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.
Burglar Manuel Fernandes gets his head stuck
VILLAIN of the day is Manuel Fernandes, who spent over eight hours with his head wedged beneath the door at the Rent-A-Center store on Crescent Street, Brockton, MA. The capture was filmed by John Rodriguez on his mobile phone – which was thoughtful of him:
Posted: 28th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Monos is a tumblr of disturbing make-up
TUMBLR of the day is Monos, a Japanese blog focusing on make-up. Hold off on getting that revolting tattoo, readers. This stuff washes away:
Spotter: Laughing Squid
Posted: 26th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Did Waco’s Michael Daniel kill and eat a raw pet dog because of cannabis?
DID Michael Terron Daniel attack his neighbout in Waco, Texas, an eat the family dog becsue he’d been smoking K2, a type of skunk cannabis? That’s what the Daily Mail says K-2 is.
Only, it isn’t marijuana. K-2 is a synthetic drug designed to look a bit like weed.
The report states that before eating the pet, Daniel attacked people and was “barking and growling”. Daniel then, reportedly, took hold of the dog. Strangled it to death. Ate some of it.
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Posted: 26th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Falling woman’s life saved when dress snags on 7th floor awning (video)
THE woman, 74, was yelliing at street musicians when she fell from her 8th floor balcony in Mariupol, Ukraine. She did not die. Her dress caught on an awning on the 7th floor. And there she dangled, her underwear exposed. The woman was soon rescued.Posted: 26th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Judge orders mother to cut daughter’s hair in court
TO Utah, where District Juvenile Judge Scott Johansen tells Valerie Bruno that she can cut off 13-year-old daughter Kaytlen Lopan’s ponytaol “right now” with official scissors or justice and reduce the teenager’s sentence.
Kaytlen Lopan had cut off a three-year-old’s hair at a McDonald’s. She and an 11-year-old accomplice bought scissors for the job. Kaytlen has issues. The judge merely has an offer: mum cuts Kaytlen’s hair or else Kaytlen spends an extra 150 hours in detention.
Bruno should be delighted. But she says:
“She definitely needed to be punished for what had happened. But I never dreamt it would be that much of a punishment.”
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Posted: 25th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Thief trapped in Coke vending machine gets rescued
THIEF of the day is the 17-year-old who in attempting to nick a can of Coke got his arm trapped in the vending machine.
At the 24th Street trolley station in National City, California, the fire crew cut the crook free.
It could have been worse. He could have been caught stealing from one of these machines…
Posted: 25th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Glasgow Mela is religion for exhibitionists
TO the Glasgow Mela for fun, and chance to see Govinda Lal insert a bent rod up his nose and pull it out of his mouth in Kelvingrove Park. The show, with its Trapeze artists, magicians, singers and dancers, is based around Indian entertainment.
Mela, originates from Sanskrit and means ‘to meet’. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism. Can it be that Hinduism is the true religion for exhibitionists? In recent years, show offs and narcissists has been opting for Islam, hijacking the religion and threatening to below people up unless all the ‘infidels’ leave Afghanistan and stop supporting Spurs. But with a mela, you get to entertain everyone and anyone while teaching the paying punters how to hang yourself up like a drip dry shirt. Maybe, all religions should form a circus, united under the Big Top?
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Posted: 24th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Pet piranha eats toddler’s fingers
TO the Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, to hear from a medic:
“This is not a dog bite.”
Frank Bilecki, a spokesman for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, adds:
“He had no fear; these were truly fatherly instincts. He grabbed a knife and cut it open and found her fingertip right there.’’
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Posted: 24th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Mugly wins Ugliest Dog In The World title (photos)
THE Ugliest dog in the world is Mugly.
Mugly, a British-based Chinese crested, took top spot at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in California. Says Mugley’s spokesperson, Peterborough’s Bev Nicholson:
“I couldn’t speak when they announced Mugly’s name. I didn’t know which way to look. I was shaking as much as the dog.”
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Posted: 23rd, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman gets trapped in sewer retrieving dropped mobile phone
TO Jackson, Mississippi, where Lori McElroy has dropped her mobile phone down the sewer. She has gotten stuck truying to retrieve it. The jaws of life are summoned. Before too long, McElroy is free.
She tells local media:
“I was on the phone talking with somebody and then I dropped the phone in the sewer. “There wasn’t no water in it, so I figured I could go down there and get it. Then I got stuck and couldn’t get out.”
“The man got the top out and they still couldn’t get me out. And then they had to call the fire department and the ambulance. I feel wonderful that I am out, but it was a stupid mistake. It’s better to just go buy another phone instead of having to go through that.”
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Posted: 23rd, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Staffordshire children taught to write the perfect suicide note
TO Staffordshire, where Longton’s 14-year-old boy Wesley Walker is writing a letter about his death. The class at the Discovery Academy is in writing a letter as if you are about to die.
He writes:
“I want you to remember the fun times and the happy times, at my funeral make everyone were [sic] bright colours to remember my personality. I know I have been a pain at the best of times but I’m with Nan and Grandad now so I love you and goodbye….Please be strong for me.”
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Posted: 22nd, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Other parents: dad drags toddler along road in crate tied to moped
TO China’s Shaanxi province, where a dad has been spotted taking his son for a ride. The boy is sat in a plastic drinks crate. It’s being pulled along by dad’s moped.
Says one witness:
“When I first saw this bike coming down the road I thought he had a dog or something in the box and I thought, ‘How cruel’. But when it got closer I could see it was a boy, no older than two and I was horrified.”
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Posted: 22nd, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Octopus hitches ride on dolphins genitals – photos
YOU search the internt. And then – suddenly – you find it: the photo of an octopus stuck to the genitals of a bottlenose dolphin in the Ionian Sea. The image was captured by scientists working on the Ionian Dolphin Project, operating near Kalamos. It requests:
If you come across dolphins or whales while sailing the Ionian waters, we want to know more about it.
As do the local octopi and fans of Japanese Hentai comics…
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Posted: 20th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman gets superglued to Walmart toilet seat: Round up the usual people
TO the toilets at the Walmart in Monticello, Kentucky, where a woman has been stuck to a toilet for over an hour. The woman is not gargantuan. She is not wedged into the seat. She has just sat on a toilet seat that some kind soul has coated in super glue. Local news reports that this “may have been done on purpose.”
You wonder how superglue on the toilet seat could have gotten there by accident? Of if, perhaps, it’s not superglue but something altogether more revolting. Maybe one of these fine shoppers beat her to the seat?
Posted: 20th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Suicidal Chinese duck begs to be killed and eaten
WHAT is the point of a duck if you can’t eat it? The duck at the farmers’ fair in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, Chaina, is sporting a handwitten sign that states:
“I am a local duck, from the countryside and very good to eat.”
Says Wen Li:
“I only put the sign around the duck’s neck because there have been lots of scandals about poisoned meat coming from other parts of China. The duck can’t read and doesn’t know he’s going to be eaten.”
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Posted: 20th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police raid Surrey pub looking for music from 4am – the band not the time
WHEN police heard that The Feathers in Laleham, Surrey, was to feature live music “from 4am” they swooped. Playing so late was not allowed. Music must be stopped. Music must be licensed. Four coppers raced to the scene. There, they were told that 4am was the name of the band.
The pub’s licensee, Kate Dillon says:
“They made idiots of themselves really.”
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Posted: 19th, June 2012 | In: Music, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Ray Dolin lied: Kindness in America writer shot himself
UPDATE: Ray Dolin of Julian, W.Virginia shot himself. The man who told police he was shot by a stranger in Montana whilst researching his book, Kindness in America, lied.
As a result of his lie, Lloyd Christopher Danielson III, 52, was charged him felony assault.
Dolin’s news book – America’s Lying Bastards – is in the making…
Posted: 17th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man arrested for having sex with teddy bear in public
TO Cincinnati, where Charles Marshall, 28, has been arrested for masturbating with the aid of a teddy bear. He was shagging the teddy in public.
Marshall has previous, having been convicted on three occassion of having sex with a teddy in public.
We do not know the name of the teddy, but would wager it was mot likely one of the Care Bear family of bears, blessed as they are with sweet smiles and bedroom eyes. It was most certainly not the vulnerable runaway Paddington Bear nor Rupert The Bear, so beloved of cub-scout leaders and softies.
Posted: 17th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Meat and onion trucks collide in Florida
Posted: 16th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman ‘impregnated’ by squid
WHO is the 63-year-old South Korean woman who fell pregnant with 12 baby squid?
When in 2010, Andrew Dymond was sentenced to four months prison for possessing, among other items, an image of a man having sex with a squid, we thought the matter of human-cephalopods coitus was an odd fetish. Now we meet octo-mum (eat your heart out Nadya Suleman) in the pages of the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland.
Posted: 16th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police kill wallaby to protect it from injury
SLEEP well tonight, people of Holland. The police have killed the runaway wallaby “for the safety of the animal”. The creature had escaped from its owner in Houten, Netherlands. police feared the wallaby wouls wander ont a road and be hurt. So.
They shot it dead. It being what the wallaby’s parents would have wanted…
Posted: 15th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Denis the cat is Luton’s number one criminal
DENIS the cat likes to take things back to his house in Luton. Denis has been out shopping for such itms as: sandals, Barbie dolls, cardigans, boxer shorts, ladies knickers, 3 ladies slippers and lots of sponges:
Poetry in Motion:
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Posted: 15th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
How to survive a bear attack, with Ben Radakovich and Rick Astley
SO. How do you fight off a bear attack? Like, Ben Radakovich, 30, we thought you stood your ground and yelled a lot.
It turns out that this is wrong.
Radakovich explains all in this video of his bear experience in Alaska .
An expert also tells us that if you find yourself lying on you stomach while a bear paws you with his massive claws you should not scream. You are, however, permitted to bleed and sing Never Gonna Give You Up in the style of a young Rick Astly, and offer the massive creature a mint:
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Posted: 14th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Tattoo portraits – touching signs of your indelible love
YOU liked our gallery of tribute tattoos so much we’ve pulled together another one. Are you fan enough to get inked with your child’s face? What’s the matter with you? Don’t you love your kids? Getting their names on your arm and ankles is soooo last season. You want their face on your face. That’s love. Real love…
Posted: 13th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Mother creates sex cave in disused bunker to test her limits
TO Nordmaling, Sweden, where two fisherman have discovered an old army bunker converted into an pleasure palace, with silk sheets on a bed, ropes chains, dildos and multiple leather items. The fishermen called the police.
Aftonbladet reports that after enquiries were made, the creator of the cave was ‘Lena’, “a hard-working single mum in her 40s”.
Joe.ie. quotes her:
“I just wanted to test my limits.”
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Posted: 13th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
