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.
Yorkshire man smuggled 17 lives partridges into Manchester Airport
TARIQ Mehmood, 33, attempted to smuggle 17 live partridges into the UK via Manchester Airport. Mamood had packed the birds into his bags in Pakistan. When stopped at Manchester Airport, he said the bags were full of “clothes and stuff”.
When the bags were open, the birds did not sing. Thirteen were dead. The rest had to be put down.
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Posted: 3rd, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Chinese student stages her own funeral so she can enjoy it
FUNERALS eh? Not exactly jolly affairs. Everyone blows snot bubbles while bereaving into their handkerchiefs and then they try and forget the misery with drink and anecdotes, before drunkenly crying some more, sat in solitude on the toilet.
And so, let us look at a student over in China who decided to stage her own funeral so that she can “enjoy it”.
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Posted: 3rd, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man looking for ‘birthday sex’ attacked by papayas
POLICE log report of the day takes us to Vero Beach, Florida, where Suzanne Evlarina Wasden, 49, has been arrested.
The police report states that her ex-lover came to her home “looking for birthday sex”. Wasden was “very intoxicated“. Her neighbour, a 16-year-old boy, says Wasden cams to to his trailer looking for a cigarette and beer.
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Posted: 3rd, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
‘We are gong to die’: Buffalo Custer state park campers
TO Custer state park in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Our intrepid pioneers are making their way. Then buffalo. The female passenger does not overstate the threat of the huge cow in her path when she declares “We’re going to die!”
Posted: 2nd, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Thomas Beatie: not man enough to marry; not man enough to divorce
THOMAS Beatie, the ‘pregnant man’ can’t get a divorce:
An Arizona judge has refused to grant a divorce to a transgender man who gave birth to three children.
The judge said there was insufficient evidence that Thomas Beatie was male when he married; the state bans same-sex marriage.
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Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Pinky And the Brain nursery welcomes you
LIFE mirrors The Animaniacs. In Dutse, Nigeria, a school is called Pinky And The Brain. It has an anthem:
We are the children of Pinky and the Brain, Children growing in wisdom, age and grace.
We lift our voices to thank God; the giver of life.
Shout it out, far and wide,
Pinky and the Brain first among equal,
Pinky and the Brain, the flag bearer, for others to follow.
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Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh are statues in Fifield, Berkshire
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Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Royal Family, Strange But True | Comment
Divorce Court: Husband made wife sleep with snake – she urinated on his Church uniform
DIVORCE court Zimbabwe calls Venenciah Chatima and her husband Mutsvodi Makwini. Their petition for separation at a Harare court is worth a look. Makwini is seeking a protection order against her.
The wife:
Venenciah Chatima claims Mutsvodi Makwini is forcing her to have sex with a snake.
“The reason why he is divorcing me is not that I am abusing him as he claims in this court. The real issue here is that I refused to sleep with a snake. What happened was that he came home with a brand new television set and he told me that if I wanted him to bring more things at home I was supposed to have sex with a snake. Even though I refused to sleep with the snake, I have noticed that every morning I will be feeling as if I had slept with someone. As you can see I no longer have my front teeth. I lost them the day he assaulted me because I had entered our bedroom and caught my husband sleeping with his 25-year-old girlfriend on our matrimonial bed.”
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Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Police scare thieves into surrender by barking like dogs
THE police are barking in New Haven, Connecticut. After a chase, they’ve cornered two men at a residential block in Elm City.
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Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Mother arrested for slapping wrong boy at son’s school
TO South Carolina, where 36-year-old Tyshekka Collier is on the way to Fairforest Middle School. Her son has been suspended. In a dark mood, Collier reaches Principal Ty Dawkins’ office. She sees a boy sat in a chair. His head is down. Collier slaps the lad in the face. Only, it’s not her son. This boy is ill. He’s waiting for his mother to pick him up.
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Posted: 30th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man in barn with balaclava, vet’s glove, broom shaft and solar calulator says he meant no harm
JUST because a man is dressed in a balaclava made from the leg of old tracksuit bottoms, a veterinary inspection glove, a head torch and carrying a pen knife, a wooden broom shaft and length of rope does not mean he’s up to no good in a barn full of cows.
Sure. He looks familiar and is wearing a jacket the farmer used to own before it went missing. And, yes, he has solar calculator in his picket, much like one the farmer used to own. But when apprehended by the barn’s owner, he said, “Me-me-steal-ear-tags. Me-me-look-at-tags.” Let’s not rush to judgement.
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Posted: 28th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man attacked roommate who drew a dick on his face
Watson shares his howm with two other men. He raced into one of their bedrooms. He beat the man up.
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Posted: 28th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Two-headed bull shark fished from Gulf of Mexico
FROM the Gulf of Mexico a fisherman has pulled up a two-headed bull shark. The things was not swimming this way and that; it was in the uterus of an adult bull shark. Michael Wagner, assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife at Michigan State University, gives it the once over, noting in the Journal of Fish Biology:
“Given the timing of the shark’s discovery with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, I could see how some people may want to jump to conclusions,. Making that leap is unwarranted. We simply have no evidence to support that cause or any other.”
Good you mentioned it though. Always good science note the thing we didn’t need to associate with the oil spill. Because if all oddities in the seas were linked to that BP oil spill, would it mena that the oil that seeps into the oceans naturally through fissures has not effect?
Factoid: There’s an oil spill every day off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., where oil is seeping naturally from cracks in the seafloor into the ocean. Lighter than seawater, the oil floats to the surface. Some 20 to 25 tons of oil are emitted each day.
Posted: 27th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The straight rainbow over Paris
IN Paris, the city is so secure in its sexuality, even the rainbows are straight:
Why is this horizon so colorful? Because, opposite the Sun, it is raining. What is pictured above is actually just a common rainbow. It’s uncommon appearance is caused by the Sun being unusually high in the sky during the rainbow’s creation. Since every rainbow’s center must be exactly opposite the Sun, a high Sun reflecting off of a distant rain will produce a low rainbow where only the very top is visible — because the rest of the rainbow is below the horizon.
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Posted: 27th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Suicidal Mossad squid invades China
TO China (where else?) , where an eight-inch live bomb has been found inside a three feet-long squid.
Fishmonger Mr Huang tells the Guangzhou Daily newspaper:
“This sort of squid lives close to the shore and normally makes a meal of small fish and prawns. Perhaps he thought the bomb was his favourite food and gulped it down. He certainly had a big belly when he was caught.”
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Posted: 26th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
22 cats that look like pin-ups
WE at Anorak love pin-ups. We are, however, less certain of cats. Can pin-ups save the feline terrors?
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Posted: 22nd, March 2013 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Tadpole fancier drank pets to smuggle them onboard plane
Posted: 21st, March 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Elephant seal uses zebra crossing in Brazil [VIDEO]
ONCE upon a time, mankind was feared by all of the animal kingdom because we were very, very good at killing all beasts for food, clothing and sport. However, we’ve become bloated and anaemic and spend our time tittering at creatures when they get above their station.
When we’re not slaves to cats or dressing dogs up in Juicy couture tracksuits, they’re wandering around our habitat with the kind of swagger not seen since Rick James was alive.
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Posted: 20th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police seek horse in connection with Cornwall carrot theft
FOURTEEN bales of hay and carrots have gone missing in Penryn. Cornwall.
A wheelbarrow has also vanished.
Says Detective Constable Rick Milburn from Falmouth Police Station:
“I think we are looking for a horse.”
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Posted: 20th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Life copies The Simpsons: Warwick court calls Barts Simpson
WARWICK Crown Court calls Barton ‘Bart’ Simpson, 56. Mr Simpson is accused of possessing a prohibited firearm at Birmingham airport on May 31 last year. He denies the charge.
He stands before the Recorder, a Mr Burns.
And that is all.
Posted: 20th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman finds entire cat in her ‘pork’ sausage (photo)
EVER find a kitten inside a sausage? Krod Yotchomrang, 52, did. She found the kitten inside a batch of foot-long sausages bought from a local market in Satuk district Thailand’s Buri Ram province. Says Krod:
“I was cutting the third sausage when I noticed what looked like a small cat. We almost threw up when we realised we were eating the body of a kitten for dinner.”
(In Thailand kittens are tea-time fare. The Thai’s are sticklers for standards.)
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Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Idiot police rough up idiot who jumped over their heads (video)
FOR every laughing policeman who will dance at the carnival, there is another humour-bypassed, flat-footed goon who hides behind his badge and pepper spray. YouTuber ‘RossCreations’ did a big jump over two Florida cops having a drink at a bench. It wasn’t very clever. It was agile. But it wasn’t clever. What happend next pretty much explain why everyone should be jumping over cops:
Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Hen lays the massive egg within an egg
TO China, where Granny Yang, 87, is showcasing her massive hen’s egg. Media has massed in Bijie in Guizhou so see the massive egg. Says Yang, as the shell cracks revealing two yolks and an intact entire egg inside:
“I’m more than 80 now, but I have never seen eggs like this before.”
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
