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 banned from ‘all libraries on the face of the earth’
TYREE S. Carter, 20, has been banned from “all libraries on the face of the earth“.
Yeah, libraries. How quaint. If Carter transgresses again will he be banned from riding a Penny Farthing to the video store?
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dundee drink driver too drunk to find the dock
TO Dundee Sheriff Cour, where Thomas Murphy, 55, is due to be sentenced after admitting driving without a licence or insurance. When stopped he was, furthermore, three times over the drink drive limit. Only, Mr Murphy can’t find the dock. STV reports that he staggers into a glass panel at the side of the dock. When he does find his way in, Sheriff Richard Davidson says he can smell alcohol on the guilty man. Davidson and Murphy are 20-feet apart.
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Posted: 17th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus Christ spotted in Massachusetts dust sheet
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Baby left on road when woman on bike gives birth without noticing
IN Bangkok, Thailand, a woman straddling a motorbike travelling at speed gave birth to a baby and then drove on leaving it behind on the road.
Ancharee Mookta witnessed the incident from a bus. She alerted the bus driver. He stopped the bus, and the baby was picked up. It was covered in blood and “fatty residue”. Someone then whisked the baby to Bangkok’s Wachira hospital on a motorbike.
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Posted: 16th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Spontaneous combustion sets fire to New York restaurant
WHY did the Chipotle Steak and Seafood Grill, Saugerties, Barclay Heights, New York, catch fire?
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Posted: 16th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Human statue punches idiot in the face (video)
TO Cavill Avenue in Australia’s Surfers Paradise to see the human statue punch a man in the face. (I’d put another dollar in the slot to have him do it again.)
Spotter: Gawker
Posted: 15th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Church gives underage teens ‘qualified for sex’ certificates
TEENAGERS who passed the “Love and Sexuality” course run by the Church of Sweden were given awards. The 14-year-olds got badges and certificates declaring them “qualified for sex”.
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Posted: 15th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dog responds to being dressed in a nappy (video)
WHEN the owners put a nappy on Bournville the dog, they got an immediate reaction. One day nappies for dogs will be compulsory. No longer will owners have to carry little carrier bags in their pockets to store their pet’s poo in under it can be chucked away. They’ll just dress them in nappies, and toss them into trees instead:
Spotter: Arbroath
Posted: 15th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
City bans man with high IQ banned from being a policeman
ROBERT Jordan was barred from being a policeman with the New London, Connecticut, force because he was too clever. He scored 33 points in his police entrance exams. That’s too high. Says Jordan:
“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class. I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye colour or your gender or anything else.”
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Posted: 14th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Rains create kangaroo testicles shortage
IN Australia, a call has gone out for large kangaroo scrotums. John Kreuger of Townsville, Queensland, tells his local paper that the lack of big bouncing balls could hurt his business.
Mr Kreuger, 71, makes his living tanning and stuffing roo testicles. At his peak, he can process 500 hollowed scrota with his Acme “de-nutter”. He then fashions the balls into bottle openers and sells them for $25 a pop.
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Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment (1)
The 49 most inexplainable pictures on Google
ON Google, and elsewhere, from time to time an image crops up that makes you wonder. And then it makes you stop and stare. And if you’re like us, you save the picture and show it other people, and gauge their reactions. Do any one of them say, “Oh, yeah, I remember this” or “Dad!” or “Did you find that on the crashed space ship? The Moolanians, right? I told them. They never believed me. But I told THEM!” Take a look through the gallery. If you recognise anyone, let the correct authorities know:
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Posted: 12th, March 2013 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Man gets stuck between walls on way home (photos)
HOW well do you know your area? Can you find your own way home?
When Jian Tsui left the pub in Xinqiao village in Wenzhou at Zhejiang province in eastern China, he headed back to his domicile. He was on foot. What happened next, we’ll let him tell you:
“It was very early in the morning and it was also a cold so I decided just to take a shortcut. But I got stuck and realised I was going nowhere – so I tried to go back but then I realised that I couldn’t go back either. I tried calling for help but I couldn’t even breathe in properly so that I could shout.”
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Posted: 12th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Teacher lets toddlers drink her blood
ONE of the worst things to happen to teaching is the film Dead Poet’s Society. They’ve all watched it and tried to work out how to be groovily different and engage their classes in a way that is authoritative and pally. They want to reach out to the children and connect with them in original, kooky ways and obviously, this thinking can bite them on their tweed arses.
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Posted: 11th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Matt Whelan, Britian’s most tattooed man, will live on as a paint pot
MR Body Art, nee Matt Whelan, is Britain’s Most Tattooed Man. The 33-year-old’s first tattoo was a bulldog, something he got at the age of 16. He says:
“People who do what I do treat their body like a temple.”
(You should see the graffiti!)
“Like Christians have Jesus, we have our bodies. When I die I want to leave my body to a museum. Someone in Canada has already asked to use my skull as a paint pot.”
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Posted: 11th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
New Chicago man has sex with a guinea fowl
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Man tries to get off tain – fails miserably
BACK to Work Monday, introduced by the chap who wanted to get off the train but found himself swallowed up. If this werea SouthWest train (UK), the ticket inspector would have charged him an excess fare:
Posted: 11th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police warning: if you bought a fridge from skull-face man it might be stolen
“IT’S the oddest thing I’ve ever seen in 20-plus years of law enforcement. I’ve seen horns on foreheads and stars on necks, but I’ve never seen a skull on a face. I can’t explain it. It’s just odd.”
So says Capt. Mike Dixon of the Madison County Sheriff’s Department of Adam G. Roberts, 24, of Godfrey, Illinois. Roberts has been charged with burglary. Police warn that if you bought items from him – such as a compact refrigerator, paintings, an antique chest of drawers, an oval mirror and a sewing machine – they might well be stolen.
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Posted: 10th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man live tweets getting dildo stuck up his anus
TO the hospital,where @Grawly is telling the world about his ordeal: he has vibrator stuck inside his anus.
“Yo guess who has to go to the hospital because he shoved a dildo up his ass and can’t get it out?”
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Posted: 9th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Terrible tributes: man had sex with now dead pig named Michael Jackson
Posted: 9th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman hides loaded gun in vagina
WHERE is the best place to hide a gun? If you’re the woman from Ada, Oklahoma, then you would’ve thought the best place to secrete a firearm would be inside your body.
Inside your vagina.
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Posted: 8th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Denver police seek the dirty Thong Bandit
“We’re looking for an individual who we have titled the ‘Thong Bandit’. He is fully clothed somewhere in the mouth of an alley, will disrobe down to a thong and expose himself further in front of female citizens in northwest Denver. It’s a crime to expose yourself to folks. We need to make sure that he doesn’t take that next step.”
Posted: 8th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Russell Crowe has filmed a real UFO outside his office in Woolloomooloo (and fruit bats)
IF we’re being honest with ourselves, actors seem a bit mental don’t they? They don’t work very often and they’re the most paranoid people on Earth. Their imaginations run wild and they end up acting oddly in public.
And so, to Russell Crowe who has posted a video on YouTube which he claims shows a UFO passing by his office window in Sydney.
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Posted: 6th, March 2013 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment
