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 killed in bed by falling cow
JOAO Maria de Souza, 45, was killed when a cow squashed him in his bed.
Mr de Souza was in bed with his wife Leni in their Caratinga, Brazil, home when the cow fell through the ceiling.
Posted: 13th, July 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
KY Arousal jelly spill shuts Post Office
PANIC over. Story on! The substance loose at the Guntersville, Alabama post office – the goo that saw two post office workers hospitalised as a precaution – has been identified. It’s KY Intense Arousal gel. Spokesman Tony Robinson says it is the gel designed “to intensify sensation”.
On it’s own that’s not much of a boast. Chilli pepper, thrush, various STDs and Cliff Richard on the record player are all sexual intensifiers.
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Posted: 13th, July 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Burglars steal grenade launcher, high explosives and change from Maine home
POLICE at Mexico Police Department ,Maine, are hunting burglars who broke into a home and stole a big television, an Xbox, a revolver, a grenade launcher, explosives and $50 in change.
What chance theses villains get let off? (Geddit?!)
Posted: 12th, July 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man arested for sex with an inflatable pumpkin shags rubber pool flat
IS nothing safe? Hamilton, Ohio, man Edwin Charles Tobergta, 34, has been found guilty of public indecency for having sex with a rubber pool float.
In 2011, Tobergta was accused of having sex with a neighbour’s pool float. In 2002, claims were filed that he shagged an inflatable pumpkin.
It’s not known if he has a fetish for inflatables or just fancies Katie Price, the cast of The Only Way is Essex and rubber-insulated sex (see Archer, Jeffrey)…
Posted: 11th, July 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Hideous creature found on South African beach
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Posted: 11th, July 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Flat blown apart by rhubarb chutney
IMAGINE your house had just blown up. You’d instantly appear exciting and brave to all your pals. However, what happens if your flat was blown up by a boring jar of rhubarb chutney?
That’s exactly what happened to Margaret Goodwin who was asleep in her bedroom when the jar exploded one morning.
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Posted: 10th, July 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
All hail the Wife Carrying Championships!
IN Finland, they’ve clearly got the same bizarre approach to boredom that us Brits have. While we nearly kill ourselves chasing cheese down a hill or trying to throw boots over viaducts, the people of Sonkajärvi partake in the annual Wife Carrying Championships, which we just happen to have the highlights of.
Last weekend, hundreds of people entered the with each competitor tackling a track that is 253.5 metres in length, with their wives strewn across their shoulders, her legs wrapped around the neck for support.
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Posted: 9th, July 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Flight attendant accused of smuggling live rats in her knickers
THE allegation is that American Airlines stewardess Louann Giambattista, 55, smuggled rats inside her underwear. Three of her colleagues say Giambattista hid the rodents in her tights and knickers.
She says that’s “absurd” and “false”. But one of her accusers says he saw a bulge in her crotch that “he thought was a live pet”.
Papers at the Brooklyn federal court also claim that on a flight from St. Martin to Miami, a flight attendant “believed [Giambattista] fed her pet rats”.
Giambattista’s lawyer says it’s all “preposterous“:
“Everybody has pets – she has her pets at home, not at work. She’s not a nut. They’re making her out to be a nut.”
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Posted: 9th, July 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
92-year-old who married 22-year-old wants someone younger
TO Gubban, Iraq, where 92-year-old Iraqi farmer Musali Mohammed al-Mujamaie has married 22-year-old Muna Mukhlif al-Juburi.
The groom had been alone for three years ever since his wife of 58 years died.
The ceremony took place on the same day his two of his grandchildren also tied the knot.
Mr al-Mujamaie tells us:
“I am so happy to get married with my grandsons. I feel like a 20-year-old!”
But 22 will have to do….
Posted: 8th, July 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Police issue warning after burglar cooks eggs in the nude
THE problem with most criminals is that they’re boring. Mere smash ‘n’ grabs aren’t good enough in 2013. Our current crims won’t ever match the glamour of Hollywood diamond thieves and the like, so they need to get creative.
So thank the stars for the burglar in Vancouver who decided to break into someone’s house and, instead of making off with a flatscreen TV or PS3, they made their way to the kitchen and made themselves some supper.
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Posted: 5th, July 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Family lock dad’s head in helmet cage to stop him smoking
ONCE they put the smokers in a room, it would not be long before the put them in cages. You’re looking at pictures of 42-year-old İbrahim Yücel.
İbrahim lives with his family in Kütahya, Turkey. He want sto live with them for as long as possible. He’s worried what smoking two packs a day is doing to his health. He wants to quit. So. He’s taken to wearing a metal cage on his head. It’s held in place by two locks.
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Posted: 4th, July 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Face of the day: Antonio Lopez Chaj
FACE of the day: Antonio Lopez Chaj, a 43-year-old house painter, appears with his attorneys at a news conference in Los Angeles Monday, July 1, 2013. Face of the day: Antonio Lopez Chaj His lawyers announced he has been awarded a $58 million by a jury in Torrance Superior Court.
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Posted: 3rd, July 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Man sells coffin. One problem – it has a skeleton in it
SELLING a coffin is problematic at the best of times. Imagine your glee when someone finally takes you up on the offer, but you’re a dumbass and crucially, you forget to take the skeleton out of it.
Dave Burgstrum, from Iowa, put the creepy item on Craigslist for $12,000 in a bid to raise money for property tax money for the Order of Odd Fellows (more on those guys, here).
Police were alerted to the advertisement and seized the coffin and body, deeming the sale illegal.
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Posted: 3rd, July 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Postmen frightened of pensioners ‘aggressive’ raspberries
IN the age of the internet, the Royal Mail seem like a delightfully antiquated company, who must only deliver spam leaflets and postcards from elderly relatives these days.
However, they might be losing the oldsters now after one old coot got refused by the post office for his “aggressive” raspberry bush.
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Posted: 3rd, July 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Massive babies spotted on the London Underground (photos)
IF you were on the London Underground yesterday, you might have seen these gigantic babies. It was all part of a promotional event for a bookmakers, perhaps to show that forced to mingle with the great unwashed the rich are as helpless as babies.
Or maybe the foursome are real babies escaped from the Buckingham Palace breeding compound?
The minf boggles…
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Posted: 2nd, July 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Australian ‘The Italian Job’ Mini Cooper doesn’t quite evade the police
IF you are going to set up a road block, it might be an idea to block the road. fail, police, police log, crime, Brisbane, police trap, police chase, crime, The Italian JobAlso, suspect that the wanted driver will try to evade the barricades by, erm driving around them.
To Brisbane, Australia, then, where a Mini Cooper driver is confronted by a police trap. What to do? The two young men inside the vehicle have stolen the green Mini, robbed a booze shop, punching the clerk in the process.
In this video, the police look pretty dumb. But they remain just that bit shaper than the idiot criminals, who evade the stinger only to drive into a fence.
They are soon captured.
The Italian Job it’ ain’t:
Spotter: Nighthawkwill7, Jaliopnik
Posted: 1st, July 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Hunt is on for foreign Centaur pooing in a Somerset car park
“Obviously we get dog walkers and different things like that up here but to be honest, by the size of it – unless it was a huge dog the size of a horse – it’s not a dog. It has got to be human because it is a fair pile and it’s got toilet paper – and I don’t see many dogs going around with a loo roll. It’s been going on long enough now. We want to know who is responsible.”
Posted: 29th, June 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Woman who mistook superglue for lip salve gives muffled call to emergency services
”Basically, she could only grunt. Ambulance received a call, but due to the muffled speech … they were unsure whether it was a medical event or whether someone had been gagged.”
What had happened to her?
“She got up in the middle of the night, in the dark, and grabbed what she thought was the tube of medication. It was an extremely frightening event for her because her breathing was impeded. I’ve heard of a few other things super-glued, but never lips. You wouldn’t have wanted to have had a blocked nose.”
Posted: 29th, June 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Toddler wishes for ‘big boobies’ – blame mother and video games
KIDS say the darnedest things don’t they? Well, one girl will make you coo/vomit when you see her at her birthday party (which doesn’t look great if we’re being honest here) making a wish!
After the birthday girl blows out the candles on her cake, she wishes for “big boobies”.
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Posted: 27th, June 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bus advertising ‘drive home’ crashes into home
THE sign on the side of the bus that drove into a home in Massachusetts says:
“Drive Your Message Home with the Worcester Regional Transportation Authority.”
Irony overload:
Posted: 26th, June 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The headline-grabbing statues that moved, drunk, wept and even sung
THE Spinning Mummy of Manchester is enjoying its 15 minutes of fame after being filmed – using time-lapse photography – rotating 180 degrees in its glass case. The Egyptian statuette in the Manchester Museum is said to have attracted the attention of numerous experts, including the inevitable Brian Cox, and there has been “talk” apparently of an ancient curse.
We here at Anorak are adopting our usual skeptical position until a rational explanation emerges.
In the meantime, it is worth remembering other headline-grabbing statues that have moved before. Hell, they’ve drunk, wept, and even sung. And there is usually a perfectly sensible explanation…
1973: Japan
When statues ‘weep’, the chances are that the lachrymose protagonist will be the Virgin Mary. Reports are legion, but only one has been officially sanctioned by the Vatican: Our Lady of Akita, reported in 1973 by Sister Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa (below) in the remote area of Yuzawadai, near Akita. This wooden statue of the Virgin Mary – which also apparently manifested stigmata, as did Sister Agnes – is said to have wept on 101 occasions over the following six years.
1985: Ireland
Reports that a roadside statue of the Virgin Mary had started to move in Ballinspittle, County Cork, triggered off a series of sightings of other moving statues around the country. Sadly on this occasion a Catholic bishop declared this Marian apparition to be an illusion. Nevertheless, around 100,000 people were said to have visited the site of the ‘miracle’. Incidentally, after 15 pints of Guinness, whole churches can sometimes appear to move.
1995: India
Early in the morning of 21 September 1995 a worshipper in New Delhi offered milk to a statue of the Hindu deity Ganesha, whereupon the elephant god reportedly snorted it up his trunk. Throughout the morning the milk drinking spread to statues of other gods in temples all over India. Later the same day, the new craze reached Britain and other countries.
Indian scientists suggested that capillary action was causing the liquid to rise from proffered spoons before running down the front of the statues.
2001: Worldwide
Big Mouth Billy Bass caused a worldwide sensation when he moved his head and tail and sang Don’t Worry, Be Happy and Take me to the River.
2012: India
The Church of Our Lady of Velankanni in Mumbai became a major venue for pilgrims after its statue of Jesus began to drip water, and the church was happy to encourage this stat of affairs. So when pesky old skeptic Sanal Edamaruku revealed that faulty plumbing was causing water to leak onto the Son of God, the protests were none too happy. Although he is a longstanding debunker of religious myths, and a vocal critic of the church (including Mother Teresa), on this occasion things went further. After being charged with blasphemy, and receiving death threats, he sought exile in Europe, where he is trying to persuade governments to put pressure on India to abandon its archaic law.
Posted: 25th, June 2013 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Is nothing safe? Police seek man who punctures bike wheels and masturbates over the saddles
IS nothing safe? Who is the man seen puncturing the wheels of a bicycle, rubbing himself against the seat, consulting a photograph and masturbating to climax?
The bike’s owner is Per Edström’s girlfriend. Per recorded the man’s antics on CCTV by the couple’s home in Östersund, northern Sweden.. He’d been experiencing a spate of punctures. He says:
“I am not scared of him, but mostly irritated over all the punctures I have had to fix.”
Edström wonders about that picture in the tosser’s hand:
“My girlfriend finds it all a little concerning, you never know if he has checked her out in some way, and whether it is a picture of her he has in his hand when he is masturbating.”
It could be anything. It could be a picture of a dead peacock…
Posted: 25th, June 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Walle wins World’s Ugliest Dog title 2013 – photos
WALLE is the World’s Ugliest Dog 2013. Walle (above) took top spot at the 25th annual World’s Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. The 4-year-old beagle, boxer and bassett hound mix is described by Judge Brian Sobel: “This dog looked like he’s been photo shopped with pieces from various dogs and maybe a few other animals.”
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Posted: 23rd, June 2013 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Man gets finger trapped in car’s petrol tank
YOU saw the man with his head trapped in a bin? Now get a load of the man with his finger caught in his car’s petrol tank.
To Fort Worth, Texas, where a customer at the QuikTrip petrol station was trying to add an “additive” into his car’s tank. Having pushed the flap open, the man finger became trapped in the venting tube just inside of the tank.
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Posted: 21st, June 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
