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.
Burlgar is not caught in bear trap
TO New Castle, western Pennsylvania, in search of the non-news event of the week. The New Castle News reports that a burglar has not been caught in a bear trap. The burglar made off with two cordless drills and a bag of tools.
The victim told police she keeps a large bear trap set at the bottom of her basement stairs but had not set it.
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Posted: 2nd, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Want moobs? Visit Leeds where 59% of men have them
WHEN men get fat, it is perfectly on limits to mock them. Not women. Just men. If you do it to a woman, you’re spiteful and pressuring women to be a certain shape. If a man puts weight on, you can all cheerily singing “who ate all the pies?!” at them and chuckle away while they go home and cry themselves to sleep.
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Posted: 31st, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man unearths £100,000’s worth of whale puke
VOMIT. You might think it is absolutely worthless, but not everyone does. Specifically, we’re talking about whale puke here and no, it isn’t some kind of Norwegian delicacy, but something more surprising.
Before you start going on the hunt for whale’s vomit, first be aware of what it is. Basically, it looks like a rock and smells like faeces. Still interested? Well, one chap found a great clump of it and it could well be worth in advance of £100,000.
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Posted: 31st, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Chris P. Bacon leans to walk on two legs
CHRIS P. Bacon is a piglet with only two legs. This is worrying. But, thankfuklly, Chris P. Pig’s owners knows how to keep a two-legged pig down. First, give him a name that reminds him whose boss, and what his purpose in life is. Second, keep that back horizontal to the ground by tying two wheel to his chops. Resistance is futile:
Posted: 31st, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
This game of tag has lasted 23 years
TWENTY-three years ago, ten friends began playing game of tag at Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane, Wash. The game never ended.
The game they play is fundamentally the same as the schoolyard version: One player is “It” until he tags someone else. But men in their 40s can’t easily chase each other around the playground, at least not without making people nervous, so this tag has a twist. There are no geographic restrictions and the game is live for the entire month of February. The last guy tagged stays “It” for the year.
That means players get tagged at work and in bed. They form alliances and fly around the country. Wives are enlisted as spies and assistants are ordered to bar players from the office…
“You’re like a deer or elk in hunting season,” says Joe Tombari, a high-school teacher in Spokane, who sometimes locks the door of his classroom during off-periods and checks under his car before he gets near it.
One February day in the mid-1990s, Mr. Tombari and his wife, then living in California, got a knock on the door from a friend. “Hey, Joe, you’ve got to check this out. You wouldn’t believe what I just bought,” he said, as he led the two out to his car.
What they didn’t know was Sean Raftis, who was “It,” had flown in from Seattle and was folded in the trunk of the Honda Accord. When the trunk was opened he leapt out and tagged Mr. Tombari, whose wife was so startled she fell backward off the curb and tore a ligament in her knee.
“I still feel bad about it,” says Father Raftis, who is now a priest in Montana. “But I got Joe.”
Spotter: Yammy; Russell Adams
Posted: 30th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
101-year-old woman returns to life at her own funeral
TO Shenshuidong Village, Lianjiang City, Guangdong Province, China, for the funeral of Peng Xiuhua, who died aged 101.
Only, Peng is not dead. As she is lowered into the coffin, she sits up, opens her yes and declares “Hello there“.
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Posted: 29th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Chicago Dominatrix attacked submissive in trailer
TO Chicago, where Kimberly J. Williams, 45, of Crete Township, is accused of hitting her alleged victim at least 20 times with a wooden softball bat. The pair had met on an S&M website.
Conversation turned to Williams “taking sexually explicit photographs to send to her ‘master’, who is overseas.”
The women met in an eatery before heading to Williams’ trailer. There, Williams talked about which one of them would be the dominatrix. She then allegedly became angry, punching the woman and beating her with the bat.
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Posted: 28th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man disguised as burglar robs Essex Waitrose
WHO is the man dressed as children’s cartoon character Burglar Bill breaking into a Waitrose store in Southend, Essex? The man in the stripy top stole two cameras and Xbox controllers:
Posted: 25th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
German army to defeat the enemy with man-boobs
THE German army could be known as ‘simply the breast’ after they found they had a surprise development with their male soldiers – weapons of mass seduction.
Apparently, thanks to a new, hard-going rifle drill, the German army has started growing breasts, which could be just the thing to win battles against confused foes.
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Posted: 24th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mali Army use gun shot sounds in training (video)
GUNS don’t kill people. Bullets fired from them might. But in Mali, it’s the rat-a-tat sound of fire that does the damage. No poor is Mali, that there is no ammunition for training. Soldiers are encouraged to make their own sounds. Faced with this option, the smart soldiers will opt for “K-BOOM!”, Noel Edmonds welcoming the enemy to the “dream factory” or play a decent scary film score loud, something from The Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby.
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Posted: 23rd, January 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comments (2)
How to repair and mourn your ‘Dutch wife’ sex doll
“UNTIL about 30 years ago, the typical ‘Dutch Wife’ (love doll) sold at sex shops in Japan was of the inflatable type, and of shoddy quality that was easily subject to deflation at the slightest, er, prick.”
“When customers brought the dolls in for repairs, vendors would stick on hot patches, like on tire inner tubes,” [said Hideo Tsuchiya, president of Orient Kogyo K.K., a manufacturer of state-of-the-art love dolls].
Some of these buyers, however, had their own reasons for preferring rubber joy mates to real women. Some weren’t satisfied with going to brothels. Others, jilted by their mates, had become eternally suspicious of females….
Orient Kogyo also provides after-service. When and if the time comes for the dolls to part with their owner, the company will conduct a kuyo (Buddhist memorial service) for the doll, complete with floral offerings..
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Posted: 22nd, January 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Pigeons to be tinkered with so they defecate soap
THERE’S an experiment afoot in London which will attempt to turn pigeon poo into soap, which is obviously not weird or cruel at all.
In a video explaining the project, it is explained:
“Like other birds pigeons can be fun company but they are also messy,” adding: “The bird will be fed a specially-designed diet. The individuals behind the idea claim they are using synthetic biology to create the bacteria that will modify the metabolism of the birds.”
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Posted: 22nd, January 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Texas police officer wraps a $100 bill inside a traffic ticket
IN America, a police officer in Plano, Texas, wraps a $100 bill inside a traffic ticket. No, he did not fit the perp up with fake bribe rap. He was good copper:
Posted: 21st, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Petter Kverneng gets 1million likes to earn Facebook sex with Cathrine
MODERN love: If pimply teenager Petter Kverneng gets 1million likes on Facebook, Cathrine will shag him.
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Posted: 20th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Salford bandit driven to getaway car by grandma
IDIOT of the day is Declan Lloyd. He’s the 21-year-old villain who got his grandmother to drive him to the getaway car. Lloyd has left the stolen Peugeot 207 in Radcliffe. He’d used the car to flee the scene in after he’d stolen a cashbox from a Barclay’s Bank security guard in Salford.
Police had found the car. They’d noted the cashbox was still inside. They waited. And then Lloyd arrived with his unsuspecting nan. He began to unload the cash. He was nicked.
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Posted: 15th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Behold/Kill the dubstep singing parrot!
WE’VE written extensively about the animal kingdom try to kill humans, and now we’re faced with a beast so irritating that it must be killed. Or praised. Whatever takes your fancy really.
What we have on our hands is a bird (it’s a parrot or something, no-one really cares apart from those wax-jacket having bozos who listened in Biology lessons and cry and WWF pamphlets that fall out of their Chimpanzee Weekly magazines) that can perform dubstep (the worst genre, ever) with it’s horrible little parrot voice.
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Posted: 14th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman fails to find Belgium with GPS – ends up in Croatia
IT can be hard to find the ends of Belgium. This woman’s adventures might even lead to discussion about what Belgium is?
A 67-year-old Belgian woman set out to drive 38 miles to Brussels under the guidance of her GPS navigation system but arrived in Zagreb two days and 901 miles later.
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Posted: 14th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
School worker makes huge frozen cow dung cobra for the kids to play on
PUT the iPad down, kids, Mikhail Bopposov has something for you to play with in the great outdoors. It’s a huge cobra fashioned from frozen cow dung.
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Posted: 13th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Video of mother and child stealing kitten from Cardiff pet shop
“THEY both usually sleep out in the kitchen during the day and are on mouse patrol at night. The thought of him being with them is just horrifying. He’s a very nice quiet little kitten who doesn’t stand up for himself. What are they going to do to him if he makes a mess on the carpet out of fright?”
So says Carol Ivory, owner of Albany Pets in Roath, Cardiff. Her kitten Little Boy has been stolen by a gang of women:
Posted: 10th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Lion spotted in Norfolk is a dog
“I tell people he’s a Lab-a-lion, and half the people believe that.”
Posted: 10th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Brilliant man gets solid-gold shirt
THROWING your money around, no matter how large or small the amount is, is one of the greatest pleasures a human can have. Wasting money on crisps instead of supposedly useful items like mops, or buying shoes instead of paying the water bill is the things that dreams are made of.
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Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Brazilian cat gets arrested with a saw and phone strapped to it
BRAZIL is, quite frankly, the most brilliantly ludicrous country on Earth. Away from the obviously mental Amazon rainforest, there’s the most corrupt football league on Earth, a fanatical belief in Jesus, appalling crime and poverty and the kind of folklore legends that makes English mythology look like a dank pond.
And to underline this, Brazilian police have arrested a cat.
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Posted: 7th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Flogsta screamers
IT’S 10pm, and students living in the Flogsta neighborhood of Uppsala, Sweden scream. Why? A quick look at the TV schedules offers one clue: “10pm: Noel Edmonds presents…”
Spotter: reddit
Posted: 6th, January 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
