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.
Woman hid 36 packets of crack up her vagina (gun not found)
TO Philadelphia, where 22-year-old Ashley Bellamy has been stopped by police in Upper Darby (surely caught by the fuzz? -Ed).
Bellamy was in a car with her boyfriend, Marcus Gibson, 23. A man asked them for some crack. He produced $50. Gibson pulled a gun and told the customer to go to the cash machine and bring more money. The man called the police.
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood says Bellamy got out the car and was “walking funny”. He says:
“The woman says, ‘I have crack up in my vagina,’ and she pushed out 36 vials of crack cocaine that were in a bag.”
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Posted: 3rd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Terry the sheep has an upside head (photos)
TERRY is the sheep with the upside down head. Terry lives in the UK. (But Terry empathises with Australian sheep.) Being a sheep, of course, all the other sheep will be just like Terry soon enough:
Posted: 3rd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Oregon farmer eaten by his pigs
TO Oregon, where farmer Terry Vance Garner, 70, has been eaten by his pigs. Missing since Wednesday, a family member went to look him. They found Garner’s dentures and bits of his body in the pig pen.
The Daily Mail says one of the killer pigs went to the same school as Peppa Pig and never met Jimmy Savile…
Posted: 2nd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Polish police issue photo of masked man wanted for robbery
DO you know this man? Police in Poland have issued this photo of a man who robbed £10,000 from a bank in Gronowo. To add to the dram, police published the name of the only witness to the caper. Says police spokesman Tomasz Stawarski: “We haven’t excelled ourselves this time. The robber kept his mask on all the time so our artist didn’t have anything to go on apart from the colour of his eyes…It was a mistake to name him. He is now under police protection.”
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Posted: 2nd, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman has 1.8kg hair ball removed from her stomach (photo)
TO India, where a 19-year-old woman from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh has had a 1.8 kilogramme ball of hair removed from her stomach. Dr. Parvinder Singh Lubana Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital said the woman swallowed the hair, which might have wrapped itself around a small stone.
Either that or else she swallowed a whole otter…
Posted: 1st, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Well-endowed Britons beat French but lose to Germans
THE Press Association tells us that British men have, on average, large penises than the Irish and the French but not the Germans. However, the BRitish rank only 78th out of 113 nationalities, erm, polled.
The research can be read in the journal of Personality and Individual Differences.
The PA adds:
But critics argue that Mr Lynn’s research is flawed because he has gathered data on penis length from websites.
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Posted: 1st, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man murdered lover who interrupted his sleep
ERIC Brian Pauley tells the Putnam County Circuit Court, West Virginia,why he shot and killed Debra Rosiek, 52:
“She woke me up. . . . It made me mad she woke me up like that in the middle of the night…She come in, flipped the light on and started hollering.”
Pauley, 50, has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
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Posted: 1st, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Naked woman licked ice-cream from straddled driver in speeding Porsche
TO Sweden, where the woman says she was “licking ice cream” off the driver’s body she was straddling as the couple sped down the E4 motorway in a convertible Porsche.
Moreover the woman was not wearing a seat belt.
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Posted: 1st, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
An Inconvenient Truth about drowned polar bears
USED to seeing press photographs of seemingly stricken polar bears sat on tiny cubes of ice, it’s heartening to read that the symbol of global warming is doing fine.
In the Chaunsky district of Chukotka, Russia, a woman decided to feed one poly on chicken legs. She tossed them at the bear. The bear tossed her, grabbing the woman and dragging her to the tundra.
Policeman Sergei Terekhov heard the screams. The took hold of his gun and killed the beast.
Still, sad news for some. After all, polar bears are dying out, aren’t they? Al Gore told us so. In his film An Inconvenient Truth, Gore showed us this:
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Posted: 1st, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Newcastle man shops ex-lover who bit off his testicle
ONCE bitten, twice shy? Not a bit of it. Martin Douglas got back with Maria Topp, 45, the woman who bit into his scrotum. He had 19 stitches to re-attach his scrotum. In November 2011, Topp scored a 12-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, and a restraining order that banned her from contacting Douglas.
Then they got back together, although she says it was not sexual. But when the friendship withered and died in June, Doulgas called the police and said Topp has breached her restraining order.
Topp was arrested. She says was “stabbed in the back”, but not literally.
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Posted: 30th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Smoking orangutan gives birth to healthy baby
BIRTHS, marriages and deaths: we are delighted to announce that Tori, 15, has given birth to a healthy baby.
Tori is an orangutan at Indonesia’s Taru Jurug Zoo.
Tori smoked through most of her pregnancy, puffing away on lit cigarettes kindly tossed into her cage by the zoo’s visitors.
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Posted: 30th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Why Facebook stops us having kids (ha-ha)
FACEBOOK post of the day:
“I’ve decided I’m not going to have kids. I love babies, but I’m just not ready for the commitment of uploading that many photos to Facebook.”
Spotter: Lierin Casey via Leandro Toledo
Posted: 29th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Limerick man pleads guilty is dog buggery death case
TO Limerick city, where Sean McDonnell, 58, of Churchill Meadows, is stood in the dock at Limerick Circuit Court. He is charged with an offence relating to section 61 of the Offences Against The Person Act 1861. In short: buggery with an Alsatian dog.
The incident occurred in Patrickswell on October 7, 2008. That was the same day a 43-year-old woman who suddenly died at the same address. It is believed the mother of four suffered an allergic reaction to the dog’s semen and died.
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Posted: 29th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Lads live on roof of Florida shoe shop when mum bans sleepovers
TRAVIS Rose and John Vaughn, both aged 20, have been living in a tent on the roof of the Shoe Carnival store in Ocala, Florida. Rose’s mum told him he was too old for sleepovers. So. He moved out. And up.
Says Rose:
“We both still have homes with our parents and everything. It was just a home away from home. A spot to chill and hang out with friends… It just kept progressing. Let’s go get beds so we’re more comfortable. And then we decided, let’s go get chairs so we can sit out outside. We just had a bunch of ideas. Hot tub idea. Putt-putt golf on the fake grass. We had a bunch of ideas.”
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Posted: 29th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Lucky women finds mouse meat in Tesco sandwich
KATIE Crabtree, 31, found a free dead mouse in her Tesco bacon and chicken meal sandwich.
Says Kate of the sarnie bought in Stockton:
“I took a bite and saw this big black thing in it, but I thought it was just burned bacon and swallowed it. Then I saw there was something horrible in the sandwich. It was black and had hair – and I could see a little paw. It was horrendous. I felt so sick and now I can’t eat another packaged sandwich because I just think of that horrible thing. I chased it up a few times with the store and head office but nobody seemed to know what was happening. In the end they gave me a £10 voucher.”
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Posted: 28th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Michael Turley made ‘terror’ film to test how long it took for police to shoot his nephew
TO Phoenix, Arizona, where Michael Turley, 39, recorded his nephew dressed in a sheet while pointing a fake grenade launcher at passing cars. Turley said it was reserch, to see how long police took to arrive and possibly shoot his relative in the face. He called the film “Dark Knight Shooting Response, Rocket Launcher Police Test.”
Turkey has been arrested and charged with knowingly giving a false impression of a terrorist act, endangerment and contributing to the delinquency of his minor nephew, 16.
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Posted: 28th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Soldier shoots colleague in face to cure his hiccups
WAYS to cure hiccups: No. 342b – shoot the patient in the face with a hand gun.
Says Carroll Smith of the Killeen, Texas, Police Department:
“The victim had the hiccups. The suspect pulled out a gun to scare him in order to stop the hiccups.”
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Posted: 27th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dad offers $40m prize for any man who can seduce his lesbian daughter
FANCY an easy £40million? All you need do is marry the daughter of Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, the fragrant 33-year-old Gigi Chao. She’s a University of Manchester graduate with good teeth, GSOH and a sound pair of hips.
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Posted: 27th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Wife shot husband who threatened her cat
TO Texas, where Audrey Deen Miller, 42, has shot her husband in the in the stomach after he threatened to shoot one of her cats with a pellet gun.
She drew a .40-calibre semi-automatic handgun and shot him. He’s in hospital. She’s veen charged aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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Posted: 26th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man disguised as Renault 7 passenger seat arrested at border
WHEN is an illegal immigrant not an illegal immigrant? When’s he’s a car seat.
Police in the Spanish enclave of Melilla spotted a 20-year-old man from Guinea Melilla travelling as the front seat of a Renault 7. They stopped him at the Morocco boarder.
Your heated car seat with vibrating massage setting and blasts of warm sucked mint look a bit old hat now…
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Posted: 25th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Gerard P Streator: mug shot of man who had sex with an abandoned sofa
GERARD P. Streator, the 46-year-old Waukesha, Wisconsin, man allegedly caught having sex with an abandoned yellow sofa, has has had his mug shot taken. Mr Streator will answer the charges of lewd and lascivious behaviour at the Waukesha County Circuit Court, next Monday.
Add the sofa to the list of weird objects people have had sex with.
Posted: 25th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man killed wife he mistook for a monkey
TO Nepal, where a man has shot his wife dead. He reason? He thought she was a monkey.
Bed Prakash Pun shot his wife thorgh the throast as she Basanti Pun fire as she fetched water from a tap.
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Posted: 24th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man has eel removed from anus
TO the A&E department at Auckland City Hospital, to see a man with an eel stuck up his anus.“The eel was about the size of a decent sprig of asparagus and the incident is the talk of the place. Doctors and nurses have come across people with strange objects that have got stuck where they shouldn’t be before, but an eel has to be a first.”
Posted: 24th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Two elephants massage a man
NOT for this tourist a coin-operated massage chair in a shopping mall, or asking the kids to kick harder against the back of your car seat. The traveller might have specific chiropractic issue that only an elephant can understand, but keen massage fans will note that the therapists are not wearing Birkenstocks and linen trousers, and, as a result, one must question their suitability for the job:
Posted: 24th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Photo of huge fireball spotted over Norwich
A HUGE fireball has been spotted over Norwich. Did you see it? The Norwich Evening News might have done. It might also have produced the best picture caption of the year:
Posted: 23rd, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
