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.
Keith Manual arrested for robbing Dallas police station with an imaginary gun
SPOT The Idiot: “I didn’t say nothing like that, I swear to God I didn’t say nothing like that; that’s why they didn’t find no guns on me. Man I play like that all the time, I didn’t think she would take it seriously.”
So says Keithan Manuel, 18, of his appearance in the Dallas police headquarters. Manuel approached the desk and told the officer on duty that he was carrying a gun under a white towel spread over his hands. Manuel asks the officer to hand over all the cash in the station.
Says Police Chief Victor Kemp:
“He said he’d like to check on a warrant, but it was pretty obvious it was a situation … he gave a different name and after a few moments of maybe playing it off he said ‘you do know I have a gun’. At that point he seemed to be very serious,”
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Posted: 10th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Female trio did not rape 17 men for their sperm
TO Zimbabwe, where Rosemary Chakwizira, 24, Sophie Nhokwara, 26, and her sister, Netsai Nhokwara, 24, have been found not guilty of raping 17 men and harvesting their victims’ sperm for witchcraft.
As reported by the AFP, all charges have been dropped. The women’s lawyer Dumisani Mthombeni tells media:
“The state has withdrawn the charges. The police arrested the wrong people.”
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Posted: 8th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The William Shakespeare insult generator
LEARN to insult like an Elizabethan with the William Shakespeare insult generator. Begin each sentence with “thou” and you’re all set. (Also works in some parts of the Caribbean, Central Africa and remote parts of Australia).
Posted: 8th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Conservative politician offered mother and daughter to cannibals
THESE are testing times for Europe’s Conservatives. Take Hans Ulrich R, founder of the Embrachertal branch of the Conservative Party, a cheese maker, convicted murderer (in 1988 he murdered a woman then impaled her on a tree) and Winterthur council staffer in trouble for advertising that a friend’s wife and daughter wanted to be killed and eaten. The advert posted on the web in 2010 said that Peter J’s wife, Patricia J, 27, and and their 12-year-old daughter craved being dead and eaten by a “sadistic master or butcher who can educate us mindless creatures”.
The ad went on:
“We are also keen to meet gentlemen interested in slaughter and dolce who would like to roast us on a spit.”
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Posted: 8th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Frankie and Louis are the Janus cat – photos
JANUS Cat of the day is / are Frank (left) and Louie (right) – one name for each face. Frankie/ Louis lived with Marty in Worcester, Mass. The Janus cat is named after the Roman god of doorways, who had two faces on one head. Frankie / Louie is in the Guinness World Records as the world’s longest-living Janus cat. He died in February 2012. Incidentally, what would you call your Janus?
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, a cat with two faces, named Frank and Louie, sits on a mat in his home in Worcester, Mass. The animal is known as a Janus cat, named for the figure in Roman mythology with two faces on one head. The owner calls the face on the left Frank, while the face on the right she identifies as Louie. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Posted: 7th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Boy falls through pavement in China – video
WHEN a 2-year-old boy in China got his leg caught in a gap in the pavement, the camera crews zoomed in. We’ve already seen a grown woman falling through a Chinese pavement. Now we see if a small child can be snared by the cannibal clowns that dwell below China’s streets. He can’t. He gets stuck. But his problems are not yet over because the man from ITN news has a voiceover to produce. China is not versed in the “where there’s blame there’s a claim” culture, and the lad is said to be “embarrassing” and suffering from “indignity”. We are invited to wonder about the “psychological scars”.
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Posted: 7th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dad finds son’s tortured turtle 45 years after it was branded and released
HOLLAND Cokeley has found a turtle in South Strabane, Washington County, garden. On the underside he reads the message “JC 1965”. He tells us:
“I picked it up, and I thought ‘Oh geez, this is Jeff’s turtle!’. It’s been here for 47 years, and it still has the same the same markings on it!”
Jeff is Holland’s son, who when aged 13 caught the wild animal and carved his initials into its shell. (1965 might be the last time dad cut the grass.)
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Posted: 7th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Welsh penguin thieves explain all
RHYS Jones and Keri Mules stole a penguin named Dirk from Sea World, Australia. They were both fined. And Jones has lost work. As he says:
“People look at us a bit different. We were upstanding and had a really good reputation and we tried hard to keep the whole thing under wraps but the media completely exposed us – it’s just been hectic.”
Adding:
“I can remember swimming with the dolphins and then I woke up that morning, grabbed my wallet, went to get changed, opened my cupboard and there was a bloody penguin in my cupboard – in my walk-in wardrobe.”
Changing the cupboard to a walk-in-wardrobe makes the story better, doesn’t it?
Posted: 6th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In Photos: The Zombie Walk across Charles Bridge in Prague
IN photos: The Zombie Walk oss the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic… Prague has changed massively in the past two decades. When I went to see family who’d stayed – we were returning even older family members who’d escaped – the food was gloop and massive sausage, beer and cigarettes. I tell you this because these Zombies were pretty much how we looked as we walked about Prague looking for a decent feed. If we’d have had little pot bellies, we’d have blended in…
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Posted: 6th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The super moon in fantastic photos
DID you see the super moon, the brightest full moon of the year? The moon’s eliptical orbit means that at times it is closer to the Earth. The moon is, on average, 237,000 miles from earth. Tonight that gap is 221,802 miles. Did you see it?
(It’s all an optical illusion, of course. The real moon is in Hollywood studio and is used for propaganda purposes.)
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Posted: 6th, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The 10 hottest women currently in prison – the profiles
THE ten hottest women currently doing time in US prisons are…busy tonight. But when they get out they will be looking for love. Ranker brings us the finest filly felons from Meet-an-inmate.com. Top of the bunks is, allegedly, Renee Bell, 33, who tells us that her man: “Must be willing to commit eventually. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Postage is hard to come by in prison, if possible send stamps.”
If you do not commit, fail to commit of look like you will not commit, remember that Renee Bell, reportedly, has done time. She adds: “I got involved with the wrong guy at a young age and I am paying the price, now I want to find the right guy.” And the wrong guy might want to find you, to make sure you’re looking after Renee…
Others to watch:
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Posted: 5th, May 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Patricia Krentril took her toddler to a tanning salon
IN New Jersey, USA, Patricia Krentril has been arrested for taking her 5-year-old daughter to a tanning salon and sneaking her into a stand-up booth. The child is said to have suffered burns.
In New Jersey bans anyone under 14 is forbidden to us a tanning booth
They might think about extending the law. But these photos of Patricia Krentril should deter the impressionable go labour under the idea that a fake tan makes you look radiant, healthy and above all affluent, as if just returned from a winter cruise. It doesn’t It maks you look like Patrica Krentril. And you still look like her in the dark…
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Posted: 3rd, May 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
The Fourth Valley College campus spelling error
THE sign outside the new Forth Valley College campus in Stirling welcomes students to “Fourth Valley Collage”.
A spokesman for Stirling Council, replies:
“The college is not ‘fourth’ in any way. I’m just glad the shelter wasn’t erected back-to-front.”
High standards expected all round, then…
Posted: 3rd, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Plymouth drink-driver had gin, tonic and slices of lemon in car
“SHE ran out of alcohol and went out to the supermarket to purchase some more,” Bill LaHive, representing Janice Hawke, tells Plymouth magistrates, and describes his client calling the incident “crazy”.
Hawke had asked a man to help start her car. He thought she’d been drinking and called the police. They arrived and found in her car a bottle of gin, tonic water and a glass containing slices of lemon. (The weather was not cold and there was no ice on the road. Traditionalists may argue that the Plymouth gin kit was incomplete.)
Mrs Hawke’s breath was tested. She failed.
This Is Plymouth adds:
Her solicitor said Hawke had been able to combine her work at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust with binge drinking, but she now accepted she had a problem.
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Posted: 3rd, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Zoo worker licks monkey’s bum for an hour to retrieve peanut
WHAT do you do when your young Francois’ leaf monkey is constipated? Zhang Bangsheng knows. He used warm water to clean the monkey’s buttocks at China’s Wuhan Zoo. He then licked it. After an hour of licking, the monkey released a “peanut”.
The Heimlich Manoeuvre so so last year. It’s Heimlick now, or, as a readers says, Hindlick (geddit?!)…
Spotter: China Smack
Posted: 3rd, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Sign of the day: ‘Introdwction to the Chamberpet’
TO WuHu China, where the sings are that Roy Hodgson has been moonlighting as sign writer. Your “Introdwction to the Chamberpet” is required reading…
Posted: 3rd, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Cursed woman gives birth to worm
ANNA Mbizi, 38, says she has given birth to a worm.
“I consulted my doctor when I was two months pregnant and was told everything was normal. This was going to be my third baby.”
And then:
“When I experienced the pains, I thought I was going to miscarry but I was shocked when a worm came out.”
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Posted: 1st, May 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jilted dentist pulls out all lover’s teeth one by one
TO Wroclaw, Poland, where dentist Anna Mackowiak, 34, is upset that Marek Olszewski, 45, has ended their love affair.
A few days later, Olszewski arrives at Mackowiak’s surgery complaining of toothache.
Says she:
“I tried to be professional and detach myself from my emotions. But when I saw him lying there I just thought, ‘What a bastard’ and decided to take all his teeth out.”
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Posted: 29th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Tranquilized Bear rains down from tree in Colorado – photo of the year
TO Colorado, where it’s raining bears! This bear has encroached on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus and climbed a tree. It was tranquilized and transported to “higher ground”.
Spotter: OddOnions
Posted: 27th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
On Die-Guillotine.com you vote for a lamb to live or die
IMAN Rezai and Rouven Materne will use their homemade guillotine to off a lamb. The duo, student at the Berlin University of the Arts, are, we imagine on budget, so have stopped short of getting a live shark, an elephant, a million quid or John Terry. So, They will kill a lamb in spectacular fashion. But only if you want them to. On Die-Guillotine.com, you can decide if the lamb dies a memorable death or returns to a farm and dies quietly.
Says Materne:
“There were people who wanted to forbid us to do this. There were people who celebrated the idea from day one. And there were some people who were afraid of us.”
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Posted: 26th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Manchester man blames steak and ale pie for drink driving ban
TO Manchester, where Lee Handford, 38, seeks to explain his postive breathalyzer reading by blaming the booze on a steak and ale pie he’d eaten.
Handford tells magistrates in Macclesfield that before he was stopped in Little Bollington, Cheshire, he had drunk a little and eaten a steak and ale pie for dinner. Says he:
“I am truly sorry for what I did. It will affect me for the rest of my life. I will likely lose my job. I didn’t feel like I had drank excessively. The steak and ale pie may have taken me over the limit.”
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Posted: 26th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Escaped cow heads to McDonald’s drive-thru
TO Brush, Colorado, where escaped cow Darcy has arrived at her destination, a McDonald’s drive-through.
Was she looking for an old pal?
Read: The Long Life Of A McDonald’s Happy Meal In Pictures
Posted: 26th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Manchester robbers caught posing with photos of their stolen goods
IDIOTS of the Day are Manchester thieves James Robinson, 17, Joseph Mahoney, 16 (pictured), and Jacob Lynch, 16, who having robbed a Texaco garage with an imitation gun of £1,000 worth of cash and ciggies posed for photos with their swag.
Before the crime, the trio had scoped out the shop – an buy some fizzy drinks. When they returned to the garage on Rochdale Road, Blackley, Manchester, they had turned their clothes inside out, by way of a disguise. Only it meant that the CCTV video recorded the make of their gear. They then tried to set fire to some clothing and caught a taxi home. When police went round to see the teenagers they found the phone and the photos.
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Posted: 25th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Russian I.V. Pugach trademarks his beard against genocidal maniacs
TO Russia, where I.V. Pugach has trademarked his beard, “the type with no sideburns that covers just the chin and the patch above the upper lip”. Mr Pugach says his beard is exclusive to him and a “racial attribute” of the Russian people. On his website he says any non-Russians sporting his look are committing “genocide” . As he writes:
“I reprimand Barak Obama for delaying the punishment of Muammar el-Qaddafi, enemy of the Russian people, for illegally wearing the beard.”
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Posted: 25th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nominative Determinism of The Day: Professor John Bukkake – facial specialist
NOMINATIVE Determinism of The Day: Professor John Bukkake:
“Renouned facial dermatologist at the University of Calcutta, India”
Facial Dermatology
Professor John Bukkake does a lot of research in the field of facial dermatology…
More nominative determinism when we see it (or when you send it in)…
Posted: 25th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
