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.
Bangladeshi labourer does amazing brick trick
THERE’S this idea among many Brits that ‘they’ are coming and taking all of ‘our’ jobs. This mainly concerns labouring jobs, where migrant workers come to Britain and work incredibly hard and get catcalled by Spesh swilling doleys who will find any excuse to not put a shift in.
Of course, there are examples in migrant workers being exploited and British grafters who can’t get a job, but being fair and even-handed isn’t nearly as fun as casting the net far and wide in the name of going, ‘eh readers?’
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Oscar the hypnotising dog from Luton (video)
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Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who vandalised the Milton Keynes cows? Concrete lions operate in this area
Posted: 15th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Felix Baumgartner jumps from the edge of space – incredible photos
FELIX Baumgartner is high above Red Bull Mission Control Roswell New Mexico. Felix Baumgartner will rise 120,000 feet. He will then jump. He will break the speed of sound in freefall (an estimated 690 miles per hour):
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Felix Baumgartner, left, of Austria, celebrates with Art Thompson, Technical Project Director, after successfully jumping from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon at a height of just over 128,000 feet above the Earth's surface, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, in Roswell, N.M. Baumgartner landed in the eastern New Mexico desert minutes after jumping from his capsule 28,000 feet (8,534 meters), or 24 miles (38.6-kilometer), above Earth (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comments (5)
Felix Baumgartner falls 23 miles to Earth: the epic live feed
AT 9.31am local time, Austrian dare devil Feliz Baumgartner began his rise to 23 miles above planet Earth. He will then jump. In 1960, Joe Kittinger fell 19.5miles to Earth. That’s been the record ever since. The live feed:
Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Chinese zoo wows tourists with peacock’s mechanical tail
OFF we go to see the peacock at Beijing Wild Animal Park. This peacock can spread his tail to order. Ok, not exactly his own tail, more the mechical one tied to his nether reagions by animal experts.
A zoo keeper explains:
“Visitors are happy to pay to pose in front of a peacock spreading his tail but they only do it in spring when they’re breeding. So to keep the money coming in we have to tie the tail to the bird and when they’ve paid, we spread it out for the picture.”
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Posted: 14th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Northampton celebrates world’s tallest poppadom tower
LOCAL news: The Tamarind Restaurant, Wellingborough Road, Northampton, has constructed the world’s tallest poppadom tower. The tower stands 5ft 8in monstertall. It features 1,280 poppadoms.
Says Tamarind owner Tipu Rahman:
“I am very proud. It was hard work and took a lot of practice but we did it. It’s brilliant for the curry industry in Northampton and really puts us on the map. It took a lot of teamwork and there were a few nervy moments but I was always confident. We had practised hard.”
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Posted: 13th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
The worst sounds in the world (audio)
THE five most unpleasant sounds, according to research at Newcastle University, fundes by the Wellcome Trust:
Can you identify them?
Answers at foot of page.
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Posted: 12th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dead flying chicken hits horse rider
TO Wisconsin, where Cassie Bernard is on a horse ride with Queen Hive Farm in Assawoman, Virginia. A dead chicken falls from the sky and hits her on the head. Two more lumps of chicken just miss her.
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Posted: 12th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mullet man kicked out of Australian bar
TO Perth, Australia, where Westie David Hoogland has been ordered from the city’s Print Hall bar. He and fiancee Sarah Sorgiovanni must leave. Says David:
“I’m not in a gang, I don’t have tattoos all over me, I’m just an everyday person.”
So. Why did he have to leave? The hair. Hoogland has a mullet on his bonce.
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Posted: 11th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
14-year-old boys steal from mum to hire prostitutes
TO Germany, where two 14-year-olds are delighted to be in trouble. One of the boys stole €3,000 worth of jewellery from his mother. The pair sold the booty for €300 and invested the cash in prostitutes working out of a brothel in Karlsruhe.
Mum shopped them to the fuzz.
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Posted: 10th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman says marijuana in her genitals was not hers
VIDA Golac, 18, of Golden Gate Estates, says the marijuana in her vagina is not hers.
Naples police officers pulled over the car Golac was riding in with two friends. A search produced a stash of marijuana in the back of the car near, next to Gloac. She said the weed wasn’t hers. She said it belonged to her two other passengers. They denied it and left.
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Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man dies trying to win python at all-you-can eat cockroach eating contest
TO Ben Siegel’s Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach, Florida, where Edward Archbold has been eating cockroaches and worms in a contest to win a python.
Edward Archbold begins regurgitating the nosh, collapses outside the store and dies.
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Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who is the Croydon cat shaver?
WHO is the cat shaver of Croydon? Stephanie Warton, 60, of Shirley, Croydon, says someone is shaving her Barney:
“It’s a complete mystery, whoever is doing it does another little bit every day so they think I won’t notice, but I’m not stupid. I want to find them so I can shave their hair off and see how they like it.”
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Posted: 8th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man jumped into zoo lion pen after row with wife
TO Nandankanan Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Zoo assistant director K L Purohit is telling media what happened:
“The man indentified as Suryanarayan Das (45) from Chhatrapur in Ganjam district all of a sudden climbed on the wall and jumped into the lions enclosure housing male lion, Cris, and lioness, Priyanka. We rescued Das within five minutes and rushed him to a hospital.”
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Posted: 8th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bear cub goes mad on junk food in Arizona home
THERE’S a bear in the bedroom, what am I gonna do? Call UB40? Or if you’re Phil Volk, of Sonia, Arionza, you do not call Birmingham’s premier reggae/pop band. You do not call the grandchildren down to kill it. You call the officials.
Says Volk:
“It had been on a feeding frenzy. It pulled the lid off a chocolate cake on the counter and finished that off. It tipped the trash and went through the contents of that. It got into the pantry for chips, bread, jelly beans. It was total disarray. He ate very well.”
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Posted: 8th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Teacher says students laced her coffee with GluteBost buttock growing serum
ELLEN Vick, 61, a teacher at Independence High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, says a student laced her coffee with “rear end enhancer”, namely “GluteBoost”.
According to the blurb, GluteBoost, makes your backside bigger:
Are you wondering How To Get A Bigger Butt or how to get Bigger Buttocks Naturally? Gluteboost is your answer!!! Gluteboost is an All Natural Butt Enhancement Pill designed to give you the hour glass figure you deserve without paying for expensive buttock enhancement surgery or enduring the pain of pricey butt injections.
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Posted: 7th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mr Fox gets work as human scarecrow in Norfolk
JAMIE Fox is using skills acquired studying English and music at Bangor University to work as a human scarecrow for farmer William Youngs.
Fox, 22, scares crows with a ukulele, accordion and cowbell. After the crows have been vanquished, he can buy a hat and get a job on the London Underground playing to trapped audiences.
But why bother busking with menaces? The BBC says Fox earns £250 as a scarecrow working a 10-acre rape seed plot in Aylsham, Norfolk.
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Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man set alight by cigarette fire escapes into path of speeding train
TO Kamloops, British Columbia, where a 51-year-old man is recovering in hospital. He has been badly burnt. There is a deep gash on his head. He is lucky to be alive.
The man had been taking a break in a field. He’d been drinking. He’d lay down in the long grsss for a smoke. The grass had caught fire. The fire had spread to his clothes. In fear of his life, the man had taken up his bicycle and raced off. It was then that a locomotive belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railway stuck him.
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Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
8 Bournemouth police drag splashing victim from swimming pool
TO Bournemouth’s Littledown Centre, where eight police officers are responding with extreme haste to reports of splashing incident.
A male, middle-aged swimmer claims youths have splashed him. The man is shouting at the alleged splashers. Police arrive. Eight of them. This is, in their words, a potentially “high-risk” situation. It calls for “dynamic” action. Two officers jump fully clothed into the water. (They did not shower off first, as the rules demand.) One officer carries a float.
The man is apprehended and dragged to the poolside.
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Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
New Orleans accidentally lawyer drops marijuana joint in court
TO New Orleans Parish magistrate court, where attorney Jason Cantrell is talking to a police officer.
Cantrell jerks his hand. He drops a joint on the floor. NOPD officers make an easy arrest.
Cantrell, 43, is handed a summons for simple possession of marijuana.
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Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Groom sues Pole dancer for rupturing his bladder
TO PHILADELPHIA, where the city’s Daily News reports on Patrick Gallagher. On his Stag Do, Gallagher made it to the Penthouse Club – motto: “Experience Life on Top.”
The evening went with a pop. Gallagher is suing the establishment. His lawsuit states that having been seduced on stage and told to lie down, the stripper slid down the pole with such force that she ruptured Gallagher’s bladder.
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Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Lancashire man mugs toddler for an iPhone (video)
DARK times at the Hype clothes store in Ormskirk, Lancashire. Daniella Hinnigan, 26, from Kirkby, Merseyside, has handed her iPhone 4 to 20-month-old daughter Luella. The child is using it to watch a Barney The Dinosaur film as mum shops.
A man approaches. He has gray hair and glasses. Paedo? No. He’s a thief. He takes the mobile and walks off.
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Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mummified perjury hand stolen from German church
WHO stole the mummified hand from St Brigida church, Legden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany? The dead hand had been in a box since 1905. Known as the “perjury-hand”, it is said to have been chopped off a liar.Posted: 3rd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Michael Jackson guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting children in Birmingham
IT might be a case of nominative determinism. Michael Jackson, 50, has been found guilty in Birmingham Crown Court of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a boy and a girl, both aged 10.
Jackson changed his name from Albert England.
Why? Well, Jimmy Savile never was much of a dancer…
Posted: 3rd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Strange But True | Comment
