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.
CCTV footage of the Ruislip ghost!
WOOOOOO! A spooky video has emerged online of CCTV footage showing a spectre appearing at a community centre in north-west London!
The video shows a slim figure suddenly appear outside the entrance of South Ruislip Community Association and Community Centre before it chillingly walks through a metal railing before vanishing into thin air!
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Posted: 20th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man literally blows up after winning lottery
WINNING the lottery must be beyond any comprehension of what excitement means. One minute, you have all this stuff to do… endless stuff… stuff that goes on and on and on… and then WHAP! Suddenly, the only thing you have to do is get blind drunk and spend loads of money on brilliant things like houses, cars, Farah slacks made from gold and a zebra butler.
You’d be forgiven if you figuratively exploded with excitement.
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Posted: 19th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Meteors blamed for Somerset slime at RSPB’s Ham Wall base
TO the RSPB’s Ham Wall base in Somerset. Jelly-like goo has been appearing on the grass. Some suggest a cyanobacteria called Nostoc. Othrs says it’s the regurgitated innards frogs. Others talk of asteroids.
Spokesman Tony Whitehead tells the BBC:
“In records dating back to the 14th Century it’s known variously as star jelly, astral jelly or astromyxin. In folklore it is said to be deposited in the wake of meteor showers. It’s great that in this day and age that there are still mysteries out there. We’ve read a few articles now and much speculation. One suggested it was neither animal nor plant, and another that it didn’t contain DNA, although it does give the appearance of something ‘living’. Our reserve team will be looking out for the slime over the next few days, but if anyone can offer any explanations we’d be glad to hear.”
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Posted: 19th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Cow mates with mortorcycle (video)
EVER put the wrong fuel into an engine, unleaded into the diesel? The owner of this motorcycle saw a cow making a wrong turn:
Posted: 19th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Lip service: Mum passed drugs to jailed son with a French kiss
KIMBERLEY Margeson, 54, passed two Oxycodone pills to her 30-year-old son, William Partridge, by French-kissing him during a visit to the Yates County Jail where he was being held, New York police believe.
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Posted: 18th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Boy age 10 arrested for showing student his orange toy gun on school bus
A 10-YEAR-OLD student of Virginia’s Douglas MacArthur Elementary School has been arrested and charged with brandishing a weapon. The boy’s offence was to have shown an orange-tipped toy gun to another student on the bus home.
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Posted: 18th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police stop man for driving with buckeye leaf sticker: my other car’s a meth lab
POLICE in Tennessee are idiots. They pulled over a car being driven by Bonnie Jonas-Boggioni, 65, outside of Memphis. Jonas-Boggioni told the Columbus Dispatch:
“Knowing I wasn’t speeding, I couldn’t imagine why… They were very serious. They had the body armour and the guns.”
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Posted: 18th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman covers body in Twilight tattoos: can’t see the trees for the wooden actors
CATHY Ward, 51, Cathy Ward, has scene and quotes from the Twilight books and films on her skin. In the right light, you can role her around in bed and read her. Her lovers’ are never without literary stimulation. Of her ink of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner, Ward says:
“I’m still continuing with them. We’ve got plans and designs for my legs next year – the aim is to cover my whole body.”
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Posted: 17th, February 2013 | In: Books, Film, Strange But True | Comment
Guards find phone after prisoner’s anus starts ringing
CRIMINALS can be wily, smart and cunning… but for the most part, they’re very, very thick. We’ve all seen the footage of various burglars making berks of themselves on CCTV, failing to kick doors in and wearing mop buckets on their heads.
Well, one ne’er-do-well takes the biscuit after his arse starting ringing while in the clink.
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Posted: 12th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman’s death linked to her daily diet of 2.2 gallons of Coca Cola
NATASHA Harris, 30, has died after consuming up to 2.2 gallons of Coca Cola a day. Every day. Ms Harris, 30, of Invercargill in New Zealand’s South Island, died February 2010. The coroner, Mr David Crerar, that the “extreme” amounts of Coke played a role in the cardiac arrhythmia that finally killed her.
He calculated that drinking 10 litres delivered 970mg of caffeine, and more than 1kg of sugar a day:
“I find that when all the available evidence is considered, were it not for the consumption of very large quantities of Coke by Natasha Harris, it is unlikely that she would have died when she died and how she died.”
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Posted: 12th, February 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Wick teen flushed school goldfish to set them free toward the sea
KEVAN Fraser, 17, told Wick Sheriff Court that he flushed down the toilet goldfish belonging to Lybster Primary School in Caithness so that they could make their way to sea.
He says he is unaware of how the the sewage system worked.
This is damning indictment on our education system. Sewage works by delivering all effluent to overseas abbatoirs, where pet goldfish are turned into ‘beef burgers’.
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Posted: 12th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
£75,000 raised to build Star Wars Death Star
WITH the news of Disney making a film about a young Han Solo (good move really as Han Solo is a cocky arse, which can only make for thrills and spills), some Star Wars fans will be weeping into their laps because they don’t like the idea of Mickey Mouse having anything to do with George Lucas’ brainchild (yeah, and he really looked after the franchise didn’t he?).
And so, in a bid to stop any of these new Star Wars films from taking off, an unlikely project has arisen: Star Wars fans have raised £75,000 to build an actual Death Star.
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Posted: 8th, February 2013 | In: Film, Strange But True | Comment
Who is wiping animal sperm on women in Bury?
IS he back, the phantom animal-sperm tosser? In 2010, a man was going about Bury chucking and smearing animal sperm on women in the street. What sperm? We were never told. Cat sperm seemed unlikely, so too unicorn and ant.
Now more women are being targetted.
The Manchester Evening News reports:
“Tests are currently underway to identify the substance – believed to be semen. Officers have said the attacks may be linked to a series of similar incidents in the town three years ago where girls were found to have been sprayed or smeared with animal ejaculate.
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Posted: 8th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Japanese want to put undercrackers on naked statues
ARTISTS are all absolute filth aren’t they? Go into any gallery and chances are, you’ll see some boobs or, worse still, a little naked, flying child.
Children themselves are encouraged to go into galleries, surrounded by sexual images of bored looking women, naked-from-the-waist-down hobo-looking blokes and infant arses, which means that art is going to corrupt them, no question. No wonder we’re all dirty minded buggers.
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Posted: 7th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Croydon flower stall thief caught when getaway horse conks out on speed bump
CRIMINAL of the day is George Smith, 36, of Croydon, south London. At Croydon Magistrates Court, Mr Smith was ordered to pay £85 in costs and perform 150 hours of unpaid work. His crime:
In June last year, Smith was caught on CCTV attaching an unmanned flower stall to his chestnut mare in Rosehill, Sutton, before cracking the one-year-old pony’s hide repeatedly after the stolen haul got stuck on a speed bump.
File under: lack of horse power.
Posted: 7th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Holden driver posts footage of himself breaking the law
TO Canberra, Australia, now twinned with Darwin. A joy rider is on the police radar:
On Monday January 21, police received a complaint of a red Holden Commodore performing burnouts in the Gungahlin area. Later that day, police viewed footage of a vehicle matching the description performing a burnout in Baillieu Court, Mitchell.
The footage had been posted by the registered owner of the vehicle to his Facebook account.
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Posted: 7th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Human tooth found in Tesco meat sausages
WITH horse meat no longer on the menu, Tesco is looking elsewhere to bulk up its budget meat meals. But Tony Hinds is not keen on the latest animal product in his Finest herb and chive sausages: a human tooth.
Tesco has rewarded Mr Hinds with £25-worth of vouchers. He remains unhappy, however, perhaps hoping that, what this being the Finest range, the tooth should have been made from gold.
Says the unhappy shopper, who bought his tooth sausages at a Tesco in Sheerness, Kent:
“She [his lover was making sausage rolls] thought it might be a bit of hard skin or a gristle. It’s only when she picked it up she realised what it was.”
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Posted: 7th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comments (5)
Man arrested for selling half-eaten chicken sandwich to cop looking to buy marijuana
TO North Carolina, where Dustin Rockwell Davis, 23, of Ivey Road, Graham, has been charged with selling an undercover police officer a bag containing a half-eaten chicken sandwich.
Graham, was charged with the sell and delivery of a counterfeit controlled substance and sell and delivery of marijuana.
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Posted: 7th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Carlise man banned from speaking to any lone woman for ten years
DAVID David Delahunty has been banned from speaking to “any lone female not known to him in a public place” except in an emergency.
Carlisle Crown was unimpressed that the 56-year-old had approached a woman at a bus stop, falsely told her he had been released from prison where he’d been held for rape, called her a “bonnie lass”, made sexual suggestions and then kissed her on the cheek as she boarded the bus.
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Posted: 6th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
John Lennon arrested for murder in Brazil and other letters of note
TO Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where police have arrested three suspected criminals named John Lennon. It’s testament of Lennon’s enduring popularity that John Lennon Ribeiro Siqueira, arrested for plotting to rob a lottery agency, is just 19.
Suspected burglar John Lennon Fonseca Ferreira is 22. Suspected five-time killer John Lenon Camargos Gomes is also 22.
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Posted: 6th, February 2013 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment
Hitchhiker Kai gives the greatest TV interview of 2013
THIS might be the greatest TV news interview of 2013:
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Posted: 5th, February 2013 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment
One day after meeting Lesya Toumaniantz let Ruslan Toumaniantz tattoo his name on her face (photos)
ONE day after meeting in the flesh for the first time, Lesya Toumaniantz from Saransk, Russia, let her online pen-pal, Belgian Ruslan Toumaniantz, tattoo his name over her face. Says Lesya:
“It’s a symbol of our eternal devotion. I’d like him to tattoo every inch of my body.”
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Posted: 5th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Sheikh Abdullah Daoud introduces burkas for babies: parents of ugly kids rejoice
Posted: 5th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dog face: Tonik the Poodle/Shih Tzu mix has a ‘human’ face
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Posted: 5th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
