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.
Wild bear gets head stuck in a jug – and other animals in peril (photos)
ANIMALS with their Heads Stuck in Things of the Day is the bear spotted by Michael Schuler with its noggin in a plastic jug at the top of Ketchikan’s Deer Mountain in Alaska. Says he:
“I knew it wasn’t a marten, … so I thought it was either a bear cub or a wolverine. A bear cub I can handle, but if it’s a wolverine and I pull that thing off, I’m toast…I finally just decided to have a go at this…I was basically able to sit on him, hold him by the scruff and make a slice into the neck of the jar [with an ice axe].”
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Posted: 10th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Big man sheds sparkly tutu in police chase
SAN Diego’s 10News.com has proof that life is following cartoons. There, 39-year-old Joshua Baker – “clad in a T-shirt and a sparkly purple tutu” – has been areested on suspicion of stealing from the Palisades Presbyterian Church.
Barker is “roughly 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs about 200 pounds”. When the police spot him, they give chase:
During the chase, the suspect’s clothing came off and he was taken into custody in the nude, police said.
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Posted: 9th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
He’s the artist who paints with his tongue – video
HE paints with his tongue. He’s the artist who saves a fortune on brushes by sticking paint on his tongue and licking the canvas. His works ‘Last Night’s Supper’, “Elevenses’ and ‘Technicolour Yawn’ are hung in the smallest room…
Posted: 8th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man arrested for being in possession of fake genitalia
MUG Shot of the Day is that of Jacob Lee Bovia, of Annapolis. He has been arrested and charged with indecent exposure and disorderly conduct for allegedly exposing himself to women at Anne Arundel Community College. Police say Bovia “simulated indecent exposure with a display of fake genitalia to women on several occasions at the College“.
When arrested, Bovia was driving a 2009 silver Honda Accord and “in possession of fake genitalia“.
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Posted: 8th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
She likes growing her toenails long – video
SHE likes growing her toenails long. This way she never stubs her toes. But she might snag them in the duvet and cause them to prick up and offer a dose of pain…
Posted: 7th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Janaka Basnayake loses buried alive world record
DID Janaka Basnayake, 24, break the world record for being buried alive? We may never know. Firstly, there is no official record. Secondly, Lord Lucan has yet to appear for his hiding place. And lastly, we do not know the precise moment when Mr Basnayake died under the ground in Kantale, Sri Lanka.
Also, it is only alleged that Mr Janaka Basnayake buried in 10foot-deep trench sealed with wood and soil. It is only alleged that his family and friends helped him, er, live his dream.
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Posted: 7th, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
The two-headed, six-legged Ukrainian tortoise – photos
HERE’S the two-headed, six-legged Ukrainian tortoise. You can see it at the National Museum of Natural History in Kiev. The female tortoise boasts two heads, two hearts, four front legs and one intestine.
If you call her name she spins around and round and round for hours.
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Posted: 7th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Ricky Martin’s Vida Loca adopted as Kazakh national anthem
IT was a proud moment for Kazakhstan and Ricky Martin when Livin ‘la Vida Loca was adopted as the country’s national anthem.
Given the British Royals’ desire to look normal, the move must be for the United Kingdom to follow the example. The anthem could change to deliver vital political messages. War with Argentina over the Falkland Islands looms, so make the anthem Islands in The Stream, or Rock Island:
Please be standing:
“Eyes on the flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The hymn of the Republic of Kazakhstan is beginning,” the voice-over intoned. But then, as Saduakasov and the rest of the ceremony participants stood with hands on hearts, the sound system launched into Martin’s bouncy pop hit.
Saduakasov and several participants of the ceremony remained motionless until the Martin song was replaced with the Kazakh national anthem.
Posted: 7th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man’s face eaten by parasite – photos
IN his book Against Nature, Joris-Karl Huysman’s character Jean Des Esseintes escapes Paris by never leaving his home. The exotic comes to him. He will experience all of life alone. He aims to go nowhere. To meet no-one.
Adam Spencer wanted to travel. He journeyed from his native Oregon to South America. Spencer and his lover visited six countries. When they reached Bolivia, the intrepid traveller spotted a scab on his face. At first he ignored it. But it grew. And it grew. He reutend to the US and saw a medic. Spencer had brought back a souvenir – the single-celled parasite Leishmania. A sand fly had bitten him. And now the parasite in that bite was eating his face.
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Posted: 7th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Farting man faces ban from County Durham men’s club
THEY are threatening to ban Dave Marriott, 49, from the Grange Villa Workmen’s Social Club, County Durham for flatulence. Not because he’s a prude and against blowing off. It’s because he’s too good at it. As he says:
“I’m not a scruffy man, I’m just afflicted with wind. I only drink two days a week, on a Saturday and Sunday. But if I drink too much on an afternoon then I’m flatulent on an evening and it can be really bad.
“I was brought up in front of the club’s board, which included a couple of my friends, because a few people had been complaining. In fairness it’s not just me, but I’m probably the worst. In the past I’ve actually been awarded pints for clearing a bar at closing time, when the landlord wanted everyone to leave. But I’m not proud of myself and now I’ve received a reprimand and a final warning. If I carry on letting off then I’ll be out.”
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Posted: 6th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Winston Kemp’s Lichtenberg figure tattoos
WINSTON Kemp was struck by lightening. The result was a tattoo known as a Lichtenberg figure. One day all the cool kids will have one…
Posted: 6th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Teenager Gemma Barker posed as boys to trick other girls into sex
GEMMA Barker was 19 when she created fake Facebook profiles in the names of Aaron Lampard, Connor McCormack and Luke Jones to facilitate sexual encounters with two 15 and 16-year-old friends. Each of her alter egos was given a mobile number, their own dress sense and email addresses. Barker hid her true gender beneath baggy clothes and a hat. She never had full sex with the victims, but engaged in kissing, cuddling and groping.
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Posted: 5th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Massive gorilla spotted in Witchford, Cambridgeshire
WHO dumped the 12ft gorilla statue on a bridleway in Witchford, Cambridgeshire?
Says enforcement officer Mark Mehaffey:
“Although not in the best of condition, the ape clearly came from somewhere so we are keen to hear from anyone who has any information about how the animal got there or knows who owned it.”
Leave it there. Statues are all the rage. The big gorilla puts Witchford on the map, just as the big mattres might do for the back of the Aldi shop in Boscombe…
Posted: 5th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Lions gives birth to tigons – Dr Moreau spotted in China
Posted: 4th, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Lichtenberg figure tattoo is nature’s scarifier
SAVE money on tattoos and scarifying by running about naked in a lightning storm and getting yourself a Lichtenberg figure or lightning flower – “they are thought to be caused by the rupture of small capillaries under the skin due to the passage of the lightning current or the shock wave from the lightning discharge as it flashes over the skin.”
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Posted: 3rd, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Jesus appears in a tortilla for Lent
JESUS has appeared in a tortilla in Espanola. From now on, everyone must look at their tortilla lest they end up eating Jesus.
Jesus Tortilla was vistied upon by David Sandoval, who saw the vision on Ash Wednesday. Says he:
“It became even more astonishing, with it being the first day of Lent. I passed it to my mom and the same response came from her, ‘Oh my God. Everybody has been able to see it. They’re calling it a miracle. New Mexico has always been known to have interesting things happen during Lent time.”
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Posted: 2nd, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Rear-ended driver had anus plug in his rectum
KEVIN Brann, 41, had a large sex plug pushed up his anus when he rear-ened another driver. Mr Brann also had five times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood. Mr Brann is described as having “bloodshot and “glassy” eyes.
After arrest, Mr Brann “soiled himself” en route to the police station.
Say the affidavit:
“The defendant had a sexual anus plug in his rectum, which he removed, or it fell out in the rear of my patrol car.”
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Posted: 1st, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man hides chewing tobaccos between bum cheeks
MUG shot of the day features the mug of Asheton Killiant Biggerstaff, 24, of Mount Holly, who during a prison search was found to have secreted a pinch of smokeless tobacco between his buttocks. Officers located two bags of Wintergreen smokeless tobacco hidden between his cheeks.
Is this the future for smoker, forced to hide their habit in their knickers? Can you blow smoke up your own arse..?
Posted: 1st, March 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Kerry Trebilcock eats soap and washing-up sponges
KERRY Trebilcock is not a porn star. But she does put unusual things in her mouth. Kerry Trebilcock has eaten 4,000 washing-up sponges and more than 100 bars of soap. But, oddly, Kerry does not speek in bubbles on the Sun’s Page 3. Instead she features on page 1, telling readers:
“One day I will beat this and be able to have a shower or do the washing up without feeling hungry.”
Anorak is no master of medicine but we suggest that Kerry can be cured with a dishwasher and a bath.
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Posted: 29th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Daily Mail Health Tuesday – dying in your sleeping pills catching Judi Dench
IT’S Health Tuesday in the Daily Mail: More news ways to get ill and die…
Page 6: “Doctors acting like vets with dementia patients'”
Page 13: “Sleeping pill users ‘up to 5 times more likely to die early”
In their sleep..?
Page 15: “Even mild hearing loss can treble the chance of a fall”
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Posted: 28th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
The Euthanasia Coaster will kill you with euphoria: Spiel Macht Frei
THE Euthanasia Rollercoaster is not an NHS trolley with a wonky wheel. It’s a real rollercoaster. Well, it;s really in the mind of a man. The Euthanasia Coaster has been designed by Lithuanian engineer Julijonas Urbonas to kill people humanely, with “elegance and euphoria“.
Ride the Coaster and risk cerebral hypoxia. As design interactions institue says:
“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in aeronautics/space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful. Celebrating the limits of the human body, this ‘kinetic sculpture’ is in fact the ultimate roller coaster: John Allen,former president of the famed Philadelphia Toboggan Company, once said that “the ultimate roller coaster is built when you send out twenty-four people. and they all come back dead. This could be done, you know.”
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Posted: 28th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (11)
Rat attacks man in Surrey hospital – NHS says it’s a mouse
WAS Jason Ketley attacked by a rat at a specialist care unit in St Ebba’s hospital, Epsom, Surrey?
The Daily Mirror reports:
“His ordeal only ended when staff spotted the 42-year-old stumbling around a corridor with the rat hanging from his neck by its teeth.”
And:
Nurses knocked the creature off and killed it. Hospital bosses claimed it was a field mouse.
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Posted: 27th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Craigslist man jailed for sex with Yorkshire terrier
Posted: 27th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Trapped raccoon shoots hunter twice in stomach
RACCOON beats man story of the day: The Iowa Department of Natural Resources reprots that 68-year-old Larry Godwin, of Redfield, trapped a raccoon. Godwin pulled his loaded 22-calibre handgun. His intent was to shoot and kill the critter. He shot. The bullet ricocheted off the trap and struck Godwin in the stomach.
Godwin dropped the gun. It fired again. The second bullet followed the first into his stomach.
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Posted: 27th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Chandra Bahadur Dangi: smallest man who ever lived in photos
THE smallest man in the world is Nepal’s Chandra Bahadur Dangi. He’s got a certificate to prove it, given to him by the Editor-in-Chief of Guinness World Records, Craig Glanday, right, after being declared the world’s shortest living man and shortest man ever by the Guinness Book of Records, at a ceremony in Katmandu, Nepal.
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Posted: 26th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
