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’s testicles rash evades lewd behaviour rap
TO Port St. Lucie police, Florida, where a woman has spotted a man in his car. He was, as the police report states, “making an up and down motion in the area of his crotch”. The woman did not see his penis but, nonetheless , followed him in her car as he circled a car park.
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Posted: 25th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
1854: William Snyder killed in most bizarre and terrifying way ever
FLASHBACK to 1854. William Snyder of Cincinnati had died. He was “killed by being swung around by the heels by a circus clown.” He was 13 years old.
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Posted: 24th, October 2012 | In: Flashback, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Bank robber returned to complain loot was not full amount
HERO of the day is Arthur Bundrage, 28, of East Syracuse, New York, who having robbed the Alliance Bank returned to get the full $20,000 he had demanded.
In between his visits, the bank had called the police. They captured Bundrage as he stood outside trying to get back in.
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Posted: 24th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Noc the talking whale sounds like a human
WANT to hear a beluga whale talking like a human? Not a human you’d want to listen to for all that long, rather one who knows some of the words to Do Wah Diddy Diddy?
The talking whale was called NOC, property of the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program in San Diego, California. He died in 1999.
Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Retirement home gets intersting Halloween decorations
Spotter: Reddit
Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus appears behind Kent fridge
JESUS has appeared on the damp wall behind Kenny Iddenden’s fridge. Mr Iddenden was moving his old refrigerator at his Herne Bay home when he potted a face in the mould. He took a photo and posted it on Facebook:
“Look what I found on a mouldy wall!”
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Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man banned from Grantham pub for two years arrested on first day of freedom
HERO of the day is Craig Smith, 24, of Uplands Drive, Grantham, Lincolnshire. For two years, Smith has been on the town’s Pubwatch scheme. His ban expired on September 30 2012. At 1:40am, he was ejected from The King’s Arms, in Westgate.
A police officer told him to go home. A row ensured. Mr Smith was arrested for being drunk and disorderly.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Police Officer and Browns fans puts head in 5-gallon bucket of urine
HERE’S a video of Mentor, Ohio, police officer Phil Croucher poking his head in a 5-gallon bucket of urine. The Browns fans did it for $450. He was off duty. But police are never off duty.
Mr Croucher has been “cleared and has returned to duty”.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Sapulpa Public Schools welcomes students to ‘Shcools’
Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
San Antonio woman faked kidnap to get day off work
TO San Antonio where a police officer has spotted 48-year-old Sheila Bailey Eubank in a car tied up with rope.Eubank tells police she’s been the victim of a kidnapping. She says a man jumped into her car. He held a knife to her. He made her drive around the city while he conducted drugs deals. She says he assaulted her and tied her up with a rope.
Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
This pig moos like a cow on demented Jollity’s Farm
LEARNING a foreign language on Jollity Farm, the language school? This pig is. Ecoutez et repetez: “Mooooooo”…
End of days, readers. End of days:
Now the school song:
All the little pigs, they moo and bleat
(Grunt, howl, grunt, howl)
The cats woof-woof
(Mee-yow, mee-yow)
The dog says ‘how?’
(Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff)
Everybody makes a row
Down on Jollity Farm
Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Witches used ‘flying ointment’ on a broomstick ‘dildo’
THE Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan:
“Witches and sorcerers cultivated plants with the power to “cast spells” — in our vocabulary, “psychoactive” plants. Their potion recipes called for such things as datura, opium poppies, belladona, hashish, fly-agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria), and the skin of toads (which can contain DMT, a powerful hallucinogen). These ingredients would be combined in a hempseed-oil-based “flying ointment” that the witches would then administer vaginally using a special dildo. This was the “broomstick” by which these women were said to travel. (119)”
Q. Why did witches ride broomsticks? A. To get high…
Posted: 21st, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
The Sex Burglars – Storify story on life in a London Peanut Factory
HAVE you ever been living in a converted peanut factory when people break in and start having sex in your bedroom?
“So I’m crashing at a mate’s and someone has just started having sex in the flat. Thing is, everyone that lives here is in the living room…”
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Posted: 21st, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Marina Chapman was Marina Luz – the child raised by monkeys
MARINA Chapman was, when a young child, adopted by family of capuchin monkeys in the Colombian jungle. She had been kidnapped at around five-years-old. The caper had went and she was abandoned in the jungle.
She now lives in Bradford.
In Colombia, Chapman learned from the monkeys. She could catch and kill small animals and birds with her bare hands. She lived that way for five years.
When human beings found her, they took her town and traded her for a parrot with a brothel keeper.
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Posted: 21st, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Man snuffs out 15 candles with Shaolin Sunshine Hand
TO China, where 23-year-old Chen Jia / Zhang Feng can snuff out 15 candles with the power of his wind. No. The wind produced by his hands. He has mastered the art of Shaolin Sunshine Hand. He places the candles 10cm apart. He lights them. Then with a flurry of man-hand activity not seen since the London 2012 Opening Ceremony, Jia / Feng kills the lights.
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Posted: 21st, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In photos: The Wild Sau Dirt Run 2012
THE Austria Dirt Run: the Wild Sau Dirt Run in Obertriesting, Lower Austria.The Wild Sau Dirt Run is a cross country and steeplechase race for men and women that goes over the distances of 10 and 20 kilometers. If you like muddy, sweaty people, this is for you:
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A participant of the Wild Sau Dirt Run 2012 is totally covered with mud after passing a barrier in Obertriesting, Lower Austria, Austria, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. The Wild Sau Dirt Run is a cross country and steeplechase race for men and women that goes over the distances of 10 and 20 kilometers. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
Posted: 20th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Teacher fined for selling home-made soap to pre-teen students
STUDENTS buying a bar of home-made soap from teacher Marlon Scanterbury were given “no homework” passes. They could also rack up points towards prizes.
The Brooklyn, New York, teacher’s sideline earned him $24 for six bars sold. It cost him $4,000 in fines levied by the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board.
The NY Post’s story omits to mention how Mr Scanterbury made his loss-making soap. You need some kind of fat, either vegetable or animal. How did the man make his soap? Why did he make soap and not, say, key ring fobs? And why sell soap to 11 and 12-year-olds?
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Posted: 20th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Wife hid huge dildo up husband’s anus for five days: X-Ray photo
TO Shanghai’s Zhongshan Hospital, where medics are removing a nine-inch dildo from a man’s intestines. The man, 30, says he had been having sex with his wife when the sex aide (9 inches long and 3 inches wide), became wedged up his anus.
(Maybe she put it there for safe keeping? Yep That’s what happened. Honest.)
And there is remained for five days.
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Posted: 20th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Inflatable doll dies in police chase
THERE are no self-service check outs at Christie’s ToyBox, Stillwater, Oklahoma. You need to pay the cashier. You need to show your face. This may have contributed to the decision of 27-year-old Jessie Allen Smith to rob the store of porn mags and a $300 inflatable sex doll.
Before his caper, Smith had bought a stringy wig at a local Walmart. This would be his disguise.
Says store manager Candace Gray:
“As soon as my clerk rings up one magazine, the guy runs behind the counter and puts my clerk’s head down towards the counter and basically leans over and puts the knife to his throat and threatens to stab him to death. He grabs the doll, magazines and money and runs out.”
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Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
This man has a condition called cutis verticis gyrata
THIS man has a condition called cutis verticis gyrata. NBC News says:
In this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, two Brazilian doctors describe this young man’s case and share a picture of its odd appearance. When he was 19, the skin on his scalp started to change. It grew thicker, forming many soft, spongy ridges and narrow ruts.
Even his hair had an unusual configuration. It was normal in the furrows but sparser over the folds as is common for this strange scalp condition. No doubt, visits to the barber shop as well as washing his squishy scalp and combing his hair were peculiar experiences.
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Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man beat lover who only listened to Alanis Morissette
TO Florida, where Allen Casey, 24, says he did hit his live-in boyfriend, Todd Fletcher, 33, in the face with a plate. Why? Because Fletcher only listens to Alanis Morissette. As Allen told the police:
“That’s all the mother f*cker listens to.”
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says Fletcher “stated that he was listening to Alanis Morissette and his boyfriend didn’t like it, so the suspect hit the victim in the face.”
It’s like the old joke:
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Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Brother and sister say they were having sex in Massachusetts bar (not stealing TV)
FROM Motherwell to the toilets at Samuel’s Sports Bar in Springfield, Massachusetts, where brother and sister, Robert Larrivee, 38, and Amanda Larrivee, 30, tell police they have been having sex.
No, officer, they were not trying to steal a television. They were having sex. They might have been having sex while hanging from the telly, which had been ripped from the wall.
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Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Coffin carriers break into a dance
THE funeral in Ghana is in full swing. The Casket Azonto Boys are for hire:
Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Birth announcement: to Cleopatra Cordelia, a little sister for Dorothy and Wulfstan
OTHER Parents, eh:
On 14th October 2012, to Gilly (née Ivil) and Rupert, a daughter, Cleopatra Cordelia, a little sister for Dorothy and Wulfstan.
.— 8lbs 13ozs.
To remember in your sniggers…
Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man arrested for owning sawfish sword
TO Karratha, Western Australia, where Jayden Moody has been arrested for threatening people with the sawfish sword.
The court must decided if Moody was armed or just carrying part of a fish.
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Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
