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.
Motorists fail to mow down 7-foot-tall gingerbread man hanging around schools
IF you saw a 7-foot-tall gingerbread man crossing the road ahead of you would you stop? Or would you put your foot down?
Police in Moreno Valley, California, thought it a test of a driver’s care on the road to dress up one of their own as a huge gingerbread man. The report says he was “invisible to most of the 13 motorists who were cited in a 50-minute span during a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department pedestrian decoy operation”.
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Posted: 29th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Computer blessing: priest dispenses God’s grace on iPads and even Nokia phones
TODAY Gil Florini, parish priest of Saint Pierre D’Arene church in Nice, southeastern France, blessed mobiles phones and computers during a Mass to celebrate St Gabriel, the archangel of transmissions. In the past Gil Florini has enabled the blessing of all kinds of things, like vehicles and animals.
He blesses everything, does Gil. Like a drunk man asking for a donation outside a branch of Threshers, Gil shouts ‘Gawd bless yer” at everything and everyone. One day his iPhone was just a piece of throwaway gadgetry; the next it was a holy relic housed in an ornamental châsse, which on weekdays doubles as a branch of Phone 4 U.
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Posted: 28th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Saudi Sheikh says women who drive suffer from a ‘rolled up pelvis’ and stupid children
ENLIGHTENED man of the day is Sheikh Salah al-Luhaydan, a self-billed psychologist:
“Driving could have a reverse physiological impact. Physiological science and functional medicine studied this side and found that it automatically affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis. This is why we find for women who continuously drive cars their children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees.”
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Posted: 28th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus found on Norwegian salmon to tour Sweden with Demis Roussos
GET a load of that divine figure found on the belly of a Norwegian salmon fished out of Swedish waters.
Posted: 27th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Rat used to feed snakes nurses baby squirrels found in vacuum cleaner
WHEN Tanya Durante-Rider from Vancouver, Washington, found three baby squirrels in her vacuum cleaner, she did not wonder how often she tidied the house. She just picked up the baby rodents and tried to bottle feed them. She says:
“I came home, and I fed ’em and would go back to work, then come and feed them. My husband said, ‘Why don’t we put them with the momma rat – she just had babies a week before.'”
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Posted: 27th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who stole Willie’s Nelson stuffed armadillo?
WHO stole wIllie Nelson’s stuffed armadillo, Ol’Dillo, from the sound desk stage at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York last Thursday?
Ol’Dillo is cared for by Aaron Foye, who for the past three years has sat the stuffed creature atop his sound board when Nelson plays.
Tom Bailey, who manages the Capitol Theatre, say he’s captured a suspect on clear images on CCTV. Says he:
“We now are quite clear as to what the perpetrator looks like. We’re going to close this thing up right and get that armadillo back to Mr. Nelson.”
If you can’t get your hands on Willie Nelson’s stuffed armadillo, why not get a stuffed Willie?
Kay Petal sells this Willie at Felt Alive:
Posted: 26th, September 2013 | In: Music, Strange But True | Comment
Doctors grow nose on man’s forehead
TO China, where Xiaolian, 22, has had his new nose grown on his forehead ahead of transplant surgery.
His original nose suffered irreparable damage in an accident.
His new nose was created by contorting his forehead skin into a nose shape with a plastic strip and adding cartilage taken from his ribs.
It’s a great nose. But would you pick it?
Posted: 25th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Deathwise child rides plastic tricycle down busy motorway
DRIVERS will know that, when you’re behind the wheel, you have to stay alert. Cats run into the road, cyclists weave in-and-out of traffic and weird accidents can happen.
However, in Brazil, motorists got the shock of their lives as they dodged an eight-year-old boy riding a tricycle alongside them.
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Posted: 25th, September 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Pig gets drunk on 18 beers and ends up in a fight with cow
WE’VE all been there. We’ve had a bit too much to drink and ended up getting into a bit of bother as our brains stop talking to our bodies, but our limbs and mouths continue apace.
Well, this isn’t just the behaviour of humans. One feral pig got blotto and went on something of a violent bender.
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Posted: 24th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cumbria’s Tommy Mattinson is the World Gurning Champion for the 15th year running
AS Sharon Osbourne has taught us, one expression can get you a long way in showbiz. So it is for Cumbria’s Tommy Mattinson, who is the World Gurning Champion for the 15th year running.
Posted: 24th, September 2013 | In: Royal Family, Strange But True | Comment
Shoplifter caught out by his pet dog
DARWIN calls William Cochrane, 28, who celebrated his birthday by nicking an iPod and speakers from Asda in Inverness.
Off he ran with his booty. And he would have gotten away with it, too, had it not been for one small issue: he’d left his dog tied up outside he store. Cochrane’s address and name were on the dog’s collar.
At Inverness Sheriff Court, Cochrane admitted two charges of dishonesty.
Posted: 24th, September 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Palestinian tortures Jewish mouse that ate his wages (photo)
A PALESTINIAN man living in Gaza was so annoyed a mouse had eaten his wages that he strung up the wee beastie. He suspended the animal by its limbs. He then took the creature’s picture and posted it on Facebook, doubtless as a warning to other mice, who are, as we know from watching this expert, all Jews.
Posted: 24th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Scientist attacked by the bull he cloned
DR Moreau is alive and well, it seems. Prof. Park Se-pill has been attacked by his cloned bull art Jeju National University in South Korea.
The man-contrived beast broke five of the scientists ribs and hurt his spine. An official says:
“Park was video-recording a black cow, which he cloned from species indigenous to Jeju four years ago, and all of a sudden, it charged and attacked him for 15 minutes. The 800-kilogram black cow is very strong because its cell donor was the best available. Park could not escape easily because he wore a special suit and long boots. He is now being treated at the university hospital.”
The report adds:
In 2009, Park cloned the black cow from a frozen cell, which was taken from a deceased animal as part of cloning work to technically “revive” the dead cow through the newly born clone. The 54-year-old said that the cow is now in a barn and no special measure will be taken despite the incident. “We didn’t have the cow neutered because we have to check its virility. Hence, it often gets very restless,” Park said.
And we thought butchering them was cruel…
This cloning cannot be stopped. On an island not all that far away:
There was blood, I saw, in the sink,—brown, and some scarlet—and I smelt the peculiar smell of carbolic acid. Then through an open doorway beyond, in the dim light of the shadow, I saw something bound painfully upon a framework, scarred, red, and bandaged; and then blotting this out appeared the face of old Moreau, white and terrible. In a moment he had gripped me by the shoulder with a hand that was smeared red, had twisted me off my feet, and flung me headlong back into my own room. He lifted me as though I was a little child. I fell at full length upon the floor, and the door slammed and shut out the passionate intensity of his face. Then I heard the key turn in the lock, and Montgomery’s voice in expostulation.
“Ruin the work of a lifetime,” I heard Moreau say.
“He does not understand,” said Montgomery. and other things that were inaudible.
“I can’t spare the time yet,” said Moreau.
The rest I did not hear. I picked myself up and stood trembling, my mind a chaos of the most horrible misgivings. Could it be possible, I thought, that such a thing as the vivisection of men was carried on here? The question shot like lightning across a tumultuous sky; and suddenly the clouded horror of my mind condensed into a vivid realisation of my own danger.
Ends of days, readers. End of days…
Posted: 24th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Starlings form a murmuration tribute to Angry Birds
STARLINGS are angry:
Posted: 23rd, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
How to brew beer in your stomach
CAN you brew your own beer…in your stomach? The Texas man who entered a Texas emergency room swaying and complaining of dizziness had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.37 percent. One thing: he had consumer no alcohol:
[T]he simplest explanation was that he was drinking when nobody was looking. So doctors put him in an isolated room for 24 hours, watching his blood alcohol level. Sure enough, without a drink, the alcohol level in his blood rose 0.12 percent. Turns out the man’s own stomach, colonized by brewer’s yeast, was brewing beer—a condition doctors call “auto-brewery syndrome.” The doctors described the case in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine:
Gut Fermentation Syndrome also known as Auto-Brewery Syndrome is a relatively unknown phenomenon in modern medicine. Very few articles have been written on the syndrome and most of them are anecdotal. This article presents a case study of a 61 years old male with a well documented case of Gut Fermentation Syndrome verified with glucose and carbohydrate challenges. Stool cultures demonstrated the causative organism as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The patient was treated with antifungals and a low carbohydrate diet and the syndrome resolved. Helicobacter pylori was also found and could have been a possible confounding variable although the symptoms resolved post-treatment of the S. cerevisiae.
That beer gut is from fermentation. You are barrel stomached…
Posted: 22nd, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
21-year-old woman posing as boy arrested for piercing 15-year-old girlfriend’s belly button in woods
POLICE responding to calls for help found two teenagers in a wooded area in Hampton, Virginia.
The pair said they were 15-years-old.
It turned out that the boy and girl had been partaking in consensual sexual contact on several occasions.
The 15-year-old boy said he was Seth Walker. He lied. He was a 21-year-old Stephanie Marie Griffith. You wonder how much contact was involved, given that the she was a she.
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Posted: 22nd, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man urinating on teenager in cinema triggers gun nut panic
WHEN the old man started to urinate over the teenager sat in the row in front of him at the Regal Cinemas in Bridgeport Village just after 6pm.on Friday a woman shouted “gun” over and over.
The final moments of Prisoners were further interrupted by the arrival of armed police and a SWAT assault squad.
Justin Bartlett was there. He says:
“Obviously with the recent shootings going on, just the mention of the word gun, I find it strange how on edge people seem, and how easily it can turn into a situation when the SWAT team comes out.”
The elderly man was not arrested. The 14-year-old did not press charges.
The man is no longer welcome at the cinemas.
Posted: 22nd, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
South Africa opens world’s first walk-in vagina
TOURISTS in South Africa can now tour Reshma Chhiba’s screaming vagina. It’s housed in a former women’s prison in Braamfontein.
As visitors walk through the installation – 12m-deep – their movements trigger the walls (covered in an acrylic wool) to vibrate with howls of laughter and screams of pain.
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Posted: 22nd, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Gargantuan 2-year-old has gastric bypass surgery
NOT everyone wants to be the world’s fattest boy. A 2-year-old crunching the scales at 72.2lb (33kg) has had gastric bypass surgery.
The Saudi Arabian tanker was so fat he had bow legs and sleep apnoea.
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Posted: 21st, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman forced to listen to The Eagles turns into knife wielding nut
LET’S not rush to judge. But if you music is shite and keeps me up all night (N. Gallagher), things could get messy. Mindful of that we turn to the news that 54-year-old North Charleston woman Vernett Bader, allegedly, was “wielding a knife in an assault on her roommate after he refused to stop listening to rock music by the Eagles on Monday night”.
Bader expressed that she didn’t want to listen to the band. The roommate responded by telling her to shut up, the report states.
Bader grabbed a serrated knife from a kitchen drawer and swung the weapon at the man, police said.
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Posted: 17th, September 2013 | In: Music, Strange But True | Comment
Beaver anal secretions taste just like vanilla
FEARS over a poor vanilla crop has been salved. The Swedish National Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket) says the anal secretions from the beaver, in the form of castoreum, tastes just like vanilla.
Says the agency’s Ulla Beckman Sundh:
“Natural aromas can be extracts from plants, fungi, and in some cases animals. The labelling provisions do not require that the kind of flavour is indicated, with the exception of coffee and quinine. As far as I know the beaver is not an animal which is bred, so supply is not that great.”
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Posted: 17th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Nigeria’s greatest living scientist uses magnets, pi and lions to prove that gay marriage is wrong
“I WAS the first to publish report about the 2006 total solar eclipse in the newspaper in Nigeria when I was writing for the defunct New Age newspaper,” says University of Lagos post graduate student, Chibuihem Amalaha.
“I also reported the true situation about the 2010 acid rain in Nigeria. I carried out analysis and found out that there was nothing like cancer of the skin attributed to the acid rain and by 2011, I emerged the best science reporter in Nigeria where I won Nigeria Media Merit Award in the energy category as a science editor with Compass newspapers.”
“Ever since then I have been doing a lot of researches in the country. There are many discoveries and inventions I have made in science and technology. I have also been able to prove that the mathematical symbol pi which people thought of as 22 over 7 is not actually 22 over , but rather a transcendental number while 22 over 7 is a rational number. I also proved that watching television in the dark impacts negatively on one’s eyes and by God’s grace, I was the first person to use scientific instruments to prove it in the whole world. The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) featured me on this in one of their programmes on January 12, 2013, where I demonstrated to millions of their viewers that watching television in the dark damages the eyes. Usually when it’s around 10pm, many families in Nigeria will switch off their surrounding lights to use the light from television or the light from computer alone thinking that they will see images brighter. But from experiments I found that it’s not true and experts both at the University of Lagos and elsewhere have found my work to be true. The reason for this is because there is a lot of difference in illuminants (brightness) between the television screen and the dark background in the room known as the periphery.
“In recent time I found that gay marriage,which is homosexuality and lesbianism, is eating deep into the fabric of our human nature all over the world and this was why nations of Sodom and Gomora were destroyed by God because they were into gay practice. That is, a man marrying another man and a woman marrying another woman.
“A recent publication on May 3, 2013 shows that France is the 14th country in the world that have legalised gay. I asked myself why should a man be marrying a man and a woman marrying a woman, does it mean that there is no more female for a man to marry or there is no more male for a woman to marry? And recently, Britain told Nigeria to legalise gay marriage of forfeit international aid. I thank God for our lawmakers who refused to sign the bill legalising gay marriage. And so God gave me the wisdom to use science as a scientist to prove gay marriage wrong.
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Posted: 17th, September 2013 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man arrested for drinking tea in a “suspicious manner”
MR Vijay Patil, a 49-year-old restaurant owner from Kolhapur, was arrested for drinking tea in a “suspicious manner” at a road side stall near Shivaji University in Kolhapur, India.
The matter came before Justice Patel, who says:
“This is bewildering. We were unaware that the law required anyone to give an explanation for having tea, whether in the morning, noon or night. One might take tea in a variety of ways, not all of them always elegant or delicate, some of them perhaps even noisy. But we know of no way to drink tea ‘suspiciously’. The ingestion of a cup that cheers demands no explanation. And while cutting chai is permissible, now even fashionable, cutting corners with the law is not.
“The provisions of section 151 Code of Criminal Procedure invoked by the police are ‘preventive, not punitive’. The section allows police to arrest a person without a warrant or a court order, as the only means to prevent a serious crime from taking place. Such arrests can only be made when a police officer is satisfied that the impending cognizable crime cannot otherwise be prevented. Otherwise, there is a violation of a person’s fundamental right to life and liberty.”
Patil was suing for compensation. He got none.
PS – Can you drink tea is a suspicious manner? Yes:
Posted: 17th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
