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.
Handyman clowns terrorise Northampton – who are they? (photos)
WHO are the teenagers “spotted acting suspiciously in Northampton“? A local woman contacted police on Thursday after two clowns arrived at her home offering to paint her window sills. She says they has no painting equipment with them. (Clue: check flower spray gun.)
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Posted: 16th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Teen Exorcists: Bob Larson, Margaret Thatcher and hunting Satan for Jesus in London
A COUPLE of nights ago, BBC3 (the network’s “youth channel”) broadcast Dan Murdoch‘s observational documentary Teen Exorcists, the latest example of media fascination with Brynne Larson and her two friends Brynne Tess and Savannah Scherkenback, writes Richard Bartholomew. The trio come across as personable, good humoured, and bright – yet they are committed to the beliefs and worldview expounded by Brynne’s father Bob Larson, a man who has been a familiar figure in US media for years with extravagant tales of Satanic cults and of exorcising thousands of people who he says have been spiritually oppressed by demonic powers.
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Posted: 15th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
Nominative determinism: Janice ‘Lokelani’ Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele fights the licence police
JANICE “Lokelani” Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele’s (nee Worth) name won’t fit on her driving licence.
Hawaii government computer systems say ‘no’. Next year, the plan is that with advances in computing Jan’s name will fit on her driving licence and ID card. But for now, her name has been changed to comply with the 35 character limit. Says she:
“No-one ever gets away with chopping my name without hearing about it… The policeman looked at my licence and saw I had no first name. I told him it is not my fault that my licence and state ID are not correct and I am trying to get it corrected. He then told me ‘Well, you can always change your name back to your maiden name.’ This hurt my heart. Over the last 22 years I have seen… the culture of Hawaii being trampled upon and this policeman treated my name as if it was mumbo-jumbo.”
Mumbo-Jumo would fit.
Ms Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele said the policeman upset her because he was being “disrespectful of the Hawaiian people”.
Really? All of them?
Ms Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele – who married into the name in 1992 – said that her name had many layers of meanings including “one who would stand up and get people to focus in one direction when there was chaos and confusion, and help them emerge from disorder”.
More nominative determinism every week. It’s more than her life’s worth…
Posted: 15th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Frog photobombs Nasa rocket launch (photos)
FROGS in spaaace….
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Posted: 13th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
How to get frostbite from deodorant
HOW cooling is your deodorant? One 43-year-old Dundee man has cause to regret using his under-arm spray on his socked and booted feet before heading off shopping. He save the sweaty socks a thorough soaking before setting off. A short while later, he noticed a pain. On removing his sock the men saw that skin was falling off and his feet were turning black.
He had frostbite.
To Ninewells Hospital, then, where the intrepid explorer is treated by consultant plastic surgeon Stuart Waterson:
“The dangers associated with the use of deodorants are not widely known. Perhaps warnings should be in place to advise its use on open areas and not allow soaking of the chemical on fabric.”
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Posted: 13th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comments (3)
Dundee dog needed emergency operation after eating fake poo
BOO – that’s BOO – a black crossbreed puppy fell ill after eating a fake dog poo.
Owner Shelly Bryson, 33, from Dundee tells us:
“My daughter Reese accidentally dropped a bag of dog biscuits and they got mixed up with the fake dog poo that had been left on the floor. For some reason Boo decided to eat it and swallowed it down in one. I got straight on the phone to PDSA as she had been sick and was refusing to eat, and they told me to bring her in immediately.
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Posted: 13th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man sets new world record for swimming whilst tied up in a bag
ENCOURAGING news from Bulgaria for anyone worried about being tied up in a bag and tossed into the sea. Bulgarian Jane Petkov (crazy name, crazy guy) was placed in an orange sack, his arms and legs tied before being thrown into Lake Ohrid in Macedonia. He then swam more than 2km (1.25 miles) in two and three-quarter hours to create a new Guinness World record.
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Posted: 13th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Steve Cohen arrested for dancing with a chicken tied to his cock at the Eiffel Tower
TO the Eiffel Tower in Paris, where Steve Cohen, dressed in platform heels, a garter, long, gloves and tights has a rooster tied to his penis with a long ribbon.
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Is nothing safe? Man has sex with kebab shop and Land Rover Discovery in Wales
Is Nothing Safe? Episode 349b: the kebab shop counter:
Daniel Craig Cooper ,24, was in the dock at Flintshire Magistrates Court, Mold. Local news reports:
First of all he was seen to be urinating. He was then seen to go down the High Street with his trousers around his ankles and his T-shirt pulled up over his head.
Cooper was waving at cars and he was then seen to take his shirt off completely. He was seen to enter a kebab shop where he was simulating the sex act against the corner of the counter.
Mr Wylde described how at one stage he “lay on the ground and simulated the sex act”. Then he did the same to a Land Rover Discovery vehicle which was parked nearby.
The guilty Mr Cooper was placed on a three-month community order and ordered to remain indoors between 7pm and 7am on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights for the next three months.
Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Small balls mean you’ll be a good father. Obviously
THIS might come as a surprise to some, that having small balls and a low testosterone level will mean that you’ll be a better father. But this is an obvious result of the economics of the mating game. A blindingly obvious one in fact.
Anthropologists at Emory University found that men with smaller testes were more likely to be directly involved in the care of their toddlers. Smaller testes also correlated with more nurturing-related brain activity.
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Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Money, Strange But True | Comment
Manchester taxi driver says illegal passenger in his car was an inflatable doll
“I have no faith in the justice system. I see all sorts of sights in this job – men dressed as women, women dressed as men and yes, plenty of dolls dressed up too.”
Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Drunk who accidentally stole stoned cheese-eating cat advertises for owner on Craigslist
Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Male bank robber wore ‘pink with purple polka dot dress, a pink wig, and sunglasses’
Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Amnesiac Jason Mortesen wakes up from surgery and sees his wife for the first time
JASON Mortesen was in hospital to have a routine hernia operation. But the anaesthetic – that helps you forget the procedure – gave him temporary amnesia. When he regained consciousness, Jason spotted an “incredibly beautiful” sat by his bed.
That was no lady. That was his wife Candice, to whom he’d been wed for six years.
Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Whatever happened to Dzhambulat Khotokhov the world’s biggest child?
WHATEVER happened to Dzhambulat Khotokhov (aka Jambik), the Russian wrestler who aged 4 weighed 56 kilograms (123 pounds), stood 118 centimeters (3 feet 11 inches) in bare feet? In July 2003, Jambik was paired with Georgy Bibilauri, a five-year-old standing 120 centimeters (4 feet) tall and tipping the scales at 51 kilograms (112 pounds).
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Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ramblers trapped between two bulls in Cornwall (video)
Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Builders try on massive lingerie haul found on site
“THEY must have spent a bit on underwear mate,” says Jason Irvine, 22, from Woodroffe. “I don’t know much about women’s underwear but it’s pretty flash. It looks expensive, doesn’t it? I tried some on and found it quite comfy. The 32A bra were just my size.”
“I had a look through for an address,” says another builder named Vinnie of the five draws full of lingerie found on a building site in Palmerston in Australia’s Northern Territory. “You should have a look at some of the gear. Corsets, G-strings, tiny knickers – she has got all the gear. Look at this red bodice. That’s outstanding.
“We were unsure what to do but did the right thing and called the NT News. Everyone’s been wondering what it’s been doing here. We thought it was a box of screws and bolts. We opened it up and there wasn’t screws and bolts at all.”
The NT News adds:
The impressive find was the talk of the town and can be reclaimed from the NT News who now have possession.
Curious builders should form an orderly line…
Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Superman ‘reflected’ attacker’s cowboy boot into Wonder Woman’s face – TV report of the year
JENNIFER ‘Wonder Woman’Jennifer Wenger and Christopher ‘Superman’ Dennis, have been attacked by a “cowboy boot wearing transient“. The super duo were were recording an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live when the woman pounced.
Highlights to look out for in the news report to follow:
Wonder Woman: “Right here’s where the heel went into my leg… of the boot. And when it hit my leg it bounced over and hit right here, where it’s bruised. and raised”
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Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
Monkey rips off and eats baby’s testicles
TO Guiyang Qianling Wildlife Park in Guìyáng, southwest China, where a monkey has torn off a baby’s testicles and eaten one.
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Posted: 9th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cursed coconut upsets Maldives presidential election
“THE police brought a ‘ruqyah’ practitioner (white magician) to examine the coconut,” says a policeman on Guraidhoo Island, Maldives, where a suspicious ‘kihah’ (immature coconut) had been spotted close to the presidential election polling station in Kaafu Atoll.
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Posted: 7th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Father makes family live like it’s 1986 to feed his own ego
TO Ontario, Canada, to see a family spent the year pretending it’s 1986. Why ’86? Well, the patriarch, Blair McMillan, was born in 1986. He says:
“We’re parenting our kids the same way we were parented for a year just to see what it’s like.”
GUELPH – If you ever need to know who was the prime minister in 1960 and you’re willing to wait 10 minutes for the answer, Blair McMillan is your man.
He’ll take his time carefully thumbing through a volume of his vintage encyclopaedia set, donated by a bewildered soul who probably wondered why the 26-year-old father of two couldn’t just get an Internet connection.
The thing is, Blair and his girlfriend Morgan, 27, are pretending it’s 1986.
And they’re doing it because their kids – Trey, 5, and Denton, 2 – wouldn’t look up from their parents’ iPhones and iPads long enough to kick a ball around the backyard.
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Posted: 6th, September 2013 | In: Flashback, Strange But True | Comment
How to dress your hamster with a cardboard box and felt tips
JENNY, of Mythillogical- Myths & Fabrications, writes:
My daughter wanted to dress up her hamster in dolly clothes, I told her that wasn’t really going to work…but if we cut holes in a box and make some of those seaside type pictures you stick your head through, only hamster sized, perhaps we could make him look like he dressed up!
-I should point out to anyone concerned about animal cruelty- David Bowie (the hamster pictured) was not forced to do this, he put his head through the holes of his own accord, and out of curiosity. It is basically a box with holes in- the kind of thing you are encouraged to offer your hamster to play in for enrichment. You wouldn’t worry about someone giving their hamster a cardboard tube to play with- this is the same idea. The paints used are all non-toxic and kid safe, to ensure they would not cause him any harm. He was only in the box for a few minutes, and we took him out as soon as he got bored. If anyone else is intending to do the same, please do so responsibly, and with the best interests of your hamster at heart. Thanks 🙂
Posted: 6th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
We kid you not – man to marry his goat
A BRAZILIAN bloke is going to get married to his pet goat, which isn’t sinister at all. Aparecido Castaldo, aged 74, has decided to end his days as a bachelor boy and marry his beloved Carmelita.
The happy couple will totter down the aisle next month in Igreja do Diabo (or, in English, the Devil’s Church) in the Brazilian city of Jundiai.
Aparecido has been in love with his stinking pet for two years and says a goat has advantages over a human companion.
“She doesn’t speak and doesn’t want money,” says the father of eight presumably traumatised children, who have been vomiting into their laps, solidly, since their clearly troubled father broke the news.
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Posted: 5th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
