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 offered payrise to get branded for life with work’s logo
SOME people are thundering bozos and will do anything to get noticed. Take for example, the gasping simpleton that works for a New York real estate agency called Rapid Realty. RR are offering their staff a pay rise if they get a tattoo of the company logo. (On your arse? – ed)
In exchange for carrying a logo of a corporation, you get a 15% wage increase. Astonishingly, 40 members of staff have already taken up the offer.
One member of staff says it isn’t about the money. Robert Trezza says:
“I think it’s a good opportunity to show commitment to a company that makes going to work fun every day.”
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Posted: 2nd, May 2013 | In: Money, Strange But True | Comment
Pink Floyd’s ‘Dave Gilmour’ is unwell: impersonator racks up huge hospital bill
PINK Floyd’s Dave Gilmour is not unwell. He is not staying at Minnesota’s St. Cloud Hospital. The man signing autographs and racking up a $100,000 bill is Phillip Michael Schaeffer, 53. He’s now under arrest.When Schaeffer was booked into hospital he told medics he was David Gilmour. He said he had no health insurance.
Still, he was treated and sent home.
Such is the universal pleasure in spotting a famous face that Schaeffer was asked to sign an autograph for a hospital employee’s son.
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Posted: 2nd, May 2013 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment
Man who lost life savings playing Tubs of Fun given huge stuffed dreadlocked banana as compensation
HENRY Gribbohm, 30, swapped his life savings ($2,600) for a huge stuffed banana with dreadlocks. He’s gone with $300 cash and his daughter to a Manchester, New Hampshire, carnival. He played Tubs of Fun in hope of winning an Xbox Kinect. He had to toss balls into a tub. Make the ball stay in the tub and win. Simple.
But it wasn’t. He lost $300. Then he went home to get the rest of his cash. He then set about losing it all.
“You’re expecting the kids to win a few things, let the kids have a good time. It just didn’t turn out that way . It’s not possible that it wasn’t rigged.”
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Posted: 1st, May 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Artists massive inflatable turd deflates in high winds
THE 15.5 metre-tall Complex Pile, a work by Paul McCarthy, has run. The massive inflatable pile of poo has been let down. It lies like a brown smear on the grasses of West Kowloon. The neat and tidy packet has become a meandering run of diarrhea. A spokeswoman for the West Kowloon Cultural District investigates:
“A small hole was discovered on the surface of the piece. We are doing our best to fix it and hopefully we can inflate the artwork as soon as possible. We believe it is because of the weather.”
It must have been something in the water…
Posted: 1st, May 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Who carved a massive dick into the Godalming butcher’s parking space?
BAD Drawings of Dicks heads to Godalming, Surrey, where butcher Simon Thornton has spotted the large penis cut into the cement behind his shop. Mr Thornton, who is local councillor, had invested £3,500 to cover the three parking spaces. The cement was wet when the artist struck. Says the butcher:
“I was happy with how it was all looking and locked up and went home for the night. But when I came back the next morning I was faced with the image. It is huge. I can’t really afford to have it all re-done so I have done my best to scrub it out and make sure I place my car carefully over it every day. I told PCSO Dan Burrel about it but no more action has been taken. I don’t think it was a personal attack, just mindless vandalism.”
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Posted: 1st, May 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Wambui the Zebra puts out cigarettes with his urine (video)
OTHER than stopping traffic what use is a zebra? Well, Wambui the Zebra has a keen sense of civic duty. He puts out cigarettes. Sure, he creates a mess when he wazzes on them. But as soon as the absorbant sloths arrive, things are soon cleaned up…
Spotter: Arbroath
Posted: 1st, May 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Toy helicopter cures burglar’s desire to mastubate in people’s homes
NOTE to adolescents, jihadis, traffic wardens, the people who run police driver awareness courses, ‘Nick’ who asked far too many questions on one such course, men who stand in the shadows beneath trees to ‘catch’ speeding motorists, everyone at Volvo and Tony Blair : toy helicopters.
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Posted: 30th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The 10 creepiest thing your child has said to you
WHAT’S the creepiest thing your child has said to you? Reddit asked the questions. Thousands answered.
x_y_zed: I was on a bus recently and we were stopped outside a walk-in clinic. A little girl in the seat in front of me turned to her dad and said, “Death is the poor man’s doctor.” And that was that.
Unfortunatebirthmark: I was tucking in my two-year-old. He said “Good bye dad.” I said, “No, we say good night.” He said “I know. But this time it’s good bye.” Had to check on him a few times to make sure he was still there.
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Posted: 29th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee jigsaw collapses like a Prince Andrew Jenga set
Posted: 29th, April 2013 | In: Royal Family, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man slaps dance partner at wedding (video)
IN this video, a man slaps the woman he’s dancing with.
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Posted: 28th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Speedboat nearly runs over man crossing road (video)
TO Tigre, Argentina, where a man crossing the road has narrowly avoided being run over by a speedboat. The boat was being towed by a car. The car’s driver has been fined.
Posted: 27th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
FSA orders supermarket chain to remove packet of monkey nuts because label does not say they contain nuts
NO. You cannot buy monkey nuts from branches of Boots in Lancashire. The store chain has withdrawn its 350g bags of monkey nuts because the label fails to state that the monkey nuts contain (you’re ahead of us) nuts.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has ordered 300 packets of 350g Whole Hearted Roasted Monkey Nuts to be removed from sight.
Booths technical manager Waheed Hassan tells media:
“It is our responsibility as retailers to accurately record allergy advice. In this instance, we felt a responsibility to recall the product and issue a notice to our customers who might suffer from a specific peanut allergy.”
The company adds:
“If you have an allergy to peanuts, please do not consume this product and return it to your local store for a full refund. No other products are affected by this issue and we sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.”
World ends.
Posted: 26th, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Did a Tesco delivery man urinate on the stairs?
DID a Tesco delivery man urinate on the communal stairs leading to Neil Forsyth ‘s flat in Sutton, south London> Mr Forsyth says he spotted the man “looking sheepish”.
Mr Forsyth says:
“I went up the stairs and there was a steaming wee on the first floor communal area. I didn’t dip test it but I’m 99.9 per cent sure it was urine. It didn’t smell at the time because it was fresh but it didn’t take long for it to cause a bit of a whiff. I don’t get it. I mean, we’ve all been caught short, but there’s a car park outside and a bin area. There’s no need for that. It’s not even like it’s concrete – it’s a new carpet!”
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Posted: 26th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Modern landmarks in Regina: the Saskatchewan Hoodoo Mattress Mesa
MODERN landmarks. This one has a Facebook page:
Hurry and go see this natural wonder before it’s too late! They call it the “Saskatchewan Hoodoo”. A mattress and some leftover snow beside Ring road in Regina. And just when you thought Paul McCartney was the only reason to drive to Regina…
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Posted: 26th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Omar Borkan Al Gala was kicked out of Saudi Arabia for being too sexy (photos)
OMAR Borkan Al Gala is too sexy for Saudi Arabia. The actor and photographer from Dubai, UAE, wss one of the three men booted out of Saudi Arabia by religious police for being too handsome. The Saudi religious police have branded Al Gala devilishly handsome.
Posted: 26th, April 2013 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment
‘JON Eats Carrots’ is the ‘internet’s premier carrot eating series’
THIS is “the show that unlocked the web’s passion for eating carrots.” Jon eats one pound of carrots per episode.
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Posted: 25th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Saudi will only marry lover if he also marries her two friends
GULF News reports that a Saudi Arabian teacher told her lover she would only agree to marry him if he also married her two friends.
At first reluctant, under pressure from his and his bride’s family he later accepted. He then rented a flat for each of the women in his block.
This sounds like a decent deal for the women, no? They get a home, a husband they don’t have to live with. He gets loveless sex with at least two of the three different women. Moreover they called the shots.
Might it be that women are not repressed as we imagine?
Posted: 24th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Women stumbles upon a tiger in the toilet
OTHERS might have panicked. Others might have picked the cat up by its tail and skinned it. But when Jenna Krehbiel walking into the toilets after the evening show at the Isis Shrine Circus on Saturday at the Salina Bicentennial Centennial Center in Kansas and saw a tiger, she just turend and walked back out again, as one might when encountering Noel Edmonds signing autographs.
She tells her local paper:
“I went in to use the bathroom, and a lady came in to get her daughter out and said there was a tiger loose. I didn’t know it was in the bathroom, and I walked in the (open) door, which closed right after I had walked in. I saw the tiger; it was at most two feet in front of me, and I turned around calmly and walked back toward the door. Someone opened the door and said get out… You don’t expect to go in a bathroom door, have it shut behind you and see a tiger walking toward you.”
Apparently the tiger was not so well trained that it was using the ladies toilets. (If it were, it had forgotten its book and handbag.) Rather, it had escaped and was on the prowl.
So. Why didn’t Krehbiel scream? Was it fear that caught her voice? Nothing of it. She says she was cool because she’s trained as a social worker:
“I’m always on alert, and it was easy to walk out; that’s how I am trained.”
She’s trained to walk away? She adds:
“My daughter wanted to know if it had washed its hands. That was her only concern. I think that shows the thoughts of children and that they wouldn’t have known there was danger.”
Of course this is America and we wonder what would have occurred had the tiger been an anxious male holding a gun?
Posted: 24th, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Spray paint snifer was protecting himself from devil worshippers
WHY was 32-year-old Carl McGuirt IV from Charleston, South Carolina, inhaling spray-paint fumes, daning in circles and clutching a knife in the woods? Because he was trying to catch “devil worshippers” aiming to sexually assault him.
Say police:
“He stated that he sprays the gold paint and places the rag on his mouth. When the devil worshippers come after him and try to orally sexually assault him, the paint gets on their genitals, and he can use that information to prosecute them.”
It’s a crazy plan but it might just work…
McGuirt has been charged with sniffing aromatic hydrocarbons, which is, apparently, a crime.
Posted: 24th, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Burglar phones police while robbing house
MOST criminals didn’t listen in school, which is precisely why they end up robbing houses rather than learning how to evade tax. Such is the way of the world.
One crook showed particular stupidity after he phoned the police whilst he was in the middle of breaking into a house.
Marius Ionescu hid under a bed while burgling a house in Romania. He contacted emergency services after hearing a strange noise, assuming it was the sound of another burglar.
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Posted: 23rd, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
How to have sex on the Taiwan metro with a good book and an anorak
SO. There you are on the Taipei Metro. Your lover /sister / cousin is riding the train with you. She’s shy. The man across the asile is filming. She puts her head on her man’s lap. He then puts his anorak delicately about her shoulders, gallantly.
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Posted: 23rd, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Indian woman who didn’t poo for 45 days may have psychological issues
ANUSHA, 28, from Mumbai, India, hadn’t been to the toilet for 45 days when she visited the Nova Specialty Surgery Centre in Chembur.
A quick test located a “football-sized” faecal mass stuck in her insides.
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Posted: 22nd, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Boys find Big Foot in Massachusetts woods
CAN a place be a victim of nominative determinism? We ask in light of a discovery in Quincy, Massachusetts. Quincy was the TV based on the investigations of Quincy ME, a pre-CSI Los Angeles County medical examiner. We need him now to take look at what two boys found in the woods around Quincy.
Sgt. Steven Leanues says it looks like a festering foot.
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Posted: 22nd, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
