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.
Edinburgh fireworks display goes off all at once
FIREWORK displays can be lame. The tricky part is working out how to celebrate the failed attempt to blow up Parliament. One rocket at a time is not very authentic. Happily, in Edinburgh, things are improving. The official explanation is that a rogue rocket at the Pentland Community Centre display misfired and set off the rest of the fireworks. The word on the street is that it’s what Guy Fawkes would have wanted…
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Posted: 7th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus found in dead pine tree
TO Lehi, Utah, where Dean Hansen and Lee Taylor nhas found The Virgin Mary and Jesus inside a dead pine tree.
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Posted: 7th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
London Police stop Liz Baldwin’s attempt to draw the world’s fastest chalk line
SPECIOUS world record attempter is Liz Baldwin. The Goldsmiths University student wanted to draw an unbroken mile-long unbroken chalk line faster than any human being ever had. She would beat the record of 1 hour and 20 minutes, most likely set by an amphetamine-spiced road worker in Bogata.
She might have made it had it not been for the intervention of East London’s finest. An officer of the Metropolitan police stopped her.
Why?
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Posted: 7th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Indian marching bands fight constipation: The Top 10 Toilet Songs
FORGET the newspaper or a favoured magazine. What evert good trip to the toilet needs is theme tune. To India, then, musicians carrying drums and whistles are volunteering to play whilst you poop.
In Rajasthan, 34 villages in Jhunjhunu district feature the Cistern Choir. Whenever the ensmeble see anbyone pooing or weeing in public they will “shout, beat drums or blow a whistle”.
Very soon, constipation will be thing of the past in go-ahead India (not that it’s been so much of problem _ see Anorak tour of ’88.)
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Posted: 6th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Bad Taxidermy: the Otter is sad
BAD taxidermy. The Otter is sad. More here.
Posted: 6th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Boy who ‘flatulated with happiness’ cursed to blow up like a balloon
TO Ghana, where Charles Roji, 12, says he’s been cursed to swell up like a balloon.
Roji says his troubles began when he “broke wind with happiness“. He did so as woman was walking past. She cursed him. As he tells it:
“One day when we were playing soccer and I scored a goal, I was so happy that I flatulated, just when the woman got there. The woman, who was speaking Gonja, got very angry when my friends started teasing me that I had flatulated against the woman. I got afraid when the woman started talking angrily while my friends continued to tease me … I have been swollen for almost one year.”
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Posted: 6th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Let us chase Bigfoot in a blimp!
CLEARLY bonkers Idaho scientist with a potato for a brain is ignoring the catcalls from his peers as he bids to find Bigfoot. In a blimp.
And faculty member Jeffrey Meldrum is having the last laugh because Idaho State University has approved the proposal to find the mythical creature. Well done Idaho State University!
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Posted: 5th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
UFO enthusiasts don’t believe in UFOs
THE idea of UFOs is an excellent one. The thought that our failing species may be killed off by alien invaders, rather than our own incompetence, is a rather pleasing one. Also, UFOs give us the chance to look toward the sky with hope beyond fancy clouds. Without them, it’s either pollution or dying stars.
UFOs are, in short, ace.
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Posted: 5th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Great replies to snotty notes
SO. Someone left a snotty note on your fridge / door / car. Don’t panic. Don’t get angry. Just reply:
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Posted: 5th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Doctors can’t find toothbrush in teenager’s body
WE’VE all swallowed things we shouldn’t in our lives, but one teenager took things to new levels of excellence by swallowing a toothbrush, whole.
Amazing.
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Posted: 2nd, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man licks all Cathedrals in Britain
THE Ely Weekly News reports on Lawrence Edmonds. He aims to lick all of the UK’s Anglican cathedrals. He’s licked Ely Cathedral. He licks. He says it tastes “sandy and salty”, like a clubber’s foot in Ayia Napa.
He has previously noted that Worcester was “exceedingly gritty and salty”, Durham “disappointingly bland” and Wakefield “foul, sickly sweet”.
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Posted: 2nd, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Trick or treating kids get free cocaine in Manchester
Posted: 2nd, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Grandmother says crack found in her vagina was planted by granddaughter
TO Brazil, where Berenice Fernandes, 74, says the 55 crack rocks found in her vagina are not hers. Fernandes says her granddaughter, Glaucia Bispo, 33, must have covertly inserted them. Fernandes suggests this might have occurred whilst she was asleep.
The drugs were found when the women were searched by police.
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Posted: 2nd, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mexican Jeep smugglers come undone on Arizona fence
CAN you drive from Mexico to Arizona? Yes. But watch out for the fence. US Border Patrol agents from Yuma Sector’s Yuma say smugglers trying to make the crossing failed when their Jeep Cherokee became “high centred” on a ramp. Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Enrique Zarate sees a PR opportunity: “We [US Border Patrol] want to let the American public know that this isn’t the first smuggling attempt we’ve stopped, and that we are out here 24/7 making sure the American border is secure.” Spotting a Jeep 14-foot high up on a fence might not strike you as suspicious, but, then, you’re not trained. Nothing was found in the vehicle. But Zarate spoke of smugglers transporting anything from narcotics to humans.
The assumption is that these smugglers were exporting ladders and a Jeep. (79% os Cherokee Jeep is made in the US.)
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Posted: 2nd, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Celebration wedding gunfire kills 28
TO Saudi Arabia for news of a tragedy.
Local newspaper al-Youm says bullets fired from machine guns in celebration at a wedding severed a high-voltage electricity line. It fell top ground, spraying sparks. The broken cable came into contacy with an iron door. As many as 28 men and women were electrocuted to death.
Guns and wedding don’t mix…
Posted: 31st, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Police officer tasered child who refused to clean his ‘patrol unit’
THE ‘Careers Day’ teachers at Tularosa Intermediate School, New Mexico, is showing the class of 10-year-old boys the work of the police. The modified cattle prod is in the hands of Police Officer Chris Webb of the New Mexico Department of Public Safety. Inevitably, Webb discharges 50,000 volts of electricity into one child.
The child’s lawyer complains thus:
“Defendant Webb asked the boy, R.D., in a group of boys, who would like to clean his patrol unit…A number of boys said that they would. R.D., joking, said that he did not want to clean the patrol unit.” Defendant Webb, the complaint suggests, responded by pointing his Taser at R.D. and saying, ‘Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.'”
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Posted: 31st, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sacrificial ram kills man on Eid Al Adha
EMIRATES 24 is reporting that an Algerian man has been killed by the ram he was preparing for sacrifice on Eid Al Adha:
“As he prepared it for sacrifice, the ram surprisingly butted the man, who fell on the ground and died minutes later,” the Algerian Khabar newspaper reported.
(Insert pun on Ramadan here.)
Posted: 30th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Army of Nazi raccoons defeat Germany
AMERICA are once again staking a claim of winning WWII, this time, with an army of raccoons. You heard right. The bushy tailed north American invaders were freed in the wild on the orders of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering, and now, they’re breaking into the houses of Germany seeking shelter and food from a cold snap.
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Posted: 29th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Aberdare pub landlord hid dead body so as not to miss weekend trade
THE Jimmy Savile Fan Club salutes Jason Chidgey, 29, landlord and licensee of Aberdare’s The Boot Hotel.
When Mark Steven Howell, 48, died on the premises from acute alcohol poisoning, Chidgey and cleaner Audra Rees hid the body.
Howell was a sometime worker at the pub. He and Chidgey had fallen asleep in the middle to the pub’s floor. When morning came. Chidgey found Howell dead in the women’s toilets.
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Posted: 29th, October 2012 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Mug Shot of the day: Daniel Dunn is stuck in the mud
MUG Shot of the Day is provided by Indiana’s Daniel Dunn.
The 32-year-old had been trying for two hours to free his pick-up truck from mud when police arrived to help him.
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Posted: 29th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Linda Mendez woke lover who fell asleep during argument by biting his scrotum
TO Jersey City, where Linda Mendez, 40, has been charged with attacking her lover by biting into his scrotum.
The lover, 46, says the pair had been arguing. He went to sleep. Mendez woke him by biting into his scrotum.
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Posted: 27th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man breaks up fight on Phoenix Light Rail with Samurai sword
ON the Phoenix Light Rail, a man breaks up a fight by pulling out a Samurai Sword. No Tasers were fired and the sword wielder is not blind. It’s not Lancashire.
Posted: 25th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Teacher Yan Yanhong lifted a boy off the ground by his ears (photos and interview)
YAN Yanhong is the teacher seen on Weibo, the Chinese twitter, holding a pupil off the ground by his ears. Parents of pupils at the Wenling school are unimpressed. You can also see photos of Yanhong’s pupils wearing metal bins on their heads, having their mouths taped shut and hands stuck to a desk. Yanhong says the youngsters, some aged 6, “were just having fun”.
A quick check on Yanhong revealed that she had no formal teaching qualifications.
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Posted: 25th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
How to breath underwater: you need beer, a deep pool and gritted teet
WANT to learn how to breathe underwater? Children look a way now:
IN LATE 60’S I DISCOVERED I COULD BREATH UNDER WATER WITHOUT EQUIPMENT.
1-DRINK ONE BEER (MAY NOT BE REQUIRED)
2-JUMP INTO DEEP END OF POOL
3-EXHALE ALL AIR AS YOU ARE GOING DOWN
4-SIT ON FLOOR OF POOL
5-GRIT TEETH AND LIPS
6-SLOWLY SUCK AIR THRU LIPS AND TEETH.WARNING…NOT FOR MINORS
MAYBE SOMEONE CAN FORWARD THIS TO THE NAVY SEALS AND PERHAPS AFTER THEY FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN DUPLICATE THIS CAN INVENT A MOUTHPIECE THAT ACTUALLY IS SEPARATING OUT THE AIR (HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN) FROM THE WATER ENABLING MILITARY TO BREATH UNDERWATER WITH NO TANKS ECT. SORT OF A FISH GILL FOR THE MOUTH. IT IS NOTED THE POOL ALSO CONTAINED CHLORINE ..THE POOL WAS IN HOLLYWOOD CALIF.
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Posted: 25th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Polite drugs dealer reports himself to police
ALEXANDER Lafferty, 19, called Central Scotland Police to report a drugs dealer at work. At Stirling Sheriff Court, we hear that Lafferty “said he wanted to report that there was a male near the Raploch Community Campus with a bag of 500 Valium tablets and was selling them. He gave a description of a male wearing a grey jumper and a blue top.”
When police arrived at the scene they found Lafferty wearing a grey jumper and blue Adidas T-shirt. He was holding a bag containing 15 blue tablets with another 485 Valium pills in 33 bags secreted about his person.
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Posted: 25th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
