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.
Sussex police chase Sussex police in CCTV caper
THE junior CCTV camera operator for Sussex Police has spotted someone “acting suspiciously” in the area. An undercover officer is detailed to investigate. There has been a spate of burglaries in the area. Has CCTV picked up the culprit?
It’s unlikely. The shadowy figure on CCTV is the undercover detective. He “chased himself round the streets” for 20 minutes.
Police magazine, which is published by the Police Federation, reports the caper.
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Posted: 8th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Massive whaleshark landed in Pakistan – photos
DID Pakistani fishermen catch the 40ft whaleshark pictured here being handled in Karachi? Or did it wash up dead? Stories will be told…
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Posted: 7th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Police find stolen TV was too wide for window under victim’s bed
TO Paignton, Devon, where a middle-aged woman is bewailing the theft of her 52 inch flatscreen TV. The victim tells police the telly has been taken through her lounge window. And that’s magic, because the telly is wider than the window.
The police return to the crime scene and armed with a search warrant and found the television under an upstairs bed.
Says Det Insp Nick Wilden, of Torbay police:
“When we looked into this allegation we discovered the window was smaller than the TV. We sent two detectives back to see her and the TV was found upstairs hidden under the bed. She was issued with an £80 fixed-penalty fine for wasting police time. She was lucky. She was a woman in her 40s, of previous good character and that’s why she wasn’t arrested for perverting the course of justice.”
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Posted: 7th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Hospital displays items removed from inside patients: needles, salt pots and a remote control (photos)
A HOSPITAL in Sibenik, Croatia will bedeck its walls with a collection of items harvested from inside patients over the past 80 years. Items include: needles, buttons, coins, animal bones and a metal communist red star. The harvest is a potted history of Croatian life.
However, disappointingly, the wall will not feature objects surgically removed from the anus. That collection features: remote controls, salt pots, sex toys and deodorant cans. The Austrian Times says, these items worked their way in and up “most cases accidentally sitting on them”.
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Posted: 4th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Student hurt by bottle rocket fired from student’s anus – sues
HEAR the one about the student who sued after being struck up his anus by a bottle rocket fired from another student’s anus? Louis Helmburg III is suing The Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Inc., of Huntington, West Virginia, and fraternity member Travis Hughes.
The papers lodged with Cabell County Court claims that at 1:30 a.m. on May 1, 2011, a student in a “drunken stupor” thought ” “it would be a good idea to shoot bottle rockets out of his anus”. Sadly, “instead of launching, the bottle rocket blew up in the defendant’s rectum, and this startled the plaintiff and caused him to jump back”. He duly fell 4 feet to the ground from the fraternity’s deck. Louis Helmburg III puts it to the law that “firing bottle rockets out of one’s own anus constitutes an ‘ultra-hazardous’ activity”.
Discuss.
Posted: 4th, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man charged with stealing glacier
TO CHILE, where a man has been arrested for stealing parts of the Jorge Montt Glacier, located in the richly named Bernardo O’Higgins national park. Police in Cochrane found five tonnes of ice in the back of the man’s truck.
The story is that the ice was destined for the shadowy gourmet ice cubes market in Santiago.
Our theory is that the driver works for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Posted: 3rd, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man, 74, swallows dentures and dies during sex with prostitute, 62
TO New Taipei City, Taiwan, where 74-year-old Chen has died after swallowing his dentures during sex with a 62-year-old prostitute.
The prostitute said she had sex with Chen for 30 minutes. HE then got up, paid and collapsed.
As she recalls:
“He fell back onto the bed. His eyes were open but he was not moving although I shook his body and tried to wake him up.”
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Posted: 3rd, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Massive Supergiant prawn found off coast of New Zealand – photo
BIG Prawns. The sole reason to live in Australia or New Zealand: shellfish as big as your face. And now those big prawns have got massive. Massive prawns!
A giantic crustacean has been found living 7km below the surface in the Kermadec Trench off the coast of New Zealand. Scientists – and who are we to argue with experts – call these massive prawns “supergiants”. One is 34cm long. Giant! SUPERGIANT!
Alan Jamieson, from the University of Aberdeen’s Oceanlab, tells the BBC:
“It’s a bit like finding a foot-long cockroach.”
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Posted: 2nd, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Jesus is spotted in a tomato is – for sale
JESUS Christ has been seen in a tomato. And you can give him a good home. As the advert says:
Yes thats right – it is some sort of miracle – a collegue has left an innocent lunch tomato in the fridge at work – and has forgotten it exists. Whilst cleaning out the fridge – we noticed that a devine miracle has taken place – the tomato has taken on the face of our lord and saviour Jesus
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Posted: 2nd, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Unfinished monster washes up on San Diego shore – photos
A MONSTER has washed up on the shores of San Diego. Is it a “Chupacabra/Montauk Monster-looking creature”?
Vice magasine reports the words of Josh Menard, 19, who saw the thing:
“I didn’t know if it was some creature from around here. I’m from Massachusetts and I don’t see shit like that ever. My friends were like no, I’ve never seen anything like that and were pretty tripped up about it. I thought it was pretty funny and kind of mysterious.”
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Posted: 1st, February 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Children thrilled as lion eats display owl at Colchester Zoo
IN “Children left in horror as lion eats blundering bird” the Daily Mail’s Andrew Levy tells us that at Colchester zoo the lion has eaten a barn owl which had been boring the punters in a falconry display. The owl, named Ash, was eaten.
“Gavin Duthie, who witnessed the gruesome scene with his two-year-old son Daniel, said: ‘He was in tears, along with most of the people who were there. Women and children were screaming but it was all over in seconds.'”
What children? What mums and dads? You can have the falconry? Or you can have the lion eating an owl, having knocked it from the skies? Form two orderly lines, kids. One for the falconry. The other for the owl and the pussycat.
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Posted: 31st, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Wife sues husband and girlfriend for breaking her bed during sex
“A carpenter told me that judging by the way it was broken something excessive might have happened. After asking my husband he confessed that he had been having sex with another woman.”
Posted: 31st, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Stupid burglar wore neighbour’s stolen jumper
MORE evidence that what remains of Great Britain will miss Scotland when it’s gone as we meet “Scotland’s thickest robber”, Jamie Alexander.
Alexander, 18, broke into his neighbour’s home and stole a jumper.
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Posted: 30th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Men had baby’s head in bag of tomatoes
Posted: 30th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Cannibal says oysters taste like human eyeballs
THANKS to the testimony of Tyree Lincoln Smith we know that human eyeballs taste like oysters. Smith has been arrested fon suspicion of murdering one Angel “Tun Tun” Gonzalez.
The Huffington Post reports:
[Smith] allegedly said he was sleeping on a porch of an abandoned apartment building when Gonzalez, a man he apparently did not know, woke him up and invited him in out of the cold. After entering the building, Smith allegedly attacked Gonzalez with an axe, police said.
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Posted: 29th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Fish cover Northern Ireland Farm
TO Northern Ireland, where farmer Gordon Flinn spots his field covered in fish. His daughter Louise tells the Belfast Telegraph:
“It was like a catastrophe, as though the fish had fallen out of the sky. We really couldn’t believe it until we saw it. It really was like something out of the Bible.”
Repent! Release the Jews from the stables! And get some bread!
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Posted: 29th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Strange blue balls fall on Dorset
TO Bournemouth, Dorset, where local man Steve Hornsby is pointing to the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No. It’s 3cm diameter jelly-like blue balls raining down during a hail storm. Says Mr Hornsby:
“[They’re] difficult to pick up, I had to get a spoon and flick them into a jam jar.”
You get your sport where you can find it in Dorset. He adds:
“The sky went a really dark yellow colour. As I walked outside to go to the garage there was an instant hail storm for a few seconds and I thought, ‘what’s that in the grass’? The have an exterior shell with a softer inner but have no smell, aren’t sticky and do not melt.”
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Posted: 29th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Wanted CCTV thief captured on camera
CAN you help police identify the man who stole a CCTV camera in Bakersfield, California? So far, no new clues. When the get to the gypsies, the investigation is in trouble…
Posted: 29th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Baby Imad Gadir bites off snake’s head – photos
IMAD Gadir, a 1-year-old living in Shfaram, northern Israel, bit off the head of a live coin snake. And ate it.
Imad’s grandfather, Shaheen Shaheen, tells YNet news:
“It wasn’t a pretty sight, He’s a baby, he didn’t know what he was doing. He thought it was a game. I don’t wish this kind of thing on anyone.”
Imad thinks a game is biting the heads off live snakes? Someone get this kid a football and a QPR kit.
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Posted: 28th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man withdraws mouse from ATM
TO Ersboda, northern Sweden, where Gholam Hafezi has withdrawn a mouse from an ATM machine.
Is mouse flesh the new currency in Sweden? Are mice animal gold?
Mr Hafezi recalls how he withdrew his cash and spotted what looked like a shoelace:
“I pulled once more and then his tail came off.”
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Posted: 28th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Leicester man fined for driving with four children in the boot
HOW many people can you fit into a moving Audi A4 saloon. Zoltan Lakatos managed 11: six children (including the four in the boot), and three adults. In freer times, Mr Lakatos might be a record breaker, offering a continental take on the age-old ‘How Many People Can You Fit Into A Great British Mini’ challenge. Now, he is only a rule breaker. Leicester magistrates have banned Mr Lakatos from driving and ordered him to pay £1,325 in costs and fines.
Lakatos, 38, told police, through a Hungarian interpreter:
“It doesn’t matter, they are only children.”
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Posted: 27th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Massive hair ball removed from cat’s stomach – photos
GEMMA the cat has had a 5in-long 215g hair ball removed from her tummy. The hair is believed to be the cat’s own and not the product of bedroom and carpet harvests. Says David Fennell, of the Cromwell Vet Group in Huntingdon, Cambridgegshire (we’re number one hair balls and merkins!):
“It was about 12.5cm (5in) wide, filled the entire stomach cavity and she had not eaten for days. It would certainly have killed her. She was clearly hungry, but as we later found out, therewas absolutely no room in her stomach for anything else.“
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Posted: 26th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bank Robber Jefferson Montini shoots himself in foot – video
THE CCTV from the bank in Guapirama, Paraná, Brazil shows one of three robbers, one Jefferson Montini, shooting himself in the foot. The men made off with 30,000 reals. But our hero was arrested at a local hospital the next day, where a 9 mm caliber bullet was being removed from his person.
He shoots. He withdraws…
Posted: 26th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman has her monkey baptised (video)
THE woman is having her baby monkey baptised. Well, she says it’s her monkey. But her boyfriend did so love his banans, flicking his own poo at used to shout at the telly whenever Tarzan came on, complaining about it’s’ “unfair that chimpanzees get all the best jobs” and “the real Tarzan had back hair you could plait”…
Posted: 25th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Six Chinese soldiers playing catch with live grenade (video)
THE People’s Liberation Army of China is big in number but relatively low on supplies (!). In this video, six soldiers with the People’s Liberation Army of China toss a grenade about. The person holding it last throws it into a hole – or keeps hold of it and gets an early discharge… Also, listen out for the civil rights campaigner inside the grenade keeping count:
Spotter: Joe
Posted: 24th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
