry controlled by the state – and tobacco taxes making up as much as 10 percent of state revenues – it’s a tough battle.
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Posted: 16th, October 2013 | In: Money, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Massive oar fish washes up in California – we’ve seen its like before
ANYONE swimming off the coast of California, can look out for gigantic oarfish fish, like this one that washed up on the shores of Toyon Bay, Catalina Island.
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Posted: 16th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man refused Dunkin’ Donuts home upgrade puts toilets on his lawn
TO Augusta, Maine, to see David Labbe’s garden of loos. Mr Labbe hoped to sell his property to Dunkin’ Donuts, who would have erected a drive-through eatery for people too lazy to get out of their cars to buy deep-fried sugar and fat.
But with the deal agreed, Augusta officials blocked the sale. Mr Labbes’ neighbours were pleased.
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Posted: 16th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Man arrested for donating meth to Thai flood victims
JAKRIT Mukpradab was arrested for offering to donate 11 methamphetamine pills at a flood victims’ relief tent in Chonburi province, Thailand.
He said the medics could sell the drugs and use the money to help the victims.
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Posted: 15th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
‘In Memory of Little Joe. Died November 3rd 1875′: the canary in the mine
THE Canary in the mine:
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Posted: 14th, October 2013 | In: Flashback, Strange But True | Comment
Watch a weatherman eat cat vomit, live on air
AN American news report took a turn for the worse when a weatherman ate cat puke live on air. Weatherman Scot Haney made viewers recoil in horror when he ignored the five-second rule after noticing something on the floor which he fancied eating.
He thought they were grape nuts.
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Posted: 14th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
The world’s longest chip is not a cheating French Fry
IS this the world’s longest chip? The 28-inch mega-fry was found by Tuscaloosa resident Gary Young with his Arby’s beef and cheddar meal. He said:
“I was shocked. That’s like the biggest fry I’ve ever seen. I thought it was a snake.”
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Posted: 14th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Woman straddled like Jesus as drawbridge rose (photos)
Posted: 14th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Deer get basketball stuck in antlers after multi-point shot
NEVER play basketball with a deer. Andy Kovac spotted this buck in his backyard in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
“That was a classic, my wife called me down, I grabbed my camera, and luckily you can see he wasn’t in a big hurry. Unbelievable! I can’t understand how he got the ball caught in his antlers.”
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Posted: 13th, October 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
