Woman mistakes draught excluder for snake – police issue warning

WE are in the midst of a post- Animal Magic crisis. A woman from Kingswells, near Aberdeen, has called the Scottish SPCA complaining about the 5ft snake in her loft. It wasn’t a snake. It was a draught excluder.

Secondly, two police officers from Nottinghamshire spotted a King Charles Spaniel in the back of a car and fearing it was about to overheat broke the window and saved the day. Only it was a toy dog.

Nottinghamshire Police said:

“This is a perfect example of why drivers need to think about what they leave on view in their car, both in terms of other people’s perception of the objects and in a bid to deter opportunist thieves.”

Anorak

Posted: 3rd, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Hero crow saves baby pigeon for later

NEWS that a crow (group name: murder) has saved the life of baby pigeon is a Daily Mirror scoop. Ben Griffiths says the “have-a-crow hero” “rescued” the baby pigeon by dragging it out of the path of on-rushing vehicles.

Chuka Okey saw the happening on a street in London:

“It just goes to show that acts of kindness are not just reserved to humans. I have no doubt that the pigeon’s days would have been numbered had the crow not stepped in.”

It’s always odd when human sensibilities and behaviour are fostered upon animals. Humans have no more idea what it’s like to be crow than they do a snooker ball. We guess – and we always make them like us.

Anorak

Posted: 2nd, April 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

The best April Fools day jokes of 2012

THE best April Fools day jokes of 2012: While we investigate news of a nuclear melkdown over Japan and a mass break out from Brampton prison hospital, others have had bash at the funny:

Cowell and Wallaims

What no super-injunction?

The Sunday Mirror: “As the pair took to the ­boating lake in a giant plastic white ­pedalo swan for an afternoon of fun, it’s good to see they’ve finally put those rumours to rest…they had a couple of hours ­relaxing together and when Simon cheekily teased David, he ­playfully whacked him with a daffodil.”

Anorak

Posted: 1st, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment

Cannabis farmers arrested after calling police for theft of crop

WHEN thieves stole £10,000 worth of cannabis from the home of Colin Roberts, 47, and Mandy Coghlan, the victims called the police. The police raced to the scene and confirmed that the weed had been stolen. They found 16 pots containing only stubs of marijuana plants. They also found 46.33 grams of dried skunk.

The cops then arrested Roberts and Godhlan for production of a banned substance.

Anorak

Posted: 30th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Mug Shot of the day: Jesse James Thomas and his boxing sombrero

MUG Shot the Day is Jesse James Thomas, 55, 0f Sacramento. He was dressed in a sombrero and boxing gloves when he jumped on police car and began to shout hi own name. It;s’ a look not everyone can carry off. It’s all in the eyes…

Anorak

Posted: 29th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

The magical black fox of Bassingbourne is dead

THE mythical black fox spotted was spotted in Bassingbourne, Cambs., is…dead.

Neither dogs nor hunters were employed to kill the black fox. It was simply hit by a car on the Old North Road between Royston and Bassingbourn today.

Anorak

Posted: 29th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)

Church teens fake armed kidnapping a lesson in religious persecution

THE children are being kidnapped at gunpoint from the Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church in Lower Swatara Township,  Pennsylvania. The young teenagers are being blindfolded – hoods placed over their heads – and taken in a van to the pastor’s house. There, the pastor is being beaten.

But it’s a spot of  fun. It’s a lesson in religious persecution. One of the kidnappers is an off-duty police officer. His gun is real but it’s not loaded.

Anorak

Posted: 28th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

Whitby Councillor says his mother is a 9ft green alien with eight fingers

LABOUR Councillor Simon Parkes, says his real mother is a towering aline with eight green fingers.

Parkes, who sits on the Stakesby ward on Whitby Town Council, tells YouTubers that when three and recovering from chicken pox he was visited:

“Two green stick things came in. I was aware of some movement over my head. I thought, ‘they’re not mummy’s hands, mummy’s hands are pink’. I was looking straight into its face. It enters my mind through my eyes and it sends a message down my optic nerve into my brain. It says ‘I am your real mother, I am your more important mother’.”

Anorak

Posted: 28th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)

Crazy golfers set new record for public nudity on a course

IT is a well known fact that what marks the British out as natives of these island is their enthusiasm for public nudity and dressing up as a member of the opposite sex. The small wonder is that rugby union is not the national sport. But crazy golf might be. At the Adventure Island in Southend, Essex, 30 true Brits stripped off and played 18-holes for charity.

Anorak

Posted: 28th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)

Man shot woman after mistaking her mowhawk for a bird

DERRILL Rockwell shot the woman because he thought her mohawk haircut was a bird.

It was 5am on October 5, 2011, when Rockwell claims he saw the ‘bird’. He picked up his .22-calibre rifle and left this home near Orchard Mesa Cemetery.

The ‘bird’ was sat on a hill. It was about 90 feeet away. Rockwell took aim and fired.

He heard moaning. He approached the figure, which turned out to be a 23-year-old woman. She saw her large red mohawk. He saw the a gunshot wound to the head.

Anorak

Posted: 28th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Weymouth lamposts gets shades – bollards get toilet roll covers

THERE’S a pink lampshade dangling from a street light along Weymouth’s Olympics-ready seafront at Greenhill. The lamp was too bright – too “agressive” – so it’s been dimmed with a shade.

A notice by the lampshade states:

“Do not remove the lampshade.”

Problems began when the Victorian lighting columns from the Esplanade were relocated to Greenhill as part of the seafront regeneration scheme. Nothing points to a rosy-fingered dawn like a Victorian lamppost.

Anorak

Posted: 27th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Dogs dress as people for Church blessing

TO Nicaragua, where pet lovers are having their pets blessed by St Lazarus. But dogs are not the done thing in Church. Happily, owing to the saint’s myopia and dulled sense of small, dressing the pets up as people means that he is none the wiser and blesses away with abandon…

Let us pray:

Anorak

Posted: 27th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Trucker caught watching 32cm TV bolted to dashboard

WHAT you’re looking at is a photo of an Australian driver’s onbaord entertaiment system. Goulburn Highway Patrol spotted a man driving erratically on the Hume Highway. A quick look at the vehicle revealed a 32cm wide television screen secured to the dashboard. It was wired up to a portable DVD player.

What do you think was in the player? The report doesn’t say?

Anorak

Posted: 24th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Umbilical cord thieves captured

“WE had saved our newborn baby’s umbilical cord as a memory, kind of like how some people keep a lock of their children’s hair. It’s a tradition in some countries,” says the proud father now reunited with his momento.

Police in Örby Slott, south of Stockholm, Sweden, have arrested two men for their part in the cord’s theft. The trip had burgled an apartment and, in the process of fleeing, been captured. When the villains emptied their pockets, police spotted the cord amid a haul of 2,700 kronor in cash, jewellery and digital music players.

Anorak

Posted: 24th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Urine stored in felon’s vagina bottle failed drugs test

Anorak

Posted: 22nd, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Fully aroused man in sheer tights seeks bikini wax

TO Detroit, where a man dressed in a backwards baseball cap, a shirt inside out and backwards, slippers, and sheer pantyhose cut off at the ankles is looking for a bikini wax at salons in the region.

Says Anna Pagac, a receptionist at Salon Bliss in Rochester Hills:

“They were completely see through so we could see everything. He had no underwear on or nothing.”

Anorak

Posted: 21st, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Tramp pretends he’s woman for 13 years to get free health care

MUG Shot of The Day is that of the man who pretended to be Perla Serrano, 51. The man is homeless in South California. He, allegedly, pretended to be Perla Serrano for 13 years to get free medical care.

Polie says the man stole Perla’s identity and over a decade racked up bills in excess of $100,000 in Orange County’s hospitals.

The man no longer known as Perla Serrano was caught when a cop in San Clemente noticed him wearing a hospital wristband while asleep outdoors.

Anorak

Posted: 18th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Japanese tourists follow SatNav tips and try driving to an island

SAT NAV Disaster Story of The Day features three Japanese tourists who followed their car’s instructions and ended up in the waters of Moreton Bay, Australia.

The trio were heading to North Stradbroke Island. But tides and poor GPS advice caused their Hyundai Getz to get stuck 500 metres into the bay. The Sat Nav omitted to highlight the 15 kilometres of water and mud between the mainland and the island.

Anorak

Posted: 17th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Man fined for tying non-jogging cat to a rock

BECAUSE Golfing With Cats was already taken, we’ve started work on Gaming With Cats. Anything vaguely popular ‘With Cats’ is a surefire hit.

So. Seth Franco, of Lafayette, Colorado, began work on his project. But Jogging With Cats ran into trouble when the cat refused to jog.

Franco had gone to a park with his cat on leash and made to jog. But the cat was reluctant. So, Franco tied it to a rock for safe keeping.

Anorak

Posted: 17th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Woman drinks urine through her eyes; woman eats dead husband

ON TLC.S  My Strange Addiction yet, Carrie has drunk over 100 gallons of urine. She also snorts it and breathes at the same time. It’s how you get started on the didgeridoo. Carrie also drinks it thought her eyes. She brushes her teeth in it. She saves some of it and rubs the “aged” stuff on her skin.

Stay tuned and catch the woman who eats dirt.

Anorak

Posted: 16th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Felix Baumgartner ready to jump from 120,000 feet (and live) – photos

FELIX Baumgartner wants to create a new world record for the highest free-fall fall. And live. Yesterday, Baumgartner rose 71,500ft (22km) above New Mexico in a capsule hanging from a balloon. He then jumped. Eight minutes and seconds later later, he landed.

Baumgartner fell at an estimated speed of 364mph.

Anorak

Posted: 16th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)

Yoda the world’s ugliest dog is dead – photos

YODA. Is. dead. The  “world’s ugliest dog” has died. Yoda, a Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix, is dead. Terry Schumacher found Yoda and entered her into the World’s Ugliest Dog contest in California. She won. Says Mr Schumacher:

“I will miss her funny little ways. Her memories will live on forever.”

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Anorak

Posted: 15th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

TV Cameraman kills rare rabbit with no ears while filming news story

TIL, a bunny rabbit with no ears, has been killed by a cameraman filming it for a news feature. Til had been born at a zoo Limbach-Oberfrohna in Saxony, eastern Germany, a few days ago.

Til had the making of a media darling. Cute. Fury. Edible. But now sadly dead.

Uwe Dempewolf, the director of the zoo, tells Speigel:

“We are all shocked. During the filming, the cameraman took a step back and trod on the bunny. He was immediately dead, he didn’t suffer. It was a direct hit. No one could have foreseen this. Everyone here is upset. The cameraman was distraught.”

Anorak

Posted: 14th, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)

Which London pub features a urine dungeon?

VICE magazine tells the story of the Central London pub that features a “piss dungeon”. A man approaches the barman:

“Listen mate, this is gonna sound totally insane, but I’ve just gone for a piss in the urinal and I could’ve sworn I saw an eyeball looking up from the hole.”

Adding:

“Not just an eyeball, but like, an eyebrow as well. And the eye was looking around.”

Anorak

Posted: 13th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Man charged with castrating goat rapist

TO Worcester, South Africa, where a woman is watching a man rape a goat. She tells the goat owner, Andile Nzilili. Nzilili, 42, then allegedly tries to castrate the goat shagger with a pair of pliers. Soon after, the farmer is arrested.

Says a Victoria Mzamo:

“The woman saw him and asked why he was raping the goat. He told the woman he was going to kill the goat and eat it when he is done. She told Andile what was happening and when the rapist got to him, they got into a fight. The alleged animal violator took out a long knife and Nzilili told his child to go get his pliers. That’s when (Nzilili) took it and cut his (genitals).”

Anorak

Posted: 10th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment