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.
Hull man built bomb workshop at home – you might laugh
PAUL Smith built a “bomb workshop” at his Hull home. At Hull Crown Court, Mr Smith was sentenced to a 10-year anti-social behaviour order banning him from owning fireworks and flares not “commercially available“, and handed a 12-month community order for the crime of owning explosive substances.
Smith said it was his “hobby“. We might note that all bomb making stuff is commercially available so long as you head to the right arms fair.
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Posted: 5th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man keeps monster worm as pet
WHEN is a worm not a worm? When does a worm become something else? To Binchuan County, China, where Li Zhiwei was drying Chinese dates in his backyard. Says he:
“It looked like a snake, I looked carefully and found it was actually a huge earthworm.”
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Posted: 5th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mr Moose goes mad in Vermont (video)
MR MOOSE goes to a music festival, sticks flowers in his hair and dances on a car. Then the Game Warden comes – aka The Man – and shoots Mr Moose dead. There is talk of brain worms but it’s like the 1970s never went away. Attica! Attica!
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Posted: 5th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Plato the dog kidnapped and held for ransom
WHO kidnapped and threatened to torture Plato the dog?
To Lindbergh, Georgia, where Emily Connors has paid a $1000 random to save the life of her 7-year old Maltese. Plato had been taken during a burglary, stolen along with Connors’s TV, laptop, and other gadgets. The thief then sent her threats, including a photo of a gun pointing at Plato’s head. The thief demanded $3000. She negotiated a lower fee.
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Posted: 4th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The giant pink rabbit of Via Artesina 18, 12083 Frabosa Sottana Cuneo, Italy (photo)
THE giant pink rabbit of Via Artesina 18, 12083 Frabosa Sottana Cuneo, Italy, as seen on Google Earth:
Posted: 3rd, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Fox demands beheading and hanging at University of Hertfordshire
DO animals like being decapitated and their heads hanged on walls. To the University of Hertfordshire, in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where a fox has burrowed into an office This photo was taken by builders doing renovation work.
RSPCA worker Kate Wright describes the scene:
“I just had these big eyes staring at me. Here was this fox’s head poking out of a floor and he was so jammed he couldn’t move. I actually think he had quite an embarrassed expression on his face… I think it was his pride that was hurt…”
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Posted: 2nd, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Annual pregnant bikini babe contest (photos)
TO Houston, Texas for the Rod Ryan Show Pregnant Bikini Contest – now in its 8th year!
Posted: 1st, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mug Shots special: Woman arrested four times in 26 hours
MUG Shot of the day is mug shots of the day: Joyce Coffey, 53, who lives at 64 Mast Road in Epping, New Hampshire, was arrested four times in 26 hours. Three arrests were for playing music too loud (including playing AC/DC’s hit song “Highway to Hell” at 1 a.m.)— and one for lobbing a frying pan at her nephew’s head.
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Posted: 1st, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Armed police seize man for carrying cocked dildo
TO Telford, Shropshire, where armed police and dogs are responding to reports of a men wandering the streets with a pistol tucked into his trousers.
Ian Poulton, 33, is arrested. His gun is examined. It turns out to be a silver dildo.
The matter reaches Shrewsbury Crown Court, where Poulton admits possessing an item which had the appearance of a handgun with intent to cause fear of violence.
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Posted: 31st, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Venus the Amazing Chimera Cat is cool (for a cat)
TO North Carolina, to see the “two-faced” kitten posted to reddit. He is “the coolest cat ever”.
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Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Derbyshire man slid lit firework between trick or treaters buttocks
AUGUST is nearly over. Time to hang out the Christmas bunting and make ready for Halloween and Bonfire Night. To Derbyshire, then, where Stephen Gregory, 54, has been jailed for 14 months at Derby Crown Court for the events of Halloween 2011.
Gregory responded to repeated seasonal knocks on his front door and the refrain “trick or treat?” by grabbing a 15-year-old caller, handcuffing him to his washing line with some toy cuffs and inserting a lit firework (a banger) between his buttocks. Stick a few twigs in the lad’s hair and this might be the one-stop look for the winter’s festivities.
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Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Peterborough family build air raid shelter in garden
MEET the Rands, of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. They’s built a World War II replica air raid shelter in their back garden. What do they know? What have they heard?
Mrs Rands tells the BBC:
“It’s above ground. We didn’t put it in the ground because they do flood and we didn’t want to ruin what we’ve put in there.”
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Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cats keeps coming back to sit in Lewisham doctors surgery
A CAT waits in a Lewisham doctors’ surgery. It keeps coming back. Anyone touching the cat does so at their”own risk”:
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Posted: 29th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Boston opens new ‘neighoborhood’ school (sign fail)
BOSTON Public Schools welcome you to the new Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School in Roxbury:
More back to school fails.
Posted: 29th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
School makes deaf Hunter Spanje change sign name because it looks like a gun
TO Nebraska, where 3-year-old Hunter Spanjer – he’s deaf – has been asked by the school to alter his sign language name because the experts think the gestures looks like he’s shooting a gun.
Hunter Spanjer’s sign violates the Grand Island Public Schools weapons policy.
Says Hunter’s father, Brian Spanjer:
“He’s deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy. “It’s a symbol. It’s an actual sign, a registered sign, through (Signing Exact English).”
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Posted: 28th, August 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
In 1954 Dr Vladimir Demikhov created a two-headed dog (video)
HERE’S a cute Russian video about making two-headed dogs:
In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world by unveiling a surgically created monstrosity: A two-headed dog. He created the creature in a lab on the outskirts of Moscow by grafting the head, shoulders, and front legs of a puppy onto the neck of a mature German shepherd.Demikhov paraded the dog before reporters from around the world. Journalists gasped as both heads simultaneously lapped at bowls of milk, and then cringed as the milk from the puppy’s head dribbled out the unconnected stump of its esophageal tube.
He was a pioneer:
Vladimir Demikhov, a veteran of the Red Army hospitals in World War 2, believed it was possible to transplant organs like the heart and lungs in human beings.
He was the father of heart bypass surgery.
Posted: 28th, August 2012 | In: Flashback, Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Australian school bans children from doing anything upside down
TO Drummoyne Public School, Sydney, Australia, where the students have been banned from performing handstands, cartwheels and somersaults. There will none of that sort of thing in the playground during lunch and break times .
Anyone wishing to do gymnastics will need to find a teacher and with the “correct equipment.”
The message fromthe headmistress Gail Charlier says:
GYMNASTICS ON THE PLAYGROUND
Students have expressed a desire to perform activities such as handstands, cartwheels and somersaults on the playground during lunch and recess times. We have consulted the State Schools Sports Unit for policy advice and have been informed that such activities are prohibited unless under the specialised supervision of a trained gymnastics teacher with the correct equipment ‘mats’. These activities therefore cannot be condoned during lesson breaks.
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Posted: 28th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (11)
Thief steal ebola patient’s mobile phone – gets ebola virus
TO Kibaale District, Uganda, where a thief has snaked into the isolation ward at Kagadi Hospital and nicked an Ebola patient’s mobile phone:
The suspect allegedly broke into the isolation ward on the night of Tuesday August 14, undetected by hospital guards. The patient, who has since succumbed to the deadly hemorrhagic fever, then reported the theft to the hospital security that then embarked on tracing the alleged thief.
Police detectives began tracking him after he apparently began communicating to his friends using the phone. But as police zeroed in on him, he developed symptoms similar to those of Ebola and sought medication at the hospital.
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Posted: 28th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Should there be a dangerous cat act? Mary Bale was right
NEVER trust a cat. Nora Scott, 80, from Tunstall, Staffordshire, says a neighbour’s cat attacked her. Was Mary Bale right. She was the women who dropped a cat into a state-of-the-art wheelie-bin, turning Lola into Top Cat, every cat’s TV hero. It might have been what Lola wanted. Cats, after all, can control human brains. Mary Bale became the leader of the Mary Bale Fan Club.
Now we read that cats are attacking us:
“I am terrified of this cat. It clawed my face and I had to go to the hospital and get antibiotics. I have spoken to the police, but they say there is nothing they can do. I think there should be a new law, because they have one for dangerous dogs. It just jumped up and clawed all down my face. There was blood everywhere and it left me with a black eye. Now I am too scared to go out, in case it comes after me.”
“Until something is done, then I will have to remain in my house. I used to love pottering about in the garden. I used to grow lovely flowers but I had to cut them all down so I could see whether the cat was hiding there.“
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Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
76-year-old drugs smuggler did it to keep active
HOW do you keep active in your dotage? To Germany, where a 76-year-old grandmother tells the court she imported a tonne of cannabis from Holland to keep active.
A Düsseldorf judge has sent her to prison for two-and-half years for smuggling the drugs over a five-year period.
She says her career began in 2006. Her car broken down near Venlo. Two men stopped to help. They asked her to deliver a few washing powder containers to Germany. Soon she was earning €700 a trip.
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Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Oxford’s biggest idiot jailed for robbery (video)
IDIOT of the day is James Allan, who attempted to rob Martin’s newsagent in Northcourt Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
He’d robbed the place 10 days earlier.
This time he was armed with a toy gun. The cashier handed over £134.98 taken from the till. Allan then removed his balaclava. The camera recorded his face. He then began to getaway, wrestling with the one-way door. He pushed and her pushed but it would not open. He kicked it. Shop manager Angela Croke then stepped forward, pulling the door open.
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Posted: 24th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police tip: do not keep big tins of paint in back seat of cars (photo)
ADVICE of the day comes via the New South Wales police Facebook page: when driving take care to secure the 25-litre bucket of paint resting on the backseat of their car. A minor shunt can result in rapid redecoration:
Posted: 24th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Male driver had spit-roast dildo sex while driving
WHICH women’s magazine hack dare to say mena can’t multi-task? To St. Paul, Minnesota, where Brian Wutschke, 45, of Farmington is driving his red pickup truck whilst white performing oral sex on a white dildo. Police find women’s knickers hanging from the rear view mirror and strewn about the vehicle.
A search of Mr Wutschke’s “waistline area” revleadd a vibrating sensation. He had a vibrator secreted up his anus.
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Posted: 24th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who is the Duct Tape Bandit?
DO you know the Duct Tape Bandit? Police in Edmonds, Poulsbo, Redmond, and Stanwood in Western Washington are hunting the man who they have called the “Duct Tape Bandit.”
He committed four armed robberies in the area.
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Posted: 24th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman killed and ate sons thinking they were pigs
TO Chiang Mai, Thailand, where a woman has been arrested. She is accused of murdering and eating her two sons. One theroy si that she mistook them for pigs.
Says Mental Health Department deputy director general Kiattiphum Wongrachit:
“The woman killed her children because she didn’t continue her treatment and didn’t take her medication.”
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Posted: 23rd, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
