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 caught having sex with abandoned yellow sofa
TO Waukesha, Wisconsin, where Gerard P. Streator has been arrested for having sex with a sofa in public. He has been charged with committing lewd and lascivious behaviour.
The 46-year-old was spotted by a off-duty police officer jogging through the Pebble Valley neighbourhood. The officer first noticed an abandoned yellow sofa. He then noticed Streator thrusting back and forward into the sofa’s cushions for sexual gratification.
The officer asked: “What are you doing?”
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Posted: 23rd, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Taiwan Birdman Competition (photos)
A WOULD-BE bird takes a flight during the Taiwan Birdman Competition in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
If he can do piggy-backs, the budget airline industry just got cheaper…
Posted: 22nd, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man who faked brain damage tricked women to change his dirty nappy
TO Hooksett, New Hampshire, where Eric Carrier, 24, has been charged with attempting to commit indecent exposure.
In 2011, Carrier was in the news for a similar matter. He pretended to be brain damaged and in no control of his bowel in an advert calling for carers to change his nappy. At least five nurses responded to the Craigslist advert and met Carrier and his soiled underwear.
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Posted: 22nd, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pig saves baby goat from drowning while stupid human simply films
OUR world is filled with gloom, soot, feelings of a dreadful apocalypse and utter worthlessness. It’s an appalling situation designed to make us wearily and listlessly slump onto a collective couch and force handfuls of crisps into our teary faces.
And then, something really spiriting comes along to cheer us all up!
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Posted: 22nd, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Amish Mullets guilty of hair-cutting hate crime
BACK in October 2011, a group of Amish men cut the hair from the members of another Amish group. Now, Samuel Mullet Sr. and fifteen of his group have been convicted of federal conspiracy and hate crimes. They each face a possible ten year sentence for waging a campaign of terror across Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Mullet Sr’s group also faces allegations that he forced his followers to have sex with married women to “cleanse them of the Devil”.
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Posted: 21st, September 2012 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Piglet rescues baby goat (video)
A PIGLET rescues a drowning baby goat:
Posted: 21st, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Drunken pirate stole the Dart Princess Passenger Ferry
ALISON Whelan, 51, has been jailed for 112 days for aggravated vehicle taking. Whelan stole a passenger ferry. As she floated down the River Dart, Devon, Whelan yelled to police “I’m Jack Sparrow”, “I’m a pirate” and “I believe this is out of your jurisdiction”.
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Posted: 20th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cross dresser who raped neighbour’s pet goat to death escapes prison
TO West Virginia, where Mark Lucas, 20, is accused of raping his neighbour’s pet goat in his bedroom. The goat died. Lucas was wearing women’s underwear. A porn mag was found close by.Posted: 19th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (10)
Cuddly dogs shoots owner on deer hunt
THE Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time, Mark Haddon’s best-selling book, is to made into a stage play. In that book, the dog dies. In the Dordogne, south-western France, a dog has fired a gun and blown off part of his owner’s huntsman’s right hand, causing the entire thing to be amputated.
Rene (the owner) tells France Bleu radio:
“It wasn’t the dog’s fault – and he’s adorable!”
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Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Tommy Mattinson wins World Gurning crown for 14th year
AND the World Gurning Championship is… Tommy Mattinson. That’s 14 wins in a row now for Mattinson, at Cumbria’s Egremont Crab Fair.
How does it feel, Tommy Mattinson?
“I’m pleased to have won again. My neck’s sore, but other than that I’m OK.”
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Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The First International Goldfish Championships creates an impression
A GOLDFISH is an inconvenience, something you win at a funfair and then wonder what to do with. The Chineses have found a reason to own a goldfish: to enter it into beauty pageants.
At the first International Goldfish Championships, 3,000 swimmers and their trainers have arrived in Fuzhou. One will take home the the title of World Goldfish Queen.
Ye Qichang, who sits on the judging panel, explains:
“We judge goldfish mainly by five criteria: breed, body shape, swimming gesture, colour, which is very important, and overall impression,”
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Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man pays police fine with 137 origami pigs (video)
TO Texas, where our hero is paying his $137 fine for a traffic offence with 137 $1 bills folded into pigs. He presented them in a Dunkin’ Donuts box. He sure told them…sa he unwrapped them one by one brightened up their day…
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Posted: 16th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman gave birth to horse in Church
TO the World Liberation Ministry in Benin-City, Edo State, where, amid the pews, a worshipper has given birth to a horse.
Witnesses say they heard screams. They say the woman bleed from the vagina. She then gave birth to a horse.
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Posted: 16th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Face of the day: Jason Barnum is wanted in Alaska
FACE of the day: Jason Barnum is arraigned on charges of attempted murder and felony assault at the Anchorage Jail in Alaska. Barnum is charged with shooting and wounding an Anchorage Police Department officer on Sept. 13, 2012, in a room of the Merrill Field Inn as the officer and two other officers were investigating recent burglaries.
Why do they stare? Why?
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Posted: 15th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Malik Ameer Muhammad Afridi’s infidel moushache defies the Islamists
TO PESHAWAR, where Malik Ameer Muhammad Afridi is talking though the hairy lip. Afridi is the owner of a 30-inch long moustache. Islamist group Lashkar-e-Islami noticed it. Despite the crescents, they said it was un-Islamic and ordered it to be removed.
Says Afridi:
“It was the summer of 2008, when members of the LeI arrested me and took me to a religious scholar who declared the moustache un-Islamic and ordered it to be shaved.”
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Posted: 14th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kazuhiro Watanabe has the tallest hair in the world
FACE of the day: Kazuhiro Watanabe, 40, a fashion designer from Tokyo, shows off his 3-foot-8-point-6-inch hairdo in New York City’s Washington Square Park. To make it stand upright he says it takes stylists two hours, one can of gel and three cans of hairspray. He’s in the Guinness World Records book 2012. Hey, it’s a hobby…
Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Butcher stored raw meat under Y-fronts
TO Bristol, where Kamran Ajaib has been brought to book. Mr Ajaib prepared 20 tonnes of meat for human consumption from the unlicensed Hamza Poultry Limited in Maggs Lane, Fishponds.
His meat was sold at takeaway places in Bristol, Swindon, Cardiff, Newport and Swansea.
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Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Woman wonders around Kings Cross station with a plant pot on her head (photos)
HAVE you seen the women who wonders about London’s Kings Cross St Pancras station with a plant pot on her head. The place used to be full of pot heads…and prostitutes? Is it fetish wear?
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Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Phillip Beach tried to steal 12-ton boat by pulling it behind him and swimming
PHILLIP Beach, 26, might be the World’s Strongest Man. Police scuppered his attempt on the title when they spotted Beach Seabrook near Galveston, Texas, tied to the 44-foot, 12-ton yacht named The Flying Pearl and attempting to swim it away.
Beach was arrested and charged with theft.
Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mug shot of the day: Hazen Williamson and his dress
MUG Shot of the day: 57-year-old, Californian Hazen Williamson has been arrested for allegedly lifting his dress to expose his genitals.
(It’s what Eve would have wanted.)
Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Why must we cure fat and happy pets? Obie the dog gets isoflavones and a treadmill
WE’VE met fat and happy dog Alfie, “rescued” by the RSPCA and put on a diet. Now we meet Obie, a five-year-old, 77-pound daschund from Portland, Oregon.
Nora Vanatta says:
“Ageing owners with failing health were simply loving him with food. They just couldn’t say no to those big brown eyes.”
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Posted: 11th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Nominative determinism: consultant Dangli Wang
MR Dangli Wang works for NCS in Singapore.
More nominative determinism when we see it…
Posted: 9th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mug shot of the day: Hubert Leverich’s “INSANE’ face
MUG shot of the day. The Bogey Man has a face: 40-year-old Hubert Leverich of Campbell County has been arrested and charged with the sexual abuse of a girl between the ages of 13 and 15.
Men with tattoos on their faces who have fought for years to be trusted by children will be upset…
Posted: 8th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Alfie is Britain is fattest pet – and he’s really happy
ONCE upon a time fat mwas equated with being jolly. Fat people indulged themselves on life’s treats. Billy Bunter might have been a bloater, but the “Fat Owl of the Remove” was the only character at Greyfriars School who could shift books and films. So, to Alfie, a 12-year-old cream Labrador who weighed 12st 5lbs.
Alfie’s owner is suffering from dementia. This, goes the official line, is why they kept feeding Alfie. The owner’s daughter called the RSPCA. The RSPCA called Alfie “a massive blob with a leg at each corner”. Thanks tot he RSPCA, Alfie has responded to a strict diet and lost 4st 8lbs. The charity wants him to lose a further 3st.
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Posted: 7th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Dog bites own leg as cat attacks itself: stoopid pets
ARE cats more stupids than dogs? Let’s see.
Dog bites leg:
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Posted: 6th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
