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.
Fayzarahmanist Islamists lived in underground bunker for 10 years
MEMBERS of the Islamist Fayzarahmanist sect have been living in an eight-storey underground bunker near Kazan, Tatarstan, an internal Russian republic, for close to ten years. Reuters reports that 70 people (including 20 children) lived in the bunker with neither heat nor light. Some of the dwellers have never seen the sun.
Reports are that the Fayzarahmanist sect was created by Fayzrahman Satarov, who claimed his home as an independent Islamic state.
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Posted: 9th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man ate Glasgow Rangers fan’s ear in Whispers bar
TO a pub in Tranent, East Lothian, where Alastair Park, 30, is fighting with Graeme Aitken. Mr Aitken, a fan for Glasgow Rangers FC, had challenged fellow drinkers to a fight. Mr Park, a keen rugby fan, accepted the challenge. In the fracas, Park bit the top from one of Mr Aitken’s ears and ate some of it.
Park was arrested for the incident at – get this – Whispers Lounge Bar.
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Posted: 9th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus spotted in Texas pensioner’s tortilla
TO the La Amistad Adult Daycare in Beeville, Texas, where Jesus has appeared in 80-year-old Ernesto Garza’s egg breakfast tortilla. Jesus is now in the fridge.
As Mr Garza says:
“I looked at it for five minutes.”
He asked a friend what the burnigns looked like? She replied: “Jesus.”
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Posted: 8th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mr Stoner arrested for marijuana possession
NOMINATIVE determinism of the day features Jessie Stoner. When police stopped his truck for having a broken brake light, they found marijuana and a dead 4-foot alligator in his tool box.
Stoner has been charged with misdemeanor counts of drug possession and – get this – taking an alligator without a permit.
Posted: 5th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
School holds Dress Up Your Dead Possum day – photos
“When people die, don’t we dress them up?”
Posted: 2nd, August 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Why did Darwin man stick a lit firework in his butt?
WHY did Alex Bowden, 23, of Wagaman, Darwin, Australia, place a spinning “flying bee” winged firework between his trousered arse cheeks and light it?
Senior Sergeant Garry Smith has told us: “It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.” The policeman added that Bowden could be fined $282 for letting off fireworks.
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Posted: 1st, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jolly Rancher Crunch and Chew sweets come with free shank knife
TO Santa Clara, where Amy Hu is retrieving her free shank knife from a bag of Jolly Rancher Crunch and Chew sweets. Says Hu of her surprise gift:
“I was all excited to try them out. Opened it up, ate two pieces first, went back in for my third piece and pulled this right out of the bag and was just in disbelief.”
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Posted: 31st, July 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Thief steals ethics textbook
TO the University of Louisville Police department, where Terry J. Davis is accised of stealing a book entitled Resolving Ethical Issues from UofL’s Health Sciences Center and trying to to sell it to Gray’s College Bookstore.
Mr Davis is feared to be a fan of The Only Way is Ethics, the reality TV show for lispers struggling with moral matters and conduct in Basildon…
Posted: 29th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police seek man with puppy in his pants – children warned
ROUND up the usual paedophiles. Long Island police are looking for man with a puppy in his pants:
Posted: 28th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
‘Simon Cowell’ wanted for eating chair on Devon bus
TO Devon, where police are seeking a man who ate a chunk of a bus chair in Paignton.
Say police:
“While travelling between Paignton and Torquay on a number 12 bus, a male passenger started chewing the leather seat he was sat on and continued to pick at the hole with his hand to make further damage. Around £200 of damage was caused.”
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Posted: 26th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Flying owl makes off with male dog as 26 women lose their knickers
“I HAD tasked the two village heads, Pauro and Charuseka, to meet their subjects with the aim of inviting a traditional healer to cleanse their areas. I then saw village head Pauro coming to my homestead with more strange news that a huge owl came flying from nowhere before picking up a male dog at his homestead and flew away while they were at a meeting. It’s mind boggling what is going on in the area.”
So says Chief Njelele of Gokwe, Zimbabwe, on the case of 26 village women who woke up with no knickers on and naked. The 26 knickers were later found in the woods.
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Posted: 26th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Cows and Crows bring terror to Seattle
ON July 18 2012, two streets in Edmonds, Seattle were dusted with a white powder. The emergency services arrived in full chemical warfare suits. The powder turned out to be the result of two crows dragging around a bag of white flour.
And so to today’s news. WTSP.com delivers the headline:
“Wash. cows blamed for ‘suspicious powder’ scare”
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Posted: 25th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Osama bin Laden is a crab living off the Washington coast (photo)
OSAMA bin Laden has mutated into a crab.
Proof that the al Qaeda leader is dead and living with the fishes comes in the shape of a face on the belly of a crab caught off Everette, Washington state.
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Posted: 24th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Who is the mystery horse plaiter of Nottinghamshire?
WHO is plaiting horses’ hair in Blidworth, Nottinghamshire?“I’ve not seen anything on our horses in the last couple of months, but I’ve seen it in the past. We’ve had all sorts of theories about it. We’ve got a couple of horses with really long manes that have ended up with a part that is plaited and sometimes there will be grass woven in to it. It’s got to be man-made.”
Posted: 24th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Anti-baldness pills turn straight man into a woman named Mandi
WILLIAM McKee says the Propecia pills he took to halt his baldness turned im into a woman. As he says of that treatment bought over the internet from india:
“My rock-hard chest from the gym began to soften . . . reaching the point where I had noticeable ‘breasts’ even under my clothing…my shoulders were literally falling into a more feminine position, and my hips were loosening and becoming wider, as on a woman’s body.”’
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Posted: 24th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Flying turtle breaks noodle bar owner’s toe
TO Chongqing, southwest China, where restauranteur Yao Chen has had a near death experience with a flying turtle. As Chen was stood outside his noodle bar, a turtle fell / jumped from the window of a 45-storey building.Posted: 23rd, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dad’s rectum impaled on children’s fairground ride
YOU join us at the Furuvik theme park near Gävle in eastern Sweden, where a 31-year-old man has become impaled on a child’s ride. His rectum has been penetrated by the tow-bar on a minicar truck.
Says the father of two, now free:
“It was a complete shock to the whole body.”
Posted: 22nd, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Spate of teenagers stuck in swings puzzles Scotland
THE Scotsman reports that firefighters in Edinburgh have twice been called this week to rescue people trapped in a swings in the Stenhouse Drive play park. In the past few days, an 18-year-old woman and 14-year-old youth have been cut free. The woman was released at 12.33am; the boy in the “evening“.
Around the same time, a 17-year-old man was “extricated” from a swing in Galashiels, in the Scottish Borders. He too had become stuck fast.
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Posted: 21st, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Boy finds free lizard baked into loaf of bread
CHEAP protein is the wonder of the modern age. Just get a load of what William Evans, 10, from, Hawkchurch near Axminster, Devon, who says he found a meat lizard baked in a Tesco’s multi-grain brown loaf. No extra charge. You’d think young Evans would be well chuffed.
And what odds dad Marcus is trying to play down the freebie so that not everyone wants one. He tells the Midweek Herald:
“The poor little lad was absolutely traumatised by it. He went to take a slice off for some toast, turned the loaf over and found the lizard stuck on the bottom.”
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Posted: 21st, July 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Woman arrested for calling police to report her bad mug shot
TO Commerce, Georgia, USA, where Tonya Ann Fowler is calling 911 to state on the record that she is not happy with her police mugshot.Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 21st, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In photos: 15th annual mud festival on Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea
FACE of the day: A man with his face covered with mud takes part in the 15th annual mud festival on Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea. The festival features mud wrestling, mud sliding and mud king contest. It’s like Glastonbury without the music…
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Posted: 17th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Horse has ‘Suck It’ carved into his teeth
IS Cowboy the horse a punk? When Cowboy smiles he displays the words “suck it” engraved into his front teeth.
A Dr. Samantha Mixon says Cowly has been tortured and is in pain:
“His sensitive structures in his teeth were carved into using a power tool to spell the words ‘suck it.
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Posted: 17th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Manchester man impaled on bed spring was not reading 50 Shades in bed?
’50 Shades Of Grey’ a bit tame? You into something alit more esoteric than the kind of Clit Lit Barbara Cartland would write as a thank you letter for Jilly Copper’s dinner party? You need to get an old mattress.
From Manchester, news of a kind of bedroom pain that makes E.L. James’s spanking the flunkey (any relation to Sid James?) read like What Katy Did.
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Posted: 15th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
How to hand feed a dragon fly (video)
ANIMAL lovers are funny bunch, aren’t they? They love animals so very much that they feed diced rabbit to their pet cats. You can buy live crickets in Pets R Us to feed to your pet reptiles. In this video, an animal lover hand feeds an injured dragon fly with live ants. Ant lovers may well be appalled and sickened:
Posted: 15th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Huge testicles dispute upsets warring New Yorkers
SUMMERTIME is the time for people to get out into their gardens and realise how much they dislike their neighbours. To New York, then, where Shirley Draper, of Moulton Ave., Tonawanda, has erected a big set of fake testicles in her rear garden. Her neighbours, the – get this – Dilibertos, are not happy about the view.
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Posted: 14th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
