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.
Happy Mug Shot of the Day – Robert Authelet smiles for the police
HAPPY Mug Shot of the Day – Robert Authelet, 18, of Conneticut. He was arrested in one day for stealing rain gutter, downspouts and copper piping.
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Spotter: here
Posted: 24th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Massive rat hunting in Consett, County Durham
FORGET fox hunting: rat hunting is the future of blood sports. Saddle up and head to Consett, County Durham, where the rats are fatter than Jimmy Fivebellies in a pub lock-in. Brian Watson has offed a massive rat with a piece of wood near as he cut grass on a tractor.
Says Mr Watson:
“…there was a large rat. I came running round the corner. I managed to grab some wood on the way. It wasn’t very fast. I managed to kill it there and then.”
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Posted: 23rd, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Police discover Stockport fugitive by framed ‘Wanted’ mugshot at pal’s home
JORDAN Sim-much, 26, had a framed newspaper cutting about his friend being a fugitive hung over his fireplace. Police saw it when they raided his Stockport home after a tip-off. They found the subject of the newspaper report hiding in Sim-much’s kitchen cupboards.
The felon has scarpered affter breaching his prison release licence.
In court, Sim-much pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and was given a community order with a two-month night-time curfew. The wanted man was sent back in prison.
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Posted: 22nd, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man attacked by ferrets he stole to pay off drugs debt
JAMES Marshall is at Inverness Sheriff Court. Marshall, from Smithton, Inverness, stole two ferrets from a shed. He wanted to steal four but two escaped.
In the dock, Marshall, 20, is accused of stealing four ferrets, four guinea pigs, three adult rabbits, four baby rabbits, a packet of bird feed, a plastic container, a skipping rope and two hutches.
It has the makings of a terrific act on Britain’s Got Talent.
A little disappointingly, Marshall denies it all.
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Posted: 21st, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Marathon runner poos ar two-mile mark – Paula Radcliffe and Gary Lineker might nod
ANORAK spots Kelly James Ervin, of Devonshire Drive, Salisbury, Maryland. The Wicomico Bureau of Investigation spots him, too. The WBI has been called in by the people of Deer Harbour and Elk Creek to discover the source of human poo found on the area’s pavements.
Says Terry Webster of Salisbury:
“Three of my friends, we walk every morning and we started seeing it. It’s been a couple years now… The toilet paper was the key.”
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Posted: 21st, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Specious World Record of the Day – monkey runner Kenichi Ito
SPECIOUS World Record ofr the Day – Kenichi Ito is the monkey runner of Tokyo. He can run like an African Patas monkey. Says he:
“When I occasionally saw a monkey that could run fast, I knew I’d found it. From that point on, I practised running like a monkey every day.”
Adding with a nod to Brass Eye:
“But on the first day, a hunter mistook me for a wild boar, and he tried to shoot me.”
Posted: 20th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man sacked after lover mixes marijuana into his pasta herbs
ROBERT Dickson, a train shunter, has had his dismissal for drug taking reversed. Transport Appeal Board Commissioner David Ritchie believes that Dickson accidentally ate cannabis “after his partner Megan Bailey accidentally chopped herbs on the same kitchen bench where she rolled marijuana cigarettes as she prepared food”. There was weed in his pasta.
Mr Dickson, who has worked for Railcorp since 1984, said his partner kept a very “messy” kitchen.
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Posted: 18th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bearded woman granned officer’s genitals
MUG SHOT of the Day is that of Joseph Ali Bin Muhammad, once known a Paula K. Reynolds-Eblacas. He is accused of assaulting a Spokane Police officer in 2009 by grabbing the cop’s genitals as he attempted to detain Muhammad for a mental evaluation. He will be sentenced on April 24.
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Posted: 18th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Wanted Taliban suspect Mohammad Ashan hands himself in for reward money
TO Afghanistan, where Mohammad Ashan, of the Taliban commander, is the subject of a wanted poster. Anyone handing him in get $100. Ashan is wanted in connection with two attacks on Afghan security forces. His face is plastered all over Sar Howza. Ashan saw this name, noted the reward money and handed himself in.
Says one U.S. official:
“This guy is the Taliban equivalent of the ‘Home Alone’ burglars.”
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Posted: 17th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Blue-clad hosepipe-wielding Scarborough woman dressed as boy sentenced
TO York Crown Court, where Scarborough woman Serena Moon, 36, is in the dock. She is sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment suspended for 18 months, pay £240 damages and cost, and ordered to complete 80 hours of unpaid work for attacking a woman with a “length of metal-ended hosepipe while dressed as a boy and wearing blue latex gloves”.
The incident occurred at night when Moon smashed windows at her victim’s home, one she shares with her husband and two children:
When the couple ran out to see what was happening, Moon, who had drunk two bottles of wine, motioned the woman’s partner forward shouting “Come on big man, come on”.
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Posted: 17th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dog gets parking ticket
WHEN Ingeburg Kaminski, 75, left a shop in Essen, Germany, she noticed that her dog Tessa had given a €35 fixed penalty notice.
“I was only away for 20 minutes. They said Tessa had been left in the wrong place and was blocking the pavement. But she was sitting quietly and people had plenty of room to walk around her. She’s sweet and tiny and loves attention, she’d never hurt anyone.”
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Posted: 17th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Six-legged baby born in Pakistan – photos
A BABY boy with six legs has bene born in Sukkur Pakistan. Says a medic:
“One of the baby is not fully developed giving the present physical structure to the baby.”
Imran Sheikh, the father, wants help:
“”I can’t afford to visit Karachi and get treated my baby. I appeal philanthropists and the government to come forward for treatment of the baby.”
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Posted: 16th, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Woman steals hotel room – video
TO Tampa, Florida, where a woman is so impressed by the decor at the Sabal Suites hotel located at 10007 Princess Palm Avenue she’s working on replicating the look in her car.
She’s caught on CCTV on stealing the television set, curtains, carpets, bedspread, rugs, trash can, and iron with ironing board and very possibly the little soaps, paint, light switches, interesting stains and whatever else you find in a hotel room.
Posted: 14th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Beggar uses camel to win sympathy
TO China, where beggards are pushing the envelope. Take this beggar who has replaced his dog with a camel on a length of string. Camels are the future of begging, being easily adaptable into starter homes…
Posted: 12th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man saves life with packet of hot cross buns
TO the Coventry area, where fireman John Bird has used packet of hot cross buns to save the life of one Jack Edwards, 89, who had collapsed in the Aldi supermarket car park in Radford.
Mr Edwards had stopped breathing for several minutes. His skin turned blue. Mr Bird, 37, spotted the fallen man and also the six-pack of hot cross buns, which had fallen from Mr Edwards’ bags. Bird used the buns to keep the victim’s airway open before using CPR.
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Posted: 10th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Judas actor hanged in The Passion of Christ play
JUDAS has hanged himself during a Bible scene. Judas was being played by Tiago Klimeck a a production of the The Passion of Christ in the city of Itarare, Brazil.
It is thought that Klimeck reached for the wrong rope, a confusion that meant his colleagues thought he was only pretending to die. After a few minutes, the crew spotted that Klimeck realoly was unconscious and cut him down.
Klimeck remains in serious condition. Update: He has died.
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Posted: 10th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Children finds grenade on Easter Egg hunt
THE children on an Easter egg hunt in the woods beside the village of Holford in Somerset have found a harder egg than usual. Not last year’s stock, but a hand grenade.
Hunt organiser Stuart Moffatt says:
“I was shocked. It’s the last thing you could possibly want to find with children about. We were beginning to count the eggs up at the end of the hunt and I saw a young boy, around three-years-old, standing on an object. On closer inspection we realised it looked like a hand grenade.”
Posted: 9th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman tears off lover’s scrotum
TO Indiana, where Christina Reber, 43, has torn off the scrotum of her “on-again, off-again” lover.Posted: 9th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Chewdunnit: dentist gives police efit of robber’s teeth
TO Fichtenwalde, Germany, where a thief has broken into the rooms of dentist Markus Phillipp Daecher, 42, and in the process of the robbery hacked off the victim’s finger with a pair of garden shears.
All the while the dentist would not take his eye off the criminal’s nicotine-stained teeth.
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Posted: 8th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Johannesburg hires owls to eradicate massive rats
TO South Africa, where Johannesburg’s head of health and social development Nonceba Molwele outlines the “three natural ways” to rid the Alexandra township of massive rats: owls, rat cages and fumigation.
As she says:
“This project will be running in Alexandra for the next three years, and has so far involved educating the local communities and schools on the role that owls play in eradicating rats. The education covered the myth and beliefs that associated owls with witchcraft.”
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Posted: 6th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Nailed-on Catholics gets Crucified for Good Friday – photos
THIS Holy Week at San Pedro Cutud, Pampanga province, north of Manila, Philippines, around two dozen Catholic devotees were nailed on the cross. People like Ramil Lazaro and a woman named Percy Valencia got their hands and feet nailed to crosses by men dressed as Romans. One man never made it to Heaven, having been removed from the scene in an ambulance.
Says Arturo Bating, 44: “This is a vow I had made to God so that He will spare my family from sickness.”
Having had four-inch nails bashed though his hands and feet before being hoisted on a big wooden cross, Bating added:
“It was a bit painful, but bearable.”
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Posted: 6th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Incredible woolly mammoth found in Siberia – picture
THIS is a picture of a young woolly mammoth discovered in the ice of Siberia. It’s around 10,000 years old. You can see the flesh still on the two-to- three-year-old animal.The animals was found during an expedition funded by the BBC and the Discovery Channel. Your licence fee just became worth it… (Unless its ALF, in which case, you can thank ITV.)
Posted: 5th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Fa Kyu – nominatie determinism of the day
NOMINATIVE determinism of the day is Fa Kyu, Facebook’s poker-playing siren…
Posted: 5th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Customer complains to police that crack dealer sold her fake goods
THIS woman is complaining that she got stiffed in a crack cocaine deal. Fair enough. The cop laughs a derisive laugh. But she’s right to complain – the crime of lying is a crime against God. Buying crack is a manmade rule – and drugs laws change – this stuff was once legal:
Posted: 4th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Salford hairdresser arrested for walking streets with scissors
SALFORD is now safer placed following the arrest of Darren Dixon, 48, who snipped the hair of two women. Dixon, 48, followed two women and cut their hair. As Yahoo reports:
(His first victim noticed Dixon standing uncomfortably close so she) crossed the road and continued to walk and then quickened her pace when she realized Dixon was following her.
As she carried on walking at a fast pace, she felt her hair being touched and “heard a metallic sound hit the floor”, police said.
Turning around, she saw Dixon picking up a pair of scissors and clumps of her hair…
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Posted: 4th, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
